PipemanRadio Interviews Snooper at Punk Rock Bowling XXIV

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Whycome America, It's time for the
Adventures of Pipe Man on W four c

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your host, the White Man make
up. I felt down around, I

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see the ground I hear. So
this is pipe Man here on the Adventures

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

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Connor Sullivan, Connor Cummings of Snooper. See. I like when bands do

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it better, because you did it
cool right there. I would have just

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said Snooper. So there you go. First question, right off the bat,

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I was at your set here at
Punk Rock Bowling. Who's the green

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member the band? Don't mean who
specifically tell us about that green member?

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It's Blair Trammel, the singer.
A she built the bug and she is

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the bug through and through nice extension
of herself. Embodiment of Blair tramwill for

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sure. So what makes it embodiment
of her? Well, she made it,

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so that's one thing. Her life's
blood has been put into it.

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Yeah, it's always gotta smile on
his face. So that's how you really

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know. That's the most blair thing
about it. Now. See I saw

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it. I saw the green Bug
coming out at the end, and I

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thought it was gonna go crowdsurfing maybe
if the stupid ass barricade wasn't there.

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I think someone were getting paled with
the pole, and you guys would do

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a lot cool like lit you know, live stage shit. That's why I

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like about it, because anybody funny. This morning, I was doing an

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interview with Dick from the sub Humans, and that was something he said,

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is like, you know, anybody
can get up there, you know,

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and just play the music as if
you're listening to the album. But to

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put on a real show is why
people come to pop rock, bowling or

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anywhere else. Definitely. So you
guys put a lot of creativity into your

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live shows, right, What else
do you do besides that? Because I

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read that you did you do other
stuff live? You know, you do

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a lot of creative things. Tell
the audience a little bit about what how

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you get created your live shows.
Well, every member of the band has

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played in mini bands for a pretty
long time. A couple of us come

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from like hardcore dB backgrounds, indie
backgrounds, garage rock backgrounds from all over

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except for Blair. So a lot
of us have seen some of our favorite

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bands and they play good, but
they're kind of boring live. And then

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we've also seen some of the best
hardcore bands that go crazy, and we

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enjoyed all of that. But then
Blair was really nervous about being a singer,

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so she wanted to build a bunch
of props to take the heat off

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her. And then it started by
just being like, I'm gonna build a

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wait and that was for the first
show. And then she had bought me

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a tracksuit and I wore it because
it was cold out, and then we

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were like, maybe we should a
couple of us should get tracksuits. And

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then it was like, well,
I'm gonna build a giant phone. Okay,

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it sounds cool. Oh we should
build a puppet. And it just

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snowball from there, and now it's
just a combination of everything we love.

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Really, it's maximalist rock Blair.
Blair pushes everything to the absolute maximum,

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which is why the bug is there
in all the video game and like the

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blight and all that thing, all
those things are there. I love it.

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I love it. And also I
usually hate talking about genres, but

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some might some might came up with
a genre for your band. Okay,

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do you know about it? Let
me get scram scramble rocks scrambled. Yeah,

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I saw egg punk, So yeah, all the where did that come

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from? And that's been a thing
for a while now. I think it

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was a term that started for basically
low five budget rock four track recordings played

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really fast with no pedals directed into
the four track, and it was cool.

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It definitely isn't our favorite term,
but I've read a lot about like

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when post punk and shoegaze and all
those terms came out, all the bands

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hated it. So if it's easy
for a bunch of people to categorize it

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by calling it egg punk, then
it is what it is. Well,

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Connor prefers hard boiled. I like
that, And you know, well,

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on your point, the dudes from
Corn hated being called new metal, sure,

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like like they didn't even know what
the fuck that meant, you know,

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But now so I was they were
doing a press conference at LFST couple

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of years ago and they brought somebody
brought it up and they're like, well,

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now we just like embrace it because
nothing we could do about it.

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Yeah, totally, I mean That's
kind of the thing with us. I

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feel like we're just kind of like
whatever you want to say, we'll just

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take fuck it with with age,
it seems fine, like post punk to

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me is a cool term. But
I've read like Gang of Four and Joy

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Division all those mands hated being called
post punk. Yeah, but then now

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like after a couple of years,
that's how you identify them, and if

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it helps people categorize it, then
it is what it is. Well,

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it's no different. We have Davo
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new wave when I was a teenager, but they considered themselves punk. So

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there you go. I like it. I like the term new wave,

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but it confuses a lot of people
who've never heard us. They're like,

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what do you sound like? And
we're like kind of like fast new wave

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man, and they listen to it
and they don't think it sounds anything I

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do. Well, you know what's
funny is as an old school punk we

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didn't like new wave because that wasn't
punk, Like like the gatekeepers back then,

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anything that wasn't like hardcore like punk
that you didn't know how to play

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your instruments was not punk. Yeah, well, now it's changed too,

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where it's like, I know this
probably sounds so fucking stupid, but like

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the whole punk thing was always like
you know, outside or whatever, but

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now it's like, Okay, now
it feels like everybody's like egg I guess

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is like anybody can do this shit. You just have to have a four

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track and a guitar and like what's
therin quote about new wave jock punk,

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new wave asshole? Yeah yeah,
but it's just for everybody. So I

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think there just shouldn't be any freaking
labels ever. Every artist should just play

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what they want to play. That's
why, like nowadays, a lot of

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and probably you're the same, a
lot of bands have multiple influences within the

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band, whereas back in the day
it was like we all listen to this

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and that's what we want to sound
like, and that just makes it boring

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and it's already been done and then
everybody's doing it. What makes you unique

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and stand out is having the different
influences, And it's better than doing the

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Chromac's SSD style where you do your
metal record a couple of years in and

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everyone agrees on it. It's terrible. Well I'll go step further, when

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discharge turn hair metal? How do
you go for discharge? And you admitted

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that you heard it here first folks
on the pipe man. I couldn't even

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listen to that ship man. I
was like, what is this? You

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know? But there's another thing.
We're here at punk rock bowling and there

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are no outsiders. Were all included
one big family. You know. Back

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in the day, I was a
long hair. I couldn't go to punk

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shows. You got your ass beat, you're a punk and you well metal

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show, you got your ass beat. And it was stupid. And we've

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all seen the Henry Rollins interview.
There you go, and then you know

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Dr dr I was you know,
they started growing their hair out and everybody

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was saying shit about them, and
they start, hello, Hey, I'm

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camp I played drums a stuper nice
Nice of you to show up. Nice

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of you show up. Can you
give us a recap at the beginning of

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interview? Please? Of the day? What of the beginning of the interview?

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Can you tell us what happened?
Okay, yeah, I feel like

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there was a little bit of like
stumbling around introductions, but then everyone kind

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of like really warmed up really quickly
and it was really like feeling really friendly,

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and then we kind of got into
some background. We mostly talked about

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Discharge and DBAD and their new metal
record, and we talked about scrambled punk.

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We talked about uh uh you know, punk over easy. We talked

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about poached punk, which is different
from post punk. But anyway, we've

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had a great time. That was
beautiful. You need to be in radio

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too sweet. Yeah, I'm in
like that was like you just walked up

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and made the exact recap of the
whole interview perfect. I love it.

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I'm available find me on LinkedIn.
What's your opinion on the what? What's

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your opinion on the Discharge album,
the hair metal album? I I I

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love the early stuff. Thank you. I like you right now. So

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what's the wildless or best or worst
or craziest story in this whole musical journey

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for you guys? Robbed? Uh
yeah? Ben? Well Ben almost robed

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Ben, Rob. This is perfect
for Cam. The craziest story, uh

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that Snooper has ever had was about
an in and out in Oakland, California

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at three pm in the daytime.
Well yeah, which is now closed.

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Here's what happened. Uh yeah,
I closed it down. We were rolling

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up. We were going in between
the Bay Area. We're going from Oakland

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to UH to Los Angeles to play
shows, and we wanted to stop.

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Everyone was very hungry. It was
like the afternoon. We checked out an

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in and Out on you know whatever
review Google reviews. It had bad reviews,

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but we were like, I don't
know like it. It's didn't look

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into it. I didn't look into
it that hard. So we're just like,

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okay, we're just gonna go there. It'll be it's on the way

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whatever. So we go there.
I'm bed, so I don't you know,

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there's nothing in and out for me. They don't have like the Beyond

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or I don't know, but there
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the way, so I was like, just walk over there. So we

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all get out of the van.
Everybody goes in. UH. As we're

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going in, there's like a broken
tempered glass on the ground, uh everywhere,

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and signs that are just like be
cognizant of your you know, whatever's

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in your vehicle and whatever. And
we're like, okay, well, I

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mean it's also like broad daylight.
There's security guards whatever. We're probably find

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we get out of the van uh. Security guards come up to us and

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be like, hey, do you
have any valuables in there? Like there

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have been like breakings even in broad
daylight. And we're like, oh shit,

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okay, well this is like a
little bit different from back home,

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but it's fine. So we're like, yeah, no, not really.

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Uh So then we go inside,
but everyone goes inside, and then I

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start walking over to Chipotle. As
I'm walking over, two guys in ski

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masks pull up and they go,
what's up, Harry pot Yeah to me,

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and I was like, ah,
that's pretty funny. And I look

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up and that's when I see they're
in sche masks and a blackout beamer and

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I was like, oh no.
So then I was just like okay,

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so I go back into the restaurant
or into in and out. I was

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like, I got the keys.
I go back to the vand because I

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was like, this is like not
cool now, like I think it's actually

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gonna get kind of crazy. And
then they pull up again and they try

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to like back like t bonus into
the parking spot, and I was able

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to like somehow maneuver out like people
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It was like really crazy. Actually, it was a really crazy scene.

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And uh, the rest of the
band is watching with our milkshakes, watching

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him fight his guys and the blackout
beamer. Yeah. And then and then

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I somehow, you know, managed
to make it I guess, like crediting

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GTA Grand theft auto for like you
know, I don't know whatever. That's

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like the truth. It is good, it is it's good training for that

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kind of shit. So anyway we're
able to make it out. I loop

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back like ten minutes later, pick
everybody up, like and then we just

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you know, be lying out of
there, go to Saint Luisa Bespo.

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So that was a The other fucked
up part was while he was escaping the

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two people guy out of the beamer
and then when he took off, they

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got frustrated and we're all standing there
with our food and there's a family next

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to us with like their like eight
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the van, they just bash out
the back of this car. And they'd

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just gotten off the airplane and this
like eight year old girls watching like her

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luggage is stolen, thrown in the
back of this beamer and they just fucking

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take off. Wow. So yeah, that was pretty insane. The craziest

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story we've ever had. I think
I gotta tell you that could rank up

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as one of the craziest stories in
punk history. Maybe, all right,

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I don't know. I'm glad we
made it out. You know, it

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could be the next Harry Potter movie. Yeah. So I have people connect

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to you guys on socials on the
web. Buy your merch. Got cool

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ass merch here by the way,
and uh and they can't listen to my

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show anymore if they don't buy your
merch, because it's only way you survive

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and get out of those in and
out situations. True, yeah, no,

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any any help, you know,
we always appreciate you know it.

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He's a board so that's awesome.
So tell him where they can connect to

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you guys. Yeah. Snooper seven
dot bencamp dot com. What's the website

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for like merch more specifically seven everything? You'll find it all. Yeah,

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just google Snooper seven and you're bound
to find us. So we'll be around.

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Nice well man, thanks for being
at Punk Rock Bowling killing it and

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thank you man. I didn't hear
what he said, thank you pipe man.

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That was He's the serious one,
right, He's the serious guy.

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You have you have to you have
to have one. And why is it

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always the drummers people think are the
quiet ones, and they're never the quiet

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one. It was never a mic. Love it. Thanks for being on

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the Adventures pipe Man. All right, thank you, Thank you for listening

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