PipemanRadio Interviews tAKiDA

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Here's your host, the vipe Man. It's the pipe Man here on the

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Adventure of pipe Man W four c
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next guest. Who are some killer
Swedish rockers? And it's funny. I

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do have a couple Sweden stories that
we might appreciate. But this band has

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been around for so long and I
can't believe they're still making great music.

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It always blows my mind when artists
like can be around for like twenty five

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years and still make great music and
sometimes and usually it's their best music,

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which is true of the new album
coming out called The Agony Flame. So

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let's welcome to his show, Takita. How are you? Ah, thank

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you? I'm just fine, just
fine. Yeah, you know I got

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a funny story for you. We'll
start off right there about about Sweden.

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Okay, Yeah, So the first
time I went to Sweden, one of

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my best bro well my best bro
of life like brothers. His brother was

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getting married, marrying a Swedish girl, and because he went to college,

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he went for one semester of college
at Uppsala and then never left. So

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I went to his wedding. I
was married at the time, and the

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bride's parents were reindeer farmers. Now
many of us idiots in the United States

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we seem to think that those are
fictional characters, like there's no such thing

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as a reindeer because they're only in
the Christmas shows and they're only with Santa.

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So the wedding that I was a
vegetarian at the time, but my

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wife ate meat and she's eating the
meat at the wedding, okay, and

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I'm like, I had the buster
chops. I was like, is that

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me good? And she's like yeah. I'm like, you're eating Rudolph And

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she goes, what are you talking
about? Like that is reindeer and she

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goes, shut up, there's no
such thing as reindeer. I'm like,

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well, tell that to ings parents, because Ing's parents are reindeer farmers,

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and that is reindeer. And then
the look of horror on her face that

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I'm not sure which was funnier,
the look of horror or the fact that

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she had no clue that reindeer were
an actual, real animal. Oh that's

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a great story I know, right, and I think people from Sweden would

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appreciate that storyboard and anybody. Oh
god, so let's let's I also want

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to mention too that there was one
thing that really caught my attention when I

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was reading about you know, the
press release and stuff, and you guys

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play that voking last year like that
that is like that's like the holy grail

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of playing a festival. Yeah,
what was what was that like for you

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as a band, especially you've been
around for so long and in twenty twenty

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three to be in what's known as
the the the Godfather of all festivals around

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the world in childhood dream right dream? Yeah, it was like dream came

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through, came through. Was we
got fucking nervous before that show, and

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that's not happening every every night now, but that was that was a great,

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a great show, and we got
a very nice slot there at six

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pm at the same stage as Megodith
and a couple of other small bounds.

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Yeah, it was a crazy,
crazy evening. See and I go on

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tour and I do radio coverage at
festivals all over the US, Europe,

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UK. I still haven't done Voking
yet, Like I've done Hellfest, you

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know, I do download, I
do Bloodstock. You know, I can

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name a bunch of them, and
that's one that's like, it's on my

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list. I'm like, man,
I have to do Voking, you know.

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And everybody I know that ever plays
it or attends it is like it's

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just the most amazing experience. So
yeah, like, what an honor after

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twenty five years to play that festival. Yeah, yeah, we yeah,

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we were in Heaven for there.
Yeah, it was crazy. It was

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it was like mud Paradise was the
weather was not that. Oh yeah,

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I heard I heard about that.
I was like, I was actually thankful

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last year that I did not do
Vadkan. Yeah it was, but we

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didn't care about that. And the
automens grew by the minute, and I

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don't know the numbers, but crazy, crazy a lot of people. So

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do you think that, you know, reaching that at your point in your

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career might have even played a small
part in the impetus to make such great

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new music that we're hearing on the
Agony Flame. Most of it, I

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think most of it was written before
we played we played the show. Oh

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that's cool. So did you play
any of the new songs at Voadkan Yeah,

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I were played one the Loneliest Hours
and single from from the album nice

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and then the crowd love it or
what. Yeah, they totally loved it

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and it's been on there the German
charts top like six I think since since

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the release. So wow, it's
crazy in Germany and the countries around Germany.

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See and that's a testament to your
band, because how many times our

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bands that have been around as long
as you have that they're fans or anybody

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watching them wants to hear new music. Usually they want to hear old stuff

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and it's got to be good for
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So that that says a lot.
And that's a good reason people that

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have never checked you guys out definitely
need to check out this new album.

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It dropped on the ninth just a
couple of days ago Napalm Records. Yea.

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And you even have some cool like
vinyl and other types of merch to

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go along with it. So that's
pretty cool. Yep. So tell us

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what about this album. What do
you feel is your growth as an artist

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in this album? Like how's it. How was the writing process and everything

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compared to previous albums that you've done
throughout your career. We didn't have a

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deadline on this album. The previous
album was still around and we so we

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we like worked on the previous album
touring, touring wise and stuff, so

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we didn't have any pressure, so
we could like take our time both writing

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and working in the studio. So
that's we used to have a deadline so

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like in two months we had to
have a monster ready for right print,

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So we didn't have any pressure,
like time pressure. And this one that's

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the biggest difference, I think,
and we have we have grown as writers

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and the producers and yeah, in
every way increased are like skills. See

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and you know what I love about
hearing that is I've been talking about a

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lot of times, how you know
if you're going to take a positive and

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not that this was related to it, but just what happened where you said

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the deadline that if you're going to
take a positive out of what the COVID

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lockdown is, it allowed a lot
of artists to jump off that hamster wheel

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and really start to create again like
they did years ago in the eighties.

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And nineties where you weren't right,
you made changes, you you really worked

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on that creative process instead of boom, we got to get this done while

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we're on the tour bus to the
next show, and then it goes out

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and you're like, uh, yeah, I wish I changed this, I

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wish I did that, and it
just wasn't the finished product ever. And

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I think what you did with this
album is similar to what I'm talking about,

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is like you actually created the finished
product because yet you could take your

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time and really evaluate what you wanted
it to sound, like yeah, yeah,

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yeah, precise, it's like that
exactly. So do you think that

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there's like a resurgence of that since
covid that Like some artists they got a

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taste of that and they're like,
I think we're going to go back to

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the old way and kind of take
our time creating music and not oways be

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bums rushed, as we would say
here in America to get it done.

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Yeah. Maybe maybe that's Yeah,
I think so, because we like we're

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jamming in the rehearsal room, listen
to this riff, yeah, and yeah

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let's jam, let's play like it
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of the writing as well. So
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thanks to the COVID, but that's
how how it was done this time.

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It's a lot more fun that way
too, right, Like you're saying jamming,

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and the first thing that popped in
my head is, man, the

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band is like smiling having fun instead
it being work to write it right now,

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I think you can hear that smile. I love that way in some

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way. Yeah, yeah, so
yeah, that's the way it should be.

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Music should be fun. If you're
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music business, it's the wrong business, yeah, you know, because there's

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too much bullshit that goes on that
at least you have to have the fun

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part, and that's the creating the
music and playing live. Speaking of which,

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uh, you know, you're on
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until April, and it's called the
Smoke and Mirrors Tour. I love the

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name of that. Yeah, by
the way, thank you, thank you.

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And so you have an extended run
and say it's in Germany, Switzerland

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and Austria. You're sported by the
English band knows damn croz and uh the

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tour kicks off h in Offenbach,
Germany on April second. Yeah, yep,

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it's gonna be great to go back
play play Germany in that area again

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because we have have a lot of
fans there that are totally crazy. Wow,

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you love them. I've heard that
the German fans are like some of

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the best fans in the world.
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amazing, Yeah, because I think
they're just so into music and so into

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the scene. And you know,
I think that's what makes back In such

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a great festival because of the people
that attend. Yeah. Yeah, And

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and the Germans are they are they
are crazy, but they are polite,

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right, yeah, they are.
If we go out to meet them after

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the show, they are standing standing
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so you think, can you can
you sign my arm or whatever? And

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in Sweden if you go out after
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grabs you, hey, you shure
the right my girlfriends. So they are

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know that the Germans they are polite
in some way, but they are crazy

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and they are singing and shouting and
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politeness in somewhere. I love hearing
that because here in the United States,

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we're just like, I mean,
we just complain about everything. I mean,

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it doesn't matter what it is.
Like I see it all the time,

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Okay, Like festival lineups will come
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band, one band drops off a
festival and it's like, oh, the

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only reason I was going to festivals
through that band. I'm like, then

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why are you going to the festival? Just go to their concert, you

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know, like that's not what festivals
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of makes me sick, Like I
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you know, and it it's like
you would think during that period of time

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where nobody had live music that you
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not bitch and complain, you know. But that's true, that's what.

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And they are rude about it,
you know. Like so it's so great

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to hear the Germans are polite and
I like that they're polite but crazy.

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It's like yeah, crazy, yeah, dedicated and totally crazy, but there's

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a ounce of politeness in it.
So I love it. Yeah, I

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love it. Yeah, such a
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Germany also gets a bad rap sometimes, you know, because people don't understand

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or they think of things like the
Holocaust, and I think I think Germany

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is more embarrassed about that period of
time than anybody can even realize. Number

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one. Number two, I think
it's also a matter of like not understanding

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different cultures too, you know,
because even in even in like the States,

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like people say New Yorkers are rude, and I'm from New York and

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New Jersey and I don't. I
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think they just tell you how it
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and they'll tell you something to your
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act like your friend and your face, and I think that's kind of what

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gets confused. I think that's true
also of Europeans, Like I go to

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the Netherlands a lot, okay,
and there's this, you know, like

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stereotype that the Dutch are very cold
people. They just don't believe. It's

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like New Yorkers, they don't believe
in being fake nice, like they're not

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going to meet you the first time
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you know, they want to get
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then once they know you, then
they open up and are extremely friendly,

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you know, and I think it's
just a matter of understanding cultures. So

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I love that you, Clara find
that about the Germans because they do get

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a bad wrap throughout the world sometimes
because the one idiot who wasn't even German.

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No, no, no. So
to get to know someone or some

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people is to meet them and and
create your own like opinion of you were

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you were nice exactly. I love
it. So how do people connect you

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on socials? On the web?
How where they go to get the new

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album? I'm sure they can buy
it through Napalm Records, and where are

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they going to buy all your merch
all that good stuff on our homepage and

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like that. We have a Facebook
and all that stuff, so that are

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linked to to the to the store, to the web shop. So it's

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like like that. Okay, So
everybody, just you know, look for

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Takita T A K I D A
Yeah, and definitely check it out.

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There is even a lyric video for
the new single Sickening, which is pretty

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badass, So thank you. Check
it out. Their music's great and it's

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if you know them, this is
even better than before. And if you

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never check them out, man,
you're missing out. Is there any final

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words you want to give the listeners
that we haven't covered that they need to

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know about you guys, whoa no, I think you you? You got

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it all there? Cool? Yeah, well listen, listen to the music,

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and come to a show. That's
one more level of it. There

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you go, do it and man, have fun on that tour, on

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the extended tour. And thanks for
being on the Adventures of Pipeman. Thank

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you, thank you so much.
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of

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Pipemin on w for CUI Radio.