Returning favorites Take the Reins jumped in the car before headlining Punk Rock Tacos at Cemitas Poblanas in Villa Park on May 10, 2024.

In addition to catching up on all the things that have been happening with the band since we last chatted in 2023, the band debuted an acoustic version of a new, as-yet unheard, song called “Dead Leaves.”

Car Con Carne (a Q101 podcast) is presented by Alex Ross Art. Visit Alex Ross on YouTube (@TheAlexRossArt) to keep up to date with one of the comics industry’s most important and celebrated creators.

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TRANSCRIPT

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This is Car Con Carne, recording on a gorgeous Friday night in May 2024.

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Car Con Carne is a Q101 podcast.

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I’m James VanOsdol, and Car Con Carne is presented by Alex Ross Art.

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I don’t know if you’ve seen all the stuff going on with the new James Gunn Superman movie that’s coming out next year.

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Cannot wait.

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What’s really interesting is how much he’s modeled.

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James Gunn has modeled Superman based on the works of Alex Ross, who is presenting Car Con Carne.

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Alex Ross is a groundbreaking revolutionary force in comics and graphic novels.

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His website is alexrossart.com, his YouTube at the Alex Ross Art.

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And if you go to his website, check out all the original one of a kind artwork that you can own.

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Just have fun looking through there.

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I do.

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Thank Did I mention that it’s really gorgeous tonight, as I’m recording?

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If you’re watching on video, you can probably tell.

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I mean, there’s sun coming through the passenger side.

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It’s lovely out.

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The point is this, in about two weeks, me and my team are headed to Soldier Field.

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It’s the Fight for Air Climb, something we’re doing with the American Lung Association.

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It’s a stair climb, and it’s designed to raise funds and raise awareness to fight lung disease.

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If you want to be part of my team, you’re not too late.

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Go to fightforairclimb.org/chicago.

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Once you’re there, click Register as a Team, and then search for Car Con Carne, and that’s it.

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And it’ll see you on the stairs.

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Of course, if you want to start your own team, yeah, you could do that too.

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fightforairclimb.org/chicago.

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Your home, your rules, motherfucker.

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Are you guys ready?

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I think we’re ready.

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We’re already doing this, right?

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Yeah.

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This is Car Con Carne outside Cemitas Poblanas.

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Easy for me to say.

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Cemitas Poblanas in Villa Park.

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It’s Punk Rock Tacos.

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The headliner, the night I’m recording this, Take the Reins, who are back in the car.

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I love having this band on.

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Lovely to see you all.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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And we love being in your car as well.

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What a delight.

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And I realized, we were talking about this before we started recording.

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I think it’s like a year to the week since the last time we did this.

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So we just need to, let’s make this official.

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Let’s codify our interview process.

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Let’s just assume that every May, we get together and do this.

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Let’s just put it on the books now.

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I’m in.

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No matter what we’re doing.

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If you’re vacationing in the south of France, I will meet you there, whatever it takes to make sure that we make this an annual tradition.

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Or coq au vin.

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Oh, coq au vin, yeah.

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But every May, this is what we do.

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Me and Take the Reins in this car, if this car can hold up.

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At some point, I need a new car.

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You’re driving the passenger van, right?

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Oh yeah, it’s still rocking.

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How old is it?

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How many miles?

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How old is it?

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I believe it’s 2009, but we bought it out of an auction out of the North Dakota Department of Transportation.

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So it had like no miles on it, and we got a screaming deal on it because I don’t think they wanted it because it didn’t have four wheel drive, because there’s lots of snow and stuff up there.

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So we got this like pristine van, and I think it had like maybe 60,000 miles on it.

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Yeah.

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So the North…

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They flew out there and drove it home.

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Yeah.

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The North Dakota Department of Transportation, that’s like the tail end of the Google search.

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Like you…

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Courtney found it.

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Yeah, they drove it from North Dakota to Minneapolis.

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I flew to Minneapolis, picked it up and drove it home.

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Yep.

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And it served you well.

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And yeah.

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Oh, we love it.

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Red rum.

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It’s red rum, big red.

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The first time we met in this car previously on Car Con Carne, I mean, it was back in like 1917, 2017.

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We’re not that old.

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2017, edition by subtraction, back in the days.

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And then last year, I’m at your door.

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Leads me to the question, where are we at with new music?

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Are you writing?

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It seemed like you were teasing stuff on your social media.

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Oh, we may have something.

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Maybe we’re waiting on somebody that we know, that you may know, to get it back to us.

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BAM’s…

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Oh, yeah.

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He’s working his magic.

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Give him time.

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We were in the studio a couple of months ago and we had a bit of a half of the album done.

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And yeah, just hard at work.

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Same process, you write lyrics and melodies and then you turn it over to everybody?

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I do.

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It is a process.

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And people have asked and I’m like, do you really want to hear the process?

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Everyone wants to hear the process.

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And you do.

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I usually sit on my acoustic guitar and just come up with things.

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A lot of songs I come up with are in the middle of the night.

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They wake me up.

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No joke.

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I wake up at, it’s usually around three o’clock in the morning and I’ve got something in my head and sometimes I’m like, is that already a song?

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You know, it’s like, is that Green Day?

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Or is that like something like original that came from the universe?

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For real, this is the creative process for you.

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Actually, the melodies come to you at night and…

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Yeah, I wrote a song about it.

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There’s notebooks all over the house.

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Yeah.

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Just random notebooks.

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And then my voice memos are like me singing at three o’clock in the morning, like, and I wake up.

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Sometimes I can’t even like make out what I’m saying, you know, because I’m half asleep.

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But then I, you know, I take it to my acoustic guitar.

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I work it out.

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Then I meet up with Adam Cryer, usually, and he helps me work out kinks.

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And sometimes he’ll be like, eh.

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Adam Cryer, AM Taxi, Lucky Boys, Confusion.

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Yes, Adam has been a wonderful help to the band and in our music.

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And yeah, I take it to him.

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He helps me clean it up a little bit.

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Sometimes I’m a little jealous at what Adam can do.

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Then I’m like, why didn’t I think of that?

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But so then we clean it up.

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I bring it back to the guys.

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We put it together as a band.

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We go back to Adam as a band.

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And he cleans us all up.

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And then he cleans us up again and tells us everything we did was wrong.

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He trims the fat.

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He totally trims the fat.

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And then we bring it to Precision.

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So that is our process.

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I got to a point end of last year where I decided I needed a break from Adam Cryer.

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I had a fear that he was going to think I was a stalker.

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I saw AM Taxi at Beat Kitchen.

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And then like one week later, I went to see Ike Riley at Lincoln Hall and Cryer’s in his band.

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I’m like, I guess I’m not going to see Lucky Boy’s confusion this time around.

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I just, I don’t want Cryer to think I’m weird.

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I don’t think you think you’re weird.

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I don’t think he thinks you’re weird at all.

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Like I’m haunting him or, I don’t know.

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He likes to be stalked.

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So tell me, Courtney, of Take the Reins, headlining Punk Rock Tacos as we’re recording this, tell me where your mind’s at with these lyrics.

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Like, what are these songs about?

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I mean, it’s so early and I realize that.

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It is, yeah.

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I mean, we’re about, what, five songs into the record right now.

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And there’s more on the way.

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We just haven’t gotten into the studio to record these yet.

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But they’re all kind of about transforming into who you’ve always meant to be.

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So I guess you’re higher self.

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And so the working title is The Art of Transformation and all the songs kind of have something to do with just, you know, striving to be a little bit better and help make the world a better place.

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Sounds like a certain amount of maturity in maybe inform these lyrics.

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I try.

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Or just adulthood in general.

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Yeah, for sure.

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I’ve gone through a lot over the past couple of years.

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And you know, I think the music is reflecting that and it is becoming a little more mature, I guess.

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And yeah, I mean, I hope what I have to say, people will listen and maybe they’re going through something similar and that’s what it’s all about.

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So for the band members in the backseat, tell me your vibes on these new songs.

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How are you feeling?

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Definitely been stepping out style-wise.

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At least one of them that Courtney wrote has got very much an old 97s feel, which is new territory for us, but we kind of stepped in those shoes.

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I think that’s probably of the things we did in the studio a couple of months ago.

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I was most proud of that just because it was out of our comfort zone, but we pulled it off.

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And unfortunately, you can’t play it for you right now, but I’m very excited to kind of-

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You’re wedding appetites.

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Yeah, yeah.

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I think it’s going to be a much more eclectic record than maybe the first two.

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Yeah, we may have some of the guys from 500 Miles to Memphis playing on that song that in particular that-

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Nice, hear that?

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Now you have to do it.

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Yeah, Ryan.

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Yeah, no pressure, Ryan.

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You better get those slide guitar riffs to us.

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We’re waiting for it.

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But yeah, we sent it to them and they seem to really like it and we’re on board to help collaborate on that.

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This time around too, I think we’ve spent a lot more quality time with the music too, where before it was like, like we’d go to Adam and then we go right into the studio.

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And this time we actually, we like jumped into technology.

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I got a Mac, I got a little recording thing and then we did lots of scratch tracks and have been spending a lot of time like trying to like build on the music and take some time where before it was we got it done and then we went directly into the studio.

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And this time we’re actually, I’ve personally had a lot of time to work on my parts.

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And I think that as a band, we’ve kind of just able to let the music kind of sit for a little bit, which has kind of helped, I think along the way, instead of just rushing in and being like, oh man, I wish I would have done that.

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Or we could have done this with it, or we could have added this to it.

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And now we’re actually gonna take the opportunity to make sure that we get it the way that we want it.

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Like the first record, there were some songs on there.

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I’m like, oh, I wish we would have done this or taken more time with this, you know, but as Adam Kreier again, now I’m stalking Adam Kreier, said to me one time and I was like, oh, you know, I wish I would have said something different in that line.

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He goes, yeah, but that’s where you were at the time.

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Yeah.

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So, I mean, we could all live our lives in hindsight, but that’s where we were at the time.

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So I look back and I’m like, yeah, I’d say things differently now because I’m a different person.

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So that makes sense.

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Oh, it makes perfect sense.

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Someone asked me, I was being interviewed, which is a rare thing.

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I was being interviewed last week and someone asked me if I still had all my early tapes from the radio, like my audition tape and, you know, my first shows and I said I didn’t.

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I got rid of them a long time ago because that was just the recklessness of the me of 20 years ago.

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I’m like, oh, I can’t believe I sounded like that or can’t believe I said that.

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With the clarity of maturity and adulthood, like if they still existed, I’d say, well, that was just who I was then.

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The same thing.

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And I wish I hadn’t been as rash as to get rid of that stuff.

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Like it’s just, it’s a timestamp.

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It’s not necessarily reflective of the person I am now.

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Just who I was then.

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Absolutely.

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I mean, we all have grown.

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Hopefully.

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Hopefully, that’s the goal that we all grow.

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So, nothing to be ashamed of.

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Mentioning the old 97s in context of Take the Reins, one of the many things I find so likable about your band is that you can’t be pinned down by genre.

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You’re at a punk rock show tonight.

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Yeah, sure, you fit here perfectly fine.

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You blend in, but you really do kind of straddle scenes, vibes, genres.

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And I find that very appealing.

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You can be plugged in any bill.

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Thank you, yeah.

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Coming from you, that really means a lot to me because you’ve been there, you’ve seen the greats.

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And I feel similar to that, but I’m like, well, it’s my band, and maybe I’m a little biased, but coming from you, that makes me happy.

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You’re people who love music making music.

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That’s what I hear.

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We are.

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So it works that you’re at Punk Rock Tacos.

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Have you eaten tacos yet, or is that something?

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Yeah, we have not.

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I’ve had a couple bites of something.

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I can’t eat before shows.

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You can’t eat before shows.

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I can’t eat before shows.

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I get the worst, like, no, I can’t.

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Well, yeah, because it probably sits like a rock.

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Absolutely, yeah.

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And then I’m up there like, no, it’s not good.

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It’s not pretty.

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What about cold beverages?

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Modelo.

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Maybe a few Pacificos in our future.

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Something to take the edge off?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, just lubricates the vibes.

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It’s amazing how it does that, though.

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I just drank my throat-coat tea.

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A little lucent thing.

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Throat-coat tea.

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Tastes terrible, but it works.

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All right, so I’m gonna let you get set up inside at Punk Rock Tacos.

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Before I do, now, Matt said this, I don’t know if he was just saying this or not.

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Are you willing to play a song?

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Yeah.

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Sure, yeah.

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Absolutely.

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We’ve done this before in previous Mays.

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Where are you gonna play?

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We are playing a new song that we have never played for anyone ever except for Precision.

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Is this one of the songs you’re working on right now?

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Yeah.

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Correct.

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So it’s brand new.

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We have never played it acoustic.

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It is finished.

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So we’re gonna give it a whirl.

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There’s gonna be an acoustic version of it and then the live version of it tonight.

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Really?

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Sorry, you’re gonna get the acoustic version.

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We will play.

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I was about to say, is this like a vanilla ice show where he opens and closes with ice ice baby?

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I mean, now it is, but yeah.

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All right, so what’s the name of this as yet unheard by anyone except Dan Precision’s song?

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It’s called Dead Leaves.

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Dead Leaves?

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Dead Leaves.

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All right, we’re gonna hear this live.

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We’re gonna quickly pause, which means nothing to people watching or listening, but we’re gonna quickly pause.

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We’re gonna kick some people out.

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We’re gonna bring instruments in and we’re gonna hear this in the car.

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Amazing, Take the Reins, thank you.

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Thank you, we love you.

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Next May.

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Next May, it’s a date.

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Jeff brings tips to cut strokes off your next round.

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Together, it’s those weekend golf guys.

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They’ll pay a lot of money to PXG and Titleist and Callaway and da, da.

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How many yards you think you’re gonna pick up with that extra, I think I can get an extra five to 10.

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What if I give you 15 to 20?

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Although I didn’t really work with her a lot.

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But Tom did, and they had some real big smoochy scenes.

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Could there be any more sex?

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What was a three page makeout scene that just kept going?

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