Covering Stone Temple Pilots and Radiohead songs 5:15 Audio of WAS covering “Creep” by Radiohead 7:06 Thoughts, feelings, emotions writing their new album “Qualifying Miles”9:28 Experimenting with different genres 10:28 How many songs were written for each individual album?11:33 “There are were definitely at least 80 songs cut from Qualifying Miles”13:23 Coming back to Baltimore for the first time in 15 years15:57 What was it like signing with Virgin Records for their debut album?17:02 The story behind their success in the UK 19:25 Memories of touring w Arctic Monkeys, Kings Of Leon, and Muse 23:33 Playing The Gap retail store in Time Square25:43 Reflecting on the moment being able to leave their full time jobs for music 28:27 “The person that took the cover art photo for With Love & Squalor was a coworker of Chris’”29:15 Did they have a guide or mentor for their band in their early days?33:19 Working with The Lonely Island and how they met them and Producer 34:27 “Ariel Rechtshaid was our manager’s roommate and he was like my roommate will record some demos for you and those demos are how we got signed essentially”35:50 Reflecting on Brain Thrust Mastery reissue tour38:35 What drives them during the challenging times to keep them going 25 years later?39:40 Something they still hope to do in their music career that they haven’t done already42:16 The best and or most strangest gifts they’ve ever received by fans45:05 Does mortality play a role in the band’s life? If so, how?47:51 Comparing Polar, Trader Joe’s, and La Croix seltzers