Adam22

Yeah, definitely.

I couldn't really imagine being, like, so cut off along genre lines.

Although, there's, like, certain genres that I don't, like...

doing mostly hip-hop podcasts the fact that i admittedly have like almost no interest in r&b is sacrilege to a lot of people but then meanwhile they have absolutely no knowledge of like folk or alternative rock or whatever which to me it's kind of like i feel like what you're getting out of r&b is probably like closer to what i am getting out of like all these alternative rock bands i like it's like the origin

yeah of of something you know like r&b was the origin of essentially what led into hip-hop a lot in a lot of the ways so but it's like it's the same shit but that's the weird thing too is that i like r&b but i like like r&b from like the 70s and 80s and then by the time you get to like modern r&b where it just sounds like whispery slow rap that's like that's what i don't really like yeah for sure for sure no i get that like it it

right never resonated but there's a lot of that the fact that you guys have written hundreds of metal songs so you listen to some new metal band that like maybe the new generation is kind of excited by and you're just like like listen

Like, it's going to take a lot for me to be excited by a new band, right?

Yeah.

It's like, well, they already did it.

I remember even being like 21 and just kind of realizing that like all the bands that I liked when I was 17 were no longer straight edge, despite their straight edge tattoos.

And that there was like another crop of bands and that they realistically sounded almost exactly the same to me.

And just kind of realizing like, oh, this is just a cycle that's just going to take place forever.

And pretty early on, I just felt like pretty jaded by it.

what since when you know like oh this is cool now we can you know like it's wild but i mean respect to being straight there's nothing wrong with that at all i know for sure probably the the best choice you can make if you wanted to live a healthy life especially i feel like doing it when you're young because maybe you're like mature enough to be able to handle like smoking weed and drinking when you're 25 but for sure you're not at 15.

If you could just use Stratus to not become a degenerate at that point in your life, then it has a lot of utility.

The rigidity of the subculture is like just kind of bizarre.

I remember like people flipping out about like Ray Capo drinking a glass of wine at like his daughter's wedding or something and just being like, what the fuck?

But then, like, to make Hardcore Steven smaller, then Ray Cabot did the Joe Rogan podcast, and at no point did Joe Rogan even seem to, like, be aware that he was in this band called Youth of Today.

Exactly.

Which was kind of crazy.