00:00
DJ Day-Jee
All right, so I am here in the studio with the Brazen Youth. They're an indie rock band from Connecticut, currently performing shows across the US with their new EP, 15 Billion Eyes. I was lucky enough to see them at the Pinhook Sunday. Amazing. So nice, you guys. Thank you. So here they are, Brazen Youth. Thank you for being here.
00:18
Nic Lussier
Thank you for having especially so last minute. We appreciate you having us.
00:21
DJ Day-Jee
Yeah, my pleasure. But if you guys want to, like, introduce yourselves and, like, maybe say what you do in the band.
00:28
Micah Rubin
All right.
00:28
Nic Lussier
I'm Nic. I play guitar and sing in the band.
00:34
Micah Rubin
I'm Micah. I drum.
00:37
Charlie Dahlke
And I'm Charlie, and I play keys and sing in the band.
00:40
DJ Day-Jee
So you guys just came out with 15 billion eyes. And so kind of the first question I thought of when I saw that record was where the title came from, because it's pretty specific. If there's, like, a story to that at all, it's.
00:52
Charlie Dahlke
It's. It's just the population of Earth times two. Just the eyes on Earth.
00:59
DJ Day-Jee
Oh, that makes so much sense.
01:01
Charlie Dahlke
It was originally called 14 billion eyes.
01:04
Nic Lussier
Then we did a quick Google search.
01:07
DJ Day-Jee
Rounded up.
01:08
Micah Rubin
So how many people?
01:08
Nic Lussier
It's like seven and a half billion.
01:11
Micah Rubin
Yeah.
01:11
DJ Day-Jee
Good math.
01:12
Nic Lussier
Yeah, yeah. You know.
01:14
DJ Day-Jee
And so also the new ep, some of the songs on it, like no Cats, no Cradle and Contemplation Twilight. I feel like a kind of a bit of a divergence from your, like, established sound and that they're kind of more upbeat and, like, a little folks here, I would say. Was that a conscious decision to kind of shift a little bit, or did it kind of just happen organically?
01:36
Charlie Dahlke
I guess. I guess were kind of blending, like, our oldest style of writing and then also trying to adventure on new territory simultaneously. A lot of our roots were in folk, and that probably doesn't come off in the Briskone man album or the Primitive Initiative, but it's always been in us to churn out that kind of stuff.
02:01
DJ Day-Jee
And was that partially influenced from where you guys are from?
02:05
Charlie Dahlke
Yeah, maybe a little bit. We live in Connecticut. It's not like the Midwest or it's not like. I don't know. It's not. We don't have a lot of country roots, but I think me and Nic certainly liked country a lot, and were writing the songs and, you know, Micah brought that upbeat aspect to it with his drum playing and stuff.
02:23
Micah Rubin
Charlie also likes ragtime, like piano, which is pretty cool.
02:27
DJ Day-Jee
And do you have a favorite song from the ep, either, like, in general or to perform.
02:34
Charlie Dahlke
I like playing Cat Cradle, like, live. I mean, my part on piano is really fun, so it really depends. Every instrument has its. You know. For example, the song Antelope, you know, for me is. It's pretty boring, but I really like playing it because it's just like. It's, you know, very calming,
02:51
DJ Day-Jee
You guys.
02:53
Nic Lussier
I like playing them all. I think, like, in general, a lot of this ep, like, the arrangements were a little bit more, like, thought out, and I would consider them to be a little bit more complex than our previous albums. So that's kind of fun just to know that, like, this particular part was written to exist in this song very, like, intentionally, rather than just like being in a song to kind of just fill in the space, you know, we.
03:17
Charlie Dahlke
Used to do a lot more of that. A lot of just walls of sound and then just kind of like, whatever we're writing over it now. We're kind of like, dissecting each track, really. Feeling how the piano and the bass and the guitar and drums are just locking in with each other.
03:34
Nic Lussier
Yeah. And building off of that. Like, with our previous albums, we would record them first and then we would come up with a live arrangement. Whereas with this album, we recorded a lot of it live. So a lot of it was sort of, like, made with the intention of, like, playing it live, playing as it is. So, like with, like, for example, with one of our older songs called Death Posed, we. We, like. Basically we have, like, the recorded version and we have, like, a live arrangement that's just totally different because we've. It's, like, really difficult for us, almost impossible to, like, emulate the recorded version, like we probably did.
04:10
Charlie Dahlke
We probably recorded 20 acoustic guitar tracks for that song. Or like, a song like you'll Be Forever Nameless, it's a similar thing. It just. I wish we had an orchestra of 20 really tight acoustic guitar players. But, you know, we're touring, there's no budget.
04:25
DJ Day-Jee
I saw it. I thought it was sick last night.
04:27
Nic Lussier
Thank you.
04:27
Charlie Dahlke
Thank you.
04:28
DJ Day-Jee
Micah, do you have a favorite one to perform live?
04:31
Micah Rubin
Well, I would say I like playing all them. Honestly. Recently, though, I've been really into No Cat No Cradle. I think I just, like. I think all my drum parts, at least for this ep, are a little more intricate. And I do, like. Like, when we. When we recorded, like, what Nic was saying, we. We came up with it pretty. More of a live feel. And so, like, I don't know, playing it, like, in the studio is just,
05:00
Charlie Dahlke
Like, required a lot more chops, for sure. Like, we kind of Outdid ourselves. Like, we wrote these parts that weren't necessarily good enough to play. So then we had to. We just had to step up our game a little bit before this tour.
05:11
Nic Lussier
Yeah.
05:12
Charlie Dahlke
Really. We did a lot of practicing, setting goals for yourselves.
05:15
Micah Rubin
Yeah.
05:16
DJ Day-Jee
Okay, well, transitioning into the first song I want to play. I heard both of you guys say, no cats, no cradle, so we can go ahead and play that one.
05:24
Micah Rubin
Cool.
05:25
DJ Day-Jee
So if everyone wants to check it out, it's from their new EP. Here it is.
05:29
Music
[Brazen Youth – No Cat No Cradle]
09:00
DJ Day-Jee
That last song you heard was No Cat No Cradle by Brazen Youth. They're actually in studio answering some questions with me. So the next few questions I have are just kind of about the history of your band in general. I know, like, Nic and Charlie. You guys have known each other since the eighth grade. Do you want to talk a little bit about, like, the start of everything?
09:17
Nic Lussier
Sure, I guess I'll start. And if you want to, like, cut me off or anything, you can basically, like. I had this friend growing up named Ben, and he was, like, a really good friend of mine from when were like, two or three. And Ben and Charlie are cousins, so I always kind of knew Charlie from, like, Ben's, like, birthday parties and stuff.
09:36
Charlie Dahlke
And then Nic thought I was the weird kid.
09:39
Nic Lussier
Yeah.
09:40
Charlie Dahlke
I, like, knew all the presidents when I was really young. And then Nic's first memory of me is me just saying, like, what was it? I was just walking around, like, I know all the presidents.
09:51
Nic Lussier
We were in a hot tub. We were like seven, like, in Ben's hot tub. And Charlie was like, kind of bragging about how he, like, could name all the presidents. And he was like, I bet I could hold my breath longer than you. I guess I was that kid. Yeah. And then, like, as you know, me and Charlie both, like, kind of individually started playing music. And then around 8th grade. I think Ben sort of, like, made the connection that we're both playing music. Maybe we should start a group. So that's what we did. Yeah.
10:18
Charlie Dahlke
I guess a more modern, a more recent history is in high school, we all started recording at this farm and we all ended up moving there and living there for a few years. And that kind of became a home base for, like, a lot of the stuff were doing and helped give an identity to the band.
10:37
DJ Day-Jee
Right. That sounds like, so wholesome. Like, we just all live on this farm and play music together. I love that. So, like, what has it been like, kind of growing and working together for so long? Because, like, I have friends that I've known for a while and we're not in a band together. And it's still kind of like, when you know someone for so long, it gets a little rough sometimes, you know? But has it been. What's that been like for you guys?
11:01
Charlie Dahlke
I feel like we all have a good creative relationship. I think that even when there's, like, you know, we're in a van all day with each other, like, we're gonna piss each other off. But I think that we all have a pretty strong creative relationship.
11:12
DJ Day-Jee
Yeah.
11:13
Charlie Dahlke
So that's always going to be, like, the connecting thread.
11:16
DJ Day-Jee
Right.
11:16
Nic Lussier
And also, like, simply, even as, like, songwriters, like, Charlie and I have kind of known each other since our very or, like, almost like, first songs that we've written. And it's really cool to watch, like, Charlie, like, progress as a songwriter. And it's kind of cool to. I sort of, like, hold myself to the standard. I don't know, I feel like I sort of, like, hold myself to the standard at which Charlie progresses as a songwriter. And it's a nice, like, piece of motivation, you know.
11:44
DJ Day-Jee
So do you, like, all contribute to the lyrics or, like, how does that work?
11:48
Charlie Dahlke
Lyrics are pretty split. The arrangements are like the full band really just goes at it. But yeah, no, lyrics are pretty split. Usually it's like I'll come to the band with, like, a chord progression and some lyrics, or Nic will and we'll go from there.
12:04
DJ Day-Jee
So you guys are playing shows while pursuing degrees. Can you talk about, like, what that's like to kind of balance? Because I'm a student and I can't even imagine trying to do that.
12:14
Charlie Dahlke
I couldn't either, so I dropped outta school. I don't think I'll go back. If I graduate, I'll probably be like, 40. Mike.
12:24
Nic Lussier
You want?
12:25
Micah Rubin
Sure. I mean, I guess, like, for me, what was interesting and, like, the difference between Charlie and Nic. So I'm a year younger than them. And right after high school, I was telling you this last night. I like, we all went on tour and Charlie and Nic did like a semester. Well, a semester and a year of school before went on tour. So I think for me, going to school after we did all the tour stuff was very interesting because I was really just in the tour mindset and I liked school. I do. But like, I also think, like, I don't know, there's like, there's. I had a lot of, like, qualms with it at the time, but ultimately after the semester ended, I thought it was like really good.
13:12
Micah Rubin
But balancing it is honestly just like, I. I don't know, just take it semester by semester, you know, because it's like, really easy for me to go back. So I'm not really, like, thinking about, like, how I'm like, balancing it. I'm just like, kind of like, when I'm in school. When I'm here, I'm like, here, I guess. Yeah.
13:28
DJ Day-Jee
Yeah. I'm sure it's like really different vibes too.
13:32
Micah Rubin
Yeah, that's true. Just like, you know, I feel like on tour you're just like, pretty independent. You're just going about, like, doing what you got to do, you know, and like, it's very one track, kind of like a very one track mindset, you know, Just like get to point A to point B, you know. And then with school, it's just like you're in that one solitary space, I guess. And you know, you're. You're a student learning rather than being. I mean, in school you're definitely independent, but it's different, I think, you know,
14:05
Nic Lussier
I guess, like the one thing I would say is adjusting, like, back and forth is not as difficult as I thought it might have been, which is cool.
14:15
DJ Day-Jee
Nice. So the last question I have before we play another song. Has traveling and performing been like how you imagined it would be when you first started together?
14:24
Charlie Dahlke
When I think about our perception of what we thought tour would be, I think about just the bands I was following when I was like 16. I think about the districts a lot. We were a big fan of the districts in high school, and they were a band from Lancaster that would just play these dive bars all over the country. And were like, that's sick. We should do that. And now we're kind of. They're kind of doing that. And, you know, some shows are better than others, but in some ways is what you expect. But, you know, there's these funny little shows that just pop up, and you. You can never. You can't. You can't get ready for them.
15:03
Nic Lussier
Especially recently. Our last. Probably, like, probably 80% of our last, like, 15 shows have been at venues we've never played before. And a lot of them have been at colleges, so it's really interesting. Like, every night on this tour has been very different. So it's kept it very entertaining and fun, like, memorable.
15:21
DJ Day-Jee
Do you ever get, like, nervous when you're in a new place and you don't know what to expect?
15:26
Charlie Dahlke
Yeah, honestly, at this point, I forget we're playing a show until, like, 20 minutes before we go on most of the time. So I'm pretty. We played. We've probably played, like, a hundred shows in the past year or two, and I don't know, I'm just like. Like, I love it, but, like, I don't feel nervous anymore. It's like I'm excited to play a set.
15:44
Nic Lussier
It's also very. It's a lot easier to find, like, comfort and stability in unfamiliar places because, like, for example, the other day, we're in Glassboro, New Jersey, and we had, like, six hours to kill. So we all just kind of, like, Charlie and Gabe went to, like, a basketball court. We found a brewery.
16:04
Charlie Dahlke
Yeah.
16:04
Nic Lussier
Went to, like, a brewery. Like, I went to a cafe and, like, I chilled in the student center for a while at the school were playing at. And I don't know, just whenever, wherever you can find a spot that you can just, like, chill, you take it.
16:18
Nic Lussier
Honestly, your standards go down a little bit for comfort, even for sleeping.
16:23
DJ Day-Jee
Yeah. Okay, great. Well, do you guys have any suggestions for a song you might want to play?
16:29
Charlie Dahlke
I'll put someone new.
16:31
DJ Day-Jee
Sure.
16:32
Charlie Dahlke
Maybe Contemplation.
16:33
Nic Lussier
Yeah, maybe Contemplation, because we. I think it was mentioned. I think you mentioned it. Yeah.
16:38
DJ Day-Jee
So here's the single off the new ep. It is Contemplation Twilight. Check it out.
17:05
Music
[Brazen Youth – Contemplation Twilight]
21:11
DJ Day-Jee
Hey everyone, I'm DJ Day-Jee. I am here with Brazen Youth. They're in studio answering some questions with me. So this next set of questions, I have asked a lot about your guys’ lyrics. Whenever I listen to new music, that's something I focus on a lot. And you guys have some pretty heavy lyrics sometimes. So I was wondering if you could kind of touch on the process of writing maybe some of those more emotional lines and where those concepts come from.
21:36
Charlie Dahlke
I could speak to No Cat No Cradle. That was based off a Kurt Vonnegut book, Cat's Cradle.
21:43
DJ Day-Jee
Oh, yeah, I've read that one. That's the only Kurt Vonnegut book I've ever read.
21:49
Charlie Dahlke
I don't know. I don't really have too much to say. It's not like I just don't want to be pretentious. And it's just like the lyrics of the lyrics, it's just like, what? They just made sense at the time and I just keep singing them.
22:03
DJ Day-Jee
Right.
22:03
Nic Lussier
Also, like, sometimes I think some of our best lyrics are the ones that are not. Are almost like more of like stream of consciousness lyrics. Like, at least, like, from some of my songs. I feel like sometimes I think my best lyrics are ones that I'll like, surprise myself with. I'll just be like sitting and playing the guitar and I'll just like, kind of say something. I'm like, oh, wait, that's actually like, not that bad. I should keep this. Yeah, sometimes they're just happy accidents, you know?
22:34
DJ Day-Jee
Because sometimes I wonder, like, you know, when you're listening to a song and you hear that one lyric that kind of like hits you, and I wonder if, like, when people are writing them, if that's the same thing that happens, that you're just like, oh, there it is. You know what I mean?
22:49
Charlie Dahlke
Sometimes. Sometimes it's super healing to write. And you just like when you say, when you can articulate what you really feel with words, it's like there's nothing like it. Especially when you do in a way that just surprises yourself. Just a phrasing. You didn't think you could do a wordplay off a melody or something. But even.
23:07
Nic Lussier
Even like on top of like, articulating feelings, a lot of it is. Is discovering, like, identifying feelings that maybe slipped from the unconscious in that process, you know, that maybe you wouldn't have been able to, like, admit to yourself otherwise in just, like, regular thought, you.
23:22
Charlie Dahlke
Know, Writing is like an inquiry to yourself. It's like you just kind of just. Yeah. Diving in. Like, you just feeling things you didn't know you feel for. Sure.
23:32
DJ Day-Jee
Have you guys ever written a song about a specific person or experience that kind of, like, came back to bite you?
23:38
Charlie Dahlke
To bite.
23:39
DJ Day-Jee
Like an ex was like, hey, I know that's about me.
23:43
Nic Lussier
No, not to bite. Like, at least, like, you know, there are some songs that I've written about specific people. And those people. Some of them. Most of them will, like, know that the songs are about them. It's usually fine thus far. I mean. No, I mean, I don't. I would never write. I would never write, like, a diss track. They're usually like songs like. Because I, like, think people are cool or, like, admire people.
24:12
DJ Day-Jee
And do you have any, like, specific favorite lyrics that you guys have?
24:17
Nic Lussier
You could say one of your favorite lyrics. You say one of my favorite lyrics?
24:20
DJ Day-Jee
Yeah.
24:20
Nic Lussier
That's interesting, because then it's.
24:23
Charlie Dahlke
Yeah, sure.
24:27
Nic Lussier
I mean, I'm gonna. I'm gonna take this back to the first album ever, Dying Bristlecone.
24:31
DJ Day-Jee
Man.
24:31
Nic Lussier
I really like the second verse of center of Gravity. The line is in, the kids play till they fall off their asses, and the dogs, they will run right past us the road again. And I really like that because the farm that Charlie grew up on, they would have farmers markets every Saturday. Whenever I hear that lyric, I just, like, picture the farmer's market, like, perfectly and being, like, 13 being at the farmer's market. So that's really cool. It's very, like, nostalgic for me to hear that. And, I don't know. Paints the same picture every time, which is cool.
25:00
DJ Day-Jee
Yeah.
25:02
Charlie Dahlke
I don’t. There's so much. There's a lot of Nic's lyrics I love. I don't know. This was. This one's going to seem underwhelming, but some of my favorite lyrics of Nic's are, like, his most straightforward ones, like, I am antelope running from the hunter's gun. It's just like. That's, like, as clear as it can be. It's like, just, like, a good metaphor. Like, there's no crazy wordplay. It's just like, you're antelope running from the hunter's gun. There's a lot in that phrasing yeah.
25:29
DJ Day-Jee
And that song is, like, really descriptive, too. It's like, a lot of imagery. So it's like a very, like, conjures a really specific image.
25:37
Charlie Dahlke
Also, the end of Contemplation. Twilight is like. Has really beautiful lyrics.
25:42
DJ Day-Jee
I feel like you probably get this all the time, but the first time I heard Burn Slowly, I love you, the actual lyric, like, burn slowly. When that gets dragged out, I was like, oh, my gosh. Because it felt like, I know. Really genuine. And then also figure in the field where you guys are saying, you're not a flicker. You're the delight.
26:03
Charlie Dahlke
You are the daylight.
26:04
DJ Day-Jee
Oh, daylight. Oh, my gosh. Well, that just blew my mind. Oh, that makes so much more sense.
26:10
Nic Lussier
You are the delight.
26:12
Charlie Dahlke
That makes sense.
26:13
Nic Lussier
Maybe we should change it. That's pretty cool. The delight.
26:16
DJ Day-Jee
Well, I like daylight, too, because that, like, fits into, like, theme of the song more. Now that you say that, it makes a lot more sense. But I like that because it's like. It's like you're really trying to convince the person that's listening to it, like, of that fact.
26:31
Charlie Dahlke
It sounds like if The Smiths did it, like, you were the delight.
26:36
Nic Lussier
Well, thank you. We appreciate it.
26:38
DJ Day-Jee
How about another song now?
26:41
Charlie Dahlke
Play Burn Slowly if you want.
26:42
DJ Day-Jee
All right, so here it is. Check out the lyrics. It is Burn Slowly, I Love You.
26:53
Music
[Brazen Youth - Burn Slowly, I Love You]
31:30
DJ Day-Jee
Hello, everybody. You're listening to WKNC 88.1 FM HD-2 Raleigh, and I'm DJ Day-Jee. That last song you just heard was Burn Slowly, I Love You by the Brazen Youth. They were nice enough to sit down with me for an interview. And here's the rest of that right now. So from the last few questions, these are kind of more fun ones to get to know you guys a little bit more. Just a general one to start off. Do you guys have any favorite stories from traveling and playing together?
31:55
Nic Lussier
There's a really. It's really long. I'll try to make it very concise. We played a show in Atlanta a couple years or about a year ago actually. And it was like an awesome show. We're so happy, proud of ourselves. And right as were leaving the venue, the tire. We had a flat tire in our van. So like we had. I was driving, Mike was driving, and we had to like call like AAA. And the AAA person came and he like 3am it was like 3am and he was like, yo, like, I can't change this tire. Like, you need a. You need like a special key. And then I think they like towed the car away to like an auto shop. And the auto shop was like, yeah, like, we don't have the key either to like change this tire.
32:35
Nic Lussier
Like, you need to get it from the Ford dealership that doesn't open until Monday. And it was like a Friday night. So we ended up not being able to stay at our Airbnb that we had because it was like too late. And we got like a hotel at like 5am and some of us like ended up driving back to Connecticut and the rest like ended just like stayed in Atlanta for a couple days and waited for the van because were taking two vehicles at that point, so.
32:58
DJ Day-Jee
Wow. Yeah, that sounds very stressful.
33:00
Nic Lussier
Yeah. It was funny though, in retrospect.
33:03
Micah Rubin
Yeah, it was during that hurricane. Which hurricane?
33:05
Nic Lussier
Yeah, it was during Hurricane Florence too. So that was happening too.
33:09
DJ Day-Jee
That's crazy.
33:10
Charlie Dahlke
We had a great time at Princeton the other night. It was just like. It was the latest show we've ever played. It was. It started. We went on at like 1:15. The show ended like 3:15.
33:20
DJ Day-Jee
Geez.
33:21
Charlie Dahlke
And then like were up until like 4:30, just like hanging out, like partying with these kids like this. Like, it was awesome.
33:32
DJ Day-Jee
So do you guys have any songs that like, when you hear them, immediately invoke nostalgia for you?
33:38
Charlie Dahlke
Anything from Briskcone, man, like, let Us Be Alone Again always feels super nostalgic for me. Just. Cause like that we recorded that song for a long time and I don't know, we put out that song before Trump was elected. And it was very much like about.
33:53
Nic Lussier
That was our only diss track. We had a diss track. That was a good one.
33:56
DJ Day-Jee
That's a good one to do.
33:58
Charlie Dahlke
Yeah. I don't know, it's just. That one's like nostalgic. Yeah. That reminds you of a different time,
34:03
Nic Lussier
That entire album for sure. Like, Mike and I were having this conversation last night about how like, when Micah wasn't in the band when we. When Charlie and I wrote Bristlecone man, but he did the drum tracks for it. But we're talking about how it's really cool that Charlie and I were writing and recording our songs at that point in our lives because were still in high school. So it was like a very, like, tender, like, very, like, angsty period for us. And it's kind of cool to like, have those, like, products of that time to, like, go back to and listen to. And I. I don't really critique it anymore. Just it was so long ago, so I can just like, listen to it and be like, wow. Like, that's. It's like a home video in a weird way, you know?
34:40
DJ Day-Jee
Yeah. And it's nice that they're good and that they're not, like, terrible. Because if I had written music when I was in high school, it'd be, like, so angsty and terrible, and I would have, like, burned every copy of them.
34:54
Charlie Dahlke
There's one album we did that to.
34:56
DJ Day-Jee
Really?
34:57
Nic Lussier
There's a seat. There's a secret album. There's an album before that. Just suck that, like.
35:02
Charlie Dahlke
Yeah.
35:02
DJ Day-Jee
Oh, my gosh. You should, like, release it on, like, anniversary or something.
35:06
Charlie Dahlke
I'll say this. There's. On SoundCloud, there's three remastered versions of songs from that album, but that's it. Like, and we. Yeah, I think we wipe that from the Internet.
35:17
DJ Day-Jee
Halloween is coming up. Do you guys have any ideas for costumes?
35:20
Charlie Dahlke
I'm Rocky. I'm going as Rocky.
35:22
DJ Day-Jee
That's fun.
35:23
Charlie Dahlke
Yeah.
35:23
Nic Lussier
I'm going to be Ivan Drago, who Rocky fights in Rocky 4.
35:26
DJ Day-Jee
Are you guys going to fight each other?
35:28
Charlie Dahlke
Yeah.
35:29
DJ Day-Jee
That'll be good. Record it.
35:31
Nic Lussier
Yeah, livestream.
35:33
Micah Rubin
I kind of just want to be like Michael Cera, I guess.
35:39
Nic Lussier
I feel like just this.
35:41
DJ Day-Jee
That's like.
35:42
Charlie Dahlke
You just got me so awkward.
35:43
Nic Lussier
Yeah, just like, awkward. I don't know.
35:45
DJ Day-Jee
So do you have any corduroy pants?
35:47
Micah Rubin
No.
35:48
Charlie Dahlke
Yeah, you can.
35:50
Micah Rubin
They wouldn't fit me.
35:51
Charlie Dahlke
Mikey doesn't skip leg day.
35:53
DJ Day-Jee
You don't know. They could be like the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, everyone.
35:57
Nic Lussier
Yeah, that's true. Maybe later.
35:59
Micah Rubin
Nice pants, though.
36:00
Charlie Dahlke
Thanks.
36:00
Nic Lussier
Yeah, thanks.
36:01
Micah Rubin
Yeah.
36:03
DJ Day-Jee
Good recovery. Okay, so this is my last question. I feel like it tells a lot about, like, what kind of person you are, depending on your answer. Would you rather take an all expenses paid trip around the world for a year or spend one day on the moon?
36:21
Micah Rubin
One day on the moon?
36:22
DJ Day-Jee
Really?
36:23
Charlie Dahlke
Why?
36:26
Micah Rubin
I just really like space. But also, I mean, honestly, I don't think it's, like, much deeper than that. I just think, like, what other chance would I get to go to space, I guess, you know? Or just, like, have that. Like, would I be alone on the moon?
36:40
Nic Lussier
Because that's, like, I don't know.
36:43
DJ Day-Jee
Maybe you can bring, like, one friend.
36:45
Micah Rubin
Well, no, I kind of want to be alone, I think.
36:48
DJ Day-Jee
Then you can reject the plus one.
36:51
Nic Lussier
Yeah.
36:52
Micah Rubin
I don't know.
36:53
DJ Day-Jee
What would you do up there, though? Like, that's the part I don't get.
36:55
Micah Rubin
Maybe just, like, look at the Earth.
36:57
Nic Lussier
Cry. Cry.
36:58
Micah Rubin
Yeah.
36:59
Nic Lussier
Yeah.
36:59
Micah Rubin
Or just, like, just cry, explore, and, like, jump around. No. No gravity.
37:07
Charlie Dahlke
I feel like going to the moon would be, like. It's like going to a water park. Like, it'd be fun for the first, like, two hours. Then you're like, all right, this is it. Just like the moon. Just, like a bunch of rocks. Nice view. If you traveled Earth, you'd get, like, a lot of variety.
37:21
DJ Day-Jee
That's my thing, is you want to.
37:23
Charlie Dahlke
See it all before you die, you know? And, like, that's the opportunity.
37:26
DJ Day-Jee
And, like, expenses paid.
37:29
Micah Rubin
Yeah, but I feel like I would be, like, really contemplative on the moon, just, like, looking at the entire Earth. I don't know. I mean, it depends on where you are on the moon, I guess. Yeah, I guess you probably couldn't see the Earth. I don't know.
37:39
Nic Lussier
Well, could you? I would go to the moon. I would do the moon. Yeah. I mean, I feel like it would be cheaper to, like. Or, like. I feel like going to the moon would be way more expensive than an all expenses paid.
37:53
Charlie Dahlke
But we can make a world tour out of that. If we travel. The Earth had all expenses paid. We just book some shows along the way.
38:00
Nic Lussier
Yeah, but, like, I would kind of ruin it. Like, I would, like, no offense, but.
38:04
Charlie Dahlke
No, no, that'd be toug. World tour.
38:07
Micah Rubin
I just really like the moon.
38:10
DJ Day-Jee
I worked with a guy. He thought that the moon didn't exist. Like, straight up. He was, like, this crazy conspiracy theorist.
38:18
Nic Lussier
I could. I might be willing to, like, you know, get on board with that.
38:22
Micah Rubin
Yeah.
38:22
DJ Day-Jee
I mean, I think that it doesn't exist.
38:24
Nic Lussier
I'm down for a good conspiracy theory.
38:25
Micah Rubin
I think the moon is cheese.
38:27
DJ Day-Jee
Yeah, well, you won't know until you go there.
38:30
Micah Rubin
Right? Right.
38:31
DJ Day-Jee
Yeah.
38:32
Nic Lussier
So, yeah, just go up there and just like, take a big bite. Right, Exactly.
38:35
Charlie Dahlke
All by yourself.
38:37
DJ Day-Jee
Okay, well, do you guys have anything else to add?
38:42
Nic Lussier
Thank you so much for having us.
38:45
Charlie Dahlke
Oh, yeah, thank you.
38:46
DJ Day-Jee
Thank you guys for being here. It was super fun. Thank you guys so much.
38:50
Micah Rubin
Thank you.
38:50
Nic Lussier
Thank you.
38:52
DJ Day-Jee
So that was the brazen you. Thank you guys so much again for interviewing and sitting down with me. They are currently playing shows across the US and released an EP in September called 15 Billion Eyes. To close out the show, I'm going to play another song from that new ep. It is called Though You Gleam and it is beautiful. So I hope you all enjoy.
39:15
Music
[Brazen Youth – Though You Gleam]