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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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Brooke Reeves, welcome.
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Yes.
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I don't have a cool name for the studio.
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I wanted to name it like the doom room or something.
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Can we call it the doom room?
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The doom room is perfectly acceptable.
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Well, but I mean, after last night, I mean, I brought you into town and I was like, I
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always say to people, I'm a walking billboard for like four things.
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It's like gospel, Jesus Christ, jujitsu, eating meat, and Christian metal.
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We covered like three of those four last night.
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So Brazilian steakhouse talked about Jesus, the whole bunch talked about metal, but we
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didn't, we didn't, we didn't roll.
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And so I was like, do we need to like, we could fix that before you, before you go back home?
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Yeah, you can just humble me if you want before.
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Have you never rolled before?
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I've never done Jesus.
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No, no.
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So two of the guys in the band, they did jujitsu and Manny, I could smoke just because
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he's so little.
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Oh, come on.
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You say that.
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You say that.
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He's actually, I don't want to put him on a spot, but David, he'll beat me in like David
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can just, he's good.
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Dude, he can choke me out.
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People don't understand.
2:02
So one of the funniest videos, there was a UFC fighter for get his name.
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Do you know the guy that does the viral videos?
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No, there's a different, there's a different guy that I'm thinking of.
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He used to be 135 pound champion.
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I can't remember the guy's name.
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Anyway, you know the guy that goes viral, he'll like stop people on the street and give him
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free haircuts.
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Like have you seen that?
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Vic.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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This, this UFC fighter and this UFC fighter is not even like a grapple.
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I got to get the guy's name.
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Shoot.
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Do you know what I'm talking about?
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Because you watch, you watch.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Because he's the one that does all the crazy, like the dreads and his hairs all like died
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pink in, in a pink and gray or whatever.
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Sure.
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Sean.
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Sure.
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Sean.
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Yeah.
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Really?
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Dang.
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Okay.
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So yeah.
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All the people like excited.
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It's not a deep cut.
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I literally just like, this is how bad the podcast is starting in.
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So okay.
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And then the guy who has no grappling experience, he's a little, little guy.
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He's a barber, right?
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Right.
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And he goes, Hey, you know, how long do you think I would last, you know, with you, like
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if we were grappling, we were like messing around and sure Sean's like, I don't know,
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maybe 10 seconds or something like that.
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And the guy's like, what?
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Like no way, no way.
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And the guy, this is a cold line from Sugar Sean.
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Yeah.
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The barber goes, come on, man, I got that dog in me.
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Yeah.
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And he goes, man, that ain't gonna matter if you don't have that oxygen in you.
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Right.
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And then they're, they're by an octagon, they're by some mats.
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And Sugar Sean just kind of goes, I mean, we can find out and the guy goes, okay, let's
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do it.
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And I'm like, oh, this is going to be bad.
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This is going to be really, really bad.
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And so they like take all their jewelry off and take all their stuff off or whatever.
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And they get on the mat and like, it's the same thought that I've had when I've gone
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with people that talk trash and then think they're just going to like smoke me and they're
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not trained.
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Standing guillotine.
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You just grab by the head, you snap them down in the armpit and that's all Sugar Sean
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did.
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He tapped him out in about five seconds.
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He just grabbed him and just lifted him off off the ground and the panic you feel.
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The first time you get manhandled like that, it's like your entire like brain can't compute
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it or whatever.
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Yeah.
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No, I've, I've like grabbed a dude and I'm like, Oh God, dude, it's a real thing though.
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Yeah.
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So one of my main training partners back in the day, Tyler Murrow, he's got a gym called
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Scrap City over Midwest City.
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Now he did a, like it was a fight to win.
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It was like a super fight or something like that.
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And he said he grabbed the guy and the moment he grabbed him, he goes, Oh no, like this
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is going to be, and I don't know if he ended up winning the match.
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I can't remember.
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But he was just like, you could just feel certain guys, they just feel, yeah, they feel
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like way different.
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And so like, I think that might be like as we go into the next, a part of your career
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with impending doom.
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If we add jujitsu to you like your base, like just think I'm just talking to the jujitsu
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or boxing, I really want to just, we don't want brain damage.
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Come on.
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No, I don't, I'm not going to like competitively, but like just getting my licks in with boxing,
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like learning boxing, because yeah, David wants me to go to jujitsu with them all the
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time, but it's just like, and I'm, I'm fine with that.
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I love rolling and whatever messing around and stuff.
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Well, maybe in the yard before we get out of here, we can check that fourth box or something
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like that.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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But no, I enjoyed dinner last night because we were, we talked about like, we were all
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over the place.
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We were talking politics, apologetics.
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We were talking about like music and everything like that.
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There's no.
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What's it called?
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Religion and politics.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We made sure to start with that.
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Like all the subjects that people want, want to ignore, break the ice with that.
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But one of the things that I wanted to make sure that we talked about was, and you know,
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you listen to my episode episode 666, who of the podcast, because of all the things, because
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I have a lot of bold opinions, I have a lot of, you know, things that I argue for.
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And there's plenty of things for people to be mad about in the comment section.
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So one of the main like problems that people have with the show, the one star reviews,
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the complaint emails is the intro outro music of the podcast, which has either been August
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Burns red or holy name.
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Which one are you getting more?
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So I, so I will say it's actually partially your fault.
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So I shared a fall on your knees from holy name and I shared like that the breakdown part
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from the live in Chicago thing with, you know, head and, and you and all that.
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And people are just like, you know, this is demonic, like the, the, the sounds coming
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out of that.
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Yeah.
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That man, they're, they're clearly demonic and there's, there's skulls on, on the background
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that are being projected.
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And like that's obviously like a symbol of Satan, you know, a human anatomy is a symbol
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of Satan and all those types of things.
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And so like, I feel like I've fought this since I was in middle school when I got introduced
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to like underground Christian metal, but like you've been in the world for like two decades.
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Yeah.
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And, and this isn't like Christian, like impending doom is not like Christian rock.
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It's not like, you know, something that's nice and easy and palatable for a lot of people.
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Like, you know, genre wise, I mean, y'all could be in a bunch of different genres, but
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it's like death metal, like, you know, that kind of thing.
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And so people don't, they can't really compute how you individually can be a Christian and
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make that kind of music and how y'all as a band can be making God glorifying Christ honoring
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music, but like sounding like that.
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And so I mean, you obviously get a lot of crap for that as well.
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So I'm just kind of curious how that's gone.
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It happened earlier on now, it's kind of those things, right, where you like, well, you just
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keep doing your thing.
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Right.
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First, you get the hate, you get the hate, you get the hate, you get criticized.
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And then all of a sudden it's just like, Oh, can I be your friend?
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You know, you when you pass the mark of like, you go through the criticism space and then
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once you pass that, then they're like, Oh, he's not going away and he's not being bothered
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by it.
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I'm gonna go see him the next time, but you know what I mean, become a fan, like you're
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like, you go, you turn to fan, like that's, it's a weird sort of stages you go through
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as like a critic.
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But yeah, it started out early on the hate was not as from the very beginning.
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I think it's because we came out so hard, like we were just, we came out.
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Your first EP was not subtle.
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Yeah, it's not subtle.
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We came out like guns of blazing first album guns, blazing heavy, gutturally just nasty
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stuff to where it's just like, you can't really even the lyrical, the lyrical content.
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I mean, the subjects that you talk about and like even the imagery used shows and the logos
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and the music videos like, and it's intentional for sure.
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Well, so I guess talk about that because, you know, what you could have done is because
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you and I were even talking last night when, you know, and we'll get into some of the peak
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behind the curtain on the industry because most people, me included, don't really understand
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the music industry and all that.
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But typically when you sign the label, don't they kind of give you notes and some ideas
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like, Hey, we'd rather you kind of do this or, you know, it'd be nice if we added a more
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melodic section or like you're kind of getting, depending on the label, you're basically being
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controlled a little bit as an artist.
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But I mean, even, you know, with y'all's initial records, it didn't seem like they put any handicaps
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on y'all.
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Well, so when we first, we were very aggressive and just like, if you heard, if you literally
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never seen us live and you took our EP and you just threw it in your CD player and you
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listened to it, you would just be like, like the key, like the face down was all into hardcore
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metal core stuff.
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Like that was big early 2000s.
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And so I think Eric Greigson, who is in Sleeping Giant, Death Star, I think he's the one they
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gave our EP to Jason at face down.
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And Jason, what I'm told is Jason faced, I was like, this is a joke, right?
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Like this is just too heavy.
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Yeah.
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It's like, it's what is this?
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Well, some people don't really even let's let's go back to like hardcore metal core because
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even guys that are listening to this right now, they hear rock music or metal screen.
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So yeah, they'll say something like screamo because of the screaming vocals.
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So they don't even know like the difference between like a hardcore and a death core or
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like, and then then you get into, oh, there's post hardcore and then it's like, you know,
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Lending way too much these days, man.
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It's just like there is fusions all like there is just so much going on, especially with
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the production you can do nowadays.
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It's just like you can mix anything with techno EDM with metal music, dance music.
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I mean, it's and it's all over the place.
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But like in the early 2000s, it was pretty clear on what, what was, you know, if you
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know, terror is a hardcore band and yeah, Advent was a pretty good hardcore band.
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And then you got metal core, which is as late dying, August, Prince red for today, you know,
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they are all metal core.
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And then we were in this section of like, so I didn't grow up in like Christian music.
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I grew up in like new metal, death metal.
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And so I really loved death metal growing like from new, from new metal to death metal,
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which bands were you into the death metal?
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You have the same.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You got to admit it, aborted, yeah, dying feed is cannibal corpse, cannibal corpse,
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cattle decap.
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Yeah.
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And then there's just like at my local CDs shopping, you know, like you were used to
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buy CDs, they were just a bunch of underground.
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Yeah.
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And you were in Southern California too.
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And I'm in Southern California.
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So like, dude, there was just local bands that would put their CDs in here and judge
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it.
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We used this judging by the covers for sure.
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And then that's why I bought the first kill switch album, because I thought the cover
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was cool.
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It was a CD exchange like you CD store.
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But what a gem that was, right?
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My goodness.
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Yeah.
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Gosh, dude, that one, you know, well, that was back in the day when you, they had CD players
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around the store.
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That's what I mean.
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Yeah.
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And so you could literally, you would take the empty case up to the front and be like,
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Hey, can I listen to this?
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So good.
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And you can listen to a song or two before you bought the album or whatever.
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And so like, so you're into all these like super heavy, super death metal stuff.
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And then like around, I don't know, 18, 17, 18, I'm like, I started, I was like, should
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I go to church?
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And I don't know, I dabbled in church and I was, you know, still partying with my friends,
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but also go, I was like, yeah, this is not good.
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So then I was like, go to church.
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I was like, this is good.
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And then I go party again.
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And I was like, this is just not feeling right.
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Then I go part and then go to church.
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And then I was like living this like one foot in and one foot out world, which is just
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so life kind of deal.
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Oh, and it's so exhausting, right?
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Yeah.
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So eventually I started going to church more, church more, church more.
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And I was like, and then I was listening to heavy, heavy death metal and I was like,
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I think I wanna, I think I can bring, you know, a God centered, you know, approach right
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to this really heavy music and do it in a way that's not cheesy, because like I hate
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awkwardness and I hate cheesiness and I hate cringiness and I'm like, okay, that's how
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do I do this?
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So we went through, I just through local or through mutual friends.
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I was just asking, you know, does anybody know like a star player?
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Does anybody know a drummer?
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Does anybody know this?
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Because in where I was at that time, it wasn't really a lot of people that listen to metal.
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I mean, at that time, it was the used taking back Sunday, which are great, which that's
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more the, the screamo, like you pop, hunky type of stuff.
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This was like defined a great line.
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Right.
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When did that look?
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Whatever, whatever one came like in 2006 chasing safety, I think.
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Yeah.
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It was like 2004, and then I think defined the great line was the next one.
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And like, dude, they were like number two on billboard with, with one of those out.
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So that's what was big and that's what what people liked.
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And then as like dying was kind of like a town over was like where metal core was kind
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of happening.
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But where I was, it was like, and they were influenced by at the gates who like, no one
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had heard of until they heard of as late dying.
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And so they were like kind of trying to go backwards and do it.
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Yeah.
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At the gates is sick.
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Yeah.
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So there was not really a lot of people wear skaters.
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And then I asked some buddies that were skaters, you know, when he gets our players like, yeah,
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check out this guy, Manny, Manny was, I think he's a, yeah, I think he's only a great younger
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than me.
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I think I wasn't 11th.
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He was in 10th.
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Yeah.
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And when you're looking for someone that can play death metal, that's not like he liked
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hardcore.
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Okay.
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And I had to change his mind real quick on that and I would beat him down for so long
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dude, because he would, he'd just love like, throw down and throw it down.
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Yeah.
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They're awesome.
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Yeah.
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I never really got into terror.
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Like I, I probably should have given another chance.
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But yeah, like my door was very limited, but dude, I did like throw down, especially back
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in the like super straight edge, throw down, a maker dude insane.
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Yeah.
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No.
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And, uh, real quick side note on throw down, which I was going to give them a shot out.
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Yeah.
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We were first starting, we were kind of, it was kind of happening around Southern California
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for us.
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And we got to play a show with them at showcase and I don't think they knew who we were, but
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they threw us on as an opener and we had a great show.
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And then at the end of the, as they were playing, they gave us a huge shout out.
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Didn't need to.
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Yeah.
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And then they're like, you know, I, I, you know, gave it up for impending doom.
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And it was just like this, 2006 and early 2000s, throw down respected.
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I mean, they're still respected, but like at that time, they headlined a bunch of tours.
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They killed it.
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So shout out, throw down man.
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They're sick.
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But he was into like, like, like, gosh, what it was like with honor and like many of us.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Like, like, just throw everybody into the box.
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That's what this podcast is going to be.
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Let's just look at their taste.
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I was like, we found last night, you and I disagree on a bunch of that.
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We'll get to it.
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We'll get to it.
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So Manny, he really, he was in the hardcore and like evergreen tears, which is fine.
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We toured with evergreen tears, loved them.
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And I was like, yeah, yeah, they're still killing it.
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And so I was like, dude, I'm looking to start this like death metal stuff.
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Here's some bands that I like or whatever.
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And then he was like on board with it and obviously still in the band.
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Yeah.
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And, and, but we just went through so many different members to try to lock in.
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That sound because so many people were just like when we're saying heavy metal, you know,
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they're, they're thinking rock, right.
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And so the people will listen to, I mean, and I'm not throwing any shade, they'll listen
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to something like, uh, like shine down or nickel back or something like that.
16:56
And then they'll say metal, even like my, my buddies in the band skillet, like that they
17:00
are rock, but people will say, Oh, it's metal.
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If there's any type of a faster drum beat or any type of like, you know, they add a string
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to the guitar.
17:10
And then also, and it's a little chuggy.
17:11
And then they're like, Oh, that's metal.
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It's like, if it could be played on the radio, like it's probably not the metal we're talking
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about.
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Right.
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Cause I mean, cause radio, they go about as far as like Pantera, Metallica, Megadeth,
17:22
Slipknot, like, but I mean, nowadays, I mean, yeah, one of me now you got, you know, band
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like sleep token is one of the biggest metal bands on the planet, but you could also listen
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to some of their songs.
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And it's very like, we're going to, we're going to hit you so hard on this next one.
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It's going to really rock your socks.
17:39
This is believer by imagine, right?
17:42
This is caramel by sleeping or sleep token.
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Yeah.
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So you're trying to like, you're trying to dial in the sound.
17:48
And again, it's, it's got to be dang your impossible at that time to find someone that
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like not only loves Jesus, but can that can actually play the music that you're trying
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to like find for the sound.
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And this, we're all new at this point, like this is all new Christians too.
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Like this is like me just figuring it out, right?
18:07
Like this is like, and I was telling all the guys, this is kind of the lyrical content
18:10
I'm going for, you know, if you're okay with that, right?
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Like, if you guys want to join a band like that.
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And so we just went through so many different drummers, so many different bass players
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and something.
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And then we just landed on, and then we had to go to the next town over, which is Corona,
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California, which is that's where the scene was happening.
18:30
That's what showcase was, which is the, was the premier venue that every band play like
18:36
no doubt, blink when you two started there, like this was like a, this is a really happening
18:41
spot.
18:42
So that town, that high school had all the kids that, you know, liked that kind of music,
18:48
but it was metal core.
18:49
Yeah.
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They all were in the metal core.
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It was like hard to find the guys that really liked heavy stuff and to see the vision.
18:56
And eventually just as, you know, I guess in 2005, we've kind of solidified a little
19:01
bit of a group and we put 500 bucks together and recorded a demo through it on my space
19:08
at the time.
19:10
And you'll, you'll did pure volume too, right?
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I'm trying to everywhere.
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We did.
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Okay.
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I was trying to remember where I found you guys, it was either pure volume or someone gave
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me your.
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Yeah, there was a few of those kinds of like MP3 downloaded pure volumes where I found
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oxburns red with their first album, like their first main album, the first LP.
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Yeah.
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I remember that now.
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Pure volume.
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That's so funny.
19:31
That's so random.
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I thought about that.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, go ahead.
19:36
Yeah.
19:37
So, um, put together a little EP, put it out and, um, well, even like, so just even slowly
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down.
19:43
So like what the process of writing a song, because so a lot of people don't know, especially
19:47
whenever your favorite band, when you go back to their EP, yeah, a lot of times people
19:51
are like, well, it just doesn't sound very good.
19:53
It sounds a little clunky.
19:54
Some people it's like, guys, do you realize they probably recorded all of those in the
19:57
same day?
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Yeah.
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And there's no time for a rewrite.
20:00
Sometimes there's no times for like re-recording.
20:02
Sometimes you're, you're recording as the full band.
20:05
You're not recording drums and then you're adding, you know, you know, vocals and backup
20:09
vocals and then you're adding guitar like, so what was the process of even writing those
20:13
first songs of the EP and then then fast forward to when you're actually recording them like
20:18
first time in a studio and you're, you know, teenager.
20:21
So we had a guitarist in Chris Fourno.
20:23
He, me and him, he would come over to my house and I would just show him records.
20:27
I'm like, dude, and he was a really good guitar player.
20:31
He, I would be like, you know, this band, I would cattle decap, red cord, you know, these
20:37
kinds of bands.
20:38
Oh, red cord.
20:39
Yeah.
20:40
Yeah.
20:41
So sick at that time.
20:42
And then, and I would be like, I want to really like fuse this together.
20:46
And we just, it was just like, and he, we didn't have anything to record it with.
20:49
So it's just him kind of in stringing along like riffs together and I'm like, something
20:55
like this part next, something like this part next and we're just frank and staining sort
20:58
of all these death metal bands and metal bands we liked.
21:01
And he was just very good at like, okay, like this, and I'm like, no, I'm making a little
21:06
bit more chugging and I'm like, cool.
21:07
And he's he playing a six string or is he playing it?
21:09
Yeah, this is six string.
21:10
Okay.
21:11
Cause now y'all are doing like seven.
21:12
Yeah.
21:13
Yeah.
21:14
Which completely different sound, but yeah.
21:15
Oh, yeah.
21:16
Corn is a seven.
21:17
Oh, okay.
21:19
There you go.
21:20
Yeah.
21:21
And apparently just almost screw your tuning things almost completely off if you want the
21:24
fealty sound.
21:25
I guess.
21:26
Yeah.
21:27
Yeah.
21:28
Yeah, no kidding.
21:29
Um, so if we would just string, we would Frankenstein these death metal songs together
21:32
and then he would remember them.
21:34
He was really good at it.
21:35
And then we would just get our drummer in the, you know, whatever the next day of two
21:39
days.
21:40
And we, he would just kind of go over the parts and, and that's what you did the like
21:44
nowadays, we can record the riff, program the drums, send it over it.
21:48
Everybody can listen to it.
21:49
Oh, I like that.
21:50
Yeah.
21:51
Back then we didn't have any of that.
21:52
So it was just kind of like, you had to jam it out, jam it out, jam it out, jam it out,
21:56
jam it out, jam it out, jam it out.
21:57
And then we got to the point where we did that for five songs.
22:01
And then we were like, okay, well, next step is to record them.
22:06
We found a guy that would do it for a hundred bucks a song, which is insane.
22:10
Yeah.
22:11
And went over to his studio, he's about a couple of towns over from us, went to his
22:16
studio, did it one day, did, you know, guitars, jump, bass, all one vocals, five songs, one
22:22
day done, put the, got the EP, and then we, um, we actually, oh, we made, we burned a bunch
22:28
of CDs and we were in high school still and I do, we slant, we slanged them for two bucks
22:35
a pop, me and Manny.
22:37
And that's how we would get like extra pizza, you know, pizza meal deals.
22:40
Of course.
22:41
Yeah.
22:42
Let's go.
22:43
Yeah.
22:44
So this is going to be the nostalgia podcast.
22:45
Oh, yeah.
22:46
Yeah.
22:47
The meal deals.
22:48
And we would just like have like, I'd have like three slashes of the pizza, couple, couple
22:51
bags of chips for the next period and then, you know, a couple sodas or whatever.
22:55
And we, we did that a lot.
22:57
And then eventually we did a show and then we were like, oh, well, next step is now we
23:00
got to play a show.
23:01
So we did a, I think our first show was a Halloween show at a skate park, probably, you
23:06
know, 50 to, 50 to 100 people, which was, and the, and they were energetic about it.
23:12
That's right.
23:13
It wasn't like sidelining.
23:14
Like they actually were like stowed to all like, this is cool.
23:19
And then eventually turned into my timeline is probably going to be off.
23:24
But I think we got offered to do, like, I think we did a park show.
23:31
They got shut down.
23:32
They're like, Oh, like, like, you know, like noise kind of blank.
23:35
Yeah.
23:36
You guys are insane if you think you're going to play here at a park and for like families
23:40
and stuff.
23:41
And we're like, mashing and stuff.
23:42
They got shut down.
23:43
And then eventually I think we, there are that, that town in Corona where showcases in
23:47
the, the menu, they had a, they had a bunch of bands.
23:50
And I think they were doing a battle of the bands or not battle the bands.
23:52
They were doing a, um, like a local band show.
23:56
Yeah.
23:57
And they asked us because we were kind of developing a little bit of steam and they were like,
24:00
you want to open the show and like, of course, and we crushed it, did a great thing.
24:04
And then, and then it kind of snowballed into like, Oh, doing a really good shows, doing
24:08
a really good shows, doing a really good shows, eventually get to Redlands.
24:11
We're sleeping giant and a holy name.
24:13
All those guys are.
24:14
Yeah.
24:15
And we start playing their town, which is Redlands.
24:17
And we started doing really good there at a, at their church.
24:20
They actually had like a church where they like hardcore kids.
24:24
Yeah.
24:25
Um, and so we would play their, their church.
24:27
And that's how the guitar player, Eric got ahold of our EP and we became friends and
24:33
he was like, Oh, I'm going to pitch this to face down and face downs.
24:36
Like this is insane.
24:37
Not going to do this.
24:38
And he's like, come to one of their shows.
24:39
So the next show we played, the owner of face down went place went, you know, 500 people
24:44
just lose in their minds.
24:46
He was like, Oh, I get it now.
24:48
And then he, he was like, I want to sign you guys and he took us to their headquarters and
24:54
he was like, you know, and they do a very good deal, very good splits, very good people.
25:00
Uh, I love, I love those people.
25:02
They're, they're awesome.
25:04
And they hooked us up and they, they, they're the ones that, you know, supported us and got
25:07
us the money for our first record and our second record and our third record.
25:11
And then once we put out our first record, no, but we're still on the EP, we're touring
25:17
with bands like Elijah, have you ever heard of Elijah?
25:21
That's a nostalgic band.
25:22
Do you want to people know they're going to freak out Elijah Molotov solution?
25:31
Um, uh, oh, speaking of, uh, okay, there was a band called Lynch thigh beauty.
25:34
Okay.
25:35
Never heard of him.
25:36
But you might have heard of the guitar player out of Lynch thigh beauty, which is a guy
25:39
named Khalil round tree.
25:41
Yeah.
25:42
Yeah.
25:43
UFC fighter, fight to two or five division, far for the title last year for the title.
25:47
Yeah.
25:48
Great guy.
25:49
Like hardcore vocals.
25:52
Yeah.
25:53
No, he is a hardcore kid.
25:54
Yeah.
25:55
So he was in that band.
25:56
And then he during our set.
25:57
So we were touring with them and we, we were playing a dude, I think we were playing like
26:02
a cantina Mexican restaurant.
26:04
Yeah.
26:05
Let's go.
26:06
Do you know how they have those tile, like, um, damn, what are they?
26:09
The most eight tables?
26:10
Yeah.
26:11
No, no, no, no, but the flooring, you know, yeah, of course, you know, that kind of flooring
26:14
there, like that tile flooring.
26:17
Wow, obviously people are drinking water and spilling it.
26:20
It's super slick.
26:21
So slick.
26:22
Yeah.
26:23
So here comes Khalil round, round tree, round kicking everywhere snaps his knee or legs
26:29
something.
26:30
Yeah.
26:31
Dude broke it.
26:33
And this is in the middle of tour.
26:35
And so he's like, so his fan, his van is full.
26:39
And so they were like, Doom guys, we have, we don't, we have like an extra bench.
26:45
And, uh, so he saw Khalil's like, and I ride with you guys in close 15 at the time.
26:50
He's a young kid.
26:51
And, um, we're like, sure, yeah, for sure, clearly, you know, at least we could do you
26:56
broke your leg to our base.
26:57
Yeah.
26:58
I was like, come with us.
26:59
So Khalil came with us, became really good friends with them.
27:02
And Khalil actually became like our merge guy, but also just our, um, just our buddy,
27:09
like he, he was always around.
27:10
I think he lived with David for a while.
27:13
He would come with us to recording studios and all this stuff.
27:16
So like anyways, that's a backstory of Khalil, which is, it's awesome because I love where
27:20
he's at.
27:21
That's why like it's cool to see where he came from and the struggles he faced and to see
27:25
where he's at now.
27:26
It's like, dude, and he, he seems to genuinely have a good head on the shoulders when you
27:30
hear him talk.
27:31
And I mean, you know, we talk about this, we don't want to get too far off on it.
27:34
But like when he lost to Alex Bahada, I remember watching the first round of that fight and
27:39
I just go, cause Alex Bahada is a berserker and like he's a terrifying human being.
27:44
Totally.
27:45
Khalil came to win that fight.
27:46
Yeah.
27:47
He came to win the title because a lot of people were complaining that he even got the title
27:49
shot because where he was at in the rankings and I could have been a better guy.
27:52
And oh, they're just doing this cause they want to feed Alex, you know, a, a, you stand
27:56
up fighter or whatever.
27:57
Yeah.
27:58
And he went in there and won the first round.
28:00
He hurt Pajeta at one point.
28:02
For sure.
28:03
And I mean, at, at some point, you know, during the fight, it turned, Pajeta, you know, got
28:07
the timing.
28:08
And I figured out, like, okay, Khalil's fading a little bit.
28:11
Yeah.
28:12
But you want to talk about a guy that gained more fans in the loss than, you know, some
28:15
guys gain in a victory.
28:17
More people became fans of Khalil because you want to talk about going out on your shield.
28:20
Like guys, if you don't know what we're talking about, it was two, oh five, I'm pretty sure
28:23
it was last year was Alex Bahada, Khalil round tree, they fought for the title.
28:27
You know, Pajeta was defending the title.
28:29
One of the better fights that you'll see in the 205 pound division.
28:33
And you know, it was spectacular from both of them because Khalil at one point his career
28:36
went to Thailand to start doing a whole lot more Muay Thai.
28:40
He was always like a, like a brutal striker, but then he became super precise, his stance
28:45
changed.
28:46
His leg kicks were insane.
28:47
And he always had good boxing.
28:48
He used to be so big.
28:49
Dude, he's so huge.
28:50
No, but like he was a big, like, yeah, yeah.
28:53
And then he just shrunk that and those bones are probably a, you know, and his back is
28:57
like, I couldn't imagine being hit by Khalil, I wouldn't want to.
29:01
I mean, cause that's both, I think, I think the referee, um, after the fight, I think he
29:06
like talked to Joe Rogan, he's like, I've, I've never heard shots like this, cause it
29:11
was like two slabs of granite, just like slamming into each other in time.
29:15
So anyway, yeah.
29:16
Shout out.
29:17
And then you're a fight.
29:18
Really?
29:19
Oh God.
29:20
Did you watch that one?
29:21
Yeah.
29:22
He had it.
29:23
And then it just kind of gets.
29:24
And that's the thing.
29:25
So, you know, even just kind of continuing on, cause I said, you know, he seems to have
29:27
really good head on his shoulders.
29:28
Yeah.
29:29
Because when you lose a big fight, when you're in a big moment, when you have the brightest
29:33
lights, when you're the main event, when you're fighting for a title, any of those types of
29:35
things that Khalil, you know, for a while there, you're like, oh, he's just, he's never
29:39
going to find his full potential.
29:40
And then he, he does, and he finds his lane, but when you lose close fights like that, but
29:45
then you don't hide from the media, you hide from the microphone.
29:49
You don't make excuses.
29:50
Oh, I came in a training camp herd, I came in the night herd and, you know, if I got
29:53
another chance of blah, blah, no, he's just like, I got outclass tonight.
29:57
Like I had my spots.
29:58
I had my opportunity and I didn't get there back to the drawing board.
30:02
And he seems to have an eye towards the future with his family, uh, with the stuff he wants
30:06
to do in business.
30:07
He's already thinking about life, like after fighting, he's not going to be that guy that's
30:11
hanging on until his late thirties, early forties, just trying to make another run for
30:15
a title and getting a whole bunch more brain damage on the way.
30:17
He just, he seems to really kind of understand the game he's in and how to play it.
30:22
That's his like, uh, I think the hardcore roots, right?
30:25
Like just overcoming adapting, like, yeah, just kind of, you know, don't, don't be beaten.
30:31
Don't stay beaten down.
30:32
Right.
30:33
And that's, that's, and that's been his mentality and it's, it's so cool to see.
30:36
So anyways, he was in a band and that's how we got to know him.
30:39
And we kind of did the Elijah Molotov solution, then shy beauty, um, and then we did a few
30:44
other local things.
30:45
And then eventually when our album came out, we got to do a tour, um, a world, um, a US
30:52
tour and it was a white chapel.
30:54
And then that's, and then it was just like, Oh, cool.
30:57
Like, Grant, like from the beginning, I was like, we're a Christian, but death melt down
31:00
like this isn't going anywhere.
31:02
Like the, I, I knew, I literally just wanted to play local shows.
31:06
Yeah.
31:07
And, um, I was just like, had no plans of like doing anything.
31:13
And so we got, we got offered a tour and I was like, Oh, sure, like, yeah, let's go.
31:19
So we did that.
31:20
And they're like, Oh, like towards the end of it, you don't know what's going to happen.
31:24
So you just go, Hey, man, fun run.
31:26
Cool deal.
31:27
And then you get your first time you're hanging out like tour buddies that you've been with
31:32
the last six weeks and you're like, Oh, see you later.
31:34
And then like, I think the week prior before the tour has ended, they're like, Hey, do
31:37
you and white chapel want to go out again?
31:39
And we're like, Yeah.
31:41
Yeah.
31:42
And so we went out on another one.
31:43
And then they kind of say, Hey, you kind of want to go on another one, another one, another
31:46
one, another one.
31:47
And just kind of like.
31:48
And now I'm here.
31:49
And it's one.
31:50
And for, for those in the audience that don't know who white chapel is, I mean, this is,
31:53
this is not Christian death metal, like they're a very, very dark imagery, very dark lyrical
32:00
content.
32:01
You know, fan base.
32:02
And let's get to this.
32:03
Let's get to this.
32:04
Yeah.
32:05
My whole point of all this was never to be like Christian boy one on one band that's kind
32:08
of like, I'm only going to play with Christian.
32:10
I literally were going to play cornerstone every year until cornstone is on a thing.
32:14
Yeah.
32:15
Like I'm down to play those shows.
32:16
I've always been okay.
32:17
But like, I want to play with the white chapels, the, the job for Cowboys, the dying fetuses,
32:24
the, the, all those, I want to talk about that because last night I mentioned when I
32:28
became a Christian, like in middle school, like POD was one of those first bands where
32:31
it's like, okay, this music's actually awesome.
32:33
But these people seem to love Jesus.
32:34
Yeah.
32:35
I remember when it was announced that POD, this would have been probably after satellite
32:39
was released.
32:40
Yeah.
32:41
And so I think that's still their best selling album.
32:42
Absolutely.
32:43
It came out on September 11th.
32:44
All right.
32:45
So that's how I'll always remember that came out on December 11th too.
32:48
Yeah.
32:49
September 11th.
32:50
Yeah.
32:51
On September 11th.
32:52
And it was like, cause they wanted to lead with boom and somebody's in their world, because
32:56
Sonny told me they're like, somebody said, we just can't do boom.
32:59
And then so they led with a live or anyway, so they let something else because if they
33:05
had led with boom, like it would have been the album would have been banned considering
33:09
the timeline, but it was announced that POD was going to go out on tour with corn.
33:14
And at the time, they're probably the biggest new metal band and all that, but it's corn.
33:19
This is not safe for the whole family, even though they had a family values tour and even
33:23
though they had all this was not safe for the whole family.
33:26
It was the bad kids at school that wore the corn t-shirts, right?
33:29
The, you know, the derelicts, the, the goth kids, like the kids that were always sat in
33:33
all that.
33:34
I wish you could see a picture of me in middle school wearing a corn shirt.
33:35
I look like a corny.
33:36
I look corny with the, the backwards R and so like the, but I remember being so heartbroken
33:43
because I was like, Oh, no, yeah, like my little Christian ban.
33:47
I'm a warrior.
33:48
I'm a warrior with, with the POD guys and all that.
33:50
Yeah.
33:51
And now they're going out with corn and it never occurred to me process with that.
33:55
Is that what do you think?
33:56
You think, Oh, they're going to tour with corn and then corn's going to say Satan, Satan,
34:00
Satan, Satan ties them now again, I'm, I'm 14 years old, 15 years old, right?
34:05
People in their 20s still believe that they think that if a Christian band goes out with
34:08
the non Christian band, the Christian band, that influence only goes one way, even within
34:15
Christian, I remember having a discussion and argument with a buddy of mine, cause Shane
34:19
and Shane, who's probably my favorite contemporary Christian music group.
34:22
I think they're absolutely spectacular.
34:24
They were doing a show, it was a red rock show with like, it was Phil Wickham and a couple
34:30
of other people, but then it was the, the, the worship leaders from a Bethel and so obviously
34:36
Bethel as a ministry, as a church, super heretical, a lot of horrible stuff that they do.
34:42
There's corruption that's even come out in the last few months, like some bad stuff going
34:45
on with that.
34:46
I hear about that.
34:47
But was it happening?
34:48
Then too?
34:49
Apparently it's been happening for a very little time.
34:51
Like was it known?
34:52
No, I don't think it was known like it's like, because they were big and they were like
34:56
the standard, right?
34:57
Oh, yeah.
34:58
It was them and Hillsong.
34:59
Right.
35:00
It's like, you know, you're basically picking between those two.
35:01
I remember having this debate with my buddy who's like, I cannot believe Shane and Shane
35:03
would share a stage with those people that have such horrible beliefs.
35:08
And I kind of had to be like, hold on, man, because it's like, and as we talked about
35:12
last night, there are a bunch of Christian artists on Christian radio that are not followers
35:18
of Christ.
35:20
And even if the lead singer or the worship leaders, a follower of Christ, the basis isn't like
35:25
the guy playing the keys isn't their producer, their manager, they're all those people on
35:30
the tour.
35:31
They're not Christians.
35:32
They're just people that are the music.
35:33
Are you talking about the artists?
35:34
Like, are you talking about artistry or because I know about in churches that like they're
35:40
just hiring a base player, right?
35:42
Oh, yeah.
35:43
They're high in session.
35:44
Musicians.
35:45
Yeah, they're high in session.
35:46
But I'm talking about.
35:47
So the point I was making to my buddy, I was like, Hey, dude, like we know that Shane Bernard
35:48
and Shane Everett of Shane and Shane are Christ following Bible believing evangelical Christians.
35:53
We know that.
35:55
But you're saying because they're playing on the same physical stage with somebody that's
36:01
purporting to be Christian, but maybe believe some heretical things that that's somehow
36:05
anathema that's somehow like unacceptable.
36:08
And so that's kind of a downstream derivative, like even in the Christian world, but going
36:11
back to the corn and POD thing, again, in my 15 year old 16 year old brain, I thought,
36:17
Oh, no, it's kind of like when Green Day finally went big and all the punk rock kids
36:21
are like, Oh, they sold out.
36:23
I thought it was like selling out, but more like selling your soul.
36:26
Like, Oh my gosh, you're going out with corn and you're probably just going to be drinking
36:29
and smoking and, you know, having sex with random girls.
36:32
And it's like, cause I thought the influence could only go one way.
36:35
Right.
36:36
And I asked Sonny about that when he came on the show last year.
36:38
I asked specifically about that tour, but it seemed like y'all never had, because there
36:41
are bands that I know.
36:42
What did you say?
36:43
Curious.
36:44
Well, yeah.
36:45
So from what I can remember, he was basically like we, we never wanted to be the Christian
36:49
band that only played for Christians.
36:50
And it's like, if we're called to be people of the book and we're called to be fishers
36:53
of men, we can't just fish and church basements, right?
36:57
Sure.
36:58
And at that time, I think Sonny was getting a lot of, you know, getting a lot of crap
37:01
similar to what you did that their sound was satanic and again, they're more like kind
37:05
of rap rock, like kind of, you know, a little bit of metal stuff here and there, a little
37:09
bit of reggae stuff that's kind of brought in there.
37:12
But then like, you might have fun or whatever and have uplift my mood.
37:16
I throw on POD.
37:17
Right.
37:18
Right.
37:19
But like they would go to these churches and they would, they wouldn't be allowed to play
37:21
in the sanctuary because of the music and the demonic base they use.
37:25
Yeah.
37:26
They would play in basements and so Sonny was like, yeah, so we played those basements
37:30
and that's where our people were.
37:31
These were followers of Christ that just didn't like, you know, maybe the hymns or the CCM.
37:35
Yeah.
37:36
And so like that's kind of where they went, but that, that's kind of what's the mindset,
37:40
but it seems like for y'all from the beginning, there was never any qualms because what you
37:43
saying during the EP era, that's when a case of strain kind of found you guys, Vincent
37:47
or without have been later, you know that during the EP, so I want you to say that because
37:51
like I'll say for, for everyone that was in the scene in the early 2000s, like it was
37:56
like the Acacia strain had their own like gravitational pull.
38:00
Yeah.
38:01
Because of how brutal and accessible their music was because I can remember the first time
38:05
I heard car bomb.
38:06
Yeah.
38:07
And being like, what is this?
38:08
Because my buddies, yeah, because I was in college and my buddies went to a show at
38:11
the green door that I had some training for work.
38:13
So I couldn't go.
38:14
But it was like, I think it was between the buried in me, red cord, like, okay, it may
38:20
have been y'all.
38:21
But one of the openers was Acacia strain.
38:23
Yeah.
38:24
And I was like, and my buddies told me afterwards.
38:25
Your dad headlined it.
38:27
Okay.
38:28
It may have been barrier dead.
38:29
So it was something like that.
38:30
But it's at the green door, like 500, 500 person place.
38:32
But then they're like, dude, you've got to listen to the Acacia strain.
38:35
And I'm like, what is that?
38:36
How do you spell it?
38:37
Like, and all that.
38:38
And then so I get 3, 7, 5, 0, and then I put on car bomb and I'm like, oh my gosh, what
38:42
is this?
38:43
But apparently y'all made an impression on Vincent because this is a very anti-religion
38:48
band, anti-Christianity band.
38:49
But like, so you told me that story last night, I want you to kind of tell it again, like
38:52
how you and Acacia strain got connected.
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Well, yeah.
38:56
So they played, I forgot who they were on tour with at the time.
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But they played showcase theater and we were on the show.
39:03
We got to open it.
39:05
And so we do our death metal thing.
39:08
And I think Vincent was really in the, like he, like he, Vincent is very, even to this
39:12
day, I think he's very hip to new music and up and coming stuff.
39:16
Like I think he, he's really nautily, like even though he, case strain deserves a lot
39:22
more credit, like, you know, you get the chapel, it gets all the, it goes so much credit and
39:26
you know, all these other bands, but Acacia strain should get more credit than they.
39:30
I think a lot of people are like, oh, they're, they're just New England, they're New England
39:33
things and all that stuff.
39:34
Bro, you can't.
39:35
It's really weird because they shaped a whole sound like that heavy stuff.
39:40
They shaped.
39:41
Dude, like them.
39:42
And think, think about it.
39:43
If you were to say, oh yeah, every time I die, that's just like a Northern New York
39:47
thing.
39:48
That's just like, it's like, what?
39:49
Yeah.
39:50
Like Acacia strain every time I die.
39:51
Those bands were trying to get that, that sound very unique sound.
39:54
So yeah.
39:55
So we, we opened up a show for them and did it was a great show is fun.
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I mean, that's what I'm saying.
40:03
Like we play with secular bands all the time and it's just like you would think that like,
40:09
and I get it.
40:10
Like if we were under oath, maybe playing with like Acacia strain and soiling green and all
40:14
these like death metal kind of eerie bands, it could be a problem.
40:18
Yeah.
40:19
And then, but for us, it was a little too happy, very happy.
40:23
Right.
40:24
So it was kind of like, this is, this is like your stereotypical like cringy metal or whatever.
40:30
And so when we play, we did, that's why we just never really got the hate that you would
40:35
think we would get.
40:37
And in a lot of times it was the complete opposite.
40:40
It was like, don't, don't agree with you, but so sick and I'm like, dude, thanks for
40:43
coming out.
40:44
You know, it was freaking awesome.
40:46
And so anyways, we play, crush it, then Acacia strain.
40:51
I guess their vocalist was listening or watching or whatever, because there's not in that venue,
40:55
there's really no green room, nowhere where you can be.
40:58
So you're kind of just there.
41:00
And so we play, I think he goes to our merch table to go ask the guy like, dude, where's
41:07
your vocalist?
41:08
There were, this is so, that was an amazing set.
41:11
And he's like, I don't know.
41:12
And so he goes and does his thing or whatever, and then I go check on merch and the guy's
41:17
like, hey, events of a Michaela strains looking for you and I go, Oh God, it is, you know,
41:21
they have their reputation.
41:22
Yeah.
41:23
They're just so heavy and so cool and whatever.
41:24
So I'm like, Oh, okay.
41:26
Well, here it is.
41:27
Here we go.
41:28
Here's a, here's my persecution moment.
41:30
This is what they were talking about.
41:32
And so eventually I find him and he just, the, the coolest dude ever, bro, that was amazing.
41:40
Great show.
41:41
He's like, just giving me like, again, these bands don't have to say this to me.
41:44
He's giving me flowers.
41:45
He's giving me flowers for a local band that's like done nothing.
41:49
And he is at like, he is the driving force of heavy metal music at the time.
41:54
And so I was like, dude, thank you so much.
41:57
He's like, Oh, you know, we would love for you to come finish this tour out with us.
42:00
And I'm over here thinking like, yeah, is that, can we?
42:03
And he was like, no, that's not how the business works.
42:06
You can't just hop on a tour.
42:07
Wish you could.
42:08
You'd maybe sometime in the future or whatever.
42:11
And then eventually flat, you know, flash forward a few years.
42:15
It's just like, he's on our wreck.
42:16
He's on what he's on our, there'll be violence record.
42:19
We've toured them many times.
42:21
We've become, I become friends with them and just always been a cool dude and people, you
42:28
know, his stage presence.
42:29
Now his stage presence is way more positive.
42:32
Yeah.
42:33
I think he's, as he got older or whatever, he's kind of just like, you know, still doing
42:36
great music, just, I think his, his overall or just kind of like, I'm going to have, I'm
42:41
going to have.
42:42
I'm going to have fun.
42:43
Yeah.
42:44
More than I'm going to try to create this entity.
42:46
And but behind the scenes, man, always been so cool.
42:51
Everyone is, that's, that's the thing, dude.
42:52
Every band we've ever toured dying fetus was cool about like, there's so cool.
42:56
I'm going to give flowers to three inches of blood, which I think they did for this
43:00
tour for a tour we did with them.
43:03
Many years ago, they, I guess they usually, the reason I know this, because they didn't
43:10
do this on the, at all the tour and about halfway through the tour, I'm sitting in the
43:14
back of the, of the room watching them and a, and a guy that kind of recognized me as
43:17
a fan of just, he's at the show.
43:20
I don't know him.
43:21
He comes up and he goes, dude, I've seen three inches of blood, like five times.
43:26
And they usually have like a, a doll or like a, a blown a figure of Jesus and they're hitting
43:34
it and, but they're not doing it this tour.
43:39
And I'm like, I don't know if that, I don't want to know, I don't know if it's coincidence
43:43
because they're just screaming like, Hey, dude, we kind of know what I'm gonna do.
43:45
And then we don't want to be that guy and they're Canadian.
43:48
So they're so, they're so, they're so happy.
43:50
Yeah.
43:51
Happy employee.
43:52
They're so nice.
43:53
So, dude, it's just like bands have done that for us.
43:56
And I was just like, I want to like, as much as people want to be like, oh, there's a
44:00
Danica.
44:01
They're mean or this or that.
44:02
It's just like, that couldn't be further from the truth.
44:05
These are normal average people that work in our families.
44:09
Yeah.
44:10
Well, I want to, I want to actually get into that a little bit.
44:11
So we talked about that last night because one of the hard things for me as an adult
44:15
was going back and hearing about all the bands that were like on solid state and, you know,
44:20
the Christian metal bands and finding out that a lot of these bands and the people in never
44:25
were Christians.
44:26
They just knew they could make more money getting paid, you know, $1,000, $1,200 to play
44:31
at a church as opposed to getting paid $100, play at a bar.
44:33
Yeah.
44:34
And so they could, you know, go out and do that.
44:37
But a lot of people think, so are there people in bands that are practicing LaVane
44:42
or theistic Satanists?
44:44
Yes.
44:46
But then there are a whole bunch of people that are putting the pentagrams up on the
44:49
logos.
44:50
They're doing the dark stuff.
44:51
They're pretending they're doing a seance on stage and all that.
44:54
Which is not stuff you should be toying around with, but they don't mean it, right?
44:58
They're doing it to, hey, this is the type of art that I want to do.
45:02
Like, I remember when our mutual buddy, Mike Dragotch was talking to Alex from Slaughter
45:07
to Prevail and, you know, you see their imagery and the skulls and the horns and all that
45:12
kind of stuff.
45:13
And then he talks to him.
45:14
He's just like a normal dude.
45:15
Oh, he couldn't.
45:16
He's not sacrificing cats and cutting himself during like in casting spells and stuff like
45:21
that.
45:22
I mean, well, I don't know the whole band, but I'm pretty sure judging off Alex and their
45:27
bass player, who I talked to a lot, dude, I mean, their bass player couldn't be more
45:33
of a sweet dude.
45:34
Like anytime I hit him up on Instagram, I mean, he hits me back, dude.
45:38
The problem is, the problem is when fans lean into it, they think it's real and they make
45:43
it part of their identity.
45:45
And so obviously I'm not saying that what they're doing is positive at all.
45:49
Like it's very dark, it's toying with and, you know, for sure flirting with the demonic.
45:53
What's the name of Christian?
45:54
So what do you expect?
45:55
Right.
45:56
These are secularists.
45:57
These are people that know not what they do.
45:58
Right.
45:59
And but it is kind of funny because last night you were talking about a few bands, well,
46:02
we'll leave them nameless.
46:03
But, you know, when you would be on tour and being in the green room, you said you would
46:06
have your Bible with you and you would read the Bible.
46:08
And it was obviously if you read y'all's lyrics or even look at y'all's imagery from
46:13
your albums or, you know, the stuff that's behind you during your sets that y'all are
46:17
clearly Christ followers that you actually believe the stuff, that that's not just some
46:20
sort of a gimmick.
46:21
And if that's going to be your gimmick, you're not going to do it and then try to go tour
46:24
with white chapel and acacia strain.
46:27
But it gave you a lane with these guys, you know, because a lot of these guys didn't grow
46:33
up in church.
46:34
They never owned a Bible.
46:35
They'd never opened a Bible.
46:36
But like kind of tell me, talk to us a little bit about what you're saying last night.
46:39
Like at different points during these tours, yeah, some of these guys would kind of seek
46:42
you out because it's kind of like what what Joby says where he's like, Hey, if you're
46:46
the goofball in the office and then something goes wrong with somebody and, you know, they
46:50
really need some support.
46:51
They don't go to the goofball in the office.
46:53
They go to the prayer guy in the office, the guy in the office who's basically said, Hey,
46:56
I know, you know, you don't really go church.
46:58
You're not really a believer.
46:59
But it's anything I can be praying for you about.
47:01
It's like when your life's falling apart, you're not going goofball.
47:03
You're going to the prayer guy.
47:04
And for 1000%.
47:05
And yeah, so yeah, there has been, I mean, a good amount of people that have, you know,
47:13
told me aside, secretly DM me or whatever, you know, just asking more questions, kind
47:19
of seeing like, Hey, I like this, like, Oh, you actually do this thing.
47:27
This wasn't your, you know, because everything's gimmicks in bands, right?
47:30
And everybody has a mask on and everybody has their own little thing.
47:34
I got to keep it up.
47:36
And that's when you're when you're a younger band, that's kind of what you do, right?
47:40
And then eventually you get old enough to where you're like, all right, I'm just going
47:44
to be my, like, like Vincent, right?
47:45
You just could be, you become just softer and you just, this is what we do.
47:49
And so I think maybe some of the people thought that of me where they're like, Oh, you're
47:54
just not like this, like we're calling ourselves a Christian band to, because at that time,
48:00
dude, because August, at 2004, even 2002, you got the normal jeans, the August Prince
48:04
Red, these guys, these bands are picking up steam undergrowth, right?
48:07
They're picking up steam.
48:09
And the, the, the overall thought was, if we say we're a Christian band, like these bands
48:17
that are just blowing up, we're going to have a built in audience and we're going to sell
48:22
millions of records.
48:23
Yeah.
48:24
Like that was the thought there's been so many bad, I mean, clearly, because that's what
48:28
they all like kind of like drifted off, right?
48:31
That was the thought is like, and that's what time we came up in 2005, six, seven.
48:38
And so that was the, that's so when you, when you actually like, Oh, he's reading a Bible,
48:43
or he's, you know, talking about Jesus.
48:46
And so people, you know, and some of them were years later.
48:51
Yeah.
48:52
Right.
48:53
Like you pray.
48:54
I'm not really a prayer guy.
48:55
I'm not really this guy, but can you buckle brother up?
49:00
And I'm like, of course, you know, absolutely.
49:02
And it's cool to see these guys come to Christ years later or an ask question.
49:08
And that was always the main drive behind it because I'm like, bro, I have, I grew up
49:14
in a place where there's all drugs and gangs and violence and nastiness, man.
49:20
That's where I grew up.
49:21
And it's just like, yeah, think I want to go do that again.
49:25
You think I want to, that's like, Oh, I found Jesus, but no, that's a lot better.
49:29
I, I rather dive into that.
49:31
I was like, no, that's not, that's never been my, my, my mission.
49:37
I was just like, and dude, I'm too rough and unpolished to like pretend to be a Christian.
49:44
Yeah.
49:45
Like, dude, I much rather just be Jack Daniels by the river, crank and freaking Hank all day.
49:51
You know what I mean?
49:52
Like, I would be like, I would claim that, but like when I start touring and I start seeing
50:00
lives and people's like, it's just depressed, depression, anxiety, all the things.
50:06
And I'm like, okay, these people, they know the problem.
50:10
They have all these problems, right?
50:11
Like all these bands, right?
50:12
They, they, you know, say I need somebody to save me.
50:15
I need, you know, all the, you know, then they name all the problems of life.
50:19
Like I'm freaking beating down and this and that and that.
50:22
And but there's never a solution.
50:23
Right.
50:24
The song ends, right?
50:25
It's just a press.
50:26
It's just angst.
50:27
Yeah.
50:28
It's just angst, right?
50:29
It just pure angst, which is cool, but it's like also like, okay, I need a, I kind of think
50:33
I need to give the solution and it's always going to be Jesus.
50:39
And no matter what you do, no matter how far along you get in music, business, whatever,
50:45
there's always going to be that thing.
50:48
And you're not going to, and if you don't know Jesus, you're going to, you're going
50:51
to try to fill it with another thing and another thing.
50:54
And so I always wanted to be a guy like, no, it's Jesus, no, but it could be, no, it's
50:58
Jesus.
50:59
And like, you know, fall, it didn't know it's Jesus.
51:02
It's Jesus.
51:03
He did the Bible.
51:04
Like just try it.
51:05
Yeah.
51:06
Like just try it.
51:07
Bro, read Proverbs and then skip to Ecclesiastes and you'll see a guy that tried to fill all
51:10
the gaps in his life with, with money, with women, with power.
51:14
Start with numbers.
51:15
Start reading numbers first.
51:16
That can work out here.
51:18
You're, you're going to be genealogy for a month.
51:20
We're going to, we're going to show you all the genealogy.
51:22
But like, so I'm so I'm curious for you because, you know, you can talk as much as you want
51:28
about kind of your upbringing, but very rough, not, not godly environments that you're
51:33
in, not godly influences.
51:35
And so for a guy that didn't grow up in church, but I didn't grow up around like riffraff and,
51:41
you know, substance abuse and all that, I'm just curious for you even about like, you
51:45
know, just even your testimony of how you even became a Christian, because I guess, I mean,
51:49
all that is foundational to even, you know, making the music that you started making and
51:52
that you're still making today, obviously.
51:54
So my, my, so yeah, like my parents are great.
51:57
I love them to death.
51:59
Sweet people.
52:00
They just, they were, they were wild.
52:01
Yeah.
52:02
They're having fun.
52:03
I like the party.
52:04
Yeah.
52:05
Like the party.
52:06
They're having fun.
52:07
And you know what?
52:08
Like, and I didn't, I didn't hate it.
52:09
You know, I mean, it wasn't like, you know, I just didn't hate it.
52:12
My dad would take me to go play pool, smokey bars, you know, he would let me go, you take
52:18
his camp.
52:19
It was just like, it was, it was, it was, it was fun.
52:23
It was wild because that's kind of my personality.
52:25
Like I like that.
52:27
And so, um, but I started like, you know, drinking and whatever and started partying
52:32
with friends and I was like, okay, this is, it's fun.
52:35
But again, it just has its time, dude.
52:39
And I'm, and eventually got into high school, still party, still party, still party.
52:44
And then about 17, 18, it was like, okay, because I grew up in Riverside and there's
52:50
a place called our lands.
52:51
And it's just gang filled and it's heroin and it's meth everywhere.
52:56
And so like, I, and I, this is the, these are people that I interact with all the time.
53:01
Like, I'm so used to talking to drug addicts.
53:04
Like I'm like, you know, they're all like, bro, what are you doing, man?
53:08
Like, yeah, cause it was just like, I was just, we were like, my dad has a glass shop
53:12
in Riverside.
53:13
It was just kind of like a local kind of place, right, where it's kind of, you know, I know
53:18
you had this, this, you know, that's the glass shop that's been there 40 years and people
53:22
will come by and they're all just like, Hey, man, I remember your little brothers and so
53:27
like, but like that's, these are the people I would talk to.
53:30
And so I always had a heart for, you know, drug addicts, alcoholics, all like that, homeless,
53:38
like I do have a heart for them because that's where I grew up in.
53:42
So and then here I am drinking and doing the things and I'm like, how am I going to make
53:48
a change in my, in a community and the world, wherever my influence can be, right?
53:54
Like, who I'm being like, is this what my life's going to be?
54:00
And then my dad, so my grandma, my nan, let's go to my nana, dude, she, she passed a couple
54:06
of years ago, but like, dude, worship leader in the church, young age, only guitar player,
54:12
like a picker, dude, like dope Arkansas.
54:18
We're talking, what are we talking?
54:19
We're talking Fort Smith, Arkansas.
54:20
I don't know if this is where she grew up, but I think she's spent most of time on it,
54:23
but Fort Smith is where she resided.
54:26
But like, dude, I think there's something could correct me, but like fender came out
54:30
like in 52, 1952 or something like that, like electric guitars.
54:35
And her church, I think paid like 13 bucks to get her a fender guitar for their church
54:41
barrel, which she still has, or she has, she, she passed it down to my dad.
54:48
But like, so my dad, very poor.
54:53
My dad didn't know his dad.
54:56
And they were very poor, but she was, she loved Jesus.
54:58
I mean, she loved Jesus.
55:01
And I think my only gift my dad ever got, like birthdays, Christmas, it was like a Bible.
55:07
So I, it's not like my, my dad grew up like Jesus, but we just didn't really do the church
55:15
thing.
55:16
Right.
55:17
But he said it enough to where I'm like, I never believed, like never an atheist, never
55:22
that always believes in like, there's got to be something like just my common sense is
55:26
kind of like there's got to be something.
55:27
Yeah.
55:28
And so eventually we went to church, like we did the Easter kind of thing sometimes
55:32
and we did this, this or maybe when they feel bad, I'm going to go wash some of this off
55:37
need to go wash some of this, maybe something like that.
55:40
And so I was like, but every time I went, I was like, I didn't hate it.
55:45
And so I got older and I was like, maybe I need to go back to that.
55:49
And so, you know, have you ever had a harvest Greg Lori?
55:52
Yeah.
55:53
Yeah, of course.
55:54
Yeah.
55:55
He was five minutes.
55:56
That's the church I went to.
55:57
That's great.
55:58
The mega mega church, but I liked it was good.
55:59
It was good for what I needed.
56:00
Um, at the time, um, went to his church and, and really just was like, I like this.
56:07
I feel good here and I feel like if I dive into this, I can make a change.
56:13
And then, but all that like God was intermingling as, as I'm getting more into the Bible, I'm
56:19
also getting fed more into like death metal.
56:23
So it's kind of, this is where the, the, the journey is starting to merge itself into where
56:29
I'm like, like the light bulbs going off, right?
56:32
Like, Satan, Satan, Satan, Satan, Satan, and I'm like, but Jesus, you know, like I, they
56:37
need to counter.
56:38
I need to like be like, right, cause I hate going with conventional, you know, anything.
56:45
I like, I'm going to push it a little bit.
56:47
Yeah.
56:48
So I'm like, maybe I can be the guy that starts the band.
56:53
I would never, and this is kind of my personality.
56:55
I would never join.
56:56
If slipknot was a broke joint slipknot, I wouldn't.
57:00
Not for like the reasons of like their say, whatever, they're not Christian.
57:04
Just for the sake of like, I don't like to be in things that have already, yeah, joining
57:09
some of that.
57:10
I like the creative process.
57:11
I love the creative process of starting.
57:13
So I was like, this could be sick or very heavy Christian band.
57:20
That is the kind of answer to the behemoths and the teamwork, ears and whatever.
57:27
And because I love those bands, it is just kind of like, but there needs to be a little
57:31
bit of pushback because this realm is just taken over, right?
57:35
And so I, that's, that's where it all just kind of like clicked in my head.
57:41
Hey, guys, real quick, you've probably heard me say it a bunch of times on the show, but
57:45
I think potentially the biggest societal issue that we face in this country is fatherless.
57:50
Homes.
57:51
And beyond that, I know that there are a lot of fathers with sons that do not know how
57:54
to lead them into manhood.
57:55
But one of the problems is that men in our society and churches are able to recognize
58:00
that there is a problem, but they currently lack the tools to begin solving it.
58:05
I don't want boys falling through the cracks while men and churches struggle figuring out
58:10
next steps.
58:11
That's why I want to introduce you to kids outdoor zone.
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58:20
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a man or a group of men to help him navigate the masculine journey into manhood and a relationship
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with Jesus.
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KOC groups help boys learn biblical masculinity, outdoor skills training, how to discern God's
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call in their lives and much more.
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KOC groups usually meet one Saturday a month, the mentors lead the boys in prayer and the
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help the boy as he grows into a man.
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This could be everything from learning how to build a fire or a shelter, working on an
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engine, fishing for food, shooting a firearm or a bow, traversing different terrains, cleaning
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an animal and on and on from there.
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Afterwards, the mentors take the boys through heart training that introduces a scriptural
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basis for the life skill that they just learned, then the boys get some time to individually
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reflect on what they've learned, and they're certainly a lot more.
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Well, so is there a point in there where you're like, "Hey, I don't just believe in God because
1:00:03
what I call country music theology."
1:00:05
So if you're born in the south, if your grandma or granddad went to church, if you were baptized
1:00:11
as a kid, if you go to church occasionally, if you own a Bible, if you vote Republican
1:00:16
and when you listen to music, it's 90s country, and then God's pro all that stuff so you get
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to be a Christian.
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So what point did you graduate from, no, no, no, okay, I know Jesus is a Middle Eastern
1:00:25
Jewish construction worker that walked this earth, but where you actually placed your
1:00:30
faith in that, "Hey, when he died on a cross, that counted for me."
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Or after a hard night of drinking on a Saturday.
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Okay.
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Let's talk about it.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, I literally was like, okay, I drank too much.
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And then the next day, the altar call came.
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Okay.
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And I was just like, okay, that's not, I'm so sick of being a hypocrite.
1:00:53
It's so exhausting, right?
1:00:55
Like when you're like, feel good, then you get a call the next day, dude.
1:00:59
It's got a freaking 24 pack, get over here cranking Hank and I'm like, be there.
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And so it's, and dude, I can't drink very much.
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So like, I just got sick, are we just getting sick?
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And it was just kind of like this, like, well, they're all world doing it and it's just,
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and I just like, this isn't the way to go, dude, like, you know the right way.
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So they gave the altar call and I was like, I'm doing this.
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And I went up there and then I said the prayer and I was like, I'm diving in.
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And then that's when I started reading and that's when I was like really going for, okay.
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So for, um, I need something as a distraction, right?
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Because I can't, you're not just going to suppress it because you people are going to
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keep going by.
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So I need something.
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So that's why.
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Something to replace it with something to replace it.
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And that's when like, I really put my, like, I need to start a band.
1:01:54
I need to do this.
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I need to do this.
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I need to call people.
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I need to go here.
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I need to make them moves.
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And then that's when, and then when I started the band and then it was like, well, now I
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need to write lyrics.
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And then I was like, well, I want it to be biblical as much as I can and try to make
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it in a, in a way that like is practical, but it's also like how I feel.
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And so I was just, that's when I started reading, reading, reading, reading, reading, reading,
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reading, reading, reading, reading, reading, read, read, read, read, wrote lyrics got, got
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addicted to like songwriting and lyric writing.
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Because I'm like, this is like feeding me.
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And so I would, I would, it would just so much fun because there's something about heavy
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music that just, you know, just, it just scratches that itch, right?
1:02:38
Like when I hit that, when I hear some of these notes, the demon notes, we'll get there to
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all you demon notes folks out there when the demon notes, that's so funny to say that should
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be the name he also knew next time on demon notes, dude, that's honestly, honestly, not
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a terrible idea.
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That's a terrible idea.
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That's honestly kind of sick.
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But when I hit the, just heavy, right, I'm like, even like bass in any like bass music,
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those, those frequencies, you even talked about like Metallica, black album, like the way you
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described it last night, I loved it.
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It's a wall of sound.
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You're getting hit by this wall of sound.
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Just that chug.
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Yeah.
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And you're not going to get that as a bluegrass.
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And I love bluegrass.
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I love bluegrass.
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But that 24 guitars layer together and it's going done.
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And you're just like, yeah, you're just gone.
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I'm gone.
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Well, so in those early days, so you're, you're learning what it means to be a follower of
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Christ.
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It's actually kind of similar to my trajectory with Undaunted because I became a Christian
1:03:38
at 15 at the same time I'm trying to learn, okay, I'm trying to become a man, whatever
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that means, but I need to become a Christian too, whatever that means.
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And so you try to like weave your way through.
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And so it eventually landed with me doing ministry stuff, a lot of heart and then, you
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know, you know, doing Undaunted stuff today.
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And so you're trying to be God honoring in your lyrics that you're writing while at
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the same time, you're very early in your sanctification journey, your understanding of
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the biblical text has to be at an office level because everyone's is when you first get started,
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but you're fervent, you're hungry for it.
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But then at the same time, so I'll couch it this way because whether I'm coaching someone
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or just someone's asking me for advice, so I'll run into this person that's very successful
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in business.
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And then they have a movement of God in their life.
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Maybe they go to something like saturated at Jobe's church in Florida or they see Matt
1:04:30
Chandler speak at a, you know, some sort of conference or they go to some worship night
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concert and all that and they feel a movement of the spirit.
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And then what a lot of these people end up doing is they think I have to burn all the
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ships.
1:04:43
I have to get rid of my business.
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I have to leave the job that I'm in.
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I need to get a job at a church or I need to go back to Bible college and all of that.
1:04:50
And it's kind of a derivative of the poverty gospel to where they're like, I'm successful
1:04:54
in business and somehow that's probably bad.
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I need, you know, I need a card with a church's logo on it and my name and the word pastor
1:05:03
underneath it.
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And if I had that business card, then things will work out okay.
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And I just try to tell these people I'm like, that might be what God's calling you to.
1:05:11
But ministry is also expensive.
1:05:13
And a lot of people, like how do you think Joseph of Aramathia was able to temporarily
1:05:17
donate a tomb to Jesus?
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Because he was a man of means, right?
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And he had that.
1:05:22
It was purchased or passed down to him by someone else that purchase it at some point.
1:05:26
And so you get these people that they're like, okay, when they feel that movement of God
1:05:29
in their life, when they're on that spiritual high, they feel like they have to do the most
1:05:32
Christian sounding things possible.
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They're listening to air one and Caleb on repeat, even if they don't really like it.
1:05:39
There, they're, you know, listening to sermons, even if the guy's not really giving them meat
1:05:44
to chew on, it's just milk, they're just trying to do stuff like that.
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It doesn't seem like that ever happened with you to where it's like, no, this world, this
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world of death metal, that is only darkness by and for dark, you know, spirited people.
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Yeah.
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That's where I need to be.
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And that's where I need to infuse some gospel.
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I need to infuse some scripture into that world.
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That's very interesting to me.
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You know, I, I was very, I, I went in on Bible and I went in on like a mission, right?
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It wasn't just kind of like this big, like, like, yeah, Christian, Caleb, Christian, Christian,
1:06:26
Christian, Christian.
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No, it was like my mission was to make a heavy metal band for this scene, right?
1:06:31
And that like just drove me.
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People don't even understand the scene, Brooke, like, if you weren't there, if you didn't
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experience it, the, the power that that scene had over young people, the atheist agnostic
1:06:44
or Christian, it was so, because bro, I remember that's, that's where the foundations of my
1:06:50
faith came was from bands like yours to where I was like, for whatever reason, the hymns
1:06:55
and the CCM's not really agreeing with my palate.
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It's something wrong with me.
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And then I would listen to living sacrifice or, or extol or you know, early impending doom,
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like that around that time period.
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It's just like, anyway, so I just wanted to like, when people, when you say some people
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just don't really understand what it almost gave you permission to be like, Oh, okay.
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I'm okay.
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For sure.
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Absolutely.
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I can listen to this and go.
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I'm not broken.
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I'm not broken.
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Yeah.
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And yeah, so that was always my mission.
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And it was cool because I was getting good feedback from people, like even today, if
1:07:30
I ever like scroll, like our video is right.
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And it's just like, this band helped me come to Jesus and it was like 1500 thumbs up.
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Me too.
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Me too.
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Me too.
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And I'm like, I mean, you never met those people.
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You don't know those people.
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Never in my life, dude.
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And I'm like, and then you get some, you get some of the hey, like, Oh, this is not Christian.
1:07:48
You get something very, and I think these are pots.
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Most of them.
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But like, you know, not Christian, Christian, you get a couple of them, but then you get
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those things, right?
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Like, dude, listen to heavy metal forever.
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Just started impending doom and going to go into church on Sunday.
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And then you got like 150 likes on that, like me too, dude.
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Oh, dude.
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That was me last year.
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That was me.
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And it's just like, ah, it's so, it's so amazing.
1:08:18
And I think, and then like, even when we put our first EP, our first record with FaceDown,
1:08:25
it was then the before this, and then, and then 40 day came out with like their third
1:08:30
record and it beat it.
1:08:31
But at the, we had the most pre-sells for our, from a band that this guy was like, who's
1:08:36
going to listen to this crap to we, we are his number one band.
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Right.
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And that album was Serp.
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No.
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Nail did risen.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then that was just like, Oh my gosh, like this, like, insanely sounding metal music.
1:08:54
One that the album artwork is super brutal and it was just so, like I listened to a couple
1:09:00
of them today.
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Oh my gosh.
1:09:02
It's insane.
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Um, but just, and I was just like, Oh, it sold some.
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Oh, we're selling merch and like it just, it's really cool when you start a band and like,
1:09:11
oh, it's, if people are actually like thirsting for this or wanting to like, Oh my gosh,
1:09:17
thank God.
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It just like, I'm so sick of this, you know, constantly having, you know, this being forced
1:09:24
down my throat.
1:09:25
That's being forced down my throat.
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And it was cool because as that's kind of going on, my parents are actually becoming
1:09:30
more Christian and going to church and doing like today, like they're like, my dad's like
1:09:34
helping with like, um, call center, like suicide, like a Billy Graham call centers and my dad's
1:09:40
doing that.
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Like, so like, it all, you know how it works, bro.
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It's a circle, buddy.
1:09:44
A full circle.
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My, my, my sisters go to church and all that stuff.
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And it's just like super cool to see like, maybe I was a spark for them or whatever.
1:09:55
But it's so cool to see like my mom and dad, they're on a good path and they've been on
1:09:59
a good path for a while and, and, um, I don't know, it was just so, it was all these like
1:10:06
these positive feet, this, all this positive feedback, right, where like, dude, quit cold
1:10:11
turkey with drinking because, you know, just listening to this band.
1:10:14
I was just like, I could fight these, this battle.
1:10:17
Yeah.
1:10:18
And so I never, and I did, then the dude, the burn, I don't know if it's burn out.
1:10:22
I don't know if it just wasn't genuine faith.
1:10:24
I don't know, because you hear so, I mean, growing up, it was just like, dude, got burned
1:10:29
out on the church.
1:10:30
I got church, like the church, the church, the church thing.
1:10:33
I was like, dude, every church can become the, every church is full centers.
1:10:38
So there's a church in it, but the pastor can go do sleep around.
1:10:41
He can go do embezzled the money.
1:10:43
He can all the things that the people that it's like, he's not Jesus.
1:10:46
Yeah.
1:10:47
My, my, if you put your faith in your pastor, he might let you down.
1:10:50
Yeah.
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He will let you down.
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Yeah.
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Or he could.
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Um, very easily.
1:10:55
I mean, do you not know the heart of man?
1:10:56
Do you not know your own heart?
1:10:57
Like what I know I'm capable of is extremely nasty.
1:11:02
It's just like, it's so bad.
1:11:05
So I'm like, okay, God, like, use this passion for you, right?
1:11:09
Obviously.
1:11:10
Um, but like, I'm just like the whole, the whole thing could burn down.
1:11:15
And I'd be like, there's nothing that a Christian could do, a Christian person could do that
1:11:22
I would probably, you know, the person itself, I'd be like, you need to be excommunicado for
1:11:28
sure.
1:11:29
But my faith would not waver in the slightest.
1:11:33
My, my faith is not in man.
1:11:34
It's not in bands.
1:11:35
It's like when, you know, this person is falling down and it's like, Oh my gosh.
1:11:40
I put so much trust in this guy.
1:11:42
How could I ever trust anybody again?
1:11:44
How can I believe in your comment is the problem because of where you pointed your faith.
1:11:49
But we talked about, uh, we talked about Robbie Zacharias last night, um, at, at stag lounge,
1:11:54
and we were just like, okay, if you put your faith in the argumentation philosophy or presentation
1:12:00
of Robbie Zacharias and not in Christ, yes, whenever it became apparent or allegedly that
1:12:05
he was a tremendous sexual deviant before he passed away of cancer.
1:12:08
Right.
1:12:09
Yeah.
1:12:10
You're going to have an attack of faith, but I bro, I yell at people all the time.
1:12:13
I'm like, please do not put your faith in your favorite pastor, podcaster, politician,
1:12:18
athlete, influencer, because it's like, even if they're purporting to follow Christ, you
1:12:24
know, even if they're giving you some Bible, even if all those things, like, yes, there
1:12:27
would be some people that it would break my heart if they fail.
1:12:30
Tim Tebow.
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Pastor.
1:12:32
Yeah.
1:12:33
Yeah.
1:12:34
Timmy, just hang on, baby.
1:12:35
Hang on until glory.
1:12:36
You're, you're, I mean, that guy is like as pure as it comes, bro.
1:12:39
Well, and so like, but let's, okay, let's use Tim, Tim as an example.
1:12:42
Yeah.
1:12:43
Let's say that at some point in his life, and obviously we're not assuming this will happen.
1:12:46
Right.
1:12:47
But let's say it's revealed that he has done or is engaging in heinous behavior of mankind.
1:12:51
Right.
1:12:52
Is that affect Christ?
1:12:54
Right.
1:12:55
Does that affect the presentation?
1:12:56
It affects the presentation, but it goes back to what I, it was either Frank Turk or
1:13:00
somebody, but it's like, if you walk into guitar center and somebody is playing sweet
1:13:04
child of mine badly, you don't blame slash for that.
1:13:07
Yeah.
1:13:08
If someone's out the piano playing Beethoven poorly, you don't blame Beethoven.
1:13:11
Yeah.
1:13:12
And so when you see a Christian doing Christianity poorly, you don't go, well, this Christ guy
1:13:16
must have been a real joke.
1:13:17
It's like, well, let's go back to the source material and see if, if what you're saying
1:13:21
comports with the truth, and you'll find out pretty quickly that it doesn't.
1:13:24
Exactly.
1:13:25
And that's, that's always been my thought process.
1:13:27
It's not about achieving, and the, and the, and the hardcore thing about it is, is like,
1:13:33
I know, I knew from the get go that I am not perfect.
1:13:37
And I am like, I am a wretched, I mean, most of my songs are I am a wretched center.
1:13:42
Yeah.
1:13:43
Wretched, wretched, wretched, like my everything, even my decent things that I do are filthy
1:13:47
rags.
1:13:48
Right.
1:13:49
So I am no good, like, yeah, I am no good.
1:13:54
So my whole process is like, I'm never going to be perfect.
1:13:58
I'm never going to be the guy that like is the role, like the, the perfect picture of
1:14:06
a Christian, like, oh, of Jesus, like I am going for that's why I strive for it.
1:14:11
But like, I'm never going to be that guy.
1:14:13
And I think a lot of people put their, like, I need to be perfect face on all the time.
1:14:18
Especially with social media, right, where you're like, everything has to be a highlight
1:14:21
reel.
1:14:22
Everything has to be this thing.
1:14:24
And so that's was just where I think a lot of people just get there, like, I'm never
1:14:28
going to be perfect.
1:14:29
And I screw up and I'm just becoming a hypocrite and I don't stop.
1:14:32
You want some inspiration?
1:14:33
So I was in Romans seven yesterday.
1:14:35
So this is, this is the guy.
1:14:37
This is the apostle Paul.
1:14:38
He wrote a huge, a huge chunk of the Bible, like this was a guy that was a terrorist murdering
1:14:43
Christians that became one of the biggest purveyors of the message of Christianity.
1:14:48
So Romans seven, verse 24, wretched man that I am who will deliver me from this body of
1:14:54
death.
1:14:55
That was a percent very next verse.
1:14:57
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
1:15:00
So then I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh, I serve the law
1:15:04
of sin.
1:15:05
He's got the dichotomy of man right there.
1:15:08
And this is Paul.
1:15:09
That's literally impending.
1:15:10
Right, this is, this is literally chapter seven of a 16 chapter that we add a chapter
1:15:15
and verse later.
1:15:16
This is a long letter to the church in Rome where you have the guy, like the number one
1:15:22
draft pick, like Christian at this time, right, lamenting with the, you know, many exclamation
1:15:28
points are on the Bible, not that many.
1:15:29
There's one at the end of that wretched man that I am, right?
1:15:32
And so that is an indication, even back to the original Greek manuscripts and all that
1:15:35
about the emphatic nature of what he was saying.
1:15:38
And so, how do you think he was saying that?
1:15:41
Do you think he was saying it in a nice little chat?
1:15:43
It probably wasn't positive and safe for the whole family.
1:15:45
Positive, encouraging.
1:15:46
Okay.
1:15:47
Well, let's, let's even talk about that.
1:15:49
So like you think that he was saying it like, okay, so anyways, um, I'm a wretched man and
1:15:55
I'm just no good.
1:15:56
Yeah.
1:15:57
But you know what?
1:15:58
There are probably some minor chords whenever he was talking about that.
1:16:00
But no, like, so you're hitting on so much that, that I appreciate because kind of going
1:16:03
back to, okay, you're trying to bring more Bible into the music that you're writing, but
1:16:08
you're staying in the dark places.
1:16:09
And so, you know, the mission of Madonna life is equipping men to push back darkness.
1:16:12
So I tell people for whatever reason, God has wired me with an appetite for dark things,
1:16:19
right?
1:16:20
Yes.
1:16:21
To where, not to where I dabble in them myself, not to where I engage in them, but to where
1:16:25
I, I try to find them to root them out.
1:16:27
I try to see them because if I'm trying to equip men to push back darkness, but I encourage
1:16:31
you to plug your ears and cover your eyes, you will never experience the darkness and
1:16:35
you won't know when to push it back because you won't recognize that it's even there.
1:16:39
And I, and it's a, and it's not even really the people do, like, it's like they're, they
1:16:45
are being like, we said, like, they just don't know what they don't know.
1:16:48
And they're being influenced by whatever the case may be, some people are just not dark
1:16:54
and like they're meaning to be dark, but it's just obviously like, Oh, drinking.
1:16:58
And then like, I got, I got onto some sort of drug, right?
1:17:01
Like then they're just like, I didn't mean for this, my life to go this way.
1:17:05
And I just need someone maybe that has a little bit better influence that comes from a better
1:17:11
place spiritually or just physically and mentally to come, come alongside me and go, there's
1:17:18
another way, bro.
1:17:20
And I can, I can, I can help you or I can, you know, at least give you a resource or hold
1:17:27
your hand in this area, right?
1:17:28
So it's not necessarily like everything's like demon, demon, demon, it's just, it's just
1:17:33
some dudes are just in, um, in a bad situation and they need, and they, and they just need
1:17:39
someone to come alongside them and be like, dude, you know, with me and with a lot of
1:17:46
people that I know, it's been Jesus.
1:17:49
It's been just kind of like go to go find a good local church.
1:17:54
If I know that of an area, I can give someone a recommendation or whatever, right?
1:17:58
But like it's like, just try it out or, or, you nowadays, you can send them a sermon,
1:18:02
right?
1:18:03
Like what's your number?
1:18:04
Yeah, that's right.
1:18:05
You send them like a good little sermon like, Hey, bro, this is 30 minutes or 20 minutes
1:18:08
or 15 minutes.
1:18:09
Give it if, if your life's going down right now anyways, like might as well, right?
1:18:13
Give it a shot.
1:18:15
And so I think that a lot of it just has to do, it's very practical and sent in the sense
1:18:20
of like, we don't need to drum it up as like this huge thing, a lot of the times, sometimes
1:18:25
it is, but sometimes it's just like a dude just just kind of navigating life and it's
1:18:30
just kind of lost.
1:18:31
When I think a lot of people, they don't, they don't quite understand that, you know,
1:18:37
some people look at the Bible like it's, you know, it's got some rules for life, right?
1:18:41
Here's some things that you can do, but you know, I tell people all the time, especially
1:18:46
men that struggle with prayer, I'm like, bro, just open your Bible, just flip, flip, stop
1:18:50
somewhere around the middle.
1:18:51
You're probably going to land in a psalm.
1:18:53
Even if you're in a time of plenty and you land on a psalm lament, pray that psalm
1:18:57
lament out loud because as I talk about all the time, Psalm 23, the point of Psalm 23
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is not that God delivers us from the valley of the shadow of death.
1:19:03
It's that when we're in it, which implies that we will be that God is there with us, right?
1:19:08
So we will have times of trouble, but he is, he is good to be there with us because he
1:19:15
is using the valley for something for you and ultimately for his own glory.
1:19:21
Yes.
1:19:22
But when you have these guys, I think everything in Christianity, like I, when people talk
1:19:27
about how, hey, bad things just shouldn't be happening to me.
1:19:29
I'm a Christian.
1:19:30
I'm like, bro, like tell me the happy ending for any of your favorite people in the Bible,
1:19:36
right?
1:19:37
Just the apostles, right?
1:19:38
Well, it all starts happening.
1:19:39
Once you turn against your fleshly ways, that's when all the bad things start happening.
1:19:44
Well, and, you know, I was trying to find the exact, the exact reference, but like when
1:19:47
Jesus goes to Lazarus's tomb, okay, obviously Mary and the other loved ones of Lazarus,
1:19:54
they're, they're frustrated with Jesus that he came four days late that had he been there
1:20:00
as Mary said, this is Mary Lazarus's sister had you been here.
1:20:04
My brother would not have died.
1:20:06
And he says, take me to the tomb and he goes to the tomb.
1:20:09
And whenever it said that, you know, Jesus wept and like you see those types of things,
1:20:14
what people miss is that the language that is used around his, his crying was to snort
1:20:20
with anger.
1:20:22
So Jesus, the son of God, right, part of the Godhead, right in his early thirties, right?
1:20:28
He goes to the tomb of what may have been his best friend or one of his good friends.
1:20:33
And he was weeping so violently that it was like he was snorting with anger.
1:20:39
Now, for any of you in, in your life, if you've ever been so angry, like he was angry at sin
1:20:46
and death.
1:20:47
And he knew what he was about to do, okay?
1:20:50
So this, this image of this, you know, puritanical, wispy hair Danish looking model Jesus guy that
1:20:58
was just going around, you know, holding lambs and kissing women on the tips of their noses
1:21:03
and saying how cute everyone looked in their tunics and like this idea that people get
1:21:06
of Jesus.
1:21:07
We don't have a plausibility structure for snorting with anger for clearing the temple,
1:21:12
not just once at the end of his ministry, but once at the beginning of his ministry after
1:21:16
his first, the first miracle that he did at the wedding in Kana, it's just like when you,
1:21:22
when you try to put this Jesus in a box, it's the same thing that when you try to put Christian
1:21:27
art in a box, it's got to feel this way, it's got to have this type of cord progression.
1:21:32
It's got to have the course 87 times, it's got to be sung at this key that most men can't
1:21:37
hit for whatever reason.
1:21:38
It can't be congregational because then it's not going to be much of a performance and you
1:21:41
start putting these restrictions on what can be Jesus or what can be a downstream of the
1:21:48
art of Jesus.
1:21:50
And I just go like when you're reading through the Psalms and you're reading through the
1:21:53
Psalms of lament, the Psalms of David, do you think he was just calmly presenting these
1:21:58
things?
1:21:59
No, there was an anger.
1:22:00
There was a guttural like outpouring of the soul that was coming out of these people.
1:22:06
And so that's why, you know, for us, like I'm trying to pull the pendulum back toward
1:22:10
the center a little bit because everything goes lamb of God, we ignore the line of Judah,
1:22:14
everything goes grace and we stay away from truth because it can be persnickety, it can
1:22:19
be a little bit hard to deal with.
1:22:21
But that's another reason, getting back to the music that y'all make, you've never had
1:22:25
any qualms about, hey, we're not trying to get on Caleb, we're not trying to get an invite
1:22:31
to NRB.
1:22:32
We're not trying to go to these places where it's going to be like the positive and easily
1:22:36
palatable things for the entire family.
1:22:39
It's like we're speaking to a different part of the Christian walk that the marketplace,
1:22:43
especially when you guys got started, it didn't have a place for Christian death metal and
1:22:50
look at the downstream gospel consequences of y'all being in use specifically being obedient
1:22:56
to God and saying yes, Lord, and these are the places that we will go because that death
1:23:00
metal kid that was listening to cannibal corpse and, you know, cattle decapitation and all
1:23:05
these different things, they listen to you guys.
1:23:08
And that's something the Holy Spirit used to either get them in a church to get them in
1:23:13
a Bible study to ask their uncle who is a Christian, what's this whole Jesus thing to
1:23:17
get a Bible and start reading it for the first time or changes their perspective, I think,
1:23:22
like it changes like, oh, this is just a death metal band, like you can just see it for what
1:23:26
it is, right?
1:23:27
Like it isn't like, I, this doesn't need to be your, your identity, right?
1:23:31
Like no metal band should be your identity.
1:23:34
But like metal music in general, like that's your identity, right?
1:23:38
If you listen to cannibal, I am of the old school nature, I am, you know, morbid angel,
1:23:44
cannibal corpse, you know, all the rest of them and like, and that's where I center my
1:23:48
thing around.
1:23:49
I'm not, and this is where they compartmentalize and it happens and the gatekeeping and metal
1:23:54
is like insane, right?
1:23:56
Like you have to hate sleep token if you like cannibal corpse, like you can't just go,
1:24:01
okay, sleep token is pretty cool.
1:24:03
And I also like cannibal corpse, like, like if you're in this thing, you can't say that.
1:24:07
And like, if you don't believe what I believe exactly, we can't be friends like, oh, you're
1:24:12
in this band, like, dude, there's a band called up so far, the Ricky Hoover is the singer.
1:24:17
Yeah, he's very got, he's got all the satanic lyrics and done.
1:24:22
He's like very non Christian, but man, I'm telling you, I love that guy so much.
1:24:26
And you know what, on paper, it should be like, you can't like each other.
1:24:30
You know, can't be friends.
1:24:31
How are you supposed to be selling light?
1:24:33
If you never, like, if you keep your, your light under a basket, you're the sweetest person.
1:24:38
Like, the dude is like, I think we don't even talk too much, but I think that I feel this
1:24:44
way about this guy that I don't like, he's my bro and he's just like, I probably bro,
1:24:48
I mean, he lives in Vegas and I live in Austin.
1:24:51
If I was, I honestly think if I was broke down in the middle, I'd like, dude, Ricky, can
1:24:56
you come out here, bro?
1:24:57
I'm in the panhandle of Texas.
1:24:59
I need you to come get me.
1:25:00
I think he would.
1:25:01
And I'm like, that's a good dude, man.
1:25:03
I mean, and I, and I, and I pray to be a good Christian influence on him and not be the guy
1:25:08
that goes, I, and I Christian.
1:25:12
Yeah.
1:25:13
I can't talk to you, Ricky.
1:25:14
Nah.
1:25:15
I don't do, I don't play like, just be, I don't play that game.
1:25:18
I'm not, I'm on the inside of this stuff.
1:25:21
And like, people want to play like the fantasy in their heads with like, it's our team versus
1:25:26
their team.
1:25:27
It's like, bro, that's not the, that's not the Christian way, right?
1:25:29
I get, we have boundaries and I get like, like, come on, obviously, but when it comes
1:25:36
to just like, hey, like, I'm not going to cast you out because you don't believe what
1:25:44
I believe in any politically, any of that stuff, right?
1:25:47
Like my whole thing is like, dude, I hope that one day you find the love of Jesus.
1:25:53
That's it.
1:25:54
Like I just hope it.
1:25:55
I hope that one day I'm the guy that kind of go like, Hey, Brooke, you know, or whatever,
1:26:00
like, thank you for not being that guy, right?
1:26:04
Never being that Christian guy, like that just like, I can't hang out with you because
1:26:09
you're.
1:26:10
So that's, I've always wanted to be like the me here between like, Hey man, I get where
1:26:15
you're at.
1:26:16
Totally.
1:26:17
That was a percent.
1:26:18
Like it is crazy.
1:26:19
Like the gospel, it's, it's, it's like, it's insane.
1:26:23
But it's just like to me, I'm, I, I just look on a, as a design element, right?
1:26:28
I can start from there and I'm like, dude, this is just too, I got to jump through a
1:26:33
lot of hoops to think that like, this is just some random act, right?
1:26:37
Like you, I, I personally really have to like, okay, that had to happen.
1:26:42
That had to happen.
1:26:43
That had to happen.
1:26:44
That had to happen.
1:26:45
There's a lot of mirror, mirror cools that had to take place for it to be like, Oh, we're
1:26:49
not on some, like say a life happened and we have, we're like, we're not some like alien
1:26:54
looking creatures that have no, we're just, we eat space rocks or whatever.
1:26:59
And we're just like parasites actually on like a planet, right?
1:27:03
So many people.
1:27:04
That's a, that would be awesome.
1:27:05
Like death, a lot of death that will be like, we are parasites on the planet.
1:27:08
Yeah.
1:27:09
We are killing the planet and all that stuff.
1:27:10
So, um, but actually like some beautiful people in the world, right?
1:27:15
And it's just like, we have the fruit that we just naturally get the oceans, the beautiful
1:27:21
places.
1:27:22
I'm like, very convenient that it ended up being beautiful.
1:27:25
Like the places that man doesn't touch.
1:27:27
Let's go there.
1:27:28
Beautiful.
1:27:29
Right.
1:27:30
And just so happens to be like, it's so happens to be that blue waters, warm waters, rivers,
1:27:40
lakes, like mountain tops, dude, like, Oh my gosh.
1:27:44
It's just the beauty.
1:27:45
It's just, it's insane to me.
1:27:46
And so I just, I come to that and I'm like, God is so good.
1:27:52
Like this is so cool that he allowed like us humans have our free will and we can jack
1:27:57
things up, but just the things that are untouched by man, the sky is sunset, sunrise, all that
1:28:02
stuff, man, you're just like, this is brilliant.
1:28:06
And to think that a, a painter wasn't involved in this is an architect, a designer, a mind,
1:28:14
a brain, a personal being.
1:28:17
It takes a lot for me to to get, but that's all, but it takes a, it takes a lot for me
1:28:22
to get like out of that frame of mind, but it takes a lot for people to get into that
1:28:27
frame of mind.
1:28:28
Right.
1:28:29
And I'm just like trying to be hopefully a light dude just hopefully like don't want
1:28:32
to come off as better.
1:28:33
I don't want to come off as a dude.
1:28:35
I hate what you believe.
1:28:36
That's totally 100% anyways, uh, you want to go get a, you know what I mean?
1:28:41
Like it just like, and then like, oh, he didn't, he didn't give me, he didn't give me
1:28:45
guff about it.
1:28:47
I, I talk crap.
1:28:48
And so as long as I'm doing music, dude, I just hope that I can be just, just a good
1:28:56
dude to these people, to anybody really, drug addict, never known this is like, it's life
1:29:03
is too short, bro, to compartmentalize every single person to give everyone a name tag
1:29:10
and, uh, and an identity and go, okay, I don't associate with you.
1:29:14
It's too short.
1:29:16
It's so short, man.
1:29:17
And it's just like, I just, as, as we were talking about earlier, like the, when I say
1:29:21
things now, I'm like 25 years ago, I'm like, I wasn't four 25 years ago.
1:29:28
I was actually an adult 20 years ago.
1:29:31
Well, not quite.
1:29:32
Yeah.
1:29:33
Yeah.
1:29:34
20 years ago.
1:29:35
Right.
1:29:36
Yeah.
1:29:37
So, but now I'm, I'm, I'm measuring things before I'd be like, Oh yeah, we did that two
1:29:43
years ago, three years ago.
1:29:46
Now I'm saying 20.
1:29:47
And it's just like, okay, let's get, let's get the bigger picture here.
1:29:52
And let's like really before you go bring as many people into the kingdom of the kingdom
1:30:00
as you possibly can.
1:30:02
And right now I'm going to use that with, with, with heavy music.
1:30:06
And I think a lot of people are very, are turning our, are kind of like, this is a good
1:30:12
time right now, because people I think are, are more than ever going.
1:30:16
The AI thing, the, the wars thing, the, the political atmosphere.
1:30:22
It's just like, uh, uh, it's all yucky, dude.
1:30:25
And it's just like, I need to turn to something and then right now the, the harvest, the harvest.
1:30:31
Yeah.
1:30:32
Yeah.
1:30:33
The harvest is plenty.
1:30:34
Yeah.
1:30:35
People are just ready to hear like the gospel.
1:30:39
And in a way that's like real and not milk and not sugar-coated because I think everything
1:30:45
is sugar-coated these days.
1:30:48
And so yeah, I want to hopefully, you know, I do it in a way that like is glorifying God
1:30:56
and is a way that's helping people, you know, because there is the duality of man, right?
1:31:01
I want, because I am very brandished, dude, like when, when I get in, like, when I used
1:31:06
to, when I get in like the, the arguments with my friends, right, I'm like, I don't
1:31:10
hold back.
1:31:11
I'm not like, but I also want to, now these days, I'm just kind of like, bro, it's literally,
1:31:19
you can't put your faith in, in politicians, like we said, like, you can't, they will,
1:31:25
like, especially a politician, like, you can't, dude, they will let you down.
1:31:31
They will say the things and they will yank the rug right underneath you and do a totally
1:31:37
different thing.
1:31:38
And it's just like, what the heck?
1:31:40
This is not what I, and then it's just like, and then you're just in the dumps, right?
1:31:43
And you're wasting your life on someone that's like, they're just going, they're just in
1:31:49
this state for their own gain.
1:31:51
That's all it is.
1:31:53
And it's just like, this is just one big circus.
1:31:55
And it's just like, okay.
1:31:57
Like, I noticed that there's a, this, this elite class or whatever is just out for themselves
1:32:05
and it's just greedy money grab or it's just greedy kind of power grab.
1:32:09
I need to go to like the ultimate source of power, the ultimate source of freedom, the
1:32:12
ultimate.
1:32:13
And you need to reclaim like your peace and your joy back, dude, because if you get sucked
1:32:18
into the social media and those, all this realm and even music, you know, some of this
1:32:23
music, if you get sucked into all of this, man, it can deteriorate your insides.
1:32:28
And so I just want to go, I just want to make it a bold statement to say like, I'm telling
1:32:35
you, listen to the sermon.
1:32:37
Ask me, right?
1:32:39
Ask you, like what I do to never been, never listened to anything Christian before in my
1:32:43
life.
1:32:44
Can you point me to something that will kind of help me kind of give me a better understanding
1:32:49
of what y'all believe, kind of give me this and this.
1:32:51
I will send you anything I can just like fit your personality, right?
1:32:57
And I think you would to help out anybody and a bunch of Christians probably would.
1:33:02
They're like, that's like our main goal.
1:33:04
So yeah, I know they got Jesus came with a two-edged sword and we need to cut through
1:33:10
all the crap, but there's like, there is obviously like insanity on like the, the both ends and
1:33:16
it's just like, bro, no matter what you do, no matter what you say, you're, you're, you're
1:33:21
just talking to people that don't care.
1:33:23
But there are a lot of people and you'll know right away, like, let me know, like, I never
1:33:29
was a Christian, but I'm willing to listen to something.
1:33:33
I'm willing to, and there are a lot of people like that, dude.
1:33:37
Like we like to compartmentalize like you're either on the crazy left or the crazy right,
1:33:41
but there are a ton of people that like I've just, it might, I'm like, oh, like I'm surprised.
1:33:47
I'm like, oh, you, you want to sure.
1:33:53
And so I'm just kind of more in that, in the space of wanting to just be a loving mediator,
1:34:04
man between man and Jesus, you know, you know, Jesus was the ultimate mediator, but I'm just
1:34:09
trying to get, I'm the little, the little tiny mediator trying to get to the bigger,
1:34:13
you know, the bigger picture here.
1:34:15
So I just want to be the guy that does that.
1:34:17
I hope that as I go older and it's just like, I can be that dude that just sitting or, you
1:34:22
know, that's just constantly putting in work until I die for the right reasons and for
1:34:27
the like, and no judgment, no nothing, just like, dude, you're, you're completely against
1:34:34
what everything I believe in every sort of sphere could care less, like, whoa, like tell
1:34:42
me your story.
1:34:43
Like, honestly, tell me, because I like it, you know, I like it like, dude, is it crazy?
1:34:48
The crazier, the better, if it's boring, it's kind of like, okay, like, you know, but like,
1:34:54
I like, like, dude, I like, like, even my band members, when I go to like some like crazy,
1:35:00
like, meth town, Missouri or whatever, and then the guy will come up to me.
1:35:06
And he's just on one.
1:35:08
And I'm like, they make fun of me because they're like, I could, like, I can go down
1:35:14
to their level.
1:35:16
And they're like, that's like a, like, I'm sober, but I can, like, I'm not on meth level.
1:35:23
And then just, they always videotape me like talking to dudes.
1:35:27
And it's just, I just like, man, how'd you get here?
1:35:31
What are you doing?
1:35:32
You know, like, you just, you just took a hit before you just came to the show.
1:35:37
And just rip in one and, you know, just get a laugh or whatever and just say, so what's
1:35:42
up, dude?
1:35:43
And they'll, and they'll, and most people are honest, dude.
1:35:45
Like, I've had Satanists come up to me, love your band, dude.
1:35:50
Love it.
1:35:51
I love what you do.
1:35:52
I love that you're bold.
1:35:53
I'm like, cool, man.
1:35:54
He's like, I'm going to pull out a little, like, I'm the Satanist.
1:35:57
And I'm like, okay, what else are you?
1:36:02
You know, tell me more about yourself.
1:36:04
Where you from?
1:36:05
Well, and then, you know, you have a little conversation.
1:36:08
What happened?
1:36:09
How'd you get to, how'd you get to this point?
1:36:11
We talk.
1:36:13
And I've done that with so many people, because I go to the merch table.
1:36:17
If I can, my voice will allow me, I'll go to the merch table after the show.
1:36:23
And I'll talk to kids, I'll talk to whoever for as long as that, you know, I usually get
1:36:27
to the last person and, you know, it takes, you know, an hour or two after the show.
1:36:32
Well, that's the time, sometimes it's a little show, then it's, it's a little weird, but
1:36:37
it's not for a long time.
1:36:39
And it really give them a hug, even if it's something so simple, even if it's just something
1:36:43
they wanted to tell me, right?
1:36:45
Like, you know, when you actually get to tell the person, like how you've said things
1:36:49
about people that you've met, you've talked and you've got to tell them the thing, right?
1:36:55
Even if it's like, I loved your band since I was 12.
1:36:57
And it's just like, it feels good to get that out.
1:37:00
Like, like I'm giving them flowers, like it's, you're, you're giving like a little bit of
1:37:04
a blessing, right?
1:37:05
Like, keep going.
1:37:06
It's like saying, keep going, dude.
1:37:07
I loved you.
1:37:08
Keep going.
1:37:09
Keep doing what you do.
1:37:10
And you've made an impact in my life.
1:37:11
You're probably making an impact in more people's lives.
1:37:14
And it's just cool.
1:37:15
It's so cool.
1:37:16
And I hope that like, I don't just become like this, like this, I just don't want to become
1:37:22
like a bidder.
1:37:23
I don't want to like, you know how many there's like rock stars, right?
1:37:26
I'm not saying I'm a rock star, but I'm saying like the attitude of a rock, even people that
1:37:30
have like no following or anything of any sort.
1:37:33
I have these rock star personalities and, and I was like, I never want, I always want
1:37:38
to try to come off as just a genuine dude that wants to, you know, do good for my brothers
1:37:48
and sisters, you know, and if, you know, there, I mean, there's so many basic things
1:37:52
that like I tell people about Jesus, basic dude, where I'm like, I feel so cheesy for
1:37:56
saying this.
1:37:57
And they're like.
1:37:58
Mind blowing.
1:37:59
And I'm like, Oh, I forget you're not even in this world.
1:38:04
You're not even in my, if I say like the most basic thing, even like, dude, Jesus forgive
1:38:09
your sins, man.
1:38:11
You know, they're like, no, I'm imperfect.
1:38:15
Jesus only wants perfect people.
1:38:17
Like that's their thought.
1:38:18
Jesus wants perfect people.
1:38:19
I'm like, you don't know who you're talking to because if you did, you'd be like, you
1:38:26
think you're, you know, you'd be judging me.
1:38:29
You'd be like, do you think you're going to heaven, bro?
1:38:31
You know, I'm like, dude, without Jesus, I wouldn't, you know what I mean?
1:38:36
Like, if I, if I'm my own savior, and if you want to be your own savior, it just, it,
1:38:44
it's rough.
1:38:45
It's a rough life.
1:38:46
So anyways, that's a whole lot of stuff there, dude, but that's just, that's just my heart
1:38:52
these days, 39 years old, which is like, I don't want to be cool.
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I don't want to be no, I don't want to be like all day.
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I don't want, you know, but I also want to get the word out.
1:39:05
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1:39:08
Um, but I'm pretty to myself, pretty introverted guy, but I have some priorities in my life.
1:39:17
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1:41:44
So several things that you were talking about there.
1:41:48
You kind of have a servants mindset, but it's not how people typically think of servants
1:41:52
because typically we think of servant as a person that is quietly taking care of the
1:41:56
coffee station at church or, you know, doing the taking out the garbage, you know, at the
1:42:00
church or they're the one going to the old folks home and not telling anybody.
1:42:04
But you've, you've had some interesting opportunities to serve some of the people in these bands
1:42:10
that you've been on tour with.
1:42:12
And again, these are people, if you look at their lyrics or look at their presentation,
1:42:16
very dark, demonic, like horrible.
1:42:18
And so it was funny last night because I remember because I was like, wait a minute, like,
1:42:22
have I ever seen y'all live because I felt like I missed a bunch of y'all's tours just
1:42:26
because of where I was.
1:42:27
But I was in Tulsa.
1:42:28
I don't know what year this would have been, but y'all were touring with impending doom.
1:42:32
So I think impending doom was the headliner or if it wasn't them, you thought it may have
1:42:37
been bleeding through your thing.
1:42:38
No, you're taking your thing.
1:42:39
Oh, who did I say?
1:42:40
You said an impending doom.
1:42:41
Okay.
1:42:42
That's your band.
1:42:43
Duh, of course, impending doom.
1:42:44
Your band was all into her with a case of strain.
1:42:45
I was trying to remember Vincent's name and then I said y'all's band name.
1:42:49
And so either a case of strain was a headliner, but we maybe it was bleeding through.
1:42:53
I don't know.
1:42:54
I think it was bleeding through.
1:42:55
Okay.
1:42:56
It was something like that.
1:42:57
I'm mixing up some, some shows that were up there.
1:42:59
And I think this is down the street from Kane's ballroom.
1:43:01
It was at a smaller, a smaller venue or something like that up until anyway.
1:43:05
So I'm so pumped for you guys and y'all have this bus string set and then I'm super pumped
1:43:12
for a case of strain because this was like, right, this may have been the dead walk or
1:43:16
continent.
1:43:17
I can't remember what, what album this would have been.
1:43:19
But then basically Vincent gets up on stage and he can't even talk, but you filled in
1:43:26
for an acacia strain set.
1:43:28
And so here you are as a Christian, right?
1:43:30
And if you look at the impending doom lyrics, the, the lyrics are a little difficult and
1:43:35
all that and acacia strain lyrics are on a different level, very dark, very, they got
1:43:41
some mean stuff.
1:43:42
They got some really, really angry evil stuff.
1:43:45
And yet you came up and you did most of the vocals.
1:43:49
Now when there were things like, you know, when they said Jesus F in Christ, you know,
1:43:54
bad words, you know, things that would colloquially be considered bad words, you would just hold
1:43:58
the mic down and then you would get back into the song.
1:44:01
But I never heard the story behind how that even happened, but you told to me last night.
1:44:05
So I feel like we got a, we got to bring it to the audience because it was like, it was
1:44:08
so random.
1:44:09
They have you do their entire set and I'm like, how did it even know those songs?
1:44:13
But it's a pretty cool.
1:44:14
Well, I mean, yeah, we're on tour with them and then at about nine a.m.
1:44:21
I'm sleeping in the, in the van and I get a text from Vincent saying, how many acacia
1:44:27
strain songs do you know?
1:44:30
And I'm like, very leading question.
1:44:31
Yeah.
1:44:32
And I'm like, you know, the bad parts of six songs, you know, you know, the things that,
1:44:37
you know, the parts I know that most people know, right?
1:44:41
And I think he said, I think it was laryngitis.
1:44:45
I think I don't know.
1:44:47
He couldn't do anything.
1:44:48
So he's like, I need you to sing these songs.
1:44:51
And I'm like, he's just so he's good, dude.
1:44:54
Like he's good.
1:44:55
Like me and I'm like, you know, and I'm, I'm obviously hesitant with it because I'm like,
1:45:01
right?
1:45:02
You know, it's, it's not even like the lyrical content because I can obviously put the mic
1:45:06
down on things.
1:45:07
I'm like, but it was just like, dude, like you're a very respect in a very respected band.
1:45:13
And I'm just like me.
1:45:15
And so anyways, he was like, you know, you don't get paid if you don't play.
1:45:20
So they obviously need to get the, the, their guarantees.
1:45:23
And I don't know how many shows we'd, I did, um, you know, did the best I could.
1:45:30
And uh, but I was telling the guitar player DL, which is like at the time, if you know
1:45:35
DL and you know, his strain, you know, Vincent, you know, DL, right?
1:45:39
And he's the mean looking guitar player.
1:45:41
Paul, then you have the grill, uh, for a while.
1:45:44
I think you're on the chain.
1:45:45
Yeah.
1:45:46
Yeah.
1:45:47
Yeah.
1:45:48
He's like that guy, right?
1:45:49
Yeah.
1:45:50
The bandana.
1:45:51
And this was a super nice guy.
1:45:52
Uh, and I was like, DL, I think we need to like help, you know, help me help you.
1:45:58
Let's do like six songs.
1:45:59
And he's like, don't be a wuss.
1:46:02
We're doing 12.
1:46:03
I don't know.
1:46:04
I was like, dude, I really don't and, uh, eventually, and then we, we did it.
1:46:12
But the thing with it, with like, um, the thing with a case is they're so fun.
1:46:19
Like they're heavy, right?
1:46:20
And they're bouncy and they're heavy.
1:46:22
Like they're not like there's not a lot of filler in a case of strange song.
1:46:26
So like even the things that don't know, and it's probably throwing them off because I
1:46:30
was just kind of throwing stuff in there, but it was just like it's like the people were
1:46:36
seeming to have fun.
1:46:37
Yeah.
1:46:38
You know what I mean?
1:46:39
Um, and, uh, I was just kind of, and then it was just funny because the parts that I actually
1:46:44
like, oh, I could hit this part.
1:46:45
I'm like, but it's like the worst lyric, right?
1:46:49
Yeah.
1:46:50
And, um, but, uh, I was just happy to, to help them.
1:46:54
And it was, it was, it was a fun experience.
1:46:58
I think it happened again in, uh, in Europe.
1:47:03
Yeah.
1:47:04
I mean, a bunch of runs with them.
1:47:06
We did a bunch of runs with them, but I think, I think Phil from chapel, cause they, chapel
1:47:10
was headlining.
1:47:11
And I think Phil from chapel stepped in, rushed, but, um, but it was just fun.
1:47:20
To help.
1:47:21
And they're, they're my friends.
1:47:22
Super cool.
1:47:23
Dude.
1:47:24
I mean, that, that there, it's a different band besides Vincent now, but back then, those
1:47:28
were all my buddies.
1:47:29
Dude, they were super cool dudes.
1:47:32
So I was happy to help, but it was just a, it was just so funny that it was that band.
1:47:36
Well, it's like whenever you have all the stars aligned for these random cameo appearances
1:47:41
of other people in established bands, we were talking about last night, I forget what the
1:47:44
circumstances were, but like, I forget where the show even was, but Metallica was doing
1:47:49
an arena show and Lars was like really sick or had to go to the hospital or something
1:47:54
like that.
1:47:55
And then Jordi, the, the drummer from Slipknot came in and did the Metallica set.
1:48:02
And cause, I mean, this is like day of, and I don't even know, it was probably one of
1:48:07
those random things where depending upon met, where Metallica was, they had a different big
1:48:11
headliner.
1:48:12
And I mean, there's not very many bands that can play after Slipknot.
1:48:16
That's how big slipknot is.
1:48:18
But obviously Metallica is, is like the tippy top of the metal hierarchy.
1:48:24
But like hearing Metallica with Jordan's, cause I think it's his kid, I don't think he played
1:48:30
Lars's kid.
1:48:31
This would have been his slipknot kid.
1:48:32
The video that I'm seeing in my head, yeah, he had a lot of cymbals and a lot of that.
1:48:36
Right.
1:48:37
And then Lars, and Lars is like, his high hats up in his toms are like, like right in his
1:48:40
lap almost.
1:48:42
And so I'm pretty sure that it was Jordan's, I think I'm pretty sure it was his set.
1:48:47
But like hearing master of puppets and ride the lightning and all those things with him
1:48:52
and the drums.
1:48:53
And it's perfect form.
1:48:54
Oh my gosh.
1:48:55
Dude.
1:48:56
Yeah.
1:48:57
No, I was nowhere near that perfect.
1:48:58
But like, yeah, I was just there to help, but do the Joey Jordan's in with yeah.
1:49:05
Yeah.
1:49:06
Yeah.
1:49:07
Yeah.
1:49:08
Yeah.
1:49:09
Yeah.
1:49:10
Yeah.
1:49:11
Yeah.
1:49:12
He, I mean, it's just so crazy what drums do to a band, dude.
1:49:13
I mean, it just.
1:49:14
Why?
1:49:15
It was the backbone of the band.
1:49:16
Or the drummer for August Burns Red is a buddy of mine.
1:49:20
I asked him.
1:49:21
I think the last time I came on the show, I was like, if there's one band.
1:49:25
So let's say August Burns Red just didn't exist anymore.
1:49:28
But there's one band that if you got the call, and I think I told him it could be any band
1:49:31
from history.
1:49:32
I forget how I like set it up.
1:49:34
And it was like where you could be the drummer, whether it's for a night or a tour, like you're
1:49:38
there a new drummer.
1:49:39
And he straight up said Metallica and I'm like, dude, did you really?
1:49:42
He said Metallica.
1:49:43
I thought to myself, I'm like, if Matt Griner was the drummer for Metallica, like if Lars
1:49:48
Ulrich just retired or, you know, he just done the music or whatever, like, can you imagine
1:49:53
those songs with Matt Griner's drumming?
1:49:56
The faster stuff would be awesome.
1:49:58
Yeah.
1:49:59
I think I think he can be simply because on those simple parts of Metallica, I think they
1:50:04
hit hard on it.
1:50:05
I just wouldn't want Griner to just.
1:50:07
He's not going to blast beat a simple part.
1:50:08
He's not going to blast beat unforgiven, but like, which would be funny just to hear.
1:50:13
But like, I was telling you last night, so August Burns Red did a cover of Chop Suey
1:50:16
by System of a Down.
1:50:17
And so if you go and listen to that song, the musicianship isn't like out of this world,
1:50:22
like in a sense, the drums aren't like insanely technical or anything like that.
1:50:26
The song just fits.
1:50:27
It's just kind of like perfect.
1:50:29
Like the entire band kind of came together and made this perfect song for their sound.
1:50:33
But when you listen to the August Burns Red cover, the, because that's, again, that's
1:50:37
not a super fast, super technical drumming song, but the stuff that he did on their cover
1:50:42
of it wasn't sane.
1:50:43
I'm sure it's amazing.
1:50:44
And so like, and if you ever saw Matt Griner's thing that he did with Zilgen, he did like
1:50:48
this Zilgen thing on YouTube or whatever, had some super jazzy elements.
1:50:52
It wasn't just like super fast.
1:50:54
Well, that's why I'm surprised he said, that's why I was surprised he said Metallica because
1:50:57
I'm like, I don't, I don't, where would you put him?
1:51:00
Like where else?
1:51:01
I just don't know.
1:51:02
I just can't see Griner listening to, I don't even think Griner listens to metal.
1:51:06
He does.
1:51:07
He does.
1:51:08
He, he personifies angry music for happy people because that dude is just like a farmer and
1:51:12
family man.
1:51:13
He's got like a second kid now.
1:51:14
But like, he listens to metal.
1:51:15
Yeah.
1:51:16
He loves it.
1:51:17
Like, I mean, obviously, how could you write what he writes?
1:51:19
Because that band writes, like they're writing, he is just so in his own world that like he's
1:51:26
just kind of like not, and it just seems like he's not influenced by maybe drummers for
1:51:30
sure.
1:51:31
But I just can't see like bands that he would be influenced by.
1:51:35
He's legit.
1:51:36
He's into it.
1:51:37
Cause that's part of the thing is like, if you're going to be a drummer and a metal core band,
1:51:41
he's not very many genres you can listen to to get like, you're not going to listen
1:51:44
to Alice and chains to get, you know, your, no, I don't see your influence or see him
1:51:49
listen.
1:51:50
Wow.
1:51:51
It's so weird.
1:51:52
Like we could just ask him.
1:51:53
I could call him right now and we'll see like, Hey, kind of what bands you listen to, but
1:51:55
he probably wouldn't answer.
1:51:56
So that would just make a big hole in the show.
1:51:58
But like, yeah, I just over it.
1:51:59
Yeah.
1:52:00
Yeah.
1:52:01
But there are people that are like that though.
1:52:02
Like, Oh, I don't listen to any of that.
1:52:03
And but how are you so good?
1:52:05
And it's just like, like who?
1:52:07
Um, no, I've, I've seen that with a lot of people that don't listen to metal that are
1:52:13
in metal bands that are in metal bands.
1:52:15
Yeah.
1:52:16
Yeah.
1:52:17
Most metal bands don't like they'll have their, their spots, but they, they're, they're
1:52:21
little pockets of it, but it's mostly like other things for sure.
1:52:25
It'd be hard to get like, I would figure it'd be hard to write that music if you're not
1:52:31
like, because you're not in like this thing is, is like, yeah, you want the overall feel
1:52:36
of like, okay, I really liked the sound of, you know, the feeling of like a cannibal corpse
1:52:42
is very like dark and morose and like fast.
1:52:44
And then like, you kind of listen to those records, but then you just kind of go and do
1:52:48
your, you know, like, man, I'm, I'm drawing blanks right now, but well, shoot, I just
1:52:54
said the wrong name for the slipknot drummer and I'm, oh, that people are going to love
1:52:57
that in the comments section.
1:52:58
Uh, you know, whenever you switch up stuff, I call them Jordi.
1:53:00
It's like, what is that name?
1:53:02
Oh, I've had, I've said some things into this specific microphone that I'm like, oop,
1:53:06
I can't get that one back.
1:53:07
And we're not going to edit it out either.
1:53:09
No, no, no, that's perfect.
1:53:10
It's fine.
1:53:11
It's, dude, no one can be a 100 all, you know, 100% of the time.
1:53:15
Sure.
1:53:16
So there's, that's people's names, right?
1:53:17
But, um, yeah, no, I'm drawing blanks on it, but like metal guys that watch this, they'll
1:53:22
be like, yeah, like, yeah, I do.
1:53:26
But then I listen to the, there's like a, there's like a very, like people think I just listened
1:53:30
to nothing but metal and I'm like, dude, I listened to the country, like, all right.
1:53:33
So speaking of which, we should probably get into the stuff where you and I disagree, like
1:53:37
on the bands or whatever.
1:53:38
And so maybe the best way to do that is because I listened to country too, but I had a long
1:53:43
stretch where I hated country because I thought radio country was the only country there was.
1:53:47
And so now like as an adult, like as a good American, as a good Oklahoma and I'm going
1:53:51
back and listening to it.
1:53:52
So if you had to give me your country music, Mount Rushmore, okay.
1:53:58
So for artists or country acts, like who are we going with?
1:54:03
And as you're saying that, I probably need the like, I'm going to get myself a patent
1:54:06
pin so I can work on my own list.
1:54:07
But what's your, what's your, I mean, I love cash as whole.
1:54:13
I love cash as whole story, right?
1:54:15
I love.
1:54:16
Good.
1:54:17
Who's a buddy of mine in the country music?
1:54:18
He doesn't even like Johnny Casho.
1:54:19
Shame on you, Drew Parker.
1:54:20
If you're out here listening to this, I don't even know how you can be in country music
1:54:23
and not like Johnny Cash.
1:54:24
And that's my problem with these people is like, people don't even consider him country
1:54:27
because that's what he's, he's on the folk side and all that.
1:54:30
But like he was almost like pre country and Western, but like he's, he's, he's in the
1:54:34
genre.
1:54:35
Johnny Cash?
1:54:36
I know.
1:54:37
I know.
1:54:38
Cause there are people that don't know where to put him genre wise, right?
1:54:40
Cause we've talked about how our genres are, but you and I are on the same page.
1:54:42
Okay.
1:54:43
Don't be looking on my.
1:54:44
Okay.
1:54:45
I got cash.
1:54:46
I got whalen.
1:54:47
Okay.
1:54:48
Whalen.
1:54:49
Um, hang junior.
1:54:52
And then I'm going to get someone new or ish Florida Georgia line.
1:54:59
Did I nail it?
1:55:02
Did I nail it?
1:55:05
Oh my gosh, I think it'd be your honorable mental.
1:55:11
Probably culture.
1:55:12
Okay.
1:55:13
Culture wall.
1:55:14
All right.
1:55:15
Shout out dude.
1:55:16
Shout out.
1:55:17
Yeah.
1:55:18
Probably culture, bro.
1:55:19
I'm struggling with my last one here.
1:55:21
Um, I'll just do it on the fly.
1:55:22
Okay.
1:55:23
So I got Johnny Cash, um, my most underrated country music artist of all time.
1:55:29
I got to say Ventskill, um, man, cause it feels like it's a deep cut, but it shouldn't
1:55:35
be cause he's like a legend, but at the same time, like he, it was, ah, gosh, I'm trying
1:55:44
to do the chorus on it was like he doesn't do like the rain and there's a, is there a
1:55:49
rain song that he does?
1:55:50
Well, I mean, Garth Brooks got a rain song, Jackson's got a rain song.
1:55:53
So his rain, it'll like the rain I've been calling for you.
1:55:58
Who sings that one?
1:55:59
I don't know.
1:56:00
That doesn't sound familiar.
1:56:01
Oh, but okay.
1:56:02
Okay.
1:56:03
Okay.
1:56:04
Ventskill.
1:56:05
Okay.
1:56:06
Sorry.
1:56:07
Yeah.
1:56:08
So Johnny Cash Ventskill, my new one, because I think when he's all said and done, his catalog
1:56:12
is going to be so preposterous and his level of talent is so unbelievable.
1:56:16
First Stapleton, I mean, he's the owner of the best national anthem in the history of
1:56:21
national anthems.
1:56:22
That's true.
1:56:23
When he did the Super Bowl national anthem and some of his stuff, when he goes kind of
1:56:26
into the 70s, kind of like disco stuff, like he did something with Miranda Lambert here
1:56:30
recently, I wasn't a huge fan of that.
1:56:32
But when he does kind of like the outlaw, more style, more dingy, more grimy, and his
1:56:38
voice is just preposterous, I just don't think it's cattle.
1:56:41
He doesn't have a big enough catalog.
1:56:42
How many records is this guy?
1:56:44
That's what I said.
1:56:45
I said what time he's said and done.
1:56:46
I think he's going to be.
1:56:47
Bro, I think he's done.
1:56:48
Are you not done?
1:56:49
Yeah, bro.
1:56:50
I saw it.
1:56:51
I saw Paul.
1:56:52
I guess where he was like, I'm going to he's thinking about hanging it up.
1:56:55
No, I don't.
1:56:56
Okay.
1:56:57
Well, believe it with I see it, but I'm keeping them on the list.
1:56:58
Okay.
1:56:59
This last one.
1:57:00
That's where it gets us with.
1:57:02
So, I mean, I got I'm thinking Alan Jackson.
1:57:05
I'm thinking Brooks and done.
1:57:06
Yeah.
1:57:07
Jacks on my list.
1:57:08
Yeah.
1:57:09
Toby Keith Garth Brooks.
1:57:10
Everyone says George Strait.
1:57:11
I want to go Toby Keith.
1:57:12
Yeah.
1:57:13
Hey, shut your stupid whore mouth.
1:57:14
Drew his town on your way to get here.
1:57:17
What is wrong with you?
1:57:18
Show some respect.
1:57:19
Okay.
1:57:20
Repent.
1:57:21
Repent.
1:57:22
Take it back.
1:57:23
I forgot what country I've got.
1:57:24
Lee, you want to talk about an entire state being sad at the same time?
1:57:27
Yeah, dude, I'm going to start hitting the table.
1:57:29
No, seriously, when he died, it was like the whole state was sad.
1:57:33
No, I get it.
1:57:34
Okay.
1:57:35
But I'm just talking Rushmore.
1:57:36
Toby Keith is on that.
1:57:37
I just said I'm considering I'm throwing some out there that are part of consideration.
1:57:43
I like that you're in the 90s because I'm in 90s.
1:57:44
Yeah.
1:57:45
I am in 90s.
1:57:46
I got cash, which is old.
1:57:47
I got Chris Hamilton.
1:57:48
That's new.
1:57:49
I got Vince Gill, who bridged some some gaps, you know, for modern guys like Cody Johnson
1:57:54
is just incredible.
1:57:55
I think that you guys are big.
1:57:57
Cody guys.
1:57:58
Dude, he where you want to talk about guys that can just flat out sing.
1:58:02
Yeah.
1:58:03
Cody's great.
1:58:04
Dude has some some pipes on him.
1:58:05
You know what?
1:58:06
I'm going to go.
1:58:07
I'm going to go.
1:58:08
But you know what?
1:58:09
We haven't mentioned any.
1:58:10
Okay.
1:58:11
You know what?
1:58:12
You know what?
1:58:13
On the bluegrass side, but we haven't given a lady their love yet.
1:58:16
And so you might think I'm going to say Reba.
1:58:17
No, no, I know what you're going to say.
1:58:19
Don't tell me.
1:58:20
It's the girl that does it with them.
1:58:21
It's the girl that does whiskey lullaby.
1:58:24
Allison Krauss.
1:58:25
Allison Krauss.
1:58:26
She is my favorite female vocalist of all time.
1:58:29
But now she is more on the bluegrass side.
1:58:31
She did some cool stuff with Robert Plant whenever she did their thing.
1:58:35
Yeah.
1:58:36
So that's going to be my Mount Rushmore.
1:58:37
Wow.
1:58:38
So which one don't my I guess you hate Chris Stapleton the most on my Mount Rushmore.
1:58:41
Yeah.
1:58:42
I just don't think yeah.
1:58:43
I can't argue.
1:58:44
It's great.
1:58:45
But I just don't think on a rushmore.
1:58:46
I think you need to go.
1:58:47
There needs to be.
1:58:48
I think the Jackson.
1:58:49
Yeah.
1:58:50
So I'm yeah.
1:58:51
Allen Jackson for sure.
1:58:52
Yeah.
1:58:53
Stapleton for me is great, but I just don't think his catalog is there and you're a big
1:58:58
lady.
1:58:59
A fan too, right?
1:59:00
You love you love lady.
1:59:01
No chicks.
1:59:02
No chicks.
1:59:03
Dixie chicks.
1:59:04
No, they're just the chicks.
1:59:05
Yeah.
1:59:06
The chicks.
1:59:07
The word Dixie apparently is problematic.
1:59:08
Hey, dude.
1:59:09
I got my I got my guilty pleasures.
1:59:10
I love some Maddie and Tay.
1:59:12
I love some lady Antebellum.
1:59:13
Oh, you don't know Maddie and Tay.
1:59:15
You blow your mind on your drive back to Texas there kid.
1:59:17
Okay.
1:59:18
Maddie and Tay.
1:59:19
All right.
1:59:20
So, okay.
1:59:21
So that's the country thing with let's do some more Mount Rushmore's.
1:59:22
Okay.
1:59:23
Outlog dirty country.
1:59:24
So I've got culture through in there because he's young.
1:59:27
He's a little bit.
1:59:28
I was trying to throw us something new.
1:59:30
Yeah.
1:59:31
Culture wall.
1:59:32
Who are some other on the, I mean, turnpike troubadours.
1:59:34
Turnpike.
1:59:35
Dude.
1:59:36
Turnpike's amazing.
1:59:37
Let me see.
1:59:38
Because I got kind of more of a like an outlaw.
1:59:39
Yeah.
1:59:40
So Tyler Childers before we started doing weird stuff.
1:59:43
Yeah.
1:59:44
Who else we got?
1:59:45
You know, Charlie Crockett, Sterling Simpson, his first record.
1:59:51
Bro, did you ever get into the Civil Wars?
1:59:53
Oh, I've heard of them.
1:59:54
Okay.
1:59:55
So they were big a while back, right?
1:59:57
Yeah.
1:59:58
So they only did two albums and then they broke up apparently hate each other or whatever,
2:00:01
but like it's so melancholy.
2:00:03
Yeah.
2:00:04
That's what it is.
2:00:05
I know what it is.
2:00:06
Super.
2:00:07
Yeah.
2:00:08
Love it.
2:00:09
I saw them.
2:00:10
Yeah.
2:00:11
They are pretty cool.
2:00:12
Red clay strays.
2:00:13
They're amazing.
2:00:14
Yeah.
2:00:15
They're, they're crushing it right now.
2:00:16
Billy Strings, Dylan Gossett.
2:00:17
He's awesome.
2:00:18
Uh, okay.
2:00:19
I think we gave it a.
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Yeah.
2:00:21
Yeah.
2:00:22
Yeah.
2:00:23
Yeah.
2:00:24
Yeah.
2:00:25
Yeah.
2:00:26
Yeah.
2:00:27
Yeah.
2:00:28
Yeah.
2:00:29
I'll play it for you later.
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We don't want to trip all the other stuff.
2:00:31
Okay.
2:00:32
Let's do another.
2:00:33
Let's do a Christian metal.
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Mount Rushmore.
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Yeah.
2:00:36
You can put your own band on there.
2:00:37
No, I'm not.
2:00:38
I'm not.
2:00:39
I'm not a Christian metal.
2:00:40
And here's the problem.
2:00:41
Yeah.
2:00:42
I kind of have to be actual Christians.
2:00:43
That's the problem is most of the bands that I would put on here.
2:00:45
The guys were never Christians.
2:00:46
They were just on Christian labels.
2:00:48
Okay.
2:00:49
I can't.
2:00:50
But you can do whatever you want.
2:00:51
Okay.
2:00:52
I don't know.
2:00:53
I don't know every member of every band of everything, but I'm going to throw my obviously,
2:00:55
but mine are, mine are two of those eight people.
2:00:57
You're going to say holy name is sleeping giant.
2:01:00
Okay.
2:01:01
So there's a person.
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Holy name.
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Sleeping giant.
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Shout out to Tommy against traffic.
2:01:05
All right.
2:01:06
Yeah.
2:01:07
Yeah.
2:01:08
And I'm going to go.
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Dude, I'm going to go living sacrifice, obviously.
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Yeah.
2:01:13
And then I'm going to go for my last one, dude, who am I going with on my last one?
2:01:25
Yeah.
2:01:26
And I'm over here looking.
2:01:27
I can only, I'm trying to only put people that are legitimately Christians.
2:01:29
And so that's what makes it hard because I'm thinking Xeo, not legitimately Christian.
2:01:34
And I'm going to say, you know, you know, I'm going to go, you know, I'm going to go
2:01:43
living sacrifice the sleeping job.
2:01:49
Oh.
2:01:50
Advent.
2:01:51
Okay.
2:01:52
Advent.
2:01:53
Dude.
2:01:54
Yeah.
2:01:55
For sure.
2:01:56
All right.
2:01:57
I'm going to go impending doom.
2:01:58
Oh.
2:01:59
Dear welcome.
2:02:00
Yeah.
2:02:01
Just because you're safe here.
2:02:02
Yeah.
2:02:03
Yeah.
2:02:04
Living sacrifice.
2:02:05
Because living sacrifice was the reborn album was like the first Christian metal album that
2:02:09
I listened to.
2:02:10
There's the sepul, the sepul Torah of Christian, you know, dude, give me four today.
2:02:15
Okay.
2:02:16
So shout out to Maddie Montgomery.
2:02:17
Yeah.
2:02:18
And then again, I'm struggling for the last one, the fourth one, because I'm, you know,
2:02:21
I'll just put a holy name.
2:02:22
Yeah.
2:02:23
I was going to say the intro to your freaking, they're the intro here.
2:02:25
You know why I hesitated on a holy name?
2:02:27
Because I'm there.
2:02:28
Catalog.
2:02:29
No, it was just catalog because it's like they've got the one LP.
2:02:32
They've got some live stuff.
2:02:33
They've got, you know, some EPs, but it's kind of like you need, you need three, four
2:02:39
albums that like crush it, like in a row.
2:02:41
Like we talked about last night with the impact, bro.
2:02:44
The impact and the realness and the uniqueness of them, for sure.
2:02:48
Yes, man.
2:02:49
Yeah.
2:02:50
One more amount, Mount Rushmore metal, just overall metal, Mount Rushmore.
2:02:56
And so I think this is where we're really going to, we're really going to diverge.
2:02:59
So don't be.
2:03:00
We're not doing new metal, right?
2:03:02
This is like metal.
2:03:03
Yeah.
2:03:04
Well, so let me be more specific.
2:03:05
I'm just going to go all new.
2:03:06
So, so if it's metal, it can be metal, hardcore, metal core, new metal, like death metal.
2:03:13
So metal is a category, not rock as a category because that's, that's almost too broad thrash.
2:03:19
It could be, it could be any of the genres of methods.
2:03:22
So, so basically black Sabbath down because black Sabbath, basically invented metal, right?
2:03:26
Or just just metal of any kind.
2:03:29
That's where they kind of, you know, broke off from just the rock genre or classic rock
2:03:33
genre.
2:03:34
Oh boy.
2:03:35
So the, yeah, this is where we're going to probably make some people mad.
2:03:37
All right.
2:03:38
So.
2:03:39
Okay.
2:03:40
We're going to go corn number one for me.
2:03:41
Okay.
2:03:42
I'm going to actually write yours down.
2:03:43
Okay.
2:03:44
Corn's one.
2:03:45
Okay.
2:03:46
Um, we're going to talk about impact on me.
2:03:49
Okay.
2:03:50
See, see, I love making people uncomfortable.
2:03:53
This is good.
2:03:54
You only get four.
2:03:55
Yeah.
2:03:56
Maybe some honorable mentions.
2:03:57
Yeah.
2:03:58
This is.
2:03:59
I'm cheating.
2:04:00
This is insane.
2:04:01
Okay.
2:04:02
This is absolutely insane.
2:04:03
Dude.
2:04:04
Deal with it, son.
2:04:06
Okay.
2:04:07
We're going to go Pantera.
2:04:08
Okay.
2:04:09
All right.
2:04:10
Um, dude, we're going to go.
2:04:16
We're going to go Meshogo.
2:04:18
Dude, I bleed just immediately came to my brain.
2:04:23
And, um, and, uh, and cannibal, I mean, okay, I mean, if I'm given, if I'm given four,
2:04:38
there it is.
2:04:39
I thought you were going to say some, like, I thought you're going to go black Sabbath,
2:04:43
try to do something like super classic.
2:04:45
Yeah.
2:04:46
No, I want, if anything, I wanted to do something new because I hate the old guys that just
2:04:50
literally like, what's your favorite punk band?
2:04:53
And then it's like something from the 70s, like the, all the like, yeah, it's all the
2:04:57
cliché.
2:04:58
Yeah.
2:04:59
Yeah.
2:05:00
So.
2:05:01
All right.
2:05:02
Number one's gotta be Metallica shame on you for not having Metallica in your top four.
2:05:07
I mean, and shout out to me for getting tickets to go see him at sphere.
2:05:11
How is that?
2:05:12
Not?
2:05:13
How is Metallica in the knock?
2:05:14
I don't know.
2:05:15
I let Zeppelin, one of the most overrated bands of all time.
2:05:18
Everyone's going to hate on you for saying, you know, what else sucks?
2:05:20
Lower the rings.
2:05:21
The Beatles, YouTube.
2:05:22
The first two father movies were four and a half hours too long.
2:05:27
Yeah.
2:05:28
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
2:05:29
Yeah.
2:05:30
I'm going there.
2:05:31
I don't care about the rest of you.
2:05:32
You just said, do you say he's got the godfathers?
2:05:33
I'm going to tell you this right now.
2:05:34
The first two?
2:05:35
Yeah.
2:05:36
First two.
2:05:37
Okay.
2:05:38
Are you saying you like?
2:05:39
Are you interested in my answer?
2:05:40
Because I'd love to give it to you, bro.
2:05:41
Not really.
2:05:42
I'll explain it slowly for the people in the back.
2:05:43
Not really.
2:05:44
So the first time I watched Godfather part one and part two, I was 18 years old and in
2:05:46
college.
2:05:47
And it was like, gosh, are these ever going to end?
2:05:49
It's so long, like it's just taken forever, like someone get to the point.
2:05:53
But then last year, just you're fine.
2:05:55
A couple of years ago, I'm like, okay, maybe I watched them.
2:05:58
I was too young.
2:05:59
Right.
2:06:00
I had too much testosterone going on at the time, I didn't have enough to easily.
2:06:04
So I watched them both again, back to back.
2:06:06
Yeah.
2:06:07
I was literally sitting there like, huh, okay.
2:06:11
So the point, I guess, of the first two godfathers is if, you know, if you live long
2:06:16
enough, you eventually become the villain, right?
2:06:18
Yeah.
2:06:19
Because you have the son of Corleone that becomes the villain.
2:06:23
You know how long it took Christopher Nolan to basically explain that?
2:06:26
It was a single line in the dark night when it was the two face when he's sitting there
2:06:30
in the hospital or whatever.
2:06:31
And I'm like, these guys spent six hours basically trying to say the exact same thing.
2:06:36
It was like, can we please get to the point?
2:06:38
But that's not nearly as egregious.
2:06:39
That's not bothered.
2:06:40
Yeah.
2:06:41
Yeah.
2:06:42
It's just kind of the lore of it, bro.
2:06:44
Right.
2:06:45
I mean, if I was a teenager in the 70s, I would feel differently.
2:06:48
I mean, but I'm in freakin' California tight.
2:06:51
Like what that?
2:06:52
I don't understand the whole lore of like the inside.
2:06:54
It's fine.
2:06:55
Yeah.
2:06:56
It's fine.
2:06:57
That underground criminal.
2:06:58
I mean, it's not nearly as bad as the lore of the rings.
2:06:59
I mean, so it's like, I would watch the godfathers probably 10 more times before I'd watch the
2:07:03
lore of the rings again.
2:07:04
I've never seen the lore of the rings.
2:07:05
Don't wear it.
2:07:06
Don't, don't, don't matter.
2:07:07
I will save you 10 hours of your life because that's, that's the reason I don't watch the
2:07:10
rings or I never watch Harry, but I don't have that is that is like I'll throw in some,
2:07:15
I'll throw in some time for some movies, but I'm definitely not throwing in 18 hours for
2:07:19
well, I can, I can save you.
2:07:21
I can give you a summary because somebody made it.
2:07:23
You know, you have these two little the their boyfriends, but they're little like elf people
2:07:29
or they're not elves.
2:07:30
They're what are they?
2:07:31
They're hobbits.
2:07:32
Yeah.
2:07:33
So they got dirty feet and hairy feet or whatever.
2:07:34
And so they, they spend apparently 74 hours trying to get to this mountain to throw this
2:07:40
ring in there.
2:07:41
Right?
2:07:42
The guy ends up throwing it in their own accident.
2:07:43
And then they ride out of there on these magic eagles, which leads to the question, why did
2:07:47
they just fly the damn eagles to the magic mountain at the beginning and just chuck that
2:07:51
thing in there.
2:07:52
And then all the dorks in the comments section are like, no man, it had to be this and that
2:07:55
and oh, it's Christian allegory and blah, blah, blah.
2:07:57
Why don't you like it?
2:07:58
I don't like it because it sucks.
2:07:59
That's why I don't like it.
2:08:00
It's like the home loan version of today's age.
2:08:01
Like, you know how this is like mom, I'm home alone.
2:08:03
Okay.
2:08:04
We'll be back.
2:08:05
It's over.
2:08:06
Yeah.
2:08:07
Exactly.
2:08:08
And we'll talk about a great soundtrack, home loan soundtrack, but yeah, getting back
2:08:11
to the Led Zeppelin thing, I just, I never, I never understood it.
2:08:14
I never really got it.
2:08:15
Like, I feel like if I was a teenager in the 70s, I would have liked it.
2:08:18
But part of it was a classic rock.
2:08:19
Your dad was not.
2:08:21
So did your father fail you?
2:08:23
No, I'm sure.
2:08:24
That's your dirty rotten mouth, skinnerd was played in the dad's truck.
2:08:29
Of course.
2:08:30
You know, he was, you know, if it was newer rock, like he liked Kenny Wayne Shepard, who,
2:08:35
you know, the song Blue on Black is one of my favorite songs of all time.
2:08:39
So that's more bluesy rock.
2:08:41
You know, my dad wasn't really into, I kind of know the bands that my dad wasn't into.
2:08:45
Like he liked AC/DC.
2:08:46
He didn't really like Led Zeppelin.
2:08:47
He liked.
2:08:48
Oh, he passed down that, that, that horrible trait.
2:08:51
Do you stop it?
2:08:52
Like, but you know, he liked, you know, he liked scorpions.
2:08:55
You know, yeah.
2:08:56
So that was like the extent of like kind of the, I guess, the hair-ish metal stuff.
2:09:02
I kind of think there was another, like who was a big band back there, Black, Black,
2:09:05
not the Black East.
2:09:06
That's a new band.
2:09:07
Black crows.
2:09:08
The.
2:09:09
Counting crows.
2:09:10
Black crows are a band.
2:09:11
Black crows are a band.
2:09:12
But that's the 90s, dude.
2:09:13
Yeah.
2:09:14
No, okay.
2:09:15
I'm, I think I'm like bringing a bunch of them together.
2:09:16
But yeah, he was like more classic rock, Ted Nugent, you know, is what, what he was
2:09:19
into.
2:09:20
But then he, you know, we'd have some Alabama in there and some, you know, diamond Rio in
2:09:26
some random stuff like that, but he was just never really into, he didn't really out like
2:09:30
Aussie or Black Sabbath, no, I never liked Aussie or Black Sabbath.
2:09:33
I get that.
2:09:34
He can never get down with some of the stuff that I got into.
2:09:37
But anyway, so back to my list, Metallica, they got to be in the metal.
2:09:42
Crows.
2:09:43
My favorite new metal band of all time.
2:09:44
As you guessed, last night, which by the way, it's seven dust, by the way, so seven
2:09:48
dust is my favorite new metal band above corn, let biscuit, disturbed, Lincoln Park, like
2:09:53
Deftones.
2:09:54
How did you guess?
2:09:55
It's more metal core.
2:09:57
Yeah.
2:09:58
And the intro.
2:09:59
Yeah.
2:10:00
And you love metal core.
2:10:01
Yeah, I really do.
2:10:03
Just because of their longevity and how they kind of don't miss, I got to go August Burns
2:10:08
Red, because metal of all time, you want to talk about a discography over, over a long
2:10:16
period of time and being so consistent.
2:10:19
And I mean, you, there's some albums that you can be like, yeah, they're not great, but
2:10:22
they just don't miss.
2:10:24
So that would be one that I would say, shout out, and then the other one, which it kind
2:10:30
of hurts my heart because they were my favorite band for like the longest time.
2:10:33
And then you shouldn't meet your heroes.
2:10:34
The guys in the band are kind of jerks.
2:10:37
And you know, but Zayo, because Zayo to me, that's, that's the most important metal band
2:10:43
to me because of how long I listened to them, how different each one of their albums sounded
2:10:48
like, how no one really vocally sounds like Dan from the band.
2:10:53
And you know, this is a band that like, you know, part of the reason why I liked metal
2:10:56
course so much is because I just love breakdowns, right?
2:10:58
I got like a whole playlist on my phone to just, you know, songs are like these incredible
2:11:02
breakdowns.
2:11:03
Yeah.
2:11:04
Yeah.
2:11:05
You know, it's like that, I mean, more than conquerors like that, that song like, but
2:11:08
that was, that one was different for me because like the guitarist sounded so unique to what
2:11:14
I was listening to at the time that whenever I listened to that, I was like, whoa, like
2:11:18
it just caught me off guard.
2:11:18
But yeah.
2:11:19
I found out my, so it's metallic, seven dust, ABR and Zayo.
2:11:23
Wow.
2:11:24
That'd be, yeah.
2:11:25
Our lists are pretty different.
2:11:26
Very different.
2:11:27
Now who else did we disagree on?
2:11:29
Because like, we didn't, we ran across some other ones last night that, uh, you know, you
2:11:32
didn't like that.
2:11:33
I didn't like Led Zeppelin.
2:11:34
Godly.
2:11:35
That's just so crazy.
2:11:36
I know.
2:11:37
I know it's.
2:11:38
That one will never rock music.
2:11:39
If you don't like Zeppelin.
2:11:40
You were right.
2:11:41
Um, I don't know what else we disagreed on.
2:11:46
I think you let you just like a lot more metal core than me.
2:11:49
And that's the, in that overall genre is like a hit or miss for me.
2:11:53
Yeah.
2:11:54
Big time.
2:11:55
Well, look it.
2:11:56
So August burns red dominated that genre for a while before Tim kind of went crazy or kill
2:11:59
switch.
2:12:00
Those were like the two that were kind of dominating kill switch is a, is a, is a go.
2:12:04
They, I, and there's going to a lot of speculation.
2:12:06
I think that they're the, the official, they might be the standard bears of metal core.
2:12:10
Yeah.
2:12:11
And there are people will go back.
2:12:12
I mean, you can literally go back as far as you want, right?
2:12:15
Oh, that was a metal core, that was a metal core sort of, um, riff or whatever.
2:12:20
So they invented it or whatever.
2:12:22
Um, but, but I feel like a bunch of people try to rip off standard of it.
2:12:26
As far as ripping off sound, it's 1000% kill switch engage.
2:12:30
Yeah.
2:12:31
Yeah.
2:12:32
Like they are, they are the, maybe there was abandoned 99 that did it.
2:12:36
Like they were like, people were like refused or whatever.
2:12:39
They want to say that they're like metal core or like converge.
2:12:42
I don't see converges metal core, but I don't even know what they converge calls themselves,
2:12:47
but like it's, it's kill switch.
2:12:49
A live or just breathing is just standard.
2:12:51
Well, and there's, you know, then there's the other bands that are just kind of hard
2:12:55
to put into a specific genre.
2:12:56
So like, you know, we talked about he is legend last night.
2:12:59
Every time I die, the acacia strain, you can't really put either of those three bands into
2:13:04
metal core or even just straight hardcore, but I think people are put every time I die
2:13:09
in metal core.
2:13:10
You think so?
2:13:11
You just got big at that time metal core in the early 2000s was like that was the genre.
2:13:15
Yeah.
2:13:16
But yeah, but like I get it like they don't sound like as they dying or, but they are
2:13:21
lumped in.
2:13:22
It's kind of like.
2:13:23
Yeah, they weren't real.
2:13:24
Right.
2:13:25
They were more, they were more southern rockish for sure, but you're not going to call them
2:13:30
it.
2:13:31
I mean, maybe one really gritty like the vocals and guitars are all really, really good.
2:13:36
So good.
2:13:37
Yeah.
2:13:38
Love those bands.
2:13:39
And for you guys, so obviously impending doom been around for 20 years.
2:13:44
I'm curious for you though, you see scenes come and go.
2:13:49
You see kind of waves.
2:13:51
There wasn't really streaming when y'all got started.
2:13:53
It was, it was still just album sales and all that.
2:13:56
Now we're in the world of streaming and people don't buy physical anything anymore unless
2:14:00
they're like, it's changing.
2:14:02
Yeah.
2:14:03
Well, I mean, you have people that are a little bit more like, Oh, I want to get the record
2:14:05
and put it on my record player and drink my IPA and, you know, whatever.
2:14:08
It's like, okay, if that's what you're into, like, you know, go for it.
2:14:10
I think it's just having that one of one or that one of 200.
2:14:14
I think the more of the exclusivity of like owning a piece of art of something I love,
2:14:22
I think it's a lot more that because everything is just like digital.
2:14:25
I think people are just getting over, not over because it's just, it's so easy and it's
2:14:30
convenient, but just kind of like, I want, I want something more than just this digital
2:14:36
stuff because there was a lot of, like, dude, when you used to like open up the, the booklets
2:14:41
and read the lyrics and read the lyrics and look at all the different art things and all
2:14:46
that stuff.
2:14:47
And I mean, that was before even people were putting lyrics up on the internet to where
2:14:51
you couldn't go look at, you know, the lyrics for these songs.
2:14:54
Like the only way you could get the lyrics would be like reading them in the booklet,
2:14:58
right?
2:14:59
Yeah, keep going over the way you're saying.
2:15:00
Well, no, like, I guess my, I'm just curious for you, like, what have you seen being in
2:15:03
the music industry for as long as you've seen, like how, how labels are changing, how deals
2:15:08
are changing?
2:15:09
Like, because you've seen, you know, certain genres within metal, like, you know, become
2:15:15
more popular and then you have like bands that are really, really rough, but then they're
2:15:19
playing huge shows, headlining festivals and things like that.
2:15:22
And so like, what, what have you seen, like, trend wise from, you know, when you first
2:15:26
got into this, you know, early 2000s to where we are today in 2026?
2:15:29
Well, it's just like back, back in, when, when we were first starting in every, so when
2:15:34
you're first starting, you're just, and this is in every band's timeline, right?
2:15:38
When you're first starting, you're, you're hanging out with bands that are just first
2:15:41
starting as well.
2:15:42
Yeah.
2:15:43
And most of the time, and then back, you know, pre like everyone having a studio and they're,
2:15:48
you know, in their rooms or whatever, you know, some people did, but most people didn't.
2:15:55
And it's just kind of like you needed a, you needed some financial backing to, um, to write
2:16:01
a record.
2:16:02
Yeah.
2:16:03
You know, so you wanted to get signed so that they can front you the monies that you could
2:16:08
record and that you can go on tour.
2:16:11
Well, uh, the thing about it is if you signed a bad deal at that time, I mean, this label
2:16:17
could have own you for five records and say you break in the first record.
2:16:23
They own you for four more records.
2:16:25
That's brutal.
2:16:26
Because you're, they, I mean, most of these deals are obviously not in the artist favor.
2:16:30
Yeah.
2:16:31
Um, it's horrible deals.
2:16:33
I think like, what was, who was it?
2:16:34
I think it wasn't like a day to remember whatever, like they had to like fight, I think it was
2:16:39
a victory.
2:16:40
They were, they were on, but they had to fight like crazy to get off it because, I mean,
2:16:45
they, you know, they, they just got so big, like very quick and it's just, I don't know
2:16:50
how they got out of, out of a deal with them, but it was just like, I can see is like, man,
2:16:55
we're losing so much like we, our band is putting in all this effort and work and like
2:17:00
we literally, I can kind of see like our, the trajectory of these bands is like, we're
2:17:06
growing and growing and growing.
2:17:07
It's like, it's not like the label did anything.
2:17:09
They distribute your record, which is cool.
2:17:12
Um, they got distribution, but, um, yeah, some of these bands just signed really bad deals
2:17:19
and broke and now they're just like, you, they have to constantly be grinding to make
2:17:24
any money.
2:17:25
And I think this day and age, like I have a studio in my room and my room, many has one
2:17:31
in his room.
2:17:32
Like everyone has a studio nowadays, right?
2:17:35
And I think that like owning your own stuff is the way to go.
2:17:40
I mean, you can, you mean like the masters, owning your own music, the masters, right?
2:17:45
Like paying, like making everyone, you know, um, you know, and it's just like a lot of
2:17:51
people want to help that understand.
2:17:53
Now a lot of people are more, since social media came out, a lot of people are a lot
2:17:56
more understanding of like, Hey, labels are the devil, right?
2:18:01
You know, they're just like, they will, they will suck you drive.
2:18:05
They'll take all your money.
2:18:06
They'll do all the things.
2:18:07
Yeah, you were talking about 360 deals now because used to the conventional wisdom was,
2:18:11
Hey, you're not going to make a penny off the record, but you got to just hit the road.
2:18:14
You're going to make money off ticket sales, merch sales and all that.
2:18:17
And then, you know, the labels got hip to that and they were like, okay, yeah, we want
2:18:21
to cut of that too.
2:18:22
Cause you wouldn't even be selling tickets on the road.
2:18:23
If it weren't for us somehow, well, and then the other streaming stuff going out.
2:18:27
And I'm not like some business expert, but I think from what I've kind of heard, it's
2:18:31
more of this, of the thing of the advancements.
2:18:34
Yeah.
2:18:35
Well, so explain, explain how the advancements typically works on like a normal.
2:18:39
Yeah.
2:18:40
So say, you know, all these labels, they will, they will find guys that are brand new that
2:18:48
just like, man, if I can make any, when you make a little dollar in music, like you're
2:18:54
like, dude, someone actually paid money for me to, for my songs, right?
2:18:58
So, but like if someone's going to say, Hey, I'll give you whatever a lot of money is at
2:19:03
the time.
2:19:04
So if you have zero and so on, so I'll give you $20,000 in advance.
2:19:09
You can record your music and do whatever you need to do with this money.
2:19:13
And then there's obviously this like crazy recouping thing in a contract that screws
2:19:17
you over, but that first 20 grand or million dollars or whatever it is, is so enticing
2:19:23
because you have zero dollars in your bag of health.
2:19:26
So like they're pretty much just kind of owning you for, you know, the rest of whatever career
2:19:34
they're, they're buying you outright in the beginning.
2:19:38
And sometimes these bands, these bands artists turn out to be nothing, but then they forget
2:19:42
that, but then they find someone like, for example, I don't know their deal or anything
2:19:47
obviously, but like sleep token, right?
2:19:48
Like they, at one point, they're probably broke kids and then, you know, if someone came
2:19:53
up to them, we'll give, we'll give you $50,000 if you give us four records or we'll give
2:19:57
you 50,000 a record or something like to them, that probably was a lot of money at whatever
2:20:01
time was a lot of money.
2:20:03
And then all of a sudden they're like the biggest band on the planet and it's like, Oh, my gosh,
2:20:09
we are missing out on so much money because now all our masters and everything is owned
2:20:14
by a label.
2:20:16
When you, I remember you saying what face down, you had kind of a 50, 50 deal with them.
2:20:20
So if you sold a record for $10 bucks, you got five, they got five is great, but then
2:20:24
we know, if you want to say their name, you can, but there was another, there was another
2:20:27
metal label where it was like 97, three, yeah, yeah, it was like, yeah, I don't know the
2:20:33
exact offer, but obviously, and this is what most deals are.
2:20:36
I mean, it's like 87, 13, or 90, 10, or it's like, obviously not your favorite, but the
2:20:42
whole thing is the advance.
2:20:45
That's just where they get you.
2:20:46
And like, if you have zeroed colors, it's just like $20,000 seems like a lot, but like
2:20:51
in the music world, like recording a record, I mean, you're like, Oh, my just disappears.
2:20:58
It's gone.
2:20:59
Like you're, you're like, you need a van, you need equipment, you need anything.
2:21:03
I mean, 20 K is it's gone before, you know, and you still need another 30 K, you know,
2:21:10
it's just like, but it just sounds like a lot, whatever that they can kind of, you know,
2:21:16
like, have you ever, you were an insurance, right?
2:21:20
Yeah.
2:21:21
Yeah.
2:21:22
So when I will pass a life.
2:21:23
Yeah.
2:21:24
So when I was, when I do, when I work on construction and when I work in windows, it's
2:21:28
just like this window on, I'm, I'm going to give them a good price.
2:21:30
It's 250 bucks.
2:21:32
Well, the insurance will give them like $30 and it's just like it's, it's, it's like,
2:21:41
like, that's, that's, that's not going to satisfy the, what needs to be done, even on
2:21:46
the cheapest amount.
2:21:47
Like that's, and you have to fight with them to get the, and it's kind of how it's fighting
2:21:51
the industry.
2:21:52
Like did I pay into this all the time?
2:21:53
Like we're paying into like, um, how bands pay into recouping their money.
2:21:59
It's like, it's crazy because if you're not paying attention, you're paying into, they'll,
2:22:07
they'll put the money you put in.
2:22:09
It won't go towards your advancement.
2:22:11
This is just what I've kind of gotten.
2:22:14
I'm not some music industry expert, but like they'll, they'll, they'll run ads for you or
2:22:19
they'll put you in a magazine and then that they, they're using the money that you're
2:22:23
recouping.
2:22:24
It doesn't go to the principle of the advancement.
2:22:26
It goes to like, Oh, this is the market.
2:22:27
So you will always have that $50,000 because they keep putting money into you other places
2:22:34
and you have to pay that back too.
2:22:35
Yeah.
2:22:36
So it's just this, it's just this horrible game of like you just constantly have to like
2:22:41
know you're fighting them.
2:22:42
I'm not sure on a good label unless you've got good team and you got good lawyers and
2:22:47
all this stuff, but like when, when like metal dudes are coming up, they're just like,
2:22:51
they're not like business savvy.
2:22:53
They just want to tour and put records down.
2:22:56
It's all like well-meaning, but these business people, it's a lot of these and it's nothing
2:23:01
has changed.
2:23:02
It's just like business people are going to be business.
2:23:04
They're green.
2:23:05
You know, they're going to, they're going to take advantage of you.
2:23:07
And yeah.
2:23:08
So this day, this, this time, unless you're just kind of really cool label, like some people
2:23:12
just resigned to labels and I'm like, you guys are big enough to where you can do your
2:23:17
own stuff.
2:23:18
But I think it's the distribution of like they're, they plan on touring Europe.
2:23:23
They plan on touring Australia, Asia and these, some of these bigger labels, they have connections
2:23:28
out there and they can get their stuff distributed out there.
2:23:30
So when they go tour there, there is, you know, there's money coming in all over the
2:23:36
world.
2:23:37
And when they tour there, their record has been there, their merch has been there.
2:23:41
And so they establish presence all over the world.
2:23:43
Like for us, we have to like seek out a third party in Europe to sell our merch and do this.
2:23:50
And like we have, we, we've got to find someone that will do it for us.
2:23:54
We physically have to go find someone in Australia, Asia or whatever that will distribute for
2:24:01
us and like have good distribution and have good relate like some of these labels have
2:24:06
good relationships with these people.
2:24:07
I'm assuming all this stuff that like make kind of make sense to me.
2:24:11
We don't have that really like as a band, like people are like, who are you?
2:24:15
You know, it's just like, oh, but this A and R guy or this person, this representative
2:24:19
for this label has a, has the relationship and the reach to be like, hey, we've done
2:24:26
all of our bigger bands.
2:24:27
We've gone through you for distribution.
2:24:29
I need you to help out my little band.
2:24:31
Okay.
2:24:32
And it's all like scratching.
2:24:33
You know, you scratch my back.
2:24:34
I scratch yours.
2:24:35
Maybe these bands, and that's the same with booking agents, right?
2:24:37
Like, oh, I gave you kill switch and sleep token to be on your show.
2:24:41
Now you're going to take my freaking, um, my band that's been out for one week and you're
2:24:47
going to put them on a decent spot or maybe not demand it like that.
2:24:52
But can you put, yeah, you know, my little band on this, you know, because the next time
2:24:56
I'm next time sleep token comes around, I'll make sure you're booking it.
2:24:59
Yeah.
2:25:00
And you're going to make a pretty penny.
2:25:01
It's all like in that, in the, in that world, it's all about you scratch my back.
2:25:05
I scratch yours on behind the scene of the band.
2:25:07
That's why some bands just kind of like, where'd you come from or like they remain in the
2:25:12
lab?
2:25:13
Yeah.
2:25:14
Oh, no.
2:25:15
Yeah.
2:25:16
Because it's just like, it's just about connections in your, in your agents.
2:25:17
Cause you're like, if, if you get, if you get hooked up with that right agent, he's like
2:25:21
that books Metallica, not that agent can, you know, I'm assuming it's just like, Hey, we're
2:25:28
going to go through, you know, he can say, we'll go through you for the next Metallica
2:25:32
show or whatever, whatever band named the big band.
2:25:36
And as long as you take care of this band.
2:25:38
Yeah.
2:25:39
So that makes sense.
2:25:40
So, but, but I, it just, I, I would have to ask some of my friends that I'd see that
2:25:45
they resign.
2:25:46
I just like, why didn't you're big enough?
2:25:48
Like you can literally make your own, like if you put out a record for 10 bucks on band
2:25:55
camp, you probably have 50,000 people buy this record.
2:26:00
And then that's more, I don't know how much money they're getting from a re sign of these
2:26:04
labels.
2:26:05
Maybe they are just getting a ton of cash.
2:26:06
I don't know how it works.
2:26:07
But I'm like, man, it seems like 10 bucks, 50 to 100,000 people around the world buy
2:26:12
this record.
2:26:13
Maybe 50 grand?
2:26:14
I don't know.
2:26:15
Maybe 10,000 people.
2:26:16
It's a hundred grand.
2:26:17
Right.
2:26:18
Like 10,000.
2:26:19
Let's say 10,000.
2:26:20
Yeah.
2:26:21
So, bigger artists, if we were selling like, hey, we're doing our own stuff, 10 bucks,
2:26:26
you guys want to help us out?
2:26:28
I'm sure 10,000 people with some of these bigger bands is not that far of a stretch.
2:26:32
Yeah.
2:26:33
That's a, boom.
2:26:34
100 grand.
2:26:35
Like that's, but I, I just, I don't know their deals.
2:26:39
Right.
2:26:40
So, maybe they're just like, well, so what does it look like for impending doom now?
2:26:43
Because we were talking about how, you know, y'all are in the writing process should have
2:26:48
a new album out at some point in 2026.
2:26:52
Right.
2:26:53
But you did talk about as well how, you know, y'all are independent now, but there's kind
2:26:57
of like a, I guess, a period of time where the label owns all your masters.
2:27:02
They own everything.
2:27:03
They, they were always going to own the originals, but at a certain point, y'all can rerecord
2:27:08
some of your old catalog, and, you know, you can change some stuff here and there, you
2:27:13
know, obviously it's going to be different production and all that, but for the next
2:27:16
iteration of impending doom, like what, what does that look like?
2:27:19
How are y'all approaching the writing process, writing, you know, re-recording any of the
2:27:23
backlog?
2:27:24
Like what does all that look like?
2:27:25
Especially now because we talked about last night, a lot of bands aren't really keen
2:27:28
on putting out the album.
2:27:29
They just want to put out a single and then another single and then another single and
2:27:32
then they package it all as a four or five song EP at some point, and then they just,
2:27:37
they maybe never put out the full length.
2:27:39
Yeah.
2:27:40
And that's just the one thing they got telling you last night.
2:27:42
It's like you're spending the same amount of money on each song.
2:27:45
So it's just like, you kind of, and if you put your heart and soul into each song, you
2:27:49
kind of want every song to have their time to shine, and it just sucks that people just
2:27:54
don't listen to complete records these days.
2:27:56
They're listening to single, single, single, and then the next, you know, band they like
2:27:59
is putting out a single, single, single, and then the next band they like.
2:28:02
So like you get the, you get your three singles and that's why this whole thing, it's just
2:28:07
oversaturated, right?
2:28:08
It's just like everyone's putting out on the, on that Friday, there's 18 bands that are
2:28:12
putting out a new single and you got yours and I went through my 18, and then, you know,
2:28:18
say you put out another one, go through my rounds, put them around, and then you, okay,
2:28:22
records out.
2:28:23
And then you obviously get people listening to the record, but like those three singles
2:28:27
are going to, if the numbers are just quadruple, you know, they're just, and it's just saying
2:28:34
those last four really good two, but I got to put out an album to, you know, for those,
2:28:42
for those group of people that want like the album all, they come out, but it's just like,
2:28:47
it's hard because I get what you're saying, because I want to listen to the album too on
2:28:53
these bands, but like for someone like us where we don't tour enough, we need to like,
2:29:02
we need to have like every bit of kind of attention to these songs as we possibly can
2:29:08
get because we don't have anybody backing us to where we can just have filler songs.
2:29:15
So maybe, I mean, there's just like, maybe we throw up the album and it's like, it crushes,
2:29:20
but my whole thing is like every time we do something, it's like the singles, they get
2:29:25
all the love.
2:29:26
And so for us, we're going to record the most, the best record we probably like, we're really
2:29:36
like doing writing, we're doing rewriting and we're doing rewriting and we're going back,
2:29:40
we're kind of going, okay, let's cut out every bit of filler we can find.
2:29:45
Let's cut out every bit of just, this isn't serving the purpose of the song.
2:29:51
This isn't serving the purpose of the whole album, like really dissecting it, trying not
2:29:56
to get because you obviously could dissect something towards just vanilla and boring.
2:30:01
But we're trying to, we're trying to just dissect it to make it its best possible version
2:30:06
that we can do and not really set a timeline, but obviously we want to put it out soon.
2:30:15
And like summertime, and then we want to play more shows than we typically have.
2:30:21
And so yeah, so we're not really sure how we're going to do the release.
2:30:28
We're going to do some on Spotify, but we may do a bandcamp and we may do a Patreon where
2:30:32
we do like a behind the scenes stuff, more of like personal things, like personal in the
2:30:39
sense of like when we're writing and we're together and like our process of doing it,
2:30:43
maybe going out, watching the dudes roll in some jiu-jitsu, yeah, maybe do some, there's
2:30:49
a lot of shooting ranges out there, maybe do just like day in the life kind of stuff,
2:30:52
you know what I mean?
2:30:53
Behind the scenes of the making of demon notes, the latest ending doom, wait, can we actually
2:31:00
I skipped over?
2:31:01
I forgot until you.
2:31:02
All right.
2:31:03
So if y'all don't know what I'm talking about out there in YouTube or Spotify or Apple
2:31:07
podcast land, I wish I would have saved this email, printed it out and put it in a frame
2:31:12
so I could just have it forever.
2:31:14
I don't know where it came from.
2:31:15
It was either someone that listened to the intro outro music of the show or maybe I shared
2:31:19
a video.
2:31:20
And this was August Brinch Red?
2:31:22
It was probably August Brinch Red.
2:31:24
More than likely it was.
2:31:25
It's like angel notes.
2:31:27
Well so this would have been because I've had, I had several different August Brinch
2:31:30
Red songs as the intro outro but one of them did have Jake's vocals, obviously it's screaming
2:31:35
vocals and all that.
2:31:38
And so because it always was weird to me that the intro outro of the show was a total
2:31:44
of 45 seconds of music, right?
2:31:48
So you would listen to a 15, 20 second intro, an hour of me yapping and then like 15, 20
2:31:53
second outro and people would leave a one star review for the show because of the demonic
2:31:58
bumper music that I used because they just didn't like it.
2:32:01
Now I've listened to plenty of shows where their intro outro music, it's probably unlicensed
2:32:05
music or whatever that they just pulled offline somewhere.
2:32:08
I'm not going to judge the content of the podcast presenter on what they or their manager
2:32:13
or producer chose as their intro outro music.
2:32:17
How dumb.
2:32:18
But I didn't want generic bumper music, I wanted music from an actual band that I actually
2:32:22
liked.
2:32:23
So I had August Brinch Red for a while now, it's holy name.
2:32:25
And so, but I got this email from this person that just said, I can't believe that you would
2:32:32
as a Christian, that you would put out and support these, these songs that have demon
2:32:38
notes in them.
2:32:40
And I was like, all right, I'm going to engage with this, this level of crazy.
2:32:45
It's happening. And so I just started going like, Oh, okay, interesting.
2:32:48
I've never actually heard of those.
2:32:50
What exactly are demon notes?
2:32:52
And for what I can remember, this person basically described that there are sounds that can be
2:32:57
made with instruments and with vocal cords that are irredeemable by the God that created
2:33:04
the universe, the cosmos, those instruments, the people that made those instruments and
2:33:09
the human's ability to create music with their fingers and hands and vocal cords and
2:33:14
all that, that somehow there are certain sounds, certain beats, certain riffs, certain things
2:33:20
that God cannot possibly redeem.
2:33:23
And I am deeply tickled by this interaction.
2:33:25
I want to show, I just want to, I want to be in a room with him when he hears like, you
2:33:29
know how there's like those reaction videos like, Oh, when someone reacts, pass a reaction
2:33:34
to the hellfire for going to shore, and it's just like, I would love to see this, this mutant
2:33:39
freaking reacting to like a Lorna shore song and just see his, I would love to see that
2:33:43
right.
2:33:44
But like, what is your reaction?
2:33:46
Because obviously you said you didn't get a whole lot of pushback early on because y'all
2:33:49
got right in the death metal scene, but you weren't waiting the secular side.
2:33:52
Yeah, not even in like the secular side, a couple of middle fingers here and there and
2:33:56
a couple like pushback things, but like, nothing to, nothing that I would be like, Oh, goodness,
2:34:02
like, we need to really reevaluate this whole thing, right?
2:34:07
Maybe just play the church show.
2:34:09
Yeah, that's funny. We played an old church. I told you this last night that the, the,
2:34:18
it was a church and this was like, when we first started and the green room was the library
2:34:25
of the church and, you know, I like books, I've always liked books.
2:34:29
And I was just perusing the, the, the sections and all, you know, it was him, no, him, no,
2:34:36
no of this and all of that, this and that. And then you get to one and it, and you got
2:34:41
the demon note and it, and then I found the book is called the devil's rock beat and it's
2:34:47
a play. And it's, I don't understand how you could get a book of like, how is this like,
2:34:53
how is it explained in 200 pages?
2:34:55
Yeah.
2:34:56
Beat.
2:34:57
And it's a choo, choo, choo, choo, so the basic beat of every single, the first beat you
2:35:04
learn when you learn, because of hymnals or whatever, like there's no instruments, right?
2:35:08
It's all angelical voices, but I, I just, I just die laughing. There's been so many
2:35:13
people like good hearted, like there are, but there are the people that are that will
2:35:17
judge you and kind of be like church to you. And this is where the cringiness of Christianity
2:35:23
music comes in, right? It's just like, this is where like, if I was a, like a Satanist
2:35:27
secularist, whatever in the death, no, this is where I mean, my lyrical content would
2:35:32
be 1000% beyond like, how do she and dumb this is, right? And it's just, it's so much
2:35:39
ammo. And, but I just think it's so, it's, it's just, it's literally nothing else but
2:35:47
just comedy.
2:35:48
You know what I mean? Like, what can I say about it? Like expound on it? That's not going
2:35:54
to make me sound so dumb, right? Like, if I feel like I try to justify it, it just makes
2:35:58
me, it's very clear that I don't bother you at all. Because I know there are people that,
2:36:02
people in the, the Christian metal, whatever pick the sub genre, but they're in the genre.
2:36:07
And they really do get bent out of shape. When people challenge, I'll go back to this.
2:36:12
I don't know if I told you this or not. This was years ago. I'm sitting with a pastor.
2:36:16
This was back when I was selling insurance. And so I was trying to help him out with his
2:36:19
business. He was trying to help me out with mine because he was a, he was a lay, you know,
2:36:23
a pastor, but then also had a, had a business. And like, we started talking about contemporary
2:36:28
Christian music. So think air one K love. And I just kind of casually say, yeah, it's just
2:36:32
not really my thing. I just, I'm just not really a huge fan of it. Just super repetitive. I just,
2:36:36
the lyrics are just kind of weeks. Awesome. So now you can, it's kids, Bob, for adults,
2:36:40
sure, for Christian adults, right. And this guy, but it has its purpose. Sure. Right. And
2:36:46
you know, I've got my playlist and I've got the stuff that I like that are in that world.
2:36:50
And then he got real serious and looked at me and he goes, comment, I just got to be
2:36:54
honest with you. I'm not sure you're saved. And I was like, sorry, in my good. He said,
2:37:00
he said this to you 100%. And he meant it. He was not being funny. He was not being sarcastic.
2:37:05
And I'm like, say it again. Right. But, but slower. And he goes, no, I just, if you can't
2:37:12
listen to, you know, God's music. Yeah, if you can't listen to the music of God and be
2:37:19
moved in the spirit, then I'm, I'm not sure that you have a saving faith in Christ. If
2:37:22
you can't listen to DC talk and just know that. And for the life of me, I can't remember
2:37:26
exactly how I responded, but I, I felt the need to not just bury this man, like, you
2:37:31
know, in front of me. So many songs are coming in my head right now. That was so funny. But
2:37:35
I was like, dude, you, you don't have the right nor the standing to be able to judge
2:37:40
my salvation based on that because we are to judge people's fruit. You know, do you have
2:37:45
the fruit of gospel repentance in your life? If you don't, you need to probably have an
2:37:49
evangelism conversation with somebody or if they are an actual believer in Christ, but
2:37:53
they've paused their sanctification or that, you know, whatever, maybe you need to have
2:37:57
a brother to brother in Christ conversation. But this man went skipped all the way to the
2:38:01
end and said, I don't think that you are saved. I don't think your name is written in the
2:38:05
Lamb's book of life because you don't like, you know, Bethel, right?
2:38:10
Or because Bethel, dude, I'm just like, that's like, that's not even everyone Caleb music.
2:38:16
Like, you know, that's like, remember, man, D so remember that. Like, are you probably
2:38:21
never listened to it? I listened to Caleb a lot though, because I'm just like, this
2:38:25
is, it's honestly like these people are so jolly. It just kind of like, it's, it's kind
2:38:33
of like a lot of more and even Christians. People don't like to talk about that. I don't
2:38:37
know. Yeah, maybe because it is a business and all the things, but it's just like, they're
2:38:41
so jolly and happy and the people that call in are so like giggly and like, and I'm like,
2:38:47
this is not my Christianity. God bless them. God bless them. And honestly, God bless them
2:38:50
because there is a thing just like how people will be like, dude, my dad says you're satanic
2:38:54
and I'm like, bro, you're like, when I get the satanic thing or whatever. And it's like,
2:38:57
I hope that these people that are reaching out to me are like kids and you're not 28 years
2:39:02
old because I'm gonna be like, well, I'm hoping, I'm just praying to God that like you're you're
2:39:08
a child. You're trying to listen to my music and your dad says, no, right? Yeah, this is
2:39:12
too crazy. Well, when you talk about like Satan's, we'll go ahead and like, I'm hoping for that,
2:39:17
but I just go, my dad says this, my grandma, my mom says this and it's just like, you know,
2:39:23
in my head, I'm on like, I have a 13 year old son. I'm thinking like, I'm hoping to God
2:39:26
that you're a kid. And I just go, dude, it's literally, it's literally not for them. Right?
2:39:33
Like, it's not, right? Like, it's for you. Like, if you love it and you're like trying
2:39:40
to like, you know, navigate this, you know, this faith walk and music and like, this is
2:39:46
like, I actually feel like there's no cussing or whatever. Like, at the basic, right? At
2:39:50
the basics, there's no cussing. It's kind of like, you can blur it and it's not like
2:39:54
too offensive or whatever. As far as like, the words go, I guess. Yeah. But um, uh, it's like,
2:40:02
it's like a gateway to kind of like, you know, oh, I get, I get like, this isn't, it's, it's
2:40:08
got the, the, the beef to it. And it also has like, in my head, even if I can't understand
2:40:16
the words, like, if I know the, the, the band is a Christian band and it's like, okay, and
2:40:21
they've been around for 20 years, you can kind of wrap your head like, oh, it's probably
2:40:24
a little bit more like, like beat down the, the demons and fight and caught, you know,
2:40:31
like, yeah, like, you can kind of, you can kind of, you can kind of like wrap your head
2:40:35
around that. Then you can go, oh, like, I want to go deeper into this. Um, and, uh, that's,
2:40:42
that's it's for you, right? It's for that. Like if you're somewhat in that area of like
2:40:48
new Christian, or I'm new to like heavy metal, but I am Christian and I'm trying to find gateway
2:40:53
Christian stuff. Like maybe that's the thing, but it's like, it's not for grandma, dude.
2:40:57
One, and everyone kind of has their, their, their own style. Everyone's they like, but
2:41:01
then it's like, but people don't give space for the category of metal since the harder
2:41:07
you get into it, like death metal, like deathcore, like, that's, that makes sense. Black metal,
2:41:11
right? It's like, yeah, black metal. It's, it's, it's, you see the corpse paint, you see the
2:41:15
skull is. Yeah. And all the things and it's just like Swedish.
2:41:19
Very nor Norwegian. And it's just like, but it's the funny thing is, it's just like those guys,
2:41:25
those guys got a bad bath and beyond with their wife on Saturday. Right.
2:41:28
So, so, because I, I've asked some of these people, I was like, okay, so Christian metal,
2:41:33
you think that's on like Satan's playlist. Like that's, you know, you, you, what's Satan's
2:41:36
Spotify playlist? What's he listening to? But you know what, here's an argument for, for you,
2:41:41
something to chew on. You know what I think is on Satan's playlist? Contemporary Christian music
2:41:46
sung by non-believers. Because you will, you will sing your heresies before you believe them,
2:41:52
right? I forget who said that quote originally, but it's the truth. And so you will have these
2:41:57
people that get whipped up in the chord progressions and the repetitive nature of these songs and
2:42:02
their song and churches all over the country. And again, it's not congregational singing. It's,
2:42:07
we're going to turn the lights down so no one can see you. We're going to make sure that the
2:42:10
show is going on on the stage. There's 17 people on stage, five of them are singing,
2:42:14
but they're not singing a five-part harmony. Three of the mics aren't even turned on. They're
2:42:17
just sitting there dancing and falling out in the aisles. And we're just going to do this production.
2:42:20
It's going to be sung in a key that most men can't even hit. And you know, then we're going to call
2:42:25
it good. And if you don't like it, it's because something's wrong with you. It's because you're
2:42:28
not saved or it's because you're broken or you have some sort of pride issue or something like that.
2:42:32
But then when you push back and say, they're legitimately people that have come out and said,
2:42:37
Oh, yeah, I'm later after their CCM career was over. Oh, yeah, I never believed any of that stuff.
2:42:43
I was just, I was just doing a job, right? I was singing songs that most of them aren't even
2:42:48
writing these songs. They're singing songs written by professional songwriters. A lot of those
2:42:52
professional songwriters too are also not Christians, but they just know just enough bibble to throw
2:42:57
some scriptury sounding Christianese into the lyrical content. Oh, yeah. And then they sing it,
2:43:02
they record it, they market it, they package it, and then it's sent out to the entire planet.
2:43:07
And so that's when I tell these people that are like, Oh, there are notes or songs or genres
2:43:12
of music that are not redeemable that Christ couldn't, you know, God couldn't possibly use.
2:43:16
I'm like, man, you are so foolish and short-sighted because you don't realize,
2:43:20
I wonder what the percentage is honestly of people who are either singing the songs or playing the
2:43:25
instruments for songs that are on K love or air one that do not have a saving faith in Jesus Christ.
2:43:31
And yet you're saying that's Christian music, but then a band of three or four guys that are
2:43:37
wearing black t-shirts and they're into metal who are actually following Christ and reading
2:43:41
the Bible and all that, that's somehow not able to be used by God. It's how it's packaged, right?
2:43:46
Yeah, I get like you, you, I mean, you can't be blind to the fact of how it's packaged, right?
2:43:51
Like Satan in Hollywood is the pitchfork in the, the red tail and the horns and the things like
2:43:58
the overt darkness. The dude's beautiful. We see that from Ezekiel, right, right?
2:44:04
He was, he was gorgeous. He was gorgeous. He's beautiful. He's not the, but the darkness, right?
2:44:09
No, he's like a lot. Like he's like the morning star. He's a light dude. Like he's the, he's music.
2:44:14
He is, it's just like, it's like, it's like the deception of Satan is so well done that it's just
2:44:22
like, I got you, right? Because it's just like, you know, if it, if it, if it just on the eyes,
2:44:31
like it's very visual and appealing, it's kind of like this is good. And at the eyes, if I see a
2:44:37
black shirt with long hair and a grimacing face, that's bad. Yeah. And it's just like,
2:44:44
it's such an elementary. It is, it is. And that's why I'm hoping that's why I pray.
2:44:51
And I hope that like anybody that does that, they're, they're, they're young.
2:44:55
Um, but then sometimes I meet up, I go to a show, dude, we had an old man at a show.
2:45:03
Like we're doing a, we did a Q and A. And he was like, give me the gospel.
2:45:09
And I gave him, you know, I was like, the, the good news is that Jesus came and, you know,
2:45:17
did all the miracles, did all the things and the, all the good things Jesus did. He died on the
2:45:22
cross for our sins and he rose again. And, um, one day when we died, we get to, we get to be with
2:45:28
him again, you know, and the good news of it. And he can redeem you. And I was given any things,
2:45:33
like give me the gospel. And this dude was trying to bait me into something. Like he was like,
2:45:40
trying to get me to like, I don't like he was trying to like, I knew you weren't like he was,
2:45:46
like, dude, he was, it was almost dark. Like, cause they were all sitting, there was a bunch
2:45:50
of people and it was very awkward. Cause he kept asking, give me the gospel. Or now they're like,
2:45:56
give me the real or something and give me your real test. And it was just like, but the way he
2:46:01
is saying it, it wasn't, it was like, he was one of those guys that are in your comments or whatever.
2:46:07
And he paid for a meet and greet. Yeah. Almost no matter what. And I was like,
2:46:11
dude, talk to me after. I don't know what you're asking me. Yeah. And as they talk to me afterwards.
2:46:17
And when it's all done, because I don't know what you're saying. And, um,
2:46:21
that I was looking at, then we, like, they got the guy that was like mediating and he's like,
2:46:26
okay, uh, any other questions? And then we did like a couple more, but I think they got,
2:46:31
it was just like awkward. I was like, dude, why does it have to be awkward? Right? And anyways,
2:46:38
we finished up and I just, I was sitting on stools. And I was looking for the guy because people
2:46:44
came up to me and they're like, dude, I appreciate it. And then, you know, they're like, sorry about
2:46:47
that. I was like, that's weird. And that's okay. Whatever. And I was waiting for him to come.
2:46:52
And he never came. He never like wanted to clear. I was like, that's what these people are.
2:46:58
They just want to pull the pin on the grenade. They just want to do that. Like they want to just
2:47:03
like, um, you know, and nowadays it's not original anymore, right? Like, like the whole darkness
2:47:10
and screamy, like that Satan, you know, that's like, I get it back in the early 2000s, but it's like,
2:47:15
dude, it's been, it's over, dude. And so a lot of people don't bring it up anymore. You know,
2:47:21
the whole metal band shirts, I know that there was a couple, but like most people now are like,
2:47:25
if someone says it, it just gets shut down so fast these days. Yeah. Um, and I'm glad. Um,
2:47:32
but also you need to sermon, right? Like there's like, there is that thing. Like you can't just
2:47:37
trust anybody. Any metal guy that's singing and screaming or whatever. Um, and that's why it's
2:47:42
like the time does matter, right? Like one guy, one guy's like, I'm a Christian and puts out one
2:47:48
single, you know, I was just like, okay, that's cool. Like keep going, dude. Right. But I'm not
2:47:54
going to be like, you know, I'm not going to put all my weight. Like everybody check this guy out.
2:47:58
I'm like, or like promote or whatever, because I'm like, there's only a few people in my whole,
2:48:04
in any kind of sphere of life that I like to, you know, promote or whatever, like in the Christian
2:48:11
space, like give my backing to because I'm like, I have no idea what you're going to.
2:48:17
What your true intentions are, right? No, you know, that's why like Tommy Jake and Tommy,
2:48:24
I love them to like, I've known, you know, we did a tour with Jake and I hung out with Jake
2:48:30
many a time. Uh, good dude. Jacob August burns red and Tommy of sleeping giant holy name. Yeah.
2:48:36
Oh, yeah. And then Tommy's just like my, my boy. Yeah. You know, just, just salted the earth and
2:48:41
true dudes in the scene that I think really, really want to, you know, bring people to Christ and
2:48:48
like, you know, in both in their different ways, right? Like when they're fruits, having it. Yeah.
2:48:52
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jake wants is more mental health and, um, Tommy's more.
2:48:57
It is no Tommy. He's just such a kid, right? And I love him to death. But Tommy just wants to like
2:49:04
really, um, I mean, he just really wants people to know Jesus, like screw everything else. Like
2:49:11
to put all that everything aside and just run to Jesus. That's like Tommy's thing, right? Like
2:49:17
Jesus, you need just come to Jesus world worlds on fire. Go to Jesus type deal. Like no, no mental
2:49:23
health thing. No, no, this is just like straight to Jesus. And, um, so I, I backed those guys and I
2:49:29
don't mind saying that. But yeah, Evan is, uh, and some people just need their identity in critiquing.
2:49:37
Oh, yeah. Some people just need it, right? They gotta throw stones. They gotta throw stones.
2:49:42
This is my identity. I am the guardian of Jesus. Jesus needs me as the guardian. And I will have
2:49:50
the theological fights. I will fight whether this hard work is satanic or not or things like that.
2:49:55
I mean, y'all kind of ran into that with the repentogram, you know, early on, right? Because
2:49:59
Oh, it's still to that one still to this day. Well, so kind of explain that because we're kind
2:50:03
of around to do a close here, but very, very early on in the band. Obviously you see a lot of the
2:50:08
satanic bands are a lot of, you know, wicking or a lot of these types of things. Those are all
2:50:11
counterfeit. Those are all counterfeit. Right. To like the, what is the pentagrams? It's an upside
2:50:17
down star circle around it. Yeah. But it's just kind of like, um, isn't it like the, what is that?
2:50:24
Like it's just inverted, right? Yeah. The pentagram is an inverted of a Christian symbol.
2:50:29
Well, so is that that I forgot what that was. Well, so there's a lot of different. So the,
2:50:33
the, the pentagram, like, so there's the specific one that's used by Wiccans, which is the upside down,
2:50:38
triangle with the circle around it. And I'm pretty sure there's symbolism with the points of man.
2:50:44
So that's a Vitruvian man. And so some people have connected that with, uh, with the Wiccans symbol.
2:50:50
But also, uh, when Satan picked that as, as like a behemoth, uh, like a winged goat or whatever,
2:50:56
some people will put that face inside of the points and then the horns are part of the upside down
2:51:02
star. And so, uh, but is it not? Is it not? And it's original form, like, uh, like a,
2:51:10
I don't know, Christian, but is it not like, did they invert it to make it like this is unholy now?
2:51:17
Like like, like hell, like the cross, right? Yeah. The upside down cross.
2:51:21
Right. They may that be like that as our satanic symbol, right? Right. I'm not sure if the
2:51:25
star is around, I think it kind of is. I could be totally wrong. But anyways, um, yeah. So again,
2:51:32
yeah. All right. The, the, the repentogram came about. I want to say 2008. I would, we were, I was,
2:51:42
I was sleeping. I was sleeping in the, um, parked in African Walmart parking lot,
2:51:49
trying to get some shut eye and all the rows were taken. And I'm sitting in the front seat,
2:51:55
you know, trying to get the best sleep I can. And I think I was like in between sleep and, um,
2:52:02
in between sleep and like awake, because I'm like, I think it was really hot. We had an old
2:52:08
van. I don't think, you know, I'm not going to leave it on all night. Um, like not diesel or anything.
2:52:14
Yeah. And so I'm like just kind of coming in and out of like dream state and awake state. And I had
2:52:21
just decided to have their other. I mean, that's obviously like not far-fetched, right? It's
2:52:26
pentagram and oh, repentance of Christian word and repentogram and kind of just give it again.
2:52:32
It's just like everything I do. It's just like a counter back to what I think like Satanist bands
2:52:41
or whatever are trying to claim as their own. Right. And, um, so I just like, it's nine points.
2:52:47
And it's like, wait, it's just like ninth fruit to the spirit. And, um, it's just something that,
2:52:53
you know, dude, I was 21. And we had also another word called Gorship. Yeah. Yep. And so it was just,
2:53:03
it's just stuff that we, uh, that I came up with that was just kind of like, you know,
2:53:12
I, I truly do love this music, but I, I mean, I want to use this music for a bigger purpose.
2:53:18
And it's kind of just kind of like, it's fun, but it's also a utility, you know, just like any
2:53:24
symbol that, you know, the, the, oh, sleeper, broken horn saying. I think that's fantastic.
2:53:29
I think it's fantastic. It has like a, it means something, but it's also something that you can
2:53:33
put on things. And it's just like, this is where this is our stamp, right? And so that's kind of
2:53:38
what, uh, it was, but yeah, obviously it looks like, okay, this is a pagan symbol.
2:53:43
And these guys aren't even trying to hide it. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like it's just like,
2:53:49
dude, I, I promise, I probably like this far in, and I think that most people get it,
2:53:55
unless you're new, unless like there's now it's like this generation of like,
2:53:59
there was the young people. And now there's like people that are like 14 now,
2:54:04
like we're like are just now into us and maybe saying something like Christian,
2:54:08
but it's like, believe me or don't believe me, but it's kind of like,
2:54:15
this is not the life you want to fake. It's kind of like the disciples, right? Like,
2:54:23
do you think they all wanted to have their heads chopped off? Like, is this the fake life?
2:54:29
This is the dream. None of them were, had any money. No, none of them had a, you know,
2:54:33
women. There was no promise of anything except for death and persecution, and you will be happy.
2:54:40
And, and you went in the end, and you went in the end, and you, but you're also promised the
2:54:45
Holy Spirit, right? And so, uh, yeah, there's just, there's besides Jesus and having that at the end
2:54:54
of my life and the peace that it brings now in like tumultuous times or bad times or any good times
2:55:01
even, it's just kind of like, this isn't something, I mean, you could, I don't know why you would,
2:55:09
I guess it for monetary gain, right? But in a band world, it's not the, it's not the, it's not
2:55:18
the goal. It's not the aim. And if it is, you, they, those, it gets, it gets brought out pretty
2:55:25
quick. You know, you can't, you can't sustain it for too long. So yeah, I, the demon note, the drum,
2:55:31
the devil's drum beat, the, the symbols, the black, you know, the black shirts and all that,
2:55:37
that's not signs of the devil. No, no, no, it's much prettier than that. The signs of the devil is
2:55:45
beauty. It's beautiful things that try, bring you to death, right? Like monsters don't, typically,
2:55:52
people don't walk towards monsters. They usually run from monsters. So when you listen to a band,
2:55:58
and it's just like, oh, this is abrasive, but you get something that has a nice beat to it with
2:56:03
something like this, like moth to a flame, right? And it's just kind of like, you, you drift towards
2:56:10
that. And then Satan, that's like, if Satan's beautiful, and this is a monster, I mean, like,
2:56:17
it's so much more luring. Why would Satan use something scary? Yeah, that does that, that like
2:56:22
common sense wise, if I'm trying to allure people, I'm going to bring, it's going to be candy. It's
2:56:27
going to be drink. It's going to be something that's going to numb you. It's going to be something
2:56:31
that's very attractive. It's the lure, but it's got a hook. And it's attractive. And it tastes
2:56:37
beautiful. And it's looks beautiful. And it's all the things, right? If it looks like it has
2:56:41
warts and it's nasty and it screams at me, like, and I think most metal fans understand,
2:56:50
especially these days, like, I just like, I like it because it's just kind of cool. Like,
2:56:56
I like scary movies. And it's just kind of like that. I like scary movies deal. It's not like
2:57:00
everybody that listens to being with is a Satanist, even though they, and, you know,
2:57:05
but it's just you. I think that's just well known in the middle. And like, Christians,
2:57:12
they kind of get scared. And this is why it's so easy just to, it's like, you get scared of a band.
2:57:17
Like, for real, you get scared of a cuss word, you get scared of someone drinking,
2:57:24
you get scared of someone having a cigar, you get scared of a cigarette, like,
2:57:28
or you're, or it flust in the, in the least, it flusters you like, mmm. It's gonna be a tough walk,
2:57:36
bro. Yeah. Because like, who are you talking to? Just you're saying, the wall, like, what are you
2:57:44
doing? Are you just criticizing all day online? Like, what are you doing? And so like, so yeah,
2:57:52
so I just, I think that, um, I think that most metal heads aren't Satanists. They just like,
2:57:57
the sound of the music. Like, it's not that deep, but Christians want to think it's like,
2:58:02
you, you with POD and corn, right? Like, oh, no. Yeah. It's just like, no, it's not. I'm in the,
2:58:08
and Christian metal dudes know, and a lot of them, like, they're not Christian, but they're like,
2:58:12
yeah, they just like the sound. It's not deep. Yeah. But there's this other sound that's gonna
2:58:18
get you, and then there's this other sound that's like, promiscuous sex, all the things,
2:58:23
all those things. It's beautiful sounding and it's, it's popular on radio and it's, but that's okay.
2:58:28
Yeah. It's really weird. I mean, that's what I talked about in episode 666 where I talked about,
2:58:33
okay, uh, you would, if then impending doom, if the murderer, uh, music video popped up on YouTube,
2:58:41
you would shield your kids eyes and turn it off and be like, oh, that's terrible. But then Taylor
2:58:44
Swift comes up and, you know, she's a mid 30s woman making angsty teenage breakup songs as,
2:58:51
you know, a woman that should be married with kids by now. And you know, you just let them
2:58:55
sing along to that, or it could be, could be Drake, it could be, you know, Jay Z, it could be, it could
2:59:01
be any, anything from any genre, and you're just letting them be romanced by things that are not
2:59:06
of God. And you're right. We, we have a, a natural aversion to the things that are overtly dark,
2:59:13
yeah, right? But then it's the things that are just the whispers, right? Because it's like, okay,
2:59:17
maybe you're not going to let your kid watch an exorcism, exorcism scary movie for sure,
2:59:21
but you're going to let them watch, you know, a sitcom like, uh, Modern Family where there's a
2:59:26
prominently featured gay couple that has adopted a child that was, you know, made via IVF with a
2:59:33
surrogate. And then they, then they had the baby. And so we're just going to sneak that stuff in
2:59:38
to the worldview through a very funny, very light, bright and fun lens or in a fun way.
2:59:44
Yeah. And yeah, that's, that's the hard part for, for a lot of people. But I mean, I gotta say, like,
2:59:49
I'm thrilled that, that guys like you and bands like impending doom that y'all are out there,
2:59:54
that y'all are still making that kind of music. Y'all have inspired a bunch of young metalheads to,
3:00:00
you know, follow that genre and to, and to go, go deep with that, but also to reckon with the
3:00:04
things of scripture and some of the, the darker themes of scripture as well. And you're continuing
3:00:10
to do that. And so, uh, it's been great to kind of watch y'all develop. And since we've, you know,
3:00:14
developed a friendship now, I feel like I'm invested in the future of impending doom and making sure
3:00:18
that's as successful as I should be. But maybe we've weaved in and out a lot of different things,
3:00:23
but as of, uh, for now, that's all for me is everything else you want to get off your chest.
3:00:27
No, man. We just appreciate everybody that listens to undaunted and all of his, um,
3:00:33
all of his, all of his, um, all of his shows, all of your shows, dude, I appreciate you. Like,
3:00:39
the, what the work that you're doing is freaking. It's amazing, dude. Ever since I started listening
3:00:43
to you and then like you're in my ecosystem with a bunch of other, your friends, man, it's just
3:00:48
really cool and it's very encouraging. So I appreciate you having me out, man. So thank you for listening
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