Say it off, Chris. Well, listen here. The nine club is back again. Today we got a special guest sitting in the hot seat. Well, they're all special, but we got another. We got a special guy here today. We got Mr. Ben Harper.

Thanks for having me on. Oh, man, special or not. Thank you for being here, you know, and to his right. We got Roger Bagley, of course, Raj and myself. See Rob Crab.

Oh, and let me not forget, uh, don't forget about me, me, a resident. And I call him resident now because we did a trial run in the first episode. And I think he passed a test. And we set him up with his own little, uh, his own little office over there.

I got a little office. I got a mug. I got a button. He's a little further away, which is good. Yeah, which is good. We got to keep him as far away. Should we call him the intern neck? Well, you can't even turn. It looks like he's running shit over there.

Yeah, I can't whoever sitting over there. Yeah.

What's up, man? Well, you know, the public master over there.

Yeah, it's got the, but he's got the button. So he has to push the button to chime in. Kelly, keep it to a minimum today.

Um, no, it's great to be here. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Uh, shows off the hook. Thank you.

You just did a bunch of shows recently. Uh, you did the Hollywood bowl. Uh, where else did you?

Barbara, Barbara, the bowl shows, the Barbara and Hollywood, both great venues. How was that? Let me ask you a question. How is it getting on stage?

And look at how to see a people. I was just about to say, like, I mean, you've been doing it for a while, but Jesus Christ, I couldn't imagine.

You never do get used to it, but you get better at it. If you have the chance to consistently do it over the years, let me ask you, when they, when they announce your name and you come on, does that what they do?

They miss bad harp. And then you run out on stage or how does it like, no, but that's a good, that's a good call though. I can use a good height.

Man, listen, I could do it. I have my own mic. I can bring my own mic. I could plug it in. Right. No button. No button. No button. But that must just be the wildest feeling in the world.

Hearing the cheers and squids more wild to have gone from, you know, a small, like the small club, like the mint to the Hollywood bowl, or just actually walking on to a state.

To a stage where there's that many people, like, both both. But do you ever like just trip out for a second, or do you have to like, you're focused on what you're doing?

It must be something similar to, although you're not really competing, so it's not the same. I'm thinking, I'm thinking as far as like skating in front of a crowd where you have to perform.

Yeah, maybe it's like, I'm blocking people out. It never is normal. It's never natural, but there's a way to kind of breathe into it.

I still get as nervous today as I did the first time I played a song in front of four people. So it hasn't, that hasn't shifted.

I'm kind of glad it hasn't, because I figure if that goes away, then maybe there's kind of a numbness to it, or you know, you...

Yeah, cocky. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It's still not normal. There's still nothing normal about getting in front of a see of people to make music.

Even with skating though, it's like you do a demo, and like my legs are like, it takes me a while.

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