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Hi, Nigel J. How you doing? I am good. How are you, Darryl? I'm good. I'm in

my apartment in Las Vegas, as you know. What you're in France, what part of France? That's right.

I am. I'm about one and a half to two hours east of Bordeaux. It's so beautiful. I basically

live on a hill. Yeah, actually, you know, it's actually just happened to have the photo. I'll show.

That's it. So we actually know each other for quite a while. Originally, you brought me on board

with jazz in your magazine because you were the editor-in-chief at the time and I started doing

interviews with you. And so we kind of hit it off and then since then we started our podcast

adventures which have been fun and we just actually just hit 100,000. Yeah. Yeah.

So that's pretty amazing. What's some of the highlights for you? I mean we've actually,

this has been going for seven months. It's actually pretty amazing that we hit that number in

seven months. But of course, lockdown maybe maybe played a part a lot of people were sitting at

home, you know, with not a whole lot to do. Maybe that's part of it. But what you thought

on that? I mean, I hear what you're saying. And for me, there's some validity in that,

that people were perhaps a little bit more accessible. Also at that period through lockdown

and artists and well known ones are a little bit more choosy so that they don't actually dilute

what they're doing. And because of your really consummate reputation within the music industry,

there's a whole through many, many years you've networked through and you've kept your networking

up. That's been absolutely invaluable to, you know, it's effectively it's your little black book

and some of my little black book as well between you. So when you've got that, at the end of the day,

the facts are is that your own reputation and business integrity carries you through to a point

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