PipemanRadio Interviews TX2 at Welcome to Rockville 2024

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t X two nice. So here
you are, welcome to Rockville. Did

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it blow your mind? Number one? Being on stage here at the Dayton

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International Speedway too. The crowd you
had that early on the first did you

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see it? Did you see this
at I saw a little bit, not

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because I can't really get out of
here, but I have to like try

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to catch a little bit of every
artist that I'm interviewing so I can at

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least say, hey, you were
badass without making it up right. I

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I appreciate that, and dude,
it was nuts. I'm still on a

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high. Every time I play a
show, I get a high, and

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it's like a post show high that
it elevated because my first ever festival,

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you know really well, yeah,
you're the second interview today, first ever

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festival, crazy man, there's a
whole new generation coming, you know,

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no doubt, And what's it?
What you expected? Okay, it's first

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festival you play ever. Yeah,
I'm sure you got all these things going

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in your mind. What you expected
to be right now that you did it?

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How does what happen compared to what
you envisioned in your mind? Nothing

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at all what I expected in my
head. I was ready for an empty

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crowd and I was ready for it
to be like our first time. And

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then the fact that so many people
showed up, I was like, wow,

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I can't believe. And the people
knew the words, and I'm like,

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you know, it's my first time, so my mind's blown, and

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it's like a really good sign that
what I'm doing is paying off. Uh

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and you know kind of mean part
of sometimes I expect there to be hate

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or something like, but not a
single bit. It was like that was

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like a there's a mosh pit.
It was fun. It was a good

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show. I love it. I
love it. Did you jump in the

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mosh pit? I couldn't. It
was like it was like a the stage

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drop for me. I should have
stage it is probably taller than you,

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right, yeah, that's my that's
my thing. I was. I was

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thinking about it. Usually when I'm
mosh when I play shows and I have

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a mosh pit, I always jump
in as shit. This tooth right year.

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But the drop we were talking about
it. We were like, if

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I broke my leg on that it
would just ruin everything. So maybe not

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the movie I've seen that happen.
Okay, body, have you seen someone

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drop off that body Count was playing
and Vincent priced the guitars fell off the

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stage and broke his leg and kept
playing. That's what you have to keep

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playing. The show never stopped.
It was fat ass. He was on

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the ground playing, right, Like, that's metal as fuck, I would

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agree fully. So when you're up
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and then there's this whole crowd,
what's that feeling. Are you already in

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the zone that it didn't make you
nervous? Or is it like, holy

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fuck, I didn't expect this it
did make me nervous because this is all

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I do. I eat, breeze, sleep in my career, and I

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I'm so I and I've played shows
for enough years now that it's not a

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nerve thing. But it's more of
a surprise. It's like, I don't

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know, I always feel like there's
like a sense of power when you're on

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a stage, and but that gives
me the chance to be in the moment

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and focus on everything happening in the
crowd and I got to just enjoy it.

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So it's like it was like the
best. I haven't had a moment

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this happy in the last three four
months, you know. Wow. Yeah,

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I love hearing that because we're and
you talk a lot about this,

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but it's mental health Awareness month.
Yeah okay, And to me, I

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just talked about this on my live
show yesterday, the impact that music has

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on your mental health, both artists
and the listener. And it's like,

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to me, the best therapy there
is for you the artist. It's very

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cathartic. You get things out that
maybe you can't express elsewhere, and almost

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with you feel like there's not gonna
be judgment because you're just singing a song

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type of thing right, And for
me the listener, I can relate to

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whatever you're saying or whatever else,
but it can take me somewhere else that

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I can avoid all the shit that's
in my head. Right. Yeah,

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I'm glad. That's the whole goal
with music, and the fact that he's

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doing that is a good sign.
You know. That's how you know it's

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a good song is when it takes
you out of the moment. Yeah,

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exactly what do you think about music
today as far as the message is?

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I tend to think that artists like
yourself, the messages they put in their

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music today are even more therapeutic for
mental health issues than they were way back

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when, let's say, where people
were just angry or angst or whatever,

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but like talking about real, real
issues. Yeah, I think that well.

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On the mental health note, all
that matters is we are talking about

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it and there's no stigma about it. There should just be never a problem

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about it. And it's good that
people going to have that healthy conversation.

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And then in terms of artists in
music today, I've spent so much my

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life being hated for the type of
music I made in my music that I've

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realized that music is a subjective thing, and I just feel like everyone is

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making art based on what their truth
is in one way or another. Yeah,

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And I find it hard trying to
ever judge music is good or bad

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because who am I to be the
arbiter of what is good and bad?

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So I always just try to take
a song as a message and try to

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decode it whenever I listen to music. And that's smart because even what you

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said, it's like, what could
be good to you maybe bad to me

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or vice versa. Or maybe it
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what appeals to somebody. Everybody's different, Like you know, I sit there

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and think about it when people say, oh, that metal makes me like

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this and that, and I'm like, man, it pumps me up.

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Like I'm also a motivational speaker and
I'll blast like stuff like Slayer in the

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car driving to go do a seminar. Yeah, let's go, dude.

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I'm excited to use the Slayer reunion
and the show are you Are you kidding

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me? I went to their first
show ever, like a Slayers like one

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of my favorite ever bands, and
like when they announce that, I know

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I lost my shit because I was
already excited that Kerrie King was playing with

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his solo project, but then it
was Slayer too. I know, I'm

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like, oh my fucking god,
you know, but listen, they were

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hated on in the beginning. I
think any great artist makes music that at

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least people hate and love at the
same time. But if everybody just likes

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your music, I think it's that's
the kind of mid music, right,

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is when everyone likes it generally,
right, Yeah, And you know that's

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the music that maybe doesn't have as
much meaning because they're just trying to appeal

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to everybody instead of being real right
and going deep right, you know.

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I think as long as someone's being
true in one way or another, even

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if they're like telling fictional stories that
are true to them in some way,

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you know, because some artists do
that, I think it's good. Yeah.

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Yeah. So another thing it's cool
today in music, and you are

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an example that is there's no real
outsiders. I think all the outsiders are

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inside this community, you know,
and like you talk about, you know,

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you're very supportive of the LGBTQ community, which is not not always been

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the case in music, and especially
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is kind of ridiculous because who cares
what anybody does, what they like,

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what they don't like. Like,
let's just all be a big, happy

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family and whoever loves who and whoever
does whatever, as long as you're not

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intentionally hurting anybody, man, I
would support whoever. Yeah, I would

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agree. I think that's all been
mat that should matter, right. I

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don't know why people are just care
about other people's business so much. You

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know what I'm saying your own?
I always say to these people that say

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so much shit, like I'll say
it to people I know they are friends

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of mine. I'm from New York
and New Jersey originally, so I'll say

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it straight as it is, and
I'm like, it doesn't affect your life

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in any way, shape or form. Why do you care? Yeah,

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I don't know. Well, probably
because I have a theory that most homophobic

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men are closeted. I think you're
right, you know what I'm saying,

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because why does it matter what someone
else does? Oh, I know this

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guy's worried about other people exactly suspicious. Well, and you're right though,

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because I think isn't that the case
that some of the biggest haters are that

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are homophobic. It's because it's projection. It's always, well, that's what

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that's what hate always is, right, It's projection of some sort of insecurity

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you feel for yourself. Otherwise,
why why don't you mind your own damn

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business? Like what do I care? Like? I have friends on all

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sides of the track. I don't
have to be exactly like them. I

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don't have to like the same things. And you know, like you brought

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up about homosexual men, like most
of my friends, I know, they're

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like, yeah, we're not gonna
hit on you, like we don't want

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We don't hit on everybody. And
if you're not interested, it's like,

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I think it's no different than heterosexual. It's like, there there's women I'm

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friends with, and there's women,
so I'd be like, oh, I

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want to be with her. But
it's not just because I'm a herosexual doesn't

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mean I want every single woman I
look at, and I can't be friends

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when women without whining to get in
their pants. Yeah, I mean,

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this is it's so simple When you
say it like that, dude, It's

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like, why is this even exactly? It's like, Okay, somebody explain

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this to me the best. Okay, It's kind of like with the non

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binary thing. Okay, somebody explained
it to me. I'm like, that

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was so simple, made so much
sense, they said, Dean, It's

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like if somebody if you want to
be called Dino and people refuse to call

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you Dina, Like it's the same
thing. It's the same except why why

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does it matter? Let people just
do their thing, you know what I'm

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saying, Like, it's not your
business to why people want to dictate so

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many things. Everyone's micromanage, micromanage
who you love, what you identify.

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Why does that even your family members? Like she couldn't be pissed right now,

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but I don't give a fuck.
But like, my grandson is non

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binary, and we were sitting there
and during the holidays one time and my

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ex wife says to him, you
know, and he actually goes by him

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now, but he was going by
that and for they for a while,

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I don't care what you say.
I'm not calling you that. And I

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looked at him, like, what
do you give a fuck? Yeah,

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why does it matter if it makes
our grandchild feel better to call that it's

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day then, Like it's one thing
if you make a mistake and slip up

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you know, it's an earther thing. If you're intentionally why do you why

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do you intentionally want to hurt somebody
by something as simple as that? You

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know, And no matter what your
belief is, it doesn't matter. I

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look at it this way like I
look at the younger generations as the older

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generations forget what it was like to
be them. Well, I think people

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fear change, Yes, yeah,
Hatred comes from fear, and fear is

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always of something changing because people like
comfort. And you know what I'm saying.

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Most people don't live on the road
and see new places every day.

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They spend their same routine over and
over again, and something changed and that's

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scary to them. It's so funny
you should say that, because I grew

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up at a time where it's like, oh, don't leave America. It's

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the only free place, it's the
only safe place. It's scary out there.

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I remember the first time I went
to Europe, I was like,

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what were they talking about? Because
I'm not getting that vibe. I feel

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more free here. Yeah. Propaganda, you know, yeah, exactly.

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So I think we need more artists
like you that we could take this polarized

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world we're living in right now and
bring everybody back together, and we could

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just all be one race, the
human race, one people. It doesn't

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matter what you're, what you identify
as, what your gender is, what

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your sexual preferences, because it doesn't
affect other people's lives. And if it

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just makes somebody happy, why do
you want somebody to be miserable not being

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who they are? Yeah? Facts, that's my mind, your own business

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exactly? Did that? I love
it? I love it? So what

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else have we not covered that you
want to talk about about your music and

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people need to know. I think
that you covered some of the most important

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important things just in general. I'm
just lucky to be here right now.

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I'm just happy to have an opportunity
like this. Dude, I've never done

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an interview radio interviews like this.
Are you kidding me? That's what I'm

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thinking of my life. I'm like, this is normal for people that comes

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in like play a show and then
do radio interview. I'm happy, man,

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I'm just I'm happy. And we
get to talk about important things too,

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which is cool. Yeah, I'm
really happy right now. I don't

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think there's anything else to have besides
see Matt, that is the key right

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there. Let's tell everybody your socials
how to connect on the web, get

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your merch, get your music,
check out, tour date, it's all

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that good stuff. Sure, if
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music service, you'll be able to
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official on any social media YouTube,
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we have our website. We're on

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a headliner. We're about to play
Sonic Temple and then so what and then

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we're playing the UK where you played
in the UK. We're playing the Dome

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and then we're playing Download Festival.
I will see you there at the Dome

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at Download Download. Yeah, downloads, I'll see you again, which is

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cool. Yeah. And then dude, which is festival life is I'm happy

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and I'm hungry. Nice. Yeah, you'll love download too. But Danny

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Wimmer has some of the best festivals, like I do festivals all over the

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United States, UK, Europe that
they just they know how to do it

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for the artists, for us,
for everybody, like to make people happy,

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just like you. I'm happy.
Yeah, there it is. Yeah,

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shout out the festivals they make They
make me happy. Danny Wimmer making

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me happy. You know there it
is. I love it and I love

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it. You're hair at Rockville,
You're gonna kill it at Sonic Temple.

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And thanks for being on the Adventures
pipe Man. Thank you for having me.

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I appreciate you. Thank you for
listening to the Adventures of plate Man

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on w for CUI Radio.