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subscription today for only $99 at video blocks..com slash recode. This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That's me. It's powered by digital media. That is a real company. They have a funny name. I am here with Bob Lefzitz. Again, Bob, this is not the first time we've talked. We did it. We had a technical glitch, even in the digital era.

Shit happens, and it happened to us, but we're here, get another bite at the apple. Thanks for coming back. And I saw you last night at a fancy party. You were in the center of the party. People were swaning around you. They wanted to get a bite of your apple. I love the way you tell the story, irrelevant of the truth, but that's good. We'll gloss over it a little bit.

Many people who are listening to this will know who you are.

For those who don't, I'm going to describe you as a newsletter writer. I realize I'm modding it, it's on radio. It's a music industry. It's good not. A music industry critic. Yes. Can I call you an entrepreneur? Sure. You built your own business. Sure. So you write, it's called the Left Sits Letter, right? Left Sets Letter, that's it.

And I can get it via email. critic. Yes. Can I call you an entrepreneur? Sure. You built your own business. Sure. So you write, it's called the left sets letter, right?

Left sets letter, that's it.

And I can get it via email. That's really the best way to get it because if I go to website, I'm going to get the old stuff. Well, you'll get everything except for I do a lot of compilations of email I get. You'll get 95%. But email has immediacy.

You know, the funny thing about email is I stumbled into that at the beginning of the century.

And everybody said... 95%. But email has immediacy. You know, the funny thing about email is I stumbled into that at the

beginning of the century. And everybody said, go to the blog format. And I was against that because at

the time, a lot of the people I reached, the people in the music business, were not that web savvy.

Yeah. The irony is everybody's web savvy now, but because of noise in the channel,

everybody switched back to newsletters.

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