Live from the Pathway Studios in Johnston Proper, you are live from the Path. And you are listening to Live from the Path. We're coming to you from the Pathway Studios here in Johnston Proper. It's, uh, what?

I hate when you guys sit behind me. Seriously, I can't keep an eye on what's going on. I hate it. There's nothing we can do.

When Mike and I sit right next to each other, we always say something stupid right as the show is starting. And then both start laughing where no one else can enjoy it. Welcome to the show. You're listening to Live from the Path.

It's like having someone follow you around town is what it's like to do in this show. You've never had anyone follow you around town. I did, too. I had the, okay, so, so I had this experience one time.

I was walking down, I worked downtown, okay? And I had this experience where I was walking on my lunch break over to the Quick Trip or something, and there's a guy that followed me for three blocks. And he doesn't look like a guy that, I mean, he wasn't going where I was going.

And, uh, he was one of those guys where he looked like he was walking a lot slower than me, but somehow also seemed to keep pace. That's the scariest dude. I was going to say, that sounds like a slasher film.

It is the scariest dude ever. I do that to people sometimes. You have long legs, you can just have long strides. And they look back and think, oh, he's cool.

Hey. What? Hey, Ben, was it by chance Dan that was following behind you and creepily? Did he have a black trench coat?

You might be misinterpreting what they're looking back and thinking. No. Oh, he's cool. Hey, man.

He's deceptively fast. That seems like a cool deal. If I try and run away, I'm not 100% certain I could make it. That's totally cool, by the way.

All right. You're listening live from the path. Hey, thanks for hanging out with us on this. I don't know.

If you're watching the live show, it's a Monday evening. If it's Saturday, that means you're listening on 99.3 The Truth Network, and you had plenty of time to know better. And so I cannot make an excuse as to what you hear,

because there's been a full five, six days of which you could have listened to snippets of the show when Silverside wasn't on and said, you know what, this is not for me. I'll just wait until they do the clips.

Okay? But you're listening to the live show, and that means you run your own life. Here's what we've got to go on the show tonight. Booba's got some Pope Style.

Booba, you got a preview on the Pope Style? Yeah. What is it? Well, I've been trying to figure out what it is entirely,

but, hey, man, youth does not mean you can be irresponsible. There you go. There's your Pope Style preview. Okay, preview on the Pope Style.

Youth does not mean that you can be irresponsible. Yes. Okay, sweet, sweet. Also, I mean, definitely top five, maybe top three.

I'm almost willing to say top one. Favorite musical guests are in the studio tonight. Silverside is joining us. Hey, Silverside, thanks for stopping by.

Thank you for having us. Hey, thanks for having us. You guys are half as jazzed to see me as I am to see you. Just like going home.

Going to see the in-laws. We didn't know the direction of what was happening, so when you said our names, we were just like, oh, that's us. Wake up, wake up.

We have to move now. So we're going to catch up with them. We're going to talk about their EP, Casting Shadows is out, and we're going to learn about that album.

They're going to do some in-studio performances. And don't forget, we've been hammering this for the last couple weeks. Do not forget tomorrow, Tuesday, this will be July 14th at 7 o'clock. They've graciously granted to stay in town another day

and do a benefit for Joppa, which benefits the homeless. And, Buva, again, help remind the folks what that money is going to and kind of what are the needs that you've been seeing out there. So when I go out to the camps and I spend some time out there meeting anybody,

you just don't realize the basic stuff that they're missing. It's hot outside. You guys think it's beast hot. Imagine being out there at all points in time.

And down by the river that's been flooding, it's gross, it's nasty, there's plenty of bugs. So one of the biggest needs we're looking for is still water bottles. Clean water is such a big thing that's going to be very important for these people.

Bug spray is a commodity that you have no idea what it means to them. I take down a can of bug spray, and I swear to you, they're going to hug me more than if I brought down a tent, some food, and a bunch of different blankets. Like, they love the bug spray.

Obviously, the regular camping equipment of four-man tents. We're looking for green and brown tarps that they can actually kind of conceal their camps a little bit with. And then, obviously, non-perishable food items and things like that.

Okay, sweet. So if you come on out, it's at 6523 Merle Hay Road in Johnston, and we'd like you to come out. And if you could bring some of that stuff, that would be sweet.

I got, like, a suggestion donation of five bucks. I really don't care what you bring. I just want you to come out, and if you got something that could help these folks out, please bring it, and we'll make sure it gets into the right place.

We're going to give the proceeds to Joppa. I was talking to the founders of Joppa just a couple days ago. They're pretty excited about the event, and I think they're pretty excited that we can partner with them in this way and with Silverside to do something cool for those folks

that have been displaced by the flooding. It's just, again, talking about bug spray, right? Like, not only have the rivers risen with the rain and stuff and swept a lot of their stuff away, like, it really doesn't help the mosquito population either.

No. That's rough times. And so, yeah, yeah, they can definitely use some help. Please come out to that thing.

Like I said, it's tomorrow. It's the 14th, July 14th, 7 o'clock, 6523 Merle Hay Road in Johnston. Silverside will be playing. And I think we originally kind of thought it was going to be an acoustic show,

but I think we're going to get a bit of a half and half or a 75-25. I'm not really certain on the ratio, but it's going to be awesome regardless of what goes on here. So I just recommend you come out.

It's going to be sweet. All right. So let's, if you are unfamiliar, I want to re-get to know Silverside. So maybe we'll start off with, tell me a little bit about Casting Shadows.

This has been at work for a while, right? Yeah. Casting Shadows, we originally planned to have out in 2014. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. And we had commissioned a producer and we had recorded a lot of the stuff on our own and we needed some vocals and mixing and mastering done. And so we commissioned someone to, a producer local to us.

And it just wasn't God's timing. I felt like we were kind of pushing it and everything got pushed back and kept getting pushed back with the producer. And then we started hearing some of this stuff come out and, you know, God bless his heart.

It just wasn't what we wanted and it wasn't what we needed. And unfortunately, at that point, we had to say no. And we had this whole album that was mastered and we prayed about it and talked it over as a band and said, this isn't who Silverside is.

Lyrically, it was solid, but musically, it just wasn't right. So we had to- That's got to be, I mean, that's got to be a really tough decision to come to after you've kind of, you've soaked all that, not only time and energy, but you had a chance to have

a finished product, right? Yeah. I mean, we paid for it. And I mean, it wasn't a ton of money, but it was all the money that we had at the time.

And it was a big decision, honestly. And we came out straight up to our fans because we had people who were just, they had helped support the album. Yep.

And they were asking, you know, hey, when's it going to be done? We're super excited. And, you know, we pushed the release date back and then we pushed it back again. And we just felt so terrible.

And then finally, once we got the finished product, we were like, yes. And then we're like, oh, wait a second. Right. This isn't, nothing's right about this.

And so we prayed about it and we said, you know, we have to postpone the release probably till next year. And I'm like, we're going to, I felt like all of our fans were going to hate us. And it was a really bold move on our end to just be like, hey, we promised you all this

and now we're just going to make you wait for another year. And I felt really bad about it. And so what was the fan reaction? We put our press release out and we let everybody know honestly what happened and that we had

to, we had to say no to the album and it's mastering. And everybody's response was so gracious. We had people messaging us and we had people responding to us like, take the time that you need.

We want you guys to have everything in place and it's all going to be in God's timing. And which is all, it's what we knew anyway. But I felt like, I felt like in essence, looking back, I feel like we were trying to rush God's timing and thinking, well, it's been two years.

We need to put out another album. God needed us to wait three, you know, and we, we didn't know why until now when with the release in March this, this year we had Casting Shadows come out and it wasn't a full length.

It was an EP, but the songs on it, we are fully confident that they are what we have offered as our best work right now. And it's something that we can put down and close our eyes at the end of the day and say, we put everything we could into that album and we could not have given anything else.

Vocally, I walked out of the studio with walking pneumonia, just pushed so hard. Musically, you know, the guys were writing and writing and Nate and our music producer were just writing drum parts and little accents that, you know, musicians would hear and pick up and our album, I feel like has so much dynamic to it with still keeping true to a heavier

sound than our first album, Circus, Circus, but then coming in with the essence of Silverside, but just better. Yeah. And that's really how we feel about it.

So our fan response was amazing. And once we released Casting Shadows, we had, it's just been nonstop. It's the praises keep coming in for it. And we haven't, I think we've had one, one guy message us and say, you know what?

I love this album, but I love your previous one for better. And I was like, you know, you're entitled to your opinion, but everything else. But that's not smart of you. Everything, yeah.

But you're an idiot. By the way. Yeah. No, it was, it was something that, you know, you have to respect them.

You know, people have, people have things that they like better. And, but overall, our response has just been, we've been blown away. So it's awesome. Mike, you've, you've, you've enjoyed this album.

Tell me a little about what your thoughts on it. Yeah, I picked it up actually when, as soon as it came out, because I had started an online message board because I was so upset that the other one that hadn't come out yet. But no, anyway, I picked it up as soon as it came out.

And, and like, it is, it's, it's, it encapsulates what they do extremely well-rounded, right? And I was looking, I was really listening to like Anthem I Love. Anthem's just a straight up rocker anyway. Yeah.

And, you know, and that one, that one picked up off me because that's, that's, it's like living life kind of tunes. I'd like to say like, if you were like, let's say there's, there's 10 deer in your backyard and you were going to go out and try to shoo them away with a shovel.

I'd probably put Anthem on and go out there and start straightening them up. And no, Boobie, there's no side commentary to what I'm saying. I got this covered. But there's like, like the whole album is extremely well-rounded.

There's, there's harder parts that you can just sit out and rock to. And then, um, like she said, lyrically, like, uh, it's personal, you know, it's not something you can just phone in or, or, or pressed, uh, just to get something out there. Like the lyrics mean something.

And since I knew them, like the lyrics meant more to me maybe than somebody who doesn't know them as, as, as personally. We've talked for a while about some of the stories involved and whatever. And, and like, just, just on and all, it was, it was one of the more, uh, the more

impressive albums that I, that I picked up last year. Very cool. Boobie, you said you, you were rocking on your way here to that business. Yeah, absolutely.

So, um, I would agree with Mike for the most part. Except for maybe the 10 deer and the shovel thing. Um, I, I don't know. I would do 20 deer and I would light the shovel on fire.

We just talked.