WEBVTT - The Offspring

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<v Speaker 1>Hello, everyone, Welcome to inside the Studio on iHeart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>My name is Jordan runt Dog, But enough about me.

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<v Speaker 1>My guest today are So Cal Punk Legends. Album Smash

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<v Speaker 1>is aptly named. It remains the best selling indie label

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<v Speaker 1>release of all time. It has classics like Getaway, come

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<v Speaker 1>Out and Play and self Esteem. They followed it up

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<v Speaker 1>with x NA on the Ombre and Americana, which features

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<v Speaker 1>songs that to me define rock in the late nineties,

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<v Speaker 1>pretty fly for a White Guy, Why Don't You Get

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<v Speaker 1>a job, and the Kids Aren't All Right. Now they're

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<v Speaker 1>back with their first new album in nine years, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's worth the weight. Called let the Bad Times Role,

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<v Speaker 1>it's inspired by well, the last nine years for a start.

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<v Speaker 1>Songs like this Is Not Utopia, The Opioid Diaries and

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<v Speaker 1>the title track reference this undoubtedly dark period, but there's

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<v Speaker 1>a great deal of hope in there too. I'm so

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<v Speaker 1>happy to welcome Dexter, Holland and Noodles from the Offspring.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you, guys, Thank you so much for taking the time.

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<v Speaker 1>So excited to speak to you. First and foremost, huge congratulations.

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<v Speaker 1>The record is here. The good news is your album's here.

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<v Speaker 1>The bad news is it's a pretty bummer time in

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<v Speaker 1>the world right now, And the sentiment is reflected in

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<v Speaker 1>the title Let the Bad Times Role. It's the the

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<v Speaker 1>mosh pit at the end of the world. How did

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<v Speaker 1>you land on? That? Is the title of your album?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh gosh, I mean, you know, look at the look

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<v Speaker 1>at the world around us? Appropriate for sure, right, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>And there's two ways of looking at Let the Bad

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<v Speaker 1>Times Role. One is that, you know, we have these

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<v Speaker 1>world leaders that kind of want to keep the bad

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<v Speaker 1>times roll and keep people divided. You know, the world

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<v Speaker 1>is We're just so divided right now. The other way

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<v Speaker 1>of looking at it is, man, how bad are things

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<v Speaker 1>gonna get? What else? You? What else you got? I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>bring it? Let the Bad Times role will take it? Man, right,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever we're done fighting, We're just gonna we're gonna make

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<v Speaker 1>the most out of it. What do you got? You know?

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<v Speaker 1>But you had? Stuff is messed up in two thousand

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<v Speaker 1>and eight, and it's it's still pretty messed up. But

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I did text a lot of hope

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<v Speaker 1>in the in the song in the album title, and

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<v Speaker 1>then the song this this hopeful optimism to it. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>glad he picked up on that thank you. At first look,

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<v Speaker 1>you might say, God, these are all pretty dark song

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<v Speaker 1>titles and subjects and stuff, But we try to put

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<v Speaker 1>hope into into our music, and so I think it's

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<v Speaker 1>an important part of our our message what we're going for. Absolutely.

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<v Speaker 1>So this album has been a long time in the works.

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<v Speaker 1>I think I read that first sessions were in August.

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<v Speaker 1>When did you know that you were at the finish line?

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<v Speaker 1>Why did you decide that it was ready in time

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<v Speaker 1>to let it go? Really right as the pandemic was hitting. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we kind of realized, yeah, you know, because we've been

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<v Speaker 1>talking about being done. But then we kept we kept

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<v Speaker 1>writing more and more. We kept having this really creative

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<v Speaker 1>period about two years ago, and finally had it done

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<v Speaker 1>with the pandemic and we're like, well, ship, we didn't

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<v Speaker 1>want the bad times to roll that hard out fucking

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<v Speaker 1>bad times rolling. It was infuriated you finally already and

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<v Speaker 1>then you gotta sit on it for like a year.

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<v Speaker 1>We didn't know for sure we should sit on it

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<v Speaker 1>or not, but it just it felt like people's minds

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<v Speaker 1>are elsewhere right now and we can't go out there

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<v Speaker 1>and support it. We can't know, I can't travel and

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<v Speaker 1>talk about it. So let's just take a look at

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<v Speaker 1>what we got. And we got so we got to

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<v Speaker 1>spend some good time on the artwork, you know, really

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<v Speaker 1>kind of taking a look, maybe tweaking some things here

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<v Speaker 1>and there, just fine tuning it a bit, and then

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<v Speaker 1>we started doing like Chris, we did a Christmas song.

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<v Speaker 1>We did a cover of the song from the Tire

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<v Speaker 1>King that was amazing. Thank you, thank you. And at

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<v Speaker 1>some point, okay, man, we gotta stop sucking around the

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<v Speaker 1>records done. We gotta we gotta get it out. We

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<v Speaker 1>gotta get it to the fans. We want to hear

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<v Speaker 1>what the fans are gonna say about this. We spent

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<v Speaker 1>a good long time working on it. I want ask

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<v Speaker 1>you about the artwork. It's so cool. It's like Shiva

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<v Speaker 1>meets Day of the Dead. How how did that come about?

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<v Speaker 1>Exactly right? Yeah, yeah, that's pretty much the idea. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I had the idea for a Shiva kind of character,

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<v Speaker 1>and the ideas that in her hands she's holding society's

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<v Speaker 1>ills or you know, some of the things that we're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna explore more in the In the album. You can

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<v Speaker 1>see what violence and drugs or greed or you know, anarchy,

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<v Speaker 1>I suppose are the things she's kind of holding. I

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<v Speaker 1>debated whether to put a virus in one of her hands,

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<v Speaker 1>and then I decided that was a little a little

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<v Speaker 1>too on the note time. I want to be just

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<v Speaker 1>a little more oblique than that. So um, that was

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<v Speaker 1>kind of my initial idea. And then we found this

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<v Speaker 1>guy David, who's a really great artist, and started talking

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<v Speaker 1>through hashing out the ideas, and he really put it

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<v Speaker 1>together and interpreted it and he's just so great. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>so happy that we found him. It looks incredible. You

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<v Speaker 1>said that this is the most cathartic record that you

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<v Speaker 1>you've ever released. I want to ask you more about that.

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<v Speaker 1>Why Why is that? Is it just the amount of

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<v Speaker 1>time that you put into it or specific songs? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean when we grew up, it was those kinds

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<v Speaker 1>of songs that when you when a band would talk

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<v Speaker 1>about being depressed or something that's wrong with the world,

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<v Speaker 1>alienated or disenfranchised. Those are the ones that would help us,

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<v Speaker 1>just me as a kid, the most. It wasn't. You'd

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<v Speaker 1>almost think intuitively it would make you feel worse to

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<v Speaker 1>hear some guys singing about being depressed or whatever, or isolated,

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<v Speaker 1>but it was actually very freeing. It was very much like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not the only one, I'm not alone. It was

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<v Speaker 1>very healing. So that's why we've never been afraid to

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<v Speaker 1>go after those subjects. And hopefully it will mean something

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<v Speaker 1>to other people as well, but for me it certainly did.

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<v Speaker 1>And as you pointed out, there is also the message

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<v Speaker 1>of hope that we will get through all these all

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<v Speaker 1>these things, you know, So yeah, that's it is cathartic.

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<v Speaker 1>Who were some bands when when you were first getting

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<v Speaker 1>into music that made you feel that way that you

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<v Speaker 1>felt spoken to and and less alone. Ts and Well

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<v Speaker 1>was huge for sure. Well and the Adolescence were the

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<v Speaker 1>big ones at that period of time, that kind of

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<v Speaker 1>um teenage years and stuff. Of course, the bands that

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<v Speaker 1>came before were important, like the Sex Pistols and the

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<v Speaker 1>Ramones and you know those those are bands I still

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<v Speaker 1>listened to regularly, and you're a big part of our

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<v Speaker 1>life and stuff. The album is is just so incredible.

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to ask you about a song that's meant

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<v Speaker 1>a lot to me for many years, and it was

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<v Speaker 1>so fascinating and wonderful to hear you revisit it, And

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<v Speaker 1>that's Gone Away, the beautiful version with piano and strings.

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<v Speaker 1>What made you decide to And I know that version

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<v Speaker 1>has been in your life, I've set for a long time.

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<v Speaker 1>What made you decide to to put it on this album?

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<v Speaker 1>The fans really asked us for it. Yeah, it is

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<v Speaker 1>something we've been playing live for the last four or

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<v Speaker 1>five years. Uh, and it's it's kind of a dramatic

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<v Speaker 1>part of the set um every night, and and taking

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<v Speaker 1>that song, which has probably reached our fans in a

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<v Speaker 1>way as deeply as any song we've ever done, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>as intensely. It really does strike a chord with with

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<v Speaker 1>our fans, and playing it acoustically kind of purifies it,

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<v Speaker 1>strips it down to its to its pierced form. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>you're not hiding the vocals behind heavy guitar, bass and drums.

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<v Speaker 1>And the fans really connected with that during the live

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<v Speaker 1>performance and have been asking us meet and greets, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>on social media, when when can they hear a studio version,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, of the Piano Gone Away, And so we

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<v Speaker 1>decided to do it. Yeah, Oh it's amazing. What was

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<v Speaker 1>it I don't have the word daunting is the right word,

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<v Speaker 1>but what was it like? For you to to to

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<v Speaker 1>revisit that song, I mean, just something that that does,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean obviously comes from such a personal place for you,

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<v Speaker 1>but also it's touched so many people in such a way.

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<v Speaker 1>What was that like to to revisit that. When you're

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<v Speaker 1>working with a song, you know, you do on a

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<v Speaker 1>hundred times, there's sort of this industrialization of the song, right,

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<v Speaker 1>But reworking the song again felt really very emotional, actually,

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<v Speaker 1>because you're kind of re examining the lyrics and your

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<v Speaker 1>feelings about how when you wrote it and what it

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<v Speaker 1>meant and all that stuff, and especially doing it which

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<v Speaker 1>is a piano, I felt like it made the vocal

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<v Speaker 1>a lot more personal, So it was almost a vulnerability

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<v Speaker 1>that was almost kind of uncomfortable even doing it that way.

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<v Speaker 1>That it took a little time to get that performance out.

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<v Speaker 1>We convinced him it was great and that it was worthwhile.

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<v Speaker 1>It's right, I mean, you know, one of the highlights

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<v Speaker 1>of the record for me. I wanted to ask you

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<v Speaker 1>about a song that that really blew my mind was

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<v Speaker 1>the cover of the in the Hall of the Mountain King.

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<v Speaker 1>Where did that? Where did that come from? That is

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<v Speaker 1>meant to be this kind of you know w t

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<v Speaker 1>F moment and the record It was out of fun,

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<v Speaker 1>our idea of this would be fun to do. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>we can get away with a short what the funk

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<v Speaker 1>moment on a record? You know, I just have fun

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<v Speaker 1>with it, punk version of a classical song? Right? Who'd

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<v Speaker 1>have thought? A bunch of Greek? Can you think of that?

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<v Speaker 1>He didn't know? He should have, He missed it. Piker

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<v Speaker 1>Biker is somebody who does things in small ways. They

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<v Speaker 1>don't give they don't give it the full effort. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>Greek was so close it ed Bard, You were so close.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't be a piker. But how's the last year been

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<v Speaker 1>for you? I mean, I know you have your own studio,

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<v Speaker 1>so that's gonna be helpful for at least like making music.

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<v Speaker 1>Have you been been productive musically and and working on

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<v Speaker 1>new stuff or refining the album or what? Have you

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<v Speaker 1>been up to a lot of rehearsing, you know, besides

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<v Speaker 1>doing Tiger King covers. We we uh been rehearsing, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>taking the new record and and assigning who's gonna be

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<v Speaker 1>playing what part where you know, and and how to

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<v Speaker 1>make it sound really good live because it's it's different

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<v Speaker 1>than you know, putting it all on tape, and then

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<v Speaker 1>also going back and rehearsing the old stuff and making

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<v Speaker 1>sure we're locked in in parts where maybe we got

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<v Speaker 1>a little sloppy, or after a while you develop bad

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<v Speaker 1>habits and you're playing and you have to kind of

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<v Speaker 1>correct for that. I do. Anyways, you know, maybe it's

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<v Speaker 1>not just me, or maybe it is just me. Anyways,

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<v Speaker 1>we're getting we've been doing all that. It's been fun.

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<v Speaker 1>We can't play for a live audience, so let's get

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<v Speaker 1>in here and at least kind of connect as musicians.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's been a lot of fun. And Yeah, what's

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<v Speaker 1>the latest with that? Cause I know I'm starting to

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<v Speaker 1>hear some bands are starting to tentatively announce tours later

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<v Speaker 1>in the year early next year. You have you have

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<v Speaker 1>an eye on that yet or is it it's still tbd? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean we you know, we want to get out

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<v Speaker 1>there and play, so we're definitely are keeping our eye

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<v Speaker 1>on that and and making sure we're gonna be ready

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<v Speaker 1>to go when when it's say, you know, safe to gather.

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<v Speaker 1>We're looking at We've just announced some shows in November

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<v Speaker 1>were slated to play here in California in October. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>we're hopeful that with the virus, the vaccines rolling out

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<v Speaker 1>and the virus you know, slowing down, and hopefully we

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<v Speaker 1>can put it to bed and and hopefully hopefully for

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<v Speaker 1>the fall. Yeah. Do you have any concert or tour

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<v Speaker 1>rituals or superstitions. I don't know if we have any superstitions.

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<v Speaker 1>I used to have a superstition that I needed to

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<v Speaker 1>drink two or three beers before every show. There you go,

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<v Speaker 1>I've I've I've learned that I can actually play a

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<v Speaker 1>show without Without that, it's not as fun. But yeah, still,

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<v Speaker 1>you didn't want to mess with that superstition to find

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't want to Messa find out some of these. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I was invested in that one. We we don't really

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, you know we well, Dexter likes to warm

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<v Speaker 1>He warms up his voice before he plays. That's important,

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<v Speaker 1>especially if you're doing like three shows in a row.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't want to, you know, wear your voice out.

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<v Speaker 1>The rest of us like to get together and just

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<v Speaker 1>kind of play guitar riffs off each other and and

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<v Speaker 1>kind of you know, if we're working in a new

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<v Speaker 1>song or a song we haven't played in a while,

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<v Speaker 1>we run through that a few times to make sure

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<v Speaker 1>we remember how to play it correctly, you know that,

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<v Speaker 1>make sure we're locked in. Really just kind of hang

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<v Speaker 1>out and get a feel for the for the venue

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<v Speaker 1>and you know, warm up a little bit. Do you

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<v Speaker 1>ever have any any spinal tap moments? Oh, my gosh,

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<v Speaker 1>always yeah. I mean that movies just the gift that

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<v Speaker 1>keeps on given because it is so true and so

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<v Speaker 1>accurate in so many ways. And I remember we went

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<v Speaker 1>through a period where we watched it quite a bit,

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<v Speaker 1>even though it's been out for a long time, but

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<v Speaker 1>even by then, by by the time we were doing

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know, self esteem, like we had gone through

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<v Speaker 1>all that, Like we knew all those scenes because we

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<v Speaker 1>had We've been lost backstage. We've been We've been puppet

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<v Speaker 1>Show and the Offspring. Yeah, yeah, yeah, do the jazz honestly,

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<v Speaker 1>but like just all of a sudden through the set,

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna do jazz, honest Little Brad still frustrates do

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<v Speaker 1>a little brad Well too much, too much fucking perspective

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<v Speaker 1>and race playspective. Yeah, it's great. Dexter. First of all,

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<v Speaker 1>congratulations on your PhD. I feel like I should have

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<v Speaker 1>mentioned that earlier. Thank you. I mean, not only are

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<v Speaker 1>you a touring musician, but you're someone who has a

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<v Speaker 1>page Dame Molecular Biology. What is your take on you know,

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<v Speaker 1>how things are going? Like, do you think we we

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<v Speaker 1>got to totally put you on the spot, But do

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<v Speaker 1>you think we were returning a corner? I do, And

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<v Speaker 1>like I I don't want to speak as an expert

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<v Speaker 1>because it's not what I do for a living, but um,

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<v Speaker 1>but yeah, I mean it's a matter of getting on

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<v Speaker 1>top of the vaccinations for sure. And unfortunately in the US,

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<v Speaker 1>we've actually done a pretty good job of the rollout.

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<v Speaker 1>I think, um, two million shots given right, so crazy? Right, yeah? Crazy?

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<v Speaker 1>I think in California anyway, I've heard have at least

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<v Speaker 1>one shot Like these are big numbers. It's great. So

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<v Speaker 1>we just got to get on top of of that

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<v Speaker 1>before the variants get on top of that. And I

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<v Speaker 1>think we're gonna get there. Well, what else can we

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<v Speaker 1>look forward to us? Wait, no, before you get out

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<v Speaker 1>in the row, what how what else can fans expect

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<v Speaker 1>from you? We've been doing this series of videos called

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<v Speaker 1>how To with the Offspring Um and we've released a couple.

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<v Speaker 1>One is how to Surf and dexter teaches you how

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<v Speaker 1>to surf, and then one where I teach you how

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<v Speaker 1>to bird watch, which I don't know if people are

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<v Speaker 1>really gonna learn anything from these things, but that's part

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<v Speaker 1>of that's part of a joke, because you really don't

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<v Speaker 1>learn how to bird watch it all, or how to

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<v Speaker 1>how to surf. N you can find it on YouTube

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<v Speaker 1>or wherever you get your videos and stuff, but we

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<v Speaker 1>have our own YouTube page. You can see it in

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<v Speaker 1>amongst our videos. They've been fun to make, So I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna I'm gonna do one. I think the next one

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<v Speaker 1>I want to do is is going to be how

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<v Speaker 1>to fly fighters yet? Okay, that's why your pilot's license, right, Yeah? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>And at some point we might actually do things that

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<v Speaker 1>you can learn, Like I could show people how to

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<v Speaker 1>play the solo to kids Aren't all right? Or something

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<v Speaker 1>like that. That would be a little more you know serious. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe that would be the how really to how to

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<v Speaker 1>really yeah really the offspring. Yeah, surfing definitely seems like

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<v Speaker 1>something that maybe over a video tutorial kind of need

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<v Speaker 1>to be there. Yeah, how long have you been surfing?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean that's like that's something that's I'm in New

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<v Speaker 1>England kids, so that's just totally foreign to There's some

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<v Speaker 1>surf up there, but it's it's cold. Yeah, yeah, it's

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<v Speaker 1>snowing right now. I'm not kidding, it's snowing right now.

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<v Speaker 1>So um yeah. I mean I started surfing when I

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<v Speaker 1>was twelve and and it's something I've been doing on

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<v Speaker 1>and off my whole life. And it's just there. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>it's the coolest feeling in the world when you catch

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<v Speaker 1>away and you start riding up and down and you

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<v Speaker 1>know it is Yeah, it's just a great feeling, doesn't.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, it goes by really pretty quick. You spent

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of time out in the water, paddling, watching

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<v Speaker 1>the horizon, looking for bumps to pop up, trying to

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<v Speaker 1>get into position, you know, trying to get around other people.

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<v Speaker 1>And yeah, it's a lot of work for a pretty

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<v Speaker 1>short payoff, but the feeling is is incredible. It's it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's really a neat feeling. Well, guys, I don't wanna

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<v Speaker 1>take a too much more your time. It's been so

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<v Speaker 1>great talking you. My last question and this has been

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<v Speaker 1>the question I've been asking everybody as we wrap these up,

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<v Speaker 1>hopefully it won't be able to ask it much longer.

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<v Speaker 1>But if you can snap your fingers and have everything

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<v Speaker 1>go back to whatever your definition of normal is, say

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<v Speaker 1>twenty nineteen, what would be the first thing that you

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<v Speaker 1>would do people, You'd hug, places, you travel to, restaurants

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<v Speaker 1>you'd go eat at without a mask, and it will

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<v Speaker 1>be the first thing that you would do. I want

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<v Speaker 1>to go to mothers and have a mason jar full

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<v Speaker 1>of paps, blue ribbon. That is a solid answer. I'd

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<v Speaker 1>like to play show. That'd be fun. Oh yeah, that'd

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<v Speaker 1>be good. That's showing beer. That sounds like a good night.

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<v Speaker 1>We're simple people. We're not pikes though not pikers, bikers, bikers.

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<v Speaker 1>A pike is a fish. Oh we're not. We're neither

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<v Speaker 1>of those things. Fishing, We're not fishing fish offspring, not fish.

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<v Speaker 1>Heard it here first get bit? Yeah, thank you. The

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<v Speaker 1>records incredible, You're incredible. Thank you so much for taking

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<v Speaker 1>the time today. It's been a real pleasure. Thank you

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