July 8, 2026

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Pipeman Radio has an amazing discussion Chris Bianchi of CB Entertainment and How We Feel about the music industry as a whole and all the different aspects of it.

And he has a busy summer ahead of our artists touring and music festivals on the MGT side, on the performing side, our group How We Feel just launching a new single and about to play a few shows in Summer.

Chris also is a published author to multiple music and motivational books and we discuss the connection of music with motivation.

Chris Bianchi is an Artist Manager, Musician, Entrepreneur. He has over fifteen years of experience handling overall management and day-to-day operations of artists at different levels. Most recently, A Number 1 Selling Author with the book The Music Agenda: Best Practices for your Music Career.

He also owns a merchandising firm (My Tour Merch) that provides items for music clients and a record label (Legend Recordings), which partners with INgrooves Music Group.

His clients have been nominated for 2 Grammy Awards and sold over 25 million albums.

Go check him out at https://www.chrisbianchi1.com/ where he does Branding, Marketing, Design, Consulting, and a whole lot more. Chris and CB Entertainment REACHED OVER 1 BILLION AUDIENCE GLOBALLY as seen in FORBES, ROLLING STONE, The GRAMMYs, and More!

Don't forget to check out his How We Feel's newest music. It's killer!

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Hi, you have done to censure wow for you your.

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe

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Man W four c Y Radio. You know, I'm really

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excited about our next guest because I deal with them

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all the time. He basically does everything that has to

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do with the music industry and even stuff that's motivational.

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So that's both my personalities right there. So we're gonna

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talk about a bunch of what he does. He's a musician,

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but then he helps musicians and I love days on

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both sides of the fence. So let's welcome to the show.

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Chris Bionkey, how are you.

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I'm doing great today and thank you again. It's awesome

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to pop back in with you and catch up. Hopefully

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you're having a great summer absolutely.

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You know, last time we talked was Ink last year,

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and Ink's coming up in a couple of weeks again

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this year. I love you. Going to prison right.

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The madness now.

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I look forward to it every year. I call it

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like our big family reunion. Just everybody comes together for

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a wild, fun weekend out there.

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I know, right, And I always joke that who wants

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to come to prison with me?

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Of course, of course I don't know with the ghosts.

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Yeah, I know, right, And I don't know if I

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told you this last year. I can't remember. But my

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youngest daughter, she always asked me before a festival. She'll

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be like, so, Dad, are you excited about this festival?

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And I'll say to her, you know, I love doing it,

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but when you do it every weekend, is it exciting?

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But the first time I did INK many years ago,

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I called her up out like I'm standing in the

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prison yard of Shawshank Now I'm excited.

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Absolutely, No, it is. It's just an electrifying atmosphere there too.

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Just being somewhere at such unique grounds like that. It's

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really cool to get to see that and have that

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as your background too for your performance side of.

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Things, no doubt. Like I always say that, like how

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cool would be to be have that as your backdrop

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while you're playing the festival? And even more so, you

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have the new prison next door, so you're kind of

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like Johnny Cash because all the inmates will be out

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in the yard listening to you play, right.

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Shaking up the fences and stuff, getting riled.

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Up out there exactly exactly. So you do a lot

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of things you handle artists you're a musician yourself, you're

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an author, So tell me how you've become so well

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rounded at doing all these different things and they're all connected,

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but most people don't do them all.

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That's a great question too, and I appreciate you touching

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on each of those topics. I mean, I think for myself,

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I've always loved the entertainment and other elements does a

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whole you know, I've never seen myself as a person

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is just kind of like a one sided, one trick pony,

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so to speak, type of a thing. So with that,

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just timing, you know, in luck of wanting to try

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something new, try something new, and kind of continue pushing

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myself as as an artist, as a professional, you know,

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as a human even to just want to keep learning.

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I really enjoy learning and trying new things and kind

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of pushing myself out of the comfort zone as well

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with something like trying you know, writing a book or

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you know, public speaking or other things like that along

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the way. So it's just been timing and happens stance

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basically to like take a leap, and it's all naturally

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happened too. I would say, just of like this happened

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and inspired me to do this. This happened kind of

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inspired the you know, the course to do that to

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where we are today, and it's really fun. It's always

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something new and exciting, and I try to still stay

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moving forward, you know, and not looking kind of back

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or backpedaling where possible.

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No doubt. And I'm a firm believer so that everybody

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has like multiple facets to their personality. They're not just

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this whatever somebody labels them at. Yeah, And so that's

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what I love about you representing that that It's like

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you do have different facets of your personality, different interests,

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but they can all live in harmony certainly. Yeah.

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And I think there's a lot of creatives you know

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that are that way too, whether it be maybe acting

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and performing or you know, writing and creating artworker, especially

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as a musician in today's world too, where you kind

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of have to naturally wear many hats as the creator,

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the designer, the editor, the author, you know, so to speak,

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and things like that too. So I guess that's been

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again my course of doing that so long, and just

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also add you know, I guess being a little bit

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silly with it though, but like again, creatives are myself,

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I'm always all over the place with thoughts too, so

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that that's.

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Part of it.

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Sometimes it's kind of hard to narrow it down or

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like you'll laugh at this because you're an artist and

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an author. You know, I wrote one song, but I

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presented it to so my head engineer. He's not with

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us anymore, but he was my head engineer here at

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the station for years. He was one of my best friends,

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and he was a musician, and like, so I went

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to him this one time, many years ago, I'm like,

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I have this song. I need your help. And he

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looks at it and he says, what the fuck is this?

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Because I'm an author, so it was more like a

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book than a song. Okay, And then the fight part

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is is he's like, tell, can we cut this out?

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No?

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You know the deal, you know what I'm talking about.

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It's like yeah, he's like I definitely did need him

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because I wouldn't have taken anything out, you know. And

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and so it ended up turning out to be a

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good song after he like butchered it by like I

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don't know ninety percent of.

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Right everything you had to say, no, yeah, exactly, you

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know that's fine now that is fun, right, And.

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So as somebody as an artist manager and somebody that

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does all these things for artists, but you're also an

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artist too. How do you think the artists like it

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that you actually understand what they're going through, because not

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all artist managers or publicists do.

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Sure, sure, no, that's a great one too, And I

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think that's part of the reason that inspired me to

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want to start more on the business side of things. Again,

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it was more like my band was touring, nobody kind

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of took the reins of the day to day or

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you know, tour managing or even overall day to day

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management and stuff, So that kind of had fallen in

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my lap somewhat anyways, and from there it was that

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type of thing where, you know, it was just it

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was a natural progression to want to do that. So,

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I mean, it's where I can relate with artists and

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be like, listen, I'm out there doing it. I mean

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currently now, but in the past two when I was

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only business focused, I did have the experience and was

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able to do that out there and stuff. So I

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think it's a matter too of each artists is different

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on their goals and kind of what they're looking to do.

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So that's how I'm able to kind of relate and

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then have conversations too with them on you know, if

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they want to bring me a ten minute song, that's fine.

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Be the artist, be yourself. You know.

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I can understand and relate to that. But if you

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want to be on the radio, I have to also

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be that guy too who can tell them and explain

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why I can't be ten minutes long, you know, take

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op of things. So I hope it's relatable though for them,

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seeing you know, I walk the path with them out there.

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I'm not just sitting in the office all day. You know.

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Well, that's why I think they trust your advice more

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than the average person, because, like they may think the

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average person that's doing that doesn't understand the creative side,

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but since you do, then they're more willing to listen,

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is what I would think.

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Sure, and again I'd love to keep learning and staying

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relevant to what's current and happening or what might be

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coming in the future for artist, whether it be even

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adapting or interacting should I say with ai you know,

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and that's a touchy subject of course to artists, but

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just the generalization of what is it, what's it going

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to be?

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What could be the future, and.

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Just trying to stay current and relevant to help all

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of our artists as a whole, you know, to continue

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growing on their trajectory or their courses and things like

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that is important to myself too out there to be

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relatable and then help explain to them, you know, maybe

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break it down here's why this works or here's why

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this can happen type of things.

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I love that you brought up AI because I would

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like to know your spin on how it would be

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beneficial to artists without killing the creativity of an artist.

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Absolutely, yeah, And I think it's kind of like anything else.

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It can be used tastefully, right, same with auto tune

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or a billion other arguments. That's a random one off

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the top, but but I think it's just all on

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how you use it and how you want to present yourself.

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And I think I think people again like realness and

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they can see through too much of it. But I

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think it could be beneficial for something like maybe helping

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come up with some content ideas if you're a little

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bit stuck as an artist and you're like, we know

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we need to make content or we want to create content,

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but maybe give us some ideas of guidance on like

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what could react best to our fans type of thing,

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you know, asking some questions like that, helping do I

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hate to say simple task, but like simple day to

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day tasks even like keeping your fans up to data

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on email lists. You know, if you can maybe integrate

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that to where a human doesn't have to put as

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much time or cost or budget you know, into something

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like that where it's not taking away from an art

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design or taking away from your creativity, but it's able

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to you know, make the system quicker and easier for you.

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Little things like that, I wouldn't see it, you know,

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being a problem versus more so like and again it's

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not a problem. But you know, if you're like fully creating,

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just putting it out creating aiar work, throwing it out

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there type of a thing and claiming it, you know,

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it's a different situation. Put again, everybody has a different

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goal in mind too. I guess I'm with what they're doing.

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So that's totally true. And and like even in my industry,

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you know, AI is the big talk at the conferences.

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Everybody's like using all of some of the times when

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people that I deal with on this end of it.

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I get annoyed of how much they use AI, but

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then there's other things that it's worth it. It's like,

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you know, something that would be one sentence, they send

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me like this long like a term paper, and then

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don't even proof that, don't even proof read it. So

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like sometimes for show notes for a podcast, as an example,

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there's some great AI tools that can create the show notes.

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It doesn't mean you copy and paste them. I don't

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copy and paste them, but take the idea, get it,

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you know, and it'll notice things that maybe I don't

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even remember if I'm writing it after the fact, like

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maybe something cool came up in the conversation that I

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didn't think about that. And it also knows kind of

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it gives like a virality score, so it knows what

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the audience wants at times. Now does that mean that's

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fool proof, No, but nothing is. But it doesn't take

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away from the creativity of the actual podcast. Like you said,

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I think it's great for doing all the jobs you

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really don't want to do.

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I think that can help again

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alleviate like extra cost, extra hassle and stress along the

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way of certain things. And that's a great point like

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you had mentioned kind of with the clips, but similar

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to like music videos. You know, if you have a

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music video that you're the humans you're performing, it's your video.

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But if you maybe need some help guiding, I'm like, oh,

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what are the best clips or the you know something

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you can pop that into an AI and have that

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at least guide you. Oh, these clips we see you

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know as the computer or whatever, like you said, analyze

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it and do those type of things. And then from

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there it's up to you again to like do you

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want to post those, do you want to edit them,

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schedule them, you know, utilize those in any way that

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you might want to.

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But it could just help. I'll save some time.

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And I think for anybody, right, no matter who you are,

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what you're doing, time is like your most valuable resource.

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That's a commod you know, you need that. So I

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mean saving where possible.

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Is huge, absolutely, and for you and CB Entertainment, I

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think it's important because in order to really benefit your clients,

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your artists, you have to be relevant with the times.

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And yes, some of the things and some of the

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technology we may not like.

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That's out there is what's necessary, very true, very true,

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when I have conversations with artists about certain things, and

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it might be current or just in general, but that's

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where I'll be.

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The first to say, like, here's what I actually know,

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Here's what I can describe or bring to the table

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for us and that factor of what it is we're

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going for.

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And if not, I'll be the first to say, Hey,

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maybe I'm not the best.

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Let's tag somebody else and who can't help us or

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who can bring something extra to the table where you

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know where I can't. Things like that too, So same

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kind of with an AI or a computer, you know,

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coming in to just help assist along the way.

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Totally. So now again back to you being the artist.

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You're launching a new single for how we feel and

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how do you feel about that?

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It feels good, you know.

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I mean, we had an action packed last year to

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be able to play Incarceration, open the brand new AEG

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venue here in Cleveland called Globron and kick that off

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was really exciting for us. Obviously to launch the debut

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album as well. It's just been a whirlwind of doing

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all that stuff. So with timing, we spend some time

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over winter, we have multiple new songs, you know, kind

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of there and demoed and put together, but we're just

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taking our time with things, not rushing. But we did

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drop a newest track a few weeks back. It's called Flatline.

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We're still working on some extra things for that song,

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but it is out and available to stream. And the

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thing we did different with this one was we did

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track it at our home studio, which was exciting, but

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we were able to send it off to bring me

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to the Horizon studio actually in the United Kingdom. Their

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head engineer there is name Owen, so he became a

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good friend of ours, so we were able to send

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that off and actually work on production and some mixing

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and mastering with him at their home studio.

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So that's been really cool to cross the seas and.

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Kind of do that back and forth digitally and work

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on that new track as well as what we'll have

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coming up and kind of tag into that world as

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them being you know, a big influence and they just

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dropped new music that's amazing and a bunch of stuff

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like that too.

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Yeah, you know, the new song, it's like going back

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to the beginning. It's like death core again, right, That's

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why I love about them and Ali is they switch

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it up instead of making the same album over and

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over again. Yeah, you know, and like even in the

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past few years when people gave him grief about you know,

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changing music up, He's like, why do I want to

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write the same song over and over again?

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No? So true.

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I think they've been a great pioneer for the modern

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I mean, they've been around a long time now, but

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for the modern leaders of kind of what comes next.

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And maybe it's just my personal opinion, but that's where

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I kind of see them being that front runner quite often,

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and then a lot of bands kind of following pretty

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closely behind. Again with no hate to anybody else, but

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noticing that for sure.

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Yeah, And I think that that reason they're leaders is

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because they are mixing it up and showing their you know, creativity,

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musicianship and relevant Like obviously making music now should not

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be the same as when they started.

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And it's good to experiment as an

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artist too.

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I mean I feel that same way. That's kind of

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why we even named our band.

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How we feel was we didn't want to be quite

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limited to like, oh, we're just a metalcore band or

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we're just hard rock, or we're just this without being crazy.

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We're not jazz polka obviously, but like we didn't want

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to pigeonhole ourselves. You know. It's more kind of like

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an art expression or art experiment even more was kind

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of the goal with it, to like put out stuff

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depending on how we were feeling and building, and you

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know that can be a heavy mood and angry mood,

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a more catchy mood, and more dancing mood. There's even

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songs that's a little I call it sexy, you know,

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like with Dangerous on our first album. I mean it's

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still hard rock, but it still has kind of like

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a sexy edge to it, you know, for those late

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night type of vibes. So that's how we like to

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create too, without being like this has to be heavy.

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This has to just have the breakdown that everybody wants

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and all that stuff. And I think there's two sides

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of that too. Being creative is like one side that

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can help you because you're not pigeonholed and you can continue,

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you know, growing and experimenting. The other side, it could

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maybe hurt because you know, fans know what they like

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or they want to hear this and they expect that

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out of you after a while and something like that too,

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So I mean, I think it's worth taking the leap though,

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as any creative to just do what you you know, enjoy.

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And I love that use the word, you know, experiment

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because that you know, I played drums, guitar, and sang

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thrash meow sucked at all three, but but the fun

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was experimenting. Like I talk about this a lot that

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my dad would yell from the other room, you should

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give that up, you suck, and I'd yell back, I'm

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just experimenting what song, what sounds I could make come

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out of a guitar, you know. And I think that

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is really what started metal to begin with way back when,

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and it is you take those early metal bands. None

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of them could you put in this in a formula

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like they could have been in the same genre, but

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they sounded completely different because, like you, they played how

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they felt.

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I think that's an important thing too.

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And everybody has their own reasoning behind why they're creating

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or why they're writing. Maybe some people do want to

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just create hits only you know, and that can be

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their thing, but I think that's the exciting part of

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painting your canvas, you know, is putting that together and

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seeing what comes out of it ultimately.

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Absolutely, so tell us a little bit about what CB

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Entertainment does for its artists and any of its other clients.

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Sure, certainly. Well. I mean we started at first as

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just an artist.

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Management and development company, and that was kind of just

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a happenstance thing of after I stopped touring as much

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with my initial band that was called.

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Forever in Terror. Sorry, I had to get a quick adjustment.

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I feel like that name would be perfect in two

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thousand twenties.

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You know, absolutely absolutely, and we put out an album

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on Metal Blade Records and got to tour all over.

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But that's kind of what led me into learning the

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management side of things again. When we were still in

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high school. Our album came out in stores, our video

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was on MTV and Headbangers Ball and stuff like that,

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and it was kind of like, go out on the

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road and sell this album. Figure it out. So that's

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where I learned the hard way, sleeping in the van

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for about three years, eating gas station food, you know,

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making it figuring things out out there. But that's what

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got me started into starting CB Entertainment. And kind of

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getting into artist management side was touring myself and all

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of that stuff. But over the years there was just

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more things that kind of fell into place. So we

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had an opportunity to end up partnering and co owning

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a merchandise printing shop, so we kind of fell into

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a merchandise side of things, and over the last almost

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ten years now we actually fell into the production side

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of things as well, where we have numerous stages that

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go out led walls, different speaker systems and things like that,

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liner ray systems, and then we'll help do production for

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things anything like Incarceration. All the way to a new

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partnership is like Zach Wilde's new festival that's coming up,

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the Berzerkis Festival, things with Red Bull, Harley Davidson, all

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that type of stuff. So while I stay mainly focused

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on kind of the day to day of all that

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the artist management organizing, making sure the production side is

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just moving and operating, I still like to get out

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there in the field too, get my hands dirty a

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little bit, go to the events, do all those type

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of things as well. There's time pop in and play

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a show or two with you know, with our own

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project there.

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Nice. That's the fun part, right.

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Yeah, totally, It definitely is. And I'm always like, I

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tell our band, so I'm like, I'm not that guy.

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I'm not trying to like take the timing and the opportunities,

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but there's every once in a while where I have

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to pop in and at least absorb get that experience too,

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you know.

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And I'm right there with you guys wherever we're at

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her in the trenches.

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So, and you've made amazing You've achieved amazing results, over

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one billion audience reach globally. You've been seen on Forbes,

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Rolling Stone, the Grammys. You have clients that have been

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nominated for two Grammy Awards, sold over twenty five million albums.

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That that's some pretty serious stuff right there.

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It's been fun, you know along the way. Actually in

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we're doing a partnership even with the Rock and Roll

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Hall of Fame. So this Friday we're doing that. They're

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actually opening this really cool exhibit called the Women in

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Metal Exhibit and doing a big concert.

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So we're doing some some.

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Stuff out there with them that's gonna have Like Lizzyhill's

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coming out from Hailstorm, I think Courtney from Spirit Box

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donated some items a bunch.

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Of the cool ladies that are coming up with that.

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So yeah, I mean I try to find ways that

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we can collaborate across the board. If it's not for artists, management,

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it's production or the marketing side of things, stuff like

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that along the way.

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Absolutely, And you know, since you brought up to women, man,

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I gotta tell you, I don't know what people were

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thinking back in the seventies and eighties, because women, I

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think are the most badass in metal. Like yes, like

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you just mentioned Courtney. Sometimes when I see her play, okay,

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I just watch your mouth in awe of the technique,

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like the technique that what comes out of there, it

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just blows my mind. And you know, any of those women.

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What I really love about it too, is people they've

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really brought to the public that just because you scream

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and growl doesn't mean you don't know how to thing.

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Absolutely true too, And I mean it's been so exciting

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to see over the last I mean they've they've always

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been there and should be respected of course with their

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talents and skills, but lately too, just seeing so many

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incredible ones finally getting more spotlight, you know, in metal

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00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:17.920
and hard rock and things like that, and again across

457
00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:21.680
the board, whether it's vocalists or guitar players, drummers, bass players,

458
00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:22.519
you know, you name it.

459
00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:25.720
The ladies are really rocking it. So it's exciting to

460
00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:26.079
see that.

461
00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:29.599
And I love watching the stuff too, I mean, of anybody,

462
00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:31.880
but it's really cool to see like the sickest new

463
00:22:32.039 --> 00:22:34.160
you know, female drummer taking off because I'm a drummer

464
00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:35.240
myself too and stuff like that.

465
00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:37.000
I love just watching. So it's very neat.

466
00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:41.319
Yeah, and like you take like I'm wearing this shirt today,

467
00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:44.519
you take Beta Strauss's. She's like one of the best

468
00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:51.079
shredders ever, Like yeah, yeah, absolutely. So what else do

469
00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:54.400
you have going on throughout the rest of twenty twenty

470
00:22:54.440 --> 00:22:56.160
six that you want the listeners to know about?

471
00:22:57.200 --> 00:22:57.559
Totally?

472
00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:00.200
I mean, I think we're trying to keep our been

473
00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:02.359
coming artists that are out there busy. You know, We've

474
00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:04.960
been doing a lot of awesome stuff with Alex for example,

475
00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:07.160
and thanks again for having her on, but she's about

476
00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:10.160
to be playing Upheaval Festival in a few weeks as well.

477
00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:13.920
Stoping by incarceration. Are guys done for out of Florida

478
00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:15.799
have been killing it. They just got back from a

479
00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:19.000
headline tour. We're going to continue pushing and growing with

480
00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:22.680
those guys. We have a new artist to announce coming soon,

481
00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:25.880
and a new record label and partnerships and things like

482
00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:28.279
that coming out, So that's gonna be fun. With this

483
00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:31.839
awesome video that'll be dropping two weeks give or take.

484
00:23:31.880 --> 00:23:33.480
We'll be doing the announcement with the video and a

485
00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:35.880
bunch of stuff like that. So just keep it moving,

486
00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:39.599
trying to create opportunities anywhere possible for our artists first

487
00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:42.039
and foremost, and for the company as a whole secondly.

488
00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:44.920
And then to round it off, we're going to drop

489
00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:46.839
some more music with How We Feel, play a few

490
00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:50.039
more shows, and then see where next year will take us.

491
00:23:50.920 --> 00:23:55.680
Nice and speaking of Alex and badass women, gee, we

492
00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:59.039
became friendly. But I think I've almost made her cry

493
00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:02.960
during the interview because I was comparing her to Courtney

494
00:24:03.240 --> 00:24:06.960
and tak Tianna, and because she does she has that

495
00:24:08.119 --> 00:24:12.519
range where she's got this beautiful, you know, melodic voice,

496
00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:15.519
but then she can go into that scream and growl

497
00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:18.319
and go yeah. I'm always in awe when people can

498
00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:22.160
go back and forth like that, because it sometimes I

499
00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:24.559
think it takes switching something in your brain to go

500
00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:27.039
back and forth like that. You know, it's like you

501
00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:30.039
have to switch for melodic and the switch for the

502
00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:31.599
scream and growling.

503
00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:33.839
No, it is very true.

504
00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:37.720
I mean, she's definitely you know, her talent is amazing.

505
00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:39.559
I mean, it's awesome to see how she continues to

506
00:24:39.640 --> 00:24:41.640
grow and connect with fans all over the world.

507
00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:43.200
So that's awesome stuff.

508
00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:46.640
And the scream too, is great that she's incorporating that more,

509
00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:48.880
taking that next step too, and I think the new

510
00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:51.519
music will have even more awesome things you know, to

511
00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:53.279
come with that too on that side of things.

512
00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:54.480
So that's really exciting.

513
00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:58.920
So let's also talk about your books, because yeah, I'm

514
00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:02.480
totally into books too, and I love you got the

515
00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:05.160
music books, but then you had one that was motivational

516
00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:08.200
book too, that was like, now, that's really cool, so

517
00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:09.319
let's talk about them.

518
00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:13.359
Sure, So the motivational one was you know, I guess

519
00:25:13.400 --> 00:25:13.960
over COVID.

520
00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:15.759
But even prior to that, I mean, I spent a

521
00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:18.519
lot of time kind of doing as many people probably did,

522
00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:22.119
but like self reflecting, kind of studying, researching, just doing

523
00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:25.079
my own personal deep dive of things and wanted to

524
00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:27.720
figure out kind of my path too, of like how

525
00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:28.720
did that all make sense?

526
00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:30.559
How did it work? How did anything happen? And I

527
00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:32.839
just kind of figured out for myself.

528
00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:35.279
I'm always a very visual learner and a visual type

529
00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:37.880
of person and things like that. So long story some

530
00:25:38.079 --> 00:25:41.880
short is kind of visualizing and seeing it as what

531
00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:43.799
I often found when I would talk to like friends

532
00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:45.920
and ask them what were their goals or other people

533
00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:48.200
and things like, they kind of knew what they maybe

534
00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:51.960
wanted or could say it, but they never projected or

535
00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:53.599
solid in their mind of like how do I actually

536
00:25:53.640 --> 00:25:56.319
get from here to there to actually make that a reality? Right?

537
00:25:56.400 --> 00:25:58.440
It's like, oh, I want to do this, but not

538
00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:00.160
thinking of point A to be.

539
00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:01.960
So that's where I kind of connected the dots and

540
00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:03.759
that's what I had found had worked for me, was

541
00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:07.799
actually finding how do you take those steps and again

542
00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:09.759
on whatever it might be that you are. So that's

543
00:26:09.799 --> 00:26:14.000
what the dream Believe, visualized achieve method kind of came

544
00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:17.000
together for myself. Again without selling it as like a

545
00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:20.200
hypnosisy guru type of shit or whatever, if we can

546
00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:21.240
swear sorry.

547
00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:23.440
But that's just what worked for me, and I swear

548
00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:26.519
all you want awesome, awesome, but.

549
00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:28.279
Just wanted to share what worked for me and maybe

550
00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:30.559
it could help others that like, cause again, being a

551
00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:32.599
dreamer and a creative, I'm always like, oh, this would

552
00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:34.240
be cool, or I'd like to do this, or I

553
00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:37.319
want to do this, but it's always hard to bring

554
00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:39.640
it to fruition and actually take the steps or to

555
00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:41.880
do it or and then so many lost ideas. So

556
00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:45.359
there's ones that are worth trying. I thought that can

557
00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:47.519
be an helpful guide to kind of Okay, so you

558
00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:50.359
have the thought, here's how you could do this, this this,

559
00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:52.799
you know, break it down for yourself, figure out what works.

560
00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:55.799
And again it might not even just be a vision

561
00:26:55.880 --> 00:26:57.559
or an idea, but just even in life of like

562
00:26:57.640 --> 00:27:00.839
how you can help take steps you know, for orizing yourself,

563
00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:03.200
your life, your thoughts, any of that. So that's what

564
00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:05.519
seemed to work for me, and it's been really cool

565
00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:07.480
to have out there and share and get into a

566
00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:08.839
few people's hands along the way.

567
00:27:09.880 --> 00:27:13.119
Yeah, I dig it because that's my other side of me,

568
00:27:13.480 --> 00:27:17.759
is motivational speaker me and like, since I'm eleven years old, man,

569
00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:22.519
like that's how I got through childhood was motivational stuff

570
00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:26.480
and self help stuff and yeah, you know, yeah, that's

571
00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:30.279
my book right there, Mike. It's getting blocked by.

572
00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:33.880
The Oh shoot, there we go it is. Yeah, that's awesome.

573
00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:37.960
And so my grandmother always used to say life doesn't

574
00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:41.000
come with an owner's manual. So I wrote the owner's manual.

575
00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:41.920
I love that.

576
00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:43.759
I'll have to read it. You'll have to send me

577
00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:45.799
a link and I'll grab that and would love to

578
00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:46.119
read it.

579
00:27:46.599 --> 00:27:50.480
Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. And uh so tell everybody

580
00:27:50.599 --> 00:27:53.160
how they can reach out to you for all the

581
00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:56.559
things that you do on the web, on socials, all

582
00:27:56.599 --> 00:27:57.279
that good stuff.

583
00:27:58.240 --> 00:27:59.680
Sure, yeah, I mean you can find me.

584
00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:02.599
I guess a quick Google if you type in like

585
00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:06.319
Chris Yankee music, I'll pop up easily, or just chrispyank

586
00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:10.000
the number one dot com Instagram. It's the same thing,

587
00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:12.680
chrisp Byankee number one pretty much anywhere. I think it's

588
00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:16.000
the same handle across the board. And hopefully we'll be

589
00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:18.759
easily able to connect on there. So always love meeting

590
00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:23.640
new people, to collaborating, chatting, hearing music, you know, feedback,

591
00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:25.279
any of that kind of stuff along the way.

592
00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:30.279
Very cool. Any final words for our listeners, I just.

593
00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:32.279
Hope everybody has a great summer and a great rest

594
00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:35.359
of your year, and keep inspiring, keep dreaming out there.

595
00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:37.359
You know that's all you can do in this crazy world.

596
00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:41.839
So just have fun and you keep rocking with your

597
00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:45.359
music and helping all those artists because they need it nowadays,

598
00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:48.480
because you know there's a lot of them out there.

599
00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:51.799
And thanks for being on the Adventures of Pipemin.

600
00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:57.759
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin. I'm

601
00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:00.920
w for s you on Light Radio.