Oct. 1, 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Islander at Louder Than Life 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Islander at Louder Than Life 2025

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PipemanRadio Interviews Islander at Louder Than Life 2025

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Louder Than Life 2025 Wrapped Up 8 Electrifying Days Of Music Performances In Louisville, With America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival (Sept 18-21) & Bourbon & Beyond A Week Prior (Sept 11-14) Bringing In A Combined, Record-Breaking Attendance Of Over 450,000 Fans  

Louder Than Life Returns September 17-20, 2026 First Headliner Revealed: My Chemical Romance Plus Many More Acts To Be Announced Early Bird Tickets Will Go On Sale This Fall At  LouderThanLifeFestival.com

Louder Than Life not only continues its reputation as America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival with the 2025 edition, but the 11th year of the event also marked the biggest festival in the history of DWP, and breaking rock festival records in North America. There were a number of once-in-a-lifetime moments over the course of the four days that added to the specialness of Louder Than Life.

In addition to music performances, this year’s edition of Louder Than Life featured various partner onsite activations, award-winning beverages and delectable eats from partners including Acathla Clothing, Al Capone, Angel's Envy, Basil Hayden, Beatbox Beverages, Black Shades, Blackcraft Cult, Bud Light, Cutwater Spirits, Demons Behind Me, Dimebag Hardware, Drew Estate, Eargasm, Elijah Craig, Fxck Cancer, Huber's Starlight Distillery, Jack Daniel's, Jim Beam, Knob Creek & Rye, KREWE, Kroger, Maker's Mark, Middle West Spirits, Milagro Tequila, Old Forester, Park Community Credit Union,  Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, Parlor Root Beer, Red Bull, Strüng, Take Me Home, The Music Experience, The Taylor Foundation, Tito's Handmade Vodka, To Write Love on Her Arms, U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, White Claw, and Willett Distillery.   According to Louisville Tourism, it is estimated that Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life together generated nearly $43 million in local economic impact in 2025. The back-to-back festivals also drove some of the highest hotel demand of the year, with overall occupancy reaching more than 80% citywide. These preliminary estimates highlight the tremendous tourism and economic value of the festivals, which bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to Louisville and fuel spending across hotels, restaurants, bourbon attractions, and local businesses.

Louder Than Life is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.  

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Hey, you Lunt's sure four see ww crazy young.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures of

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Pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here

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with Islander.

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Islander nice. I like how you did that? Can you

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like do it like a song like that?

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Right right now?

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Yeah, right now? Make up a song.

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Thank you Danny Wemmer for having us.

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We should do it every year at every festival, festival

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every day. I heard I heard the next announcement at

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an announcement at five. The next announcement is that Danny

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Wimmer is gonna come out and say that Islander is

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gonna play every Danny Wimmer festival for the next ten years.

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That's what we've heard. We've heard that and we're totally

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down with it. If that's what he wants it, we're

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all good with him.

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How about if we just have a festival where you

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just you're the band that plays all day long, like

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you just have different sets.

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I have to work out a little bit. We were

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just discussing that. I was like, I gotta get in

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shape first, right like a jam band, though, like we're

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not a jam band, Like we'd have to scream all day.

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Like I couldn't do it.

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Yeah, you could jam the scream, yet that would be

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tough to scream all day. I don't even know how

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you do it. Like I used sing thresh meadow, and

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now I did it wrong. There was no technique way

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back when. So now I can't even get through a

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song because and then my voice is gone.

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You always tell people if your throat is hurting after

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you get done playing, you're doing something wrong.

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Exactly like I am always in awe of you guys

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that you can do like a whole set singing like that,

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because it's true. Like, yes, it's I did it wrong

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for a long time and it didn't work. Somebody shad

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told me that. Well too late now, right, But you guys, no,

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it's I have this idea now though, Like so what

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I'm gonna do is I gonna start banned. I'm gonna

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wear masks because it's the popular thing now, and it's

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gonna be a mask of a teenager, so that maybe

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it will be me as a teenager. And then like

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as I start to trend and get big that I'm

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getting on stage, like kiss, I'll rip off the mask.

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I'll be like a fuckers, I'm fifty eight. That's pretty funny, right,

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it is a little crapy. That's why i'ven't done it. Guys.

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See there you go, Iria fans.

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If I see somebody start doing that, I'm gonna be like,

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I think that's him.

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And I could even wear my eighties battlefest from when

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I was that that I curate. Yes, So when I

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walked in, I saw that. I see that's cool. I

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love that.

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This is so like, forget the pre made ones. Man,

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I put all my blood in sweat and literally blood

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and sweat. There's blood on there. Venom wowe Right, if

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you loved I've never had, you could be the first

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ann bro.

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Yeah.

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So what happened is it's been in my closet for

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years and I decided last year, you know what, this

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is perfect for interviews because like a lot of bands

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geek out on this and like that. In June, I

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was interviewing Gene Hoagland and so I pulled it out

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and Dark Angel has a new album and they're on tour,

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so I was like, do you recognize that logo the

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hen and then Exodus one of the other bands, said wow,

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that's their original logo, Like they played here at lar

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in Life and that's not their logo anymore.

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Slayers didn't even have a patch yet.

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So I did that and I was in LA and

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people were like, we're thinking I was a gang banger

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and that was my gang name.

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Oh my gosh wow.

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And then like Winston of Parkway Drive, he was geeking

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out the whole thing, the whole interview, and basically he's

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like that Metalica. When did Metallica have a logo like that?

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So I have a trivia question for you. Then, okay,

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what is that logo from? Oh no, no, it's something

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very specific, the Devil. Yes, it's a very specific reason

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for that logo on a Mentallica patch. I'll give you

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a hint. It's a song. It's a song on kill

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them All.

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Don't make us look bad? Bro.

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I think I already did. I think I already did

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Jump in the Fire. That's a jump in the Fire logo.

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I've never seen that before.

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Yeah, see most haven't. It's because I'm fucking old. I

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was at their first show ever, in Slayers, first show ever?

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Are you serious?

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Yeah? Total?

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The craziest thing that ever happened to you while you

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were wearing.

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This, I'll tell you flip it over okay, okay, and

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so on this side over here there's blood because I

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was at Okay. So this is one of those great

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moments that you tell your kids' stories. They think you're

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exaggerating and you're full of shit, and then you get proof.

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Okay, so you didn't sacrifice somebody. No, Okay.

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That was another time. I wasn't wearing the vest. And

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so what I did was I was at a Savage

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Grace show. They were a thrashband in the eighties that

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they haven't been around till a couple of years ago.

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They put on a new album, like the first one

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in like thirty years. So I climbed up on their

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marshall stack. I got up on stage, climbed up on

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the marshall stack as security was chasing me, and I

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did the swan. And as I was midair, the crowd

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spread out and not to form a mash pit, and

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I was like, oh foh, and I went te first

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into the floor and then my friend did pick up

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my teeth and put him on ice.

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And this other girl we were with, she came out.

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She was all so thirsty and she grabbed a cup

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and she started to drink, and he's like, no, those.

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Are Dean's teeth.

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Did she swallow them?

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Now?

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She didn't drink him, thank god. And it's the first

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time I didn't want her to swallow.

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Yeah, yeah, I had.

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I wasn't gonna go there, but I was more concerned

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of how So I'll give you an example my dog.

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I have a Chihuahua, and he used to do this

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thing where he would grab our remote control for the TV.

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And one time he finally got one of the buttons

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out and he swallowed it. Well, I needed the button back,

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so I waited till he pooped. I got it, I

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cleaned it off, and then it did it again. And

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then I got it back, and I did it again.

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I cleaned it all, and I just kept thinking, well,

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that thing went all the way through him is kind

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of gross. I gotta push the button. I make sure

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to clean it really good. I'm not just like squishing

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dog poop every time I look at the TV.

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Here's why I gotta say, like, it happened once, maybe twice.

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You didn't think it got read of a button so

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the dog couldn't do that.

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Well, he's crazy. He's calmed down a little bit since then.

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We have a new TV that has a different remote,

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so we're good.

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Now, Okay, there you go.

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Yes, I have an actual baby. Now, oh wife had

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a baby. Rat We had the baby, but she did

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the pushing and I was there.

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Right, you couldn't tribute it because there's no woman on

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earth that's gonna say you both had the baby. So

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you have to say you couldn't tribute it.

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Well, I just I contributed, and I've like, dude, it's

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so awesome. I've been so excited being a daddy, Like

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it's I can't wait to bring him on the road,

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That's all I gotta say.

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I love that because that's what's cool about today's music. Yeah,

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it's like all these bands are bringing their kids on

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the road and we're getting new generations of music lovers

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that didn't happen way back when my dad would have

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never taken me to a Slayer show.

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Are you freaking getting me? Yeah? So it's kind of

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cool nowadays. Like I've put my son and three.

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Of my grandsons into their first mashpit ever, that's a

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proud moment, man like, and how cool is their granddad

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that they're bringing him to a metal show?

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The day that I see my little boy do a

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flip off the stage into the crowd. I'm gonna be

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really happy.

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Dude, as long as he doesn't knock out his teeth.

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As long as he doesn't knock out his tea, because

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that's not fust.

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I'm here to tell you it's not fun. It's not fun.

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And look at this. Somebody asked today what band is that.

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I'm like, it's not band that says no posers.

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Oh dude, I haven't heard the word poser in forever.

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Right, that's how dated that is, dude, that's so sick.

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So if you look at.

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All the bands I drew on there and I did

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dry draw those, which one would you want to go

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on tour with?

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Well, I'm just gonna go and say Metallica of it,

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because does it get any bigger? Catering at Metallica tour

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would have to be crazy. Also, like, I don't know,

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it's Metallica. You have to go on tour Metallica, Mantis?

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Let me see. Oh that's a new one. That's a

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new one.

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That was a bloodstock I think, oh yeah, those are

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three members of what band was that?

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I don't even know. I'm like they wanted to be

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on there, so I'm like, oh, ahead, draw it on there.

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We would, Yeah, we would. We played with them, I know,

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Mike Mirror, I would tour with Slayer. Yeah, that would

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be sick. We'd have to pull out every single heavy

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song we have, but we can do it.

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One Mike Mirror story.

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Yeah, okay. So I've interviewed him a few times. But

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one time, several years ago, we were on the tour bus.

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We're in an interview. In the middle of the interview,

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he gets a texta message, gets up and walks off

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the bus and just leaves me there. Nobody saw him.

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Nobody saw him til showtime. Now, as funny as that sounds,

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the reason he did that was not funny. He got

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the text that Jeff Hanneman died during that interview.

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Oh Man Wild Like, oh my god.

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And yeah, so I went to the first crossover show

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ever where punks and metal heads could be in the

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same room, and it was suicidal on the punk side

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before they were crossover, you know, in coc pre Pepper.

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Yeah, and.

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I haven't there one that I haven't seen because back

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in the day, I couldn't go to punk shows because

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I was a long hair and you got your ass

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beat if you're saying, so, I've seen a lot of

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my favorite punk bands now, like like Misfits, like the Exploited,

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like GBH, like Discharge. None of them was I able

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to see back then. Mes Fitz maybe, but and d R.

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I love. There's a reason I can go to shows.

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What's your take on, like how divided things were back then? Though?

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Like do you look back at that?

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Was it like a were people wasting their time?

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I think it was stupid. I don't tell you why.

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I think it's stupid, Okay, because first of all, we

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all liked both metal punk, so why could we not

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go to each other shows? And then it's so stupid

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that I went and got my spikes at Displaced Posers

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on Melrose.

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But it was a punk place.

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So I brought my two punk friends who were friends

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with the owners, and we walk in and like literally

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a minute later, my friends come up to me and

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they're like, we gotta leave. I'm like why, and they're like,

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we'll tell you outside. We need to leave now.

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Wow.

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And apparently what happened was is the owners walked up

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to them like we're giving you a curzy because you're

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friends of ours. Get the fucking long hair out of here,

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or we're gonna kick it. We're gonna kick his ass.

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Now that's stupid. I was gonna spend money in your store.

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More on.

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But but what's worse is we were small groups, not

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like now. You wouldn't have a festival like this. Like

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I went to a festival like this in the eighties

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called the US Festival.

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Heavy Metal Day.

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The headliner was Van Hallen Triumph played like that's not

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heavy metal Day. But here's the thing is that we

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were small groups similar music. The jocks were bullying both

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of our groups. Why didn't we band together and kick

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the shit out of them instead of each other?

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Like?

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What the hell was wrong with us? What's wrong with

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the gatekeeping?

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I believe a as a fan, I should like whatever

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music I want and if I like something else, that's cool.

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And you as the artist should be able to play

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whatever music you.

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Want and not being you can only play micro death metal, hardcore,

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post punk.

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Rock.

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I think something cool about now at the times, you know,

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we've had all that music bleed over into each other,

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so you know, whether it be the thrash, hip hop, punk,

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like everything's kind of it's all rock and roll, exactly.

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That's why I love.

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We could go out there in that festival and everybody

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is an outsider in the outside world, and everybody's an

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insider here, and that's what I love. I love that

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I could be at a festival like this, go to

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a metal band, go to a hip hop band, go

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to a pop punk band.

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Go to a hardcore band, all in one day. Yeah,

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Like that's the way it should be.

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We're all just out here trying to have some fun

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when everybody enjoy what they enjoy.

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So exactly tell us about what you feel your music

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contributes to that, to where you're melding us all together.

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For us, we actually we kind of look at it

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like club members. That's kind of what we've been calling

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it lately. It's like the idea of this whole heavy

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hearts thing that people have, Like I see so much

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pain in the world. I see so much that everybody's

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going through, and we just want to be an outlet

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for people to know. Look, man, I don't care what

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you believe. I still love you, and I think that's

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what the world needs right now. Told me we're because

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we're seeing everybody. Everybody's seeing the news, everybody's getting canceled

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and shot and this and that, and it's like, dude,

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like once that conversation stops, that's when the violence starts.

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We want the conversation to continue. Everybody get to share

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their peace and let's hear each other out and like

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where's your heart? Like where's your heart this week? What

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happened this week that was good or bad? We want

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to celebrate or morn with you.

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I love that, Yeah, because that's what it's all about. Man.

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Music is the best therapy there is for you, the artists,

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for me, the listener, and you know what, let's just

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all be in therapy together.

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In fact, I have a solution to the world's problems.

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You want to hear my solution.

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What's your solution?

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One major music festival where the whole world that's required

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to attend, Okay, and we'll work it all out in

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the pit, man, and then we could all just love

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each other.

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The whole world is an obligation.

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Yeah, you all have to at test, like you're all

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required to attend, and then you're all we can all

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just work it up.

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We can all just work it out.

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I feel so bad for like there'd be like the

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one band though that nobody went and saw and they're like, dude,

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the whole world's here and nobody set my set still

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right like until bad.

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Let's hope it's not islander.

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Dude.

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That would never happen though, because you guys are too

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fricking cool and your music's too great, thank you, and

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more importantly, your message is too great.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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We just want to be an outlet, man. We just

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want to We want kids to come and know that

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they can cry or laugh or whatever it is that

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they've been going through that somebody's listening to them and

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sees them and sometimes just feeling seen. That's enough, Like

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just knowing, like, man, somebody paid attention to me and

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listened to what I had to say, and that's enough

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to keep you from ending it.

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Yeah, so right, both of you probably different answer. What's

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your favorite thing that a fan said to you?

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Mine, anytime somebody told us that our music helped them

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get through a moment of feeling suicidal, that's the.

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World.

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That's the highest point for me, just knowing that they

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decided to stick around because not because of us, but

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there was an inspiration and they saw somebody else that

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was like, you know what, keep going keep waking up.

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So that's for me, like mine has to be the same.

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Like that that's the biggest Like it's not a compliment

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or whatever you want to call it. It's happened several

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times where people it seems like it's always some song

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where like they go, I never where I knew that

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song existed, or I listened to it and then all

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of a sudden it came up on a playlist or

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I went back and I started digging through your catalog

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like that one song. So like I listen to it

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and they're just like there's so much there and they're

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like I was feeling this way or whatever the or

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like or they'll say, you don't understand like all the

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stuff that I've been going through, and then like it

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connected and I'm like, I don't know, Like I don't

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know what else tops that.

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Really there really isn't anything.

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Yeah, And that's why too that the people out there

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today that are saying music artists just stick to music

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and stop using as a pulpit, they don't understand music

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at all.

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We grew up going to a lot of hardcore shows,

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and hardcore was always supposed to be about getting up

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and sharing whatever it was that was on your heart,

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and it didn't have to necessarily be something that you

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agreed with or whatever, but the fact that we all

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had that we could listen to one another and say like, well,

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where are you coming from? I want to hear where

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you're coming from, and then I hope you give me

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the same respect. We need the scene culture as far

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as like the music scene, all these different bands here

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that believe different things, all coming together for this one

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cause to give everybody an outlet. Hopefully that's what everybody's

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here for. To give everybody an outlet to let loose

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a little bit, maybe get some emotions out that are

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negative in a positive way.

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Yeah.

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I just think that maybe if that can bleed over

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into the real world a little bit, so to speak.

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No doubt, Yeah, not even a little bit. Yeah, like

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a flowing river after a hurricane. Yes, that's what we need, man,

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because man, we just all need to love each other.

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We don't need to be divide on sides. We don't

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need to be like it's just ridiculous what the powers

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of b are doing to make us all angry at

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each other, attacking.

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We were just talking earlier about everything that happened with

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Charlie Kirk and now the whole Jimmy Kimmel thing, and

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we're like, it's like people start using a death or

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whatever for their own agendas and we're like, I'm not

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on either side here. I'm on the human side, right.

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I want us to listen to one another and come together.

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Like it's like everybody starts picking sides. It's like, dude, like, I.

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Hate it, I hate it. I'm gonna leave. So I

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hate sides. I look at both sides.

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I look at both of everything, and I think that's

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the only way you really become a full fledged human

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being is knowing both sides and understanding people that have

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opposing viewpoints why they think that way, instead of just

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judging and attacking them.

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Yeah, maybe understand why. Maybe they have a good reason

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for it. Who knows. Maybe something happened to them that

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you don't know about. Who knows.

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It's kind of like this is maybe a bad analogy.

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I hope not. I just like, you go adopt a

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dog and the dog maybe seems like really angry, and

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everybody's like that dog's crazy and mean, It's like, what

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happened to that dog?

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Yeah?

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Does he need somebody to show him some love a

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little bit and kind of find out what was going

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on in the dog's heart what like right, genuinely like

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maybe they were abused, That's maybe why they're angry.

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They're just It's a perfect analogy.

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I'll tell you a story that happened to me is

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I'm a Jew and I was forced to be in

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an enclosed room.

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Working with a neo Nazi.

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Oh wow.

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And I have this believe that violence just breeds more light.

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Violence hate breeds more hate. If you hate your haters,

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they're not gonna like you any better. I decide with

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this kid, I'm like, you know what, let me find out.

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Why he hates me so much.

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And what I found out is he was just misinformed

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by a small, sheltered group he was in. And I

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proved to him that I wasn't what they were saying

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because I didn't hate on him or hate him because

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of who he was, and because I actually listened to him.

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And at the end of that conversation we ended up

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becoming friends and he changed his viewpoint.

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That's what the world needs to know.

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I agree, because at the end of the day, if

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we just treat people the way we want to be

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treated isn't that the goal here? Like hopefully, I don't know.

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I think that is the goal. There's only one other goal.

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They have to go to an islander show.

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Yes, got to get an island show and listen to.

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Islanders music, because that is the goal. Because you guys

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are badass.

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Thank you.

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Do you have anything else you want to share that

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you have coming out or new coming up that we

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haven't covered already?

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We have a new record coming out next year. We

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don't know like a release date, but we're super stoked

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on it. We can't wait for everybody to hear it.

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I'm super stoked. I can't wait. You're gonna have to

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let me know right away.

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Yeah, it's the worst thing having to like like when

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you when you track an album and we have to

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sit on these songs, right and we have to get

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a game plan and a marketing plan and just a

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release date all those things and how we're going to

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release it. It's hard. It's really difficult because you're sitting

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with these songs. You can't you just can't show it

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to everyone, right. You're like, I want to just put

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it out. I want to go play the songs, and

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but we have some time because of the baby, my nephew.

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But so we have the next few months to focus

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on that, and we're getting together as we speak, like

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we've been getting a game plan for twenty twenty six.

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But we're putting tours together, We are putting release dates.

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How we want to release the album. We don't really

459
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we don't know what it's called yet. We might know

460
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what it's called, but that's where we're at. But we finished,

461
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we've mixed and mastered, so songs.

462
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Are ready to go. So we're really excited about it.

463
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It's just more of a mismatch mixed, you know, like

464
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a whole bunch of a bunch of islander. Yeah, like

465
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we're always we're all over the place, right, It's punk metal.

466
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I love that, give hip hop, heavy big choruses. Yeah,

467
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so it's but anyway, but yeah, so that's what's next.

468
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I love that about you.

469
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And tell everybody how they can connect to you and

470
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subscribe to you so they can find out when that

471
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new album comes out, and also so they can buy

472
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your merch because they can't listen to my show.

473
00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:43.680
And let's say buy your merch.

474
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Oh that's awesome. You can find us on all the socials, TikTok, Instagram,

475
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Instagram is just islander. If you type an islander on

476
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any of the stuff, it'll pop up. So anything that's

477
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got a little scorpion logo or you see some dudes

478
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like us on it with some face pain and dreads. Yes,

479
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so yeah it is. I love it.

480
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And since we're doing this over here, let's show.

481
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That Yes is the most recent. It's Grammy nominated.

482
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The I love it.

483
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Yeah, it's a great album. It's got songs on it

484
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you see like albums, dude, and then I hear this

485
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has a feature a Christian from the band blind Side.

486
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It's one of our favorite bands. And yeah, he jumped

487
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on the track with us. So yeah, everybody go check

488
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this out. We love it.

489
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I even love that you have Spanish on there.

490
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Oh yeah, yeah we're Dominican.

491
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Yeah, so I love that you included that.

492
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Yeah, that's our culture. I do, now you do.

493
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I love it. Thank you.

494
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This is the best interview of all of Louder than

495
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Life because it's the best freaking band. Forget Slayer, go

496
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to Islander, don't forget them, but you know, love it.

497
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You guys rock. Thanks for being here at Louder than Life.

498
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And thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

499
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Thank you for having us

500
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Bro, Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin

501
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on w for CUI Radio,