Hey, let's do this. I know, it's very amazing. Hi. Can I come to a show? Yes, please, please. You got free tickets for us. We got free tickets for you. I'll throw things at you. I know. Now, I can't. I'm going to get I love that. I love that. I know. I love that. We're. Thanks. Looks. It was just your birthday. Sexy. It was your birthday?

Yeah. It was my birthday on Thanksgiving day.

Don't you remember this from last year? We heard it was your birthday. And I brought. We got you a present. And it's my birthday tomorrow. What's up for tonight? You coming over to mixology?

Lorraine told me about it.

Ah somebody told me.

Little birdie.

Little birdie.

Oh, oh, hi. Hey, what's up? What's going on? Hi. Here, wait. Okay. Um. No way, did you get us? I'm just giving you that. Did you give us? Oh, I thought those were for us. I always come bearing gifts. First of all, we have to talk about the fact that is bearing gifts. I like it. That's good. That's good. You got to admit that was like the best joke of all time. Okay, let's continue. You have to. This is just like nothing's changed from a year ago. It's us. It's been one full year. Here we are. Yeah. Can we just a lot of stuff has happened in a year. You were 3,000 miles away and now you are two inches two inches away.

We had a full day of 3,000 miles. You have no idea. You just didn't Hannah was dancing in the studio. Sorry, I don't know why I'm singing like that. All right. That's exactly how we sound it out. That's how you guys say it probably.

Yeah. Sounded better than me, probably.

I bet. Hey, whoa. You just performed on the X Factor a year later. Killed it with a bonfire going on.

Yeah. It was super fun. I was like, oh that would happen. That would go down. The only thing that wasn't happening was our shirts weren't off.

Well, then take it off.

Well, not in the public room with everybody. Like that's crazy.

It's not crazy. You do it and then I'll do it. Yeah. We I mean, you guys look. You guys are looking like not tired. You just came off a tour with

We just flew in last night at like 11:30.

That's awesome that you say that.

It's exhausting.

But you're used to this by now.

We're just robots now. We just have to be upbeat, so we are.

Okay, well, first before I forget the gifts, I need to give you gifts.

Yes, please.

I brought you two gifts too cuz I didn't want to make you feel left out. So. We got some. I'm totally going to wear these. Every single day. Wait, wait. Hold on one second. Throw this in there. Throw that in there. I figured it's winter. It's great. So this is Wesley's birthday present. This is Homecoming present and Drew's got an extra present inside.

Glad you're taking care of me.

What do you what do you think it is?

I have such bad breath right now.

I know, I know. This is from Wesley. I'm just kidding. if you all remember, Tracy's the this one here has not the greatest breath every time.

No, I want to. I just ate a protein bar and like some tuna stuff, so it's just kind of it's nasty in in in this general vicinity.

You think that you don't. You know, it depends on the occasion. Last time it was cuz I just got done eating like tuna or something like that.

Yeah, you went tuna. I remember like not to go over to the tuna bar, but he was like all about it. Before talking to Tracy, don't do that, man.

So what has been So you guys just announced, you're doing a whole headline tour?

# # Get that trending ASAP. tour. To me so much fun. I can't wait. We have um a plan. Well, actually, we don't want to. We can't tell you. Secret.

You can always tell me secrets.

We'll tell you in secret so that it stays a secret. It's also a tour. It's a tour that. It's a tour that everybody is going to be a part of. It's a tour that we are going to be on. And people that go to the show. Let's just say that.

What does that mean though?

I'm not going to tell you any more than that. We're going to be on tour. You say like the #bandlife has a little bit more meaning behind it than just a title for a tour.

Hey, in a minute.

That's a good little hint. I I feel like I'm I'm The pot is stirring. I heard you like like doing some other show or something coming on soon. You guys are going to be on it. On it. Did you know that? I'm giving you some secrets. Hey! Oh, we just broke the secret. That counts for something. Well, yeah, I need to know more.

We'll tell you when that's not there. Them.

Okay. Later. Tonight. Tonight. Later. You guys can know until it's time. Yeah. You know we're talking about. He doesn't even know, guys. Don't feel bad. He doesn't even know.

I don't even think you guys know what you're talking about.

I know, I don't think we do.

But I need to know the feelings of coming back a year later. Like, how have you evolved? I always say this. I know you you you continue to evolve.

Everyone says I got skinnier. Me too.

Did? No, that's the first thing I said when I saw Drew. I'm like, you got skinnier. You look good, dude.

I was on like this bulking diet trying to get like super buff last year or whatever. And I stopped doing that. I'm like just more natural now.

Hold on. Wait. So you don't work out 24 hours a day anymore?

No, we can't. When do we We had got surgery so.

Oh, you'll You don't need to. You got other other priorities in life. I just having Deja Vu right now. I'm having Deja Vu right now. This is this is weird. This day is Deja Vu. It's day Deja Vu. It really is actually crazy. And think about how far you guys have come. that's a good one guys. You're just on the phone. I think you need to do I can't do You need to do what you did last year for West for his birthday. Do you remember what that is?

Oh, it's party.

You know what I'm talking about. Drew's going to give West a lap dance. Again? Yes. He so remembered. That's what I'm talking about. Everyone's looking at me. Okay. And then, of course, I have to just get you, your fans are out of control, amazing. Always. Embms. They have a lot of questions for you, but I'll I'll take three. So, hold on. I just got to go on my phone. It's the easiest way to do this. How are you? Um, we're always talking about the randomness, which you guys ask me to do every time. They're like, just talk about randomness. That's all they ever. That's all we do. I know. I know. Okay, hold on a sec. Hold on a sec. While I find this, in the meantime. I've been thinking about forever. My name is Keeton. I I get the joke. Yo, spit a rap. I said what's good? My name is Keeton and I'm here to say I have the mic and I like that. I like I like that. Oh, no. Hello. Let me drop a beat. I'm not. Let's do that again with the beat. Okay. What said what's good? My name is Keeton. And I quit. It's like the little toy uh firetruck. I have a question. Okay. But I was going to let that continue cuz

We were distracted.

We were distracted.

You were distracted. I was I know. All right, from @Emblem3TourNews. How would you describe where you guys are in your career and where you hope to be?

I would say that we just started in our career. I would say we're starting from the bottom. Still haven't had. This is 2012, by the way. If you didn't realize. We were 2013. Right now, um, we have a really solid foundation built up with our fans and stuff. We just need like a international smash. Like, we need a huge hit. Put in the couches and the fireplace and like the flat screens and stuff. But we got like the the general thing there. We just needed to start adding to it and really get to electricity.

TVs. What are we talking about? It's like a metaphor. Are we talking about? We're getting like an international house somewhere?

No, no, no. I'm saying that we need a big hit. Oh, yeah. You know. We we need to get a big hit, radio hit right now. As a way to describe a hit. And it works. I thought.

Analogy. An analogy. The next one. I'm feeling it. I'm feeling it. I think the next one's going to be Just got to stick with your stick with you guys writing it. You guys

That's what I'm saying though. Don't you remember your curious performance in the studio?

Yeah, that was like the best acoustic performance we've ever done.

I watched that like I'm not even kidding. It was unreal. Like four times.

That's crazy. Four times. Four and a half times. Um, okay, next question. I watched that halfway through once and it was pretty good. Uh, oh, this is my favorite question of all of them. From @ArianaCarlton, she wants to know, what does the fox say?

Oh, I'm over that. It says I just I said I went with that for like two days and now it's on online forever.

Yes. You love that though, I think.

Yeah, it was awesome. super fun. I got to like dance around and wear cat outfit all day. That was that was one of the highlights of the Selena tour. It was like making that video with everyone. Full on music video. Dude, and we got like all of her dances in on it. It was so much fun. That was the best. I'm going to remember that probably like one of the most things that I remember out of that whole tour.

What was the best Okay, so that's your memory. What was your best memory on tour? I need There's some stories I can already tell. Staple Center like 98% sold out. I was there. It was crazy.

Yeah, I was singing to you. Um, the last show in particular. Honestly, there was in Detroit was like such a sick show. Yeah, the last show on the It was it was our last one on the tour and like we're just like let it all out on stage and just got crazy. It was really fun.

So Detroit was the last one? That's crazy. These my yard. Is it just like surreal? And always just be like, I can't believe I'm playing in front of all these people.

Yeah. Like I was so not nervous at all. I was more nervous for tonight than I was on in front of.

Tonight. Tonight is your homecoming. The most nervous of the year since we are here. I feel like everyone Why though? Probably cuz it's X Factor and like Yeah, I know. At the same time, it's like, all right, these guys have been gone for a year. Let's see what they've learned. Let's see how let's see how good they are or whatever.

I want to go pee. I feel like it's not something you share. I got to go.

Okay. Well, I will let you do that in one second. You can do it. You can hold it. You can hold it. This is from All right. Well, you talked about this already. All right. From @Nikki411. She wants to know, what was the best thing that happened to you all year? And happy almost birthday, Wesley. Birthday boy.

Ah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I don't know. This year has been so awesome. We released our first single, we released our first music video, our first album. Everything has been so

Like the best thing that like you just like felt all year. The best thing I don't know. Tonight was pretty awesome. It was like we got to like come back and There's been so many times where I've been like there's been so many times where I've said to myself like, this is the best day of my life or whatever. So like it's so hard to say one of those times. It just keeps getting Tonight was a really good night. Tonight was a great night. We got we got a great meeting with Simon and like We've just been having so much fun. It was great.

Was seeing him again is like Yeah, it was like next planning planning next moves and stuff like that, you know? It was like when your parents are divorced and your dad comes to visit. That's how it felt.

It's an interesting It's heavy. It's heavy, man.

And our dad and our brother and our son.

And our grandpa.

Well, just remember this moment because

We are. We're going to come back again. I thought this was the one time. We'll be old and gray. When we're on walkers. Okay. Okay. Okay. Sustaining. Self-sustaining system of inspiration.