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Dean, how do you get your music?

Oh, the normal way to answer this is to say that I like listen to Spotify for the most part and then also like the radio like you know yeah main

public classical yeah so you do give yourself over to the algorithm, right? Like do you put your hands in the air and

wave them like you just don't care when a robot is requesting you to do it?

I guess, I mean I don't, I don't like dig the whole like creation of playlists for me

But yeah yeah sure algorithms so I think one of the interesting things about the glut of music now, that is now available

to us, the sort of prison of infinite choice that we reside in is that as we sift through the heap of music that we can now access on digital platforms, there is this kind of like this other level of music that feels not just like indie artist or

non-famous but specifically designed to be unremarkable. This is making me think of like, I mean not to be insulting because I do listen to this too but like

lo-fi. Yes. Like the vast majority of it feels it's like by people life yeah exactly exactly yeah

yeah so I have this friend from high school named Danny Shreg nice name

Danny was a musician, is a musician.

You know, he's always kind of like tickling the ivory,

he's a piano player, and he was always putting together these kind of like circular piano music songs like

composing these songs and as he became a full adult with a real job so to speak

Danny started selling jet engines as his day job.

Cool.

And at night he was recording these piano songs that he was composing.

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