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Exploring Local Talent: Band Stories, Music Style, and Midwest Connections · The Scene Projects

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  Welcome into a very exciting episode of the scene.
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  I am your host Bubba Starts, and with me today are three of the coolest dudes that I'm gonna
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  talk to today.
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  Why don't you guys go ahead and introduce yourselves?
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  I forgot everyone's name.
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  Sure thing.
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  My name is Nick Anderson.
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  It's a pleasure to be here.
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  We are the skinner the skinny lovers, and, we got a great gig coming up and wanted to chat
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  with you about our band.
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  Hell, yeah.
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  That's awesome.
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  The skinny lovers.
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  You know what?
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  The ladies say that they're the best.
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  That's right.
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  That's right.
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  You guys wanna introduce yourselves?
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  Tell them why we're the best?
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  Go ahead, Ian.
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  Well, many shows I've been told I have the biggest biceps of any drummer in the world, so
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  that's one reason why we're the best.
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  You know, Jeff's pretty cool.
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  He has, a a large neon mohawk.
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  That's that's, like, decent, but I'm pretty sure the biceps are moving ladies over.
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  So Ladies love the guns, Ian.
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  So what, what kind of music do you guys do?
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  Well, Jeff, you wanna introduce yourself and answer that question as well?
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  Sure.
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  I'm Jeff.
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  I am the bass player extraordinaire.
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  And, what makes this band great is that I was prom king two thousand six, Phenomni, Michigan.
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  Which brings me to this picture.
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  Right here, we got a tweet from El Jefe of no effects saying to Jeff, hey, Jeff.
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  Congratulations on being prom king.
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  And that is a real tweet that El Jefe from no effects, the punk band, sent Jeff.
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  Jeff sent back, thank you, with a picture of him as prom king two thousand six.
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  And right there, that is the principal's daughter.
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  Nice, Jeff.
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  Nice.
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  Kudos to you, sir.
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  I was the only one that year.
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  Anyhoo, as far as our music goes, I would say it's a good eclectic mix of rock and roll, punk
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  rock, folk rock, and just three good looking dudes.
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  Awesome.
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  A trio.
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  That's right.
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  That's right.
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  Just the three of us.
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  Yeah.
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  Typically, that's how I, that's how I play with my band starts and ends.
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  Keep it simple, but it's a lot of pressure, man.
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  You you don't have that five, six piece band to kinda all lean on each other when somebody had
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  too many cocktails or, you know, it's, it's a lot more difficult to to just ride a trio, but
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  it speaks to the powerhouse that you guys must be and the connection that you have as
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  musicians.
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  How long y'all been playing together?
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  We've been playing together let's see.
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  Has it been thirteen years, guys, total?
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  Well, if you count
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  our old band.
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  Yeah.
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  Just the total we've been playing music together, I think, has been thirteen years.
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  We've been in this band for just about ten years together.
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  We're in a band before this, for for a couple of years as well.
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  And, where are you guys based out of?
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  I know, Ian called me from a, Wisconsin number, but
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  Yep.
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  Yep.
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  We're based
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  out Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
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  Okay.
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  So right there on the border.
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  You guys know Samantha Grimes?
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  Heard of her.
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  She's a she's a member of the Midwest Country Music Organization with me, and she's actually,
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  one of my founding members of the Midwest original music organization now.
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  Okay.
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  Moe.
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  So, yeah, we're, she's out in that area, I know, and a a pretty big deal from what I hear.
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  Yeah.
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  I've seen her name quite often.
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  Sure.
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  Sure.
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  Yeah.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah.
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  I've seen her name all over the place.
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  So Killer.
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  So you guys said you got a big show coming up.
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  Let's talk about the show.
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  Yeah.
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  That's right.
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  So we're playing at the Green Room, with the modern era, and, we're playing with a few
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  others as well.
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  And, that show is going to be on Saturday, April 26.
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  So it's us, the skinny lovers, the modern era, Clayton Ryan, Jay Bell, and the lazy Susan band
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  at Green Room in Minneapolis.
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  And funny story about the modern era that's on there.
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  We were in our previous band.
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  They were saying we used to play in a band together.
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  Jeff and I were in a band that played with the modern era, and the cops came, said we were too
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  loud, shut the whole show down.
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  So we had they told everyone they had to leave.
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  So everyone kinda hid for a little bit, and then they came back out, and we played an
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  acoustic show with no amps at all, just playing our acoustic guitars.
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  And I'm not sure what happened after that, but I woke up with Jeff sleeping on top of me on a
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  couch.
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  And I don't know what happened between those two moments.
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  Rock, baby.
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  I love it.
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  But there was one couch to sleep on four of us.
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  So
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  Jeff's like, I'm not sleeping on the bottom.
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  Not today.
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  I was prom king.
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  I I deserve better.
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  So Oh my god.
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  So home sleeping sound.
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  Little, little inside baseball.
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  Clayton Ryan's a good friend of mine, y'all.
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  Okay.
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  Absolutely.
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  And, I feel like I just met the Lazy Susan band as well.
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  We haven't met them yet.
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  Yeah.
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  I feel like I was just on a on a on a call with them recently too.
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  I'm gonna have to go back through my notes and look around.
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  I do so many of these things, guys.
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  It's just like pages upon page of people and bands, and it all kinda blends together.
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  We'll see.
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  Who knows?
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  What'd you write down about us so far?
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  Good looking.
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  Jay Bell.
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  Yeah.
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  Jay Bell and the lazy Susan band.
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  Look at that.
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  We I'm a have to call Clayton back and get him on too.
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  And, yeah, we'll do everybody on the show before the show, and that's what this is.
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  Right?
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  I mean, the scene projects, like I said, I'm a songwriter, band myself.
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  You know, how it kind of started was that I did the South Dakota media tour in, five minutes.
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  Right?
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  I did the two podcasts around.
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  I did the local news station.
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  I did the local radio, and I was like, okay.
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  That was it.
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  And it brought me almost no new listeners.
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  Right?
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  And I was like, man, because nobody was out there really, like, pushing their podcast.
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  It was all kind of hobbyist, and the news channel really doesn't care about you.
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  They have you on, and then you're done.
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  You get your five minutes of fame.
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  See you later.
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  And it was just like, oh, we could do better.
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  So then I started, just talking to my friends, and and now it's grown into this.
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  Now we do the showcases.
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  We have a showcase actually up there at River Rock Studios, April second to where, yeah,
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  we're filming everything HD broadcast video, making it look really good, and then providing
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  that material back to the artist at a lot lower price point than what they could ever do on
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  their own.
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  Right?
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  So by me organizing and doing all, like, the hard work that most musicians aren't good at at
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  all and bringing it all together.
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  Right?
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  And then just like you show up, deliver a twenty minute showcase, play your heart out,
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  and then at the end, here you go.
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  And not only is it going out on my network, but you have all of this to chop up into your own
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  YouTube and social media content, and and you can turn that twenty minutes into freaking 20
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  different pieces of content, three new singles, three music videos.
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  And yeah.
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  So I'm trying to get out there and kinda sell this idea.
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  You know, I kind of I built the Midwest original music organization for the purpose of
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  kind of bringing people into my world so I can explain this stuff a little bit better.
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  And then you I'm not just a guy out there shouting on the street going, give me your
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  money, and I'll give you this.
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  Like, no.
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  Come into my world, you know, and we offer a free lifetime membership for our first hundred
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  and fifty, members that jumped in the Facebook group.
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  We haven't really figured out what the subscription model looks like yet.
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  We're kinda working through that in the moment and just kinda building it out.
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  But to make stuff affordable, to help us out, to help everyone, it's kind of a mastermind.
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  Right?
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  The business world, that's what they call it.
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  We're we're just gonna put all these creative people together, and we're gonna see what the
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  hell happens.
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  And I think, you know, it's like a little bit of art class.
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  It's a little bit of a brotherly love, if you will.
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  Maybe not as close as the couch boys, but we all might get there one day.
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  So why don't you before I let you get out of here, because I don't have a ton of time and I
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  was late, I apologize.
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  Full disclosure, Bubba Starts is not the most professional podcaster on the planet.
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  Shouldn't have wait to our meeting today.
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  But, yeah, shout out to, you know, your YouTube page and all that stuff to let people know how
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  they can find you.
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  Absolutely.
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  So if you search the skinny lovers on Google, do not do an image search.
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  But if you search just under regular, you'll find us.
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  You'll find our YouTube.
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  You'll find everything.
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  If you do the image search, there's a lot of stuff about us sleeping together on that couch.
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  But, yeah, just do a Google search, the skinny lovers.
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  Otherwise, if you're on any music listening platform, we're in a brand change right now.
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  So you can search the skinny lovers.
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  You might find us.
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  Otherwise, Nick Anderson, skinny lovers.
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  We're doing a brand change over from Nick Anderson over to the skinny lovers.
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  We decided since the prom king was in the band that I actually wasn't important enough to be
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  You're back on the bottom, Nick.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So That was good.
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  Man, I appreciate you guys.
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  Shout out the show one more time and where people can get tickets for that.
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  Absolutely.
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  So the show is at the Green Room in Minneapolis on Saturday, April 26.
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  You can get tickets at greenroomm,nasinMinnesota,.com.
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  And tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.
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  There you go.
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  Buy them in advance, save a little bit of money.
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  Now for me, like, I'm a South Dakota boy.
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  My town's a thousand people.
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  Right?
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  I live in a tiny little town, middle of the cornfields out here.
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  It's a big deal for me to go up.
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  You know?
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  I don't know if I spoke about the battle of the bands.
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  I can't remember all the shit that I say all the time.
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  But, that, you know, for me to come up there and play is a big deal.
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  Right?
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  Now is that the same for people that are from the Euclair?
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  I know you're a lot closer to the city, so you probably get to play there a little bit more.
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  But is it a big deal for you guys to go and play a venue like the Green Room?
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah.
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  Do you guys wanna answer that?
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  I've been talking a lot.
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  No.
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  I would say it's definitely a big deal every time we're in the cities.
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  It's a whole different energy, whole different vibe.
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  And, hey, I lived in North Dakota for a while, so I know that small town feel.
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  Yeah, brother.
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  I mean, yeah, I'm pretty famous in my town of a thousand people, but I'm nobody when I step up
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  there.
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  And hence why, you know, we kinda talked about a collaboration we're doing with the Saint Paul
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  Bears to kinda bring them with us to the battle of bands just to be different.
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  Right?
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  And I'm hiring all local guys to play with me too.
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  I literally got on some of our Facebook groups and we're just like, I need a bass player.
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  I need a drummer.
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  You know, guy, Dan Anderson.
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  I don't know if you guys are familiar with Dan, but he hit me up to play bass.
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  I was like, got a bass player, but there's a saxophone in your profile picture.
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  Would you be interested in playing sax, you know, and and coming in on this thing?
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  And let's see what happens.
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  You know?
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  And I'm not coming up for a participation trophy.
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  I'm thrilled to be there and to be invited, but I'm coming to win that $10,000.
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  Yeah.
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  Dan Anderson's actually my brother.
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  Shut the fuck up.
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  No.
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  I'm just fucking with you.
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  That's great.
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  Man, I love you guys.
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  Unfortunately, I'm gonna be on the other side of South Dakota for a show, on that twenty
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  sixth, so I won't see you then.
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  But I hope to catch up with you guys soon and catch a show, and I'll be checking all your
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  stuff out online, man.
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  Worries.
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  Skinny lovers, thanks for being part of the scene.
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  Absolutely.
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  Thanks for having us, man.
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  You bet.
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  Thank you.