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Matthew Mettscher: From Studio Stories to Podcasting Insights · The Scene Projects

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  Welcome back.
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  Today, we are joined by Matthew Jay Metcher from Long Bust Short Thoughts, a storyteller,
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  creator, and motivator who's all about building champions in life.
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  Stick around as we dive into his journey, his projects with Five and Nine Productions, and
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  the mindset that drives him forward.
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  Let's get into it.
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  This program is part of the Scene Projects podcast network.
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  Scene Project features interviews with independent musicians, comedians, and artists
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  from across the Midwest.
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  Become part of our community and support local art wherever you are.
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  Well, welcome in to another exciting episode of the scene.
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  I'm your host, Bubba Starts.
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  And with me today from Five and Dime productions, Matt Mescher.
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  Welcome to the show, brother.
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  Hey.
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  Thanks for having me, dude.
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  Oh, it's a pleasure.
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  Beautiful studio you got there.
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  Thank you.
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  It's it's been a dream I've been building for a little little over sixteen months now.
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  So, you know, it's been building in my head for years.
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  But
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  That's awesome.
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  So we've been at this about the same amount of time.
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  I started my podcast back in, like, March, April 2024.
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  And to look now, I think I just got the vidIQ.
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  We've had 950 uploads over 225,000 views on our YouTube.
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  And, yeah, man.
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  It's crazy to see how fast they can go when you really put the work in.
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  And we're gonna get to all of that.
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  So I wanna give you the floor.
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  Give us a little bit of your backstory before the podcast, and then I know we got plenty to
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  talk about.
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  So before the podcast, I was just like everybody else trying to get by.
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  Ended up driving a semi for a couple years to kinda it allowed me the money to get life's, I
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  don't know, back in shape.
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  I had lost a big job and kinda had some mental health issues, but got my CDL, got kinda
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  regained life, and it took me a couple four or five years to get my feet back under underneath
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  me.
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  But then I had to have a back surgery, and it was early twenty three, July '23, and it put me
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  on the couch for, like, six weeks.
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  And I really seen what I was missing at home and, like, the kids needed me and the wife
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  needed a lot more help.
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  And so I sold everything I could and started this.
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  And it's you know, started the production company to try to be able to be around the
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  family more and be able to get to the doctor appointments and kinda made a commitment to,
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  like, not miss any sporting events or anything like that.
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  And always wanted to do a podcast with my buddies, you know, as in high school and stuff
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  we talked about.
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  You know, we should have recorded this night and, you know, just all the dumb things.
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  And I moved an hour north so I could afford to live.
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  I bought a house for, like, $30,000.
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  I could afford to live and do what I wanted to do and be around the family and all that.
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  And but then it took me away from all my people, and I needed something.
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  So I a buddy said we could do this in his basement, and we we started the studio and the
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  podcast.
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  And now I get together a couple times a week and, you know, have a whiskey with my buds and
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  meet cool people and really just talk about life, you know, and and what we're struggling
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  with.
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  And I don't know, man.
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  Trying not to be another statistic.
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  You know what I mean?
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  And and we we every day, we're calling and checking on each other and sending other people
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  text messages, just checking on their mental health and things like that.
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  And it's kinda become a become a big beautiful thing, and we're all we're all I've lost 96
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  pounds working out and trying to make myself better also so my I can be around longer for my
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  kids.
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  And a couple of the other guys have kinda jumped on too and started losing some weight.
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  And I don't know, man.
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  It's become kind of a get better for life and the family movement, and it's been beautiful.
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  And and we started hooking up with some great local artists and comedians and stuff and just
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  added to the fun.
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  And I don't know, man.
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  I I get to hang out with my buddies and meet awesome people and drink whiskey.
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  You know what I mean?
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  It's a great thing.
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  I I love all the similarities.
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  I left a factory job.
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  I was working about a half hour away commuting every day.
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  Wasn't available for the family like I wanted to.
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  Even if I was home, I I was mentally checked out from kind of being in that corporate world,
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  right, and being constantly under somebody's thumb or supervision.
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  And I knew I was capable of more, and we really set out with the mission to to to talk to those
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  comedians and those artists and and all these people that need their art promoted.
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  I'm a songwriter myself, so it was a world I was already deeply invested in.
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  And, you know, we got to a 100 episodes in eight months.
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  Right?
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  Just just cranking out the content, talking with our friends.
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  Right?
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  That's I don't have a a small group of friends.
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  I have a very large group.
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  So we just started, having conversations and talking about the music they were releasing and
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  some of their backstory or the mental health things that they were struggling with.
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  And now, you know, before before we even knew what we were doing, we got I think I counted
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  eight shows right now on the network.
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  I host the majority of them.
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  But now we're starting to invite other people who some of them weren't even podcasting a few
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  months ago, and now they have their own show and are building their own business, but their
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  own lives and getting this archive of of all the beautiful people around them.
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  And that's, to me, I think, the essence of it.
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  Right?
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  Is to have the like you said, man, we should've recorded that night.
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  All the even if it might have just been a bunch of BS, the having the access to those funny
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  moments in our lives more than just the picture.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  And, you know, since we moved to digital film and mostly all of our stuff's on our phones, I
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  don't think pictures mean as much as they used to.
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  We don't print them out, and I don't think that we're touring through the album books, if you
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  will, kinda like we used to.
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  I'm 39.
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  I kinda remember that analog age of having the Yeah.
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  The the wind up cameras.
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  And I I remember Polaroids before they went to these little, the smaller ones now that they
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  kinda brought back.
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  But, yeah, it's interesting to hear you parallel so many things and reasons why I
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  wanted to start my own podcast and to build my own production company.
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  And and now we look around at what we've done and how we're able to help other organizations
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  like operation combating veteran suicide and combining with shout out, shameless plug for
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  our skunked skunked golf apparel, skunked golf company who got us fit for the Sanford
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  International golf tournament up here in Sioux Falls.
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  Like, it just continues to grow.
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  And if we got this far in a year and a half, Matt, I don't think there's any stopping either
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  one of us.
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  You know?
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  And and it when I originally started, it was I wasn't even sure I was gonna put it on YouTube
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  or anything.
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  It was just gonna be me recording my time with my buddies and just laughing about it.
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  But it you know, we decided to throw it out there, and and it and it has been fun how many
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  people actually enjoy it.
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  And I don't know, man.
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  The the it's it's it's helped us as a group of guys really support each other in ways that we
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  weren't before.
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  And I don't know, man, really grown the brotherhood a little bit.
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  You know what I mean?
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  And we've added a ton of cool new ton of cool new people to the group.
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  So I I really wouldn't have changed anything.
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  And and as you were kinda talk, I'm only a couple years older than you that I am I am a
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  flip through the CD book or picture book type of guy.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Like, I I don't know.
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  I I would rather have it sitting in my closet where I can touch it when I want to, and and I
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  I don't like getting on the computer to look at pictures.
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  It just doesn't have the same feeling to me.
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  I so much to the fact, like, CDs it shows, having the actual CD for sale at the merch
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  table is something that was so important to me.
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  I started making CDs for the local guys.
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  You know, I went and spent a couple thousand dollars on a machine so I could produce them
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  locally to to ensure that I didn't lose that little bit of something I loved.
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  That signed CD to me is like a it's like the signed football card or baseball card back in
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  the day.
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  You know what I mean?
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  I've got a ton of them signed that I just have sitting that are I don't know, man.
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  That stuff is like a treasure to me.
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  So I I get the old school feeling.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, it's visceral, and you own it.
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  When when you buy that in this world, everything is rented.
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  You're paying for these subscriptions, and you never even have this music.
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  You have access to stream it, but you don't actually own anything, and you didn't actually
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  support a local artist by streaming it.
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  Just because you played their song, that there's nothing really to that.
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  And I think that's, we're all well aware of that now, especially as Spotify has changed
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  their terms.
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  I pulled all of my stuff off of Spotify, because they're openly putting it in their
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  terms that they're going to take your, art.
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  They're gonna run it through their own AI, and they're gonna spew it back out as their own
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  thing.
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  And they're gonna start to just generate pop stars in this way.
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  And, I've been doing my best to promote these terms to all of my friends that are putting
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  their music out there, and the that's the future.
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  Right?
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  Is that they're just going to build this massive database through their streaming
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  platform and by exploiting young artists that just wanna get their stuff out there and using
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  it to pretty much put them out of a job.
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  And it and it's unreal.
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  Like, something like a million streams is, $4,000 or something.
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  Saw that today.
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  Yeah.
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  It's it's
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  I don't even know if it's that.
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  That's that's if you, like, have the established base.
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  If a if a independent artist just goes out there and has a million streams, they're likely
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  to make even less than that because maybe they don't have the monthly listener built up, and
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  there's so many nuances to their terms to actually get paid.
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  It's not worth, like, how much promotions you have to do to get those million streams.
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  And now even if you do, Matt, that they are pretty much signing you.
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  So anyone that does pop through there and breaks through the noise on that, just because
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  you're putting your stuff on Spotify and you signed those terms as an artist, they're going
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  to own a percentage of that moving forward and to pretty much be in control of your career.
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  And I'm doing everything that I can to, like, hey.
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  Get your stuff off of here.
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  Like, leave that.
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  If you're an independent artist who cares about your art and making a living in this business
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  and actually being able to do something with your music in the future, get your stuff off of
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  there now and start to think about it in a lot different way and start to think about getting
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  back to that visceral nature of of being in front of people and selling CDs and shaking
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  hands and signing autographs.
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  Like, that's what really makes people a star in this day and age and not some number, on a
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  streaming platform.
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  And do you remember, like, street teams and, like, people out there being, like, handing out
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  flyers and and, like, it was actually in your face, dude.
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  And I I miss that stuff.
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  I miss the physical flyers even for shows.
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  I I miss that kind of stuff.
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  And I I would love to see people selling CDs out of the trunk again or, you know, handing
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  out the flyers as I walk through Benson or downtown.
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  Like, give me some more of that.
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  Man, the guy so I was at Rock the Country, which was a big festival in Sioux Falls this
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  year.
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  They traveled all over the country.
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  Shout out to Kid Rock for putting that on.
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  I know he was the major producer of it, also the headliner.
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  And Aphroman was there.
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  And he came out, played all of his hits, and then he went back to the merch, but he said it
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  on stage.
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  50,000 people.
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  Hey.
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  Come back and see me.
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  I'll be at the merch booth.
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  And he was there.
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  He's there.
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  And there's sixty, seventy people stacked up waiting in line to shake his hand and grab a
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  picture and and all this.
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  And, man, it was so cool to see a man who's achieved so much in his life to still be the
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  same guy that he was when he was selling them out of the back of the caddy back in the
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  nineties.
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  Right?
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  Like, it's it was incredible.
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  And I think a lot of young artists can definitely, take some notes from a guy who's
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  been doing it for a long time that that's what it's really about.
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  That's how you build a brand, and that's how you maintain a career for the long term and not
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  just being a flash in the pan artist.
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  I mean, in in dealing with artists on a level that you and I do, you know, you get to know
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  them a little bit, and I have seen artists that are, you know, kinda yeah.
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  They're they walk by the merch table and they're quick in and out, but I've seen artists
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  that, like, stand at the merch table and work it the whole time and, you know, that they're
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  not on stage and really connect with the fans.
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  And you can see even at the merch table line who really has that they're gonna take the time
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  to sit down and chat with you or talk with you or take the picture over the artist that's
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  just, like, kinda breeze through.
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  Well and I think artists need to know that that is your storefront.
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  Right?
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  Like, that is the only chance that you're gonna get to see some of these people possibly in
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  their lives.
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  Right?
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  That's the only time you're gonna have to connect with that individual who may go on to
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  be a lifetime fan and customer, but that one to one interaction at that moment is so important.
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  And that's why we started our our own organization called the Midwest Original Music
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  Organization to start bringing in these young artists and having some of the people in our
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  group that are of that have been doing this for a while to be able to educate the the younger
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  group and to network with everyone and to continue bringing them in.
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  It's fresh on my mind right now because we're having our first meetup in a while on Zoom
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  later this evening.
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  But every Wednesday, you can find us on, you know, in our Zoom meeting, but you can find the
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  Midwest Original Music Organization on Facebook and join our group there and and become part of
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  what we're growing because that network is so important.
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  Your network is your net worth.
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  Shout out to my good buddy, Marvellis, for putting that in a song.
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  Well and and doing this, you know, I mean, just having having somebody that knows you that has
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  that a big name and and when you're trying to book a show, just for that cool person to be
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  like, hey.
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  Yeah.
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  He's a pretty cool person.
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  You know?
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  Just having that little bit of networking goes a long way for a guy like you and me.
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  You know, I I gotta say, you know, like, Justin Strawstone.
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  I'm not I'm not sure if you know him or not.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  I've never we've never met in person, but, I'm a huge fan of everything that they have built
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  with with their company.
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  And I've worked with Corey Church, kinda his partner in the Sioux Falls area a few times.
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  Okay.
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  Yep.
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  And Justin's a great dude.
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  You know, he actually was kind of the reason we got into the music so much.
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  You know?
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  He was like, oh, I got, you know, access to some of the local guys, you know, and come
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  check out some shows.
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  And, you know, he kinda introduced me to the local scene because I hadn't really got into it
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  like that before and and found out how much I was missing.
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  And shout out to Justin for that and everything that he does with this city with music and, you
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  know, decent dogs.
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  And he just he's always busy.
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  He's always doing something, and it's always for good people, good p you know, good things.
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  They help do shows for to build tiny libraries and neighborhoods and stuff like that.
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  Like, everything that dude is awesome dude does is awesome, and I've been felt lucky to work
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  with him.
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  Nope.
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  You hit the nail on the head.
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  And in some ways, that's you know, what they've built is a big reason why the scene projects
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  needed to happen.
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  Because while they were doing all the shows and they had all the artists, it made it real easy
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  to tap into those communities and talk to these artists and promote these shows and to do
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  everything that we can to promote that while growing our own brand and to get more people
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  out.
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  Just get out, meet people, get off your phone, get into, you know, the these venues, meet
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  these artists, meet new friends that are other music lovers.
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  Right?
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  Like, it's so much more than just it's so much more than just the artists and promoting their
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  art.
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  It's really promoting community.
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  And I think nobody embodies that more in the Omaha area than Justin Strawstone.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  Shout out to Justin.
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  For sure.
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  So tell us more about, the the podcast.
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  I know you mentioned it's just kinda you and your buddies, but, you know, shout out your
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  cohost and maybe some notables that have been on the show with you in the last eighteen
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  months.
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  So, I mean, all all the all my buddies that I've that come sit with me on the show, we've
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  all been friends for twenty, twenty five years.
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  There's kind of a core of four or five of us.
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  My Rich Morales, Steve Stoker, Rob Freshman, Danny Britton.
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  You know, we just we got my my buddy, Tom Alfonso, he's been a big part of this too.
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  You know, we've had it was it was, like I said, started on kind of mental health.
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  Like, I I don't I'm not a good talker with, you know, the therapist anyway.
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  But I could sit and talk to my boys, and we all need to find a way to get these things out
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  instead of sitting on them and let them let them eat us up and, you know, then we're
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  drinking too much or I don't know, man.
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  Just fighting in the streets because we're still dumb.
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  But it was I don't know.
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  Try to let's sit down and let's talk about these things and so we don't blow our brains
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  out.
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  You know, the the statistics are ridiculous on on suicide and and, you know, just mental
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  health death rates.
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  It's and it's scary.
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  So I I I needed to sit down and find out a way for me to to figure out how to communicate.
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  And, you know, there's things that have been said in this room that'll never leave this room
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  that, you know, you just it's been healing for everybody.
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  We're all we are all becoming better people and and really just I don't know, man.
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  It's it's been cool because I didn't tell anybody, like, hey.
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  We're gonna try to be better people and lose weight and stuff.
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  It was a let's sit around, drink whiskey, and see how this goes.
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  And I don't know, man.
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  I kinda was gonna do these things for me, and they were like, yeah.
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  Let's let's go too.
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  You know, a couple three of us are bigger guys.
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  I was three hundred and sixty five pounds.
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  I'm I'm down to two hundred and eighty two right now.
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  Yeah.
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  I got another 15 to go, and it's just these guys, they text me in the morning, you know,
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  are you getting on your walk?
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  Or Steve, he's he's probably the most stubborn of us on working out.
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  Me and my eight year old send him a message every morning when we're going on our walk
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  trying to get him to go on his.
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  So, I mean, it's it's even got my eight year old out walking and, you know, motivated him in
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  a way like, hey.
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  As soon as we walk out the front door, he's like, we gotta send the message to Steve.
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  You know, just but then, you know, we we Strawstone introduced me to King ISO and Table
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  of the Truth and all the project b well guys.
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  And that has been really big.
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  We actually just couple couple two days yesterday, actually, last night at 05:00
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  dropped a episode with the strange music engineer, producer, Matt Phoenix, who's an
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  amazing dude.
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  Like, is is big of a heart kind of a guy as you could ever imagine, actually answers your
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  messages when he reads them, and, you know, you don't get a lot of that from some people.
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  A week ago, we had MC Gringo who was a Norfolk, Nebraska native who's now out of Houston, but
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  just has started to really pick up his Internet fame and, you know, gotten over 200,000 Spotify
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  listeners monthly.
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  But, apparently, we should all look at what our Spotify friends are doing.
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  Mhmm.
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  And I didn't and that was something I actually am glad you talked about because I didn't know
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  that.
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  That's you know, that Spotify had gone that deep with it.
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  Well and when the company is kind of, you know, not outwardly owned, but is controlled by the
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  major record play record companies still, it's easy to see why they would make a move like
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  this.
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  Right?
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  But I'm not contributing to that.
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  We're about the independent artists working with, you know, independent labels.
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  We're fine with that.
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  It's not that if you're signed to a label that, you know, we don't wanna work with you.
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  It's really just staying away from the major, the major labels and just the industry in
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  general.
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  I've interviewed quite a few people that have worked in the record industry in one facet or
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  another, and none of them have ever had good things to say.
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  We've actually just dropped an episode yesterday with Alan Katz.
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  Alan worked in Hollywood.
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  He was a for tales from the crypt and actually of the crypt keeper character.
• 21:30
  Right?
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  And listening to his stories of, you know, the joys of having a show that's on HBO and then
• 21:37
  the dirty underside of it, you know, on on some stuff with Bordello of Blood, I think you would
• 21:42
  really love that episode, man.
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  Mean, he waxed
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  I'm actually gonna probably check that out when we're done here.
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  Yeah.
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  That's on our get better together network.
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  So we have Okay.
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  We have several networks already that we're kinda building out.
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  We post we cross post a lot.
• 21:56
  Right?
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  Everything's kind of stems from the scene projects.
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  But, that one, especially get better together is because that's how I say this is how god is
• 22:06
  healing the world.
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  Right?
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  These podcasts mean something.
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  Having these conversations, if they're just one to one over Zoom even, and it it affects one
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  person or two people and that's just me and you, Matt, well, then it's changed the world.
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  Right?
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  It's changed the world as we know it, and I I just I can't stop.
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  I can't stop doing what I'm doing and having these conversations, but that one's a little
• 22:28
  bit more of the, you know, a little bit longer conversations and a little bit deeper.
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  Right?
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  He he shared some really personal, you know, traumatic experiences that had happened to him
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  that are not always fitting for, you know, kinda shortage form interview that we do here
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  on the seed project.
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  So that one's over on the Get Better Together project YouTube.
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  You can find it.
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  And, yeah, follow the shorts over from the seed projects page.
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  Yeah.
• 22:55
  For sure.
• 22:56
  Awesome, man.
• 22:57
  Where can people find your stuff online?
• 23:00
  So we are long bus short thoughts on pretty much everything for the podcast.
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  The five and dime, it is we've struggled with it.
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  There was a it was five slash 10 at first, and it we just ended up going with this as a
• 23:18
  format.
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  It's like five and dime, the five, the letter n, and then dime productions on Facebook.
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  And then I'm Matthew j Metcher on Facebook.
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  I got the little blue check mark, but nobody's tried to copy me yet.
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  Like, I'm not I haven't made it that far yet.
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  But, yeah, you can you can find me at any of those.
• 23:39
  If you're trying to get CDs made for for anything, we also do DVDs.
• 23:43
  If you're into filmmaking or, you know, wanted to do a comedy special, we do DVDs too.
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  But you can do find all that stuff at 5anddimeproductions.com.
• 23:54
  Awesome, man.
• 23:55
  Well, I'm gonna be hitting you up about the CDs because I got a, I got a new album that is
• 24:00
  totally mixed now and, or at least really close.
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  I think we got one more track we're doing, and then I'm ready to put these songs out into the
• 24:08
  world with some kinda demos that we've done over the last two, three years.
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  And I got some I got some music videos and some other content that would be worthy of of DVD
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  quality.
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  So I I love what you're doing.
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  Huge shout out to you, and you guys just keep on going, man.
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  Thank you for joining me today, and thanks for being part of the scene.
• 24:28
  Yeah.
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  Well, thank you, sir.
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  You have a beautiful day, and and shout out.
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  Congratulations on your your your network, dude.
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  That's that's big.
• 24:36
  That's awesome.
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  Help you know, giving some of us an opportunity to to connect with you in that way if we want
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  to.
• 24:43
  I love that you're it it wasn't just a I'm I'm on the network.
• 24:47
  It was a y'all come to the network.
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  You know what I mean?
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  I I love that, dude.
• 24:51
  Yeah.
• 24:51
  It's about the we.
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  Right?
• 24:52
  It's not about me.
• 24:54
  I have a band of my own.
• 24:55
  That's about me.
• 24:56
  Right?
• 24:56
  Like, I already had that.
• 24:58
  So this has always been about, the whole scene, and and that's how we landed on the name.
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  And it's it's wild to think that we've only been doing this for, you know, a year and a
• 25:08
  half and to look where it's, come from and to see where it's going, I think, is the biggest
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  thing.
• 25:17
  So for being part of the scene, Matt.
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  We'll talk to you soon.
• 25:20
  Yep.
• 25:20
  Have a good one, bro.