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Bubba Startz host of The Scene with co host Genneca Houser · The Scene Projects

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  The Scene Projects are supported by the following.
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  J Rick Music on 40 First Street in Sioux Falls.
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  having you on the show.
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  Every episode of the scene is brought to you by DBS entertainment.
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  Connecting the Midwest through music.
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  Well, hello, and welcome into another exciting episode of the scene.
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  Today's episode features co host, Jennica Hauser interviewing founder and host of The
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  Scene Bubba Starts.
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  Here's the interview.
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  Alright.
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  Yeah.
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  My how the table has turned.
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  I know.
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  Isn't this interesting?
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  Fun.
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  Well, now it's your turn in the hot seat.
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  Yes.
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  It is.
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  And so I get to be the the cool presenter.
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  Today, we are here with the illustrious Bubba Starts from the phenomenal music group starts
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  and ends.
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  And you can catch him performing all over the place.
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  But he's got more than just good music going on.
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  He's he's involved in a whole scene.
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  You should tell us about it.
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  Well, thank you.
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  Thank you for putting me in this precarious situation.
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  I enjoy it.
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  So, yeah, we have a lot going on, don't we?
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  Starts and ends has had a heck of a summer playing music all over, South Dakota.
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  Got to tour out of state a little bit this year.
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  And, we created a podcast network.
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  The Scene Projects is growing quickly.
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  It's, it's been a dream come true.
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  We're we're connecting.
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  We're growing a community every single day, and, I'm just so thrilled to have something to
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  share that all of my friends can be involved in.
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  Right?
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  I've always had a band.
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  I've always done that, but it's always limited.
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  Right?
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  You have to be able to play an instrument or sing to be in a band.
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  Well, to be part of this group now, you don't have to be able to do anything.
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  Just bring you bring your energy, and we'll find where you fit in.
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  Well, it's cool because the way you have it set up is where it's not really based out of one
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  specific area so much as you just can take this anywhere.
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  It's nodes.
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  Right?
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  It's it's central hubs wherever we can land and then having the smaller nodes where we can land
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  and do some things.
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  And and it's just we're just getting started growing this.
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  So to see where we grow from here, obviously, the Black Hills, where I grew up, my home.
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  This is obviously a very special place to me and will be a home, but, you know, for right
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  now, headquarters is, by all intents and purposes, Sioux Falls, we're kinda growing from
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  our major metro area and seeing where it goes from there.
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  Yeah.
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  And it well, and I have no doubts that it's gonna be growing pretty large because as you
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  said, there's a lot of stuff going on.
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  And on top of of hosting the the podcast and going and doing all these performances, you
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  also are the one responsible for all of your own merchandise and whatnot as well.
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  And that includes branded water bottles all the way to making your own T shirts.
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  Definitely.
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  Definitely.
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  Well, it just became so expensive for us.
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  You know?
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  As a band, you're you well, you sell merch, and that's how you make your money.
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  Well, it's hard to make money selling $25 T shirts that nobody wants to pay for, but you're
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  paying, you know, $15.16 dollars for this T shirt.
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  Right.
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  So we had to find a way to cut those costs.
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  We started using direct to film transfers, our own heat presses, and making our own stuff.
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  Now we make shirts at home for less than $4.
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  So that's one facet.
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  The branded water bottles was just a really great idea courtesy of our partners over at
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  Team Pluto.
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  We have a great partner in the Sioux Falls area, Dakota Splash, who they print custom
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  labels for water bottles.
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  We took that idea and said, well, yeah, our name looks good on there, but how nice would
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  Big Dog Productions name look on there?
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  And would Big Dog be interested in paying for that?
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  And not you specifically, but other places definitely would be.
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  Right?
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  And, it's it's something that grew very organically of just finding the best way to
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  connect with people.
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  Right?
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  People that you don't know from Adam, what's the most deliverable thing that we can find and
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  a cold bottle of water on a hot day, it doesn't get any better.
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  Well, I I feel like that falls under the category of guerrilla marketing, which quite
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  frankly is my favorite type of marketing.
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  Type I do.
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  Yeah.
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  The unique and interesting ways to get yourself out there, to get get other people out there
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  and heard.
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  And that was you had that big sale going on for during the rally, but you have something going
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  year round now.
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  I I said, yeah.
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  We're working.
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  So deliverability is the big thing with us.
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  We wanna be in the places where music is happening.
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  So the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls and our other smaller venues, the den in
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  Sioux Falls, the Custer Beacon out here in Custer, South Dakota.
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  These places we hope are places where we'll have this water bottle deal and this name
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  generation, this this, you know, this engine kinda driving year round in the music venues.
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  And then obviously, Sturgis Rally, large outdoor music festivals all summer long.
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  That's really where we'll make the biggest noise, but yeah, definitely wanted wanted to be
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  something that is pervasive year round.
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  Right.
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  And that's a lot of work for just one person.
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  I know it's you and your wife.
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  You guys are kind of like the team behind it.
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  Yeah?
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  Totally.
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  Totally a team, but the team's much bigger.
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  The team now includes you, Jenica, and your husband, Eric, and your daughter, Shay, and a
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  lot of other people that are behind the scenes.
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  Kind of doing their own thing, but what they're doing is serving the greater good.
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  That's kind of where we're at now is we're looking for more people that want to serve that
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  greater good.
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  Come be involved with us.
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  Come join in.
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  Invest your time.
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  If you have money, we have funds that could be used to empower other creators.
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  And that's really what the scene is about.
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  That's what I think both of us, personally, that's what we're really about in this.
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  And it is the essence of the scene projects.
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  Empowering creators and letting them loose on the world.
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  I actually think that's why it works so well is because it seems like we have very similar
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  goals as far as creating and building a network where people can feel comfortable to express
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  themselves and to share what they've got and to be seen and be heard and to make it places.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, and we kinda wanna make our places the places to be.
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  Yeah.
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  Right?
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  The places where we're working, we want to just I mean, they're gonna be cooler because we're
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  hanging out there.
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  Because we're bringing our people and our energy to these places, they're going to be
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  more popular.
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  They're going to have more gravity to them.
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  So let's just keep accentuating that.
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  Let's go out and find the really cool places that we wanna work right now, and let's not
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  wait for that moment.
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  Let's go find these places, and let's start working on it.
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  You know?
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  Right.
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  I've I've got a twenty year career left in me, I think, at least.
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  Right?
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  I'm 38 years old.
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  I can do this for a long time.
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  Minimum of twenty years.
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  Exactly.
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  Let's get to building now.
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  So we really have something that sustains us.
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  You know, we're looking at you know, you're looking at, you know, kids that are leaving the
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  home and growing up, and you're sending them out.
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  I have small kids still in grade school.
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  I want this to be something that's there when my grade school age children are having
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  children and those children are growing up, that they know what this is.
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  That we are an authority on music in the Midwest, that we are your go to as an artist
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  for promotion and pub publicity.
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  And for listeners, we are the place that you go to meet your next favorite artist.
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  It's it's really that simple.
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  I think that's a beautiful sum up.
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  And then, of course and it all starts with the scene.
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  Right?
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  Which, of course, you've been recently rebranded to the scene projects?
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  And it kinda has that double entendre.
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  Right?
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  The scene projects or the scene projects.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  That that's clever.
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  It's and and I have a new friend, and, you know, my friend Jennifer Burns, who we've
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  started raking, another member of the team.
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  Right?
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  She works for Local IQ.
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  That is they own the Argus leader.
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  That's our local Sioux Falls paper.
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  But they are all about the digital landscape.
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  Right?
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  They know what they are.
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  They're digital advertisers.
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  So we had some really great talks about how we can start to use their services to really
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  target to the people that we want to bring in at this point.
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  Right?
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  Yes, we want listeners, but right now we need more team members.
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  Right?
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  Yes.
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  We need more of you to come in and to work with us to grow this thing we need more content
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  creators we need.
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  You know investors that want to help us grow this idea obviously funding is an issue we're
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  both investing our life savings into building something that that is not against not even
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  savings were were advancing you know, taking out advances on our lives to build this thing,
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  but it's because the belief in it is so deep.
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  You feel it.
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  And and while we were talking and interviewing you earlier for for the show, you know, a
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  beautiful double rainbow right out the window, and we've talked about timing a lot today.
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  And
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  Divine providence.
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  I don't know much better timing and signs of your timing than that.
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  Right.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  No.
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  I would agree.
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  I think it's all working out just beautifully.
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  And not just for the overall picture, but also for your music too.
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  It's really cool being able to see you get out and around and performing all these places.
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  And so the scene the scene gives you a way to really connect with a lot of other people, but
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  your music gives you a way to connect with people too.
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  Right.
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  And it did.
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  And I thank you for that.
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  And you have both been there.
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  And Shay behind the camera was a huge part of our summer in capturing some of these moments,
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  right?
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  I'm just flipping through my phone and I'm like, man, you had a really cool three months.
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  And then you keep going and you're like, oh, wow, you've had a really good year.
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  Oh, wow, you've had a really good two years.
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  And yeah, we just want to keep that, right?
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  We want to be able to scroll through that phone and never see low lights, right?
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  That it's nothing but these beautiful people that we're forming relationships with and all
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  the good times that we're having together.
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  And I love the idea of a mixer, an artist mixer is something we've kicked around More
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  community, more community within the artist community.
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  And by, you know, not just kind of like, oh, hey, or maybe catching a show, but actually
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  getting together, actually making a difference and seeing what comes of that.
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  We've had for years a Facebook group called the Black Hills Musician Association.
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  We've never made that like an official, you know, brick and mortar kind of establishment,
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  but maybe we should, right?
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  Like, maybe it is time to take that and give it a little bit more concrete name and something.
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  Right.
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  And we talked earlier about being an authority on music and kind of accepting our roles as
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  such.
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  Right?
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  We both have people that call us weekly for advice probably.
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  Right?
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  So, okay, we're gonna start putting out all of our advice on this podcast.
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  And now you need to start joining in as a listener, as a guest, as an everything, and
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  start bringing your energy to this thing so we can do what you really want us to do.
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  And I think that's the biggest thing is that, like, secretly, everyone is at home wanting us
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  to do this, that are like, oh my god.
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  Someone needs to do this awesome podcast so that we can be a part of it.
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  Right?
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  Right.
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  It's just that we finally got around to doing it.
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  Right.
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  Instead of waiting for someone else to create the opportunity, creating the opportunities for
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  ourselves and for others.
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  And that's yeah.
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  That that's a big reason why we put together Dirty Dog productions and why it's so wonderful
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  to see what you're doing with DBS entertainment and the scene.
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  And reminder to anyone listening that you can find it at the scene projects across the web.
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  You wanna look it up.
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  The scene projects or the scene projects.
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  It's spelled the same.
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  No.
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  And we love it.
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  And make sure that you're checking out dirtydog.com.
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  A lot of the, the more video and the more kind of blog and reading style stuff is gonna be
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  featured over on your stuff.
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  And I think eventually our our websites are going to probably look very similar where we'll
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  both have similar homes, but you're going be able to find this information everywhere.
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  And that's kind of what we hope is that It's cool.
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  Is that everyone does that.
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  That that everyone has a a a tag and a link and and, you know, of our rundown of the week or
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  whatever on all of their websites.
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  And we're all growing this much larger community.
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  Yeah.
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  To make the information accessible.
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  It doesn't need to come from just one spot.
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  Exactly.
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  We want it to be everywhere.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Pervasive is a term I use a lot.
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  We want to be pervasive.
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  We wanna be everywhere and seeping into every single thing.
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  That's why the water works great as a marketing tool for us because elementally, the water is
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  exactly what we want to be.
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  We wanna be everywhere.
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  We wanna be able to seep into every single crack and and win our way in there.
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  And have that fluidity to fill whatever role necessary.
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  Exactly.
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  It's got a lot of meaning to us, doesn't it?
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  God, this is fun, hasn't it?
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  Just having I love it.
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  I I love getting behind the microphone and just kinda letting it rip like this and and having
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  the conversations is what has made all of this possible.
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  Right?
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  This is growing out of us just talking about it.
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  We're literally pulling our lives out of thin air, and I I just couldn't be more tickled to
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  get to do it with such a cool team and to have a team.
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  Right?
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  I we talk about it a lot that we've toiled, and you have your husband, and you guys are a team
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  together.
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  But and and I have my wife, Danielle, and and we're talking.
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  And you feel like you're toiling in obscurity, and nobody sees you.
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  And I feel like when we met this year that we both were like, I see you.
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  Yes.
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  I see what you're doing.
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  And, oh my god, I've been doing all that same stuff, and I would really love to help you.
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  I think that relationship and our want to just help each other is already seeping out.
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  Right?
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  That's already spreading to everyone.
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  And, yeah, I I think the mission that we have because it's so clear, it's making it easy to
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  achieve.
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  Right.
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  A good collaboration of the brain juices.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, you need that.
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  Yes.
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  Absolutely.
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  You need it.
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  Because otherwise, you're just in there talking to yourself all the time.
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  And I think we both do that enough.
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  Maybe.
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  More more than I'd probably like to admit.
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  Well, so if anyone else wants to collaborate with their brain juices as well, where would
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  you like them to find you at specifically?
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  Good.
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  Well, go to listen.t0/thesceneprojects.
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  You'll be able to find us on Spotify and YouTube, everything.
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  That's kind of our link tree.
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  You'll also be able to find the Patreon page, which is where we're kind of gathering our
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  founders.
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  We're gathering these people that are It's a free sign up, but when you give us our email,
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  we don't take it lightly.
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  Right?
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  That's a direct one to one contact for us to you.
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  So we're working off some really special things to to bring to our Patreon community.
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  There is a paid side as well to that because we wanted it set up from the get go.
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  If you wanna contribute to what we're doing, yeah, we we sure love you for it.
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  We're working on the bonus content that pushes to that side.
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  So we're not selling it per se, but golly, if you wanna contribute to what we're doing, we're
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  not gonna tell you no.
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  Any amount.
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  Appreciate it.
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  Yep.
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  Please come and join us for free.
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  Gosh.
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  We just got so many live events going on.
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  The songwriter showcases are gonna be going on multiple cities, you know, on various nights.
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  Then we're gonna be broadcasting all of these things on the podcast.
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  Make sure that you're coming out if you're in the Sioux Falls area or or close.
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  August 30, DBS entertainment and the scene projects are having our ribbon cutting ceremony
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  as official members of the Sioux Falls, the greater Sioux Falls area chamber of commerce,
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  which is a big step for us.
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  Know, it's kind of coming out from the underground.
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  And it's saying, no, this is who we are.
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  And we think that we're just as viable a business as any grocery store or gas station or
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  dispensary or or any other business that's out there.
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  And and we're here to serve our community and to be a part of that community and and I hope
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  that people through more of our outreach stuff realize that about us, that we're really about
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  our community and foremost.
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  And just we're ready to get to work.
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  We're ready to just do every single day to just do stuff, to stop talking about it and to just
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  get out there and do it.
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  Absolutely.
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  Well, I have no doubt that we're gonna be talking so much more, and everyone's gonna be
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  very happy with the the cool things that we've got coming.
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  And then in the next few months, the next year, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
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  So
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  It's gonna be the best.
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  Excited to give everyone a teaser since there's no specifics.
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  Not really.
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  No.
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  But We're still figuring those out
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  too.
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  Coming soon.
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  So it's gonna be wonderful.
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  Make sure you're following us on everything, guys.
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  Absolutely.
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  Go go ahead and make sure if you haven't already take a look at starts and ends, DBS
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  entertainment, and the scene.
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  Check out the Patreon and hit hit up that link for for the Linktree.
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  Awesome.
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  Well, thank you for having me.
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  Thank you for having
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  Thank you for listening.
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