PipemanRadio Interviews Gnome at Aftershock 2023

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pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here West. No Nice.

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My name is Rudy, I'm the
I do the lead vocal and lead

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guitar in no I'm Jeff and I
play bass and Megan and I played the

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drums. So nice. I want
to start right off the bat with his

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necklace because I love it. And
we were talking about before the erviw Yeah,

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it got a little embroidered necklace here. And this was given to us

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by a fan at Louder than Life
in Kentucky where we played about three weeks

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ago, and she was front row
wearing this thing that she made with their

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bare hands, and she was dying
to give it to us. And it's

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such a sweet gift. We meet
a lot of fans who give us little

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things. Today we got these little
bracelets. Ah, there you go.

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Yeah, And we love our fans
who show up making things for us and

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they send us drawings and pictures,
and they dress up in costumes and everything,

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and they show up to the shows
still waiting for the first panties.

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Though, well, let's make that
happen. You're not getting them from me,

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though, I see, I got
my Pipeman bracelets. Why of my

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groupies made for me? Right?
Yes, it's somehow. It's a thing.

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Our Our fans are really just adorable. They always give us tiny gifts,

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and they're so happy to get to
see us, and we're just very

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happy in return. Do you think
it's because your name is Gnome and they're

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like, they just so, i'matically
assume they should give you cute gifts like

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probably our stick is just funny and
silly. Tell the listeners about your stick

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that because whoever's never seen it or
knows nothing about it. Oh yeah,

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So we started out we were actually
named Sleepless Titan. That was our original

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band name, but when we had
written about three or four songs, it

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quickly became clear that Sleepless Titan sounds
too too, too dark, too heavy.

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We do, you know, maneuver
in the genres of doom and stoner,

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but our music is also danceable and
silly. And happy. So that's

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when Eagan came up with the name
gnome, because the gnome is like a

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silly, fantastical creature which is both
evel and weird and dark looking, but

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also just silly and happy and stupid. Yeah, totally. It actually fits

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perfectly to our music and I love
what Like when I go to the UK,

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I see gnomes everywhere people. They
seem to love us. We've clicked

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really well with the UK audience.
It's been amazing because are you talking about

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actual garden homes or yeah, yeah, yeah, though the real thing,

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like real, real life, not
real. They show up to our shows

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and were in the hats and everything. Yeah, we've seen them. Yeah

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see, I didn't see a yet
this after shot get though, I saw

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a lot of corn and not the
band and bananas. That's that's what we

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have here in the United States.
You mean you people dressed up as bananas

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and that's corn. Yes, yeah, yeah, the corn. We were

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driving through Kansas, we saw mainly
corn. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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Well if you were in the pit
for what was it, parkway drive,

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you would have seen like three stalks
of corn in the pit. Chicken

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in the corn there it is.
Yeah, what is the silliest thing you

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do live. I don't know,
man. We stick our tongues out to

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each other. And I once licked
his space by accident. Are you a

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wait a minute, nada. I
don't believe it was an accident. Okay,

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you can hide behind that, but
okay, I needed some more salting

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takes. Yeah, oh yeah,
he wants to taste me all the time.

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Was it the beard? Tell us
the truth? Was it the beard?

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Oh yeah, he probably smells him
leftover spaghetti in my beard. Isn't

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that what's great about having a beard. You know, if you have to

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do something like this and you have
no time to eat, you just save

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your breakfast. Yeah exactly. You
know. I absolutely love garlic in almost

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all of my food, and it
sticks with you for like three days in

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your mustage, which is yeah,
it does absolutely amazing. When I used

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to smoke cigarettes, that shit stuck
in my mustache, you know, and

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I could taste a nicotine. I'm
oh, yeah, that is fucking nasty.

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Well yeah, I bet it is. And then you know the mist

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I realized that. Then I start
and I got rid of that. Then

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women started to like me. Before
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shying away. It was the fucking
nicotine stuck in my mustache. Well there's

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there's the magical solution. Yeah,
say that's the gnome solution. Oh yeah,

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say you smell like chicken in the
corn. The women are on you

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like magnets. I got idea next
time we play after Shock. Okay,

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you're gonna you'll have like some life
size gnomes on stage. Oh yeah,

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we will eat the corn. They
go jump out in the mosh pin eat

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the corn. Oh yeah, and
they might take some wallets. You know.

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Many people they're confused because they they
think when we show up, we're

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gonna be like, yay big,
But we're not. But my mum is

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actually ya big, like water bottle
size. But I think she lied about

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who my father is. Yeh,
well she is obviously a gnome. Oh

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yeah she is, you know.
And it is funny that they that you

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should say they, because I bet
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big. Because the things that people
think are real nowadays with social media and

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the web blows my fucking mind.
Oh, especially in America, there is

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a people called gnome enthusiasts and the
evil us all the time telling us what

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the proper lore about Gnomes is.
Oh, yeah, we don't even know.

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Yeah, you can't do that wrong. Okay, you can't wear a

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red hat. You have to wear
a green hat because it's Sunday or something.

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We really we never thought about it
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started wearing the Noome hats because if
we thought it was funny, we didn't

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think it would stick with us.
But now everybody shows up, we're in

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the hat. So I guess we're
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Yeah, if you take a talk, nobody'll come like we get every

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once and again. We get the
comments, hey guys, your music is

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awesome, but take of the heads. They look silly. But the truth

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is without the heads are our videos
would have never blown up. And it's

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it's the perfect icebreaker. You know. When we come on stage, people

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immediately know that we don't take ourselves
seriously and that needs I love that life.

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It's too serious to come to a
music festival and not be silly.

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Yeah, and there's a lot of
people who take themselves very seriously, and

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you know, for whatever reason,
that's fine, but we certainly don't.

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And like Rudy said, it's a
great icebreaker, Like if we're up there

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looking like that, and what the
hell doesn't matter what you look like?

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You know? Roll? Yeah,
take happy family. And one thing I've

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found is the icons in the music
industry never take themselves seriously, Like are

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they professionals, Yes, that's different. But they're having a great time.

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Like I was interviewing let they're scared
and they were laughing the whole a review

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and I didn't even say anything funny. Well, maybe they had a certain

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green herb helping them out with that, that's possible, but they're they're you

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know, if you can't laugh at
yourself and you can't have fun in this

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industry, you're in the wrong industry. Yeah, and its otherwise it sucks.

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I'm quite convinced that a big part
of our success is the fact that

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we're good friends. You know,
when you're stuck in a vent for hours

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on end, weeks on end,
and you can't laugh with each other's farts,

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then you're gonna have a bad time. And if you can't, like

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put stuff on their nose and then
scratch, so they do this, you

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know, for those listening, I
was smashing my nose. Listen, if

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they're gonna get pissed at you for
that, you need a new band member.

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Oh yeah, oh yeah, so
yeah. We just aim for fun

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always. If we have fun on
stage, then usually the people the augens

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have fun as well, and that's
that's the energy we're looking for. I

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think if I had a band,
the rest of my band members would kill

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me, because the whole time on
the road, I would be playing practical

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jokes on everybody. All right,
well, well we do it all.

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We do it as well, it's
mainly him. Now, I have a

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very serious question. Do gnomes ever
shit their pants on stage? I think

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they actually do all the time.
That's why they look so baggy the pants.

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It's full of shit. There it
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but it's been close. You know
why I asked that question because there's

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another question I asked, like one
story good or bad? When you're like

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eighty, you're going to talk about
the number one answer, like, if

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you ever saw a family few that
game show shitting their pants on stage?

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Well, eggon, he really fucks
on the drums, but there's only so

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much your sphincter can take. Yeah, well, listen, what do you

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do with the bass pedal. When
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do with the baseball? It's in
the case mostly. Okay, that's what

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he wants you to believe. Yeah
right? Is it hiding with the gnome?

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The gnomes hide? Is that the
one that hides? Well, most

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of them do, because many people
still think they're they're only mythical creatures that

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don't really exist. But they obviously
do look at us, you know exactly,

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but most of them hide. They're
a little shy. It's like people

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think Santa Claus's mythical, but I
see him in a it's a crowd surfing

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at every festival. Dude, Santa
Claus is a gnome. He has a

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long white beard, he has a
point he had. He's a gnome?

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There it is. Is he tall
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Yeah? Yeah? Are nomes usually
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time, you know, there's no
restrictions. I mean, Jeffy's pretty big.

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It's a common misconception that we need
to be small. Yeah, but

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my dad is actually Andre the Giants. Ah, yeah, say so.

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And your mom was a gnome and
that's how that happened. All of our

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moms just fucked around. I don't
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that together. It was a Belgian
tea party, oh man. So how

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do you compare playing to audiences in
Belgium and playing here? Well, first,

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I need to say that the Belgians
specifically are quite timid. When we're

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playing in Belgium, people are just
nodding a little with their heads and not

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moving at all. At the end
of the show, they'd come and congratulate

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us, Hey, dude, your
show was amazing. But in the audience

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audience, they just don't move.
But when we leave Belgium and we play

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in the UK or in Spain or
Germany, people just lose their mind,

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right, And Americas like that as
well. People just party and we love

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it. What do you think it
is about Belgium people that they're just very

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reserved at your shows. I don't
know. We're just like, we're not

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very big on you know, national
pride or whatever. We're kind of we're

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Norman and as a sort of I
wouldn't say timid, but like a quiet,

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polite people or whatever. Doesn't mean
we don't like to have fun,

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right, or we're just you know, we're a mix up of so many

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cultures, like Belgium. The country
has been a part of the Netherlands,

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in Spain and France and Austria and
Germany and you know whatever. So our

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whole identity is kind of a mix
up of all those things, you know.

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Yeah, I find that, especially
Americans, they really love to wear

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their colors and show this is what
I'm in too, music wise, politics

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wise, whatever wise. But Belgians
usually are are Their parents usually tell their

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children don't be too loud or then
the neighbors might hear. We have this

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kind of timid clothes off culture experience. Well, we have that a little

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bit in Florida, but that's only
because the condo commandos, as we put

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them, will report you. We
have people that run these condo associations and

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if I got a complaint, a
formal complaint because my grandchildren were laughing in

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the pool. Okay, so maybe
Florida is from Belgium. Oh so Florida

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man is actually Belgium. That actually
explains a lot. That's why you can't

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find them. You're not looking at
home. Oh yeah. We're also quite

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convinced that there might be a loophole
somewhere in the forests which goes straight to

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turnhouse in Belgium. Well we've seen
some Florida men in Belgium. Well,

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you know, in America, we
do believe that you can take a hole

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to China. Oh but it's true. See, it's true. The funny

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part about that is, you know, we had this whole campaign about wall

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for Mexico. You know, most
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walking across the border. They're either
flying in or walking through a tunnel.

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So the defence doesn't really help.
Okay, you know, build a ten

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foot waller of being a leven foot
ladder. Right, that's right, exactly.

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That's what I love about Europe man. Just drive through those borders like

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it. The only reason I know
I'm in different countries because the language changes.

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I'm like, wait, what language
is that? Where am I?

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Yeah? Still, I mean we're
all the same people. Just because somebody

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is born on the other end of
the over the line in the sands,

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you know, we're all just the
same people, right. I love that

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attitude. I wish the rest of
the world would realize that, Like,

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we're one race to human race,
and that's it. Period. Yeah,

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you know, so we got going
on now, after after shot. All

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right, Well, tomorrow morning we
fly home. We got jobs to get

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back to. So it's uh,
the awakening is waiting for us. But

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in the next couple of weeks we
have a couple more really fun shows.

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We were playing a couple of festivals
and Germany. We have a few shows

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in Belgium not being up for elder
which you're really excited about. And we

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have some plans shaping up for next
year, a couple of UK shows,

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a couple of summer festivals in Belgium
and Europe. I love this stuff is

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still coming together, but we'll be
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album early next year. WHOA,
that's good. So tell everybody how they

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can connect with young socials on the
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but check your new music, wait
for it and buy your merch for sure.

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You can find us on Facebook,
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nome Verse, and on bandcampnom bandcamp
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metaverse nome Verse and it has like
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got these gnomes great and you at
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Verse. Yeah, see we have
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to find it. I love it. Well, it's tiny. Any final

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words you want to leave our listeners
with that we haven't touched on yet.

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Well, yeah, listen to our
music, buy our merch, be happy.

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We're a pointy hat and just don't
take life seriously. And by way,

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they cannot listen to this interview unless
say, buy your merch because you

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got the best merch in the whole
known verse. Well, very kind of

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you to say. We Fortunately,
we sold out all our merch on this

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tour, so we didn't have any
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that's fortunate for us to have and
unfortunate for the fans. That's a good

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problem to have though. But those
fans that missed out you gonna be listening

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to this, go and buy it
from them. You still have a chance

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to get some merch. Oh yeah. At Polder Records dot b E dot

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com you can order our special vinyls
and they are shipped worldwide, So go

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check it out. Love it you
guys, rock Thanks for being on the

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Adventures pipe Man. Thank you very
much. Well, thank you. We

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had a blast. Bye bye bye. Thank you for listening to the Adventures

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of Pipemen. On w fur c
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