WEBVTT - Mark Hoppus

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, I'm just jumping in here.

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<v Speaker 2>There's no theme song yet because we are going to

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<v Speaker 2>get to that big debut later. But first, hello and

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<v Speaker 2>welcome to teen Beat, a brand new interview show hosted

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<v Speaker 2>by me Daniel Fischl, podcaster, TV director, recent celebrity ballroom dancer,

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<v Speaker 2>mother of two, and is proven by the headshot on

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<v Speaker 2>the wall of my dry cleaners. I am the former

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<v Speaker 2>child actor known as Tapanga from the nineties TV family

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<v Speaker 2>sitcom Boy Meets World, and as a result of that role,

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<v Speaker 2>my entire teenage existence from the age of twelve to

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen was in front of both a live studio audience

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<v Speaker 2>and millions of viewers at home. From my first kiss

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<v Speaker 2>to my first haircut, absolutely everything was caught on camera.

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<v Speaker 2>So now, thirty years later, it's time to turn the tables.

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<v Speaker 2>My goal here on teen Beat is to sit down

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<v Speaker 2>with interesting people who have accomplished interesting things in hopes

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<v Speaker 2>that learning about their untelevised upbringings will help us understand

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<v Speaker 2>who they are today. Since they're first pimple wasn't also

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<v Speaker 2>part of a TGIF block of programming, the least they

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<v Speaker 2>can do is share it with me. Now, I gave

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<v Speaker 2>you my childhood, It's time we hear yours and for

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<v Speaker 2>the first teen beat episode ever, I think I have

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<v Speaker 2>found the perfect guest, because no matter what generation you

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<v Speaker 2>like to claim, chances are your coming of age soundtrack

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<v Speaker 2>included his voice. He was present for your first crush,

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<v Speaker 2>your newly licensed long drives down a highway, and a

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<v Speaker 2>majority of your bad decisions, including all of those fourth

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<v Speaker 2>meal taco bell runs of the late nineties and early

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<v Speaker 2>two thousands. He's an architect of the entire pop punk scene,

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<v Speaker 2>somehow taking his underground rock childhood interests and bringing its sensibility, musicality,

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<v Speaker 2>and immature humor to not only the TRL Countdown, but

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<v Speaker 2>to mainstream audiences around the globe. If Warp Tour was

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<v Speaker 2>a contagious disease, and for many years it was, he

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<v Speaker 2>was patient zero. With sales totaling over fifty million records worldwide,

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<v Speaker 2>three number one albums, seven songs in the hot one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred eighteen million Spotify listeners per month, a Coachella headlining surprise,

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<v Speaker 2>and over half a million tickets sold during their twenty

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<v Speaker 2>twenty three reunion tour, their highest grossing it. They have

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<v Speaker 2>proven that thirty years after their debut album, first hit

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<v Speaker 2>shelves they are stronger than ever. And his twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 2>five book Fahrenheit one eighty two, a memoir, debuted at

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<v Speaker 2>number one on the New York Times bestseller list and

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<v Speaker 2>chronicled two things we have in common, a midlife cancer

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<v Speaker 2>battle and the ability to write melodic anthems that will

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<v Speaker 2>withstand the test of time. The crown is heavy for

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<v Speaker 2>us both. He may have been instrumental in your awkward

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<v Speaker 2>teenage years, but now it's time to find out what

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<v Speaker 2>his were like. Welcome to teen Beat, the man who

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<v Speaker 2>once wrote the lyric I want to see some name, dudes.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why I built this pool. It's founding member of

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<v Speaker 2>Blank one eighty two.

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<v Speaker 1>Mark Opus.

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<v Speaker 3>Hello, I sound really cool when you laid all out

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<v Speaker 3>like that. That's raight, Okay, yeah, let's go now. I

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<v Speaker 3>feel very uh accomplished.

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<v Speaker 2>You are very accomplished, and you are very cool. Thank

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<v Speaker 2>you for being here with me. This is really quite

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<v Speaker 2>an honor.

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<v Speaker 4>Thank you glad to be here.

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<v Speaker 2>Not only were you kind enough to share your time

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<v Speaker 2>with us, but we somehow convinced you to write and

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<v Speaker 2>perform the official teen Beat with Daniel Fishle theme song,

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<v Speaker 2>which we will be debuting at the end of this episode,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm going to admit it now, it's too good

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<v Speaker 2>for me. Basically, anything we do after that is just

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<v Speaker 2>going to let everyone down. So can you share the

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<v Speaker 2>inspiration behind what everyone's going to hear later on?

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<v Speaker 1>With the theme song?

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<v Speaker 3>A couple weeks ago, I was it was late at night,

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<v Speaker 3>I was downstairs in my studio and I was playing

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<v Speaker 3>my acoustic guitar and I had this riff. And just

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<v Speaker 3>a few days later, Jensen, your kind husband and my

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<v Speaker 3>friend for the past whatever twenty years, hit me up

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<v Speaker 3>and said, hey, Danielle's doing a new show. Would you

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<v Speaker 3>be interested in writing a theme song? Do you have

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<v Speaker 3>anything laying around some old ideas? And I went through

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<v Speaker 3>a bunch of old ideas and I didn't really have

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<v Speaker 3>anything that I loved. But I had this one thing

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<v Speaker 3>that I thought was really cool, and I thought, well,

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<v Speaker 3>maybe I can change the lyrics or maybe I can

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<v Speaker 3>rearrange a little bit. And so I sent it over

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<v Speaker 3>and Jensen played it for you and it was like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>that's perfect.

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<v Speaker 1>It's great, we love it's great, We'll take it.

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<v Speaker 4>So I was like, all right, cool.

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<v Speaker 3>So I had my engineer come over and do it

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<v Speaker 3>correctly and send it in and got it in just

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<v Speaker 3>in time because it was the holidays and my engineer

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<v Speaker 3>was gone and I was gone, and so we put

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<v Speaker 3>it together and got it in what two days ago?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, and it's all perfect. It's just that's

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<v Speaker 2>the way it was supposed to happen. Thank you so

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<v Speaker 2>much for putting in all that effort on holidays.

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<v Speaker 4>It's glad to do it.

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<v Speaker 3>I love being creative and I love working with my friends,

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<v Speaker 3>and I'm very glad that it'll live with you.

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<v Speaker 1>It will live forever with me. So you're my first guest.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought maybe we could art by talking about another

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<v Speaker 2>first Okay, first kiss. What do you remember about this

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<v Speaker 2>big teenage moment?

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<v Speaker 4>My first kiss.

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<v Speaker 3>I was literally moving from the town that I lived

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<v Speaker 3>in in the middle of the desert Ridgecrest, California. I

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<v Speaker 3>was fourteen, hadn't been kissed yet, and there was a

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<v Speaker 3>girl who kind of had a crush on me and

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<v Speaker 3>wanted to say goodbye and wanted to like give me

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<v Speaker 3>a card or something before I left. And we were

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<v Speaker 3>standing in my front yard and she gave me a kiss,

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<v Speaker 3>and it was a French kiss, and her tongue was

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<v Speaker 3>very invasive, and I didn't really feel like kissing her,

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<v Speaker 3>but she was like grabby and she kind of kissed

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<v Speaker 3>me forcefully.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, like a weighted blanket kiss.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, like a little more than I was ready for.

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<v Speaker 3>But I was like okay, cool, and then I said,

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<v Speaker 3>all right, well, i'll see you when I moved back

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<v Speaker 3>in a year because my dad was moving away from

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<v Speaker 3>Ridgecrest to Washington, DC to work at the Pentagon for

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<v Speaker 3>a year. And I went inside and I was really

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<v Speaker 3>disturbed by it, and I turned up the cure song

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<v Speaker 3>the kiss, Yeah, really loud. It's just really long song.

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<v Speaker 3>So the first song on kiss me, kiss Me, kiss me,

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<v Speaker 3>and it says, uh, kiss me, kiss me, kiss me.

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<v Speaker 3>Your tongue's like poison, so swollen it fills up my mouth.

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<v Speaker 3>And that's exactly how it felt. I was like, I'm

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<v Speaker 3>not ready for this. I don't feel like this about

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<v Speaker 3>you yet. And so that was my first kiss.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow. Do you think she heard the song playing from outside?

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<v Speaker 3>I doubt it. I doubt it, but yeah, that was

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<v Speaker 3>my first real kiss. And I was like, that's weird.

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<v Speaker 1>That was weird.

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<v Speaker 3>There's a lot of tongue and there's a lot of

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<v Speaker 3>stuff and there's a lot of saliva involved.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, that's a that's an awkward first

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<v Speaker 2>kiss story. Mine mine was also mine was in front

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<v Speaker 2>of a bunch of people. Yeah, but it was not

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<v Speaker 2>a French kiss, just a kiss kiss, just a long

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<v Speaker 2>peck on.

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<v Speaker 4>The lips, like like old like forties movie.

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<v Speaker 2>Style, exactly forty's movie style, with two twelve year olds

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<v Speaker 2>who had never kissed, okay, and now and are doing

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<v Speaker 2>it in front of a live studio audience and my

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<v Speaker 2>grandparents and my parents.

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<v Speaker 4>Was there an intimacy coordinator at that point?

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<v Speaker 1>No intimacy coordinator.

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<v Speaker 4>We were.

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<v Speaker 1>We were just thrust in there.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, which is probably for the best, to be honest.

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<v Speaker 1>We did you consider yourself in any way a ladies man?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh no, okay, no, no, not at all.

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<v Speaker 4>I didn't have any ladies out. No, do you're opposite.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you remember any bad dates?

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<v Speaker 4>He went on bad dates?

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<v Speaker 3>I didn't go on a lot of bad day Probably

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<v Speaker 3>the most awkward date was I was when I turned sixteen.

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<v Speaker 3>My dad was dating a new woman. This is when

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<v Speaker 3>we were living in DC and he wanted to go

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<v Speaker 3>out to or maybe it was when I turned fifteen. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 3>for my birthday. We went to this really fancy restaurant

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<v Speaker 3>in Washington, d C. And had to dress up in tuxedos. Oh,

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<v Speaker 3>and I took a girl that I was kind of seeing,

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<v Speaker 3>and it was it was a weird date because we

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<v Speaker 3>were at a very fancy restaurant, I was wearing a tuxedo,

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<v Speaker 3>and I was eating food I didn't like, and it

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<v Speaker 3>was really to impress my dad's new girlfriend.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, for your birthday.

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<v Speaker 3>For my birthday, yeah, is that you know what? It

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<v Speaker 3>was a top of one of those buildings I think

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<v Speaker 3>where the restaurant rotated like a big deal back in

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<v Speaker 3>like the late eighties early nineties.

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<v Speaker 2>Your dad designs missiles and bombs for the Department of Defense.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, yeah, wow.

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<v Speaker 1>Was he artistic at all?

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<v Speaker 4>No, not at all.

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<v Speaker 3>But he used to bring home these things called witness plates,

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<v Speaker 3>and they're like one inch thick lead or steel or

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<v Speaker 3>I don't know, plates that they set up in concentric

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<v Speaker 3>circles outside of a target so that when they launch

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<v Speaker 3>a missile likes let's say, at a tank or whatever

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<v Speaker 3>it is on the ground and it explodes, you can

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<v Speaker 3>tell the damage done by the witness plates. And so

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<v Speaker 3>he would bring home like this whatever thirty to fifty

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<v Speaker 3>pound plate of steel that was just contorted and bent

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<v Speaker 3>because it had been exploded. And I thought that would

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<v Speaker 3>be such a cool work of art, like a call display,

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<v Speaker 3>like these things have witnessed violence that none of us

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<v Speaker 3>should ever have to see.

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<v Speaker 2>That is a great idea. And your dad's the one

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<v Speaker 2>who bought you your first base, right, he did.

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<v Speaker 1>That's cool.

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<v Speaker 3>I wanted to play bass guitar. I had just gotten

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<v Speaker 3>into the Cure when I moved to DC. I was

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<v Speaker 3>just starting to get into my own solid music rather

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<v Speaker 3>than you know, my parents always listened to great music

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<v Speaker 3>when I was growing up. They listened to like Barry

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<v Speaker 3>Manilow and Neil Diamond and Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson

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<v Speaker 3>and Elton John and Diana Ross and the Beg's and

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<v Speaker 3>like all kinds of great by Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton

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<v Speaker 3>and I love that. So I had a really strong

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<v Speaker 3>foundation for melody and great songwriting. And then I heard

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<v Speaker 3>The Cure and that was like great songwriting, great lyrics

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<v Speaker 3>and a style that I liked. And so when I

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<v Speaker 3>went to DC, I started finally feeling like myself and

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<v Speaker 3>dressing like myself, and so yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Is that when you became a little golf.

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<v Speaker 4>That's when I became goth.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I came, but yeah, I started spiking my hair out,

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<v Speaker 3>I started wearing darker clothes. By the time I was

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<v Speaker 3>a junior in high school, I was wearing like black

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<v Speaker 3>eyeliner and sometimes bright red lipstick and sticking my hair

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<v Speaker 3>all up.

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<v Speaker 4>And I remember I went junior year. First class of

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<v Speaker 4>the day.

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<v Speaker 3>Was metal shop, okay, And I walked into my metal

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<v Speaker 3>shop class, and my metal shop teachers like, all right,

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<v Speaker 3>today we're gonna be learning about arc World. Oh my god, Mark,

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<v Speaker 3>what the hell what are you doing? And everyone turned

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<v Speaker 3>and looked at me in class, and I was like, what,

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<v Speaker 3>It's just my It's just my style. He's like, you're

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<v Speaker 3>wearing lipstick. I was like, yeah, I know. It was

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<v Speaker 3>a listick that was bright red. It was full on

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<v Speaker 3>Robert Smith, like you know, you know, when like you

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<v Speaker 3>get so into something, And I was so into the

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<v Speaker 3>Cure and they were so influential for me. And I

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<v Speaker 3>was wearing black eyeliner and spiking my hair up, wearing

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<v Speaker 3>bright red lipstick, but being like, it's not because I

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<v Speaker 3>like the Cure.

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<v Speaker 4>I just think it's a cool style. You know, this

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<v Speaker 4>is my thing.

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<v Speaker 3>It just happens that Robert Smith does the exact same thing,

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<v Speaker 3>and that's the band I listened to all day long,

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<v Speaker 3>every day.

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<v Speaker 1>Did your dad question that at all?

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<v Speaker 2>Because I try to imagine what it must be like

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<v Speaker 2>for a parent to see your kid be one way

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<v Speaker 2>for fourteen or fifteen years and then kind of overnight

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<v Speaker 2>change everything about their appearance and possibly their personality.

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<v Speaker 3>He was pretty cool with it, to be honest, for

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<v Speaker 3>as conservative as he is, like you know, not not

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<v Speaker 3>politically or whatever, but just like he's a very middle

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<v Speaker 3>of the road baby boomer, work for the government. His

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<v Speaker 3>whole thing is like planning and being on time and

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<v Speaker 3>doing your best. And you know, he was an eagle scout.

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<v Speaker 3>He was like all this stuff, and so for me

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<v Speaker 3>to like show up one day wearing lipstick, he was

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<v Speaker 3>he just kind of shook his head and was like,

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<v Speaker 3>just okay, just whatever. Plus I'm I'm jen X, and

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<v Speaker 3>my parents really just mostly left me alone.

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<v Speaker 1>Right you were what raised you?

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<v Speaker 3>What raised me was let's see, you can't do that

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<v Speaker 3>on television. Okay, skateboarding, punk rock.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, it all works. Did you

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<v Speaker 1>have a lot of the same interests.

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<v Speaker 2>You've been very vocal about your fandoms Nintendo Baseball.

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<v Speaker 1>Star Wars yep.

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<v Speaker 2>Was was that your same jam growing up or did

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<v Speaker 2>you have other interests?

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<v Speaker 3>It? Had no interest in sports whatsoever at all growing up.

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<v Speaker 3>I'd like skateboarding, but I didn't like organized sports. I

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<v Speaker 3>didn't want to play. I played soccer a little bit

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<v Speaker 3>when my parents made me when I was in fifth grade,

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<v Speaker 3>but I didn't love that. So my outlet athletically was

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<v Speaker 3>skateboarding and going to shows.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>We also during that time where you made the transition

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<v Speaker 2>into being goth, you also discovered cigarettes.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Would you have been in major trouble had you been

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<v Speaker 1>caught smoking? Or did you ever?

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<v Speaker 3>I got caught smoking when we were moving back from

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<v Speaker 3>washingt d c. To my town in the middle of

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<v Speaker 3>the desert. We stopped in Las Vegas, went.

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<v Speaker 4>To Circus Circus.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>I had been secretly smoking for probably a year at

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<v Speaker 3>that point. And my Dad's like, I'm in a gamble.

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<v Speaker 3>You can't be on the floor, but you can go

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<v Speaker 3>upstairs to the arcade, Yeah, and play games up there.

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<v Speaker 4>Do whatever.

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<v Speaker 3>I'll meet you in an hour. And so, like I

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<v Speaker 3>was smoking cigarettes and my dad came a little bit

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<v Speaker 3>early and he came around this corner and he saw

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<v Speaker 3>me and he goes, are you smoking? And I was

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<v Speaker 3>like yeah. He goes, do you smoke? I go yeah

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<v Speaker 3>a little bit. And he's like, ah, come on, Mark,

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<v Speaker 3>you're smarter than that. You know it's bad for you.

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<v Speaker 3>And I was like, I know, I know. And then

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<v Speaker 3>I ended up smoking for like another ten years.

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<v Speaker 1>Right. I did something very similar.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And I got caught smoking the first time with

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<v Speaker 2>my Mormon best friend from childhood, whose parents believed anything

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<v Speaker 2>we told them, and I my mom was not that

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<v Speaker 2>type of mom. My mom was very much like very no.

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<v Speaker 2>So we got caught smoking. We got a ticket, We

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<v Speaker 2>got caught by the police. We got a ticket for California.

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<v Speaker 2>In California, they gave us a ticket because we were

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<v Speaker 2>in possession of the pack of cigarettes. So it wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>just that you were we see you smoking, It was like,

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<v Speaker 2>you're not allowed to have these, So they wrote us

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<v Speaker 2>like a ticket.

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<v Speaker 1>We had to appear in court and that sucks so bad,

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<v Speaker 1>so bad.

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<v Speaker 2>And I was living in Calabasas and I was caught

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<v Speaker 2>in Orange County, so it was like no even convenient

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<v Speaker 2>way we.

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<v Speaker 1>Were gonna have to go to an Orange County court.

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<v Speaker 2>So Jessica my best friend's parents pick us up and

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<v Speaker 2>we tell them we concoct this story that we were

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<v Speaker 2>with a group of people and they were smoking, not us,

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<v Speaker 2>but they were smoking, and when the police saw us,

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<v Speaker 2>all they just wrote everybody tickets, even though we were

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<v Speaker 2>not doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>Jessica's parents were like, well, that seems really unfair.

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<v Speaker 2>No problem, we'll just go to court and tell them

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<v Speaker 2>you're innocent and we'll get this whole thing worked out.

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<v Speaker 1>And I was like, whew, okay, And then we meet in.

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<v Speaker 2>Mantabello and my mom picks me up and we tell

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<v Speaker 2>my mom the story, and my mom's like.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, all right, all right, okay, well bye, it was

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<v Speaker 1>nice to see you. By Stephanie, by Jessica. We get in

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<v Speaker 1>the car, my mom goes, that's stories a bunch of

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<v Speaker 1>tell me what's really going on?

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<v Speaker 2>And I was like, oh, so, anyway, I was caught,

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<v Speaker 2>was in massive trouble, was grounded, wasn't allowed to go

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<v Speaker 2>to my school dance. Had a boyfriend at the time

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<v Speaker 2>who then he couldn't go to the dance because I

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<v Speaker 2>certainly wasn't gonna let him go with no can't go

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<v Speaker 2>without me. So anyway, I stopped smoking as long as

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<v Speaker 2>I lived under my parents' roof, and then uh just

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<v Speaker 2>immediately started again the minute I moved out and smoked

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<v Speaker 2>for way too long.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, so I wish smoking wasn't bad.

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<v Speaker 3>I love so I look like an idiot, Like I

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<v Speaker 3>look back at pictures of myself and I'm like, you

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<v Speaker 3>look dumb as hell smoking cigarette.

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<v Speaker 4>But I felt cool.

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<v Speaker 1>I felt so cool.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know, I wish if there was like one

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<v Speaker 2>wish that I could be like, I wish that wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>bad for you.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, some cigarettes is nice.

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<v Speaker 1>Cigarettes is great.

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<v Speaker 2>voice of Blink one eighty two, being my very first guest.

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<v Speaker 2>dad picked the bass if he was gonna when you

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<v Speaker 2>decided to buy.

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<v Speaker 3>You No, I wanted to play the bass I watched

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<v Speaker 3>I saw The Cure on MTV. They just like Heaven

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<v Speaker 3>Video and Simon Gallup. The bassis from the Cure just

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<v Speaker 3>looked so cool, and there was something about the bass

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<v Speaker 3>that I was drawn to. It was kind of the

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<v Speaker 3>bridge between the drums and the guitar and the melody

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<v Speaker 3>and whatever it was. I wanted to do that. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>So I asked my dad, can I get a bass guitar?

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<v Speaker 3>Where you buy me a bass guitar? And he said,

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<v Speaker 3>if you paint my girlfriend's house, I will girlriend girl friend. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>my stepmom. Now she's awesome. Yeah, we love her all good.

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<v Speaker 4>But yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>So I painted her condo in Washington, d C. In

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<v Speaker 3>the summer and it was like, you know, DC in

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<v Speaker 3>the summer is awful, humid, hot, stanky, just like and

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<v Speaker 3>I was out there painting her condo with makeup on,

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<v Speaker 3>my makeup running down my face. Here now a mine, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>like this is why gods don't go outside.

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<v Speaker 4>But I did.

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<v Speaker 3>I painted her. I painted her condo and I got

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<v Speaker 3>a base and I still have it. Actually, that's so cool.

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<v Speaker 3>It was in the Fender Museum for a long time

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<v Speaker 3>until Fenner got sold and then then moved the headquarters.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, well we are talking just a week after

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<v Speaker 2>rumors ran rampant that MTV shuddered its music channels for good,

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<v Speaker 2>and who knows what's actually happening there. I mean, it

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<v Speaker 2>is a medium that not only inspired you, but is

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<v Speaker 2>a huge part of the Blink one eighty two story.

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<v Speaker 2>You also met your wife thanks to MTV. I did

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<v Speaker 2>want to tell that story.

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<v Speaker 3>She was an executive at MTV. She ran the West

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<v Speaker 3>Coast office of MTV. She coordinated and booked and dealt

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<v Speaker 3>with all the people for like the MTV Music Awards

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<v Speaker 3>and the uh whatever other awards, the Movie Awards.

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<v Speaker 4>The VMA's fanatic. I met her well.

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<v Speaker 3>The first time I met her was at Sports and

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<v Speaker 3>Music Festival in like ninety five in Austin, and.

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<v Speaker 4>We were a baby baby baby band.

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<v Speaker 3>I think it was like Offspring and Wu Tang and

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<v Speaker 3>a bunch of other like huge bands, and then like

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<v Speaker 3>we're this baby band, and I remember there was an

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<v Speaker 3>executive there who's kind of taking care of us.

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<v Speaker 4>I was like, that chick is really cool. And I

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<v Speaker 4>really like her.

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<v Speaker 3>The next time I saw her was in the Bahamas

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<v Speaker 3>at like a spring break thing. I had actually brought

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<v Speaker 3>a girlfriend with me but had kind of like seen

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<v Speaker 3>Sky again and been like, Oh, that's that lady from before. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>I really like her. And then I'd broken up with

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<v Speaker 3>that girlfriend. And then Sky had booked blink onin eighty

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<v Speaker 3>two on making the video, and we were making the

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<v Speaker 3>video for All the Small Things, and making the video

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<v Speaker 3>was a half hour show that they would put and

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<v Speaker 3>it was all behind the scenes of the creation of

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<v Speaker 3>a video and at the end they'd show the video.

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<v Speaker 3>And so it was For All the Small Things, which

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<v Speaker 3>was the video that really broke us. And so the

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<v Speaker 3>day that I saw her, we were at the Third

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<v Speaker 3>Street Dance Studio over on Third Street. We were upstairs.

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<v Speaker 3>We were dressed ridiculously. I was in like bright blue

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<v Speaker 3>leotards with like leg warmers on and a headband and

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<v Speaker 3>like like we were because we were learning choreography for

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<v Speaker 3>the All the Small Things video, we thought it would

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<v Speaker 3>be funny to dress up in these costumes. And Sky

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<v Speaker 3>was there and I was talking to Tom, and Tom

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<v Speaker 3>always trying to embarrass me. So we walked over to

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<v Speaker 3>Sky and he said, Hey, my friend Mark thinks you're hot.

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<v Speaker 3>Would you ever go on a date with him? And

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<v Speaker 3>immediately she said absolutely not. I don't date artists. Oh

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<v Speaker 3>And I was like, hey, I get that, totally cool,

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<v Speaker 3>understand it.

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<v Speaker 4>Professional. Here's my number.

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<v Speaker 3>If you ever want to talk or go get coffee

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<v Speaker 3>or whatever, just whatever, give me a call. Didn't think

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<v Speaker 3>anything about it, thought she'd never call. Had a date

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<v Speaker 3>that night with Melissa Joanhart. Nice okay, who I had

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<v Speaker 3>just met at an award show and like I was

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<v Speaker 3>feeling cool, like blinkeredy too. We were on MTV. We're

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<v Speaker 3>filming a video. We're going to do the behind the

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<v Speaker 3>scenes thing you.

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<v Speaker 4>To award show.

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<v Speaker 3>Melissa Joan Hart had her publicist contact my publicist at

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<v Speaker 3>the label to get my number, and I was like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, I'm going to be up in LA film

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<v Speaker 3>in a music video. Maybe one day after the shoot

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<v Speaker 3>we can go out to dinner or something. So we

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<v Speaker 3>went out to on a date that night and we

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<v Speaker 3>just didn't connect. It was just like a boring day.

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<v Speaker 3>She didn't like me, I didn't like her. We were

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<v Speaker 3>both totally cordial with one another. She dropped me back

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<v Speaker 3>off of the hotel at like whatever was ten o'clock

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<v Speaker 3>at night, eleven o'clock at night. I look at my

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<v Speaker 3>phone and I had missed a call and gotten a

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<v Speaker 3>message from Sky. So I called her up and we

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<v Speaker 3>talked until like three or four o'clock in the morning,

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<v Speaker 3>and then like we were married within a year.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, where did you take her on your first date

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<v Speaker 2>with her?

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<v Speaker 4>We drove past.

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<v Speaker 3>So the first time that I went on a date

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<v Speaker 3>with her, we went to a dive bar across the

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<v Speaker 3>street on Highland called Powerhouse.

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<v Speaker 1>I know Powerhouse.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that was a place that light you smoke for

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<v Speaker 2>a really long time after you were anymore.

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<v Speaker 3>Our birthday it was August sixth. It was her birthday.

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<v Speaker 3>So I met her August fourth. August fifth, we shot

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<v Speaker 3>and I didn't get to go out with her that day.

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<v Speaker 3>August sixth was the last day of the shoot. I

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<v Speaker 3>took her out that night. We went to Powerhouse because

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<v Speaker 3>it was her birthday, and we met up with a

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<v Speaker 3>bunch of people there and we went She dropped me

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<v Speaker 3>off back of my hotel because I was there for

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<v Speaker 3>the shoot, and we kissed on Third Street at that

0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.440
<v Speaker 3>hotel right down the street from What's Casuia. Now I

0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:12.080
<v Speaker 3>think it's called what's that hotel called?

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<v Speaker 1>Now, the Dream?

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<v Speaker 4>N it's not the Dream. It's not that nice.

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<v Speaker 3>Come on, okay anyway, So yeah, we kissed in the

0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:20.640
<v Speaker 3>parking not in the parking lot, but in the little

0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:21.639
<v Speaker 3>driveway of that hotel.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, that's cute.

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<v Speaker 4>Yep. But now we've been married twenty five years and

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<v Speaker 4>we have a son.

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<v Speaker 1>And how old your son?

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<v Speaker 4>Twenty three?

0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:29.640
<v Speaker 1>Wow?

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<v Speaker 3>Three twenty three? He's awesome. He is a great kid.

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<v Speaker 3>He has a job. He programs Call of Duty. Wow,

0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:36.680
<v Speaker 3>that's his job.

0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:36.960
<v Speaker 4>Yeah?

0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:39.800
<v Speaker 1>Does he play instruments? Does he is into music at all?

0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:40.080
<v Speaker 4>You know?

0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:42.320
<v Speaker 3>Growing up he wanted a drum kits, so we bought

0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:44.600
<v Speaker 3>him a drum kit and that lasted for like a week.

0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:47.040
<v Speaker 3>And then he wanted a guitar and we got him

0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:49.520
<v Speaker 3>a guitar and that lasted like a week. But he

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<v Speaker 3>was always very technical and into video when he was

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<v Speaker 3>a kid. That was in like fourth grade. What do

0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:56.439
<v Speaker 3>you want to do when you grow up? I want

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<v Speaker 3>to program video games?

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<v Speaker 4>All right? Eva was such a bad parent.

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<v Speaker 3>It's just like my dad was when I said I

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<v Speaker 3>wanted to play in a band, and he's like, that's great,

0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:05.119
<v Speaker 3>never gonna.

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<v Speaker 1>Happen, right, right, right, but you you keep up that dream.

0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:09.080
<v Speaker 4>Just make sure you have a backup plan.

0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:11.000
<v Speaker 3>And so when my son came to me and was like,

0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:14.000
<v Speaker 3>I want to program video games for a living, I'm like, yep, okay, great,

0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:16.480
<v Speaker 3>not gonna happen, but you keep that dream alive. But

0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:19.399
<v Speaker 3>he worked his ass off, went to college that a

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<v Speaker 3>double major, has always like studied how games work. And

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<v Speaker 3>it's more than just like he likes playing video games,

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<v Speaker 3>like he looks into the mechanics of it and gets

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<v Speaker 3>on the programming.

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<v Speaker 2>And so, yeah, I mean, playing music in a band

0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.320
<v Speaker 2>is something that so many people want to do, and

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<v Speaker 2>yet so few people actually end up making.

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<v Speaker 1>It doing it. Why did you think video game programming

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<v Speaker 1>was something like that was never going to happen?

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<v Speaker 3>Just because when you talk to anybody, any like kid boy,

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<v Speaker 3>especially who's like ten or eleven years old, they're like

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<v Speaker 3>playing video games.

0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:49.800
<v Speaker 4>They're like, yeah, I want to play video games.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, our kids are into video games too, but thankfully

0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:55.520
<v Speaker 2>they like playing them with us. Still, it's like they

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<v Speaker 2>really only want to do it if we're going to

0:22:57.160 --> 0:22:59.960
<v Speaker 2>play with them. So I'm like, I'm actually trying to

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<v Speaker 2>encourage that with as many co op games as we

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<v Speaker 2>can find.

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<v Speaker 3>I honestly, like my favorite memories of raising my son,

0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:08.320
<v Speaker 3>some of them were playing video games, like we got

0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:11.159
<v Speaker 3>Zelda Twilight Princess when he was just a you know,

0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:13.720
<v Speaker 3>a small child. He couldn't really control the game too much,

0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:15.280
<v Speaker 3>so he would sit next to me on the couch

0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:17.080
<v Speaker 3>and we would play video games together.

0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:18.440
<v Speaker 4>And it was such a great memory.

0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:21.199
<v Speaker 3>And I credit video games with teaching him, you know,

0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:24.880
<v Speaker 3>spatial learning and math and reading to some extent, and

0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:28.600
<v Speaker 3>logic and you know, really the games that he was

0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:31.560
<v Speaker 3>playing helped his development and helped him become a smarter person.

0:23:31.600 --> 0:23:33.840
<v Speaker 3>And like, I don't know, I don't think of video

0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:36.439
<v Speaker 3>games is like a throwaway pastime. Yeah it can be,

0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:39.359
<v Speaker 3>you know. And I still play video games with him now,

0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:41.400
<v Speaker 3>but he's so much better than I am. We spent

0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:44.119
<v Speaker 3>the holidays playing a game called Arc Raider, which is

0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:46.679
<v Speaker 3>really popular right now, and he's great at it. Like

0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:49.119
<v Speaker 3>he plays for hours and hours and hours with his friends,

0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:52.280
<v Speaker 3>and like I'm playing with him and he's just I'm

0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:53.200
<v Speaker 3>just frustrating him.

0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:54.879
<v Speaker 4>I suck so body. He's like, Dad, he's right behind you,

0:23:54.880 --> 0:23:56.520
<v Speaker 4>He's right behind you, what are you doing? Turn us

0:23:56.560 --> 0:23:57.240
<v Speaker 4>shoot his ass?

0:23:57.240 --> 0:23:57.800
<v Speaker 1>What are you doing?

0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:01.359
<v Speaker 3>And like robots are killing me? Yeah, and he just

0:24:01.359 --> 0:24:02.919
<v Speaker 3>like shakes his head, but he's very patient.

0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:05.480
<v Speaker 1>At least that's good. I want to talk.

0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:07.479
<v Speaker 2>We've talked a lot about you and that time you

0:24:07.640 --> 0:24:10.239
<v Speaker 2>spent in Washington, d C. How did you get back

0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:12.760
<v Speaker 2>to California because you went to college in San Diego.

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<v Speaker 3>I did, So we were living in this small town

0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:18.639
<v Speaker 3>in California where my dad worked on a Navy base

0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:20.480
<v Speaker 3>in the middle of the desert because that's where they

0:24:20.520 --> 0:24:24.560
<v Speaker 3>would test their missiles and bombs from planes. Then we

0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:28.440
<v Speaker 3>moved to one year when I was a sophomore, to Washington,

0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:29.960
<v Speaker 3>d C. So we could work at the Pentagon, and

0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:32.119
<v Speaker 3>then we moved back to the small town. Okay, And

0:24:32.200 --> 0:24:35.000
<v Speaker 3>when I graduated cob When I graduated high school, I

0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:36.840
<v Speaker 3>was playing in a band, and I was working at

0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:40.320
<v Speaker 3>a restaurant and just aimless, like I was waiting tables,

0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:44.320
<v Speaker 3>making pizzas, going to community college, playing in like a

0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:45.119
<v Speaker 3>garage band.

0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:47.240
<v Speaker 4>And then my dad kicked me out of the house.

0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:50.239
<v Speaker 3>Well you didn't like kick me out, but he was like,

0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:53.320
<v Speaker 3>it's time for you to go to a real school.

0:24:53.440 --> 0:24:55.399
<v Speaker 3>And go be an adult and get a job and

0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:57.320
<v Speaker 3>start your life. So I moved to San Diego to

0:24:57.359 --> 0:25:01.200
<v Speaker 3>go to college. My sister, my mom, and my stepdad

0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:04.080
<v Speaker 3>were living in San Diego, so I got in. So

0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:08.560
<v Speaker 3>I went to finish my community college in San Diego

0:25:08.640 --> 0:25:10.000
<v Speaker 3>and go to a four year school, which is cal

0:25:10.040 --> 0:25:11.840
<v Speaker 3>State San Marco. So I was studying to be an

0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:15.040
<v Speaker 3>English teacher. The day that I moved to San Diego,

0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:18.960
<v Speaker 3>like got up in the morning, loaded up my shitty

0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:22.520
<v Speaker 3>Nissan Stanza, drove from my small town down to San Diego.

0:25:22.560 --> 0:25:24.119
<v Speaker 3>Halfway there, I was like, what am I going to

0:25:24.160 --> 0:25:25.920
<v Speaker 3>do in this big city? Like I don't know anybody,

0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:27.720
<v Speaker 3>I don't really want to get a job, and I

0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:28.520
<v Speaker 3>don't do anything.

0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:29.280
<v Speaker 4>I like playing music.

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<v Speaker 3>So we got to my parents' house or my mom's house,

0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:34.040
<v Speaker 3>unloaded my car, turn to my sister and I go, well,

0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:35.760
<v Speaker 3>what do I do now? Like I want to play music,

0:25:36.440 --> 0:25:38.000
<v Speaker 3>and what do I do? I put an ad in

0:25:38.040 --> 0:25:40.720
<v Speaker 3>a paper? Do I put like, you know, bassist wants

0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:44.480
<v Speaker 3>mediocre bandmates or whatever? And my sister was like, my

0:25:44.600 --> 0:25:48.720
<v Speaker 3>boyfriend has a friend who plays guitar, loves punk rock,

0:25:49.080 --> 0:25:49.879
<v Speaker 3>loves skateboarding.

0:25:49.920 --> 0:25:50.640
<v Speaker 4>You should meet him.

0:25:50.640 --> 0:25:52.800
<v Speaker 3>So we got in the car that night, drove over

0:25:52.840 --> 0:25:55.320
<v Speaker 3>to this guy's house and it was Tom.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow, you were like set up on a friend date.

0:25:57.960 --> 0:26:01.000
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, blind friend date, but it went great. Like I

0:26:01.000 --> 0:26:03.320
<v Speaker 3>went into his garage where he had his bedroom because

0:26:03.359 --> 0:26:05.040
<v Speaker 3>his parents were going through a bad divorce, so he

0:26:05.440 --> 0:26:08.399
<v Speaker 3>moved into his garage and we started playing music and

0:26:08.480 --> 0:26:11.080
<v Speaker 3>laughing and hanging out, and that night we wrote a

0:26:11.080 --> 0:26:11.440
<v Speaker 3>song that.

0:26:11.359 --> 0:26:12.880
<v Speaker 4>We still play today. It's called Carousel.

0:26:14.359 --> 0:26:17.040
<v Speaker 2>I wonder if that's the only story of meeting a

0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:20.240
<v Speaker 2>guy who has a bedroom in his garage and going

0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:22.879
<v Speaker 2>into it on your first blind meeting, that's is the

0:26:22.880 --> 0:26:23.879
<v Speaker 2>only story that's worked out?

0:26:23.920 --> 0:26:25.199
<v Speaker 4>Well? Yeah, absolutely.

0:26:25.960 --> 0:26:29.119
<v Speaker 2>I don't recommend that for most blind dates, but it

0:26:29.440 --> 0:26:32.239
<v Speaker 2>did pay off in the situation. Yeah did Okay, So

0:26:32.600 --> 0:26:35.560
<v Speaker 2>how quickly do the two of you form?

0:26:35.800 --> 0:26:36.640
<v Speaker 1>Blink one E two?

0:26:37.440 --> 0:26:40.040
<v Speaker 3>Immediately we were like, we want to play music together.

0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:43.359
<v Speaker 3>Tom had already started playing some shows and not shows,

0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:45.520
<v Speaker 3>but like backyard parties and stuff with a guy named

0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:48.600
<v Speaker 3>Scott who ended up being our first drummer. So yeah,

0:26:48.800 --> 0:26:50.960
<v Speaker 3>like you know, the next day Tom called up. It

0:26:51.000 --> 0:26:52.639
<v Speaker 3>was like, hey, let's keep writing songs, let's get and

0:26:52.680 --> 0:26:55.359
<v Speaker 3>so we just started doing stuff. Tom was ending high school.

0:26:55.400 --> 0:26:58.600
<v Speaker 3>I was still in community college. Scott was in high school,

0:26:59.600 --> 0:27:01.720
<v Speaker 3>and that it all began there in ninety two.

0:27:01.840 --> 0:27:04.000
<v Speaker 2>Did your dad ever say to you when I said

0:27:04.040 --> 0:27:06.400
<v Speaker 2>it was time for you to launch? I didn't mean

0:27:06.520 --> 0:27:10.040
<v Speaker 2>just go move into your mom's house and start playing

0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:11.800
<v Speaker 2>music at backyard parties.

0:27:12.040 --> 0:27:14.720
<v Speaker 3>No, my dad didn't think that our band was successful.

0:27:14.760 --> 0:27:16.520
<v Speaker 3>So I was ninety two. My dad didn't think our

0:27:16.560 --> 0:27:19.840
<v Speaker 3>band was successful until ninety nine, when it was like

0:27:19.960 --> 0:27:22.680
<v Speaker 3>ninety nine or maybe even two thousand. We played on

0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:26.160
<v Speaker 3>the Jay Leno Show. Wow, oh, that's the night show.

0:27:26.000 --> 0:27:26.480
<v Speaker 4>With Jay Leno.

0:27:26.640 --> 0:27:30.120
<v Speaker 2>That is for sure, a dad, Oh, this is official

0:27:31.040 --> 0:27:32.760
<v Speaker 2>anything below the Jay Leno Show.

0:27:32.920 --> 0:27:33.760
<v Speaker 4>No, not a story.

0:27:34.080 --> 0:27:35.800
<v Speaker 3>And he'd been coming to shows and stuff. He'd seen

0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:39.440
<v Speaker 3>us play in front of larger and larger venues. Yeah,

0:27:40.040 --> 0:27:42.359
<v Speaker 3>but somehow coming to that show. And Richard Simmons was

0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:42.960
<v Speaker 3>one of the guests.

0:27:43.080 --> 0:27:44.560
<v Speaker 1>Okay, you and Richard Simmons.

0:27:44.520 --> 0:27:47.000
<v Speaker 3>So we're all in the dressing room the green room

0:27:47.080 --> 0:27:49.280
<v Speaker 3>before the show, and my dad's hanging out and like

0:27:49.359 --> 0:27:54.080
<v Speaker 3>my future wife's parents were there whatever, and the door

0:27:54.119 --> 0:27:58.080
<v Speaker 3>flies open and this dude comes in Blink twenty two

0:27:58.119 --> 0:27:59.320
<v Speaker 3>and it's Richard Simmons.

0:28:00.000 --> 0:28:02.840
<v Speaker 4>I never met the guy. He comes barely in.

0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:06.960
<v Speaker 3>He comes in, he goes, hey, blakewiny too, and he

0:28:06.960 --> 0:28:08.960
<v Speaker 3>comes and he grabs Tom and he gives him a

0:28:09.000 --> 0:28:13.359
<v Speaker 3>kiss on the cheek. Same with me, same with Travis.

0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:16.359
<v Speaker 3>And I go, uh hey, Richard, what's going on? We

0:28:16.400 --> 0:28:18.000
<v Speaker 3>start talking. I go, so, how do I get in shape?

0:28:18.040 --> 0:28:19.920
<v Speaker 3>Want to be as in shape as you? And he is, oh, please,

0:28:19.960 --> 0:28:23.200
<v Speaker 3>I'm old enough to be your dad. And my dad goes, actually,

0:28:23.400 --> 0:28:27.000
<v Speaker 3>I'm his dad. And Richard Simmons goes dad and grabs

0:28:27.080 --> 0:28:28.960
<v Speaker 3>him and gives him a giant kiss on the cheek,

0:28:29.720 --> 0:28:31.920
<v Speaker 3>and then he runs out of the room. And then

0:28:31.920 --> 0:28:34.399
<v Speaker 3>we go and we play on jay Leno. That's the

0:28:34.440 --> 0:28:36.720
<v Speaker 3>photo right there. That's the one that's when my dad

0:28:36.880 --> 0:28:41.000
<v Speaker 3>kissed Richard Simmons. Your dad is so happy, he's so happy,

0:28:41.400 --> 0:28:43.200
<v Speaker 3>he's so happy with that kiss.

0:28:43.280 --> 0:28:43.600
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

0:28:44.000 --> 0:28:46.080
<v Speaker 3>And so that was when my dad's like, oh, if

0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:48.560
<v Speaker 3>Richard Simmons knows who my son is, then he must

0:28:48.560 --> 0:28:48.840
<v Speaker 3>be fak.

0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:51.880
<v Speaker 2>Richard Simmons and Jay Leno give my son's band a

0:28:51.960 --> 0:29:06.520
<v Speaker 2>sign of it. Wow, that's pretty great. What would high

0:29:06.560 --> 0:29:09.880
<v Speaker 2>school Mark Coppus have thought about? Number one on TRL.

0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:12.160
<v Speaker 2>Mark Coppus e Ben Stoked.

0:29:12.280 --> 0:29:12.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:29:12.640 --> 0:29:15.400
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean I grew up watching MTV, you know,

0:29:16.200 --> 0:29:20.480
<v Speaker 3>even before. I remember the summer that MTV happened, and

0:29:20.560 --> 0:29:22.520
<v Speaker 3>like it was a big deal. My dad was always

0:29:22.520 --> 0:29:24.560
<v Speaker 3>a fan of music, and I remember him and my

0:29:24.680 --> 0:29:27.240
<v Speaker 3>uncle being like, oh my gosh, there's a channel where

0:29:27.240 --> 0:29:29.160
<v Speaker 3>you can watch music on TV. And we were watching

0:29:29.200 --> 0:29:31.520
<v Speaker 3>like the Police, and we were watching like all these

0:29:31.560 --> 0:29:35.000
<v Speaker 3>original videos. And I remember when Michael Jackson's thriller video

0:29:35.080 --> 0:29:39.200
<v Speaker 3>came out. It was a huge deal. Like people stayed home,

0:29:39.240 --> 0:29:41.320
<v Speaker 3>people like made plans to be home or whatever. It

0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:43.320
<v Speaker 3>was eight o'clock at night to watch the premiere of

0:29:43.320 --> 0:29:45.800
<v Speaker 3>this thriller video directed by John Landis, who did like,

0:29:45.880 --> 0:29:47.040
<v Speaker 3>you know, all this cool stuff.

0:29:47.160 --> 0:29:47.400
<v Speaker 1>Yep.

0:29:48.760 --> 0:29:50.520
<v Speaker 4>So yeah, MTV was a big deal for me.

0:29:50.560 --> 0:29:52.960
<v Speaker 3>So knowing that our band was on MTV and was

0:29:52.960 --> 0:29:54.880
<v Speaker 3>doing well on MTV, I think I'd have been stoked.

0:29:55.920 --> 0:29:58.080
<v Speaker 2>So you and Tom, how did you guys then meet

0:29:58.120 --> 0:30:01.240
<v Speaker 2>Travis and then the three of you start doing shows?

0:30:01.400 --> 0:30:03.560
<v Speaker 3>Well, we met Travis just by playing a lot of

0:30:03.560 --> 0:30:06.840
<v Speaker 3>shows around southern California and.

0:30:06.800 --> 0:30:07.680
<v Speaker 4>Then we did a tour.

0:30:08.000 --> 0:30:10.640
<v Speaker 3>It was he played a man called the Aquabats and

0:30:10.720 --> 0:30:13.400
<v Speaker 3>we did a tour it was Primus Blanquidity two in

0:30:13.440 --> 0:30:16.240
<v Speaker 3>the Aquabats. It was called the Snowcore Tour, and it

0:30:16.240 --> 0:30:18.600
<v Speaker 3>took place during the winter, and it was a tour

0:30:19.120 --> 0:30:23.320
<v Speaker 3>that we performed punk rock music at snowboard competitions.

0:30:23.720 --> 0:30:24.240
<v Speaker 1>So cool.

0:30:24.320 --> 0:30:25.720
<v Speaker 4>So you were touring in the dead.

0:30:25.520 --> 0:30:29.320
<v Speaker 3>Of winter in snowboard mountains, so it was always icy,

0:30:29.440 --> 0:30:36.200
<v Speaker 3>always cold, always bleak. And Travis smoked and drank. But

0:30:36.280 --> 0:30:37.920
<v Speaker 3>he was playing in the Aquabats a lot of whom

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<v Speaker 3>are Mormon who didn't smoke or drink, and so he

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<v Speaker 3>would always come onto our bus and smoke with us,

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<v Speaker 3>and like we would hang out. That was back when

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<v Speaker 3>everybody would smoke on a bush. Yeah, And so we

0:30:48.880 --> 0:30:52.520
<v Speaker 3>became friends with Travis that way. And then our drummer

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<v Speaker 3>was having some personal stuff going on had to leave tour.

0:30:57.080 --> 0:30:58.920
<v Speaker 4>Travis filled in. It was great.

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<v Speaker 3>When Travis filled in, was like, oh man, this is

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<v Speaker 3>something different, there's something cool. Yeah, and then like the

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<v Speaker 3>situation came to a head with our drummer. Our drummer

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<v Speaker 3>left the band and then like at that point it

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<v Speaker 3>was like, oh, Travis.

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<v Speaker 4>Is the guy.

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<v Speaker 2>So what were those early Blink one shows like were

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<v Speaker 2>they always did they always feel like a success?

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, at least to us.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, when Tom and I are on stage, we

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<v Speaker 3>really performed from one another, almost more than we perform

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<v Speaker 3>for the crowd. Like if I can make Tom laugh,

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<v Speaker 3>that's a good thing. If I can make Travis laugh,

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<v Speaker 3>that's a big thing. And so Tom and I we

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<v Speaker 3>leave on tour and we start joking around and we

0:31:38.480 --> 0:31:41.000
<v Speaker 3>try and say some outrageous stuff. But then the next

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<v Speaker 3>night it gets a little further, and the next night

0:31:43.080 --> 0:31:45.560
<v Speaker 3>gets a little further, and the next Like I remember,

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<v Speaker 3>at one point we were on tour and our manager

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<v Speaker 3>pulled us aside because we were on a tour called

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<v Speaker 3>the Mark, Tom and Travis Show Tour. And Tom had

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<v Speaker 3>this idea that if you took a vocal effect that

0:31:56.480 --> 0:31:59.040
<v Speaker 3>pitches your voice down and octave, you can grab a

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<v Speaker 3>microphone and you can act like you're Satan.

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<v Speaker 4>Talking directly to the audience.

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<v Speaker 3>And so I remember we were on tour one time

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<v Speaker 3>and after the show, our manager's like, hey, can I

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<v Speaker 3>talk to you guys for a second, And he calls

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<v Speaker 3>us into his office and he goes, I think you're

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<v Speaker 3>taking a little farm. We're like, what are you talking

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<v Speaker 3>about He's like, well, when Tom gets on the microphone,

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<v Speaker 3>he acts like Satan and he says, hey, kids, I'm.

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<v Speaker 4>Here to your blood. It's a little too far.

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<v Speaker 1>Back, is the line?

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, the line it.

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<v Speaker 3>We're like, Okay, that makes sense, got it? Roger copy that. Nope,

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<v Speaker 3>your blood?

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<v Speaker 4>Got it?

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<v Speaker 1>Has your sense of humor changed it all? Since you

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<v Speaker 1>were no so stupid?

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<v Speaker 3>It's so dumb. Literally, for the past two years. We

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<v Speaker 3>played one hundred and seventy five shows in the past

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<v Speaker 3>two years since the band reformed, since we played Coachella

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<v Speaker 3>in twenty twenty three, one hundred and seventy five shows.

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<v Speaker 3>Literally Tom and I and we're we're traveling so comfortably,

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<v Speaker 3>private jets, five star hotels, people carrying our luggage like

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<v Speaker 3>we don't do any but Tom and I after the

0:32:55.360 --> 0:32:57.400
<v Speaker 3>show get on the plane and we were just making

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<v Speaker 3>dick jokes on a private jet with like, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>champagne and.

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<v Speaker 1>Like eating caviar.

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<v Speaker 4>Making totally.

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<v Speaker 3>It's like professional people dealing with me and Tom talking

0:33:10.640 --> 0:33:11.480
<v Speaker 3>talking dick jokes.

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<v Speaker 4>It's so funny. I love it. It's great.

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<v Speaker 1>Would teenage Mark have been on social media?

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<v Speaker 4>Uh?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, probably, I don't think that. I mean adult Mark

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<v Speaker 3>has enough problem, enough trouble staying off social media. I

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<v Speaker 3>don't think that, you know, teenage Mark would have done

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<v Speaker 3>much better.

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<v Speaker 4>It's awful. I hate it.

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<v Speaker 1>I know I hate it, and I also can't stay

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<v Speaker 1>away from it.

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<v Speaker 3>I know it's just the hot stove that you can't

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<v Speaker 3>stop touching.

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<v Speaker 1>Yep, that's true.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you guys ever contemplate adding a dedicated guitarist because

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<v Speaker 2>you are a rare trio in rock?

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<v Speaker 4>No?

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, no, I you know, I have nothing but crazy

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<v Speaker 3>respect for bands like Foo Fighters or Green Day or

0:33:50.000 --> 0:33:52.080
<v Speaker 3>anybody else who's like this core band, but then they

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<v Speaker 3>add additional musicians on you know, no doubt. But for us,

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<v Speaker 3>Blink has always just been the three of us. So

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<v Speaker 3>when you know, it's the three of us. And then

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<v Speaker 3>when we had keyboards, we didn't have a keyboard player.

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<v Speaker 3>We had our friend Roger Joseph Manning Junior from Jellyfish

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<v Speaker 3>come in and he did all the keyboard parts, but

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<v Speaker 3>he wasn't touring, and so we would use track for those,

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<v Speaker 3>and we still use track for keyboards. But on stage,

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<v Speaker 3>I just want to see the band, right.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, I don't want to.

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<v Speaker 2>Keep the theme song from our listeners any longer.

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<v Speaker 1>I would really like to play it.

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<v Speaker 2>We officially have the coolest theme song in all of podcasting.

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<v Speaker 4>Thank you.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. It's pretty great, written, performed, recorded all.

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<v Speaker 2>By Mark Oppus. This will begin every episode moving forward,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's eventually going to chart on Spotify. I know

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<v Speaker 2>it then single handedly bring back MTV. Yeah, so thank

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<v Speaker 2>you for this. Absolutely, Thank you so much, Mark for everything.

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<v Speaker 2>I couldn't be more excited to be connected to you

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<v Speaker 2>through this theme song forever.

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<v Speaker 1>Moving forward, let's get into the theme song.

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<v Speaker 4>That's okay, I was doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>I love it.

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<v Speaker 3>So the thing at the end is literally because I

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<v Speaker 3>had turned in the I had turned in the song,

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<v Speaker 3>and then Jensen, your husband, was like, uh, what a

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<v Speaker 3>fun Is there a way to work in like a

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<v Speaker 3>teen beat in there somehow? And I'm like, yeah, but

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<v Speaker 3>not the way that it is right now. We need

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<v Speaker 3>to go teen beat? And I had I immediately knew

0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:45.040
<v Speaker 3>what the song needed, but I was gone and my

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<v Speaker 3>engineer was gone, and so literally I think it was

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<v Speaker 3>New Year's Day. I have that torn out and I'm like, okay,

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<v Speaker 3>we need to shout teen beat. So like everyone's kind

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<v Speaker 3>of hung.

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<v Speaker 4>Over from New year's and we're all like weird.

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<v Speaker 3>We're like it's sitting in our kitchen going teen beat

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<v Speaker 3>into my phone and sending it to the engineer to

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<v Speaker 3>drop into the song.

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<v Speaker 1>Perfect. Who are you with? I need to know? Is

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<v Speaker 1>this a family teen beat?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah? It was me, my wife and my son.

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<v Speaker 1>I love that so much more. That's just perfect.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you all so much for listening to this episode

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<v Speaker 2>of teen Beat. We will have a small bonus episode

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<v Speaker 2>for you with Mark on Friday on the teen beat

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<v Speaker 2>Feed and an awkward teenage story from one of you.

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<v Speaker 1>We would love to.

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<v Speaker 2>Hear all of your awkward teenage stories. Send us a

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<v Speaker 2>concise voice memo to Teenbeatpod at gmail dot com and

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<v Speaker 2>maybe we'll play your story on the pod. Also, don't

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<v Speaker 2>forget to follow us on Instagram and TikTok at teen

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<v Speaker 2>beat Pod.

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<v Speaker 1>Teen Beat is.

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<v Speaker 2>An iHeart podcast produced and hosted by Danielle Fischel, Executive

0:36:46.360 --> 0:36:49.800
<v Speaker 2>producers Jensen Karp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of

0:36:49.840 --> 0:36:54.360
<v Speaker 2>production Danielle Romo, producer and editor Tara Suboch. The theme

0:36:54.400 --> 0:36:59.280
<v Speaker 2>song is by mar Coppus. Yes that Mark Coppus. Follow

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<v Speaker 2>us on Instagram. I'm at Team b Pod