PipemanRadio Interviews Attila at Aftershock 2023

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the White Man. This is the
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I'm here with bronze from Matila Nice here

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I after Shock Man. Is this
an incredible festival or what? So far?

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It's awesome. I'm not gonna lie. I did wake up not too

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long ago, so I'm just kind
of getting my gears turning. But every

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Danny Wimmer festival we played, it's
been awesome. And this is our first

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time doing after Shock. Really very
stoked to be here. Wow. Now

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when you walked into media, did
you expect this massive party here? Uh?

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No, right on the media I've
done on the other festivals are like

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a little bit different. This is
just like one hundred and fifty degrees sauna

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filled with tons of people and food
and free alcohol and free coffee. And

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I'll take it all. But I'll
take it. There you go, So

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tell our listeners who may not have
heard your music, how you, as

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an artist would describe your music not
a genre, but how you so,

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Attila is heavy music for people who
like to have fun. We're not trying

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to push a political narration or trying
to be like super politically correct. It's

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just music for people that like to
have fun and like heavy music. Basically

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they call us like party metal,
but I just like to say we're inspired

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by heavy metal, rock and hip
hop. I love it. See.

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I love that blending of genres.
And that's why I say that because I

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think too many bands, there's too
many subgenres nowadays that they're pigeonholed into one

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little teeny box. Yeah, And
I think what makes a band like yours

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great is having multiple influences to create
a unique sound that nobody else sounds like.

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Agreed, you know. And there's
so many bands now that they almost

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do use like a formula like this
is how metalcore should sound. So use

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this formula, yeah, you know. And I think you should just sound

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like an artist and be whatever you
want to be exactly agreed. So what

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was it in your life that started
this whole musical journey? Oh? Interesting

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question. So I actually started really
young, Like I started playing music when

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I was like eleven or twelve,
and I don't even come from a musical

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family at all. Wow. It
was just that I would always go visit

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my cousins in New Jersey every summer
when I was like super young, and

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huh, what exit Asbury Park?
I lived in Ocean Township right next to

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it. Oh wow, yeah yeah, so you know you know exactly what

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I'm talking about. So I would
go every summer in Jersey and I was

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super young, and my cousins and
their friends were a bit a little bit,

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a couple of years older than me, but they had a band and

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they were like, do you want
to see our friend's band practice in their

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basement? Nice? And I went
over and I was just like, holy

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shit. I didn't know, like
I knew what music was, but I

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didn't realize there's people out there like
doing it right. And I just basically,

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just to be completely honest, I
just saw like how much they partied

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and how many girls wanted to hang
out with them, and I was like,

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Okay, this is fucking tight,
Like I want to do this no

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matter what, this is the best
job you could have. The rest is

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history. I started really young and
became a musician and figured out my craft

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and perfected it. Yeah, like
that that last part you don't have to

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explain to me at all. My
dad moved me from Jersey to California and

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ready nineteen eighty oh wow. And
I was on the Sunset Strip from through

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all the eighties. And so I
hear you. The partying the life is

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like I would be at like Motley
Crue parties and Metallica parties where it was

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like just insane. I'm like,
oh my god, this is fucking cool.

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Yeah, that's so sick, right, love to hear it. You'll

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love this too. First album I
ever owned in my life, I won

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at Seaside Heights. Oh nice,
right, wow. The original Kiss album

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my first album. I stole it
from a store because I was too poor.

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Oops. I actually it's funny you
should say that, because I don't

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know if you know. But back
in the day, J. C.

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Penny used to sell albums. So
me and my friends had this brilliant idea

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to walk into JAC Penny with a
backpack and fill it up with all the

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albums and leave. The first day
it worked, then we were stupid and

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went back to second day like it
was too easy. The first day I

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remember watching somebody. They were watching
me. I knew they were watching me.

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I was like, fuck it anyway, and I like start booking out

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of the store. I see them
walking faster. I could have just dropped

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it before leaving the storebells stupid.
I ran out, ran back in the

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ball hitting Spencers Gifts in the back
and they they got me. Oh no,

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yeah. But that wasn't the end
of the adventure though, because when

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the cops filled out the form,
I lied on every question they gave.

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I took them to the wrong house
like three times. They were pissed.

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But you know, here, I
am dumb. I know to how many

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dumb things do we do? And
it's so funny when you talk to younger

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people, whether it be kids or
otherwise, and tell it and try to

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inform them about this. They make
the stupid mistakes too. It will never

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end, no doubt. So what
you got going on after this? So

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right now, we're actually on tour. So we're celebrating ten years of our

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About That Life album, which is
our biggest album. So we're about halfway

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through the tour. We're gonna go
through California and then head east to Texas

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and then end with like Florida and
Atlanta, which is our hometown. Very

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cool. And we're in Florida because
my studios are in South Florida. I'm

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from Orlando. Oh okay, that's
not too far. I'm down West Palm

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Beach. Yeah. In fact,
I just did punkin Drublic in Orlando.

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That was pretty cool. That was
fun. So tattoos, Yeah, which

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one is either your fit most meaningful? I would say my most meaningful is

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probably just my face tattoo that says
manifest because it's my strongest word in the

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human language, and I've basically everything
that's ever happened in my life is because

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I manifested it. Man. I
love that, you know why, Because

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I'm also a motivational speaker and people
like call me like the King of Manifestation.

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Yeah, because it is such a
cool word and powerful word. So

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I figured, if I'm gonna tattoo
a word on my face, it should

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be the best word in the language. Absolutely, I agree. Look at

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it every day in the mirror and
get my shit done, or look down.

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It's right below your eye, like
do you see it? If you

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try? Really, I don't not
at all. I know I'd be like

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I want to be able to see
it. Yeah, so tell everybody how

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they connect you guys on socials on
the web, buy your merch, check

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out your tour day. It's all
that good stuff, of course. So

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we have a website attilaband dot com, but Attila is spelled att La,

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so at tileban dot com. And
then that links you to everything and all

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of our tour dates and where we're
going in the world, and then other

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than that, all of our socials. If you just look up Attila,

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we're everywhere. I'm glad you said
the spelling because somebody was asking me earlier

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with two t's. I can't remember. I never can remember. I'm like,

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yes, it's too Yeah, everyone
spells it wrong, right, Yeah?

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Is that two t's one out?
Is that frustrating when they spell wrong?

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It is? And I'll give you
a funny story. So funny story.

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It's in our contract that if we
play a venue and the marquee misspells

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our name, they have to give
us an extra five hundred dollars. I

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love that. We get smart.
We end up collecting quite a few grand

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on each tour. But it makes
people pay attention, Yeah, because it

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happens all the time, Like,
how do you screw up a band's name

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on it, just listen with Google. How do you do that? Just

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google it? You have one job, right, walk up. That's why

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I normally have like yours disease,
But I normally always have artists say their

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band name, so I don't butcher
it. It blows my mind how many

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interviewers will say their name wrong.
Yeah, that's rookie shit, no doubt.

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If I can't. If if it's
a band that I didn't know and

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I didn't know how to pronounce it, you know what I do. I

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search for interviews and listen for the
band to say their name, and then

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I know you're just a smart guy, right, Like it's those little things.

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I don't have to research how you
got your band name because I'll give

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a shit about that, But how
you say it that I give a shit

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exactly. And I know if I
was an artist, i'd be like really

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like kind of insulted, like really, you don't know how to save my

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need? Yeah? And so you
guys are badass. Thank you. Man.

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What's the craziest story, craziest most
badass story in your musical journey?

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Oh? Man, I'm like scared, Like the craziest stories I have,

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Like I can't and even repeat to
anyone on earth. They're that crazy that

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should come. Let's just say like, we're probably the last band that's like

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a real life Motley Crue in today's
age, because everyone else is too politically

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correct and kind of toned down.
But we're pretty fucking wild. So you

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know what I love about that?
You brought up another story for me because

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the first club show I ever went
to was Motley Crue on the Sunset Strip

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at the Roxy before they had an
album, when they were like horror punk,

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not glam yet. And to your
point, after that show, I

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was like, I'm never going to
a real concert again because they were lighting

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the Roxy on fire, try and
bring Satan in. And then we went

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over to their house afterwards and like
party like you never parted before, as

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you know Motley Crue. Oh yeah, I mean I was at that party

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when Vince left with Razzle. Holy
shit, right wild, I know,

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but that was to live through some
cool times Sunset Strip. You know what

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they say, if you remember the
Sunset Strip, you weren't really there.

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So anything else you want to tell
the listeners, we haven't covered yet.

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I would just say, follow Attila
on Spotify or whatever music you use,

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because we drop a new single every
month and we'll have a new album out

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early twenty twenty four, so constantly
releasing new music. Just a week ago

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we dropped our newest single called fuck
You Forever. I like it so yeah,

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and you know, once a month. I think that's so cool because

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like sometimes nowadays you have some bands
will drop a single like once every six

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months and not even an album like
I Want, I Want More, I

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Want More. Yeah, people's attention
spans are just short, so they don't

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digest full albums like they used to, but singles are just easy to check

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out real quick. I think it's
better sometimes I go both ways with it,

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but it's better some ways with just
dropping the singles because people will like

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songs they may not have liked before
because they don't listen to the whole exactly,

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you know, exactly, and that
might have been track eight and they

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wouldn't have gotten there, but you
drop it as a single and now now

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they love it exactly. Well,
it's been a pleasure. I'm so happy

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you're here at Aftershock and thanks for
being on the Adventures of Pipe Man.

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Yeah. Thanks, pipe man,
how fuck you? What's up everyone?

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This is Franz from Matila and I'm
with the pipe Man at W four c

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Y Radio. Thank you for listening
to the adventures of pipe Man. I'm

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W for CUI Radio.