Hey guys, how's it going? So if I'm whispering, which I might be, is because I'm sitting in my living

room. It's almost 10 minutes to midnight right now, and I'm just recording the intro for this

podcast for you guys. And the reason why I'm recording this at almost midnight is because what's going on at

SBL right now is just crazy in terms of workloads. I'm having to just put some really,

really long hours in and you know the kids are obviously in bed, wife's in bed and and I'm just up here

shedding and I'm not shedding the base I'm shedding business and obviously you know making things

run as they should do and making sure that I'm bringing the best to the best to the table

for you guys that I possibly can do. So this week is a really

special one for me because in 2008 I went to New York for the first time ever and my wife and I

went over there and really were just kind of like blown away by the whole atmosphere in

New York and really fell in love with the city in a big way and and since then really we've gone

back many times for me I've been back I went there with like on my honeymoon with my wife

but for me I've worked a lot over there as well

not only as a bass player but obviously through scott's bass lessons you know we've

filmed a ton of courses over there and yeah it's just a really I hold it really close to my

heart but in 2008 I can remember standing in a subway station watching a

amazing trio and the bass player was just absolutely tearing up he was playing a six-string

federa I can remember to be pinned to the wall just thinking who is this guy and when we were

going over to to new york early in this year we were recording a whole

bunch of content for you guys and and and nick who manages a lot of the content at scott's bass

lessons he was like oh i really think we should get this trio in and the bass player is

motto Fukushima from japan who actually lives in new york now and and i didn't i didn't

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