John: Honestly, most of it is fictional. The new, the newer stuff you’re gonna see on the new album, we kinda pick a topic that we feel strongly about and we think we want to address and we did a lot of the songs we wrote together as a group too so, you’ll see more in the new album. Yeah, nothing really straight up inspires me. Yeah, I don’t know.

John: I love it all. And I hate…Cory.I’m just joking

Ric: Honestly I think that just the fact that like when you get into a regular routine of having to go into work like a regular job or like a normal job type thing, and you wake up and you’re like, like bluhhhhhh, have that just like feeling, like I can’t, like I don’t wanna go in, right? There’s no I gotta wake up and go to work in the morning. It’s just like, you wake up and you’re like ‘where are we?’ or ‘where are we going?’ and then we do the same thing we did yesterday, which was the funnest thing in the world, which was play our hearts out, you know, play our stuff, which we love more than anything, with 4 or 5 other dudes that we absolutely love more than anything, and now that we’ve got like a tour manager/roadie with us, he adds to it too, he’s like our 6th member type thing, and that’s basically just like waking up and knowing that you don’t have to uh, your only responsibility for that day is getting to the next venue and just giving it all you’ve got, basically.

John: Really, what’s not to love? You’re just like hanging out with your best friends and I just touched a button! I don’t know what I touched! (on the recorder) Really, uh, you wake up, you hang out with your best friends all day in a different city and you meet new people every day so it’s just fantastic.

Ric: Probably the worst part though, my girlfriend is kinda like a second mom and she does my laundry all the time. Last time we went on tour we didn’t even end up hitting like a Laundromat at all, so we had just bags of dirty laundry and we ended up having to like put dirty stuff back on, but I mean really, I guess that’s still part of the fun side of it.

John: It’s not dirty if you haven’t worn it in a week.

Ric: That’s true!

John: Once you put it in that bag for like a week, it kind of cleans itself, there’s like a washer in there.

Ric: Just shake it a bit. Or sometimes what we do is after we play a show and we’re all sweaty, we’ll hang it in the back of the van door and then when we drive, it’ll like flap and it’ll dry off, hehe, so you know, it’s kinda reuse, reduce, recycle. We like the environment. We’re environmentally friendly.

John: We don’t waste water.

Ric: Nope. We just drink it. We use it.

John: I don’t know if there is just one absolutely ideal band. F*%k. Umm, what do you think?

Ric: Oh, Fully Down.

John: Yeah, Fully Down.

Diana: No, but you always tour with them.

John: What do you mean no? Yeah, I’m with Fully Down because they are absolutely the most ideal band.

Ric: Because we always say the Fully Down, okay. For the record, The Fully Down is the best band in the world for us to tour with because they are…

John: Our best friends.

Ric: Our best friends and they are phenomenal musicians and we love each and every one of them and each and every one of their songs. But outside of them, because we always say them, because we love them more than life itself.

John: Oh, yeah, I don’t know.

Ric: They’re just like the go-to…

John: Because their music’s great and on a personal level they’re awesome too. I could say someone like say Thrice or The Used or something, but I don’t know them on a personal level and they might be huge dicks. Or they might be great.

Ric: Maybe someone like Boys’ Night Out.

John: Yeah, Boys’ Night Out would be fun. Moneen would be great. Fully Down. Fully Down. Fully Down. Fully Down.

Ric: Red October.

John: Red October.

John: I think music is one of the most powerful things that can get you through almost anything. Like, especially if you find something in a song, be it lyrics or just a part of the song that like you connect with on the same level, you’re like ‘oh, that guy kinda understands me’ or something like that. It’s really powerful. I think every break up I’ve ever went through I’d turn to music, you know, you go in your room, you wallow, and listen to music. And it helps. I’ve thought it helps. Sometimes it makes it worse but in the long run, I think it helps.

Ric: Yeah, definitely I think that if there’s ever a point, like everyone’s got their ups and downs, right? I mean there are times obviously when things are amazing and then the music just like keeps you there, like keeps you on this high right? But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t listen to some quote-unquote Emo tunes and didn’t shed a tear after like some break-ups that I’ve gone through, some serious messed-up stuff. I think it is just like when people, I don’t think people necessarily look for it, like ‘this CD is going to be MY record for getting through this hard time’ but it’s like people just obviously listen to random whatever and then if something that they listen to while they’re in that position, hear something that sounds like they also went through that position, it just feels better to know that other people also went through it, right? I think that’s what it is, it’s just that sympathy, it’s that sympathetic like first voice that tells you it’s gonna be okay type thing.

John: Yeah, kinda what you said. I don’t think people look for it, but I think it can actually kinda find you type deal.