PipemanRadio Interviews Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire at Aftershock 2023

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Mullins missus may fire. Thanks for
having me, brother. Oh so happy

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to have you here. Your like
one of the coolest people in rock and

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roll. Anyway, you are too, dude and friends. I always think

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about you. Anytime we're about to
go to press, I'm like, man,

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how ap I get to do that
one again? Nice to see you.

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I love it. You know what
I love about Aftershock? I have

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a screen up there, so while
I was doing the interviews, you were

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up there on stool. That's cool
man, you know, because I'm like,

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fuck man, I can't get out
there to catch a set. That's

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great, and so I'm like watching
your show while I'm doing somebody else's air

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view. That's that's so awesome.
I didn't know you guys had that.

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That's very cool, I know,
right, because it sucks sometimes you do

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festivals, you know, I have
that here, and it's like, oh

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man, you want to catch somebody
set, either A to talk about it

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on the interview or B to say
hey, I supported your set, you

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know. But you know how it
is, sometimes you can't even get out

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of this whole sucks, dude,
I can't imagine. I bet sometimes you

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just want to come and like enjoy
a festival instead of work it. You

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know, well, you know it
was. It's wild about that because when

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the first festivals came out after COVID
Lockdown and there were no interviews. But

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yeah, but I was like,
kind of, okay, that's cool.

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I haven't had live music in two
years. I don't have to work.

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I'm just gonna go out there and
have a good time, you know.

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I mean honestly, I still want
to let you interview me, like let's

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do it anyways. Yeah right,
but man, it's just cool. It's

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cool to be here. It's cool
to to see you. I feel like

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I've done more interviews with you than
anybody else. I love that. And

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I had to follow up the Power
Hour, you know, like I'm the

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I'm the I'm the last one,
I'm the I'm the anchor. I mean

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you're the headliner, dude. That's
right, that's exactly let's go. So

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tell us what's been going on lately? Man? So a lot in unbelievable

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amount, Memphis. This is our
last show of the year after Shock,

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and then we start writing a new
record next month. Nice. When will

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this air right away? Right away? Cool? In a couple of days.

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Yeah, So I joined another band
as well. It's uh, nothing's

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happening with Memphis. Everything is like
staying the same obviously, but that'll be

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announced in the next in the coming
weeks. Wow, which is very cool.

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It's like a childhood dream come true. Nice. And so that's really

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exciting. I've been writing new music
with that band, and so that's an

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existing band or any new band.
Oh, that sounds like it might be

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big. It was a childhood dream
of mine to to just even see them

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live, let alone one day be
singing for them. So it's really crazy.

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It's gonna be awesome. But yeah, it's it's constant, constant.

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Everything always is kind of what my
life is. How did that happen?

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Anyway? Had this come A singer
of that band sent me a text message

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and said, I need to step
away from touring, to be away from

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to be with my family, and
you're the only person that I want to

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take over. So crazy, it
doesn't even feel real. Are you sure

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you were awake when that happened?
You know, I truly had to pinch

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myself. I like called my wife. I'm like, babe, like,

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let's talk talk me down right now. My body is tingling. You know,

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it's crazy. It's it's really special, really really special for me.

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New songs are coming out. There
will be a new one out in December,

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so it's very cool. Wow,
I can't wait for that now.

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I mean, you're already hard working. How you gotta have time with two

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bands. I'm lucky in the in
the fact that they are willing to work

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around Memphis. You know, that
was kind of the big thing. It's

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like Memphis is a freight train right
now. We're not slowing down at all.

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So basically, in my time off
with the band, that this other

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band can have access to me being
on tour with them. So it's a

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it's just gonna be a full,
full, full time thing. Wow.

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I love it. You know.
It seems like a lot more artists nowadays

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are doing double and triple duty,
and it's almost like I think it's not

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because they need to. It's more
like you said, dream come true.

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Fun. It's just fun and you
get to be different one home percent.

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Like I when I got this opportunity, I knew twenty twenty four is gonna

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be busy for Memphis, and I
knew there's a chance that I'll get to

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the end of the year and I
will be beat, like I will be

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literally beat to the ground. But
that would not feel as bad as always

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wondering if I had if what if
I had done it? You know,

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it's worth So it's going to be
very cool for me. It's gonna be

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a special thing for fans of of
my band and fans of their band to

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get to kind of experience something different. And I'm just gonna go out and

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try to honor their original singer the
best I can. And it's uh,

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yeah, it's gonna be cool.
Is it gonna be kind of like a

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different version of you or more the
same in a different way? I am.

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It's a different genre of music,
so to speak, But I'll still

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get to be fully me. If
that makes sense. I love that.

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Yeah, that does make sense.
You can only be you right. You

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know, that's what makes you great
because you're like, you're just true to

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your beliefs, to your music,
to your craft, and that's it.

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I appreciate it, man, you
know, and that's the way it gotta

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be. I think in this business, I think so too. You know,

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there are live artists I wouldn't say
that about Like it's like they're going

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through emotions, and I just think
to myself, what a crappy business to

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just go through themotions for you know, like you for this business to be

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great, you have to have passion, love what you do and just be

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altruistically you you do you do.
If you don't love this, it's not

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like get out, but it's like
I hurt for you. I feel for

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you because exactly music like this job
will take every ounce of you and if

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you don't love it, then that's
painful man. You know, like maybe

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consider something else because it's it should
be joyful. Like we're so unbelievably lucky

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to get on that stage. Every
single time we get on that stage,

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and to do interviews and to talk
to people and to you know, meet

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making new meet new fans, like
the whole thing is such a gift.

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So you know totally. And you
know, the fact is is that you

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know, when you love it,
it's not any of the stuff that's not

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good about the business doesn't really have
affect you because you love it, you

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know. And I think that's true
of anything, but more so in the

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music business, because music is a
passion. I don't think it should be

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viewed as a job or else it
would be drudgery. It's like you're living

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your dream, yeah, that whole
Like, you know, if you love

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what you do, you never work
a day in your life. It's like,

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obviously that's a that's been used a
lot, but it's yeah, it's

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so true, man. I mean, like, if you truly love what

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you do, like working, doing
the things that you need to do to

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succeed at what you're doing shouldn't feel
like work. It should feel like a

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gift, you know. And it's
interesting because you have to have the personality

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for it too. Like my youngest
daughter sometimes I'll bring her in festivals,

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and I mean she's twenty eight years
old and she'll be after the first day.

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Halfway through the first day, she's
like, Dad, I don't know

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how you do this. Every weekend, I'm done already great. And my

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answer is I don't know how I
don't. Yeah, I go home.

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I'm like, I don't want to
be here. Yeah yeah, man,

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I mean when you love it,
you love it, and nothing else will

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you. And just even being able
to do this interview after playing our set

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today, like we usually do press
before the set, I have real time

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emotions about how cool this is because
the show is so I love your energy

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after doing a set, because it's
super freaking hot out. Yeah, you're

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super freaking active on stage and like
most artists have to. You know,

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I know if I was at ours, I probably wouldn't want to do interviews

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after Oh, man, don't get
it twisted. I went to the to

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the green room. Oh the tour
manager brought me an ice pack, an

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icy towel, and uh uh my
photographer brought me like a water and I

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had a coconut water and everything.
I felt like I was gonna die it

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was so hot. But I'm back. I bounce back. I'm here.

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Yeah, look at you. You're
like exactly who I know you to be.

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You know you're not there, like, thank God for coconut water,

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right, you know it's fight.
You should say that because I don't really

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like coconut war. But when I
was, I think it was bali and

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I was like super dehydrated. I
was just pounding yea the coconut or it

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made me feel great, kicks in
fast, for sure. I hate coconut

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in general, like this too.
Coconut. I got food poisoning, and

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the thing that I had eaten right
before getting food poisoning was a coconut cookie

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when I was young. The actual
like, coconut makes me nauseous, right,

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But coconut water, when you know
it's gonna do what it's gonna do,

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chug it, take it straight to
the dome and just reap the benefits.

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Yeah, that's right. So anything
else you want to share with us,

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what's going on that we haven't talked
about it? Right? No,

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I mean stay tuned for new Memphis
music. Obviously give us grace. We're

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gonna start writing next month. It
takes time. Writing takes time, recording

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takes time. We'll put it out
when we can. We had a very

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busy twenty twenty three. We just
wrapped up a co headliner with a TRAYU,

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which was so sick. I hope
you made it out to a show.

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Be on the lookout for new tunes, not only you know from Memphis,

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but from this other band that I'm
a part of now. Super stoked,

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and thank you for your support,
thanks for reporting live music and music

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in general. Because I am so
grateful to be sitting in the seat right

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now. I love it, and
that's why I love about you too.

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You're grateful. You're not like Prima
Donna. You're not like any of that

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stuff. And I want to say
too, to your to your point,

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Okay, it's like, basically,
yeah, I mean writing music should take

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time. I think that's what I
think. If you're gonna take a positive

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at COVID, that's what taught artist
is like. You're saying, start taking

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your time and writing the music like
it was in the old days, yep,

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opposed to oh my god, I
gotta write this whole album on the

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tour bus on the way to the
next gig. YEP. I mean,

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we wrote our record, our recent
record, during the pandemic, and it

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was a gift to have that time, right too. Obviously a really hard

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thing, but it was a gift
to have that time to to say,

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nobody can be on tour, so
all we have is music. So make

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the best music you can possibly make, and that's what we did, and

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that's why we made the best record
that we've ever put out. And we're

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going to adapt that same thought process
to the next time that we make a

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record, which is next one.
There it is, love it, Love

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you guys. Is so great.
You're here at Aftershock and thanks for being

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on the Adventures by Man. Thanks
for having me again, dude. Thank

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you for listening to the Adventures of
Fate Man on w for CUI Radio.