PipemanRadio Interviews Major Moment at Louder Than Life 2023

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here with Andre and Sasha for a
major moments nice here at Louder than Life.

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How does it feel to be at
this amazing festival here in Louisville,

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Kentucky. It's great and we're super
thankful for the opportunity. It's our second

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big festival and we're super excited to
premier our brand new set that includes two

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brand new songs, unreleased songs for
our new album Night And it was amazing

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to perform them live and showcase them
to the audience for the first time and

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people loved it, and you know, we couldn't ask for more. I

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was a blast. So did you
really expect that though, Like people come

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to a festival, especially playing early
in the day, and they're like,

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yeah, I even like last couple
last weekend I earn viewed Corey Feldman He's

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like, yeah, I didn't even
expect three people out there, and they

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were like this massive crowns, Like
holy shit, and he's somebody that should

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have a massive crowd. So,
but isn't it wild to see how many

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people are supporting you so early?
It is, and it's amazing feeling.

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We did our share of work as
well. You know, we promoted it

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as hard as we could, you
know, and on social media, and

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we had our street team given out
flyers over here. So we tried to

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invite people to our show and a
lot of people came, which is which

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is great. All those efforts paid
off. There you go, What makes

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you guys unique? Well, that's
a good question, right, I would

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say we bring a lot to the
table as far as like obviously if you

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couldn't tell from our accent, like
we're not native English speakers, so myself

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and Sasha were originally from Russia,
and so we we definitely try to blend

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our influences from early childhood that included
both Western culture and our you know,

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native music. So we think blending
those Eastern Western cultures together. We tried

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to also blend pop and metal,
which is not the easiest thing to do.

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Yeah, you know, and we
try to play obviously hard metal festivals,

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right, and while having some melodies
and having some lyrics that some people

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might consider soft or like two emotional
for example. I love it, and

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I think we have a blend of
also energetic songs and like more of a

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ballot, and we kind of keep
that balance as well. We like to

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kill ourselves pop metal all right.
And not to mention that we have two

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vocalists, male and female vocalists that
are both singing on all songs, and

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we just switching parts, you know, depending on who's the leading vocalists,

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and then the other person takes kind
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the back and vocalist role. I
love that though, because I love I

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love maladays that you have, like
it's almost like dueling vocalists totally. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, and you have
that different sound than it creates because

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somebody's a little less clean, somebody's
a little more clean. And even when

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they play both roles, it's different, definitely, And even when we're in

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the studio, we're also kind of
dueling, like for who's gonna sing this

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part, Like who's gonna get that
higher note, you know, and all

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of that good stuff right like,
and Sasha's been very jealous of me because

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I progressed on some extreme vocals and
she I will catch up. Don't work.

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She actually already did. We were
in the studio. She's just liketing

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you think you're better. Yeah,
exactly, exactly, it's just sneaky.

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So we were in the studio two
weeks ago recording some brand new songs that

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are not even on that upcoming album. So for the LP two, Nice

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and Sasha did some extreme vocals on
it. We were all surprised. Well,

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I do have to say that nowadays, I think the women in metal

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have way more badass extreme vocals the
men, Oh for sure. Ginger,

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Yeah, you know Courtney yea,
Like, when I watch Courtney, I'm

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like, holy fuck, because what
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you can tell so change all the
shapes all that. Yeah, it's

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like so wild. I just sit
there, that's all I watch. This

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is extremely exciting, Yes, and
that's that's the goal. To blend that

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sound into our songs as well's coming. So yeah, you're you're gonna be

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more in the background. That's all
right, you know, I don't mind.

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It's all It's all for the benefit
of the band anyway. You know.

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Also, it's it's not a competition, that's right. Absolutely. How

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do you think this may be a
tough question to answer, but how do

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you think the music industry or music
scene has changed in your home country with

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all that's been going on in the
past few years. Uh? Yeah,

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So that's all been very surprising to
us, and it's all super sad and

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we're you know, ashamed of what's
going on with our country. And we

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were actually trying to go and promote
our debut EP back in twenty eighteen there

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and everything seemed to be kind of
okay ish. I know that there were

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some conflicts happening, but nothing to
that extent, and you know, I

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guess I didn't pay enough attention,
which is you know, I'm ashamed to

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admit that, but now I definitely
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isolating itself there, you know,
and the government is really trying to punish

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all those bands that's pick up,
you know, and a lot of artists

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have to seek asylums and you know, seek their careers somewhere else, so

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they flee the country, while other
artists who either believe in what the government

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I'm just doing honestly or just selling
themselves out, whichever it is. There

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they seem to be doing just fine, you know, getting all play,

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playing all those sold out stadiums that
are mandatory to attend, by the way,

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so they're not really sold out,
and all those puding speeches, all

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of that bullshit. I can't even
believe. Like I'm from the eighties,

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I can't believe we're dealing with this
nowadays. Like likewise, it's like we

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went through it before and it was
stupid then, it's why bringing back.

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Yeah, this is very crushing.
Do you see what's happening with your country?

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But also to the question, it's
just another industry, like anything else,

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and like creative people can be a
little bit more sensitive and more like

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asking questions. Yeah, so they're
more vulnerable to that kind of stuff.

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So that's really sad. We actually
we're writing our new album right when the

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events were unfolding, so they impacted
us obviously. Yeah, so a few

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songs of our new album are talking
about the topics that are maybe not gonna

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be directly like in your face against
the war, but they are related to

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the topics that uh and the events
that led to this situation or maybe the

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outcomes of it and all of that. Like one of them is a song

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called What a Time. We just
shot a music video two weeks ago as

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well. It's dealing, you know, it's talking about the consequences of what's

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happening right now on the possible one
of possibility. One of the possible outcomes

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is that you know, some nuclear
war and at the end of the world,

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and you know, it's super sad. Another song is talking about how

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everybody's having this weird nostalgia about the
ussur days and like we're taught and not

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on board with that. And you
know, whoever thinks those days were good,

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you know, they should stop living
in the past. And uh we

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have we have that here too.
But make America great, Yeah, exactly

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the great you want great? Right, So we just played that song called

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Victim at Louder than Life on Friday
and that was a premier. Yeah.

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Another song is talking about all the
conspiracy theories about how the evil West is

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trying to you know, get everybody
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so to speak, right, and
like how everybody's trying to like fight Russia

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and Russia is standing for good and
all of that bullshit, so that that

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call that that song is called lunacy, because that's what it is for sure.

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This song resonated very good at the
crowd, and I was so happy

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to see that happening well, because
we have a lot of lunacy here too.

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Like it's like, I mean,
I don't know. One of my

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bros who just passed, who best
bro since like thirteen years old, he

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said, we just need to break
it all and start over, because it

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is like pretty ridiculous nowadays. And
you know, I remember before things were

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happening, everybody here in America at
least was like, oh, we gotta

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go to Russia again and go visit
and go visit Moscow. It's like one

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of the coolest places, and everybody
talked so great about it. And now

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I feel sad that I didn't even
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a good idea for me to go
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And it's not a good idea for
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know, we're kind of scared for
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because like we came to visit our
parents, we can invite our parents over

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right now. I actually haven't been
home in like ten years, which is

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devastating, but that's okay. I
mean, I'm willing to wait a little

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bit more and hopefully that conflict will
resolve. I was thinking about that earlier.

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Like as far as bands go,
you know, you're probably lucky you're

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playing at later in life because you're
already here. But other Russian bands probably

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can't get these is to come here
to play, can they, Right,

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it would be kind of challenging.
Well, I know, slaughter to prevail

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guys. You know they're doing they're
doing okay right now, but they're also

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you know, anti war, and
like they also chose to flee the country

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because they're probably fearing the consequences of
them speaking out. And you know,

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that's one of the reasons why we
don't want to go back, because who

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knows. You know, they're like
prosecuting people for protesting with a clean sheet

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of paper, you know, on
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on internet. This is like so
random, that's what they're trying to do,

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like scare you, but that it
can get to anyone. Yeah,

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you can get ten years in prison
or fifteen years in prison, more than

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a murderer. You know more than
a rapist, which is which is saying

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way you feel or not saying anything
at all, because you know, blank

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peach paper, you're not saying anything. But that just shows right, And

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we definitely I have a character that
you know that is kind of related to

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one of the stages called loudmouth.
So yeah, I definitely am not the

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one being quiet all the time.
So I would definitely speak up. And

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we try to speak up as much
as we can. We try to support

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Ukraine as much as we can.
We work with we have a bunch of

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Ukrainian friends, and you know,
we feel very sad with with what's happening,

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and we kind of feel responsible in
a way as well, a second

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hand responsibility, which is which is
you know, a different, different kind

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of feeling that I haven't felt before, but now I know how it feels.

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Yeah, hopefully music will help everyone
to go through this hard time and

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make it for better. It is
the best therapy and the great uniter,

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isn't it, Like, forget all
these wars, just have a big music

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festival, That's what I say.
But it's all in one festival and we'll

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work it all out at the end
of the day. I think all cultures

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they have more in common than you
know, the differences they have. It's

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the powers that being that want make
us think we're different. Right. I

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experienced that myself, you know,
growing up in this country at my age,

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who's like, Oh, don't go
outside the US, it's scary out

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there. We're the only free country, blah blah blah. And I remember

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the first time I went to Europe, I was like, what were they

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talking about? Like, I was
like confused. I felt just as free

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over there as I did here,
you know. And it's like I think

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every culture does that. It's this
like control thing, and you know,

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you control people by fear and then
they and then they become quote unquote patriotic,

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Like in this country mostly the most
patriotic people have never been anywhere else.

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And I think you do. You
have to go see other cultures,

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experience other cultures to really understand.
Well, there's the difference between being a

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patriot in a way that you're you
know, kind of proud of of your

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origins and like your accomplishments and like
you're happy that your country is doing good,

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and then there are so called patriots
that think like, oh, we're

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better than everybody else, you know, so yeah, you gotta be you

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gotta be smart about it. There
are other people, There are other cultures,

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there are other countries, and actually
being in the US helped us a

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lot to break away from that mentality
because the US is such a melting pot

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of all cultures, you know,
and like music festivals are kind of like

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that as well. You know,
like we had Sleep Talking from Britain.

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We had a Baby Metal from Japan, right or yeah, right, and

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we haven'to Chicari from from UK as
well. You know, we have Slaughter

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to Prevail that is originally from Russia, major moment that has vocalists and the

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basis from Russia. So you know, we kind of all hang out together

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and we find our similarities, you
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music, and you know, we
see what other cultures have to bring to

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the table and like we think,
oh it's different, but it's cool,

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it's it's interesting, you know,
it's enjoyable. Yeah. I also have

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a background in tennis. I am
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used to travel a lot and that
kind of helped me also to see my

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country in a way from the other
side and if you don't travel, you

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don't get that experience. So I
think traveling is very important. It is.

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So are you better at music or
tennis? Oh no, I wish

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I was as good of a vocalist
as a tennis player. But I think

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I can get there. Time.
There you go. I think I'll tell

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you, guys should do like a
tour with Ginger. It's like the United

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Front Tour or something like that.
Oh, that would be amazing, right,

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We would love to Obviously it would
be a very humbling experience from many

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sides. But you know, we
have we've been to their show. Actually

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when they played at Boston, they
crushed it. It was an amazing show,

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you know, and we felt like, you know, they're they they

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they had a speech, you know, and the band that was opening for

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them, Space of Variations, they
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war speech, and even though we
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didn't feel like the speech was against
us, you know, which is very

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important that like, like we people
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what's happening right now, like all
all countries like kind of seemilarly uniting against

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Russia. It's not against Russian people. It's against what fucking Russian government just

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doing to the country that did nothing
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may still believing in those bullshit conspiracy
theories and fables and whatnot. But at

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the end of the day, like
when you're when you're sitting in your apartment

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in Russia, like ask yourself,
is everybody in Russia doing good? What

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do you think? Like is your
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think so. I don't think so. That's right. And I also will

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add to that that no matter what
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can't blame the people because the people, as even here where we think we

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have a say, the people don't
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ever say, like Putin or any
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well, in a way I agree, and I disagree with you because

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you know, we as a singular
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persons, you know, we might
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but the powers and numbers, you
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today, then two people protestings tomorrow. Then you know, the band is

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given out a speech in front of
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and it's it's all about that.
That's how Russian government is winning those minds

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is because they're doing they're doing their
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as propaganda goes, you know,
and like we have to fight against that.

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Well, I agree with that.
I'm more about the people that like

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blame your people for the war or
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well, we have our responsibilities.
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Russians, we have our responsibility because
at the end of the day, we

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allowed a citizens allowed this uh bullshit
to be happy in our country. We

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didn't we didn't care enough, you
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We weren't attentive enough to what's happening
to all the little red flags that were

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here and there. Uh from from
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president, it was always like the
policy was always like, hey, we

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don't touch you, and you don't
get into politics. You know, politics

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is a dirty business. It's not
for like an average Joe, you know,

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an iverage, average ivan, you
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like we're not gonna get you.
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turned, you know, like they're
they're they're getting into people's private slaves.

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You know, they're making laws that
prohibit people to love each other. You

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know, they're making laws that prohibit
people to voice their opinions, you know,

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even even to question the official agenda, which is which is unthinkable to

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me as Russian. I didn't grow
up in the best country in the world,

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but it wasn't the worst. And
I think I think it's becoming right

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now. Yeah, and that makes
me sad for sure, because listen,

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we're all just humans and we should
all have a say. And like in

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my state where I live. I
live in Florida, they're removing any books

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about LGBTQ, any books about black
history, very anti Jewish right now.

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And it's people are not only letting
it happen, it's like they're cheering it

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on. And I don't fucking get
it. To be bored, Yeah,

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I don't get it. Why do
we hate each other so much? Like

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we don't have to We absolutely don't
have to. You do you, I'll

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do me. They're not affecting my
Like these people they make a big deal

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about something that doesn't even affect their
life in any way. What do I

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care what somebody else does? If
it doesn't affect mine life, if it

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makes them feel good, that's all
that's important, period exactly. So thank

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god we have voices like you and
your music, because music is I think

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the strongest voice we try, and
we're gonna try harder. Is there anything

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else that they should know about you? Guys? If you want to listen

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to our music, you know where
to find us. We're on all social

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media and streaming platforms. We're answering
all messages on social media ourselves. We're

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trying to be friends with all our
fans and trying to be as open of

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a band as we possibly can at
this stage in our career, because you

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know, once you take off and
you get into millions, it becomes much

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harder to answer every message. So
we try to take time out of our

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day to respond to everybody personally.
You know. We don't use any like

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chat bots and none of that stuff. So we try to make a difference

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in the world and in the music
careers in the US industry, you know,

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one day at a time, writing
songs that bring positive messages, positivity

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into people's lives, that share our
experiences with everybody. We don't you know,

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we don't hate anybody. And you
know, if somebody is not very

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friendly with us, hey that's okay. You know, we still don't hate

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you. We're just trying to make
this for a little a little better place,

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right And if you guys want to
support us, we're doing a very

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interesting release strategy this time with this
new album that's called The Pain That Makes

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Us Grow. We're going to release
every single on streaming platforms. But if

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you want to pre order our vinyl
that which is did for the first time

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nice with amazing artwork, you can
purchase it on our website and we're going

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to ship it this year, so
you're gonna get it much earlier than on

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streaming platforms. And I love artwork. I think kids today are missing the

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whole experience of an album, right. We try to make it exactly what

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he said and experience. So we
have like a beautiful gatefold edition with two

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vinyl discs. One has etching design
on it. We have like all colored

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layout, all custom photography, custom
design, everything. Nothing is like stock

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imagery and none of that. We
worked with the best designers in the industry

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because we wanted to give our fans
the best and we wanted to make it

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an experience, and you know,
one of our goals as a band is

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to inspire other artists. Are emerging
artists looking at us like we're coming from

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literally nowhere, like Sasha's coming from
another career. I'm coming from you know,

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the city that few people know in
Russia, and you know, now

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we're here playing one of the biggest
festivals in the world. We're so thankful

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for the opportunity. And we think, you guys, emerging artists out there

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listening to this, you guys can
do this. You guys can can be

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in our shoes here next year or
the year after that. Just work hard,

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do your best, you know,
make art and make the music you

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want to listen to first and foremost. And you know, don't listen to

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naysayers and haters and gatekeepers. It's
all gonna happen if you work hard.

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So true. And the band I
interviewed before you, this is their first

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ever gig. Can you imagine that, your first ever gig? It's louder

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than life and they're like, sixteen
seventeen eighteen, where are you going from

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here? I know, right,
other headline in the main stage too,

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I know, right, Oh my
god, so yeah, I mean that's

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the beauty of the Danny Weimer festivals
too, because he does promote emerging artists

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and developed artists and I've seen a
lot of that. There's a band that

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played here at Laren Life called Silly
Goose. Oh we all of them,

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Oh for sure we got out there, yep, exactly and I would hear

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when it happened. Uh and that
was just so old school punk rock too.

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Yeah, and we'll we'll love that
band for that, you know.

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I think guys were doing such a
great job but like self promoting everything and

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like crushing all the festivals, like
camping parties and like playing after shows like

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on the on the top of the
bus or whatever. It's so unique and

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like you don't see such drive nowadays, and like this was definitely attention grabbing

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for sure, and like I'm I'm
I wish nothing but the best of the

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guys, Like I instantly want everything. Like the story with the subway and

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what not took off. I instantly
subscribed, Like I was like gotta follow

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those guys, Like they're they know
what they're doing, They're so smart,

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they're amazing, and they're they're legit
as well. They are genuine you know,

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it's not like they're doing it as
a marketing trick. You know,

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they just want they just want to
play and they want to have fun.

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And you know, if they're not
on a bill, hey we'll play parking

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lot. Hey we can't be on
the parking lot. We play parking lot

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next to that parking lot. You
know, well, we'll play in McDonald's

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parking lot across the street. You
know, you'll you'll hear us. Right,

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that's the way it should be.
But everyone has their own journey,

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so just say yourself, do whatever
you like, and I think with hard

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work, you're gonna get there.
That's right. Tell everybody your socials,

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your website, how they buy your
merch all that good stuff. We're on

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every single social platform, Instagram,
Major dot Moment, Major Moment on Facebook.

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Our website is major Moment, band
dot com. We have a bunch

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of new merge there, so feel
free to grab some and the support us

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if you'd like, and no pressure. We know, like not everybody can

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you know, afford to support bands
like that. But even if you're listening

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to us on this podcast, if
you're listening to us on streaming platforms for

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free, if you're pirrating our songs
off of whatever torrents. You know,

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you're still supporting us, You still
like us, and we still like you

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as well. Wait, great attitude
too, because it is kind of true,

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even if they steal the music,
they're supporting you because they're listening.

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They think it's badass, and they're
telling everybody else to steal it too,

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right, you know exactly, Well, you guys rock and you guys definitely

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made a major moment. You're actually
the longest interview of the festival. But

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because you have a lot to say
and it's good shit, and you know

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it's very important, and I love
that you're playing out there that we just

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all need to love each other and
forget all the crap and stop letting the

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government trick us and playing this game
of divide and conquer like I don't understand

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that is the oldest trick in the
book and we're still falling. I mean,

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come on, you know, so
let's just have the great uniter and

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that's music. We all love each
other, all under one roof, nobody's

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an outsider, and that is a
major moment. Totally Goodn't say it any

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better, and thank you for being
on the Adventures of pipe Man. Thank

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you, guys, Thank you for
listening to Thank of heaven Us, Thank

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you for listening to the Adventures of
Pipe Man on W four CUI Radio.