June 17, 2026

Set it Off at Download XXIII Donington Park- PipemanRadio Interview

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PipemanRadio speaks with Set it Off at Download XXIII Donington Park about their performance at the legendary music festival.

Pop-punk/alternative band Set It Off performed at the Download Festival at Donington Park in Castle Donington, England, on Saturday, June 13, 2026. They took the stage at 3:50 PM on the Opus Stage, sharing a lineup with heavy hitters like Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, and Guns N' Roses.

Their set included a mix of their high-energy hits. You can verify the exact songs played during their performance by checking the Set It Off Setlist at Download Festival 2026.

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This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man

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and I dragged a Florida band with me out of

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Florida to come to the UK and here they are.

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Yeah, set it off.

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And it's good to be here. We love Download and

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we're excited to be back in the UK.

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Uh.

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We always have a great time here at the show.

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Is the kids here really care about music and it's

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cool to be able to perform for them.

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Yeah, it is.

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I love it here too, like I do this one

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in Bloodstock and I love coming over here as press

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doing it, you know. And the people here are so

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into the music. And one of the big things I

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noticed too is, like a lot of festivals in the US,

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you have people in the Facebook groups and shit that

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only do is fucking complain, Like hello, were you here

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for COVID for two years.

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When we had no live music.

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I thought everybody would stop complaining, But I don't ever

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see that here, Like they don't even care.

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Just they just want to hear music. Yeah.

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I think it's because a lot of bands don't get

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to come over here. They don't have a lot of

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bands don't have the opportunity to come over here, So

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whenever they do come over here, the fans really are

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excited because they don't get to they don't get as

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many bands as maybe the States.

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Does that probably true?

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What experiences do you have, Like you have stories of

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playing over here in the UK that really stick in

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your mind?

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Absolutely.

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I mean it's starting to pick up more in the

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US now, but I always felt like, ever since we

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started touring out here that rock music has been so

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much more prevalent in the UK and Europe specifically, And

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so our first time coming over here one just being

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able to see everything, the sight seeing and everything in

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two just to see the passion and the love that

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these people have for live music, especially rock music, has

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just been insane. I mean, we played our biggest headline

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show ever in Germany. We just played our biggest festival show.

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At Rockham Park.

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So the love that we feel coming here is just

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something special, you know it is.

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And you know what blew my mind the first time

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I came over here for festivals is there were bands

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from the eighties that I was totally into that I

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thought we're gone, and like, holy shit, they've just been

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here all this time, you know, and you turn on

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the radio here and they're play like old school shit

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and it's like, wow, that's really cool.

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I mean, if you had told me that we would

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be playing the same festival at the same time as

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Iron Maiden, or if we would play the same festival

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and the same day as Gune and Roses, I would

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have laughed, you know. But it's it's it's incredible to

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see these are the bands that I grew up listening to,

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the bands that my dad grew up listening to, and

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getting to not only see them live, but share a

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stage with them, as it is to dream come true.

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Man, I'll take that step further because one time, when

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I was chatting with Jacoby Shaddocks, I asked him, because

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he was at a festival in Europe, I'm like, what

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you love about, you know, doing festivals in Europe, because well, it's.

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Kind of a fucking trip.

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It's great, Like I'm playing on the same stage as

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Earth Wind and Fire. You know, it's like, that's what's

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cool over here too, And you're right, Wimmer is starting

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to take the cues from over here. In fact, I

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know for a fact that he went to Hellfest just

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to see how the European festivals are to pattern it

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in the States, and we are storry to do that now,

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you know.

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So that's really.

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Cool because it is cool that we can be one

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big family.

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But we don't have to be the same genre even here. Yeah, exactly.

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couldn't even go to a fucking punk show because I

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had long hair. Yeah, you know, and it shouldn't be

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like that. Music is music, Music's graace therapy. If we

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had more music, we'd have less of a bullshit.

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Going on in the world. Yeah, I agree. So what

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else do.

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You guys got going on coming up? We want to

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talk about?

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in November. It was a long time coming and we're

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very excited about it. But we're already moving on. We're

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gonna start releasing music sooner than later. We don't know

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exact dates yet, so I'm not gonna leak anything. But yeah,

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things have just been moving for us. It's been really

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really fun. And what else we got going on?

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I mean, everything is moving so much faster now. People

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expect content faster and faster and faster. So we're just

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gonna try and put out a new record and then

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tour as much as we can and and try and

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hit as many places as we can.

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So we're trying to.

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Enjoy the uh, this tour specifically, because then it's back

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to the studio and it's back to work. But it's

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been it's been such a gift to see that. You know,

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we haven't been out here in what a little over

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a year now, and there's always a fear of like, oh,

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maybe they've forgotten about us, maybe they don't care or whatever,

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and they've just the crowds that's been so big and

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we're so grateful for that. So we're enjoying it now

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and then we're gonna hunker down and make some more music,

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make a new album.

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Yeah, and you're here on like holy ground that download

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at Donnington, Like, I mean shit, I was twelve years

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old when they first started doing the festivals here at Donington.

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Yeah that's a long fucking time ago.

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Yeah, I mean it's it's an honor to be on

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the stage and and above that, to just have people

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give a shit, to have people care is amazing.

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I think.

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What I care about is I think you should bring

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back the podcast.

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We've been hearing this a lot, and we started doing

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it because we were home and because we had all

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this time on our hands. We wanted to find a

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way to connect with with our fans and our audience

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if we weren't out there playing shows with them. And

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we've talked about trying to do it on the road.

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But once we figure out kind of how to make

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it work, I mean, I would love to.

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I had a blast doing it.

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I get I can help you, actually, but go ahead

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with what he was gonna say, I.

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Would also I was just gonna tag on. Yeah, I

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would love to keep doing it. It's so much fun.

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I'm actually gonna be I've been talking about it for

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a while and now I'm gonna do it. I'm actually

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launching another network as only bands doing podcasts, and we'll

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do the work so the band only has to do

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the talking. Yeah, and we can we mastered even before

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COVID the remote, so you could do it from your

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tour or whatever and just show up. We'll engineer, we'll

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produce it, we'll distribute, and you just do your thing.

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It's not a bad idea. Yeah, sometimes we have trouble

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trying to record because Cody's always got like gott to

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rest his voice, or we gotta there's press or you know,

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it's like hard, it's hard to lock down a time,

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and then I feel like we just lose track of it.

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But this is all bullshit excuses. You just got to

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buckle down and do it.

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Yeah, we had fun doing it, so maybe we should

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bring it back.

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And it is a big thing now, like so, I

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think it would be killer, and it gives the whole world,

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even the places you haven't toured yet, to be able

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to hear your music and hear you and feel like

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they're connected to you, because I think that's what podcasts

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are doing nowadays. It state they allow the people to

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be connected to the people.

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Yeah. Bottom line, it's funny.

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When I was, you know, listening to bands growing up,

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any backstage access or learning anything about them as people

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outside of them on stage was rare, right, they kept

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they were very private, and now it's almost the exact opposite,

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where it's like, I know what everyone had for breakfast

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this morning.

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So what did you have for breakfast this morning?

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This morning?

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I ate a sandwich. Yeah, I just had it was

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a little like turkey and cheese, nice, some toasted bread.

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balance between because at first you want to tell them everything.

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it with all of them. And then there's certain stuff

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you want to you know, just have for for you

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or just you and your partner. So trying to find

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that balance and trying to find how much of your

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life you want to share with the internet has been

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an interesting shit.

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I keep it all private.

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There you go, But the podcast is a great way

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to open up and to show them, you know, who

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we are when we're not playing music.

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Because that's what I'm always interested in their reviews a

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lot of times is like I want to know what

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your passions are outside of music, because everybody else is

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asking me about the music. Nobody's asking about that stuff,

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and that's.

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What I like to know.

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And I also I love your merch by the way,

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thanks and they people can't listen to my show, and

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let's they buy your merch. But one of the coolest

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pieces I thought when I saw the sweater on your

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in your merch store. I'm like, now that's fucking cool

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because not many bands do that. Well, was it It

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was like a cardigan sweater or some shit like that.

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We've been we've been trying to figure out uh, you know,

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every band is doing merch. Every band has the same shirts,

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the same hoodies. So every now and again we're we're

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trying to think outside the box and think how can

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we make something difference. So we had this, Uh one

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of my favorites was a split. It was black, half black,

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half red, and it had devil horns on the.

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Hood of the hoodie.

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Nice and it was such a pain in the butt

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to really figure out how to get it made and

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getting it all ordered. But once we did, the fans

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were so excited about it that it made it all

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worth it. I was like, I think this is cool,

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and it makes me so happy that they thought it

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was cool. So yeah, just love trying to come up

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with new ways to come up with with cool stuff.

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Everyone has a band tea and they're they're great, right,

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you know, but I outside the box.

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I agree that you have to have some unique stuff

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that nobody else has, and that that's the stuff I

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would buy, like because I already have like five hundred

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T shirts, you know, so I would like something like that.

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Set it like really stands out, you know, and uh,

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you know, sometimes even something stupid that's just funny, you know,

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talk about the plushes.

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Oh yeah, we made uh set it off plushies, like

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a wolf in Sheep's clothing plush And it's and I

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think there's such a market for collectibles now, just outside

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of music. You know, there's all these people and they

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want these things that they can hang on their walls

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or put on their shelves, and it's you know, why

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not why not bands?

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Why not us?

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Why can't we do stuff like that little keychain, you know, things.

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Like that exactly, Well, everybody go get set it off

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plushy and uh, well.

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You guys go set it off of here right down load.

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I appreciate it.

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Man.

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Thank you so much for having us.

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Thanks for being on the Adventures pipe Man.

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Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin on

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w fur c u I Radio.

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