June 30, 2026

Belushi Speed Ball Fun at Milwaukee Metal Fest & New Album Toxic Waste Was Everywhere In The '80s

Belushi Speed Ball Fun at Milwaukee Metal Fest & New Album Toxic Waste Was Everywhere In The '80s
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Vinny from Belushi Speed Ball talks with Pipeman Radio about Milwaukee Metal Fest and their new album Toxic Waste Was Everywhere In The '80s" and the song All Pete's Exes" (Featuring Pete Lee) from their album. We also talked about how they make live shows really fun.

Founded in 2013 in Kentucky, BELUSHI SPEED BALL began as a studio project between friends with a love for crossover thrash, satire, and complete nonsense. The band quickly built a reputation for interactive live performances, absurd merchandising ideas, and relentless DIY creativity.

Dubbed “a freakshow of blistering thrash dedicated to laughing its ass off at blistering thrash” by MetalSucks and praised by Anthony Fantano as “one of the funniest fucking things I have heard this year,” BELUSHI SPEED BALL blend the energy of Municipal Waste, Anthrax, GWAR, and Toxic Holocaust into a uniquely chaotic spectacle that continues pushing the boundaries of what a thrash band can get away with.

The band’s latest collection of crossover thrash nonsense features artwork by Andrei Bouzikov and continues BELUSHI SPEED BALL’s long-running tradition of turning nostalgia, chaos, and pit-starting riffs into a full-contact theatrical experience. From N64 album releases and Furby formats to Mad Max-style mobile performances and Nerf gun warfare, BELUSHI SPEED BALL remain one of underground metal’s most unpredictable acts.

“We are so excited to drop our strongest album to date! Toxic Waste Was Everywhere in the ‘80s is guaranteed to melt faces into a plutonium level pizza pit. For context: We will have to release a blank greatest hits album prior to this drop. We ain’t had a hit yet, and this entire album will be nothing but banger hits after banger hits. In addition, we are proud to announce Belushi’s newest additions: Bassist, Justin McClure and drummer, Ben Cotton (Rose Funeral, SIDS) will be joining the chaos for their recording debut. Making this LP a must have for any crossover thrash fan.” -

Vinny Castellano (vocals)
Belushi Speed Ball Lineup:
Vinny Castellano – Vocals
Brian Desper – Additional Vocals
Jamison Land – Guitar
Derrek Tipton – Guitar
Nathan Rogers – Guitar
Justin McClure – Bass
Ben Cotton – Drums

Pete Lee is a musician best known as the former guitarist Flattus Maximus of GWAR and a member of X-Cops. In the crossover thrash band Belushi Speed Ball, he is the featured guest guitarist on the track "All Pete's Exes" from their album Toxic Waste Was Everywhere In The '80s.

The song is based on a real-life memory of Belushi Speed Ball touring and staying at Pete Lee's house in Dallas. According to the band, the track highlights the legendary hospitality they received when Pete hosted them, which included him grilling for the band while a harem of women cooked and poured drinks for them.

The track was released alongside a benefit T-shirt campaign on Bandcamp, with all proceeds going to support Pete Lee in his ongoing battle for health and justice.

Pete Lee has been navigating longstanding health challenges and ongoing recovery stemming from severe injuries he sustained decades ago during a violent carjacking.To help him pay for medical costs and legal or living battles, Belushi Speed Ball has partnered with him in an ongoing benefit campaign. 100% of the profits from their limited-edition "All Pete's Exes" T-shirt sales go directly to aiding Lee in his battle for health and justice.

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Hi, you have done to censure.

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Wow for you you.

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It is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four c Y Radio. I'm super excited right

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now because I did media coverage, as you guys know,

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at Milwaukee Metalfest, and one of the top sets of

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the whole festival was with this band, and oh my god,

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it was so much fun. Besides just being a badass

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thrash show, it was just the fucking most entertaining show ever.

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So let's welcome to show Vinnie from Blushy Speedball.

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How are you hey, I'm doing good. Thank you so

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much for having me, and thank you for all the

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kind words that that means a lot.

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Oh my god, it was like I think nowadays, there's

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so many bands out there that you gotta do things

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differently to make it interesting and stand out fun and

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that was definitely you. I mean, the music's fucking great,

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so that's great, But to go to a live show,

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I want, you know, I want to be entertained too,

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you know, and that like, I don't care if you

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even liked the music, that was an entertaining show. If

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you didn't even like metal or punk or anything like

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that at all, you have still had fun at that set.

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I think that you hit the nail on the head.

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I think that's what attributed to a lot of our success,

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is that we we do more than not that there's

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anything wrong with it, but we do more than just

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play music. There's a theatrical aspect to the bands, and

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those were always my favorite bands growing up. You know,

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like I'm a It's no secret I'm a big juggalo

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and I see pe puts on a really good show.

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If you don't like their music, still seeing them live,

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it's an experienced guar same way Alice Cooper, you know kiss,

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Like I always liked bands that went above and beyond, and.

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There's different ways to do it. We just choose to

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throw trash out at the crowd.

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Yeah, well I love that too, Like, you know, fans

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dig when they have like souvenirs and well props and

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shit you threw out there, man, Like people were eating

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that shit up.

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Yeah.

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I've always said that, like our other member of the

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band is the crowd is the fans. So like, you know,

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it's fun when you get to be a part of

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the show and you're in it. Also, you know, everyone

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feels like they're in on the joke and it's fun

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with we actually had, oh god, we had way way

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more to throw out.

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That was like it was like a quarter of what

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we had the rave and rightfully.

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So I get it, but there was a little bit

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of a miscommunication what we could bring because we played

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it two years ago and.

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We you know, we brought out, Oh god, I threw

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out like two hundred NERF guns.

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We brought out all these inflatables and all this stuff,

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and so I had all these things and not to

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say names, but.

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The year that we played in the main room, a

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bunch of people throughout they didn't throw it out.

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A bunch of the crowd grabbed trash cans and like

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dumped all the trash all over the place, like literal trash,

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like liquid trash. And then like I guess, someone got

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hit in the head with one and got really hurt

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had to go to the hospital.

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The security was telling me this. So they went through

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all the stuff we had to throw out.

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Because I had two hundred rap gifts, like I had

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to say, a genesis in one of them. I had

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like all the things, and they didn't want the crowd

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to like potentially hold on to it.

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The entire day because we were playing so early. That

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was the other thing, And like, I don't know, get

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drunk and throw it out a band or something like that,

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which is understandable, you know, because as people are coming in,

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you know, they're searching everyone to make sure no one.

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No one has this stuff on them, you know that

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they're not bringing crazy items in. And here we are

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throwing out for all these.

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Crazy people do act stupid, so it you know, it

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does happen.

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I mean I got that. I wasn't.

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I was stressed because I had to like figure something out.

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and they kind of let us know this. We had,

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oh god, I had like a thousand rolls of toilet

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paper to throw out. And they're like, well, we'll have

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to charge you a competti charge, and.

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Really, well, no one, no one ever. And I said, well,

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I'll pay it, and then they were like, no, we

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just can't do it. And because again so early, they

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didn't want the ballroom destroyed. But the thing that no

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one ever believes me on is at the end of

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a blue she said, I give everyone trash bags.

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And I always say, hey, real fans clean up. Real

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fans clean up all the trash. If everyone does, they'll

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be done seconds. We did it at the Gathering of

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the Juggalos, and they had it spotless because we threw

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out so much shit.

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I was.

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Goring that they obviously don't know you, because yes, you

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trash places, but then you're also meticulously cleaned them afterwards.

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So I think they were stressed. I think they were

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trying to go worst case scenario, and I got to

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respect them for that. They're making sure everything's right. It's

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a really big festival.

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You know, we're low man on this totem pole on

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that main stage. I mean, I get it. You know,

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you got suical tendencies and kill Switch Engage and you

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know the Cob and like all these like legendary metal

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band that still had to go on. And there's like

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fifteen minute changeovers, twenty minute changeovers, you know, so I

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understand it. I sent the boys out. Then we had

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some stuff animals.

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I sent them out to two separate good wills, and

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I said, buy every single stuff animal you can, and

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if you could find one, find a Goodwill outlet, because

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good Will outlet's do all the bins. And it's like

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a dollar a pound for like home goods and stuff

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and that's stuff. He's stuff animals that counts for that.

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So I sent them to two separate good wiels. One

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found a goodwill outlet.

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I say, hey, fill a cart full of shirts also,

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so we had a bunch of soft.

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Things to throw out. But yeah, no, it was about

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a quarter of what we really had. We were really

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I had these. I had like twenty ginormous inflatables, and

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they didn't want that. And I again early in the set,

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they don't want something getting hurt, and they don't want

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this part. I kind of got too with the inflatables

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because like obviously Green Jellow Uh closed out the bar

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stage and they always have inflatables. But the difference is

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when we played two years ago same it was kind

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of the same time frame. We were closing out the

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bar stage, so it didn't really matter what we threw

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out because there was.

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All the two bands left. You know, they're worried if

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we threw out a bunch of inflatables, Well then you

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have these giant inflatables that everyone's crowdsurfing on for the

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entire rest of the day. Yeah, I can see that

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the risk grows exponentially, So yeah, no, very respectfully, like

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I I understood, and I agreed with the decision. I

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just had to scramble I get enough stuff.

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So but yeah, it came out really really well, and

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God bless that whole place filled up. I was really uh,

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I was really surreal to look out there and just

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see a see of people, you know, right before you

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hit so.

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Right and that early in the day. And I love

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that you were going to throw out as I went.

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I used. I I use a lot of the big

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festival Blushi shows.

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To like clean out my shed, to clean out my

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like declutter like a spring clean, so you know, whatever

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has just been sitting.

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Because like in a way with Blushi, that's the other

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thing our trash that we threw out, the trash bags,

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which we did do some of that. It's what I

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call clean trash.

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It's it's literally like paper and cardboard that I save

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if I get an Amazon package, like I put in

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that in you know, these garbage bags and I save

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them up. It tries my wife nuts because I do

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it in the house and then I throw them in

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my shed and I get you know, I love and

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then whenever we have a show, depending on the size

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of it, I'll grab like, Okay, I need fifteen trash

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bags and I'll grab them.

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But that gives the illusion that you're actually throwing out trash.

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It makes a mess. But when you're indoors and you

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do recyclables and things that aren't gross, people can clean

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up really really fast, no doubt. Know. We uh, it's

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been a learning experience.

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We've been doing this for almost fourteen years now, and

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we really dialed it in. We used to do like

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indoors a lot of like La Croix and candy and

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gross stuff, and we still had the same rule that

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we won't leave unless it's clean. But I'd be at

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bars scraping the floor until five am, you know, And

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so that is right there, man. Yeah, yeah, So I

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got sick of that, and I'm like, well, the crowd

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doesn't want to clean it if it's really gross and

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wet and messy.

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So you know, what can we How can we make

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this simpler? You know? Yeah?

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And it's funny you mentioned green Jello because I was

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going to say to you that would be like, to me,

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that'd be kind of ultimate tour. Yeah, you could have

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you green Jello and insane clown posse.

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Oh god, that'd be insane. Yeah, that would be a

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dream come true.

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So yeah, Bill actually reaches out to me, and I

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look at him like a father figure. He's he's one

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of my biggest inspirations. Man Speaker is with what he

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did with Green Jello. I had Serial Killer on VHS

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in uh, you know, in the nineties, and I think

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he's a genius. I think the way that he runs

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that band kind of like how Black Label Society did it.

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I think, I mean he was doing it first, but

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to where he has like different chapters.

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Well, you know, Bill can jump on a plane and

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fly anywhere anywhere, and there's gonna be musicians there to

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be his band, you know, because he's.

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Got something like a thousand members. And then yeah, and

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he just he puts on a really good show. And

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again it's one of those things where he gets the

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crowd to be a part of the show.

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So oh I I I had a video of their

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pit and it was all it was all water, the

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water noodles. Yeah, and everybody's hitting each other with the

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water noodles. I was like, this is the most fun

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pit ever. And you know, I've been in lots of pits,

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but that was like a yeah, and then you're the

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same with yours too, like, so that's why I say

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it'd be the perfect combo because I just had so

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much fun at those two sets just because of the

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entertainment value alone. And of course I like the music

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and everything, but the entertainment alone, like it just that's

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the best therapy ever. Like, with all the shit going

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on in the world, that was the best therapy ever

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because you just escape all that shit and laugh your

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ass off.

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Yeah, you get to be a kid again. That's that's

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a really big theme for us.

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Anyways, all the music is is nineties nostalgia from my childhood.

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And you know, I had a really really fun childhood.

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My father took us to the toy store all the time,

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and nice video games and teenage Mutant Ninja turtles and

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cartoons like and uh, what's funny is I always thought

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i'd outgrow like watching cartoons, But it's all pretty much.

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I love hearing that that. Like everybody talks about their

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shitty childhood stories. I love somebody when they're talking about

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how great it was, and like, yeah, it's funny you're

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mentioning cartoons. And I remember, I don't know what age

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I was. I think it was like eleven or twelve.

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In my dad's like, Okay, enough with the cartoons. Already,

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you're not a kid anymore, right, Yeah.

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You're supposed to outgrow it.

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I think it's a society that's something that we lost

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sight of, Like there's nothing wrong with embracing your childhood

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and having fun with it and still having fun as

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an adult with it.

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And there's a place. I this comes up a lot

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in interviews.

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There is a place for very serious music because people

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need to feel that, they need to have those feelings

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being expressed.

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But there's also a place for bands like Us and

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Psychostick and Green Jellow that are there for you to

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basically have fun and to escape reality. And you know

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that's one.

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Hundred percent, And you know it's funny you should say

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about being fun as an adult because they are already

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stupid rules. Like I'm fifty nine years old, and I

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would say, like, nine years ago, I was doing this,

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and I'm no different now, but I was doing this

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uh ice skating charity event, Okay, And I go with

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this other woman that like is part of my station,

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same age as me, and I'm lacing up my skates

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and she goes, you're gonna go skating. I'm like, uh yeah,

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it's an ice skating charity event. They invited me as

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the radio personality for the charity. I think I should

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be skating. And she goes, and you have your own skates?

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Or are you a child? And I'm like, who said

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that at fifty years old that you can't ice skate?

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Like I ice skate, I rollerblade, I skateboard, I surf,

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I go to I game. I was just at like

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Universal Disney, you got your roles with I gotta be

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an adult and be stupid.

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Yeah, be an adult. Not have fun.

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Now that you're an adult, now's the time to have

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fun because you got the you actually got the money

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to go do the things and buy the stuff that

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you want.

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You know, and exactly, yeah, I not have fun, you know, likeial.

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Especially an opportunity like that. I'm big on on uh.

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And if if there's an opportunity like like you said,

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to basically ice skate for free and just have.

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Fun for a day, like why not make an event

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out of it. It doesn't just have to be work.

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I mean exactly, if I'm getting my tires done and

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there's downtime I'm gonna go walk around wherever area I'm

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at and go explore and try to make a day

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out of it. You know.

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You know it's funny too, because I do me coverage

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at like festivals all over the US, you can Europe,

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and when I'm done with my interviews, I'm out there

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in the pit right like all my media friends are

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like tired leaving. I'm like, what the fuck? Why do

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this if you're not gonna go have fun too? Yeah? Yeah, exactly.

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And you know it's funny you mentioned Psycho Stick because

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right before Milwaukee Melfess, I was doing Welcome to Rockville

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and I was interviewing them. You'll have to check out

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the interview. It was one of the funniest ever because

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we got a code read. You know, We're getting evacuated

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in the middle of the interview with deb What caused that.

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It's fucking Florida during hurricane So we got evacuated three

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days in a row. Like literally I lost twelve interviews

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due to weather. Like I had forty two total, but

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twelve of them. Nope. But the Psycho Stick why it

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was in the middle we were supposed to leave and

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they just in the middle of the interview, start freaking out,

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like on purpose, you know, yeah, And it was just

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this whole thing, and I'm yelling at the person running

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media that's telling us to get out, and like because

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I'm friendly with them, and like, what do you mean

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code read? Like and I already interviewed that band because

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there was a band read that I interviewed earlier, So

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I mean read, I already interviewed that band. This is psychostick.

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Yeah it was shit. Like see, that's what it should

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be all about. And yes, you're right, the serious stuff

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has a place too, and that's great therapy too. To

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get your ship out, I think you need a balance

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of all of it, you know.

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I agree. There's a lot of music purists that that uh,

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that don't give us the time of day because they

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think we're mocking music. And I'm like, no, we're a

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serious band. Like we write everything.

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I just I'm not feeling the feelings that other people

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are to put that in the music. And I'm very

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big on being authentic and being honest, and there's sometimes

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I sprinkle some serious stuff in there. It's usually in

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the verses. There's some like I lost my father in

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twenty twelve that was actually a big man. Yeah, that

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was a big catalyst for me to actually start Blushi

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because I was in and out of bands all throughout

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my teens and it never failed. I'd join a band

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and like one person would decide like, hey, I don't

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want to do this anymore, and the whole thing, the

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whole project would fold up instead of being like, hey,

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let's find someone else. And so when I start Blushi,

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it was a studio solo project that just went in

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and wrote one song and you know, the majority of everything,

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and it just had this idea that you know what,

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no matter what, I'm going to keep it going and

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if someone steps away, hopefully it's amicable. It hasn't always been,

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but hopefully it's amicable, and we could just find someone

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someone else to fill that role and they understand that

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that's the vision, that we keep this and going no

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matter what. And so, like we've had a rotating lineup

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for years because we're all adults, we all have lives

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and being in a touring metal band and getting out

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theres and for everyone.

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And I will say now I have one of the

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strongest lineups I've ever had.

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And yeah, yeah, it's been it's been really awesome, you know,

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the new album. All the albums in the past, I

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wrote all the guitars and pretty much majority of the music,

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and I'd have my buddy record guitar for me, but

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I was writing it. He would fix a lot of

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the parts. But I'm not the best guitar player you know,

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in the world, but I was good enough to write

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it well. This album, I think I only wrote three

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or four songs on it because the rest of my guys,

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Derek and Jamison, they all understood the vision and I

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could trust them to write this style of music.

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They kind of got it like okay, and so kind

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of circling back to my point about being authentic. You know,

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if I'm a pretty optimistic guy and I look at

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every single day like it's a gift, and because that's

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what I'm feeling, it wouldn't be true to myself to write,

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I guess more serious, or to write feelings that I'm

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not feeling.

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You know.

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I think that the crowd would sense that, and it

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goes for goes for nostalgia content too. I've had I've

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had a lot of people tell me like, hey, you

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got to write a song about bay blades or about

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yu Gi.

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Oh.

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And the problem is is like that wasn't really a

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part of my childhood, and I kind of I was outgrown.

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I was a little bit too old for Yugo and

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babloids when they start coming out, So I don't have

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the attachment I do, like I would.

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Like SpongeBob or Ninja, you know what I mean. So, like, again,

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it wouldn't be authentic.

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I can't really sit down and write a song about

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something that I don't feel passionate about, which is weird

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to say feel passionate about cartoons.

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But I mean that's the truth, you know. I can

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I could sit there.

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I could sit there and yeah, yeah it well exactly,

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I could sit there and uh, you know, write a

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song about the Terminator because it's like my favorite freaking movie,

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you know. So I think that's a really big key

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factor to what I don't know sets us apart.

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There's a lot of important too in metal to be

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exactly the way you are, Like, yeah, if you want

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to be unauthentic, do pop, but metal, yeah, you know,

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it should be authentic. Punk should be authentic. Like and

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you're right, we can tell, like I can look up

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there and I can tell if somebody's being authentic or

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if they're just dialing in. And to me, this genre

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is not one that should ever be dialed in.

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I agree.

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Not to say band names, but like there's a lot

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of really really famous artists that you know, people only

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like their for four or five albums everything.

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Ever since they don't, they can't really get into it. Well,

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a big reason for that is, you know, when they

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were younger, they were struggling and they were hungry, and

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they're writing about things that are really going on in

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their lives.

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But then all of a sudden, you know, now they're

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millionaires and they're crossing it in life. But it's hard

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to produce music with the same raw vibe to it.

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Yeah, and even if it's like really well put together,

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you listen to it and it feels like it's missing something.

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It's it's missing like that passion or.

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Maybe they this is weird, but sometimes bands get really

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really really good at their craft, like amazing to where

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it's like formulaic, and.

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Then all of a sudden it feels like it's almost

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produced by a computer.

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You know, so that no doubt and you lose that

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rawness too. And yeah, and to your point, Joan Vandals

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told me one time, like he knew I wouldn't ask

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this question, but everybody asks him, like when when are

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the Vandals coming out with new music? And it's like,

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who on somebody in their fifties writing a punk rock song,

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right right? And that's the reason, like, because you don't

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have that same attitude or usually as you did when

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you're a teenager writing that angry shit.

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Right.

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I would say the exception to that rule speaking of

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punk is is probably fat Mic from No Effects.

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Oh he's authentic, yeah, but a.

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Big, a big part of that is because exactly right, Yeah,

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he's he's writing and writing about what he's feeling. And

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he's always had a very big satire and uh maybe

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sarcastic would be the word I'm looking for, kind of snarky,

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you know what I mean? Like this, Yeah, yeah, he

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does a really good job of taking shitty situations and

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making it funny. And that's that's why I think like

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he could put out a song and everyone would still

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listen to it and they'll still have that same feeling, you.

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Know, yeah totally. Well, I'll tell you to your new album.

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Uh you know it hit home for me, just the

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name of it, Okay, Hell yeah, maxick waste was everywhere

441
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in the eighties, and I come from the eighties, like

442
00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:12.720
I was at all the first shows of a lot

443
00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:16.839
of you know, huge bands in thrash that were not

444
00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:22.279
huge then, right, And I feel like it's kind of

445
00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:25.880
weird that in twenty twenty six you could take a

446
00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:30.640
lot of eighties songs, change the names and still they

447
00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:34.440
would be relevant. One hundred sad too, man, It's sad

448
00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:38.000
that we can still write songs about the same bad

449
00:23:38.200 --> 00:23:40.519
shit that we had to write about in the eighties.

450
00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:48.480
Yeah, yeah, nothing's really I don't know, A lot hasn't changed.

451
00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:51.720
It's just been hidden in different ways, and there's different

452
00:23:51.799 --> 00:23:53.079
terminology for it.

453
00:23:53.559 --> 00:23:58.400
Exactly exactly. And I gotta tell you too, you know,

454
00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:01.880
I want the listeners to hear from me directly the

455
00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:09.880
story about all Pete's x'es. Oh, and and why you

456
00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:14.039
are you know what he did for you and why

457
00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:18.359
you are so dedicated to raising money to help him

458
00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:20.039
and justice for him.

459
00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:20.880
Yeah.

460
00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:25.640
So, for those that don't know, Pete Lee was the

461
00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:30.759
one of the original flattest Maximus is for perguar, he

462
00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:33.519
was my flattest from the nineties, like when you're watching

463
00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:34.680
Beevis and butt Head.

464
00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:37.640
And Jack the world comes on, that's Pete. And you know,

465
00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:40.960
I love the Beeves and Bay video game for Sega.

466
00:24:41.079 --> 00:24:42.680
I can speed run it, like I can beat it

467
00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:45.240
in about twelve minutes. It's a hard ass game too,

468
00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:48.359
but it's like, uh, it's my go to and when

469
00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:50.839
you when you beat it, you know, if you do

470
00:24:50.920 --> 00:24:53.000
the the easy ending, there's Pete right there.

471
00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:56.519
You see a little digital Pete playing playing guitar. So

472
00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:59.319
to me, he's someone I always idolized and looked up to.

473
00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:02.440
And uh, for those that don't know or haven't seen

474
00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:08.359
the Guard documentary, he got shot during an attempted carjacking

475
00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:12.000
in the nineties and almost died, and he had to

476
00:25:12.079 --> 00:25:14.039
have a colostomy bag, he had to have part of

477
00:25:14.119 --> 00:25:19.839
his colon removed and and through that, you know, he's

478
00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:23.079
had a lot of health issues and he's going through

479
00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:29.359
something where there was you know, I'm not one hundred

480
00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:32.680
percent here because I know he told us, but I

481
00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:37.400
think something happens with a surgery that they didn't do

482
00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:42.640
it correctly, and he you know, he's been really suffering

483
00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:45.480
a lot of pain and and you know, battling these

484
00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:53.759
these health issues, and he had a settlement for a

485
00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:58.160
pretty large sum of money, and the one person that's

486
00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:00.359
supposed to pay him out has been dragging. They have

487
00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.559
the power to basically drag their feet in court and

488
00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:06.400
kind of just ride it out and make Pete kind

489
00:26:06.440 --> 00:26:09.240
of suffer with no money, and so he's struggling, so

490
00:26:09.400 --> 00:26:11.440
every little bit that we can give him.

491
00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:13.079
There was a GoFundMe.

492
00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:17.920
Last year around January or February to try and raise

493
00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:20.359
some money for him, and all the fans kind of donated,

494
00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:23.720
but I tried to look for opportunities to be able

495
00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:26.720
to donate some money to him. We first did this

496
00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:30.279
with when we toured with X Cops, which is peat Lee,

497
00:26:31.960 --> 00:26:35.480
and we had all these Blushi X Cops shirts that

498
00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:37.640
had like the tour dates on the back, and we

499
00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:39.799
had a bunch of extras, so I lowered the price

500
00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:42.400
on them to try and sell them, and basically any

501
00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:44.519
profit that we made off of him, I was just

502
00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:46.559
given straight to Pete and those are still available in

503
00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:50.920
the band camp and so on this tour with X Cops.

504
00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:55.720
Pete is one of the most genuine, humble, nice human

505
00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:57.839
beings you're ever going to meet, and again he's got

506
00:26:57.920 --> 00:26:58.160
all this.

507
00:26:58.480 --> 00:26:59.079
Just like we all do.

508
00:26:59.160 --> 00:27:01.519
But he's got all this bage and he's going through

509
00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:04.279
it and he's still when we're in Dallas, said hey,

510
00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:06.440
I'm having everyone over. We're gonna have a big cookout.

511
00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:09.559
And so he invited us over to his house. And

512
00:27:09.880 --> 00:27:11.799
it was, I don't know, a few hours before the show.

513
00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:14.200
And we get over to this house and he's got

514
00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:17.920
like five or six women in this house and they're

515
00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:21.160
cooking and they're pouring us drinks and they're serving us

516
00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:23.519
and like it was the most surreal thing ever.

517
00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:25.400
So we're in this guy's house.

518
00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:27.519
We're in one of my hero's house and he's got

519
00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:30.680
you know, gold records on the walls, and he's sitting

520
00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:33.680
there basically just giving us all this hospitality.

521
00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:35.720
And it was just a very surreal thing.

522
00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:38.720
And it and it shows that, you know, you have

523
00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:42.240
someone that's a quote unquote rock star who's been very

524
00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:46.680
successful in their music career, humble enough to basically entertain

525
00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:50.559
those that you know, maybe aren't at the same level

526
00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:54.519
that he achieved, you know, and that was probably the

527
00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:55.599
highlight of that tour.

528
00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:58.799
And it was such a surreal thing, you know, Like,

529
00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:02.720
so we I had this idea to write this song,

530
00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:06.640
and I messaged Pete was like, hey, man, can you

531
00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:08.960
have leads on it for us? You know, I'll pay you,

532
00:28:09.720 --> 00:28:11.839
And he was like, absolutely, you don't have to pay me.

533
00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:12.359
I still did.

534
00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:15.039
I send some some money and it came out amazing,

535
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:17.640
and then of course, you know, we got the lyric

536
00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:20.079
video for it, so people can see what I'm talking about,

537
00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:23.079
and it's all just a reference to Pete basically hosting

538
00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:27.440
us and all his exes, all these women beating us.

539
00:28:28.359 --> 00:28:32.200
And so then obviously you have it behind you. That

540
00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:35.960
design is on a T shirt and any shirt that

541
00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:38.920
we sell. I did one hundred of them. They're limited edition.

542
00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:42.319
I did one hundred of that design. If I saw

543
00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:45.720
all that, I'll make something else. But all profit from

544
00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:47.559
that's going to Pete to kind of just help him

545
00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:50.480
with whatever he needs the money for, if it's taking

546
00:28:50.519 --> 00:28:53.880
care of his health, paying his bills, trying to basically

547
00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:57.559
pay a lawyer to get his money, you know see.

548
00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:01.079
And I love that because it's not like you're Tawka Okay,

549
00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:04.960
where you you know, you can afford to just give

550
00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:08.720
away all the money on your merch okay. Don't like

551
00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:13.160
the way people make money as an artist nowadays is merch.

552
00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:15.240
So the fact that you're giving it all way like

553
00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:18.279
that says everything about you. And that's why if they

554
00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:21.319
don't buy these shirts, they can't listen to my show.

555
00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:27.519
Fuck them, that's right, you know, like I mean listen.

556
00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:32.680
That's why you know, I think you are a great artist,

557
00:29:32.759 --> 00:29:36.160
because it's not all about musicianship. It's all about who

558
00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:38.960
you are as a human being. And like, hear the story.

559
00:29:39.160 --> 00:29:40.839
That's why I want you to tell a story because

560
00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:43.640
people don't realize a lot of musicians, big or what

561
00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:47.799
have you. They're just human beings. They're same as everybody else,

562
00:29:47.880 --> 00:29:50.279
and just treat them like that, you know. And and

563
00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:51.759
they're all good people.

564
00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:52.119
You know.

565
00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:57.359
It's it's fun, but it's your job, you know, it's

566
00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:03.079
you know, And so I love that to hear also

567
00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:06.519
other artists supporting other artists, because that doesn't always happen either,

568
00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:11.359
you know, sometimes there's that cattiness or whatever, like you know,

569
00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:17.079
but you are true great human being with great music

570
00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:20.279
and fucking one of the most epic live shows. And

571
00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:25.079
I've seen thousands of them, you know, and I just

572
00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:28.559
I remember I didn't catch a lot of sets because

573
00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:31.160
I was so busy at Milwaukee Metalfest, but I made

574
00:30:31.200 --> 00:30:33.079
sure to go your set because I knew it would

575
00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:37.039
be a blast. I made sure to go Green Jello. Yeah,

576
00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:39.759
like a chant. Green Jello sucks and hit people with

577
00:30:39.960 --> 00:30:45.279
water noodles. Yeah, and like see, that's what it's all about.

578
00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:50.440
Like metal should be fun, and yes there's serious parts

579
00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:54.160
to it, but music is the best therapy. And having

580
00:30:54.279 --> 00:30:58.680
a fun environment like that, like it makes everybody escape

581
00:30:58.680 --> 00:31:01.039
their problems. So thanks, thank you for that, and thank

582
00:31:01.079 --> 00:31:05.119
you for helping everybody by giving great music and helping

583
00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:08.000
Pete just go out the goodness of your heart and

584
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:11.720
remembering too that like he took care of you, like

585
00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:14.680
we all take care of each other. That's right, you know,

586
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:17.960
And so for all that, thanks for being on the

587
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:23.279
Adventures of Pipemin. Thank you man, I appreciate it, my pleasure.

588
00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:26.759
What's up? This has been from Blucy Speedball. You're listening

589
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:29.599
to the Pipe Main on W four c WHAT Radio.

590
00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:35.720
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin. I'm

591
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:38.920
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