We are sitting down today with none other than Tyler Joseph. Tyler, my name is Brady Marks. I'm with 1073 Alternative Cleveland, local and independently owned radio station here in Northeast Ohio.
Um, and yeah, I'm honored to be speaking with you. And I do want to just start off with the elephant in the room. What will be public knowledge by the time this video reaches the airwaves is the show that is just announced in Columbus, your homecoming show October 17th at the shoe.
Yeah, it's going to be crazy. Um it's kind of like the uh I mean it doesn't it quite literally doesn't get much bigger than that. And I don't know, anyone who's going to be at that show is going to kind of watch Josh and I probably, you know, kind of realize over the course of the show that, you know, we've we've reached that that peak.
And I'm not really sure exactly what sort of emotion it's going to be or or how it's going to manifest itself, but it should be a pretty powerful moment. Yeah. Can I ask how it came together?
How you guys ended up being at the shoe? I know I also heard that this is the first time the college is even having a band play there during football season. Yeah, the university has been very accommodating and um you know really couldn't do it without them uh allowing us to do it during football season like you said.
It's that's not been done before. Um, and yeah, I think that we just knew that we were going to, you know, after this year wind things down for a while and it felt like the timing was lining up for us to to one more one more show. Um, it will be a, you know, it'll be a really long set, probably one of the longest sets we've ever done, you know, putting the final touches on the set list now.
Um, and so it will be like a new show entirely. And uh so a lot of work still to be done on it. Um but from from what I've put together so far, it's going to be one of the more challenging shows we've ever done, but also I would assume most rewarding as well.
Yeah, I'm so excited for this show and just thank you for doing a show, for bringing um your artistry back home to your home. And I I know you probably hear people say all the time, I've been a fan for forever, but I was I was introduced to your music through Vessel and I went to your 2014 show at Jacob Civilian. It was the first show I could drive myself to.
I just got my license. Um, and I feel so privileged. Oh my gosh.
Like my younger self didn't know how lucky I was to see you guys at that venue. And then I saw you again at Rocket Arena and like it was still I still felt like it was that small of a venue. you have this way of making any person in the room feel like they're immersed in the show.
Whether it's like the lasers high up that are like over people's heads or when you did the body double moment during the Clancy tour, like I was I have never seen an artist or two artists as big as you and Josh make it such a point to bring in those forgotten fans, you know, to make sure they still love the show. Can you talk about that or the importance of that? Yeah, I mean it's a really intuitive observation.
It's definitely something that we focused on was like, you know, trying to imagine, you know, that kid all the way in the back. How do we make that still something that they'll remember? Um it it it poses a bit of a challenge.
The larger the room obviously, and Ohio Stadium is going to be the largest. Um it's interesting. sometimes you don't quite know like how long is it going to take for me to get all the way back there and is the you know is the song long enough you know to even do that and so we're kind of in that um building phase of the set list to make sure that we can still do you know bring in that entire stadium into the show and bring the show to them no matter where they are um as much as we can and so yeah that's that's definitely one of the challenges is to maintain that philosophy even as the venues scale all the way up to a stadium.
So, yeah, it'll be it'll be be interesting. Yeah, I'm I'm excited to see how you guys pull that off. I know you will, but how exactly you pull that off.
We'll see. We might not. Yeah.
Well, we'll forgive you if you don't, you know. No, we will. Um, no, you're you're so beloved um by your fans all over the world, but being from Ohio.
I'm born and raised Northeast Ohio. Uh, but Ohio is still the same. You know, we have a lovehate relationship with this state almost like, you know, people make fun of us and it's like our little sibling.
Like, no, don't talk about Ohio like that. I want to know Yeah. Yeah.
Come on. I want to know if the shows you do in Ohio, if there's something different that you've noticed just throughout your whole time playing. Yeah.
I mean, I would say that um I I guess there's just this extra sense of pride. Um and and you know, yes, from the audience being proud of us because you know, we're from Ohio and we still live here and um and we love where we're from, but also we have a sense of pride because um it does seem like more recently our shows in Ohio has have brought in a lot of people traveling in to see kind of the Ohio show because we've always tried to make it special and um you know add add more uh to that show than than any other show. And so I like the idea that people travel in and get to experience Ohio and kind of see it firsthand rather than, you know, the way that maybe they hear it talked about or um it's preconceived notion of what it's like.
And um yeah, it's fun to watch people be like, man, I really like Ohio when I go. And so using our show as a as a way to kind of bring people in to come to the show and experience Ohio um is another it's like a different uh different side of the coin when it comes to the pride that's felt when playing a show there. Um so and I only I only mentioned that because it's a stadium and we're going to need to sell a lot of tickets and I hope people come in from potentially more than just Ohio to come to the show.
But um I don't know. Every time I I uh Josh and I will always always be, you know, kind of worried and um just a little anxious about whether or not we can sell tickets. And I think that that started at a very, you know, early on in our career where we, you know, that was what it was all about.
It was like, okay, you know, which venue are we going to play? How many how many tickets can we sell? Um, it's a very it's a very um anxietyridden thing for a band or a performer to to kind of wrestle with.
And uh even even us um this far along in our career, we still, you know, we're still like continuing to reach higher and higher and now we're reaching for the highest and it's like, oh man, I hope this works. I think, you know, that's a sign of like, you know, a really great artist or someone really great at their craft that that nerves still brew. You know, I I like to think that and it shows the consideration you have for your fans that you want to put on a successful show for them.
Um, but yeah, we're just so excited. We uh do a lot, being a locally owned station, we do a lot of like listener research and asking our listeners what they want to hear. Um, and overwhelmingly every year like your music stands out compare just compare like people love the music you play and I I get it because I love it as well.
Um, but yeah, so I I know you got a lot of people in Cleveland and Akran area that are about to drive down for this show. Awesome. So we're really excited.
I appreciate it. Yeah. And with our listeners, we've asked them like over the years, you know, if you ever met your favorite artist, what would you ask them?
and I searched through and I found somebody who wanted to ask you a question and I was wondering if I could ask they don't know I'm asking this so hopefully they see this but uh this is one of our listeners Ashton wanted to know was the approach to writing Breach different from Clancy despite them being continuations of the same story. Um um that that that kind of that time frame all kind of blurs together for me honestly um as far as finding a rhythm and the way that Josh and I were writing and the um momentum that we kind of caught was continued from one record to the next. So, I I personally, and I don't know if any maybe um maybe some of our fans feel this as well, sometimes I I don't remember which song is on which record between Breach and Clancy, like because they were so close to each other.
Yeah. And so, in a sense, I I kind of feel like their creative process um were kind of together, you know, they were brother and sister. they, you know, came from the same, they were raised by the same family or, you know, whatever, whatever metaphor you would use.
So, yeah, very similar process. You know, we Josh has a studio with his drums. We get all of our drums out of that.
I have a studio where I do, you know, most of the writing and recording as well. And we collaborate and come together and we worked with our producer friend Paul Meanie on it. And so, um, both of those things that I just listed were present in both records.
And so, um, I think that there was probably, if I were to really try to dissect the difference, maybe the mindset on Clancy was this like, um, uh, desire to prove something to ourselves. And then Clancy was written with more of a reassurance that our fans we didn't have to, you know, prove something as much, but also um just kind of maintain the things that make us who we are. Um rather than, you know, sometimes as an artist you feel a pressure to completely re reinvent your process or reinvent yourself.
Um, and I've found that uh that's not always, yes, that sometimes that's necessary, but that's I found that that's not always um the healthiest progression uh for an artist or even a fan um to experience as well. So trying to find that balance between doing something new, trying to keep it fresh, um saying new things, uh but also not feeling like you want to only push off of who you were, but but kind of being okay with who you were and being inspired by who you were. And so that's kind of how Breach was maybe written with more of that mindset.
That beautiful answer. Thank you. Yeah, that was great.
I'm sure Ashton if they listen to this they'll be very happy that you answered that question. Thank you. Um I I want to know and I know I only have a little bit more time with you.
Whenever I've gone to your show like your fans are some of the coolest, most obsessed fans in the best way. you know, you make music that they connect with so much, but they end up putting some time and effort into some pretty creative gifts that at le I don't know if it ever makes it to you, but every time I've gone to one of your shows, I see people with their little thing they hope to get to you or Josh, and I wonder if there's something that sticks out, a really great gift you got from a fan or something that you were like that really stuck with you. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, I mean, I have a I have a big box at home that has a lot of that stuff in it that I've kept. And um I you know, the stuff that that lasts and sticks around is usually like like uh stuffed animal stuff.
I know it's kind of weird, but like plushy things that they make or knit or crochet themselves. And as a dad, I just look at those. I'm like, "Oh, that's so cool.
" And I usually, you know, will give them over to my kids and they'll play with them and and have them around. So, you know, even in the on the most normal Ohio day, I'll look over and see like my daughter playing with um some gift that I was given at some point. Always thought that was cool.
You know, sometimes they have to like go to the show with the thing and then if they're in the pit, it's like kind of sweaty and gross and so I'm like, I think I'm going to wash that first before I let my my kids like sleep next to it. But, um other than that, quick uh washing process. Yeah, we we like to we like to keep things around.
Um it's a weird thing to to think about though, how normal that is for for my kids. Someone gave this to, you know, the dad and it's not his birthday. It's not, you know, Christmas.
It's just they just gave it to him. And so we work through that for them to try to understand it. But all in all, it's it's a net positive awesome and creative our fans are.
I feel like the people who make the plushy stuff, they feel like they hit the jackpot. you know, it's it's going to be in your it's gonna be a fair family heirloom now, you know, very well could be. Well, that's awesome.
Uh I I'm so excited for your homecoming show at the shoe on October 17th. I want to end with seeing if there's anything any sneak peeks, any tips, something that you can give us or maybe just how excited you are for it uh for this upcoming home. I mean, it's going to I think, you know, it's it'll be one of the longest sets we've probably the longest set we've ever done.
Um, it's it's pushing up close to it'll be pushing up close to 3 hours. I hope that doesn't like get people bummed. Like, I don't know, maybe I wouldn't want to go to a three-hour show, but I would imagine this is the moment to get to some songs.
And the amount of songs we're going to try to get to um we've never done before. And so that's that's an aspect of it that is a bit daunting, but I'm excited for. It's also weird that it's just a one-off.
Like there's this show won't exist anywhere else as far as like the set list and the way that we're doing it. Um so there's that. And uh yeah, I mean we're trying to get creative with different ways to get out to, you know, different parts of this stadium, but it is a massive place and uh it's a bit challenging, but I think we have some ideas of how to do that.
So yeah, it should be should be special. a unique oneofone 21 pilots homecoming show I think is enough to hype up so many people. So, we're so excited to have you.
Thank you again for taking the time to talk with us, Tyler. Thank you so much. Yeah, it was good to meet you.
Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. I appreciate it.
