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Cocaine Bear and Venues · Tigs Bits Podcast

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Welcome to tags B this week Jr. The Handler Chad, blasi and
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myself. Talk about some of America's
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best concert venues, of course, with j.r. being the tour manager
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for Justin Moore and for John party, the dude has seen some
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places. So we dive deep into that.
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We also talked about cocaine bear Jr.
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Recently saw it gives us a little review on it.
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Sounds like something that I have to see.
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By the way, it sounds sounds funny, and a little, a little, a
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Let's dive into it. Last night I was with a group of
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people we went and watched the the new movie cocaine bear.
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Very oh I was gonna actually was gonna ask you because it's been
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on my mind. I want to go see it.
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I may go see it tonight. Yeah, we had good.
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It was good, it was ridiculous. But it was good.
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It was funny. It was ridiculous.
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A little much little gory. It's not for all ages.
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Don't take your small children. Okay did it.
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Did they play any Paul coughing music in there?
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They should have little cocaine. Dancing would have been nice
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when I'm in a nice. Bears going dancing.
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The real big K, but music went along to it great.
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It was cool cast. It was cool as well done, but it
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was just crazy, was ridiculous. And it was funny parts, a little
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gory, you know. And that's what my wife little
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into it. She looks.
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I thought this was a comedy. I'm like, I guess it will be,
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you know, it was just kind of a thriller, I guess you'd say more
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than a comedy, but it had funny parts and was it wasn't.
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Line of like a Sharknado tackling or a little bit more
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mild. Weather is what's better done
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version of that, for sure. But you know, and that's
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finally, I'd heard that story. You know, for years, you know,
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there's a place up there and it's actually a, if it's a gift
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shop or L truck stop or somewhere you can get, they have
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the cocaine bear statue out there, you get a t-shirt stuff.
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It's been there for years. Our guitar players had for
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years, and God heard that story forever.
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So, obviously, they embellished it and made it for a movie, but
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it was pretty funny and it's bad.
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That's a true story that really happened.
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And yeah, that kind of stuff happened.
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I heart more you talking about technology and stuff.
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We'll Circle it back into that. You talking about stuff, like
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the cocaine bear that stuff happening.
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Imagine how much stuff went on back in the 70s and 80s and even
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before then people dropping stuff and jumping and shit.
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What monitor their what no cameras or what, no, intelligent
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Savvy. There's no telling, what kind of
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and it was a wild wild west. And then think about, yeah, we
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live here in America, the greatest country in the world A
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few places like this. There's a lot of places are
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still just like that or Worse crazy.
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Oh, yeah, crazy stuff thousand. Craziest.
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Yeah. And if anybody wants to take
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some rabbit holes, go on YouTube and just watch some of these
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Travelers shows where they go to the worst places.
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Watch him, go to Haiti and Ghana and all these places.
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And man you it make you feel bad and you know that it's going to
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take a lot of people watching. A lot of stuff like that for us
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to all get together because you don't think about how stuff is
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until you see it in most of us. Don't go to place.
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Yeah, that's wild sad. Yeah.
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Yeah, that that as well. It's absolutely true.
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We really truly have first world problems.
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You know, we're upset. If the if we can't get the
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technology to work, if you can get the internet to work, right
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to do a freaking podcast, you know, that's the just ruined
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your day. Meanwhile, these people, they
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don't hope they have toilet paper or paper towels or plate.
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They just hope they have something to eat.
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Yeah, they hope they can. They hope they live through the
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day? Right.
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Listen Val. Yeah, yeah, and I didn't matter
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that. I can't imagine living life that
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way at all, you know, know, know yeah, kill the vibe there for a
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second. Speaking of Technology, do you
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remember like this is before Google?
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I mean growing up in Eclectic. It wasn't far from you down.
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At Auburn University, they used to have that for Union and you
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could call them up, how to 800 number or direct number.
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And you could ask them any question.
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You, I mean anything you could imagine and then within a few
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seconds they would give you an answer and I don't know how they
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did it. This was back in the early 90s
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late 80s. I don't remember the exact used
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to call it all the time. Yeah, yeah.
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And I remember at Troy would be up at late at night, let's call
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for me to be midnight. You could call them and there
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was always someone there to answer and somehow they had
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access to all this information and I still like to know where
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they like that. They were kind of like the first
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Google but it was all done through voice.
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I figured you might have called it because I'd call him for
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school work. I know I wish I would have known
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problem, too. Warm out equations.
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Anything. Yeah.
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I'll do. I used to wear them at all the
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time. Yeah, it's called watch this.
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I know Bobby Jon. He remembers it.
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Well, because I showed it to him and he thought was the most
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amazing thing he'd ever seen all the time.
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He still brings it up. That's funny.
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No. But I wonder wonder did they?
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There's no way if it was that fast there's no way they had a
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research team there to that, has that much knowledge or books.
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I mean, they would have had to have had some kind Some kind of
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beta system of computer, I have no idea.
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I'm sometimes a second couple of minutes you get into something
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kind of complex, but they would come back with an answer almost
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every single time. That's crayon.
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Yeah, I'd be worth a damn sure. There's I'm sure someone out
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there listening. Hopefully, maybe they can shoot
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us a message to the podcast and key in on that because I would,
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I would bet they were early versions that universities and
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government and certain people had access S2, I don't know how
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they maybe there was some way through a program where they got
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to use it for this purpose outside of internal stuff.
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But I yeah because you know, like you said earlier, take the
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chat stuff. We know who's had it for how
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long before us. Who knows.
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That's right. That's right.
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Yeah, exactly. You know, that Hollywood has
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been utilizing some of this stuff.
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One of the things that I use often or that I use now fully
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is, is descript. So I'll edit video Rose and
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everything, and the audio, get it the way I want it in Premiere
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Pro and then I move it over to D script, it transcribes the
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video. So it has all the words but you
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can finalize and cut out the rose and the arms and you can,
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you know, you can edit just by cutting out a word that cuts the
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video. Hmm.
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What's neat about it is that you can also use a feature called
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overdub. It will you can train the voice
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of it to learn your voice. So like I put four or five of my
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podcast in there into for it to learn.
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It takes it about a day and it comes back and now it has your
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voice. So let's say you say a word
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wrong, you can scratch that word output, the word that you want
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to put and then it now it fixes it and says it the way you want
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to, it doesn't have action perfect every time but let's say
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I'm just talking like right now and then I say, man, I need to
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stop. I need to run, I could change
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that to. I need to walk.
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I need to sit whatever, right? And you would never freaking no.
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Wow, I've also taken an entire script written by chat GPT.
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And put it in 2D script and used my overdubbed voice to read it.
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And it didn't sound exactly. Like I do with the Cadence and
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everything, but just saying normal, talking normal. 100% was
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me and you would never know the difference.
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It's the same and that stuff's coming along coming at a rapid
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Pace. All the Deep fake where they
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can? Replicate.
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Yeah. Oh yeah.
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The Deep fake stuff and that's going to be an issue.
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I do believe in the future for artist recording artist sand and
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things like that. The one thing I think that helps
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out be in a, you know, being being a recording artist, our
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concerts and live, you can't replicate live, you just can't,
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there's nothing that replicates it, right?
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You have to be there. Nothing can do it.
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You can ever some good things that came from during 2020 and
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stuff was some virtual stuff when the world was locked.
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Down. And you could still get it a
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little entertainment, but it ain't the same as going to a
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venue and, and getting your face melted, right?
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Yeah. She's not.
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And that's, and that's where we hang.
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Our hats now is on the live touring because even the revenue
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streams with streaming services and all that stuff, it's put
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record sales, don't matter anymore.
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You don't sell enough records to really matter anymore.
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It's about your brand as your job security.
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If you like for you, Jay off for sure.
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Yeah. I mean that's something that
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That I wanted to ask you was how does that work with with Spotify
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and apple music and stuff like that?
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Because it used to be when you started?
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It was album sales. I would believe that.
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That's what you push, you want to sell the most records you
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wanted to, to get all of that. Get AirPlay, all of that stuff.
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Now, you from my understanding, you make your money on the, on
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the tours and doing that, doing that type of stuff.
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How does that work? How to?
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How does an artist? If you're an Coming artist, or
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you're someone's starting right now, how do you get to a level
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at this day and age? That somebody like Justin Moore
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has gotten? To course, he came up at a
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different right time. You know, different different
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method but what it your thoughts on on that and, and being in the
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industry? Well, it's definitely changed
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like you said, because when I started that was it even when I
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started on the regional level, was selling CDs at live shows
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and it was, you know, scanning those it going into a database
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to make, you know, it look good. Sell CDs and you know you got
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your you know, and then when we got up in the big leagues, yeah,
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you were still making money on selling records you wanted to
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hit, I can remember, you know, back in the day, you'd be a
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million albums. You know, then, rock bands and
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stuff used to sell in like the first week and things like that,
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you know? And if you for it when I got in
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it you won't like what I've got with Justin.
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You wanted to be the have the number one album when your album
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debuted you wanted them one album that week or that you know
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whatever. Yeah that week for the cycle and
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we've had a few You luckily, since I've been with him and I
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remember one of the first ones we got it was and it was lower
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for then because I remember it was like you know it was like a
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hundred and I don't know a hundred and something thousand
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copies which everybody was disappointed because that's a
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lot less than it was before. Well then the next one, we won
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again and I think it was only like 50, something thousand
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says. Hi guys, it was during that
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training. This was you know, your some
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years ago now but we still had number.
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It was a number-one album, each time the numbers went down but
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it still V basil one album of the week.
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So it just showed how the whole thing was going down and it
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shifted his shifted and now and then then they had to find a not
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an algorithm equation that works for using this spins and the
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streaming stuff and that's all changed within the last just
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handful of years because now, some of the biggest artists out
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there Aren't necessarily selling albums.
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Don't even have number one, and only have albums on the, on the
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charts, but it's streaming. It's just dreaming.
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Peer streaming Zach Brian. I mean, one of the biggest
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artists out there and streaming and, and it basically started
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off from the Grassroots of. And I'm sure a lot of these
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people put work in and that stuff from.
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But from the visual side, putting out YouTube's own video
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and Tick-Tock stuff like that. That's how people are actually
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breaking in the business doing it that way.
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Now now the fight. Now the on the fiscal side, I
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don't know if I don't have it work with any of them.
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Don't work. Don't currently work with any
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Young artist on the management side.
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But from what I've heard that's financially feasible doing the
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streaming thing. If your, if your numbers are up
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enough and you can make some money that way, but they're but
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they're also selling all these all the views and clicks and
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stuff from each of the channels, you know, all that kind of
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stuff. And but the number one, all
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these people are trying to do is get these people to come, see
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them live and buy a ticket and a t-shirt when they go to the
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show. So, the end goal still there for
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artists in the vein of usury. Do now I know some of the big
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pop artists in rock or rock and rap artist their their way.
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They go about it. I don't really know about but
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mine in Americana country Southern Rock.
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Indie rock. I kind of I kind of know how
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that still works and comedy and stuff.
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It's all. It's all similar, but I'm sure
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there's some people who do it a totally different way.
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Don't rely on that all. But you know, that goes back.
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Brand sponsorships things like that when you have Partners, you
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know, if you're partnered with the biggest Makeup Company in
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the world, you ain't got to do that many concerts.
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You know, if you're Beyonce or somebody, you know, what I mean
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or here is. But then so there's levels and
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things and what you want to do, you know, then there's some
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people, you know, like Justin, he didn't want to do a whole lot
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that he's going to play shows. That's he was be a country music
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singer. He don't he don't have Tick-Tock
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he never been on tick tight. You don't have Twitter on his
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phone, he don't have Instagram, you are known as phone.
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He has Arkin some kind of Arkansas, Razorback Sports
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forums. Thing, where he can just keeps
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up with his hog. I saw its it and he had a
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message board. Yes, he's all their recruiting
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thing watching. I mean, that's it or it's kids
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stuff or it's, you know, working on new music stuff.
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So, but that's just right. So there's all different routes,
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but I know from, I can see coming from Myers, it's changed
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to where the streams they've rework.
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That thing to where I don't know how many song times you have to
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download the song or play it to me.
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Equal one album sale and things but there's some there's some,
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there's some formulas they use. Okay, to figure that stuff out.
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Nobody's happy with any of it. Every don't seem like, I don't,
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well have any so I don't know exactly how it works, but from
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what I've heard, no one's ever thrilled about it.
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But again just as not one of those guys where he gets worked
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up about it, so I hear him discussing it much because he's
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not, he's just like, you know, that's not.
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Yeah. He makes his music and you down
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the road. If he's doing just he's like I
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can't control everything. No, he's like, I don't know.
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We don't we don't chase Trends and stuff.
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It's like it's not worth it. So let's get on stage and see
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how many people shows up, just do the best put on the path, the
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best music you can and Puck to the hopefully radio play and
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hopefully people show up and see, it played live.
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Because, like you said live, I love records.
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I've got a stack of them. I'm a music.
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I love sitting home, listen to music, but there and even now
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there is nothing that compares to going hearing at a live sound
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at the right place and the right time with the right Ambiance and
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everything. There's nothing that replaces
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that and it even like So much. I love his records.
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I'm spoiled because I've heard him play them all live before I
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hear most of the record and I'm usually like the live version
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better that's just because I mean your ex yeah that's gonna
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happen with most anybody while told the story about the
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drive-by truckers I'm you know I didn't really want the fan then
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I watched him live one time and then I'm changed forever.
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You know. It's right.
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It's amazing how much a live band can can change your change
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your mind like I was 311 as a band for me.
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That aisle. I didn't love them and college,
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and all I didn't. They were fraternity band and I
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didn't, I didn't I wasn't into their Vibe at the time.
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I like some of their songs and all, but my one of my best
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friend's a couple of my best friend's.
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Huge 311 fans, like know the band and stuff like that.
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Yeah, I've gone with them now. To God knows how many 311
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concerts 311 days of traveled the country.
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Once I saw them live. First time I said, I was
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absolutely dead wrong about them hooked hooked and their, and
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their greatness several bands. I mean, a lot of bands about
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that. I've said that, I love that,
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anytime I hear live music, it doesn't really matter where it's
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at. If they're decent, it means if
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they could just carry a tune and they can play the chords.
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Yep. Good enough for me, the rocket
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sit there and listen to you all day in the right setting.
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Yeah. Sitting in some theater
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Somewhere, listening. And that's it.
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Good, warm sound in a beautiful hundred year old theater.
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That was that was something that that I did want to ask you or
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what are some of your favorite venues does God you've had to
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have been to a million of them and you may have to Circle back
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and we talked about that at another time because it's
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probably too long to list, but I know you probably got some at
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the front of the front of your mind that come to mind.
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Oh yeah. Well, I mean, even that right
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there, the old theaters this past We did an acoustic ten-man
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Jam in Detroit at the Fox Theater in downtown Detroit
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right across the street. I mean downtown right across
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from the baseball field, been there for ninety five or six
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years this year. I believe.
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Yeah, there's a lot of famous. Famous concerts have been
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recorded in there. Oh yeah dude it's just it's just
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the the how detailed the how just Grand and beautiful it is.
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It's just amazing. How much effort was they would
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never do anything that way now. You know that they took so much
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time and effort and everything's heavy built with a purpose, you
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know, and it's still there after all that time and it, you know,
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in the passageways in the stories.
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Beautiful, last week, we were, we did a couple just a few weeks
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going, Justin's tort or that were the same.
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We did the Alabama Theater in Birmingham.
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It's over 100 years old. Just the same, just Beauty,
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everybody's Elvis, James Brown, Frank Sinatra neck, King Cole,
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you know, everybody's played there We the day after that, we
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go to Shreveport and play the Municipal Auditorium where the
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Louisiana hayride was for all those years, you know, and stuff
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and it's everybody's ever been anybody's played there and it
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was really cool. Few weeks for that we were up in
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Sioux City. Iowa at the Orpheum same deal.
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It looks like the work room in New Orleans, same company, a lot
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of more names names because that was the company who built them
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during those time periods. Like the fox and Detroit is
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somehow related to the fox and Atlanta, Atlanta 5K beautiful.
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That's what I was going to add to what I was.
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Okay, that makes sense. Yeah.
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And the entry portal if I mention is the other week but
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the Shreveport, they still have the shower where Elvis shower
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there and they have, right? They haven't marked off with a
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fox in Atlanta has the same thing.
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There was a shower Elvis shower. They have it marked off in
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Atlanta, same thing, and then I believe it really is still all
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these years. Like, that tells you, that's it,
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that shows you how big of an impact a person can make over
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some, a ideal that, that Person. They still, he's been dead for
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almost 50 years, you know? I mean, and that was 60 years
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ago, probably that he played the fox Ellie still have it.
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Roped off the defendant, you know, that you in the 15th crazy
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years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And, you know, they caught, you know, they called Elvis the
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king, you know, here, you know, you don't know what they called
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him in Japan. No.
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The king hell is the damn kid's. Beautiful sat in the balcony by
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myself. Had a couple seats open around
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me just in heaven, you know. Robert.
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Earl Keen just taking on his farewell tour sing.
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In my story singing, my story and song as I say, because he's
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one of the ones that hit songs kind of went along with my
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career he you know certain songs certain areas and stuff but so
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those are cool. And then you go to in the, you
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know, cool, a theaters places but then there's the ones that
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most people know about, you know, like Red Rocks, played Red
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Rocks, probably five or six times.
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That's cool. I've played the one of the most
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beautiful in the whole, country's The Gorge and George
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Washington. They have a watershed event out
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there. Big Festival It's, it's an
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Amphitheatre and the back of the stage and the production offices
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and dressing rooms are all are on the edge of the lip of the
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canyon to the Columbia River Basin.
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So you look off the back of the stage and just see this, this
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Columbia River. Just, it looks like the Grand
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Canyon or such a huge and all that.
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And it and then you look back up to huge hill that's you know, I
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don't know ten, twenty thousand people or more big-ass festival
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and grounds there for that that's a beautiful place to play
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and neat. You know, I mean, trying to
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think of top, you know, just on the spot.
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Normally I'd have a meeting these the Ryman Auditorium in
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Nashville. I mean, they just the sixth
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Oracle significance, then there's some that are just
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bucket list into, you know. Personally, it's like, you know,
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coming from where we're from Chad, you know, getting to go
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play Oak. Mountain the first time, or go
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in and play in the war for the first time or, you know, the
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BJC. See, you know, I was there when
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I was a kid for basketball tournaments.
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Now we're playing in here, you know, at Madison Square Garden,
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you know, Got to go play with Miranda Madison Square Gardens
21:53
once or twice on her tools and, you know, playing the guard,
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man. I'm like, that's where Hogan
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slammed Andre, you know, that were, that's where he know.
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That's where Bruno Sammartino dropped the title, you know, you
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know this, that's where Muhammad Ali boxed.
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So it's like that. It's we're in the garden baby.
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That mean you don't matter man. You know it's like what was that
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story? I'll tell that real quick, I
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think it was Owen Hart when he had the Piledriver on Stone
22:16
Cold, Steve Austin. And it was there and Austin went
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lights out for a minute and he came M2 in the red.
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Yeah, ref was waking him up and said And Austin goes.
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Where am I at? He goes you in the garden sun
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and that was it. He's like oh shit.
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He came to new worries that I'm in the garden.
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So yeah a massive Square Garden that that's one just for.
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I mean just because you know you always heard that and coming
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from Alabama it might as well be played on the moon you know and
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then you know he'll be in a big Elvis fan amongst others.
22:50
We got to play the walkie shell in Honolulu Hawaii, which is
22:53
where Elvis But he was there back in the day, the Maori
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Performing Arts Center. You're when you're on a
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Performing Arts Center outside in Maui in the palm trees, you
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know, and I remember that it was right after Prince had passed
23:06
away and at The Encore, for those shows just in the band
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played, Purple Rain for like 10 minutes, just to real Soulful.
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Yeah, they did a good job on that.
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There's some video that floating around but my wife and wife and
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I got engaged there. So that would have been seven
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years ago. Now, six, seven years ago.
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Yeah, but that was cool. But you know, out there Then,
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you know and doing military bases.
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I think that's been fun. I've enjoyed doing those over
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the years, playing on, you know, some kickass military base, for
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big installation, bunch of people you know, just you know,
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cool stuff. That was fun.
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Yeah, everybody there except they're happy to see.
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They are beyond. Happy to see you.
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Yeah, I number one are like hell yeah, we do.
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We're off today. Yeah, we got the day off.
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We got it events. We got a concert.
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Everybody's happy with that. Yeah, I mean, yeah, that would
23:53
be like Could be the absolute best thing you could walk into.
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Yeah. You know you're going to have a
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kick-ass time and it's our people.
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It's our people. Yeah it makes sense.
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And then have you ever done an aircraft carrier have?
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Not done a aircraft carry? Did I have done?
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I've done like some air bases and stuff like Nellis Air Force
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Base in Las Vegas, where they have that has the Thunderbirds
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which is the Air Force's equivalent to our Blue Angels.
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And, you know, we got to go see some some high-level stuff out
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there. Do you know, cameras all that
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stuff and you talking about Man. I mean cool man.
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And you know and just some of their training stuff and you
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know, we got offered to do a few things over the years, just as
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less of a risk taker than I am. And I'm not very much of one of
24:35
myself, so we never, we never went up with anybody or been an
24:38
OG for simulators are nothing, but we've looked at them.
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It look it, look it look crazy, but, but that kind of stuffs
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always cool. And when you're doing impactful
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stuff like that for people who need that kind of stuff, you're
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doing something for somebody. Like, we do charity events, I've
24:52
always loved those. We one of my Of all time was
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when we did Charlie Daniels Christmas for kids and
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Nashville. One time at the Ryman and I got
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to have a long talk with Charlie that night and Charlie Chase
25:02
from the crook and Chase show and a couple other artists and,
25:06
you know, raised a bunch of money for a good cause and
25:08
things like that. And that's always neat when, you
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know you're doing something that's helping people like
25:11
Justin, does he? And his wife are big backers of
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his counties Boys and Girls Club where he lives in Arkansas, and
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I over the last eight years or so.
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They've raised a ton of money done a lot of good stuff.
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For that Organization for a, you know, pretty poverty-stricken,
25:27
part of Rural America. You know, that that needs any
25:30
help he can get when there's not a lot going on.
25:32
So they've they've helped and really grown that that I think
25:34
that kind of stuff really cool when you get to do that as far
25:38
as the Fulfillment side. It, I mean, a big fun house and
25:40
show is fun too. But when you're doing stuff,
25:42
that's helping people when you can, I think that's awesome and
25:46
then, you know, that rewarding side, but then but the actual
25:50
venues themselves. Yeah.
25:52
Some of those, those real cool out.
25:54
Door historical places and you know we play another one,
25:58
randomly we played the we've played in Iowa, the surf, Surf
26:04
Club I got the shirt. Well the last place that Buddy
26:07
Holly and those guys played before they took off.
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Okay okay. Yeah, kind of stuff.
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Yeah, I've seen pictures inside that building.
26:14
It still looks pretty much the same a low ceiling, that's just
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a little Auditorium type Place. Yeah.
26:20
Yeah. How did how did it sound good in
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there? How's the sound really quick?
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I really can't remember. I was kind of mesmerized that
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day. We've only done it once and it
26:29
was just kind of like oh we're here.
26:30
But it was a small you know smaller place.
26:32
But it was neat though dry. You know they had the bad a lot
26:34
of memorabilia and stuff up. But yeah, and then you go play
26:39
some of these places like we've done like when you play, you
26:41
know, in a big spike, a stadium type thing.
26:44
We've got to jump on a few of those or when you go play in
26:46
Vegas at one of these big stupid big arena, concert things they
26:52
have with rotating this. And I mean, there's just some
26:55
wild 7 that's even the evolution because you think about again,
26:58
our pawpaws went to a barn dance.
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Yeah, well, that's the biggest thing there was or these
27:04
theaters, these theaters, which there might have been two per
27:07
state, three per state, unless you were in a real pop like New
27:11
York or somewhere, maybe right. But anywhere else you had one or
27:14
two in the whole state and that, unless you travel all somewhere
27:17
to get there, you know what I mean?
27:19
So it was like a now we have, I'm telling named off these
27:22
places, each one of them holds more than in all of those places
27:25
put together, you know, and yeah, and they're scattered all
27:28
over the United States everywhere.
27:30
You just name because I was thinking about that.
27:32
Think if you're in, you're in Iowa, your optimal out what, you
27:36
know, there's this beautiful theater with all this ornate
27:38
stuff and it's just it, there's nothing that looks like it.
27:41
Anywhere that you've ever seen and you can go there and see a
27:43
magician or, you know, Charlie Chaplin or you know, Miles Davis
27:47
or whoever, I don't know, you know, and it's a long way, you
27:50
know, you would make the trip because there wasn't there,
27:52
wasn't it? There wasn't a A theater in your
27:54
town. You know.
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Right? Exactly.
27:58
Exactly. AIDS.
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It's amazing how far it's come are, especially in Vegas.
28:03
You're right. Like, wherever it was.
28:06
I saw 311. I guess, I think it's the MGM.
28:10
It's where Bruno Mars was doing his deal to.
28:13
Yeah, that place. It's just nuts.
28:16
Are you? It's a Dolby Atmos surround
28:19
sound all these speak. I mean like, whoa.
28:23
It's a lot bigger than And I thought it was looking at a
28:25
picture, like, this is a small venue.
28:27
No, it's not. It's a lot bigger than you
28:29
think, but the sound to get in there was /.
28:33
Those places of print money. There is no, there is no budget.
28:36
I mean, they're printing money, you know, they don't keep all
28:38
the right songs, everybody's in their winning, you know, that
28:40
whole time, and that's more and it's fine, whatever.
28:43
And I'll probably take some heat for it, but that's just one
28:45
thing. Las Vegas.
28:46
Just as a whole is one thing we just don't need.
28:49
That's not, that's ridiculous. Well, that's just what a waste.
28:51
Yeah, you know what I mean? It's be real to dealt with.
28:54
Just pull it in there. It's, there's no need now that
28:56
that's that grown way out of control, that's just ridiculous.
29:00
It really has. It's gotten totally out of
29:02
control, you know? I mean we're it's just there's a
29:04
lot of people still moving their tits growing growing city.
29:07
It's in the middle of the desert.
29:09
What do you think's going to happen?
29:10
I mean, it's just not set yourself up, very good,
29:12
long-term sustainability of my opinion.
29:14
Now, there isn't there's data infrastructure there to sustain,
29:17
something like that, they're not at all, they don't have enough
29:19
people on Earth, never meant to be whatever, but how does it
29:22
keep on in it just grows budgets.
29:24
Dump it in there, we going to try but then you got on coming,
29:26
but then you see these, you know, Dubai and these different
29:29
places it's like good gracious. It's crazy.
29:34
Well, Dubai is gonna build a to build what?
29:37
Like a 65 mile long or something like that.
29:42
No building. That's like concourses all
29:45
connected. Yeah.
29:46
Yeah. So you can go from one end to
29:47
the other and like 10 minutes or something through this speed
29:51
rail and that's where people work and it could be solar
29:55
power. All this stuff that sounds like
29:57
a dream but you know what? That's where we're all gonna
30:00
happen. We're all gonna live going to
30:01
happen. So, I live with that, we're
30:03
going to have to live, exactly know how to live in.
30:05
Like basically, if y'all ever seen the Earth domes, like the
30:07
self sustainable housing and stuff?
30:09
Yeah, basically we're gonna have to live in pods like that inside
30:12
like little cities or something because this sumbitch is going
30:14
to be a burning pile of rubble and we're going to live in our
30:16
greenhouses or something Truman Show.
30:19
The Truman Show is going to come to real life.
30:22
It's set for everybody. Will still be film and shit.
30:24
Like this, that we will be living in the own reality of The
30:28
Truman Show. Oh yeah, you heard it here.
30:32
First folks on Tigs B. Yeah that's right.
30:35
Apocalypse is amongst his amongst.
30:38
Its Nostradamus meant coming to his sister, Damas buzz what they
30:41
want. But what one man, we are three
30:43
watch out what we could do. All kinds of weird are stronger
30:46
than a. We put our forces together, but
30:52
we can slay, all the dragons from the super sword.
30:58
There it is. I know it's funny.
31:02
Actually tried, I tried that later on that night.
31:04
That's how do you idiot. He may be honest, if I think
31:07
absolutely concentrate harder, let me push harder.
31:10
I mean I swear I felt like electric energy coming through
31:12
my shoulders. It kind of hurt, you know.
31:14
I was like I don't think, I don't think I'm quite ready for
31:17
this. What if that's what if that.
31:18
What if that's the ancient technology?
31:20
We all did this till we got enough elect Electronics, inside
31:24
of our bodies to touch these rocks and make them stand up and
31:27
move them. You get a bunch of people around
31:29
the table here for years you've been right on The cusp of this
31:33
discovery for years and here we are push it.
31:35
Yeah, I think you should you actually especially if it starts
31:38
hurting your body? Then that's telling you that
31:41
you've got to fill out this something there and only for a
31:43
few more years until I see because you know, we don't have
31:46
a spring chickens, push it for a little while longer he's always
31:49
after after a little while we have tight enough let the
31:52
younger man trial at this time. Let me let me hand this down.
31:58
That's funny. Oh my God.