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Super excited for part two of my interview with Rick Biotto. And just to let you know, you haven't heard the rest of the interview, but I have because I was there. I was conducting the interview, if you will. So I already know what's going to happen. So I'm kind of going back in time here or going ahead in time, depending on how you look at it. We decided to break this one up because we went and just talked and talked.

I mean, Rick, this dude is knowledgeable on music, and we went on some deep dives.

So we hope you enjoy this.

Please let us know.

And here we go with part two of my interview with Rick Biato.

Rick, let me ask you about this. Do you consider yourself,

I mean, I know that you're, you know, a big jazz fan and player, but that's just one part of kind of

what you do. But do you consider yourself sort of a sneaky YouTuber when it comes to jazz

and maybe even classical in terms of like are you

intentionally trying to throw some some jazz and classical information and references even if

you're doing something like the katy perry you know flame lawsuit video which is really actually

where i kind of first came to know about you because all the st louis connections but where you kind of go off on a little bit of a tangent. And I know that was hugely popular because you were speaking to like a news item of the day and it was music and it was, your analysis was, I mean, you were kind of like, you were sort of like the real expert witness that they should have had in the lawsuit and you almost treated it like you were on

you know in front of the judge and had been sworn in and you actually broke it down correctly

but you went on those little tangents where you'd said like you know this is not really a melody jazz players are playing this all the time but you actually

saying little parts little harmonic things that could have gotten super nerdy, but they kind of stayed within

the general music area. But do you kind of consciously do that, or is that sort of just part of

your flow and how you see jazz fitting into the larger music world? I always try to fit jazz

in. I always try to sneak jazz in somehow. I always, I think of myself as a jazz musician.

I grew up playing jazz,

listening to bebop because of my dad. And even though my undergrad degree was in classical bass, I, uh, I always, and I, you know, I played rock music first. I started on the guitar, you know,

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