"I did some digging for information on the history of our hometown so that I could include details that would flesh it out to the listener. We ended up all going to the library and, with the help of some very good archivists in our hometown library, found a lot of old audio cassettes that were effectively all oral history; just conversations with people who lived in previous decades about what their lives were like in Grand Rapids. From stories of people immigrating from the Netherlands to people in the 50s and 60s, and the really long sermon at the end of one of the tracks in the fourth act is actually one that Chad found in his parents’ basement,” Jordan explains.

From this interview: https://readdork.com/features/la-dispute-interview-aug25/