PipemanRadio Interviews Ryan Oakes at Aftershock 2023

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Yes here at Aftershock. Yes,
sir, oh is this a cool festival

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or what? Like it's so cool? Yeah, right back here, like

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look at this area we have here
to hang out with a free alcohol,

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free drip bar. There's gonna be
a chef later making food, no way,

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yeah said. So it's very new
for me. This is like my

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first time at something like this.
I did Rockville in the spring. But

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yeah, like the festival life,
it's very new and it's crazy to just

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take it all in, like how
complicated it is in a good way of

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just like how many moving things there
are and every time it's super nuts.

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And you know the DWP festivals,
I do a lot of them. They're

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the most organized and I have yet
to hear one artist say something bad correl

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any date DWP festival. It's baffling, how smooth like our Loadan was like

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they are on top of it.
Yeah, I love here and stuff like

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that because nothing more is going to
stress an artists than dealing with a bunch

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of crap that goes wrong before you
even get on stage. Yeah, I

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mean they deserve the cred. Like
we drove overnight to get here and make

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it. We were all exhausted.
We get here, they were like,

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you're good, loaded in, super
smooth, When got some food, super

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smooth. They deserve a lot of
credit. Nice yep. So then later

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you can come back here and get
some food and hang out. And it

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is like every festival has its kind
of like own cool vibe. This one

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this is part of it. Like
you didn't have this at Rockville. You

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had similar, yeah, but not
the same. But then Rockville you have

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the daytime speedway Yeah, which is
like insane and it's cool because the course

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light stage is what we're playing.
Were you used to like the concrete everywhere,

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it's like a grass field and we
saw trees and I was like,

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nature, I love that. It's
so nice. Take did you walk the

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ground to ray and sees So it's
cool. Right, there's like trees and

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it's like you're actually in a park. Yes, it feels very good for

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an artist to see that nature stuff
for sure. Yeah. Now I like

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bad news is it's like the hottest
weekend of the year in California. Yeah,

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it's been brutal. Oh man,
So tell us what you have going

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on after after shot. Yeah.
So I'm currently on tour with this band

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Don Broco and the Home Team,
and we're doing a US tour right now.

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We after our set, we pack
up immediately and head to Texas to

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get back on the dates. But
yeah, we're going down through Texas up

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the East coast and that's about it. There's only like seven shows left.

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But it's been great and I'm happy
to be here. Is your hat on

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your merch site? No, this
is my friend's brand. Actually, they

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gave it to me to wear,
and I promise them I would, But

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I love this hat. It is
so freaking cool. Like I any time

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I wear baseball heads, backwards.
That's one I would wear front. I

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love that. I'll let tu.
I'll make sure I let them know because

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it'll be stoked. Oh it's badass, thank you man. It like cut

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my attention. So you gotta get
it on your merch site then, Oh

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yeah, I gotta get them like
a partnership or someone get it up there

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for sure. Right, So tell
us what's been going on since Rockville that

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listeners need to know. Yeah,
man, I'm starting to roll my second

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album. The first single just drop
two weeks ago. We're gonna let the

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second one fly next week actually,
so we're kind of getting them out there

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pretty quick. But yeah, lots
of music, lots of music videos,

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lots of touring hopefully for the next
few years, and just keep trying to

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keep the machine going. Dude,
all the content, all the stuff you

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gotta do. It's a lot of
work, right. Oh yeah. People

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don't realize. They think of like
the old days where you know, rock

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stars were falling over themselves and doing
nothing but their gigs, and nowadays,

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to be an artist it's like a
full time job of everything else. Yeah,

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then a full time job of being
the artist. It's like being your

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own entrepreneur. I personally like it
because I'm kind of a nerd of that

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stuff. But it's definitely a lot
more work than it used to be.

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No hater shade. All those people
worked very hard, but the Internet just

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changed the game for everybody. Which
social do you think you use most out

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of all? I keep blowing up
on TikTok, man, I'm one of

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the people that got lucky. Yeah, Like after we talked, I blew

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up even more and it's been going
super well. So I try to be

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good on that. But yeah,
just the basics, like TikTok, Instagram.

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Now it's like YouTube shorts too,
and like Facebook a little bit,

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YouTube shorts have been becoming popular.
Yeah, so that's cool. It's a

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it's a tough one for me to
figure out, but I'm trying to get

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there. But TikTok has always just
been like clockwork. You know what's tough

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too. You don't want to put
the same thing on everything. Like there's

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a lot of people in any industry
that they just share their tiktoks to their

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Instagram And I actually was reading up
something like Instagram will punish you for that.

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You know, yes, they want
their content not not tiktoks content.

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Yeah, they've gone out of their
way to like tell my label, don't

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do that really and will help push
you more basically, so there's some words

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of wisdom out there. They definitely
don't like it. Yeah, So what's

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the either craziest or funniest comment you've
gotten on one of your tiktoks? You

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get a lot like people call me
Draco Malfoy just because my hair's bleached,

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and it's like that's like kind of
second grade feeling. And then you just

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get the classic people that are like
this isn't rock and roll because they're like

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fifty years old and you're on the
wrong part of TikTok, and it's just

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like you guys just gotta let people
come in and innovate, do their thing.

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If you don't like it, it's
all good. You don't gotta go

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out and make mean comments about it, you know, because clearly it's connecting

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do that. Yeah, Like I
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like during the pandemic, it was
the place to go to escape that from

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Facebook. Yeah, and now it
seems like it's Facebook. Everyone just migrated

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over when they heard and then it
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too, And I'm gonna say right
now, I'm fifty six and you are

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fucking rock and roll. Thank you. I appreciate it. So they're idiots,

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you understand. Yeah, you know, some people just don't get it.

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Their idea of rock and roll is
like Elvis, and nothing passes exactly

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exactly. You gotta evolve, like
listen, even as an artist, from

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what where you started to where you
are now. I'm sure you're not the

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name of the same artists, right
right, you know, you gotta evolve.

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It all evolves, And I kind
of in radio it happens too,

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because radio is a whole new thing, and I basically focused on the new

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thing. Well, while as my
competitors, they're focus on holding on to

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something that doesn't exist anymore. I
call it WKRP in Cincinnati syndrome. Did

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you ever see that TV show?
No, it's a TV show from the

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seventies about radio. Okay, So
the reason I'm saying is because they're still

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living in the seventies. Yeah,
yeah, how to do radio? But

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same as you like my way of
pushing out radio isn't you know, the

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same as people did like ten twenty
years ago. Yeah, you have to

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evolve, you have to go with
everything, and that's why you're here it

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after show. Yeah, and it's
super important to me, Like, if

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you're not innovating and trying to do
something new and trying to like make the

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next waiver like the next big thing, it's kind of pointless at this point

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because everyone knows how to do that
now, respectfully, Yeah, you might

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as well just try to go out
and do something crazy or new or weirder,

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experiment a lot, and I feel
like that's where you eventually evolve into

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becoming some massive artists that everyone was
excited about. Yeah, and you know,

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we talked about this last time.
I love the fact that TikTok makes

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it so easy for artists to blow
up. And I mean from the algorithm

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it's so different. Yeah, you
know, like Instagram's a bitch. It

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sucks, man. They got to
work on that. Oh my god.

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I've been like sometimes I'm just like
I don't even know why to do this.

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I'll like take time off because they'll
frustrate me. Yeah, whereas TikTok,

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did I tell you last time about
my daughter's boyfriend? So keep going?

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Maybe he solves Rubik's cubes. Yes, yeah, yeah, he blew

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up from solving rubis cubes. It's
not like he's a kid, he's twenty

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six years old. But it was
like, there's something like that didn't even

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know anything about social media, didn't
even know how to work Instagram. Yeah.

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So that's what's cool about It takes
people like you or anybody else up

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and coming. They really can make
a career for themselves from it. Unlike

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the old days where it was like
you had to get lucky. Yep,

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you know. So that's really cool. It really removed luck. And it's

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really cool because, like you're saying, that kid in middle of America,

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in a town of one hundred people, they have just as good as a

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chance as anyone right now. Yeah, And that's really cool. And I've

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seen some artists blow up like that, and I think that it's great.

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And it's crazy to me that some
artists are like anti TikTok, where they're

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like, I'm not doing the social
media stuff, I'm not doing the posts.

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I'm like, yo, this stuff
changed my life has changed, showing

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to people's lives. Why not just
do it and just do it? Yeah?

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Why not? If it works exactly? You know, and to your

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point of somebody like in the middle
of the country. Back in the old

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days, they would have to like
pick up hitchhike to La, trying to

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hand c these out outside like a
record label prey. Someone didn't throw it

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in the trash can, like yeah, crazy, And so now you know,

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then maybe you couldn't afford to do
that, or maybe you didn't have

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the balls to do that. Now
you don't have to, Yeah, And

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that's what's cool about It gives everybody
an equal opportunity. That's what I think.

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It's really cool because I was one
of the people that was like,

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I'm just gonna go to LA,
but some of my friends never went,

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and they're doing just as well just
because of the Internet. They didn't have

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to sign a record deal fully independent
like making crazy amounts of money because their

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streams are as hih as a mainstream
artist, Like, the game is completely

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different. Now, what was your
favorite TikTok to make? I do enjoy

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the skits, but I kind of
have this formula now that works where it's

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just like a certain editing style and
as long as they like the song,

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the TikTok blows up. So we
somehow got really lucky where mine are really

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simple and they just do really well
and it doesn't require like planning or much

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thought. That is lucky because some
like TikTok too. On the other hand,

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I look at it sometimes like I
have like five hundred drafts in my

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TikTok because you get that look to
like, oh my god, I'm gonna

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have to spend eight hours making one
minute video yeup, you know, because

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the draft doesn't mean shit. Yeah, it's what you do after that.

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Yeah, I mean it's cool.
Luckily, before I did music, I

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was a video editor very so I
was I just got stupid lucky with that,

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so I just like get it done
very quickly. But I'm one of

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those weirders that enjoys learning stuff like
that. I'm like, the more skills,

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it's probably more beneficial down the line, I guess, so great.

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I'm always yeah, I'm like that
too. Yeah, I'm sure, yeah,

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for sure. Yeah. And you
know the thing is is it's kind

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of cool to hear somebody being able
to do that and create. That's the

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cool thing. Yeah, is Like, you know, some people may put

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TikTok down, but I give so
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That's why I was saying why I
did. It's a lot of work.

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Yeah, it's a lot of creativity. People think it's just like, oh,

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you know, it's doing it for
yourself. No, you have to

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be good to make a good tiktoka. So basically what I do is I

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just study what's going viral. I'm
like why, and I try to like

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reverse engineer it and it's worked.
Like you just have to take the time,

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figure things out, try a lot
and fail a lot and you'll be

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good. I love it, it'll
work. What else do you want to

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tell the listeners about what you have
going on that we haven't covered already,

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Just that there's a lot of name
music coming out one song every month with

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them video warn huge content overflow MO
to get this album ready. Nice.

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Second albums should be coming in a
few months, which is exciting. And

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yeah, just come see me on
tour. If you're around the East Coast,

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come check out the dates we're gonna
do Dallas, Austin, Houston,

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Atlanta, Baltimore, Philly, New
York City, and Boston. So if

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you're around there, come check us
out and have a good time. Nice.

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If you were to use one word
that would describe your uniqueness as an

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artist from other artists, what would
you say it would be It's a bit

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of a lame one, but versatility. I think I am one of the

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most versatile right now. I don't
think that's lame. Yeah, in the

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society we live it it would have
been lame like in the eighties. Yeah,

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in twenty twenty three. I think
that's the only thing that makes you

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a successful artist because otherwise I talk
about this all the time, they just

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use this formula and like, music's
not supposed to be a form Yeah,

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you're supposed to be a creative,
you know. So versatility, I think

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means you're a true artist for sure. So I love it and tell everybody

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how to hit the socials and your
web and buy your merch and all that

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great stuff. Just look up Ryan
Oaks on any streaming platform and Ryan Oaks

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music on any social media and you'll
find me, You'll find my merch,

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you'll find all that good stuff.
So yeah, come check me out.

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Cool. Well, I love that
you're here at Aftershot. Thanks for being

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on the Adventures Pie. Thanks for
having me, dude, Thank you for

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listening to the Adventures of plate Man, I'm W for Cui Radio.