PipemanRadio Interviews P.O.D. at Rocklahoma 2023

0:04 Hey, you love them too? Cents sure from four see Wow, Wake up America. It's time for the Adventures of Pipe Man on W fourcy dot com. West Palm Beach is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the pipe Man. You get your pipe on the part, contact by the loss and giving the play? Why never tell you know what's about? Best not given? Also, I'll make a stand and when it's all standing time, it's all standing until you can't play that. This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c why Radio. And I'm here with Sonny And is this tray from the Bad po d Yes here at rock Lahoma? So how many times or have you I don't even know how many times have you played this festival? Third time playing? If I was the guest, I think it's our third time playing it. Have you been here during like the tornado festivals? No, I think I might much rather have a tornado than this heat right now, though I know right at least it would be windy, right, I always wonder man, Although I know that you're probably get in the zone and stuff, But how you play during this heat, especially if you're you're bringing it okay? But I know,

1:38 like you're get in the zone and you die after the set, But is that basically how it is? I pretty much died during the set today. I couldn't, dude. I was just I don't see how sunny does it actually? I mean, yeah, he goes one hundred and ten bro and it's like I had no energy to it was literally just draining. It drains you man. Yeah, it's it's dream. I don't know how the crowd does it all day long. It sits out there in the sun. Oh. I always feel for people. I remember I was at one festival it's like a hundred degrees and Taylor Mumpson was wearing her long leather coat and I and I'm like, we're just sitting talking. I'm like, who the fuck are you playing like that? You know, it's like, oh my god, take it off. Take off the coat. This weather is like minimal clothes is possible exactly if you're bringing it. You like, it's it's hard, it's hard, tak top short. So I'm like, we get it.

2:35 So how many people? Because I like to ask questions, nobody asks how many people ask you? Both of you? What's your favorite tattoo? Yeah? A lot of people do, then I'm not fucking answer asking that question. Don't. But what I do want to ask about, that's I think most important is philanthropy because I know you're big into it. You know. It's funny. I remember years ago I was interviewing Lacy when you guys were doing that touring for suicide kids. Very strange to me though. I was talking to her and I brought up about that, and then the tour manager came over because it starts they had an interviewer and starts doing this, and she shoot them away and just kept talking. And afterwards she's like, thank you so much for asking me that nobody asked me that. I'm like, how can nobody ask you about something that important? Right? So tell me a lot about your philanthropy because I think that's real important. I mean, Lacy, she's done stuff with us, with the Whosoevers for the longest time. You know. I just recently started the Youth Nation Foundation, so it's more towards urban kids, you know, and music and creative arts and stuff like that. But a lot of the stuff that we do with Whosoevers we go into you know, high schools, public high schools, detention centers, rehabs, you name it, wherever they have us myself, you know, head from Corn now, Austin from Mice and men's been doing a lot of stuff, you know, skateboarders, all kinds of guys. And we

4:06 just go in because we just share our story with these kids, you know, to offer some type of hope. And you know, when you happen to be in a band or whatever, they give you a little bit more their their time, and and we just try to encourage them and just let them know that we do believe in them, you know. And wherever they'll they'll they'll listen to our story, you know, and it's it's just a story of you know, love, redemption and hope, right, you know. Hope is the word I key then on because that's a lot of things with these kids, is they don't have that hope, you know, and so they need somebody like you that they can relate to. It's one thing if they add some like suit or something stuff telling them to have hope, like yeah, sure, okay, exactly, you know, you need somebody that they're going to relate to and actually feel like they do have hope.

4:55 I think I think That's what we try to do is just let them know we you know, we were like them once, you know what I mean, we're just older kids now that's all right, you know, I mean it just us being you know, parents and stuff and having our kids can grow up in this crazy world that we see the things that they go through, and it's tough for these kids. So yeah, they just need to know, yeah there is hope out there. Yeah, it is tough and it's tough to have hope when you see all this stuff going on, and just like sometimes it's it doesn't stop for some of them. You know. Yeah, kids are I think these kids do these days are exposed to way too much. We were younger, they kind of they're exposed to adults stuff. Now we're you're younger. We weren't exposed to adult things. And what I mean by I'm talking about just like the ways of the world, you know, the evil and all the bad stuff that's happened in the world builds, whatever it may be. I think sometimes kids just need to be children.

5:46 They need to be kids, no doubt. It should be innocent and they should be out plane in a creek or something like. They got plenty of time for the other bullshit. I always told my kids they be a kid as long as as you can, because you know, be an adult is it's hard visits, it's up right, And remember we were a kids and it's like we couldn't wait to be adult, and then you become an adult and you're like, what the hell was I thinking? Yeah, And like Trey said, with all social media and just you know, Internet, all this stuff, they're just it's too much. I read this like a stat where they were saying that these kids are getting so much data, you know what I mean, where like years ago, you would have had to been eighty years old just to receive that much. And so I tell people the same same thing, like I only have so much room in my brain.

6:31 Man, It's like and I'm trying to get rid of all the bad stuff, and you know, there's just I don't there's no more room for all this negative stuff. And but these kids, they're constantly on their phones and they're looking, you know, they wonder where they're depressed. They're depressed because they're seeing things that there's nothing positive stuff and actually, well it actually is a reality to an extent, but it's not a reality for them, it's exaggerated reality. I didn't know where my parents are going through. I didn't know. I was just a kid, you know what it's. I'm glad you brought that up because I had a discussion with my youngest daughter recently and she got upset me that I don't tell her everything I go through.

7:12 And I'm like thinking, myself, why do you want to know? Man? Like you? Right exactly, I'm and it's funny she's getting mad at me. I'm thinking I'm doing the right thing because I'm like shielding her from all this stuff. But that's what they're being taught nowadays, that they should know everything and they don't need to. They don't need to. I even said to her one day, I'm like, you know, some one day, I just want to drive down the road, throw out my laptop, phone and iPad out the window and keep driving. She's like, Dad, who you can? You're just as addictive as everybody. I'm like, yes, but I remember a time when we didn't have it, and life was better exactly, less stress less, anxiety, less panic attacks, less depression, all that stuff really now because we live in such a fast paced, you know world, dude, too much before these phones came up. Man, I probably ten or fifteen phone numbers. Memorize them right now. I know, right number. I remember my number from first grade, Okay, I remember when we got our own landline, like ooh right, oh, and it's it's touch tone, no dial right right oh? Man. And see, I love that people like you get involved in this because to me, music is the best therapy, both for you the artists and me the listener. Man. Sure, because like I know so many artists at music

8:43 saved our life yea, and all of us. I think music saved our life. I think that's why we're all a bunch of piste off people that that couple years of COVID with no live music. I remember, gall Man, I don't care if some kid gets them on stage with a recorder going that live show. Yeah, yep, yep, I would. We would cruise when you know, they opened stuff up and we and if we heard music, we were there. I didn't care what it was, man, because it is such a release. So you got that two years without that, yeah, you know, it's like and for you guys as artists, man, Man, my heart goes out to you because that's rough. Yeah, we we you know, we've been a band for over thirty years.

9:28 So it's like I think we went a whole year without even seeing Trade, you know, because Trade had moved and and we hadn't played a show in a whole year, and that was we were. We probably played more shows than a lot of bands, like every year for right, you know, and to not do anything. It was pretty pretty strange, man. And it is a certain life on the road, like that's a dirrent thing. My daughter says, like I've brought a festival sometimes and that halfway into the first day, she's like, I'm done. I don't know how you do this every weekend, dad, because I'm done and me even and I'm just pressed. I was freaking depressed a ship because I was stuck at home, like I'm not used to It was like you know how it is, you go out, you go out tour, when you get home, there's that like come down, like almost like coming off of drugs, you know, And so now you had two years of that. My wife was like, when are you going back on a road? Right? Right? I Mean, I love my wife because she didn't need to do but she knows that, you know, I need to hang out with the boys for a little bit. But it's like she has her neutine too. Yeah, she don't want you on top of her all day every day. Tell me about it.

10:37 I used to having us around that much. Man, Right, I gotta leave, so maybe you might you might like me again? That right? Exactly? Totally so like that though, but it was true. It was It was rough man, eighteen months. It was like, I feel like, did you find some new passions though? And that like I like to find out from the musicians, like did you find out something else you're passionate about? If God's music wasn't a thing anymore, I wouldn't say it was a passion so much. But I realized how important and precious time is. Yeah, all those times when I was out on the road and I missed Christmas and birthdays and all this other stuff in time with my children. I can never get that time back. It's like you kind of it kind of made me feel about feel how precious time was and how much you need to live every moment with your family, like it's the lasted during COVID.

11:31 I was stoked at first, you know, I was like, oh, we tours off the hamster whale. But after a couple of months, you know, you realize, oh dude, I you know, I miss what I do. You know what I mean. It's it's just a part of who we are. But you know, I got to experiment just with other music and stuff. I was at home recorded a bunch of reggae tunes and so I just it was just yeah, like because I I've said to a lot of rs, I'm like it, you're gonna take something positive. At that time, it's that you as rsts, got to jump off that hamster wheel because it's NonStop and you have this deadline from one gig to another to write a song. And I think it built creativity back because you could actually focus on the creativity and write music without rushing it and without the pressure and like just really evaluate is this what you want to put out there? Because like nowadays it's like you're a rush to put it out and you're not really finished, but it's like, Okay, I gotta put it out, you know. Whereas that time, you could keep evaluating, evaluating and change and even change maybe your thought process on where you're going to go with music at that point because you're so used to same thing all that time. So what you just told me confirms that to me too, you know, and we change We had to change up too, because you know, even the writing, we're used to being in a room with each other, you know, but we couldn't. We'd have to you know, send music. We'd have

13:03 you know, it's a couple of us to go up to LA and have to you know, the piece by piece and so so you'll be hearing a lot of that in our new records. So we're totally excited about that. Nice. So what else can we know about the new record? I think we're dropping a video and like a single September twenty first, But I think we're just it's not gonna come out till next year, but we're gonna, you know, waterfall a bunch of singles and videos and just so people just you know, could just take one at a time and build up the hype a little bit and then we're ready for the record when it drops. Love it, Love it. Craziest story ever in thirty years? What is it?

13:43 I mean, dude, there's been a lot on one. Crazy one was we played in in Brazil and dude, the stage was it was like overhead high right, and it was like a festival and no, no, it was just it was just a pod show and a bunch of local bands. It was packed, bro, And we didn't even end up playing till like I want to say, like three am. That's how once it cools down. But there was bands all day. You know, everybody's on a good one, but are so we're waiting around. But our drum tech at the time, I remember jumping off the stage to get into the crowd and thinking, oh, that was a long drop, but I was on my butt. I kind of screwed myself down. That was a long drop.

14:24 But when I got in the crowd, my mic went out, and our drum tech he didn't think about it. He just saw that I was in the crowd. My MIC's out, He grabbed the spare, he ran, jumped over the monitor, but when he landed he snapped, freaking his leg. Dude, and the crowd is pointing at me, telling me, you know, And I didn't know I was in the crowd. In South America, so there wasn't a regulation height stage. It was probably like I mean, it was ten feet. We had to wait for the ambulance to come they had to clear the crowd and then after so that it was like our it was our first song, so we were sitting there, We're like what do we And then we had to play because the promoter was like, dude, the crowd is gonna they want to play. So we had to play a whole set knowing our one of our buddies was being and you know, and it was like a third world side of Brazil. So it was like yeas around it mass around for a month where we finished the tour and we went home. He was still there, oh man, because it's the medical stuff. They couldn't take him up in the air. It was and like I said, the hospital was it looked more like a veny clinic. Dude, it was, you know, and it reminded me. The first part of what you were talking about remind me was that one of the festivals body Countants planned and Vincent Price jumped off the stage, broke his leg and was on the ground playing still like a badass like. He played the rest of

16:00 the set and then they took him to the hospital. Right, Oh, that's so cool. So and he uh, oh, I did notice something. Now you got Hebrew on your wrist. Oh yeah, yeah, you're the second artists today that the Hebrew tattoo. Oh that's so cool. I've been. I've been to Israel about five times. We usually take a bunch of groups out there, and you know, we go throughout the Holy Land and learned the history and the culture a lot of the biblical sites. It's nice. Yeah. Yeah. Last year while I was at hell Fest, my youngest daughter was doing birthright in Israel, like and it changed her life.

16:45 It changed her life, man, it does, it really does. Well, that's way cool, and I just nice. My son has one like right here, and he's in the army and he's actually fought for Israel, Like when that whole thing was going on with Israel and the Roan, he went over his crew went over there, but then he stayed every all the other soldiers went and he's like, no, I want to stay and fight for the home country there and yeah, totally. And then like when he was in places like a rock there, told him, yeah, don't take your shirt off right right right? Oh man? Yeah, man, thank you for your service. Hey, well, thank you for giving us great music. Yeah, you know, and thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipe man. Yeah, Man, appreciate you, brother. Yeah, what's up? This is Trey, what up? This is Sunny from the Badfield D And you're listening to our main man, the Pipe Man on W four c Y. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pike Man on W for or CUI Radio m