PipemanRadio Interviews The Elovaters at Sunfest 2024

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And I'm here with What's Up?
What's Up? This is Jack weather

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be and Nick Asta the elevators.
So here's what's really cool is I was

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over there for the set right now
and they called out my name because I

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interviewed him just before they went on. And then I come over here and

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we're talking and he's like, oh, he's up there singing with them.

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So we got to hear you sing
from over here. It's a big family

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around here. You were late to
the interview, Jackson s see. But

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I love that especially in you know, the community you guys are in.

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As far as music, it always
seems everybody's always playing with everybody. Isn't

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that more fun? I think it
is. I think it's the way it

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should be there. It should be
that community thing and everybody's just vibing with

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each other. We couldn't agree more. I love doing collaborations, like when

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Shwayzy hops up with us or anybody
Scott from Stick Bigger, maybe a little

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Stranger today. Yeah, there you
go. And so we were talking about

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the interview about this festival you do
up in your hometown. Yeah, because

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I was asking about this shirt that's
bad assays wearing super Fresh, right,

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Oh, that's so cool. So
he's like, yeah, it's from the

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surf shop. And so why don't
you tell us since we were talking off

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the air, let's tell the listeners
that story about Levitate is amazing. It's

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from our home area. Back home
in Massachusetts. They make their own clothes

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like this shirt, which is dope, and they throw a music festival.

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I love that epic music festival every
summer. It's going on ten years.

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Levitate Music Festival one of my favorite
festivals in the country. Absolutely, So

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I think what should be done because
I'm a surfer too, is like I

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do all these festivals where it's on
the beach, and I'm thinking myself,

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Man, it'd be cool if you
were having like a surf competition at the

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same time the bands were playing.
Would that be cool to start that out?

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I know, right, would that
be a cool festival? Or what?

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Really? So pipeline that what is
it the jungle in California? We're

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playing skate Safari. Yeah. Nice, it's gonna be epic Grande a royal

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Grande California. Yeah, I love
it. I love it. So SunFest?

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How did this happen? Like that? I'm here because it's my hometown

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and I go and tour and do
all kinds of festivals. And I saw

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bands like you guys here. I'm
like, wow, pretty good for the

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line up for SunFest this year.
Yeah, I mean, we're honored to

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be with all these great musicians today. We got the offer and it was

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a hard yes anytime to come down
to Florida. We were just actually down

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here two weeks ago. Yeah,
what was it in Orlando? And I

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also saw a video about something with
Miami or it was m i A but

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it looked like Miami dude. That
was actually a green screen. But I

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agree Miami vibes for sure. You
know the auto. I love it.

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Yeah, it was funny because I
look at them, Like, that's pretty

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funny because you know we're here in
West Palm and there's a rivalry here between

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West Palm, Miami, Orlando,
Fort Lauderdale. You know, but it

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sounds like a local thing. Well, yeah, I live in West Palm.

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I don't know if I'm on West
Pump's side Palm. No, it

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is cool. My parents Fort Lauderdale, so I'm down there a lot.

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But West Palm's pretty beautiful. See
what I do like Okay and Sideway.

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I like about West Palm better is
that everything's not already built out like in

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Flauderdale. It's all built out,
and like you can have a festival like

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this on the inner coastal. I
mean, this is badass. So there's

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other festivals, but they're not as
cool as this. I'm sorry, go

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ahead. We played Tortuga Music Festival. That's a cool one. I was.

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It was like very country wet.
We made them the only reggae.

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That's why I'm surprised you were on
that. You should have been on Riptide,

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which plays at that same beach location. Like when you said Tortuka,

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I'm like, wow, that's weird
because that is a country festival. But

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they have another one called Riptide that
you guys would fit right in. Keep

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that in mind. I'm down there. You go down at Tortuga, like

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it's on the beach, so everybody's
in bathing suits. Yeah, and my

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mom and dad came and my mom
My mom was like looked at me in

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all seriousness and was like, butts
are so in right now, And I

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couldn't stop laughing. Oh my god, that's so funny. So tell us

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what you got going on. After
SunFest, we're pretty much flying around every

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single weekend playing festivals all across the
country, even up to Alaska. And

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then it leads right into Levitate Music
Festival and then our tour with Slightly Stupid,

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the Dirty Heads, the Common Kings
and Us Oh my god, and

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then leads right into Fall Tour,
leads right into our Australia New Zealand tour

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with the Original Whalers, and then
back to California and then to Mexico.

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Wow. So it truly is an
endless summer. Yeah, I love it.

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I don't ever want to be paler
than I am right now. That's

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well mission. You're in the right
place. You're in Florida, so you

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could be out there on that stage, maybe fifteen minutes enough to not be

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pale anymore. That's what I'm looking
for. What's it like, Bernards?

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I always asked this, playing in
this kind of heat and humidity, Like

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I think to myself, Yeah,
you're in the zone while you're playing,

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and then you get off stage.
It's like, okay, I can die

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now. Yeah, that's exactly what
it's like. This isn't bad today.

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No, it's not. Summer tour
Mesa, Arizona, mid midsummer, one

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hundred and eleven degrees on stage.
When you go up, it can be

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pretty relentless. Yeah, we'll just
drink your water. Luckily, the past

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couple of summers we've toured, everyone
has ice baths, so nice. Usually,

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I just that's not a new trendy
thing too. I love this is

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my favorite new trend lately. What
you like about it? Well, when

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you're I think you're gonna die from
heat exhaustion, you hop in that for

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a couple of minutes. You're back
to life immediately. It has tons of

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tons of perks, tons of stuff
for your health that's good for you.

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Nice And what were you going to
say? I was going to talk about

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the heat and Phoenix, Arizona is
the worst in the summer. We played

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early. We were opening up for
Stupid and Dirty Heads. Oh yeah,

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and the sun, so the sun
was still just hitting us by the time

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they played. It was up over
the Amphitheater. But wow, I almost

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I almost died. I think I
would. I did at festival in Europe

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called hell Fest, and literally it
was fuck hell. It was one hundred

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and four degrees. Like I was
doing interviews outside because the press tent was

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too hot. That's insane, right, I don't even know how bands performed

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there because it was like it was
seriously, you want to die. You

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know, it's bad when the ac
on your tour bus isn't really working anymore.

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Oh yeah, that's put on some
board shorts and sweated out for a

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couple of days. There you go. So, what's your best story or

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worst story? All these years in
music? You're eighty years old. What

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story are you going to tell so
far? It could be the worst or

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the best. We opened for the
Jackson five ones in St. Martin.

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Really there's only three of them there
at the show. But yeah, they

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they had the bedazzled jackets, they
had all the dance moves it was.

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That was pretty cool. It was
them in Third World. Wow. Yeah,

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and that was probably like, I
don't know, our first year into

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being the elevators. Wow, that
is pretty cool. Yeah. Crazy.

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Sometimes down in Saint Martin, it's
easy to just go off the rails because

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it's it's so beautiful and everyone's partying. And I accidentally stole someone's moped one

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time. He was like, yeah, drive it around and then I got

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lost. Oh yeah, I dropped
it off on the side of the road

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and had to make my way back
to the hotel. But it didn't turn

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out good. I guess they were
after me for a little bit. His

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name was Bruno, and we're still
sorry Bruno. Yeah, I'm sorry Bruno.

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He's got list of his podcasts.
I'm getting those. No, it's

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all under the bridge, and I
think I hope so see. That is

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the thing though, You go in
those foreign countries and you just start driving

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around on scooters and ship you don't
know where you're going, and then it's

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like, now what I was just
in Costa Rica for three months and you

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could get lost easily there, like
like in the middle of the and then

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you're screwed. Like there was one
time, I was like, Okay,

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I'm gonna be sleeping on this mountain
in the middle of jungle because I had

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no clue where I was and no
phone service. I love Costa Rica,

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Oh so do I. So what
else you want to let the listeners know

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that we haven't covered that they need
to know about the Elevators. We obviously

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new music coming out this summer,
a bunch of fun projects in the works

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for the next twelve months. We
won't be home for more than two and

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half weeks, so it doesn't matter
where you are. You can probably see

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us playing come out to a show
soon. And yeah, all of our

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love for everybody that's been listening supporting
us, and it's nice to be here,

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nice to be talking to you.
Well, you guys are definitely badass.

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You got a great groove and I'm
so happy to see you here at

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SunFest. Let's tell everybody your socials
website all that stuff and how they can

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buy your merch check out your tour
dates. Yeah, everything is just the

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Elevators E l O v A T
E r S, Elevators dot com,

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the Elevators on Instagram, Facebook X
is that what they're called? Twitter?

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Now? Yeah, I can't even
call it x TikTok. Oh, yeah,

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getting big on TikTok? All right, what's your wildest TikTok that you

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have? No, I'm just kidding. We're not really good at TikTok.

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We're working on it though. Management
says we need to figure it out.

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So uh oh, there you go. Well maybe maybe they'll shut it down

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before you figure That's what I'm saying. Everybody else is against this. I'm

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like, this might save us.
Actually right exactly. Well, I don't

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have the energy to do all those
dances that go viral, right, I

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think I can pull that off.
You got that you get You could just

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do something where you just make fun
of people. Sometimes. You got to

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see Nick do the moonwalk. He
doesn't mean Billy Jean moonwalk. Let's see

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it right here and now all you
should do it up on stage. Yeah,

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there you go, drum line moonwalk. Yeah, just stand on top

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of the drums and do it on
there's Braden. Write this down. Brain's

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our tour manager. There you go, and he rocks too. He's a

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stud. Without the tour manager,
nothing happens. And it's his birthday.

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Another one, Oh my god.
Their tour manager's birthday was yesterday, right,

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Oh, Dave Snell, Happy birthday
to both y'all. Wow, it's

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the birthday festival right now. I
love it well. You guys gotta go

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play now, so I'm gonna let
you go. But man, I can't

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wait for your set. You're gonna
kill it out there. And thanks for

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being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. It's been a pleasure. Thank you

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so much. Thank you for listening
to the Adventures of Pipemin on w for

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