PipemanRadio Interviews Taproot

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from the Pipe Man Radio Tour temporarily until

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I go to app to Shock.
And as you know, I've been to

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several festivals, but there was one
festival in particular that this band was ain't

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gonna play at. But Weather had
a different idea. So let's welcome to

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his show, tap Root. How
are you well? Man? It's Steve.

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How are you Steve? And so, did was that wild or what?

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Let's just start there. That weather
that just came out of nowhere.

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Yeah, it was kind of a
bomber because we drove all the way from

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Michigan down to Virginia and then,
you know, I heard that the first

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night didn't go so great, but
the second one was okay. But it

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started raining on our day, so
they just ended up calling it. We

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were there for you know, hours, and hours just killing time. So

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it was a bomber because we look
forward to getting out there, and you

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know, there were a lot of
people we knew going to that show,

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and it sounded terrible for the people
that were camping and had to take buses

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out. They had to wait for
six hours the one night where they got

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hit by lightning and all of that
stuff. So I understand with it raining

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outside, they you know, just
wanted to watch their butts and make some

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insurance money whatever. Yeah. Right, well I'll tell you interesting story since

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you're on tour with this band.
So as I was being evacuated on I

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think it was Thursday, and I
was going back to camp, the storm

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started and this storm came like I
have nowhere and I live in Florida,

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So I'm like, there must be
a tornado nearby because and I don't know

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if there was or wasn't, but
everything that happened would indicate it was.

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And so as the storms starting,
I'm walking by the Heartsick site and so

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me and my photographer we ran to
their canopy because they had all their equipment

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there like outside yea, And so
we're helping them hold down the canopy and

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it literally lifted four of us off
the ground. Oh my gosh. Yeah.

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So then we let it go and
then there are other canopy. We

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were holding that one down and then
we all started getting pelted by hail.

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Yeah. It was a trip.
So yeah, makes for a good story.

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My god, I'm sorry to hear
that. I know that that's a

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rocket Roll story, right, Yeah
it is. That's cool. You were

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hanging out with heart Sick for a
minute though. They're they're opening for us

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on our show on Friday. Yeah, so you'll have to talk to them

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about it, because here's the bonus. I don't know how late you stayed

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there on Saturday, but Saturday night, Heartsick put on a campground show with

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three other bands they headlined. Yeah, and it was sick. Oh,

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it was. It was sick.
I mean, like, to me,

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it's unfortunate for you to band,
but to me as somebody that was just

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happened to be there and it kind
of sucked, that was a good way

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to make it not suck. It
was almost like better than the actual festival,

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you know, to this impromptu punk
rock style campground show right here.

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Hell yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. We when we ended up deciding that

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we were just going to go back. We ended up tweeting out that are

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not tweeting, but putting on our
Facebook that we were just going to go

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to a local bowling alley. So
anyone that was reading our message that was

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from out of town or whatever.
So we got to meet a whole bunch

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of people that came just to go
bowling. I mean, we didn't moole.

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We just drank and did karaoke there
you go. And you know a

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lot of bands were doing that because
like you weren't alone. There were so

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many bands that were canceled and there
were like pop up shows showing up everywhere.

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Uh but for you for bands.
And the reason I'm talking about this

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too is I think listeners don't understand
because sometimes they blame the bands for this

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crap. You know. It's like, oh, they should play it anyway,

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you know, And like that's why
I wanted to hear your end of

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it, because you guys really want
to play there, you know. Oh

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absolutely, We're trying to promote the
new stuff as best we can. We

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don't need to not you know,
you know, try to push our product,

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you know, because we're really excited
about the new music. And so

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let's talk about that. Okay.
So I absolutely dig a favorite song.

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I love the title of that song
because it's like, it's kind of cool

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in one respect, it's smart in
another respect because it's like you always ask

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somebody, or at least I do, what's your what's your favorite song?

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And so now it could just be
favorite song. That's yeah, it's easy

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to say. And I just love, you know. I love getting deep

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into the songs that are really you
know whatever. But I think that most

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most songs that make you think too
hard, you need a break from every

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once in a while. So if
people you know ask you know a little

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the song about him, I want
to just listen to the chorus. It's

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about not knowing the words of your
favorite song, but you still sing to

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it. Everyone can relate to that, I know. And how funny is

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it too, how many people sing
their favorite song and it's the wrong words.

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Absolutely, I'm still a guy.
I don't actually sing karaoke. Let

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the other guys do it. But
if I was going to do karaoke,

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I'd probably need to read eighty percent
of the lyrics my favorite songs, whatever

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it might be at that time.
I'm a drummer, and then a guitarist

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the last thing I needed lyrics and
or vocalists, I know, right,

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and then just sometimes even the best
of us like it just so much sounds

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like another word, and you just
when you've been doing it for five,

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ten, twenty years singing the wrong
lyric, you think it's the real lyric.

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Yep, that's the best. Part
Two is I think, uh,

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you know, we have a lot
of non point things song. And I'm

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pretty sure on the last chorus because
I say every time I seem to sing

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along, and I'm pretty sure he
said every time I sing to sing along.

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So I think both words criss cross
on the same the same part.

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So it's like not even the same
lyrics, which is great. Oh that's

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cool. See I like hearing stuff
like that. And so how did that

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come about that you did the song
with Elias? We've known each other forever

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and I knew I wanted to have
someone on that bridge. I just wasn't

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sure exactly who. He obviously kept
popping up in my mind, but you

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know a lot of and when I
told him, you know, I'm trying

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to find someone that, they all
said alias. So I was like,

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Okay, that's not a problem.
So I got to hold the rob the

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drummer, and ask fors info,
called him up, sent them on the

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track and let me some great vocal
and I just had him chinched two words

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and I mean ailed it. He
made this song, you know in my

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eyes, the eight to nine nice
and so tell us about the rest of

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the album that is dropping on the
twenty ninth only a few days called Scissors.

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Yeah. Basically most wrote, you
know, about ten years ago to

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be the tap record following the episodes. But we kind of had some falling

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out between can band member stuff like
that. I had to take a break

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and then I would carry my mom
before the way. And what sparked this

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whole thing was like, all right, I need to focus on something and

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do something productive. And I was
gonna just do this record and releases.

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I mean, I did the record
on my own impything and recorded it.

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But he says, Philly just gonna
promote it to you know, a couple

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of thousand friends, fans and followers
and all that, and just kind of

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put it out there like, hey, check it out if he gets a

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lot. You know. My basis
was like, hey, that's not cool,

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because we knew the songs ten years
ago, the demos, like,

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we love that stuff, and it
was supposed to be the next staff Root,

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so we're gonna make this the next
staff Root. And I was like,

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oh, okay, so when I
we're full in playing a whole bunch

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of shows and got a CD and
LPs and skateboards and all that nons outside

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of it, so I'm cool with
it. Nice. I like that you

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have skateboards too, because I'm a
skateboard It's like, it's such a cool

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piece of merch. I think.
I think everybody should buy your skateboard.

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I agree, like I don't.
I'm a hockey skater. I can't do

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the skateboards. I have to have
two separate feet to do anything properly.

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But my daughter just turned thirteen,
so I got her one of those and

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she loves it. See it's funny
you should say what you did because I

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do skate also, but I'm I
like the one board thing and I like

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not being attached. So if I'm
gonna eat crap, I can dive off

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right. And same with snow stuff, Like I'm not big on the skin,

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but the snowboarding I like better because
it's the one board, but I

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do skate a lot, and it's
funny. My my ice skating coach,

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he would always say to me,
like, you need to take more risks,

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and it goes right along with what
I was just saying. It was

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like, because those skates are attached
to me, I'm thinking, yeah,

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I don't want to eat shit faure
enough. But yeah, I don't know,

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it seems it seems scary to me
on a board for some reason.

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If it's like two feet most walk
in. If you're you're gonna go,

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you can kind of control it.
I know you can bail, but that

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other more teams if you get like
scrape and craps. Yeah, well you

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know. I'm also a surfer too, and you know the first thing they

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teach you when surfing or skateboarding is
how to fall. That's like the first

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thing you learn, like what to
do when you're going to fall, because

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basically it's inevitable. First, I
got you, Well it makes sense.

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But yeah, you're a surfer,
so you're you're a double triple if you're

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on a snowboard. Yeah you need
that. Yeah, exactly. So tell

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us about the upcoming shows too.
You got a bunch of Coal upcoming shows,

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So all those people that missed you
at Blue Ridge, you know,

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maybe they can catch you at one
of these other shows and it might even

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be more fun. Yeah, no, it's gonna be a blast. The

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CD comes out this Friday, the
twenty ninth, which is also my wife's

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birthday, so that's double special.
But then that's also at our our hometown

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place for the you know, it's
the Machine Shop in Flint. Any band

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that tourist class, but you know
me the bat on the Country. Everyone

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loves it there, so for us, it's gonna be great. We sold

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out three nights in a row,
and that's like our hometown place. We

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have people coming from Poland, from
Canada, from South America, Germany,

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so it's gonna be really cool to
meet a whole bunch of new people and

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you know, play some new music
and celebrate the holiday and the record nice.

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So how do people connect to you
guys? On socials? On the

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web, Get the new album,
check out the tour dates, buy your

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merch by your skateboarding including including that
Yeah no, I mean just anything.

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There's you know, official tap root, tap Root, official tap Root merch,

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all those dot coms and or on
the social platforms. It's it's fine

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of all, and just look up
tap Roots Saussors. It's the new one

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and we're pretty stoked about it.
Well, I've heard some of it,

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and I'm pretty stoked about it too. Everybody's definitely got to check it out.

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And uh man, it's so badass
to have new music from you after

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all these years. And thanks for
being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

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Oh dude, thank you so much
for having me. I appreciate it.

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