PipemanRadio Interviews Don Broco at Aftershock 2023

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pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with Robe. How's

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it going, Oh, it's gone
great. And tell us who you're from.

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I love one band to do it
because then they say it cool.

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So I'm in a bank called Don
Broco. It's important I say the name

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because everyone gets it wrong. It's
the stupidest band name ever. Like,

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within a week of calling ourselves don
Broco, everyone I'd done well a little.

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People think I'm done one thing.
So they're like, hey, don

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nice to meet here. It's like, no, I'm rob. The band

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name is Don Broco. We get
Don Bronco, we get Don Brocco,

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we get the Donny Broncos, we
get everything. And that's what you get

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for having a stupid name that doesn't
make any sense. See that's why I

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like having the band say it.
First of all, I get something cool

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like that, then you can't get
it wrong. And I don't fuck it

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up exactly. I think to myself, if I was a bear, they

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would piss me off if every press
person fucked up my name. And that

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happens all the time, yeah,
lot, and we feel too a lot

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of the time. If it's only
slightly wrong, you don't want to correct

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people because you seem, you know, you don't have to come across like

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a dick. But if it is
like genuinely wrong, then you have to

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stop them mid interview because then you
feel you're not you know, you're not

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doing yourself right by your band names. You have to promote your band name.

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So here's the advice for all press
people. Stop asking how they got

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their band name and asking how they
pronounce their band name. That's good advice,

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good advice, right, because you'll
never hear me ask how do you

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get your band name? Unless it's
something that I know is a really cool

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story. Yeah, yeah, and
I know it. It's like, okay,

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well that's cool to talk about it, okay, yeah, But otherwise,

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as you know, it's an urs. That's like the most boring,

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uncreative question anybody can ask. Oh, I won't tell you how we got

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a name. I'll keep the mystery. Yeah, it's better. It's not

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the best. It's an okay story, but the amount of times you have

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to say it, I mean,
hopefully people aren't bored of me saying it

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when they win, but I feel
bored. I feel bored when I'm telling

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it. To tell it so many
times, you then think like, am

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I just a boring fucking right now? Because I'm telling the same story this

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guy here? You should still I
should still making up shit, fuck up,

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fuck with the media. Yeah,
okay, so I'll tell you a

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story. I've told this a few
times, but it's so great. The

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band August Burns Red. I'm interviewing
them, and one of the things I

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said before the interview is, and
I don't ask you stupid questions like how

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do you get your band name?
And they're like, well, you're lucky

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because we fuck with every person that
does that. See that girl over there,

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and he goes, and we do
it with such a straight face.

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We make up a different story every
time, like they're entertaining themselves. Yeah,

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and so he goes. We told
her, Yeah, my sister,

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we got this dog when we were
a teenager. She named it August.

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We're out in the you know,
in the street partying, and we decided

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it would be funny to light August
on fire and watch them run down the

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road ergo August burns red and they
were like, you had to see the

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look of horror. She was like, I should report you guys the police

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right now. Well I shouldn't you
be with you standing with you right now.

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But see that's what you fucking get
for asking that question. We we

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had one that we did a few
times and until people started believing it that

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because we believe we're from in the
UK is a town called Bedford. There's

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a lot of Italians in Bedford.
My dad's Italian, and we told people

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that my granddad was like the main
mafia Don of Bedford and his name was

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Don Broco and he and he basically
ran this whole town and ran all the

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all the bad ship, all the
crime, everything could basically be traced back

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to him. And we had a
few different variations of that. But like

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we said that enough that people started
assuming that was the real story, and

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we we couldn't keep it up.
We like, you know, we had

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kind of straight faces for the first
few and then when people actually pressed us

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on it, we gave in,
So I'm kind of gutted about that.

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Sometimes st sometimes those stories become like
legends. For instance, I was watching

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Ozzie's show where it's Ozzie and Jack
and they were on tour. Turns out

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he never pissed on the Alamo.
What Yeah? And all these years he

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thought he was banned from the Alamo
and he wasn't. How did they find

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that out? Because they went there
and they did research on the show,

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Yeah, and found out there is
nothing blocking Ozzy. He just lived that

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way for all those years. Believe, but because he was probably so fucked

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up. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, I can believe that,

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right? And how they years did
that story last? Yeah? I mean

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we will be in there where someone
said you're not gonna believe that shit you

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did last night, and you're like, fuck, did I really? And

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you have enough people say it You're
like oh, and then you start remembering

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it this fake story in your head. I've done that before where I'm like,

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fuck, I really must have done
that. So, yeah, was

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the amount of fucking shit he used
to get up to. I can imagine,

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Oh, yeah, you could believe
it, like shit he did,

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you can believe he did anything right, you know, I tell you what.

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I have fun with it too,
because I was just talking to the

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last band about this. My ex
is from England and talk about people believe

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in anything. Well, a lot
of English people that come over to America

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they act like they're royals, like
because they can, and because Americans have

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this viewpoint of English people as being
prim and proper and very classy and blah

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blah blah, and so they play
that. They play up to it,

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they play it, and they even
play it so hard that they look down

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on Americans while they're here, like
better than us. And my ex wife

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was totally like that. Really,
she she would like even with table manners,

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she would get on right case with
shit that and I have really good

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table matters, but she she'd make
it like they were ship Americans, not

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how it is done in England.
Yes, exactly. Are you ready for

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this? I didn't know what this
meant, but after doing a few downloads

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and a few bloodstocks, I found
out she was from Newcastle. That's not

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even really England, that's what they
said. But it's like, did she

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have a Jordi accent or she she
spoke like the Queen's England. Yeah,

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yeah, so like it was believable. Yeah, you know, and then

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now all these years later on Divorce
Romer, I'm like that bitch, like

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she was just had nobody. It's
true though, Like as a brit you

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come to America and I'm still surprised
about how sometimes excited random people are to

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meet someone from England. We're just
doing our Walmart shop, you know.

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We get there and we asked one
of like, you know, one of

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the guys at the till. Oh, by the way, where can I

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find the fucking hoovers or whatever?
That excuse me? Where are you from?

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We're like from England and they're so
stoked to me. I'm like,

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you must have met a few English
people before, but I guess a lot

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of people haven't. They've only seen
them on TV. Oh. Back when

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I was in like a teenager,
I had a bunch of friends that were

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older, they were Cockney, and
I hung out with them a lot.

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And I'm like, well, that
just just dispelled everything I thought about English

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people. Yeah. Yeah, because
as well, you probably only on like

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mainstream American TV. You probably get
the Royal like the Royal family. You

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get a few like British like high
brow British, like BBC shows where everyone

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speaks really well, right, I
mean where I'm from. We're from like

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the Home Counties area, which is
sort of in between. It's kind of

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just north of London. But a
lot of people like they're like, you're

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not English, you don't have an
English accent, You're Australian. They can't

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believe even we're from England because it's
not this specific version of English that they've

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heard on TV. Oh now it's
hey, and we have it here.

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I'm talking to them about it.
I'm a Ridge from New York and New

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Jersey. Like you guys, I
can pick out what city in New Jersey

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or what part of New York they're
in by their accident. Yeah yeah,

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English, I can't pick that out, but you can. Yeah, yeah,

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you know there's a lot of dialects
in England. Though there's like so

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and you can only you might only
be like twenty minutes apart. I know,

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right, it's completely different, so
weird, Like okay, so I

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told them too. First time I
was flying into Birmingham, my London friends

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were like, You're not gonna understand
a word they say there, And I'm

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thinking, come on it's English.
People were talking to me and I was

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like, can you say that in
Spanish because I will not understand that to

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me. My grandma she moves.
She she's from Italy, she moved to

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England maybe in a twenties when just
after my dad was born. And she's

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got this crazy Italian Birmingham hybrid accent, and it's mental like if I'm obviously

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used to it now, but I
forget if I'm introducing like my friends,

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she's still like she's she's ninety three
now, she's still coming to shows,

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she's rocking out. She loves it. So she's meeting people all the time,

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but they can't understand a word she
says because it's a really thick,

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brummy accent Birmingham accent combined with this
also really thick Italian accent. I mean,

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there's no I haven't had anyone else
who speaks like her. It's crazy.

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It is. It is amazing.
That's amaze me going around the world

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and realizing how many dialects and how
many languages there are. It's like so

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weird to me. It's like how
they all start yeah, yeah, you

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know, it's like somebody woke up
spoke and one day and just start speaking

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like they were from Birmingham, and
that's how it started. I wonder if

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they just decided they were like,
our accent's too near this, I'm just

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going to start talking of weird.
They just see if it. You know,

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you don't want to sound like that. Yeah, yeah, So what

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you got going on after after Shock? Well, this is the first day,

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first show of our run. Our
tour starts tomorrow nice in San Diego.

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And yeah, so we're here in
the US for the next five weeks

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doing our album that came out just
after the pandemic. This is like our

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first headline tour back since the pandemic. So it's been a while. So

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yeah, we're excited to get out
play some play some songs we haven't played

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before. You know. Actually we've
We've been super lucky and done some incredible

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supports the last two years. The
last one we did, it feels like

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we were here literally last week.
It was maybe two months ago now,

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with Pissed, the Veil and the
used Nice insane, like the most insane

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tour we've ever done, the biggest
tour. It was incredible. It was

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like those two mans are the best
dudes as well, like as people just

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the honestly the most fun, just
chill, lax dudes to hang out with.

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On the tour, the shows were
crazy popping. I met a lot

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of cool people on the on those
shows. So it's nice to now come

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back and play to our fans that
you know, have been with us for

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a while, and a lot of
new fans too, So it's nice.

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Yeah, And you know what I
mean, it's so good to hear and

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ours say that about other bands,
because listen, if you're out on tour

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and the other band is assholes,
that's going to be a long fricking tour.

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Yeah, We've we've been lucky enough
to have never done a tour in

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the States like that. We've done
a few tours in the UK where there's

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a band where we're like, they're
not there cool and we just avoid them,

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but like it's annoying. But UK
shows they're only like two weeks long.

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Like, there's not a lot of
places to blame in the UK,

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so maybe you can do you can
get away with just about a three week

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tour, but you know, if
you're if you're trying the States, it's

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a long old stint. Yeah,
you can be on tour for eight weeks

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if you're on tour with the band
that you don't like, Oh, that

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was horrible because it's boring. You
don't hang out with your own band mates

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all the time. You see them
back at home. So listen, you

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know, make that's what it's about
for me, being on tour, seeing

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new places, getting to like,
you know, play to new people and

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making new friends. And if you're
a musician, you shouldn't be a dick

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anyway, because listen, you're all
in the same boat exactly, and like,

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listen, you're living together for the
eight weeks or whatever it is.

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Yeah, you might as well just
be cool. I mean, like,

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just be cool. Just be cool. So how does everybody connect you on

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socials? On the web by your
merch all that? Just don broco on

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everything? Yeah, d O N
B R O C O. Instagram Twitter

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was called X Now what's going on
with that? Are we going to stay

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of tweeting? It'll be like X
artist a spark? Yeah, what's that

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going to be? Like? I
don't know how I was done with that

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one for a while. Anyway.
It's how you've taken a company that already

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has like a brand that strong and
like totally change it. Like I could

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understand tweaking it, but it's not
even the same thing. Well, I

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heard that he's had X trademark for
what he's obsessed. Elon's obsessed with xax

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FACEX, and I think his original
because he made all his millions originally through

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selling off a portion of PayPal,
he developed that. And I think I

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could be getting this completely wrong,
But I heard that was originally called X

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and he still has the trademark for
that. So he loves that letter.

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He wants that to you know,
he's just obsessed with it so soon.

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Here is las thing though, he
wants to remove the ability to block anybody,

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what like, why do I have
to be forced to listen a ship

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or read shit? I don't want
to. If I want to block somebody,

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I should be able to block this. Yeah, that's you're right.

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Surely I think we need the revolutionary
war again to be honest. Oh my

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god, But man, anything else
you want to share with the listeners that

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we haven't covered, they need to
know. Anything else you share that they

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need to know. If you haven't
heard Dombroco before, come give us a

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listen where you know We're like an
old rock band who bring a load of

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different ships to the table. So
yeah, and come see us, come

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see us until we're here for the
next five weeks, all across the States.

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Nice. Well, I'm so glad
you're here. It after Shaw.

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Thanks for being on the adventures of
paint Man, my pleasure man. Thank

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you, Thank you for listening to
the Adventures of plate Man. I'm w

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for CUI Radio.