Hey Switchfoot!

We Dare you to Move. This band is one of Nick, Kevin and Joe’s biggest influences. Warning: This episode will have you rewatching A Walk to Remember. See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Ooh, um, Kevin's, you know what I've found very interesting is how you will drink a carton to yourself.

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  Yeah, straight out the dome.

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  And he usually does it before show.

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  Yeah, just really getting myself going.

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  If you're just tuning in, we have our buddies Switchfoot on.

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  Yeah.

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  We're so thrilled to have you guys on.

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  And our SoCal friends.

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  Thank you so much for taking the time. And we've shared the stage many times. Our relationship goes way back.

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  Let's go all the way back. One of the reasons that this band-

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  No, that's Hoobastank. That's Hoobastank.

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  One of the reasons this band formed in the first place was because I overheard Kevin and Joe in our house in New Jersey, playing together for the first time. They were singing 24 from your album Beautiful Letdown. And I heard it through the wall. It was the first time they'd ever sung together, Kevin playing guitar, Joe singing. And I was like, man, that sounds really good. And I was working on a solo record at the time at Columbia Records. And, you know, soon after that, we wrote a song together that our dad said, "The brothers are all singing together now," and they signed us. And on that first day, they opened up this big drawer and they pulled out like all this, all these CDs that we could like take. And one of them, of course, was Beautiful Letdown. We'd been blasting it for months.

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  But it's a huge part of our origin story as a band. And we just want to say thank you for that and for all the inspiration of the years. And we're thrilled to have you on the pod. This is great.

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  Let's go.

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  It's so good.

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  You were one of our inspirations, but who was one of your band's inspirations? Like, who did you guys grow up listening to? Like, what really inspired you guys to start creating music?

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  Tim and I sharing DNA. We both kind of share a little bit more musical DNA than Chad, maybe. But we were in a Led Zeppelin cover band in junior high.

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  Yes. Back before your voices change, you know, you can still hit those high notes.

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  Yeah, we joke that you have to write new songs when you hit puberty because you can't hit the- Those Robert Plant notes are not available anymore.

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  So Led Zeppelin cover band, and then how did your band form? What was the origin story there?

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  I think for John and I, you, maybe you guys can relate, there was never a time that we weren't playing music together.

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  Yeah.

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  You know, so it was very normalized. It was just kind of what you did. It was never like a, hey, we should start a band. I think it was just always in process.

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  I was just annoying him with songs all the time. What about this one? What about this one?

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  Yeah. And the music scene in San Diego was very eclectic, which I think is also part of kind of our origin story. The bands we were listening to, it was like equal parts, obviously the heavyweights like Zeppelin, Beatles, Police, and then like bands no one's ever heard of.

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  Yeah.

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  Pinback, yeah, Boiler maker, you know, little bands that we'd see them in their garage and, but great music coming out of our scene.

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  We're always very practical. The dream was like, okay, what if we could go on tour? And a tour meant going up all the way to San Francisco. You know, like that would be like

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  Up the coast.

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  The dream, oh my gosh.

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  Yep.

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  And, and these were what the bands we would listen to did, you know, like I can, I don't know Led Zeppelin, but I helped, you know, Rob Curro carry his guitar in one time and that's what he does. He goes on tour, you know?

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  So cool.

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  Yeah. So, and then, so Chad, I actually recorded his band on my four track, which caught on fire during the session.

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  Of course, it was too much fire.

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  That's right. It was too much rock and roll.

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  And that's when I knew, I'm like, Chad, you gotta join our band. It literally melted the machine. Yeah, we had a band.

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  So great.

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  Conspiracy, maybe you did it on purpose.

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  You knew it was time for him to join you.

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  It could have been, that was it. Tim, myself and another guy, and we, we recorded a CD in high school and it was all my busboy money to go into the studio and, and record it proper. And when he moved back to the East Coast, we said, well, Chad, you gotta join our band. And he was like, hmm, how about we make something new? And so. It was like, all right. So we wrote all new songs and it felt like it was a completely new thing.

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  Was there a song that you guys wrote as like that you felt like, oh gosh, we found the sound? Like we found the, like we found the direction, like we like just unlocked the rest of the thing? Was there like a moment you realized like, yes, we are on to what we feel like is truly us?

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  I mean, I don't know if you guys relate to this, but I think at that age, every song we wrote was like, oh my gosh, we did it.

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  Best thing.

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  Totally. There's all success all the time. You got through an entire song.

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  Yeah, you're completely blind to like all the reasons why it's not it yet. You know what I mean?

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  But what was the first song that really did break through? Like take us through that sort of chapter of the journey?

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  So there's a song called Dare to Move that we put on our third album.

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  Know it well.

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  And we thought that was going to be our, you know, one of our last albums. Like we didn't know many bands that made more than three records.

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  Yeah. Was it on a?

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  So it was on our third record, The Beautiful, Learning to Breathe. And we thought that was like, that was the song. We put it first on the album. We were like, this is the single. Our record label at the time didn't think so. And it kind of got lost. And

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  Dare to Move did.

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  Yeah. And so we had the chance to do a fourth record, which surprised us.

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  Who gets to do four records?

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  This is at the time you're with Columbia, correct?

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  This is our first major label album, but we're still thinking like, yeah, but it's probably our last. Like let's, let's go in, let's not leave anything on the table, including let's put Dare to Move on this album too. Let's re-record it and give it another, that's how much we believed in this song. We felt like everyone missed it. Let's, let's run it back.

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  That is wild.

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  And did you record this with Fields?

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  Yeah.

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  John Fields?

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  Yeah, we re-tracked. Everything. You can hear them both on Spotify. We finally separated them. They're similar, same song, but felt like we were able to have a second chance at a song that, you know, really means a lot to us. It is funny though, cause like, people will say, oh, that is, that's a, that's a big song or something. And for, for years and years, everyone said the opposite. So I think it's interesting to, to think through what makes a big song, what makes a, a song that sticks, you know?

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  Well, to that point, that, um, we got dropped while we were playing Derry to Move.

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  That's right.

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  At a showcase for Sony Columbia.

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  We were at the showcase seeing you guys at the upfront.

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  Are you kidding?

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  For Columbia.

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  We were there.

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  We watched you from the balcony. I was, we were freaking out.

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  Did you watch the president of Sony walk out while we were playing? During Derry to Move.

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  I don't even know if we would have seen who that was at the time when we were there.

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  Yeah, we never got that. We never got to that level.

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  Yeah, we got dropped before that too.

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  That's a wild thing to be performing. Oh my God. Did you think it was like a bad joke when you guys found out? Cause you're like, we just played for you.

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  We thought we were like, like, that was awesome. High five. Wasn't it great? And our manager came up to us afterwards, like, he saw a ghost and he's like, actually, no, that was not very good.

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  That's so crazy.

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  He said he didn't hear any, any big songs. We're gonna have to figure out what to do.

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  That's insane.

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  That's insane. I remember listening to that album that entire summer. We were at summer camp and it became like the soundtrack to our summer camp. And they make.

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  You guys were there.

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  We were there in the building. Maybe it wasn't the same showcase.

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  It probably was.

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  I think it was our only, only time in New York for, you know, five years.

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  Then yeah, that was, we were there. We saw it and we saw it. I guess we saw the performance because then that was the same day, like we saw.

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  John, John Mayer for the first time. So Dare to Move, it's so funny you mentioned that you re-recorded it with Fields because we, we have a similar story in that we had this song called When You Look Me In The Eyes. That was on the original record we, we made kind of as a group at Sony, which actually never came out. But we went a different direction, made a whole new album. That was the, technically the first album, but he heard Look Me In The Eyes and was like, this is really good. Give me a shot to produce some of the first album that he made for us. And he literally said, and he's like, I'm going to give it the Dare to Move treatment. And I, I don't think I registered then that it wasn't just sonically that it was similar, but also that he's re-recording a song.

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  Yes.

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  Yeah.

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  For, for people listening, John Fields is, is, is an amazing producer and he was the producer for, you know, three of our albums and two of yours.

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  I think three now.

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  Three now.

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  Yeah.

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  You know, when we went into our new record label after Sony dropped us, they were like, who do you want to work with? And we were, you know, swinging for the fences because we, we had no traction momentum going. We're just hoping that, you know, they would pair us with somebody cool. So we said, we'd love to work with John Fields, based on, you know, all the stuff he was doing with you guys. And they called him and he, he agreed to do it, but he's like, I'm not going to listen to anything they've done. He's like, I just want to start fresh. And it was key to the, the whole, the whole process, but that is a wild story. So walk us through then, Walk to Remember comes out around that same time, right? And Only Hope is.

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  Yeah, just before then, we had a bunch of songs on Walk to Remember and I, that was a really interesting, another strange season where you're, these punk kids from San Diego, like sand in between your toes, walking the red carpet. And I remember distinctly, we get to the part where the photographers are taking pictures and they're snapping away. And then one of them stops and says, wait, who are you?

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  It was.

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  Are you in the movie?

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  What is your role in, in this thing?

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  And David Hasselhoff was behind us.

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  I remember that.

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  Yeah.

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  He was walking behind us. They knew who he was.

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  Actually, I think that was you, Nick.

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  I think it was.

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  Changed the game for me. All right, who's the most likely to finish the last carton of almond breeze and not replace it?

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  That's Kevin.

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  Kevin, of course.

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  Yeah.

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  Take it, Kev.

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  The last time I visited the Empire State Building.

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  Ah, that's a random place for sure. I've noticed you guys really like almond breeze almond milk. Who has the most specific way of drinking it?

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  Ooh.

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  Ooh, um, Kevin's, you know what I've found very interesting is how you will drink a carton to yourself.

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  Yeah, just straight up to down.

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  And he usually does it before show.

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  Yeah, just really getting myself going.

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  He needs it on stage.

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  Oh, it just tastes great. It's a great alternative. It is great.

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  And watching their reactions of.

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  And watching their reactions because they know what's coming. It is heartbreaking, but so funny. And of course, your music's just playing in the background all the entire time. So if you have a minute, go check it out. It's some of my favorite videos and I cannot wait to do it to our almost 13 year old. So I'm very, I'm very much looking forward to doing it.

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  It's cruel.

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  It was pretty wild. It's pretty wild is that you guys would have more than one song on like a soundtrack like that. That doesn't really happen.

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  Yeah.

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  That's pretty sick.

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  It was wild and they just kept, it was like half the soundtrack.

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  I remember that. I was like, this is nuts.

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  Good Will Hunting was a big movie for us. That's how we discovered Elliott Smith. And I remember thinking like, could this be our, our Good Will Hunting moment? Like we're taking over the soundtrack, you know?

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  That's wild. Where did that come from? Was it the director? Was it the team around the soundtrack or?

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  A girl that John and I went to high school with, she and I were in a bunch of classes together. She ended up in L A right after high school. Being the assistant to Mandy Moore's manager. She heard they were looking for songs for the film. And one day she kind of shyly walked in and was like, hey, got these guys.

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  Whoa.

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  Friends of mine from high school.

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  I never do this, but.

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  Yeah. And Mandy heard Only Hope and wanted to sing it in the film.

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  Totally.

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  And then it just kind of snowballed. It was like another song. Hey, could we use another one? And then I think by the end of it, it was like five songs.

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  Wow, that's incredible. That like never happens, right?

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  It's like hard to get one song placed on something.

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  But then like, you know, you do a million things where you're like, what's going to move the needle and what isn't? And you never know, right? So I think. So that was happening, you know, one side. And then the other side, we were going into the studio to make our, what we thought was our last album. So all this was happening at the same time and it just kind of created this moment that we would have never expected.

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  It's incredible. I'm curious, like after all these years, you guys have done some incredible stuff. Do you still feel like you've got some bucket list items? As a band that you're like, we'd love to do this. We gotta do this or we gotta play here.

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  Hmm, that's a good question. I would love to. Play another show at Red Rocks. That's always, I mean, every time we play there, it's, it's, it feels like a bucket list. Totally.

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  We should play together, guys.

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  Let's go. Let's do it.

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  Be sick.

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  Jonas, Switchfoot, Red Rocks would be, would be fire.

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  That's a great bill. I'm in, yeah.

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  We had a ton of fun having you guys out at MetLife for the kickoff of the tour. It was an insane night.

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  You guys are insane.

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  Yeah.

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  Could I just shed a light on like, cause we do, we're like the same kind of swing for the fences. Let's, let's throw it all in. But I just want to point out, you, you have a first night of tour, which is always calamitous. You have it in, in, you know, a stadium, a huge stadium.

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  In your hometown.

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  In your hometown. That's always another, another dreadful thing. Another, another thing. And then you have like, you have even more guests.

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  Yeah.

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  And you were so calm. All three of you guys were. Yeah. I remember there was like all sorts of things, you know, fires being put out just before you to go on stage and you guys are just heart rate, slow, calm, breathing normal.

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  Truly.

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  Yeah, it was, it was inspiring.

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  Or we all kind of like operate like, you know, kind of loves the chaos.

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  Yeah.

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  And, and that night, you know, it was, it was really special because the whole idea of the, the special guest thing stemmed from actually the collaboration on, on Greens from Hometown, the, the album that we put out and that you guys were featured on and we did that song and, and, you know, it was really about kind of giving flowers to people that have been a part of our journey and, and saying, you know, thank you and, and being able to share those, the, those moments with them. And, you know, so between you and, and Demi, there was, there's a lot of like significant moments kind of for us that night. But it was crazy. I remember when it was done, I was like, I don't know how, how all these pieces actually came together, but it was, it was really quite fun. And then, you know, the song that we got to do for the album,

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  I remember we sent it to you guys again, on theme, Swing for the Fences, thinking who knows if they'll be into this. Within, I think a week or two, you, you sent back the full track. It sounded incredible and thank you for being on the record, first of all.

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  So much thanks.

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  It was, it was big for us.

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  Thank you for having us on Greetings from Your Hometown. The moment we heard it, it was, it's a, it's such a infectious song. I feel like it has a great, just it has a heartbeat that we loved from the beginning.

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  Love that.

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  Yeah, there's no, no arm twisting to be a part of it. And I love, I also love the fact that you guys, I remember, I think it was a Zoom or something where we were like, okay, so you want us to ride a bridge, you know? And I can't remember who it was, but I think it was you. You're like, I'm thinking like, change tempo, change, you know, like, I'm like, wow. Okay, so that's, that's not the pop, you know, formula.

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  We wanted the full, we wanted the full Switchfoot slowdown.

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  Make it weird.

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  And you guys did it and nailed it. That's like my favorite. It's so weird, that song, actually, we played it only a few times, you know, in full. Obviously, most of the time was with you guys. But when we did, I would leave the show after all this music we played that night, and I'd be in my bed staring at the ceiling. And that's the song that would be still playing in my head after the concert. So like, it definitely stays with you.

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  That is odd, like the end of a weekend of music. What is the song that is in your head?

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  Yeah.

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  Yeah, no, it's a great song.

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  Your new album, Forever Now, tell us about it.

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  It is an attempt to basically,

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  if you had to distill your last day here on the planet, what would you do? And I think it brings life into focus. It brings people into focus. It brings conflict into focus to where you say, this doesn't matter as much as I thought it did. I need to go spend time with my kids or that sort of thing. And for us as a band, it also brought into focus like, I'm sure it's the same for you guys, where you chase so many different flavors and colors that you love musically, where you think, oh, yeah, that record's great. Let's see if we can do something like that. But this album is an attempt to make the only, the record that only Switchfoot could make.

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  So to fall back in love with rock and roll and to bring that San Diego, you know, San between your toes, rock and roll.

• 21:45Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's beautiful. And you mentioned, you know, briefly about spending time with your kids. Before we started recording it, you're open to sharing it. You mentioned, pretty cool memory from, from your. Collective Bro-Am event.

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  Yes.

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  And it just hit me so hard when you said it as a girl dad. So you don't mind sharing?

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  Yeah, girl dads out there.

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  Yeah.

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  I'm a softie, like, you know, like, it doesn't matter what movie Avengers or whatever. I'm like, oh, gosh, this it's getting me. And my daughter thinks it's hilarious. She's 14. And they, we do this, this event called the Bro-Am, Switchfoot Bro-Am, which is raising money and awareness for incredible kids in our hometown. Greetings from your hometown.

• 22:26Speaker 01

  That's awesome.

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  And so it gives back to kids that, you know, homeless kids, at-risk youth, kids with special needs. And one of the programs is Challenge Athletes Foundation. So we do this expression session where kids with limb differences, kids with cerebral palsy, different things that, you know, that they they're wrestling with. We teach them how to surf. And then there's a thousand people on the beach. I'll cheer them on and it.

• 22:54Speaker 01

  Wow, that's beautiful.

• 22:55Speaker 06

  It was, yeah, it was, it literally, I've been in the, in the ocean surfing thousands of times. And this was a top five moment for me. And again, I'm a softie, but I was holding back some tears. Tim and Chad are out there. Everybody's smiling. And yeah, my daughter, she has cerebral palsy and she's, she's just catching these incredible waves and everyone on the shore is cheering her on.

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  How cool is that?

• 23:19Speaker 06

  Yeah, that was a highlight for me.

• 23:20Speaker 01

  It's beautiful. Well, thanks for sharing.

• 23:22Speaker 06

  Beautiful.

• 23:22Speaker 01

  You know, we get a, a rider list from all our guests and, and we, we got yours and there was something on there that I think has been there for a long time, which is a local hot sauce.

• 23:32Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 23:33Speaker 01

  Is this a real thing?

• 23:34Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 23:36Speaker 01

  Okay. And then as a follow up to that, are you guys on TikTok?

• 23:39Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 23:40Speaker 01

  Okay. Are you aware of like this, this challenge of putting hot sauce into Topo Chico?

• 23:44Speaker 06

  Ooh, okay.

• 23:45Speaker 01

  It's, it's taking the world by storm.

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  I see what's happening.

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  If you're down. You're, you're heading towards it. Topo Chico with the hot sauce that we got you.

• 23:54Speaker 06

  Cheers, boys.

• 23:55Speaker 01

  Spicy water. But we have to cheers to something, actually. So we're excited to tell you that on July 23rd, you've been invited to debut at the Grand Old Opry.

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  Woo.

• 24:06Speaker 01

  Congratulations, gents. It's huge, huge. Congratulations, gentlemen. So we got you this. Grand Old Opry. And the hot sauce and a little cake here for you.

• 24:16Speaker 01

  Yeah. But that's an exciting thing.

• 24:18Speaker 02

  I mean, speaking of bucket lists.

• 24:19Speaker 06

  Yeah, right?

• 24:21Speaker 01

  This is good, by the way.

• 24:22Speaker 06

  This is incredible. I gotta get some cowboy boots and a

• 24:25Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 24:25Speaker 06

  Some sort of hat.

• 24:27Speaker 01

  Not bad. Very exciting moment for any artist. We've

• 24:30Speaker 02

  That's amazing.

• 24:30Speaker 01

  Huge. What are we playing with some setlist?

• 24:33Speaker 06

  Well, we gotta play Dare. I don't know how many songs we get. Probably something old, something new.

• 24:38Speaker 02

  Usually two or three, I think.

• 24:40Speaker 06

  Something borrowed, something blue.

• 24:41Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 24:42Speaker 02

  Well, and they have the Grand Ole Opry Band, too, right? Like, so those are like

• 24:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 24:47Speaker 02

  Pretty special players.

• 24:48Speaker 01

  Played with all time players, yeah. Could probably

• 24:51Speaker 02

  Countryfy, meant to live a little bit.

• 24:55Speaker 06

  Lean in, you know?

• 24:56Speaker 01

  Bring in a horn section.

• 24:57Speaker 06

  Right. We were meant to live, y'all.

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  Meant to live, y'all.

• 25:02Speaker 01

  I have a request, because I think it would go really well in that environment, but I think Daisy would be great.

• 25:08Speaker 02

  Oh, nice.

• 25:09Speaker 01

  I don't know if you play that often, but that's

• 25:10Speaker 06

  We don't, but that's a good one. That's and that's my daughter's name, actually.

• 25:13Speaker 01

  Oh, really?

• 25:14Speaker 06

  Full circle.

• 25:14Speaker 02

  Oh, beautiful.

• 25:15Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's such a great song.

• 25:16Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's

• 25:17Speaker 06

  And I think

• 25:17Speaker 02

  That's the song.

• 25:17Speaker 06

  With the Grand Ole Opry Band would be pretty spectacular.

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  Yeah, straight out the dome.

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  And he usually does it before show.

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• 27:44Speaker 01

  All right, as we do with all our guests, we've got an eight ball of questions here.

• 27:48Speaker 07

  Great.

• 27:50Speaker 01

  Please reach in, grab a question that they're not related to career at all, they're just random and stupid.

• 27:54Speaker 02

  They're just fun.

• 27:55Speaker 01

  Sometimes they're not stupid, they...

• 27:56Speaker 02

  That's true.

• 27:57Speaker 01

  They can be heartfelt.

• 27:58Speaker 02

  Heartfelt. Insightful.

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  I'm kind of obsessed with this.

• 28:01Speaker 02

  Is it fantastic?

• 28:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's really good.

• 28:03Speaker 06

  Do you like surprise parties being thrown for you?

• 28:06Speaker 02

  Good question.

• 28:07Speaker 06

  My wife hates it, and I like it, and we both found that out the hard way.

• 28:13Speaker 01

  Tell us the story.

• 28:14Speaker 06

  So...

• 28:14Speaker 02

  That sounds about right.

• 28:15Speaker 06

  She threw me a surprise party. It was North Shore themed. I think it was for my 30th birthday. So North Shore is the Karate Kid of surf movies. You know, when there was like Rad, all the movies in different, you know...

• 28:30Speaker 01

  I thought it was Johnny Tsunami, but obviously that's...

• 28:32Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 28:33Speaker 01

  Different generation, a little young, little young.

• 28:35Speaker 06

  The next one. So there's this character Laird Hamilton plays, and Chad showed up. He's got like body paint all over the front of him. It was phenomenal, and I'm looking at my house, and I'm looking at the cast of North Shore. You know, in the form of my friends.

• 28:58Speaker 07

  That's incredible.

• 28:58Speaker 06

  In front of me, there was like Kula dancers, all this, this whole thing. It was incredible.

• 29:02Speaker 07

  But you threw her one, she didn't like it.

• 29:03Speaker 06

  So I say, this is great. I'm gonna return the favor. Did not like it.

• 29:07Speaker 07

  Oof.

• 29:07Speaker 06

  So that, that's, I do like surprise party.

• 29:10Speaker 02

  Same theme?

• 29:11Speaker 06

  No.

• 29:11Speaker 02

  You learn very quickly who likes surprises and who does not.

• 29:15Speaker 06

  Yeah, I guess there's only one, one way to find out, right?

• 29:18Speaker 07

  Alright, okay. Well, now you know.

• 29:20Speaker 06

  Now you know.

• 29:20Speaker 01

  Okay, my question is if you were preparing to interview yourself, what's the one question for you guys?

• 29:26Speaker 06

  I mean, I think the moment that I decided I want to play music for the rest of my life was, uh, I was about 14. I went and saw Nirvana in San Diego.

• 29:35Speaker 07

  Oh, sick.

• 29:36Speaker 06

  It was Nirvana, Chili Peppers, and Pearl Jam.

• 29:39Speaker 07

  What a line. Tell me you have the shirt.

• 29:42Speaker 06

  Anyone I would have heard of, though? Yeah, yeah.

• 29:45Speaker 07

  Yeah, they were cool.

• 29:46Speaker 06

  Yeah, that, yeah, watching them play, I, I just said, I want to do whatever that is.

• 29:50Speaker 07

  Wow, wow, that's sick.

• 29:51Speaker 00

  Beautiful. I'm glad you went to that show.

• 29:54Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 29:54Speaker 02

  Yeah, seriously.

• 29:55Speaker 07

  You have a t-shirt from the show?

• 29:57Speaker 06

  I wish. I couldn't afford it. I was 14. I couldn't afford it. Because Chaz got all these legendary, uh, sneaking in, like, looking from the, the roof, like, stories. Yeah, when you're underage, like, we used, there was a club in San Diego that had a skylight above the stage. And we used to climb up and watch the bands from above. And in the middle of the show, one time, this band Firehose, somebody in the front row was pointing at us and, and they stopped the show and they made everybody look up and wave at us. And then the security came.

• 30:26Speaker 07

  Oh, no.

• 30:28Speaker 00

  It backfired, but it was a cool moment.

• 30:31Speaker 07

  Where was the, the Pearl Jam Nirvana show?

• 30:34Speaker 06

  It's at the Delmar Fairgrounds.

• 30:36Speaker 07

  How many people were there? That must have been huge.

• 30:38Speaker 06

  Probably 2,000.

• 30:39Speaker 07

  Oh, wow.

• 30:40Speaker 06

  Only 2,000? I, I think maybe more. It was inside one of those sheds where they had the cows.

• 30:47Speaker 00

  2,000 to like.

• 30:47Speaker 06

  And see, when you say that, I, when, this whole time, when you said, you've told this story, which I haven't heard it that many times, but like, I'm picturing outside. I'm picturing a festival, you know, 100,000 people.

• 31:00Speaker 00

  2,000 total.

• 31:01Speaker 07

  That's what's interesting about.

• 31:02Speaker 00

  You just made the story even cooler.

• 31:04Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 31:04Speaker 07

  Nirvana never had their massive tour. All of the, the stories about their shows where it was like clubs. So that was like.

• 31:12Speaker 06

  Wow. They were opening for the Chili Peppers.

• 31:15Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 31:15Speaker 06

  Whoa.

• 31:16Speaker 07

  Yeah. It's crazy.

• 31:17Speaker 06

  Okay, so.

• 31:18Speaker 07

  Who was Pearl Jam first?

• 31:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, Pearl Jam was first and Eddie Vedder climbed up on the lights and the whole thing. It was crazy. And then Nirvana.

• 31:26Speaker 02

  So great.

• 31:27Speaker 07

  And Eddie Vedder is from our, our high school. That's our claim to fame. That's right.

• 31:32Speaker 01

  California royalty.

• 31:33Speaker 07

  That's right.

• 31:34Speaker 02

  I feel like that high school produced a lot of great music.

• 31:37Speaker 07

  Yeah, it's a good spot. It's a good spot for weird kids.

• 31:40Speaker 01

  That's right.

• 31:41Speaker 07

  You qualify.

• 31:42Speaker 02

  We say that about New Jersey.

• 31:45Speaker 01

  All right, Tim, what you got?

• 31:46Speaker 07

  Okay, what's one chore you will avoid at all costs? That would be cleaning out my garage. It is kind of like a big surf shed at this point. I have so many surfboards, wetsuits, and, you know, I feel like I fly just below the radar if I kind of keep it like at a, just a dull chaos that my wife won't notice how many boards I've accumulated.

• 32:13Speaker 02

  How many, like, do you think you have?

• 32:16Speaker 07

  Uh, it's probably 20 at this point.

• 32:20Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 32:20Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 32:21Speaker 02

  And do you use all of them or are they just like?

• 32:25Speaker 07

  No, I just, I just don't want to part with them. I mean, I probably, there's probably like four that I'll rotate through. But, uh, yeah.

• 32:31Speaker 02

  And the rest are just like memories. The tombstones.

• 32:33Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 32:33Speaker 02

  That's crazy.

• 32:34Speaker 07

  You know, I don't collect fancy cars, but I do like having a bunch of surfboards around. That's my thing.

• 32:41Speaker 01

  The Teen Choice Awards give out surfboards. That's the award.

• 32:47Speaker 01

  I think we have, I think we have 20 Teen Choice Awards surfboards.

• 32:52Speaker 07

  See, there is.

• 32:52Speaker 01

  But they're, they're not practical. You can't actually use them to surf. But I think we should, we should send, we should send you one just to add a one random Teen Choice Awards.

• 33:00Speaker 02

  Just a random Jonas Brothers one in the corner.

• 33:02Speaker 07

  That's really gonna make your wife mad. You're like, yes.

• 33:04Speaker 01

  Nothing. You can have 20 boards, but I don't have Jonas Brothers.

• 33:10Speaker 07

  Yeah. Have we talked about this? Have, we, we need to go surfing with you guys.

• 33:14Speaker 01

  I would love that.

• 33:16Speaker 02

  She's never been surfing. No, I was a skateboarder growing up, a snowboarder, but like just never surfed.

• 33:23Speaker 01

  I'm an avid snowboarder. And I feel like there's definitely

• 33:26Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 33:27Speaker 01

  crossover there.

• 33:27Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 33:28Speaker 01

  My daughter was born in San Diego.

• 33:31Speaker 01

  It was kind of a crazy moment in our, in our world because she was in the NICU for a while, but spending some time in San Diego, kind of like, I feel like the, the water was a healing thing for my wife and I just to, I don't know, there's something really special about the water in San Diego and the vibe generally. But I didn't surf. Obviously I was pretty busy. But I would love to go back and, and take you up on that offer. I'll bring the Teen Choice Award board.

• 34:01Speaker 07

  Deal.

• 34:01Speaker 02

  Show up to the shore with it.

• 34:02Speaker 06

  Yeah, here we go. Let's wax that thing up.

• 34:04Speaker 02

  Guys, thank you so much for taking the time to join us and congratulations again on the new album. We cannot wait to experience it with you. But, and of course, on the 23rd at the Grand Ole Opry.

• 34:16Speaker 01

  Huge.

• 34:17Speaker 02

  What an amazing honor.

• 34:18Speaker 01

  And your tour this fall, where, where you kick it off? Thirty-eight dates, right?

• 34:22Speaker 07

  That's right. Chad, where are we kicking it off?

• 34:25Speaker 06

  Grand Rapids, I believe.

• 34:27Speaker 07

  Sick.

• 34:28Speaker 06

  The thriving metropolis.

• 34:29Speaker 01

  We're gonna come check out a show for sure.

• 34:31Speaker 06

  Oh, please, please.

• 34:32Speaker 01

  Love you guys. Appreciate you being on the pod and congrats again.

• 34:36Speaker 07

  Man.

• 34:36Speaker 02

  Thanks guys.

• 34:37Speaker 07

  Love you guys. Thanks for having us.

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  Thank you guys. Appreciate you.

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