Ashbury Heights

Anders and Yaz of Ashbury Heights stop by to chat about upcoming releases, fans, and pancakes. Featuring Co-Host Matt (SynthR).
Featured Songs:
Ashbury Heights - Spectres from the Black Moss

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Visit https://ashburyheights.bandcamp.com/ for more Ashbury Heights.

Transcript

Prime: I get you though. 

SynthR: The world's a joke. 

Prime: Love your optimism. I 

SynthR: have none, never had any, 

Prime: Hey guys, we can, we see that you join, but I don't know if you can hear us or not. 

SynthR: I can't hear them. 

Prime: So two of three people in the call, maybe I have to call them. 

SynthR: What 

Prime: does that mean? You have to like, it's Skype, man. You have to call.

You got to 

SynthR: invite them in. I see. 

Prime: Yeah. After they accept the invite, then you got to call them. 

SynthR: Oh my 

Prime: God, 

SynthR: this is 2021. 

Prime: It records natively. It makes it so easy. 

SynthR: It should just be like a regular conversation in real life where people just walk into the room and there they are. 

Prime: No, it's not how Skype works.

It's they have to join the conversation and then you have to call them and then, maybe they answer, maybe [00:01:00] they don't, how it works. Hello. Hi. Hello. Good morning guys. Terrific. Can you hear us okay and everything? Or. 

Anders: we can hear you really well. How do we, how are we coming through?

Prime: Yeah. You guys sound perfectly fine. 

Anders: Yeah. Okay. Because we're like, we can probably make some changes to the audio if it's 

Prime: No, you sound perfectly fine. Yeah, sorry. We're kicking it old school. I record via Skype cause it's really easy and cheap. Yeah, thanks. I know it's 2021 and we should probably be moving on to something other than this, this is what I got.

So yeah, exactly. That's right. Yeah, I'm Brian, the host of Void Signal. This is my co host for today. Matt LeBlanc and how are you guys? I, we'll just start off with a nice simple question. Like, how are you guys doing? Like, how's things? 

Anders: You call that an easy [00:02:00] question?

Yeah, 

Prime: it's easy. Most of the time. 

Yaz: Yeah, if we can be as vague and as normal as possible, I'd say we're fine. It's summer, it's hot, it's too hot. It's very humid and we have some time off to spend in each other's company and we're not working too much. So if that's the baseline, then we're just fine, I think.

Prime: Yeah, that, that sounds like a good way to spend your time. There's worse ways. Plus summer is is not friendly. To like the dark music scene at all. Like it's not conducive for makeup or wearing cool clothes or anything like I'm hanging, I go outside and I'm like hanging out in like sandals and yoga pants or capri pants.

That's my new favorite thing as I started stealing my wife's capri pants. And I'm like, these are the most comfortable things I've ever put on my body and they feel great in the summer. So a little pro tip for you, buy some capri pants. 

Yaz: Yeah, sure. Man, we figured out the [00:03:00] fact that there's a thing called skirts long ago.

So that's nice. It 

can be 

Yaz: black and it can be very Gothic, but you don't have to pile on as many layers of clothing. So that's the good thing about for winter. I turned into this fluffy mushroom of anti freeze because I hate winter. I hate anything. And since we live in Scandinavia, winters are extremely harsh up here.

Prime: Oh I'm sure. So 

Yaz: happy about summer. 

Prime: Yeah, no, me either. I'm not, especially right now. We've got a big heat wave here in the Northwestern United States. And it's just miserable. Like the dogs for a few minutes and then want to come back in and. 

Yaz: Yeah, 

Anders: It's all over the news in Europe too.

The American Canadian heat wave. Yeah. 

Prime: It's not great. It sucks, but let's let's talk about your music. So I'll I'll just go ahead and, rattle this out there. The new singles that that you guys have been putting out this year have been and late last year too, I think is when specters and wild eyes came out I [00:04:00] just, I love everything that's going on with it.

It's I don't know, it feels like a fresh coat of paint for you guys. Have you been pretty happy with how they've turned out? Is there, I assume there's an album somewhere down the road? 

Anders: First and foremost, that's great to hear. 

Yaz: Yes, thank you. 

Anders: Yeah, it's actually we do we're in love with this format of the, of just releasing single songs digitally like this with videos, it, the, with the, with everything else going on lately it's a bit hard to like approaching the approaching the.

The project of releasing this, like it's not, the coming upcoming album, the ghost house sessions, it's, you might've heard, you might've read it. It's not it's not exactly a new album. It's more of a, it's a release of of all the stuff that was never released, or at least most of the stuff that hasn't been released previously.

And it's going to be like and it's like, [00:05:00] It collects some previously never released songs on one disc and then there's going to be a disc of like covers And stuff that we haven't been able to release before and then there's going to be a disc of 

Yaz: maybe some remixes. Yeah 

Anders: so and some Some weird and rare stuff like the stuff we've done on youtube and stuff We've done on like compilations like electronic saviors over the years that hasn't actually been Like easily collected and available before.

And then it's going to be, and it's all going to be like released in a really ambitious, like nice collectors edition box set thing. It's a big project 

Yaz: but working on standalone singles like this, it's also liberating because when you have to focus on an entire album from start to finish, you get overworked.

You can't usually see the big picture. It's difficult to deal with all the songs at the same time, especially for a project this big. So doing this kind of releasing a single at a time, it's pretty nice. We can focus on one song at a time. Of course we have the whole perspective in mind, but.

We don't have to like, [00:06:00] I don't know, feel overburdened in the same kind of way. At least not for me. Sure. 

Anders: Yeah, and by this, yeah, and I was just gonna say by this time, we're already, we're already spectacularly late. 

Yaz: Yeah, incredibly 

Anders: It was supposed to be released like It was supposed to be released like before the pandemic, then the pandemic hit.

Yaz: Yeah We're gonna start releasing stuff along. When we were touring last year with Massive Ego And that's like 2019, early 2020 And that's exactly when the pandemic became a thing. And so everything was You know pushed forward and delayed and rescheduled and it's just chaotic, but I mean we're getting there You still have a release for a bunch of songs.

So 

Prime: yeah, it was only recently like in the past couple of days or so that I I stumbled onto your YouTube page and I saw the covers for people are strange and cry a little sister. And I didn't even know they were there, like just hanging out over there. And I was like, wow, this is great. [00:07:00] 

And it's 

Prime: Finding out like an artist you like has made some extra songs to check out.

Anders: Yeah, it's been a bit of a like we at least we've been trying to make it a tradition but we're like we it's halloween's been a hard deadline to hit like Most of the time but like we started doing covers on halloween like Quite some time ago and there's this like legally there's a thing about doing covers that when you do covers and you do them in a way that sounds very different from the original song you can't just release them commercially you need to ask like the rights holder for permission to release them and because of this hassle we never really like we only ever did covers that's a fun thing like non profit Yeah, we 

Yaz: get around the whole commercial thing by just putting them on monetizing the video.

So we're not actually making money from it. And then it's okay because anyone can release a cover just for shits and giggles. [00:08:00] We're working on getting them legalized, so to speak. Feeling something weird here, but 

Prime: Cool. I'll keep enjoying your illegal covers on your YouTube. Yeah, or 

Yaz: contraband music.

Yeah, we're working on getting them 

Anders: That's a good title for the second disc. Yeah, contraband. It's a contraband disc. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, that sounds great. 

Prime: Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. I'm just on fire with these ideas. But that also has to like, so the releasing just singles has to be like such a relief compared to trying to crack out a whole album of concepts that fit together, whereas this, you just, once it's finished, it goes out and you don't, it's live and you don't have to worry about it anymore.

That must be a nice change. 

Yaz: It really is. You can also measure like the, you can feel the temperature of your work before the whole thing has been released. That's also fun. But this whole releasing a single, like four or five singles before someone releases an album, that's [00:09:00] nothing new. Regular pop artists do it all the time.

And Spotify comes overflown with singles and standalones and tiny compilations. But it's fun. We've never done this before. So it's great fun. 

Prime: It almost seems like that's how it has to be anymore. Like just because I feel like music consumption is switched over to a la carte digestion now the, now it's standard for releasing, four or five singles and like just staying relevant, saying here's a new single every couple of months or what have you versus people don't often sit and just listen to whole albums much.

Yaz: Maybe it's an attention span thing. Need to consume faster. I have no idea, but 

SynthR: maybe, I don't know. 

Yaz: So 

SynthR: Here's actually a question I was going to ask you about what we're thinking about this. Now, if you're releasing singles. Does that help you like sharpen your work overall as opposed to before where you had a couple of singles that were great and you hear about there's albums that you probably listened to where you only listened to two or three songs and you might not like the rest.

[00:10:00] So do you think having the ability to put out those singles makes your music overall better because you're putting out stronger songs instead of just a couple strong songs and then like maybe your B sides? Are

Prime: you still there? I'm here.

Oh, hello. Can you hear us now? Yeah, I can. I can hear you now. Yeah. 

Yaz: Okay, cool. We have, yeah. Computer did a timeout thing. 

Anders: Yeah, I did my computer. I'm sorry. Yeah, I think, yeah, no, I think the computer just went to yeah, went to sleep mode for some reason. We could still hear, we could still hear you though.

No, I was saying like in in regards to your question. I know, I understand, I see what you're getting at. I've been thinking about that too. In this particular case, this is not a, this is a weird collection of odds and ends because these songs are like, [00:11:00] some of them are like 10 years old.

Some of them are quite a lot newer than that. And Then 

Yaz: some of them weren't even finished written. You haven't written all the songs completely. 

Anders: No. They were like, we, the way bits and bobs, everything. The, yeah. The way I do songs like for an album is I write a lot of instrumentals.

Like I write maybe 30, 40 instrumentals and then you. Then I start making then we start putting on vocals and stuff and turning them into something. So for this compilation, I just went through all of those instrumentals that never got to be real songs and started building.

Remaking them started to pull them in different directions and see if there was anything interesting there. And I think It's definitely may it's it's meant that Thus far and I think you'll agree when you hear the next single. I think you'll agree. It's gonna it's still very Like the songs are very different 

Yaz: Yeah, there's not a lot of cohesion to this album 

Anders: Yeah, when [00:12:00] you do an entire album and like you plan it as an album and you write songs you have this cohesion thing in the back of your head Like 

Yaz: it has a certain vibe or sound or feeling.

Anders: Yeah, and that's why these like that's in like that's why these instrumentals existed in the first place because they were part of this collection of instrumentals that were going to be turned into an album and some of them were simply like, okay, this doesn't fit. This isn't cohesive with the vision that we have for this album.

And so now what we have here is like a bunch of odds and ends. 

Yaz: It's left over. Yeah. And 

Anders: They were defined by their lack of cohesion with the whole. So this album is basically, 

Yaz: it's a bunch of misfits. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. 

Anders: It's like the, it's the anti cohesion so I think that and because I think that's also a big part why this releasing the singles like this became a, like a natural behavior for us, because we don't look at this collection of songs [00:13:00] as like a album.

We look at them more like a. Like an alternative universe, greatest hits album. 

Prime: Yeah. 

Anders: Like it's a bunch of singles that we're collecting for the first time. And like in a different reality, maybe they were part of an Ashby Heights album in the past, but in this particular reality, they fell by the wayside.

Yaz: You can't really, we can't look at the ones that we've released now and think Oh, next time we're going to, we have to write a song that sounds more like this one because people appreciate it or the views on this video is good, or we have a lot of streams on Spotify. We can't really measure it that way because we already have the material.

We can't really change it to fit something. Based on reactions or appreciations. So this is just a big test. It's just a big, 

Prime: what happens if we 

Yaz: do this? Bam. 

Prime: Yeah. It sounds like a very exciting experiment with your island of misfit singles, trying to, so is it you said it's leftovers, is it leftovers from like your [00:14:00] entire discography?

Like all the way back to, 2005 or. 

Anders: Yeah it's all the way. No it's all the way back to take care. Paramore. Okay. So the, yeah, 

Yaz: there's nothing from the first album. Yeah. 

Anders: So the first single specters from the black mass is actually a leftover from the take care Paramore sessions.

But it was just like, it was an instrumental with that, like Sintriff, And I always liked the riff. I always liked the beat, but I never like there. We had a lot of songs on that album and there just wasn't room for it. And come 10 years later. Wow. I can, I this still slaps.

I can do something with this. 

Yaz: And there's even There's going to be songs on the album, probably maybe released as a single. I'm not going to name it, but there are songs that we've written outside of either of ours, our projects like Ashbery or Javelin or anything like we've just scribbled on stuff and worked for other reasons on different kinds of songs.[00:15:00] 

And we thought, Hey, this is a good song. Let's turn it into an Ashbery song, even though it originated from something completely different. 

Prime: You beat me to it. Like my next question was going to be, this javelin leftover javelin stuff, but it's cool. It's fine. I didn't know you were a journalist too.

It's cool. 

Yaz: No, it's not, I'm just going to go ahead and say no, nothing is specifically javelin stuff. No, but it's not actually either. It's just something we've worked on together as friends in his own studio or during different kinds of settings, we just wrote songs. We've been writing the songs.

for ages without even releasing them as Ashby or Javelin. So 

Anders: there, there was this dark period when Ashby Heights was on hiatus and I wasn't like legally allowed to make music. Basically or I was legally disallowed. music and during this time like we did still write a lot of songs.

We wrote, I wrote material for other artists and like I wrote [00:16:00] material for my publisher. And like basically, this was still like, this was still our songs. They just weren't, they just didn't really have any. They didn't have a recipient. So they, it just lingered around. So some songs on this, some songs are from that like dark period.

They was like, we wrote a lot of songs during that period. 

Yaz: Tons of songs. Jesus Christ. Yeah. 

Anders: There's probably about 50 tracks. Gotcha.

And some of those songs, like some of the stuff that was written during this period became like the became the embryo for the Looking Glass Society. So like a song like, like Mask was written during this period. And and was like originally not an Ashbury Heights song. It was just a song like written just to get it out of my system.

So we've used some of them already, but there's a lot of stuff from that period that there's a lot of stuff from that period. That's pretty weird because since we didn't [00:17:00] need to have it be Ashbury stuff, some of it is actually quite experimental or downright silly because we could do anything.

Yaz: One of my favorites. From the upcoming album is from that period and we were flirting with whole other kind of influences and then we just dressed it in Ashbery. We made it sound Ashbery, but the baseline of it and the core essentials of the song was actually inspired by something completely different.

It has nothing to do with the scene or anything that we, Regularly would listen to so it's fun. I think people are gonna love it and they're gonna hear that there's something up with This is a weird track, but it's a really good one But I feel like 

Prime: that I feel like that kind of also just speaks to how ashbury heights is all the time, when I Sit and listen to ashbury heights.

You know the spectrum as far as musical style You I mean, it's all over the map. It's interesting to me to try and conceptualize in [00:18:00] my brain Oh, this is Ashbury Heights, but not really, like it's a little different. They're doing something different. And it's they're always doing something different.

Like I never know what to expect with Ashbury Heights. So I'm excited to hear how it turns out. 

Yaz: That's a beautiful compliment to get as musician. 

Prime: Oh, you're welcome. Thanks for coming on the show. But yeah, it makes me excited to, to hear what what comes of the new record and what kind of outside influences make their way in.

Yeah. 

Anders: So it's always been like, I think of it as a. I'm not sure I think about it as a strength because a lot of bands, a lot of bands and artists who are quite successful are successful because they're very dedicated to one path, to one sound and to to refine refining like this.

Yaz: They have a musical identity Yeah. In some way, 

Anders: a core identity that they just keep refining over, over the decades. But Ashbury Heights has always been very, it's 

Yaz: a messy fucking band. Yo . [00:19:00] Yeah. 

Anders: We we can't, like I get bored really easily. I need to try new things. I need to.

I need to try different like musical ideas. And if I hear something that like that's also like some of the songs on Looking Glass Society and Victorian Wallflowers, which have their, have their basis in that hiatus period still have some like a lot of people were quite surprised that there was like some little dashes of dubstep on some of the songs.

And that's just because during the hiatus I got really into dubstep for a while and I did a lot of dubstep tracks and then like when that got turned into ashbury songs some of the dubstep stuff just got left in there. 

Yaz: It just wouldn't wash out. Yeah it would 

Anders: yeah it's like I could take this out but that would actually make this song worse so okay we're gonna keep some of the dubstep in there and I, 

Yaz: we've got tons of that for this album, not dubstep in particular, but that kind of mindset and [00:20:00] workflow. 

SynthR: The thing is that you guys sound guilty that you don't have a quote unquote identity, but that is your identity. That's like your strength. You know that is you guys, that's Ashbury Heights.

So I wouldn't be too upset about that, to be honest. 'cause that's what I like about your music. It's all very different. It's all very creative. It's you guys, it's unique. 

Anders: Yeah. That's a very, that's a very philosophical statement there. It's like our, yeah our lack of a cohesive identity is actually the identity in itself.

That's very, it vibes 

Yaz: Well with us though, as personalities too. . 

Anders: Yeah. 

Prime: I, I. 

Yaz: Yeah, 

Prime: I completely agree with Matt, like it's that uniqueness is what helps make the band. Plus, it helps that aesthetically as far as like promotional stuff, like videos and stuff like that, there's always such an interesting blend of the Victorian, dressed style mixed with dance music.

Like you're like, I know that when I look at an Ashbury heights cover, like Anders [00:21:00] is wearing a suit. He's not going to go like. Bust out some dance moves like in this but, but that's what helps sell it is it's we have day jobs, we can be classy and make dance music and make, music about whatever.

So I don't know it's such a unique approach. I just enjoy it a lot. 

Yaz: Thank you. 

Anders: I'm going to take that as a challenge. Bring 

Prime: on the dance lessons. Yeah, 

Anders: that's the next music video, right? 

Prime: Like 

Yaz: We have Andrews dancing in One Trick Pony, he's actually vibing and jumping and flowing around. So yeah that's actually a really good video to, to demonstrate your whole point there.

Like we have a day job, but Yeah, I can still dance, yeah, 

Prime: exactly. You were really coming out of your shell there. For a minute, Anders, I didn't know what was going to happen. I thought, I was like, oh, this is about to flip. He's going to be in like the tight leather top. And.

It's 

Yaz: going to gimp on us. And yeah, 

Prime: and then, and then you'll be wearing this suit. And it'll be a role reversal. It'll be great. That's what I thought was going to happen. 

Yaz: Yeah, 

Prime: didn't quite make it, [00:22:00] but sorry, left on the cutting room floor. Yeah, you don't know the 

Yaz: B rolls, man. 

Prime: Is this now that things are starting to open back up a little bit are you guys going to be rolling out on another tour or is that something you're weighing, waiting to see what happens?

Sure hope so. 

Yaz: Yeah, we're working on it. We wanted to be that way. Yeah. 

Anders: We lost there was a lot of gigs we were looking forward to last year that we had to cancel because of the pandemic. We were doing two gigs in Canada. That would have been our first gigs ever in North America.

Yeah, that would 

Yaz: have been a turning point in our career, to be honest. Yeah, that 

Anders: sucked. We were going to play in Finland, which is my like fatherland. It's always fun to come back there. And we didn't get to do that either. That was, that sucked. And we were supposed to do a UK leg of our tour with Massive Ego.

That would have been really fun. And now I don't even know if we're ever getting back to UK because of. The Brexit thing. So I don't know, it's a, it was sad. [00:23:00] Like we had a really good, like last year was queuing up to be a really good year for us. And in the end it turned out to be like, we've had like our best year ever in streaming and Digital sales, like we've been doing quite well but it's the gigs yeah we, so many good, so many gigs we were looking forward to that we lost out on, and we can only hope that the people who booked us last year, that they're still around next year so that we can.

Take that off again. 

Prime: Sorry to ask such a downer of a question. I didn't, I wasn't expecting you to be like, yeah, we were going to do this amazing thing and it was going to be a turning point for our career, but. Sorry, now we're sad. 

Yaz: Yeah, we were pretty bummed out and post tort depression is a thing as it is and then to hear the world say Ah, we did a fuck up.

Sorry. No, you're not gonna do you for a while. See ya That was well. Yeah, that was a hard Candy to swallow, to be honest. It was, 

[00:24:00] No. 

Prime: Do you feel like it at least fueled your creativity a little bit? Or have you just been like if I don't get to tour and play gigs and, We had to come up with new ways.

I'm not gonna do anything. 

Yaz: Yeah. We had to come up with new ways to do other kinds of content like the the demo reviews we did. We had to record our own videos without external help. We couldn't travel for videos other than between ourselves within the same country. So we really had to turn up our own creativities in other kinds of ways.

So that's been working out, 

Anders: but music wise it's been quite hard. Like we had, like, when I I moved abroad in 2019, and that was really good for my inspiration. So we were doing like we're also working on an actual new. Have me, I've maybe 14, 15 new songs for that, which is going to be released after the compilation.

And we were like, I was making strides. I was like, like good things were happening. And then like when the pandemic hit [00:25:00] and I got isolated in a. Like strange land with, no social life at all. 

Yaz: Yeah, 

Anders: It was like, I was basically locked in a box for half a year and that was not good for my creativity, definitely.

But I'm thinking that. When I have a perspective on this when we get like a perspective on this when it's over And I can look back on the experience We can draw 

Yaz: upon it 

Anders: Then I yeah, then we can draw upon it Then we can write some like then we can write some songs that I think people are really gonna relate to.

Yeah 

Anders: It was a common experience and there's a lot of stuff to talk through. 

Yeah. 

Anders: Yeah for sure

Prime: I agree matt. Do you have a question? I've been 

SynthR: well, actually I was I want to ask that question. Like how did You How'd you keep the passion alive and like the inspiration through some of the dark times, like you said, you had a dark time, I guess it was back like when you had issues with the record label, but like, how do you work through that as an artist to just find that [00:26:00] like just to get out of bed every day and just to do it again when you have so many things beating you down, telling you like, maybe you should give up. 

Yaz: Man you really want to trudge some dark waters here. 

SynthR: Sorry, we don't have to, it's just, that's the stuff I like knowing about.

Yaz: I can talk, I can't speak for Anders, but going back to those dark times when Anders couldn't do music we I weren't part of the band anymore, and I worked so hard with Javelin, and I was in a dark place. Everything basically sucked, to be honest. It was a really shitty time. But we did a lot of things together as friends, and we helped each other out in some ways.

We assisted each other. Anders helped me with the Javelin album, I helped him with Take Care Paramore, and then we spent some time just writing songs outside of our projects. And This time around, when you've done, when you've been writing music for such a long time, or even other kinds of artistic things, be it painting or designing or sewing, whatever you want to call it it becomes such an integral [00:27:00] part of yourself.

It's I can't wake up one day and say nah, I'm gonna stop being a musician. I'm gonna stop being a painter. Because it's just not panning out for me. That's just not possible. I can't do that. It's part of me. It's the way I am as a person. It's part of my identity. So it's gonna suck and it's gonna be hard.

It's gonna, it's gonna be worthless and sweaty and sometimes stinky depending on which venue you're playing, but you still can't see yourself there. Not you can't see yourself not doing it. It's just not possible. 

Anders: No 

Yaz: it's just a way of being. 

Anders: Yeah, I agree. Like it's a sickness once you're, yeah.

Once you're like, once you're doing art, you can't stop doing art. I think for me, the way to. To avoid like giving up completely has always been to like adjust the scope of my dreams a bit Like there's like you have a dream and then it's then it looks like You're not no longer heading towards the dream.

You're heading right into a wall You just you change your scope a bit you change [00:28:00] direction and you Find like a Jason dream and you like, or a smaller 

Yaz: wall. So you break through it 

Anders: Or you just pick up speed and hope to break through that one wall. 

It's like you, you get older, like your life.

Priorities change and like dreams kind of change with that. I have we still have we have a contract for six albums. And we're still like delivering on that. And I'm really looking forward to delivering on that deal. And I recently signed a new publishing deal with BMG and that also brings with it, the whole new slew of.

Like with that, you sign a paper and you tell them that, yes, I'm going to do these things in exchange for you doing these things for me. And I, I need the, I like those things. I think those things are good for me. Like I, it's good to have these. Demands and I feel inspired by these demands at the moment.

Like there we need to deliver [00:29:00] some albums here. We need to deliver some new singles and it's going to be fun delivering these things. Hopefully on time, although that's not really been our thing, like it's not the musician's way to deliver things on time, 

Yaz: but, 

I'm proud of myself if I make it to my actual day job on time, every day.

That's an accomplishment. 

Anders: Oh yeah I'm terrified. I'm going to have to start going back to an actual office and like getting to the office on time again, 

Yaz: but for Anders, it's the deals and the delivering on things for me, it's just, I kinda touched on it when we were on our last tour together.

It's been years and years ago since it's been years since I was on a tour and I was like, Oh, I remember all the hard times, the cramped beds, the lack of hygiene. The the enormous amounts of alcohol and man you feel like a bag of shit after two days. It's just, you can't avoid it. But for me and music and creating and art and everything, it's just [00:30:00] when I do it, when I.

When I live my music, when I sing the, when I put on the vocals for a new song, it's like I actually exist. It sounds super dark and horrible, like life is pain without music, but when I actually live my music, when I play it live or I write a new song, I just work with it. That's when I actually feel like I'm at ease.

I'm at rest. It's my head is quiet. Everything is just the way it should be. That's the real deal of life for me. So 

Prime: there's 

Yaz: no alternative to not do this. 

Prime: Yeah, that's, that's extremely relatable. I feel like that's that applies to anybody who Finally gets the chance to do something that they love, right?

Like when I when I get to do interviews or, do void signaling kind of things I'm like, Oh, this is, I feel so comfortable doing it. And I feel that sort of like alive Oh, I'm finally awake a feeling, 

Similar to what you describe. And especially like when it comes to, trying to go to like day jobs, like I'm [00:31:00] pretty unemployable.

So it's I was just trying to make my own way here. Yeah I get that too. Like it's that's not pleasant either, but yeah, that makes sense. 

Anders: Yeah we were, I think we, we were both unemployable at one point. 

Yeah. 

Anders: I'm still in shock that I'm actually employed.

Like it's, I'm still in shock of that. 

Yaz: He spent years and years in school and he's I can't believe I got a day job. It's come on. The fun part is we've both got are these super serious, mega responsible failed mega jobs during the pandemic. I'm not going to go into detail what I do because it's it's for my own security, but we both work for the state.

It's like 

Yaz: super, super rigid and stuff. Super like structured like this is a place for adult people and I go into this job every day and I'm like I'm not a fucking adult. This is a big lie What am I doing here? And why am I good at it? I don't get it [00:32:00] 

Anders: I feel like that Yeah, I haven't thought about that before we're actually both working for the man.

Yaz: We're both exactly 

Anders: That's 

SynthR: material. 

Anders: Yeah. Yeah. We sold out. 

SynthR: We need sure. 

Yaz: Sold out. It's so punk. We actually spent midsummer. Unfortunately we couldn't have Anders with us, but me and a couple of my friends, we spent midsummer together and we were standing around this barbecue and I just realized, Oh my God, we have three different representatives of the Swedish state by this goddamn bar, whatever.

We're all. Punk rock kids from our youth. We still have piercings, the tattoos, the mohawks, the everything and yeah, we're going to talk about the unemployment issue, the criminality, and maybe the Swedish defense forces, and maybe we should go over the welfare and economic structure of Volvo.

This is insane. 

Yeah. 

Yaz: Yeah, we were sticking it to the man here. 

Anders: Yeah. Yeah, for [00:33:00] context, maybe I should mention that mid summer, like summer solstice, is a huge Yeah, it's a huge thing in Sweden. It's a huge holiday in Sweden. It's 

Yaz: very pagan and very drunk. It's 

Prime: bigger than Halloween here. I saw the horror film, that's all I need to know about it.

Ah, okay, yeah, that's all you need to know. You take some drugs, you wear white, I get it, you kill old 

Yaz: people because they're just encumbering the system. 

Prime: And if they don't die, you just smash them with a hammer, that's cool. Yeah, I know what happens in Sweden, I saw it. It can 

Yaz: always be glorious.

Prime: And we do silly dances around giant green 

Yaz: penises. And then someone turns into a flower. Done. 

Prime: And then you burn someone alive in a bear suit. Sounds great. Sweden sounds like such a jolly place. 

Yaz: It is. We're dedicated. 

Prime: No I actually, I would love to, to visit Sweden sometime. And now that I know that, some officials that work for the state 

it seems much easier 

Prime: now.

But yeah we've actually had a lot of success with a podcast in Sweden. Now that you mentioned it this is somewhat related, barely related, [00:34:00] very tangible but my we had Tom Alsberg from brides of the black room on the show. Yeah, love that guy. What a great voice too.

But, 

Prime: Yeah ever since then, we've just been like quite a popular podcast in Sweden. So I was like, as soon as you guys were like, Oh yeah, we'll be on the show. I'm like, cool, Sweden, here we come. You're like second round. So 

Yaz: it's 

Prime: very exciting, but yeah, it's weird to 

Yaz: get the chance. 

Prime: Yeah, I would love to maybe not around midsummer so that I don't end up in a parachute, But yeah it's wild to be. And I think that's one of the great things that your one trick pony video and single kind of talks speaks to is that feeling of imposter syndrome at times of do these people actually know, I don't know what I do. Does everybody realize that I'm very out of place that I, my resume is a fabrication, do they know that like that feeling of being out of place Love that single.

Love the [00:35:00] video. You did a fantastic job on it, but yeah, very relatable in that respect. Thank you, Matt. Did you have a question? 

SynthR: Oh, of course. I had lots of questions. I got all these like goofy, weird offbeat questions, but I'll keep it. I'll keep it relevant. So since we're talking about things that are like unrelated to your music, what are some things that you guys do outside of music that might be uncharacteristic that people would find interesting?

Yaz: Oh, my day job is one of them. I don't know. What do we do? 

Anders: Uncharacteristic I'm a I'm a major of game design and I have a unhealthy obsession with video games ever since childhood. Oh my god, we're huge 

SynthR: gamers. Brian and I are both mad gamers. 

Yaz: Yeah, we're all gamers here. 

SynthR: Oh, [00:36:00] awesome.

Yaz: Yeah. You're a huge game nerd. Me too. I'm sorry, but you majored in it. So 

Anders: yeah. I'm an academic. 

Yaz: Yeah. You're an academic. I'm just a plebeian nerd. 

Prime: Yeah. Until you spend a lot of money on. Being certified nerd, then, exactly. I'm just, 

Yaz: no, what do I do?

I'm a painter designer. That's not maybe that's pretty given people know that already. But you 

Anders: paint guitars. 

Yaz: I paint guitars. Yeah. I pimp people. People hand me guitars, or pick guards, or necks, or heads of a guitar, and they say, oh, I want a combination of my two cats but I want them to look like people, and I also want the rainbow color in them.

I'm like, okay I'm just going to work on something and make you think that it's your idea, but it's my idea And it's going to look 10 times better. So just trust me on this. Yeah, and that's what I do. 

Prime: I Do [00:37:00] they sound like that? When they ask, they use that exact voice. That's it's pretty. 

Yaz: Yeah, that's what I think.

I don't always know what they sound like, but they're predominantly male and they play hard rock music or maybe some loungy shoegazer rock. And I just picture their voices being like really, I don't know. 

Prime: That's what I'm imagining now that you say it now it's Oh hey, can I get my guitar played?

That's, okay, I'll get 

Yaz: you. That's a sick looking guitar, dude. Can I have the Ramones kind of logo on this? It's pretty cool, dude. I don't know why, it's just, I'm also pretty limited in my vocal range of what kind of male voice I can do. 

Prime: No, it was good. I thought it was great. I thought you did a great job.

It doesn't matter. I thought 

SynthR: anything you're going to do is going to be sexist. So don't worry about it. 

Prime: Yeah, I thought you were a different, I thought there was a man, another man on the podcast for a second. [00:38:00] Very impressive.

Yaz: Weird brag, right? 

Prime: Yeah, exactly. Really weird. But that's cool. I didn't know that you painted guitars. That's a very neat thing. Do you have a place that you showcase this anywhere like online or anything? Or is it just 

Yaz: I just, honestly, it's not that big. I just I scribbled on my boyfriend's guitar with these alcohol markers.

Just because he needed a placeholder before he got his real pickguard. So it's this piece in a cardboard and I posted it in this guitar group that I'm part of. And I'm like, look what I did for fun. And people ask me, Oh, can you do it for me? But like now, and I'm like, yes, give me money. So I started a company.

Or doing it for money, but I never really actually made like a website or homepage or anything I just have this tiny little site on Facebook a page and I never actually use it I just go to these guitar groups that I'm part of [00:39:00] Because people know me there and they just come to me. I don't have to look for them, 

Anders: but it's by reputation 

Yaz: yeah, it's by reputation and Since I paint guitars and they use them and they show them to their friends and they use them live that's my marketing.

So it's just it's this tiny little thing that works on itself. I Don't know how it works. It just does 

Prime: That's awesome. That's very cool. I would love to see like some of the things that you've done sometime. Maybe 

Yaz: You can just search Facebook for just custom art. That's where you find it.

Prime: Just custom art. 

Yaz: Jazz custom art, like my stage name. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, that also had to, I do that when I have time, when I feel like it, when, it's just another part of the creative persona, 

Prime: sure. 

SynthR: You might not want to mark, you might not want to market it too much because then you'll just be spending your days drawing like anthropomorphic cat people on various instruments.[00:40:00] 

Yaz: I actually, that's actually a real story and I did a sketch for it. I did sketch that up and I was horrified. 

SynthR: I 

Yaz: never showed it because I don't want them to like it. I'm like, I cannot do this. This is going to give me so much. Serious PTSD. I'm going to have nightmares. And anyone I showed it to was like, what the fuck are you doing?

Just, I'm like, I don't know. How do I get out of this? Just make two cats. I'm like, yeah, I have to make just two cats, just two regular, plain old cats. That's going to be fine. When I design something and I'm like, this looks insane, I don't show it to them. I just, I have to have this working kind of process where I just figure out what looks good, how can I tweak this?

And still. Keep their requests within the lines of what I'm doing. It's give and take, 

Prime: right? I don't know. I see. That sounds fun to me. Like weird anthropomorphic people, like what are we going to see? So for the next Ashbury Heights cover, we're going to see like an anthropomorphic kind of can you draw Anders as like a [00:41:00] centaur?

Is that something that we could see? That sounds great. 

Yaz: I might do something along the lines of, I don't know, sentences. 

Prime: Just to make it like, keep with the Ashbury heights theme. Yeah, that would be great. 

Yaz: I feel like it's a certain set of fans, creative fans here.

This we're going to see it. Either way, I'm not going to have to paint this. We have some seriously talented fans who post this fan art and stuff. And I've seen myself as a chibi version, also as a cat version. So maybe we'll see some weird suit wearing horse, Andres. 

Anders: I've, you might've given some people ideas.

Yeah. You put it out there. You're 

Yaz: feeding the adorable monsters. I'm 

Prime: glad that I could. Give this gift to the world. I can't wait to see what happens. 

SynthR: That actually brings up another good question. What are some things that fans have created for you guys that you guys are in love with, or some things you might not be as in love with or are funny.

Yaz: Oh, [00:42:00] what a good question.

There are memes. 

Anders: I do like the memes. I 

Yaz: love the memes. Yeah, 

Anders: the memes are good. 

Yaz: The memes are good. There's this certain, 

Anders: I feel so contemporary when we're memes. 

Yaz: We're not old people.

No, but there are covers, of course. A friend, We haven't actually met him, but he's part of he's now part of Massive Ego, and they are great friends to us. Kyle, he's in Augur. He had this this live session over Halloween last year, or, yeah, last year, and he played an acoustic version. Of spiders and he sang it and he tweaked it a bit and I loved it.

It was amazing Also madill who joined us for wild eyes. She did a cover of spiders. That was amazing and then we have all the fan art i've saved so many different versions of fan art during the years But my most treasured memory to be honest is [00:43:00] From our first or second tour, I think ever and I lost one of my piercings And I met two guys, they were standing outside of our tour bus.

And I was like, have you seen a spike? It's about this big. And I show them like a two feet spike. It was huge. It was a big, huge spike in my lower lip. And they were like, no, but you can have mine. And they started disassembling themselves with all these piercings and like just pouring them into my hand.

We don't have any sanitizer, but you can keep this, please just take them. I love your music. Oh, I'm like. Okay. Thank you. This is weird, especially after pandemic times, but I actually saved a bunch of those piercings, piercing jewelries. I never got to use, I remember if I used it, honestly, I don't remember.

It's such a long time ago, but I remember the gesture and that's not, it might not be like a song or a picture or a fan art thing, but for me, it's like one of the things that a fan has made that made me ah, it's just such an endearing [00:44:00] feeling. 

It was so 

SynthR: cute. 

That's a really sweet 

SynthR: story. Yeah, 

Anders: I love that.

I remember there was a Canadian fan who who sent us like care package. 

Prime: Oh yeah. And 

Anders: in that package, there was like a, there was a skull and crossbones tie which was terrible, but I kept it. I love it. I I don't think it was meant to be used. It was meant to be sabred in a different way.

And she said, and it was a book of poetry which was lovely. It was Leonard Cohen poetry collection, which I like very much. And there, but then there was. One more thing, there was a flask of maple syrup and the thing is that back, this is, this was back in the, this was back in the noughties and we never had maple syrup before maple syrup is more of a thing in Sweden now than it was back then.

But it, but back then maple syrup really wasn't like much of a thing here. We Swedes put whipped [00:45:00] cream and jam on pancakes. And our pancakes are very different from American Canadian pancakes. And. This maple syrup made us try making American pancakes, and oh my God, they're so much better. And ever since they're so fluffy and thick and I put blueberries in them, and then they're even better.

This fan opened this whole world of culinary pancakes. Yeah, pancake delight. And I can't like it was a very, it was a very thoughtful gift and it was a delicious gift. And ever since we're big fans of American blueberry pancakes and maple syrup. 

Yaz: But I also have to mention our last tour.

We met this amazing, super happy, delightful fan who asked for an autograph. And this person wanted the autograph on their forearm. And we were like, yeah, sure. Whatever. We've done weird stuff, so give me your forearm. That's fine. [00:46:00] And this person was extremely happy, very supportive and explained that this has been like a long time coming.

And just two days later, we get tagged in a photo on Instagram. And this person actually went to a tattoo parlor with our autographs and tattoo them into their arm. And I'm like this is fucking bizarre. I don't know what to do with myself. I am extremely honored I'm, very humbled and I'm, just super happy that our music can inspire someone and help someone In such a way that it helped this person.

So If you're hearing this, it's just, it's still blowing my mind. It's insane. 

Anders: That was that moment was cosmic. 

Yaz: Yeah, anything. 

Prime: I I'm glad that had a happy ending, because I I, when I was much younger I, Went and got a band tattoo on my body, which you're not supposed to do.

Like it's, like that's the curse, right? As soon as you get it, this [00:47:00] band that's your favorite is going to turn into absolute dog shit. I was like I don't believe in curses. So I just went ahead and got it. And then sure enough, like the very next album, I'm like, what is this trash?

I don't ever want to hear this again. I'm glad that, in that case, like they were You guys haven't turned a trash since they got there. . 

Anders: Aw . 

Prime: That's 

Anders: when you put it that way. No, I'm scared of it. Now we have this like enormous burden. This . Yeah. 

Prime: No pressure. Whatever you put out next better be good.

Oh, Jesus. There's skin in the game, if you will. , but, yeah. So out here it's funny you mentioned pancakes, cause we're going to talk about pancakes for a second. I when I first moved out to the Western United States, like my in laws out here made sourdough pancakes and I was like, what a strange concept of only had regular human person, like box pancakes.

So it was like, it's basically just I don't even know how to describe it, [00:48:00] but they're like if you've ever had really good like sourdough bread like it's like that, but a pancake and it's, oh, it's so delightful. It's so good. I highly recommend looking up the recipe. If you are a pancake connoisseur which it sounds like you might be now.

Yeah, definitely look it up and give it a try. It's great. That's a whole 

Anders: story . That, that it, it's a very, that, that sounds very intriguing. We'll take a look. Yeah. 

Prime: But so what Swedish pancakes are not fluffy and 

Anders: No they're flat. They're flat like tortillas.

Yeah. And and you you eat them with whipped cream and different like berries and jams and such. Oh, it's 

SynthR: like a crepe. 

Anders: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. Much closer to a crepe. Basically, pancakes in Europe are crepes. 

Yaz: Yeah. 

Anders: Gotcha. Unless 

Yaz: you go to Ukraine. I went to the Ukraine and we were eating breakfast in Kiev and I'm like, yeah, Belgian pancakes.

[00:49:00] Give them to me. They give me this. I don't even know how to describe it. It's like a deck of cards. The thickness of a deck of cards, and you turn it into, I don't know, a book size, a tiny, like an A5, that's a standard size of a small book. Super thick, super chewy, and it was covered in this thick dust of vanilla sugar.

My teeth hurt from biting into it, it was so sugary, oh my god. So that was an experience, talking about pancakes. 

Anders: Excellent. Sounds really 

Prime: weird. . 

Yaz: Yeah, but that was like every day in Kiev. How was that? Belgium? I loved 

Kiev, but 

Yaz: yeah, I dunno. 

Prime: I don't know how much you know about Belgium, but they make No, me neither.

I have no idea. 

Anders: I used to live on the Belgium. Yeah I used to live on the Belgian border and I had a lot of Belgian colleagues. My, in my experience, Belgian pancakes are like, they're just crepes, but they like putting chocolate on them. 

Yaz: Yeah. But see, this was Kiev's idea of a Belgian pancake.

Anders: So it was [00:50:00] the, it was like the Ukrainian idea of a Belgian. Exactly. It's like when we 

Yaz: say, it's like when we say we make tacos or chili, it's not actually Mexican tacos or chili, or we all have different versions of stuff. 

Prime: Yeah, it's just like how Ashbury Heights is, a version of a band.

You're just like, your own interpretation of it. You guys are like the weird Ukrainian pancake. Of Synthbob, that's the reality of it. 

Just embrace it. Yeah. That, that, that 

Anders: description goes into our Facebook page. That's a 

really unique description, we've never heard it. 

Anders: Hey, I'm, you are the Ukrainian pancake of Synthbob.

Prime: I'm free all day. Like I got. I got nothing better to do than do PR stuff. Oh, you gotta check out Ashery Heights. They're like the Ukrainian pancake of Belgian waffles. You gotta see it. It's Yeah. 

Yaz: Jesus, dude. 

Prime: But great pancake [00:51:00] stories. So we've been talking for a while. I usually close the show with the same question.

So I'll just go around and ask everybody here, like what you've been enjoying lately. And that can be anything that can be a book, a video game, movie, TV series, just whatever is really like getting you excited, helping you get out of bed in the morning. Just don't say that nothing.

Makes you happy right now. You have no joy in anything. I've gotten that answer a couple of times and I always just want to die when someone gives that. It's I understand you have an image to maintain, but can you just pretend that you like being alive? So actually we'll start with you, Matt.

What are you enjoying lately? What's, what do you, what are you really jazzed about? 

SynthR: Okay, so we have Costco over here, which is like a membership only big box store. I think you have them down in the States, right? Brian? 

Prime: Yep. 

SynthR: Costco or yours is Sam's club. 

Prime: No, we, we have both.

Thankfully, I'm back on the coast now where we have Costco. 

SynthR: Okay. So it's like an exclusive shopping center type thing. And they have [00:52:00] these like fudgical popsicle things that are organic, only 90 calories. Amazing. Amazing. Like I, I could eat the whole box. They're so good. I'm all about them. 

Prime: This that's your answer.

SynthR: Yeah. What do you want me to say? Nothing. I don't know. 

Prime: Nothing. No, it's fine. No. Yeah, it's fine. No, you can give any answer you want. I just. Why are you 

SynthR: complaining? I just was expecting a little bit 

Prime: more. I wasn't expecting oh yeah, I went to Costco and I got these like fudgesicle things that are great.

Aren't cool. Oh my God. Okay. 

SynthR: What's yours? What's yours then? 

Prime: Okay. Exactly.

I like the newest Ashbury Heights single. 

Oh, that's pretty great. 

Prime: No, I've just been enjoying like it was my wife's birthday this past week. I was spent the whole week like cleaning and cooking. And I tried out cooking something I'd never cooked before. I tried to make a it was like general So's chicken, but it was like a substitute of pork and put in the crock pot and made sticky rice.

And tried to do a lot [00:53:00] of things that I normally didn't. And so it was exciting to be like, Oh, look, I'm a chef, a Oh, I can cook things like, Huh? I'm a man. I'm gonna, I'm a husband. But so that was pretty fun to do. But yeah, so I've been enjoying that. That and there's a film on Shudder, a horror film called Vicious Fun that is it's like a journalist in the 80s.

He writes for like a horror magazine, like a Fangoria kind of a thing. And he stumbles upon a support group for serial killers. And It's fun. It's a lot of like dark black humor. But yeah, it's a blast. Can't say enough good things about it. What about you guys? 

Anders: For first of all first of all, tell your wife that the synth pop equivalent of Ukrainian Belgian waffles, 

I 

Prime: will let her know.

She'll be so flattered. She'll be like, who the hell is that? I'm like, Oh, it's you might not know them by their new name, but.[00:54:00] 

Yaz: Yeah, you go first, Anders. What have you been enjoying lately? 

Anders: I'm lately I will. I'm enjoying this of course. I just came up to my own. To, to the town where I was born, Sundsvall in northern Sweden where I'm, I don't spend that much time here, but when I get up I get to try to get up here a few times a year to meet Jasmine and Joanne, hang out, play video games, 

Yaz: work, 

Anders: drink beer, drink wine.

Yeah. Make some good food together. Look at some 

Yaz: really stupid movies on prime. Treasure trove of stupid ass movies on Prime. 

Anders: For sure. Yeah, that's, yeah, that's another thing about me. I only watch bad movies. I'm a huge so bad it's good aficionado. I 

SynthR: respect that. I like that. 

Yaz: I have to agree with him.

Of course. Of course I enjoy him spending time here and especially this time around, because we're just hanging [00:55:00] out. This is the closest thing we've come to actually working. So that's nice. There's no timetable, nothing to, nothing we have to do and that's healthy for us. Because of our workload in general, but aside from that, I've been enjoying what I usually try to do to find myself in a good headspace.

I've been reading more books lately, Swedish horror from new authors. One of my colleagues recommended a few books and I've been working the night shift for the past month. So I've had tons of time to read, which is really nice. So that's been a, that's been a good experience. I envy 

Anders: that. 

Yaz: Yeah, you should.

Yeah. Sorry. No. And I've also been spending a lot of time just outside with the horses, horseback riding, building new relationship with new animals, just being outside, being alone in the quiet in the woods. Just. It's been great. [00:56:00] At home in the woods. 

Prime: Wow. So there's a lot of woods involved. A 

Yaz: lot of woods.

I'm a wood person. 

Prime: No that's, that sounds fun. There's, I'm sure there's no better way to pass your time at Sweden. Swedish intelligence or wherever secretive government agency you work at, than to read horror novels. 

Yaz: Yeah, that's it's actually, it's it suits my kind of it suits the place very well.

Prime: Oh, that makes it even darker and more intriguing. Wow. Yeah, it's 

Yaz: very, it's all very similar. 

Prime: Oh, this is where we dispose of the bodies from, of enemies of the 

Yaz: state. We don't talk loud about what happens inside these walls.

Cool. That's a fascinating aspect. 

Yaz: And now I'm on vacation and Anders is here and we're just having fun and drinking tons of wine and eating good food and having awesome interviews. [00:57:00] This has been by far one of the most interesting interviews we've ever done. We've had so much fun. 

Prime: I appreciate it. You've done a really good 

Yaz: job.

Prime: Thank you. I I try. I'm trying to become More of a professional less of an amateur. So we'll see how that goes it's not every day you get to talk to a band that you've listened to for 10 plus years that you're a big fan of and your wife's a big fan of and tell them that they're a ukrainian Attempt at waffle or pancake or whatever like it's a whole new day.

It's 

Yaz: It 

Prime: is really i've really arrived Really? Yeah. Yeah, 

Yaz: this is you've landed man. You've got this. Yeah 

Prime: Thank you. This is as high as it gets 

Yaz: Yep 

Prime: All right so I will keep an eye out for the compilation i'm very excited about that and you guys have like a new single or video like very soon.

Is that right? 

Anders: Yeah, on the 28th of July is our next, the release of our next single, Cutscenes. 

Yaz: Yeah, it's [00:58:00] featuring it's featuring Danny Blue. A very nice, sounding, super awesome dude. He's from the States. So that's a fun, whole new way of collaboration, by the way. He's cool. 

Prime: Gotcha.

That's exciting. I'm looking forward to to seeing and hearing it. And yeah, I will keep my eyes peeled for any other new stuff that you guys come out with. And when I go to post this would you, is it all right with you if I post a link to the your custom art Facebook page thing?

Yaz: Oh my god. No, actually, don't. 

Prime: Okay. 

Yaz: Nah. It's not that I'm ashamed of it or like I can't, I don't want to show it or something, but it's my thing. Yeah, it's outside of this scene and stuff, 

Prime: yeah, no problem. I'll, I will cut that out of the interview. There'll just be a big blank space where you talk about Oh yeah, I really love doing this interview.

And then I'll just put in some silence. 

Yaz: Nah, you can just cut out the part where I tell you where to find it. You can just ignore the part where you find it. What it's called. Everything else is fine. 

Prime: Okay, I'll just cut that part out. Okay. [00:59:00] 

Yaz: Thank you. 

Prime: Sure, no problem. I don't want to spoil anything.

Just cover 

SynthR: it with a bunch of cats meowing. 

Prime: Yeah.

Yaz: Oh my god. It's like a bunch of audio grabs from Skyrim, whenever Khajiit says something, like. Yeah, 

exactly, that's what 

Yaz: I'll do. 

Prime: Yeah, so yeah, she draws cat people when she's not doing Ashberry Heights. It's pretty great. But I will cut that out. I'll protect your secret. It's not 

Yaz: ready yet.

People can't handle the animation. 

Prime: Yeah. Like between that and secret government jobs and contraband music videos on YouTube. This has been terrible. Rollercoaster of emotions. Yeah. Actually, 

SynthR: you know what? I just want to throw it out there. I'm Canadian. If you guys need a hookup for maple syrup, like legit.

Real makeup syrup. Oh gosh. Just [01:00:00] hit me up ly. Yeah, I'll send you crates of it. . 

Prime: Oh 

my God, 

Prime: thank you. Never offered to send me crates of meat . No 

SynthR: because you're an asshole But I'll for them. Absolutely. 

Prime: Oh, I see how it is. I'm fighting guys. You're 

SynthR: constantly making fun of me, telling me that I ride moose around and I eat beavers and stuff, so I'm not gonna send you shit.

Prime: I don't recall. Ever saying that. 

SynthR: Ever? Yeah, okay. I think that's, 

Prime: I think that's fake. I'll 

Yaz: defend your glory by riding into battle on a moose for you. It's okay. We can throw all the tropes on each other. 

Thank you. Yeah. 

Yaz: Yeah. But yeah, your maple syrup is very much welcomed. Please send it.

Now. Immediately. You guys can bathe in it. 

Prime: Yeah. Yes. Yes. Send them enough that they can bathe in it and take it on tour. Yeah, 

Yaz: and toast in your name. 

Prime: Yeah. Thank you guys so much. I'm a big fan and this was such an honor. It's such a delight. I know Matt's a big fan too you just made our days.

Probably our months, maybe the year. I don't know. It's early. But yeah, thank you guys so much. And [01:01:00] thanks for your time. I really appreciate that. I know this was a little bit difficult to hammer out, but it was a blast and enjoy the rest of your evening there. Whatever is left of it.

Yaz: Thank you. You're 

Anders: very welcome. We had fun too. 

Yaz: Tons of fun. 

Anders: Yeah. Awesome. Thank you. 

Prime: I 

Anders: will let 

Prime: you know as soon as this goes up. 

Anders: Yeah. Okay, cool. Do you do that and we'll help you plug it. 

Yaz: Yes, 

Prime: all right much appreciated. All right. Enjoy the rest of your evening guys. 

Yaz: You too. Be safe. 

Prime: Thanks so much Thank you Bye.

Bye. Bye.

All right, i'm gonna go