PipemanRadio Interviews Crobot at Welcome to Rockville 2024

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Here's your host, the pipe Man, oh you always call this is the

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pipe Man here on the Adventurers Pipe
Man W FOURCY Radio. And I'm here

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with Growbot Groovebot. You guys get
the award, okay, because that's why

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I always have bands say their own
name, because they can say it cored

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and me and then I don't fuck
it up like I wouldn't fuck up your

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name. But there's some band names
it's like I don't know how to pronounce

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this, so I'll just let them
do it, you know, But that

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is probably every time you do it, probably the best band announcement in interviews

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that I do. Hey, we've
been called crobots a few days ago,

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and I've also been called asshole probably
in the last week. So we go

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by many names more than one.
So I'm sure, what can you name

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last time somebody called you asshole?
And why no? I actually can't see,

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so maybe maybe I have a very
short term memory though, but maybe

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nobody really thinks that maybe they just
think you're coolest shit, and you think

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they think you're an asshole, you
know what, that's probably it. I'm

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so glad that we had this session
together. I feel a lot better about

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myself. I gave you some you
know what, gosh darned people like me

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right see. And it's mental health
awareness month, so I felt the need

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to have to give you therapy.
Thank you for that. Thank you for

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that. Do you have any therapy
for me? Just be you because we

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love you. That's the key right
there. And thanks. That means a

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lot. You know. I don't
know if you ever met the real me,

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but that means a lot. That's
true. That's true. So Welcome

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to Rockville. When's the last time
you played Welcome to Rockville? Two years

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ago? Yeah, Yeah, we
had a good time. We had just

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dropped feel this, so we were
pushing that one, nice and hard.

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Nice good response on that one.
I could take that for me, so

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it's not awkwardly leaving. And so
yeah, this year was something special that

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we got some new tunes that were
pushing, so we played that what two

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of them today? Yeah? Night, little heavier, little stony, a

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little Sludgi er. You know,
I like a little different look, you

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know, I like it? And
how did how did people? You know

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how people are. They don't want
to hear new ship, no matter who

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you are. But I bet they
loved your new shit, didn't they.

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Everybody loves Paul mutes Man and we've
got a nice chunky rift for them and

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a new one. So yeah,
I saw some saw some head banging.

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That was all about it. That's
that's all it counts. And that is

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the one cool thing about Danny Wimmer
festivals. It doesn't matter what time of

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day you play, you're gonna have
some shit going on at your crowd.

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Absolutely tell you what. I really
like that they've got astro turf down.

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You had it. I don't know
the last time you've gone to a concert

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and just stood on concrete for an
hour. It's exhausting, Oh I know,

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So that padded astro turf, no
wonder, they've got energy, you

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know what? They feel so good. You know what's cool too, is

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you don't ruin your shoes. Yeah
right, Like I'm always bringing my worst

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fricking shoes to a festival because so
I can throw them out when I leave.

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And yesterday, actually I wore my
Hey dudes, I have a pair.

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They're so fucking comfortable constantly, it
doesn't matter. That's the last time

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I was called an asshole. I
was wearing Hey dudes. You go like

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an asshole. I was like,
I feel great, right, who gives

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a fun especially walking around? It's
like, man, I could walk all

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Bay on these things. And it
was even better with that nice little astro

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turf. And and you know,
if you're in the mash pit and you

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fall, you just get grass burned, not your head cracked open, and

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you know it's beautiful. Shout out
to DWP for the astro turf. Nice.

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We're really stepping it up here at
the raceway. So did you guys

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do anything on the raceway you weren't
supposed to do? Always? I mean,

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no, yeah, this is recorded. It wasn't us. I didn't

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ride my skate on the wall.
I do want to so bad. I

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have my skateboard back there and my
jeep, and I'm like last year,

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I asked Christine, I was like, I've been saying this in almost every

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interview because it's so funny. If
I ride my skateboard on the wall,

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well I lose my media pass.
And she's like, yeah, I wouldn't

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do it if I were here.
Okay, I won't tell you about it.

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Yeah. How often do you get
to party at Daytona five hundred?

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I know it's a trip too,
right, Like you know you watch it

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on TV, but then you can't
imagine what it looks like. That wall,

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it's like straight up and down.
Yeah. I was on the golf

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cart yesterday. I'm telling the dude
go up the wall. He's like,

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we can't even go fast enough to
get on that wall. It's so we

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got to test that out. And
look, we got your biggest fan right

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here too. Your biggest fan is
right here. Check it out at the

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interview. Oh, Mike's the man. We love Mike, Christine, tell

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us what you think about Crobot Ah, yeah, we get that a lot

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here. First people that says it
all that like describes these guys to a

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t perfectly. They're actually pretty fucking
good though, And Mike doesn't like anybody.

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He doesn't say that to all the
boys. He does though, Like

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it's funny every time you guys played
day Wimer Festival most of the time he

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comes in full Crowbot gear. Yeah, yeah he does. He's one of

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our biggest cheerleaders. I know,
man, but you guys are badass.

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So what else do you want to
tell the listeners that you got going on

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that we haven't discussed. We got
new music, let's talk about that.

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Yeah, we got new music.
We played some stuff today. We don't

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exactly know when it's gonna to come
out, but hopefully before the year's over,

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we'll we'll drop some new music and
you know, we'll continue to And

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it's heavier, it's sludgier, it's
stoneier. Yeah. Do I need Sativa

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or Indica to listen to it?
Well, the thing is is it's also

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faster too. We did a little
bit of both. It's both ends of

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the spectrum. So just sit down, strap in and enjoy the ride.

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Man. Nice. Then I need
a hybrid, then is what I need?

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Yeah, yeah, exactly. A
couple up Beyers, a couple Downers,

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whatever your flavor is. Man,
there you go. And for those

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that don't know, and they should, how do they reach out to you?

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Guys on socials on the web.
Get your merch because you've got badass

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merch. All. Mike can tell
you that. Mike can tell you that

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because he probably has all your merch. Okay, so let's tell everybody about

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that. Yeah, Crowbot band.
You go across the board on that Facebook,

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Instagram, TikTok crowbotband dot com.
That's where you can find everything.

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Yep. You can even find and
bootleg Crobot merch on Amazon. But I

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wouldn't suggest that, Yeah, we
will find you. I wouldn't suggest it

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too. I buy it just to
burn it because it's it's bootleg. I'm

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the guy that when I walk out
of the festivals or the concert I yell

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at the guys outside selling. They're
like, well, bow shirt not from

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you. You're fucking fake. Like
I support the band. How much money

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are you giving to the band?
They're like uh uh yeah, see you

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later. Like I hate that shit. Band can't survive nowadays without merch support.

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Your bands buy merch or you can't
listen my fucking show. Simple.

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The one thing about Live Nation I
think I like is they took away merch

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cuts extended it through this year.
We we played a Live Nation venue the

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other day and it was a breath
of fresh air. I think that because

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that that made it that night.
I'm so glad you brought it up because

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a lot of times you guys get
really screwed in those cuts. They take

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so much of it and they don't
you don't have anything left. I mean,

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it's the only justification I can think
is you rent the space from them

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to sell. I guess I'd rather
just rent the space and make my percentage.

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We'll sell out of a trailer.
We'll pull a clutch move. They

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did it the other day. They
said, you know, fuck your merch

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cut and they sold out of the
trailer. And I'm like, I think

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more bands are gonna start doing all
bands start doing it. That's when we'll

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see change and let's go back to
the old days where that's what went on.

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And because they're already taking all the
money from the music, they're already

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taking all the money everywhere else.
Give the bands the merch, that's all.

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Is it really gonna make that much
of a deal for a club to

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have one hundred dollars more in their
pocket the band, because that's like two

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that's like two tanks of gas exactly. And I'm glad you put it that

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way, because people don't realize that
merch is what gets you to the next

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gig. Is it? Like people
think, oh, they're getting rich off

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merch. No, they're just playing
gas in the Tank so they could play

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another show for you. That's it, you know, so support them,

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especially you guys, because you guys
are badass. Thank you man. So

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what would you say is your wildest, wackiest story and music ever that you've

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experienced. The first one that comes
to my mind is when we played the

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Viper Room in La We're just about
ready to leave and we see somebody rear

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end somebody at the red light in
front of us, and we're like,

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holy shit, guys, you see
that the car just rear ended that car.

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And we keep watching the situation and
we say, holy shit, guys,

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that was Ron Jeremy. He just
rear ended. He just rear ended

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that car in front of him.
And he gets out and he stumbles and

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he's you know. You see,
they talk to each other for about a

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minute or so. The other guy
drives off, so obviously figured out it

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was Jeremy, and Ron Jeremy was
left picking the pieces of his vehicle up.

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So we decided we were going to
be good Samaritans that day, and

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we helped Ron Jeremy pick up pieces
of his car and we pushed his car

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to the nearest gas station. Wow, that's one of the craziest stories that

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I can that's super rock and roll
because, like I used to hang out

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with him and Lemmy at the Rainbow
back in the eighties. Wow, that's

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a crew and a half, right, it was. If you remember the

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Sunset Strip in the eighties, you
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But that is a wild And how
was he with you guys? Was he

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so appreciative that you helped him?
Or Oh, he was pretty much oblivious

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to the entire world. Yeah,
what was going on? I don't know.

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I'm not even gonna, you know, suspect that I know what he

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was on. But it could have
been a myriad of things, but all

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of which made him slightly inebriated.
And and we'll just say that that's what

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I attribute his his lack of appreciation
too. Ah, yeah, he was.

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He was asking, has anyone seen
my keys? And we're digging through

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all his car. He's got a
bunch of head shots and old fast food

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just littered everywhere. Wow, they
were in his hand. He was so

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messed up. They were in his
hand. But you know what, I've

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done that before without any drugs or
alcohol or or what where's my sunglasses?

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Yeah? Oh man, Well at
least you were good Samaritans helped him out

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and he probably never knew what happened
until he tried to drive the next day.

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Is my guess this car was messed
up? The car didn't have a

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scratch on it. Well, that's
like, I gotta tell you what happened

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to me recently. I have a
Jeep Moab, so it's like a monster.

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And I was at my daughter's house
and I was I got there,

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I drove like ten hours to get
to her house. I'm in her house

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for like one minute and she comes
back in and she's like, I just

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hit your jeep. Like what do
you mean? You just hit my jeep?

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I'm in the freakin' like did you
not look? And my jeep was

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fine. It's like it didn't happen. Her vehicle not so much. So

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there's my there's my pitch, my
commercial for Jeeps. Buy a Jeep and

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nobody can fuck it up. Or
when you're trying to get to Welcome to

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Rockville and these idiots are on the
road doing stupid stuff, you can just

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push them out of the way and
keep going. There you go, or

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drive up on the sidewalk. I've
done that too, Like get out of

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my way, Okay, I'm just
I'm hot. Mike's Daughter's like, just

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because you can do that doesn't mean
you should. I'm like, that's exactly

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what it means. If I can
do it, I should do it.

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So there it is. It's got
great off road capabilities. Might as well

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put it to the tech take advantage
of it. Sure, I would like

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to take it out into the like
just freak people out and just drive through.

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Welcome to Rockville, not just the
speedway, but the whole thing,

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Like drive up on the stage,
Like next time you perform here, you

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you just want to bring my jeep
on stage with you. It's like Judas

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Freeze, Yeah, but with a
cheap anything else you want to tell the

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people before I let you go,
Just keep an eye on. We're gonna

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start to tease the new album probably
within the next month or so. We're

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working on some pretty interesting reviews.
Or may or may not be a video

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game in the works so that you
can play. I can totally picture a

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Crobot video game. And is it
gonna be on both Xbox and PlayStation?

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No? No, no, mobile, It'll be mobile. Or laptop.

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It's web based. Okay, take
a text adventure. Choose your adventure kind

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of thing. Take you through the
artwork, the lore of everything you know

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we're working on up keep an eye
out. That is brilliant. I love

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it. I love it, mixing
two of my favorite worlds. So hey,

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that's cool. I can't wait.
You gotta let me know about the

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video game. I can't wait.
I'll download that ship right away. And

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man, you guys fucking rock and
I love that you're here at Welcome Rockville.

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Super excited you're gonna be over at
Sonic Temple and and everything you're doing.

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So thanks for being there, and
thanks for being on the Adventures plate

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Man. Thanks for having us,
Thank you, Thank you for listening to

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the Adventures of plate Man on w
for CUI Radio.