PipemanRadio Interviews Letdown. at Aftershock 2023

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This is the pipe Man here on the

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That's me nice. You're an aftershot. I am. Are you shocked

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that was so freaking hot? At
am shocked after I got off stack?

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I no, I'm shocked. It
was hot as hell, terribly. I

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was saying it before you. I
don't even know how you are do it

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sometimes, Like I mean, it's
just you put everything you have out and

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you can't even realize that it's hot
while you're up there because you just got

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we you don't think about it at
first. Yeah, three songs and you're

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like, holy crap, right,
this is terrible. I took my mic

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stand halfway through the set and moved
it back by the drum isser ands and

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I'm standing in the fucking shade,
dude. And you know what, when

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you perform at night too with lights, aren't as lights hot as fuck.

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We're transitioning out of hot lights,
and now everything's led so the lights aren't

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hot anymore. Because I remember years
ago, well I remember way back.

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Do you remember Wehndo Williams. No, okay, So she was this punk

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icon from the Plasmatics and she dated
Lemmy. Oh yeah, I gotcha.

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And she had like this seventeen inch
high mohawk, but she had she's put

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shaving cream on her breasts and during
the gig the lights would melt it off.

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She would be like Jim Morrison.
She'd get arrested at every fricking gig

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of that. That's awesome, right, respect, So she couldn't do that

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nowadays. I mean, there'd be
perfectly cool whip cream up there, I

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know, right, So tell her
listeners a little bit about you as an

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artist. I've never heard you before, and not the way like some people

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would box you into a genre.
I'd like to hear what the artist conserves

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her creativity to be. So,
I mean, letdown is just that it's

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a The name is self explanatory.
I just have never felt like I really

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belonged to her, that I haven't
really did write by anyone or anyone ever

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did right by me. I've kind
of always just felt that way. The

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music I write is an expression of
that. I just don't want other people

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who grew up the way I did
to feel like alone. So's it's more

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of a come together, like we
got this. I love that because I

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can relate to that. My family
will tell you, like one of my

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songs, not because it's my favorite
song, just because it just fits me

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is somewhere I belong because it's like
I don't really feel like there's a place

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I belong, and I belong to
many places, you know, It's not

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just one, you know, and
it's like here, I'm missing this,

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there I'm missing that, and it's
never that one place, right, So

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yeah, I agree. I felt
that way with my whole life. So

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you see when you're saying, I'm
like, man, I know exactly what

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you're thinking. Not everybody understands that. I think it's more common than most

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people think. I think, especially
now like the world's fucked well. I

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think people talk about it more now, like cause like when I was younger,

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you didn't talk about that shit.
No, hell no, you know,

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when I was a kid, we
didn't talk about that shit. So

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I had recently one of my my
best friend since like thirteen he passed away,

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and my kids like I'm the typed. I was like, you know,

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here, here's what's going on.
I don't want to talk about it

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anymore, right, And they keep
trying to get me to talk about it,

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right, because that's how it is
nowadays, and my brain how it

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works is I got brought up in
time where it's like, no, you

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don't talk about it, you don't
get upset, you don't get emotion,

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move on. Yep, exactly,
those days are gone. You know what

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I found out after fifty six years
on this earth, what's that? That

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was a fucking stupid idea. I
agree, And the most important thing you

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can do is be honest with yourself
about it too, totally, because you

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know it did work for a while, but then it catches up to you.

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I think that's the thing is,
because you do that, then it

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catches up to you and you just
fucking go haywire. And I think that's

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why there's so many people like what
we've seen in the industry, where they

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get to this stage of life and
then they take their life and it's like

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you would think, well, you
just repression, you let it build m

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that's it goes for anything in life. Yeah, literally every avenue you can

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think of in life. If you'd
let the tiny things build, it's gonna

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be a real big thing later.
So that's why I thank you as an

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artist, because not everybody can express
it, you know, and not but

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not everybody wants to. But by
you doing, it's therapy for you.

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But it's therapy for me too,
exactly. And that that's how to me

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what music. Some people just need
a little handle hold. That's right,

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we'll guide them. There you go, and that's what they have you for

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with that music, exactly. And
listen to the festivals itself. I go

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out there and I feel like I'm
with like a one hundred thousand of my

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closest friends. Yeah, it's amazing. And I'm alone the planet. Yeah,

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and I'm alone at the same time, yep. And there's no outsiders,

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Like everybody is the outsider, so
we're all insiders. Absolutely. So

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what are you gonna do to follow
up after Shock? What else you got

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going on the rest of the year. I'm in the middle of a headlining

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tour right now. Nice two festivals
after Shock, So tomorrow morning or late

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tonight we're packing up. I got
one last show in Dallas, Texas.

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I was just there last night,
and I don't want to fucking go back

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there. Well, not that I
got here at like three am, because

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I got boarded the plane in Dallas
and then they took us off the plane

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and we sat for like six hours
while it rained. That sounds terrible.

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Yeah, so I don't want to
go back to Dallas, but I want

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everybody else to go back to Dallas
to see your show. Well, I'm

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really excited. I'm actually from Dallas, nice, and I don't have a

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lot of nice things to say about
it. What do you think of Austin

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though, Like everybody says it's a
live music capital and the live music capital

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is Nashville, Tennessee, and all
that's what I say, no competition,

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it's Nashville. When I went there, I'm like, why are they calling

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this Any given moment, from eleven
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at least five hundred live bands playing. Oh in Nashville at least I love

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it always like three hundred. Actually, yeah, I love where you can

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just walk down the road and pop
in, pop in. You don't even

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have to pop Understand this business is
four floors and there's four man's playing on.

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It's amazing. I love it.
Yeah, if it had a beach,

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i'd lived there. I live in
Nashville now, and uh, it

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needs a beach. It does,
it does? It'd be the perfect race

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a lot. I think people are
really nice in Tennessee too, Like I

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think there's still love Tennessee people.
Yeah, there's some of the nice,

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all the good things I liked about
Texas without all the bad things I hated

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about it. See there you go. I think I think we'll have to

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move a beach there, or you
know, cut off the East coast and

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just start at Tennessee exactly. Oh
man, So how do people connect to

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you on socials? On the web? Letdown dot com, let down on

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Instagram, let down on tiktoks,
just let down, l E t d

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own. What's the crazy? What's
the craziest shit you've experienced in this music

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journey? Craziest shit I've experienced so
far. I haven't really seen anything crazy,

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Jesse. Have you seen anything crazy? I don't mean here, just

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in general in your musical journey?
Nothing crazy happenings like insanely. Oh,

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I mean, we've been chased across
the country by fans. Well that's pretty

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cool, and it's cool. I
don't know's I hope they don't listen to

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this. Well, you know it's
funny because oh my goodness, oh let's

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hear about that. What can I
get for four dollars? There was a

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man on this tour. They walked
into this tex mex restaurant we were eating

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at and tried to buy all the
food on our table, and it was

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it was just really funny. So
he had four bucks and he walked in

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and he put it down and he
was like, can I have your cheese?

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It was like a couple of shred
of cheese and he's like, I

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got four dollars and then he looks
at the cheese, looks at the money,

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and he grabs the money goes but
that's fine, and put it back

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in his pocket and started walking around
the the table. And then he picked

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up one of the plates off our
table and held it up like a superman

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and flewid around the restaurant. What
was he on? We need some of

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that. I could use it right
now. Whatever it is, I know,

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that was wild. My two people
in my crew were from a better

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term, not in the correct state
of mind to be in public. And

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they thought it was a fever dream. They thought this whole this whole restaurant

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thing was fake and this guy was
part of a a whole thing. See,

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now that's crazy shit right there.
I love it. It was honestly

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one of the greatest days of my
life. And I've said multiple times that

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I want to go back and find
this guy do it. You know,

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some of the craziest shit is some
of the best times in your life,

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isn't it, Jake, I have
some crazy memories. I'm like, fuck,

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I was nuts, but man,
that was like the best time I

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ever had, Right So, I
had the best time here at after Shock.

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I love after Shock. I love
it. This is my first time.

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Really. How about you were at
Louder Was it your first time?

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It was my first time Louder.
Okay, this might be a hard question.

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Louder why there was something different?
The stages weren't a mile away from

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each other. It seemed a little
more organized. But I mean it seems

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like a lot of the same crew, Like our whole stage crew was all

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the same stage crew we had at
Louder. It is I think Louder just

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is set up better, But as
far as the festival, I think it's

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the exact same thing. Yeah,
Danny Wimmer does it right, So yeah

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you have that. I how smooth
it runs right, And the people that

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work here and work for him are
fucking some of the nicest humans I've ever

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met. And respectful. I love
it, don't care who you are,

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respectful. I love hearing that because
how many times is that not the case?

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Like almost every other festival, right
exactly, like if you're not the

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headliner, like I've been doing the
festival every weekend since August, And of

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course you know the one a few
weeks ago that we won't mention who must

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not be named. Oh my god, that was insane. I would say

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that if somebody asked me the same
question, that would be probably one of

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my answers. So thanks for being
here at Aftershock and I'm kicking ass.

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Who you're going to see tonight?
I'm gonna ride the train nice. I

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think I think I'm might have to
do it. They're always good lives.

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I've saw them when I was a
kid. It's been a long time.

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Oh it's gonna be good. It
is an Avenge Sevenfold playing tonight. Too.

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Are they playing tonight? Are they
the headliner tonight? I think they

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are. Uh, Oh, I
might have to do it a little bit.

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I think you're right. Actually,
yeah, I might have to travel.

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Oh you might miss that because you're
okay, So avenged is yep?

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Tonight eight twenty five to nine fifty
five tonight. They're not making this easy.

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No, it's fine. You might
not get any sleep going to Dallas.

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But that's the life, is it? Whatever? Right, that's the

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life. Well, any final words
you want to leave our listeners with that

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we haven't covered already. I mean, check outletown and you're not lone,

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and you won't come find me,
and I won't promise you. I won't

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let you down let down, will
not let you down. Hey, it

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sets the bar low, so I
can only surprise you. I love that.

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Well, you did kick ass here
at after Shock and uh and a

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louder and I hope to see a
lot more at these festivals because your rock.

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I really appreciate you. Hey,
my pleasure, and thanks for being

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on the Adventures Pipe Main. Thank
you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin

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on w for c u I Radio.