What's up and welcome to another episode of the Scott and Ian show on the SBL podcast.

I just caught a glimpse of myself in the, like in the recording.

I've got a beard right now, you guys.

Now look, there was a show that I played a while back where somebody said to the drummer,

my friend Grady, who has a great beard, they went, nice beard.

He had like a giant beard. And then they said to me,

hey, bass player, nice starter beard. And the whole place laughed. I've never told that story before.

It was, I was in a band called Oklahoma and we were opening up for Jimmy Eat World. And someone said to me,

nice starter beard. And the whole place laughed, dude. And what could I do? I was like plugging in my base. I was like, so is that why I'm growing the beard? I don't know. But what do you think? You think I should keep it? You think I should keep it going? I know what my wife thinks. I also know what I think.

I look at myself.

I'm like, damn, I'm not sure.

But I digress.

Today, you are in for a real, real treat.

There's no hemming and hawing about it.

There's no debate.

You are going to check out an interview with Ra Diaz from Base Space 2023. I had never met

Ra before and he came across our radar. He is the base player currently for corn. Corn with a

K you guys. You know corn. He is currently the base player for suicidal tendencies, which means, of course, he is also currently the

bass player for infectious grooves. Now, you might wonder, how did this guy get all three

of those sick gigs? You're about to find out, raw is the blueprint. I've said this before,

and I'll say it again, he is the blueprint for getting the gig, and you're going to understand why.

I'm not going to give it up right now because you're about to understand why.

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