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All right, ladies and gentlemen. Today we have Anthony Esperance, musician,

one pop a roach from Austin, Texas in Austin, Texas. How are you doing?

Doing great, man. It's good to be here. Reborn in Austin?

No, I was born in Northern California and actually grew up in Oregon. I grew up on the South

Coast of Oregon. So a real rainy windy town and then made my way out here probably a year and a

half ago. Just I did the max mass exodus like every Californian did. You're one of them.

I'm one of them, man. So I've been here about a year and a half and I love it.

It's a beautiful city. It is. Yeah. And you just got back from from tour?

Yeah, so we during the pandemic, we had such a big break. We're trying to fill our time now with

with more shows. So we just got done doing back-to-back weekends of festivals. So it's kind of like a fly

out on a Thursday. You play Friday, Saturday, fly home Sundays, what we just did.

Do you enjoy that? I love it. I like flying out to tour or if it's just a weekend gig,

I just love going and playing music and being with my crew and my band.

How many like in a year besides like COVID time frame? How often are you on the road as opposed

to being home? So that's a great question because before COVID, we hit it hard. Like we usually,

it's usually something like this like a states tour in February, March. And then April, May,

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