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All right, my check, my check. We're good there over there,

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all right, you can go ahead and start Sam. You good, I'm

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ready, all right, you ready? Tom? Alright? Three? Two

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one? All right. We're here at Ultra Music Festival with try Becta.

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How's it going? Come on? We in here feeling great. How are

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you? Oh, we're doing good. We're good, We're doing good.

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We're doing good. We got wild Night five iHeartMedia in the building, so

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you know, affiliate records also here we here, yes, sir, yes,

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sir. So first time playing at the Ultra how's it feel? I'm

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tired on Wonderland just before right, that's why. Yeah, be on Wonderland.

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And you know a lot of DJs who have done that sort of arc,

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the Beyond Wonderland Ultra thing, we'll tell you the same thing. And

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yesterday we got in and have a bunch of buddies at the Ophelia House and

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so that was like my time to try to sleep. But we come on,

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what are you gonna do? So you're boys hanging on by a thread?

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I'm sure, I'm sure tonight are you bringing out the guitar? Yeah?

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Man, I got a couple of moments, some fun ones in there.

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Yeah, we're on the live station as well, right for sure? For sure. How's it feel being from Florida playing on a major festival?

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I know you play on most of the major festivals in Florida now too.

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Yeah, it's really cool. I front my sort of like ARC. I

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guess. I came up putting music on the internet and people were listening to

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that, and then so my fan base was kind of all over the place.

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And then I started playing shows and that turned out to be a whole

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new sort of frontier that was where the online stuff was exactly. Yeah,

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and then then traveling was like, oh shit, this is a whole new

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thing. So it's interesting. It kind of feels like Florida. It's like

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we all I almost try to hold. My first few shows were Florida, but it Florida is one of the later markets for me to start sort of

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pulling together. So it's cool to kind of be getting more chances lately to

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come in and start sort of solidifying back home, you know, back home.

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Yeah, for sure, let's go next. Ultra was a big special

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inspiration for you, correct because you went here like over a decade ago and

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enjoyed yourself yes, ten years eleven years ago, twenty thirteen, I had

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a project for public speaking due the next day, and I felt like I

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was just missing it. Man. I felt like I heard Ultra was going on. I was in Tampa and I heard Ultra was going on and I

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was trying to produce DM and I said, you know what, man,

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Sunday, I just went down. I drove down in the morning and I went and I like, found to take it from a dude on the street,

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and I went and I checked it out, and I remember a Lesso's

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set. He was so excited and I was so excited. And I drove

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back that next morning, like yeah, and I got back to public speaking

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on time. But I remember sitting there and like the next day with my

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laptop just like, okay, I need to make my shit more like you

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know it would work in at Ultra And now here we are, Oh,

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here we are for sure. And last week we had a big release with

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Slander. Yeah Better World. That was a great one. Yeah, yeah,

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I'm excited about that one. Super stoked. A lot of view is

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real quick, real quick. Yeah. Yeah, we got a really cool

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chance to sort of keep playing that one out for a while. And that

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sort of got got the people chomping at the proverbial bit. You know,

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they were excited for it, so it felt like a nice tension and release.

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Those Slander boys are sort of the masters of tension and release with the

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with with With with song releases, right, yeah, are they're They're clamoring

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for the song for like centuries then they finally hit them. So it's true.

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It was cool to be part of that campaign and see how it all

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works. That's very true. Ab album, we have some major news.

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Are Trilogy second album coming. Yeah, it's a pain in my ass,

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but I'm really stoked on it. Man. I have way more songs than

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I need, And the question lately has been which ones am I gonna use?

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Uh? And you know which ones are gonna get the cut for now,

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But it's been it's been the challenge of a lifetime albums. Bro,

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if you're an artist and you're thinking about doing an album, make sure you

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wanted to do it, because they they they're a pain. But it's a

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labor of love and I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't want to.

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I really genuinely love doing that and I'm really excited on the tunes really excited.

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Perfection is a bit I try to aim for striving for greatness rather than

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perfection, because if you shoot for perfection, you're gonna you know, I

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mean yeah, you're never gonna get it. Side note, how's the steak

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grilling going? Bro? Come on? Come on? We we got a

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shout out Paulette on Jeff's team. On the affiliate team, she picked up

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four fat ribbis. I want to say about an inch and a half two

4:12

inches stick. Yesterday we grilled them out of the place. Check my Instagram

4:15

stories if you can't. I'm just saying, you know, we were gonna try to get a grill in here and make you steak for the interview?

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Brother, what are we doing it? It was a no, right Tom?

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All right? So also on Saturday, you're this is yesterday you were

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on the worldwide stage of Seven Lines debuting a song. Is that gonna be

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on the album? What's that song gonna be? It just might be.

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The song is called Till the dawna Rise, Bro. Jeff and I have

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been trying forever to write like a Viking drinking song, and like that's like

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kind of our energy and we've always been and We've got this band and Safaram

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like the biggest like folk viking metal band in the world, and like we

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got them on the song and it is drink drink, drink till the dawna

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rise. It's like forgetting together with all your good friends and just yeah,

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a big horn of ale. Man. The crowd loved it yesterday. Oh

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great, right, Oh I really did it, really did so. I

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got a couple of questions right here. They're pretty basic, somewhat. What

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is dumb set music? Oh shit with webbs? What is house music?

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Or no, see there's more of a snare in the house music. Yeah,

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all right. What is funk music? Brah funk music? See,

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that's difference. Funk music. You smell it when it's coming. Funk music.

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You can be like when you get a face like that bro when the

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man. Sometimes I think if you can sing a little Parliament Parliament funka delic

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if you hear and you know, oh is it just me and the boy?

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If you can sing that over what's going on? You're probably listening to

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some funk music. I do I get you that question right there? Funk

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music's in the pocket? Baby, is that gonna be played? Tonight.

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I got a little funk in this set tonight. Actually, yeah, it's

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been it's been a challenge, like coming from the space where it's like very

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melodic focused to the kind of laying I'm in. But but I come from

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a real funky background and I like to try to take opportunities to sort of

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weave that in. Sometimes I see acts like grizz and I'm like, man, there was a world where I just did that all the time. But

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at the end of the day, like I like to play the emotional stuff

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too, So finding the balance is always tough, but I think I got

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I'm working it in. Oh, you got a good balance for sure.

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Man. All right, any big announcements released, those shows you want to

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mention, Man, obviously Better World's out, and we got the album at

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the end of the year, not at the end of the year, but you know, later in the year. But right now, do that drinking

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song Until the dawna Rise with Seven Lions and Ensaferam is just I just couldn't

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be more excited about that here, and it's really fun. Will you be

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playing that tonight, bet your ass, I will. That's good to hear, that's good to hear. All right, if you're gonna go out tonight

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for fun and you got to bring three DJs with you, who are you

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bringing a shit? Probably seven lions. Jason Ross killed the noise. That's

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a that's a trio right there. Yeah, we have a lot of fun. I'm sure you guys were together last night and sounds like you got you

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got a lot of fun. All the drinking song is written about those kinds

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of moments. You know we're all together? Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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And uh, my last question for you will be what does your artist

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writer include? Forty two tequila? If we can get it, shout out

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Ultra gave us this the forty two this time and limes. I'm bag,

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I need slice for the shot. I used to have the salt and Vinnie's,

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but they they hurt, They hurt the inside of my mouth. I

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can't be trusted. I finished the show and I'm hungry, and I keep

7:36

eating them and I know it's gonna be bad, but I keep doing it.

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In the next morning, I'm like, so, yeah, we have

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local hot sauce on the rider. That's there we go. Yeah, that's

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one. That's my big one. I'm sure the hot sauce is always there for you. Usually Ultra did not come through on the hot sauce, but

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it's okay. The big festivals typically do not. They have I think they

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have more important things to worry about than somebody at five point thirty on the

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live stage getting hot sauce. I'm sure we can make it happen though,

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Hey try Beca. I want to thank you for your time, of course, of course, man, thank you, great, great time talking to

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you. For sure, for sure, this is done with iHeartRadio, wild

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NiFe of five and we're out. We out, all right, So brother,

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oh, persont run across to the wall and