PipemanRadio Interviews Dark Remedy About Guilty as Charged

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It's time for the Adventures of White
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the White Man. I'm chelousa,
I am not a norm I do

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coo ow coud. This is pipe
Man here on the Adventure's Pipe Man W

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four c Y Radio. And I'm
very excited about our new guests because man,

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there's some killer musicians with a killer
new song and they are guilty as

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charged. So let's welcome to the
show, Dark Remedy. How are you?

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What's going on? Thank you for
having us. Oh, my pleasure,

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my pleasure. You know, if
you sucked that probably wouldn't you have

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beyond? But you're pretty badass,
so I do. Hey, well we

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make it good in the studio.
You know, I'm sure you're pretty good

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live too, because like listen,
I mean, it is a difference,

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isn't it playing in the studio and
playing live? And you know, tell

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us a little since brought that up, tell us a little bit about how

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it feels as a musician to be
live compared to in the studio. From

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you your perspective. Well, I
mean for me, there's a huge difference.

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Dark Remedy has yet to play live
actually this band, but we all

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have played other bands. Our drummer
Paul was in Saliva. All of us

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come from other bands. And for
me, writing the music is one thing,

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and you know, it's getting that
message out, but when you're live,

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it's seeing how that message connects with
other people. And for me,

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that's what it's all about. You
know, we're trying to say something here

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with our music and hopefully it impacts
somebody. So to get to see that

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firsthand, that's what it's all about
for me. Well, it's funny you

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should say that too, because that's
the one thing I do love about you

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that when I first saw it,
I was like, yes, I would

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definitely do that interview because you're talking
about people just being themselves. And I

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talk about this all the time,
like we need to get rid of all

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the labels and putting everybody in groups. I feel like we're all in grammar

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school trying to get picked for the
kickball team, okay, and it's like,

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just be yourself, just be real, even you know, when it

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comes to interviews or anything you do
it's like, just be yourself and everything

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will be great. And I think
that's so true for a musician too.

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It's like, instead of all the
chatter that everybody gives you, I think

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if you're a creative musician, that
chatter only confuses things sometimes, and you

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have a vision in your head of
what your creativity is. And that's why

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I think makes a musician great when
they follow that one hundred percent. I

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mean, we're just normal guys telling
normal stories that everybody deals with. And

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you know, being yourself is the
big message to this song, and I

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think that's one of the most important
messages that we kind of need in twenty

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twenty four is don't worry about what
people think. You know, anything that

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you do, somebody's going to tell
you you shouldn't do that. That's a

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bad idea, that's dumb, it
will never work. I mean, come

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on, I'm a musician. You
know how many times day I've been told

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what are you doing? You're crazy? Go be a lawyer, you know.

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I mean, it's not me.
You know, You've got to be

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you. And I feel like once
you're comfortable with you and being yourself and

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unapologetically you, that's when real growth
happens, no doubt. And you know,

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even as a musician, like you're
talking about, I'm like, I'm

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thinking myself. You gotta be yourself
to be a musician more than probably any

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other career, because it's so transparent
when you're not to us, the people

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listening and watching you. You know, I can totally tell when a band's

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going through the motions or if they
just have complete passion for what they're doing,

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and they only have passion when they're
doing what they think in their heart

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they should be doing one hundred percent. And we hope that our music does

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reflect that because it all comes from
somewhere with us, and you know,

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you're right, you can you can
hear it when it loses that vibe,

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it loses that that originality, you
know. Yeah, well and look at

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it like, Okay, so I
come from the eighties sunset strip scene,

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and a lot of bands that were
the hair metal bands quote unquote, were

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not that before the record labels got
ahold of them, you know. And

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I sat there backstage while friends of
mine were in bands, and the labels

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tell them, Okay, you're gonna
dress this way, You're going to write

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the music this way. And look
at what it did. Basically, metal

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almost disappeared forever because of that,
you know, And I think the only

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reason it's back now is because of
bands like you that are being true to

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their art. Well, we really
appreciate you saying that. Well, it's

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so true, and I saw it
firsthand, you know, and it's like

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it's even funny. I was at
that Grass Pop uh first this weekend.

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We were talking about something because like
Kerry King has this new project that performed

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at it, and we're talking about
Slayer compared to some of the other bands

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from the eighties, and it's like, no matter what like them or don't

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like them, they've always been true
to being Slayer and nobody else. And

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so I look at that way as
like when you're true to that, that's

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when you stay the long term.
Like how many bands have lasted for forty

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years that did not stay true to
themselves. Especially today's day and age of

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rock, it's it's it's harder today
than it was even a decade ago,

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especially for new bands to break through. I feel like, if you're not

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doing what you really feel in your
heart, as hard as it is right

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now to make it, you you're
going to be miserable and you're not gonna

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ast you know, that's the exact
word that was in my head as you

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were talking, because it is an
industry that if you're not true to yourself,

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you're gonna be miserable. And the
redeeming quality of the feature of the

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redeeming quality of the industry is to
play music and play the music you want

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to play. And if you're you
know, anybody that's a musician is into

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music. So if you're not playing
music you want to play, it's a

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pretty miserable existence, I would think, absolutely. And then you're just the

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whole concept of the song is not
just musicians, it's everybody. How many

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people nowadays in twenty twenty four are
so miserable because they're listening to everybody else.

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Like, like you said, there's
always going to be somebody that says

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something negative, and there's gonna be
somebody that says something positive. You're not

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gonna play everybody, And that's the
thing that people in anything in life,

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they're looking to please everybody, and
you're never going to please everybody, so

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you might as well just please yourself
and your people will come one hundred percent.

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I mean that's That's how we look
at making music, is we make

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music that we like. We write
songs that mean something to us, and

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we can only hope that maybe it
means something to somebody else, But that's

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not guaranteed, right. You know, that's the most humbling thing in the

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world when when you know, we've
had several quite a few people hit us

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up say you know, hey,
I really like the message of guilty is

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charge. Here's what it means to
me. Like, that's that's what this

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is about. That's the gratification right
there. Hopefully you can help somebody.

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Yeah, and you you touch on
a great point because what does it mean

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to them? And I think that's
key to a great song is Yes,

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when you write the song, it's
what it means to you as the person

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writing it. But a good song
also has the ambiguity that the people listening

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can put their own meaning to it
that they relate to. Yeah, I

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can tell you that those of us
have wrote the song, myself, Stephen

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Miller, and Jonathan Norris from Kingdom
Collapse. It means something completely different to

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all three of us, and we
all wrote it together. I love that

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it's so true. But most people
don't get it, you know, so

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I love that you said it.
Okay, it is funny too, like

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how you can all have a different
meaning to it but still collaborate to make

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something great. And I think that's
the big message too, because we live

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in such a society of people being
put in boxes these days and divided,

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and that just proves that we can
all work together and we don't have to

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be on the exact same page.
Yeah. Absolutely, that's what collaboration is

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all about, no doubt. So
what else are we going to have coming

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after this? Now that we have
guilty as charge? Do we have?

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What else do we have in the
works? A lot? So we're we

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were actually in the studio till about
three am this morning. We've been in

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the studio for weeks now. We're
working on some follow up stuff. We'll

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be releasing an EP at some point, I'm hoping by the end of the

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year, and we have several more
singles on the way, more music videos,

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and we're hoping to get out there
on the road here very very soon.

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We are itching to come out there
and see everybody. I bet you

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are, because I don't know if
people really realize that musicians, that's your

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favorite time is playing life. For
Steven and myself, it's been especially difficult

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kind of how Dark Remedy started.
He Stephen produced my other band, and

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we'd worked together for years. My
other band had a tour lined up during

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COVID that obviously didn't happen. The
band which kind of took a break there,

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and Stephen and I said, hey, let's start working on this thing.

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So we released our first single in
twenty twenty. But neither of us

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have been on stage since twenty nineteen, right before COVID, So we're,

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you know, we're like fiendan to
get back out there. I know that

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show's going to be that first show
is going to be, Oh my god,

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it's going to be insane because all
that energy you have pent up from

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all these years. Yeah, he
and I are one and the same in

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that That's where we both find our
joy is connecting with the audience. So

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we've got a ton of pentop energy
and we're ready to share it with the

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world. I love it. I
love it, and you know, I

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had to try to take positive things
out of things, and if you're going

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to take the positive out of COVID
for musicians, I've said a lot that

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some of the best music's can come
out of COVID, not because of COVID,

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not because they're writing about COVID,
but because artists get to jump off

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that hamster wheel that during that period
of time and go back to being creative

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and even reevaluating things. So the
way I look at it is, Hey,

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if COVID didn't happen, you might
be doing what you were doing before,

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and maybe not on the path you
should be on. That gave you

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ability to, like, sit down, allies, where do I really want

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go? Because when you're on that
hamster wheel, you don't have time to

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think about that. It's just gig, the gig, the gig, the

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gig, right, you know,
and there's no time. So I think

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if there wasn't a COVID, there
wouldn't be a guiltiest charge. No,

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you're you're one hundred percent right,
and that that's pretty much exactly what happen.

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Happened to us, and down to
even the name Dark Remedy. It

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was Dark Times. This was our
remedy. Yeah, I love that,

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you know, and again something that
everybody can put their own meaning to because

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you think of a band name like
that, and if you're the person think

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about. You're putting your own story
to it, so to me, that

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makes it a perfect band name.
Actually, well, thank you. So

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tell everybody how they can connect you
with you guys on the web socials.

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You do have a pretty badass website
by the way, Thank you. Yeah,

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darkremedyband dot com, Facebook, Dark
Roni Band, basically everywhere Dark Remedy

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Band, YouTube, TikTok. We're
on all of it. Is there anything

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else we haven't covered yet that the
listeners need to know that we want to

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put out there right now. Yes, we want to let every one of

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you that's listened to Guilty as Charge
know that we love you from the bottom

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of our hearts and thank you so
much for supporting us. Well, we

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love you for bringing us great music
and thanks for that. And thanks for

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being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank you so much. Thank you

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for listening to the Adventures of Patemin. I'm w for CUI Radio.