00:00I think the last time we were there, I just remember, or maybe it wasn't the last time,
00:03but one of the last times we were there leaving the concert venue in a van and the fans like
00:07literally rocking the van back and forth, like just.
00:14Well, I think just how enthusiastic the fans are for us there, you know, I, you know, we've
00:19been talking about this a lot lately in some interviews with the upcoming release of the
00:23new album, Full Circle, here in the States about our affinity for the Philippines and
00:28Southeast Asia in general.
00:30What a lot of people don't know is we didn't necessarily have a ton of success in the United
00:35States first.
00:36We ended up going up into Canada and having some success there, but really the first time
00:41we really got a resounding, you know, excitement from a fan base was when we stepped foot in
00:47Manila for the first time.
00:49So we absolutely loved the fan base.
00:51We, we, we feel like we owe it to our fans.
00:53It's been 20 some odd years since we've been there and we've been really, really excited
00:57to get back there.
00:58We've tried to make it happen a couple of times.
01:00Most recently COVID got, got in the way of that one.
01:03So we're thrilled, excited to get back.
01:05There are so many fond memories.
01:07Really.
01:07It's just how the culture embraced us and really kind of led to our success, not just in the
01:13Philippines and Southeast Asia, but the rest of the world.
01:15I'll just say that I think the last time we were there, I just remember, or maybe it
01:19wasn't the last time, but one of the last times we were there leaving the concert venue
01:22in a van and the fans like literally rocking the van back and forth, like just, I mean,
01:28the passion of the Filipino people for music in general, but, and for our group is just,
01:33it's overwhelming and it's been overwhelming.
01:35And so we've been excited to, to have a return to the Philippines for a long time now.
01:40And as Jeff said, you know, bummed out it couldn't happen in 2020 for obvious reasons,
01:44but so excited we were able to make it work here in 2025 and yeah, just the, you get such
01:51a sense.
