Matt Connarton Unleashed 12-28-24 hour 3

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Welcome everybody.

Speaker 6: Matt Connorton unleashed.

Speaker 7: We have entered our number three New Marrow trace on this Saturday morning, December twenty eight, twenty twenty four. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. And Jenny is here as well, of course at the news table accounted for. And the track we just heard is Calleen Season from the band of Volley, if I'm saying that correctly. And we've got the guys here. Welcome, gentlemen, Audi going on, So let's let's start.

Speaker 6: In the corner here. Tell us who you are and what you do in the band.

Speaker 8: My name is Sean and some people know me is Skeet three Pan, which is a it's a long stupid story.

Speaker 9: But which I will ask you about because I'm fantastic.

Speaker 8: So I am the vocalist and I write all the lyrics, okay, and uh yeah, I do some of the art stuff too, okay, excellent, excellent, And you, sir.

Speaker 9: My name is Dane.

Speaker 10: I'm the guitarist in Vali and Bally's newest member.

Speaker 6: Oh okay, well, congratulations.

Speaker 9: Also he also goes by dB Pooper that's.

Speaker 6: Correct, okay, which I will ask you about.

Speaker 11: And and you Jonah Jonah. I played the drums, You play the drums.

Speaker 6: Very good, very good turn. And that's not a drummer.

Speaker 3: But you don't know.

Speaker 6: But you don't have like a funny weird name, or he does, but we can't stay it on the radio.

Speaker 11: Oh gotcha Jona to Jonah five bone, uh something like that.

Speaker 9: Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 6: All right, So let me ask, so Sean, what what's your weird name again?

Speaker 9: Your nickname Skeet three pan?

Speaker 6: Okay.

Speaker 8: So I went to Taco Bell many many moons ago after having a few drinks, and I told them because they asked my name for the order, and I said my name was Scaffon with a K yes, and they spelled it as Skeet three pan and they yelled ski three pan to calm me over for my order, and it just, uh, it just stuck from there.

Speaker 6: So I love that.

Speaker 9: Yeah, that's that's great. Oh.

Speaker 8: Also side notes, so Cody isn't here. He is the bassist, uh and he puts that bag there, but he is at work. So okay, I wanted to clarify that. Oh okay, yeah, his name is Han Blo, so okay, yeah, all right.

Speaker 6: And where's your funny name game from?

Speaker 10: What was it?

Speaker 6: Or is that a story you can tell on the air.

Speaker 10: Well, it's easy because well, first off, the name is dB Pooper, don't forget, and it was it was just it was given to me by these gentlemen. So okay, oh okay, but it's it's it's an honorary name, so I'll take it with Pride.

Speaker 6: Okay. How long have you been in the band? You said your name?

Speaker 10: I want to say since like a Halloween okay, like like maybe like a couple weeks before Halloween.

Speaker 9: Yeah, our first show of them was Halloween.

Speaker 3: Uh.

Speaker 8: He had maybe three practices with us Pride too, and he just picked it up like that, yeah immediately.

Speaker 6: Yeah, Oh very good.

Speaker 9: Yeah. How long has the band existed?

Speaker 8: Technically since summer summer twenty twenty one. Yeah, so yeah, So we started the band. It was just Joanah and I and we were in the room of my old apartment. We had my electronic kit and I had this super crappy guitar that was fed straight into my DII and we had it monitoring so I could hear it well recorded. Yeah, and that's how we recorded those first three songs, no kidding. Yeah, So our summer twenty one demos up on our band camp. I think it's on Spotify as well. All our music's on all the streaming.

Speaker 10: But not to be confused with the three songs we're listening to today.

Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, there's quite the difference between the two sonically alone. But yeah, we just kept going and recording and doing music and having fun, and we eventually rained in our old guitarist, Josh. So we originally brought him in, I believe, on bass, and then I was gonna play bass, he was gonna play guitar, and Jonah would play drums, and he really rained us in because when Joana and I play together, we just play as fast as humanly possible. Yeah, so Josh was kind of our metronome. And then after we reeled Josh in, he suggested that we get Cody on bass, and right from the get go, it was like four friends in a room that have known each other forever, Like we were doing more joking than actually making music.

Speaker 8: So it was like it was a very nice fit. And I want to say a month after that month or two, we recorded all of the tracks that are on our album rough Cuts, which it's no misnomer.

Speaker 9: They're all like room recordings.

Speaker 8: That I ripped the audio from the video of, so they're not Wow, I bootleg all.

Speaker 9: Of our music.

Speaker 6: That's very punk rock, really is.

Speaker 8: So Jonah actually had this huge cassette deck because we put all our music on cassette. Yeah, like we handed it and uh wow, yeah, that's.

Speaker 9: A whole thing.

Speaker 8: But Jonah and I were using his cassette deck because mine I just have like the little single cassette one you'd bring to like a college lecture in the nineties. So it's not the best. And uh we tried his and for it to record it, I forget exactly what it's called. But it'll take like a speed speed dubbing. Yes, so his has speed dubbing, So it'll take like a two minute song and it'll record it faster, like it plays the tape at a higher speed while it's recording. Yeah yeah, but when it does that, you can actually turn the volume on and listen and it sounds like the Chipmunks.

Speaker 9: It's yeah yeah, and.

Speaker 11: The chip Punks.

Speaker 7: Yeah, I've heard of that speed dubbing. But but do you lose quality when you do it that way or does.

Speaker 10: It doesn't imagine?

Speaker 8: Yeah, I would definitely imagine. So, but we we weren't exactly much exactly so Jonah had an idea a while back that we would take like because I record to cassette from a line out on my computer directly into the cassette player. Okay, yeah, so it's it's a little jankee. But uh, he had the idea of doing that and then just continuing to record from cassette to cassette to cassette, so it just loses more and more quality until it's just like jarbled air.

Speaker 9: Yeah.

Speaker 8: So we we do want there to be some quality to our music where it's like you can listen to it, But of course we don't need super ritzy recordings and like a three thousand dollars per hour room. We want we want it to sound as true as it can't. Yeah, because we're not those type of people.

Speaker 10: We're not.

Speaker 9: We didn't pull up in a limousine, right right.

Speaker 10: Right, And you don't need a super expensive studio to catch authenticity either, you know what I mean. And I think that's kind of the biggest thing.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 11: Yeah, well you know we'll take one though, Yeah, yeah, as a free one.

Speaker 9: Yes, it would be rude to not accept. We're good guests.

Speaker 6: Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 7: If the opportunity presents itself, sure, why wouldn't you. Yeah, so do you so with the cassettes? So do you sell the cassettes that shows?

Speaker 3: Yeah?

Speaker 8: So we actually I think we only have three left, no kidding.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 8: So every or darn near every person that we've sold a cassette too has followed it up by saying, I have.

Speaker 9: No way to play this, right.

Speaker 8: Yeah, And almost all the people who didn't buy cassette said I have no way to play this right. But I think the two people we've given cassettes to actually had cassette players and were like, oh, you can just okay, take it if you're not going to use it as a paperweight.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 10: It also works great as a key.

Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a phenomenal.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 8: So I found a briefcase on the side of the road. There was a moving sale in this like ritzy neighborhood, and they had a briefcase. I was just going They had a huge table of free stuff, and I opened the briefcase up there was like seventy blank cassettes in it, wow wrapped. And I was like, well, I guess I'm starting a label.

Speaker 9: And I didn't. I never started a label, but.

Speaker 8: I put yeah, I put are I think two albums EPs, whatever you want to call them, on cassette or three? Actually, yeah, so three of our releases are on cassette or where we got rid of all of them. But yeah, we we recorded him in my room, from my computer to the tape deck. Yeah, made all the album art, made all the album sleeves.

Speaker 10: Like, well, we might get demand now I might have to mix some more.

Speaker 9: No, absolutely not.

Speaker 3: No.

Speaker 7: It's it's interesting to me because I remember it was probably seven or eight years ago. Maybe I was on band camp dot com and and I'm looking around. I'm looking for bands in the area and see who's out there, and and I noticed somebody. I don't remember who it was the first one I noticed, but I noticed somebody was selling cassette tapes.

Speaker 9: Yeah.

Speaker 7: I was like, huh, did I just time travel? And then I looked around. I'm looking at others, and I'm like, oh, it's not just them. This is a thing now, this is actually happening. People are doing this, I was like, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 8: It is super cool, Like I I am happy to see it because the more formats we have to listen to, the better. Like, yeah, sure you can get like a flack recording, listen to it on the nicest sound system you have via your computer, what have you. I still love the emotion behind the music that was recorded on to cassette, you know, not to discredit the stuff that's overproduced if you will. Yeah, it's just it feels more authentic, I know what you mean. Yeah, yeah, and.

Speaker 10: Almost how like Vinyl had like a resurgenist lately and you know, now cassettes and I bought my son like a whole bunch of CDs in a boombox for Christmas. Yeah, he's a you know, he's a he's ten, and you know, he didn't grow up with CDs. But he's listening to his room and he pops them in and listens to the tracks and he's really liking it. So it's cool to see that.

Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, well, ultimately, you know, people don't know that

Speaker 6: the quality. I mean, I think vinyl sounds better.

Speaker 7: Than anything, right nothing, Vinyl, Well, Vinyl sounds better than a CD and a CD sounds better than a wave file, and a wave file sounds better than an MP three and so on.

Speaker 4: You know.

Speaker 6: But but I think I think a lot of people just don't realize that.

Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, but and they all sound better than a tape.

Speaker 7: Because with a tape you'll you'll get I mean, I guess with a cassette you get some of that warmth that you get with vinyl, right yeah, but you might get some hiss too.

Speaker 10: I feel like with vinyl though too, with you know, amongst other things, it's like the ritual of doing it. You know, to leave and you're reading up everything and you put it down and set the needle and all that, so it's, you know, the ritual of it all.

Speaker 2: Well.

Speaker 7: My theory too is I think probably most people who buy vinyl never open it, or they open it, but they don't they don't play it.

Speaker 9: Yeah, like like just like with the cassettes.

Speaker 7: You know, if someone's like a really big fan, you know, they might just want it to have it, yeah, but they're not, but they have nothing to play it on. And I strongly suspect that most of the people who buy vinyl.

Speaker 6: Don't even have a record player, right, i'd have to agree with you. Yeah, but it's I think it was what was it, twenty twenty two.

Speaker 7: I think was the first year that vinyl had outsold CDs, Yeah, forever.

Speaker 6: I think it was twenty twenty.

Speaker 10: There everywhere f y E, Newberry, Comics, everywhere you go, there's records.

Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I haven't even forget even a Walmart. I've seen vinylists. They've got like that.

Speaker 9: That is the That is the funniest part of it.

Speaker 8: Like when when you start seeing a certain type of product being sold at Walmart, that's when you know it's like, oh, this is definitely a thing.

Speaker 10: Now got a little Walmart for my George Straight CDs.

Speaker 7: Yeah, it is so I I worked at I worked at f y E, which before that was Strawberries. I don't know if any of you guys remember Strawberries, No, but that was that was a record store that uh f ye came in and bought. But there were Strawberries locations all over New England. And I remember when we had when when I started there, we still had cassette tapes sure and uh and it was interesting. One of the things that I always found fascinating was to see, you know, older technology. You know, people make all kinds of predictions about when it's gonna go way, but then does it actually go away?

Speaker 7: You know, And cassettes, even at that time, hung on for a lot longer than I would have expected. And I think the reason was they were still selling new cars with cassette players in them, and then once that stopped, that's when we didn't have cassettes anymore in the store.

Speaker 6: So it's wild to see them come back. And of course vinyl, which never went away.

Speaker 9: People.

Speaker 7: It's funny people talk about vinyl like, oh, vinyl is back, and it's like, well, never stopped.

Speaker 6: They never stopped making vinyl.

Speaker 11: But I have a record player in my car.

Speaker 9: Do you really know? Oh? Okay, I think he's got the dash mount for that.

Speaker 7: So I was gonna say, I think if you buy a Tesla, you can actually get it with a record player in it. Like I'm not even kidding.

Speaker 8: Oh, man, have you ever seen the No, I don't think so it dude. It's basically like plastic the thickness of a soda bottle, like a two liters of soda. Yeah, and they I guess they used to give them mountain boxes a series, but I got one from one of my favorite bands. They have like they do it all DIY and I bought this record. I've never seen a flexi disc before in my life, and it's just like a sheet of plastic.

Speaker 9: It's so thin. And I pulled it out. I'm like, did these guys like pull a fast one on me? Is this a joke? And I put it on.

Speaker 8: It actually plays, and I looked it up. So flexi discs are like very low quality. The quality is terrible, but they're definitely a novelty because it is cool to see this thing and be like, I can play music off of that, no kidding. Yeah, I definitely recommend looking up and you just.

Speaker 6: Play it on a record player.

Speaker 8: Yeah, you can play it on a record player. And they're like, I was looking into how much it costs to get a run of them. It's not it's not worth it. There's more, there's more labor involved than you would imagine for that tiny little piece of plastic.

Speaker 7: But yeah, because it's probably there's probably like one place in the entire country that doesn't.

Speaker 8: Yeah, there's not too many. There's not a high demand for flexi discs for a reason.

Speaker 10: Yeah, a little bit of a new meaning to low fi.

Speaker 9: Yeah.

Speaker 6: Is it the size of a full record?

Speaker 8: Or is it what I believe? They make some that are the size of a full record. The one I got was like a seven inch okay, so yeah, well that's wild.

Speaker 7: Yeah, I've never even heard of that, which surprises me. But oh that's cool. I'm gonna have to look that up. I'm super curious now.

Speaker 9: Now.

Speaker 6: So but you guys put you do CDs to right.

Speaker 9: Or do you have we ever done a CD?

Speaker 11: Have yet to make a SA.

Speaker 9: Okay, I'm working on it.

Speaker 6: Yeah, but but but is that so I assume that's the plan for the new It's an EP right there.

Speaker 4: Yeah.

Speaker 8: Yeah, So it's gonna be a six song EPH. It's gonna be coming out January twenty fourth. Funny enough, we're playing at Codo and Lowell January twenty fourth with our good buddies Street Trash okay and the Lips Boys, the Lipstick Boys, Hatch and yes the Black Hat. Oh yes, so that should be a good time. I think it's uh, it's gonna start at nine. It's on our instag but uh yeah, six song EP on the way and we are going to put it on CDs. Okay, yeah, theoretically, theoretically they're gonna realistically, it's gonna be a CDR that we burnt it onto and I just wrote on sharp with sharpy on it, like this is it.

Speaker 9: Yeah.

Speaker 10: I'm a big CD fan, so I'll definitely be getting one. However that needs to come to fruition.

Speaker 9: It'll be five dollars. Okay.

Speaker 6: I love the CDR idea.

Speaker 8: Yeah, well I've I've done it before where I printed out the uh it's like a sticky label you can put right on top of the CD. Yeah, so I can make it look a little more Yeah.

Speaker 10: Yeah, but that's funny.

Speaker 7: When I first started doing this because I started, well, actually, yeah, when did I started interviewing bands? Like back in two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine. This show hasn't existed that long, but but I was doing it for a while before I was at W M and H. And when I first started, like people hadn't even gotten really comfortable yet with sending things via Dropbox and Google Drive or just attaching files to an email, and occasionally like guests would show up.

Speaker 6: The move was they'd have a.

Speaker 7: CD that they burned with the music on it that they wanted to play, and they'd write on it with a sharpie and then it wouldn't even be in a case.

Speaker 6: They would hand it to me. They'd put the CD on their finger and be like, here you.

Speaker 10: Go, I've heard you. I've heard you tell this more.

Speaker 4: Yeah.

Speaker 6: Sure, And that would happen all the time.

Speaker 10: Well if you have kids too, like you know, with like any like Xboxer PlayStation disc, like, if it's not in the machine, that's the last time it'll be in the machine, right right.

Speaker 6: Yeah, it's nice to have technology, you know, we do.

Speaker 7: We actually have a CD player here, but the only one who ever, I don't know if he has no rob as a veto, he also show here called Granted state of Mind and he uses it.

Speaker 6: But he's the only one. I've never even used a CD player.

Speaker 9: That's sick, yeah, but it's but yeah, the.

Speaker 7: Technology is wonderful, wonderful to have. So now, so where did you guys record so the new EP the six songs? And did you record it the same way you've recorded everything else or no?

Speaker 8: So we actually we we bucked up and started paying for studio time instead of just recording it with a crappy camera.

Speaker 9: Oh god, yeah. So we recorded it with our good buddy Axel.

Speaker 3: Uh.

Speaker 9: He helped us bang it out.

Speaker 6: It took I only know one Axel around your axle Baguley.

Speaker 9: Yeah, the very same.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 11: Yeah.

Speaker 10: He's a great guy.

Speaker 9: Yeah he as I.

Speaker 8: I told him several times. He's an absolute wizard.

Speaker 9: Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 8: So if he's listening, shout out to Axel for sure, or more specifically PACIFICO.

Speaker 9: Don't know what I mean, uh specific. Yeah.

Speaker 8: Uh So it took us about seven or eight hours to bang it all out. We did the drums all in one night, then we did guitar and bass the next night, then we did both Okay, so it was uh I'm still getting over being tired from all of that because that was the week before Christmas is when we like really started hammering it down.

Speaker 9: So it was a busy time to be doing that.

Speaker 10: Uh yeah, if I'm not mistaken, I want to say that's the first time we've all experienced that kind of like recording process. So it was you know, you're I gotta be on point and you know, I've getten lockdown and lock in.

Speaker 8: So I've done it once before, but it was maybe four hours worth of being in the studio and I was on drums the entire time, so it was like I was in a completely separate room with headphones on, and that was the first time I ever had to do that, and I'm like, this is the weirdest thing.

Speaker 6: Is weird, isn't it?

Speaker 9: It's so weird.

Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, oh that's uh, that's cool though, that you got recorded with AX. Where did the place in Nashawa? Yes, sir okay, excellent. Yeah, yep, that's outstanding. You guys ever play there at Terminus.

Speaker 8: So I have been talking to actually another shout out my good friend sim So she just started, uhim.

Speaker 6: Yeah, the very same yep, your people know my peep. Oh yeah, it's a small scene.

Speaker 9: Yeah.

Speaker 8: So she reached out to me recently about potentially getting us booked there in twenty twenty five, and I am quite excited, yeah because I my old old band actually used to practice there. Oh no kidding, yeah band, So it was Putrid Lizards at the time, and then yeah, we went through several name changes.

Speaker 4: It was.

Speaker 8: It was certainly an interesting period of my life.

Speaker 6: Futrid Lizards strike me.

Speaker 7: Strikes me as a kind of name where you're probably pretty safe that somebody else isn't gonna, you know, come after you and say.

Speaker 6: Hey we we already have that name, right am I?

Speaker 8: Right?

Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, correct? Correct to Mundo. Oh that's awesome.

Speaker 7: But no, that's cool that you were recorded with Axel. And then so now, why an EP? I'm always curious about this because again, we live in a time where you have so many different options. You can do an EP, you could do an album, you could just release singles. Yeah, a lot of the guests that we talked to lately they released a bunch of singles that eventually become an album, you know, instead of doing it the old way where they release an album and put out singles.

Speaker 6: But why did you guys decide to do an EP? What went into that decision?

Speaker 8: We had the opportunity, So it actually kind of started when Axel hit me up because he was saying, you wanted to record us. So we finally hashed out a day to start recording, and we thought, okay, well, we have like seven songs that we want to get recorded, and now that we have Dane and we also were deciding what do we want to rehash from Voluntary Suffering?

Speaker 9: That's our album? Okay, that we recorded prior, and we.

Speaker 8: Didn't necessarily want to rehash anything. So we went forth to start recording those six seven songs. It was seven, but one of them we scrapped for now, but uh, we just we recorded them and felt like this is exactly it, Like this is how it should be. We shouldn't add more, we shouldn't redact anything like it just it kind of all collectively felt right.

Speaker 10: It sounds how Baldy should sound exactly.

Speaker 8: And it's like you need to know how much to how much to pour into something. You don't want to overpour and overfill the cup, you know.

Speaker 6: Yeah, so yeah that makes sense.

Speaker 9: Yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 7: Actually, it's kind of nice right when it when it's sort of organic, when the when the answer just presents itself, it's like this feels right, this sounds right.

Speaker 9: Yeah exactly.

Speaker 10: It should be fun, and you don't want to get to a point where like you're agonizing over every silly little thing that's going on in the recording thing too. I mean, you know, we we we want to rock out and want to sound good, but we're not like, you know, going to lose our minds over it, right.

Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, that makes that makes sense.

Speaker 11: I don't know what the difference between an EP and an LP and an album. So I'm glad Sean answered that question.

Speaker 10: I don't know if he really answered it.

Speaker 9: I ramble, dude.

Speaker 8: I think it's I think it's very subjective, like because you know, especially in punk rock, you have like nine minute long songs, right, So is the standard set on the track the amount of tracks, or is it set on the length in terms of.

Speaker 10: You know, I never thought of it ginning to something else that's gonna come.

Speaker 8: Out, because you can have like you have these crazy Norwegian black metal bands that have songs that are like thirteen minutes long and they have three songs and they're like, I'm not gonna do death.

Speaker 9: Just to picture it. But it's like this is an album, like, right, it's three.

Speaker 6: Songs, like, but if it's an hour long, it's hard to argue exactly.

Speaker 9: That's what I mean.

Speaker 10: Like AFI has an EP and it only has four songs on it, but it.

Speaker 8: Also I feel like that's typically what you find on an EP is like anywhere from one to like seven songs, and then there's that weird like limbo seven to nine songs where it's like, yeah, you're you're curious of what you are, I suppose and then you have anything past that hours like that's an album. But we could be funny and do like a twenty six song EP.

Speaker 10: We have it in us. We could definitely definitely have it now that we know and then you know the recording process and all that sort of thing. I feel like that's possible if you wanted to do, like, you know, a thirteen fourteen song thing and have it be anything legit.

Speaker 11: Yeah, twenty six songs single?

Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, double album.

Speaker 8: We're never putting out We're never putting out another album. We're just gonna put out EPs.

Speaker 6: Do you got how many songs do you guys have?

Speaker 3: It?

Speaker 6: Sounds like you guys have a lot of songs, right, geez.

Speaker 10: I don't know. I never really thought about it. Maybe roughly it could be in the twenties.

Speaker 9: Yes, we're in the twenties.

Speaker 8: Like, and that's involving like the half written one, the ones that we've played thought in progress, Yeah.

Speaker 10: Stuff like that.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 11: Yeah, covers of bands and owns ever heard? So we just got our song.

Speaker 8: Yeah, we uh that about doing Yeah, we're like we need we need to learn covers so that when where it shows people will at least recognize something that was our logic behind it. And then we're like, let's cover the like lowercase B sides from every band, right, like the Four of Us. Yeah, I mean, well, people know Nirvana, but they don't know Tourett's by Nirvana because we cover that.

Speaker 9: Yeah.

Speaker 10: When when I first got in the band, I thought Floyd the Barber was a song that they wrote. I was like, wow, you guys have great songs, and they're like, banks, we didn't write it.

Speaker 6: Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 7: I was in a band that we did a Kiss cover called Hate, and like only the most diehard Kiss fan would know about that song from their most obscure.

Speaker 11: Album sound like a Kiss.

Speaker 7: It doesn't, Yeah, and and but we would play it, and you know, we never told anybody, you know, and nobody nobody knew, Like nobody nobody ever came up to us and said, wow, I can't believe you're covering that's like the most obscurre Kiss song ever, Like literally nobody ever said it to us. Yeah, and we just we just put it in the set because we liked it. Yeah, it's funny how that that can work out. What do you like what do you guys do for covers?

Speaker 9: So we got.

Speaker 11: It's Nirvana.

Speaker 8: Yeah, we we have a Turettes by Nirvana, Floyd the Barber by Nirvana. We do Molly's Lips, which is a cover of the Vasilines that Nirvana did.

Speaker 10: Oh that's a double cover.

Speaker 8: Yeah, we were working. Oh, paper Planes by m I A Kid. Yeah, yeah, that's kind of cool. It's a goofy one that we do.

Speaker 6: What do you do about the gunfire? Does everybody clap their.

Speaker 9: Hands or something? So I'm glad you know the song?

Speaker 8: So for the gunfire, Jonah just hits the snare and I do like weird little wootily woos with my voice.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 10: So yeah, we thought we thought about though, if we'd were to record that cover, we'd actually use real guns.

Speaker 3: Right right?

Speaker 6: Well, yeah you want to. I mean that's like the punk rock Yeah, exactly, keep it real.

Speaker 8: So I saw I saw one of the funniest things I've seen. It was on YouTube and they did paper Planes by m I A. But if they used muskets, it's so funny.

Speaker 9: I have to see that. It's amazing.

Speaker 12: Man.

Speaker 8: There's one shot that's licked off and then it's like two minutes of them packing it really.

Speaker 9: Yeah, it is hilarious.

Speaker 6: Yeah, that's great, that's great. Whose idea was that to do that?

Speaker 9: Oh dude, I have no idea.

Speaker 8: It's someone on the internet graced us with its presence.

Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's awesome. That's awesome. Oh so where does the name come from?

Speaker 3: Uh?

Speaker 8: Yeah, so I was listening to a podcast about I think it was World War One and uh, because I just I listened to like random podcasts every day when it was working, and they were talking about the method of attack of Bali and Joan and I were jamming at the time, and I really that word just resonated with me and stuck in my head. So I told him I wanted to try to use that name, and he's like, I definitely dig it. We have to spell it differently, though, Okay, that's why it's spelled the way it is. And like we've gotten the funniest pronunciations.

Speaker 8: I'm glad you in the email you asked me, like phonetically how to use that. Yeah, because most people call us valie and I get it.

Speaker 10: Valley girls.

Speaker 9: Yeah, but I didn't know.

Speaker 6: Yeah, Like I saw that and I thought I was wondering, like is it the name of a place?

Speaker 4: You know?

Speaker 9: The only other thing I found online is some like Italian muffler.

Speaker 10: Man custom exhaust for your like it's from a Romeo or whatever.

Speaker 7: So do people yeah, you said people mispronounce it? Does anybody ever spell it wrong like on a poster or something.

Speaker 8: Or No, we haven't encountered that yet. So the main reason is most of the flyers I make, so I guess I lucked out with that, But the flyers that I didn't make, we haven't had it spelled incorrectly yet.

Speaker 9: That's good because there's more, there's.

Speaker 8: More communication that happens online and like with our Instagram right there.

Speaker 9: Yeah, So it's like I would hope you wouldn't spell it wrong.

Speaker 10: Man, five letters isn't too hard.

Speaker 8: Yeah, but if someone was like doing speech to text to just be like volley like a volleyball. We actually we were joking about for our merch making volley volleyballs.

Speaker 6: So that's a good idea. That's a good idea.

Speaker 2: I like that.

Speaker 6: Why not?

Speaker 9: Why not? Now?

Speaker 6: So Sean you write all the lyrics?

Speaker 10: I do?

Speaker 9: Yes?

Speaker 6: Is there like a theme or does it vary?

Speaker 9: It varies?

Speaker 8: I I kind of just write what I'm feeling. I don't necessarily fixate on a topic like I. I don't give myself a topic to write about when I'm writing. I just I'll see like a word on the wall, or something in the newspaper or something on the TV, just one word and it just it lights a fire into my butt, and I just start writing.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 8: More often than not, I write the lyrics before we write the music, so to speak. But we'll have, for instance, Dane'll start playing a riff and I'll be like, I'll either start writing something or in my giant folder of half written songs, I'm like, I think this will fit perfectly. Yeah, And I have way too, because I have massive ADHD so like, I literally have like a thousand notes in my.

Speaker 9: Like lyric folder.

Speaker 10: I've seen him scroll through, you know.

Speaker 8: Yeah, but we like typically it's more I suppose there's a darker vibe to our songs and whatnot. I wouldn't necessarily call myself a missanthroat, but I would say they're a little misanthropic. But it's it's very cathartic for me to write lyrics and then yell those lyrics with my best friends, no doubt, yeah, it's like, there are bad things that are happening in the world, but we're having a ball. However, I'm cognitive of the fact that there's bad things going on, so maybe I'll tell some people.

Speaker 11: He stole the chorus of fTPM from me.

Speaker 9: Yes, I did.

Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, Jonah, that's my only contribution, his only lyrical contribution.

Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, okay.

Speaker 7: I'm curious about the ADHD does that, and there's specific reason I'm asking, But does that help you, Like, do you feel that that that helps you in terms.

Speaker 6: Of writing and creativity? Is it a is it an advantage somehow? A?

Speaker 9: Yes and no.

Speaker 8: It's like a it's a very black and white yes and no. It's either it depends on like there's so many factors like what I ate during the day, how my mood is going and whatnot. But I like I'm either a hurricane of just starting things and not finishing them, like back to back to back. I'll start sweeping the floor and then get distracted and do something else, or I like hyper fixate on it.

Speaker 9: I lock in on it and just yeah, it's more often than not it h it throws a stick in the spokes.

Speaker 7: Okay, The reason I was curious, is I don't know if you know doctor Kevin ross Emory.

Speaker 9: He's I don't think so.

Speaker 7: He's from Nashua, and I've done a lot of work with him over the years. I'm on his podcast sometimes and he's been on the show a lot, and I know him really well. But he he's done a lot of work in the area of a d D and ADHD and he's written he's written some books. One of the books is called Managing the Gift, and in it he talks about how it can actually be an advantage if you play it right, and and how you know a lot of creative people you know have ADHD and a lot of very successful entrepreneurs you know, and there's a spectrum and so forth.

Speaker 7: But but yeah, he talks about how a lot of musicians you know, that it can again if you if you use it to your advantage, you can it can help you with your creativity and coming up with concepts and then expanding on them.

Speaker 8: And I think if anything musically that it's helped with, it's playing the drums really, because I am always tapping on stuff like NonStop ever since I was a kid.

Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm the same I'm not a drummer. I'm a bass player, but I constantly.

Speaker 9: Tell yeah, I uh.

Speaker 8: When I first started playing drums, that's how I would like write most of my drumming and learn and practice was like in class. I would be stopping my foot, tapping my right hand, tapping my left hand, and visualizing the kit, which did not help it. It almost made it more enticing to tap on everything. And my classmates weren't too stoked on that, as you can imagine.

Speaker 10: I bet your teachers loved you.

Speaker 9: No, they hated me, dude.

Speaker 7: Oh wow, that's too bad, because, you know, because they should have been. It'd be nice if they were supportive. But teachers don't always know what.

Speaker 10: I had a tough time in school too. Yeah, well for sure.

Speaker 9: Yeah.

Speaker 10: I was always getting in trouble and being a menace and yeah, you know, but it's it's all how you turn out in the and I suppose.

Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly exactly. How how about you?

Speaker 11: I got good grades when I didn't know anyone.

Speaker 6: Yeah, what do you mean?

Speaker 11: I just ran cross country and track and did my homework because I didn't know anyone. When I moved to Florida for high school.

Speaker 6: Oh okay, but then I.

Speaker 11: Decided that I had other things. I want to tape it off.

Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. We should uh oh Jesus already eleven thirties. Let's uh, let's play another track. Oh, by the way, so what's up before we do that?

Speaker 4: Though?

Speaker 2: So?

Speaker 6: What is what is calling season about?

Speaker 7: Because the lyrics are really interesting and that that that's part of why I was asking too about uh, you know, is there a theme to your your your lyrics?

Speaker 9: Oh? Well, that one is about killing and eating the rich, the top one percent, like the folks that are so rich. You have no idea who they.

Speaker 7: Are, right, I approve, Yeah, I'm not literally doing it, yes, yes, yeah, I approve of them.

Speaker 8: Yeah yeah in Minecraft. In Minecraft, No, it's it's metaphorical. I'm not I'm not, of course saying like, hey, go do this dog, but uh, it's it's just it's what I am at the collective messages that the general populace feels about the struggle that we're all going through right now to some degree, because there's different facets of struggling financially. But yeah, you know the fact that you have someone like Jeff Bezos or Bezos however, your pronounce his name. That make my yearly salary in a minute, like, I feel like you have enough, buddy, Right, I'm all for folks winning the medal, but.

Speaker 9: Come on, you know what I mean.

Speaker 7: And and that concentration of wealth, it becomes more and more concentrated all the time. Yes, exactly, Fewer and fewer people control more and more of the wealth.

Speaker 9: Exactly.

Speaker 11: Are you registered to vote, Sean?

Speaker 6: No, you should, Yes, I have.

Speaker 9: I actually voted for Dane.

Speaker 6: Oh that's nice, rotamentary.

Speaker 9: It would have been nicer if you one.

Speaker 10: I don't remember what I what I was running for.

Speaker 6: I was gonna say, were you on the ballot or was it around now?

Speaker 9: I put him on the ballot. Oh very good. Yeah, it's very.

Speaker 10: Sweet of you.

Speaker 6: Yeah, there's something very that's very new Hampshire.

Speaker 9: Yeah, I do that.

Speaker 10: That's a very nice I think Cody ran for sheriff.

Speaker 11: I want to say I voted for Cody for sheriff too.

Speaker 10: I quoted for Cody.

Speaker 9: Oh, very nice.

Speaker 6: I would have known.

Speaker 10: I think he'd make a great sheriff.

Speaker 8: So he said, he said, if he became the sheriff, he would make everybody in the entire state of deputy.

Speaker 6: Okay, I mean that's a lot of responsibility. I don't know if I'd want.

Speaker 9: To be a well tough luck buddy or a deputy.

Speaker 10: It'd be cool to have the badatory deputy service.

Speaker 9: It'd be hilarious if everybody in an entire state was a deputy.

Speaker 10: Watch out Massachusetts.

Speaker 6: I feel like that.

Speaker 7: Would not be very New Hampshire. That would be more like Utah or something. Yeah, I could see that where you just deputize everybody.

Speaker 11: Yeah, everybody's a wife in Utah.

Speaker 10: Yes, more wifes per capita.

Speaker 4: There you go.

Speaker 6: That might be a lyrical idea. You could do something with that.

Speaker 7: Well, let's let's play this track Static. Anything we should know about this before we play it.

Speaker 8: Uh, If you come to see us when we're playing this live and you don't yell along to the part that you'll know what to yell along to once you hear it, I'm gonna be pretty sad.

Speaker 6: Okay, all right, fair enough? Check it out. This is Static. The band is Volley, and they're here with us live in studio.

Speaker 1: I feel I can't understanding. I'd feel like my labor I feel like he's so made up. Last going got your picture. But I feel like God the an he tries to clinic in.

Speaker 4: The script shirt. Stand, it's a static stacking washed away and it's a static stag it wash away.

Speaker 1: Stand, it's a static stag.

Speaker 3: It washed away. Yeah, it's a.

Speaker 1: Static staging walked away.

Speaker 2: I feel like got me any priceman and on the sun what I feel like on the fiery pemin and.

Speaker 1: A broken gun so ready to furst. I'm ready to burst.

Speaker 2: Someone bottled up stuck that inca ready jumping like.

Speaker 4: Day dag away, dagon walking away and it's a dand.

Speaker 6: Away that is static. The band is volley here with us.

Speaker 8: And I'm a robot. My voice sounds like a flanger right now. But Axel is assuring me that I'm not going to sound like a robot. I will, in fact sound like a human being, because I am a human being that is not, in fact a robot.

Speaker 10: It's true, he is not a robot.

Speaker 9: Thank you for leaving that in, Axel, I love you.

Speaker 9: Oh yeah, you can turn it off.

Speaker 6: That's all right, we got this far.

Speaker 9: Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 6: I totally forgot that there was something else there that that makes two of us.

Speaker 10: Well, at least it was radio friendly.

Speaker 4: Yeah.

Speaker 11: Absolutely, we have to do that to make the song two minutes.

Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, that's.

Speaker 6: Right, that's smart.

Speaker 2: No.

Speaker 7: I when I listened to it, I was like, I got to remember this something at the end, and then of course I forgot.

Speaker 6: But uh no, I like that track though. It's very very catchy.

Speaker 9: Thank you.

Speaker 6: I like the do you want to tell you? You were telling off air? Do you want to Yeah, what you were talking about?

Speaker 9: Yeah?

Speaker 8: So I wrote that on guitar like four years ago, give your take. And this was when I was playing guitar a lot. I I broke my wrist a few years later, like once Volley started really picking up, I broke.

Speaker 9: I'm so sorry.

Speaker 6: That's all right. We're on a we're on a delay. I caught it. We're on an eight second delay. So when the when the naughty punk rock?

Speaker 11: Yeah, sorry, you want to say something bad?

Speaker 4: No.

Speaker 8: So I broke my wrist and I was unable to play that song anymore because there's a solo part that it's very difficult to do, and we kept trying and trying and trying. So at one point we were just playing the last two measures of it. After it does the little solo we part and we wound up messing around at practice and I was yelling along to what the solo would have been that I was doing and to do that just so we could keep time I was going. But and when we recorded it, I was doing that in the background and Axel said that sounds pretty sick.

Speaker 8: Next practice, I texted them, I'm like, we need to at least try this, like hear me out, let's try it.

Speaker 9: And we did it.

Speaker 8: We all just looked at each other and we're like, oh, that's it. So now we have that part where we all yelled the solo instead, and it's just it gives me like such a great feeling every time I hear it, because, yeah, what we want is we want people to hear it and yell along with us, right, because we're all we're all in it together to have fun, right right.

Speaker 10: Yeah, Live at a show, it's definitely easy for the audience to like chime in on that and yeah the whole place, you know, you know, yelling it.

Speaker 6: Yeah, No, that's very cool. That's very cool. Are you guys playing out a lot?

Speaker 9: We have been playing more and more.

Speaker 8: Yeah, So we have a show January twenty fourth at CODO and Lowell. We're playing the twenty seventh at that's January. Yeah, we're playing the twenty seventh of January at O'Brien's in Boston.

Speaker 6: Oh nice.

Speaker 8: We're setting up a show in February at the Keep and Lowell, so we're super stoked for that. We have been playing out quite a bit.

Speaker 10: This will be our second trip to O'Brien's. We just played with Already Dead and Dave Strong a couple of weeks ago. Oh my god.

Speaker 11: Yeah.

Speaker 9: Yeah, big shout outs to both of them.

Speaker 7: We love absolutely, Yeah, we loved Dave's been on the show a couple of Dave's amazing and we had Already Dead on I don't know, maybe six months ago.

Speaker 11: Yeah.

Speaker 6: Yeah, they're fantastic.

Speaker 8: They're awesome. There's such funny guys. Like after the show is finished, we sat and joked with them for like thirty minutes.

Speaker 9: Yeah, it is great.

Speaker 7: Yeah, and there they have some pretty good, pretty sophisticated themes to their Yeah.

Speaker 6: Absolutely, yeah, no, I love I love those guys. That's that's great.

Speaker 7: Do you guys have any is there anybody in the scene you kind of you know, because it happens organically, anybody that you kind of team up with.

Speaker 6: Are there any other bands that you play a lot of shows?

Speaker 8: It's so street trash there. There are buddies. We play with them pretty frequently. A lot of the shows that we've played have been with them, from either of them reaching out to us with an opportunity or us reaching out to them and saying like, hey, we want to play with you guys again. Yeah, And every time we play together, it's just it's so much fun. It it feels very organic, like because we basically just laugh the entire time. Yeah, and we're not playing music, we're messing with each other.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 6: Yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 9: That's very cool.

Speaker 10: Street trash rules for sure.

Speaker 7: I don't think, Yeah, we haven't had them, have we Jenny, Oh, she's busy doing something.

Speaker 3: Yeah.

Speaker 7: Yeah, it becomes a blur. I've been doing this a long time. It's like sometimes sometimes we'll we'll have somebody and it's like looking forward to meeting them. It's like, oh, I've already met them, but I don't realize it until they're here, you know.

Speaker 6: But uh no, but that's you guys.

Speaker 2: Uh.

Speaker 7: What about in the summertime? Do you plan to do a lot of shows in the summer. It seems like a lot of bands that's when they.

Speaker 8: Yes, so we are actually, uh, we're hoping for a busy summer, but we're also trying to formulate it's towards the end of summer, we're gonna try to go to Japan. Yeah, so Cody, again, big ups to Cody. I know you're listening all at work. So Cody was in Japan for a few years and he brought up the idea last year that we should go to Japan. And we're like, we're trying to say, of all our money from shows and like piling our own personal funds too, to try to go over there for like a week and wow, yeah, just just have a blast.

Speaker 10: It seems Cody has like connects with some venue owners over there when he was stationed in Japan. And yeah, the punk scene in Japan is really cool too. It's like they're still in the eighties punk scene. Still, it's still really raw and still really you know, kind of that that original punk vibe over there.

Speaker 6: No kidding, I had no idea.

Speaker 10: Yeah, what's the EP comes out, We're gonna send it their way and you know, get them, get them primed.

Speaker 9: Oh wow. Yeah, the punk scene in Japan is really really big, no kidding.

Speaker 6: Yeah, I wouldn't have guessed. Now, are there other American bands that they go there to tour that go to Japan.

Speaker 9: Specifically that you yeah, a good amount of them?

Speaker 8: None then, I know personally yeah yeah, but if there's a larger, larger scale punk band that you can think of, they probably tore over in Japan.

Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, okay, there's a Facebook page too that you know, it's all just you know what bands are coming through Japan in the dates and stuff like that. So yeah, okay, you know, tune into what's going on with that.

Speaker 9: That's wild.

Speaker 6: Are there any Japanese punk bands a tour here that I don't know about?

Speaker 8: So Oda Boke Beaver there. I believe all female punk band, I know it. If not all, most of the members are. It's like a female front at punk band. And they are phenomenal. They're so fast and so like sick. Yeah, they just got done touring over here, no kidding, yeah, like a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 9: I didn't get to go see him. I was super bummed. But yeah, they're very very good. Oh wow, yeah, oh.

Speaker 6: That's pretty cool. Huh.

Speaker 7: It's interesting. Yeah, I had no idea if you are just joining us. We have Volley here with us alive in studio. Hi, when does the when does the EP? I'm sure you said it, but I can't remember when when does the EP come out?

Speaker 6: Or do you know yet?

Speaker 8: So it's gonna be releasing January twenty fourth.

Speaker 10: January twenty fourth, other night, which is the same night as the Codo Lowell Show.

Speaker 9: Yeaes gotcha Codo and Lowell.

Speaker 7: Hey, is that a new place by the way, Codo, Because all of a sudden, I'm hearing about it, and I.

Speaker 8: Know I'm not certain that it's necessarily a new place. I think it's new that they've started hosting music. I could be very wrong, though, So I just discovered this place because it's the first I started hearing of it too. So there's a location in loll And then there's a location in Salem.

Speaker 10: Oh okay, Yeah, I want to say Street Trash just played in Salem last night. Yeah, literally last night Friday and Friday night they played it Salem.

Speaker 9: Codo.

Speaker 7: Oh okay, I'm gonna have to learn about that because I got a yesterday, I got a text message from somebody wanted to know if I had a suggestion for a band, yeah, to play a show at Codo and Lowell And I'm like, Codo, that's new to me. Yeah, so that's cool though, I mean we need more venues, we always do.

Speaker 8: We absolutely need more venues there. There aren't too many around this neck of the woods. Union Coffee in Milford is it has a special place in our heart really Yeah?

Speaker 9: Yeah, Yeah, shout out Union Coffee for sure, and big ups to Drew. I love you.

Speaker 6: Why is uh?

Speaker 7: I've heard of it, but I've never been there. What's special about Union Coffee?

Speaker 8: So it's a tiny little coffee shop that you would not expect an absolute hurricane of a punk show to happen.

Speaker 9: It happened at Yeah.

Speaker 8: So last time we played there, it was too cool to play outside, so we played inside or it was rainy something like that. But it was pretty cramped in there and it was just chaos. Street Trash actually brought this big inflatable pill that they threw up into the crowd and that people were smacking it around and it wound up hitting one of the beer taps and beer was spring everywhere.

Speaker 9: Well, they were playing and it was.

Speaker 8: Like that's the coolest thing I've ever seen. Yeah, it was an absolute madhouse. And prior to that we played outside and it was just so much fun because that was the first show in a long while where I got to just do vocals, and when I can just do vocals, I run around like a madman.

Speaker 9: Yeah, just like act like a crazy person.

Speaker 6: So yeah, oh that's cool. So the owners there were cool about the beer tap.

Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I don't think anybody really notified.

Speaker 10: I don't think any other venue in town because there's a few you know restaurants stuff where they have you know, local bands that do cover songs and stuff like that, and I don't think anyone else would let them get away with that in that place, you know.

Speaker 6: Yeah, so.

Speaker 10: Having as much fun though, Yeah.

Speaker 8: The Shasking in Manchester is sick.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not certain of too many other places. I know there are other venues in Manchester, the Jewel. The Jewel I'm talking about more like our type of venues you can do what you do. Yeah, yeah, the places where you go to the bathroom and the stall door was ripped off.

Speaker 9: That's where our music.

Speaker 10: There may or may not be a volley sticker in the urinal I don't know who put that there.

Speaker 6: Oh my goodness.

Speaker 7: Well, yeah, so the EPs in January and then are you guys already working on new stuff for the next.

Speaker 8: One or we have actually several other songs that are like half written, uh, that that have music behind them too. And we're always, you know, messing around of practice. So we just got done building our new practice space. Ah, so we were pretty occupied with that. But now that we're all moved in, it's like our little clubhouse.

Speaker 6: Cool.

Speaker 8: We're working on soundproofing because it's loud in there. Yeah, but yeah, we have been playing more frequently too, so we haven't had much time to have just a relaxing practice. It's like, we have a show Friday, we need to we need to stop goofing off, right, which we still goof off during that time.

Speaker 6: But what do you guys run us a couple times a week or so?

Speaker 8: We do once a week. Uh, it's it changes. So we were doing every Monday, now we do every Wednesday.

Speaker 9: Not that people are like.

Speaker 8: Concerned with what day of the week unless they're trying to kill us.

Speaker 10: I suppose we had a show and then now it's been the holidays and you know a little little disbanded a couple of weeks.

Speaker 8: Yeah, so you have you have Thanksgiving, then you have like, what's three or four weeks until Christmas, So that entire chunk the past two months of my life have just been carpentry. Yeah, carpentry, uh, sleeping, occasionally, recording music, and taking care of my kiddo.

Speaker 6: Yeah.

Speaker 9: So yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7: Sometimes it can be a relief when the holidays are over and it's like, Okay, I can get back.

Speaker 9: Dude. December December twenty sixth is my favorite.

Speaker 7: I was like that when I worked in retail. Oh man, December twenty sex could not come soon enough.

Speaker 8: I worked in retail too, and Black Friday was just an absolute nightmare. It's been probably about eight or nine years since I worked in retail, but brother, if Black Friday is a nightmare.

Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7: Well, when I worked for Fye, because you know, Strawberries had been bought by Fye, and that's a chain of stores that just won't die. Every time it looks like they're done, they open a new location somewhere and they survived. But over the course of the span of the years that I worked there, like Black Friday was so just monstrously busy.

Speaker 6: But by the time I left. I left that.

Speaker 7: Company in twenty thirteen, and by that point Black Friday would be so busy at the beginning of the day, and then by the time we would get to the afternoon, you know, because online shopping is so big now, it would be just like kind of a normal day. It really changed over the years, and I found that I didn't mind it as much because it was like not so overwhelming. Like when I first started there, it would be like Black Friday was super busy, and then every day it was super busy right up to Christmas, and then by the time I left there, it was like Black Friday was kind of busy, and then the rest of the time would be just kind of normal.

Speaker 7: Yeah, and then you'd be wondering, are they going to close this location in January, which often turned out.

Speaker 9: To be the case, But it becomes a spirit Halloween pretty quick.

Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely So. Guys, where should people go online to keep up with everything that you're doing? Where's the best place?

Speaker 8: So on Instagram it's at Bally six sixty six because we're super edgy. On Facebook dot com, that's www dot Facebook dot com.

Speaker 9: Uh, I feel to need to clarify it. Oh lord, uh so I believe it.

Speaker 8: I believe it's also Bally sixty sixty six. We are on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, all that stuff.

Speaker 9: Uh, band Camp and band camp.

Speaker 8: Our favorite is when you go to our band camp because when you go to our band camp, we actually get a cut of some of the profit when you purchase our stuff instead of getting a fraction of a cent every thousand plays or something. Right, Not that we're in it for the money, but if there's money being made, I don't feel like ninety nine percent of it should be going to the streaming platform, you know what I mean. And band camp has band Camp Friday, so if you need to buy somebody a belated Christmas present, you should totally buy them something from our merch store.

Speaker 9: There you go, There you go.

Speaker 10: That's www dot bali, dot bandcamp, dot com.

Speaker 6: Did somebody tell you guys that that's my pet peeve? The Www?

Speaker 2: No?

Speaker 9: I know that's awesome though it's a lot of people's pet peeves.

Speaker 7: That's why I did it, Dude, I've been I've been upset about that for twenty years, like literally twenty years ago. I was going, why do I still hear radio ads where when they give the website they say w WLB.

Speaker 9: Why I could have said worldwide Web?

Speaker 4: Do that?

Speaker 9: Is that actually what that stands for? Worldwide Web? Yeah?

Speaker 10: Dog, yeah, okay, I heard.

Speaker 9: I had heard that.

Speaker 10: I just wasn't sure if someone was just trying to mess with me or now it sounds too perfect.

Speaker 1: I swear to you.

Speaker 7: Twenty years ago I was complaining about it, like, why why do people still say that it's a rightful gripe.

Speaker 9: It's there's no need to say it.

Speaker 8: What about http slash slash you forgot the semi colon?

Speaker 7: Okay, I'll only say this publicly because I don't think he actually listens to the show. Doctor Kevin I mentioned earlier, Doctor Kevin ross Emory he had an ad once. It was it was just it was a an ad for for his book. I think it was probably managing the gift an ad for his book. That it wasn't on the radio.

Speaker 6: It was only online.

Speaker 9: Yeah, but it was.

Speaker 6: It was like it was produced like a radio ad.

Speaker 7: I swear to god, it actually said in the ad go to h t t oh no actually.

Speaker 6: Said that in the ad.

Speaker 9: That is hilarious, And I just I was.

Speaker 11: I never and I'm still talking about the ad today, so I think it was successful.

Speaker 6: Well, that's true.

Speaker 10: My grandmother is going to actually type that in.

Speaker 9: So what you're going to do is you're going to turn on your personal computer.

Speaker 7: Yeah, I just uh, but the ad wasn't successful because I don't remember exactly what.

Speaker 4: It was for.

Speaker 6: I just said it was for doctor.

Speaker 9: You just remember his flub.

Speaker 6: But yeah, I remember hearing him saying in the ad for more information.

Speaker 9: Go to H T T.

Speaker 6: I'm like, what is that happening?

Speaker 10: That's precious airtime You're wasting by saying all that exactly.

Speaker 7: Well, that's that's that's why, even because even today I hear it in radio ads.

Speaker 6: Sure, and I'm baffled, like, why would you do that? Why would you waste that time?

Speaker 11: Anyway, I am wasted airtime.

Speaker 10: You know you're not. Jonah.

Speaker 9: We love you.

Speaker 7: Well, I appreciate you coming in. This has been this has been great having absolutely we will do it again in the future. And we can close with this track sleep anything we should know about this.

Speaker 8: So this song is about how I've just been dealing with massive sleep deprivation for thirty whole years. I just I have a very hard time sleeping, so I wrote this and also, yeah, I don't know if my son's listening, but shout out to Mason tax.

Speaker 10: Fraud Sean sleep situation is getting better though. He was gifted a new mattress for Christmas. Shout out to a mattress firm or I don't know who you want to.

Speaker 9: I don't know if we can do that.

Speaker 10: He's sponsored.

Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you to the manufacturer of my match. Well from a person who coiled the springs to the person who stuffed it.

Speaker 6: Yes, very good. Well it's probably all machines.

Speaker 10: But well we can hope hope.

Speaker 7: Right exactly exactly, Well, we'll we'll play that in a moment. But Jenny, before we go, do you want to plug your website?

Speaker 10: Absolutely, you can come check me out at gen coffee dot com, g E N N C O F f U I dot com for all my creatives and trouble making.

Speaker 6: And links to your article. You've been you've been in the news quite a bit.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's there too.

Speaker 7: Yes, yes, absolutely, all right, So we will end with this track. This is called Sleep. The band is Volley Again. Guys, thank you so much, thank you, good night, and if you missed any part of today's show. It will be up in just a little bit at w m H radio dot organ at my website Matt Conorton dot com, and we'll talk at you a little bit later.

Speaker 6: Bye everybody, Bye.

Speaker 3: Bye sleep time.

Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 3: To be on the seat.

Speaker 2: Cannot try to count. Be poor there, bunny can talk my guys have a shrug.

Speaker 12: What a lot of the jackpot of lethargy. I feel like I'm running down a feather seat.

Speaker 4: Ye, feel like I'm running out a boat.

Speaker 1: Ye feel like I'm running down a feather cheat.

Speaker 3: Ye feel like I'm.

Speaker 1: Running out a boat. Got here, I sleep dolling asleep, ex peenny time and gone their future.

Speaker 12: So s to sase, bring by your name big o the space current Saya.

Speaker 1: To be so the sea? Can I sign a rout before that? You're funny?