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I was never into Starting Line beyond knowing their big "hits" from back in the day, I know nothing about their background or lore, but I heard their new song Sense Of Humor recently and dug it!

It's really pretty strange and self-defeating at this point haha, the one @twelve just posted is one of the better recent ones I've seen but generally they still use designs that look like they're made for *hYpEr KiDs*! I would guess a majority of the fanbase is 30+ and don't really gravitate towards wacky cartoon clothes... I'd definitely rock a Blink shirt if they had some cooler options, I wonder who makes those types of decisions.

Oh man that's crazy I didn't realize that. I don't know a lot about them other than the fact that they've been blowing up.

Do they end up getting into anything interesting? I listened to a little over an hour and when I realized there were still 2 more hours to go I passed.

Yup same here, I really enjoyed the Tom one.

Toby Morse is clearly not a great interviewer haha, I'm an hour in now and it is still basically: TOBY: "So like, you guys toured in a van and shit right?" MARK: "Yeah!" MARK: "Sooo sick bro, damn! That shit was crazy right?" The Travis and Tom interviews were a lot better, if I remember right they were both friends/acquaintances with Toby from over the years but it doesn't seem like Mark is. That probably has a little bit to do with it.

Pretty awesome to have separate gigantic interviews with all 3 members on this show! I'm stoked to listen to Mark's soon.

What do you guys think of the new Yellowcard stuff? Produced/drummed by Travis, apparently:

I always assumed he was just constantly high as fuck during that strange selfie era haha

This is a SCANDAL

Awesome video, definitely one of the best I've heard from that tour! Also, they were almost LITERALLY on fire, holy shit they had so much pyro happening hahaha

Since Coachella happened the last two weekends I just want to bring back the glorious memory of Blink's surprise 2023 set. I'll never forget watching the live stream and suddenly seeing Mark and Tom waiting around backstage not realizing they were on camera, laughing it up and fucking around, looking like legitimate friends again. Then the show started with Family Reunion, Tom was trying again, and their entire performance was so goddamn good, beyond anything I ever hoped. They were really fucking back. What an incredible way to burst back into our lives. I feel like something "culturally" shifted that day in a way that is super rare, and absolutely propelled the new era in such a rad way. So many people outside of Blink fandom were SOOO happy they were back, it seemed like people were almost surprised to realize they loved Blink and it felt ok to admit it after that show haha.

I took it to mean that Mark was feeling a crazy adrenaline rush in that moment, and Tom by contrast was just drained, and that foreshadowed the issues they were about to face leading up to the first breakup.

Another related thing that is kinda funny to me is how much they saw TOYPAJ as some kind of "dark" left turn for the band where they were getting into post-hardcore influences and making an artistic statement and stuff when... the rest of the entire world sees it as Enema 2 haha. And not just the radio singles they wrote at the end. I mean good for them they can view it however they want, I love the album, but other than the fact that they started wearing black clothes it was certainly not a departure from what they were doing haha.

it's called a "podcast"