PipemanRadio Interviews DeathbyRomy at Aftershock 2023

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the pipe Man. This is the
pipe Man here on the Adventure's Pipe

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Man W four c Y Radio.
And I'm here with by Rome here at

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after Shock. Oh my god,
how cool is after shock? After Shock's

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fucking sick man. I'm happy to
be here. How are you today?

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Oh, I'm beautiful. I came
in late on the flight last night that

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I had a five hour delay at
three am, and here I am talking

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to you. Oh shit, I
was so excited I can in sleep.

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Last night I rolled out of bed
just like this. I love it.

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See and I wish more people would
just roll a bed and look just like

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that. Wow. Thank you me
too. If you do look badass,

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okay, we're here on radio,
but describe how you look. And I

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don't do that all the time,
but you do look so cool that we

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need to describe from your try and
paint a picture for the listeners. I

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am wearing a lavender lace body suit
with a shit ton of leather on top.

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I got a lot of black crisscrosses
painted all over my face, kind

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of like some eyeliner scarification vibe going
on. I've got a white contact in

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my left eye and barely see out
of my right, and I'm wearing my

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favorite lipstick. Nice. It's a
nice brownish move tone. And you do

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you do killer with what you do
with your eyes, because I look at

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that and I'm like, how the
hell does she even hold steady to do

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that? I do it so quick
too. I've got the graphic liner thing

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down. And now check out my
eyes. Now this will trip you out.

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Look at my eyes. Can you
see? Oh wow, you've got

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like three rings going on. Yeah, then you've got a ring of hazel

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and then blue. And people think
that it is contact. Whoa, that's

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crazy. My eyes used to be
just brown. That's cholesterol. Oh wow,

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how weird is that? That's insane? I wonder if my eyes will

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change one day. I sure,
do you eat it things with a lot

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of cholesterol? Well, see,
but mine happened. It happened early on.

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I'm like, what the fuck is
that? And they're like, oh,

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yeah, that's cholesterol build up that'll
never go away. That's crazy.

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But now I get I get compliments
all the time, so I like that.

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It's unique. You know, I
don't have to go and get contact.

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I just do this. I'm a
huge fan of the Halloween context,

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but they definitely don't help me.
See No, I always wonder about that

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because I've never done the contacts.
Like you're wearing on the one eye,

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how does that feel like looking out
of it? Unless they're the sclere lenses

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that cover your horrible eyeball, then
you shouldn't notice them. But a lot

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of janky companies they'll fuck with your
eyes pretty bad. See that's why I

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worry about Now check this out.
I was doing Rock Klahoma and this girl,

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another media person, she was down
in the pit for gwar, and

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she got hit with the blood,
oh god, and her eyes turned red

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yep, her under and they were
like permanently discolored. I had the same

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thing happened when we were filming my
Eye Kill Everything video. I was wearing

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these contacts and we did this kind
of like blood splatter look and the blood

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the fake blood got stuck under the
context, and my whole eye looked bloody,

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which looks pretty sick. I had
it be my profile picture on Instagram

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for a while. Actually nice.
So tell our listeners about you as an

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artist and your music, you know, post to how everybody would want to

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put you into some like genre box. How do you describe as the artists?

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Hmm, thank you for asking.
So I'm definitely influenced and kind of

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bridge a lot of different genres in
my music. Recently, I've been referring

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to it as metal pop because I
do a lot of screaming, but I

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stick to very pop top lines and
general pop song structure. But I like

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to blend hip hop, industrial electronica, and heavy music together to kind of

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get the death by romy sound,
a lot of distortion, a lot of

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gritty guitar sounds, sugary melodies.
Yeah see, I love that because I

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find that there's a lot of bands, especially metal today, that I've been

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put into so much of a box
because of subgenres that they all have this

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like formula. I'd rather have music
like yours that has all these different influences

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in it because I like all those
types of music, so why not put

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them all into one. Yeah.
I definitely wouldn't call my music metal,

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but people have been throwing around the
term new metal because I don't think they

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know what to call it. But
I'd just say my music is heavy,

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my music's hard, it gets hard. It doesn't need a label like that's

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my opinion. It shouldn't have a
label. I agree, because you're an

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artist. You should be able to
do whatever you know, put whatever you

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want on the canvas, not oh
you put this here and you put this

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over here. Yeah. I would
like to say that I've come up with

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a perfect name to call it,
but I haven't, And if someone does,

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then I would love to get Uh. I'd love to get a new

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genre going. You know about gothic
industrial pop metal. I mean that sounds

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great. There you go. That
kind of encompassed it a little bit.

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I called myself the dark Princess of
pop for years. Oh see, I

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like that. And you have that
on there too. Yeah. That's actually

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a drawing from one of my friend's
comic books. Wow, it's called Princess

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of Sadism. It's by a good
friend of mine who goes by pixel face.

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I actually have him illustrating the cover
art for my next single. Currently

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nice and tell us about the next
single. The next single is a song

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that I've been teasing for a long
time with my friend Jasmine Bean, who's

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an artist on Interscope from the UK, and it's called hell Hound. It's

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going to come out around Halloween.
I love it. And how do people

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speaking that connect to you on socials
on the web and check out your new

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music, buy your merge all that
good stuff. You can find me on

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all platforms music and otherwise. Under
death by Romy that is d E A

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T h B y R M Y. I'm glad you did that too,

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because you know how many people probably
will misspell it if you don't. I

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get a million different spellings of romy
anytime I enter Starbucks. Sometimes tony,

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sometimes wrong. We It's all over
the place. So when did it happen?

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When was that moment that you're like, man, this is what I

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want to do. I've been writing
songs since I was five years old,

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and the moment I saw Hannah Montana, I knew that that's what I wanted.

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Nice I actually I used to watch
her show all the time. It's

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incredible and you're not supposed to admit
that, but she is incredible. I

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think she's Oh, she's incredible.
People didn't get her afterwards either, because

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she just want. There was no
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that Disney Hannah Montana unless she went
extreme another way. Yeah, you know,

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which I think she tried to do. You know. My first concert

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was the Hannah Montana ex Miley Cyrus
tour at the Staple Center. Nice.

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Yeah, that was life changing.
I knew that's what I wanted to do

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well there and here you are now
at Aftershock. Now, what's the craziest

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thing that's happened in your musical journey? WHOA The craziest thing that has happened

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in my musical journey so far would
probably be last year. I got invited

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to go play the Multi Weekender by
Allie Sykes of Bring Me the Horizon,

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and that's one of my favorite bands
of all time, So getting asked to

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go play their first festival was an
honor. You know what funny? Okay,

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I've done almost three thousand interviews.
Bring Me was the one that I

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was like during the interview, like
fan going out in my head because they

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are They're like my top five.
He's like my incredible favorite lyricists ever.

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He's one of my favorite lyricists too. That line one of my favorite lines

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in any song, ever, is
I can't drown my demons. They know

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how to swim. Yes, so
good, So like I'm scared to get

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closer alone along for that feelings and
not feeling all so good. I love

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that song and see that. Yeah, that song that speaks to me because

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I've got through that shit too many
times. It's the same man. And

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I love how transparent all he has
been throughout his entire journey about just like

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different things he's been through. I
love that he's transparent and open in his

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lyrics. That's one thing that's one
of the main reasons I do what I

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do. It's because you know,
I've been in incredibly low places myself and

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music was there for me. Yeah, So it's the best therapy for you

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as an artist, for me as
a listener, for everybody. I'm here

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to inspire and comfort the ones feeling
alone. There you go, And that

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is such a great reason. And
I have to tell you, like listen,

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one of the things always been given
a lie crap lately for writing all

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this different types of music. And
I think of you with that, with

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talking about your doing different things.
I think the way that's the way it

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show should be. That's what I
was saying before, and he said in

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interview, he goes, why do
I want to write the same song every

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time? I couldn't agree more?
Right, Yeah, a lot of people

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get stuck in wanting to please their
fans, giving them a sound that they

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ray from them again and again and
again and again, and chasing the same

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high they perhaps rode off one song. But for me, I'm always like,

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what is better? What is newer? What is the next thing I'm

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gonna do that other people are gonna
want to copy? What is the next

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thing I'm gonna do that's gonna shock
myself? And what keeps an artist around

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long term is doing exactly what you're
talking about, being true to yourself.

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Absolutely. People can see it.
They can see it on stage, they

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can hear it in the music,
and that is to me, the authenticity

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is what's important. I agree.
And you get in different moods too,

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So why when you want to write
this kind of song at this time and

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this kind of song? I another? I used to listen to other people

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and it didn't get me anywhere.
So well, there you go. Is

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there anything else you want the listeners
to know that we haven't covered already about

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you? Well, if you are
in Europe or you have friends in Europe.

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Tomorrow Team Death makes their way to
the UK to kick off my first

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ever headlining year. Nice. We
will be there all through October, all

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over Europe, and I'd love to
see you there. Do you have one

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place in particular that you're most looking
forward to playing on that tour. I'm

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dying to go play Germany and they're
waiting a long time for me, and

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I've been fucking dying to get over
there. See now you'll have to next

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year. You'll have to do Vodkin
right. Absolutely. You also would be

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good at health Fest. Oh.
I would love to play Healfest. I

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did. I've covered Healfest last year
was insane, like two weekends, seven

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days, three hundred and sixty bands, insane. But I will tell you

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as an artist, every artist I
was talking to there like graved about just

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like they rave about the Danny Wimmer
festivals, like so organized, so on

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point. Yeah, this is the
most organized festival I've ever been a part

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of. Louder than Life and after
Shock It's an incredible experience. Now a

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lot of bands that we are playing
here played Louder. I was at louder,

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Which did you like better? Or
or do you admit it? Well,

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we'll we'll see after I perform after
Shock, which I like better?

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There you go at the DW Present
stage at five twenty five. Well,

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I see you there. You will
let me say I better. Uh oh,

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Now, I gotta make sure you
know what I think. I got

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lucky, no excuses, no excuse
because I had a six o'clock five twenty

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five. I got one last interview
and then I'll run out there. Yeah

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you better, I've done Broco.
Your last interview just started with them.

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Yeah, yeah, together. Nice. It was incredible. It was my

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first tour. We fucking annihilated that
ship. Very cool. I definitely want

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to be out there, you know
how it is. Sometimes I'm stuck back

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here. I'd rather be out there. But I'll get I'll get I'm gonna

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do that interview quick, and then
I'm gonna run out to you. I

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literally will run. Hell yeah,
I'll make sure. I'll make sure that

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I'll try to flag you that you
see down there. I mean, at

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the end of the set is the
best. So how long is your set?

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Thirty five? Okay, I'll have
to make it happen. Hell yeah,

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it's a pleasure to meet you.
It was a pleasure happening to you.

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And thanks for being on the Adventures
of Pipe Main. Thank you so

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much, have a wonderful day.
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of

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