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Hitman talks to Sterling Elza · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 3: Hey, what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: It is hit Man with you and I've got in
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  Speaker 1: this studio today Sterling Elsa, who's performing tonight at Brewster
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  Speaker 1: Street Ice House. Make sure you make it on outdoors
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  Speaker 1: open at seven o'clock. We got opening acts Aaron McBee
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  Speaker 1: before him. Yeah, so make sure you make it on
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  Speaker 1: out and you guys. From what I've been reading so far,
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  Speaker 1: it says you're born from the Texas Panandal shaped, a
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  Speaker 1: lifetime of music and a live show where row stories
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  Speaker 1: and loud guitars collide with red dirt grit.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on, dude?
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  Speaker 2: What's up? How's it going? Thank you for having me
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  Speaker 2: so appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: So tell me.
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  Speaker 1: First off, where did you come up with a name?
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  Speaker 1: Sterling Elsa birth name? That's your birth name.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, they gave it to me.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like a great band name.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I've been hearing that and I've never really even thought
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  Speaker 4: about it before. Obviously we started doing this and then
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  Speaker 4: people are like, man, how'd you come up with that?
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, I just gave it to me.
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  Speaker 3: Wow wow.
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  Speaker 1: So tell me if somebody who's going to see you
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  Speaker 1: tonight for the first time, describe your.
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  Speaker 4: Music oh man, a lot of rock and roll, but
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  Speaker 4: a lot of rock and roll. But I also grew
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  Speaker 4: up listening to like I don't know Alan Jackson and
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  Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff too, So like I don't
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  Speaker 4: know Alan Jackson and like Nirvana.
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  Speaker 3: So would you put you guy?
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  Speaker 1: Would you put yourself in the same category as and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw off some names hardy, cowtzoul and even
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  Speaker 1: jelly roll. Yeah, it's a combination of country and rock.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, for sure?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, for sure. So, so where you originally from? Give
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  Speaker 1: me the town where you're originally from.
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  Speaker 2: I'm originally from Amarillo.
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  Speaker 1: So Amarillo. Yeah, every time I hear the word Amarillo,
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  Speaker 1: I think of George straight to Amarillo.
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  Speaker 3: I have too, Yeah, you have to.
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  Speaker 2: That's all we're good for up there.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you've been touring for quite some time. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: you've opened up for Aaron Lewis and Daughtry. Yep, uh
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  Speaker 1: so how was that?
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  Speaker 3: I was doing that? Man?
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Both of their camps were so so nice, and obviously
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  Speaker 4: the crowds were awesome. It's a little hard to get
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  Speaker 4: up there and you know, get people warmed up for
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  Speaker 4: somebody like Daughtry, But uh, no, man, both of those
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  Speaker 4: we were so much fun and along wise from home too.
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  Speaker 2: Both of those shows were up in Illinois.
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  Speaker 4: Oh wow, So but no, I mean it was cool
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  Speaker 4: to see fans of ours in the crowd at both
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  Speaker 4: of those shows, you know, people singing the words.
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  Speaker 3: So how long you been doing music?
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  Speaker 4: Man? I started. So. I played guitar when I was younger,
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  Speaker 4: and I never really practiced or cared very much. And
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  Speaker 4: then my freshman year in high school, I kind of
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  Speaker 4: started playing guitar again. And I'm twenty one now.
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  Speaker 3: So you're still a kid.
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  Speaker 2: I am. I am still a kid.
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  Speaker 3: You're even younger than my daughter. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So of course you're touring right now. And tell me
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  Speaker 1: about the single Happy never After.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Happy never After.
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  Speaker 3: Happy never After. Tell me a little bit about that song.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, So I.
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  Speaker 4: Was in Yeah, we wrote that one in Nashville, just
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  Speaker 4: with a couple of my buddies. I've kind of gotten
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  Speaker 4: a crew together in Nashville now that I just really
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  Speaker 4: really like and still kind of lets me be me
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  Speaker 4: instead of trying to turn me into yeah whatever else
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  Speaker 4: is coming out of Nashville. But no, we just sat
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  Speaker 4: down one day and I think all of us were
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  Speaker 4: tired and we were just kind of like in a
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  Speaker 4: rowdy mood and we were just sat down like, man,
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  Speaker 4: let's try let's try a party song, something fun, something
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  Speaker 4: people can like hang out to listen to on the boat.
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  Speaker 4: Stuff like that interesting, And we just came up with
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  Speaker 4: kind of a heavy summer banger.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. This has been out since what May April?
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  Speaker 2: April? Mays April make that I don't quite remember.
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  Speaker 1: Wow wow, So make sure you listen for that tonight.
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  Speaker 1: They're performing tonight at Brewster Street and Ice House, doors
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  Speaker 1: open at seven o'clock. Tickets are still available at Brewsterstreet
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  Speaker 1: dot net. You know, if there was a tour that
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  Speaker 1: was out or a band that's out right now, what
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  Speaker 1: would be your ideal, your wishless? So who would you
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  Speaker 1: love to open up for?
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  Speaker 4: Man, I'll tell you probably one of the funnest tours
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  Speaker 4: going on right now is Co and Hardy.
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  Speaker 2: That one would be fun. But you know, everybody, everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Is hopping on the Morgan Wall and toeer Co has
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  Speaker 4: been on the Morgan walluteer, and so I think, not
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  Speaker 4: necessarily like that's not our style, but that would just
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  Speaker 4: be a fun one to be on because I think
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  Speaker 4: there's so many bands playing, it'll just be like hanging
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  Speaker 4: out backstage like summer Camp.
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  Speaker 1: Well, with Morgan Wallen, he's pretty universal. I mean yeah,
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  Speaker 1: even even you know now with you know Morgan Wallan,
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  Speaker 1: post Malone, Yeah, going like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's universal.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great performer. Also, I think that would be
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  Speaker 1: great too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So uh so.
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  Speaker 1: Also, besides that, you've you've been all over like we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about Spotify, You're on TikTok, you're on Instagram, you're
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube.
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  Speaker 3: YouTube, you have over five million views.
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  Speaker 2: Dang, do we really? Yeah, that's news to me.
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  Speaker 3: Cool. According to the paper here that work five million views?
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  Speaker 3: How many how many music videos have you done?
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  Speaker 4: Man? I think we've done like three or four or
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  Speaker 4: maybe five music videos and a bunch of lyric videos
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  Speaker 4: and just other kind of stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So, what's the one song though, right now on your
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  Speaker 1: set that gets the best response from the crowd?
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  Speaker 4: Man, they love next Week, they love next Week every night.
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  Speaker 4: Usually it that's that's kind of the one that stands
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  Speaker 4: out to me.
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  Speaker 2: The crowd usually knows that one of the best.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, so make sure you make it on out
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  Speaker 1: start doors open at seven o'clock and I asked this
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  Speaker 1: for everybody, and I've actually been kind of scared when I.
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  Speaker 3: Asked this question. Give me your waterburger order.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So I've got two and it just depends on
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  Speaker 4: the day. And some people are really gonna hate me
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  Speaker 4: for this. Out there, I go Patty melt, plain and dry, okay,
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  Speaker 4: and usually go with the sweet tea, and then I
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  Speaker 4: always get a side of honey butter to dip my
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  Speaker 4: fries in.
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  Speaker 3: Really honey butter with your fries. Yeap, that is different.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: The scariest thing that ever happened to me recently was
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  Speaker 1: I interviewed some of the hockey players from our Marinier
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  Speaker 1: League hockey hockey team, and I asked him, what is
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  Speaker 1: your waterburger order? And the guy goes, yeah, Waterburger's kind
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  Speaker 1: of mid. I was like, oh no, what, oh no,
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  Speaker 1: he goes, I'm with Jack in the Box guy.
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  Speaker 3: I could tell you, Oh God, I told him. Let
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  Speaker 3: me guess where are you from? Michigan?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's rough?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah Jack in the Bucks like Jack in
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  Speaker 1: the Box, No, you need to go take waterburger another chance?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that gut, come on, oh man, well.
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  Speaker 1: We got Sterling Elsa in the studio of course, doors
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  Speaker 1: open at seven o'clock tonight Brewster Street ice House Aaron
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  Speaker 1: McBee is gonna be opening up for him. Make sure
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  Speaker 1: you get your tickets now Brewsterstreet dot Net. And also
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  Speaker 1: at the door about nine thirty tonight.
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  Speaker 4: I think, so nine, nine thirty something like that, nine
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  Speaker 4: thirty two, get there at seven and then it doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 4: you'll just be there now.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you guys are gonna have like a merch
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  Speaker 1: booth out there, absolutely, so you got the merch booths,
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  Speaker 1: so make sure you and you're gonna have like maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Do people even sell CDs anymore?
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  Speaker 4: No, we don't, but I've been asked about CDs so
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  Speaker 4: much in the past couple of weeks that I think
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  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna do it.
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  Speaker 2: We do have vinyl.
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  Speaker 4: You vinyl?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you got vinyl, and then probably you got like
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  Speaker 1: the little cards to where you can find your stuff
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  Speaker 1: on Spotify and stuff like that too, right.
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  Speaker 4: We don't, but you know, my name is Sterling Elsa
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  Speaker 4: and that'll probably get you close enough to what you're
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  Speaker 4: looking for.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're looking for him on Spotify, you might
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  Speaker 1: want to look them for him on their Sterling Elsa.
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  Speaker 1: Also on TikTok you got seventy two you got more
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  Speaker 1: followers than me, and I'm an old guy, you know.
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  Speaker 1: It's like most of my viewers are like in there anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we got also and then of course five million views.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy on on YouTube. That's so cool, So man,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Make sure you make it on out
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  Speaker 1: is one other question I always ask, and I asked
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  Speaker 1: this to all artists or something like that, if you
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  Speaker 1: have any advice for somebody that's up and coming. What
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  Speaker 1: advice can you give an up and coming performer? How
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  Speaker 1: to for this business man?
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  Speaker 2: There's no good time to just do it.
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  Speaker 4: It's always going to cost too much money and it's
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  Speaker 4: always going to be really hard, so you might as
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  Speaker 4: well just go do it, because whenever you start doing it,
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  Speaker 4: you're one day closer to not being broken anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So we as well go do it.
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  Speaker 3: That's the best one I've heard so far.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've had some people tell me some things and something,
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  Speaker 1: but that's really good advice. Thank you, Sterling Elsa. Make
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  Speaker 1: sure you go look from Sterling of course like Sterling
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  Speaker 1: Silver and Elsa E l z A. I want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure I spell that right, yep. So that way
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  Speaker 1: people are searching for you, they know where to go.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for coming in and looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: see you tonight over at Bruce Street ice House.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah man, thank you,