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This week, we're talking about 1998's Blade, a movie that I'm pretty sure we sat on for a long time saying, we'll wait until the new Blade movie comes out. And then it dawned on us that this movie is probably never ever coming out. No. Yeah, well, you know, it's okay because we did get Blade in, you know, in Deadpool and Wolverine, which was one of the better parts of that very lackluster film.
Yeah, we got that. We also got Blade in a famous episode of What We Do in the Shadows, where all of the famous vampires gather around for a vampire council. How about Blade is right for an animated series? Was there a Blade animated series?
That was shocking if there wasn't. Yeah. There was a Blade TV series that aired around the same time as this movie franchise. Really?
Yes. Yeah. Who was in it? Who was your member?
I'm trying to remember who played Blade, but I remember it was like, as I think it was produced between Blade 1 and Blade 2, there was like an FX show. Let me see right now. I'm going to look it up. Looking it up, type in my Fast Little Fingers, Blade the series, which shared the continuity with the Blade trilogy.
13 episodes produced in 2006. All right, big reference. Sticky Fingers. Sticky Fingers from Onyx.
From what? Oh, yeah. Onyx, the rap group Onyx. Oh, yeah.
You say like on song? So, you know what's funny is that when you look up sticky fingers, his IMDb says he was in Blade Trinity. Is that right? Oh, wow.
Pass him the torch. Man, I did not know that. I do see here that he was discovered by Jam Master J, which is a big deal. Blade Trinity, huh?
Dude, Blade Trinity is a bad fucking movie. I mean, we're watching and we watched and discussed arguably the best Blade movie. And I think that I'm even being a revisionist by saying that Blade is a good movie. That's my nostalgia talking because when it came out in 98, I remember being under fucking whelmed.
I loved it until the last fight. And then I was like, this is too much. But then give me 20 plus years of Disney controlling Marvel and making movies of you know, favorite comic book characters. And I just look at this with a lot more love.
Yeah, I mean, this has a this is my first time watching Blade. Oh, wow. Really? Yeah, I have I had a lot of fun watching it, but I also can see where it can sort of fall in like 98 and even beyond that, like even upon like revisiting where it really might I mean, it hit really great for me.
But I know I went in with zero expectations on Blade. But here's here's the thing that's important to remember is like this was the first good Marvel movie adaptation I think. Yeah. Well, I mean, what do they have before that that they really had to go on?
They had that abhorrent Captain America movie from like what was it? 89 and then the sequel from 94 and then you had the never released Roger Korman fantastic four movies that doesn't count. Like there was yeah, there was like there was nothing and this I think what's impressive about this movie and it can kind of get lost in a lot of things, right? Like this is not up to the standard that later MCU in Marvel movies would be held to.
But this was easily the first time that a Marvel film adaptation wasn't treating the source material like a complete fucking joke. Yeah. And honestly, it was like no, we're going to do this right and seriously. Yeah.
I feel like while this movie is dated and I don't know if it truly follows like Blade and DeConfrost's trajectory by the late 90s when you watch it. I mean, maybe my expectations were a little different when I was in fucking high school. But now I'm an adult man and I'm like seeing it as pages in a comic book and it works, you know, like it works so well for me. I mean, this is not the second time I've watched this is even the third time I've watched this movie is probably the sixth time I've watched this movie and I will watch it again.
I say so many times on the show like this is my last watch, definitely not for Blade. Again, I'm just being completely transparent here. I wouldn't say that this movie deserves awards, but it is so satisfying to watch. I feel like it could be it could be a little bit shorter.
Like the two hour runtime is in life. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But but Scott, did you look into who directed this movie?
Yeah, Stephen Norrington, which is hilarious because he is not known as much for his directorial work, but he has done some fucking great stuff that we have discussed, including which I believe was my pick death machine from 94. Yeah. That was his directorial debut. This is the funnier thing about Stephen Norrington, though, is that he plays Gump in return to Oz.
Like, and he was actually more known for special effects, visual effects than his I mean, also directed League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which is a shit fucking movie. That was such a funny movie because like it was the popularity of Alan Moore's comic book work directly correlates with the fact that movie got greenlit because they're like, we just need another property. And they were probably like here, you can have League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. They get Sean fucking Connery and then they get Stephen Norrington to direct it.
And because he directed Blade, right? Like because he was a known quantity for five years previously doing a successful comic book adaptation and it just doesn't work at all. Yeah. And it has the same problem, my friends.
It is way too fucking long. It's a long, I move it a long. But he's also another one of those classic cut his teeth and special effects before he became a director. So he worked, I mean, he worked with Stan Winston and Rick Baker and Dick Smith.
Like he worked with the Holy Trinity of horror special effects people before he like rolls in and starts doing his own directing stuff. So like that alone, pretty solid like pedigree that he's got. But yeah, I mean, this movie, it's funny because this is not a movie I watch that often. I remember like any child in 1999 when I was able to rent this movie because, you know, it was R-rated and I was 13.
So I had to wait for the blockbuster to get it. So I could see it that there's like, there are iconic moments that are burned into my brain and then there's the rest, right? So like there's like the blood rave I always think about. The giant.
That's peak new metal cinema. Oh, for sure. That is top tier. I think the Mortal Kombat walked so that the blood rave could run, you know?
Oh, 100%. And like I had, I still do. I don't know why I'm saying it had like I got rid of it. I definitely downloaded this new order like 12 minute long instrumental track that plays during the blood rave back in my Napster days.
But like I'm turning you in. Yeah, I mean, that's like such a nice, it's an incredible way to start this movie in the most 1998 way humanly possible, which is a rave filled with vampires and blood spilling on in a society. So it's just so much. And then it's so much.
Tracy fucking Lords love it. My Lords. Nice. Yeah, we are full of puns today.
You know what else is going on? The only other thing I remembered about this movie was the overweight vampire that he eventually visits. Yeah, literally Mojo. What the?
That's when I first saw this movie, I was far more familiar with Mojo because loving the X-Men as a kid in the 80s. But I saw that. I saw whatever that character's name is. I should have written it down.
Oh, Pearl. Pearl. But I remember, you know, 1998 or let's say 99. That's probably right.
I probably didn't see it until 99. Whatever comes out on video read to immediately and I'm like Mojo. It's like the Leonardo DiCaprio meme where he's pointing at the TV. I said Mojo, you know.
I did not see Pearl coming, which is crazy because it's good. Well Pearl's never coming. Pearl is a stationary character. Oh, I didn't see.
Yeah, you're right. I was going. It's going to see Pearl. You know, I also feel like.
What's her name? Karen is so much more of a bad ass than I gave her credit for as a kid. You know, like I always I forgot about how gung-ho she is about murder. She's into it.
You know, like she's like, oh, I'm going to try and fix my problem. And yours blade by by, you know, making this vampire, you know, this vampire vaccine. But she's also like, let's kill some guys in the process. She is so ready to go.
Let's crack some eggs. Yes. Yeah. Let's do this.
And she's the one who's torturing Pearl. It's not blade at all. He looks at her at that one point. He's just like, Jill, you know, like it's.
So without further ado, let's get into the synopsis, which probably for the vast majority of you, this is going to be old hat because I'm going to assume the best of you that you have all seen blade at least once. You know how much of a banger this is. But for the uninitiated in 1967, this woman is attacked by a vampire. She's pregnant.
She goes to the hospital and goes into labor because of being bitten by the vampire. The doctors save the baby. Apparently cannot save her. Put a pin in that for later.
That baby is born as blade, the daywalker who has basically what is referred to by a number of other vampires during the course of the film as the best of both worlds. He's able to, he has supernatural powers like he can. As fast healing, he's faster, heightened reflexes. Also, he is immune to sunlight like most vampires cannot be out in the sun.
And he's super strong. But he also is left with a weakness which is the need to consume human blood. He has a buddy named Whistler played by Chris Kristoperson who injects him with a serum to keep his vampire hunger at bay. It's garlic and silver.
And he has a Whistler, Chris Kristoperson, who's also a great weapons master and makes him all sorts of kick ass weapons that are just covered in silver. They look so cool in the movie that I would want to be killing people with these as well. I mean, I'm not a murdering type. So we see the scene that we've all mentioned in Love where this guy is on a date with Tracey Lords.
She grabs his dick and that's enough for him. He's like, I'll go wherever you want. She takes him to this blood rave and the, or this rave and the sprinklers come on and all these vampires are like, Rubbin, what is, we assume human blood, which is incredibly wasteful. But I guess that also tracks with what a vampire is.
They're wasteful at their core, very selfish creatures. And he's about to become dinner for 50 to 100 vampires, which makes no sense because a vampire seems to be able to drain a human at least one human and still be ready to go. So it's more of, they just want to watch this guy squirm a bit. Anyway, super wasteful dude.
You're absolutely right. Yeah, that's hundreds of gallons. That's meals on meals right there. Big blood, like it's big pharma for these vampires.
We're talking about a whole corporation that is wasteful and the 1% here. The B-pot or the, what's the universal donor? I don't know. I don't know.
Blood types. OB, O positive, OB is well. I don't know. The universal blood type either.
Yeah, I don't even know my blood type. I don't know. I was just going to say I'm in my mid-40s and I don't know my blood type. I'll have to ask when I go get my blood drawn tomorrow.
Ironically, not a joke or a bit for just getting a blood test tomorrow. Anyway, so Frost, I'm sorry, Blade wastes everybody except for one guy, which he stabs with these silver covered stakes and chops off his arm, his hand rather, leaving the guy who Tracy Lord's groped alive when the police show up. The vampire gets away. Tells Deacon Frost, who owns the club.
He's kind of like this bad voice play by Steven Dorf, absolutely horrendous haircut. Bad haircut. Very sexy for 98 guys. Very sexy.
Yeah, well, yeah, yeah. Bad, contemporarily bad. 98. Whoof.
Gerger loins. Yeah, yeah. The vampire does not get away. He gets burnt up, sent to the hospital by the police, wakes up, bites Karen.
She's a hematologist, so she works with blood and then jumps out a window before because Blade shows up to finish him off. So Blade takes her into the safe house, meets Whistler. You get all the backstory of the fact that he's a daywalker, all the stuff already went over. And they say that since she's been bitten by a vampire, they treated her and she's got basically a 50% chance of trying to a vampire within the next couple of days.
They don't know if they caught it soon enough. So the idea is that she also is quote unquote marked and a familiar shows up to try and grab her. He's a cop and you kind of find out that the vampires of the city, I'm assuming it's New York City. Is this New York City?
It feels New York to me, but it could be a nondescript sort of. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they don't say it in the movie, but I just missed it. But in any case, in the city with a capital C.
So you see that they have their fangs and everything. Frost is not a pure blood vampire. And so he is kind of looked down upon by the pure blood vampire elders and he hates them for it. You kind of see this power dynamic between Frost and the elders.
Frost has this idea that he's going to read the vampire Bible. You realize that there's this blood god that he is trying to resurrect. That is kind of the end goal of Deacon Frost's plan here. But he also knows about Blade now.
And so he slathers himself in sunscreen, meets him out in the daylight and says, we know about you and your little girlfriend Karen. I've got big plans, whatever. They keep coming after Blade. I believe that Krieger is the name of the guy who keeps getting the shit beat out of him and having limbs locked off by Blade.
I love this character, by the way. Favorite, second year of the movie. Donald Luke, is that who we're talking about? Yeah, it's so good.
So good. So many vampires have this air about them, this prestige. And I don't think we get enough dirtbag vampires. And when they're great, they're great.
Bill Paxton, like a weird dark great dirtbag vampire. He's just a vampire dirtbag, baby. Like wrong Matt Kelly podcast, Matt Kelly. You know who said the magic word?
You know who really wanted to be Donald Loge's character in this movie? Like literally everything he ever played, which is kind of ironic because there's a direct through line to Blade in Deadpool and Wolverine is TJ Miller. Really wanted to play Donald Loge. If he did, he'd try to blow up that train or whatever he did.
He could have been a dirtbag vampire. There was a lot of other things besides that train. He was just a dirtbag. Yeah, he was about to say that he could have an intrinsic thing.
He wasn't really playing a character. It was, yeah, that role, he was born to play that role because he sucks. Yeah, not your rattle. Yeah.
Yeah. They have this plan that they're going to. So Frost is going to basically kill all of the vampire council. He kills.
Oh my God. What is his name in the movie? I should have done better research for that, not even research, but oh my God. The main hero, Pancho of that corporation?
Udo Keir is character is Dragon Eddie. He's kind of like the CEO of the of the vampires. He gets to see the sunrise one last time, which was is quite a bad ass scene if you ask me. That is good.
And then they plan for this blood God resurrection ritual in a really cool underground temple. They bring Blaey, they kill Whistler, they bring Blaey to the temple, they use his blood to start this ritual. And then vampire bat demons come out of the mouths of every one of the vampire council. And I mean, it's cheesy CGI.
It was cheesy CGI in 98. But if you just look at that like if it would be on a splash page in a comic book, Chef's Kiss. Super cool. The vampire bat demons all go into Frost and he is now kind of like the Earth's embodiment of the blood God.
And then he and Blaey have a ridiculous fight, which is kicked off by my favorite quote in all of MCU. Because like this is technically canon for MCU when Blaey goes, some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill. Yes. And then I've meant failed to mention that Karen has created a secondary weapon for blade that's this liquid that makes vampire blood explode.
And so he stabs Frost with all of them, like six of them. And then he's got one left and then he like does a roundhouse kick and hits him in the forehead and then Frost explodes. The end. Awesome.
Beautiful. Oh, I forgot to mention that Pearl gets, you know, like fried to death, but small potatoes compared to Deacon Frost getting a roundhouse kick of the serum to the forehead and exploding. That ruled. Yeah.
I mean, like they don't, it is so true to form comic book wise, right? It really does feel like a comic book has become a film in ratio. Like the closest, one of the closer, I should say, one of the closer versions of a comic book to movie sort of parallel, like not just utilizing the character to like go make a larger scale Marvel movie, but really, really playing with like what it feels like to be in a comic book. And I really appreciated that about Blade.
Yeah. Now, and Scott, you know, I've been trying to do this every once in a while when any of us do this, but fantastic work on summarizing a two hour movie in roughly 15 minutes without missing any major plot beats, which is a compliment to you and be a compliment to criticism of how much loose extra shit is. Two hours long. What do you expect?
Yeah. Exactly. There's a lot of that whole battle. They had a whole battle in like where all of those pieces of the vampire Bible are with the prophecy of the blood god and everybody's getting like kicked through plate glass and then they follow Blade to the subway and don't allow like he gets his face chewed off by the side of a train.
And I mean, there's a lot to love about this movie, but you really kind of just have to sit and exist with it. You can't be an orator. Boy, do you? That's why I watched this.
So I watched this one and a half times for this discussion because my what really put me over the edge, I completely forgot to mention this before going into the synopsis is that we were on a flight back from California and Blade was like an available movie in flight movie. No, yeah. Yeah. Okay.
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Scott, if you were inviting some friends over for a Blade Knight, what would you put on after you're done watching Blade? You know, there's only one thing that this movie is missing. It's Nazis getting killed by vampires, so I'm gonna go with the delightful Blood Vessel. All right, have you decided to do that vessel?
I've talked about it multiple times on this show. I don't know. I don't remember that. I don't think I've actually seen it, but it's not only a couple years old.
Two thousand nineteen, okay, seven years, time flies, but great movie. Blood Vessel? Yeah, so which is also really funny for a vampire movie, all right? Because it's all on, it's exclusively on a Nazi war boat in World War II.
Blood Vessel, so good. Incredible. I'm gonna go with a movie to get people out of my house. And it's going, that's so unlike you, Matt.
It's like, I'm like, I'm a shot. So we already watched two hours of Blade. You've been here long enough. And I'm gonna watch the movie that was apparently the alternate ending tip off.
We're gonna put on Morbius from a couple years ago. Oh, it's Morbintime. You are sadistic. Because apparently there was an alternate ending shot where Morbius showed up in a post-credits sequence of this movie.
Wow. For this movie in which the director played Morbius. Wait, Stephen Lawrence is like, oh, that totally fucking tracks, dude. He was like, you know what this movie needs me and makeup.
Well, the best I could assume is that he was like, I'm not gonna pay an actor to show up for a two second cameo. So just throw me in the makeup and shoot me from the back. So ahead of its time though, doing that in 98 would send everybody into a fucking, like, or doing that present day would send everybody into a fucking frenzy. Doing that in 98 means that you get left on a cutting room floor because they're like, why did you do this?
Not really. I thought how successful this was gonna be in the first place. Yeah. But also Iron Man made, it kind of is the Albatross around the MCU's neck because they utilize the post-credits scene, like the mid-credits scenes, so well in the early, like in Iron Man and Captain America Winter Soldier, first, first Avenger, that there was no way for them to get away from it now.
It would have been great in 98 if we would have seen Morbius, but I feel like that would have been lost immediately when they did Blade 2, because I don't think Yermel D'Otoro really wanted to do a Morbius and Blade movie, which would have been a Midnight Sun's movie, which would have been sick because we would have had Ghost Rider, we could have done all that shit, but you know what's also funny is that when you think about it, and we can eventually discuss Blade 2 on the show, like in earnest, but when you think about Blade 2 and that Yermel D'Otoro directed it, did he right-hand directed? I think he would have just directed it. I think Goyer, I thought Goyer wrote too as well. Well, I know that Goyer was directed three.
Yeah. It's funny because it feels like this rolling, like, okay, you wrote the last one, you get to direct the next one, kind of weird. Anyway, but if you think about the antagonist of Blade 2, it's the vampires from the strain. I had never considered that until literally right now because I never watched the strain, but character design-wise?
I've seen what they look like. Almost identical. Yeah. No, that's not false.
Kyle, how about you, buddy? What would your double feature be with this, Badly? So I had two when I was thinking about that. The one I'm going to give you, the one I'm not going to go with first, and that's the crow, because I'm actually feeling really, really good about Twilight Saga Eclipse.
Is that the one with the baby? I feel like a clip. Yeah, I feel like I think it is. I've not gone back in the war.
Are you going back there? Are you going on vibes saying the one with the baby? Correct. Correct.
The one with the baby. I hope that it's eclipsed. I'm back. I was trying to frantically trying to figure out which one it was.
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And I think that is most of the stuff I talk about. So unless either of you have something that you absolutely must talk about that's coming up, I think it's time to discuss the things that we watched, listen to, et cetera. Scott, this was your pick. You get to go first.
All right. So I watched a lot of schlock. So for the next two weeks, I'm going to give you something that was garbage and something that was good. Okay.
All right. So in keeping with the spirit of a comic book adaptation, I watched Sucker Punch again over the course of a couple nights. And I don't know if that actually was a comic book, but it wanted to be a comic book if it wasn't. It might have been a comic book afterwards.
That movie is irredeemable. It is still as bad as I remember it. And it's weird because have you guys noticed the trend of like, Jen Z-Girl's cosplaying characters from that movie? And like, it's kind of getting this like weird nostalgic, oh, it's good.
Have you seen that happening? I have not witnessed that. No. Well, then you're lucky because I don't understand it.
The movie is pointless. It is still misogynistic as fuck. It is not. There's nothing good about it.
And I can't imagine what trajectory everyone was on that agreed to it because it's like Jenna Malone, David Carradine, Gina Gershon, Isaac, Oscar Isaac, like, I'm forgetting all of the big names that were in it. I mean, I don't know how it got made. Anyway, it's an important movie. I wish that it wasn't on streaming services.
It did help me get to sleep a couple nights in a row, though. So there's that. There's a very weird geek connection with that movie. OK.
Call of Cleanser was rewatching Happy Death Day. I feel like I have gotten away from enjoying slash movies, but the movie is just so good. It's just so good. I'm going to have to rewatch Happy Death Day to you eventually in the near future.
And just wish that there was a third one because I can have a whole series of that. Well, the director just said that he's finally thinks that he's cracked the code on how there can be a third one. Awesome. So we might.
And you know what? I'm throwing this out there right now. If they announce a third Happy Death Day, this is one of those rare chances where I say, I don't give a shit if it hasn't been 10 years yet. We'll do the first Happy Death Day to tie in to Happy Death Day 3 because God, that movie's so good.
Well, dude, that's a 2017 movie. By the time Happy Death Day 3 comes out, even in the greatest possible timeline, it's still going to be 2027. So that is true. Yeah.
We should be all right. No matter what. Very, very valid point. So I am not here to defend the undefendable, which is Sucker Punch.
But I remember so very weird piece of Geekscape lore when that movie came out, Jonathan wrote a blog entry that was titled In Defense of Sucker Punch, which was not actually in defense of the movie. But it was how John got first had a conversation with Diablo Cody, who was a fan of the article and shared it because John's whole thing was, hey, geek culture. All you do is tell executives that what you want is scantily clad women fighting dragons. And like you, you demand it.
So he said something online. You demand it so much that a masterpiece like Jennifer's body gets fucked up in its promotional materials to try to give you what you claim you want. And now someone has given you exactly what you've begged for. And now you're standing on a moral high ground that this is ridiculous.
Like, and Diablo Cody shared it and just like someone's saying something that's true right now. Like Hollywood's got a real misogyny problem. But then suddenly when they give you what everyone says they want, you still shit about it. So like it was a very interesting take.
I still think that movie's dog shit. I'm not sitting here saying it's good. But I do think that if you say how did this get made because of dorks on the internet complaining about fucking everything, not living up to what the poster said it was supposed to be like. So you're saying that people have the power man.
People had the power to get on sick of these goddamn snakes on this motherfucking plane added into a movie that was originally shot to be PG-13. The internet in the early to mid 2000s was a shockingly powerful place. No kidding. Zack Snyder wrote In Directed Sucker Punch.
I didn't realize he wrote it. But he is king of the fucking sexist geeks. That's. Yeah.
It all clicks and makes sense. Yeah. It's a bummer. I'm going to talk about something that I think was a bummer in a different way.
Because man, did I see nothing but people shitting on this movie when it came out? But the running man finally dropped on streaming and I'm not going to sit here and say it's a top 10 movie. But that was a fun as little popcorn gore fest from Eggarun. Really?
That I had a ton of fun watching. What did you watch it on? It's streaming service. It's one of the peas.
It's either Peacock or Paramount. I can't remember what. What? But I'm not sitting here saying it was a masterpiece.
It's probably one of the bottom tier Eggarright movies. But I think even bottom tier Eggarright movies are still visually interesting to watch. This is him probably his most reigned in trying to do something more mainstream. But like the satire was on point.
The gore was a delight. The humor was like, I was like, this is a perfectly fine like three out of five star chaotic action movie that fit way more with what the original book was about. Because like if you're for those of you don't know. Like the running man anyway.
Yeah. I guess I don't like I never expected or hoped that the running man would be this. That's the thing. Like I'm really holding it to that high of a standard for the first movie.
But the first movie is a dumb 80s action movie that doesn't follow the source material. One Iota. This one at least it's like you're telling the story of a power struggle where the 1% weaponize the 99% to kill each other and tell on each other. And you know they add in modern stuff using deep fake technology to make it seem like this genuinely good dude is actually someone that you should want to see killed.
To protect the sanctity of the higher. Like it just it tackles a lot of fun issues. I had a good time. Would I like actively buy it and rewatch it?
Maybe not. But if I walked into someone's house and they were watching it and I'd be like, oh shit. This movie is fun. And I would sit down and watch it again.
Like I didn't hate for how this was on like so many people's bottom of the year list. And to that I say if this is in your bottom 10 you watched under 20 movies. Let's hear because there was some real dog shit that got released last year. Yeah.
That seems crazy. Yeah. So I just say justice for the running man, which was a perfectly fine movie. What?
I'm going to talk about some music I was listening to. I saw I want to go see Bane play. What? What?
Bridge Nine Records. Yeah. Well, I then I went to go film. Bane play at Bridge Nine Records in Massachusetts.
That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Nice. Which is very cool.
Bane fucking rules. That was awesome. The opening band was a band on i9 Records called Hundreds of AU. And they have an album out called Life is Parallel.
Yeah, Life in parallel, excuse me. Life in parallel. Okay. And I was listening to it a couple of times.
Now, just front to back. I'm a lot of hardcore out of New Jersey. I think it's like their fifth album, but they've rotated through some members and just really great music. Like, I think if you're into a lot of hardcore, you know, five minute songs that still have some of that hardcore mentality and content, but have sometimes like their beats also feel a little almost like math core E, you know, I feel like they weave a little bit of that in there too.
No, Matthew's perked up. By the way, Matthew has a math core, baby. He has X members of the banner is the only band that I know from this. But like if they sound like the band around me into it.
It's I thought it was great. I mean, I'm not of I'm not necessarily of that world. I like the music, but I don't know a lot about it. And and they weren't they weren't supposed to open a band called Love Letter was supposed to open, but something happened with the lead singer and they had to pull out like with days before this main show was going to happen.
And and hundreds of AU came in and really set the tone. I thought they were great and life in parallel is a really solid album. So I've had that on, you know, they came out last year. I just caught it this year, but it's pretty solid.
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