Sept. 15, 2025

Pipeman Interviews Miles Miller at Bourbon & Beyond 2025

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Bourbon & Beyond is the World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Fest

Bourbon & Beyond Kicked Off America’s 8 Biggest Days In Music on September 11-14 In Louisville, Kentucky

World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival Featured Headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone, Alabama Shakes (Thursday), Phish, Khruangbin, Joe Bonamassa (Friday), Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White, Vance Joy (Saturday), Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls, Megan Moroney (Sunday), Plus Dozens More Rock, Americana, Bluegrass And Alt Rock Artists Along With Elevated Bourbon & Culinary Experiences.

The seventh Bourbon & Beyond welcomed fans from over 50 states and around the globe and over 120 music artists on five stages to Louisville, Kentucky over the weekend. The World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival was held from September 11-14 at the at Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky and featured an incredible music lineup of music legends and rising stars with headliners The Lumineers, Benson Boone and Alabama Shakes on Thursday; Phish, Khruangbin and Joe Bonamassa on Friday; Sturgill “Johnny Blue Skies” Simpson, Jack White and Vance Joy on Saturday; and Noah Kahan, Goo Goo Dolls and Megan Moroney on Sunday. The lineup also included Cage The Elephant, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Collective Soul, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Iron & Wine, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Switchfoot, Third Eye Blind, Ringo Starr & His All Star Band, Pixies, Lake Street Dive, Dashboard Confessional, Foreigner, Blues Traveler and many others.

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Hi, you live done too? Yes, that's true. For see

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why for you you.

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Ya?

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four Cy Radio, and I'm here with Miles Miller.

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Nice here at Bourbon and Beyond. Yes, wow, how's it feel?

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It's hot?

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Yeah, it's hot, but it's not as hot as it

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could be. But the sun is blaring directly on everybody.

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But it's fun, it's great, good vibes. I'll tell you

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how hot it is.

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First time in fifteen years doing festivals like ten to

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twenty festivals a year. Yeah, my recorders shut down in

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the middle of an air view overheated. Oh yeah, yeah,

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it's never happened. And I live in Florida and that's

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never happened. I's see, that's humid hot.

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It gets humid hot here, but it's not necessarily in

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September or whatever it is now.

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Yeah, I know, right, but yeah, So first I will

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ask is how do you feel Danny Wimber treats the

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artists at these festivals here, Oh, there are the other ones. Fantastic.

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Yeah, everybody has their own green room and we can

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have that all day.

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That in itself, you get a place to go get

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away from the world.

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That's great. No, it's been fantastic. Everybody's been super nice,

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helpful everything.

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I love it because I always ask that, and in

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fifteen years, I've never heard an RS say something bad. No, no, yeah.

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And if you're coming in with a bad attitude of

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one of these things, you're right.

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Good luck with that in life the music festival. If

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you're not having fun in this industry, something's wrong, is

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right because most of it is not fun. One hundred yeah,

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oh no, god no, yeah. You gotta make it.

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You gotta make it fun man, and have a good

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headspace in any environment.

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So what was it that started you on your musical journey?

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When did you have that moment that you're like, this

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is what I want to Oh man.

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My whole family is a musical family, so it's always

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been around. I think they named me Miles after Miles Davis,

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knowing I was knowing I was just going to be

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a musician, and sure enough I became one. But everybody played,

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everybody sang Christmas time, we'd all sing gospel tunes and

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all that kind of stuff, so it was inevitable. But

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I don't think there was never not a moment there

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was ever, not a moment that I was going to

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be a musician. It was just bound to happen.

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You were probably playing in the womb right probably I

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was keeping time, man keeping time something.

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Yeah, tell us about the new album, Oh mister Runaway.

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It's been a long time coming.

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I recorded it in February last year, and I wanted

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it to be a funkier, dance, heer, groovy er record,

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and I think we did that with a little bit

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of the singer songwriter thing that I do sometimes as well,

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just strip down acoustic stuff.

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But it's yeah, true stories.

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Everything's true in my writing in a way as it

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should be, as it should be. I think some people

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can write music from nothing and do well at it.

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That's just not my favorite kind of music all the time,

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but that's what I do.

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So Yeah, I think music's the best therapy. The only

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way it's therapy is if it's real, absolutely no, So

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what you're talking about, like, if you're just making stuff up,

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people can't relate to it. No, And that's everything.

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That's what everybody hear, all your favorite artists talk about.

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It's whatever they think about what it is and stuff

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and whatever they get from it. That's what the song's about,

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and that's true. It's your own connection and your own

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vulnerability to put out in the world that can hopefully

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relate to other people.

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No doubt, and so Sturge will produce it and then

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you're drumming for him tomorrow.

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Oh yeah, yeah, I've been as drummer since I was nineteen,

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so you have.

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You're doing double duty bourbon and beyond. Yeah, yes, I

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always wonder what ours that do that? Like you guys

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switch a switch somehow? Oh yeah, do you ever like

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like go into the other moone like, oh no, I'm

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over here. I mean all the time.

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But I think at this point with the Sturgel band,

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we know each other enough to where there's no expectations

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of anything, so I can be whoever I am that

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day and it just it'll work. So but yeah, the

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Miles stuff is kind of a new endeavor for me,

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at least singing and drumming and all that.

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So it's there is a flip that has to switch

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because this is full.

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Time rubbing your head, rubbing your belly, pat in your

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head kind of a thing.

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And then so funny you say that because like I

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played drums for nine years when I was a kid,

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I ended up sucked. But because of that, I always say,

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because they're rubbing my head and tell me it's sat Yeah,

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I'm like, you have to be so co ordinated to

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play the drums and then add singing on top of it, Like, yeah,

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I just don't even know how you do it. Well.

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At that point, you just rip off your heroes. That's

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really what it is, the ones that did it before.

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That's all you can do. Imitate them. And who's your

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biggest hero? Well, for drumming and singing, there's only one

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goat in my opinion, it's leave On Helm. There's other

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fantastic singers and drummers Don Henley, Phil Collins, stuff like that.

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But Levon's a Southern boy saying from the gut and

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was funky as hell. And I just that's what I

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want to That's what I want to do.

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I love it. And so did you? In doing your project?

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Did you like a Hitle and you're like, hey, I

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want to do my own project and he's like, hey,

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i'll produce you and all that.

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Yeah, it actually even happened for the first record because

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I wasn't even thinking. I mean, I always wanted to

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kind of do something. But he was like he would

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always say, show me one of those notebooks, looking like

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he'd show me those notebooks.

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He sort of pushed me to do it, and then

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I did it, and then now it's just kind of

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a thing. I love hearing that because sometimes that's not

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the case. Yeah, you know, like, oh yeah, I'm gonna

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be at lower in Life next week with the metal

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bands and you take Metallica. And basically the reason Jason

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Newstead left Metallica is because he wanted to do his

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own thing and they were like, no, you're Metallica. Yeah yeah,

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And I think you should have your own outlet too.

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I think it makes you better in the band itself

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because you're happier because you can express your creativity in

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a different direction and still be where you are. Yeah,

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happier maybe depends.

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It's tough, but you gotta Yeah, it's antia outlet to

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throw yourself to the wolves, so to speak, aside from

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something that is crazy successful.

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Or doing whatever. I mean, it'll humble your ass real quick.

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So but it's great. So what we have to look

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out for after Bourbon and beyond from.

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You, well, I've got some opening shows opening up for

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Neil Francis a little bit in Texas and then doing

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some other stuff in the fall as well. So just

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hitting the road, hoping to get out there more.

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And what's your favorite part of the road?

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Oh man, Oh that's a good Well, it depends. That's

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the other thing depends on if you ask me if

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it's the Miles Miller or the Sturgle Simpson Road. Answer, well,

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the God. I mean, the favorite thing about the Miles

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Miller stuff is just that it's me. I get to

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go out there and show whatever I have to offer whatever.

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And with the Stergle stuff, it's great. We're brothers. We've

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been brothers for a long time and we've been all

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over the world and we still get a kick out

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of playing music on stays together.

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I love hearing math because there's a lot of times

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that just like a family, it's like you're on the

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road with these people all the time and make annoy

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the shit out of you. So I owe love.

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Well, that happens for sure, for sure, But we know

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the end goal at the end of the day. And

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like we've like I said, we've known each other for

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over ten years.

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That's what I'm saying. So you still like being around

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each other. That is, that's a gift in itself, exactly. Yeah. Absolutely.

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What's the absolute worst practical joke that was made on

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But there's a we have a famous sort of story

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in between all of us, is that there was a

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Snickers bar in the van. This is like the early

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days in the van, and I bought a Snickers bar

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and somebody ate it or whatever, and and nobody would

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cop to it. But Sturgel's being an awful fucking freaking suspicious Sorry,

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I probably can't cuss. He was okay, great, he was

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being very fucking suspicious and acting like he might have

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eaten it, and but he still denied it. So then

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a couple of days past and we stop at a

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gas station. We're just burnt out. Whatever he walks in

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the gas station comes out and then like tries to

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sneakily like throw the Snickers bar and nothing happened to it. Yeah,

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like it just got in the tossing between the cracks

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or whatever. And I was like, you son of a bit,

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and now I know you freaking ate it, you know,

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So he still denies it this day, but I.

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You know what, that reminds me of my son. I

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don't know. He must have been like thirteen, fourteen, fifteen

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something like that. And my best bro is over the

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house and his cigarettes were missing, and we found the

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cigarette pack in my son's room, but it had bite

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marks on it like the dog. Did it like the dog? Yeah? Yeah?

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And he was like, no, it was the dog, It

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wasn't me. To this day, he's forty now he's still

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fucking denied. Yeah. Yeah, that's rough, man, as you can't.

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It's tough. It's tough to deal with those people, man,

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right stuff. Yeah, that's tough. How do people reach out

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to you on socials on the web and buy your merch?

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Most importantly, couse they can't listen to my show and

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let's say buy your merchan. Yeah.

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So I've got some merch up on my webs which

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is Themilesmiller dot com. I'm mainly on Instagram and Facebook,

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so you can just find me on there, the Miles

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Miller on Instagram and just Miles Miller on Facebook.

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The best way is for me is just stream the music. Man.

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That's kind of all I'm doing right now is just

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streaming there's some of my first record some vinyl and

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some CDs of that and all that. So but this

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new one. Just listen to it, stream it, share it

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with your friends.

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Yeah. I love that you're saying that, because so many

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artists that I know, like they don't want that because

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of yeah, you only get pennies. But the exposure that.

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You get, well, it allows you to kind of just

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focus on on at least that aspect of it for

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a second and hopefully get something cooking.

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And you got people that listen to music that may

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not buy your music because they don't know it right,

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so they happen to stumble upon it on Spotify or something,

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and then all of a sudden they're a fan. Yeah,

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so that's the that's the name of the game. That's

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the name of the game. Fit Yeah, well I'm a fan.

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You guys. You rock. Thank you, thank you, and thanks

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for being at Bourbon Beyond and thanks for being on

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the Adventures pipe Man. Happy to be here. Thank you,

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appreciate it.

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