You can go from I'm just a kid or the documentary in recent years as well, but is there any that you look back on recently, maybe after the pandemic and coming back and seeing the growth, that you're like, oh wow, okay, like, I, I didn't realize we'd get to do this part or this again, or just elements that maybe earlier on you overlooked?

Uh, I, well, I mean, I don't wanna repeat myself, but I really feel like the...

Coming back from the pandemic, we had no idea what would happen, right? To, at, I don't think anybody in the touring industry really knew.

It was very tentative at first, and then very quickly everybody realized like, oh my God, we miss live music.

We miss being together.

We miss that kind of, that connection when you go to a show and you're, you know, you're out there.

And, and, and people I think, it's interesting, like, this generation, like, the whatever you call, like, the Millennials or even Gen Z to some extent, I think they really care about music and live music more than previous generations.

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Do you guys succumb to that at any point, or do you just keep sort of the roots of, of who you are and what you know? Does, does that propel you still?

No.

I feel like it's been absolutely the opposite for us.

I mean, I feel like we've never been more excited, never been more enthusiastic about what the future holds, of what we can accomplish with the band and what the possibilities are.

I w- I would say maybe 10, 15 years ago we probably didn't feel exactly like that.

There was a little bit of fear of like, "Oh, what's gonna happen? Can we still do this? Will people still care?" But I feel like we've...

And look, I don't wanna jinx ourselves, but it feels like we've reached this kind of threshold where we're in a position that if we wanna keep doing this as long as we want, we kinda can now.

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Uh, what can we expect from the show?

Yeah, really excited to come back to, you know, the region.

It's been, been a minute.

We haven't been there, but we've played a lot of memorable show, you know, like very, very fun and awesome shows throughout our career in the area, so it's gonna be really cool.

I think, you know, we're gonna be coming off of a, a whole year of touring.

You know, we're just leaving in a few days for Europe now as we're taping this, and, uh, it's gonna be a whole month there.

Then we're going to Asia, then we're going to Australia, so we're gonna be-- One thing you can expect is that we're gonna be well-rehearsed.

Mm

I mean, how keen are you to, you know, get down a- and play a big festival slot?

It's amazing.

I mean, it's just, um...

We're so excited.

We love Good Things.

It's such a great festival.

I love that it's diverse.

You're on tour at the moment, but leading towards 2027 and into the new year, what's, you know, what's it look like for Simple Plan?

Right.

Uh, but, but having said that, uh, we buy it $1.

It has every single Fat Wreck Chords band on it, so from Bracket to Strung Out to Lagwagon to...

I mean, there was so many.

And it, um, again, it changed our lives.

So it all started at that show.

Me and Pierre were there, and w- I remember just watching the bands and going like...

Like, what was that decision? Why did you do it?