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After five years of trying, Kevin finally gets Butcher Babies on The Sound. Heidi Shepherd joins Kevin and returning co-host Jared Seymour two days before the release of Nightbloom, the band's new album on Judge & Jury Records with Howard Benson. She explains how the record grew out of notes she wrote after her first-ever therapy sessions, how "Leaving California" started as a voice memo on her drive out of the state, and what it was like having guitarist Henry Flury co-produce a full album for the first time. She also breaks down the true story behind radio single "Blame It on the Wind," filming its video at Zoltan Bathory's house, and its run as the fastest-growing song in the band's catalog. Plus her horror film career, directing the band's videos with her family, touring with Chad Gray, the band's tour-bus VIP after-parties, and a round of rapid-fire questions. A Saints vs. Raiders grudge comes up too.
Also this week: Jared's deep dive into psychedelic desert rock, a Grudge Match where Atypical's "We Are the Fire" defends against Parallyx's "Give Me a F***ing Break," upcoming Sanctuary Biloxi shows including Head Banging for Hunger, Rock the Halls for Mississippi Santa, and the return of Dirty Thirty Fest, a preview of the new magazine with Wake Me on the cover, and news that Atypical goes for the Hall of Fame next week against Awaiting Abigail.
Creators and Guests
Host
Kevin Harris
Kevin “Special K” Harris is a radio host, podcaster, music advocate, and founder of Stay Loud Management. As co-owner and co-host of The Sound 228, Kevin has built a platform dedicated to discovering, supporting, and amplifying new rock music and the artists behind it. With years of experience in radio, interviews, live events, artist management, and music promotion, his mission is simple: support the scene, give artists a voice, and keep new rock LOUD.
What is The Sound?
Welcome to The Sound 228... where New Rock lives loud. 🎸🔥
The Sound 228 is more than a podcast. It’s a live streaming rock radio experience, music magazine, concert promoter, and home for the New Rock Nation. Hosted by Kevin “Special K” Harris, Matt James, Lisa Wills, and Jared Seymour the show brings you conversations with the biggest names in active rock alongside the underground bands grinding their way to the top.
From exclusive artist interviews and tour talk to new music discovery, festival coverage, scene support, and unapologetic passion for rock culture, The Sound 228 connects fans, bands, and the Gulf Coast music community like nowhere else.
Streaming live across YouTube, Facebook, X, and Twitch, The Sound 228 shines a spotlight on both national touring acts and the next generation of artists from Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Texas, and beyond.
If it’s loud, honest, emotional, heavy, or destined to shake speakers at 2AM... it belongs here.
We Are New Rock.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of The Sound.
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I am Kevin Harris.
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And, you know, people didn't know, but we we here at The Sound have the world champion for the hide and seek.
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I mean, he is the hide and seek world champion.
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We haven't seen him in months, but he has decided to grace us with his presence tonight.
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The one and only Jared Seymour has entered the building for the first time in a while, and it's nothing against him.
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He's just a busy son of a bitch.
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It it feels good to be home, baby.
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Nice to see you, man.
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How are things going?
00:01:43 [Speaker 2]
Oh, dude.
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Great.
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You know?
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Just, like you said, dude, just been been super busy these past few months and, trying to stay above water.
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Absolutely.
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So, we...
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We'll do the do the same thing that we've always done.
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What have you been listening to?
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You got a lot of lot of catching up to do.
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You're not gonna believe you're not gonna believe this.
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Okay?
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This will be a good story for people.
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I've told it a bunch of times at work too.
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So most recently, I've been listening to a lot of, so I've listened to a lot of, instrumental music because I'm I'm I'm constantly doing stuff on the computer and lyrics sent...
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You know, that distracts me.
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So, I've been listening to a lot of jazz music, man.
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Nice.
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There there are these things on YouTube, like, you you click on, like, smooth jazz or jazz from the forties or whatever you wanna hear, and then you just go down this algorithm of different stuff.
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So that's been super cool.
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But right before the jazz thing kinda popped up on my radar, I was listening to a genre of music.
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If you haven't heard of this, you're...
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I hadn't either.
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YouTube pitched it up to me.
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Have you ever heard, Kevin, of psychedelic desert rock?
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I have not.
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Yeah.
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It's it's legit, man.
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Like, I don't know if you can, queue up the screen share on YouTube quick enough or not, but it's just...
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It's like background music, but it's drums and bass and some guitar that sounds a bluesy at times.
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But then if you watch it on YouTube, they got these really killer thumbnails that are, like, watercolors, of, like, a, you know, like, mid...
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Like, New Mexico Desert with something you might see, like, maybe the Grand Canyon in the background looking.
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And then, like, in the foreground, it's like a Winnebago with a astronaut wearing a spacesuit sitting there.
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I swear.
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It's it's the coolest shit.
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And and the music's...
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It's pretty cool.
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I dig it.
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All in Shenandoah.
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Like, the like, the desert
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rock.
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And one...
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Once you watch once you watch one, get ready because your your algorithm's gonna be like, oh, we got way more of that.
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Alright.
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I've...
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I gotta...
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Listen.
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I don't think I've ever done the, screen share with with this.
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So hold on a sec.
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Yeah.
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Make sure the audio tab is...
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Or button is clicked so we can hear it.
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Yeah.
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That's it.
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There you go.
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Look.
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That's it.
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I like it.
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Dude, it's chill, man.
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It's, like, super late that.
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Just chill music.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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That's pretty much it.
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It's kinda just that for a really long time, but, each video is different.
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You know?
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It's it's
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I gotta turn it off on my TV or on my computer here
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because I'll
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just sit...
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I'll I'll...
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I could I could I could kick back, relax to that.
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If you're doing something and you just need to kill the silence, you know, you want some background, you know, noise that's good, I highly recommend it, man.
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Go check it out.
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Nice.
00:04:48 [Speaker 1]
Well, I have been listening to, kind of a a a few different things, but, like, some some newer says...
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So architects, believe it or not, I've been listening to the to that one.
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That new single that they've got machine is really, really, really good.
00:05:04 [Speaker 2]
Those dudes are heavy.
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Yeah.
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And, I've been listening to Who They Fear, which is another really heavy band.
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Okay.
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They've got some good stuff coming out.
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They got a new album called Comatose.
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It's really good.
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So that's kinda kinda where I've been at.
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And, of course, recently too, they've got the new album coming out.
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So I've been listening to a couple of their newest singles.
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They just dropped a new one, Blacktop Mojo as well.
00:05:29 [Speaker 1]
So, so some good stuff going on there, and, that's what I've been listening to.
00:05:34 [Speaker 1]
But, What
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about what about that Blacktop Mojo show we saw at the cannery?
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At the sanctuary?
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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No.
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I'm talking about That's how long it's been since I've been on the show.
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We were talking cannery the last time.
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The sanctuary.
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Sorry.
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Yes.
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That's a No.
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One hell of a show.
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I mean, everybody that was everybody was...
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I mean, Blacktop Mojo put on...
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They always put on a good show.
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And, and the bands that were with them, Stoneco and Oaknhole, did...
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And Seven Year Witch Seven Year Witch.
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Did a hell of a job too.
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Even Seven Year Witch has that new lead singer, and and it was it was just bang up.
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It was such a good show.
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It was, man.
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And and they they they are nonstop, man.
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They they just they just go.
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And then Matt or Matt...
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Katmurdis, the bass player, as soon as he got done, he was already on his socials.
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He's given bass lessons, and he's going on and doing some some solo stuff out where they live in in Texas and stuff like that.
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So, I mean, nonstop.
00:06:43 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
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They're...
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Those guys, they they they...
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Every time I see them, like you say, live, they're just...
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They're phenomenal.
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I I love the show.
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I love their music.
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They're...
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When I look at them, I'm just like, I don't understand how how they're not, like, just on massive large sold out stages.
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You know?
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Like, it it really kinda pisses me off, to be honest
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with you.
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It was kinda nice.
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There was satellite touring now, which is a new agency for them, but got them up on Upheaval Festival.
00:07:10 [Speaker 1]
So they got they got to play some festivals this year because satellite got them on those festivals, which was nice to see.
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Because wherever they were at before, not saying any names, but wherever they were at before just wasn't doing that for them.
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But satellite...
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Satellite's taking care of them, so good job there.
00:07:27 [Speaker 2]
They're they're one of the ones that you go to, like I say, live, and it's like they're consistent, and you hear the music.
00:07:32 [Speaker 2]
The music's great, and it's like the the stage performance...
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Every...
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All the boxes are checked, and I'm just sitting there, like, scratching my head.
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Like, what...
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What's the problem here?
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What what what what what are we doing?
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You know?
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But, I mean, you can go to just...
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Even the the opening band, seven year witch.
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Great sound, great stage presence.
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They have everything that I think that you would be looking for, and it's just like they're right.
00:08:00 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:08:01 [Speaker 2]
It's like, you know, you wanna tell the, like, bands and musicians if you're listening to this.
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Like, if these guys who have...
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And when I say every box checked, I mean, they have it checked.
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Right?
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The songs are written well.
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They sing them well.
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They play them well.
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The...
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It's just it's top tier.
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Like, if you don't have that, and these guys are are still, you know, chomping at the bit to hit that next that next level, that next Yep.
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Just, you know, size capacity venue, like, I'd be working on my show.
00:08:28 [Speaker 2]
You know what I mean?
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That's it.
00:08:30 [Speaker 1]
That's it.
00:08:31 [Speaker 1]
Well, we've got a grudge match tonight.
00:08:33 [Speaker 1]
Nothing has changed since you've been on the show.
00:08:36 [Speaker 1]
No.
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I still do the grudge match.
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We've got Heidi, Shepherd from Butcher Babies that's gonna be joining us, around the 08:00 hour or wherever your...
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08:00 central hour.
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So at the top of the hour, we'll just say that.
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She'll be joining us talking about...
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They've got a new album dropping on Friday called Night Bloom.
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They've got a new single, that is inside our dirty 30, called Blame It on the Wind.
00:09:03 [Speaker 1]
It's not the latest release, but it's the latest radio single that they've got.
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And, it's it's really good, and I've got a bone to pick with her soon as we soon as we talk to her because she is from Las Vegas, and she did run her mouth a little bit about the game Sunday.
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So I got I got some news to say, but it is what it is.
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But we are gonna...
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The returning champion, bring you up to speed, Jared.
00:09:27 [Speaker 1]
So the returning champion is a band out of Oklahoma.
00:09:30 [Speaker 1]
I think it's Oklahoma.
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I might be wrong.
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Maybe Missouri.
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Oklahoma?
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US.
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Yeah.
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Anyways, atypical.
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Female fronted, and Jonathan Norris produced the single Okay.
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And is doing work with them.
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They're gonna be taking on a band from France called Paralex, who...
00:09:52 [Speaker 1]
And this is another thing that's changed since the last time you were on the show.
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I listen to much heavier music now.
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What...
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How how did that happen?
00:10:00 [Speaker 1]
I've been trying...
00:10:01 [Speaker 1]
Did you do that for years?
00:10:02 [Speaker 1]
I honestly don't know how it happened.
00:10:05 [Speaker 1]
I think it was just a matter of what we're putting on the station and what we're listening to and what we're talking about, and I just started listening.
00:10:12 [Speaker 1]
And I kinda just kinda gravitated towards some of this, and then I'm like, oh, this shit's really good.
00:10:17 [Speaker 1]
And and it gets better and better.
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So I've I've found this band.
00:10:22 [Speaker 1]
I sent it to Lisa.
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Lisa hadn't hadn't heard of them.
00:10:25 [Speaker 1]
So, and then when they just released a new single, called give me a effing break.
00:10:31 [Speaker 1]
And so that's the video that we're gonna be playing in the grudge match.
00:10:34 [Speaker 1]
So if you're if you're watching, you know how it works.
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We'll play both videos.
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After the second video starts, you put in the comments video number one, video number two.
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Starting the next...
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Maybe not next week because I just found out I'm not gonna be on next week's episode.
00:10:49 [Speaker 1]
But the week after that, the only way you can vote for the grudge match is voting through the sound two two eight app.
00:10:57 [Speaker 1]
Smart.
00:10:58 [Speaker 1]
So you have to download the app in order to vote.
00:11:01 [Speaker 1]
So you might as well go ahead and download the brand new app right now.
00:11:05 [Speaker 1]
If you have the app, update it.
00:11:08 [Speaker 1]
Most of the Android system, you have to uninstall it and reinstall it.
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We haven't figured out why that's happening.
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But brand new app, up to date stuff, new new player, new feed, everything.
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Just tons more features.
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It's a lot more...
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Just way more capable.
00:11:24 [Speaker 1]
Way more capable and way more user friendly.
00:11:27 [Speaker 2]
Right.
00:11:27 [Speaker 1]
So, download the app because in a couple weeks, that's the only way you can vote for the grudge match.
00:11:33 [Speaker 1]
But we are gonna roll into the grudge match now.
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The first, video you're gonna see, it's the band paralex.
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They're out of France.
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It's called give me an effing break.
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Here it is.
00:11:42 [Speaker 1]
It's the grudge match, and you're watching the sound.
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Give me your fucking bridge.
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Give me your fucking rod.
00:14:44 [Speaker 1]
Alright.
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There you have it.
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That is Paralex out of France.
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Oh, wait.
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Alright.
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Hold on.
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I still got you muted.
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I'm sorry.
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Go ahead.
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I said you wouldn't lying about being heavy.
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That's
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No.
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That's Yeah.
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I don't know.
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It's just recently, it's been...
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And that...
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When they really start grooving with that bass, with the with the the dirtiness in the bass, it's just like, hey.
00:15:07 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:15:08 [Speaker 2]
Alright.
00:15:08 [Speaker 1]
That is your challenger.
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Your returning champion is atypical.
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It's called We Are the Fire.
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It is video number two.
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You can start putting your votes in the comments now.
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Video number one or video number two.
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Here is Atypical, and you're watching the sound.
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Alright.
00:18:30 [Speaker 4]
There you have it.
00:18:30 [Speaker 1]
That is Atypical We Are the Fire.
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What do you think of that one, Jared?
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I dig it.
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I like the, the guitar riff.
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You know what I mean?
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It's driving.
00:18:40 [Speaker 2]
Just dig it.
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I dig it.
00:18:42 [Speaker 1]
Nice.
00:18:43 [Speaker 1]
So now put your your your votes in the comments.
00:18:46 [Speaker 1]
Video number one, video number two.
00:18:49 [Speaker 1]
Before Heidi joins us here at the top of the hour, we got some, business to take care of, some upcoming shows that we've got coming up.
00:18:56 [Speaker 1]
Let's see.
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Where do we start?
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Because most of them...
00:19:00 [Speaker 1]
We got a we got a little break before we get into a lot of it.
00:19:04 [Speaker 1]
So, like, November...
00:19:05 [Speaker 1]
So we're, I mean, we're about a month out.
00:19:06 [Speaker 1]
Three years hollow is gonna be at the sanctuary, with Love to Hate trackside red light vendetta.
00:19:12 [Speaker 1]
That's gonna be happening.
00:19:14 [Speaker 1]
And then on December 5, at the sanctuary in Biloxi, you've got In The End, the Lincoln Park Experience, and they are fantastic.
00:19:24 [Speaker 1]
They're playing the House Of Blues in New Orleans.
00:19:26 [Speaker 1]
I mean, they're playing the House Of Blues in Orlando.
00:19:28 [Speaker 1]
They're playing all of that.
00:19:29 [Speaker 1]
That's...
00:19:29 [Speaker 1]
They're gonna do the sanctuary.
00:19:31 [Speaker 1]
November 28, this one just got announced.
00:19:35 [Speaker 1]
It's Head Banging for Hunger.
00:19:37 [Speaker 1]
It's gonna be at the sanctuary as well with Shades of Wisteria, Reign of Abaddon, Sinners Revival, and Afterburn.
00:19:43 [Speaker 1]
Afterburn, Jared is Tony Burns' band.
00:19:48 [Speaker 1]
Nice.
00:19:49 [Speaker 1]
And then on December 13, we've got Nirvana and Nirvana Tribute Experience, December 11, at the, sanctuary.
00:19:57 [Speaker 1]
And I've seen them before, and they are fantastic.
00:19:59 [Speaker 1]
You actually think Kurt Cobain did not pass away.
00:20:04 [Speaker 1]
Puts on a great, great, great show.
00:20:07 [Speaker 1]
And then on December 20, you got Rock the Halls, gonna be for Mississippi Santa, a last minute toy drive for Christmas.
00:20:17 [Speaker 1]
Would love to hate them guys.
00:20:18 [Speaker 1]
Transient, scream out loud, rise to Phoenix.
00:20:21 [Speaker 1]
Cookie woo, storage 24, and not my time, a tribute to three doors down, will be there as well.
00:20:27 [Speaker 1]
So got all of that going on.
00:20:29 [Speaker 1]
And, Jared, I think, probably saw it, but...
00:20:34 [Speaker 1]
And didn't ask any questions, so I think I'm okay with it.
00:20:37 [Speaker 1]
Thirty thirty fest returns June 26 next year at the sanctuary in Biloxi, so that'll be happening.
00:20:43 [Speaker 2]
I did see that.
00:20:44 [Speaker 1]
We've got some good stuff going on, and you can go to our website, or you can download the app.
00:20:49 [Speaker 1]
All the events are in the app.
00:20:50 [Speaker 1]
You could buy the tickets through the app, all of that kind of stuff.
00:20:54 [Speaker 1]
So definitely check out, the app.
00:20:57 [Speaker 1]
It's brand new.
00:20:59 [Speaker 1]
Download it and have some fun with it.
00:21:01 [Speaker 1]
It's really, really good.
00:21:03 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:21:03 [Speaker 2]
And, Kevin, tell people that you're watching, listening to this, send in your ideas.
00:21:10 [Speaker 2]
The app's versatile.
00:21:11 [Speaker 2]
If you're like, man, I wish it had this in it or I wish it could do that.
00:21:14 [Speaker 2]
Like, I wish it linked to this or the...
00:21:17 [Speaker 2]
There's there's information out there I wish I could...
00:21:19 [Speaker 2]
You know, whatever.
00:21:19 [Speaker 2]
Let us know, and we can, work behind the scenes to to make that happen.
00:21:23 [Speaker 1]
Absolutely.
00:21:24 [Speaker 1]
It's it's all about what you guys want.
00:21:27 [Speaker 1]
I mean, it's it's built with with the idea of what we think is what everybody wants, but Right.
00:21:34 [Speaker 1]
We're we're we're there.
00:21:35 [Speaker 1]
I mean, you could submit your music.
00:21:37 [Speaker 2]
Yep.
00:21:38 [Speaker 1]
Through there.
00:21:39 [Speaker 1]
You can...
00:21:39 [Speaker 1]
If you wanna play Dirty thirty Fest in your band, you could submit yourself through through the app.
00:21:45 [Speaker 1]
Mhmm.
00:21:46 [Speaker 1]
So it...
00:21:47 [Speaker 1]
It's all rock news.
00:21:49 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:21:49 [Speaker 1]
You can make requests in there for the radio station.
00:21:52 [Speaker 1]
So it's all within that app.
00:21:54 [Speaker 1]
But if there's something that you really would think it would be better, hey.
00:21:57 [Speaker 1]
This app would be better if it did this.
00:21:59 [Speaker 1]
Mhmm.
00:21:59 [Speaker 1]
It's definitely stuff that we can mess around with, behind the scenes and and and see if we can make it work, because nine times out of 10, we can probably make it work.
00:22:09 [Speaker 1]
So
00:22:10 [Speaker 2]
We got some people in the comments already voting, it looks like.
00:22:13 [Speaker 2]
Adam, what's up, dude?
00:22:14 [Speaker 2]
Saw Adam.
00:22:15 [Speaker 2]
It's been a minute ago.
00:22:16 [Speaker 2]
Where do we see him at?
00:22:17 [Speaker 2]
Was he at the club?
00:22:18 [Speaker 1]
We saw my Blacktop Mojo.
00:22:20 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:22:20 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:22:20 [Speaker 2]
What's up, brother?
00:22:22 [Speaker 2]
Shelly's in the comments.
00:22:23 [Speaker 2]
We got...
00:22:24 [Speaker 2]
It's starting to scroll.
00:22:24 [Speaker 2]
Mike, Linda, where I'm at?
00:22:27 [Speaker 2]
Trevor.
00:22:28 [Speaker 2]
Is there any more?
00:22:29 [Speaker 2]
Who am I missing, Kevin?
00:22:29 [Speaker 2]
I'm trying to get one to get one.
00:22:31 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:22:32 [Speaker 1]
Robbie's in there.
00:22:33 [Speaker 1]
Trevor's in there.
00:22:34 [Speaker 1]
Rachel was in there earlier, and they're all watching through our YouTube channel.
00:22:39 [Speaker 1]
So
00:22:40 [Speaker 2]
Okay.
00:22:41 [Speaker 2]
I like I
00:22:42 [Speaker 1]
like I like seeing everybody, on the on the YouTube channels.
00:22:46 [Speaker 1]
So if you're in there and you're watching it on YouTube and you haven't subscribed yet, please subscribe.
00:22:51 [Speaker 1]
We would love we would love to have you guys on as subscribers so you can stay informed on it anytime we go live or any any special interviews we do.
00:23:01 [Speaker 1]
Like, sometimes we're able to get some interviews when we're out doing a festival or something like that, and we'll have those popped up on our YouTube channel.
00:23:08 [Speaker 1]
So, please, if you get the opportunity, subscribe to the YouTube channel.
00:23:13 [Speaker 1]
So we're just waiting for the top of the hour.
00:23:16 [Speaker 1]
Heidi's gonna be joining us.
00:23:17 [Speaker 1]
I'm hoping she might pop in a little bit early.
00:23:19 [Speaker 1]
Who knows?
00:23:20 [Speaker 1]
But if you don't know, so Butcher Babies is who Heidi sings for.
00:23:27 [Speaker 1]
They're releasing a new album called Night Bloom coming out, in two days on Friday.
00:23:33 [Speaker 1]
It's done with Judge and Jury Records.
00:23:35 [Speaker 1]
So...
00:23:35 [Speaker 1]
And judge and jury is just kinda hop...
00:23:37 [Speaker 1]
Everybody's hopping on with judge and jury.
00:23:39 [Speaker 1]
I mean, Saliva's done, some of their new stuff with judge and jury.
00:23:43 [Speaker 1]
Twelve Stones did some of their new stuff with judge and jury.
00:23:46 [Speaker 1]
And, of course, judge and jury is members of three Days Grace.
00:23:49 [Speaker 1]
And some...
00:23:50 [Speaker 1]
I can't I can't remember off top of my head, another producer, but that's judge and jury.
00:23:56 [Speaker 1]
But they've got a they've got a lot going on.
00:23:58 [Speaker 1]
I mean, there's...
00:23:59 [Speaker 1]
It's it's funny because we we sit here and talk, and you're you're familiar with Chris Dawson.
00:24:04 [Speaker 1]
And then there's David Cowell who did Sleep Theory's, album.
00:24:10 [Speaker 1]
And, some people are going to him for some stuff, and then Chris Dawson, then judge and jury.
00:24:14 [Speaker 1]
And it's like, you've got this select group of producers that are really, like, just building that rock music scene, which is which is...
00:24:27 [Speaker 1]
It's it's weird to see that it's just like a a a collection of a few, but then you've got the the ones that are not getting the recognition I think they deserve.
00:24:36 [Speaker 1]
I mean, give you an example, like a Jonathan Norris and David McGillivray, putting the stuff you're getting.
00:24:41 [Speaker 2]
Wise, you mean?
00:24:42 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:24:42 [Speaker 1]
And they're doing stuff for Sandy's Last Breath.
00:24:45 [Speaker 1]
They did stuff for Atypical.
00:24:46 [Speaker 1]
They've got the new the new Awaken the Giant, a zero promo released yesterday.
00:24:54 [Speaker 1]
I just saw it today.
00:24:55 [Speaker 1]
I was like, hey.
00:24:56 [Speaker 1]
New single's out, and I'm like, wow.
00:24:57 [Speaker 1]
They did that without any promo?
00:24:59 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:25:00 [Speaker 2]
Wait.
00:25:00 [Speaker 2]
What are we doing?
00:25:03 [Speaker 1]
So...
00:25:03 [Speaker 1]
But the new Awaken the Giant's out.
00:25:06 [Speaker 1]
They're playing a show this Friday night, at the Twist of Lime in Metairie with Love the Hate, Transient, Awaken the Giant, and Silverdose are playing.
00:25:15 [Speaker 1]
So if you're heading over
00:25:17 [Speaker 2]
That's a good show.
00:25:17 [Speaker 1]
New Orleans area, definitely check out the Twisted Line for that show.
00:25:22 [Speaker 2]
I love, I I like that bar, man.
00:25:24 [Speaker 2]
We've...
00:25:24 [Speaker 2]
We played there a long time ago.
00:25:26 [Speaker 2]
It's a it's a good, like...
00:25:27 [Speaker 2]
I I mean, this is a compliment hole in the wall style bar.
00:25:30 [Speaker 2]
Like, absolutely small.
00:25:32 [Speaker 2]
It's not huge in that...
00:25:33 [Speaker 2]
And when people are throwing down in there, like, you're gonna see the action.
00:25:37 [Speaker 1]
So let me ask you this.
00:25:38 [Speaker 1]
Do you know who owns it now?
00:25:41 [Speaker 2]
It's, does Dominic...
00:25:43 [Speaker 2]
Does he...
00:25:43 [Speaker 2]
No.
00:25:44 [Speaker 2]
No.
00:25:44 [Speaker 2]
No.
00:25:44 [Speaker 2]
Who owns it?
00:25:45 [Speaker 1]
Blake.
00:25:47 [Speaker 2]
Blake bought it?
00:25:49 [Speaker 1]
Blake and Rodrigo, the lead singer...
00:25:51 [Speaker 1]
The new lead singer of Awaken the Giant.
00:25:53 [Speaker 1]
That show owner is a Twist of Lime now.
00:25:56 [Speaker 1]
Wow.
00:25:57 [Speaker 1]
Yep.
00:25:58 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:25:58 [Speaker 1]
Blake not know that.
00:25:59 [Speaker 1]
Blake moved to Louisiana.
00:26:02 [Speaker 1]
They invested in Twist of Lime, and they're putting on...
00:26:05 [Speaker 1]
So they've had major moment there.
00:26:07 [Speaker 1]
They got rehab coming up.
00:26:08 [Speaker 1]
They got Scotty Austin coming through.
00:26:10 [Speaker 1]
They...
00:26:11 [Speaker 1]
They're putting they're putting they're putting their money where their mouth is right there.
00:26:14 [Speaker 1]
Wow.
00:26:15 [Speaker 2]
So I need to go I need to go down there and drink some, run up some, alcohol sales for them.
00:26:20 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:26:20 [Speaker 1]
We need...
00:26:21 [Speaker 1]
We we should make it...
00:26:22 [Speaker 1]
We should pick a show and go over to the Twist of Lime and hang out.
00:26:25 [Speaker 2]
Love that place.
00:26:26 [Speaker 1]
I'll run up a Coke bill.
00:26:28 [Speaker 1]
Coca Cola.
00:26:29 [Speaker 2]
Wait.
00:26:29 [Speaker 2]
Coke.
00:26:29 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:26:30 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:26:30 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:26:30 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:26:30 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:26:32 [Speaker 1]
Those days are behind me, ladies.
00:26:36 [Speaker 1]
But, yeah.
00:26:37 [Speaker 1]
So that's...
00:26:38 [Speaker 1]
They've got they've got the twist of the line going on.
00:26:40 [Speaker 1]
But, I mean, if you go across the coast, there's a lot of bars that are really still still pushing out some great shows.
00:26:49 [Speaker 1]
You got the Merry Widow and Soul Kitchen over in Mobile and the Alabama Music Box.
00:26:53 [Speaker 1]
You got the handlebar.
00:26:54 [Speaker 1]
You got, vinyl in Pensacola Club LA, Downtown Music Hall in Fort Walton.
00:27:02 [Speaker 1]
You've got the sanctuary.
00:27:04 [Speaker 1]
You've got the juke joint.
00:27:05 [Speaker 1]
I mean, everybody is still pushing out some really good shows, and it's an opportunity to to go see some bands and and show the love.
00:27:15 [Speaker 1]
I mean, it's...
00:27:16 [Speaker 1]
These bands are busting their ass to put on these shows and sometimes not getting paid at all, to play.
00:27:27 [Speaker 1]
But they're they're out there.
00:27:28 [Speaker 1]
They wanna share their music.
00:27:30 [Speaker 1]
So make sure you get out and and check out a show and check out the calendar.
00:27:34 [Speaker 1]
And that's something I wanna try to do with the app is put some sort of concert...
00:27:39 [Speaker 1]
Local concert calendar at least along the Gulf Coast.
00:27:43 [Speaker 2]
Do...
00:27:43 [Speaker 2]
What
00:27:45 [Speaker 1]
Holy wow.
00:27:46 [Speaker 1]
Jared Seymour is here.
00:27:49 [Speaker 2]
What's up?
00:27:51 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:27:51 [Speaker 2]
Kevin, with the app, we could...
00:27:52 [Speaker 2]
You could do it, man.
00:27:53 [Speaker 2]
And, like, with AI, you know, we've...
00:27:55 [Speaker 2]
You know, I've had some conversations.
00:27:56 [Speaker 2]
I mean, there's there's all kinda crazy shit you could build out, and then that app just pretty much links to it.
00:28:01 [Speaker 2]
You know?
00:28:02 [Speaker 2]
And it can all be, like, self serve too where you build something where people, upload their flyer and where, you know, where...
00:28:10 [Speaker 2]
Well, I should...
00:28:10 [Speaker 2]
AI will read it.
00:28:11 [Speaker 2]
So Alright.
00:28:12 [Speaker 2]
The flyer, it'll show up on our map, and boom.
00:28:14 [Speaker 2]
There you go.
00:28:15 [Speaker 4]
Yeah.
00:28:15 [Speaker 4]
When you...
00:28:16 [Speaker 4]
Yeah.
00:28:16 [Speaker 4]
I'm a find...
00:28:17 [Speaker 4]
I'll find
00:28:17 [Speaker 1]
a way of doing doing, like, an an actual feed where you could upload that flyer, and it'll just add it to the feed.
00:28:24 [Speaker 2]
You could have it you could have it on a, like, a like, a radar map with pins.
00:28:29 [Speaker 2]
You know what I mean?
00:28:30 [Speaker 1]
Yep.
00:28:31 [Speaker 2]
Just click on the pin, and it'll show you where it's at.
00:28:34 [Speaker 1]
I'm getting yelled at by the cat.
00:28:35 [Speaker 1]
I forgot to run it out of the house.
00:28:36 [Speaker 1]
Alright.
00:28:39 [Speaker 1]
So...
00:28:40 [Speaker 1]
Well well, like I said, we're we're just...
00:28:42 [Speaker 1]
We're we're slowly...
00:28:43 [Speaker 1]
We're we're waiting.
00:28:45 [Speaker 1]
I don't have a contact.
00:28:47 [Speaker 1]
I know if I send an email right now, it's not gonna go anywhere anytime soon.
00:28:51 [Speaker 1]
So,
00:28:52 [Speaker 2]
Well, worst...
00:28:53 [Speaker 2]
I mean, if something happens, it's...
00:28:54 [Speaker 1]
Never mind.
00:28:54 [Speaker 2]
There we go.
00:28:56 [Speaker 1]
Yes.
00:28:57 [Speaker 1]
I've been waiting for this.
00:28:59 [Speaker 1]
So I...
00:29:00 [Speaker 1]
I'm gonna I'm gonna preface this before we bring her in, and Jared is my witness.
00:29:05 [Speaker 1]
For at least five years of this show, I have said, I wanna get the butcher babies on this show.
00:29:12 [Speaker 1]
I have begged.
00:29:13 [Speaker 1]
I've tried to figure out a way.
00:29:15 [Speaker 1]
And finally, Heidi is going to be joining us from Butcher Babies, and I'm super stoked.
00:29:22 [Speaker 1]
But I'd...
00:29:23 [Speaker 1]
I I see her backstage.
00:29:25 [Speaker 1]
I'm just giving you a warning.
00:29:26 [Speaker 1]
I do have a bone to pick with you as soon as I let you in the show.
00:29:29 [Speaker 1]
We're gonna we're gonna chat about it because I saw your post the other day.
00:29:32 [Speaker 1]
So I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to...
00:29:34 [Speaker 1]
Alright.
00:29:35 [Speaker 1]
Let's just get Heidi in here.
00:29:36 [Speaker 2]
Bring her in.
00:29:37 [Speaker 1]
There she is.
00:29:38 [Speaker 3]
Oh, hi.
00:29:39 [Speaker 3]
Alright.
00:29:39 [Speaker 3]
What are we fighting about?
00:29:41 [Speaker 1]
So I'm a Saints fan.
00:29:44 [Speaker 3]
Oh.
00:29:45 [Speaker 3]
Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:29:47 [Speaker 3]
I'm so sorry.
00:29:48 [Speaker 1]
I was at the game.
00:29:49 [Speaker 3]
Oh, you...
00:29:50 [Speaker 3]
Oh, man.
00:29:50 [Speaker 1]
You're so sorry.
00:29:52 [Speaker 1]
Sitting next to Raiders fans.
00:29:54 [Speaker 1]
Mhmm.
00:29:54 [Speaker 1]
Well, we all became friends by the time the game was over with, and it was a really good game.
00:29:58 [Speaker 1]
But then I can't exactly remember the verbiage you used, but it was kinda like slaughtered or got their ass handed to them
00:30:07 [Speaker 4]
or something
00:30:07 [Speaker 1]
like that.
00:30:07 [Speaker 1]
Like, no.
00:30:08 [Speaker 1]
Wait a second.
00:30:09 [Speaker 1]
That game didn't quite go that bad.
00:30:11 [Speaker 1]
But...
00:30:11 [Speaker 1]
Yes.
00:30:11 [Speaker 1]
So congratulations to the Raiders for winning that game.
00:30:14 [Speaker 1]
It was a good game, though.
00:30:15 [Speaker 1]
It was a really good game.
00:30:16 [Speaker 4]
It was
00:30:17 [Speaker 3]
a really, really good game, and, honestly, we need it.
00:30:21 [Speaker 3]
So, there...
00:30:23 [Speaker 3]
It's amazing to see the Raiders, having a good season so far.
00:30:27 [Speaker 3]
So
00:30:28 [Speaker 1]
Three and a three and o.
00:30:29 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:30:30 [Speaker 3]
I'm I'm a I'm a Las Vegas resident.
00:30:34 [Speaker 3]
So, by proxy, here I am as a Raiders fan.
00:30:39 [Speaker 3]
I've actually always been a Raiders fan since I was in high school.
00:30:41 [Speaker 3]
So, that's kinda why I moved to Vegas.
00:30:45 [Speaker 1]
I I I did I did make the comment, though.
00:30:47 [Speaker 1]
I said the NFL is always better when the Raiders play well.
00:30:51 [Speaker 3]
Okay.
00:30:51 [Speaker 3]
I like that.
00:30:52 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:30:53 [Speaker 1]
So those old school teams like the Dolphins and the Raiders and and the Jets, And if they're if they're good or they're playing well, the NFL is just better.
00:31:02 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:31:03 [Speaker 3]
I...
00:31:03 [Speaker 3]
You know what?
00:31:04 [Speaker 3]
I'm I'm agreeing with you there.
00:31:07 [Speaker 1]
I love it.
00:31:07 [Speaker 1]
I love it.
00:31:08 [Speaker 1]
But, I'm sure you heard me say it.
00:31:10 [Speaker 1]
I...
00:31:11 [Speaker 1]
And I swear to god, it's been four or five years I've been saying I wanna get the butcher babies on the show, and I'm I'm so glad to have you.
00:31:17 [Speaker 1]
I'm I'm glad we get to talk to you a couple days before night balloon comes out.
00:31:21 [Speaker 1]
So you've got a new album coming out, and it's a it's a it's a personal album.
00:31:26 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:31:27 [Speaker 1]
So so what what made you finally say, you know what?
00:31:31 [Speaker 1]
I'm gonna throw it out there and and and and put myself that far out.
00:31:38 [Speaker 3]
Well, you know, I've always had very personal songs on on records.
00:31:44 [Speaker 3]
It's just...
00:31:45 [Speaker 3]
This one was just different in the sense of it was basically an autobiography because I started in in January 2024 once we...
00:31:57 [Speaker 3]
When we started writing this album, I had just started therapy for the first time in my life.
00:32:04 [Speaker 3]
I was like, you know what?
00:32:05 [Speaker 3]
I'm in my forties.
00:32:06 [Speaker 3]
Let's just try this out.
00:32:08 [Speaker 3]
And and I'm glad that I did.
00:32:10 [Speaker 3]
And and so I would come home from these sessions, and I would just kinda scribble out everything that I was learning and thinking about and going over, down into a notepad, and it turned into Nightbloom.
00:32:29 [Speaker 3]
And that's...
00:32:30 [Speaker 3]
So that's really kinda how it all started was just needing a place for these emotions to go.
00:32:39 [Speaker 1]
I got you.
00:32:40 [Speaker 1]
Now I know one of the songs on there in in in Leaving California, and I I listened to it multiple times, over the last couple days because...
00:32:51 [Speaker 1]
And I read where it started out as a voice memo.
00:32:54 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:32:54 [Speaker 3]
It did.
00:32:55 [Speaker 3]
So I was actually leaving California, and I was, as I was driving and leaving, you know, leaving everything...
00:33:07 [Speaker 3]
I didn't leave everything behind.
00:33:08 [Speaker 3]
I brought it all with me.
00:33:09 [Speaker 3]
But, you know, like, leaving the state behind and what I thought was gonna be my forever home, I just started kinda humming the melody and kinda had some loose lyrics, some words to it, but it was, I'm leaving California.
00:33:27 [Speaker 3]
That was a part of it.
00:33:28 [Speaker 3]
And, and then it kind of all just snowballed from there.
00:33:32 [Speaker 3]
So that song was actually probably the first the first song being written on the on the album.
00:33:41 [Speaker 1]
Wow.
00:33:41 [Speaker 1]
And and you got 10 songs on it.
00:33:43 [Speaker 3]
Yes.
00:33:44 [Speaker 1]
And and the production side of it, I mean, we're talking Howard Benson.
00:33:48 [Speaker 4]
Yeah.
00:33:48 [Speaker 1]
Or Neil Sanderson and Henry Flurry.
00:33:50 [Speaker 1]
I mean, judge and jury and all that kind of stuff.
00:33:53 [Speaker 1]
How was it to work with that group to put this together?
00:33:56 [Speaker 4]
Oh, it
00:33:57 [Speaker 3]
was absolutely incredible.
00:33:58 [Speaker 3]
I wanna do every single record with Howard Benson and team.
00:34:04 [Speaker 3]
You know, it's...
00:34:05 [Speaker 3]
This is the first album.
00:34:07 [Speaker 3]
Henry has...
00:34:08 [Speaker 3]
Is our guitar player and my ball and chain for the last fifteen, sixteen years.
00:34:13 [Speaker 3]
And, this is...
00:34:16 [Speaker 3]
He's had coproducer credit on different songs on different albums, but this is the first album that he's had coproducer as the entire album as a whole.
00:34:26 [Speaker 3]
So, you know, that was really incredible.
00:34:30 [Speaker 3]
We we sat together, Henry and I did for, you know, years in between tours in our home studio and, you know, wrote this entire album together.
00:34:40 [Speaker 3]
So, it was such a great such a great experience.
00:34:46 [Speaker 3]
I I really adore my team over at Judge and Jury, and I absolutely loved working with Howard and Joe and everybody at Judge and Jury.
00:34:58 [Speaker 1]
So before before we get into the rest of the talk of the album and the tour coming up with Chad Gray and everything Yeah.
00:35:05 [Speaker 1]
You know, I I try to pride myself on research, and I'm starting to dig some stuff.
00:35:09 [Speaker 1]
And I'm gonna play something real quick, And then I wanna come back and talk about it before we get back into the album.
00:35:17 [Speaker 3]
Okay.
00:35:18 [Speaker 1]
So here we go.
00:35:19 [Speaker 1]
Jared doesn't know I'm doing it.
00:35:21 [Speaker 1]
You don't know I'm doing it.
00:35:22 [Speaker 1]
I just happened to scroll across it the other night.
00:35:25 [Speaker 1]
So if you're watching, here you go.
00:35:28 [Speaker 1]
Watch this.
00:35:37 [Speaker 5]
We got a three hour drive after this quick meeting.
00:35:40 [Speaker 3]
What meeting?
00:35:40 [Speaker 5]
I need a roadie.
00:35:42 [Speaker 5]
Don't tell me you're the guy.
00:35:44 [Speaker 5]
Yes, sir.
00:35:45 [Speaker 3]
Can we eat him?
00:35:46 [Speaker 1]
No.
00:35:47 [Speaker 1]
Do you think I'll eat cleaning up after all of you alone?
00:35:50 [Speaker 5]
Beneath Jerry and his, bitches.
00:35:57 [Speaker 3]
Morgan.
00:35:58 [Speaker 3]
He wanted to meet the band.
00:36:00 [Speaker 3]
If you keep eating all of our fans, who's gonna come to our shows?
00:36:05 [Speaker 5]
I've never seen anything like this before, and I've been alive for nine hundred years.
00:36:12 [Speaker 4]
It's a cult that serves one purpose.
00:36:15 [Speaker 4]
Feed the one they call us Kain.
00:36:19 [Speaker 2]
You know
00:36:20 [Speaker 1]
what?
00:36:20 [Speaker 1]
This all good.
00:36:23 [Speaker 1]
Death chicks, morgues, I'm rolling with it.
00:36:26 [Speaker 3]
Jerry, some woman walking down the middle of
00:36:28 [Speaker 4]
the road covered in blood.
00:36:34 [Speaker 1]
So, what is the gig?
00:36:38 [Speaker 1]
Brody work.
00:36:40 [Speaker 5]
Rest.
00:36:42 [Speaker 5]
Something making noise out there in the dark.
00:36:46 [Speaker 3]
You're all just me.
00:37:07 [Speaker 1]
So I
00:37:08 [Speaker 4]
don't know
00:37:09 [Speaker 3]
see, I've been busy.
00:37:10 [Speaker 1]
I don't know I don't know if it froze on y'all's end.
00:37:14 [Speaker 1]
It froze on mine right at my favorite part of the whole trailer when she was talking about if you're gonna eat all our fans, nobody's coming to the show.
00:37:23 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:37:24 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:37:24 [Speaker 3]
That's a...
00:37:25 [Speaker 3]
You know what?
00:37:26 [Speaker 3]
I love watching that.
00:37:27 [Speaker 1]
How'd that come about?
00:37:28 [Speaker 3]
You know, I have been in film my entire life.
00:37:33 [Speaker 3]
My dad works in film.
00:37:35 [Speaker 3]
All my brothers work in film.
00:37:36 [Speaker 3]
It's just been a part of my life, forever.
00:37:40 [Speaker 3]
I did...
00:37:41 [Speaker 3]
I was as a child actor.
00:37:43 [Speaker 3]
I I really had just a lot of fun growing up in film.
00:37:49 [Speaker 3]
So they reached out asking if this is something I wanted to do, and I jumped at the opportunity.
00:37:56 [Speaker 3]
It's not my first time in horror.
00:37:59 [Speaker 3]
I, I I I like...
00:38:01 [Speaker 3]
My claim to fame is, I am in what critics say.
00:38:08 [Speaker 3]
I'm in this film, and critics call it the absolute worst horror film of all time.
00:38:14 [Speaker 3]
It's called Animals, and I did that one in, like, 2009.
00:38:17 [Speaker 3]
I did, Slasher on Netflix.
00:38:22 [Speaker 3]
And so it...
00:38:23 [Speaker 3]
The horror is a a big part of of my life.
00:38:26 [Speaker 3]
It's really fun.
00:38:27 [Speaker 1]
So how...
00:38:27 [Speaker 1]
Does any of that transition into when you're doing your music videos?
00:38:32 [Speaker 3]
Oh, yeah.
00:38:32 [Speaker 3]
Mhmm.
00:38:33 [Speaker 3]
It's always...
00:38:34 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:38:34 [Speaker 3]
So I I direct, produce, and edit all of our music videos, and I have for Wow.
00:38:40 [Speaker 3]
I I haven't I haven't done all of them, but, the majority of of them, especially all the new ones.
00:38:46 [Speaker 3]
And, we have filmed a bunch of videos at my parents' studio in Utah.
00:38:54 [Speaker 2]
Wow.
00:38:55 [Speaker 2]
That's awesome.
00:38:56 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:38:56 [Speaker 3]
So it's it's a it's a really fun...
00:38:58 [Speaker 3]
You know, I I get to get my whole family involved in all this stuff.
00:39:02 [Speaker 3]
And my brothers, they they film it.
00:39:05 [Speaker 3]
My dad helps, and they light the whole thing.
00:39:07 [Speaker 3]
And it becomes a true Shepherd production with my whole family.
00:39:13 [Speaker 4]
I love it.
00:39:14 [Speaker 4]
That's awesome.
00:39:15 [Speaker 4]
That's fun.
00:39:16 [Speaker 3]
So It's really fun.
00:39:17 [Speaker 1]
Let's talk about you...
00:39:18 [Speaker 1]
The radio single you currently have.
00:39:20 [Speaker 1]
It's not the most recent single that you guys have released, but it is the radio single you guys are pushing, which is blame it on the wind.
00:39:27 [Speaker 1]
Absolutely love the song.
00:39:28 [Speaker 1]
I love...
00:39:29 [Speaker 1]
Is it
00:39:30 [Speaker 3]
Thank you.
00:39:30 [Speaker 1]
And I I got to hear it live at Rock Fest.
00:39:33 [Speaker 1]
So I was at Rock Fest in Wisconsin and in Cadet, Wisconsin.
00:39:39 [Speaker 1]
You were there I don't
00:39:40 [Speaker 3]
think we played it that day.
00:39:43 [Speaker 3]
We didn't play we didn't play with it all the time.
00:39:45 [Speaker 4]
Second.
00:39:45 [Speaker 4]
I'm...
00:39:46 [Speaker 4]
I could swear I heard that.
00:39:48 [Speaker 3]
No.
00:39:48 [Speaker 3]
We played lost in your touch, but but we we, we added it to the set right after that.
00:39:56 [Speaker 3]
Right after that.
00:39:57 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:39:57 [Speaker 1]
I can swear I heard it.
00:39:58 [Speaker 1]
I heard this whole thing.
00:39:59 [Speaker 1]
I'm on.
00:39:59 [Speaker 1]
You
00:40:00 [Speaker 2]
probably listened to
00:40:00 [Speaker 1]
it 10 times on the way there and on the way back
00:40:02 [Speaker 4]
on one.
00:40:03 [Speaker 3]
There we go.
00:40:04 [Speaker 1]
Does it...
00:40:05 [Speaker 1]
Thanks thanks for the say, Jared.
00:40:07 [Speaker 1]
Appreciate that.
00:40:07 [Speaker 5]
You're welcome.
00:40:08 [Speaker 1]
But it's not here for you,
00:40:09 [Speaker 3]
but I hope you guys...
00:40:10 [Speaker 1]
But it was honestly my first time getting to see you live.
00:40:14 [Speaker 1]
And it was...
00:40:16 [Speaker 1]
It's amazing to watch you on that stage, the way you handle yourself and carry yourself and the band itself.
00:40:24 [Speaker 1]
And once again, Jared has...
00:40:26 [Speaker 1]
Is witness to this.
00:40:27 [Speaker 1]
Every time we put on a show or we start to think about putting on another one of our productions or whatever, I'm always like, we gotta get the Butcher Babies.
00:40:35 [Speaker 1]
We gotta get Butcher Babies.
00:40:37 [Speaker 1]
So one of these days...
00:40:39 [Speaker 1]
Now you're coming to New Orleans with Chad Gray, so I'm hoping I might be able to make it over to to House of Blues to see that show.
00:40:46 [Speaker 3]
Come on over.
00:40:47 [Speaker 1]
I I will be...
00:40:48 [Speaker 1]
It's gonna be it's gonna be a tough one because I'm in Houston a couple days before that for breaking Benjamin and Chevelle and all of that.
00:40:55 [Speaker 1]
So It...
00:40:56 [Speaker 2]
Is it October 14?
00:40:57 [Speaker 2]
Did I remember that?
00:40:58 [Speaker 1]
October 14.
00:40:59 [Speaker 1]
Yes.
00:40:59 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:41:00 [Speaker 2]
The New Orleans song.
00:41:01 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:41:01 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:41:02 [Speaker 1]
So I'm hoping I'm hoping I can make it over for that.
00:41:04 [Speaker 1]
But on Blame It on the Wind, you you transitioned so well in the different vocal styles in in the song.
00:41:12 [Speaker 1]
How hard is that on your voice when you're when you're doing that?
00:41:16 [Speaker 1]
Is it is it hard on your voice?
00:41:17 [Speaker 1]
Or
00:41:19 [Speaker 3]
No.
00:41:19 [Speaker 3]
I...
00:41:19 [Speaker 3]
No.
00:41:21 [Speaker 3]
There's a there's a lot of tricks up this sleeve.
00:41:24 [Speaker 3]
No.
00:41:24 [Speaker 3]
I I honestly...
00:41:25 [Speaker 3]
I've been so lucky to, you know, play live for so many years.
00:41:30 [Speaker 3]
And with that, it it would...
00:41:32 [Speaker 3]
I'd...
00:41:32 [Speaker 3]
You know, it's...
00:41:33 [Speaker 3]
It was easier for me to develop, you know, going between singing and screaming very fluidly.
00:41:40 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:41:40 [Speaker 3]
But it did...
00:41:41 [Speaker 3]
You know, when I first started, it it did take a while to develop that that skill, but that is, it is one of my favorite things to do is just come from a super harsh screen...
00:41:51 [Speaker 3]
Scream into a falsetto.
00:41:53 [Speaker 3]
It's just so fun.
00:41:55 [Speaker 3]
It's it's it's it's so fun to do, and and it's like it's like cartwheels with your vultures.
00:42:03 [Speaker 3]
So it...
00:42:03 [Speaker 3]
It's really fun.
00:42:04 [Speaker 1]
Alright, Jared.
00:42:05 [Speaker 1]
This is your opportunity to bring your line back for the first time in months.
00:42:09 [Speaker 2]
Has it been gone?
00:42:10 [Speaker 2]
Y'all haven't been using it?
00:42:11 [Speaker 1]
We have been, but it hasn't been you saying it.
00:42:14 [Speaker 2]
Oh, okay.
00:42:15 [Speaker 2]
Alright.
00:42:15 [Speaker 2]
Okay.
00:42:15 [Speaker 2]
Well, so I'm assuming you're ready to roll into the video.
00:42:17 [Speaker 2]
Right?
00:42:18 [Speaker 2]
We got the video ready.
00:42:19 [Speaker 2]
So so Kevin's gonna play the video here in just a second, but, one of the things that we like to ask people before we play their their their song is, especially, like, for the video or the song, the lyrics, whatever, tell us everything or tell us nothing?
00:42:33 [Speaker 2]
Which road do you wanna go?
00:42:35 [Speaker 3]
I'm gonna tell you everything.
00:42:37 [Speaker 3]
Let's do it.
00:42:40 [Speaker 1]
So we're gonna we're gonna roll into blame it on the win.
00:42:43 [Speaker 1]
Okay.
00:42:43 [Speaker 1]
So so tell us everything about blame it on the win.
00:42:46 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:42:46 [Speaker 1]
Tell us
00:42:46 [Speaker 2]
give us the rundown then.
00:42:47 [Speaker 2]
What is
00:42:48 [Speaker 1]
the song?
00:42:48 [Speaker 2]
The lyrics, the song, the video, whatever you wanna touch on.
00:42:51 [Speaker 3]
Well, this song was written about a chance encounter.
00:42:57 [Speaker 3]
This happened in 2012, actually, and it was...
00:43:01 [Speaker 3]
It's kind of just about that one night connection that you could possibly have that, oh, and I did, that continued to haunt me for years and years and years of my life.
00:43:15 [Speaker 3]
And I, I...
00:43:18 [Speaker 3]
It's kind of when you look at that situation and how you keep going back to that same person, that same situation, that same feeling, and you just keep thinking, what is it that that pulls me in?
00:43:34 [Speaker 3]
What is it?
00:43:34 [Speaker 3]
Because it's not this.
00:43:35 [Speaker 3]
It's not this.
00:43:36 [Speaker 3]
It's not that.
00:43:37 [Speaker 3]
What is it?
00:43:38 [Speaker 3]
It's really just about the connection.
00:43:40 [Speaker 3]
So, that's what the song is about.
00:43:42 [Speaker 3]
This video was really fun to film.
00:43:45 [Speaker 3]
We actually filmed it at Zoltan Bathory from Five Finger Death Punch's house.
00:43:49 [Speaker 3]
And, yeah, he was so he was so kind to let us film it while he was on tour.
00:43:56 [Speaker 3]
And, and, you know, it was just kind of fun for us to be able to do a little bit of a a performance video.
00:44:05 [Speaker 3]
It doesn't necessarily tell the story, but it's a performance video, and we filmed it at Zoe's house.
00:44:10 [Speaker 3]
So, I think it turned out really beautiful.
00:44:14 [Speaker 1]
That it did.
00:44:15 [Speaker 1]
Well, here it is, ladies and gentlemen.
00:44:16 [Speaker 1]
Butcher Babies, blame it on the wind, and you're watching the sound.
00:45:18 [Speaker 4]
It's just a taste.
00:45:21 [Speaker 4]
Well, that's what you said.
00:45:24 [Speaker 4]
I won't let's come on.
00:45:26 [Speaker 4]
We'll forget what we did.
00:45:30 [Speaker 4]
But you know that's a lie.
00:45:32 [Speaker 4]
You know Alright.
00:47:33 [Speaker 4]
There you have it.
00:47:34 [Speaker 4]
Very cool.
00:47:36 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:47:36 [Speaker 2]
Very cool.
00:47:37 [Speaker 1]
I I just...
00:47:38 [Speaker 1]
I I love the transition in your voice in that song.
00:47:41 [Speaker 3]
It's just Thank you.
00:47:42 [Speaker 3]
It's just...
00:47:42 [Speaker 1]
It...
00:47:42 [Speaker 1]
That...
00:47:43 [Speaker 1]
It's such an attention grabber.
00:47:45 [Speaker 1]
You're listening to it, and then all of a sudden, you get heavier.
00:47:48 [Speaker 1]
It's like, wait.
00:47:49 [Speaker 1]
What?
00:47:50 [Speaker 1]
So
00:47:51 [Speaker 3]
Thank you so much.
00:47:52 [Speaker 3]
I I I love that song.
00:47:55 [Speaker 3]
It is one of...
00:47:56 [Speaker 3]
I would say it's probably my favorite off of the album.
00:48:00 [Speaker 3]
It's hard to choose.
00:48:01 [Speaker 3]
I think my my choice changes every day.
00:48:04 [Speaker 3]
But when we were writing that song, I I knew that we were kinda onto something special with it.
00:48:10 [Speaker 3]
And so I I...
00:48:12 [Speaker 3]
I'm really proud of it, and I'm really excited to see that it's doing so well.
00:48:17 [Speaker 3]
It's actually our fastest growing song that we've ever released in our whole catalog.
00:48:22 [Speaker 3]
So it's really, really unique and cool to see that.
00:48:25 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:48:25 [Speaker 2]
It's got a huge chorus.
00:48:27 [Speaker 2]
I mean, that's...
00:48:27 [Speaker 2]
You know, it's it's made for the for the airwaves for sure.
00:48:30 [Speaker 3]
Thank you.
00:48:31 [Speaker 3]
Thank you.
00:48:31 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:48:32 [Speaker 3]
It's cool because it's, my my hometown, rock station just added it into rotation.
00:48:38 [Speaker 3]
So I just...
00:48:40 [Speaker 3]
I...
00:48:40 [Speaker 3]
It's so it's so cool and exciting and and, you know, to be able to have a song on...
00:48:46 [Speaker 3]
She wants to say hi.
00:48:47 [Speaker 3]
To be able to have a song, you know, on octane Octane and everything, it's just something that we've been, you you know, dreaming of our our whole career.
00:48:56 [Speaker 3]
So, I'm super grateful for the for the support from Octane and, you know, FM stations around The United States.
00:49:04 [Speaker 3]
It's been really cool.
00:49:06 [Speaker 3]
And, of course, everyone else.
00:49:09 [Speaker 2]
What what...
00:49:10 [Speaker 2]
What's your dog's name?
00:49:11 [Speaker 3]
Oh, this is Toki Wartooth.
00:49:14 [Speaker 2]
Okay.
00:49:14 [Speaker 2]
Alright.
00:49:15 [Speaker 2]
From that that side profile, have you have have you seen NeverEnding Story?
00:49:20 [Speaker 4]
Yes.
00:49:21 [Speaker 1]
She's I was just about to say that.
00:49:24 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:49:24 [Speaker 2]
Because she's Falcore.
00:49:25 [Speaker 2]
Right?
00:49:25 [Speaker 3]
She's Yeah.
00:49:26 [Speaker 2]
I was like, that...
00:49:27 [Speaker 2]
Is that Falcore?
00:49:28 [Speaker 3]
She's a little Falcore.
00:49:29 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:49:29 [Speaker 3]
Dog.
00:49:30 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:49:30 [Speaker 3]
She's she's begging me to go out to go on the golf course, go run around.
00:49:35 [Speaker 3]
OC?
00:49:37 [Speaker 1]
So...
00:49:37 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:49:37 [Speaker 2]
She's ready.
00:49:38 [Speaker 1]
I was getting ready to talk about the tour, and, of course, when I pulled up the paperwork, it it it shows all the dates to me.
00:49:44 [Speaker 1]
And I was just like, wait a second.
00:49:46 [Speaker 1]
I'm in Houston on October 10.
00:49:49 [Speaker 1]
We're in Houston October 11.
00:49:51 [Speaker 1]
I was driving back here on October 11.
00:49:54 [Speaker 1]
I can still drive back here, but I can go see the show first and then drive back.
00:49:58 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:49:58 [Speaker 3]
That's...
00:49:59 [Speaker 3]
That that...
00:50:00 [Speaker 3]
Hey.
00:50:00 [Speaker 2]
Problem solved.
00:50:01 [Speaker 3]
There we go.
00:50:02 [Speaker 3]
We can...
00:50:03 [Speaker 3]
You know what?
00:50:03 [Speaker 3]
This will be cool because this will be...
00:50:05 [Speaker 3]
You know, even though you saw us at Rock Fest, it's, you know, during the day and a shorter set and a giant huge stage and running around and what...
00:50:13 [Speaker 3]
That one had, what, three catwalks?
00:50:15 [Speaker 3]
It was...
00:50:16 [Speaker 3]
I was, like, so tired.
00:50:17 [Speaker 3]
I I was
00:50:17 [Speaker 1]
like, I literally insane.
00:50:19 [Speaker 1]
And if you...
00:50:20 [Speaker 1]
It just...
00:50:20 [Speaker 1]
So for for those that didn't...
00:50:22 [Speaker 1]
Haven't been to Rock Fest, you can't get down in the pit unless you buy pit tickets.
00:50:27 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:50:28 [Speaker 1]
So you you get to see the band.
00:50:32 [Speaker 1]
Like, I got handed a pit ticket for Autumn Kings.
00:50:35 [Speaker 1]
That's who I got...
00:50:35 [Speaker 1]
Was able to get down in the pit for.
00:50:39 [Speaker 1]
But even when you're in that pit, it's so...
00:50:42 [Speaker 1]
It's just I loved Rockfest.
00:50:45 [Speaker 1]
I...
00:50:46 [Speaker 1]
The the atmosphere, the venue, everything was really cool about it.
00:50:49 [Speaker 1]
I just wish you could access that a little more than just having to buy tickets.
00:50:54 [Speaker 1]
So
00:50:54 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:50:55 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:50:55 [Speaker 3]
And, you know, it it...
00:50:56 [Speaker 3]
It's a...
00:50:58 [Speaker 3]
I...
00:50:58 [Speaker 3]
I'm super grateful to play that festival and that stage and everything.
00:51:03 [Speaker 3]
I just can't wait till we get to play it at night where we can bring our real production, and you can see our lights and everything.
00:51:08 [Speaker 3]
So if you come to Houston or even New Orleans, you...
00:51:12 [Speaker 3]
You'll see our whole whole production, and we do have an hour long set.
00:51:16 [Speaker 3]
So it, you know, it's definitely, a a bigger scale, for us in that sense.
00:51:23 [Speaker 1]
I think I'm gonna pull off the Houston date.
00:51:25 [Speaker 1]
I think I'm gonna delay leaving Houston and and drive back late at night because I'll have to work the next day hour drive, but I'll still...
00:51:33 [Speaker 1]
That that don't mean nothing to me.
00:51:35 [Speaker 1]
So
00:51:35 [Speaker 3]
Well, let us know, and, you know, we'll make...
00:51:37 [Speaker 3]
We'll we'll take care of you.
00:51:38 [Speaker 3]
So
00:51:39 [Speaker 1]
so I'll I'll I'll e...
00:51:40 [Speaker 1]
I'll email Shauna.
00:51:42 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:51:42 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:51:43 [Speaker 3]
Please do.
00:51:43 [Speaker 3]
So
00:51:44 [Speaker 1]
And and speaking of that, while we're in that conversation, another thing that I've been trying to get from the Butcher Babies, because I've...
00:51:53 [Speaker 1]
I don't wanna seem like a fanboy, but I really just absolutely love the band.
00:51:59 [Speaker 3]
Oh, thank you.
00:52:00 [Speaker 3]
Hey.
00:52:01 [Speaker 3]
Hey.
00:52:01 [Speaker 1]
We we...
00:52:02 [Speaker 1]
And I'm gonna do this publicly, so I hope I don't...
00:52:05 [Speaker 1]
I hope you don't get mad at me about it.
00:52:06 [Speaker 1]
But we have a magazine.
00:52:07 [Speaker 1]
We put out a magazine.
00:52:09 [Speaker 1]
Oh.
00:52:09 [Speaker 1]
And I have been trying to get Butcher Babies on the cover of our magazine for...
00:52:15 [Speaker 1]
Since we started it.
00:52:17 [Speaker 1]
So
00:52:17 [Speaker 3]
Well, we'll do it.
00:52:18 [Speaker 3]
Willing to do that?
00:52:20 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:52:20 [Speaker 3]
Now is the time.
00:52:21 [Speaker 3]
Alright.
00:52:22 [Speaker 3]
Let's do it.
00:52:23 [Speaker 1]
I will I will I will email Shauna all that information too, so maybe we can get that set up for December or January.
00:52:29 [Speaker 1]
So
00:52:29 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:52:30 [Speaker 3]
Absolutely.
00:52:30 [Speaker 3]
We'd love we'd love that.
00:52:31 [Speaker 1]
So let's talk about this Chad Gray tour.
00:52:34 [Speaker 4]
Yes.
00:52:35 [Speaker 1]
So you're heading out with Chad Gray, and everybody knows who Chad Gray is.
00:52:39 [Speaker 1]
I mean...
00:52:40 [Speaker 1]
And the opportunity to be able to be on...
00:52:44 [Speaker 1]
He...
00:52:44 [Speaker 1]
When I I got to see it at Rock Fest, I can't remember.
00:52:48 [Speaker 1]
Did he did he play louder?
00:52:50 [Speaker 1]
I know you guys played louder than life this year.
00:52:52 [Speaker 3]
But He did.
00:52:53 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:52:54 [Speaker 1]
So you guys play...
00:52:56 [Speaker 1]
I think...
00:52:56 [Speaker 1]
What day do you guys...
00:52:57 [Speaker 1]
Do you guys play Friday at Louder than Life?
00:53:00 [Speaker 3]
We we...
00:53:00 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:53:01 [Speaker 3]
We played Friday.
00:53:02 [Speaker 1]
I did just the Saturday, so I missed you guys on the on on the Friday.
00:53:06 [Speaker 1]
But how is it to tour with with somebody with the the stature of a a Chad Gray?
00:53:14 [Speaker 3]
Well, I I adore Chad.
00:53:16 [Speaker 3]
Chad has been, one of my best friends for several years.
00:53:21 [Speaker 3]
I think we spent the entire pandemic in Chad's pool.
00:53:25 [Speaker 3]
So Chad and his wife are just some of our best friends, and I...
00:53:30 [Speaker 3]
This is our second tour that we've done with Chad.
00:53:33 [Speaker 3]
We we were so lucky to do a mud vein tour in 2023, and then, you know, going to do his solo stuff.
00:53:42 [Speaker 3]
We were very grateful to be out on both legs of this tour as well.
00:53:48 [Speaker 3]
And I've gotta tell you, you know, I...
00:53:51 [Speaker 3]
I've I have...
00:53:54 [Speaker 3]
I've seen hell yeah way, way back in the day at a festival just kind of from the distance when I was walking probably to go do press or something, but I never got to see them, like, fully see them.
00:54:09 [Speaker 3]
And so it is incredible to be able to see these songs live.
00:54:14 [Speaker 3]
And I...
00:54:16 [Speaker 3]
It...
00:54:17 [Speaker 3]
I eat it up every night.
00:54:19 [Speaker 3]
I get to stand side stage and watch it, but one thing that's the most beautiful is I get to see other people just losing their minds about seeing hell yeah songs, mud vein songs, and it...
00:54:35 [Speaker 3]
It's like a religious experience for people.
00:54:38 [Speaker 3]
And so to to know Chad as Chad, you know, my friend Chad, and then to see him in that element, I'm just so proud of him.
00:54:47 [Speaker 3]
I I remember when he brought up that he was gonna start doing this, and and it's beautiful to see it come to fruition.
00:54:54 [Speaker 3]
And to see the fans just sink their teeth into the shows every single night is just it's a really beautiful thing.
00:55:01 [Speaker 3]
I'm I'm I'm I'm so excited about everything he's got going on.
00:55:05 [Speaker 1]
Nice.
00:55:06 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:55:07 [Speaker 2]
If you've never seen him live before, I would suggest go and do it.
00:55:11 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:55:11 [Speaker 2]
Especially talk about somebody going from screaming crazy to, you know, hitting a note.
00:55:16 [Speaker 2]
It's still singing because, he he can do it.
00:55:20 [Speaker 3]
It is...
00:55:20 [Speaker 3]
He's got this banshee scream.
00:55:22 [Speaker 3]
That's what I call it.
00:55:24 [Speaker 3]
And I...
00:55:25 [Speaker 3]
He...
00:55:25 [Speaker 3]
He'll just lean on in, and it's, like, the most high pitched, craziest, intense scream that I have ever heard.
00:55:35 [Speaker 3]
And I'm...
00:55:36 [Speaker 3]
I I mean, it is incredible.
00:55:39 [Speaker 3]
And so every time he he does that, and I'm just like, oh, yes.
00:55:43 [Speaker 3]
It's like a sweet spot.
00:55:44 [Speaker 3]
You know?
00:55:45 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:55:46 [Speaker 3]
It just scratches that itch in my brain.
00:55:49 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:55:50 [Speaker 3]
So...
00:55:50 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:55:51 [Speaker 2]
That that l d 50 record, if if I had a dollar for every time I listen to that thing start to finish, I would, I...
00:55:57 [Speaker 2]
I'd have a lot of room
00:55:58 [Speaker 1]
for Right?
00:55:59 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
00:55:59 [Speaker 3]
He's...
00:56:00 [Speaker 3]
It's...
00:56:00 [Speaker 3]
It it is it is, you know, obviously just legendary.
00:56:06 [Speaker 3]
So we're super grateful to be on this tour, and it's been really, really great for us.
00:56:12 [Speaker 3]
And we are meeting...
00:56:13 [Speaker 3]
Seeing a ton of our fans, of course, but also meeting so many brand new people.
00:56:19 [Speaker 3]
People that say, I've never heard of you before or people that say, I've heard of you, but I...
00:56:25 [Speaker 3]
This is my first time seeing you.
00:56:26 [Speaker 3]
And I like to go to the merch booth after every show after we get done to just get a feel for all of this and and meet people.
00:56:34 [Speaker 3]
And it's, I'm I'm I'm super grateful to be on this.
00:56:38 [Speaker 3]
The new music is really resonating.
00:56:41 [Speaker 3]
So I, I I really feel like this tour in particular kinda, gave us a little bit of a fire that we needed.
00:56:50 [Speaker 1]
Nice.
00:56:51 [Speaker 1]
So before before we wrap up everything, I've started a new thing where I do some rapid fire questions.
00:56:56 [Speaker 1]
I've got five for you real quick.
00:56:58 [Speaker 1]
So Okay.
00:57:00 [Speaker 1]
Night drive or sunrise drive?
00:57:04 [Speaker 3]
Night drive.
00:57:05 [Speaker 1]
Which night bloom deep cut should fans hear first?
00:57:12 [Speaker 3]
Black Clouds Over Georgia.
00:57:15 [Speaker 1]
Which older Butcher Baby song pairs best with the new album?
00:57:20 [Speaker 3]
Oh, head spin.
00:57:23 [Speaker 3]
Head spin.
00:57:24 [Speaker 1]
Alright.
00:57:25 [Speaker 1]
Quiet preparation or total chaos before going on stage?
00:57:29 [Speaker 3]
Oh, quiet preparation.
00:57:32 [Speaker 1]
And heavy music in 2026 needs more blank.
00:57:43 [Speaker 4]
I
00:57:46 [Speaker 3]
think positivity.
00:57:49 [Speaker 1]
Nice.
00:57:50 [Speaker 1]
Okay.
00:57:50 [Speaker 1]
I like it.
00:57:51 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
00:57:52 [Speaker 1]
So if people if people are looking to find Butcher Babies, what's the easiest way for them to find them?
00:57:57 [Speaker 1]
Website, social media?
00:57:58 [Speaker 1]
Where are you most active at?
00:58:00 [Speaker 3]
Any of any of the social media places.
00:58:02 [Speaker 3]
I don't really, I I do the, the TikTok on my own page.
00:58:06 [Speaker 3]
I don't really, like, I don't really use the band page much for that, but, everything else, we're we're, we're really, really active on it.
00:58:15 [Speaker 3]
So find us on any social medias, putyourbabies.com.
00:58:18 [Speaker 3]
You can go there for tickets to the shows, or we also do a VIP experience on our bus as an after party.
00:58:25 [Speaker 3]
So that one's really fun too.
00:58:27 [Speaker 3]
I think we've got some tickets to that left for the second half of this tour too.
00:58:31 [Speaker 3]
So, yeah.
00:58:33 [Speaker 2]
That like?
00:58:33 [Speaker 2]
I've I've I've heard of that.
00:58:34 [Speaker 2]
I think nonpoint Kevin told us something about that one time.
00:58:37 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:58:37 [Speaker 2]
Like, what what does that...
00:58:38 [Speaker 2]
Explain that to us.
00:58:39 [Speaker 2]
Like, what if...
00:58:40 [Speaker 2]
If you get a ticket for that, what does that...
00:58:41 [Speaker 2]
How does that go down?
00:58:42 [Speaker 3]
So after the show's completely done, we bring our VIP, people Yeah.
00:58:49 [Speaker 3]
Into our bus, and we show them, you know, our rolling home.
00:58:53 [Speaker 3]
And they come in and get to see everything that we...
00:58:56 [Speaker 3]
How we live.
00:58:58 [Speaker 3]
They meet Tokyo War Tooth, this little lady right here, and, you know, you never know really what's gonna happen.
00:59:05 [Speaker 3]
Sometimes we play games.
00:59:07 [Speaker 3]
Sometimes it's...
00:59:08 [Speaker 3]
If we have an unreleased...
00:59:10 [Speaker 3]
Anything unreleased, we'll play it.
00:59:12 [Speaker 3]
And, you know, it's just really fun.
00:59:13 [Speaker 3]
It's kind of a a getting to know you chit chat, and it's always been a really positive experience.
00:59:20 [Speaker 3]
We've been doing this since 2017.
00:59:23 [Speaker 3]
So it's it's really cool, a unique thing for, I think, you know, a fan of music or a fan of any band really to go in and see where they live.
00:59:36 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:59:37 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
00:59:38 [Speaker 2]
I like it.
00:59:39 [Speaker 3]
I I think it's I think it's really cool.
00:59:40 [Speaker 3]
Plus it gives us a little bit of one on one time with people Rather than a shake hand, take a picture, and go type of thing, we we we like to do VIPs a little bit different.
00:59:51 [Speaker 3]
You know, if we do some before the show, we play a a cornhole game.
00:59:56 [Speaker 3]
So we split off into teams and play cornhole.
00:59:59 [Speaker 3]
So, yeah, to us, it's, it's more of a game, a little bit a little bit more exciting for us in that regard.
01:00:06 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
01:00:06 [Speaker 3]
Oh, Darren's here.
01:00:07 [Speaker 3]
Darren's Darren's here.
01:00:08 [Speaker 3]
He's on the tour.
01:00:09 [Speaker 1]
He he is.
01:00:10 [Speaker 1]
He is.
01:00:11 [Speaker 1]
We we love Darren here at the sound.
01:00:13 [Speaker 1]
So Yeah.
01:00:16 [Speaker 3]
He's, he keeps us safe on said bus.
01:00:19 [Speaker 1]
There you go.
01:00:21 [Speaker 2]
Well
01:00:21 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
01:00:21 [Speaker 3]
Thank you, Darren.
01:00:23 [Speaker 1]
Heidi, I can't I can't tell you how thankful I am.
01:00:28 [Speaker 1]
I know he is too, but I am for for joining us.
01:00:31 [Speaker 1]
I know it was a last minute thing, and I I appreciate it.
01:00:34 [Speaker 1]
And and, I'll I'll say it public to Bob Hathaway.
01:00:38 [Speaker 1]
Thank you for getting this taken care of.
01:00:41 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
01:00:41 [Speaker 3]
That's our guy.
01:00:42 [Speaker 1]
We we we appreciate you.
01:00:45 [Speaker 1]
We hope nothing but the best with this with this new album, Nightblue.
01:00:49 [Speaker 1]
Can't wait can't wait to hear everything off of it on on Friday.
01:00:53 [Speaker 1]
And, I I gotta go tell my wife and break the news to her that we're not gonna come home straight from Houston Houston.
01:01:00 [Speaker 1]
We're gonna go to we're gonna go to the Houston show.
01:01:03 [Speaker 1]
There we go.
01:01:05 [Speaker 3]
Yeah.
01:01:05 [Speaker 3]
Perfect.
01:01:06 [Speaker 3]
You know what?
01:01:06 [Speaker 3]
This is...
01:01:07 [Speaker 3]
It's a good excuse.
01:01:10 [Speaker 1]
I'll I'll take it every single time, but I I appreciate you stopping by and, look forward to seeing you in Houston.
01:01:16 [Speaker 1]
And you may...
01:01:17 [Speaker 1]
And maybe I'll pull off Houston and New Orleans.
01:01:19 [Speaker 1]
Who knows?
01:01:20 [Speaker 3]
Well, hey.
01:01:20 [Speaker 3]
We we...
01:01:21 [Speaker 3]
We'd love to have you, and thank you so much for taking the time and, allowing me and my little lady to join you tonight.
01:01:28 [Speaker 1]
Anytime.
01:01:28 [Speaker 1]
Anything anything we can do to ever help, I'll email Shauna about the magazine and and all that kinda good stuff.
01:01:34 [Speaker 1]
And anything we can do to ever help you for any reason, just let us know, and and you got it from us.
01:01:40 [Speaker 3]
Thank you so much.
01:01:41 [Speaker 3]
I appreciate the support.
01:01:43 [Speaker 1]
Thank you.
01:01:44 [Speaker 1]
Have a good night.
01:01:45 [Speaker 1]
Night.
01:01:45 [Speaker 3]
Thank you.
01:01:46 [Speaker 3]
You as well.
01:01:47 [Speaker 1]
Thank you.
01:01:47 [Speaker 1]
Alright.
01:01:48 [Speaker 1]
Bye bye.
01:01:53 [Speaker 2]
That was a good one.
01:01:56 [Speaker 1]
I get to
01:01:58 [Speaker 2]
Yeah.
01:02:00 [Speaker 1]
Now we've had to put your baby in the show.
01:02:02 [Speaker 1]
I'm excited.
01:02:03 [Speaker 1]
That that excites me.
01:02:04 [Speaker 4]
As it should.
01:02:06 [Speaker 1]
Not only that, but, this Friday, we have a new magazine dropping, and I have the cover right now.
01:02:13 [Speaker 1]
Here is the cover of the magazine as Wake Me is on the cover of the magazine, and there's some...
01:02:18 [Speaker 1]
Gonna be some great articles in there.
01:02:20 [Speaker 1]
Anne has knocked out another fantastic cover story for Wake Me.
01:02:24 [Speaker 1]
She's got a article in there on Ruinous.
01:02:27 [Speaker 1]
Melissa's got an article in there on the Waterford Music Festival with cold, Natalie's Way, and does at Saint Marie.
01:02:34 [Speaker 1]
And I've actually got an article in it this month.
01:02:37 [Speaker 1]
The algorithm worked for you, but now what do you do with it?
01:02:39 [Speaker 1]
So, we've got all that going on in the magazine coming out Friday.
01:02:43 [Speaker 1]
You can catch it on the website at thesoundc28.com, or you can read it in the app.
01:02:49 [Speaker 1]
All you have to do is download the app on Google Play or the Apple App Store and, and and get affiliated with the sound, and let's have some fun.
01:02:58 [Speaker 1]
So Sure.
01:02:59 [Speaker 2]
I said it better myself, baby.
01:03:01 [Speaker 1]
Jared, thank you for hopping on today.
01:03:05 [Speaker 1]
Hey.
01:03:05 [Speaker 1]
Because I'm glad to be able to handle it.
01:03:07 [Speaker 1]
This one.
01:03:07 [Speaker 1]
I don't know if I'd handled this one very well all by myself, but
01:03:11 [Speaker 2]
No.
01:03:11 [Speaker 2]
I think I think we did pretty good.
01:03:13 [Speaker 2]
I was...
01:03:13 [Speaker 2]
I feel like I was here for moral support.
01:03:15 [Speaker 1]
I hear you.
01:03:16 [Speaker 1]
I hear you.
01:03:17 [Speaker 1]
But I will tell you this, the winner of our grudge match, and moving on to next week's episode, let me tell you about next week's episode real quick.
01:03:24 [Speaker 1]
It is the last interview for Etched in Embers.
01:03:27 [Speaker 1]
Etched in Embers is is is disbanding as a group.
01:03:33 [Speaker 1]
We already had them booked for this episode, and Russ asked if he could keep the episode.
01:03:38 [Speaker 1]
He's gonna try to get as many of the band members on as possible to talk about the history of Etched and Embers and where they're going from here and what they're doing and and all of that.
01:03:48 [Speaker 1]
But it'll be the last interview as a group of Etched and Embers, and that's gonna be, next Wednesday at 07:30.
01:03:55 [Speaker 1]
And the, winner of the grudge match tonight Atypical will be going for the hall of fame against the brand new single from the band awaiting Abigail.
01:04:06 [Speaker 1]
The video drops at 6PM.
01:04:10 [Speaker 1]
We will have it in the grudge match at 07:30PM.
01:04:13 [Speaker 1]
So
01:04:14 [Speaker 2]
Hot off the press.
01:04:15 [Speaker 1]
That's it.
01:04:16 [Speaker 1]
That's it.
01:04:16 [Speaker 1]
So that'll be...
01:04:17 [Speaker 1]
And and, unfortunately, I know I know the atypical, band and, awaiting Abigail are friends.
01:04:29 [Speaker 1]
So I apologize, but it's usually how it rolls with with me and the grudge match.
01:04:35 [Speaker 1]
So going for the grudge match hall of fame.
01:04:37 [Speaker 1]
And if you wanna see the grudge match hall of fame, videos, download the app.
01:04:42 [Speaker 1]
It's right there in the app.
01:04:44 [Speaker 1]
You can watch all the videos right there in the app, of all the bands that have made the grudge match hall of fame.
01:04:50 [Speaker 1]
So we will talk to you guys on, next Wednesday at...
01:04:54 [Speaker 1]
So I won't be here, unfortunately, but Lisa and Matt will be handling the show next week.
01:05:00 [Speaker 1]
Yeah, Lisa and Matt will be handling the show next week.
01:05:03 [Speaker 1]
I think they're gonna be doing it from Matt's house.
01:05:06 [Speaker 1]
So
01:05:07 [Speaker 2]
Oh, that's awesome.
01:05:08 [Speaker 1]
Yeah.
01:05:09 [Speaker 1]
So, we'll...
01:05:10 [Speaker 1]
They'll be handling it, and, we appreciate everybody tuning in tonight.
01:05:14 [Speaker 1]
And, go see the Butcher Babies in New Orleans on October 14.
01:05:19 [Speaker 1]
House of Blues.
01:05:20 [Speaker 1]
It's gonna be a good show.
01:05:21 [Speaker 1]
And we will talk to y'all later.
01:05:23 [Speaker 1]
We appreciate you, and see you next week.