May 19, 2025

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Hi, you love done too.

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Yes, that's true.

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Woe wow for you.

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Your Welcome to Rockville, North America's largest rock festival is

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finally here. This is pipe Man here on the Adventures

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

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with Tyler.

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From a Virtue, Damon from a virtue, and Ryan, also

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from a virtue.

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Nice. First thing I have to comment on is more

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important than you being here at Welcome to Rockville, that

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you're on the BUCkies tour as well.

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Yes, we've hit up three in the last twenty four hours.

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Wait till after the end of tonight. That that's insane.

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I'm going to number four.

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It's like a daily event. She's from Canada and she

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never even knew what BUCkies was. I said, I came

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and explained to you. I just got bring you there.

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Yeah, love, I still live there.

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Nice.

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Nice tell you we should to them.

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Yeah see, we have only two and we have two

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nice people here because Canadians are the nicest people. That's

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Americans have become super assholes. Yeah.

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I suck him too.

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Yeah, there you go. So it's just cool. We're just

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all assholes. But let me tell you something too. I

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love what you guys. Are all about too, because like

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I'm also iHeart talent, but I like your the heart

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support thing and music. To me, music's the best therapy.

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Like I've said, let's take everybody in the whole world

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and put into one music festival for everybody in the

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whole world, and we can cure all the bullshit problems

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we have. Music does that. So talk to me a

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little bit about your music, what you stand for, and

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everything about helping with music playing a role in our

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mental health.

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I will go ahead and start. I think I can

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speak for all of us. We wholeheartedly agree and it

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is an honor to support our support. They are phenomenal Taylor,

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we love her she is and such a big fan

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of us, but also just for all musicians and Jake

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from August Burn's read. Big ups to him too for

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being a part of that. And I think that's where

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the conversation starts, right is just being honest with yourself,

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with your feelings. It is mental health Awareness month as well.

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We're here welcome rock Field. If there's any time to

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talk about your feelings and how you're doing, it's right now.

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And I think our music speaks for itself. We have

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a lot of songs that talk about mental health, that

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talk about the experiences that we've gone through, experiences that

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family members even friends have gone through, and I think

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it's important for us to talk about those things.

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Yeah, that's what we've always stood for.

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And we will continue doing that with our new music

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that should be coming.

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Out soon, how soon, hopefully in the next couple months.

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Nice, I think we can confidently say that, right, Yeah, yeah,

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I think that's.

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Okay, Nice, I love it. And so what I think

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is cool about you guys too, is that you blend

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a bunch of influence into your music. I don't know.

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I come from the time where it's like you could

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only have listened to this music and that bullshit gatekeeping,

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and I had to hide certain music I liked for

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my friends when I was in high school, kind of like, uh,

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you can't be a metal head and like that shit

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blah blah blah blah blah, and even punks and metal

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heads like did not get along. Like I was a

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long hair I could not go to punk shows. Man,

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I would get my ass beat if I went to

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a punk show and saying the punk's coming to mel shows. Oh,

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it's like always that's just so stupid, and so it's

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great that we have bands like yours nowadays uniting us together,

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and not just within these genres, but all genres, because

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to me, genres are just bullshit art. This happening to

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be boxed in genre is stupid too much. Music sounds

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the same nowadays with this algebraic equation, I call it.

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So what makes you great band is you don't get

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lumped in anywhere.

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No, then some of it is by design.

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Other times, man, it's just we are four different people

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with four completely different backgrounds. And at the end of

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the day, in the journey of being a band, being

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a musician, being an artist, there's always somebody or something

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that's gonna say. It's like, you have to find your

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own voice. You cannot just simply copy what somebody else

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has done because that's not your story. And going back

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to what you were saying about growing up is how

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I like the tail end of that where it's so

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you can only like X, y Z, this sad and

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the third And it's like I learned very early on

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that there's no such thing as a guilty pleasure. I

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like what I like, and if you don't like it,

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then I swear you can say, well.

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Then there you go.

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So basically, yes, so absolutely I like what I like.

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If you don't like it, you can fuck off.

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I don't care totally.

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And because again you are not living my life. You

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do not know what goes on in my brain unless

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I tell you. And on a day to day basis,

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I could go from listening to slip Knot to Corn

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to Britney Spears to in Sync to Doctor Dre or

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whatever the hell I want to and it's it all

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forms and.

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Makes up who I am.

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Now that's going to be different from Tyler, that's going

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to be different from Ryan's. And when we come together, yeah,

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we might argue a little bit about how we're going

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to do this, that and the third, but then eventually

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we'd stumble into ooh, this kind of serves everybody in

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the right way. And it would have only came together

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if we all brought what is unique and special to us.

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Otherwise we're doing a disservice to the world. We're doing

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a disservice to people that do look to us or

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any other artists for that type of inspiration because there

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are many copycasts and there are Hey, you can get popular,

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you can get famous. But then when you can find

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those people that are one of one, or you inspire

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somebody that maybe goes and turns into the ultimate one

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of one, you never know, right, And they're like, hey,

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I listened to you guys when I was in this

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transformative phase of my life, and you go, that's crazy.

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That's like in a bottle right there.

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That is a moment that you cannot take back, and

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it's all of our choices, all of our life events

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are leading up to this moment to then set somebody

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else onto their own path.

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old school bands, even the ones I love, that we're

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in that frame of all the band members have to

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like all the exact same music. Their tenth album sounds

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like a bad version of their first album, that's what

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I find. But it's like their first album, Oh my god,

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that's the best thing ever. And then it goes downhill

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from there because there's nothing being added to the equation.

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kind of where I feel like things start to dip off.

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Even from like a creative standpoint, I couldn't imagine us

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making the same record even twice and right, i'd be

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with it, like I think we would write it and

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be like, this doesn't feel like a step in the

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right direction. It just feels like we are.

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You already did it right. I mean you probably grew

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from there and grew as artists like you evolve, you

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get to be a better musician. You want to experiment

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with that, not stay a garage.

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Like in the last interview we just did, someone had

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asked us how many demos from the Old, the Old,

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the last cycle we just had we're going to make

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it onto the news cycle And we sat there and thought,

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We're like, probably none, because we've over the last year

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and a half have grown so much as artists and

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grown so much as a band that what we thought

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was great at the time now doesn't even really touch

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what we feel now. And I think that speaks volumes

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to how much we've grown in the last little bit.

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Yeah, and even the type of band you are, the

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serious topics you talk about, that changes over time, So

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what maybe relative five years ago may not be today. Yeah,

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you have to evolve exactly.

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And the good thing is if people love the record

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that you made one time, it's always gonna be there.

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You know what I mean. It's always going to be there.

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You can always listen to it. Yeah, exactly why you

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want to listen to a second version of that album?

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I think just Allie from Bring Me a Horizon said

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in interview when he was getting so much shade for

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doing all different types, He's like, why do I have

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to write the same song over and over again? I

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don't want to write the same song over and over?

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And I'm like, that's brilliant, because it's true. I would

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be like bored to death if I was an artist,

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think of these bands around for four years that still

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have to play certain songs in a festival or a concert.

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I'm thinking, man, I might be like, sluck, I gotta

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play this song. And maybe I loved it when I

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first played it, but now you played it that many times,

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it's not even fun anymore.

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No, definitely, yeah.

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Or also, are you guys playing after Rockville?

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We have a show tomorrow in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Scape

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the Fate. It's gonna be a good time, so we

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have a it's a bit of a drive. I think

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it's what eight hours and the shows tomorrow. So not

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a lot of sleep for us boys. But that's what

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sucks about Florida. I live in South Florida. It takes

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forever just.

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To get out of this state, and then South Carolina

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is not fun to drive through with. What was that

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moment in time in your life that you do this

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is what you needed to do.

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That's a good question. I think all three of us

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can have some different answers. I will say very quickly.

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I tore my a CL. I played soccer growing up

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for my ACL. My freshman year of high school, decided

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I needed to do something to pass the time, and

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I was like, it'd be cool to start a band.

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some shows, did all that, went through a few different bands,

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met met a couple of these guys, and then their

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old vocalist left and then.

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Dresses history nice.

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So that's my story.

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Mine is a little more.

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I was a knucklehead, but at leats you admit it.

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Oh absolutely, I'm a reformed, slightly reformed knucklehead. Music has

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always been in my life in some way, shape or

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for him. I started playing violin when I was three.

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I've played bass in jazz band, I've played a multitude

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of instruments, and then, like any teenagers canning, sometimes do

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you start getting into some things that you probably shouldn't

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be getting into. Also with realizing, you know, some traumas

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and some various family things that have you start to

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become aware of and it became a pretty nasty cocktail

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of like just bad decisions, substances, and a few other things.

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Taking myself to jail, which is fun, wild, and there

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was a guy that would see me every single day

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and he just came up to me. He's like, hey man,

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life doesn't have to be that hard.

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That's all he said.

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Wow.

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He never said a damn word to me at any

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other point in time ever.

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And he just looks like, hey man, it just doesn't

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have to be that.

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And trust me, I had plenty of time to think

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while I was sitting in there, and I'm like, you

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know what, now might be a good time to try

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to find something to put your that nervous kind of

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in it.

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Yeah, yeah, it shaded.

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Sometimes you just shoose moments to change your life, like absolutely,

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because otherwise you're just on that same road and.

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Hit rock bottom and you realize, oh, yeah, I'm there.

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And if that guy with said anything more, you probably

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wouldn't have listened. No, I'm probably a little bit like

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mam'splaining type shit. That's a pretty cool story. I dig that.

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How about your story?

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Mine's a little bit on the lighter side, I think.

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But that my drama there.

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Exactly no So being from Canada, these guys found me

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online on Instagram and then I went out and played

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a show with them, and then I was like, Yep,

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this is what I want to do with my life.

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This is exactly the thing I'm after. It's so much

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fun playing drums live and getting to experience this side

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of it. Instead of being the fan that was always

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going to the shows. Now it's cool to be on

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the other side of it.

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Yeah, and so what do you think about being here

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and welcome to rock Fille?

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So cool?

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It's so cool we got this answer. We've gone this

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question a few times and every time I'm like, cool.

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Ask because we're promoted one of the close things.

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There's so many bands that we love on this bill,

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and it's cool to be a part of it and

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to be here and see the speedway and to talk

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to people like you guys, and just even to be

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in the sun in.

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The drive on the speedway, Like how much of a

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trip is that easy?

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I'm a big NASCAR fan. This is really cool.

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My dad took me to Mis because we're from Michigan,

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so took me to Mis. We even made it out

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to Charlotte Motor Speedway a few times, and this unfortunately

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has not been a speedway that we've gotten to go to.

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But you know what music brought me here, and that

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there is is freaking awesome.

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So Danny Wimmer, thank you.

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And speaking Danny okay, So like that's it's quat have

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a love of artists, and I always get pretty much

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the same answer, how does he treat you as an artist? Phenomenal?

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Genuinely phenomenal, so rare, right, yeah it is, but just

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the food, just the way that they make everything so

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smooth for us to get on stage.

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It's unlike any other thing.

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I don't think people realize how the bullshit at other

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festivals or other venues you have to go through as

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a band, that it makes it so much harder for

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you as an artist. And then if shit screws up

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while you're on stage, they're blaming you, and it's like, no, nope,

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it's not them. Yeah.

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I think that's one of the best things about doing

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these kinds of festivals is it's just it's a community.

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It's a community of people all here for the same reason.

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We're all here for the love of music. Whether you're

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a fan, you're a band, media, we're all here for

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the same reason. And I think we're so cool exactly.

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We are a family, whether we like it or not.

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And it is whether you watch your band or you don't.

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We are part of walkin Rockville history. We get to

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say that we played this.

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Thing and you are making in history.

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Yeah, and it's it's an honor.

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Like we're so happy to be here and just happy

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to be a piece of the pie.

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There it is. Now. I have a fune story for

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you specifically that you'll love. Okay, So I played all

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kinds of sports when I was younger too, before I

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got into the music scene. I played one game of soccer,

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why knucklehead. The coach said you must wear a cup,

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and I'm like, fuck that, I'm not wearing a cossumeing

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he didn't wear a cup. I did not wear a

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cup and literally it was five minutes into the game

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and I was about this far from the other kid

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and he nailed that ball right dead on. I went

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lying on my ass. It hit me right in the balls,

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like yep. When I finally I could get up, I

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walked off the field. I'm not playing it every yep.

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But it was my knucklehead self that was the problem,

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not soccer.

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But see, that's the thing though, is growing up. I

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don't think I've ever worn a cup of my entire life.

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See, well, now I don't feel bad.

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No, you shouldn't feel bad. Did I have that happen?

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Yes?

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Did I try to do the same thing?

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Yes?

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Do my parents let me know?

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Here he goes.

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They're like, we paid money for this, and I was like, yeah, yeah, okay.

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My kids. Yeah, they tried to quit stuff. I'm like,

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you could quit after the season, but you're seeing this through.

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And like I ride skateboards. I never wear any patting

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or anything like, it's just like whatever, and one day

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it might be stupid. It might end up stupid, but

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so far I've been okay.

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Just don't skateboard on tour.

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You know what's funny. The first year we switched venues

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to the speedway from Jacksonville. I have my jeep out there,

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and I have my skateboard in the back of my jeep,

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and I went up to a person that runs medium.

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If I take my skateboard and I ride it on

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the wall, am I gonna lose my media that credential?

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They might lose your life.

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But you know what, it is funny because I looked

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at that wall, like it's not what it looks like

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on TV, and I'm like, fuck, I would fall down standing.

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Yeah, it's scary.

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It's like I went broken several bones on my skateboard

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on that ship and there would be nothing I could

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do about it.

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Oh yeah, No, the dude, I think somebody was telling

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me earlier.

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They're like, you have to be going at least eighty

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miles eighty yeah, to even have grip on that thing,

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otherwise you're sliding off.

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This is one of the deepest thanks.

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Yeah, in a wild it's wild. Like even at eighty

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my jeep would probably flip is like this, and.

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Then Daytona's that straight like it's straight up and down

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saying pros pro.

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Wow, it's a pros pro.

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It's amazing. Tell everybody how they can reach out to

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you guys on socials on the web by your merch,

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because you can't survive without merch, So fuck them if

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they don't buy your merchant and it's in my show.

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Yeah, you all suck.

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I'm just kidding, but yes, please, if you would like

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to buy a T shirt of vinyl, a CD, anything

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that we do have, you have an actual website of

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Virtue band dot com. You can go check out tour dates,

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buy merch there. Social media, we're on everything at of

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Virtue so Facebook, x, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, threads, YouTube shorts,

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that's probably still YouTube. But the point is if you

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type in, if you have the Internet and you have

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a phone, and you have a pulse, you can find this.

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And if you got your mom's.

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Credit card, even better, right, spend one hundred dollars get

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free shipping.

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There you go. And you know what, It's funny. You

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said threads and I'm like thinking myself, I'm on threads

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and every day I'm getting no notifications people are following me.

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I'm like, I've never even got on there. I'll share

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my Instagram post to threads. I've literally never even gone

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on it.

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You know, yeah, threats unhinged. To be honest with you,

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it's a little it's a little different.

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Right, And there's this what's that new one? I'm like,

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what's it? Blue Sky? And I'm like, fuck, I gotta

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learn another one. It's come on. It's like even it

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took me a while to do TikTok because I spend

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so much time building my vine vine and where did

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that go? So do I want to really build up

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another one for we take it away? It's part of

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the biz nowadays. It's not like the old days. Staypling

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up on telephone poles. No.

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But the one thing I will say about social media

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in general, though, is you actually do get to see

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a different side of people's creativity, Like for people that

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are able to really master that and to sell themselves

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without having to go through an intermediary or have a

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label or somebody. I love that douchebag manager whoever else

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tell you what to do. It's like, it's your thoughts,

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it's your unfiltered version of whatever you want directly to

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the people that care about it.

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And I've always felt like I was very involved in

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the sunset strip days of the eighties, and that's what

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made me go away from music. That bullshit. When the

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suits telling the artists how their songs should be, I

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think they the suit should stick to business and the

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artists should stick to music. That's what you're best at,

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and the reason you're hiring them is because that's what

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they're best at.

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Hopefully, we hope, we hope.

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But it is cool to see some of these, like

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TikTokers get big by doing it. There's one it's funny

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talk about guilty pleasures. Okay, So I am obsessed with

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that girl that was on American Idol that does that

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shuck is shut the fuck up song? Do you know

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that one? Yep, that's the one. I'm just like, I'm

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not obsessed with her and per se, but that song

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and the fact that she could get on American Idol

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to do that, like it's wild.

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Man.

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Like I told my daughter and she's like, Dad, she's

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fourteen years old. I'm not obsessed in that way. Okay,

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that's like, that's pretty fucking cool that somebody can get

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on American Idol just by doing something creative like that.

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I've seen her other stuff. She is super creative. It's

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not just that song. So now I'm like checking out over.

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I'm like, she's pretty freaking cool, you know.

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The domino effect.

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Yeah, totally. So is there anything else you want to

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let the listeners know that we haven't covered yet.

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We love them.

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That's a good one.

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We appreciate them. We appreciate you guys and the platform

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that you're giving us.

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Yep.

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We have a tour this July with our friends and Archers, Rivals,

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Dead Eyes, the Temporary High Tour. Archers putting out some

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new music, so we're gonna be out there and supporting them,

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ripping that up.

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We're playing Incarceration.

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Oh so I had to talk about that. That's what

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I would talk about too. Nineteen that's the coolest specival.

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Have you been there?

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We've played In twenty three we get the chance to

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play with Slipknot Yeah no, and Marilyn Manson started to prevail,

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So we again, Thank you again Danny Wimmer for including

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us again a little bit closer to home this time.

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I love that Shrawshank Prison Like that's yeah. I keep

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telling people my youngest daughter every time I do a festival,

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because I cover all of them in the US and

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UK Europe, and she's like, are you excited? I'm like,

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I'm doing it every week and I don't know if

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it excites the word I love it.

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Yeah.

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And then when I got to incarceration, I don't know,

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ten years ago, for the first time before even Danny

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Wimer took it over, I call her up. I'm like,

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I'm standing in the prison yard of Shawshank. Now I'm excited.

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And then this other dude who is an artist, he

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was taking pictures. I was taking pictures, saying, hey, can

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you take my picture, I'll take yours, and he's look

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at us for fanboing out on Shawshank prison is so cool.

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And then when you played did you take the tour

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and go into actual prison?

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I didn't know.

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Will you have to?

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We will this time.

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The last time we were a last minute edition, so

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a lot of chaos going on, but this time we

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actually have time to just chill.

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And oh, you have to have pictures of me in

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the jail cells and sitting taking a crap on the

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jail cells. And when you see them, these jail cells

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are not even like real jail cells for prisoners. It's bad.

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Even the prisoners win want to stay in the jail

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cells now because it's like so bad, but it's wild

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too because there's a prison right next door to New prison,

479
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so you're you guys are going to be like Johnny

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Cash with They're gonna be out in the yard because

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I've seen it. I've seen them out in the yard.

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Check it out. I'm like, that's so cool. And there's

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one point in the prison where there's a sign right

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by the windows you if you take a picture to

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felony because it's directly in the prison y Alreddy other prison,

486
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so they figure you're taking a picture to plan some

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escape or something. So yeah, looking forward to that. So

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I'm gonna be looking forward to seeing you guys at

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ink for sure. And man, I'm glad you were here

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to rock Welcome to Rockville, made it happen.

491
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Thank you.

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Thank you for being on the Adventures pipe main see

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in a few months then you got it.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin on

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w for CUI Radio.