BTS of Planning Our FIRST Concert & Killer Mike GRAMMY Controversy

And that is how I ended up with one of Taylor Swift's gowns. Welcome back to another episode of the One More Time Show. Welcome. It feels like it's been a while since we've done this. Well, it feels like it and it has been. Okay, well, anyways, this is show week, baby. Big show. This is show week. Concert time. This is one more time presents. Let's go. First, inaugural? Inaugural? No, because that's like that has like a yearly implication, I feel like. Alright, we're doing it multiple times a year, motherfuckers. Another one coming up here this summer. We're here once a quarter at least. Well, uh, okay. Anyways, yeah. So our our time and energy and mental health has all been facts. Focused on this concert. So for those that aren't familiar, we are putting on a show. Sorry for the lack of gems, maybe in the last few weeks. Yeah, yeah, for sure. So we're on a promotion mission. Yeah. We haven't shot concert or we haven't shot uh, you know, content that's not concert promo or interview related in a while. So apologies.

We promise we'll be back on it. But we'll be back. Yeah, but you know, we got the concert coming up this Friday, February 9th here in Atlanta, Georgia. Um, and I mean, like, I just wanted to start with like, why the fuck are we doing this? Like, let's just, let's just level set of like, you know, explaining why it is that like I mean, you know, what why did you want to do it? I have my own reasons. Like, why do it? I want it to look cool to all my followers. How's that? How's that working out for you? I want I want the clout. How's that? I'm here for the clout. Have you gained any followers? Have you gained any followers? The show hasn't happened yet, man. So but I plan on upping my follower count. I plan on my grid looking really cool with recap footage. Yep. And I plan on Drake following me in the next two weeks. So that is my outlook. All right. Well, uh you gotta have goals, man. And you know, you gotta be honest about those goals. And so, like, I'm really glad that you brought those to the table today. Do yours differ? Oh, mine are a little different. Okay.

No, I mean, you know, all jokes is I clearly want the clout. I mean, for sure. Like, I want to be those motherfucking guys. I was joking. You're supposed to be the voice of reason that brings it back. I'm bringing it back. I'm bringing it back. Let's bring it back. Come on. Um, yeah, man. We've we've been like super ingrained in the Atlanta music community, I would say, for the last two years of doing the podcast. Um, I guess shit. Is it coming up on three and coming up on two and a half? I think two and a half. No, May. May is three? Yes, dude. Wild. Insane. Okay. So coming up on almost three years of doing the podcast. Um, I feel like we've we've you know invested a lot of time, energy, and um, you know, just like our resources into the Atlanta music, like business and land Atlanta music scene, right? So for me, it was like a really cool way for for us to, you know, put on some of the people that we like genuinely fuck with and in this shit, right? We've met like some of our favorite artists by interviewing them.

Literally. It's so cool. It's it's like the coolest shit ever. Like it's like clout aside, it's just like it makes me feel so happy and like so proud of us to be able to, you know, interview people that we're now seeing go on like national tours and like you know, opening up for JID, you know, in Europe and across the country, right? Like it's just and they're they just they're making some of my favorite music, right? Um genuinely. Yeah, and you know, to be honest, like I I just wanted to give back to those that took a chance on us. Uh, you know, a lot of these folks were earlier on, right? In the interviews, I would say for the most part. Like they were they were kind of, you know, earlier on. Like back when we were on the pool table. I think Suave was shit, you know, episode like pre pre-20, bro. Maybe that's like episode like 15 or some shit, I wanna say. Um, you know, on a bona fide set now. And and then, yeah, Ben Riley also on the pool table.

Yep. Um, Cam the Artisan, pool table, pool table. So three of the four acts. So Will was on the set. For sure, but he was early on the set. as well. maybe, yeah, first five on the set. For sure. So, like a lot of these guys were, you know, earlier on, kind of believing in us before we had any sort of you know, traction or emotion. Um, and and so I just wanted to like give back to them, give them a platform, um, and then also show show our community that like we actually listen to music and like we do have good, like I do want to kind of prove that like we've never like been we never consider ourselves tastemakers necessarily. Exactly. But we had taste. We do, we actually do. Yeah, like you know, a lot of y'all might have tuned into some of our live streams, right? Like, if you guys are tapped into the podcast, there's a chance that you've like joined one of our live streams, and we're like reviewing music and we're giving you know honest and critical feedback. And a lot of times, you know, some people don't love it, and like that's fine, but a lot of people take it to heart, and like we've had people come back in the live streams, submit their songs again, like new songs, and say that they worked on the things that like we we critique them on. I love that.

And that was like the most that was like the most fire moment, right? And they actually did improve. Yes, right. So that I just say all that to say of like we started a music podcast because we actually know what the fuck like we're talking about in some way, shape, or form, right? Like Henry is literally an engineer and producer by like that that the podcast ain't paying his bills. I'm just gonna go ahead and say that, right? Like he he is a professional, you know, musician or professional, like uh, you know, engineer and producer, right? Like he makes music for a living. Uh and me, I just am like fucking like super fan of this shit. And that's what made me want to get into this, right? So for me, it's a little bit of that, right? It's a little bit of like a chip on my shoulder, I would say, as far as like not wanting to throw the like curation and tastemaking thing in people's faces like all the time. That's not like really what our core business is right now, but I do like to be able to just kind of like solidify us a little bit. We also just don't do much in the way of like live shit, you know, and like bringing our community together in a place is just dope by itself, just by like, hey, every you know, if you're in Atlanta and you fuck with us, or if you're not in Atlanta and you want to come to Atlanta and fuck with us, here's an opportunity to come, you know, see some of our favorite artists, chop it up with us, yes, and grow as a community fucking one more timers for sure. The the the the like the part of meeting us and actually like talking to us is what I'm so excited about, bro.

Oh man, because like we did the mixer. Um, I guess like a year Thank God It's not COVID. Yeah, exactly. We did, yeah, we did a mixer, like that was like an industry mixer a year ago, pretty much, right? Like not this not this past December, but like a year ago. Um, and that was really cool. I mean, we had people coming up to us being like, love the podcast, like telling us their favorite interview, like just really, really showing love and supporting us. And then they were meeting like other people that were in the music scene, like trying to you know, figure this shit out. So for me, I'm most excited for sure about like I've been telling anyone that's like saying they're coming to the show. I'm like, you better make sure you fucking come up to us and introduce yourself. Yes, like don't be that fucking guy or girl that just like lurks in the you know corner or that if you want to no like come it's fine. No, I don't, it's not fine. I only want to just come enjoy the show, and you're some people have that personality, Ben. I know you're very outgoing. I want to meet them. You talk loud, I do, you know, you want to meet everyone, I get it, but I I you know I'm here for the little guy I'm the creative of the group the little guy and if you guys want to just come enjoy the music and fucking leave uh that's cool with me I want to meet y'all so I guess I do too but I respect your decision okay fine yeah I won't force you guys to talk to me but like I'd like I'd like to meet everyone did you want to talk anything about the like the logistics of booking a show or what are we doing in this episode I mean yeah I just wanted to kind of like first off set the stage of why we're even doing it so that that's we've done that check. I think we did that we did that.

So now I'd like to say like how did it go right? Like how did we even do it right because we've interviewed a lot of people um we have a lot of artists that we do support and that we do fuck with and I think you know just as far as like building the lineup man these aren't like necessarily the ex you know exact four that like we first thought of but like we actually did go to curate the lineup you know what I mean so we built this lineup because we think that these artists have like a pretty common you know theme amongst their sound right like we think that they would fit well together on a bill so as far as like how the lineup came together it really was though that once we kind of had the anchor of like Suave and Ben as like the co-headliners then getting like Cam and Will it all fell together like easy. It was so easy. Yeah how shocking was that yeah also just saying like hey Suave and Ben are doing are headlining a show. Yeah you could have told that to anybody yeah for me it was actually like kind of scary I I kept and like I guess we still I think I guess they still have like time to fuck us up, but like for me, how easy it was for them all to be like, yeah, bro, we'll do it. We weren't sure.

We were like, we had a giant list of fucking options. There were so many plan B's, C's, and yeah, our plan A basically worked out. Yeah, it's pretty sick. For sure. So like for me, that was really cool. Yeah. Um obviously the venue, you know. We just interviewed uh, you know, Madeline Jackson over at uh at the venue, you know, the vinyl at center stage. Shout out Madeline. I interview is fire. She's not the most like famous fucking guest we've ever had on, but I swear to God, if y'all need to know like how to get shows booked and how like bookings work and just shows come together, like it's a fucking gem of an episode. Because you're probably doing it wrong, yeah, yeah, for sure. There's definitely there's definitely some uh some shit to learn from that one. But no, I mean I think I I'd known her through just the scene and like um I think through Anwar, who we interviewed before, who has like an events company here in Atlanta called Lotus Rosary, uh, that they put on Lotus. Shout out to Reed. Yeah, they shot they fucking put on super fire events. So, like if our shit is half as dope as you know, some of their things that I've been to, you know, I'll chalk it up as a win. But I'm actually look, we're going for doper.

Doper, damn. You're coming for Anwar spot. I love it. I fucking love it. It's all fucking love. No, it's not. We in here, bro. We're trying to do half of Lotus. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're trying to do half of nothing. We're trying to do double Lotus. We're trying to be the new shit. Like, this is One More Time Presents. If you're not at one more time presents on February 9th in Atlanta, Georgia at center stage vinyl. What are you doing with your life? Bro, you've never come with that kind of energy, bro. I'm fucking here for it. It's it's the week. It's the show week. You wanted me to have this energy like a month, two months before the show. I did. And it was hard. It was tough. It didn't feel real as it does now. So let's talk about that, man. I think we we had like pretty high hopes for like, you know, we didn't want to start. No, we did not really want to start two months like that aggressive. Like we announced we announced it. We announced the show two weeks. And so it would be sold out six weeks before the show. No, I mean, you know, to be honest, I I had like pretty high hopes, but but no, I think what we've realized, you know, is that people procrastinate.

Um, people don't make plans that far in advance, unless it's like your favorite fucking artist on the planet, right? And they're and you, yeah, and you, and they're never have sold out a bunch of times before. Exactly. We're a first timer. There's no record of like we've never sold anything out. So I don't think people are that afraid of waiting until the day before day of even. Literally, one of One More Time Presents, like, okay. Literally, maybe I'll think about it, one of our friends who's been on the podcast, uh, too, right? I was I was I was literally talking to him on the way over here because it's his birthday today. So I so I called him and I wish him a happy birthday, and I was like, yo, you're gonna be there at the show on Friday. He was like, Yeah, like can I still get a ticket at the door? And I was like, bro, get a fucking ticket online, goddammit. But like it's the same shit, bro. Even our friends are like, yeah, like we can still buy them at the door, right? And I'm like, I don't know. I hope you can't. I actually hope you can't get in. I hope you cannot. I hope you cannot get it. The goal is for you to not be able to buy a ticket at the door. Exactly.

But do not, do not bank on that. But no, so I I think like hindsight being 2020, I think that announcing the show maybe like a month in advance, and then honestly waiting until two weeks out to go crazy. I wouldn't I would say a week go crazy and then two weeks out go mid crazy. Made is like a funny word because it sounds like that's so annoying. you know, it should mean like Middle of the road, medium, yeah, yeah, medium level, but it just sounds like nothing It sounds like the worst shit balls and cock, which is not what it should be. I would say like you know, plan A, like phase one, two weeks out, yeah, phase two, a week out, phase three, you know, three days out, and then just have a fuck like I I told Ben like day before, like we might just do a 24 hour live stream subathon hook in Twitch style. Let's get it.

I still have I still haven't signed up for that. Like I'm coming over and babysitting if we have to, but we'll figure it out. Like, I may I'm clearing my day. I don't think my wife wants you there for 24 hours. I'll be in the back room, I'll go in the backyard. I don't care. Okay. Anyways, man. But no, so then you know, that's kind of like as far as like announcing the show and like promoting it. Um, and then you know, we've we've gotten real close about like coming up with the schedule and shit, right? Like the the one thing we've learned from Madeline, like from the interview, and then just me having done shows in the past is like it's real fucking easy for the schedule to get fucked up. Well, like it will, it's gonna be behind at least I'm just saying, like that's that's why I put so much like attention to detail when it came to like the schedule, because I've just seen shows. I mean, y'all have all been to them. You've been to shows where you just know the shit is actually just off track, like that wasn't planned that it's taking longer than you thought it was gonna, it's actually just because it fucked up, because it's just how it works. So I think like for me, the schedule is what I'm most nervous about, bro.

The schedule. I mean, but you know, we we, we've we've set this shit up where if it does take 30 minutes longer, 45 minutes longer, we're gonna be okay. But are you gonna like are you gonna be behind me like strong arming people to like get the fuck on I'll strongly suggest I don't know about strong arm, it sounds pretty aggressive. Okay, I'm not fighting. Should we bring muscle? Security team at the show. One more time presents. I did say I kind of want like a third party producer of the show to be like the bad guy. I'm in the wave of like, you know, if you're not ready to go on, we'll skip you. Just like skipped. No, done. Like you don't go on. No, like we fix the schedule by like just moving to the next thing. Okay, we thought we had a set for you. Yeah, you're gone. He was here, but he wasn't on time. Sorry, everyone. Now presenting the next guy. You would do it. Bro, I mean, there's a level of respect. Okay, I'll I'll give someone like two chances, you know.

Hey, it's you know, you're on. Okay, you haven't fucking done anything yet. Hey, seriously, you're fucking on right now. Um, and if you're not, then you're not. And if you're not, then boom. That and you know, yeah, I I'm uh I'm on a two-strike policy day. I'm honestly not even as worried about people if they're actually in the building. I'm kind of worried about like these artists going and like doing their thing, like away from the venue or something, right? Like, I don't know if they'll stay there after sound. You know, that's what I'm kind of most worried about, right? I don't I don't think they'll be like show us disrespect to our face and like not actually walk up the stairs to go on stage. You know, that would be wild. Like these are guys we actually call friends. Should we have actually like okay, pro tip? Um, the schedule that you send the artists, we're printing it out. No, the schedule that you send them, um, put tell them that they're going on 15 minutes 20 minutes before they actually are going on. That's too confusing for me, but like how just it's basic math, Those Minus 15.

Damn. Plus 15. All right. Well, I didn't do it. Well, I sent them the real schedule. We're learning. I sent them the real fucking deal. This is our first concert. Oh my god, man. But no, I'm just so excited. I like a literally, it's all I can think about this week, bro. it's gonna be the greatest, man. And if you're listening to this and you haven't made a decision on whether you should or should not come out to one more time presents at the center stage vinyl on February 9th, the answer is yes. I don't know how to frame it any other type of way. It's gonna be a great time. Me and Ben are gonna be there. Not that you give a shit about that, but there's gonna be some great artists there too. Great rappers. Like, seriously, these people are our favorite artists. I can't tell you, I'm just I've only been streaming these artists, even before we picked them to be on our show. These are the guys. Like if you're into any, if you're into hip hop, if you're into Atlanta hip hop, especially, these are the guys. We've hand selected them. I promise you we'll have a great time, and we would just love to see you there, man. Absolutely. Um, all right, so Grammys, the Grammys. It just happened.

They just happened, bro. T Ron, Thomas! T Ron, Thomas, first, Your motherfucka! Your motherfucka! Motherfucka. First black songwriter of the year award winner. One more time. We might have interviewed him. One More Time Podcast alumni. That that's one of our that's that's one of our bigger interviews. I also just had a blast talking to him. It was one of my favorites. He's such a character. I love that guy. He's The best. He's amazing. So and I called it. You can uh I feel like every interview since we interviewed him, we talked about him. Yes, and we called him future Grammy winner. Yes. Is it like too much to ask for you to chop up like a montage again? Yes. We don't have an in-house energy yet, so yeah. I want that clip so I thought about it so much. Oh my god. What would it take to find every time that we predicted to see Ron? God damn it, I want that, bro. I want that. If you're uh if you're a podcast or if you're a content editor out there, you do short form form and you think you're good at what you do. We'd love to talk to you.

Please DM at one more time cast, and we, you know, maybe we might have a position for you. Yeah, I mean, it's really just we need you to go find all the times that we talked about T Ron Thomas winning Grammy songwriter of the year and then timestamp it. But if you do it well, we might have more work. Yeah, for sure. But just for everyone who didn't see that interview, he wrote on all my life, Lil Durk J. Cole. Which also won a Grammy. That's his he won more than one Grammy. Been Thanking by Tyler, Cheat Back, Chloe and Future, How We Roll Sierra and Chris Brown, Make Up Your Mind, Cordae, Pretty Girls Walk, Big Boss Vet. Uh Told You Chloe and Missy Elliott. Pretty Girls Walk Like this. Yeah, just exactly, exactly that. but yeah, man. Uh, so T Ron Thomas, shout out to him. Grammy winner, songwriter of the year. Um, fire fucking dude, and amazing interview. But I want to just like get your take on the on the rap album of the year. Killer Mike.

Killer Mike. He swept sweet swept the rap This is for Atlanta. swept the rap awards, uh, and then proceeded to get, you know, escorted for battery, escorted in handcuffs. What the fuck? I don't want to unpack that per se. I don't think that's we don't have the information yet. Yeah, we didn't do enough research there. But guess what? I don't need the information. Free him. That's some bullshit. free Mike. He's been released. Free Mike. Free Mike. Still free Mike. it's free Mike till it's backwards. So true. But yeah, man. Um he was okay. So people are heated about this. He wasn't my choice. They're either fired the fuck up for him, like almost annoyingly so, of like super jazz that Killer Mike won all three of the rap like Grammys, or people are like pretty fucking pissed. Yeah. So what do you stay like which? People are way too polarized. Which side you guys need to chill the fuck out. Which side of the fence are you? on? I'm not on a side. Like, this is why. This is just this is your classic, bro.

Because that's how the fuck I see the world for what it is. I'm a realist. Don't you wish one of us was like that? super. We might get more views. More clicks. We'd get way more clicks. My view is if we were less level-headed, bro. We'd get so many more clicks. My view is this. Let's hear it. Killer Mike was not my personal choice. Who was your personal choice? To win anything. Who was your personal choice? Let's go with rap album. My favorite album out of the bunch was Heroes and Villains. We're okay. Fire, amazing album. I just think Metro can't miss. Um I love everything he does. And maybe I'm biased. You know, it's it's my ear. The billions of streams agree. Fuck the streams. It's it's subjective. Okay, well, it doesn't matter. Whatever. Kind of. That was my favorite album to listen to as a human. Yeah. Out of the bunch. Um, but killer mike winning, like, fire, just for the fact that like he is 48 years old. And he did win, he did sweep the Grammys. So it's the narrative. The narrative's fire.

Like, I love that. You can't make it like you can't script it better. People turn 30 and they're like, I'm washed. You can't script. I'm done. I can't. script it better. I can't do nothing anymore because I'm old. 48 years old, man, swept, bro. Like, you know, it just I love the story. I love the narrative of it. And do you think that's do you think that's what the voters liked? Is that why? Well, they voted. No, I don't think they voted it just for the narrative. Hopefully, they have some merit. I don't know, bro. I mean, the album's fine. It's cool. I'm not fine. You you like it's cool. Yeah, it's good. You think best rap album of the year should be characterized as fine? You just use the word fine. It's not my cup of tea. Like you, I like Run the Jewels. You like them way more than I do. I do. I'll say that. I do. This wasn't Run the Jewels, though, so it's kind of a moot point, but you know. Okay. Point is it's the same type of music though. And it's more your cup of tea than mine. I like it, but I'm not heroes and villains. I'm not playing it in the car. Okay.

I'm not, I'm not playing it in a pregame. I'm not hearing it at the club. Yeah. I'm not, you know, maybe at a political rally. But like, you know, it's fine. But he's fucking talented, and I think he's dope. And I I I watched a show on Netflix, which was fire. And I have heard all the Run the Jewel shit. Like, it's not like I haven't heard it, but yeah, it wasn't my choice. But I love the narrative and I completely support it. I'm super happy for him. Free Mike. Bro, what about the Utopia fans, bro? They're pissed. They're so mad. They're so pissed. They're so mad, bro. The Metro fans aren't even that like vocal. Yeah, because he's I guess because he's a producer, he's a little more behind the scenes. Yeah. But Nah. yeah, yeah, the bro. I mean, Utopia was good. Like, don't get me wrong. It's a good album. I actually really enjoyed Utopia. But and I wouldn't be mad if that won. But the fact that he hasn't won a Grammy is kind of crazy. Ten nominations, zero wins, is actually kind of nutty for Travis. So do you think Coop would mind if I like shared his thoughts?

So he shared something to his story. I think you already brought it up, and I don't feel like editing it out. So go ahead. so he shared something to his story. Oh fuck, I can't. Is it gone? I think it's gone because it was 24 hours. Paraphrase. But basically, he essentially said, like, killer Mike winning over, you know, Utopia, her loss, and heroes and villains. You know, basically he was like, We must be at the last days, y'all. Like, ha ha ha, right? Yeah. I love Coop. And I was like, whoa. I love coop. I was like hot take. Not a Killer Mike fan or you're a Killer Mike fan, I see. He was like, I am. His album was mediocre at best. I thought it was just all right. He was like, he was like, we're talking about best albums, production, rapping, and songs. His album was lacking in production. Uh some of the songs weren't that good, and the rapping ain't the best either. The Grammys are fried for that. And he was like, I'm not gonna lie, it's not a hot take. And I was like, I don't know. The we definitely in the last days part was pretty spicy, bro. Like the bottom line of all of this is that it's fucking music. And like some people like shit more than other people.

So none of this shit is ever gonna be defined with like a there's never gonna be a straight line in the sand. It's always gonna be a fucking wiggle wobble wobble. You know what I mean? Like it's stupid. Okay. It's you can't ever like these are just humans that voted. Well, he agrees with you. And the most votes went to out of this group of humans, went to this project. Yeah, well, he agrees with you. So why are you mad at that? He agrees with you. He said if it was about making the best music, Metro's album wins easily. No, I don't agree with that at all. Because what is the best music? Was it the best to you? Kill it. No. The Metro album was not the best Oh, the Metro album was the best. So I said he said if it was if it was about making the best album. We just happen to agree on our. He said that he agrees with you. I'm just we just happen to think that the best album was. I'm giving you props right now. But don't. Cause you shouldn't. Because it's not about that. Because the voters thought that Mike's album was the best. And that's fine. I'm not mad at that. Okay, so then this is a hot take. Do the Grammys fucking matter then? Does a group of people's opinions matter? Yes. Then yes. I'd say so.

Then yes. Do you want a trophy in your content? I mean, I'm just saying, like it does. I do feel like there's his opinions. I don't think that anyone should like make it their only goal, or else they feel like they're a failure if they don't win this, you know, coveted award. A thousand percent that. Yes. Like, I think a lot of people put too much like you know, merit, right? Or too much importance on like the winning a Grammy. I say put zero fucking importance on that. Who cares? I'm on Team Drake, bro. It is a group of people that you can make the you can make the greatest album in the world, in your opinion, and uh and a million billion people think it's the best album. But if this small group of people doesn't think so, then you don't get some little trophy. So let me ask you this. Like, this is I just don't really understand why don't we do popular voting? It's a great question, right? Like, I'm just actually because there's like a silly thing. because there's charts. charts. How is that different from the charts?

I guess. You know, why doesn't just the number one song on Billboard just win? Because because doesn't doesn't the charts have to do with like radio spins and stuff as well, or like I I don't even know too much about the charts. It's also manipulated, you know. Okay. I I I literally mean that they're like the Grammys, if they want to be the thing, they should have an app. We have to sign up for it. We fucking vote. You, me, whoever the fuck. And all the bots. Oh. So now, okay, now it's like a technology integrity thing. I think the point of having a secret group of voters is to. They're not secret, they're real people. You can borderline. I think you can look up who No. I'm pretty sure it's a secret. I don't know. I don't think you know. Okay, but I feel like there's only so like I don't know It's a secret, bro. Okay, bro, it's secret Illuminati group of voters. I don't know if it's I don't know if it's as secret as you're making it, bro. If you don't get butt fucked by the leader of the Illuminati. Oh my god, we're never getting invited to be on the fucking voting board of the game. I don't want to be on the board.

I do. Well, I definitely want to be a voting member of the game. Just cancel me, don't cancel Ben. So if you would have voted for it, you would have voted for Metro's. I would have voted for Metro, and I would have voted for SZA. Didn't SZA win one, bro? She didn't win best album. And I thought she had the best album. Okay, well. So love you, girl. Shout out to you, man. All right, what else has been going on? Fuck the Grammy's. Are we in the bullshit section? I guess we are. All right, all my stock traders out there. I'm looking really heavy at the Russell 2000 this year. Okay. I think small caps. Retention just. I think small caps are gonna have a year. This is a short portion, so fuck you, whatever. I think small caps are gonna have a good year. I'm investing, I'm buying shares of the IWM, which tracks the Russell 2000s, the top 2,000 small cap stocks. And um, yeah, let's fucking take this shit to the moon, baby. Yeah, I mean, I'm just more thinking about the fact that we just got done with our very first photo shoot. That's really what's been on my mind since we did that. Shout out Evan Williams.

Yeah, shout out Evan Williams. And shout out Evan Williams. Shout out both of them. The liquor and the photographer. But yeah, man, uh so for those of you know don't know, Henry and I have never been really big, you know, photo guys. Y'all won't really catch us like posting photos to the page that often, which we we want to get better at, I would say. We we need to probably get better at that. It's kind of what Instagram started. for. It's a whole thing there, right? That we're missing out on. Sort of the whole thing. but yeah, really just uh Evan, who's a uh you know, photographer friend of ours in the scene, shoots like really dope uh concert photos for artists and like you know, photo shoots for artists, album covers, etc. Um, he hit us up being like, hey, I want to like start, you know, shooting content for podcasts and like other types of people outside of just artists. Like, would y'all mind if I like pulled up to the studio and would we mind? Yeah, took some pics and I was like, bro, let's do it. So he brought his uh his film camera, which I had never like from 1972. Yeah, it's a it's a 1972 camera that like doesn't work on a battery.

Like it's literally It makes the sound that like the stereotypical, like if you were watching a cartoon and someone took a picture. It would be that it's that sound, it's that. And it sounds heavenly. Love it. I'm not gonna lie. So um, and you really only get you get 10 pictures per roll per roll. So we basically just like had him like go in and just do a roll. We're holding our breath posing for shit. Yeah, so you know, hopefully, some of those, at least like one of them turns out okay. Um, I I felt pretty like uncomfortable, I'm not gonna lie. I'm not like good at that, man. Well, I guess we'll see. Yeah, I guess maybe I'll you know I felt good circle back. Yeah, you felt you looked way too comfortable doing it to be honest. The pictures will tell the story. That was the Evan Williams before you got in front of Evan William, the photographer. It was the the chemistry, yeah, for sure. But y'all um appreciate you guys tuning in every week. Um, sorry that we missed, I think we missed a week or two. I don't know. I think just one. Okay, well, sorry we missed last week. We'll try and be better.

Uh I was out of town, kids sick, all sorts of fun, fun life shit. But um, as always, as always, please follow us on Spotify Podcast, follow us on Apple Podcasts, leave us a review if you fuck with the pod. Uh helps us out for sure. Uh and buy your tickets to the one more time presents show, February 9th here in Atlanta, Georgia. We want to meet you guys. I'm gonna come up to you if you're just sitting in the corner, like fuck Henry and his old, like, you know, y'all don't have to talk to us because you fucking do. Uh until next time, Henry, what are we doing? Drinking Evan Williams. One more time, paddy she lay one more time, they put it one more time.