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Are you Hey friends, are you listening? This

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is a podcast exploring the past, present, and

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future of Christian music. My name is Joel and

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I'm here with my good friend Brandon. And we

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connected over mutual love of some specific artists,

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but also listened to some completely different

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stuff as well. And so we get to experience that

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from each other while sometimes inviting some

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friends along for the ride. And today, We have

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a guest with us for our 10th episode, and she's

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actually been a guest here before. And so we're

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bringing her back in celebration of episode 10.

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Brandon, who's our guest today? It's Jordan.

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I feel like I'm an honored guest because not

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only was I the first guest, on the show. I'm

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now celebrating double digits with you guys.

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So it's a big deal that you're here today. The

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first guest. Well, I can't say that you're the

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first guest to be on two episodes because that's

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not true. You're the second guest to be on two

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episodes. But but you're here and on a pretty

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important episode for us. And because it's because

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it's such a big deal for us to hit 10 episodes.

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Today we're moving into the present. We've been

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looking back at things that we've enjoyed in

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the past, but you know what? Today we're like,

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forget about it. We're gonna look at something

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that is now, that's current, and we're gonna

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look at where Christian music is today. And so

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today we're going to be listening to the album

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Jungle in the City by Gable Price and Friends.

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And so more on that. in just a little bit, but

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I'm excited to talk about it. I'll spend some

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time listening to it. But before we get into

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all that stuff, I think Brandon, you mentioned

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that maybe you had something fun for us to do.

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Yeah, I've got a game for you and Jordan. I feel

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like Brandon's games are always dangerous though.

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Dangerous. You don't know what kind of game it's

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going to be. So since we're reviewing Gable Price

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and Friends, this game is called Friend or Foe?

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Concert Edition. So I'm going to give you some

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stuff that you would or you may have encountered

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at concerts and you're going to tell me if it's

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good friend or if you're against and it's foe.

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All right. Gotcha. Any questions where we start?

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I'm just going to go with it. All right. Pyrotechnics

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friend or foe? Well, I feel like pyrotechnics

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with through a pyrotechnic team friend. But if

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little Johnny is just got a flamethrower out

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in the crowd, that's definitely faux I'm a I'm

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a hard foe Mm -hmm on pyrotechnics. Like if you

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need that stuff to make your music hit like you're

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not a musician Mm -hmm. Okay, I think they're

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fun Using backing tracks instead of a like live

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instruments So do you want a full band behind

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you or you cool with just the one person singing

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and just tracks playing? Here's here's the reality

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of this every band on the road right now uses

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backing tracks It's just to what extent are they

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using them and so I mean there might be a few

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that aren't but for the most part I'm pretty

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much everybody's doing it I'm definitely a foe

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for the person That's like this the guy with

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a guitar that has this full band sound behind

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them and there is not a full band there but I

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And I guess I'd rather just experience it live.

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Yeah, stay with that. I love hearing all of the

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little intricacies of a live show. So I am a

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foe for backing tracks because I love seeing

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a little guy with like a bell that he just shakes

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every like 10 seconds or so. because that's what's

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on the song. Just like when we went to see Sixpence

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None the Richer play. Exactly. And Steve Hindelog

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is up there just rocking out every little percussion

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instrument. He had like a thing, a handle with

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like 10 bells on it. Yeah. And he just shook

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it every couple of seconds. And I was like, that's

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so cool. With more passion than I've ever seen

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anybody shake a bell. Exactly. All right, movie.

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I will say adding in like a saxophone. I love

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a saxophone, but You to hear it track like on

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a track. I know I love it live. It's good. All

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right matching shirts with your youth group or

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church Do you even have to ask this question

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I'm i'm a foe because I want to wear my own shirt

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my own cool band t -shirt to this concert Yeah,

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i'm definitely a foe Um, it's rock and roll,

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baby Amen brother We had years ago, they made

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me take off the John Rubin shirt. I was wearing

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to a concert and they made me wear matching shirts.

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Now, mind you, we were working the event, but

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I still felt like there should have been an exception

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for John Rubin. And then I lost the shirt. Were

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you at our John Rubin show? No, he wasn't there.

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OK, good. That's a whole other thing. Maybe that

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was the Lord protecting you, Brandon. Mosh pits.

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As somebody who actually used Dimash, I, looking

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back on it now, they're so dangerous. And there

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were lots of times where I probably would have

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gotten seriously hurt if I wouldn't have just

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gotten out of it. But like, I don't know. I feel

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like they're fun. So maybe I'm, I may be a friend

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of it. I'll call myself an acquaintance. I'm

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not gonna participate myself, but I don't mind

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other people doing their thing. So all right

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general admission Versus like paying for like

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your designated seat I'm a friend Yeah, I'm friendly

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with that. I don't mind it cuz then I can move

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around so like if I really love a song I can

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move closer to the stage and then if it's like

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I'm not a huge fan of this song I can sit kind

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of in the back The thing I love about general

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admission is everybody standing up the whole

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time and engaged and involved and when you pay

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for your own seat Too many people use their seats

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and then it's like you lose some of the experience.

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Yeah All right, and we get in with artist changing

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the lyrics for your city I feel like I'm neither

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a friend nor a foe because it some some people

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do it really well and it's like but then some

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people, it's just like, come on man, just sing

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the song. I'm friendly to that. They're putting

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a little thought into it. They're trying to fit

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in. So I'm good with it. I'm all right. I will

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say I'm more of a foe whenever the artist comes

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out and is like, hey everybody, Charleston is

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the greatest city. Because I guarantee you last

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night, you just said, hey everybody, Raleigh

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is the greatest city. But Jordan, Charleston

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is the greatest city. I don't disagree, but if

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you're going to say that the other five cities

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that you just left from are the greatest city,

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don't say that Charleston is the greatest, too.

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How do you know they said that? I just know.

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I have a feeling. That's good. OK, I have a surprise

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game that I haven't even warned you about, but

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I couldn't ignore it since we're talking about

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Gable Price and friends. And so it's a game that

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is based on this idea to name a band with a person

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and whatever their band is called. Okay. And

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so I'm going to give you some now, I, because

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there aren't too many of these in the Christian

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marketplace, I pulled some from the general.

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Market too, but I'm gonna give you some and you

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need to tell me if it's a real band or not a

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real band Okay, okay based on the names I was

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thinking do I have to come up with these because

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all knowledge of bands have left my brain In

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this moment, so I'll start with some easy ones.

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Okay Hootie and the blowfish. Yes. Yes. Okay

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Cool and the gang Brandon yes Yes, that's correct.

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Brandon knows nothing about like funk music.

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So We'll do another one sly and the family stone

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Yeah, no, that's a TV show isn't about this isn't

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it this Sylvester Stallone TV show No Is that

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a band it is bad All right, let's do a Christian

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one Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil. Yes. Yes.

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Yes. Steve Taylor and the Danielson foil. Yes.

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Yes. I'm just basing it off of Brandon's answer.

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I know that he worked with Danielson, so. Captain

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Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters. I want that

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to be true. Yeah. I'm going to say no. No, and

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yeah, what do you think? Yeah, it sounds like

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a local band to be honest You guys need to go

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watch the movie that thing you do This is both

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true and false because the band the wonders Play

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in a movie this band called Captain Geech and

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the Shrimp Shack shooters So yeah, it's great

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My favorite movie of all time. It's phenomenal

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Okay This is a real throwback. Maybe. Jeff Moore

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and the Distance. I'm going to say yes because

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you said it was a real throwback. You kind of

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gave away. I'm going with yes, Jude. Yes. Jeff

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Moore and the Distance. Classic Christian band.

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All right. Let's do just one or two more. Judah

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and the Lion. Yes. Yes. Yes. Katrina and the

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waves. Yes. No. It's yes. Walking on sunshine.

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Yep. Oh, I thought that was like based off of

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like the hurricane and I was like, I don't know

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if that would name my band after a tragedy. All

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right. So the fun thing about that game is they

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were all yeses because so many people do this.

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Why? Why does so many people name their bands

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after a singer? And then they're like, oh, and

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that's the distance over there. It's an interesting

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thing. Brandon in the hush puppies. I feel like

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it's just a fun, fun way to name a band. Yeah.

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Makes it easy. At least Gable Price and Friends.

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Tell me this, do you know, have they had like

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a has the friends part of it like changed a lot?

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Been different people over time? I think they've

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had one guy left. Last year, I think or it might

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have been early this year. I think the guitarist

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like stepped out Yeah, so so not like a ton of

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turnover This isn't just like a thing where gable

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price is whoever I want to use on this record

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You're gonna bring these people in it make it

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really sad if cable was like it's you're just

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a friend. I don't need you Yeah, I kind of feel

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like that's you get a little bit of that though

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with with Separating yourself from your band.

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Yeah I don't know. Interesting. All right. So

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I'm looking forward to digging into that. But

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before we get into it, let's find out. All right.

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So there's a lot that's happened in the last

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little bit. A lot that's happened with the Gospel

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Music Association, the GMA. So they had the annual

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Dove Awards that took place. But did you guys

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hear about what else happened? So they opened

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up downtown Nashville, a museum called the Museum

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of Christian and Gospel Music. It's like this

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huge museum that they opened up down there. So

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there's all kinds of stuff in it from like a

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striper display to Carmen's Bible and boxing

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gloves from the champion video. um it's like

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history of christian music so i'm thinking one

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day we probably need to record a podcast episode

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from um from this museum i feel like that'd be

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a pretty fun thing so we need to work on that

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maybe it only makes sense maybe we can get a

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sponsorship yeah we could go to nashville yes

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exactly yeah i say we because i'm lumping myself

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into this sounds like a fun time but that's pretty

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cool but then the devil words happened did you

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guys see like who won different categories i

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read the list of them yeah i saw a couple of

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like different um acceptance speeches and stuff

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from people anything that like surprised you

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or you thought was cool or i felt like uh force

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frank taking home like artist of the year was

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kind of i don't know it i felt there's mixed

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feelings about it you think so yeah yeah i would

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definitely say that he Just popularity wise like

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probably won that pretty easily I think that's

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the I think the both sides of it is that I look

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at what he's doing and in my mind an artist of

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the year is someone who's like Reinventing stuff

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and I feel like there's nothing like like the

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industry hasn't been changed by it, but at the

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same time it's like Is his music is everywhere?

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Like if you went right now and asked people to

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name a Christian artist, I feel like someone

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like him or like Brandon Lake. So it's like,

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on the other hand, it's like, it can't all be,

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it's like a movie. When movies win these big

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awards and you've never heard and they've made

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like 10 ,000 at the box office, you're like,

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okay, well, there's something to be said about

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the movie that did generate, you know, $30 trillion.

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So yeah, let's be honest the artist of the year

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category at the Dev Awards has probably never

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been super cutting -edge Sadly, but I think it's

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always like who's the most popular who has the

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most listens I just I go back to 2010 is when

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there was a shift you saw John Rubin get snubbed

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in two categories and I think ever since then

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we've just definitely yeah I think the shift

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happened before 2010. But yeah, the only two

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people that I would think would even possibly

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win that award would be Forrest Frank or Brandon

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Lake. And it'd be interesting to compare like

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their streams on Spotify. I don't even have a

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clue, honestly. So I can research that and check

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that out while we talk about some other things.

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So, um, Brandon Lake's song hard -fought. Hallelujah

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one song of the year. Mm -hmm I I definitely

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have some feelings about that one. Mm -hmm But

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yeah, I don't know. Did you have any thoughts

00:16:24.929 --> 00:16:27.850
about that? I feel like it just goes back to

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like The whole population. I think I remember

00:16:31.149 --> 00:16:33.370
like years ago. I think was like Martin was like

00:16:33.370 --> 00:16:34.889
Martin Scorsese He was talking about how like

00:16:34.889 --> 00:16:37.029
all the Avengers movies are like, oh these are

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like trash and in my mind I was like No, I feel

00:16:40.500 --> 00:16:42.299
like they're telling a story and yet might be

00:16:42.299 --> 00:16:45.539
superheroes flying around. So it's like I see

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both sides of it. Like I said, I feel like there's

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bands that I look at and I'm like, these people

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are, you know, they're they're doing something

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no one else is doing. They are creating. And

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I think that, you know, I lean towards those

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bands being, you know, like looked at and all.

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But it's also hard. Like I said, it's like, should

00:17:05.740 --> 00:17:08.259
you be punished for producing something that

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like You know brings all this attention, you

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know, it's almost like you I don't know like

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I feel like you shouldn't just a popularity contest

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doesn't mean that you are amazing but also like

00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:22.960
you've done something right when out of the Thousands

00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:25.880
of songs that are being released today your song

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skyrockets and gets all the success. So Yeah,

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I have I I Don't I think it's a good song Mm

00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:38.680
-hmm musically and everything. I think I just

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have like a I have a problem with it from more

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of a theological Stem this is gonna make me sound

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a little bit like a goodie goodie or something

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But I feel like the songs like trying to be edgy.

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Yeah And then for whatever reason sometimes it's

00:17:55.980 --> 00:17:59.099
those kinds of songs that come off And and when

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things like this and get popular and then the

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church can have these conversations back and

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forth about them but but I one I just don't like

00:18:07.579 --> 00:18:10.359
the way that it tries to be edgy like when striper

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used the word hell like to hell with the devil

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they're thinking theologically about how the

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devil is going to end up in this place forever

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and so that was like an edgy use of the word

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hell but here in this song it's like been through

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hell but like it's not Theological at all. It's

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just saying I've been through a lot of tough

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stuff in my life and comparing that to An eternity

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of damnation. Um, I just think it's theologically

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problematic Yeah, and so i'm like I feel like

00:18:42.619 --> 00:18:45.420
we can do a little better and I don't know let's

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just yeah, I think sometimes the church struggles

00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:53.259
too with um like Whenever we get someone cool

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that like joins our team all of a sudden. It's

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like Like you look at when we went through the

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time with like Kanye West stepped in and all

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of a sudden it was like Oh, he's the greatest

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this so cool and it's almost like we we want

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to be cool so we can look and say Hey, look look

00:19:09.140 --> 00:19:11.039
look right here. We got this cool person over

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here. So I feel like whenever you have that you

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want to like Publicize it, you know, it's almost

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like, you know I don't know if this week if you

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had someone like a you know, like a Mel Gibson

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or someone walk into our church it's like part

00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:25.730
of you wants to be like hey look we've got this

00:19:25.730 --> 00:19:28.150
cool guy at our church but also part of you is

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kind of like well why does he need to be center

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of attention what makes him many different than

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like the other people you know who may be here

00:19:35.190 --> 00:19:39.470
every week serving so I think that's kind of

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like weird is that it's like like I said you

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have this oh this song's a hit because we're

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cool and I think the church has always struggled

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with a we want to out cool everyone else like

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if they're not on our team then they're ridiculous

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and all but then once they join in and sing like

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a christian song or show up then all of a sudden

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oh they're cool we're cool and that kind of thing

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you know i don't know it just it feels kind of

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weird yeah i hear that i hear that all right

00:20:06.890 --> 00:20:09.450
jordan you have an update for us on i do streams

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so brandon lake has seven million monthly listens

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however forrest frank has 8 .8 million wow so

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forrest frank does have a million 0 .8, 1 .8

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million more than Brandon Lake. Seems like a

00:20:29.190 --> 00:20:32.950
well -earned artist of the year. Yeah. So I don't

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know what, I mean, to me that makes the most

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sense because he's getting the most streams.

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I feel like the most streams, the most listened

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to artist should be the artist of the year. Whether

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we like them or not. there's lots of people that

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I don't like that always win artists of the year

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and I'm like come on this this little like one

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million monthly listen artists they should get

00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:03.779
it because I like them better. Well with that

00:21:03.779 --> 00:21:06.980
let's talk about what we do like. So what have

00:21:06.980 --> 00:21:08.859
you guys been listening to lately that you've

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been enjoying? I've been listening to a lot of

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Joey the Jerk. He was one of the I don't know

00:21:16.299 --> 00:21:19.069
if you're familiar with LA Symphony. Yeah, yeah,

00:21:19.410 --> 00:21:22.990
so he was one of the members of that band and

00:21:22.990 --> 00:21:26.289
he's did like some solo stuff He's one of those

00:21:26.289 --> 00:21:28.890
people that like he just like will show up randomly

00:21:28.890 --> 00:21:32.910
on someone and in particular Make sure I get

00:21:32.910 --> 00:21:35.190
the right name for the album that way I don't

00:21:35.190 --> 00:21:38.009
jump up the words catch me if you can it's like

00:21:38.009 --> 00:21:41.829
his Latest or like one of his like few like solo

00:21:41.829 --> 00:21:44.910
stuff. It was released like ten years ago, but

00:21:44.910 --> 00:21:48.519
I feel like it's um it's an album that just uh

00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:52.859
it meshes like it's fun but also it like has

00:21:52.859 --> 00:21:55.599
like deep like deep lyrics and I don't know I

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feel like it's cool whenever you can juggle something

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and it can be like playful but also like have

00:22:01.140 --> 00:22:04.579
some like depth to it so um I feel like it's

00:22:04.579 --> 00:22:10.380
a really cool album that's great for me um I've

00:22:10.380 --> 00:22:13.259
been listening to a lot of Josiah Queen's stuff

00:22:13.259 --> 00:22:18.099
recently um But it's cool because I found him

00:22:18.099 --> 00:22:22.740
like maybe a year ago, a little bit more than

00:22:22.740 --> 00:22:26.039
a year ago on social media. And I was just like,

00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:28.359
oh, this is cool. Because I think it was like

00:22:28.359 --> 00:22:32.420
the video of him playing in the desert like kept

00:22:32.420 --> 00:22:34.859
on coming up, whatever. I don't even remember

00:22:34.859 --> 00:22:37.160
what song was related to that one, but it kept

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on coming up in my algorithm. And I was at first

00:22:39.740 --> 00:22:42.269
I was like, all right, scroll on. I'm tired of

00:22:42.269 --> 00:22:44.509
seeing you, man. But then I started like listening

00:22:44.509 --> 00:22:46.890
to him. I made I connected the dots and I was

00:22:46.890 --> 00:22:50.069
like, oh, that's this guy. Yeah. So, yeah, I've

00:22:50.069 --> 00:22:52.589
been listening to him. That's cool. Yeah, one

00:22:52.589 --> 00:22:55.329
that I've been listening to the band Fine China

00:22:55.329 --> 00:22:58.690
just came out with a new record called I Felt

00:22:58.690 --> 00:23:03.170
Called. They're they're Velvet Blue, where Star

00:23:03.170 --> 00:23:05.569
Flag's been releasing most of their stuff. Fine

00:23:05.569 --> 00:23:09.920
China has been around for. long time at this

00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:13.559
point and a band that is really good and puts

00:23:13.559 --> 00:23:16.519
out I think this is like a double record but

00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:20.339
they put out great stuff but never have hit like

00:23:20.339 --> 00:23:22.799
the popularity of the band like Star Flyer but

00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:26.940
in a lot of ways sound a lot like like Star Flyer

00:23:26.940 --> 00:23:29.559
and so I'm enjoying that new record a lot I think

00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:32.660
it's I think it's really good so Alright, so

00:23:32.660 --> 00:23:35.500
let's move on and take a break and we will head

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towards talking about Gable Price and Friends.

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So today we're talking about the album or EP,

00:23:49.700 --> 00:23:53.039
Jungle in the City by Gable Price and Friends.

00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:56.220
So here's some info that I pulled on this. Jungle

00:23:56.220 --> 00:23:58.900
in the City is an EP by the alternative rock

00:23:58.900 --> 00:24:01.980
band Gable Price and Friends released on August

00:24:01.980 --> 00:24:05.700
9th, 2024. Hence, this is something that's come

00:24:05.700 --> 00:24:09.180
out basically in the last year. The EP and its

00:24:09.180 --> 00:24:12.339
title track were inspired by Gable Price's move

00:24:12.339 --> 00:24:17.140
to Los Angeles in January 2024. One of the album's

00:24:17.140 --> 00:24:20.880
producers, Aaron Broman, received a Devil Word

00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:23.900
nomination for his work on it, speaking of the

00:24:23.900 --> 00:24:29.230
Devil Words. So there you go. So you guys this

00:24:29.230 --> 00:24:32.990
is new for me I've heard both of you talk a lot

00:24:32.990 --> 00:24:35.470
about Gable price and friends and we've talked

00:24:35.470 --> 00:24:38.430
about Spending some time chatting through them

00:24:38.430 --> 00:24:42.009
on the podcast But this was my first time really

00:24:42.009 --> 00:24:45.589
listening to them, but y 'all have history So

00:24:45.589 --> 00:24:48.930
kind of fill me in on how Gable price entered

00:24:48.930 --> 00:24:53.250
into your life Yeah, we were we went to a music

00:24:53.250 --> 00:25:01.000
festival in April? Was it May? The Love and Life

00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:05.359
Festival in Charlotte. So like going to it, we

00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:07.220
knew a couple of the bands we wanted to see.

00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:09.539
But we just kind of wanted to check out some

00:25:09.539 --> 00:25:11.420
of the smaller bands and thinking, you know,

00:25:11.420 --> 00:25:13.259
when you're paying that much for a concert, you

00:25:13.259 --> 00:25:16.440
don't want to go just to see Switchfoot or whoever.

00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:20.460
So we made like a list of just all the bands

00:25:20.460 --> 00:25:23.579
that were going to be there that day. And Gable

00:25:23.579 --> 00:25:26.640
Price was one that just we started listening

00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:29.859
through them and I was like, man, this is really

00:25:29.859 --> 00:25:33.859
cool what they're doing. And just started listening

00:25:33.859 --> 00:25:37.019
more and it was funny because I was like, oh

00:25:37.019 --> 00:25:39.059
man, it's kind of like, like I wonder if these

00:25:39.059 --> 00:25:40.640
guys are like Christian or something because

00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:42.440
there's these like stuff in there and they come

00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:44.299
to find out like, oh, it is a Christian band.

00:25:45.019 --> 00:25:48.119
And I think for me it was cool because like so

00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:50.200
much of the music I love, it's like, I found

00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:54.299
bands like, after they had already went on hiatus

00:25:54.299 --> 00:25:57.119
or they had been gone for 10 years. So it was

00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:00.119
cool to find a band that, oh, this band is not

00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:03.559
only current, but they're also healthy. They're

00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:06.480
not getting 20 listens a month. What about you,

00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:11.619
Jordan? So we went to this festival and before

00:26:11.619 --> 00:26:14.740
the festival, we were listening through the artists

00:26:14.740 --> 00:26:16.319
that were gonna be there, just kind of getting

00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:19.440
a sample of like, oh, do I wanna see them? Do

00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:24.400
I not wanna see them? And Brandon showed me a

00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:26.579
couple of their songs and I was like, oh, I kind

00:26:26.579 --> 00:26:28.779
of like them. They're catchy. And then seeing

00:26:28.779 --> 00:26:31.940
them live, I was like, oh my gosh, this is such

00:26:31.940 --> 00:26:36.400
a good band. They're high energy performers.

00:26:37.380 --> 00:26:40.980
As soon as they came out, it was like from the

00:26:40.980 --> 00:26:44.240
get go, they were on top of it and just like

00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:47.920
boom, boom, boom with the set list. And I feel

00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:50.960
like They really drew you in and to look around

00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:53.940
there weren't a lot of people that were standing

00:26:53.940 --> 00:26:56.960
by the stage while we were there Yeah, so it

00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:00.200
was really cool to see like oh This is like i'm

00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:02.920
i'm a part of a very few people that get to hear

00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:06.559
this right now because like there's maybe 50

00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:10.279
people standing around if even that That were

00:27:10.279 --> 00:27:12.259
listening to them and I was like, oh my gosh.

00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:15.759
I feel I feel like these guys like I'm a part

00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.319
of something that's like starting and yeah, but

00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:20.799
then they've been around for a while so it's

00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:24.299
not like I'm on the ground level but It was pretty

00:27:24.299 --> 00:27:26.500
cool. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of feels like I get

00:27:26.500 --> 00:27:28.720
a cool moment to step in when they're kind of

00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:31.500
up and coming and on the rise Which is kind of

00:27:31.500 --> 00:27:36.160
a fun thing. That's cool alright, so this is

00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:39.339
this the first thing by them that you ever listened

00:27:39.339 --> 00:27:43.220
to like mm -hmm. Yeah, this it will for us. It's

00:27:43.220 --> 00:27:46.509
kind of like jumbled um because like we've listened

00:27:46.509 --> 00:27:49.849
to really bits and pieces of like everything

00:27:49.849 --> 00:27:52.670
so like even when people ask it's kind of hard

00:27:52.670 --> 00:27:55.369
for us to say go check out this album because

00:27:55.369 --> 00:27:59.190
i will say for me i even wrote down um heaven

00:27:59.190 --> 00:28:02.069
closes doors was the first song that i ever heard

00:28:02.069 --> 00:28:04.970
by them yeah whenever we first started listening

00:28:04.970 --> 00:28:08.329
to them on spotify i that was the first song

00:28:08.329 --> 00:28:12.299
that i heard by them And then from there, like

00:28:12.299 --> 00:28:15.279
whenever they performed, they played songs from

00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:19.640
several different albums. Yeah, that's cool.

00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:27.079
Yeah, I think so. Let's talk just through with

00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:29.640
that then what what are like opening thoughts

00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:33.279
on the album like or the EP before we kind of

00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:35.299
get into a track by track discussion? Like what

00:28:35.299 --> 00:28:36.940
are just some general thoughts you guys have?

00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:40.440
I know that for some people they felt like it

00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:42.799
was kind of a shift from the other stuff they

00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:46.200
had done. So I think that you have some Gable

00:28:46.200 --> 00:28:49.299
Price and Friends purists that for them it might

00:28:49.299 --> 00:28:53.339
be a departure from what we're used to. So tell

00:28:53.339 --> 00:28:55.619
me about that because I obviously don't have

00:28:55.619 --> 00:28:58.900
a context for it. How is it different or? So

00:28:58.900 --> 00:29:01.339
for me, I've kind of been working my way back

00:29:01.339 --> 00:29:04.900
through their catalog. and I think for some people

00:29:04.900 --> 00:29:07.019
when they first started off maybe it was more

00:29:07.019 --> 00:29:11.940
of a um like heavier with like the like a faith

00:29:11.940 --> 00:29:16.079
aspect in it um so I think for some people they

00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:20.200
there's been like this feeling of oh only two

00:29:20.200 --> 00:29:22.859
of these songs mention Jesus or something instead

00:29:22.859 --> 00:29:26.019
um so I think that for some people they feel

00:29:26.019 --> 00:29:30.039
that way um but I mean for me I kind of feel

00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:32.750
like it's Lot of these bands like a jars of clay

00:29:32.750 --> 00:29:35.849
thing. Not every song has right Jesus's name

00:29:35.849 --> 00:29:38.930
or like nor do you like need it? but yeah, I

00:29:38.930 --> 00:29:41.250
feel like that's kind of my vibe I've gotten

00:29:41.250 --> 00:29:45.789
from the album is that it is just kind of a Departure

00:29:45.789 --> 00:29:48.509
from like maybe some of their like earlier beginnings.

00:29:49.170 --> 00:29:52.170
I feel like a lot of their older stuff is more

00:29:52.170 --> 00:29:56.250
I'd say more like alternative rock. Whereas this

00:29:56.250 --> 00:30:00.519
one is more of like an indie rock it's got like

00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:03.759
lighter like a lighter sound to it yeah it's

00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:07.980
not as like electric guitar and heavy drums so

00:30:07.980 --> 00:30:10.000
i feel like it's kind of like that and then like

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:15.259
you said the the lyrics are more um like it could

00:30:15.259 --> 00:30:18.660
be about like a relationship between a boy and

00:30:18.660 --> 00:30:21.960
a girl or between like parents or something like

00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:23.819
a parent child relationship or something like

00:30:23.819 --> 00:30:28.039
that um so it's not like super Jesus, Jesus,

00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:32.240
Jesus all the time. But if you know is like I

00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:34.180
whenever I was listening through it, I had the

00:30:34.180 --> 00:30:37.819
lyrics pulled up and like a lot of the use are

00:30:37.819 --> 00:30:41.180
capital Y. So it's like it's talking about like

00:30:41.180 --> 00:30:46.359
God. So it's like that perspective. Yeah. Yeah,

00:30:46.359 --> 00:30:48.380
I was paying attention to that, too, as I was

00:30:48.380 --> 00:30:51.960
listening through it and it wasn't. Yeah, I noticed

00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:54.700
that it wasn't super clear, but you could definitely

00:30:54.700 --> 00:30:58.099
trace it throughout. Yeah. um which was cool

00:30:58.099 --> 00:31:01.119
yeah you talked a little bit about how this one's

00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:04.160
like a little lighter and so i don't know the

00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:07.480
past at all the other things obviously but um

00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:10.460
i could i could get a sense i think of of how

00:31:10.460 --> 00:31:12.900
that was the case because there were a few moments

00:31:12.900 --> 00:31:17.380
where i was like that hits pretty hard um and

00:31:17.380 --> 00:31:19.680
we've talked a lot about production already on

00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:22.859
this podcast um one of my notes just as an opening

00:31:22.859 --> 00:31:25.720
thought for this album is it's like super produced

00:31:26.269 --> 00:31:29.990
In kind of like a in a different way than a lot

00:31:29.990 --> 00:31:32.170
of records. It's like really produced with like

00:31:32.170 --> 00:31:38.289
a ton of kind of ambient feel and Reverb and

00:31:38.289 --> 00:31:40.730
almost like you want it to sound like when you

00:31:40.730 --> 00:31:44.789
hear them live. Yeah, but like Not like live

00:31:44.789 --> 00:31:47.950
and natural like overproduced and live kind of

00:31:47.950 --> 00:31:53.490
yeah and and I don't like Yeah, I think it sounds

00:31:53.490 --> 00:31:57.400
really good Like the production on it and I get

00:31:57.400 --> 00:31:59.440
where they're going But yeah, I was wondering

00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:01.819
I was like I wonder if like all the previous

00:32:01.819 --> 00:32:03.700
records sound like this or if they're a little

00:32:03.700 --> 00:32:07.019
more Like not quite as polished and a little

00:32:07.019 --> 00:32:09.039
more raw. So that'll be an interesting thing

00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:12.440
for me to figure out over time It reminded me

00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:13.740
a little bit. Have you ever heard of the band?

00:32:13.940 --> 00:32:17.180
This is another and Band but you ever heard of

00:32:17.180 --> 00:32:20.779
the band Mike Maine and the branches I've heard

00:32:20.779 --> 00:32:22.579
of them, but I don't know if I've heard of either

00:32:22.579 --> 00:32:25.130
music they've put out a they put out a record

00:32:25.130 --> 00:32:29.930
on Tooth and Nail that has this kind of feel

00:32:29.930 --> 00:32:34.829
to me and I feel like right now it's kind of

00:32:34.829 --> 00:32:40.730
like a indie rock pop like super echo -y like

00:32:40.730 --> 00:32:43.170
that's like a it's a thing it's a vibe that a

00:32:43.170 --> 00:32:45.210
lot of artists are running after that like I

00:32:45.210 --> 00:32:49.410
felt kind of listening to this yeah so cool all

00:32:49.410 --> 00:32:51.869
right any other opening thoughts I think we're

00:32:51.869 --> 00:32:54.500
good All right. Well, let's get into track by

00:32:54.500 --> 00:32:58.779
track First track the first song by gable price

00:32:58.779 --> 00:33:01.119
and friends that I ever really listened to and

00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:05.319
paid attention newspaper boat What do you guys

00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:09.660
think about this one? Well, so whenever I first

00:33:09.660 --> 00:33:12.480
heard it Yeah, I thought it was like a switch

00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:15.420
foot song that had been like tucked away And

00:33:15.420 --> 00:33:17.259
I was like have I never heard this switch foot

00:33:17.259 --> 00:33:20.339
song? But then I realized that it was gable price

00:33:20.339 --> 00:33:23.599
and friends and I was like, oh That's them because

00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:27.480
it sounds very switch footy. Like I think like

00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:36.700
the chorus, the. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's my

00:33:36.700 --> 00:33:41.319
review. Silence. I feel like each album, it's

00:33:41.319 --> 00:33:43.519
always like, all right, what's this first one?

00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:46.539
How's it going to set the tone? And I feel like

00:33:46.539 --> 00:33:49.930
this, it just has such a like. Epic opening you

00:33:49.930 --> 00:33:53.130
do it and I just I feel like throughout the whole

00:33:53.130 --> 00:33:57.170
song. There's just this like There's this like

00:33:57.170 --> 00:34:00.009
urgency to it like there's these smooth verses,

00:34:00.009 --> 00:34:02.930
but then they're just like cold action or just

00:34:02.930 --> 00:34:08.110
this urgency I just I feel like it's I can say

00:34:08.110 --> 00:34:09.929
it just it gets you pumped up like you listen

00:34:09.929 --> 00:34:13.760
to this and it's like it's a song that album

00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:17.059
that starts this way or live like a concert starts

00:34:17.059 --> 00:34:19.440
this way it gets your attention it gets you movement

00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:25.099
moving so yeah like I I really love it that's

00:34:25.099 --> 00:34:29.900
cool yeah I like this one a lot so you guys don't

00:34:29.900 --> 00:34:31.559
have a lot of experience with this band from

00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:34.699
previous conversations but it reminds me a lot

00:34:34.699 --> 00:34:40.369
of the band mute math Vocally, I think and even

00:34:40.369 --> 00:34:43.730
like in some of the production and just musically

00:34:43.730 --> 00:34:46.570
And so I think if you like this, you'd probably

00:34:46.570 --> 00:34:49.150
dig that band a lot. Mm -hmm, but I made a note.

00:34:49.269 --> 00:34:52.469
Yeah, there's High production there's these like

00:34:52.469 --> 00:34:55.570
on the chorus these like kind of hits that are

00:34:55.570 --> 00:34:58.150
like guitar and synth kind of like on top Of

00:34:58.150 --> 00:35:00.469
the chorus that I thought were really cool course

00:35:00.469 --> 00:35:03.710
is super Catchy. There's like this like move

00:35:03.710 --> 00:35:05.929
thing that happens as they go into the last chorus

00:35:05.929 --> 00:35:08.590
that I thought was cool and and the like yells

00:35:08.590 --> 00:35:12.130
at the end are kind of fun. So yeah, I like this.

00:35:12.170 --> 00:35:13.909
I thought it was a great opening track to the

00:35:13.909 --> 00:35:22.170
EP. Yeah, so moving on. Next up we have Think

00:35:22.170 --> 00:35:28.309
With Your Chest. For me, I feel like it's got

00:35:28.309 --> 00:35:33.230
a lot of one -liners in there and I think it

00:35:33.230 --> 00:35:37.929
works well. I think it's not as like It's it's

00:35:37.929 --> 00:35:40.409
not like cheesy like I feel like he's saying

00:35:40.409 --> 00:35:42.869
things maybe in a different way than you've heard

00:35:42.869 --> 00:35:46.150
a thousand times on songs I think personally

00:35:46.150 --> 00:35:49.730
for me though It feels like it's kind of just

00:35:49.730 --> 00:35:52.409
a lot of like one -liners thrown together so

00:35:52.409 --> 00:35:55.110
for me like I'd like the track but I think that

00:35:55.110 --> 00:35:59.510
this is maybe my In my opinion the weakest track

00:35:59.510 --> 00:36:03.969
on the album like for that reason of just that's

00:36:03.969 --> 00:36:05.969
the main problem I have is that it kind of feels

00:36:05.969 --> 00:36:10.099
like the layers kind of thrown in. Yeah Jordan

00:36:10.099 --> 00:36:12.320
what did you think? I feel like it's not the

00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:17.440
weakest track but I liked it because I feel like

00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:21.679
it does have all of those like cliche type phrases

00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:23.800
thrown in there but I feel like it's kind of

00:36:23.800 --> 00:36:27.599
like a hey everybody says this but really you

00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:31.300
should be doing this. And so like the line that

00:36:31.300 --> 00:36:34.059
stands out is everybody's pointing out the spills

00:36:34.059 --> 00:36:36.940
but few are cleaning up the mess. I feel like

00:36:36.940 --> 00:36:40.099
that's such a good line because so many people

00:36:40.099 --> 00:36:43.639
like walk by Spills and things and stuff pulled

00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:46.380
out, but then they don't even bother to stop

00:36:46.380 --> 00:36:50.380
and clean it up So I feel like that that is like

00:36:50.380 --> 00:36:54.579
just such a good line for me Yeah, Brandon, this

00:36:54.579 --> 00:36:59.539
is my favorite song I should have known I can't

00:36:59.539 --> 00:37:02.159
wait till later where Joel tears apart my favorite

00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:07.019
I Think it's um, I think it's fast. I think it's

00:37:07.019 --> 00:37:10.619
fun I love how like the chorus like I think maybe

00:37:10.619 --> 00:37:13.559
like the third chorus like yes to like halftime

00:37:13.559 --> 00:37:17.860
Just a really cool shift that happens there Um,

00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:20.679
yeah, I loved I loved everything about this one.

00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:23.579
I feel like it's it's a very visual song You

00:37:23.579 --> 00:37:26.039
can see the things that are happening. Yeah,

00:37:26.039 --> 00:37:29.000
he's talking about Yeah, that's cool. All right

00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:32.219
track number three mountains and mundane What

00:37:32.219 --> 00:37:35.840
do you think joel? I love the title. Um, I think

00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:38.559
it's I think it's cool Yeah, and there's a lyric

00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:41.300
in there like fountain of youth fountain of you

00:37:41.300 --> 00:37:44.960
that I thought was like a cool wordplay Um, the

00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:50.460
chorus is catchy So this song could potentially

00:37:50.460 --> 00:37:53.719
have been really up there for me, but I have

00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:57.079
to like, I have to take a little bit of a beef

00:37:57.079 --> 00:38:00.260
with one line in it that just drives me crazy.

00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:04.320
and they use the phrase that's like a cultural

00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:08.099
like phrase today love is love and I just hate

00:38:08.099 --> 00:38:11.659
that phrase so much because I think it's a meaningless

00:38:11.659 --> 00:38:14.440
throwaway thing when you try and define love

00:38:14.440 --> 00:38:16.380
by just saying it's love that means like it's

00:38:16.380 --> 00:38:20.219
anything it can be anything and I don't I don't

00:38:20.219 --> 00:38:23.519
think that that's true I think that as Christians

00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:26.280
we get a pretty defined like view of what love

00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:30.280
is and so Yeah, I don't know where they were

00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:33.539
going with that or anything, but I was just a

00:38:33.539 --> 00:38:35.739
little like, I don't know. That's just a personal

00:38:35.739 --> 00:38:38.860
like, I don't love that phrase. And so I was

00:38:38.860 --> 00:38:40.579
super bummed when it showed up on a song that

00:38:40.579 --> 00:38:44.280
I liked. But it immediately dropped the song

00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:46.940
for me, like a point or so, just like hearing

00:38:46.940 --> 00:38:52.159
it. So yeah. Yeah, I think for me, I really like

00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:55.460
the track. I think the highlight for me is the

00:38:55.460 --> 00:39:00.000
outro. I always like whenever someone like the

00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:02.940
chorus and like stuff shifts like throughout

00:39:02.940 --> 00:39:05.159
a song, you know, like you see the story change

00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:08.320
that there's no hope, then there's hope. So for

00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:13.099
me, the ending I enjoy, there's the going through

00:39:13.099 --> 00:39:16.340
and it being a little bit different and off script,

00:39:16.340 --> 00:39:21.179
it feels like. Yeah. Well, I liked it because

00:39:21.179 --> 00:39:23.800
I really like the message throughout and I feel

00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:25.699
like this is one of those songs where it could

00:39:25.699 --> 00:39:29.730
be taken as like a boy -girl type relationship.

00:39:31.010 --> 00:39:36.210
But the lyrics are capital Y for you. And then

00:39:36.210 --> 00:39:39.389
I liked the line in there that you don't sound

00:39:39.389 --> 00:39:43.510
annoyed. And I feel like it's such a good song

00:39:43.510 --> 00:39:47.849
to have to show like, hey, you can keep going

00:39:47.849 --> 00:39:50.210
to God, God's not going to get annoyed with you.

00:39:51.380 --> 00:39:54.619
Like he shows up whenever you're on the mountaintop

00:39:54.619 --> 00:39:57.699
and then in the mundane So I feel like I like

00:39:57.699 --> 00:40:01.500
that message of like mm -hmm. God shows up wherever

00:40:01.500 --> 00:40:08.079
yeah Yeah Yeah, it's I I do love the song. Mm

00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:11.280
-hmm. I just got sad. So I usually don't like

00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:14.019
the slower songs, but I like this one Yeah, yeah,

00:40:14.019 --> 00:40:17.079
I hear that All right. Next up. We have jungle

00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:19.739
in the city Jordan, how do you feel about the

00:40:19.739 --> 00:40:23.400
jungle in the city? I liked it. I'm reading my

00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:25.619
notes to make sure that I cover everything. And

00:40:25.619 --> 00:40:28.059
I honestly, I just wrote the two lyrics that

00:40:28.059 --> 00:40:32.659
I like. So a peek into mine and Brandon's world,

00:40:33.079 --> 00:40:36.699
a lot of times we will sing this line just randomly.

00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:39.780
It's our vocal stems. We will just say, good

00:40:39.780 --> 00:40:44.579
luck out there. And that's it. And so like a

00:40:44.579 --> 00:40:47.460
lot of times I'll just sing, good luck out there.

00:40:47.940 --> 00:40:52.340
And so I like that. Start of it. That's cool.

00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:55.260
So it's just it's catchy. I feel like it's like

00:40:55.260 --> 00:40:58.860
yeah And then the where he sings like fathers

00:40:58.860 --> 00:41:01.340
and mothers sisters and brothers. Mm -hmm. It's

00:41:01.340 --> 00:41:07.559
like I like that part Yeah, I this song makes

00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:11.019
me think of that meme where it's like the everything's

00:41:11.019 --> 00:41:14.039
on fire But the dogs like got like a coffee mug

00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:17.199
and he's just like sitting there Like this is

00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:21.409
fine. Yeah, like this whole song is like a playful

00:41:21.409 --> 00:41:25.889
look at just all of the chaos and um i enjoy

00:41:25.889 --> 00:41:28.510
that it's kind of this like um like an opposite

00:41:28.510 --> 00:41:31.150
of the first track where there's this urgency

00:41:31.150 --> 00:41:34.309
and chaos in the verses and then the chorus it's

00:41:34.309 --> 00:41:36.670
like hey it's it's gonna be we're gonna be okay

00:41:36.670 --> 00:41:41.269
it's gonna be okay everything's fine um and yeah

00:41:41.269 --> 00:41:43.389
i i think it's cool whenever someone can take

00:41:43.389 --> 00:41:47.030
something about like hey this is everything is

00:41:47.030 --> 00:41:49.860
like burning to the ground but hey I'm still

00:41:49.860 --> 00:41:51.900
happy about it. Whenever someone can take a song

00:41:51.900 --> 00:41:55.039
with that kind of message and make it into this

00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:57.760
Playful like dance -along sing -along song. I

00:41:57.760 --> 00:42:02.139
think it's pretty impressive Yeah, so my thing

00:42:02.139 --> 00:42:05.039
at this point in the ep is there's a lot of playful

00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:08.559
dance -along sing -along songs um, and it could

00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:10.679
be that I haven't spent a lot of time with it,

00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:13.559
but I think at this point I was like this song

00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:16.559
feels like the last one and the one before it

00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:20.159
and the one before it and Um, I think I was getting

00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:22.380
ready just to like want something like that feels

00:42:22.380 --> 00:42:24.539
a little different But it kind of still felt

00:42:24.539 --> 00:42:27.559
the same And so most of my notes were just like

00:42:27.559 --> 00:42:30.480
this is a great song, but it doesn't do anything

00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:34.179
that the other songs like weren't already doing,

00:42:34.380 --> 00:42:38.460
you know, I mean, so um Yeah, I liked it. But

00:42:38.460 --> 00:42:42.800
yeah All right track number five fall in love

00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:48.210
with the light Speaking of a shift I wrote down

00:42:48.210 --> 00:42:52.909
that I was thankful for the shift in speed and

00:42:52.909 --> 00:42:54.530
in tone. Yeah, what'd you guys think about this

00:42:54.530 --> 00:42:59.110
one? I think for me it just it feels so sincere

00:42:59.110 --> 00:43:03.869
and a lot of times there's this it feels like

00:43:03.869 --> 00:43:06.889
people just sit down and say Let's write a song

00:43:06.889 --> 00:43:10.070
about depression. Let's write a song where it's

00:43:10.070 --> 00:43:13.929
just this very fake It's almost most almost as

00:43:13.929 --> 00:43:15.869
if when you're dealing with someone, you know,

00:43:15.869 --> 00:43:17.800
like a family member that's sick And someone

00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:19.619
just says, well, you got to praise the Lord.

00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:22.500
And it's like, that's cool. But that just seems

00:43:22.500 --> 00:43:25.000
like it doesn't feel personable. You know, or

00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:26.860
just I pray for you. I'll pray for you or whatever.

00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:32.000
So for me, it feels like this song is someone

00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:35.380
being genuine and talking about their struggles

00:43:35.380 --> 00:43:38.980
or trying to help a friend. I almost expect the

00:43:38.980 --> 00:43:42.059
behind the scenes of this to be. Gable price

00:43:42.059 --> 00:43:44.460
or someone from the whoever like wrote the lyrics

00:43:44.460 --> 00:43:47.820
to say oh this is inspired by me Reaching out

00:43:47.820 --> 00:43:50.539
to someone who was struggling. Yeah So that's

00:43:50.539 --> 00:43:52.920
what stood out to me with the track is that just

00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:56.500
felt very sincere Yeah, cuz like the the line

00:43:56.500 --> 00:43:59.659
that I wrote down that stood out for me was let

00:43:59.659 --> 00:44:02.739
it hurt you have permission and I feel like there's

00:44:02.739 --> 00:44:05.760
so many people like in the Christian world where

00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:09.039
it's like, oh, I'm uncomfortable because you're

00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:13.340
not you're not doing great and your mental health

00:44:13.340 --> 00:44:15.880
is not good right now. And I don't know how to

00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:18.260
fix it. So I'm just going to say that I'm praying

00:44:18.260 --> 00:44:20.639
for you, but I'm going to run away because I

00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:23.659
don't want to deal with this mess. But that's

00:44:23.659 --> 00:44:25.920
not what people need. And that's what the song

00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:28.280
is saying. Like, hey, I'm going to sit down with

00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:31.400
you and we're just going to sit here. We're going

00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:34.519
to we're going to talk it out. It will be OK.

00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:38.179
But you can you can hurt. You can have your moment.

00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:40.960
As long as we just don't stay there. Yeah, so

00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:44.739
I feel like that I liked that but I don't love

00:44:44.739 --> 00:44:50.239
slow songs. So I don't I don't love it, but It's

00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:55.099
it's a good lyric message song Yeah, I thought

00:44:55.099 --> 00:44:58.179
it was good. Um, I thought the verse was great.

00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:02.820
I like the melodies I've already talked about

00:45:02.820 --> 00:45:04.719
how I was thankful that it was a little bit of

00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:09.920
a shift and so Yeah, I like this one a lot Just

00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:13.539
asking a question real fast, for you Joel, so

00:45:13.539 --> 00:45:15.820
you made a comment about it feeling very produced.

00:45:16.619 --> 00:45:18.659
Whenever you are listening to an album where

00:45:18.659 --> 00:45:21.519
it is you're saying like they're sounding the

00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:25.360
same and it is also feeling very produced, like

00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:29.980
is it enough of a shift when you go oh this still

00:45:29.980 --> 00:45:33.480
sounds produced but at least it's slower or are

00:45:33.480 --> 00:45:36.369
you almost expecting it to say Just give me this

00:45:36.369 --> 00:45:38.630
like raw acoustic song in the middle of all this

00:45:38.630 --> 00:45:40.469
or something like do you want I don't I don't

00:45:40.469 --> 00:45:43.329
think that would have fit Well, um, and so I

00:45:43.329 --> 00:45:46.130
think an album needs to sound like a cohesive

00:45:46.130 --> 00:45:50.010
album And so I think this balances that really

00:45:50.010 --> 00:45:54.570
well with Really slowing things down but still

00:45:54.570 --> 00:45:58.409
kind of keeping the feel of the record And so

00:45:58.409 --> 00:46:01.030
I thought it did a great job of that. Yeah Next

00:46:01.030 --> 00:46:04.659
up is heaven closes doors Joel, what are you

00:46:04.659 --> 00:46:08.099
thinking about it? Um, yeah, this is a good one.

00:46:08.460 --> 00:46:12.719
Um, I like the like there's like a palm muted

00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:17.579
guitar. Um, it brings a little bit of the production

00:46:17.579 --> 00:46:19.519
stuff to the forefront of the conversation though,

00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:22.179
because there's so much production happening

00:46:22.179 --> 00:46:25.420
that like you almost don't even hear it or feel

00:46:25.420 --> 00:46:29.159
like what the guitar part actually is. Yeah.

00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:32.679
Um, because there's just so much on it. And so

00:46:33.559 --> 00:46:36.360
um I just thought that was interesting but and

00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:42.420
then the chorus is like huge on this one um so

00:46:42.420 --> 00:46:49.780
um I think it's a cool song um I think again

00:46:49.780 --> 00:46:54.500
like I just was feeling like a little like lost

00:46:54.500 --> 00:46:59.559
in the production of it all and um it's probably

00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:02.059
gonna be a recurring theme for me on some stuff

00:47:02.059 --> 00:47:07.170
but It just felt similar to a lot of the previous

00:47:07.170 --> 00:47:11.809
stuff because of that. And again, I will say,

00:47:12.349 --> 00:47:15.349
it's new for me. And so I know the more time

00:47:15.349 --> 00:47:19.889
that I would spend with this, the more differentiated

00:47:19.889 --> 00:47:23.449
this stuff would become for me. But just on a

00:47:23.449 --> 00:47:27.050
couple of listens through it, it kind of runs

00:47:27.050 --> 00:47:30.320
together a little bit. What are you doing? So

00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:33.039
for me, like I said earlier, this was the first

00:47:33.039 --> 00:47:36.699
song that I was ever exposed to with them. So

00:47:36.699 --> 00:47:41.039
I liked it and I liked the the catch of like

00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:43.840
having closes doors just to open a window. Yeah,

00:47:43.860 --> 00:47:48.000
it's cool. So I liked that line. And then also

00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:51.119
where he talks about like it's so lovely on the

00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:55.300
ground or it's like sometimes we get stuck. And

00:47:55.300 --> 00:47:58.039
we think, oh, man, it's so great to be down here

00:47:58.039 --> 00:48:00.500
because it's easy. So I'm just going to stay

00:48:00.500 --> 00:48:03.900
down here. But this is a song to say, like, no,

00:48:04.019 --> 00:48:08.400
because even though the door was closed, a window

00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:10.320
is going to open. So you need to go through the

00:48:10.320 --> 00:48:14.539
window. But then also, like musically wise, I

00:48:14.539 --> 00:48:17.400
like the breakdown before the chorus starts with

00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:21.239
the guitar. So I liked that where the chorus

00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:27.219
is this big, like, yeah. Cool. Yeah. So for me,

00:48:27.219 --> 00:48:30.300
I feel like I need to give a disclaimer because

00:48:30.300 --> 00:48:32.619
I feel like there's a very like personal attachment

00:48:32.619 --> 00:48:37.880
to this. So like I, I find it like, I like that

00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:40.440
it's very haunting, like at the beginning. Like

00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:42.679
I think it helps separate a little bit is that

00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:47.300
it's like, it does feel like it's this like haunting.

00:48:48.780 --> 00:48:52.460
And I think that, hold on, I had my notes pulled

00:48:52.460 --> 00:48:56.210
up and it deleted. um, but yeah, I just I feel

00:48:56.210 --> 00:48:59.130
like that and I feel like the story and I know

00:48:59.130 --> 00:49:02.389
for me when I first heard this like I was really

00:49:02.389 --> 00:49:07.550
in a point in life where it's like Okay, I doors

00:49:07.550 --> 00:49:10.750
need to be closed and it's where where do I go

00:49:10.750 --> 00:49:15.389
now? and I remember hearing the song and just

00:49:15.389 --> 00:49:18.610
feeling Like I was like gable price is singing

00:49:18.610 --> 00:49:21.210
to me. Yeah, so like I remember like the first

00:49:21.210 --> 00:49:23.940
song the first time hearing this just like Tearing

00:49:23.940 --> 00:49:26.960
up because I was just like this is what I'm going

00:49:26.960 --> 00:49:29.940
through. This is what I need to hear and you

00:49:29.940 --> 00:49:33.019
know for me With the window part about like oh

00:49:33.019 --> 00:49:36.099
like climbing through a window or something for

00:49:36.099 --> 00:49:39.139
me. I even just took it as Hey, sometimes it's

00:49:39.139 --> 00:49:41.340
not even that like you're going to walk through

00:49:41.340 --> 00:49:44.199
sometimes. It's just you're able to like Look

00:49:44.199 --> 00:49:47.400
through the window and see what is on the horizon

00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:51.719
so for me it was cool to take it as Hey, maybe

00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:53.440
there's not a call to action right now. Maybe

00:49:53.440 --> 00:49:55.940
there's just a I need to be patient in the waiting

00:49:55.940 --> 00:50:01.059
so to me that's That's why I feel like when you

00:50:01.059 --> 00:50:03.679
have a like a emotional attachment to a song

00:50:03.679 --> 00:50:07.039
It's you can kind of be blinded by if it's you

00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:09.440
know, you kind of like don't see the like flaws

00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:13.159
or whatever but also to me it's just it's just

00:50:13.159 --> 00:50:15.360
cool to celebrate a song because there's songs

00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:18.809
for me that I might think are Cheesy or like

00:50:18.809 --> 00:50:21.329
bad, but I know that they change someone else's

00:50:21.329 --> 00:50:24.630
life or whatever So to me, it's just it's always

00:50:24.630 --> 00:50:28.190
cool whenever an artist can put something out

00:50:28.190 --> 00:50:32.590
that just Impacts someone that much. Yeah. No,

00:50:32.590 --> 00:50:35.070
I think that's cool. I I love the beginning of

00:50:35.070 --> 00:50:39.000
it to you. I think I love that i think i just

00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:41.079
wanted to be able to actually hear the guitar

00:50:41.079 --> 00:50:43.900
a little more than in the but i get the sense

00:50:43.900 --> 00:50:47.019
of like the haunted kind of kind of stuff i do

00:50:47.019 --> 00:50:49.199
think it's a cool song and i think the message

00:50:49.199 --> 00:50:52.739
of it's great so so we wrap it up with deep the

00:50:52.739 --> 00:50:57.880
human um so i'll say for me i felt like it was

00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:02.960
a simpler song and it was that slow down and

00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:06.320
i think kind of what you said earlier is that

00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:09.550
all the songs because even even the songs like

00:51:09.550 --> 00:51:12.789
um fall in love with the light it's still it's

00:51:12.789 --> 00:51:15.489
not like a slow and let's sit down it's still

00:51:15.489 --> 00:51:19.469
a like energetic yeah so for me i think it was

00:51:19.469 --> 00:51:22.849
cool to if you're looking at this album as like

00:51:22.849 --> 00:51:27.650
if this was a concert to me it was cool to have

00:51:27.650 --> 00:51:30.230
this if you were at a concert and it's just like

00:51:30.230 --> 00:51:31.889
you're dancing you're dancing you're singing

00:51:31.889 --> 00:51:34.750
blah blah blah but then the final track is just

00:51:34.750 --> 00:51:38.090
this kind of like Metal like mellow like fade

00:51:38.090 --> 00:51:42.289
out. Yeah, so for me it worked because I felt

00:51:42.289 --> 00:51:45.929
like I was I was enjoying kind of like where

00:51:45.929 --> 00:51:50.070
they were going and I enjoy enjoy the Slowdown

00:51:50.070 --> 00:51:54.429
like part of it. Yeah For me, I had to look it

00:51:54.429 --> 00:51:57.230
up because I actually wrote down I missed some

00:51:57.230 --> 00:52:01.750
words in my That's not right, but the lyric that

00:52:01.750 --> 00:52:05.880
stood out to me was Ain't it brave it ain't that

00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:09.960
brave to hide yourself. No gosh. I am messing

00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:13.059
it up That is the lyric actually is that it's

00:52:13.059 --> 00:52:16.679
like ain't it brave. Oh gosh. I'm messing up

00:52:16.679 --> 00:52:21.800
It ain't that brave to feel nothing and it ain't

00:52:21.800 --> 00:52:25.039
that strong to hide your suffering I was trying

00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:28.380
to mix those lyrics up by it ain't that brave

00:52:28.380 --> 00:52:35.280
to suffer But the lyric is that it's not strong

00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:38.039
to hide your suffering. And I like that lyric.

00:52:43.059 --> 00:52:47.420
Gosh, I am butchering this song. Whenever he

00:52:47.420 --> 00:52:50.840
talks about, like, show some grace. And I feel

00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:53.059
like I need the grace right now because I'm butchering

00:52:53.059 --> 00:52:58.239
it. You're doing great. But yeah, I feel like

00:52:58.239 --> 00:53:02.110
I liked those lyrics. But it's one of those where

00:53:02.110 --> 00:53:06.489
I feel like it's a little bit slower. And I've

00:53:06.489 --> 00:53:08.210
already established that I don't like slow songs.

00:53:08.329 --> 00:53:10.710
So I feel like it wasn't the greatest song to

00:53:10.710 --> 00:53:15.949
end with. I feel like you need like maybe a good

00:53:15.949 --> 00:53:19.289
like, I don't know, maybe like an upbeat type

00:53:19.289 --> 00:53:24.750
like song at the end. They beg to differ. They

00:53:24.750 --> 00:53:27.409
want, I guess they want to make you... Like feel

00:53:27.409 --> 00:53:30.130
relaxed at the end. So maybe that's why they

00:53:30.130 --> 00:53:32.090
put the slow song. So with what Joel was saying

00:53:32.090 --> 00:53:34.570
earlier about how he's like, all right, give

00:53:34.570 --> 00:53:36.869
me a break. Are you saying like for this one,

00:53:36.869 --> 00:53:39.849
if you had seven tracks of just boom, boom, boom,

00:53:39.949 --> 00:53:42.670
like you you're good with an album with that.

00:53:42.750 --> 00:53:44.909
Absolutely. That's exactly what she wants. I

00:53:44.909 --> 00:53:50.449
curate my playlist to be that. Yeah, I certainly

00:53:50.449 --> 00:53:54.469
have playlists like that. And most of my playlists

00:53:54.469 --> 00:53:59.099
probably feel a little That way. Yeah, no, I

00:53:59.099 --> 00:54:03.199
liked this. This was different in, I feel like,

00:54:03.199 --> 00:54:05.940
a really good way. I also thought, even in its

00:54:05.940 --> 00:54:11.559
simplicity and differentness, it was really like,

00:54:11.639 --> 00:54:14.340
I liked the I, I, I, I'm only human kind of thing.

00:54:15.619 --> 00:54:20.679
It was catchy still, even in the sense of it

00:54:20.679 --> 00:54:23.960
being there. I think the thing that I wanted

00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:27.460
from this song is I felt like it was the whole

00:54:27.460 --> 00:54:30.260
song was kind of like, um, it's okay. You're

00:54:30.260 --> 00:54:33.179
human. Like you're going to make mistakes. Um,

00:54:33.519 --> 00:54:35.860
but there was like no, there was never like a

00:54:35.860 --> 00:54:41.079
push to like, but like do better or grow or anything.

00:54:41.079 --> 00:54:43.480
It was just kind of like, it's okay to stay where

00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:46.460
you are. And I just kind of, I agree. Like it,

00:54:46.500 --> 00:54:50.159
we are human. We are broken and it's, it's okay

00:54:50.159 --> 00:54:53.340
to be in that state and be in that place. Um,

00:54:53.579 --> 00:54:58.239
but We have a savior who left heaven to come

00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:01.860
and rescue us from that brokenness. And so while

00:55:01.860 --> 00:55:05.400
we are broken people, we're being made new day

00:55:05.400 --> 00:55:08.380
after day. And so there is a sense of growth

00:55:08.380 --> 00:55:11.900
that's happening as slow as it may be. And I

00:55:11.900 --> 00:55:15.260
just wanted a little glimmer of that. And see,

00:55:15.460 --> 00:55:17.219
I feel like if you're looking at this as a whole,

00:55:17.300 --> 00:55:20.789
like I said earlier, If the song was at a different

00:55:20.789 --> 00:55:23.369
place, I feel like if you switched Heaven Open

00:55:23.369 --> 00:55:26.050
Stores with Deeply Human, because it's like,

00:55:26.269 --> 00:55:29.610
hey, we make mistakes. It's okay. Everybody is

00:55:29.610 --> 00:55:35.510
human. And then end it with a, hey, you're down

00:55:35.510 --> 00:55:37.889
here, but you got to climb through the window

00:55:37.889 --> 00:55:40.889
because something better God has in store for

00:55:40.889 --> 00:55:43.789
you. So I feel like if those two would have flipped,

00:55:44.289 --> 00:55:46.550
it would have been better. It's hard to argue

00:55:46.550 --> 00:55:50.650
with that, Jordan. Exactly. I'm not saying get

00:55:50.650 --> 00:55:54.030
rid of the slow song altogether. Put it in a

00:55:54.030 --> 00:55:58.510
different place. All right. So that is Jungle

00:55:58.510 --> 00:56:01.889
in the City by Gable Price and the Friends. Final

00:56:01.889 --> 00:56:05.510
thoughts on that? Or do you guys want to jump

00:56:05.510 --> 00:56:09.860
straight into ratings? Maybe just jump in. I

00:56:09.860 --> 00:56:11.460
feel like a lot of times my final thoughts are

00:56:11.460 --> 00:56:15.360
at the rating. Or it's just a wild card. I enjoyed

00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:17.019
it, but here's the one. I'll share a final thought

00:56:17.019 --> 00:56:20.380
with my rating, I guess. We'll go ahead. Well,

00:56:20.460 --> 00:56:23.599
I feel like I wrote down an overall theme. I

00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:28.239
feel like throughout the EP was to wear your

00:56:28.239 --> 00:56:30.960
heart on your sleeve. Because I feel like they

00:56:30.960 --> 00:56:34.599
said something about like your heart. And it

00:56:34.599 --> 00:56:37.480
being on your sleeve or like showing your heart

00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:40.360
or like where your heart belongs or stuff like

00:56:40.360 --> 00:56:44.880
that was kind of throughout the whole EP. Like

00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:47.900
there was at least one mention of it in every

00:56:47.900 --> 00:56:50.800
song. So I feel like that's kind of the overall

00:56:50.800 --> 00:56:54.260
theme, which I think is good because I feel like

00:56:54.260 --> 00:56:57.280
it's needed. I feel like a lot of people, they

00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:00.559
don't show their hearts and they don't wear their

00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:04.059
hearts on their sleeve. They kind of keep things

00:57:04.059 --> 00:57:07.940
hidden because they have to stay strong and they

00:57:07.940 --> 00:57:11.900
don't want to show vulnerability. So I feel like

00:57:11.900 --> 00:57:17.539
that's a cool overarching theme. So what's the

00:57:17.539 --> 00:57:19.280
scale that we're rating in out of? Because I

00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:21.300
haven't even thought about that. One out of 100.

00:57:22.239 --> 00:57:26.380
One to five. One to five? Yeah. I would put it

00:57:26.380 --> 00:57:31.440
at maybe, I would say four. Gable Price and Friends,

00:57:31.679 --> 00:57:38.699
this EP would be a four. I feel like it encompasses

00:57:38.699 --> 00:57:42.599
kind of who they are as a band, kind of the message

00:57:42.599 --> 00:57:46.219
that they want to show to people. Because I feel

00:57:46.219 --> 00:57:51.300
like they have said it before and they're releasing

00:57:51.300 --> 00:57:55.199
newer music and a couple of interviews that they've

00:57:55.199 --> 00:57:58.510
done. and things that they've said, they've said

00:57:58.510 --> 00:58:02.630
that they want to be a Christian band releasing

00:58:02.630 --> 00:58:06.289
music. Like they're Christians that are releasing

00:58:06.289 --> 00:58:10.449
music that it's not necessarily like Christian

00:58:10.449 --> 00:58:16.010
music, but it's music by Christians. So it's

00:58:16.010 --> 00:58:19.989
kind of in that lens. So I feel like this kind

00:58:19.989 --> 00:58:23.460
of encompasses that. It kind of blurs the line

00:58:23.460 --> 00:58:26.519
of like, oh man, this could be like a boy a boy

00:58:26.519 --> 00:58:29.780
girl relationship But in actuality, yeah, it's

00:58:29.780 --> 00:58:34.659
god and his children So I give it a four Cool.

00:58:34.980 --> 00:58:37.519
I think that's a respectable rating. It's very

00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:40.619
good. I so I realize that i've Probably sounded

00:58:40.619 --> 00:58:43.179
like i'm a little harsher on this than I actually

00:58:43.179 --> 00:58:46.300
like was listening to it because I really enjoyed

00:58:46.300 --> 00:58:48.900
it um from beginning to end I listened to it

00:58:48.900 --> 00:58:53.900
in my car with my daughter Um, and I was like,

00:58:53.980 --> 00:58:56.780
this is pretty good. But honestly, when I put

00:58:56.780 --> 00:58:59.099
my headphones on and really paid attention to

00:58:59.099 --> 00:59:01.480
it, I felt like it came like way more alive.

00:59:01.960 --> 00:59:04.400
Um, and that's where like the production really

00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:07.760
like stood out and I enjoyed it at a deeper level

00:59:07.760 --> 00:59:11.420
because, um, because I thought the production

00:59:11.420 --> 00:59:13.800
maybe wasn't like what I would put on a record,

00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:16.519
but I think it worked really well for the record.

00:59:16.989 --> 00:59:21.329
um and so um yeah i landed i think at a 3 .5

00:59:21.329 --> 00:59:24.469
um i really i really enjoyed this and i was thankful

00:59:24.469 --> 00:59:27.590
to get exposed to it and um to keep listening

00:59:27.590 --> 00:59:32.690
so yeah i i went back and forth on this a lot

00:59:32.690 --> 00:59:35.670
because like you don't want to be like prisoner

00:59:35.670 --> 00:59:40.119
of the moment but also since March, I've listened

00:59:40.119 --> 00:59:45.320
to this album probably three times a week. And

00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:48.039
I was telling Joel the other day. He's not exaggerating.

00:59:48.519 --> 00:59:51.119
I was like, it depends on what we're calling

00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:53.800
it. Because I was like, if it's an album, I feel

00:59:53.800 --> 00:59:57.420
like it has to be 10 songs. Which Joel was like,

00:59:57.860 --> 01:00:00.659
that's not a rule, Brandon. That's just a Brandon

01:00:00.659 --> 01:00:05.380
rule of music. But I think so if you look through

01:00:05.380 --> 01:00:07.820
the lens of an EP, I think it shifts a little

01:00:07.820 --> 01:00:11.420
bit. Yeah. But I think for me, if we're just

01:00:11.420 --> 01:00:16.159
calling it this release, I think for me it's

01:00:16.159 --> 01:00:19.940
it's five stars. Wow. And like I said, it was

01:00:19.940 --> 01:00:22.579
I didn't want to be prisoner of the moment, but

01:00:22.579 --> 01:00:27.000
I I feel as though when something is to the point

01:00:27.000 --> 01:00:31.840
to where you can be months into it and still

01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:36.670
not be tired of it or like over it. It's good.

01:00:37.530 --> 01:00:40.329
And so I think it just impresses me, too, that

01:00:40.329 --> 01:00:43.349
we we talk a lot about how it's almost you look

01:00:43.349 --> 01:00:45.289
to the old to say, well, that's when all the

01:00:45.289 --> 01:00:48.070
good stuff was. And today we're trying to catch

01:00:48.070 --> 01:00:51.130
back up. And I think with Gable Price and Friends,

01:00:51.650 --> 01:00:54.349
it it just reminds me of a lot of the stuff that

01:00:54.349 --> 01:00:57.230
I enjoyed from bands growing up. And it reminded

01:00:57.230 --> 01:01:00.650
me a lot of abandoned Kansas, too, almost if

01:01:00.650 --> 01:01:04.909
they have. their children having bands, but the

01:01:04.909 --> 01:01:10.170
members weren't that old. But yeah, so for me,

01:01:10.590 --> 01:01:14.809
I think that it's. Yeah, that's cool. That's

01:01:14.809 --> 01:01:18.070
a big deal. Yeah. That this is five stars for

01:01:18.070 --> 01:01:22.070
you. And I just want to say about that, that

01:01:22.070 --> 01:01:25.630
I think I think it's completely OK for us to.

01:01:26.210 --> 01:01:28.630
um let our emotions get tangled up in the way

01:01:28.630 --> 01:01:30.989
that we like experience the music that we're

01:01:30.989 --> 01:01:33.190
experiencing because you can't divorce those

01:01:33.190 --> 01:01:34.969
things from each other if this is just straight

01:01:34.969 --> 01:01:39.349
math for us um and there's no feelings or emotion

01:01:39.349 --> 01:01:41.590
involved in it there's no nostalgia involved

01:01:41.590 --> 01:01:45.329
in it if it's something from the past then um

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then what why are we even listening to you know

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what i mean and so i i think that's awesome i

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love that i love that so Alright, well, let's

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move from there and see what is the lyric of

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the week So our lyric of the week it comes from

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newspaper boat and it is it seems like everybody's

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dying But is anyone just dying to live? It seems

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like everybody's crying, but nobody's really

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trying to forgive. There's some good lyrics on

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this album. I get why for you as a lyric guy,

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this is up there because there's some really

01:02:36.579 --> 01:02:39.559
solid writing that's happening. That's really

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good. Cool. I feel like it says something too,

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because I'm not a lyric person, but I feel like

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when it comes to Gable Price and Friends, I am

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a lyric person. You wrote a lot of lyrics down.

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I did. I feel like lyrically, they are really

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great. And I feel like they say things in such

01:02:55.780 --> 01:02:58.239
great ways. Because like that, I had written

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that one down. I wrote dying to live in quotation

01:03:01.820 --> 01:03:05.789
marks underneath that song on my... my notes.

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So I feel like that line, I like that line. So

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yeah. I love it. I love it. That's awesome. Well,

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Jordan, it's been great having you back. Thanks

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for having me back. Of course. You are always

01:03:19.989 --> 01:03:23.929
welcome to join us. It's kind of fun to get through

01:03:23.929 --> 01:03:28.030
10 episodes and kind of have that that mark behind

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us. And so I kind of feel like we're actually

01:03:30.389 --> 01:03:33.099
like doing this thing now. And this is a real

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thing. The fact that people like outside of our

01:03:37.539 --> 01:03:40.099
immediate friend group, like our acquaintances

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and stuff, are talking about the podcast, I feel

01:03:42.519 --> 01:03:45.360
like that's pretty cool. Are they talking about

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the podcast? Yeah. I was telling Joel beforehand

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that like my boss, LaQuinta, I feel like I need

01:03:50.440 --> 01:03:52.800
to send a shout out to her that... Hey, LaQuinta.

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Every Friday morning I walk in and she'll be

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like, so bleach, huh? And I'll be like... Do

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we need to buy some for the center? And Jim would

01:04:01.699 --> 01:04:03.239
be like, ah, nah, that was so cool listening

01:04:03.239 --> 01:04:08.679
to Jared. And so to me, it's so cool to see someone

01:04:08.679 --> 01:04:11.019
who hears that and thinks, oh, that's cool. And

01:04:11.019 --> 01:04:15.159
I want to jump into that. So yeah. Yeah. So you

01:04:15.159 --> 01:04:19.039
got some buzz going. Well, if you are buzzed

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01:04:41.750 --> 01:04:44.769
appreciate it. It's been fun today. I'm talking

01:04:44.769 --> 01:04:46.750
about something that's happening now in the world

01:04:46.750 --> 01:04:49.530
of Christian music. And I'm excited about doing

01:04:49.530 --> 01:04:51.750
that even more because I do feel like we're in

01:04:51.750 --> 01:04:54.789
a moment where there's a lot happening. And so

01:04:54.789 --> 01:04:57.269
looking forward to digging into that even more

01:04:57.269 --> 01:05:01.090
as the days pass. Thanks guys. Yup. Been a good

01:05:01.090 --> 01:05:01.389
time.