PipemanRadio Interviews Fever 333 at Aftershock 2023

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the White Man. We know some
of these songs, but Elain Wain what

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we are. This is pipe Man
here on the Adventures pipe Man W four

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c Y Radio. And I'm here
with you. Got Jason Alon, Brandon

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Davis, I'm April, I'm Thomas
Pridging and this is the Fever three three

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three here and after Shock. Oh
my god. First, I want to

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say I am so excited that Corey
Taylor unfortunately can't be here. I feel

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bad. I feel bad for my
brother there okay why he can't be here.

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But I had an interview at four
o'clock and I was gonna be like,

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I was like, foh, so
he's gonna miss us. But that

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I weds Gonn More. That's my
last interview because there is like, you

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know, when you do all these
festivals, there's only a few bands that

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you're like, I have to see
that. There's other bands, Okay,

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Like I've seen them like fifty times, right, I'm cool you guys are

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definitely one of them. Appreciation,
and I've seen you a lot of times,

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but I saw you guys recently.
I can't remember because they all melt

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together. Yeah Louder or something louder. Yeah, man, you guys are

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better than fucking I mean the energy
up there on stage, Like you always

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had energy, okay, but now
you have a crew that matches you in

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the energy and particular. Like I
believe that this crew everyone has their own

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special thing. It's like like like
the special moves in moral combat. Yeah,

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it's got their own like fatality.
Everybody got their own fatality here there

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you go finish Yeah yeah yeah yeah. And uh so he plans to get

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in trouble climbing up on the sound
thing or what it sounds like it They

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already spoke to our crew about it. Yeah, yeah, so I guess

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we'll just see. I think it
was Louder that I was watching the gold

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because I've always watched him like,
oh he's crazy, but like it was

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okay. But I saw you hanging
off. I'm like, yeah, oh

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that one was about to felt like
it was gonna fall. I was looking

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at not good, and that's why
I was hanging so tightly onto everything right

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around me. Yet if it were
hot as this man, like you get

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sweaty because you were just one hand
in that shait, I'd be like,

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yeah, I knocked my teeth out
doing a stage dive off a Marshall stack.

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I wouldn't do what you do,
yeah, because the crowd wouldn't catch

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you. Yeah. Oh man.
So how do you guys feel that Fever

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three three three has evolved now with
how you are now and how the music

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has progressed even more and everything else. I mean, I personally feel like

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there's just a sense I say it
every time, it's the funk, right,

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Like that's what I was looking for
for this iteration, this and this

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evolution, and I got it with
this group. So I mean, I

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think that the essence. And also, if I may, I think that

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we're able to offer a whole new
type of representation. Having a beautiful black

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queen in the band I was one
of the first things I saw when I

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saw you guys on stage, because
you've always had the diversity on stage,

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but that was the missing and I
really really that was that was obviously a

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conscious effort, but to find April. If I may just sing her out

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real quick. To find April was
just like it was like cosmic. It

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was you know, my homie had
told me about her and then I had

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already like saved some of the videos, being like I need someone like this

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in the band, and then they
was like just hit her up. And

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so I mean, for me,
that on top of me being friends with

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Brandon for years, admiring him,
seeing him as another brother in the space,

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and being like you get it on
a whole level that I think is

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missing from a lot of just performers
in general. I think that he really

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really gives himself to performance in a
way that I think is I don't know,

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just beautiful and necessary. And then
Thomas Bridge and is literally I stopped

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him in practice the other day and
said, look, you are bad as

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hell. Like he's just been one
of my favorite rummers since I was like

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just at high school, you know
what I'm saying to and everything from everything

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he's done too and from the gospel
shit to the rock shit to everything in

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between. So I'm blast, that's
key right there, I think Cuz if

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you only know one genre, I
think you're pretty limited as a musician.

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Yeah, it doesn't mean you have
to play those other genres. But those

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other influences make you unique, and
that's what makes you long lasting, right

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and this right, you know,
and why should you be one way?

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Right? You know, we all
have multiple influences. Who are the gatekeepers

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that said you can't include those influences? You know what you have to say

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about that? Since he was just
talking about I think, you know,

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I think it adds a lot of
sparkle to like everything, especially in the

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rock world, because it has been
so one dimensional in the past that I

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think having people who are inspired by
different genres and you know, people are

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just inspired by different things period,
you know what I mean. I think

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that's just has just made the whole
the genre grow, you know, as

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you know, in in more than
musical, you know, even backstage I

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have to tell people, I'm like, it's actually more chill backstage than it

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is at certain R and B concerts, right, right, I think everyone

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is grown with each other and like
this metal family we have here, like

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it's just a big family. There's
no outsiders, there's no you're this,

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you're that, It's like Whoever's who? And then even like nowadays, like

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I come from the time with the
gatekeepers. Like I was into punk and

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metal. I can go to punk
shows. I had long hair, you

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got your ass kicked. If you
had long hair going punk shows. If

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you're a punk on metal show,
you got your ass kicked. I always

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thought it was stupid, like,
come on, similar music. Why would

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it be like that. We were
both getting our asses kicked by the jocks

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in school, band together. And
I think that's what's happening to music now

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when we have these Danny Wimmer festivals
and you have guys like Tech nine and

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Run the Jewels and all those people
amongst a slipknot and people love it,

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like man, metal heads absolutely love
Tech nine. That's an example. You

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know. It just shows how we've
grown as human beings and music, at

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least the outsol world. I don't
know so much, but at least we

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can start here and spread the word
for the rest of the world of how

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human beings should act. And I
know you're all about that. Let's talk

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to you for a second, because
when I saw you up there, he's

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right, you were badass. What
do you think when he was talking about

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like that? Because you know,
it's nice to be a band where the

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other band members actually think you're the
shit right. Yeah, it's phenomenal.

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I mean, I appreciate what you
said, actually calling out Jason on the

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mic about not having a woman before, because that's one of the things that

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really connected me to Jason at first. After our first jam it was just

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me, Thomas and Jason. He
was waiting with me for my car and

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we were talking about that and he
was like, I feel like you got

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to say it's straight up and that
is what I feel like we do on

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stage, both in terms of the
lyrics, the words that Jason delivers,

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and also our presence and the way
that we challenge ourselves, challenge the audience,

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challenge our team with our performances and
with our dedication, with our ambition

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to grow something bigger than what we
are. So I just wanted to kind

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of give you your little bo props
for that. You need more in the

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space and the people with platforms I
can do that the better. And that's

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definitely what I try to do on
data and how can you make positive change

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like the stuff that your lyrics tell
the world without walking the talk, you

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know, like and walking the talk
is having the diversity and showing the world

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this is how it should be,
and look at how well it works.

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That's the other part of it,
because we're all brainwashed it that wouldn't work.

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Well. What what is society doing
now, dividing us and doing it

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on purpose? We can't let them. We need bands like you and all

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of us to not let them.
That's my key. And I also just

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think that it's I want to be
like, I'm gonna take let's take off

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the rose colored glasses and understand that
any revolution, any movement, any any

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renaissance has been precipitated by art.
But art that was had casualties, Like

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you're going to it's gonna hurt,
Like, let's just keep it super real.

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Like I don't want people to think
that I'm like, how here talking

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about kumbayas shit, Like I really
believe that it's difficult and it hurts,

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and you're gonna lose and sacrifice a
lot of things. But I believe that

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real change and true altruism is planting
trees that you will never sit under,

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you know. I think that that's
really really important to understand. And and

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you're gonna, like I said,
the sacrifice, if it's worth it to

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you, it will benefit someone perhaps
when you are not here, but knowing

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that hopefully is enough for some people, you know, and I think change

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and getting hurt is required for what
we really want down the road. And

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even you as a band, perfect
example, you could take it one in

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two ways. Oh well, changed
up the band blah blah blah blah blah,

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or you could take it up.
It's an evolution to make things better

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and to keep on that same road
of the message that's required. What do

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you want add to conversation? Well, I mean specifically what you said about,

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like, you know, the possibility
of people being like, oh you

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change the band whatever whatever, shockingly
like, I feel like the reception from

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people has been like extremely well like, which I mean, all right,

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It's like it's like and uh,
you know that's, to be honest,

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is not normal because people in general
tend to be afraid of change, or

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you know, they they identify something
being a certain way and to them they're

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like, no, what, like
this is the way that I saw it

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first, and this is the way
it needs to stay. You know.

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Even with albums, you know,
a band writes a new album and it's

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the same guys, and like all
this sounds different than the last album.

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I'm upset, right, but for
some reason, like you know, this

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evolution happened, and like I've seen
like you know, just mostly people being

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excited about it, which is a
really pleasant surprise because you know, being

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you know, one of the new
members, you know, and you're filling

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big shoes. You know. The
band prior to us was amazing, you

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know, so like stepping in to
like be there, it's just like you're

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like, oh, people gonna like
not accept it because it's not what it

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was, And that's like totally didn't
happen. Like, yeah, I love

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hearing that because a lot of times
that is what happened, absolutely, you

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know. And but I can tell
you myself, who's saw the previous version

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many times and saw this version.
First of all, the reason people don't

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like changing bands and say, think
it's not gonna be the same band anymore.

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I still saw the same band but
better. That's the difference. It

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wasn't like you became this different band. Jason still Jason, you know,

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the show is still high energy,
high fun all that. The message is

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still the same, but now again
with her stronger, Because how can we

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even preach togetherness and no hate without
including everybody that totally is hated or downplayed

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or kept down or whatever it is. And so I think you finally got

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the recipe. Yeah. And lastly, lastly, I just want to say,

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I want to make it very clear
that this is very much a POC

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specifically black and mixed band, Like
that's what we are, Like I don't

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want to I just like I feel
like dancing around it in music in general

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is this is a is a is
a pr move for some strange reason that

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doesn't need to happen. Like I
am so proud, and I'm just speaking

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for me. I'm so proud to
have like black people playing rock music on

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stage of me. I'm so proud. I'm so proud to have a woman,

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a black woman on stage of me. I'm so I'm so happy to

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have that queer representation on stage with
us. Like I'm so thankful for this

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arrangement that I've been blessed with.
So probably I just want to say thank

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y'all. Thank you, thank you, April, thank you Brandan, thank

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you Thomas. For real, it's
I thank you. Because like I've eight

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grandkids, one that's non binary,
one that's non binary, one that's gay,

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two that are black, yep,
and I have also Hispanic family too.

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There you go. And I want
those kids to grow up in the

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world where they're like kids are we
teach them this hate shit. The kids

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don't know it to us, asshole. So I'd rather them grow up in

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a world where maybe we have a
hope of not having that anymore. That's

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why we're playing the trees now so
they can sit under them. That's right,

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you got it, brother, Anything
else you want to tell the listeners

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that they need to know about and
how to connect with you guys, your

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merge because you guys also have the
coolest fucking murder. Thank you, thank

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you. I think the listeners all
they need to know about is that they're

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powerful. Their very presence is power. If you just show up, you

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you're you're holding a huge bargain and
ship everything from our labor to our essence.

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We are very very powerful as people. And uh yeah, you can

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follow. You can find us on
all everything Instagram, the TikTok, even

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TikTok, but every everything we're we're
all over and you got to see more

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of us now because we have an
actual like connoisseur in that world in the

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band. So yeah, you find
us everywhere. I love it well,

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I love that you're heard after Chuck. I am so fucking pumped that you

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got bumped later. Yeah yeah,
yeah, sorry Corey, but thank you

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at the same time. Yeah,
and uh, I'm gonna be out there

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in your pit. Appreciate having a
fucking blast, because that's what you guys

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are saying. Thank you for being
on the Adventures pipe Man. We know

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what's up. This is Jason Alon, this is Brandon Davis, April K

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Thomas Pridging, and you listen to
pipe Man on w fours e y dot

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