[SPEAKER_00]: All right, good morning, everybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the AirCaner's lecture.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm here in the kitchen.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm making some coffee.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, man, I'm just going to go from the cuff this morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: This might be my last podcast for a while.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, uh,
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna take a, I'm gonna take a sabbatical.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, I'm, I'm just kind of, you know, feeling a bit like, I wanna take a break and then sort of resume with, you know, like honestly, something more to say, you know, with, with maybe a different format, maybe just a different host, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I think,
[SPEAKER_00]: What I really want to do is make this podcast with the same kind of like intention curiosity energy that I did in the very beginning, which Ashman must be six or seven years ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: So all that is to say is that I think one of the things we want to focus on with what we do at random golf club is
[SPEAKER_00]: every day getting better and better at what we do and getting more and more, you know, like, you know, passionate about what we do.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm pulling out the beans.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've got, we've been so we have, we've got Trader Joe's Thailand, my Kajan Chiang Rai.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that coffee?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is this a hundred
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so with an effort to, I really wish this mic, I have holding the mic while making coffee, I need to get a different set up, oh yeah, this is ASMR, or should I get to that again?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll do it again.
[SPEAKER_00]: OK, I'm not going to make a creepy anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bam, all right, cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Grind that shit up.
[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, it's sort of like, I want to focus on our events.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to focus on building out our,
[SPEAKER_00]: team.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're looking for a few people coming up soon.
[SPEAKER_00]: So stay tuned on the grant I hope it's not too loud.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay tuned.
[SPEAKER_00]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're done.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're done grinding.
[SPEAKER_00]: So stay tuned on the random golf club.
[SPEAKER_00]: Usually we post it on the stories the most.
[SPEAKER_00]: So head over to the stories.
[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely follow us on LinkedIn.
[SPEAKER_00]: Random golf club.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, because we've got at least, at least one job that's coming up on there, and it's my job now that would be
[SPEAKER_00]: that would be a bad day and anyway so that's all that is like I might see in a bit on the pod I think I'll always be recording podcasts and we'll always make it happen I think I think I want to just create some freedom around it so that when I'm doing it it's not you know part of a schedule thing it's just like I'm doing it because I want to do it so
[SPEAKER_00]: In the name of quality, we are going to decrease quantity.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is that sound, my God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yo, so I'm awake.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you ever have one of those dreams that just hits you like a brick right before you actually wake up?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I had one this morning, and it was wild.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was wild.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was so wild that I woke up with a feeling, you know what you wake up with a feeling from a dream.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, how on earth is that real?
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, I'm cleaning out my, cleaning out my mug, go to the arrow press this shouldn't here.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I woke up with this feeling.
[SPEAKER_00]: and the feeling was so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I forgot the dream.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have since remembered it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The feeling was so good that I got this song in my head.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it didn't even like logically come into bed.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just started singing the song.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if you've heard this song.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know if I've heard it, honestly.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm going to find it on Spotify, because I just feel like this song is running around
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, the original is Gordon McRae.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't know if this is that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure this is that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I was wrong about the name of the song, so that's probably the reason why I couldn't find it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, I can't, it's hard for me to vamp, while, there we go, here we go.
[UNKNOWN]: There's a bright golden piece on the metal.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like maybe you weren't expecting this song, but anyway, here it is.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is basically Showtunes I'm Realizing.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's good in this gets better.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's going away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I apologize.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is now going to be stuck in your head because someone saying this song for me a week ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: One minute, and it's been in my head all week.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the question is, has it or has it not been positive?
[SPEAKER_00]: I...
[SPEAKER_00]: There's the thing I'm looking for.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking for the little thing that goes on the end of the hang out one second.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to, I'm going to pause the hang out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Alright, cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I cleaned out the filter now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to throw in the beans.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, oh, what a beautiful morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I've got a feeling.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything's gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: No way.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, someone's saying that's on a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: We go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Shout out, Harry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, not sure if you listen.
[SPEAKER_00]: point of water on the grinds.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give it a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then last night, I don't know what happened, but I had this dream.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to think this is crazy, but I felt like
[SPEAKER_00]: I had died in the dream.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, like, cause, like, in a good way though, like, not in a bad way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, um, like, I felt like I had an experience.
[SPEAKER_00]: that was so emotional that it mirrored what I've heard people describe in near-death experiences, like journeyrunner, you know, journeyrunner's like I died and, you know, it was all love, like it was just everybody in my entire life and it was all love.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was really, really powerful,
[SPEAKER_00]: that I was in an AA meeting, you know, which I go to, which I need to go to.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, I'm there and it was in the future because I happened to be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I wasn't planning to be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was really I was traveling and I happened to be there and, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: And I realize that it's my 29 year anniversary of sobriety.
[SPEAKER_00]: as they're doing the anniversary, and this is a large meeting, this is like 500,000 people, like this is one of these like, you know, real social kind of like Hollywood type meetings, you know, where it's like, is that like, it is?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, I was supposed to actually, I actually made the cardinal sin of, uh, you're not supposed to say it's over.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got to make a clap to market.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's okay, we've believed out their name, but is that that famous person, and you know, like I realized that it's my anniversary and I got really excited in the dream, you know, like it was a really powerful moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I looked next to me and I realized that the two guys that I got sober with at 20 years old.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're my age, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're centered next to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, it's all good and we're there and it's just like they're so excited and like, you know, it's it's it's all like,
[SPEAKER_00]: It was 100% love and you know, look, candidly like, since those days, we don't keep in touch as much anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the, the two guys I'm thinking of, you know, I think it's hard because we are all busy.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we don't, I don't make time the way I should.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think, you know, that's, that's like part of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think also you kind of,
[SPEAKER_00]: Relationships are really meaningful at a certain point in your at certain time of your life, and then maybe Well, one or both parties grow out of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, but you know for whatever fucking reason we don't hang anymore, you know, and these were dudes that You know, we hung 24-7 Especially because we were broke and we had no jobs, so we just did everything together and And
[SPEAKER_00]: Here they were, right next to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there was such an incredible feeling of just power and weight and excitement.
[SPEAKER_00]: And just like it was a deep, deep,
[SPEAKER_00]: Like feeling and I can't describe it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't it wasn't like oh my god, it's so exciting It wasn't like whoa, this is heavy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't like you know, wow good to see you like it was just like it was bigger than any feeling I've ever had in a dream and it was really centered around I guess this kind of like lifetime
[SPEAKER_00]: of love, I guess.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds fucking cheesy, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: But like, you know, oh my god, my mic's too hot.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, but it's like, it's, it's just, and maybe this goes back to, I don't know, we had this guy on major, I flew home, and on the flight, I listened to Jeremy Renner talking about his near-death experience.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, if you haven't listened to it, it's like crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got to hear him talk about he's on Oprah, he's on Rogan.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he also talks about us on socials and he's just like, look, there's no...
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no... nothing... nothing that you're thinking about in your small life right now matters.
[SPEAKER_00]: The only thing that matters is love and the experiences of love.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what's interesting is that love, I think, in this, in the, in the example that I have from last night, which was a really potent love encapsulates a tremendous amount of forgiveness, um, you know, and so it's so funny about the example I have that going to this meeting with these guys, so I have a small resentment there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a little bit angry about some things that went down, you know, and like,
[SPEAKER_00]: whatever whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: There wasn't like a logical mini dream before the big dream that was like hey man, I just want to catch up and like clear some things up and like they're not even big fucking things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't think about them ever, but there is like minor beef there.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like and I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's just like what?
[SPEAKER_00]: is all this bull shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: None of it even matters, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: None of it, the only thing that matters at the end of the day is like, really, I think, how you feel inside, because at the end of the day, like, if someone's mad at me, and I'm just kind of like, grateful and in love with them, whatever the fuck, you know, what matters?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, casually, weird podcast, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I apologize.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now I got that song in your head.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, well, it'll be you to full morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a really beautiful morning to I got to say, I want to go outside in a second here and inspect the clouds.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see what they're up to today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me get in a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so that dream was crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you know what's crazy?
[SPEAKER_00]: That then I woke up.
[SPEAKER_00]: And someone had sent me a really, really, really beautiful text.
[SPEAKER_00]: The most beautiful text.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the most people texts I've ever gotten.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why does there so much half an half in here?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, heavy whipping cream.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't want that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why do I have heavy whipping cream in the fridge?
[SPEAKER_00]: What is being made here that requires heavy whipping cream?
[SPEAKER_00]: I need to talk to somebody about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need two hands to open the half and half.
[SPEAKER_00]: Try to open a half and half with one hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: can't do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The human mind can't comprehend.
[SPEAKER_00]: So after this amazing dream, by the way, 29 years sober, that would be in five years, four years, I'd be just about 50.
[SPEAKER_00]: What a premonition, huh?
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe at least I'll live until 50.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's positive.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I wake up and I get this text.
[SPEAKER_00]: I stayed up kind of late last night getting some stuff done.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, all you finance pros out there, you know that this is a big quarter here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Q4, you know, because we got to get together
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... let me guess next year we're going to do it again but better uh... exactly you nailed it uh... so next year is uh... cya i don't want to stop doing the pun i should come with a way to do it where it just doesn't like feel like i'm sitting in my office trying to tell you a story you know that makes it lame whenever you're trying to do something makes it hard to do something
[SPEAKER_00]: kind of like, you know, and fish burned you know, don't try to hit me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just hit me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, another segue I was watching.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you haven't seen Rebel Ridge, immediately cue that movie up.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is one of the most, maybe Rebel Ridge is what led to this experience of having right now these dreams and whatnot, because
[SPEAKER_00]: In Rebel Ridge, it's this kind of Aaron Pierre.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fucking black dude blue eyes Shit jacked.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know like he's got the muscles that go between his ears and the shoulders, you know and like the guy is So smooth in the movie
[SPEAKER_00]: And at one point, he's basically like terrorizing these cops who terrorize him and look, I'm not into like, you know, I respect, you know, whatever, like a lot of friends that are cops, I really think the world needs cops.
[SPEAKER_00]: In this movie, they are bad cops, which I think really is an interesting character.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just over all the movies we've ever seen, you know, like, you know, crooked cop is such an interesting character because it's like,
[SPEAKER_00]: You're sort of afforded this luxury of power.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you kind of hard to, you know, easy to imagine how that could get fucked up.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, trigger cop.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's almost like the evil king, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just that there's, you know, it's a very prevalent society.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we all experience that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so the Aaron Pierre is like taking these cops to task and at one point He's like talking to the cop.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like making a rendezvous and he's like First light, you know, meet me at first light and the cops like
[SPEAKER_00]: comes like, okay, and and and Aaron Pira goes to my workout.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the cop goes, why?
[SPEAKER_00]: And your Pira goes, because you just might see me coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then then Audrey says that he looks at the cop next to him that's currently handcapped, but he like, but he like stabilized, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: And he goes, was that too much sauce?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, is this a rebel-rich great movie, you know, all fantastic stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that's what led to all this the dream and then I wake up and I get a text from my first investor and he says
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, working on this plan, you know, but working on this plan as we try and like ideally before Thanksgiving, I want to know exactly what we're going to do next year.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I need to have a plan that is referenced in, you know, targets of what the business wants to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: The org who is going to be responsible for what within that, you know, and what are the risks?
[SPEAKER_00]: What do we not know how to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: What are the experiments that we're going to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: What are the new things that we've never done in here?
[SPEAKER_00]: you know and you know it's also as an assessment of 2025 so you know it's just like a lot of honestly it's really fun work but it's um it feels like building a full it feels like designing
[SPEAKER_00]: like like it would be you have some of the pieces you are already pre-created and those would be your team members your you know your product or service it could be what you want to do it could be what working currently it could be what the market trends are and like you're building these legas.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you have to assemble all the LEGOs and come up with an instruction plan for everybody else so that they can make the same You know battleship and like so that's what I've been into for the last couple weeks Better part of a month and You know it always happens it happens at night.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so I'm working until like midnight last night getting this done it happens late.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know it happens late and
[SPEAKER_00]: You know we're gonna make some big changes with random golf club next year.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll get it out in a second first of all I get this I wake up I send it out last night of midnight and I wake up this morning to a text and And my first investor he says I'll read it to you verbatim Sort of I'll read to verbatim ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: It goes like this Okay, I get sure I leave that I want down to I'm sorry So he said
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, paraphrasing, truly respect the way you've evolved from around at Rustic Canyon to this point here and now, um, yeah, I mean, we met little more than five years ago at Rustic Canyon, um, and that was a faithful day.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, I'm just kind of like, and oh, wait, that was five years, and then the dream was five years.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a good point, a lot has changed.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it goes back to a lot of what Kefir was talking about in the podcast we did last week, which is it's not about happiness, it's about fulfillment.
[SPEAKER_00]: I relate, I relate pretty heavy on that to kind of get fulfilled.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, what's that?
[SPEAKER_00]: I wish it was like a little screen that I could look at.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, first sip of coffee, and it was not cold.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was... Fuck, I think I burned my tongue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dang, you know when you burn your tongue, you're just like, there goes five days of flavor.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um... Yeah, I don't know, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to play it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's play another song here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll play a song.
[SPEAKER_00]: actually don't know if I played this song before.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I think I have.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, let's see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hang on, first I got to pick a song.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the song that I've listened to the most in 2025 is definitely a stone temple pilot song called plush.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's actually about a
[SPEAKER_00]: a woman, I think, who dies of an overdose.
[SPEAKER_00]: which ironically is how Scott Wylen, the lead singer, who's done until a pilot's died.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was initially inspired by 1990's news story by the kidnapped and murdered young woman, but the band members, particularly Scott Wylen, have stated it is primarily a metaphor for an obsessive and lost relationship.
[SPEAKER_00]: The lyrics use imagery from the news story like search dogs finding a body to represent the complete emotions of the relationship.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, um, what's interesting is, uh, the initial ref was written by Basis Robert Delio, um, what's interesting about this song and a lot of songs is like, they don't really mean a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Alright, we'll sit back relax, listen to this song, I'm going to listen to it together.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I'll pull it off for a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if you don't want to listen to this song, I'll see you in five minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or... Six minutes.
[SPEAKER_05]: So from NTV on blog 19, 1993, dog.
[SPEAKER_05]: Where you're going to move Where you're going to move I'm asked about And I feel and I feel All the dogs begin to smell
[SPEAKER_00]: This is, actually, the second version of plush that I fell in love with.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you gotta remember, if you're, if you're new to Stuntable Pilots, plush us their number two song.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're number one song.
[SPEAKER_00]: You remember this one?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a good song.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care for it, it's a good song.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then creep.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you, you know,
[SPEAKER_00]: But that is, and this is, this is the number 2, plus 390 million list.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just not into it at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no hard, no soul.
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[SPEAKER_00]: a long time about a year and a half I was listening to this version of plush acoustic plush which I'll play out for a minute or so and you'll hear the difference I'm curious to know what you think This is a song called plush
[SPEAKER_05]: And I feel the times I wish to go So where you're going to tomorrow And I see that these are lost to come Would you even care?
[SPEAKER_05]: Where you gonna little master found And I feel that I feel when the dogs begin to smell her Where you smell alone
[SPEAKER_00]: a while attempting to find out where this was recorded, I found out that there's multiple versions of plush live and I now have found a park bench live version.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've listed this song a thousand times, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm not like a full on, you know, like music colleges here and, you know, but I know a little thing or two about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I'm going to go back
[SPEAKER_00]: Before we go to the new one, I want to go back to the old one, this is just check out the difference between what you just heard.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's obviously the way you just heard is way more polished.
[SPEAKER_00]: You go back.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a little bit more raw, which let's just all agree.
[SPEAKER_00]: We like.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also the bongos are handling it for me.
[SPEAKER_05]: It takes a minute to get it to the chorus, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The mix is very different.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like in the version that I've been listening to recently, which is the 1993 MTV Unplugged version, it's the mix is very, the mix is, the instruments are louder.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is going to be crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Am I going to YouTube out here?
[SPEAKER_00]: Bingo fucking good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like as if I'm mad at that like it's my job whatever Okay, ready one more ad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: How do I just watch it on the YouTube itself?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna get more ads.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there we go
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody hates ads.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got a podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, speak the devil.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to do a fucking podcast ad right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is this is plush recorded in Soho Square.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now I'm very pleased to say, by the Stone Temple Pilots are in town at the moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: While London Dean to the program, welcome to the program.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, you're a relatively new name to pretty sure audiences here.
[SPEAKER_02]: So give us a note line of where the bank came from.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, how did you carry this first meet up in the first place?
[SPEAKER_02]: The characters.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, Robert, Dean and I, um...
[SPEAKER_00]: So funny because can you just imagine a band these guys are all fucked up right look at I can see him right now There are fucked up this is ninety-nine three Scott Wallen has bright red hair You know a big lapel leather jacket a backwards hat and they're all just like fuck the establishment
[SPEAKER_00]: and then but they're also on this TV show in London with this like Ryan C. Cress type basically being like so what's the story of the band how did the characters mean up and of course the guitar players like characters like like they're just these are the kids that got kicked out of school and on some level I really relate to that but I've also tamed just like Green Day did Green Day started off really heavy and then they got more and more tame as their career went on but here we are let's listen to the rest of the interview.
[SPEAKER_06]: And at this, this bisexual orgy back in the night, I knew with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_06]: You'll be trying to sort of change your head kind of, but I remember the, you know, we're in the experimental things.
[SPEAKER_06]: Actually, I met Robert about five and a half years ago, and shortly after that in Met, Eric, and we started writing some songs and recordings and things together.
[SPEAKER_06]: And started playing out with a different guitar player.
[SPEAKER_06]: for about a year and a half we kind of not happy with the overall just things so we then kind of coerced into.
[SPEAKER_00]: He did a quarterly review and looked at the year ahead and it was like we needed the new we need new hands on the guitar.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm not sure if I'm going to find out this afternoon.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, what was the idea with the band?
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was something quite loose, quite laid back, who was like a definite plan of action when you formed.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, we just figured, you know, we write as many songs as possible and played it jammed together as much as possible and play as many shows as we could cram into our month or a week and just see what happened really.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, everyone's got...
[SPEAKER_06]: very diverse sort of musical backgrounds, so we're not all from the same kind of upbringing and music.
[SPEAKER_06]: So there's probably a lot of things we felt we could influence each other with and kind of thrown to a big old pot, you know, like a big old steaming gumbo or something.
[SPEAKER_06]: And just to continue playing, not really focusing on any kind of overall goal.
[SPEAKER_06]: like getting a major record deal or anything just, you know, actually trying to avoid that kind of thing and how the Hollywood thing really folks and more were deem as frontman San Diego because it was more of a less homogenized, analy return.
[SPEAKER_00]: interesting you know he's kind of describing like I think a big thing for me psychologically which is you know there's kind of like two types of people in the world there's process oriented people and people who like to do what they're doing and they get fully involved in that and they're doing it because they love doing it and you know whether that's painting or gardening or driving a truck or
[SPEAKER_00]: or, you know, being a cop, you know, they just love the process of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They love the mission, they're fully involved in that process of the job.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then there are people that are results oriented people, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's like, I want a certain outcome.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I want to be rich.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to be famous.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to, you know, make partner.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I want to,
[SPEAKER_00]: you know, be be, you know, have a Grammy, you know, and, you know, he's describing that his whole sort of, I think the whole garage band concept, this idea of, you know, that plush isn't necessarily a garage band.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they are actually, maybe they would be categorized as a garage band.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Nirvana is the original garage band.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry if I'm saying this and you already know this.
[SPEAKER_00]: You probably know a lot more than I do about this, but the thing that I find about this really interesting is that,
[SPEAKER_00]: I came in to my current job slash career with no idea of results, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: It was all just process, like I loved, I loved films, I loved cameras, I loved golf then.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then I started making videos about golf, and really it was just the process.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like there was no big vision, there was no thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything was me walking into a room that was bigger than the room before, backwards.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and I turned around and I'm like, oh my god, this room's even better than the last one, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait to hear him play it song.
[SPEAKER_06]: sort of sort of thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we just started playing and once we went to the point where we wanted to start putting out records on you know whatever kind of way.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm thinking about with this buildup.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is going to be a great version of the song.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're talking a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there we go.
[SPEAKER_06]: You single in the United States and then you're going to go.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is a bit of an exclusive for the bait.
[SPEAKER_02]: All yours.
[SPEAKER_02]: I need to take it away.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do twice.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I feel the times of waste to go So where you're going to tomorrow and I see These are lost to come
[SPEAKER_05]: When I feel it, where you're going for tomorrow, where you're going with a mask of found, and I feel it, I feel it when the dogs begin to smell her.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, she's been alone
[SPEAKER_00]: it's so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also know that, you know, they're, it's clearly cold out because Scott Scott, like, they both got jackets on and it seems like it's in the morning because it's a morning show, and I know that singing in the cold, oh my god, my audio is all fucked up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, my audio, I'm doing it all myself, guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I know that when it's cold out, much harder to sing Occupella.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of the hardest songs to sing in that you hear all the time is the National Anthem.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it's Occupella, just you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how much of an active range there is in the National Anthem, but anyway, I just, that shit gets me going, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: and passed away.
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe it was 2010.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe a little later, the band had broken up and then they got back together.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, it's unfortunate that, you know, there's like this kind of thing around, you know, you start off making something like this is funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: You start off making something that you just love doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: You
[SPEAKER_00]: because you love doing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You just started off making something that was meaningful to you and you did it in a way that made you happy, you know, and that's so common in our world where maybe it's a pizza shop, you know, maybe it's a ice cream place.
[SPEAKER_00]: you know, maybe it's a hat company, you know, maybe it's maybe you make little posters, you know, you know, or maybe you make toothpicks, you know, and or music or art or, you know, and you're just doing it for fun, you know, you make dinner and your friends like, man, you should be a chef, you know, and it kind of goes back to like the earliest days of
[SPEAKER_00]: the professional golfer in the beginning was a dude that made golf balls and clubs and taught people how to play and took care of the golf course.
[SPEAKER_00]: The amateur Bobby Jones was really big on this idea that like, why would I?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, I'm a lawyer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why would I?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why would I go be a pro golfer?
[SPEAKER_00]: I I love the law.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I love.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love golf too, but I don't need to conflate the two, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's just kind of interesting how, you know, we, we often take that thing we love and you know, turn it into a job and look, I mean, I'm not pooping that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I, I, I, I feel like I'm an example more of, I'm, I'm, I'm very fulfilled.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a time a few years ago where I, where I was not playing golf in a way that was like sustained or something.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't, I wasn't enjoying the game the way I used to.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I got around that, I think age gets you over it and I think also, I think as one of the benefits I think now that I'm 44, I'm not super old or whatever, but like, you know, I think one of the benefits of getting older is like just this tremendous perspective on like what really fucking matters.
[SPEAKER_00]: you know, and going back to kind of the beginning of this podcast, you know, I think at the end of the day, you know, all that really matters, even if you're in your, you know, financial planning for the next fiscal year, you know, is like, it's like, it really just matters the weather, not you're enjoying what you're doing and whether you're fulfilled by what you're doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: you know, I don't know who needed to hear that or whatever, but that's just what's on my mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like I said, take a little break from the podcast, you know, I'll be coming back intermittently and hopefully having chats like this with y'all I hope, oh, one thing I want to mention that I'm really excited.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've gotten, I've gotten the team.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to build out something really cool for the 2026 event series, which is launching soon.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to launch our classics before the end of the year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully, before Thanksgiving, which is we're doing 20 events in the U.S. kind of full day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Full day experiences at top to your courses.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then we're also doing all the scrambles.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for both of those events, if you work in golf, we're gonna make a mechanic mechanism where you can get a pretty healthy discount to our events because we are grateful to you for making golf possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter, you don't need to be a PGA member, you could be a caddy, you could be a Greenskeeper, you could be an assistant pro, you could work at golf tech
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, on the phone lines.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, basically it's to say, if you've devoted your life to the game of golf and serving and supporting the game, the players of the game and the courses that we play, you're going to get a healthy discount, having figured it out yet, but expect something soon, you know, and we are going to be checking though.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, there will be no hacking.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to figure out a way to check.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what that's going to be, but you know, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just really grateful to everyone out there who's who's make who makes golf What it is on a day-to-day basis, you know without without golf courses, there would be no golf, you know, and and they're all these Kind of like people and businesses that come together to make this wonderful and beautiful game.
[SPEAKER_00]: So You know, anyway, it's been it's been great.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not this is not goodbye.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is just see you soon and you know, let's close out
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna quote, where's my phone?
[SPEAKER_00]: There it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, we can't close that with plush again, but, you know, I hope you enjoyed listening to plush with me and I know what a beautiful morning.
[SPEAKER_00]: But, um, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you have great dreams, y'all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look, those dreams, you know, like, I don't know how that happened, but that just completely, it was a reframing moment.