April 8, 2025 • 8 mins
The Plain White T's are in the country touring and stopped by to chat life and music
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, we're the Plaine White Seas.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What's it like in New York City? Only music?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yes, The Plain White Tea's joining us on the show now.
Tom Demart, Tim and Mike thank you so much for
dropping by the show. Great see you guys, man, Great
to have you with us. So you guys are in
the midst of this this tour the moment.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
How's it going. Where have you guys been so far?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Earth, Adelaide, Melbourne? In here? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (00:30):
How do you like the Australian audiences? So they getting
into it, It's.
Speaker 7 (00:34):
Great to be out here and yeah, people just seem
so excited and they're having a blast at these shows.
Obviously we're out here with Motion City soundtrack and Yellow Card,
so the bit of back it's a it's a.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Super fun time.
Speaker 8 (00:46):
Again, considering we haven't been here for fifteen or sixteen years,
I would say the crowds are amazing.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
Yeah, absolutely, Well, you guys were really what I would say,
at the forefront of like the MySpace era. For me,
that was when I came across you guys in my
life and I was driving to the studio tonight and
I saw a bus stop a bunch of eighteen year olds,
and honestly they could have been from that era with
the fashion that they were wearing. Have you noticed that
like everything from the mid two thousands is back again?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Oh definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
I think they like love our music and like what
we do, and they're like, that's inspiring them to make
their own music.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You know. Well see, I remember using MSN Messenger back
when I was in middle school. I don't know if
you guys were ever MSN Messenger people, but I did
have the hay there Delilah lyrics as my caption on
MSN Messenger for a while when I was trying to
tell my crush subtly that I was thinking about her.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Did it work for you?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Let's not talk about that sadly?
Speaker 8 (01:39):
Was?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I mean, this is just rapidly turned into a therapy
session twenty years on, but.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
You bring up a good point, Dom It was, Hey there,
Delilah was such a I would say it's an expression
of a young man's love. I was wondering, now, almost
twenty years on, is there any idea of doing a
follow up, maybe catching up.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
With Delilah middle aged, see what she's up to. Is
she's still in New York City? What's happening.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
I mean, in reality, I actually did catch up with
her kind of recently. She's married now with kids, she's
living back in the Chicago Land area. So I think
a follow up might be just like a little bit
sad at this point.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Yeah, because I think when you're young, you got your
whole life ahead of you, but now when you kind
of settle into it, it's less aspirational.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, I reckon, there's a whole mine there for that,
for revisiting it and speaking of life moving on, one
of you guys, I believe he's married to an Assy.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Is this correct?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Yeah? This is true.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It's me So tell us the story. How did you
find your way into an Assy's heart?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Look, it was a dating app situation.
Speaker 9 (02:43):
I don't know why I was going to connect with
people in Australia, but it just it just worked out,
you know, And here we are with the whole seven
month old sun later.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
You know what I mean, that's incredible.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
What's the main difference dating in Aussie to dating someone
from back home? What's the main thing you noticed dating
one of us?
Speaker 9 (03:02):
Like you guys have different names for a bunch of stuff,
Like she still says words and I'm like wa like
jumper and.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
All these and I'm like, what you know, like you
know what I mean?
Speaker 9 (03:08):
Like, I'm like, we don't say that, we don't call
him things that, so any a vice versa rubbish.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Yeah, I guess rubbish kind of bignes not say doney.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
No, do you know what a You've got only a
seven month old now, but they'll be a little older sun.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Do you know what a slippery slide is? A slippery dip?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Isn't it a slide like in the playground, you know,
like playground?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yeah, yeah, do you know what I mean? And they
get down the.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Slide and do my look. Australia is famous for its
kids entertainment. We've got the Wiggles are from here. Famously,
blue is the lightest aussy ossy thing. So I mean,
I feel like there's a there's a real your kid's
probably gonna get an aussy upbringing just.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Because of the sort of kids entertainment we specialize in.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Anyway.
Speaker 9 (03:56):
Oh yeah, I'm already getting like Australian books, you know,
give him the America BG.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, he needn't know where he's from now.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Recently, MGMT went Cooper huge when done Earth this like
video of them doing kids at their college. From my memory,
you wrote Hey there, Delilah way before it kind of
broke internationally. Is there any footage out there at like
a tiny college bar of you singing Hey there, Delilah
(04:22):
Tom back in the day.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
I don't know. I mean there's got to be. I
mean we've been playing that song.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
I mean yeah, like you're saying, ever since before it
even was was a big hit.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
You know, we were playing it live. That would have
been right before everybody had a phone neck.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
True.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Certainly the Hitting Factory show where she was there and
her boyfriend was waiting outside was before it broke. Oh yeah,
because that was a tiny little venue. She would come
to the shows to hear her song. Everybody would be
singing the song and her boyfriend would pout outside and
now he is wow.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, that would be awkward. Yeah, we did mention that.
It's like it's kind of like a young man's love song.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Now twenty years on, you've got a new album, Matt,
How does your songwriting change, because can you still be
that young guy pining after a girl through your Yeah,
you're giving me look like you can return to that
fire pretty easy.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Yeah, because I actually have been in a situation this
past year where I have been pining.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Over a girl and I actually wrote a whole solo
record about her, about this point girl, and that's going
to start bleeding into Plain White T's songs as well
as we start on you know, our next album.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
So yeah, definitely, that passion is still there and that
you know, I mean, love is always like the greatest inspiration, right,
So it's like I happened to meet a girl about
a year ago that that really ignited that like that
flame and me and that fire. And I definitely it
is funny because I do feel like I'm like twenty
years old again, like right, writing those vulnerable, you know,
(06:02):
love songs again.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
It's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It feels good though, well good in that case, DeMar,
do you think we could end up with a song
about an Ossie love story? Could that be something that works?
It's play into a new Plain White Teas album.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
And I think so, I think it should. You know
what I mean. It's a good story. Yeah, it's really craikey.
It's what you do to me?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah, well down here, what you what you could do
is get the khaki on and film the music video
out Australia Zoo.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
When you're in Queensland, that'd be that'd be wonderful to
go off.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yah.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
What do you guys think with the Hey there, Delilah's
the biggest thing to ever happen to Delilah's generally anyone
named Delilah over the last twenty years. I mean there's
a pro and a con. The pro is they've got
this great love song with their name in it. The
con is, I imagine every time they introduce themselves, someone says, hey,
they're Delilah.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Do you think on the whole.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
They look on it positively or negatively?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
They could be named Karen, you know pretty I'd say positive. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
I actually got a letter once. Some fan gave me
a letter at a show and she was named Delilah.
And she said in the letter like, I was named
after your song and every time anybody hears my name
they sing to me. And then she said, thank you
for making my whole life a concert?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Oh how sweet?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, that's awesome. You're probably not getting that with a
Heyday Karen. It's probably not going to do quite so well,
is it. So you guys are halfway through the tour,
at the moment, Newcastle Friday and then Brisbane to wrap
it up on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
What are you doing in the in between days.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
How did The Plain White Tea spend their off days
in the midst of an Australian tour.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Well, me and Mike just did a couple of escape
rooms today.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
That was fun. We got out obviously.
Speaker 9 (07:45):
We made it eating good food, really good food, eating shopping.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
You've seen some art, yeah, golfing with some of the
other bands.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Well, look all the base for the rest of the tour.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You can get tickets to The Plain White Teas Ouzzy
to a three ticket Master. You guys, we've been the
soundtrack to so many people's lives. We love all that
you're doing. It's such an honor to have you here
in the country. Thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Thank you, thank you. Man
Hey, we're the Plaine White Seas.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What's it like in New York City? Only music?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yes, The Plain White Tea's joining us on the show now.
Tom Demart, Tim and Mike thank you so much for
dropping by the show. Great see you guys, man, Great
to have you with us. So you guys are in
the midst of this this tour the moment.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
How's it going. Where have you guys been so far?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Earth, Adelaide, Melbourne? In here? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (00:30):
How do you like the Australian audiences? So they getting
into it, It's.
Speaker 7 (00:34):
Great to be out here and yeah, people just seem
so excited and they're having a blast at these shows.
Obviously we're out here with Motion City soundtrack and Yellow Card,
so the bit of back it's a it's a.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Super fun time.
Speaker 8 (00:46):
Again, considering we haven't been here for fifteen or sixteen years,
I would say the crowds are amazing.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
Yeah, absolutely, Well, you guys were really what I would say,
at the forefront of like the MySpace era. For me,
that was when I came across you guys in my
life and I was driving to the studio tonight and
I saw a bus stop a bunch of eighteen year olds,
and honestly they could have been from that era with
the fashion that they were wearing. Have you noticed that
like everything from the mid two thousands is back again?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Oh definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
I think they like love our music and like what
we do, and they're like, that's inspiring them to make
their own music.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You know. Well see, I remember using MSN Messenger back
when I was in middle school. I don't know if
you guys were ever MSN Messenger people, but I did
have the hay there Delilah lyrics as my caption on
MSN Messenger for a while when I was trying to
tell my crush subtly that I was thinking about her.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Did it work for you?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Let's not talk about that sadly?
Speaker 8 (01:39):
Was?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I mean, this is just rapidly turned into a therapy
session twenty years on, but.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
You bring up a good point, Dom It was, Hey there,
Delilah was such a I would say it's an expression
of a young man's love. I was wondering, now, almost
twenty years on, is there any idea of doing a
follow up, maybe catching up.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
With Delilah middle aged, see what she's up to. Is
she's still in New York City? What's happening.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
I mean, in reality, I actually did catch up with
her kind of recently. She's married now with kids, she's
living back in the Chicago Land area. So I think
a follow up might be just like a little bit
sad at this point.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Yeah, because I think when you're young, you got your
whole life ahead of you, but now when you kind
of settle into it, it's less aspirational.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, I reckon, there's a whole mine there for that,
for revisiting it and speaking of life moving on, one
of you guys, I believe he's married to an Assy.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Is this correct?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Yeah? This is true.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It's me So tell us the story. How did you
find your way into an Assy's heart?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Look, it was a dating app situation.
Speaker 9 (02:43):
I don't know why I was going to connect with
people in Australia, but it just it just worked out,
you know, And here we are with the whole seven
month old sun later.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
You know what I mean, that's incredible.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
What's the main difference dating in Aussie to dating someone
from back home? What's the main thing you noticed dating
one of us?
Speaker 9 (03:02):
Like you guys have different names for a bunch of stuff,
Like she still says words and I'm like wa like
jumper and.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
All these and I'm like, what you know, like you
know what I mean?
Speaker 9 (03:08):
Like, I'm like, we don't say that, we don't call
him things that, so any a vice versa rubbish.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Yeah, I guess rubbish kind of bignes not say doney.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
No, do you know what a You've got only a
seven month old now, but they'll be a little older sun.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Do you know what a slippery slide is? A slippery dip?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Isn't it a slide like in the playground, you know,
like playground?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yeah, yeah, do you know what I mean? And they
get down the.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Slide and do my look. Australia is famous for its
kids entertainment. We've got the Wiggles are from here. Famously,
blue is the lightest aussy ossy thing. So I mean,
I feel like there's a there's a real your kid's
probably gonna get an aussy upbringing just.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Because of the sort of kids entertainment we specialize in.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Anyway.
Speaker 9 (03:56):
Oh yeah, I'm already getting like Australian books, you know,
give him the America BG.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, he needn't know where he's from now.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
Recently, MGMT went Cooper huge when done Earth this like
video of them doing kids at their college. From my memory,
you wrote Hey there, Delilah way before it kind of
broke internationally. Is there any footage out there at like
a tiny college bar of you singing Hey there, Delilah
(04:22):
Tom back in the day.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
I don't know. I mean there's got to be. I
mean we've been playing that song.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
I mean yeah, like you're saying, ever since before it
even was was a big hit.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
You know, we were playing it live. That would have
been right before everybody had a phone neck.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
True.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Certainly the Hitting Factory show where she was there and
her boyfriend was waiting outside was before it broke. Oh yeah,
because that was a tiny little venue. She would come
to the shows to hear her song. Everybody would be
singing the song and her boyfriend would pout outside and
now he is wow.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, that would be awkward. Yeah, we did mention that.
It's like it's kind of like a young man's love song.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Now twenty years on, you've got a new album, Matt,
How does your songwriting change, because can you still be
that young guy pining after a girl through your Yeah,
you're giving me look like you can return to that
fire pretty easy.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Yeah, because I actually have been in a situation this
past year where I have been pining.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Over a girl and I actually wrote a whole solo
record about her, about this point girl, and that's going
to start bleeding into Plain White T's songs as well
as we start on you know, our next album.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
So yeah, definitely, that passion is still there and that
you know, I mean, love is always like the greatest inspiration, right,
So it's like I happened to meet a girl about
a year ago that that really ignited that like that
flame and me and that fire. And I definitely it
is funny because I do feel like I'm like twenty
years old again, like right, writing those vulnerable, you know,
(06:02):
love songs again.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
It's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It feels good though, well good in that case, DeMar,
do you think we could end up with a song
about an Ossie love story? Could that be something that works?
It's play into a new Plain White Teas album.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
And I think so, I think it should. You know
what I mean. It's a good story. Yeah, it's really craikey.
It's what you do to me?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Yeah, well down here, what you what you could do
is get the khaki on and film the music video
out Australia Zoo.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
When you're in Queensland, that'd be that'd be wonderful to
go off.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yah.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
What do you guys think with the Hey there, Delilah's
the biggest thing to ever happen to Delilah's generally anyone
named Delilah over the last twenty years. I mean there's
a pro and a con. The pro is they've got
this great love song with their name in it. The
con is, I imagine every time they introduce themselves, someone says, hey,
they're Delilah.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Do you think on the whole.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
They look on it positively or negatively?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
They could be named Karen, you know pretty I'd say positive. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
I actually got a letter once. Some fan gave me
a letter at a show and she was named Delilah.
And she said in the letter like, I was named
after your song and every time anybody hears my name
they sing to me. And then she said, thank you
for making my whole life a concert?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Oh how sweet?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah, that's awesome. You're probably not getting that with a
Heyday Karen. It's probably not going to do quite so well,
is it. So you guys are halfway through the tour,
at the moment, Newcastle Friday and then Brisbane to wrap
it up on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
What are you doing in the in between days.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
How did The Plain White Tea spend their off days
in the midst of an Australian tour.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Well, me and Mike just did a couple of escape
rooms today.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
That was fun. We got out obviously.
Speaker 9 (07:45):
We made it eating good food, really good food, eating shopping.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
You've seen some art, yeah, golfing with some of the
other bands.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Well, look all the base for the rest of the tour.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You can get tickets to The Plain White Teas Ouzzy
to a three ticket Master. You guys, we've been the
soundtrack to so many people's lives. We love all that
you're doing. It's such an honor to have you here
in the country. Thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Thank you, thank you. Man
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