April 9, 2026

Freddy Jones Band Featured by NASA as “In a Daydream” Wakes Artemis II Crew - PipemanRadio Interview

Freddy Jones Band Featured by NASA as “In a Daydream” Wakes Artemis II Crew - PipemanRadio Interview
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Hi, you have done to censure?

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Wow, crazy young.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four C Y Radio. And I'm excited about

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this next interview. We got with some crazy good musicians

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and uh, some great stuff we're going to talk about.

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So let's welcome to the show. Rich and Marty from

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the Freddie Jones Band so.

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Much.

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My first question I have to ask, and I already

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know the answer, but I have to ask, just for

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shits and giggles, is how come Freddie's not on this interview?

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Oh? Man, I knew that was coming. You know a

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funny thing, you know, a funny that this reminds me

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a funny thing about that when we were, you know,

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starting out on Capricorn Records and first going out and

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starting to tour around and having to visit radio stations

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every morning, and they put a press release out ahead

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of time telling people whatever you do, don't ask them

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about the name of the band. And so think about

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how genius that is. They thought. They're like, oh, the

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guys will think that we're trying to look out for them. Meanwhile,

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it's genius. What is it to everyone? Asks the question,

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and so there we were. There's the real story, and

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then there's all the stories we told.

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That's the part I love is the story because I

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never ask about band names. Okay, I know better than that.

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Too many friends that are in bands, Like it's the

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worst question ever. But I just think it's so funny

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that you have a band with the name of somebody

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and everybody thinks that person's famous, and not even anybody

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in the band.

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Yeah, it was. It was a college joke. There was

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a band before us, and they named the band after

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a buddy of theirs that wasn't in the band. So

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he was big man on campus and these guys they

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were friends of ours, and they laughed and it was

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our turn. So we just took it a step further

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and we're like, well, let's just invent somebody and everyone

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in town will be wondering who this person is. And

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so so we thought that story was very boring. And

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so when when when people like you would ask us

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when we were out on tour, we would instead come

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up with all these outlandish stories. And it was the

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first Canadian to cross like Michigan in an inner tube.

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That was one of them. Just the craziest stories.

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So I go and I do a lot of festivals

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and this one band I said to him before the interview,

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I'm like, hey, I don't ask you stupid questions like

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how you got your band name. And they're going, well,

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you're lucky then, because you see that girl.

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Sitting next to you. We totally fuck with everybody that

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asks that.

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We different story every time. And the story we told

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her you had to see the look of horror on

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her face. And so this band, they're called August Burns Red,

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and so they're like, yeah, well, when we were teenagers,

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my sister she got this dog. We named it August.

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We were out in the in the street partying. We

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thought it would be funny to light the dog on

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fire and watch it run down the street.

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Ergo August Burns Red.

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And they're like and we say it was a straight

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face totally, And I'm like, that is the most brilliant

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shit ever, because like, I'm all for messing with press

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people that ask stupid questions, even if it's me no, it's.

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Just it's just so funny, especially when you read it

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in print and like you pull into town. He did

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a phoner ahead of time and you're reading this crazy

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story and you're like, oh my god, they printed it.

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You know, we.

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Had someone introduced us recently that read something we can't

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update our Wikipedia because everybody changes it back. And he

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got up and he introduced us as a comic strip

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or whatever it says on there, which is a complete BS.

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And then he was walking off.

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He said, did I do He was a famous radio

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DJ and he said did I do?

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Good?

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I said, dude, all that's wrong, but you did great.

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And it will be a sound check. And this sound

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guy's always like, hey, can you get Fred? Like Fred

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who you know? And uh, oh, well Marty his name

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is Marty, And they're like the look of confusion.

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They're like, what Fred, who's Fred?

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Oh, let's see.

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You have to have fun in this industry because you know,

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playing music's fun. Doing that stuff's fun. Every thing else

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is probably shit, you know. The rest is the business

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end of it. So yeah, you definitely have to, especially

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when you're doing a whole bunch of interviews. Like I know,

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if I was an artist, like after the first or

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second time, I'd be like, you know, fuck this, I'm

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just gonna fuck with people.

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Yeah, well, get you get a little looney out there.

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That's that's for sure. When we were playing two hundred

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some dates a year and just on a bus, and

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I mean you we were like, we're basically a submarine.

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Crew out here, right totally.

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You start losing your mind. I mean you really do.

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And see now you're a moon space crew. Oh my, like,

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oh my god, how does that happen?

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I don't know.

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I really don't know.

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I actually know how it happened. Somebody likes the band

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that's up there in space.

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Right, that's what I saw, Like they requested your song,

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and yeah, it is such a cool song to I

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thing to wake up to in space. Like if you're

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gonna wake up in space to a song, that's a

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good song to wake up.

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To because you're out there, you're like daydreaming, like it's

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not can't be real.

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When you're up there in space, Like it has to

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feel like a day dream for sure, or good drugs,

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one of the two. It can't be caught, Like I

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can't even conceive it being up there. So that's the

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perfect song right there, I think.

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And I think it probably at that stage where they

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were somebody I read this, someone wrote something about it,

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and there they said, what a what a great song

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to be looking back at Earth when they were around

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at that point, you know, and the photos that were

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used for you know, the images for that that third day,

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that morning Friday.

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Yeah.

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I and then I, you know, I peeled the song

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off of Spotify and you you can choose which part

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of the song, and I chose kind of the outro,

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and I thought, you know, it does it has a

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pretty vast feel to it. And so I kind of

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got it, you know, like, oh, I get it.

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You guys are like the real life soundtrack to Star Trek.

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I thought, you know, my phone started. I started getting

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these texts like, hey, what's what's all this about? You know,

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those guys and the astronauts are listening to you in

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space And I'm like, oh oh, like, oh my god,

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who put an April Fool's joke joke up? Like a

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couple of days ago. People are just getting around like

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finding it or something. And then I someone sends a

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link and like are you kidding me? Like I literally

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almost fell off the chair sitting next to a friend

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of mine, like you gotta be kid me, right?

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It just blows my mind too, that like this song

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is in a brand new song, like the fact that

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they pulled something out of your catalog from in a

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different century.

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You know, that's I think they're in the same age,

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you know, bracket as you know a lot of our fans,

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and you know, we have a very white, diverse audience.

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I mean, we're thirty five and up, and you know,

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Marty and I are in our fifties. And you know,

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it was funny because Friday, I was sitting at lunch

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and the text message that I received says from a

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number I didn't have in my phone, says so cool

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that the astronauts are listening to in a daydream.

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And I was like, what is this? You know?

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And then I set my phone down started having a

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conversation with my friend here in Nashville, and the phone

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just started buzzing and buzzing, and I look and I

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somebody sent the tweet a NASA And then I started

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to send it to Marty and he sent it to

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me first. So it was happening. We're both at lunch

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on different parts of the US and texting each other,

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and I was like, it's it was so unreal. I'm like,

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is this real? And then that's the messages I've gotten

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all weekend. You know, you see the you know, the

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representative's a NASA talking about the song, and people are

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posting it saying is this real because that's a crazy

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thing with that AI.

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You just never know, yeah, exactly.

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Wow, Like so you didn't even really know until other

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people were telling you.

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Yeah.

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And like for some reason, maybe because of where the

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mission was, you know, day three, early on, it was

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something to talk about, like, hey, they send music to

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the astronauts, so it's just like a new kind of

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thing to talk about. And I don't I mean, it's

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just people were sending me videos of themselves watching CNN,

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you know, with and it wasn't just like they were

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talking about General U and genlemally you know there we were.

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I get really party on that.

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They just they just they just kind of grabbed onto

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it and it became this thing, you know, like the

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nightly news NBC, like people were seeing it on global stuff,

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you know, crazy.

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I think we've had every rock star friend of ours

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reach out and say, what is this?

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What is going on?

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And you know, it's just so surreal, and you know,

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it's awesome for what Marty wrote this song when he

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was eighteen years old or something. I mean, this is crazy,

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you know, and we're still going the bands that we're

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out there, we go out and do fly dates now

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and we're playing and this is the song they come

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to see, you know, so it's very special for us.

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That's so cool.

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And then of course you're lay this single I relate

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to a lot because I've made a lot of bank

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deposits that don't get withdrawals in Las Vegas.

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Okay, I saw that.

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I saw the cover behind you, and that's a funny

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story in itself. And this song is is so cool

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and I don't know, Marty tell them what it's really

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I mean, this.

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Is I want to hear the story of what.

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The song's about.

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And then you know, Marty writes the lyrics, I'm like, hey,

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what is this really about?

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You know, it's just like, oh, it's this.

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You know.

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It makes sense well that that song came from a

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batch of songs which before this one, a song Connected

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came out, and a song called Mirror Ball, And these

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were all part of.

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A group of songs that I was delivering for an album,

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and that for whatever reason, we were going to tuck

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them away and use them for something else.

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A different kind of project, and then that never came

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to fruition, and Rich started reaching out to me kind

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of one at a time, like let's go back in

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and do another one, and then time to do another one,

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and we're like, he kept pressing me on this song.

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He's like, we got to do no money in Vegas.

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He's like, we got to work that up. He's like,

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that's there's something there. And you know, the writing of

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it was really about, you know, of all places to

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be with with you know, you don't have much. It's

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a relationship. Yeah, you're looking at you're looking at your

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hotel window, at at all of that glitz and all

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of the you know, all of that, and yeah, you're

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perfectly happy without any of all that stuff because you've

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got each other. And that's that's really what it's tries

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to capture.

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I love that because the whole thing came together in

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a month.

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By the way, Wow, everything the release of the song, everything,

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I mean it, it was the song.

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I mean Marty's demos from years ago.

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It's almost like you woke up from a day dream.

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Yeah, you know, and and that girl on the front cover,

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everybody thinks that's a that's our friend Andrea Wit she

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plays with Moby and Shania Twain, and you know, she's

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a friend of mine that just happened to be on

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the phone with me one day and and somebody text

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and said, man, we need a really good looking girl

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for the front cover.

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Oh she is totally hot.

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She's whispering in my ear as we're interviewing, like she's

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she's telling.

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Me what to say to you guys.

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Literally literally I was on the phone with her and

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I said, hey, do you have any photos that we

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could use? And so that photo is actually just a

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photo that was taken backstage at.

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A mobile That's such a Vegas photo though.

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Right, Yeah, it's perfect like that.

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You couldn't have like had her if you coached her

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done better, you know, like it was perfect. I love it.

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I love it.

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So now how do you top all this? Like there's

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a lot of twenty twenty six coming, you know, you

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have some high bars to now top.

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Well, there's always, right, there's always Mark, Yeah.

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Yeah, I mean we are playing some shows this year.

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Yeah yeah, well I know one way the top it

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is that you just found out that you're playing Summer

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Fest yep, right.

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In June. So that's pretty.

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Badass, because that's a badass festival in Milwaukee.

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We've played it a lot, and we have a great

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relationship with the Summerfest people and they are fans of

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the band. They've been so supportive of us in every way.

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Our time slot this year is amazing. Saturday, I think

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we're at seven thirty pm.

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Oh my god, that's like prime time right there.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, normally we play Thursday or Friday or something.

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But I mean that we've never had a bad Summer Fest.

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It's incredible.

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That's see. That's cool, like.

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When it's kind of still in that you know, the Wheelhouse,

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the geographically it's in that that zone is close enough

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to Chicago, and everyone goes.

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Up the totally totally.

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And I always love to hear when artists praise festivals

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because there's people that run good festivals and there's people

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that don't run good festivals. So I always like to

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hear when the artists like have nothing but good things

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to say, because if you treat the artists right, I

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think that's when in arts, when a festival is a success.

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Yeah, they've they've been not only wonderful to us, I

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mean it's tough we're independent band the past eleven years. Yeah,

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and to get on some of those festivals, you know,

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you have to have that, you have to have that

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big management or that that agent that's got the poll.

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And we we can go with any band.

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I mean, we could play with rock bands, we could

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play with we could play with anyone. I mean the

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band is we definitely take this serious and you know

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we're excited about it. We go there to rock out.

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I mean, bands changed a lot since the initial and

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a daydream, right, but without that song, we wouldn't be.

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Here right now. And yeah, I know it, and I

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think Marty.

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Knows it, and yeah, well every band has that song, right,

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there's at least that one song that everybody just remembers,

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you know, and everybody's like they associate you with that song.

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Or I love when I'm at festivals and I'm with

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people that they're like, oh, I know they played that song.

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They the Incubus.

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That's one of those bands that I've been with people

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and it's like every song that comes on, oh that's Incubus,

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Oh that's Incubit.

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And it's like, I don't know ten different songs they'll

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say that about. And I'm like, see that.

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To me, that is a great song because like people

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just never forget it. Whether they forget who it is

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or not, it doesn't matter. They just don't forget the song.

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And that's what's cool. And now you're up in space

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like I don't no, that's I'm sure you guys are

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on cloud nine when when you started hearing that, after

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the confusion settled and you realize it was real.

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Yeah, somebody somebody said, you know, for that one day, man,

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we might have been the most talked about band on

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the planet.

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For one day.

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Actually, our publicist said, I think you were the most

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famous or most talked about, you know, been in the

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past twenty four hours ever.

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I mean I could tell you what I got.

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Every news I turned on talked about us. I was like,

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what is this a dream? There we go?

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And then I got the email from SHAWNA. I'm like,

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you don't even have to ask me, go.

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Ahead, booket, Like, it's just such a cool story.

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How many bands can you interview that their music was

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played on the way the moon? Just saying I've done

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over three thousand interviews. I think this is the first.

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Yeah, you know, I sang the national anthem at Wrigley

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Field in twenty seventeen that summer, and it was fourth

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of July weekend and I was in the middle of

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singing that song and I thought to myself, because they've

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won the World Series the year before, and I thought

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to myself in the middle of singing it, I'm like,

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how many people can say that they've sang this anthem

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for the world champion Chicago Cubs. And I'm thinking in

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one hundred and eight years, only the people that are

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doing it this summer. And so this feels so similar

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to that, but on obviously a scale that's.

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Like, well, and then Wrigley Field, I mean, like I'm

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a Yankee person and I'm still like, you know, given

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props because it's Wrigley Field. Like there's certain place at fields.

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I don't care what team, there's certain fields. If you

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sang at that field, that's iconic, and Wrigley is one

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of them for sure.

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Yeah.

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So yeah, it was amazing.

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We did the first pitch there as well, and I

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think we're doing something this year for him. Some of

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the people there in the owner of the Cubs, mister Ricketts,

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is a fan of the band, which is really cool.

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Nice Now, see I was a pitcher for nine years,

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and if I had to throw the first pitch, I'd

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probably be so afraid that I was gonna beam the

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umpire or something or some fan in the stands, because

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I was like, you know, it's a whole different story,

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like pitching in the game compared to being called out

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the pitch the first pitch, where the whole world is watching.

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I'd be like this.

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There.

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And we walked out there onto the field and I

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looked at where the mound is when you're standing out there,

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and looked to where the catcher was, Marty, can you

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throw that far?

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Oh my god.

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That's a long way it is.

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I'm standing there on the third base line like looking

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over at it. I'm like, that's nothing, man, that's I

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don't see the big deal with this at all. And

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the guy, our guy Max, who runs all the field activities,

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comes over to me and he's like, so have you

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been practicing and everything? You know, because I had sang

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the anthem before that the somewher before and I was terrified.

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I mean I was absolutely shaking terrified before. But this

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time I was like, oh, that's nothing. You know. He's liked, well,

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have you been practicing. I said, what do you mean practicing?

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What He's like the pitch. Have you been practicing throwing

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a baseball? I'm like, oh, I have been throwing a

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baseball since I was a kid.

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Oh my god.

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He's like, I'll be right back, and he runs over

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to the bucket the balls and grabs a ball and

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throws it to me. I'm gonna run down there and

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you're gonna throw it to me. And I whipped it

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at him. He's like, oh my god, thank god. But

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I got out there on the mound. They announce it.

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I walk out there and I looked at home plate

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and I I'm like, you gotta be I'm shaking my

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head at the guy, like you gotta be kidding me.

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That's so far. And he's like, I got it to him.

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It was all right.

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But yeah, he did it. He flung it. I was impressed. Man,

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he flung it.

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Yeah.

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Man, that that would be that would be like one

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of the most nerve wracking experiences. And it's funny for

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people like us saying this, because you know, with the

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things that we do, you would think we're always nervous

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and stuff like that, and you or we would never

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be nervous for something like that because we're so used

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to gain on stage or gain on mike. Fuck no, man,

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I'd be like, I hope I don't throw this ball

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behind me.

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I talk about I talk about that all the time.

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People think, oh, well, you're on stage in front of

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people like all the time, so you must be great

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at public speaking. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, you don't understand.

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That's like scripted. That's almost it almost feels like you're

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hiding behind the music on stage and you're just it's

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just going through.

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Well, you go in zone.

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You go in zone, like just like me anytime I

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go onto the mic or I'm also I am a

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public speaker. Anytime I get up on stage and I'm

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doing speaking. Right before I go on stage, man like,

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I don't know I'm going to say, I'm going through

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my head blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

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And then as soon as the mic turns on, like

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some switch turns on in my brain and I'm in

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a zone. And then I get off and you'll recognize this.

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I'm like, man, I really sucked saying it in my

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head and people are coming up to me.

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Oh, that was really good. That was really good.

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I'm like, really, I think people don't realize that like

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most of the musicians I've been friends with have the

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worst stage fright ever. Like my bro that was a

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head engineer at my station here. He was a country

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in country rock duo. He was in a metal band

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in the eighties, and I to go and have the

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pre game with them before every gig because that's the

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only way he could get himself to not have stage fright,

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to get up there. And he was really good. But

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you know, that's I think we're all our own worst critics,

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is what it comes down to.

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For sure.

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I remember us having stage fright a little.

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Marty was remember when we were doing the iHeart thing

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with with Maclamore and there was like this big long delay.

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We're standing there waiting to play one song or see

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that would suck.

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Marty and I got together and Marty goes, are you nervous?

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I go for some reason, I am a little, because

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it's like, what because.

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You're not just walking out on stage now, you like

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you were ready to go and wait hold on, So

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I could totally see that it happened.

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It happened. To me, I don't know, a few summers ago,

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and it was it was Big Head Todd and the Monsters.

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It was US and the Samples, and it was at

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Levett Pavilion in Denver, and kind of unexpectedly, you know,

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our three bands got together and we realized that we

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hadn't done this three of us in so many years,

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and kind of unexpectedly, like thousands and thousands of tickets

466
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sold and it sold out, and I'm standing there on

467
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stage and i didn't really recognize what it was and

468
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I'm like, I feel kind of weird, and this is

469
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a really funny, weird feeling, and I'm like, oh, this

470
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is stage fright. You know.

471
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Oh that's what that is.

472
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It happened so.

473
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Good, dude. I didn't even know.

474
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See there, there it is there, it is. Well, you

475
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guys rock. I love all the like. I love all

476
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that you're doing right now. Everybody's got to go check

477
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out your website, Uh, the new song, everything got going on,

478
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your tour dates, got a few dates coming now, and

479
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then we have.

480
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Yeah yeah announcing a ton of stuff for the summer

481
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and fall.

482
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So it's gonna be awesome.

483
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So everybody make sure you keep up with these guys

484
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because if not, you can't listen to my show.

485
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Love it. Thanks a lot for being on the Adventures

486
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of Pipe Man.

487
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Thanks appreciate you.

488
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Thank you so much.

489
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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Main

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