Sept. 15, 2025

Pipeman Interviews Tophouse at Bourbon & Beyond 2025

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Hi, you have done too, Yes, that's true.

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Why for you?

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You?

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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 here.

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With Top House nice here at Bourbon and beyond.

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Heck, yeah, I heard you. Guys just ran a five

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k before you're set? Is that true?

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We run a five k every morning as a band.

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That's not true.

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No, we don't have K in the United States. We

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have him.

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Yeah, and I live in the States and they still

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call it a five k.

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Right, it's weird, right, it's.

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Part of Big metrics plan to take over the imperial system.

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That's true.

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They're not succeeding in the UK because over there they

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do both. Right.

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They did it to themselves though.

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But you don't know which one it is, Like maybe

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one day it could be one, the other day it

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could be another.

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You don't know.

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It's like it's just as confused as driving on the

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wrong side of the road.

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Maybe we just need less measurement. We can just do

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stone for everything.

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I like the way Costa Rica is with the GPS.

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It's like turn left at the pink house. Oh that's

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the direction. That's good because there's no streets and.

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Then instead of running a five K, you ran pink House.

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Yeah back exactly.

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You can abbreviate that.

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I'm sure something like that. Yeah, it'll be the top

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pink House.

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Oh, I see what you did there. Look at that

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the top House jokes.

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So what's even better about jokes is I was dying

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reading your guys bio on your website.

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Okay, so I.

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Want each one of you introduce yourself and see how

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much you can repeat of your bio for the list,

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because it's good.

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That's gonna be tough.

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I think that I came up with the bio and

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I was like trying to figure out what to say

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about each one of us, and I spent like all

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of ten seconds just typing into the computer, and I

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don't remember what I think.

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Let's see, I'm Joe.

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I sing and pretend to play the banjo sometimes for

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Top House the band LLC.

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That was perfect.

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This I'm William.

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This is my fault.

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I wrote the original bios, and Joe's bio was Joe

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enjoys playing Battlefield one. That was his entire bio. So

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this is all revenge. But I'm William Cook. I played

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the violin and I enjoy Minecraft I'm betting it says

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that somewhere.

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It wasn't on there.

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No Micraft, Oh anybody else have guesses that didn't write it.

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I didn't write mine. I'm Jesse. I play guitar and mandolin,

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and am I the most handsome member in Top House?

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No?

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Are you the best man to lend player in Top Hounds?

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Arguable? Arguable?

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Okay, how about you?

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My name is Eli Isbell and I'm not on the website.

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I played piano and I pretend to be Andy LeFave

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sometimes nice? What would what would you want it to say? Though?

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Actually Joe wrote them all.

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Eli is the most handsome member of the band. That

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makes sense.

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Nice, who's the stand up comedian? Cause that you have that?

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I think that I put that in for Jesse for

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his bibs.

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That makes sense because I thought that the man he

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started talking in the interview.

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He needed that boot, that morale boost.

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Who's the one that auditioned for like fifty two years before.

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That was Andy. He's the one that's not here with us.

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See all that work, and he just now you gave

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it to him, and he's like, fuck it, I don't have.

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To do anything.

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We gave it to him we can take it on.

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So, oh my god, that's good ship though. Really seriously, so,

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how has your experience been at Bourban Beyond so far?

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Excepting run over by a five k run while you're

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trying to sound check?

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So far?

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Little moist?

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Yeah it's little moist. Yeah.

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Oh yeah, well you where are you guys from? Again?

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We live in Nashville. We're from at your front. Yeah,

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so we don't go humidity, Yeah, they don't.

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I live in South Florida, so this is like low

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this is low humidity.

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Right, it's like winter right here.

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Yeah, I had to bring my jacket. I know.

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It's like eighty nine out. So funny about in the

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van if you want to buy one?

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What's so funny about that? It's two thigs Because I'm

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originally from the north. So people in Florida when it

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hits seventy five, it's not a joke.

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They're working park of like, are you freaking serious?

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But I will say the humidity when it gets down

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to like forty, I'm fucking cold.

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I agree with that.

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And I could wear a T shirt in like New

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Jersey at forty no problem.

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It's different.

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Now I've been colder in Nashville than I have in Montana.

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Sometimes you know.

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A trip, it's a trip. Then that dry heat, the

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dry winter, you don't get that. So then there's the

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other thing is you do have to bring your ski

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jacket with you at all times in case you go

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into a restaurant, right.

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I like, I don't get it.

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If I wanted to live in with their weather, I

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wouldn't be in Florida.

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Why are you making the restaurant winter.

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The funny thing is in Montana you also bring your

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big jacket. Like most I think Montana's drive around with

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a big park or big coat in their car, not

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for when they go into the restaurant, but usually for

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when they go out of the restaurant because you never

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know what the weather's gonna do. All it just got.

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It could be dead a summer it's like one hundred

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degrees out, but everybody still has that coat send their

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back in the back of their ca are just ready

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to go.

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It's like the.

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UK, like I do festivals over there, and literally it's

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fucking bipolar all the time. One interview, I'm wearing a hoodie,

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the next one I'm taking it off because I'm hot,

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Then I'm cold. Again, then downpours rain, and then it's cold,

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and you have all four seasons in one hour.

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That sounds like you might have an large prostate. I

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watched all of House.

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I got it tested, Okay, like when I got back, gotcha?

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Never mind?

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Then what about House? So tell us about how.

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I've watched all of House? Are you the TV show? Now?

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I am?

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I was gonna say yeah, because that's what happens no day.

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You watch a YouTube video, all of a sudden, you're

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a podcaster. You watch a YouTube video, all of a sudden,

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you're a musician.

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You pick up a mandolin, and all of a sudden,

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you're still not a mandolin player.

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Yeah, listen, I've never even picked up a mandolin, but

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I know I'm an expert at it.

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Oh that's the spirit, right, This is the Dunning Kruger effects.

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The dude want, though, is what is the How is

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the difference playing a mandolin over a guitar?

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It's everything's a little bit worse. Everything is there's double

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the string, so you have to press down a little

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bit harder, but there's half the space, so you have

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to press down or you have to be more accurate

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with your fingers and A real mandolin player wouldn't have

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an issue with it because they're a real mandolin player.

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But I'm a guitar player that picked up the mandolin,

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and every time I pick it up, after I spend

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the first thirty minutes of my life tuning it, I

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start playing it. I'm like, why did I do this

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to myself?

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Tell me.

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I've been in like guitar center and I've seen mandolin,

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so I'm like, oh, I want to just get one,

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cause it's like a weird thing with me with instruments.

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I'm like, I look at it, it's like, oh, a

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new toy. I may not play it, but it's a

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good new Yeah. But I'm thinking maybe.

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It's easier than the guitar because I sucked at the guitar.

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My hands are small, so I'm figuring I don't have

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to stretch as far.

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I think, just get a small guitar.

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How funny, even better?

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How far you would it be if you started a

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bad and you were literally playing a kid's guitar, a

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real kid's guitar.

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Never been done. You could do it.

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I could do that, and I could wear a mask

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of a kid.

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Yeah, yeah, and your tour bus could be a van

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and you have a bunch of candy, and you'll say, wait, wait.

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Wait, we don't want to go that far because somebody's

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got to censored as far.

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Oh okay, maybe not a van, maybe a truck, school bus,

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school bus, ice cream truck, ice cream truck.

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There we go, that's perfect. How about but wait a minute,

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there's a good idea.

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I wear that mask and then we get I get

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really big, and then I'm like, do one live show.

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I'm like, haha, fuckers, and take off the mask and

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I'm a fifty eight year old dude.

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Everyone's shocked. Wow.

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Would you do something in your voice too, or just

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like have it like taking a helium balloon with you?

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That just an IV during the show, a helium like

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said the whole time.

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I'm just like, hang, well, let's go guys.

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You should get a trench coat so that it looks

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like you're pretending to be two kids, pretending to be

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an adult in a trench coat. But then when you

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take off your mask and the trench coat, it's actually

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just an adult in the trench coat.

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I do not ever want to rate rent space in

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your mind.

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Man.

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So you're William, why don't you take this what yeah,

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talk about your music?

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Okay, we gotta we gotta recover this interview.

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Oh no, so wait before you go, here's what I

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want to do because I love the fact that you

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guys have so many different types of influences of genre,

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because I hate the fucking genre bullshit, like putting a

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label on the artist. Just be an artist and play

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whatever the fuck you want to play. So this is

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a game I play, is if you were to make

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up your own genre, because that's how silly it is

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nowadays anyway that like one band fits into a genre

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that only.

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You fit into. What would you call it?

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Mountain folk pup nice.

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You've got the Irish part, You've got the Irish part.

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Oh yeah, we could say Celtic influenced Irish folk pop

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with a side of classical violin sometimes if I feel like.

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It nice And you could even add on with a

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bonus comedy show.

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It's true.

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You have a Q and A during during our sets

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if someone breaks a string or of like, there's just

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a lull for whatever reason, where we'll answer questions from

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the audience, and it always it's always interesting.

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You mean, you don't do things like David Lee Rotham

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say oh, fuck your girlfriend to somebody in the crowd

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during those low moments after you forgot the words.

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Not usually our low moments are a little different.

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Different you say, different coming from you, I'm thinking, oh,

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that's bad.

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I just mean we don't threaten sexual intercourse on anybody

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here at Top House LLC.

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They threatened on you.

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Actually that's maybe more accurate. Actually, yeah, see.

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There you go. Yeah, yeah, don't threaten that.

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That's so nineteen eighty man do that in twenty twenty.

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Yeah, So what got going on after Bourbon beyond?

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That's a great question, Joe take it from here.

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Well, I think we're doing a little mid Midwest run

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right now. So after this we're in Cleveland and then Icago, Milwaukee,

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few other areas around there, des Moines, I think, yeah,

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And I don't know anytime we're home. We're just trying

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to write music right now.

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So nice, nice, And so how has your music evolved

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like over the years as you experiment more get more

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creative with your craft.

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I think, what, at least one thing I can point

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to is we used to be a little bit more

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afraid of taking risks in this or I guess building

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songs in the studio that we wouldn't.

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Be able to replicate live.

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Yeah, because we were very much like, well, if we

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make it in the studio, we have to play live.

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And I think we've more and more evolved into the

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idea that we can build whatever we want in the

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studio and then we'll just figure it out live after

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the fact. So I think that's how us evolve and

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get a little more like orchestral.

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Especially too, by the way, after you wrote so many songs,

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you can't play them all live in a set, so

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might as well throw some good ones in that you

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may never play live until like twenty years later.

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Yeah, no, no.

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So for a great example of that, in this next album,

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there's an entire like twenty minute song all children's choir,

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all hummed, and we aren't ever gonna be able to

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recreate that on stage, right, But I think it's.

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Pretty cool though.

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Man, that's like Pink Floyd when they did another Brick

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and Wall. You can't really duplicate that perfectly on stage either, So.

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I think that's cool. What gave you the idea to

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do that?

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I think it was just like watching Jesse walk through

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the walk through the backyard, just kind of like his

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graceful presence, and I.

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Wanna take this back. We're not doing that.

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I can't afford the backyard.

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Oh what you should have done was when you were

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doing the sound check, recruit everybody in the five k

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to come up and sing with you.

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That would have been great. That would have been great.

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There you go.

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So tell everybody how to reach out to you on socials,

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on the web, and most importantly, buy your merch because

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they cannot listen to my show unless say buy your merch.

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Oh that's beautiful.

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Yeah, by the merch, Yeah, I mean all of our

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Instagram's top house, the bands, tiktoks things are top house.

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The band is the media thing.

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I honestly though, we're finding, like more and more that

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if people really want to like connect with anything like

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text and email, marketing is the way to go because

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al rhythm.

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No doubt.

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But here's why I want to find out about your TikTok.

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What is your most embarrassing TikTok?

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Oh? No, I guess it depends on who you are,

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Like if you're uncultured. Some people find the banana cat TikTok,

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where we have a jpeg of a banana cat singing

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our songs for us embarrassing. There's also one where I

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lure everyone into a dark room and force them to

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watch the Mountain song. That one's pretty weird, but I

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don't know if that's embarrassing. It's more just traumatizing.

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I feel like all of our ads, because we do

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paid ads for shows, and they're all pretty embarrassing because

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it's normally just us sitting down and then we'll say like, hey, Chicago,

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come to the show please, and that's that, and we

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spend money on that.

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Yeah, I love that, though, like anti marketing, it probably works.

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You know, we're tired of things being and by we

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society at large. We're tired of things being so buttoned

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up with a beautiful polish on them, and so we

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here at Top House LLC have elected to make everything

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a little bit crappy, just so that it speaks to

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every person exactly, down to earth level exactly.

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And that's and there was something about what you said

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your TikTok.

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I was gonna say that goes right along with that.

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I think the whole thing goes right along with how many.

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People actually read your bios and take it seriously.

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That's what our moms.

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They wrote it, and Joe Joe and his moms wrote it.

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What else do you want the listeners to know about you,

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guys that we haven't talked about. Besides, they need to

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get all your music and all your merch and show

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up to every show you have you need, like a

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grateful dead type following there's.

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Actually a very great mystery conspiracy surrounding Top House, but

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I can't go into that now.

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So they just have to look for it on your

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website right.

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Or come to a show there. It is even better. Well,

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you guys run the conspiracy.

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Guys fucking rock though. It has to be fun. I

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love that you don't take yourself too seriously. Make it

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fun too. It's music yeah, and playing music yeah, and

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you do it very well.

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At least the three of them do.

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Respond to Eli, thank you, oh man.

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Well, you guys are gonna kill it here at Bourbon Beyond.

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Thanks for being here and thanks for being on the

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Adventures of Pipemin.

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Thanks for having us here.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin on

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w for CUI Radio.

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