December 3, 2024 • 47 mins
Welcome to a very special episode! Earlier this week we were invited to sit down with Dr. Barry Atticks and some members of the Lilla Jul Rockeband at Millersville University to discuss their most recent project. Recently they traveled to Iceland to shoot a short film and music video for their Tell School of Music 2024 Winter Music Video.
This film and music video (as well as the audio of the song) will be released on December 12th, 2024.
They are also hosting a premiere and VIP after party for the film on December 8th, 2024 at Midtown Cinema in Harrisburg, PA. Make sure you get tickets below!
https://www.icelandicyulecat.com/
https://www.midtowncinema.com/film/hollywood-in-harrisburg
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
Welcome to a special episode of the Central
Pennsylvania Music Podcast.
Hello and welcome to anotherspecial episode of the Central
Pennsylvania Music Podcast.
I'm your host, Daniel, and I'myour co-host, Alan.
Today we are here atMillersville University.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Where we were invited by the wonderful Dr Barry Addix
.
He has an incredible projectthat he wanted us to get some
inside coverage on by himselfand some of his students.
So we made the trek down toMillersville and now we're going
to sit down with both DrBariatics and those students
Stay tuned and we are sittingdown with the Le Le Joule
Racabonde comprised of ZoeCaitlin, jessica and Dr
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Bariatics here.
So what you guys have createdis pretty impressive.
It's kind of wild and crazy,and I just want to start right
at the beginning of where thisall started and how this whole
concept which we'll get intocame to be well, last year we
took some students to iceland towork the european music
festival over there and Ilearned about this legend they
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had called the yule cat.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Like what is the yule cat yule katarin is is the
Icelandic translation for the.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Jokat Says it flawlessly, Flawlessly, Off
camera.
We were trying to say this wordso many times and he just
nailed it.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
So I said it a million times over the last six
months, but I had to start there.
But so this legend started inthe medieval times and basically
Iceland was a clothes-makingsociety and everybody had to do
their part.
So to threaten children, theywould say hey, you know, if you
don't work hard during the year,you wouldn't get new clothes
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for christmas, and if you didn't, this cat, which is two stories
tall, very evil, would come andtake your children and take
them to the mountains to eatthem.
So kind of threaten childreninto working hard, you know,
during the year wow yeah, yeah,this is like a house cat.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
that's two stories high.
It's not like a tiger or a lion.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
No, it's like a house cat.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, two stories tall, two story tall Fluffy
Fluffy's very mad if you haveold boys.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
He's very mad, he's hissing and he's taking children
away from their parents if theydon't work hard during the year
.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Oh okay, so apparently we make light of this
, but this actually led to like.
This story was banned correct.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
That's correct.
The Danish government actuallycame into Iceland and said hey,
you can't tell the story anymorebecause children are being
traumatized by this story, whichis crazy.
But then 1860, it was actuallypublished for the first time and
the video we do actually takesplace in 1860, when it was first
written down the legend of theuh, the yule cat.
(02:26):
That's crazy.
How far back does the storydate prior to being?
Actually the research thatwe've done is medieval times,
wow.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So yes, it's been around for a long time that's
crazy, and I mean you brought upoff camera too.
Uh, it was completely random,but you're like weren't like
domesticated cats, like didn'tthey come from?
Like egypt say, how did theyeven get in iceland?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
yeah, I actually was looking up where domestic cats
came from, because I thought itwas Egypt and I was like, how
did an ice?
Because it did date back to themedieval time when we did our
research.
How did Iceland come up withthis cat that is as large as a
house to scare the children Like, when did this come about?
Did Vikings go get a cat andthen bring it?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
A little ice bridge, and now Iceland actually
protects domestic cats.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's crazy.
So okay, so this is how thestory happened.
So how did you get inspired towant to write a song about this?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Well, for the last four years we've made music
videos in the music industryprogram here at Mellowsville.
And this year we thought, hey,why not go big or go home?
So we thought you know whatWouldn program here at
Milosville.
And this year we thought, hey,why not go go bigger, go home?
So we thought, you know whatwouldn't be cool doing an
international video.
And when I found out about theYulcat and did more research, I
said, hey, wouldn't it be coolif we brought this story to life
about, you know, a family thatlearns about the Yulcat.
And the Yulcat, you know,terrorizes children's dreams.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That's such a cool concept best field trip ever
dude.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
The past two years I got to work on both of the music
videos with Dr Addicts and so Iwanted to do something on
Krampus.
And then he presented this ideato me and I was like, oh, we
could totally do it.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I was like we could do it.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
We could do it.
He was like you think we could,you think we could?
I was like yeah, and we weregoing to Iceland anyway festival
again this year.
So we thought, well, whilewe're over there, we might as
well go a couple extra daysearly and, uh, shoot the video
so with that shooting the video.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So how?
How did you guys end up gettingselected to be part of this?
How were you guys selected asthe performers?
What was that selection processlike?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
um, I received an email.
Well, actually no no, youactually called me in the
summertime because, you know,and I was just like you're like,
do you want to go on this tripto iceland?
And uh, we're doing this musicvideo about it's like a, an
icelandic folk tale about thislike big cat, and like we think
you'd be perfect for it.
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I was like, okay, and you're agreat.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You're a great bass player.
Well, yeah, I guess, so yeah Iguess that part too.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
But yeah, I was instantly.
I was like sign me up like I'm.
There's no way I'm not going todo this be a part of this
that's awesome.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yeah, um, for me.
I got an email one day by draddicts and it was.
He was like do you have anyvideos of you seeing like any
rock songs?
And I was like, come to thinkof it, I I don't.
And like just no explanation,no, nothing.
I was just like all right, likehere's just two rock songs.
I was in my room at the timejust doing nothing.
So I was like, all right, I'lljust send him like I'll just
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play a karaoke track and sing toit really quick.
And then I sent it to him andand I'm a huge metal head, I
love metal so he was like, yeah,we're doing a folk metal song
in Iceland.
I was like don't explain, nomore.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I'll be there.
Yeah, I'll be there.
Where do I?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
sign my name.
Swipe the card yeah exactly,take my card.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
In one of our student projects last year, caitlin was
the screamer voice on one ofthe tracks, so I knew that she
could scream.
I knew that she used to singclassical.
I needed to hear her rock voiceand once I heard that I was
like we got to have Caitlin andanyone who knows me.
I'm just like I'm a sucker forscreaming, but I mean, we did,
we actually.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
You were very generous to show us a sneak peek
of this video and, dude, thissong came together like
flawlessly.
It gets so good and he barrywas barry knows I'm a sucker for
screaming.
He's like.
He's like wait, he's like myfavorite part's coming up and it
was, and it was when you werelike, we heard the screaming
undertones and I I've got to behonest I was like dude, I was
floored, I was blown away.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
The layering was amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
The balance was perfect, but, dude, your growls
were like thank you, I was likeokay, I was like Spirit Box eat
your heart out.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Definitely gave you some goosebumps, for sure.
I was like whoa Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You got some competition now, finally, Spirit
Box.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And it was weird how they came about, because we were
thinking of either using cleanvocals or those vocals, but then
my engineer, logan Ressler, whodid most of the recording for
us.
He played both at the same time, just so I could hear both of
them like wait a minute.
That sounds pretty freakingcool because at that point she's
actually embodying the cat, sowe wanted kind of that evilness
come out of caitlin you know.
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So we kind of had the goodcaitlin evil caitlin, both
singing together.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
So and what did that feel like?
Like hearing those come forwardand like when you're like, wow,
that sounds really good.
What was that like?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
it was hearing the final mix, I was because it's
especially coming to a musicschool as well.
You hear the difference,obviously, between like live and
recorded and just hearing thejourney it took to get there.
It was awesome, especially myvoice used for it.
That was awesome like seeing,because obviously my voice is
really personal to me.
So, um, it was really cool tosee my voice used in that
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context.
Even seeing the video, I'm justlike I have to remember that's
me, like I, I don't even, Idon't even think that's me
sometimes even though you're theone.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, like this out-of-body experience.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
It's like, oh my god, that's actually me I feel like
it's really important to say forcaitlin that she actually is a
very classical vocalist she, Imean she can sing.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
We were talking off camera and you're like, you're
primarily classical, like operabased right.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Yeah, so doing this like it.
I mean, I've also been neverput in front of a camera like
this before, so it was, it wasnot this, but it's okay.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Only the entire world will see this.
Yeah, hopefully.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
But I like, so, like really having to emote like that
for a song in a style I'venever sang before, that was
really cool.
It was like it was really coolto push myself in that way and
also it was clearly somethingthat I would enjoy doing.
So I obviously enjoyed it, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You bring up a really good point, like the emoting
during that yeah how did you?
Because that's something Ialways, I'll be honest I
struggled with when it came tolike performing, certainly
especially in music videos.
Like you get scrutinized if youlook terrible in your music
videos.
So how did you channel thatenergy to make it?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
feel natural.
Yeah, me and Zoe can speak alot to this Perfect yeah please.
Yeah, it was a little cold,but-.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Just a little.
Just a little.
Don't say it was a little cold.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
it was a little cold, but just a little.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Yeah, I was just like , don't say it was a little, but
caitlin kept the absolute bestattitude the entire time for 29
degrees all day outside.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, it was the.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I think it was the second or no, it was the third
day we were there.
Second first day of filming.
No, on the by the waterfall.
Yeah, that was like our firstexperience and I was like I was
like, oh it's like all right, Ihad like jess, like tied this
little like yarn thing to the tothe base, which we'll get into.
But, um, the the base.
(09:14):
Like carrying that while rainis pouring on you, and like
several different directions andyou have makeup on.
You're like hoping it doesn'tlike smudge all over your face
but I was really, yeah, reallyraining.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I just like by the end of this, but in the music my
mascara is gonna be halfwaydown my face warm makeup yeah dr
addict said I couldn't do thewar makeup because that's what I
wanted to do.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I wanted to do Viking war makeup on their faces and
then the mascara was running andI was like ha ha ha.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I got my wish anyways .
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I got my wish anyways .
When are you graduating again?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So talk about the production a little bit.
I mean this.
So talk about the production alittle bit.
I mean, this music video isabsolutely amazing.
It's being turned into a shortfilm, is that correct?
So where did you guys get the?
I mean, I guess we know wherethe inspiration came from, but,
like, where did you start withfilming that?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
so, um, in the springtime I had a friend of
mine from high school who I hadnot seen for 30 plus years since
he graduated, and I knew he wasin film.
He shot films in la and newyork and he was by coast.
He owns a by coastal companyand I was teaching a film
scoring class.
I said, hey, why don't you comein and talk to the students
about being a director in music?
And then we had lunchafterwards and I kind of pitched
this idea and said, uh, hey,danny, we'd love to have you
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work with the students and maybewe could work something out.
And that day we were like youknow what?
This?
This is such a cool concept.
He said I'm all in, his wife'sa producer too, so both of them
are professional producers anddirectors.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh, that's awesome.
So then of course, we had aprofessional photographer, a
makeup artist, a costumedesigner, so things just kept
snowballing there Progressing wewanted to make the best
possible video there was, sowe're very nailed it yeah
imagine having like a conceptand just everything like legit,
like pieces just fall together,like, oh cool, we have, we have
a costume designer, we have amakeup artist, we have multiple
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producers involved, directors,and you're just like, hmm, I
don't want to do this anymore.
Like, just imagine taking thatturn.
But that's crazy, though,because so many people have
these ideas of like these bigconcepts and dude, this just
came together perfectly.
And the way you guys decided toshoot things like I don't want
to give too much away because II want the reveal to be the
reveal, but I I told you as soonas I started seeing it, you
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guys just did such a good jobsetting the tone and the
atmosphere of, like how you justbuilt up the video.
It was like it was flawless.
There was not a single part ofthis video that seemed out of
place by any means.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It flowed so well, thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Our little horror Christmas video.
Yeah, dude, it is so good.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
But speaking of horror, yeah, so you were
talking about the base, we cantalk about the, so tell us about
the cemetery base.
The base, oh yes.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
I don't know how I'm going to do this without looking
strange.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Is that okay.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I don't know, I didn't really do the process of
hunting it down, what?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
happened was the first morning we had to shoot in
a cemetery for a horror video.
Of course I was talking to thecaretaker and I went into his
office and I saw all thesetrinkets on the wall.
I said what's all this stuff?
He said people leave stuff inthe cemetery.
I'm like really.
He said, yeah, they haveparties in the cemetery or they
rob cars near the cemetery.
They take out what they needand leave the rest there, et
cetera.
So they saw this base in thecorner and I said what about
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that?
He said oh, yeah, somebody leftthis here years ago.
I'm like how much you want forthat base?
He said you know, I think thiswould be great for my video.
He said, well, if it's for yourvideo, take the bass.
So that morning we adopted thebass because we were going to
borrow a bass that was red andwhite.
We have to change everything inpost-production, changing it
from red and white to brown, andthis was just sitting in a
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cemetery morning, number one.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
So it became the cemetery bass that we used for
the shoot and.
I would say that that was likea two-month process.
I mean we're trying to figureout like how we're going to get,
because I mean I don't know ifyou know, but like instruments
will crack or break.
Oh, absolutely you have to payextra money to get them into
onto an airplane and, like Zoe,didn't want to bring her base
and completely understandable.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Right.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
And so we have, you know, we're trying to figure out
this electric guitar and thisbass and we're like talking to
these like random people inIceland, Like can we borrow your
instruments for a music video?
And so having a bass, I mean itwas just, it was kismet in a
sense.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
How did that feel, though, when someone just showed
up and they were like hey, Ifound this graveyard bass,
Congratulations.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
It was very haunting, I guess would be the correct
word for it like a little afraidto touch it at first, like uh,
yeah, I guess I could say that,and I was just like, oh okay,
like I was like trying to figureout if it was um like homemade,
because I'd never seen anythinglike it before.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
There's no name on that and you can't really tell
on camera.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
but it's a fretless bass so I'm like it just has
such a nice, like warm tone toit.
It's like I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So you got it actually up and running and
everything and it plays.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Well, it needs a 9-volt battery, but I've been
like screwing around with itjust like acoustically, like
without plugging it.
That's awesome and it soundslike good, just on its own.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
It does sound good.
Watch, you're gonna be likeyou're gonna join a band someday
and like you're gonna record alike an album that wins a grammy
, and that's gonna be the basicplay on it that's honestly like
I, yeah, I, I want to get thisto be my main instrument.
And like, yeah, oh, that's cool, that would be great.
So it went from kind of likebeing scared to kind of like I'm
gonna treasure this now I mean,what a great story.
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Yeah, it's true though it's truea hundred percent so I can only
imagine, then too, like you'retrying to get these instruments,
how are you going to color tonethis and all the locations
logistically?
What went into this trip?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I would talk about jess here to be honest with you
no, not me, jess, there'sactually.
So, for the production companywe worked with in the wee hours
was with Dan Herzog and GhanaHerzog they did.
I mean, barry has been toIceland many times and so he
knew a lot of places, but theywere also looking.
And then they used somebody Hername's Jess Costello, okay,
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were also looking, and then theyused somebody her name's jess
castillo, okay, and she was justin the background kind of
looking for all of thesedifferent places what airbnb we
could go to, because I mean, tobe honest with you, we're all
going to school and working andlike live, like doing our jobs
all at the same time and like wedidn't get to take off for five
months and plan this project.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
That makes sense, and so she.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I would say she was a really, really big help and I
don't want her name to beforgotten, for sure as well as
gonna hurt.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
so yeah, I mean, last year when I was there was my
first time to south iceland andthat's where they have all the
huge waterfalls and the blacksand beach.
Actually, justin bieber filmeda video there, maybe six, seven
years ago, uh, on the black sandbeach area, and you know we, I
just fell in love with that areaand I was just like I love the
waterfall, I just love thedesolation of it.
And I think just the landscape.
It's gorgeous.
I mean, it's perfect for whatthis video is all about.
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Oh, 100%.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You guys picked not even just the right location,
but just even on the rightlocations.
You guys picked the rightangles.
You picked everything likewhat's in the backdrops.
Like, because you didn't, youcould have just shot straight
out at the ocean, and you did atcertain times when you know the
camera's panning, but othertimes you're seeing the cliff
faces on the side, like you guyspainted the picture perfectly
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so you could tell this waslegitimate.
This wasn't like photoshop,this wasn't like we made it look
like we were in.
It's like you can tell that'siceland, like there's no
disputing it, and I think thatwas awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I do have a question.
So every story has a storywithin.
So was there ever a moment inthe entire process of getting
out to Iceland and everythingwhere you had almost like an oh
crap moment, like is this goingto work or anything Like?
Was there anything that went?
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Day one when the lighting director they hired
didn't show and we were doingall the indoor scenes.
So we had a call around Iceland, which is a very small country,
of course, yeah, trying to geta lighting company at the last
minute to come in and do a 10hour shoot.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
While we were in Iceland already.
That was the second panicattack.
That wasn't even like the onebefore we made it on to the trip
.
We were there and we were like,oh, what do you do?
That was the question.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Everyone.
We're going to Walmart and get.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
We're getting flashlights.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
We're going to buy it all and we'll charge it to the
school account.
It is what it is.
We're already here.
What was the first oh crapmoment, if I can ask?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Can I say yeah.
I bringing this damn cat to life.
I I don't know if we're evenlike talking about a cat that's
as large as a house, and just Imean, when we came up with like
when he came up with this idea,and like we had met dan herzog
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because I was actually in thethe filming class that he was
talking to, and he was like I'm,I'm thinking I'm going to ask
him, I'm going to ask him if hewants to be a part of this
project and I was like do it, doit.
And then I was like how thehell are we going to come up
with a cat as large as a house?
Like how are we going to do it?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
You get the whole town together.
They just they're like, yes,very intimidating and I will
tell you what.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I will believe it at the premiere.
I will believe it at thepremiere.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I might cry.
Have you guys seen any kind ofsneak peeks of the sea cat
that's going into it?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
They've only seen the skeleton of the cat, but they
haven't seen the cat yet.
The bigger reveal is going tobe next week.
It's hairless right now yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I was working with the other guy who came along
with Ryan and he was showing mehow he was putting stuff
together.
And there's not a lot of timeI'm very extroverted, there's
not a lot of times where I'mspeechless and he was showing me
how he was doing stuff andputting it together and I was
like I could sit here for hoursand just watch you just throw
(19:12):
crap together.
He was making a die's likemaking making a die.
Look like it was, um, like youknow, like a rolling dice yeah
making it look like it was likedisintegrating and I was like I
seriously don't know what'shappening, right now I'm so
sleep deprived.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
This is so cool.
That's the type of stuff thatalso like blows my mind, like I
wish I had time to like kind oflearn that kind of a special
effects it's.
When you see that stuff andwhen it looks so realistic and
believable, I'm just like comeon, man, that's some of the
coolest stuff, and I know howmuch work goes into capturing
that and making it lookrealistic and also finding a
place that we could open themovie with, where the mother's
reading the story to the twokids.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
We were able to film at a museum, so that house was
built in the 1800s and they letus use anything in the house,
which was amazing, that'sawesome that part of the museum.
Yeah, they totally opened it upto us and it was absolutely
perfect for the video.
How did you guys locate theactresses?
So we actually interviewedmaybe three or four Icelandic
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families, so in the wee hours,the production company.
So we were watching all these.
You know, watching these videosand there's a lot of running
away from monsters, right?
So we had to watch film oflittle kids running away, just
running, see if they could run,for one thing the one just trips
over the feet.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You're like out all right next family.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It was also important too that at least at least
somebody spoke english.
Well, because we had one familywhere the kids were at seven or
eight new english but themother did, which would make it
a little bit more difficult infilming.
Yeah, in this circumstance thegirls did not know much English
at all, but the mother wasbilingual, so it made it a lot
easier.
And the mother looked reallymean on video.
She looked very stoic.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It's funny because in person she's so nice, which is
weird.
But when we saw her on film I'mlike I think she actually is
telling her kids that they willbe eaten by the cat and they're
gonna believe her.
And that's why we picked her,because I'm like she actually
embodied like hey, you're gonna,you're gonna pay for what you
did yeah, absolutely yeah, she'sperfect, that's oh my, there's
so many things you can talkabout with this like it's just a
(21:10):
quick question.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Did any of you, you guys try, sir Stroming, while
you were there?
What Is this?
The dried fish?
It's that canned fish?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
No, no, oh, okay.
Is that the fermented shark?
Is that something different?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
No, it comes in the red and yellow can and it's like
there's so many videos ofpeople like they like can't even
like stomach the smell.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I wasn't brave enough and, honestly, anytime I had
time to eat, I was like I wantthis to be the best meal I've
ever had.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Okay.
So, speaking of that, what islike icelandic food, like how
was that?
Because, I'll be honest, I,outside of like I can't tell you
a single dish from iceland.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Jess and I spent a good time at the hot dogs, yeah
there's a lot of hot dogs famoushot dog.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
A lot of hot dogs, that's dogs a lot of hot dogs, I
would say that's veryinteresting.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I would think that's like America you know, yeah, but
it's different.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
It's not like American hot dogs, it's probably
like actual good meat yeah wasit better than our hot dogs?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
yes, absolutely well, first off, that's un-American
no, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Do they Un-American?
Absolutely not.
Do they use any weirdcondiments with them or anything
?
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Yes, yes, that's the biggest thing that surprised me
is that anything that would be,it would be this white sauce and
it would just taste like pepper.
They love pepper there.
Interesting or paprika orpaprika Taco seasoning.
They have taco seasoning fortheir fries there in fast food
restaurants.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
What Like taco seasoned fries?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well, we stopped at the KFC and there's no mashed
potatoes or biscuits, buteverything comes with fries.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
That KFC was so weird Is.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Zoe saying it's a no-go, or is it good?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
It was just I don't want to hate on Because the
workers were so nice and like.
I'm sure it's not their fault,but like the chicken was like,
but they're known for theIcelandic lamb soup.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
That's the big thing, because lamb is huge over there
.
That was good.
I had that.
That was good.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
That's the best you can get you don't go to Iceland
to eat KFC, that's a valid point.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
You don't yeah, you don't go to Iceland to eat
produce either, like I feel likethey do like a lot of like
preserving there and stuff likethat like or not preserve, like
curing of like meats and stufflike that yeah, I mean that
makes sense.
Yeah, I'll be honest.
If I'm going to Iceland, thefirst thing that's not going to
be in my mind Where's thenearest KFC?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Yeah, look for the bonus store.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
They can't really do much farming there in Iceland,
can they?
Iceland is very expensive.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And Icelandic people.
Actually, I was told by themakeup artist that I was
speaking to that Icelandicpeople get really upset with
Americans because we come home,we make videos like this and we
say it's super expensive.
The water bottles are like $10.
But the water that comes out ofthe tap in Iceland is the water
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that is in the water bottlethat says Icelandic water, and
so it's like Americans go there,buy a plastic water bottle
because that's what we do andthey're like you're stupid.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
The water comes.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I drank.
The first year I was there.
I drank water out of the hotelsink and it was the best water.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
I've ever drank.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Or I was very dehydrated.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
One or the other, either one.
But Icelandic water they getfrom the springs there.
They sell it on Amazon.
So actually, since I've been toIceland a couple years ago,
that's all I was drinking is.
Icelandic spring water and theIcelandic yogurt.
It's called skir, which also isabsolutely amazing too.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
So really, oh yeah, it's the best.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Again, yogurt, not the thing I would think of, but
I guess that makes sense thoughso I guess there isn't like a
whole lot of like agriculturethere, though, because like the
land probably isn't dairy sortof yeah like it's a dairy, it's
like the and goats, yeah likedairy is their like big export.
But they don't have like a lotof like crop farm there.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
No, no, you guys don't like sea moss, you guys
don't like lichens Come on.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
It's delicious.
I don't like the lichensdelicacy.
Yeah, it's an icelandic.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I'm sorry if I offend anyone from iceland on this.
That was strictly a joke.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
That's what I'm trying, because, like, yeah,
everything was so cool.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I don't know, with all that, I gotta ask what was
the biggest culture shock, fromlike being american to going to
iceland I got a big one theshower.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
The shower is so weird because there's two knobs,
and one is for pressure and oneis for, like, temperature
control.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Okay, that's actually kind of sweet.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
It's sweet, but the cabin that I was specifically,
it was like a cabin adjacent tothe Airbnb and like our water
was just not warm, like, and Iwas like I thought it was like a
skill issue, like I was likewhy am I not able to like turn
the dial to find the hot I would?
Like I thought it was like askill issue, like I was like why
am I not able to like turn thedial to find the hot?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
like what's going on.
I would murder someone forlukewarm right now plans.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Jess had to come in.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
She like tried to fix it for me especially after
being out in the cold all daytoo.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Yeah our water was warm.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah, our water was nice, we had warm water.
No, I went in there and I waslike, okay, well then everybody
can just come into the Airbnband take a warm shower, because
I don't want you to havehypothermia.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Go take your cold shower.
Now we're going to go stand onthe beach and shoot for six
hours.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Let's do four days, 12 to 16 hours a day.
Let's sleep for four to fivehours and then get up the next
morning, do the same thing andthen, when you want to really
sleep, let's go work aninternational music festival.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
That's how we do it here at.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Miller's Mill.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
So we have not mentioned the name of the song
yet.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
And.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I'm not going to try to pronounce it, because we
tried this before.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
So who wants to say it?
I apologize to everyone thatI'm looking at my notes, but I'm
going to give this a go.
It is Jóla KatrÃn.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah yeah, I did it Way better than I was.
That was good, all right,perfect.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Now someone else can talk.
I did the name, All right so Iguess.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Thank you for that.
You're very welcome.
Pardon my quash.
So where did that name comefrom?
What does it mean?
How did you pick it it?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
just means the Icelandic Yolkat.
So that's what they call it,and it first appeared in print
in that book in 1860.
Yeah, so that's where we gotthe name of the song.
So actually the song's inEnglish, except for the chorus,
which is the name of theIcelandic Yolkat, the Icelandic.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Yep, we know we have this music video short film
getting ready to come out.
Is there any future plans withthis?
We may be dabbling with theidea of submitting this for
certain things.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yes, it's our plan to be submitted to festivals
around the world.
So pretty cool, so we'reexcited about that.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Awesome, get it over to Eurovision we talked about
this.
Eurovision Yep, come on.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I'll call Will Ferrell.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
We'll make sure.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
So I know because this obviously was a couple of
years in the making, from likestart to finish, from concept to
whatever.
So is there maybe already someideas for like, the next big
project, that's maybe alreadybeing mulled?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
over.
There is some things going onin our head.
I talked to the director andsince both of us have German
roots, we thought we'd actuallymake a Krampus video and maybe
possibly shoot in Austria,germany.
So you're getting thepossibility.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
I'm so jealous.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
I already kind of think of that.
My family lives there.
I'll do anything.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I'll do anything.
I will fail this year, so Ihave to reenlist for another
year.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We just need your base.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
I've been very blessed to travel to Germany
many times in my life.
I have family that is overthere and I was like, oh, we can
totally make this happen.
That's awesome, but I'm goingto graduate.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
So then, now I'm really stretching.
I'll be honest, I'm reachingreal far.
So if this does as well as Ialready know, it's going to do
this project right, and thenKrampus does just as well, which
I'm sure it will, becauseyou're going to have all of
these amazing professionalpeople involved.
Could we maybe be looking atlike a theme that we might be
(29:11):
doing we might keep working withsome different, like a series?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
of dark.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Christmas yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I actually have a book at home about dark
Christmas folklore around theworld it has.
So many cultures have theseevil Christmas characters.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You're going to make your own MCU Millersville
Cinematic Universe.
Oh my God, now we're reaching.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
This should be cool.
If there's any way, alan Hunterand I and Chris can all tag
along.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
That's no big deal.
We'll just podcast about thepodcast.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Send over your resume .
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, you got it.
They'll be on your desk firstthing tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
I'm going to for my resume.
I'm going to for my resume, I'mgoing to shoot, I'm going to
send you this video and saycheckmate, so what do you got?
But no, that's dude.
I think that's a really coolidea and I think, if that's the
route you're going.
I think that's all.
Plus you guys can take thatfrom me that you guys could
technically legally call it theMCU because you have the reason
(30:13):
to?
Because it's a different MCUand that will trend wait.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
I don't know if that would go over well in court,
wouldn't it be MUCU?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Millersville University Christmas Universe no
.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
MVCU.
It was fun while it lasted.
Guys, it was fun while I guessyou're right, it is MUCU wait,
no wait.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Where is the V coming from?
Speaker 6 (30:29):
oh V.
You said music video.
Millersville UniversityCinematic University.
No, I'm just speaking up words.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
I was like wait, what did I miss?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I like MCO, we can make it work if we wanted if you
guys want to find it in court,I also just want to throw into.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
The co-producer of the record was Logan Ressler,
who worked with me and it tookso many hours of recording that
I could not do.
So I think it ended up being127 different tracks, that we
used Lots of time mixing andthings like that.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Amazing.
You were the one thatoriginally wrote the song.
I wrote the song this year, sohow did?
That was where I was going togo with this, because I knew we
were talking off cameras 127different tracks From writing
that song, from just thought topaper and then orchestrating
this and building it it.
What was that process like?
How were you, how did youdetermine like that sound
(31:19):
absolutely.
That sound absolutely not itevolved over time.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I mean, I was listening to the demo, uh, that
logan made maybe a couple monthsago and I was like hey, this
needs a viking chant.
Okay, yo like a tour and you'relike whatever.
So I brought my class in so westarted recording that.
We added that and I said hey,we need some viking chants as
well.
So we also then recorded that.
So you hear things like evenwhen we recorded the drums the
first time, I was like I justdon't want a drum set in there,
(31:43):
I want vikingish toms, likewe're at some kind of ritual so
I get students involved who areinto sampling and making beats
and things like that.
so I had three or four studentsthen submit material for that
that we'd layered.
So drums alone we probablylayered, you know, 25 tracks,
that's insane.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
That's so much production, but I mean so
definitely listen to it inheadphones, because you listen
to headphones, you will heareverything that's happening.
It's amazing on headphones.
I cannot wait.
Comes out.
Where's it going to be?
Everywhere?
All streaming platforms, allstreaming platforms so it'll be
released on on youtube.
Uh, if you want to see it forthe first time on youtube on the
12th of december wonderfulawesome.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
12, 12, 24 are having a premiere release for this
video.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yes, that was on december 8th in harrisburg, my
hometown and the hometown of ourdirector dan herzog as well, at
midtown uh cinema.
So if you check out midtowncinema uh website there's
available for tickets to uhcheck out the uh premiere and
party midtown cinema.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Okay awesome dude it's close by for us, yeah I'm
I'm super excited.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I think you guys are going to have you got to come to
the vip party.
What day of the week is?
Speaker 4 (32:51):
december 8th it's the sunday.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
It's a sunday evening , but I absolutely believe you
guys are going to get anastounding response Because, I
mean, this is no discredit.
I was like I didn't really knowwhat I was going to expect to
see, but I was like, yeah, Iknew I wanted to see it, but as
soon as I saw it dude, I can'tsay enough good things I was
like that was so well shot, likejust so many angle choices.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Anything barry touches.
You already know it's gonna begolden and it's still still
already like outshot myexpectations.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
That was amazing but I mean, we were talking about
off camera too, like there's forcertain people.
There's a certain shot in thevideo where a certain character
is standing on a cliff and it'sjust like start giving
everything away.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Alan.
Well, I'm just like.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I'm like well, wow, little thoughts of detail that
it's like that makes sense.
That's what where I saidnothing felt out of place.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
It felt so authentic and genuine all the way through,
just down to those little teadetails yeah, thank you so much
for including us in this,because we can't wait to release
it to the world oh, absolutely,I can't wait for you to release
it to the world.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Oh, absolutely, I can't wait for you to release it
to the world.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, seriously.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
You wanted to say something, then Jessica.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Oh yeah, I was just going to say all of the costume
pieces and everything.
You don't think about how mucheverything moves when you're
filming.
So you know pieces that arelike belts or like you know
headpieces or anything.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
Fur, pelts, and then yeah fur pelts.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I'm like on set, you know, like trying to like, if
you put a fur pelt to me If youput a fur pelt back onto Caitlin
and like, when you see themusic video, I was dealing with
another character and like theirwardrobe and I mean we're like
on the cliff and I'm like, okay,all right, all right, are you
ready?
Are you ready, go and like.
(34:37):
I'm like, and then I'm standingthere and I said, nope, we got
to be done, we're gonna losethis piece like we're gonna lose
it off of the cliff into the,the ocean never to be seen again
that I wish we could talk morein detail about the video.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I really do, but I don't want to give anything away
.
The last thing I do want to hiton, though, because I know this
was a very interesting, kind ofweird spur-of-the-moment
situation that happened thecharacter that we're talking
about.
We're not going to reveal whothey are, but this character was
doing something during theshooting of the video, and I
will let you guys take it fromthere.
However you guys want toaddress this, I think it's very
(35:14):
interesting.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
So jessica was with this character and in in in the
uh, in the film the characterdoes have some powers and you
know she was practicing hermagical powers, and so I looked
away and I heard this scream andI thought jess, who was with
her, had fallen over and hit herhead on a tombstone, since we
spent all morning in thecemetery, but here when she did
this, a bird flew out of the skyand landed dead beside her feet
(35:39):
.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
So yeah, I have a picture of it.
It's true, it's so crazy.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
What are the odds of that?
Did you guys go buy scratchers?
I told her not to point at meever.
That's a valid thing, becauseyou did just point and something
literally just died.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
It's just like that Spider-Man moment, where you're
just like whoa, I do havesuperpowers.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Can you imagine if it was like a kid, because every
kid has tried that where they'relike?
If I believe hard enough, Iguarantee I could have it.
And if a kid in that moment wasjust like, and then a bird died
, they'd be like, they would bepetrified.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
Life is going to change.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
Oh God.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
But no, I can't say enough good things about this.
Honestly, I'm so proud of youguys.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Of what you guys have put together I'm proud of the
way it sounds you guys'performance, the shooting, the
directing, the concept,everything the entirety as a
whole.
It is pretty astounding.
Is there anything and I don'twant to sound like we're
unprepared, but I want to makesure this is your guys' moment
is there anything that wehaven't touched on that you
would like to share with theworld regarding this process?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
well, I think it's just cool that, you know, so
many students got involved in it.
I mean really from anywhere,from the background vocalist to
whatever.
We had probably two dozenstudents involved in the project
, I think, to give them this,these kind of experiences where
they could go international tofilm a music video while they're
in college, I mean, and justseeing that happen.
You know, I remember holding upthe boom box while they're, you
know, while we're recording,and just hearing, just seeing
(37:05):
the students all dressed up, youknow, recreating the song that
I wrote and you know it was sosurreal and just, you know, just
having that experience isamazing.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
And we're right there .
I mean I've looked at them somany times.
I mean it was freezing, likewe're standing on the top of a
waterfall and think about, likewhen you go to a waterfall on a
pretty day, getting wet from allof the all of the water coming
off of it, and then it's rainingand then it's cold, yeah, and
then, and then we're like wipingthe lens off because there's so
(37:36):
much rain on it, and so I justkept looking at everybody.
I was like you're in freakingiceland shooting a music video
we're from you know, we're frompodunk like places in central pa
, like people don't even knowthe name, millersville
University, outside ofPennsylvania, and we're in
Iceland shooting a music video,and so I think I think that was
(37:58):
crazy.
And the other thing is like youcan plan as many things as you
want, but when you're dealingwith Icelandic weather, like it
has a mind of its own.
We shot, shot at one waterfalland we had planned to go to
another one, and we pulled upthis van, which Dr Addix learned
how to drive a van in Iceland,which I felt like we should have
said too, which was crazy.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
What do you mean?
Learn how to drive a van.
It was huge, it was a big van.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
He's carting around all these people on these roads.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
The guardrails are about one foot off the ground.
We're going over top ofmountains and there's fog.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
It was an experience that foot guardrail is really
going to stop all that man Withnine people in the car, yeah,
exactly we're waiting to go intothis next waterfall and you can
literally feel the van movelike you can feel the wind
hitting the van and I'm like, um, I don't know if we should do
(38:57):
this I think it's a bad idea, sowe decided.
We were like you know what.
We saw that place on the sideof the road.
It's a little touristattraction, why don't we go
there?
And so we literally backtracked, stopped off the side of the
road and we shot there.
We decided to shoot there andit was just like, oh yeah, we'll
(39:18):
just, we'll just shoot here.
And I was like what is evenhappening?
What is even happening rightnow?
Speaker 3 (39:24):
I just I would love to be a fly on the wall in this
entire process that's like.
That's like I'm hearing allthis and I'm like dude I, I'm
jealous of you guys In thehealthiest way possible.
I think it's such a coolexperience that you guys got to
be a part of we had such a greattime even behind the scenes.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
It was all giggles and smiles when we were in
between being sleep deprived andhungry.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
And freezing, and hungry.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
I feel like everybody had good attitudes and like
even the people that aren't hereright now, like m and aiden and
shout out sydney yeah, like itwas such a great time with such
great people like
Speaker 3 (40:01):
memories forever.
Yeah, so outside of shootingthe music video, obviously, what
was your favorite part of thetrip?
Speaker 6 (40:09):
um, this is like like extending for like the whole
thing.
Um, obviously, like the wholeentire thing for me was just
awesome, just because, like I ama huge metalhead, like I love
it so much and I uh, it was justso cool to be asked to be
brought onto something like this.
And then after that we alsoattended iceland airwaves and so
(40:31):
I got to talk to like becauseamerican metal is good, but
european metal is sort of whereit's at.
So actually we can, we candebate yeah, yeah, we can debate
.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
I can agree with you, depending on who we're talking
about, and I will disagree withyou.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Yeah, we're talking about, but but, um, it was like
really cool to talk to peoplethat grew up with that and
that's the only thing that theyknow.
Just sort of getting to.
My favorite part was just sortof getting to enrich myself in
that culture.
It was awesome.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
That sounds awesome.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
I mean anytime you can kind of what's it called
gain some culture.
Yeah, it's humbling the placesthat I've been around the world
that are very different fromAmerica.
I mean I already can make aneducated guess that I'm probably
not going to enjoy it that muchthere, it's probably not going
to be my favorite place, but Istill always leave it rich
because you can learn so manythings you can learn.
(41:24):
There are people that live onthe other side of the planet and
they live like this compared tohow we live, and it's always a
very humbling and enrichingexperience when you can do that,
what about you?
Speaker 5 (41:35):
Oh my gosh.
Well, I don't think I shouldsay it on a podcast but there
was a particular museum that wewent to.
That was pretty funny.
You can look it up, it's prettyfamous.
Speaker 6 (41:47):
Yeah, just look up museums in Iceland.
Yeah, just look up museums inIceland.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
Yeah, okay, yeah and Reykjavik, you'll find it.
We actually have no idea whatthey're talking about no we'll
tell you after.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
We will have to Google that after we also got to
go to one of the lagoons whichthey don't have in the US.
Oh yeah, we got to go to theSky Lagoon so nice, it was
awesome.
What is the sky lagoon?
Speaker 4 (42:17):
it's like a.
It's essentially oh okay, well,like a spa kind of thing, but
it's outdoor and it's like um,the the blue lagoon is the one
that is not not man-made, rightyeah, that's the blue sky lagoon
was the sky but it is like theBlue Lagoon, isn't it?
It's heated up from the geysers.
Yeah it's like from the actualgeothermal A geothermal like
natural hot spring.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Oh okay, you guys said Sky Lagoon.
I was like I have never heardof that.
Speaker 5 (42:43):
I was like.
I don't know what that is.
It's like Sky Zone, thetrampoline one.
Oh, okay, cool, cool, cool cool, cool, cool cool.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
I knew what you were going to say it's water heated
by lava, oh perfect, so we'reswimming in lava?
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Well, actually, not far from it, because last year,
two days after we left Iceland,they had a volcanic eruption.
This year it happened a weekafter we left.
In fact, the cars that were inthe parking lot of the Blue
Lagoon the lava came and went tothe uh, the parking structure
there.
So that's not, that's not good,but we've always been lucky to
avoid addicts.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
I I feel like maybe you might need to start planning
your trips to icelanddifferently, just to save the
people from iceland because Idon't know if it's tied to when
you're going and the birds.
Don't forget the birds he'slike he gets on the plane.
He's like all right, iceland,good luck.
I don't know when it's going tohappen, but it's going to
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happen as soon as the planetakes off, boom, there it goes.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Dr Addicts what was your favorite part?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah, I think you know, when you have a concept in
your head for a video, you knowlike last spring, and all of a
sudden then you're actually inthe video.
You know like last spring, andall of a sudden then you're
actually in the video whenyou're filming it.
There is nothing like that kindof rush because you're like I
just imagined what it would belike and all of a sudden we're
standing there on the Black SandBeach during sunrise and seeing
everybody perform.
I'm like I'm in the middle ofmy freaking video.
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That was inside my head and nowI actually get to live it, and
just seeing that was amazing andyou get to see it with your
protégés, like making it come tolife too.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
So it's the people that you've like taught, people
you've educated as well.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
I picked them well because I mean everybody in the
band and Jessica such a hugehelp.
I mean they really they pulledit together and they really made
the video like I wanted to makeit.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
So proud of my, my, uh, these kids, pupils, pupils.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Honestly I really I don't know if there's like a
better note to end this on.
That is such a full-heartedlike we didn't get your favorite
part oh, I guess you didn't umI would honestly say I think all
of.
Speaker 4 (44:45):
I think I have multiple favorite parts, because
there were so many momentswhere I was like, alright, well,
I guess we're doing this.
I mean, alright, I guess I'mgoing to meet the makeup artist
I've never met before.
Alright, I guess we're gonna gostand in a cemetery and film
her and we're gonna figure outhow to get this piece onto
somebody's head.
Or I would say, being on theBlack Sand Beach and looking at
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the band and seeing how you knowit's, it's cold and you're on a
beach, so you want to like takeyour shoes off the ocean,
everything, but it's cold.
And we're standing therelooking at this beautiful, you
know, the beautiful band, theeverything.
And then somebody turns to meand they're like all right, can
you please go do Freya's makeup.
And I'm like, yep, be back in 45minutes, and then we come back
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and Freya's all ready and we'vegot her all and so we got some
glam shots and stuff.
So I would just say havinglittle bits of pieces of
everything all together would bemy favorite part.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
That's so cool.
It's incredible man.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
I just am so excited to see this, and I think I can
speak for the rest of the worldtoo.
You guys are going to love this.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Absolutely so well, is there anything else?
Maybe we may have forgot tocover or anything.
I think we covered it.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
We appreciate it Thank you for coming, thank you
and thinking to come to us torelease this, yes, this has been
an honor yeah, an honor To sithere with you guys and get to
learn about this experience.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
So much fun for us.
Thanks for coming out toMillersville too.
I appreciate you having us hereAbsolutely.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
We made the travel.
I appreciate you guys hostingus here and showing us your
wonderful studio here.
If you're a student consideringa college for music, definitely
Millersville, check them out.
Dr Barry Addix, isa, wonderfulprofessor and a homie as well.
He's gang, gang.
So everyone, thank you so much,appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
We appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
It was a pleasure meeting all of you.
By the way, ma'am, until nexttime.
Speaker 5 (46:47):
Until next time, thank you.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
Well, everyone, that about does it for this special
episode.
Thank you so much for tuning inand, of course, a huge special
thank you to Dr Barry Addix andMillersville University for
hosting us today to get theinside scoop on this.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
And now that you've watched the full interview, the
actual release of this videowill be December 12th.
On YouTube and anywhere you canlisten to music, as well as
iRock Radio.
The premiere if you would liketo come see the premiere will be
December 8th at the HarrisburgMidtown cinema.
They have a viewing at sevenand they have a viewing at eight
, and then there's an afterparty.
So if you want to be one of thefirst lucky viewers, you know
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where to go.
Also, don't forget to check outall the links at the end of our
video, Then after that you dowhatever you want, all right.
So, guys, thank you once againfor tuning in and we'll see you
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next time.
Have a good one, you.
Welcome to a special episode of the Central
Pennsylvania Music Podcast.
Hello and welcome to anotherspecial episode of the Central
Pennsylvania Music Podcast.
I'm your host, Daniel, and I'myour co-host, Alan.
Today we are here atMillersville University.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Where we were invited by the wonderful Dr Barry Addix
.
He has an incredible projectthat he wanted us to get some
inside coverage on by himselfand some of his students.
So we made the trek down toMillersville and now we're going
to sit down with both DrBariatics and those students
Stay tuned and we are sittingdown with the Le Le Joule
Racabonde comprised of ZoeCaitlin, jessica and Dr
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Bariatics here.
So what you guys have createdis pretty impressive.
It's kind of wild and crazy,and I just want to start right
at the beginning of where thisall started and how this whole
concept which we'll get intocame to be well, last year we
took some students to iceland towork the european music
festival over there and Ilearned about this legend they
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had called the yule cat.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Like what is the yule cat yule katarin is is the
Icelandic translation for the.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Jokat Says it flawlessly, Flawlessly, Off
camera.
We were trying to say this wordso many times and he just
nailed it.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
So I said it a million times over the last six
months, but I had to start there.
But so this legend started inthe medieval times and basically
Iceland was a clothes-makingsociety and everybody had to do
their part.
So to threaten children, theywould say hey, you know, if you
don't work hard during the year,you wouldn't get new clothes
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for christmas, and if you didn't, this cat, which is two stories
tall, very evil, would come andtake your children and take
them to the mountains to eatthem.
So kind of threaten childreninto working hard, you know,
during the year wow yeah, yeah,this is like a house cat.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
that's two stories high.
It's not like a tiger or a lion.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
No, it's like a house cat.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, two stories tall, two story tall Fluffy
Fluffy's very mad if you haveold boys.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
He's very mad, he's hissing and he's taking children
away from their parents if theydon't work hard during the year
.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Oh okay, so apparently we make light of this
, but this actually led to like.
This story was banned correct.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
That's correct.
The Danish government actuallycame into Iceland and said hey,
you can't tell the story anymorebecause children are being
traumatized by this story, whichis crazy.
But then 1860, it was actuallypublished for the first time and
the video we do actually takesplace in 1860, when it was first
written down the legend of theuh, the yule cat.
(02:26):
That's crazy.
How far back does the storydate prior to being?
Actually the research thatwe've done is medieval times,
wow.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So yes, it's been around for a long time that's
crazy, and I mean you brought upoff camera too.
Uh, it was completely random,but you're like weren't like
domesticated cats, like didn'tthey come from?
Like egypt say, how did theyeven get in iceland?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
yeah, I actually was looking up where domestic cats
came from, because I thought itwas Egypt and I was like, how
did an ice?
Because it did date back to themedieval time when we did our
research.
How did Iceland come up withthis cat that is as large as a
house to scare the children Like, when did this come about?
Did Vikings go get a cat andthen bring it?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
A little ice bridge, and now Iceland actually
protects domestic cats.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's crazy.
So okay, so this is how thestory happened.
So how did you get inspired towant to write a song about this?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Well, for the last four years we've made music
videos in the music industryprogram here at Mellowsville.
And this year we thought, hey,why not go big or go home?
So we thought you know whatWouldn program here at
Milosville.
And this year we thought, hey,why not go go bigger, go home?
So we thought, you know whatwouldn't be cool doing an
international video.
And when I found out about theYulcat and did more research, I
said, hey, wouldn't it be coolif we brought this story to life
about, you know, a family thatlearns about the Yulcat.
And the Yulcat, you know,terrorizes children's dreams.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
That's such a cool concept best field trip ever
dude.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
The past two years I got to work on both of the music
videos with Dr Addicts and so Iwanted to do something on
Krampus.
And then he presented this ideato me and I was like, oh, we
could totally do it.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I was like we could do it.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
We could do it.
He was like you think we could,you think we could?
I was like yeah, and we weregoing to Iceland anyway festival
again this year.
So we thought, well, whilewe're over there, we might as
well go a couple extra daysearly and, uh, shoot the video
so with that shooting the video.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So how?
How did you guys end up gettingselected to be part of this?
How were you guys selected asthe performers?
What was that selection processlike?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
um, I received an email.
Well, actually no no, youactually called me in the
summertime because, you know,and I was just like you're like,
do you want to go on this tripto iceland?
And uh, we're doing this musicvideo about it's like a, an
icelandic folk tale about thislike big cat, and like we think
you'd be perfect for it.
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I was like, okay, and you're agreat.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You're a great bass player.
Well, yeah, I guess, so yeah Iguess that part too.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
But yeah, I was instantly.
I was like sign me up like I'm.
There's no way I'm not going todo this be a part of this
that's awesome.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yeah, um, for me.
I got an email one day by draddicts and it was.
He was like do you have anyvideos of you seeing like any
rock songs?
And I was like, come to thinkof it, I I don't.
And like just no explanation,no, nothing.
I was just like all right, likehere's just two rock songs.
I was in my room at the timejust doing nothing.
So I was like, all right, I'lljust send him like I'll just
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play a karaoke track and sing toit really quick.
And then I sent it to him andand I'm a huge metal head, I
love metal so he was like, yeah,we're doing a folk metal song
in Iceland.
I was like don't explain, nomore.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I'll be there.
Yeah, I'll be there.
Where do I?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
sign my name.
Swipe the card yeah exactly,take my card.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
In one of our student projects last year, caitlin was
the screamer voice on one ofthe tracks, so I knew that she
could scream.
I knew that she used to singclassical.
I needed to hear her rock voiceand once I heard that I was
like we got to have Caitlin andanyone who knows me.
I'm just like I'm a sucker forscreaming, but I mean, we did,
we actually.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
You were very generous to show us a sneak peek
of this video and, dude, thissong came together like
flawlessly.
It gets so good and he barrywas barry knows I'm a sucker for
screaming.
He's like.
He's like wait, he's like myfavorite part's coming up and it
was, and it was when you werelike, we heard the screaming
undertones and I I've got to behonest I was like dude, I was
floored, I was blown away.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
The layering was amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
The balance was perfect, but, dude, your growls
were like thank you, I was likeokay, I was like Spirit Box eat
your heart out.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Definitely gave you some goosebumps, for sure.
I was like whoa Thank you.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You got some competition now, finally, Spirit
Box.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And it was weird how they came about, because we were
thinking of either using cleanvocals or those vocals, but then
my engineer, logan Ressler, whodid most of the recording for
us.
He played both at the same time, just so I could hear both of
them like wait a minute.
That sounds pretty freakingcool because at that point she's
actually embodying the cat, sowe wanted kind of that evilness
come out of caitlin you know.
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So we kind of had the goodcaitlin evil caitlin, both
singing together.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
So and what did that feel like?
Like hearing those come forwardand like when you're like, wow,
that sounds really good.
What was that like?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
it was hearing the final mix, I was because it's
especially coming to a musicschool as well.
You hear the difference,obviously, between like live and
recorded and just hearing thejourney it took to get there.
It was awesome, especially myvoice used for it.
That was awesome like seeing,because obviously my voice is
really personal to me.
So, um, it was really cool tosee my voice used in that
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context.
Even seeing the video, I'm justlike I have to remember that's
me, like I, I don't even, Idon't even think that's me
sometimes even though you're theone.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, like this out-of-body experience.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
It's like, oh my god, that's actually me I feel like
it's really important to say forcaitlin that she actually is a
very classical vocalist she, Imean she can sing.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
We were talking off camera and you're like, you're
primarily classical, like operabased right.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Yeah, so doing this like it.
I mean, I've also been neverput in front of a camera like
this before, so it was, it wasnot this, but it's okay.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Only the entire world will see this.
Yeah, hopefully.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
But I like, so, like really having to emote like that
for a song in a style I'venever sang before, that was
really cool.
It was like it was really coolto push myself in that way and
also it was clearly somethingthat I would enjoy doing.
So I obviously enjoyed it, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You bring up a really good point, like the emoting
during that yeah how did you?
Because that's something Ialways, I'll be honest I
struggled with when it came tolike performing, certainly
especially in music videos.
Like you get scrutinized if youlook terrible in your music
videos.
So how did you channel thatenergy to make it?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
feel natural.
Yeah, me and Zoe can speak alot to this Perfect yeah please.
Yeah, it was a little cold,but-.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Just a little.
Just a little.
Don't say it was a little cold.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
it was a little cold, but just a little.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Yeah, I was just like , don't say it was a little, but
caitlin kept the absolute bestattitude the entire time for 29
degrees all day outside.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, it was the.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I think it was the second or no, it was the third
day we were there.
Second first day of filming.
No, on the by the waterfall.
Yeah, that was like our firstexperience and I was like I was
like, oh it's like all right, Ihad like jess, like tied this
little like yarn thing to the tothe base, which we'll get into.
But, um, the the base.
(09:14):
Like carrying that while rainis pouring on you, and like
several different directions andyou have makeup on.
You're like hoping it doesn'tlike smudge all over your face
but I was really, yeah, reallyraining.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I just like by the end of this, but in the music my
mascara is gonna be halfwaydown my face warm makeup yeah dr
addict said I couldn't do thewar makeup because that's what I
wanted to do.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
I wanted to do Viking war makeup on their faces and
then the mascara was running andI was like ha ha ha.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I got my wish anyways .
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I got my wish anyways .
When are you graduating again?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So talk about the production a little bit.
I mean this.
So talk about the production alittle bit.
I mean, this music video isabsolutely amazing.
It's being turned into a shortfilm, is that correct?
So where did you guys get the?
I mean, I guess we know wherethe inspiration came from, but,
like, where did you start withfilming that?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
so, um, in the springtime I had a friend of
mine from high school who I hadnot seen for 30 plus years since
he graduated, and I knew he wasin film.
He shot films in la and newyork and he was by coast.
He owns a by coastal companyand I was teaching a film
scoring class.
I said, hey, why don't you comein and talk to the students
about being a director in music?
And then we had lunchafterwards and I kind of pitched
this idea and said, uh, hey,danny, we'd love to have you
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work with the students and maybewe could work something out.
And that day we were like youknow what?
This?
This is such a cool concept.
He said I'm all in, his wife'sa producer too, so both of them
are professional producers anddirectors.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh, that's awesome.
So then of course, we had aprofessional photographer, a
makeup artist, a costumedesigner, so things just kept
snowballing there Progressing wewanted to make the best
possible video there was, sowe're very nailed it yeah
imagine having like a conceptand just everything like legit,
like pieces just fall together,like, oh cool, we have, we have
a costume designer, we have amakeup artist, we have multiple
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producers involved, directors,and you're just like, hmm, I
don't want to do this anymore.
Like, just imagine taking thatturn.
But that's crazy, though,because so many people have
these ideas of like these bigconcepts and dude, this just
came together perfectly.
And the way you guys decided toshoot things like I don't want
to give too much away because II want the reveal to be the
reveal, but I I told you as soonas I started seeing it, you
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guys just did such a good jobsetting the tone and the
atmosphere of, like how you justbuilt up the video.
It was like it was flawless.
There was not a single part ofthis video that seemed out of
place by any means.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
It flowed so well, thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Our little horror Christmas video.
Yeah, dude, it is so good.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
But speaking of horror, yeah, so you were
talking about the base, we cantalk about the, so tell us about
the cemetery base.
The base, oh yes.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
I don't know how I'm going to do this without looking
strange.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Is that okay.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
I don't know, I didn't really do the process of
hunting it down, what?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
happened was the first morning we had to shoot in
a cemetery for a horror video.
Of course I was talking to thecaretaker and I went into his
office and I saw all thesetrinkets on the wall.
I said what's all this stuff?
He said people leave stuff inthe cemetery.
I'm like really.
He said, yeah, they haveparties in the cemetery or they
rob cars near the cemetery.
They take out what they needand leave the rest there, et
cetera.
So they saw this base in thecorner and I said what about
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that?
He said oh, yeah, somebody leftthis here years ago.
I'm like how much you want forthat base?
He said you know, I think thiswould be great for my video.
He said, well, if it's for yourvideo, take the bass.
So that morning we adopted thebass because we were going to
borrow a bass that was red andwhite.
We have to change everything inpost-production, changing it
from red and white to brown, andthis was just sitting in a
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cemetery morning, number one.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
So it became the cemetery bass that we used for
the shoot and.
I would say that that was likea two-month process.
I mean we're trying to figureout like how we're going to get,
because I mean I don't know ifyou know, but like instruments
will crack or break.
Oh, absolutely you have to payextra money to get them into
onto an airplane and, like Zoe,didn't want to bring her base
and completely understandable.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Right.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
And so we have, you know, we're trying to figure out
this electric guitar and thisbass and we're like talking to
these like random people inIceland, Like can we borrow your
instruments for a music video?
And so having a bass, I mean itwas just, it was kismet in a
sense.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
How did that feel, though, when someone just showed
up and they were like hey, Ifound this graveyard bass,
Congratulations.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
It was very haunting, I guess would be the correct
word for it like a little afraidto touch it at first, like uh,
yeah, I guess I could say that,and I was just like, oh okay,
like I was like trying to figureout if it was um like homemade,
because I'd never seen anythinglike it before.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
There's no name on that and you can't really tell
on camera.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
but it's a fretless bass so I'm like it just has
such a nice, like warm tone toit.
It's like I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So you got it actually up and running and
everything and it plays.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Well, it needs a 9-volt battery, but I've been
like screwing around with itjust like acoustically, like
without plugging it.
That's awesome and it soundslike good, just on its own.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
It does sound good.
Watch, you're gonna be likeyou're gonna join a band someday
and like you're gonna record alike an album that wins a grammy
, and that's gonna be the basicplay on it that's honestly like
I, yeah, I, I want to get thisto be my main instrument.
And like, yeah, oh, that's cool, that would be great.
So it went from kind of likebeing scared to kind of like I'm
gonna treasure this now I mean,what a great story.
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Yeah, it's true though it's truea hundred percent so I can only
imagine, then too, like you'retrying to get these instruments,
how are you going to color tonethis and all the locations
logistically?
What went into this trip?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I would talk about jess here to be honest with you
no, not me, jess, there'sactually.
So, for the production companywe worked with in the wee hours
was with Dan Herzog and GhanaHerzog they did.
I mean, barry has been toIceland many times and so he
knew a lot of places, but theywere also looking.
And then they used somebody Hername's Jess Costello, okay,
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were also looking, and then theyused somebody her name's jess
castillo, okay, and she was justin the background kind of
looking for all of thesedifferent places what airbnb we
could go to, because I mean, tobe honest with you, we're all
going to school and working andlike live, like doing our jobs
all at the same time and like wedidn't get to take off for five
months and plan this project.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
That makes sense, and so she.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
I would say she was a really, really big help and I
don't want her name to beforgotten, for sure as well as
gonna hurt.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
so yeah, I mean, last year when I was there was my
first time to south iceland andthat's where they have all the
huge waterfalls and the blacksand beach.
Actually, justin bieber filmeda video there, maybe six, seven
years ago, uh, on the black sandbeach area, and you know we, I
just fell in love with that areaand I was just like I love the
waterfall, I just love thedesolation of it.
And I think just the landscape.
It's gorgeous.
I mean, it's perfect for whatthis video is all about.
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Oh, 100%.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
You guys picked not even just the right location,
but just even on the rightlocations.
You guys picked the rightangles.
You picked everything likewhat's in the backdrops.
Like, because you didn't, youcould have just shot straight
out at the ocean, and you did atcertain times when you know the
camera's panning, but othertimes you're seeing the cliff
faces on the side, like you guyspainted the picture perfectly
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so you could tell this waslegitimate.
This wasn't like photoshop,this wasn't like we made it look
like we were in.
It's like you can tell that'siceland, like there's no
disputing it, and I think thatwas awesome.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
I do have a question.
So every story has a storywithin.
So was there ever a moment inthe entire process of getting
out to Iceland and everythingwhere you had almost like an oh
crap moment, like is this goingto work or anything Like?
Was there anything that went?
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Day one when the lighting director they hired
didn't show and we were doingall the indoor scenes.
So we had a call around Iceland, which is a very small country,
of course, yeah, trying to geta lighting company at the last
minute to come in and do a 10hour shoot.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
While we were in Iceland already.
That was the second panicattack.
That wasn't even like the onebefore we made it on to the trip
.
We were there and we were like,oh, what do you do?
That was the question.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Everyone.
We're going to Walmart and get.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
We're getting flashlights.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
We're going to buy it all and we'll charge it to the
school account.
It is what it is.
We're already here.
What was the first oh crapmoment, if I can ask?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Can I say yeah.
I bringing this damn cat to life.
I I don't know if we're evenlike talking about a cat that's
as large as a house, and just Imean, when we came up with like
when he came up with this idea,and like we had met dan herzog
(18:07):
because I was actually in thethe filming class that he was
talking to, and he was like I'm,I'm thinking I'm going to ask
him, I'm going to ask him if hewants to be a part of this
project and I was like do it, doit.
And then I was like how thehell are we going to come up
with a cat as large as a house?
Like how are we going to do it?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
You get the whole town together.
They just they're like, yes,very intimidating and I will
tell you what.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
I will believe it at the premiere.
I will believe it at thepremiere.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I might cry.
Have you guys seen any kind ofsneak peeks of the sea cat
that's going into it?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
They've only seen the skeleton of the cat, but they
haven't seen the cat yet.
The bigger reveal is going tobe next week.
It's hairless right now yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I was working with the other guy who came along
with Ryan and he was showing mehow he was putting stuff
together.
And there's not a lot of timeI'm very extroverted, there's
not a lot of times where I'mspeechless and he was showing me
how he was doing stuff andputting it together and I was
like I could sit here for hoursand just watch you just throw
(19:12):
crap together.
He was making a die's likemaking making a die.
Look like it was, um, like youknow, like a rolling dice yeah
making it look like it was likedisintegrating and I was like I
seriously don't know what'shappening, right now I'm so
sleep deprived.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
This is so cool.
That's the type of stuff thatalso like blows my mind, like I
wish I had time to like kind oflearn that kind of a special
effects it's.
When you see that stuff andwhen it looks so realistic and
believable, I'm just like comeon, man, that's some of the
coolest stuff, and I know howmuch work goes into capturing
that and making it lookrealistic and also finding a
place that we could open themovie with, where the mother's
reading the story to the twokids.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
We were able to film at a museum, so that house was
built in the 1800s and they letus use anything in the house,
which was amazing, that'sawesome that part of the museum.
Yeah, they totally opened it upto us and it was absolutely
perfect for the video.
How did you guys locate theactresses?
So we actually interviewedmaybe three or four Icelandic
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families, so in the wee hours,the production company.
So we were watching all these.
You know, watching these videosand there's a lot of running
away from monsters, right?
So we had to watch film oflittle kids running away, just
running, see if they could run,for one thing the one just trips
over the feet.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
You're like out all right next family.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It was also important too that at least at least
somebody spoke english.
Well, because we had one familywhere the kids were at seven or
eight new english but themother did, which would make it
a little bit more difficult infilming.
Yeah, in this circumstance thegirls did not know much English
at all, but the mother wasbilingual, so it made it a lot
easier.
And the mother looked reallymean on video.
She looked very stoic.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
It's funny because in person she's so nice, which is
weird.
But when we saw her on film I'mlike I think she actually is
telling her kids that they willbe eaten by the cat and they're
gonna believe her.
And that's why we picked her,because I'm like she actually
embodied like hey, you're gonna,you're gonna pay for what you
did yeah, absolutely yeah, she'sperfect, that's oh my, there's
so many things you can talkabout with this like it's just a
(21:10):
quick question.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Did any of you, you guys try, sir Stroming, while
you were there?
What Is this?
The dried fish?
It's that canned fish?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
No, no, oh, okay.
Is that the fermented shark?
Is that something different?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
No, it comes in the red and yellow can and it's like
there's so many videos ofpeople like they like can't even
like stomach the smell.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I wasn't brave enough and, honestly, anytime I had
time to eat, I was like I wantthis to be the best meal I've
ever had.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Okay.
So, speaking of that, what islike icelandic food, like how
was that?
Because, I'll be honest, I,outside of like I can't tell you
a single dish from iceland.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Jess and I spent a good time at the hot dogs, yeah
there's a lot of hot dogs famoushot dog.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
A lot of hot dogs, that's dogs a lot of hot dogs, I
would say that's veryinteresting.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I would think that's like America you know, yeah, but
it's different.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
It's not like American hot dogs, it's probably
like actual good meat yeah wasit better than our hot dogs?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
yes, absolutely well, first off, that's un-American
no, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Do they Un-American?
Absolutely not.
Do they use any weirdcondiments with them or anything
?
Speaker 6 (22:16):
Yes, yes, that's the biggest thing that surprised me
is that anything that would be,it would be this white sauce and
it would just taste like pepper.
They love pepper there.
Interesting or paprika orpaprika Taco seasoning.
They have taco seasoning fortheir fries there in fast food
restaurants.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
What Like taco seasoned fries?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well, we stopped at the KFC and there's no mashed
potatoes or biscuits, buteverything comes with fries.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
That KFC was so weird Is.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Zoe saying it's a no-go, or is it good?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
It was just I don't want to hate on Because the
workers were so nice and like.
I'm sure it's not their fault,but like the chicken was like,
but they're known for theIcelandic lamb soup.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
That's the big thing, because lamb is huge over there
.
That was good.
I had that.
That was good.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
That's the best you can get you don't go to Iceland
to eat KFC, that's a valid point.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
You don't yeah, you don't go to Iceland to eat
produce either, like I feel likethey do like a lot of like
preserving there and stuff likethat like or not preserve, like
curing of like meats and stufflike that yeah, I mean that
makes sense.
Yeah, I'll be honest.
If I'm going to Iceland, thefirst thing that's not going to
be in my mind Where's thenearest KFC?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Yeah, look for the bonus store.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
They can't really do much farming there in Iceland,
can they?
Iceland is very expensive.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And Icelandic people.
Actually, I was told by themakeup artist that I was
speaking to that Icelandicpeople get really upset with
Americans because we come home,we make videos like this and we
say it's super expensive.
The water bottles are like $10.
But the water that comes out ofthe tap in Iceland is the water
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that is in the water bottlethat says Icelandic water, and
so it's like Americans go there,buy a plastic water bottle
because that's what we do andthey're like you're stupid.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
The water comes.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I drank.
The first year I was there.
I drank water out of the hotelsink and it was the best water.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
I've ever drank.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Or I was very dehydrated.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
One or the other, either one.
But Icelandic water they getfrom the springs there.
They sell it on Amazon.
So actually, since I've been toIceland a couple years ago,
that's all I was drinking is.
Icelandic spring water and theIcelandic yogurt.
It's called skir, which also isabsolutely amazing too.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
So really, oh yeah, it's the best.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Again, yogurt, not the thing I would think of, but
I guess that makes sense thoughso I guess there isn't like a
whole lot of like agriculturethere, though, because like the
land probably isn't dairy sortof yeah like it's a dairy, it's
like the and goats, yeah likedairy is their like big export.
But they don't have like a lotof like crop farm there.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
No, no, you guys don't like sea moss, you guys
don't like lichens Come on.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
It's delicious.
I don't like the lichensdelicacy.
Yeah, it's an icelandic.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I'm sorry if I offend anyone from iceland on this.
That was strictly a joke.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
That's what I'm trying, because, like, yeah,
everything was so cool.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I don't know, with all that, I gotta ask what was
the biggest culture shock, fromlike being american to going to
iceland I got a big one theshower.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
The shower is so weird because there's two knobs,
and one is for pressure and oneis for, like, temperature
control.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Okay, that's actually kind of sweet.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
It's sweet, but the cabin that I was specifically,
it was like a cabin adjacent tothe Airbnb and like our water
was just not warm, like, and Iwas like I thought it was like a
skill issue, like I was likewhy am I not able to like turn
the dial to find the hot I would?
Like I thought it was like askill issue, like I was like why
am I not able to like turn thedial to find the hot?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
like what's going on.
I would murder someone forlukewarm right now plans.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Jess had to come in.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
She like tried to fix it for me especially after
being out in the cold all daytoo.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Yeah our water was warm.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah, our water was nice, we had warm water.
No, I went in there and I waslike, okay, well then everybody
can just come into the Airbnband take a warm shower, because
I don't want you to havehypothermia.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Go take your cold shower.
Now we're going to go stand onthe beach and shoot for six
hours.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Let's do four days, 12 to 16 hours a day.
Let's sleep for four to fivehours and then get up the next
morning, do the same thing andthen, when you want to really
sleep, let's go work aninternational music festival.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
That's how we do it here at.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Miller's Mill.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
So we have not mentioned the name of the song
yet.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
And.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I'm not going to try to pronounce it, because we
tried this before.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
So who wants to say it?
I apologize to everyone thatI'm looking at my notes, but I'm
going to give this a go.
It is Jóla KatrÃn.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah yeah, I did it Way better than I was.
That was good, all right,perfect.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Now someone else can talk.
I did the name, All right so Iguess.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Thank you for that.
You're very welcome.
Pardon my quash.
So where did that name comefrom?
What does it mean?
How did you pick it it?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
just means the Icelandic Yolkat.
So that's what they call it,and it first appeared in print
in that book in 1860.
Yeah, so that's where we gotthe name of the song.
So actually the song's inEnglish, except for the chorus,
which is the name of theIcelandic Yolkat, the Icelandic.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Yep, we know we have this music video short film
getting ready to come out.
Is there any future plans withthis?
We may be dabbling with theidea of submitting this for
certain things.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yes, it's our plan to be submitted to festivals
around the world.
So pretty cool, so we'reexcited about that.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Awesome, get it over to Eurovision we talked about
this.
Eurovision Yep, come on.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I'll call Will Ferrell.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
We'll make sure.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
So I know because this obviously was a couple of
years in the making, from likestart to finish, from concept to
whatever.
So is there maybe already someideas for like, the next big
project, that's maybe alreadybeing mulled?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
over.
There is some things going onin our head.
I talked to the director andsince both of us have German
roots, we thought we'd actuallymake a Krampus video and maybe
possibly shoot in Austria,germany.
So you're getting thepossibility.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
I'm so jealous.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
I already kind of think of that.
My family lives there.
I'll do anything.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I'll do anything.
I will fail this year, so Ihave to reenlist for another
year.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We just need your base.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
I've been very blessed to travel to Germany
many times in my life.
I have family that is overthere and I was like, oh, we can
totally make this happen.
That's awesome, but I'm goingto graduate.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
So then, now I'm really stretching.
I'll be honest, I'm reachingreal far.
So if this does as well as Ialready know, it's going to do
this project right, and thenKrampus does just as well, which
I'm sure it will, becauseyou're going to have all of
these amazing professionalpeople involved.
Could we maybe be looking atlike a theme that we might be
(29:11):
doing we might keep working withsome different, like a series?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
of dark.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Christmas yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I actually have a book at home about dark
Christmas folklore around theworld it has.
So many cultures have theseevil Christmas characters.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
You're going to make your own MCU Millersville
Cinematic Universe.
Oh my God, now we're reaching.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
This should be cool.
If there's any way, alan Hunterand I and Chris can all tag
along.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
That's no big deal.
We'll just podcast about thepodcast.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Send over your resume .
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, you got it.
They'll be on your desk firstthing tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
I'm going to for my resume.
I'm going to for my resume, I'mgoing to shoot, I'm going to
send you this video and saycheckmate, so what do you got?
But no, that's dude.
I think that's a really coolidea and I think, if that's the
route you're going.
I think that's all.
Plus you guys can take thatfrom me that you guys could
technically legally call it theMCU because you have the reason
(30:13):
to?
Because it's a different MCUand that will trend wait.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
I don't know if that would go over well in court,
wouldn't it be MUCU?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Millersville University Christmas Universe no
.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
MVCU.
It was fun while it lasted.
Guys, it was fun while I guessyou're right, it is MUCU wait,
no wait.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Where is the V coming from?
Speaker 6 (30:29):
oh V.
You said music video.
Millersville UniversityCinematic University.
No, I'm just speaking up words.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
I was like wait, what did I miss?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I like MCO, we can make it work if we wanted if you
guys want to find it in court,I also just want to throw into.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
The co-producer of the record was Logan Ressler,
who worked with me and it tookso many hours of recording that
I could not do.
So I think it ended up being127 different tracks, that we
used Lots of time mixing andthings like that.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Amazing.
You were the one thatoriginally wrote the song.
I wrote the song this year, sohow did?
That was where I was going togo with this, because I knew we
were talking off cameras 127different tracks From writing
that song, from just thought topaper and then orchestrating
this and building it it.
What was that process like?
How were you, how did youdetermine like that sound
(31:19):
absolutely.
That sound absolutely not itevolved over time.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I mean, I was listening to the demo, uh, that
logan made maybe a couple monthsago and I was like hey, this
needs a viking chant.
Okay, yo like a tour and you'relike whatever.
So I brought my class in so westarted recording that.
We added that and I said hey,we need some viking chants as
well.
So we also then recorded that.
So you hear things like evenwhen we recorded the drums the
first time, I was like I justdon't want a drum set in there,
(31:43):
I want vikingish toms, likewe're at some kind of ritual so
I get students involved who areinto sampling and making beats
and things like that.
so I had three or four studentsthen submit material for that
that we'd layered.
So drums alone we probablylayered, you know, 25 tracks,
that's insane.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
That's so much production, but I mean so
definitely listen to it inheadphones, because you listen
to headphones, you will heareverything that's happening.
It's amazing on headphones.
I cannot wait.
Comes out.
Where's it going to be?
Everywhere?
All streaming platforms, allstreaming platforms so it'll be
released on on youtube.
Uh, if you want to see it forthe first time on youtube on the
12th of december wonderfulawesome.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
12, 12, 24 are having a premiere release for this
video.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yes, that was on december 8th in harrisburg, my
hometown and the hometown of ourdirector dan herzog as well, at
midtown uh cinema.
So if you check out midtowncinema uh website there's
available for tickets to uhcheck out the uh premiere and
party midtown cinema.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Okay awesome dude it's close by for us, yeah I'm
I'm super excited.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I think you guys are going to have you got to come to
the vip party.
What day of the week is?
Speaker 4 (32:51):
december 8th it's the sunday.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
It's a sunday evening , but I absolutely believe you
guys are going to get anastounding response Because, I
mean, this is no discredit.
I was like I didn't really knowwhat I was going to expect to
see, but I was like, yeah, Iknew I wanted to see it, but as
soon as I saw it dude, I can'tsay enough good things I was
like that was so well shot, likejust so many angle choices.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Anything barry touches.
You already know it's gonna begolden and it's still still
already like outshot myexpectations.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
That was amazing but I mean, we were talking about
off camera too, like there's forcertain people.
There's a certain shot in thevideo where a certain character
is standing on a cliff and it'sjust like start giving
everything away.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Alan.
Well, I'm just like.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
I'm like well, wow, little thoughts of detail that
it's like that makes sense.
That's what where I saidnothing felt out of place.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
It felt so authentic and genuine all the way through,
just down to those little teadetails yeah, thank you so much
for including us in this,because we can't wait to release
it to the world oh, absolutely,I can't wait for you to release
it to the world.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Oh, absolutely, I can't wait for you to release it
to the world.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, seriously.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
You wanted to say something, then Jessica.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Oh yeah, I was just going to say all of the costume
pieces and everything.
You don't think about how mucheverything moves when you're
filming.
So you know pieces that arelike belts or like you know
headpieces or anything.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
Fur, pelts, and then yeah fur pelts.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I'm like on set, you know, like trying to like, if
you put a fur pelt to me If youput a fur pelt back onto Caitlin
and like, when you see themusic video, I was dealing with
another character and like theirwardrobe and I mean we're like
on the cliff and I'm like, okay,all right, all right, are you
ready?
Are you ready, go and like.
(34:37):
I'm like, and then I'm standingthere and I said, nope, we got
to be done, we're gonna losethis piece like we're gonna lose
it off of the cliff into the,the ocean never to be seen again
that I wish we could talk morein detail about the video.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I really do, but I don't want to give anything away
.
The last thing I do want to hiton, though, because I know this
was a very interesting, kind ofweird spur-of-the-moment
situation that happened thecharacter that we're talking
about.
We're not going to reveal whothey are, but this character was
doing something during theshooting of the video, and I
will let you guys take it fromthere.
However you guys want toaddress this, I think it's very
(35:14):
interesting.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
So jessica was with this character and in in in the
uh, in the film the characterdoes have some powers and you
know she was practicing hermagical powers, and so I looked
away and I heard this scream andI thought jess, who was with
her, had fallen over and hit herhead on a tombstone, since we
spent all morning in thecemetery, but here when she did
this, a bird flew out of the skyand landed dead beside her feet
(35:39):
.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
So yeah, I have a picture of it.
It's true, it's so crazy.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
What are the odds of that?
Did you guys go buy scratchers?
I told her not to point at meever.
That's a valid thing, becauseyou did just point and something
literally just died.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
It's just like that Spider-Man moment, where you're
just like whoa, I do havesuperpowers.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Can you imagine if it was like a kid, because every
kid has tried that where they'relike?
If I believe hard enough, Iguarantee I could have it.
And if a kid in that moment wasjust like, and then a bird died
, they'd be like, they would bepetrified.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
Life is going to change.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
Oh God.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
But no, I can't say enough good things about this.
Honestly, I'm so proud of youguys.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Of what you guys have put together I'm proud of the
way it sounds you guys'performance, the shooting, the
directing, the concept,everything the entirety as a
whole.
It is pretty astounding.
Is there anything and I don'twant to sound like we're
unprepared, but I want to makesure this is your guys' moment
is there anything that wehaven't touched on that you
would like to share with theworld regarding this process?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
well, I think it's just cool that, you know, so
many students got involved in it.
I mean really from anywhere,from the background vocalist to
whatever.
We had probably two dozenstudents involved in the project
, I think, to give them this,these kind of experiences where
they could go international tofilm a music video while they're
in college, I mean, and justseeing that happen.
You know, I remember holding upthe boom box while they're, you
know, while we're recording,and just hearing, just seeing
(37:05):
the students all dressed up, youknow, recreating the song that
I wrote and you know it was sosurreal and just, you know, just
having that experience isamazing.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
And we're right there .
I mean I've looked at them somany times.
I mean it was freezing, likewe're standing on the top of a
waterfall and think about, likewhen you go to a waterfall on a
pretty day, getting wet from allof the all of the water coming
off of it, and then it's rainingand then it's cold, yeah, and
then, and then we're like wipingthe lens off because there's so
(37:36):
much rain on it, and so I justkept looking at everybody.
I was like you're in freakingiceland shooting a music video
we're from you know, we're frompodunk like places in central pa
, like people don't even knowthe name, millersville
University, outside ofPennsylvania, and we're in
Iceland shooting a music video,and so I think I think that was
(37:58):
crazy.
And the other thing is like youcan plan as many things as you
want, but when you're dealingwith Icelandic weather, like it
has a mind of its own.
We shot, shot at one waterfalland we had planned to go to
another one, and we pulled upthis van, which Dr Addix learned
how to drive a van in Iceland,which I felt like we should have
said too, which was crazy.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
What do you mean?
Learn how to drive a van.
It was huge, it was a big van.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
He's carting around all these people on these roads.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
The guardrails are about one foot off the ground.
We're going over top ofmountains and there's fog.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
It was an experience that foot guardrail is really
going to stop all that man Withnine people in the car, yeah,
exactly we're waiting to go intothis next waterfall and you can
literally feel the van movelike you can feel the wind
hitting the van and I'm like, um, I don't know if we should do
(38:57):
this I think it's a bad idea, sowe decided.
We were like you know what.
We saw that place on the sideof the road.
It's a little touristattraction, why don't we go
there?
And so we literally backtracked, stopped off the side of the
road and we shot there.
We decided to shoot there andit was just like, oh yeah, we'll
(39:18):
just, we'll just shoot here.
And I was like what is evenhappening?
What is even happening rightnow?
Speaker 3 (39:24):
I just I would love to be a fly on the wall in this
entire process that's like.
That's like I'm hearing allthis and I'm like dude I, I'm
jealous of you guys In thehealthiest way possible.
I think it's such a coolexperience that you guys got to
be a part of we had such a greattime even behind the scenes.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
It was all giggles and smiles when we were in
between being sleep deprived andhungry.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
And freezing, and hungry.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
I feel like everybody had good attitudes and like
even the people that aren't hereright now, like m and aiden and
shout out sydney yeah, like itwas such a great time with such
great people like
Speaker 3 (40:01):
memories forever.
Yeah, so outside of shootingthe music video, obviously, what
was your favorite part of thetrip?
Speaker 6 (40:09):
um, this is like like extending for like the whole
thing.
Um, obviously, like the wholeentire thing for me was just
awesome, just because, like I ama huge metalhead, like I love
it so much and I uh, it was justso cool to be asked to be
brought onto something like this.
And then after that we alsoattended iceland airwaves and so
(40:31):
I got to talk to like becauseamerican metal is good, but
european metal is sort of whereit's at.
So actually we can, we candebate yeah, yeah, we can debate
.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
I can agree with you, depending on who we're talking
about, and I will disagree withyou.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Yeah, we're talking about, but but, um, it was like
really cool to talk to peoplethat grew up with that and
that's the only thing that theyknow.
Just sort of getting to.
My favorite part was just sortof getting to enrich myself in
that culture.
It was awesome.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
That sounds awesome.
Speaker 6 (41:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
I mean anytime you can kind of what's it called
gain some culture.
Yeah, it's humbling the placesthat I've been around the world
that are very different fromAmerica.
I mean I already can make aneducated guess that I'm probably
not going to enjoy it that muchthere, it's probably not going
to be my favorite place, but Istill always leave it rich
because you can learn so manythings you can learn.
(41:24):
There are people that live onthe other side of the planet and
they live like this compared tohow we live, and it's always a
very humbling and enrichingexperience when you can do that,
what about you?
Speaker 5 (41:35):
Oh my gosh.
Well, I don't think I shouldsay it on a podcast but there
was a particular museum that wewent to.
That was pretty funny.
You can look it up, it's prettyfamous.
Speaker 6 (41:47):
Yeah, just look up museums in Iceland.
Yeah, just look up museums inIceland.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
Yeah, okay, yeah and Reykjavik, you'll find it.
We actually have no idea whatthey're talking about no we'll
tell you after.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
We will have to Google that after we also got to
go to one of the lagoons whichthey don't have in the US.
Oh yeah, we got to go to theSky Lagoon so nice, it was
awesome.
What is the sky lagoon?
Speaker 4 (42:17):
it's like a.
It's essentially oh okay, well,like a spa kind of thing, but
it's outdoor and it's like um,the the blue lagoon is the one
that is not not man-made, rightyeah, that's the blue sky lagoon
was the sky but it is like theBlue Lagoon, isn't it?
It's heated up from the geysers.
Yeah it's like from the actualgeothermal A geothermal like
natural hot spring.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Oh okay, you guys said Sky Lagoon.
I was like I have never heardof that.
Speaker 5 (42:43):
I was like.
I don't know what that is.
It's like Sky Zone, thetrampoline one.
Oh, okay, cool, cool, cool cool, cool, cool cool.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
I knew what you were going to say it's water heated
by lava, oh perfect, so we'reswimming in lava?
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Well, actually, not far from it, because last year,
two days after we left Iceland,they had a volcanic eruption.
This year it happened a weekafter we left.
In fact, the cars that were inthe parking lot of the Blue
Lagoon the lava came and went tothe uh, the parking structure
there.
So that's not, that's not good,but we've always been lucky to
avoid addicts.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
I I feel like maybe you might need to start planning
your trips to icelanddifferently, just to save the
people from iceland because Idon't know if it's tied to when
you're going and the birds.
Don't forget the birds he'slike he gets on the plane.
He's like all right, iceland,good luck.
I don't know when it's going tohappen, but it's going to
(43:35):
happen as soon as the planetakes off, boom, there it goes.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Dr Addicts what was your favorite part?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah, I think you know, when you have a concept in
your head for a video, you knowlike last spring, and all of a
sudden then you're actually inthe video.
You know like last spring, andall of a sudden then you're
actually in the video whenyou're filming it.
There is nothing like that kindof rush because you're like I
just imagined what it would belike and all of a sudden we're
standing there on the Black SandBeach during sunrise and seeing
everybody perform.
I'm like I'm in the middle ofmy freaking video.
(44:03):
That was inside my head and nowI actually get to live it, and
just seeing that was amazing andyou get to see it with your
protégés, like making it come tolife too.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
So it's the people that you've like taught, people
you've educated as well.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
I picked them well because I mean everybody in the
band and Jessica such a hugehelp.
I mean they really they pulledit together and they really made
the video like I wanted to makeit.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
So proud of my, my, uh, these kids, pupils, pupils.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Honestly I really I don't know if there's like a
better note to end this on.
That is such a full-heartedlike we didn't get your favorite
part oh, I guess you didn't umI would honestly say I think all
of.
Speaker 4 (44:45):
I think I have multiple favorite parts, because
there were so many momentswhere I was like, alright, well,
I guess we're doing this.
I mean, alright, I guess I'mgoing to meet the makeup artist
I've never met before.
Alright, I guess we're gonna gostand in a cemetery and film
her and we're gonna figure outhow to get this piece onto
somebody's head.
Or I would say, being on theBlack Sand Beach and looking at
(45:07):
the band and seeing how you knowit's, it's cold and you're on a
beach, so you want to like takeyour shoes off the ocean,
everything, but it's cold.
And we're standing therelooking at this beautiful, you
know, the beautiful band, theeverything.
And then somebody turns to meand they're like all right, can
you please go do Freya's makeup.
And I'm like, yep, be back in 45minutes, and then we come back
(45:29):
and Freya's all ready and we'vegot her all and so we got some
glam shots and stuff.
So I would just say havinglittle bits of pieces of
everything all together would bemy favorite part.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
That's so cool.
It's incredible man.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
I just am so excited to see this, and I think I can
speak for the rest of the worldtoo.
You guys are going to love this.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
Absolutely so well, is there anything else?
Maybe we may have forgot tocover or anything.
I think we covered it.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
We appreciate it Thank you for coming, thank you
and thinking to come to us torelease this, yes, this has been
an honor yeah, an honor To sithere with you guys and get to
learn about this experience.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
So much fun for us.
Thanks for coming out toMillersville too.
I appreciate you having us hereAbsolutely.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
We made the travel.
I appreciate you guys hostingus here and showing us your
wonderful studio here.
If you're a student consideringa college for music, definitely
Millersville, check them out.
Dr Barry Addix, isa, wonderfulprofessor and a homie as well.
He's gang, gang.
So everyone, thank you so much,appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
We appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
It was a pleasure meeting all of you.
By the way, ma'am, until nexttime.
Speaker 5 (46:47):
Until next time, thank you.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
Well, everyone, that about does it for this special
episode.
Thank you so much for tuning inand, of course, a huge special
thank you to Dr Barry Addix andMillersville University for
hosting us today to get theinside scoop on this.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
And now that you've watched the full interview, the
actual release of this videowill be December 12th.
On YouTube and anywhere you canlisten to music, as well as
iRock Radio.
The premiere if you would liketo come see the premiere will be
December 8th at the HarrisburgMidtown cinema.
They have a viewing at sevenand they have a viewing at eight
, and then there's an afterparty.
So if you want to be one of thefirst lucky viewers, you know
(47:21):
where to go.
Also, don't forget to check outall the links at the end of our
video, Then after that you dowhatever you want, all right.
So, guys, thank you once againfor tuning in and we'll see you
(47:56):
next time.
Have a good one, you.
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