Welcome back to Label, the stories, rumors, and legends of tooth and nail records. I'm your host Matt Carter.

And today is just a continuation of the story of Haste the Day. So make sure you've listened to the last episode with Jimmy Ryan, who was not a tooth and nail kid, but nonetheless found his way into the scene, built a legendary solid state band, and then walked away from a dream

and left a giant hole and provided the opportunity for a tooth and nail kid if there ever

was one, the multi-talented Stephen Keech, to walk into a fairy tale dream come true scenario

and knock it out of the park, taking haste the day to new levels so very cool two-parter

here and if you hadn't subscribe to the new labeled feed deep dives please do that right now the

last episode we did number three in that series was with aaron and spencer from under oath and it was

a pretty special conversation that i was quite happy to be a part of.

So please check that out. Okay, here's me and Keach. Well, so I want to know, based on, like, you know,

as we're setting this conversation up with that flexibility of character of yours, is that something

that is, you know, fundamental to your

personality? How do you wind up getting to this point to come in as a frontman? And how are you

different than other frontman is that makes a special transition of frontmen work? I mean,

that's the thing I'm most curious to just explore across the conversation. But I'm curious all the way

from a young age,

like in your character fundamentally how you think. What's different about you that enables all this?

Well, first, I don't know if you know much about Enneagram, but I'm an Enneagram 9. So I'm a,

I call that the peacemaker. I need everyone to get along.

And, you know, if I were somebody who, you know, was trying to be above everybody else,

then that's not getting along to me.

I need, I need all of us to be having fun.

So it's just not really my, I don't have a super competitive nature.

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