PipemanRadio Interviews HXLA at Louder Than Life 2023

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with Hexo Nice here at Louder than Life,

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sir, So, how the hell
did that happen? We know a

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guy Nice yeah good, a good
friend of ours works here. So we

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uh, this is actually our first
show ever. We formed around a year

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ago. We've been we've been practicing, you know, writing music. Oh

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my bad and uh yeah, just
you know, got the hook up at

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this festival. We've got a few
more shows coming up soon after this,

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so stay tuned. So what do
you expect here at Louder than Life?

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I mean, you know, being
that's when you're you get that email call

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whatever it is, since your first
gig ever and it's a major music festival,

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Like what goes on through your head? Yeah? Well, the most

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of us are pretty young, or
all of us are pretty young. Actually

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we're the youngest banded louder than life
history to ever play here. So it

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was it was really overwhelming. It's
been a lot to prepare for. You

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know, there hasn't been like a
lot of like control over anything. That's

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always been all over the place.
But my bad, but yeah, it's

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yeah, yeah, it's been a
lot of like pushing shove we because like

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there's been like we all live like
pretty far from each other, so it's

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kind of just like cutthroat get where
we can, you know. So it

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was just like a lot of hey, let's get our stuff together and let's

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lock in, you know, right. So being that you're not that close

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in proximity to each other, how
did this formation happen? Because a lot

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of times, you know, when
you're your age, it's friends you're just

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hanging out with, or it's in
high school or in college or whatever.

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And so how we formed was so
I wrote our first single with waste of

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time and I had to just like
desire to form bat Like this would sound

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way cooler if we had a band, right, So I reached I went

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out on Instagram, I went onto
like a hunt for the best musics I

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could find, and these guys found
these guys and here we are. Nice.

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See that's the beauty of social media
today because you know, right,

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I mean, because you are kind
of limited in your local geographical area of

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like who would be good in the
band. And that's why a lot of

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bands they'll change lineups like the first
years of the band. Yeah, but

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I think with socials now you can
kind of pick and choose exactly, you

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know, and kind of come up
with that cool formation right from the beginning.

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We're like a superband, all the
all the best from all the best

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places there you go. Literally,
that's a cool way to put it.

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So tell our listeners about your music
not from a genre standpoint, because that

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shit's bullshit, you know, Like
that's right, and let's I like to

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hear what the artist has to say
about their music. Honestly, I don't

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think, like when it comes to
our sound, I don't think there's been

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definitely with us kind of love the
similar sound, but like our actual song,

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I don't think there's anybody doing it
right now. We have this very

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how I say, like we incorporate
lots of lots of different genres into our

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sound, which you know, genres, I agree or bullshit, you know

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what I mean? People should just
make what we make. But I believe,

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you know, I think we all
do a We all do a pretty

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good job of you know, writing
writing from you know, places that about

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things that we feel strongly about.
We never try to like you know,

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bs our way through a through a
song, you know what I mean.

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Nothing, nothing that we're writing about
ever comes from like yo, I heard

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this song. Now I'm trying to
like make a new song that sounds just

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like that, you know what I
mean. It's all it's all coming from

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you know, what we feel and
like what what our hearts decide to put

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out there onto a page, you
know what I mean. And yeah,

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you know it's worked out pretty well, I guess so. And most importantly,

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we kick ass. So there you
go. That is most important right

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there as a punk band, I
feel like that's heart and soul you feel.

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Oh and what he said, Okay, so I'm all about that,

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because how do you really have a
really good punk band unless you're young,

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you know, like because i I'm
friends with now By verterviewed Joe from the

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Vandals, and everybody likes to ask
him when are the Vandals gonna write new

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music? And I never do because
I know the reason why, Because he's

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like, yeah, he's like,
who wants to hear some fifty year old

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talking and writing punk music? Like
it's not Green Day, I don't want

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it. Yeah, so maybe you'll
be side stage for Green Day tonight.

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Huh right, and then they call
you out on stage to play with them.

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We're about to play, We're about
We're about to play death beat on

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stage with the Great But it's true, like punks a genre where I think

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it takes that teenage angst. It's
like I've been saying lately, I'm like,

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how did my all all my old
punk friends from the eighties now are

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all a sudden pro government that makes
no sense to me? Like that back

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then especially, it was all about
it. And that's the same with the

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boomers. You know, the boomers
were originally the hippies. Like why do

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the young kids that have something to
say end up becoming the ones that young

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kids don't want them to say anything? Yeah? Exactly, you know,

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So I think I think it's better. Like even bands like I saw when

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I was young that were young too, and some of them maybe playing that

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will definitely play in this festival.
I'm like, I like them better when

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they were teenagers. They had something
to say, they had something to sell.

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It was authentic, it was new, it was original. Yeah,

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it's just not new anymore once you
get famous. It's just EDIM was trying

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to be you. Yeah, but
I think it's best when you is original

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and you you make sense. Yeah, oh yeah, And that's why I

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like when bands like you take a
band like bring Me a Ride in that

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everybody's given a lot of shit too, but at least they're evolving instead of

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writing this. Ali always says,
I want to write the same song for

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again. You know you just you're
going and evolving as you grow in the

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industry and grow as a musician for
sure, which is true to you,

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Which is important you feel in this
industry when you're like trying to like write

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your emotions and write how other people
can feel you onto something that's really you

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know, Yeah, nobody, nobody
understands teen teen emotions like teenagers, which

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we all happen to be teenagers so
exactly gives us like a good inn at

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our competition. It's like a like
gives us an advantage to people like I

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don't even even the older people who
are legends in the game but don't have

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much to write about it anymore,
you still get like a step up,

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I guess, yeah, because yeah, but you're writing about it's more relative

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too. Like there was a joke
I'm gonna say, because your shirt at

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one of the festivals that one of
the bands which I won't mention that is

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a pop punk band, everybody left. They were the headliner, and everybody

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left because they're like, you know, I got into this while I was

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fifteen. I can't get into these
lyrics right now, you know. It's

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like, and that's what happens.
It's like those lyrics that when you're fifteen,

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sixteen years old, I don't know, if you're at forty fifty,

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they don't make as much sense anymore. Yep, I agree, percent it's

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it all. It's like what's popular
now, you know, Like what's popular

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now isn't going to be popular probably
fifty years from now. What's popular now

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wasn't popular fifty years And the issues
too, Like some of the issues are

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the same, but some of the
issues are vastly different. You know.

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Yeah, I've been saying a lot. The best bands nowadays, new bands

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nowadays are the ones that have blending
genres and the band members like have different

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influences because otherwise it's like this formula
they put into the music, and it's

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like every single band sounds exactly the
same because this is how you're supposed to

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sound in that genre. But you
said the greatest words, like nobody sounds

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like you, and that's the way
it should be. Yeah, you know,

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you even go back to day,
you could tell the difference between every

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punk band, you know, and
nowadays there's something that makes them that exact.

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People like the same, just like
fast drums, but if you play

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really goose, it's not the same, you know, right exactly, you

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know, like GBH, Discharge,
Subhumans, Exploited Dead Candies, the Originals.

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Yeah, I mean there's is there
anybody else that could sound like the

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Dead Candies? Like No, the
whole, like DC punk scene as like

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a whole back then was crazy.
I mean, yeah, you get really

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into it. I mean, I
mean they were just saying like fu to

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the government, and that's still happening, which is what's so like beautiful about

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punk, you feel, is that
it's become normalized and it's become like cool

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to say f you to the government
now, which is like okay, yeah,

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like everybody probably for the most part, degrees like f the government,

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Like yeah, you know what I
mean. But back then when they were

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doing it, people like the Dead
Kennedies, nobody was doing that. That

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was that was like people will people
never talk about how music has revolutionized America,

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not not just you know, like
like like music itself hasn't just been

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revolutionized, it's revolutionized America, and
nobody talks about it. See Yeah,

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And that's a great point because like
when I was a teenager, it was

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only US metal, had some punks
at piercings, tattoos, colored hair,

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and you certainly wouldn't get like one
hundred thousand people to a festival. It's

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like if you got if you got
thirty people to a gig, that was

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a fucking big gig, you know, right right, So you're right,

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yeah, absolutely, I mean,
now it's become like a thing, has

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become like a whole pop culture movement
all that kind of stuff. But it

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started with punk bands like the Deck
Kennedy's, people like Black Flag, you

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know, Bad Religion people like this, who were innovators of the punk scene,

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you know what I mean, And
they brought up the seen into the

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mainstream music and then gave the opportunity
to people like Green Day in Blink one

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eighty two. Yeah, so to
kind of push that genre and make it

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more like modernized with the whole pop
punk, we're we're hoping to be the

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next step in punks nice and I
dig that because we need that to continue,

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because I think all the topics we've
talked about in punk are way worse

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now. It's like it didn't get
better, it got worse, and there's

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more to talk about. So the
voice needs to be there, and punk

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has always been the only genre that
end is free to speak their mind like

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and just say whatever they want.
That's truth when it comes like we've heard

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from a lot of I don't remember, I can't tell you who it was,

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but we've heard from a lot of
people where it's like like I'm glad

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that I'm seeing you guys do this
because you guys are keeping it alive.

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You know, no, no,
because as great as DK is, they're

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not going to keep it alive in
twenty twenty three. You know, bro,

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the dead kids are dead. Exactly, no Jello, no Dead Kennedy's.

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And that's not like a hate thing. I mean, it's just like,

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I know, very few kids are
age who are like bumping Dead Kennedy's,

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you feel, Yeah, I agree. I think the only one that's

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really stood the test of time in
that way is the Misfits because they're just

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some fucking phenomenon. They're just a
phenomenon, you know. But even then,

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you don't you don't see a younger
demographic listening to Misfits at all.

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It's it's all people like there's there's
a lot of people who aren't, you

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know, like what people would consider
true pop punk musicians, like people you

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know, like Machine Gun Kelly.
Like Machine Gun Kelly got booted off this

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stage right here. I was here
for that, and I'm gonna say it

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right now here to bring the respect
back to pop punk, you know what

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I mean. And I'm gonna say
right now, I love what you're saying

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because I was one of those people
that wind them off the stage because it

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was like, you don't, yeah, he was talking shit about Corey Taylor,

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like first he mess with M and
M. And that's why I came

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over here, not because he was
a real rocker or a real punker,

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and then he talked shit about Corey
Taylor because they're playing at the same time,

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and I guess he couldn't handle that. Slipknot had a bigger, bigger

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crowd than he did. So you
know, that's not punk. What's punk

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is I don't give a fuck what
they're doing. We're just gonna play,

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you know, that's it. That's
it. I love it because that's a

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misconception too. Everybody thinks like punk
and metals about hate and anger and this

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and that. No, it's a
healthy way to get out your aggression,

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so you're loving on people instead of
hating on them. Right, So how

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do people connect to you guys on
socials, on the web, by your

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merch all that good stuff are We're
mainly active on Instagram, so it's hexam

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Music, h x LA Music altogether
all caps, and then that's our main

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platform right now. You can find
us there. You can find updates about

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certain things like more exclusive things at
hexla dot com or it's hexel music dot

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com, same as is the instagramer
dot com. Get on that brother,

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get on it nice. That's where
our updates happened. What else you want

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the listeners to know that we haven't
covered already. We are going to absolutely

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rock that stage today. Hey,
yeah, if you're at this festival somehow

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and you're listening to this, I
promise you come to Roadhound stage at two

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thirty will not be a waste of
your time. We're gonna fucking kill it.

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This is not one and done.
Nice here to say he is here

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to stay, We'll be back.
Well, I can say with one hundred

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percent fact that talking to you guys
and from being from the real punk scene

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that I am you're the real fucking
deal, and I'm glad you're here at

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Lward and Life. You are gonna
kick ass Dean. But everybody on the

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radio here knows me as pipe Man
mayn't know that. Yeah, I was

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always my lad. Well, you
know, it's funny everybody as he's like,

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you know, ideas, just like
they do with band names. And

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I've had bands sing about that,
you know, but really my last names

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Piper, and it just somebody called
me pipe Man way back when there you

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go. I like it. You
know what you guys can do. Since

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since your creative young punks, other
bands have liked right on the spot in

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the interview, sang a song like, wrote a song about pipe Man.

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Can you do that? We need
our guitars, bro, we gotta grab

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really quick. What was it?
What was it? What did you talk

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about? What pipe man? World? Only one more step away from pipe

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Man? Like I've always said,
get this through your head, pipe Man.

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All right, we're we're guys.
Were done. Yeah, that was

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pretty good though. Actually that was
pretty good on the spots say there you

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go. That that is one of
the better ones. And now now that's

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yeah, that song's dedicated to me. Now give us some pipe there you

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go. All right, man,
thanks for being here at Larder in life,

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and thanks for being here on the
Adventures pipe Man. Thank you,

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we're at and you're listening to the
Man on radio. Thank you for listening

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to the Adventures of Pate Man on
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