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5:55 Speaker 4: gonna have to ask if I'm saying that correctly. But

5:56 Speaker 4: let's see, I think we have uh, I think we

5:59 Speaker 4: have at least Gas from the band and we'll see

6:01 Speaker 4: you else Gas.

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6:03 Speaker 13: Yeah, go on as well.

6:06 Speaker 4: Oh wonderful, wonderful, welcome. Guys. Love that song, very very

6:10 Speaker 4: very catchy, very positive and uh no, that's great that

6:14 Speaker 4: came out and uh that came out in May, correct, Yeah, yeah,

6:17 Speaker 4: it's not me yeah yeah, so relatively new.

6:21 Speaker 13: Yeah yeah.

6:22 Speaker 4: What what's the response been to it? I would imagine

6:24 Speaker 4: you're having some success with it because it's impossible to

6:27 Speaker 4: uh you know not. I mean, it's it's kind of infectious.

6:30 Speaker 4: So the first time I listened to it, it was

6:31 Speaker 4: stuck in my head the entire day.

6:34 Speaker 1: That's a good thing, isn't it.

6:36 Speaker 14: Very want want to be inside your head to like

6:40 Speaker 14: actually record it and play it back to you constantly.

6:46 Speaker 13: No doubt it's going doing well. It's always been like

6:49 Speaker 13: a favorite, even when we played it live shows and

6:52 Speaker 13: so you get recorded, so for people, it's it's been good.

6:55 Speaker 4: Yeah, excellent, excellent. You guys have been around for a while,

6:59 Speaker 4: right did you start? Basically? Are you a COVID? I

7:04 Speaker 4: probably hate this term, but a COVID band. Did you

7:06 Speaker 4: start during the pandemic?

7:08 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, right, we did, but maybe just started anyway.

7:11 Speaker 14: I think we were all at a point in our

7:15 Speaker 14: you know, like they were Kenny all looking for something

7:17 Speaker 14: like that.

7:18 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, the COVID just a coincidence that that

7:22 Speaker 1: happened at the same time.

7:24 Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, maybe it's a wee bit of a

7:26 Speaker 14: bust at the beginning, because obviously we're able to practice

7:30 Speaker 14: a you know and putting new songs together and stuff

7:33 Speaker 14: like with with a bit of piece and.

7:35 Speaker 1: Quiet, right with everybody in the world being locked away.

7:40 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's interesting because we've had a lot

7:44 Speaker 4: of you know, even I mean it's it's you know,

7:48 Speaker 4: quite a few years after now, although it might not

7:50 Speaker 4: seem like it, but in twenty twenty six. Even now,

7:52 Speaker 4: we have a lot of guests on the show who

7:53 Speaker 4: will talk about, you know, they've they formed around that

7:55 Speaker 4: time or before them. And then the pandemic happened, and

7:58 Speaker 4: then everything really changed for a while, and it kind

8:01 Speaker 4: of kind of forced people to find new ways to

8:03 Speaker 4: be creative and to work together and and uh. But

8:08 Speaker 4: but you guys, you know, starting around that time, obviously,

8:11 Speaker 4: because I was reading that, I didn't think. I don't

8:14 Speaker 4: think you played your first live show until a couple

8:15 Speaker 4: of years right later, right in twenty two.

8:18 Speaker 13: Twenty twenty two was the first, first one, because they

8:20 Speaker 13: won't just jumping into do like a live show when

8:23 Speaker 13: we're only ready for it. So yeah, basically, we took

8:25 Speaker 13: our time and we worked on a set. Go to

8:28 Speaker 13: our songs the way we were watching them, nice and tight,

8:31 Speaker 13: next and tight, so that you.

8:32 Speaker 14: Know, when we're playing people with our music would come

8:34 Speaker 14: across correctly. And if you go out before you've practiced

8:39 Speaker 14: songs properly, or you have them into set too quickly,

8:42 Speaker 14: you're bound to make mistakes, you know, and it's time

8:45 Speaker 14: making mistakes.

8:46 Speaker 1: And everything like that.

8:47 Speaker 14: Right, most people don't notice them, but they do notice

8:50 Speaker 14: a band that's not tight.

8:52 Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, yeah, absolutely, So tell me about the name.

8:57 Speaker 4: And well, actually, first let's let's clear this up. Am

9:00 Speaker 4: I saying it correctly? The azure resins? Am I am

9:02 Speaker 4: I close?

9:04 Speaker 1: That's that's actually quite good.

9:05 Speaker 14: Yeah, I don't know, I'm not sure of the definitive

9:09 Speaker 14: way to say it, right, but we're named after a

9:13 Speaker 14: magic mushroom that grows in America, and it's called the Azuris.

9:19 Speaker 1: But I mean I might actually be pronouncing that wrong

9:22 Speaker 1: as well. It might be ever action.

9:24 Speaker 13: Yeah, it's it's like it's.

9:26 Speaker 14: Called Azuris, and I suspect right, I've never really actually

9:30 Speaker 14: seen the mushroom itself, but it's called a blue Mini's

9:33 Speaker 14: I take it it takes its name from azure as.

9:37 Speaker 1: In you know, the color. So okay, So that's that's

9:43 Speaker 1: the basic thing of it.

9:44 Speaker 14: I mean, the reason for choosing that really is because

9:48 Speaker 14: we're kind of quite a psychedelic band. We like to,

9:52 Speaker 14: you know, have nice reverbs and delays and stuff like

9:55 Speaker 14: that going on in our tunes. So it kind of

9:57 Speaker 14: makes the songs, although they're pop paying rocky, you know,

10:02 Speaker 14: at the same time, they're quite psychedelic.

10:04 Speaker 1: So they give somebody something to listen to. Well that's

10:07 Speaker 1: what we hope anyway.

10:08 Speaker 4: Yeah, right, right now, what went into the choice to

10:12 Speaker 4: go with Well, how many? How many? Let me ask

10:14 Speaker 4: it this way because I'm curious about the choice of

10:16 Speaker 4: Dancing to the Night for a single, But how many

10:19 Speaker 4: songs do you guys have recorded that that you've released

10:22 Speaker 4: at this point?

10:24 Speaker 13: I think it's maybe sixteen. I think we will maybe

10:29 Speaker 13: a live in singles, and we've done a six.

10:31 Speaker 5: EP okay last year.

10:34 Speaker 13: Okay, I think maybe about fifteen or sixteen we've got

10:39 Speaker 13: recorded and out.

10:40 Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, all the.

10:43 Speaker 14: Ones we've got one say that we've recorded already, but

10:46 Speaker 14: we've not worked on them yet as they they're just

10:49 Speaker 14: a desk mixes at.

10:51 Speaker 13: The moment, you know.

10:51 Speaker 1: So another four yeah, and then we're going to do

10:57 Speaker 1: an album after that.

10:58 Speaker 14: But the problem is is that people have a very

11:01 Speaker 14: short attention span nowadays, and most people really really do

11:06 Speaker 14: have a terrible attention span.

11:07 Speaker 1: So it was so like the kind of idea is

11:11 Speaker 1: is that folk like to see things.

11:12 Speaker 14: That are like short, you know, and whatnot. You know,

11:15 Speaker 14: so when it comes to putting things on the internet,

11:18 Speaker 14: it's all shorts, you know, so very basic brief clips

11:23 Speaker 14: of videos.

11:24 Speaker 1: That's not the way that we work.

11:28 Speaker 14: Our tunes have got a bit of depth in them,

11:30 Speaker 14: you know, they need somebody to have an attention span, unfortunately, right.

11:34 Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, it's interesting. We live in a time where

11:36 Speaker 4: there's so many different ways to release music. And you know,

11:39 Speaker 4: I'm old enough to remember when I was growing up,

11:41 Speaker 4: most most bands or solo artists whomever would release an album,

11:46 Speaker 4: you know, the first single would go to radio ahead

11:48 Speaker 4: of the album, and then the album would come out

11:50 Speaker 4: and then you'd get you know, if if all went well,

11:53 Speaker 4: you know, you might get a second single and a

11:54 Speaker 4: third single, et cetera. But now a lot of artists

11:56 Speaker 4: are kind of doing the inverse of that, releasing a

11:59 Speaker 4: series of singles eventually coalesced to an EP or an album,

12:02 Speaker 4: because you know, you've got to feed that algorithm, you know, So.

12:07 Speaker 14: That yeah, that's what we're kind of doing. We're just

12:09 Speaker 14: bombarding the internet with lots of singles and.

12:14 Speaker 1: Then at some point we will re record, you know.

12:19 Speaker 14: A whole album and start to finish and it will

12:22 Speaker 14: be probably a few new songs, you know, mix with

12:27 Speaker 14: ones that we've previously recorded but obviously have refined over

12:31 Speaker 14: the years.

12:32 Speaker 1: So like some of the things that.

12:33 Speaker 14: We've recorded, we're playing them slightly different now obviously with

12:38 Speaker 14: them being live. Yeah, you know, when you when you

12:41 Speaker 14: play a few you know, gigs and things like that,

12:45 Speaker 14: things change. Find So sometimes some of the recording that

12:51 Speaker 14: we've done, we feel that we're a lot better that

12:54 Speaker 14: those tunes now.

12:56 Speaker 13: A lot of genderman, go back, get them done better.

12:58 Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, and you guys went through you know, speaking

13:02 Speaker 4: of playing live, you guys went through a lineup change

13:04 Speaker 4: last year.

13:05 Speaker 5: Correct, that's correct.

13:08 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, we've actually been through a couple of lineup changes,

13:13 Speaker 14: but not they're they're not. We've lost our drummer on

13:16 Speaker 14: a couple of occasions. The first time was our first

13:22 Speaker 14: drummer was a guy called Jay, and Jay, you know

13:27 Speaker 14: I got his girlfriend pregnant and had to leave the band,

13:31 Speaker 14: you know, because he worked and things like that, you know,

13:34 Speaker 14: and obviously family is a slightly different thing. Yeah, and

13:38 Speaker 14: then we've got we've got another guy and he was sound.

13:42 Speaker 14: It was two years and then he offered a like

13:44 Speaker 14: kind of a dream job for himself. Yeah, so wouldn't

13:48 Speaker 14: have the time to do the band as well. But

13:51 Speaker 14: we've landed on our feet. We've got a really good,

13:53 Speaker 14: good replacement. It took us about six months though, to

13:59 Speaker 14: refine of the songs, and actually they they've all got

14:04 Speaker 14: better because of that, you know, the change, because it's

14:08 Speaker 14: forced us to rethink how we play things and get

14:11 Speaker 14: tighter again, you know, and with slightly different melodies within

14:15 Speaker 14: the songs and stuff. So yeah, it's all learning process,

14:19 Speaker 14: isn't it.

14:20 Speaker 15: You know.

14:21 Speaker 4: I don't know if it's the same there, but here,

14:24 Speaker 4: you know, when you lose a drummer that that can

14:27 Speaker 4: be a deathnell because drummers are very hard to find here.

14:31 Speaker 4: I have a theory about it. I think it's because

14:33 Speaker 4: when when you're growing up and you want to learn

14:35 Speaker 4: to play a musical instrument, and you have to have

14:37 Speaker 4: the conversation with the parents. If you tell them you

14:38 Speaker 4: want to play drums, they're gonna either that or the tuba.

14:41 Speaker 4: They might try to talk you out of it, you know, but.

14:44 Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, anything that's hellish to listen to you, they're

14:48 Speaker 14: going to want to get rid of that idea.

14:50 Speaker 1: Most definitely.

14:51 Speaker 13: It's kind of like that.

14:53 Speaker 14: Yeah, it's definitely down to the parents say not wanting it,

14:56 Speaker 14: but you still do have good drummers.

15:00 Speaker 1: It just happens to be that.

15:01 Speaker 14: I kind of knew a guy that was saying, you know,

15:04 Speaker 14: in between bands at the time anyway, and he's had

15:06 Speaker 14: a really good drummer. So, you know, if we were

15:09 Speaker 14: to lose a member of the band, is it's devastating

15:12 Speaker 14: because you lose a certain.

15:15 Speaker 1: Dynamic you know that the band brings. You know, it's

15:18 Speaker 1: not the band's never about one person. It can't be

15:20 Speaker 1: about one person. You know, it's about a.

15:24 Speaker 14: Collaborative you know venture. I suppose you know, and the

15:28 Speaker 14: minute you take one part out, it just changed.

15:33 Speaker 13: You know.

15:34 Speaker 14: Luckily we've just grin and you know, grit our teeth

15:38 Speaker 14: and just grind bear it and just got on with it.

15:41 Speaker 1: And on this occasion we came out to other other

15:44 Speaker 1: ends smelling the roses.

15:45 Speaker 14: I suppose. So our new drummer is really really good.

15:49 Speaker 14: He's really entertaining the watch as well.

15:51 Speaker 4: Oh excellent, excellent.

15:53 Speaker 13: Wed a keyboard player as well, go further than playing

15:55 Speaker 13: keyboard and extra guitar as well. So the band expanded

15:59 Speaker 13: their sound as over that. We've always wanted to get

16:01 Speaker 13: the keys involved in our sound. Don't got freighter and

16:05 Speaker 13: he's he's added a lot of the band as well.

16:09 Speaker 4: No, excellent.

16:10 Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean like we've we've always wanted to sort

16:14 Speaker 14: of make our sounds looser and bigger, not and that's

16:19 Speaker 14: not always the case by adding extra instruments. But then

16:23 Speaker 14: if you're a musician, you'll understand that the more that

16:26 Speaker 14: you can add, the more space can be creative. If

16:28 Speaker 14: people are tasteful, you know, it's all about being tasteful

16:32 Speaker 14: and not overdoing things, you know, so you know it's

16:36 Speaker 14: given every single instrument a space within the music.

16:39 Speaker 4: I suppose yeah, right, well said yeah absolutely, did you

16:46 Speaker 4: guys open Is this correct? You guys open for.

16:49 Speaker 13: Oh?

16:50 Speaker 4: Definitely Oasis? Is that a is like? Is that an

16:52 Speaker 4: Oasis tribute band?

16:54 Speaker 6: Yeah?

16:54 Speaker 13: Yeah, it's one of the travel around the world or

16:57 Speaker 13: one of the one.

16:58 Speaker 1: Of the premiere one.

16:59 Speaker 11: Yeah.

17:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, we were open for them at the electrotrooms.

17:03 Speaker 14: Say like Benjy and Edinburgh say nice, yeah, but like

17:08 Speaker 14: obviously yeah, that was a really nice gig for us.

17:12 Speaker 13: It was, yeah, one of the best and that was

17:15 Speaker 13: that was top that top.

17:17 Speaker 1: No, it absolutely ram.

17:21 Speaker 14: You've got to like, you know, you probably know the

17:24 Speaker 14: way Scotts people are like to party, you know, but

17:28 Speaker 14: you know, the gigs themselves are really really charged, like

17:32 Speaker 14: you'll you'll have an audience that's right up for it,

17:36 Speaker 14: you know, yeah, every one of them.

17:39 Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's quite entertaining. That was a little

17:42 Speaker 1: stuck in your head for.

17:43 Speaker 13: A while, that guy.

17:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the second time in the show today that

17:50 Speaker 4: Oasis has come up. Because with with our our previous guests,

17:53 Speaker 4: we were the radio addicts, we were talking about Oasis.

17:56 Speaker 4: Is that is that a band that's an influence on

17:58 Speaker 4: you guys. They're one of my favorite bands. But I've

18:00 Speaker 4: noticed when I talked.

18:01 Speaker 13: About the band as well, yeah, laughing, Well, but like

18:05 Speaker 13: everybody in the band has all got different sort of

18:08 Speaker 13: influences as well. They're like a like, I love them,

18:12 Speaker 13: but other people.

18:15 Speaker 1: I think they're all.

18:16 Speaker 11: Right, right, So.

18:19 Speaker 14: You know, I'm more into city like where they got

18:21 Speaker 14: their influences from, like sort of grew up listening to

18:25 Speaker 14: Led Zepplin and you know of the Beatles and the

18:27 Speaker 14: Stones and things like that, you know, and and even

18:30 Speaker 14: more obscure ones. Gas is in there a wee bit

18:32 Speaker 14: into his and stuff like that, you know. And then

18:36 Speaker 14: Brian's right into's indie but he's kind of like, you know,

18:39 Speaker 14: a bit like me as well, like some of the

18:41 Speaker 14: older bands. And then everybody's got their own and only

18:45 Speaker 14: thing and we actually laugh at each other something says,

18:48 Speaker 14: you know. It creates quite a good bit of banner

18:51 Speaker 14: within the band, because yeah, Brian can't stand country music.

18:57 Speaker 1: He's not here to defend hisself just now. It's just unfortunate, right.

19:03 Speaker 4: Yeah, Scottish as far as Scottish bands too, you know,

19:06 Speaker 4: because I'm curious about that. Simple Minds is what was

19:09 Speaker 4: one of my favorite bands growing up. They're the first

19:12 Speaker 4: ones I think of when I think of Scottish bands.

19:15 Speaker 4: But I mean, like, what is the scene like? There

19:20 Speaker 4: are there a lot of bands that sound like what

19:23 Speaker 4: you guys are doing or do you kind of.

19:25 Speaker 1: No, definitely not.

19:27 Speaker 14: We do have a quite unique sound as ever since.

19:30 Speaker 14: But no, don't get me wrong, the Scottish music scene

19:33 Speaker 14: is absolutely bustling. Yeah that was you know, and I

19:37 Speaker 14: really cracking scene here. But it's just really hard to

19:43 Speaker 14: to get gigs in venues now. And that's not because

19:46 Speaker 14: of the lack of talent. It's actually just because the

19:50 Speaker 14: price of actually running a gig now is tripled or

19:54 Speaker 14: something in the last six years. So when you go

19:58 Speaker 14: into a venue, they you know, it's expensive, you have

20:02 Speaker 14: to charge more for tickets. Everybody's getting paid a little

20:05 Speaker 14: bit more, and that there isn't much left for the musicians.

20:08 Speaker 14: So we're all struggling. We're all struggling, and it's colon

20:11 Speaker 14: but we don't care about that. It's not that that's

20:14 Speaker 14: not an issue.

20:15 Speaker 4: You know, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah, you just gotta got

20:19 Speaker 4: to keep going. But I mean, it sounds like, you

20:20 Speaker 4: guys have a lot of have a lot of momentum.

20:24 Speaker 4: And by the way, the EP, we we kind of

20:26 Speaker 4: alluded to it earlier about Common Bond that that came

20:28 Speaker 4: out last year, right, mm hmm, yeah.

20:31 Speaker 13: Yeah, last October. I think of this, Yeah, six tracks

20:34 Speaker 13: on that one a Common Bond sort of. The main

20:39 Speaker 13: one that done well for that was One Horse Down.

20:41 Speaker 13: That was another week cat to three minute radio friendly song.

20:45 Speaker 13: We recorded our first two singles Middle of Nowhere and

20:51 Speaker 13: like from that and then but they.

20:53 Speaker 14: Were posted onto the EP gift an EP, you know,

20:57 Speaker 14: but that that was a wee test in the ground,

20:59 Speaker 14: wasn't it. And I think from that we've realized that

21:03 Speaker 14: we actually need to split the songs up, you know,

21:07 Speaker 14: and release them.

21:07 Speaker 13: And individually they get like what sort of attention if

21:12 Speaker 13: you like the songs each Yeah, we all believe right.

21:17 Speaker 14: That every one of our songs has got like, you know,

21:20 Speaker 14: potential greatness, you know, and it's just I suppose finding

21:26 Speaker 14: the right people. But with the short attention span that

21:30 Speaker 14: was talking about, we released EP and most people, well,

21:37 Speaker 14: there will be folks that did listen to the whole thing,

21:39 Speaker 14: but the majority folk were only really listening to the

21:42 Speaker 14: first chat.

21:43 Speaker 1: And that's just not what it's about, you know.

21:47 Speaker 14: See, so unless you can give them a physical copy,

21:50 Speaker 14: you know, which is rare nowadays people get physical copies.

21:54 Speaker 1: It's a lot a lot of.

21:55 Speaker 14: It's just digital download and stuff like that. So you know,

21:59 Speaker 14: like the they'll just press skip, won't then, and then

22:03 Speaker 14: that's it. So yeah, that's what we're struggling against. Sure,

22:09 Speaker 14: people's attention span. But then again, it's just you need

22:14 Speaker 14: to keep just doing it, keeping putting the music out there,

22:19 Speaker 14: you know, and then you never know. We've had some

22:22 Speaker 14: really interesting things happen. We animations and stuff made for us,

22:25 Speaker 14: and quite a lot of nice attention on the radio

22:29 Speaker 14: and things like that, so we hope to build from

22:31 Speaker 14: that moving on.

22:33 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Well you're definitely on a positive trajectory,

22:37 Speaker 4: no doubt about it. At the end of our conversation,

22:40 Speaker 4: when we let you guys go in a couple of minutes,

22:42 Speaker 4: we're gonna play this this song, Light from Dark. I

22:45 Speaker 4: really like this a lot. Is there is there any

22:47 Speaker 4: kind of a particular story behind this song or h

22:51 Speaker 4: and you know, and again I like the I like

22:53 Speaker 4: the positivity, which seems to be definitely a theme with

22:56 Speaker 4: you guys. But anything we should know about this song.

23:00 Speaker 13: Well, that one, that's an old song that I went

23:02 Speaker 13: and wrote. I don't know, maybe close to twelve year ago,

23:05 Speaker 13: maybe really yeah, but i'd always had like before I

23:10 Speaker 13: joined the band. It's the first band I've ever been in,

23:12 Speaker 13: so I would I wrote just loaded songs just for

23:15 Speaker 13: playing on the acoustic guitar in the house, But that

23:18 Speaker 13: one I wrote my Messids was going for a bit,

23:22 Speaker 13: I had time, so that was kind of like it

23:26 Speaker 13: was a wee song for her, but I just basically

23:28 Speaker 13: kept it to myself and then I went and played

23:32 Speaker 13: it to Andy and Brian when we were first sort

23:34 Speaker 13: of getting live together, and as soon as they heard it,

23:38 Speaker 13: they were like, wow, like let's work on that. Till

23:40 Speaker 13: we worked it and the way is and now it's phenomenal.

23:46 Speaker 14: So it's such a proud moment when we're playing that

23:48 Speaker 14: tune because it's a it's very emotional because it's it's

23:52 Speaker 14: obviously it's describing to somebody that's having psychological issues that

23:57 Speaker 14: there's all light at the you know, the end of

23:59 Speaker 14: the tunnel.

23:59 Speaker 1: It's not all don including you know, trying to positive

24:02 Speaker 1: and that's what you know, I mean set aside.

24:06 Speaker 14: You know, Gays is a brilliant songwriter, you know, and

24:10 Speaker 14: whether or not the songs are about depression, yeah, I often,

24:16 Speaker 14: quite often the music behind it's quite positive, so we

24:19 Speaker 14: try to balance it, you know. So if the message

24:22 Speaker 14: is really dark, right, the music will be sculpting around

24:27 Speaker 14: it to be really beautiful and hopefully positive. And I'm

24:30 Speaker 14: glad you're playing light for dark because it's it needs

24:33 Speaker 14: to be heard more from more people.

24:35 Speaker 13: And even me that one there is a message and

24:37 Speaker 13: again that there is hope, there is like that is

24:40 Speaker 13: basically there is like say, like the end it's done.

24:43 Speaker 11: Yeah.

24:44 Speaker 14: Too many people get stuck in or that you know,

24:46 Speaker 14: we were you know, bad bad psychological issues and stuff

24:51 Speaker 14: like that when they could just share it with somebody.

24:54 Speaker 1: And when you share it, you know, it makes things

24:55 Speaker 1: a whole lot easier.

24:57 Speaker 14: I mean, I do realize there's folks that are out

24:59 Speaker 14: there that you know, just can't get away from the

25:02 Speaker 14: problems have but you know it's good to share them

25:05 Speaker 14: with folk gay And you never know when you share

25:08 Speaker 14: things what will happen? You know, sometimes right, positive thing

25:14 Speaker 14: comes out of a light for that being a good chune.

25:18 Speaker 4: Yeah, no, as someone who struggles with depression, I can

25:21 Speaker 4: really appreciate all that and maybe that's why the song

25:23 Speaker 4: connects with me the way that it does. But yeah, absolutely, absolutely, guys.

25:28 Speaker 4: This has been wonderful guys and Andy. I really enjoyed

25:31 Speaker 4: talking with you guys, and we'll have you back. We'll

25:33 Speaker 4: definitely do this again in the future as you're releasing

25:36 Speaker 4: more music. Yeah, sounds like you had a lot of

25:37 Speaker 4: good stuff coming up.

25:38 Speaker 13: So I got another one coming soon as well.

25:42 Speaker 4: Oh, perfect, perfect, not long? Where where's the before we

25:48 Speaker 4: let you guys go and we're going to hit that

25:50 Speaker 4: track light from Dark? But where's the best place to

25:52 Speaker 4: go online? To keep up with everything that you guys

25:54 Speaker 4: are doing, the the azuresence as as I the appreciation

25:58 Speaker 4: that I'm going with.

26:02 Speaker 13: We'll go like all social media. We're on Instagram and Facebook,

26:06 Speaker 13: we tech talk and our music is on like every

26:12 Speaker 13: Apple music.

26:13 Speaker 1: If you type in our name, you'll find it.

26:15 Speaker 13: You know it's there.

26:18 Speaker 1: It's sometimes think we've got it in too many Spotify

26:23 Speaker 1: seems to be the thing may be getting next.

26:26 Speaker 4: Really yeah, but yeah, it's helpful that you have a

26:30 Speaker 4: name that's not a common word. So yes, it's it's

26:32 Speaker 4: very you're you're very googleable. As I like to say,

26:35 Speaker 4: it's if you google, if you google that, it comes

26:38 Speaker 4: right up. Guys, thank you again. We'll let you go

26:41 Speaker 4: and we'll hit that track. But thank you both again

26:42 Speaker 4: so much for joining us.

26:43 Speaker 1: This is conversation. It's been interesting.

26:48 Speaker 13: Thank you.

26:48 Speaker 4: Oh thanks guys. All right, take care bye bye. All right.

26:53 Speaker 4: That is Gas and Andy from the band The Azuresins,

26:57 Speaker 4: and let's play this song. Like I said, this really

26:59 Speaker 4: connects with me. This is called light from dark.

27:42 Speaker 7: Raised your head upon my shoulder to calm, no fear.

27:47 Speaker 11: You know that I'm here for you.

27:53 Speaker 7: Tears will fall, they might all to calm, no fear.

27:59 Speaker 11: You know that I'm here for you.

28:05 Speaker 7: Harm, no feel, You know that I'm here.

28:28 Speaker 9: Things with land with bad and songs like harm no feal.

28:34 Speaker 7: The song will ride.

28:40 Speaker 9: All your whole sounds, reass harm, no feel at all,

28:46 Speaker 9: just waiting for your.

28:51 Speaker 5: Harve, no feel at all, just.

28:54 Speaker 15: Waiting for you.

28:58 Speaker 11: That it seems stall And then read about faith.

29:06 Speaker 5: Or do you eat?

29:07 Speaker 7: Sometimes you get try to mark you, but this love

29:15 Speaker 7: down Hall may advise now, moll. I just love the

29:22 Speaker 7: way Holly.

29:24 Speaker 5: In several ways. I like the dogs.

29:29 Speaker 7: I just love the way Holly in several ways. I

29:33 Speaker 7: like the dogs now it seems to.

30:17 Speaker 11: Me said the way there every build at your team,

30:23 Speaker 11: your building your home.

30:25 Speaker 7: And I'm finding the mob that bread.

30:31 Speaker 4: But just about.

30:33 Speaker 7: Ron and all my.

30:38 Speaker 5: I just love the w my.

30:41 Speaker 7: Can separate the night.

30:46 Speaker 1: I'm just loot the weed home.

30:48 Speaker 7: It can separate them from dog.

31:48 Speaker 4: That is light from dark. The band is the Azaressence,

31:51 Speaker 4: great band from Scotland. And thank you again to Gus

31:54 Speaker 4: and Andy for joining us on the show today. Of

31:57 Speaker 4: course if you missed it, you'll be able to hear

31:59 Speaker 4: it later in the archive. All the shows, of course

32:02 Speaker 4: get posted to Wmnhradio dot org as well as my

32:05 Speaker 4: website Matt Connerton dot com. And don't forget our new site,

32:08 Speaker 4: Matt Connorton Unleashed dot com with a searchable database so

32:13 Speaker 4: you can type in the name of the guest that

32:15 Speaker 4: you're looking for and you can find the exact episode

32:18 Speaker 4: that they were on. So, of course today is the

32:20 Speaker 4: fourth of July. Happy Independence Day everybody if you are

32:22 Speaker 4: just joining us Matt Connorton Unleashed and yes we are

32:25 Speaker 4: actually live on the holiday from the studios of WMNH

32:29 Speaker 4: ninety five point three FM. Big show happening today. I

32:33 Speaker 4: want to mention this again fourth of July, Rockshow, Happy

32:36 Speaker 4: two hundred and fiftieth America. Thank you to our veterans

32:39 Speaker 4: and active duty service members. This is happening at twenty

32:42 Speaker 4: six Sergeants AV in Nashua, New Hampshire. Kicks off at

32:46 Speaker 4: two pm and here is the lineup, Six Minds combined,

32:50 Speaker 4: Aaron Billideo at three pm, super Child at four, Sunset

32:53 Speaker 4: Electric at five, Born Fools at six and then Dead

32:57 Speaker 4: Harrison Headlines at seven pm. That is all happening today.

33:01 Speaker 4: So again the show kicks off at two pm. Go

33:04 Speaker 4: to twenty six Sergeants av in Nashua, New Hampshire for

33:08 Speaker 4: those of you in the area, and please support. There's

33:13 Speaker 4: a story behind the show which is not my story

33:14 Speaker 4: to tell, but this is not where the show was

33:16 Speaker 4: originally supposed to be. But Eleanor will come on the

33:20 Speaker 4: show at some point soon to explain all of that.

33:22 Speaker 4: But yeah, so, but please support Terminus Underground of course

33:27 Speaker 4: New Hampshire Underground and all the great work that Eleanor

33:29 Speaker 4: and Andre are doing. And they got married recently, so

33:32 Speaker 4: you know, congratulations on that as well. But that is

33:35 Speaker 4: happening again. That show is happening today. Some of these

33:37 Speaker 4: artists have been guests on the show, and the ones

33:40 Speaker 4: that haven't, I'm sure we will have in the future.

33:43 Speaker 4: But right now, I'm going to play for you a

33:46 Speaker 4: song from the band Heavy America. They were on the

33:49 Speaker 4: show a few years ago. But when I was deciding

33:51 Speaker 4: what to wear today. For those of you who are

33:54 Speaker 4: watching the video feed of the show, be it on

33:57 Speaker 4: Facebook or YouTube, or we even streamed the show to LinkedIn,

34:01 Speaker 4: somebody asked me recently, why do you stream the show

34:03 Speaker 4: to Lincoln. I said, well, why not? But I'm wearing

34:06 Speaker 4: my Heavy America shirt because it is I wanted to

34:09 Speaker 4: be patriotic, I wanted to wear I always wear a

34:11 Speaker 4: shirt on the show. I always wear a shirt that

34:14 Speaker 4: was given to us from one of the guests. You know,

34:16 Speaker 4: sometimes the guests will bring in merch, they'll give us

34:18 Speaker 4: a shirt, a CD, whatever it may be. Heavy America

34:21 Speaker 4: gave me this wonderful shirt that I love. So I thought,

34:24 Speaker 4: I'm going to If I'm gonna wear a shirt that

34:27 Speaker 4: was given to us by one of the bands, why

34:28 Speaker 4: not wear a shirt that was given to us by

34:31 Speaker 4: a band with the word America in their name, so

34:34 Speaker 4: but they're also a great band. Happy to promote them

34:36 Speaker 4: so Heavy America. I'm gonna go ahead and play one

34:38 Speaker 4: of their songs. If I'm wearing their shirt, I might

34:40 Speaker 4: as well play some Heavy America. And this is called

34:44 Speaker 4: check this out. This is called Pretender. And again the

34:46 Speaker 4: band is Heavy America.

35:07 Speaker 16: My God, spit in my wood. Thirty feet beats, the

35:13 Speaker 16: Silver s food bed down for the Pretending. Now the

35:20 Speaker 16: wildom means no surrender.

35:23 Speaker 17: Come on, come out, Pretender, slick hair thousand.

35:39 Speaker 5: One five, Now the room set, the world.

35:43 Speaker 11: Of fire.

35:45 Speaker 8: To pool with patience, to spare, but shot eyes.

35:51 Speaker 16: Down everywhere, Come out, come out, not Shade the Pretender,

36:02 Speaker 16: Hot Live, No Surrender has Pig The Contenders, Hot News.

36:12 Speaker 7: The Pretender.

36:23 Speaker 16: Joke, Jane Sue Sad, taken on you other side, show

36:32 Speaker 16: it off, get live, throw it up and start all

36:37 Speaker 16: over again.

36:39 Speaker 5: Come come on.

36:44 Speaker 8: Back, Shade the Pretender can't live No Surrender That pig

36:53 Speaker 8: the Contender Hotness, the Pretender, Richard.

37:09 Speaker 7: Lizer, Littel.

37:22 Speaker 18: Cleans, the Britton.

37:36 Speaker 8: Hut, Nothing Ready, b Ho Big, the Concerned, Hot Mills,

37:46 Speaker 8: the Pretender.

37:54 Speaker 19: Number you're listening to Matt Connorton Unleashed on wmn H

38:20 Speaker 19: ninety five point three.

38:29 Speaker 4: Happy Independence Day from Matt Connorton Unleashed here at w

38:33 Speaker 4: m n H ninety five point three FM, as we

38:36 Speaker 4: celebrate with a brand new track from the Melted Chapsticks.

38:40 Speaker 4: This is called We Beat the British.

38:52 Speaker 7: We did We did it.

38:54 Speaker 5: We bet we did we did.

38:58 Speaker 7: We beat in Lexingtenna shot was fired.

39:02 Speaker 5: I really don't know why. Now we put it like

39:06 Speaker 5: ro stuffs on the full of July.

39:09 Speaker 7: We did it.

39:10 Speaker 5: We did it. We eat the brett Ash. We did it.

39:14 Speaker 7: We did que beat the British.

39:18 Speaker 5: They thought that they contact us. We told them to

39:21 Speaker 5: go to hell.

39:22 Speaker 20: Now they're ringing in their ears from the Liberty Bell.

39:26 Speaker 5: We did it, we did it. We beat the brit Ash.

39:31 Speaker 7: We did it.

39:32 Speaker 5: We did it. Que beat the britt.

39:35 Speaker 20: As they gave us beatle Mania the store so of

39:38 Speaker 20: Hua Clash, we.

39:40 Speaker 5: Give you the Melted Chapsticks. It's gonna be a bash.

39:44 Speaker 7: We did it.

39:45 Speaker 5: We did it. Weat the bread Ash. We did it.

39:49 Speaker 5: We did it. Que beat the brit Age.

39:52 Speaker 20: So the next time you attack us all our sacred lands,

39:57 Speaker 20: we'll beat you even harder.

39:59 Speaker 5: In the bell i love the bands.

40:01 Speaker 7: We did it.

40:02 Speaker 5: We did it. We beat the bread Ash. We did it.

40:07 Speaker 5: We did it clean.

40:08 Speaker 18: Beat the bread ass.

40:10 Speaker 20: So Willie speak English, German, French or Yiddish, I would

40:15 Speaker 20: get the words.

40:16 Speaker 5: All right? We beat up British.

40:19 Speaker 11: We did it.

40:20 Speaker 7: We did it.

40:21 Speaker 5: We beat the British. We did it. We did it clean.

40:26 Speaker 20: Beat the British in the future, ask us nicely, baby

40:30 Speaker 20: will agree. We don't want to fill the hard bro

40:34 Speaker 20: with your love of ri See, we did it.

40:37 Speaker 7: We did it.

40:38 Speaker 5: Wet the bred Ash. We did it. We did it clean,

40:43 Speaker 5: beat the British. The bat was quite bunny.

40:47 Speaker 20: It really took a tall Now we're up best of

40:51 Speaker 20: friends because we've both.

40:52 Speaker 5: Been rocking roll.

40:54 Speaker 12: We did it.

40:55 Speaker 5: We did it. We beat the bread Ash. We did it.

40:59 Speaker 5: We did cleeve Is we did it. We did it.

41:05 Speaker 5: We we did it. We did it. Cleeve b Is,

41:11 Speaker 5: we did it.

41:12 Speaker 7: We did it.

41:13 Speaker 5: Leave Is we did it. We did it. Cleeved Is,

41:20 Speaker 5: we did it. We did it. We Is we did

41:25 Speaker 5: we did cleeve.

41:28 Speaker 7: Is, we did it.

41:30 Speaker 5: We did it. Wed Is we did it. We did cleeve.

41:37 Speaker 13: Is.

41:37 Speaker 5: We did it. We did it. We Is we did it.

41:43 Speaker 7: We did it clean. We did it.

41:47 Speaker 5: We didn't.

41:49 Speaker 4: Right now, we've got a w M n H ninety

41:51 Speaker 4: five point three FM and Matt Connerton Unleashed exclusive the

41:55 Speaker 4: world radio premiere of the new single from the SERTs

41:59 Speaker 4: coming out July at This is called Luna.

42:19 Speaker 21: It's saving in my place, lot of beast.

42:26 Speaker 1: It's saying moan and as.

42:28 Speaker 5: There's nowhere else to boot the money man.

42:35 Speaker 8: Sna And then I'll coming back.

42:41 Speaker 18: To say your bed and tell me I'm alone if I.

42:51 Speaker 21: Could see you out again to say old bed.

43:00 Speaker 11: And telling him the box, if I could.

43:03 Speaker 7: Be again.

43:16 Speaker 5: A fabric reality, not tessamone. He's been any another sonical.

43:25 Speaker 7: He's another door.

43:27 Speaker 5: He bad only the next it's all.

43:32 Speaker 11: Good to.

43:35 Speaker 13: Me.

43:36 Speaker 11: I'm coming back to say the little bad Man.

43:44 Speaker 5: And tell him the bob if I could see you.

43:49 Speaker 21: It's again to say bad and tell him the boy.

45:15 Speaker 4: That is Luna by the Sertz. And that is the

45:18 Speaker 4: world radio premiere. You heard it here first on Matt

45:20 Speaker 4: Connorton Unleashed here at WM and H ninety five point

45:24 Speaker 4: three FM. A world radio premiere. It comes out, I

45:27 Speaker 4: believe July tenth, but we have it before anybody else.

45:30 Speaker 4: And of course we also heard we beat the British

45:32 Speaker 4: from our friends the Melted Chapsticks, who will be here

45:34 Speaker 4: with us in studio on August first. But today is

45:37 Speaker 4: of course July fourth, which is why we chose that

45:41 Speaker 4: day to play that song. So welcome everybody. This is

45:44 Speaker 4: Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios

45:47 Speaker 4: of WM and H ninety five point three FM in

45:49 Speaker 4: Glorious of Manchester, New Hampshire. I hope everyone is staying cool.

45:53 Speaker 4: It is very hot this weekend, but kind of appropriate

45:57 Speaker 4: though for July. I kind of think the fourth of

45:59 Speaker 4: July should be hot, shouldn't it. Just some quick music

46:03 Speaker 4: news This is from Digital Musicnews dot com. Kind of

46:05 Speaker 4: appropriate for the holiday.

46:07 Speaker 7: Uh.

46:08 Speaker 4: They're reporting that sixty nine percent of Spotify streams in

46:12 Speaker 4: the US come from American artists. The latest data reveals

46:17 Speaker 4: it says. Spotify releases some listening stats for America's two

46:21 Speaker 4: hundred and fiftieth birthday, revealing that seventy percent oh this says,

46:25 Speaker 4: seventy percent of the Spotify oh, of the Spotify Top

46:29 Speaker 4: fifty in the US is made up of American music,

46:32 Speaker 4: so sixty nine percent overall, seventy five percent of the

46:34 Speaker 4: Top fifty in the US is made up of American music.

46:38 Speaker 4: The United States is turning two fifty, and Spotify has

46:40 Speaker 4: released some fun listening statistics to celebrate the occasion. Again.

46:44 Speaker 4: This is from Digitalmusicnews dot com. According to the streamer,

46:48 Speaker 4: sixty nine percent of all streams in the country go

46:50 Speaker 4: to American artists, and American music makes up seventy percent

46:53 Speaker 4: of the Spotify Top fifty chart in the US in

46:56 Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. Unsurprisingly, listeners in the South and the

47:00 Speaker 4: Midwest stream the most music made in America in just

47:06 Speaker 4: the past week. Spotify says Mississippi topped that list, followed

47:09 Speaker 4: by West Virginia, South Dakota, Alabama, and Louisiana. The artist

47:13 Speaker 4: driving those numbers quote captured the breadth of the American

47:16 Speaker 4: sound unquote, says Spotify, including chart topper Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny,

47:21 Speaker 4: Morgan Wallan, Kendrick Lamar, and Post Malone. Of those, Morgan

47:26 Speaker 4: Wallan has an exceptionally strong home market audience, with seventy

47:30 Speaker 4: four percent of his streams coming from US listeners, the

47:33 Speaker 4: highest share among American artists.

47:36 Speaker 5: Each year.

47:39 Speaker 4: Oh wait, sorry, I'm skipping ahead globally, Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny,

47:43 Speaker 4: Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, and Eminem are among the most

47:46 Speaker 4: streamed American artists of all time. In the past year,

47:49 Speaker 4: people outside the US stream songs featuring at least one

47:52 Speaker 4: American artist seven hundred and seventy six billion times. Each year,

47:58 Speaker 4: Americans play over six hundred fIF fifty thousand and fourth

48:01 Speaker 4: of July themed playlists featuring tracks like Bruce Springsteen's Born

48:05 Speaker 4: in the USA, Lee Greenwood's God Bless America, Katie Perry's Firework,

48:10 Speaker 4: John Mellencamp's Rock in the USA, and Ray Charles's America

48:15 Speaker 4: The Beautiful. Pop, hip hop, rock, Indian country are the

48:18 Speaker 4: American genres most streamed within the country, while pop, hip hop, rock, dance,

48:25 Speaker 4: and indie lead internationally. Over that doesn't surprise me. Over

48:29 Speaker 4: the last five years, streams of American country music have

48:33 Speaker 4: grown more than ninety four percent outside the US. That's interesting.

48:38 Speaker 4: That does surprise me. Interestingly, English language tracks only account

48:43 Speaker 4: for eighty six percent of streams in the United States,

48:47 Speaker 4: a number that's steadily dropping in the face of the

48:50 Speaker 4: continued rise of Latin and K pop music. Bad Bunny,

48:54 Speaker 4: who mostly sings in Spanish, has undoubtedly, undoubtedly contributed to

49:00 Speaker 4: this number, especially after headlining the Super Bowl halftime show

49:04 Speaker 4: earlier this year. So there you go, just some numbers

49:08 Speaker 4: and stats. Again, the headline means sixty nine percent of

49:11 Speaker 4: Spotify streams in the US come from American artists, according

49:15 Speaker 4: to the latest data. Now, one other quick thing, because

49:19 Speaker 4: we do have to get to a break to show

49:20 Speaker 4: some love to our amazing sponsors before we enter our

49:23 Speaker 4: number three new marrow trace.

49:25 Speaker 5: Ah, this is.

49:28 Speaker 4: This is something that we've talked about now twice on

49:30 Speaker 4: the show. But I told you all we were gonna

49:33 Speaker 4: follow this closely. It has to do with Taylor Swift. No,

49:37 Speaker 4: it has nothing to do with her wedding. Couldn't care

49:38 Speaker 4: less about that. But this lawsuit. You know, Taylor Swift

49:44 Speaker 4: has been sued by this woman I forget her name now,

49:49 Speaker 4: but she's got a podcast called Confessions of a Showgirl.

49:53 Speaker 4: Taylor Swift has an album called Life of a Showgirl.

49:56 Speaker 4: So this woman has sued Taylor Swift and I've think

50:00 Speaker 4: it's a frivolous lawsuit. But we've covered this twice on

50:03 Speaker 4: the show now because the story keeps evolving, and this lawsuit,

50:06 Speaker 4: while I think it's frivolous, has not gone away. This

50:09 Speaker 4: has not gone away and there is an update on

50:11 Speaker 4: this again. This is from Music Businessworldwide dot com. Taylor

50:16 Speaker 4: Swift moves to dismiss Showgirl trademark lawsuit. Calls amended claims absurd. Okay,

50:23 Speaker 4: it says here. Taylor Swift's legal team has filed a

50:25 Speaker 4: second motion to dismiss the trademark infringement lawsuit brought by

50:29 Speaker 4: Las Vegas performer Maren Flag. I couldn't remember her name

50:32 Speaker 4: before over the branding of the Life of a Showgirl.

50:36 Speaker 4: The motion, filed on Tuesday in the US District Court

50:39 Speaker 4: for the Central District of California, targets the first amended

50:43 Speaker 4: complaint that Flag filed on June sixteen. It was filed

50:47 Speaker 4: on behalf of all four defendants, Swift, Task Media Rightes,

50:52 Speaker 4: UMG and UMG's Merchandise Arm Bravado International Group, by attorneys

50:57 Speaker 4: at Venable LLP. A hearing on the most is scheduled

51:00 Speaker 4: for October seven. The defendants first moved to dismiss the

51:04 Speaker 4: case in May, arguing that Flag's original complaint failed to

51:07 Speaker 4: state a viable claim and lumped the defendants together more

51:11 Speaker 4: than ninety times. Flag responded by filing an amended complaint

51:15 Speaker 4: that resurrected her case, assigning such defendant a separate role,

51:19 Speaker 4: and added allegations that each directed its conduct at California.

51:25 Speaker 4: In the some of this I don't really understand, but

51:28 Speaker 4: I'm not a legal expert, but we'll go on. In

51:31 Speaker 4: the new motion, Swift's lawyers argue that the amended complaint

51:34 Speaker 4: fares no better than the original, the filing states quote.

51:38 Speaker 4: By filing the amended complaint, plaintiff concedes that her original

51:43 Speaker 4: claims were deficient and her second attempt fares no better.

51:47 Speaker 4: This lawsuit is merely plaintiff's latest attempt to generate publicity

51:50 Speaker 4: by associating herself with missed Miss Swift unquote m there's

51:58 Speaker 4: more to this. I don't know if we're not gonna

52:00 Speaker 4: have time to get through the whole thing, but basically so,

52:02 Speaker 4: if you don't know Maren flag I guess that's her name.

52:05 Speaker 4: She has a podcast called Confessions of a Showgirl. I

52:08 Speaker 4: guess she's been doing it for a long time. Taylor

52:10 Speaker 4: Swift releases the album Life of a Showgirl, and Maren

52:13 Speaker 4: Flagg says that's a trademark infringement. She's infringed on my trademark.

52:19 Speaker 4: The reason I say that's frivolous is yes, both have

52:22 Speaker 4: the word showgirl in them. They also have the words

52:26 Speaker 4: of and in them. You know, is so what this is?

52:32 Speaker 4: This is, in my opinion, very frivolous. There's no there's

52:34 Speaker 4: no confusion here. No one is going to confuse a

52:39 Speaker 4: podcast hosted by former Las Vegas showgirl with a Taylor

52:43 Speaker 4: Swift album, both of which happen to have the word showgirl.

52:47 Speaker 4: If you buy into Maren Flagg's argument, then you also

52:50 Speaker 4: have to buy into this idea that I guess she

52:53 Speaker 4: just owns the word showgirl and anyone who uses the

52:56 Speaker 4: word showgirl in any capacity is somehow infringing on her trademark.

52:59 Speaker 4: It's absurd. I'm gonna skip down a little bit. I

53:04 Speaker 4: just want to make sure that this we're not missing

53:06 Speaker 4: anything important in this little update. But the point is,

53:10 Speaker 4: and the details aren't don't matter so much at this point.

53:15 Speaker 4: It's just that I can't believe this is still going on, Like,

53:18 Speaker 4: how has this not been thrown out of court? Instead,

53:21 Speaker 4: it just keeps evolving, and these lawyers that Maren Flagg

53:25 Speaker 4: is hired, they keep filing motions and amending claims. And

53:29 Speaker 4: I mean it says here, skipping to the end of

53:31 Speaker 4: the article. Flag first sued Swift in March, alleging that

53:35 Speaker 4: the branding of Swift's studio album threatened to quote drown

53:40 Speaker 4: out her Confessions of a Showgirl trademark, which she registered

53:44 Speaker 4: in twenty fifteen. Life of a Showgirl was released in

53:49 Speaker 4: October of twenty twenty five and sold more than four

53:51 Speaker 4: million equivalent album units in its first week in the US.

53:54 Speaker 4: By the way, one other detail that's not mentioned here,

53:57 Speaker 4: but when Swift's album first came out, Life of a Showgirl,

54:04 Speaker 4: Maren Flagg tried to associate herself, tried to associate her

54:08 Speaker 4: podcast with the album, tried to kind of ride the

54:13 Speaker 4: coattails of that branding. So she tried to ride the coattails.

54:18 Speaker 4: And then when I guess that didn't pan out for

54:20 Speaker 4: her well enough, she decided, Oh, now she's gonna cry

54:23 Speaker 4: trademark infringement. It's absurd. She doesn't own the word showgirl.

54:29 Speaker 4: But this thing has not been thrown out and it

54:31 Speaker 4: keeps going. And I don't know these lawyers that she has,

54:36 Speaker 4: they keep trying. So there you have it. So just

54:39 Speaker 4: a quick update on that, all right, We do need

54:42 Speaker 4: to show some love to our amazing sponsors, and if

54:45 Speaker 4: any of them are listening, Happy Independence Day. And on

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