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00:00 Did you want to come and see all the good folks that showed up tonight?
00:07 Light 'em up!
00:09 [rock music]
00:13 I knew that I always wanted it to be a part of my life.
00:16 I had no idea it was going to be this intended.
00:19 It always felt right, standing on stage and performing for people.
00:24 Hannah was the quintessential sleepy little farm town.
00:28 Because there's not much going on, it's really easy to get in trouble.
00:31 I was a bad kid.
00:33 He was either on his way to it or from it.
00:35 I think the cops really wanted to get me out of this town.
00:37 That I can tell you.
00:39 I'm glad he got into music.
00:41 [laughs]
00:43 Ryan played the guitar. That's where the common ground was.
00:47 Four guys in a van that shouldn't have made it two miles,
00:51 and they were living the dream.
00:53 In the 2000s, there wasn't a band on the planet
00:56 that got more radio airplay than Nickelback.
00:58 ♪ I'd like you to say sorry ♪
01:00 How You Remind Me has been considered one of America's most played songs ever.
01:04 ♪ This time I'm mistaken ♪
01:06 All of that exposure triggered a reaction.
01:09 Why does everybody hate Nickelback?
01:12 Nickelbad, Nickelhack, Nickelbomb, Nickelcrete.
01:14 Nobody picks up the guitar to be in the most hated band in the world.
01:17 They were part of cancel culture before we had a name for it.
01:20 It's kind of just like a long-running meme.
01:22 They became the most hated band in music.
01:25 We try and laugh it off.
01:27 You can laugh off about 90% of it, and some of it, it hurts.
01:30 The complaints about Nickelback aren't unusual.
01:32 Their songs are formulaic.
01:34 But I think sometimes people want to hear vacuous, dumb shit.
01:37 He's an amazing frontman, you know. He's a badass.
01:40 I've always felt a sense of loneliness about Chad.
01:43 I don't have an identity without this band.
01:45 This is going to be tough to talk about.
01:47 I'm not in Nickelback anymore. Okay, I quit.
01:50 ♪ Someday I will someday ♪
01:53 They mean so much to each other.
01:55 They've grown up together.
01:57 The chemistry is real.
01:59 It's palpable.
02:01 To those of you who see this band as some big corporate sellout,
02:05 um, fuck you.
02:07 ♪ 'Cause we all just don't want to be big rock stars ♪
02:10 Everybody's got an opinion about them.
02:12 Nickelback, fan or liar?
02:15 I play Nickelback songs to Nickelback fans.
02:19 So I don't have to go and try and win over someone who doesn't like my band.
02:24 That sounds like some very strange form of torture.
02:29 Um, probably for both of us.
02:32 [laughs]
02:33 [BLANK_AUDIO]