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You're really good at this. I have no idea what's happened. I was reading you rolling
stone article. It's been pretty good. You've done some pretty cool stuff. The fan of thrones
thing jumped out at me. Obviously I was a huge fan. What was that experience like? Yeah,
that was a good little TV show they had over there. It was okay. Nice little TV show. You
guys got to actually appear in what two seasons anyway, right? Yeah, we were on one episode
or in in season five and episode in season seven, I think. Yeah. Yeah, I was, it was
pretty amazing. We you know, just to get to be there, you know, was it was for us. It
was it was just cool to be on set. Hang out with with some some white walkers. Yeah. You
got the new makeup and everything, right? Yeah, yeah, we had our own trailers. And,
you know, it was pretty it was pretty special. We started a tour in Ireland and they filmed
in Belfast. And so we got there a couple days early. I was we were part of a pretty epic
scene. It was a big battle scene called Hardhome, where the white walkers turn the wildlings
into into whites and the, you know, the king white walker comes out and raises the army
of the dead. And Jon Snow is looking in horror thinking, yeah, this is the end. You know,
it's coming. Winter is here. So it's cool to be laying in the mud for that. Yeah. To
get up with that. I looked over and I saw Bill, my guitar player was asleep in the mud
and we were about to have to have our cue, you know, that we're supposed to get up. And
I think that he woke up at the last second. Otherwise, he was like about to be that guy
amongst hundreds of extras that were laying in the mud that, you know, they had these
cues one, two groups, one, two and three. And so we were they were staggering when you
had to stand up and you know, nobody wants to be that guy. Nobody wants to be that guy.
Yeah. That white walker. Yeah. Yeah. But that was that was really fun. Obviously, you know,
who initiated the whole thing, I guess. Dan B. Weiss is one of the co-creators and one
of the writers of the show. It was a Macedon fan. And we played a festival in the UK with
Metallica, Alice in Chains and Motorhead. It was big, you know, like a download festival
or I think it was Sonosphere. I can't remember one of the two. Actually, it was our guitar
player, Brent had stayed behind to hang out and watch more bands. And I think we were
done with our tour. So I just like got out of there with everybody else and went back
to the hotel and crashed. But I guess he stayed behind with our publicist, Emma. And somebody
came up to Brent and asked for a photo and they had an US accent. So he asked where they're
from and what they were doing in town. And they said, we're filming a TV show. And he
said, what TV show? And they're like, oh, Game of Thrones. So, you know, eyes got wide.
We're all big fans had watched kind of brought our band and crew together every Sunday on
tour, watched Game of Thrones, you know, on the tour bus. And so very exciting. Got, you
know, some phone numbers got passed around our publicist kept in touch with them and
they made it made it happen to where we could be extras in the show.
That's really cool. That had to be pretty. Probably didn't see that coming, but glad
it did kind of thing, you know. Oh, yeah. There's been a bunch of instances where I
just I say, thank you, Mastodon. Making my life really, really cool. That's what I kind
of what I was thinking when I was reading all that stuff. Yeah, you've done some cool stuff.
And yeah, it's all you know, I mean, it's all gravy, baby.
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