The Downbeat - Courtney LaPlante and Mike Stringer (Spiritbox)

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4 ай бұрын

My guests this week are the wonderful Courtney LaPlante and Mike Stringer of the band Spiritbox. We caught up in LA to talk about their Grammy nomination, working with Megan Thee Stallion, the creation their latest EP 'The Fear Of Fear' , and Courtney does a wonderful Mike Tyson impression. I love these people and I love this band.
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@jamescbrown8149 4 ай бұрын

this might be my dream blunt rotation

@hullcameron 4 ай бұрын

'You're not gonna be able to monetise this one sorry' - cut to ads. Thank you Simon

@deadsoulxiii 4 ай бұрын

you're welcome!

@andy.v13 4 ай бұрын

this!!!

@austinlocke5679 4 ай бұрын

Came to the comments the moment that happened lmfao

@panicunderpressure 4 ай бұрын

hahaha fantastic timing

@scattaredlight 4 ай бұрын

“You won’t be able to monetize this” -> ad 🤣 I’m still laughing

@scattaredlight 4 ай бұрын

This is one of my new favorite episodes 🤣 Courtney is awesome 🖤 and the banter very funny

@lea.christine. 4 ай бұрын

Vibes are immaculate. I could listen to these 3 talk all day.

@KyletheCoach 4 ай бұрын

lol Mike’s line “it’s pretty easy to not do” had me rolling 😂

@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power 4 ай бұрын

Just heard the subject it refers to...yikes 🤮

@carljohnson9474 4 ай бұрын

@@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power timestamp?

@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power 4 ай бұрын

@@carljohnson9474 pfft, I don't know that, brother. It was relatively early in the interview. I didn't watch the whole thing. Past the haircut talk, and she was doing voices, and they joked that the conversation was boring.....it's pretty early on. You'll find it quick.

@SDREHXC 4 ай бұрын

@@carljohnson947416:10

@carljohnson9474 4 ай бұрын

@@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power no problem thanks man

@Nollychi 4 ай бұрын

The milking conversation had me in tears

@theparadisesnare 4 ай бұрын

Tbh, this type of convo/bants is exactly what I’m interested in when my favorite bands are being interviewed. Top shit!

@somersfamily 4 ай бұрын

Love these 2. Our daughter made them a picture and she gave it to a security guard and then he gave it to Michael and then courtney blew her a kiss, waved to her during a song, zev and mike gave her the pic and drum sticks from that show. ❤ was so sweet ( this was a few years ago in St. Pete fl )

@akelanebula8386 12 сағат бұрын

I saw them a few months back, was stood up on a balcony next to a young kid and courtney waved/blew a kiss a few times to her, super wholesome and made this kids year.

@apollotreatingyou 4 ай бұрын

Mike and Craig saying "fuck ya dude" over and over is pure comedy. Also, Courtney's Mike Tyson impression is hilarious.

@shootamcgaven7452 4 ай бұрын

The accents and impressions never stop. They're too funny

@FKAJFKNoLifeTigerLily 4 ай бұрын

Is it though?? Seriously.. "hilarious"??

@DarkDisc1 3 ай бұрын

@johnthompson6689 humour is subjective...I could be wheezing over somthing funny and you might just go.."huuh"

@AndrewJShirley 4 ай бұрын

Well, that's a honestly bunch of friends talking absolute bollocks and I am so here for it haha.

@AndrewJShirley 4 ай бұрын

Also love Hardlore, ridiuclously dudes but ace. Love their hard songs by soft bands released today.

@trentonahern8323 4 ай бұрын

Watching this in my "FACKING BUNGALOW" and loving every second. You guys have such great chemistry.

@Monfreda48 2 ай бұрын

Mike seems like such a chill dude to hang out with. Actively listening and being part of the conversation... and he's a monster on that 7 string

@EVRNDR 4 ай бұрын

"I did a dramatic everything change when I got divorced" is the most true statement I've ever heard lmaooo, it's a fucking wild ride. Amazing interview, thank you for sharing such a cool time with us Craig!

@confessorsedai 4 ай бұрын

It literally felt like I was chilling in the living room with a group of close friends just chatting. Thank you for creating something so fresh and natural!

@Codycreek 4 ай бұрын

I love how Craig apologizes each time right before the most fire episode ever. I’m convinced once he says that the episode is for sure gold 🔥

@MarcDavies-ll6sk 4 ай бұрын

when a band as profiled as Spiritbox are right now, are so relaxed and down to earth to chat shit for over an hr and a half rather than agendred questions...so refreshing...well done craig x

@nthly9980 4 ай бұрын

I love that Reiner from AoT has a podcast

@reynlord666 4 ай бұрын

I’ll take it

@laxstateofmind 4 ай бұрын

Is that a compliment to his buff ness?

@mayajordan6857 4 ай бұрын

this is probably the funniest podcast I heard in a bit lols

@kylekeeler6631 4 ай бұрын

Genuinely would LOVE to see a Downbeat episode with Buster. Also would love to see a Spiritbox project produced by Buster.

@jacksonconstantine5740 4 ай бұрын

That would be ungodly

@AdamSoucyDrums 4 ай бұрын

17:53 “There’s a Nolly pack” *is an image of a pour over* ☠️

@theopinson3851 4 ай бұрын

I don’t know why it was perfect but it was 😂

@CaritheEntertainer 3 ай бұрын

The moment she said misogynoir I became a Stan. I'm going to go download some SpiritBox rn

@Kideem 4 ай бұрын

Good to know they're Tesseract fans. Tesseract still doesn't get enough love.

@gSWG3R 4 ай бұрын

I mean, The Mara Effect Pt. 3 has Tesseract written all over it tbh.

@Luna-sf7rn 4 ай бұрын

All the Mara effect stuff lmao

@mattmcdonnell4205 4 ай бұрын

It warms my heart to see them love Tesseract as much as I do

@boogaethje 4 ай бұрын

Finally got to see TesseracT this year. Epic.

@davidstanley9543 3 ай бұрын

I remember Jamey Jasta mentioned on his podcast that Hatebreed lost an opening spot for Megadeth. The band was Tesseract. Dave Mustaine is a fan, so he picked them over Hatebreed. Jamey was hurt, but mentioned that Hatebreed eventually opened for Megadeth. Funny story.

@sebastian.lightup 4 ай бұрын

the turn around for the stallion one... I N S A N E! thanks for giving this a platfrom craig and cudos to the spiritbox gang for pulling it of! i loved it!

@Bonz-vc8zd 3 ай бұрын

Mike is such an inspiration. I want to become a musical mad scientist. Courtney mastered growl/scream and singing. Phenomenal. I kinda wanna see a SPIRITBOX/SLEEPTOKEN collab.

@stonemileryan 4 ай бұрын

The face Craig makes at 49:46 at the realisation of midi drums has me rolling 🤣

@arsp2691 4 ай бұрын

This might dethrone the Kubla Kahn episode for funniest episode. 😂 Great show!

@ultraviolet_sb 4 ай бұрын

I love how Mike, Courtney, and Craig speak so highly of my favorite band

@scotthornsey 4 ай бұрын

I love when these guys are on podcasts, but turns out I love them even more when they're on this podcast! Only thing is, like 10 minutes in I thought 'Courtney totally has the female version of Craig's hair' then I couldn't unsee it

@85devlin48 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video Craig. I've become quite obsessed with Spiritbox over the last year or so. Any interviews or chats with Courtney and Mike that are longer than 5 minutes is greatly appreciated. Thumbs up mate.

@BassyTX 4 ай бұрын

Courtney doing accents is just a small taste of how unhinged she might be 💀

@kapricun 4 ай бұрын

trust- she is

@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power 4 ай бұрын

I've known quite a few women who do that without batting an eyelash.... but it's not a tick limited to women....

@NightOwlooo 4 ай бұрын

5 minutes in and already incredible!! New podcast day is the best day 😊

@gerardomorales4078 4 ай бұрын

Loved this! Great to see how down to earth they are. I'm super excited for the new album. So proud of this band! Whatever they do, mad respect and I wish them the absolute best! 🤘

@LOGIBEAR01 3 ай бұрын

I played with Mike and Courtney on the same night. They were in different bands back then. Unicron and Fall in Archaea 😅. Amazing.

@spongesurf 4 ай бұрын

This was fun as hell to watch. Thanks! Completely agree about the Tesseract album. Saw them in Florida this tour and was blown away too.

@CharlieViking95 4 ай бұрын

One of the best live bands I've ever seen. Great episode as always!

@ShizzyHollywood 4 ай бұрын

This ep’s got me crackin’ up. Gold as always.

@ErinQuinn 4 ай бұрын

Wooooph. What a great episode!

@scottnixon9236 4 ай бұрын

AWESOME INTERVIEW. I am Canadian and was just in Vegas sporting my new Spiritbox shirt. My wife and I were blown away how many people of colour were giving me thumbs up and your stereo typical metalhead had no awareness of my shirt lol. Congrats on your Grammy nod and keep up the amazing art you are sharing. Hugz!!

@vampzombiewitch 4 ай бұрын

47:55 Mike’s Borat impression I’m DEAD🤣💀 I love these two so much💙🩵

@luminousarrow2849 28 күн бұрын

Craig's chuckle too 👌 Mike's humour is great

@DerekSanford 4 ай бұрын

I throughly enjoyed this! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@marcfalzon2065 4 ай бұрын

That was a great one, thank you for that ❤

@AaronScutt 25 күн бұрын

I love that they know TON, RIP Pete!

@starman69 2 ай бұрын

This was a fantastic interview

@mattkraig 4 ай бұрын

This was an amazing episode, Craig 🖤

@Mrvegas6666 4 ай бұрын

That was one of the best pods I've ever watched. It was just some friends hanging out and shooting the shit.

@jakehadlock 4 ай бұрын

This episode was so damn good. Also cool to see Courtney and Mike are still so down to earth.

@chelsea8504 4 ай бұрын

I love this! More the reason why I love spiritbox ❤

@nadiamiloserdova 4 ай бұрын

set looks so cool!

@claytonvon 4 ай бұрын

Honestly would listen to weekly a podcast of the 3 of you talking about random shit, this episode was a damn hoot! Had me cackling like a maniac at my desk

@aputsiaq6070 4 ай бұрын

god I love her. she's so talented and cool and super beautiful.

@Lumerdrums 4 ай бұрын

brilliant podcast! might be the best one yet

@ConnerSpeed6 4 ай бұрын

I love this! 45 minutes in, and there's been like 3 questions asked! What a fantastic interview!

@reynlord666 4 ай бұрын

humour me, what would you have asked

@ConnerSpeed6 4 ай бұрын

@@reynlord666 mate, I have no recommendations for you! I loved every minute of it for the hour I've been watching. The lack of layout, and same old same old type of questions is perfect in my opinion. I'd much rather watch friends sitting around shooting the shit like this any day. Nice work, brotha.

@patfix 4 ай бұрын

You guys look great, not in the least because of the great setup. Such a joy to listen to you guys chat.

@JohnSmith-hj1ys 4 ай бұрын

Buster Odeholm, The absolute G, not to mention his mixing, mastering and production credits are S-tier. Thrown, Vildjharta, Humanities Last Breath. Dats him..

@celcrawford8717 4 ай бұрын

"Someone's milking the king." Funniest sentence I've heard this year. 🤣

@FriedEggandChips 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely LOVED this, I find Courtney so inspiring. Wish I was as cool as her!

@SlackWi 4 ай бұрын

Listening to your favourite band talk about how much they love your other favourite band will never get old

@AlexSpetz 4 ай бұрын

Amazing episode dude

@jakeparker6610 4 ай бұрын

Love Spiritbox, great interview this, so down to earth despite their success. Just when I think I couldn't like them any more I now find out Mike's a red too, good lad! 🇾🇪

@whoisrune 4 ай бұрын

LMAOOOOO the canadian accent bit killed me😭💜

@jimmygee5 4 ай бұрын

One of my fav eps!

@scavyboi 4 ай бұрын

I just clicked on this because Spiritbox planning to just get some highlights of what this video is and not knowing who Craig Reynolds was.. The video is now almost over and I pleasantly surprised. Great host, Courtney and Mike were awesome, fun banter. Excellent fucking episode 10/10

@GregMcClellan 4 ай бұрын

To me Spiritbox is the best new band in years! Absolutely Love Them! ❤💙❤💙

@3.eRicc_ 4 ай бұрын

another good ass podcast. craig you are literally unstoppable

@lexallsteel5713 4 ай бұрын

Y’all some wholesome blokes . Much love

@adamcogan211 4 ай бұрын

I love Spiritbox so much! TFOF is my favourite record in the last decade!

@jordanmckay7037 4 ай бұрын

Get the badge in Mike

@adrianramirez4129 4 ай бұрын

IT IS HERE. These bang bro dont stop em.

@Inkster66 4 ай бұрын

Top tier episode 🔥🔥

@TylerRossow 4 ай бұрын

New to the podcast. Love this episode 🤘🏻🔥

@Creature1009 4 ай бұрын

Mike rocking The Acacia Strain hoodie. Love to see it. My favorite band of all time

@hclyrics 4 ай бұрын

Best episode. Mourtney and Brendan Murphy are my favorite guests ever. The conversations that result are amazing.

@AfroRedMusic 4 ай бұрын

Fuck yeah! Can't wait to see them live 🔥

@daydreamhero1374 4 ай бұрын

SPIRITBOX YOU ARE AMAZING! ❤

@Gradiencedk 4 ай бұрын

yeees, never clicked on an episode so fast!

@noseqnombreponer7589 4 ай бұрын

Fall in Archaea was sick, Craig. Definetly check them, I remember watching their drum playthroughs and they were sickkkk

@MnMSounds 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Craig, Courtney and Mike this is coming from the other 90% of us

@pjreagin9527 3 ай бұрын

It’s crazy because I’ve been listening to Courtney ever since Unicron

@chaoticfirearm 4 ай бұрын

Possibly the best Downbeat episode yet.

@WallyWaldo 4 ай бұрын

Do what you want to do simple as that screw the critics and screw the haters, do what you think is best at the current time I'll definitely be tuning in for the premiere no matter if it's heavy or soft completely fine with whatever because your content is great

@LiquidSora 4 ай бұрын

Love the hoodie!

@chairchriss 4 ай бұрын

This was such a good podcast episode. It's really fun seeing friends shooting the shit.

@vickiemcarthur6066 4 ай бұрын

Fave pod 🤝 fave band 🙌

@nickrickert3109 4 ай бұрын

best spiritbox interview of all time

@DottedEyes 4 ай бұрын

Great ep. Looking forward to the debut single from Stunt Cock with great anticipation.😊

@lint1983 4 ай бұрын

Your fucking podcasts always appear at night. There goes sleepy time. Amazing work Craig. Amazing Sir

@drumkidstu 4 ай бұрын

Nolly as a pour over. This pod gets better and better Mr. Reynolds.

@Leaving_Orbit 4 ай бұрын

Awesome chat.

@jasoar1563 4 ай бұрын

love them

@jasminthestrange 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely luuuv your podcast 🖤 Could you possibly do an episode with ten56?

@kimthaelf 4 ай бұрын

this one was so fun

@xile_hc 3 ай бұрын

Good audio, video wall was a vibe!

@jeksun1580 3 ай бұрын

hearing spiritbox talk about sleep token and bad omens. I freaked out

@hayatohuseman 4 ай бұрын

easily my favorite episode yet

@sagelyden 4 ай бұрын

Almost 60mil subscribers!!!

@bluedreamerbroadcast 4 ай бұрын

To hear Mike bring up Certain Shade Of Green from Science just solidifies why I Love Spiritbox. Best Incubus album..IYKYK

@republ33k 4 ай бұрын

What a cool conversation. But you know what's cooler? Me arriving here because of Spiritbox and realising Craig Reynolds, that awesome host, is the same Craig Reynolds from Stray from the Path. It's not like I saw them twice. Cheers from France (where Macdonald's sucks), guys!