Hey, Peter.

Hey, man.

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? I don't know, but, you know, whenever you say stuff like this, I always think of you as such a young guy. And then you bring up these references that are like way back deep into the 70s, man. Mmm. Hmm. Thank you. I'm Adam Manus.

And you're listening to the You'll Hearer podcast.

Daily Jazz Advice coming at you.

For those of you who don't know that reference,

there was a really like primitive looking cartoon. It was a commercial. It was almost like a drawing,

right? Yeah. And it was always on like the Saturday morning cartoon rotation. It was an owl and some kid. Oh, that's right. It went to him and was like, Mr. Rao. Yeah. How many looks does it take? Why are we talking about licks today? Well, because we have a speak pipe from one of our new premium members, specifically about, well, let's just take a listen to it, but obviously it's about licks. Sure. Hey, Peter and Adam. This is Sam from the Bay Area. I love your guys' podcast. Listen to it every day on my commute to the gym in the mornings. My question for you guys pertains to Licks and how to use them effectively. I know that to build your jazz vocabulary for improvising, you have to listen and steal from the grates. But how do you get past the point of just copying and pasting a look into your own solo?

I want to be able to effectively transition from one idea to the next, but when I try to use

bits and pieces from solos that I transcribe, it sounds very fragmented and not like one melodic

idea.

Anyway, any advice would be helpful and keep up the hard work with the podcast. Thanks. Thank you, Sam. You got a notification there, it seems like. Yeah, notification. He's like, speak pipe finished. Thank you for acknowledging the hard work that we do here. We make it look easy, but it's hard. I don't even think we make it look that easy. Yeah, we don't. The effort is seed, all this crap of everyone. We got a lot of, we got almonds, we got mystery beverage. I mean, the pod cave is kind of falling apart. I don't know if you noticed this, but some of the baffling, sound baffling is going on. Well, we're a little bit because, wow, we totally lost the question here now. We'll be back to it. I got it. But you know, we keep bringing up to Andrew. He's like, you know, I got an intern coming.

Right.

He's like, a little bit because, wow, we totally lost the question here now. We'll be back to it. I got it.

We keep bringing up to Andrew.

He's like, you know, I got an intern coming. Right. He's like, Andrews already ridden to, like, shirk his responsibilities and put the responsibility of upkeep on the pod cave to some mysterious intern that I've never met. I know. And well, dare I say, because of the runaway success of this endeavor, it's, uh,

runaway and of this endeavor,

it's,

uh,

run away in that the fact

that people have been running away constantly.

Yeah,

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