Now that you replace one guy, is the bug bit? Is Joel next? What's going on with that?

Hello, world-saving podcast fans and listeners. This is Nick. Unfortunately, Andy's not here today.

I'm not sure where he is. He's probably on an airplane coming back from some godforsaken gig and some sea market but i have a

special co-host with me today he's tall he's handsome he plays bass he's a dad what's some other stuff

about you ryan stasic everybody yes i so fucking excited to be here this is um this is a real fucking honor i'm serious this is

i the last two hours i've been doing pushups in my hotel room i'm just pumped a meeting

as as andy would say let's fucking go a real meeting of the minds here between two midwestern

uh jam band musicians so i wanted to I wanted to start out with this.

How long Scotty been in the band now?

Scotty joined in May.

So about one fiscal quarter.

Okay, so it's been about three months.

You've done a good amount of gigs.

You're the bass player.

So you're the guy that decides how the drummer's doing how do you feel about

his tenure so far uh it's amazing he's uh he's fucking he's awesome he's a very skilled drummer

um and you know the most important part is like 90% of the time we're not on a stage so the hang

has been uh really fun yeah um fun. We have a lot of things

in common. We both enjoy nine-inch nails. Hell yeah. We saw him in Chicago. Kevin Browning,

our manager, and Farrag and Scotty and I went and saw him. Dude, it's worth paying the amount for the ticket prices.

I know everybody can bitch about a high expensive ticket pricing, but they are definitely putting

in cool production, stage design, vibe. The whole thing was so creative and relevant and still

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