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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you have THENTO.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes, that's true. For see Wow, crazy young listen, it's
the pipe Man.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Here.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I'm the Adventures pipe Man W four cy Radio, and
I'm here with.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah Neil Geraldo. Here I am man.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Nice here, a nice bourbon and beyond perfect place for
you to be with this killer bourbon.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You ev. Let's talk about this, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, I got a great team three cord Bourbon.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
You know.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
It began on May twelfth, twenty sixteen. It was boring,
and it was born because I was writing a hybrid
documentary screenplay and I wanted to feature and highlight some
of the local musicians that I knew growing up, or
phenomenal musicians and seeing what their lives are doing. So
a friend of mine saw me post what I was doing,
and he says, why don't we get an angel. Let's
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get some angel investing sub seed money. We could do
a trailer May fifty thousand, maybe one hundred thousand dollars.
I said, why don't we start our own spirits companies.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
It was that day, nice yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
And that's all began. And then we had to go
find a whiskey maker, and on and on and on,
and I got lucky, got a great team.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So what's the secret behind your bourbon compared to other bourbons.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Well, I don't think there's much of a secret other
than the fact of there's one rule bearing board rule.
It better smell great, it better when you raise that
glass in your mouth, it better smell great. There's some
spirits where people say, don't worry about the smell or cheesus,
don't care about the smell, it taste gat no, sorry
it got.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I'm with ye. If it's smelling as I'm bringing up,
I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Want no, no, no, Absolutely, we try to do different things.
We keep it all in the spirit of bourbon maker.
You can't get fancy and you can't get cute. You
don't do it right. So I can't think of the.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Word I don't want to no, no, not that.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Disruptive in a positive way, a positive disrupt disruptor.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So and we take chances. So we tried different stuff.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
And we're a democracy company, meaning everybody has a vote
in the spirit.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah. If I like it and then nine other people
don't like it, you're out. I'm out. It don't work,
that's it.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I learned something new every day from whiskey make it.
So I'm really happy with my company.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
So was there a plenty in time, like years ago
that you had this as like a goal that you
want to make your own type of spirit or something.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Well, when I was a child, my family Sicilian, right,
so my father would make wine.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
My uncle's all made wine. Right.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
So my grandfather used to make gropa in the basement
when he came from Sicily to America. So there's always
like a it. Actually, the funny story I'll tell you
because you like it is one of my aunts was
at the house and they had still in the basement, right,
But they have jokes of whiskey, you know, gropa whiskey made. Well,
somebody knocked on the door. She looked through the things.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
She opened the door.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
She goes, oh my god, it's the police. She closed
the door, she dumped the whiskey out, opened the door.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It was a fireman. A fireman.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
And then when my grandfather found out come home, he
was not happy. I think it was at Nancy. But
it's in our blood to make spirits and stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
So yeah, my grandfather one hundred percent Italian Red Morone. Yeah,
of course Red wasn't his real name name. He owned
the speakeasy back in the twenties.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Oh that's super yeah nice.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So there you go, Maroni, yeah, Rony yeah yeah yeah.
And I didn't really know much about until I was adull. Yes,
if you understand what I mean.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I understand. I had a couple myself. In my family,
they had a fireworks factory. Let's just say leave it
at deest, yeah exactly. Yeah, so there's a lot of
culture there.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
But actually, when I was a kid too, when I
was about five or six years old, I remember my
Grandpa Nunzio would put me on his lap, on his knee,
and he would give me gropa in his coffee coffee needle,
sip and sip. Oh, Papa, that's no good, right, So
it's the cure, all right, Yeah, heure's everything. Yeah, your
teeth and your teeth are coming. They put whiskey on it.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Exactly. That's what we should to do.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, the guy, that's the old school way you do it.
If you do it now, you'd probably go to jail.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Oh yeah, on that right out somewhere. But it works.
It did work, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
So I also love one of your passions. It's charities
and yeah, helping others, including kids. Yeah, that's the big
one for me, Like, tell me about that. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Belonged to multiple nonprofit foundations, a children's life saving Foundation,
a bit a board member with them for about thirty years.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Child abuse. Certainly, when we wrote.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Hells for Children, we just was exposing something. We didn't
have that in our families, Patricia and I. We were
just exposing that from an article that was written in
the New York Times that Patricia started and our bass
player Roger Kapsen, And to know that that exists is
just heartreaching, you know. So a lot of foundations give
a note. I'm doing a lot of work with them now.
It has to do with music education, keeping kids off
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of drugs, stay at school, learning and learning. Different careers
are for Action, which is working to extinguish gun violence.
As you know, it's a topic, hot topic right now
and it's always a topic.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It's terrible. This gun violence should not be occurring in
this ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It's terrible.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Even with festivals like I do festivals here Europe, UK.
People don't need to ENTERWA clear bags in the UK
or Europe, but they do here.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, for that same reason.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
It's not good it's not good, so that you know,
it's a whole coalition to help with that subject. And
also a lot of things that I'm rolling out for
twenty six twenty six as well.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Nice And one last thing, I want to talk about
your performing here at Yeah, A little important thing. The
thing how does it feel to be a performing still
after all these.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, it's great, it's great. You know you feel as
soon as you hit that stage. I call it jeral
Ley Lewis blood. When I get there, I'm gonna be there.
I'm there. I'm not just hanging around. I'm gonna be
present and be there.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I love that's a true artist.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Well, no, it's because I don't want anything. I don't
want to feel anything else. I want to be in
the moment of presence is important. You want to be
and respect the moment you're in right at that moment.
And that's funny, it makes a few yell because compared
to a record, when you record a record, it's there
for life, it's there for life. A performance, you give
it all, then you walk off stage and give the people.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Like I always said when charl was trying him to retire,
that if he didn't perform he would pass away, and
look at what happened after the last performance.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It's strange how life just happened that way.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
For it is, but thank god you're here.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
You're at Bourbon Beyond.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I need to go catch your set, so I'm gonna
add the interview and you need to get to your set.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I do have to sell out at stage for something.
I think.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Let's do it. And thanks a lot for being here.
Thanks for all that you do for children. Thank you
for Bourbon Yes, and for Bourbon Beyond, and thanks for Beyond.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
The pipe Man on the Adventures of Pipe Man, Finch
is a pipe man.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Hey, this is Neil Gerald.
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For listening to the Adventures of Pipeman on W for
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