Ruban Nielson
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I know that sounds weird, but we weren't particularly thinking that.
We were just trying to amuse ourselves before that.
I think – I don't know.
Knowing my dad, it was probably more a musical thing that he thought maybe that there was some potential in like kind of presenting –
what we can do to people, you know, like I don't really think anybody had any particular idea that that money was a big deal.
But I think, you know, he was older than us and maybe he was just thinking ahead a little more and just thinking like,
why don't you guys have a shower and put a suit on, see what happens kind of thing.
Maybe he was just thinking like an adult.
Like an adult, yeah.
And maybe there was just that kind of thing.
But I think – I mean, if I was just a guest, I'm putting words in his mouth, but it's kind of like –
at the time i felt like um he was a bit frustrated that we were so um purposefully um amateurish and like so and like so um and we were trolling so yeah so hard all the time that he was just kind of like you just what if you just try to make it make a good album you know like
That's kind of what it felt like at the time.
And actually, that did seem like the biggest troll at the time, which is why I think we kind of went along with it because we were like, oh, yeah, imagine if we tried.
That would be like the biggest troll of all.
I didn't really do much music until I left home, but the family is very musical.
Cody was playing drums when we were kids and keyboards and making beats and all this kind of stuff when we were in high school and stuff.
And dad was always playing music.
And so we had access to all of this kind of stuff.
I grew up around it.