PipemanRadio Interviews Widow7 at Aftershock 2023

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Radio and I'm here with Mark.
We are nice. You're an aftershock widow

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seven. I have a video of
you from this morning sound checking. Oh

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really, yeah, I was walking
through that through and coming to me and

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telling you guys are sound checking.
I'm like, oh cool, I got

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to catch your set, but I
did get to see you. I love

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after shot because we have a screen
up there and I can actually see the

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sets that I'm missing. Yeah,
that's awesome, because you know how it

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is. You're an artist. You
know there's sets you want to see you

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can't see them. I'm back here
and it's like, damn, I really

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wanted to go to that set.
Oh, you have to do the interview

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now, okay, go right.
And I want to say something too about

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what we were talking about right before
we got on the air, So I

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lost my blue it flew off and
into your dreads. Yeah. Yeah,

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it was crazy. Like one day
I woke up and like this big thing

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a blue shot in my room and
hit my hair and then I gain superpowers.

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Pipe man. There it is.
You got the pipe man powers right

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there. So if you I can't
remember because they all swirl around in my

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head. Have you played after Shock
before? Yeah? So we played one.

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Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah. I had to feel this time.

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Oh it was great, Like we
had a blast last time, but

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it was it was special for us
this time, especially because people were here

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to see us. Wow, we
did that's cool pop up meet and greet

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and man, I want to say
over two hundred people showed up to that.

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That's cool. Yeah, And you
know, you know what I noticed

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when I was out there, and
as soon as they opened the gates,

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there were people running to be up
at the rail for your show. I

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was like, that's badass. Yeah
that it was insane, man, Like

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that doesn't always happen, No,
So that that's really cool. That's a

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testament of where you're going and what
you're doing. You know. I mean,

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anybody that hasn't checked you guys out, they need to check your guy

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out. Guys out, because you've
got you're just great freaking musicians and put

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on a great show. Thank you. What's new going on these days?

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Since last time we talked that you
want to tell the listeners about Actually,

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uh, do you remember the last
time we talked? Fuck, I don't

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remember yesterday. Somebody asked me,
who's the interview yesterday? I'm like,

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I don't remember. I'll talk your
memory. So we had just started the

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interview a welcome to Rockville. Oh
that's right, that's right. Oh my

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god. Oh I did forget that. Oh that's so Florida. Yeah,

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oh my god. It seems like
forever ago. It's only been a few

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months, I know, right,
I was only in like May. Yeah,

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man, time does fly. I
forgot about that though, right now.

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As soon as you start saying,
I'm like, oh yeah, I've

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been hold on to it. I
can't wait till I see him because I'm

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going to bring up that story.
Oh man. And then you know I

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was at this festival a few weeks
ago that was even worse than that with

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the weather. You know which one
I'm talking about, the one that will

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go nameless? Yeah? Yeah,
the Voldemort festivals. Oh my God,

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so I gotta tell you a story. Then I was in the middle of

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an interview and they're like, there
was no sign of weather and they're like,

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you need to evacuate, and I'm
looking, I'm like why. And

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then we're evacuating. I'm going back
to camp. And then it started like

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out of nowhere, way worse storm
than Daytona. Yeah, and this band

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that I'm friends with I was walking
by when it happened, Heartsick. They

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have a canopy over all their equipment. So I run over there and I'm

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helping them hold down the canopy sixty
mile per hour winds. It lifted four

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of us off the ground good where
we're like, screw it, just let

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go. And then we were holding
down their other canopy and getting pelted by

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hail. It was insane. Sounds
like a nightmare, right, And I

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felt so bad for them because I
was like, the equipment being out there,

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you know, in that shit.
But luckily it was working still because

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you know what they did talk about
taking lemons and turning into lemonade heart Sick

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set up a show that night,
and not that night, but a couple

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of nights later when they actually shut
down the whole festival in the campground.

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They had older equipment. There,
three other bands. It was like an

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old school punk rock show. It
was worth it all, like it was

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a once in a lifetime experience.
It was so good that there was another

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pop up show in the campground that
was acoustic with popa roach, shine down.

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I saw that. I saw that. I prevail. Yeah, they

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ended it early because this one that
I was at was overpowering theirs because they

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had all equipment. They were just
they didn't even have mikes, and so

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they just came over and watched the
show over here. Right. See,

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Now that's worth all the chaos that
happened right there, because how often do

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you get those kind of chances?
Right, Yeah, you know that's that's

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sick man. So what's going to
be going on after after shock? I

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keep doing that after after shock.
I gotta figure a different way of say

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that. After the after after shock, We're we're going back to the studio

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where we got some songs that were
recording. We got a couple of shows,

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like a couple of one offs,
but the main thing is studio studio,

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studio. Nice. Yeah, back
to we we got a couple of

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songs already in the chamber ready to
release. We're about to come out with

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a couple more. We just actually
came out with a new song last last

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week. Was that last week?
I think it was last week. I

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don't know. My brain's mush right
now, but Wake the Dead go check

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it out on Spotify, Deezer Apple
Music, whatever you got? What's on

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there? Nice? And is it
kind of surrealty? And now after like

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you know, going through all this
time and now like you're like there,

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you're there people running to the stage
for your show and you know, people

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showing up Like do you like kind
of wonder if it's real? Sometimes yeah,

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it's weird. It is weird.
Like on one of the people who

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showed up to our show, she
came from Idaho to see us. Wow.

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Yeah. Another guy drove from Portland, another guy came from Seattle.

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A lot of people coming from all
around the country to see us. It's

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insane. Do you even conceive it
at when you start performing? No?

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Right, No, I was like, we have very bad imposter syndrome.

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Like we're like, oh, I
think, are you guys at the right

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show? Like what's happening right now? Right? What would you say?

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Has been the craziest story in this
journey so far for Widow seven. Oh,

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Man, I think I think the
one that like blows my mind the

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most is the fact that DWP came
into our lives after our first show.

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Wow, we'd only been a band
for six months, and then right before

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our year together as a band,
we'd already played Notfest and then Wow,

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it's and now you're at like all
the DWP festivals. Yeah, it's great.

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All I can say is I'm grateful. I'm grateful to them, I'm

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grateful to everybody who listens. Grateful
for you for taking the time to interview

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me. Man, Oh anytime I
like you guys are bad ass number one.

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Number two, You're just a nice, cool dude like there. As

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you know, there's some people in
the industry that are just cool people,

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and there's others, just like in
the real world that are not. You

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know, so I'm always happy to
talk with somebody cool like you. But

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I also have to say that it
is pretty incredible what I hear from artists

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all the time about DWP and Danny
Wimmer and how he treats artists and and

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kind of almost like, you know, cultivates you because it's like one day

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you're playing your first show and next
thing you know, you're on all these

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festivals. Yeah. The one thing
that I've taken away from Danny Wimmer and

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Danny Hayes is just treating people with
kindness. Wow, That's that's what I've

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taken away, and that's what I
try to live by. The world could

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use a lot more of that,
because there ain't many people like that anymore.

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Oh my god, It's just it
blows my mind, like, just

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why you have to be assholes?
Just be nice? Cares Like, that's

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the bottom line. Even people I
thought were nicer now assholes. Like it's

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like, it's like now cool to
be an asshole. It doesn't take much

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to be a nice it doesn't take
much to be nice, but it takes

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a whole lot of energy to be
an asshole. I know. I think

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about that. It's like all these
people that are being assholes and arguing with

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people, I'm like, man,
like, I don't want to spend that

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kind of energy nor to How can
it be fun to feel like that all

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the time? Man? Yeah,
I was saying another interview, I have

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a brother who watches news all the
time, and I don't you know,

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because I don't want to fucking hear
it, Okay, exact, And all

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they're doing is try and divide us
and piss us off anyway. Yeah,

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and they'll say, did you hear
about this? I'm like, no,

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I don't really give a shit.
It doesn't affect my life. All these

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people that like sit in front of
the news like this stuff affects your life

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some of it. It doesn't even
affect your life, or hating other people

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for whatever they are, like,
they don't even affect your life in any

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way. So why are you putting
so much energy? Like, let everybody.

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My viewpoint is you do you?
Yeah? Exactly, period, mind

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your business. Yeah. If if
you're not intentionally hurting somebody, then who

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gives a fuck? Be your own
person? Yeah, exactly again, mind

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your business. Right. And that's
what's cool about these festivals and metal in

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general because there there is none of
that here. This is my escape from

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all that shit. Yeah, because
I don't see it here. Everybody loves

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everybody. We're one big family.
There's no outsiders. There's nobody saying,

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oh they look like this, oh
they do that, blah blah blah bah.

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It's just like we're just all here
to freaking rock out. Yeah,

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everybody's here to listen to some badass
music like Widow seven. There it is.

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I love the shirt. Oh yeah, man, look at at Tim

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Montana. Shout out to that guy. He gave me his shirt for free.

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Wow, that's a badass shirt.
He's a cool dude. It's a

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real cool dude. Well, you're
a cool dude too. Tell everybody how

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they can connect with you guys on
socials. Buy your merch get your music,

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all that good stuff. So if
you want to connect with us on

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social media, we have Facebook,
we have Twitter or x is what it's

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called now. Hey, we have
Instagram, we have the TikTok. Follow

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us on the TikTok. We post
funny shit. If you want to listen

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to our music, Spotify first and
foremost, go on to Spotify. Listen

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to us, help us get those
numbers up so we can be on more

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badass festivals like Aftershock. Nice and
then don't be an asshole. That's that's

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that's the last night an asshole.
And then keep an eye on for new

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music. Yes, I have one
more thing, funniest TikTok. You've done

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the funniest TikTok. The one that's
sticks out the most to me right now

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is uh there is. So we're
in De Moin it's hailing like like golf

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balls, and our bass player Seth
he's filming and yells it's raining, crystal

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Man, that would actually go over
real well. And Sacramento, Oh man,

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good shit, glad you're hear it
after shock. Can't wait to see

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you again. And everybody needs to
check you guys out if they haven't already,

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because they're missing some good music if
they haven't. And thanks for being

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on the Adventures pipe Man. Of
course, of course you heard it from

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pipe Man. Check it out.
This is Mark Leon from Widow seven and

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you're listening to pipe Man from W
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