Off the Record

Tyler Farnes 0:00
This is WKNC 88.1 FM HD One in Raleigh, you're listening to Off the record, a series here at WKNC where the station interviews people, well, not a station, the stations have personalities, I guess, I'm sure you can call it that. Where we interview local musical artists and talents, I'm your host, the Loaf. And I would like to welcome you to The Slice on off the record, where I interview local Raleigh artists. But now we're kind of expanding to more local NC artists, central NC more specifically. Today I have the pleasure of having Weymouth in the studio. How are y'all doing? Would you like to introduce yourselves?

Brenden 0:36
Doing good.

Dustin 0:37
Doing good. Uh, I'm Dustin.

JP 0:40
And I'm JP.

Brenden 0:41
I'm Brenden.

Falbo 0:42
I'm Falbo.

Jose 0:43
And I'm Jose.

Tyler Farnes 0:44
Nice. Nice. Quickly, what do y'all play in the band?

Dustin 0:50
Dustin here, I play guitar and do a little bit of screamy screams and a little bit of sings.

Brenden 0:56
Yeah.

JP 0:57
I'm JP, I do drums.

Brenden 0:59
I'm Brendan, I sing and occasionally yell.

Falbo 1:03
I'm Falbo and I play bass.

Jose 1:05
I'm Jose and I also play guitar, and I produce our music as well.

Tyler Farnes 1:09
Nice. So where you guys from specifically in central NC, if you guys would like to correct me on that?

Dustin 1:18
We're from, I guess more specifically, Southern Pines. A lot of people know it for Pinehurst, so, golf capital.

JP 1:27
Of the world.

Dustin 1:28
But we say- yeah, pretty much. Yeah, we say southern pines.

Tyler Farnes 1:31
Yeah. Nice. So, so how long has uh, Weymouth been around?

Brenden 1:37
I think we're, we're pandemic babies. We started. It started off as like, me, Dustin, Bran- and well, Falbo, just started jamming at Dustin's dad's house. And then we realized the songs are good enough to like, get recorded, and maybe even play live someday. Like it. It's just a fun project that got bigger.

Tyler Farnes 2:00
Nice. What, what is Weymouth? I guess? More specifically, sort of like a more of a philosophical sense? Is it basically just like, you guys as friends coming together, creating some music, like like, what's up with it, very general, very philosophical?

Dustin 2:18
It feels like a pretty big nostalgia trip. I mean, like, we all came together from, we've, we've known each other for so long.

Jose 2:25
Very long. Like, it really is like, well, you guys went to high school together.

Dustin 2:29
Yeah, yeah. Brenden, Falbo and I went to high school together, Jose actually helped me on a record back in like 2013. And, and we most recently met JP. But it all comes down to I guess where we grew up. And Weymouth Woods is like the core of the area, we've just all had pretty like, fond memories of the spot. And so, came together and made Weymouth

Tyler Farnes 2:55
Nice.

Jose 2:55
Weymouth is for the homies by the homies.

Brenden 3:01
Verified, verified.

Tyler Farnes 3:05
So, so you guys have been, I guess, jamming for a while together. And then like, finally you were just like, Hey, we should start doing this. How long have you guys been like jamming together? And like actually been, like how long this has been in the works, I guess, subconsciously.

Brenden 3:20
I guess it's kind of funny, because like, we, Jose was kind of scouting for projects. And we kind of ended up working with him so closely, that he was thinking about playing, like, playing guitar for one of our shows. And he has like, can I just be in the band? Unanimous yes. So now we're full, full five piece.

Tyler Farnes 3:45
Nice.

Jose 3:46
Yeah. But before that, it's pretty much just pandemic history. You guys have been in other musical projects together, though.

Dustin 3:52
Yeah, definitely.

Tyler Farnes 3:54
Well, what are those other musical projects, just very briefly?

Dustin 3:57
I was in a band for like, 11 years, called our blue lights, and Falbo was in there with me. And Brenden was always in a band alongside of us. So we always like toured or played music together, but we never like collectively came together on something

Tyler Farnes 4:11
Nice.

Brenden 4:12
Just passing in the night.

Dustin 4:14
And so eventually, we're all just like, how about we try to like, do something together. And we did.

Tyler Farnes 4:19
Nice, a meeting of the great minds, right? So, so you guys are very much veterans of this sort of music, and just like the musical scene and doing this, all the stuff in general, right? So.

JP 4:32
For the most part, I'll go ahead and speak up now. I'm the, I'm the newest addition on, this is actually my first band. I'm the youngest of the group. And so I'm being introduced, but this for the rest of them, they very much are music veterans, and I've been learning a lot from them and just playing shows with them and it's been one great experience.

Tyler Farnes 4:54
Nice. I think that, I think definitely your experience definitely comes out in your music, your music is very sort of just defined in tune. And it's just very like, I guess it's catchy too, which is like, which is another thing that I guess segue into? How would y'all sort of define Weymouth's own music? How would you define your own music? If, does it fit in any genre? Like, is it like specific, is it just all over the place? Like, like, how do you guys, how do you guys think about it?

Jose 5:23
Whenever people ask us this question, we just name bands that we like and genres that we think might fit, until we're kind of like done, and there's just an awkward silence.

Tyler Farnes 5:32
Honestly, I love asking this question. Because like, the other three people, or three bands I've asked, I've gotten, gotten like completely, like just different. So.

Jose 5:40
If I, if I want to keep the conversation brief, I was like, it's like indie, pop punk, little bit alternative, little rock? Like, it's just everything.

Tyler Farnes 5:47
Yeah, yeah.

Jose 5:49
It's a terrible answer. But.

Tyler Farnes 5:51
That's a good answer.

Jose 5:52
Pretty truthful.

Brenden 5:53
Yeah, it's tough because I feel like I can never give a good enough answer to somebody who asks, because there's just something missing every time.

Tyler Farnes 6:01
Honestly, like, I, that, that's a great answer. I love just sort of that, sort of like mosh pit of like everything and just sort of like, just doing your own thing. What do you guys like most about your own music? I know this, this is a very egocentric question. But like, you guys, like, like, what do you like about it?

Dustin 6:21
I personally like that we can't put a genre type to it really, I like that we can have to think about it. And yeah, I just, it's the first time in a long time that it's been that way.

Brenden 6:32
I feel like Weymouth is for sure the band I always wanted to be in high school, but I couldn't meet the right people or make that happen. So.

Tyler Farnes 6:41
Nice.

Jose 6:43
I've got a little bit of an outside perspective on it, I was not super involved in the writing of any of the music that's out currently, I served in like a production role. Playing fine, like tweaking things, like maybe we change this part, maybe, you know, repeat this, just very, very small notes like that. But the thing I enjoy about it is I think it really comes alive. When you're playing it live. Very, very enjoyable experiences, jam these songs. Cause it's just a completely different experience than the record. And that's why, that's why I like the songs most

Tyler Farnes 7:14
So, so with that, so like, I guess production and just sort of just like, how you guys create your own songs. It's very, I guess, like, I listened to your, your latest EP, Year of the Weymouth, and it's, the tunes are very complex, it seems, it has a lot of layers to it. And the, and that's what I personally love about my music is that like, I can go back, I can listen to it, I can always find something new about it. How do you guys achieve that with five people? And just like generally just like, just like, I guess I would assume that you guys have your own perspectives for like a little bit like, like, like how do you guys achieve something so just like, uniform yet so complex?

Jose 7:55
So on the context of the studio, Dustin, and Falbo would write the guitar parts and they would come in, and it'd be like, here's rhythm guitar, here's lead guitar, and then they do bass. And then a lot of the other layers are like, what if we added this?

Tyler Farnes 8:09
Yeah.

Jose 8:09
What if we did this, do that again, change. Like, and we just, so a lot of songs that are kind of like heavily layered. Were just like, in pursuit of like adding textures to the song, because the first EP is very bare bones.

Tyler Farnes 8:20
Yeah.

Jose 8:21
It's two guitars, bass drum, just a standard band type deal. There's not a lot of fancy stuff going on. And it's just a attempt to kind of like push the sound a little bit further, mature it just a little bit, but still kind of keep it like, in quotations like "punk".

Tyler Farnes 8:35
Yeah, okay.

Brenden 8:37
Weymouth, Weymouth is strictly a punk adjacent band.

Tyler Farnes 8:43
Honestly, like, honestly, if you're loud and you're angry about something like that's punk, right? Doesn't matter what it is. Um, so, so would you say that your, your process is very collaborative in this sense? Like, like, like you're mentioning just like, there's, you know, you guys keep on like, sort of like adding stuff that you like and all type of stuff. Is that, Is that a good shout? For that, this like, collaborative?

Jose 9:08
Yeah, definitely.

Tyler Farnes 9:10
Yeah?

Brenden 9:10
There's, I would say that there's also focus on like, a lot of the songs originate with different people to start with, like Falbo's written AMB on the first EP and Starlight on the second one and like, that's just kind of what we do, we start with ideas and build off of it till it becomes something complete and, at least we tell ourselves, complete. Call it a day.

Jose 9:34
You have to surrender the song. Like. Yeah, we're done with them. Sorry.

Tyler Farnes 9:41
So, So with that, I guess like, do your jam sessions, like with creating these songs and like having all these new ideas, do they last like a while would you say? I assume you guys have jam sessions right?

Jose 9:53
Context for that actually. So we, the way this band like, recorded our music and stuff like, we've spent a lot of time kind of catching up to ourselves because the albums were produced and recorded. And we were not playing live, because pandemic and not a ton of opportunities to get out just yet that we were comfortable doing. So we ended up like, right now it feels like we're still maturing as like a live band, because we're still, you know, working on these songs that we've written, produced and put out. But like, there's still two songs in our catalogue that we've yet to play that we're currently working on. So we haven't, it doesn't feel like we've spend a lot of time as like a full unit, jamming per se.

Tyler Farnes 10:36
Yeah.

Jose 10:38
But like the jamming writing, they could speak more to that, but it's just like, as like a normal band. We don't really jam a lot just yet.

Tyler Farnes 10:43
Yeah.

Jose 10:44
I'm excited for that. Because that's gonna be, that's gonna be a lot of fun. Once we start doing that.

Dustin 10:49
Yeah, whenever it came to like, writing music, it was always like, like, like we said, already, it was someone came up with a piece, or like a whole part, and would bring it over to somebody else. And they would add additional pieces to that song. And then we would just kind of keep going through the grapevine, like, oh, we should add this, or we should add this. And so yeah, we would start in small groups and like, kind of collaboratively bring up a piece, writing it, but not really like, you know, jam band style.

Tyler Farnes 11:19
Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I always like see, like, like, like, I don't know, like, jamming and sort of just like, it's very interesting that you guys haven't really jammed that much, because it always seems like you guys are both at least, musically just very like, together. I guess. Like, it's very much on your social media presence, very much just like, just, just like in your songs, like, like, everything is just collaborating together. So I guess like.

Jose 11:45
It's because we're friends.

Tyler Farnes 11:46
Yeah.

JP 11:50
I mean, people will joke about it. But I mean, I think we all are legitimately really good friends outside of this band. And so I mean, I think that really does put forth like, quite an aspect to the whole, just everything about the band.

Jose 12:03
Yeah, because rehearsal is like a quick run through of whatever we're playing for our next show and then video games.

Tyler Farnes 12:09
Nice. Nice. Do you guys like, do you guys like have like, I guess you guys aren't college age, right? You guys aren't like 22 right, no? So no, no. Honestly, like I was imagining just like, you guys just have like one big one big house and it's like all five of you living together.

Jose 12:33
How old, if you, if you had to guess, how old would you think we were?

Tyler Farnes 12:36
I think you guys are like in your late 20s, Early 30s.

Jose 12:39
It's a spread.

Tyler Farnes 12:40
It's a spread?

Jose 12:42
Mostly correct.

JP 12:43
I think I'm the only outlier. I guess I'm, you're not. I'm pretty much late 20s now. Okay. 26. pretty much. No, that's

Jose 13:00
He said. I'm a soft 20.

Tyler Farnes 13:03
Mentally I'm 22.

Jose 13:07
In all forms but physically.

Dustin 13:11
It's dangerous to be mentally 22.

Tyler Farnes 13:21
So yeah, well, so. So I guess with that, um, at least real quick question. How long does it usually take for a song to get start to finish for you guys? So like, very quick process, does that depend on the song like, what's up with it?

Jose 13:32
I think like the, someone correct me if I'm wrong. I think the initial writing can happen pretty fast. But then when it gets brought into the studio, then it, then it goes through the forge. Like it gets, like hammered and changed a lot but, but in ways that I think ultimately make it better and more Weymouth-y, If that's a thing.

Brenden 13:55
I think a safe thing to say is a lot of these songs start out as a voice memo.

Tyler Farnes 13:59
Yeah, that's a trend like a lot of voice memos. Yeah.

Dustin 14:05
It'd be like one dinky little riff and then we'll come together and make it a whole song like, Oh, wow.

Tyler Farnes 14:12
That's awesome. So, so um, I guess like, you guys write a lot of voice memos, you guys do a lot of voice memos and stuff right with like, a lot of your stuff. I do like a lot of I guess like writing down, like a lot of tabs and stuff. Do you guys have, I guess like, I'm always very curious. Do you guys have these songs written down like, in tabs and like, music sheets?

Jose 14:38
Yeah, they might exist on like phone notes, but we're.

JP 14:44
Tapped out on the computer.

Jose 14:45
Okay, like a full.

Tyler Farnes 14:53
Is that um, is that just because like you guys just feel like you don't have the time or you just kind of just want to live in the consciousness of you all, like is that just like?

Jose 15:02
Well, we. So here's the thing, if we forgot something, we have all multi tracks because like, like again like I've produced the band, so we have everything, like we forget something we can just listen to it.

Tyler Farnes 15:11
Yeah.

Jose 15:12
Figure it out so there's there's no fear of like truly forgetting things. Yeah, but at the same time it's like once muscle memory kicks in like we know these songs, like, like me and Dustin could probably play these underwater if we needed to.

Dustin 15:27
Let's go let's do it.

Tyler Farnes 15:28
Let's do it. Yeah, live on air.

Jose 15:31
Live On Air underwater, Please don't get mad. We know you can't see.

Tyler Farnes 15:37
We can't have water in the studio. So it's gonna be outside the studio. Um, so, so I guess going on more specifically to your to your music, your first, more specifically to like tracks and stuff like that. Your first self titled EP Weymouth, comparatively to Year of the Weymouth, I see like, a lot of growth. I feel. How, how long like was, I guess? Well, it says about a year like in obviously, like, from 2021 to 2022. Were like, alot of these songs in You're the Weymouth. Like being worked on like way before that. Like, like, what's the timeline for that?

Dustin 16:18
Oh, wow. I think

Jose 16:19
For me, I feel like it happened in a flash.

Dustin 16:22
Yeah.

Jose 16:22
So, we, because we did that self titled, then we put out one single like, immediately after, like, no time to like, Well, no, the smile. Well, the smile. But like, that happens so fast. And then it felt like we were immediately working on Year of the Weymouth, like almost immediately like, yeah, we crazy.

Dustin 16:43
We finished it relatively fast, too. We, we just, we held on to the songs for a while, kind of, I guess we waited for it to grow on us to like, you know, just fully appreciate them and make sure they were right and ready to go. But I mean, we definitely had them done relatively soon after the first EP and Smile came out.

Jose 17:02
Dustin's being very generous, I took forever. Life happened. Man, we had a whole calendar that we were gonna plan. Like, we missed every date on the initial calendar. Like it just snowballed, and it just got worse and worse and worse. And so finally I just took like a week, like I'm finishing this record, even if it kills me. We did it and the versions that are out right now are like, have like one, we did like one round of revisions on the ones that are out because we were just so ready to have it out. Because again, we finished it fast and then it, it just sat and stewed.

Dustin 17:41
We, it came out we're all like, Wait, how do we play these again?

Jose 17:46
That's why we're relearning.

Tyler Farnes 17:50
So, so I guess like. I guess I'll ask the question now, are you guys working on something else right now, you guys, guys in the studio doing stuff? Or are you guys taking a break just doing live shows?

Jose 18:02
We cannot confirm nor deny.

Tyler Farnes 18:05
No WKNC first exclusive? No?

Jose 18:09
The artist formerly known as Weymouth.

Tyler Farnes 18:10
I got, I gotta wood board game see what their music video, apparently they have a music video coming out with, for like, come on over, so, you guys gotta time it now, you don't have to if you don't want to, you don't have to if you don't want to.

Jose 18:22
Actually, I think that's a black plate productions video. My boy Garrett.

Brenden 18:28
Don't, don't want to make any promises. But I have heard the opening riffs of a potential new song today.

Tyler Farnes 18:36
Ah nice. So obviously we'll change to the side, go back to your self titled um, how do you feel about AMB, it's one of your more popular songs right? How do you guys feel about it? What, what does AMB mean, I, I saw, I saw on your Instagram story like, it, Appalachian Mountain Beer, like, and AV. I saw that one, but yeah.

Jose 19:03
You are quite the sleuth.

Tyler Farnes 19:06
I do my job. I guess, feel overall about it?

Brenden 19:10
I actually love telling this story. When we first started hanging out Dustin would just name the tracks whatever we're talking about, and we're drinking AMB beers. Like for some reason, it just stuck. Haven't changed it since.

Tyler Farnes 19:26
Just like straight up just read StealthWatch. Honestly, I was trying to find some like, some like weird parallels but I guess it would just be AMB.

Jose 19:37
As simple, as simple as it sounds.

Tyler Farnes 19:41
So how do you feel about its popularity overall? Do you think it deserves it? Do you wish like Oh, I wish that another song got a little bit more attention on the EP like, what's up with it?

Jose 19:51
Whenever we plan sets, we probably spend like 10 to 15 minutes talking about where AMB should be in the set, we love the song. It pops off live. It's a lot of fun to play. People dig it. I had no part in how that like, song turned out musically and I love, it's my favorite song. With the exception of the stuff from like the the new record, like.

Tyler Farnes 20:10
yeah.

Jose 20:11
Off the first one, AMB, it just rips. I love it.

Dustin 20:14
I was just thinking I was thinking back about how it was like created because I remember, Falbo came to the lake house and presented the riff for it and had been holding on to it. I was like, That is a sick riff. And we sat there for like, probably like an hour or two and we like, put the song together.

Tyler Farnes 20:34
Nice.

Brenden 20:34
I was sitting there writing lyrics. And I'm like, Well, I'm really frustrated with school. I really hate cops. Let's just.

Tyler Farnes 20:43
Cause that was during the whole, um, I guess BLM Movement and really internal right?

Brenden 20:48
Yeah, yeah, that specifically the sheriff's line in AMB I wrote because um, the sheriff for Moore County, like took the mask mandate off, like super early like, height of the pandemic and I was just like, that's it.

Tyler Farnes 21:00
Yeah, that's one of my, I guess most memorable lines. I feel it's like, I love you more than a sheriff and handcuffs. So, so I guess going on to sort of like lyrically, like does. Does your lyrics have, I guess, It's weird to ask, like, does your lyrics have meaning? Like, just like, outside of just like, what the, because like, a lot of it is just like, like, like, it just tackles or just wants to tackle just so many different things like seasons, it's really just about seasons, I feel and then just like AMB is very much like sort of like anti, not anti cop, but like, well, I feel like it is but you know, it's very much just like has, has those elements.

Brenden 21:43
I think the thing that I learned the most from my last band to this band is it's kind of a waste of a song that's only about one thing. I try to, try to mix themes. And like it doesn't always line up that way. But I do try to keep like lyrically, everything from an honest place. I don't want to like overstep, like become too preachy lyrically or anything like that. But it's important, I think we're relatable to a lot of people.

Jose 22:08
But why are there so many Bethesda references?

Brenden 22:11
That's something I can't help.

Tyler Farnes 22:12
I was gonna say it was, is it yesterday that was Mormons anniversary? I mean, like, I see that a lot with um, well, I guess with the Bethesda reference, like Libby is obviously that, that, that whole, like cover art, there's like released for the single is very much Bethesda reference.

I'm a huge gamer myself. So it's like, you know, Libby's your dog? Right?

Jose 22:47
It's my dog. Correction. For the record. It was my wife's dog. I was like, Can we get a dog? I was like, no, so we have a dog. We all love Libby. She's awesome. She stinks. But she's a great dog. If you're listening, Libby.

Tyler Farnes 23:02
if you're listening Libby, please don't be upset. So, so let me again, I think, or at least, I feel like it's like your second most popular song. I don't know. But I feel like I hear people talking about like a lot. How do you guys like Libby, and other stuff, like, like how do you feel about just like general same questions?

Jose 23:26
I'm a sucker for the harmonized guitars that we do, like those are a lot of fun and I think that's the, probably like the second most complex thing me and Dustin do on our material currently. But it's, it's a homie song like it's just, it makes me feel good

Brenden 23:43
It's difficult vocally though. If I don't warm up I can't do it.

Tyler Farnes 23:49
You guys, you guys like harmonies a lot? I feel. Yeah.

Dustin 23:53
Oh, absolutely.

Tyler Farnes 23:54
Didn't, it's something that you always try to like jam into a song or is it like, when it, when the song needs it, type of thing. Like. Like, like, what's up with it?

Jose 24:02
Even if a harmony part doesn't fit, I'll be like, Dustin do some falsetto right here. So it's peppered in all over the record. Especially just Year of the Weymouth. It's all over there.

Tyler Farnes 24:13
Yes. Yeah, which is like another thing I liked about the record is just like it's very much complex with those harmonies and like guitar parts. And with those guitar parts, too, and in general, a lot of just like, like, like, like I play guitar. And I'm like, I'll be like, I cannot play this at this speed. Like at all. Just like all this, like math, rock tapping type thing. And like, are you guys just very, you guys are obviously very experienced with, with all your guitars and all your instruments, right? Like, like, how long have y'all been playing it?

Jose 24:44
Why did we all just look at each other? What was that?

Dustin 24:47
I don't know.

Jose 24:49
Behind the Music. We're breaking up right now. I've been playing guitar for well over 15 years now. And I think Dustin, you're probably somewhere in the same.

Dustin 24:59
I think so. Yeah, same boat.

Jose 25:01
But Falbo, JP, are, I don't want to say the least experienced, cause I don't like the way that sounds, but they've been. Playing their respective instruments.

Falbo 25:09
Yeah, I'm least experienced at Bass because I've been playing music since like 2007

Jose 25:15
We're homies, we're having fun, but we take excellence very seriously. As far as like, we expect everyone's best, no one's, not perfection, but what you can realistically do, excellent, most often. So I think, I think that kind of comes across in the music and the live performances and stuff because like, if you listen to the record, there's nothing like sloppy on there. Like we're pushing for, like, good everything, as much as we can. And if the computer needs the help, so be it, but we're not reliant on it.

Tyler Farnes 25:46
Do, is it, is it very much just like, I want to say like, do you guys ever feel like stressed about like any guitar parts that you come with, like trying to, like re perform or recreate it?

Dustin 25:59
No.

Tyler Farnes 25:59
No, not at all?

Jose 26:01
On the Record, no. If there's something that's on the record, that we don't play, it's because there's not a third or fourth guitar up there, basically. So.

Brenden 26:11
Whenever Dustin sends a, a very tap oriented like, voice message to me, like about like a new song, I'm like, Man, I'm gonna have to count again.

Tyler Farnes 26:31
Honestly, I did not want to say math rock, but I'm glad that you guys said math rock, because I feel like very much the tapping into like more, I guess complexities that you would see like in Midwest emo. And math rock, is very much there.

Jose 26:41
We'll get like, diet math, like, Diet math, you get one plus one, instead of like.

Tyler Farnes 26:49
You guys take like inspirations from all like, math rock artists, or just like math rock in general. Or just like, it's kind of just like, how you like to play?

Dustin 26:56
I think it's kind of how I like to play. I mean, I definitely like math rock, but it's not what I listen to primarily, honestly.

Tyler Farnes 27:02
Yeah.

Dustin 27:02
Just, oh, that sounds really cool. I want to do a little, wiggle wiggle wiggle.

Tyler Farnes 27:11
So Year of the Weymouth has been out since July, correct? Yes. All right. July 1. Yeah. So I think the two songs that really stuck with me are no excuses and seasons. These are like, they're such bangers, I love them. I love the drum part in no excuses. Like, like, like, all your drum parts are amazing. But I feel like in no excuses, it's very prominent. And like very there. It seems very, like just cool. And it fits the song a lot, like how was it like recording that sort of drum part?

Jose 27:46
Do we want to tell the truth or do we lie?

JP 27:47
I think we should, we should tell the truth. I joined the band, I think the week they were doing drum tracking.

Tyler Farnes 27:53
Yeah.

JP 27:54
So this for the second, for the second record. So I am, I will officially state right now, I am not on any of the Weymouth material.

Jose 28:02
But we do love when people compliment him, because it means they believe in him. And I think that they picture him doing that.

Brenden 28:10
If it makes you feel better, JP can still play.

JP 28:14
I'll play it live. But I did not, I cannot take any credit for the writing or performance on the album. I think most of the writing was kind of, I'm maybe speaking out of.

Jose 28:27
I can, I can.

JP 28:27
Yeah, go for it.

Jose 28:29
Tell the truth.

JP 28:29
Tell the truth.

Jose 28:31
The first record was a friend of mine that I hired as a session drummer. His name is Brandon Sinclair. He's fantastic. He's a rapper, his name is Rhythm. But he, he's the first drummer on the record. And then our second EP. I forget his last name. Actually, no, I don't, I think it's Andrew Stark. But I had connected with him. I was selling something online. And we just traded some gear. And we were sitting there talking for like 30 minutes. And he's like a drummer. And I look into him. And he's fantastic. And we're in the process of pretty much putting Year of the Weymouth together. And we had no real leads on a drummer at the time, and went ahead and booked and paid for the guy to come in and do that. And then when we met JP, we're just like, hey, just so we're totally honest. Like we're, we're in the middle of album, there's someone, your, Are you cool, like, is it cool? And it's always been cool. Yeah, so those are two session drummers that, they're not, they're technically not session drummers. They don't do it for a living, but they are both fantastic drummers.

Tyler Farnes 29:35
Yeah.

Jose 29:36
And it was literally, the first one I set up a group where the guys could watch like a live stream drum session of me and my friend working on the songs and they're like, more this, more that, just in the chat. So yeah, felt like a real streamer for a little bit.

Tyler Farnes 29:51
You're a Twitch streamer, yeah.

Jose 29:52
And, and then for the second EP we're like all in the room and just talking to the drummer like, just same deal. It's a little more advanced, but. Awesome time though.

Tyler Farnes 30:02
How do you feel, JP, about the drum? The drum track, drums and everything like that, do you? Do you feel up to the challenge? Have you been getting well along with it? Or?

JP 30:13
Yeah, so I, I'm maybe I don't know, the least experienced here as far as with instrument, I started off playing piano, funnily enough, um, but I, I felt like this time with getting to learn these tracks and kind of getting to play with them more has given me the tools necessary to go ahead and tackle future writing and recording stuff with them. So I'm very much looking forward to it. I'm stressed about it, but. I won't lie. But I'm very much looking forward to it. As I said, I, when I first, it was a buddy of mine who connected me with his band, he said, they're looking for a drummer and I listened to their music. I was like, I was like, kind of just blown away. I was like, this is kind of what I've wanted to be a part of for a long time. So I immediately linked up with them. And it's been a lot of fun, but I'm very much looking forward to it.

Jose 30:59
You can't see, but we all just shed a tear. It was very, the heart.

Dustin 31:04
JP has been absolutely destroying it. Like it's been so great having him.

Tyler Farnes 31:08
Nice. So for the, so for the lyrics. Brendan does the, does the song serve the lyrics? Or the lyrics serve the song? In this case? It's a very like, sort of mix together. Like is there anything about that?

Brenden 31:20
That's the one question that I really don't think I can give a straight answer to. I've done it every every way you can imagine, like sometimes they'll hit me all at once. Sometimes I just write a couple lines and think about it for a couple of weeks. And then the rest comes in. I've no rhyme or reason, honestly.

Jose 31:35
In context of like music or words first, it's music first, though.

Tyler Farnes 31:39
Yeah, I feel like that's most, probably with most bands right? And just like writing much music?

Jose 31:46
I think it depends on the type of band. I imagine like a singer songwriter type person probably doing like some words, melody first.

Tyler Farnes 31:53
Yeah.

Jose 31:53
Before they formulate the rest of it. But we just try and serve Brenden a bop to put words on, which they do well.

Dustin 32:00
Here is a tasty tune.

Brenden 32:02
I can send you a crappy voice clip.

Tyler Farnes 32:06
A little voice memo for your pleasure.

Jose 32:09
Dustin can have one small voice memo as a treat.

Tyler Farnes 32:14
What's your favorite song to perform, uh, Brenden?

Brenden 32:18
I think Seasons ultimately? I don't know. Maybe I'm a little biased because I know that's my mom's favorite. I feel like seasons is like a really good, inclusive package of everything that we do stylistically at once.

Tyler Farnes 32:36
Yeah, and is that true for everybody else? Like she's, since the parents aren't like, what's, what's y'all's personal favorite song to perform, slash, you know.

Jose 32:45
I like no way Jose live. That's fun. I like them all live, I think.

Dustin 32:51
I think my favorite's Libby. I absolutely love playing Libby.

JP 32:56
My favorite has yet to be played live. But I'm very, very excited.

Jose 33:02
It's gonna be a foreshadowing.

Tyler Farnes 33:03
Foreshadowing, which show do I have to go to?

Jose 33:08
The next one, maybe. I don't know.

JP 33:12
But it's 725, it's probably, it's definitely my personal favorite record.

Tyler Farnes 33:17
That's that. That's one of my personal favorites too.

Jose 33:19
We were almost worried about the minimum wage being raised and making it irrelevant but yeah, it hasn't happened so we're, I guess we're good.

Brenden 33:28
Yeah, it also feels weird that I'm no longer working the job that I was working that inspired me to write that.

Tyler Farnes 33:34
Oh, nice.

Brenden 33:35
So, Happy ending I guess.

Tyler Farnes 33:36
Yeah, very happy ending.

Falbo 33:40
And I guess my favorite song to do live is probably AMB.

Tyler Farnes 33:46
Yeah.

Falbo 33:46
The energy from the crowd every time we play that is just so exciting. And it's, it's a lot of fun.

Brenden 33:52
It's our Freebird.

Jose 33:55
It's got a ending that you can only hear at live shows.

Tyler Farnes 33:58
Oh my gosh, I definitely have to catch live shows now, jeez man, cause honestly like I've, I've been so busy with schoolwork.

Jose 34:12
I recommend it.

Tyler Farnes 34:13
Yeah. All right. Well, now it's time to do the radio thing and actually play some music. I'm gonna put on some, some of Weymouth's, well, Imma put on one of Weymouth's songs, Seasons. Hopefully y'all enjoy and stay tuned for the latter half of the interview where we're talking about, you know, their social media presence, the local scenes, some more quickfire questions. All right, see y'all then.

All right and we're back. Um, we're back with Weymouth. Very cool. You guys have way more of a social media presence I feel than like other sort of like bands your size. How's that working out for you guys? Do you feel? Is it working to your advantage? Is it like annoying? Like what's up with it?

Jose 38:00
It is a labor of love because I think outside of sending memes to one another, we have a tough time being meaningfully active on social media.

Tyler Farnes 38:10
Yeah.

Jose 38:10
But as of late, we've tried to assign days of the week for each of the members to kind of do their thing. And even still, like today is Falbo's day.

Tyler Farnes 38:21
And he posted pokey pals.

Jose 38:23
Hold on, that was me, that was me. Only because you liked it. I just.

Falbo 38:35
Yeah, no, I'm, I'm in charge of the um, Weymouth Wednesday posts.

Tyler Farnes 38:40
That is awesome, too. I also wanted to ask about that, Weymouth Wednesday with Libby, who who started that? you said.

Jose 38:47
That was 100% Falbo, we had no idea. He's like guys, check out what I made. Here's the thing. There's like, there's like, like, like 50 of them unreleased. You just crank stuff out. They're all good. They're all good.

Brenden 39:01
He literally sends us like four every week, which one should we do?

Jose 39:01
And then he doesn't post our favorite.

Falbo 39:10
To be fair, I was going to post your favorite but the Fantana one just beat it out.

Jose 39:17
That was a good one. Weymouth is with the culture.

Tyler Farnes 39:20
Weymouth Wednesdays hype it up. So um, how do you feel about social media and sort of like, smaller bands? Has it, Is it worth like going towards for those smaller bands, like very much like, obviously a lot of these smaller bands just post like, their local venues and like where they're playing and then that's sort of like all they got, but like you guys have obviously more of a personality. I feel on social media. Is that something that you feel is an added advantage?

Dustin 39:46
Yeah, definitely. I think it's important for them or like, you know, anyone that's on our socials, to not just see like, the front page as like, you know, here's a show coming up, or here's this. I think it's important that we share, like who we are, like as like, you know, as humans. Like it's really fun. Like we show like how we interact with each other, like how friendly we are to each other. How close we are together.

Jose 40:11
Yeah, big agree. Whenever, whenever I see a page like that, where it's like, here's our next show, here's what we're playing that next, it just feels like consume, consume, consume. Catch us here, catch us here. And like, I get the idea of like promo-ing, but like, I think, I think through the pandemic we like, found like a yearning for like a more like, personal experience with how we consume music. And so I think that's why we kind of, like, there's content of us. I don't know if it's up yet, but we made breakfast today for lunch. Like, we, we do like homie meals, like often and like, sometimes we'll post stuff like that, just small clips, but it's just a look at like, like, we're hanging out. And the thing is, like, we, we just like to foster a sense of community within ourselves, but also with our, with our fans, and how we interact with them and just try and be as personable as possible.

Brenden 40:59
I think, I think the big goal, social media wise, like, especially for getting people to come out to shows is, we want to make them feel like they're coming to hang out rather than just pay whatever. And then.

Jose 41:13
That's what I want, right? Like, yeah, cuz like, we're gonna, we're gonna play our set. And then what we're gonna do just sit there? Yeah, I want to hang out with homies, like, I'm out of the house. I want to capitalize on it.

Tyler Farnes 41:22
Yeah. So, so with social media, you guys kind of hinted at before, it's, is it more of a show? Like, is it becoming more of a conscious thing to like, get something posted? Like every week? Or like, every day or whatever? Is that? Is that sort of the vibe for now?

Jose 41:44
Yeah. We unfortunately have to play the game just like everyone else.

Tyler Farnes 41:49
Yeah.

Jose 41:49
So we try and keep it frequent. But it's the same like with the friendship, you don't hear from someone for a couple of days, you might worry. So we just try and tap in with the internet homies. Every once in a while.

Tyler Farnes 42:00
Do you find that a lot of I guess, fans find you through social media, or just through your music, like your band camp type stuff? Like what do you find more?

Jose 42:09
We definitely have some awesome fans that have found us strictly through social media. Yeah, shout out my boy, Luke.

Brenden 42:14
Yeah. Luke has been at so many of our shows, and like, we've literally only known him through Weymouth, it's so nice.

Jose 42:25
But then outside of that, it's word of mouth and other friends of friends and stuff like that.

Dustin 42:31
And then people we meet at the shows, we made friends just from being around.

Jose 42:35
And then we foster that via social media, because it's not like they're going to be at every gig. We're not gonna see them every single time. But we're hoping that they come to the next show, and that we see them again. It's so awesome seeing people that like you know them from no other no other source other than like playing in this band and to just continually see them because like, one it's like, that's awesome. They enjoy our music, but also like they're friends when we get to hang out with them. I think that's always pleasant, having been cooped up for like, the past two years and change for sure.

Tyler Farnes 43:09
Nice. Real quick, real quick tangent. What's the, what's the next item for Weymouth Wednesday? Do we get it, do you know that yet? Do we get an exclusive scoop here?

Jose 43:24
What if, what if you helped us choose?

Tyler Farnes 43:27
Ah that'd be great.

Falbo 43:28
Powers in your hands right now. Tell us what it is, we'll make it happen.

Tyler Farnes 43:34
What do I want, oh my gosh.

Brenden 43:36
Libby's capable of finding anything.

Tyler Farnes 43:37
Libby's capable of finding anything?

JP 43:38
There is a, there is a pretty sizable Pikachu plush outside in the.

Tyler Farnes 43:43
Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah.

JP 43:46
I'll just point that out.

Tyler Farnes 43:47
They're gonna find, okay, we should probably take a picture of that, but Libby finds that big sizable Pikachu plush, that'd be awesome.

JP 43:55
Just don't be surprised if it goes missing

Tyler Farnes 44:01
That'll be awesome. So just something like that.

Jose 44:04
Libby makes her moves in the night.

Tyler Farnes 44:07
I love, I love how sort of like I guess memey and like I guess shitposty like you guys can sometimes be. Like everything, because like, because like literally Libby is attached to a clash of clans goblin thing. It's great. I'm like, basically laugh every time to see the, like, like, go out there and just like get the item. It's like it's very fun.

Jose 44:32
I didn't know that and that makes me a love it more. It's just random.

Brenden 44:38
And I also can't not associate that with AMB now.

Tyler Farnes 44:42
Yeah, you get the beating riff of AMB and then just like it comes down. Yeah, I mean, honestly, like, see now. Now, now I'll never stop associating with that. So I guess going on to more, so like how you guys present yourself on social media, you guys are very shitposty, sort of memey, is it? You guys are also very like gaming centric and sort of like, feel like nostalgic in that sort of realm. Is that very much what you guys are as people?

Jose 45:12
This is a Nintendo band.

Tyler Farnes 45:14
Nintendo band. Yeah.

Jose 45:16
Plus Brendan. Plus Bethesda.

Brenden 45:20
I think Nintendo is cool. I just had to play at my friend's houses. I'm PC kind of person.

Tyler Farnes 45:25
Hey, I feel that, me too.

JP 45:28
I would say we, it's very true to who we are. I mean, that's just, that is a majority of what we're doing when we're not.

Jose 45:34
Yeah, we're all big gamers. I was in game development for like six years too, so. Yeah.

Brenden 45:39
Jose worked on-

Jose 45:40
No, I didn't.

JP 45:44
To be continued.

Tyler Farnes 45:46
I was about to ask that question, but we'll leave in obscurity.

Jose 45:48
I work on Fortnite.

Tyler Farnes 45:49
Oh my god. I was at Wake Tech Community College like doing their gaming thing for a little bit but um, you know, it never went through now I'm here, smile. So, I also heard that you guys are huge Smash Bros fans. You guys have a Twitch channel where you guys do smash tournament-style type of stuff, right? Well, it's, what's y'all's mains? And who's the best?

JP 46:17
We can all say the best in 3,2,1.

Weymouth 46:20
Dustin.

Tyler Farnes 46:26
I like how Dustin knew that he was the best and he didn't say anything.

Jose 46:31
Yeah, what was that about? Me and, Me and Falbo are actually arch nemeses on Smash. I main Adult Link.

Falbo 46:42
I main Samus.

Jose 46:43
And we'll do like, Best of threes and it is, we yell awful, awful things at one another. But yeah, so that, lots of screaming, lots of shouting. But I'm very much a casual player, but I will never turn down an opportunity. But we don't play with Dustin anymore.

Tyler Farnes 46:59
And Dustin, why don't they play with you? Are you like, you like, what's up?

Dustin 47:07
I don't know. Uh.

Jose 47:08
He's like, check out this 100 hit combo.

Dustin 47:12
I think it's because I main Rosalina and Luma.

Tyler Farnes 47:15
Oh my God really?

Dustin 47:17
Oh, yeah.

Brenden 47:18
For the record. I'm not very good. But Captain Falcon all the way.

Tyler Farnes 47:20
Yeah. What's, what's yours JP?

JP 47:24
I'm uh, gotta guess.

Tyler Farnes 47:27
Uhh. I think oh, wait, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, I know, because, because of church, it's Young Link.

Jose 47:33
Yeah, I suppose. Little Baby, little Baby link.

Tyler Farnes 47:42
Is that, is like Smash Bros your like, like, like, like diehard like game or you all play other games together? Like, Like, like I've done, Dustin beats you like, like a good amount of times. Are you guys like, okay, we're gonna play like Wii Sports or something.

Jose 47:57
Me and Falbo went on a little bit of a Diablo three run. for a bit Just a little bit.

Brenden 48:01
I got sucked into it too. Barbarian's super easy, just only got worried about two buttons.

Dustin 48:11
Gosh, yeah, pretty much Smash. For me.

Jose 48:14
We'll hit like some Mario Kart, Mario Party occasionally. Mostly Smash.

Tyler Farnes 48:20
Like, or like I also love also on your social media. You did like, you do like these playthroughs, you did it with seasons, and you did with starlight. I loved that sort of like, again, very nostalgic, very, like VHS, VHS. Put it in sort of type thing. And there's a thing. And also just like you guys have like, you had um, curry on one of them. And then just like, Super Mario 64 on the other like, like, those are awesome like, I like these guys. Do you guys play a lot of like, I guess, more like old classics by yourselves, like when you're not playing with each other?

Dustin 48:54
Oh, for sure. Yeah.

JP 48:56
Yeah, I think I might be just I, we both own a N64. Falbo's got a Game Cube as a recently acquired, a Wii that he just plays on. But we, we are all Nintendo fans here. Yeah.

Tyler Farnes 49:15
Nice.

JP 49:15
All grew up playing.

Tyler Farnes 49:16
Okay, well, then. I guess let's more transition towards your local scene, which is uh, Moore County, correct? How's it like down there? And sort of Moore County, sort of like Central NC like, like, like, what's it like compared to Raleigh? Like, how do you guys like it?

Dustin 49:36
Very sparse. Yeah.

Tyler Farnes 49:38
Oh no.

Jose 49:39
So, so you look like, I guess like, 20, 2012 2014 destiny? Like, that's fair.

Anyway, a cup of, a cup of flow era

Dustin 49:49
2011 to 2015, it was like.

Jose 49:51
Yeah, it was pretty active. And you could catch a show most any, any week of like.

Dustin 49:56
Oh, every weekend. There'd be like, five band bills Friday through Sunday.

Jose 50:00
It's a little coffee shop called cup of flow. It was a, it was an interesting spot. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not from that area, I grew up like 40 minutes away, and I just never left. But when I would go to shows, that's where I would go. And it was, there was a ton of fun as a teenager.

Dustin 50:16
It's definitely where like, all of us really grew up playing music, it's how we got to like, be more, like, you know, had the thought of being in a band, like, oh, we can go play here, once we get some songs together. And that kind of like, I don't know, brought us all up in that environment, which is why we kept doing it. And after, after cup of flow closed and flow, you know, all the venues we had closed. It's, it was up until like the pandemic but we even, or after the pandemic that even it was a place to play. So what, so many bands dropped off there weren't, there wasn't an active music scene at all. So you had to drive like an hour or so just to play the venue.

Jose 50:54
I think it's important to note though, just like we're speaking strictly like original music, right? Yeah. If you want to hear wagon wheel on a Wednesday in southern pines, they've got you covered. Like, and like it's serious, though, because like, just the amount of cover bands out in those areas. Like the bars want cover bands to service the customers, that's what people want to hear. But there are also people who want to hear local original music and that's not super easy to find anymore in that area, just because of all the like, the bar like businesses and stuff.

Tyler Farnes 51:26
Yeah.

Jose 51:26
So when, when cup of joe- cup of flow, yeah, Cup of Joe. Sorry.

Tyler Farnes 51:31
That's a coffee place on Hillsborough.

Jose 51:33
Yeah, I love that spot. But, uh, but yeah, so when that went away, like, so did a lot of like the local original music.

Tyler Farnes 51:41
Oh, that sucks. Is that? So, So I guess comparatively, sort of, with, what I've been hearing with the Raleigh local scene is that like, the pandemic happened, and the community really strengthened itself, sort of thing. Is that, would you say it's very much the opposite for Moore County, just sort of like everything just sort of started to die down a little bit, unfortunately?

Jose 52:05
I think it's pre pandemic when stuff started to die down there. Because there was, yeah, I just, you, you didn't see kids like ripping like, bad sounding power chords anymore. They like, that breed just like died off and it like, killed me. Because like, like, like, even, you look at those areas, like the band program shrunk too. So there's like a lot less music in the area. And like, where I'm from, Sanford. Again, same deal. If you want to hear wagon wheel, they got you. But like, original music, just not happening.

Dustin 52:34
Everything pretty much closed around like 2016. So I mean, it it was like a slow burn.

Tyler Farnes 52:42
I also heard that, uh, that, that you guys released, host, house parties, too, right?

Jose 52:48
Yes. So those are the J Gonzo audio house shows. And we, that is me attempting to kind of fight back and create what I want musically. Like I want to be able to hear teenagers play crappy power chords, and be angry about something, or just have something to say. So we, those started out as like a, just like a party to get together, play with another band. And we've just kind of grown them. So I'm doing them like once a month and we just invite local bands out to come play those.

Tyler Farnes 53:22
That's awesome. Has been growing? Have you been seeing a lot of success with that?

Jose 53:27
It just depends on how you measure success, right?

Tyler Farnes 53:30
True. True. True.

Jose 53:31
Yeah, because I can only fit so many people in my home. Yeah.

Brenden 53:35
We got Boy Named Sue out there one time.

Jose 53:37
Yeah, Boy Named Sue played, there's a set of theirs on YouTube. But what I'm doing now is we've been growing them a little bit more each time. But now when the bands come through, they play a full set. And then I've got like an entire studios worth of equipment out there recording it live. So when that's done, I'm mixing that down. So it's not just a feed from the board. It's being recorded from my control room. It's just a completely different experience than what you would get like, if someone pulled multi tracks at a venue or something like that. And I'm doing those for free and just putting those online kind of like, almost like an archival of the house shows and stuff.

Tyler Farnes 54:12
Yeah.

Jose 54:13
But, and then, and then it gives bands that may not necessarily have the means to go ahead and put out like great recordings, it's at least enough for them to be like hey, here's what we sound like live, like here's the honest depiction of who we are and how we can interact with the crowd. So that's something I'm aiming to continue to do monthly, so.

Tyler Farnes 54:29
Nice. I honestly hope you find great success in that, because it seems like that area does need it, especially like, I guess like, do you guys like see sort of like, Weymouth as sort of like, I guess, not necessarily like a leader but like, a sort of like a shepherd I guess, like for this new scene that'll hopefully pop up? Do you guys see yourself like that, are you guys that that like, I guess, egocentric? Facilitator?

Jose 54:54
Yeah, I usually push for like working with like younger artists and trying to put younger people on when I can.

Tyler Farnes 55:00
Yeah.

Jose 55:00
Because I didn't have that kind of help. And so whenever I see people that I could potentially help I just do it. Yeah.

Tyler Farnes 55:07
Nice.

Brenden 55:07
Whenever we play with a band I like, I talk to those members forever so they remember us.

Tyler Farnes 55:15
So, what is each of your guys's favorite games outside of Smash? I feel like all we would probably say-

Jose 55:21
Breath of The Wild right now. Breath of the Wild, I'd started my first playthrough and I'm like, Man, I'm going crazy.

Tyler Farnes 55:28
Yeah.

Jose 55:29
It's ruining my life.

Dustin 55:31
Splatoon 3 just came out and played competitively in Splatoon 1 and 2. I know. Now I'm like, not sleeping in only playing this game

Tyler Farnes 55:41
Honestly, with that I will say anytime anybody mentions competitive gaming, I always say that I, season four Overwatch. Reinhardt Top 500 PS4.

Dustin 55:52
Congratulations.

Tyler Farnes 55:52
Thank you. Thank you. I know. But anytime, anytime anybody mentions it, I always gotta say "wait guys, I earned that." You know? I feel like you aren't you're sp-, Splatoon rank right? Sure. Yeah. Okay.

Brenden 56:07
All right, anyone who had, uh, anyone who's heard Libby and had Fallout New Vegas on their bingo card?

Tyler Farnes 56:13
Yeah. Honestly, like, like, like, I described the cover art for, for one of my sets on Libby. And I was like, I was like, "How do I describe like a Fallout New Vegas like robot?" like, just like, it's round and like, it's green?

Brenden 56:30
It's funny, because like that song. Like, I, I was coming up with lyrics for that when I was cooped up in my room, like it was still like pandemic, the pandemic, like first wave of it. And I was playing a lot of video games. And I was like, like, trying to throw in metaphors as to like how I felt about my environment around me. While also kind of drawing attention to what I'd been doing most of the time, since we're like, out of work. There was nowhere to go. That's just all I did for a while.

Jose 57:01
We can't get a hold of Brendan we at least know they're safe playing New Vegas, find comfort in it.

Tyler Farnes 57:07
They're safe. With New Vegas. And

Falbo 57:11
So I guess Pikmin is probably my favorite series. Yeah. I think I almost cried when they announced four so. So many characters.

Tyler Farnes 57:27
Those are ghosts of it. I saw. I saw the meme where, where the Pikmin's carrying the carrying the Queen's coffin. Did you guys see that? Did you guys see that? It was literally Pikmin carrying the Queen's coffin. And I was like, this is, this is so funny. But like, I feel like it'd be something you guys would post but like doesn't have a story.

Brenden 57:53
For the record, Weymouth is anti-imperialist

Tyler Farnes 57:55
Yeah, there we go.

JP 58:02
My, um, recently, it's a very recent one, um, because I tend to have the habit to pick up games and go pretty heavy with them like competitively and I used to play Counter Strike CSGO competitively. Yeah, so I'm now moving to valorant, so I started playing that a little bit. I'm actually going to be getting a PC so I can play because I've been playing on my girlfriend's PC.

Tyler Farnes 58:25
Nice.

Jose 58:28
Gamer boys up

Tyler Farnes 58:33
I've been playing uh, I play League pretty, pretty extensively. Unfortunately, I play League and I play. Right now I'm playing like cyberpunk 2077 Just because that's the.

Jose 58:48
Did you play that launch?

Tyler Farnes 58:49
I did. Yes, I did.

Jose 58:51
I couldn't. I have a very, very nice gaming PC and it would just constantly crash. So I just put it down.

Tyler Farnes 58:56
Oh, no.

Jose 58:56
I'm waiting. I'm gonna come back to it eventually.

Tyler Farnes 58:59
You should. I mean like, it's, um, I, I played with a 20 80 like, super on launch and like, I had no problems, but they get like, every system is different. But um, yeah, I guess. Last question. If you could become one fictional character for a day. What would it be? Just like, you have all their powers, you just have everything. You're just that fictional character.

JP 59:22
Bilbo Baggins. That's an easy one for me.

Jose 59:27
He's not, you think about the band.

Tyler Farnes 59:32
Bilbo Baggins can't play drums while dead. Come on.

Jose 59:36
If he's not dead, then where is he, JP?

JP 59:38
He's with the elves. Where the elves go when they wanted.

Jose 59:44
Retirement there. He's in Florida.

Brenden 59:47
In all seriousness, I think SpongeBob has it pretty easy. I'd be SpongeBob.

Jose 59:51
Yeah.

Dustin 59:53
Probably Shrek for the layers.

Tyler Farnes 59:56
He has Layers.

Falbo 59:58
Hands down. Luigi. For sure. Luigi rules, everybody loves Luigi.

Jose 1:00:05
There needs to be some character analysis.

Brenden 1:00:07
Luigi is apparently the most healthily endowed of any Nintendo character and that's canon.

Tyler Farnes 1:00:15
he's got a whole mansion to himself, what.

Jose 1:00:19
I gotta pick, oh man. I feel like Kirby is a good choice.

Tyler Farnes 1:00:22
Yeah,

Jose 1:00:23
Cause like other than like, the minor catastrophes that happen like in like, world ending events other than that, he just kind of eats and hangs out. He doesn't lose so.

Tyler Farnes 1:00:35
You never lose.

Jose 1:00:36
Outside of that, maybe just just a rich guy. So I can just buy a mansion for all my homies that's, that's a fictional character I want to be, well off.

Falbo 1:00:44
I would already have a mansion so.

Dustin 1:00:48
You could be with pineapple, we're good. You could be Robin Hood and steal from the rich.

Tyler Farnes 1:00:54
Oh well, to end off. Where can we, where can everybody find you? You know where, what's up with Weymouth?

Jose 1:00:59
If you desire to find us, you can find us @WeymouththeBand pretty much everywhere right?

Dustin 1:01:06
Yep.

JP 1:01:06
Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr.

Dustin 1:01:10
Deezer. Just kidding.

JP 1:01:12
And then, should you want to find us I guess.

Tyler Farnes 1:01:18
All right, well, Weymouth. Thank you very much again for, for coming on to WKNC. It was awesome to have you guys here. I hope you all had fun.

Jose 1:01:26
We did, super fun.

JP 1:01:27
Yeah, thank you so much.

Tyler Farnes 1:01:29
And thank you listener for listening to Off the record with me, the loaf, well you know, The Slice on off the record, I guess I got to keep up semantics and appearances I went on, yada yada yada. We'll end off on No way Jose and Libby by Weymouth, again thank you Weymouth, for, for coming to the studio and talking to me, and thank you guys for listening. See y'all later.

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