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This is In Our Headphones and I'm Larry Myzel Jr. I'm in for Evie Stokes, and I'm joined by Bryce and Anne of Chinese American Bear. Thanks for being here, y'all. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. We're so excited. Absolutely. You have a great voice. Oh, that's what they tell me. Man, I'm just like feeling it.

The sonorous tones.

Thank you.

I'm trying.

You guys are fantastic and I play you all the time.

So I want to give you that.

It's just really, really wonderfully like just free pop music out of my city. And it makes me really happy that you

guys are doing your thing. Oh yeah. Absolutely. Thank you. We just want to spread joy with it.

That comes through. You know what I mean? And it doesn't feel like it's this, I've seen people kind of

approach the pop form from this like careerist thing.

Like we're going to be pop stars kind of thing. But it just feels like it's a really happy outlet for

what's probably like a just dynamic you guys have as married people who share your lives.

Totally. Yeah. Yeah. We've always had like a silly quality to our relationship. So that try to bring that into our music. Silly, have fun, not take things too seriously. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. And it seems like kind of creating music came about really pragmatically. Just, you know, you're learning Mandarin. Yep. And you guys are kind of just goofing around and thinking, oh, this could, maybe here's a cool tool for, you know. Yes, literally. Very agendaless. Yes. Which I feel like this was her first band, but I'd been in so many bands before this. And like, you know, you kind of like make a band. It's like a, it's like a conscious decision like, oh, let's make oh, let's make a band and like, let's try and make a go of it. Let's make records and let's play live. And this was the first time it was just none of that was in mind and the front of mind. And so not the intention at all. Yeah. Yeah. I was just trying to teach him Chinese. I love it. Yeah. And I love what can happen when you have those happy accidents that are gendaless,

just where you can end up.

And it can be a lot freer than that kind of were banned.

And here's how we're going to push forward and have a career.

Yeah, you almost like, yeah, you, you almost get feel held back by the expectations. Yeah. Maybe that you're setting for yourself. And also maybe like, yeah, you almost get feel held back by the expectations, maybe that you're

setting for yourself. And also maybe like the carved path forward, you know, which is maybe not

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