PipemanRadio Interviews Katie Overbey at Punk Rock Bowling XXIV

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And I'm here with My name is Katie

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overbe nice and you just played punk
rock bowling. I did. I did.

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I'm very very lucky, you know. I gotta tell you you are

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very lucky because I do festivals all
over the world. This is one of

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my favorite ones to do because it's
so different than the rest of them.

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It's a really rad festival. I
think it's definitely my favorite. I mean

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it doesn't it helps that I live
about two blocks away, but yeah,

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that does. But it is rad
because what other festival out there has a

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you know, festival stages and all
these you know club shows and the bowling

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and just taking over all of Freemont's. Yes, but I love how accessible

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it is too, Like especially with
the club shows, Like if you can't

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get a ticket to the main thing, like you're you're still able to go

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see music. Yeah, it doesn't
it doesn't matter. That's great. I

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love that. Yeah, totally.
So one question I ask artists when we're

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in weather like this, how the
hell do you do it? I don't

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know. I mean, like,
it's so hot, we have a hard

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time standing out. Yeah, much
less it's I think it's less bad when

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you first go on stage, just
because it is covered and it's air conditioned

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in the back before you go on. But I was I was wearing a

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full suit when I walked up,
and I was not wearing a full suit

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by the time I got off.
So yeah, that's the way it happens.

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Well, a little brutal. I
looked up at people sometimes I'm like,

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yeah, I get you want your
luck, but man, that has

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to suck. Yeah, it's it
sucks for a minute. Somebody I've interviewed

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a couple of times I'm friendly with, Uh, I've said the exact words

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to her because she wears this long
leather trench. It's tailor mumpson, you

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know. Yeah yeah yeah. So
I'm like, how the hell are you

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wearing that? And I did that
off off the mike. I'm like,

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the hell is wrong with you?
Hell? Are you wearing that and not

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passing out. Yeah, I saw
her like a week ago when she opened

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for The Stones, and yeah,
respect and like think about that too.

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Okay, that I know is a
lifelong dream of hers. And here's somebody

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that already made her way in the
world and that was something. So for

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you, what would be that dream
tour? Oh, honestly, I don't

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know. I mean, this is
pretty close to it. I gotta be

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honest. This is incredible. This
is like one of the best experiences I

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could ever dream of having. My
favorite band of all time is probably the

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britpop band Pulp, which is definitely
astray from this, but I think either

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opening for them or playing with them
because I'm a violinist too, and they

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have a lot of violin guitar vote
parts, and I think just playing with

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them or opening for them would be
a dream. I love violin getting so

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much credit. Yeah, and whether
it be rock metal punk because you had

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never thought that way back when,
and it's like you take somebody like Lindsey

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Sterling and it's like, yeah,
she's great, Oh my god, Like

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there's she's a deafen rocker one hundred
percent. So running my violin through a

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distortion pedal is one of my favorite
things to do. It's so fun.

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Is there a cover song and that
originally when you were playing the violin that

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was like a punk song that you
did that you would want to tell us

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about. I started playing violin when
I was eight years old, and I

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cannot say that I was that cool
at eight years old. I wish that

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I could. When did you become
that cool? When did I become that

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cool? Well? Probably fourteen,
fourteen or fifteen, that makes sense,

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though, I'm gonna be so real. I think the first punk song I

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ever learned on violin was Time of
your Life by Green Day, just because

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it already had a solo, and
uh, I don't know, it felt

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easy then, so I learned it. And so what what brought you to

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punk? Combo of things? I
started off as much more of a folk

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artist. I mean, I still
do a lot of folk writing, and

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that's kind of you can kind of
tell in my playing that I definitely a

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folk lyricist and I write a lot
of folke melodies. But punk, I've

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just my parents are both really into
it. I mean, my mom raised

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me on a lot of post punk. So like Susie and the band,

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she's the chameleons, you know all
that. And then my dad is more

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in the adolescents tso wel agent Organs? Oh so he shirt? Yes,

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yes, yeah, so just both
of them. I mean it just eventually

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trickled down. And then when I
moved here, I started playing more like

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rock and punk and all that,
and then uh, a lot of my

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friends were really into it, and
it just kind of happened. It was

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just like, all right, you
know what, let's play punk. Nice.

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Yeah, and uh, you're dad. If he sees me tomorrow,

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he'll like that too, because he'll
probably be wearing a Germ shirt tomorrow.

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Oh he Oh my gosh. He
was a Yeah he was their agent for

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a second. Yeah, really,
yes, we're we love the Germs.

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Well, it has to be the
se a second because Darby was around first.

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It was post Darby. Yes,
yeah, my dad's actually in the

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Germs movie really like two seconds.
That's pretty cool. It is pretty cool.

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I have a very cool dad.
I'm very lucky. I have a

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lot of those experiences too, Like
I was in I lived on this.

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We're trading. We're talking stories about
you, dad as we are, so

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I'm talking about the Germs. I
was saying your dad. Oh, also

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like my shirt I'm wearing tomorrow,
which is the Germs, And uh,

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we're gonna we're trading stories that you
have cool stories, I have cool stories,

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you know, and uh now she's
gonna have some really cool stories.

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Yeah, what's your coolest story so
far being a musician? This? This

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is my coolest story as a musician
in general. I don't know, there's

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so many. I've gotten very very
lucky for it's for an eighteen year old,

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for a recently eighteen year old.
I've gotten to do a lot of

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living, and I've gotten to do
a lot of cool living and I do

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my Oh yeah, okay, that's
probably it. Alice Cooper gave me my

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first chocolate choke cookie. Now that's
probably my coolestory. That's pretty cool.

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Yeah, that's about a really really
cool story. Yeah, I had said,

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of every artist over three thousand interviews, that's probably the top one.

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Really. Oh yeah, because all
the other ones are like these crazy stories

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and they're cool. But Alice Cooper
first chocolate chip cookie. I mean,

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come on, I think you can't
really top that. Yeah you can't.

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Yeah, And uh so what's gonna
go on after? How are you going

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to top punk rock bowling. Now, what's going on after this? The

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future is wide open. I am
moving to Denver in August to go to

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college, so I don't really know
what's happening from there. We'll see what

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happens. I'm very happy here,
all right. Yeah, I think we

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are doing an EP, so we're
definitely gonna get that out and then.

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But besides, in terms of actual
performing, I don't I don't know.

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I'm gonna focus on school for a
little bit. We'll see what happens.

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I'm very happy to hear that,
because you know, it's it's interesting so

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many of the big punk bands went
to college. You know. It's like

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you take Dexter from the Offspring,
he paused the Offspring to go to college.

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Yeah, and then you got Milo
Milo. And I mean, like

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there's so many numerous ones like a
name like I'm a metal head and a

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punk. The punks a lot of
times are the better interviews because they're so

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highly educated and it's like such an
interesting, like conversation of intellectual stuff.

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And what I love about it is
people have this image of punks, and

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that kills that image because that's not
really what punk is. What people think,

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you know, definitely, it's it's
definitely, you know, I think

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people need to understand that. And
it's more than just a music. It's

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an attitude, it's a way of
life. It's it's a community, it's

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a family, and it's like you're
a punk rock bowling. Yeah, there

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are no outcasts exactly. It's wonderful. I think that's my favorite thing about

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writing punk too, is that I
mean, as somebody that comes from a

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folk background, as somebody that loves
to tell stories through music, it definitely

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it maintains that. It's like you
get to have that energy and you get

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to have you know, the electric
behind it, but it's still you still

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get to you know, you get
to be articulate and you have to have

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your stories. And that's my favorite
thing, totally totally. So how do

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people reach out to you on socials
on the web, you know, get

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your merch all that good stuff.
Merch does not exist yet. We gotta

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get that. Hey, hey,
if it's wanted. My Instagram is Katie

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overb Music k A T I E
O V E R B E y Yes

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music. That's my TikTok too.
Uh, that's all I got right now.

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Once the EP comes out, my
Spotify will be Katie overb and the

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backlash And and how do you feel
about TikTok for artists nowadays? I think

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that at this point in society,
it's kind of necessary. But I don't

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like that it's become necessary. See
that that's a pretty like it's almost like

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a combination of your generation's explanation and
mine gen X's explanation, because it's like

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I'm on TikTok. Do I want
to be on TikTok? No? No,

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But I realize I have to be
on TikTok, And you know,

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it's like so many bands have gotten
so many great opportunities on TikTok. Yeah,

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which is great for those that do. But I mean as somebody who's

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I'm not very social media savvy for
an eighteen year old, and yeah,

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it's kind of strange, and like
I feel like there's a lot of pressure

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to be good at social media and
for me, it's like I don't naturally

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go to that, and so that's
definitely an added level of stress, like

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having to keep that up and do
the whole music thing. I'm glad you

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brought that up because it is true, like I've managed a couple of artists

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where you know, I'll bring the
artists to so many records because I have

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a connection ere and they're like not
a social Yeah, what's their socials?

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They don't give a shit about the
music they want. What's the socials?

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I don't. Yeah, I do
not that I don't back it at all.

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I also one of the things I
don't like. I love that gives

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great opportunities to artists on TikTok,
but I also don't like, on the

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other hand, that all they have
to do is make tiktoks and get famous.

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Yep. You know because as you, as a musician probably agree with

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me, is like the art of
being a musician is getting lost in ticket.

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Yes, one hundred percent. There's
a lot of work that goes into

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it, and I think that through
TikTok. I mean, there's a lot

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of people that do work that get
big through TikTok and that's wonderful and it's

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great and I'm thrilled for them.
But at the same time, yes,

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there is a lot of I think
the artistry behind it that's not quite captured.

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Yeah, and you know what,
I think You'll be okay because Vine

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was the TikTok a few years back, and that's not their anymore. And

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I wasted my time. Okay.
I think I was about seven when that

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came out, so I wasn't allowed
to be honest. Yeah. So see

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like maybe a few years from now, TikTok will be gone and you'll still

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be a musician. Yeah yeah,
true. Hopefully yeah, well definitely on

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the music. Uh there it is, hopefully on the TikTok. Is there

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anything else you want to share with
the listeners that we haven't talked about that

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you got going on or you want
them to know, think so, just

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be on the lookout for the album. I had a wonderful weekend. I'm

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super grateful. Thank you to punk
Rock Bowlling for having me. Thank you

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for having me for this interview.
This is awesome, Oh my pleasure.

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Thank you for being here at punk
Rock Boy, and thanks for being on

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the Adventures of pipe Man. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you

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