PipemanRadio Interviews Cassadee Pope at Sunfest 2024

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And I'm here, Cassidy boat Nice
here at SunFest man as bad ass because

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you're from here. I'm from West
Palm. Yeah. Now have you ever

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played SunFest before? I have,
but like one of the you know,

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side tents to you know, a
backing track. So I'm to be on

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stage with my band live and you
know, on the main stage is so

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cool. Yeah, it's way cool. And uh I like this stage better

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anyway. Okay, so it's finding
some of my media partners they were talking

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about the Ford stage. I'm like, well, this Amphitheater is always here,

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yeah, you know because there were
sound issues on Friday nights. So

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they're like, oh no, I'm
like you won't have them at this stage

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because this is always here. It's
just yeah, I've seen shows here.

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I've come here for the Fourth of
July thing every year when I used to

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you know, grow up coming to
those those things. So I mean I

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remember the stage from being a kid. It's nice. Crazy. So you

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have a new album coming out on
the twelfth of July. Yes, and

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from what I understand as like your
most real album yet in like three decades,

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it's like you're just letting it all
out of who you really are.

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Yeah, And I think, you
know, I think every time I release

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a project, I feel like I'm
learning more about myself every time. So

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I've learned a lot about myself over
the last you know, two years since

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I've released my last album, and
I've been writing through a lot of transitional

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periods, like you know, switching
genres back to pop punk, and I

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have a lot to say, a
lot of life experience to this point,

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so it feels like I feel like
I'm in a safer space to reveal more

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about my story. And you know
what, I love that you're back to

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pop punk. And it was so
cool because sometimes it depends on who you

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are in punk when you leave,
maybe you can't come back, but then

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yeah, you were at when we
were young last year Endless, the whole

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community accepted you like you never left. Yeah, it's really cool. I

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mean when I started, you know, talking to other artists and bands about

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coming back and who I'm writing with
and what I'm doing, and you know,

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asking for advice and you know,
managers who should I meet with and

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everything. It's just was really cool
to just be totally embraced. You know.

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I didn't stop keeping in touch with
my friends or anything like that,

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but you know, when you when
you're not seeing each other at the time

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at festivals and whatever, when you're
not in that circuit, you you're out

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of sight, out of mind kind
of. So now that I'm around more

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and i'm you know, doing more
things and I'm visible, it's like I'm

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getting asked to do things. I'm
getting you know, there's a lot that

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I can't say yet, like songs
I've sang on for other bands, and

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it's just like so so cool to
see all the stuff that is, you

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know, come out of coming back
to the genre. Because you're right,

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I think that genre is very They're
they're very specific with who they embrace because

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it has to be authentic and it
has to be something they believe in and

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they do with me, which is
so cool. Yeah. And it's funny

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what you said, because doing festivals, I go and I do radio cover

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at festivals over the US, UK, Europe, Like it's weird for me

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to be doing one at home in
West Palm Beach. Yeah, yeah,

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right, I get that. And
it's so true though. It's like people

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say stuff to you when you get
home and like, aren't you glad to

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be home? I'm like, I
don't know. My friends are out on

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the road right now. I'm all
alone. Yeah, And so it is

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weird to like jump to another genre
because it's a whole different crowd, you

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know. So, yeah, you're
right. I know people that I used

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to know years ago that they haven't
been around the scene while and it is

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almost like they're forgotten because they're not
there time and time and time. Yeah.

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And when everyone's you know, continuing
to stay on the road and doing

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their own things, it's like that
life just kind of goes by so fast

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and you just realize, wow,
I haven't seen this person in years,

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and so when you do see them
and reconnect, it's really cool. So

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tell us about your newest single too, And I want to know the story

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about the in the video, the
note on the wall, because as I

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mean, like you could tell that
you were totally emotional during that whole video.

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It was emotional, you know.
I asked my fans last year to

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send me you know, I'm gonna
have a song about substance abuse in my

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experience with it with loved ones in
the past, and if you've had that

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experience, if you are someone who
struggles with it, or someone who's who

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knows a loved one who has,
like, send me a note anonymously and

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I will print it out and it'll
be a part of something really special.

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And now it's it's finally out and
it's people are you know, like wow,

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I can't believe my note made the
video. And we printed them out

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and put them behind me during my
performance during the three of US music video,

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and it made me emotional because obviously
that's a very personal song about my

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story, but to know that I'm
not alone in my experience with that and

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that other people feel like the song
is helping them through a tough time,

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it just like definitely brings out a
lot of emotions because music is the best

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therapy for you as the artist and
for me as the listener, you know,

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and we may have a different story, but we still relate to whatever

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story you're telling when you're authentic,
right, Yeah, and you're being authentic,

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and when you're authentic, like everybody
can relate in their own story.

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Yeah. And you sometimes think as
an artist, like, am I being

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too specific? Am I being too
descriptive of what it is that I'm going

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through? And it'll alienate other people? But it's sometimes like the most descriptive,

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most personal songs end up appealing to
everyone because unfortunately, substance abuse and

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addiction has touched all of us in
some capacity. Yeah, and it's sad,

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but it's like, I'm also glad
that people can hear that and feel

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like they're not alone. Yeah.
And it's especially a problem in your industry,

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Yeah, of course. And I
think it helps for people to see

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people like you expressing it, putting
it out there, and so that can

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relate. Like, everybody goes through
this, and it is a real bad

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problem right now. And I don't
think you can meet any person and anywhere

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that hasn't been touched by it.
Yeah. Yeah, and it's mental Health

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Awareness month too, so I thought, you know, if there's that component

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obviously, so I just wanted to
I'm going to partner up with an organization

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that I love called to Write Love
on Our Arms and they Oh I love

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them. Yeah. They they're amazing
and they have so many great resources for

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people who are in recovery or you
know, having suit of suicidal thoughts anything

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like that. They're really great at
rehabilitation and getting people therapy whatever they need

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to get better. So doing that
as much, it's cool you're partnering with

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them because I I you know,
there's different organizations, some you like,

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some that you love. They're the
ones that I love because they're so boutique.

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They so care about everything. Yep. I see them everywhere and they're

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just trying to help people and like, yeah, it's the same similar concept

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with the notes, like you get
to write a note at their booth at

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the festivals. Oh, it's pretty
cool. Yeah, they're great. So

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we're also going to talk about something
that even though we're at sun now,

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this will probably come out during the
week and you'll have announced something on Monday.

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Yeah, So do you want to
talk about that? Sure, I'm

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headed on tour. I'm doing my
first headliner in two years, the Hereditary

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Tour. I'm taking out my friends
the Foxies on the whole tour and then

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on the East Coast dates starting July
nineteenth. My friend Natalia Taylor is going

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to come open as well, hopping
on with the Foxies, and we're,

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yeah, we're going East coast some
East Coast dates, and then we're we're

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well, we're doing West Coast first. Sorry, And it's gonna be kicking

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off the album release as well,
So the album will be out during the

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tour and people can hopefully learn some
songs and come to the shows and sing

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along. But I'm just excited to
take take this album on the road because

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I'm kind of old school. I
like releasing albums with a tour fel like

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way it should be right. Yeah, i feel like, you know,

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live is where I tell the story
the most emotionally and authentically. So I'm

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excited to have people come out and
you'll have you'll be at one of my

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favorite venues in West Palm, Respectable
Street. Yep, that is that will

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be a cool show. I'm really
excited. I'm going to tell them when

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I'm on stage tonight today because I
want to give them the exclusive. But

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Respectables, I'd go to shows there
there all the time growing up, and

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I remember venues like that Raised Downtown
Blues, you know, Spanky's, Like

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all those venues mean so much to
me, But Respectables is just one of

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my favorites. It's so funny because
I was just there Thursday night covering the

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show and we were outside talking about
Spanky's and Raised Downtown Blues. And I

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remember seeing Dri and I'm from the
days of DRI and I saw them at

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Raised Downtown Blues. I'm like,
holy shit, I can't believe they're playing

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here. There were some iconic bands
that played there. Yeah, and there's

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so many great bands that play at
Respectables. So it's so cool to have

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you there. It's going to be
awesome. I'm ending the tour there,

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so i'll stay a few days after
too. There you go, anything else

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you want to share with the listeners
that we haven't covered that might be important

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for them to know that's going on
with you. I mean you covered a

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good amount. Yeah. The album
coming out, and I you know,

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I wrote it. I wrote a
lot of the songs on the album with

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a fellow West Palm Beach native Valley
Tamposi who's a big songwriter. Now,

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so there's a lot of you know, hometown love on the album, and

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obviously ending the tour here means a
lot. So you did a good job.

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Absolutely. So I like stories.
So we'll finish up with if you

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were to tell one story of your
whole musical career when you're like eighty,

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what would it be? Oh?
God, good or bad? Oh that's

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hard. Okay, that's always a
hard one story. Man. I don't

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know. I mean, there's been
so many random things that have happened to

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me. I think if I had
to pick one, I guess i'd probably

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pick playing on. So I was
on Fuse on when Mark Coppis had his

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own show with Amy Schumer just before
she really blew up, and I got

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to sing on that show with Hey
Monday and meet Mark Oppus, who's one

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of my heroes, and he was
just really kind. It's not like anything

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spicy or crazy that happened. Oh
wait, I was in the makeup room

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and I was getting my makeup done
next to Mark and Amy before the show

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and someone, the producer comes in
and they're like, hey, they the

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network just wants you to tone it
down a notch with the you know,

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dick jokes and this and that that, and Amy was like, have you

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ever seen a blank Winady two show? And She's like, have you seen

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my comedy show? Like they're asking
us to do what? And I was

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just like sitting there cracking up because
I was like, yeah, they're not

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going to clean up their you know
act. But yeah, that was fun.

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Love it. Tell everybody your socials. For those that don't know your

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website, how they can pre order
the new album coming out, check out

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the video, tour dates all that
go. Yeah, so the tour dates

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are on my website, Cassidy Pope
dot com. It'll direct you to Cassidy

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dot com the link to to to
get the tickets, which today Monday.

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If it's is this coming out Monday, it'll come out. Yeah, it'll

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come out Monday or Tuesday. Okay. One of the days. There's a

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VIP that you can purchase where I'll
be doing two songs, acoustic, a

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meet and greet, early entry,
all of that good stuff that are available

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at each menue. There's only fifty
at each venue, so they will go

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fast. So all those tickets.
Everything for that will be available on my

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website or like the link, and
all my bios and all my socials which

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are all Cassidy Pope, so I'm
on all the platforms. Nice. Well,

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you rock and you're going to kill
it here at SunFest. Thanks.

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I'm like so far, that's what
I'm most looking forward to. And we're

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on the third day, last day. Thanks, and you're in. You're

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in good company too with Dashboard Confessional
and Third Eye Blind. Yeah, this

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is the day. If you're gonna
play, this is this is a cool

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day for me. Yeah, I'm
excited. Thank you, Thanks Lin,

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Thanks for being on the Adventures of
play Man. I loved it. Thank

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you so much. Thank you for
listening to the Adventures of Pipeman on W

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four c u I Radio. Hey, I'm Cassidy Pope and you're listening to

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