Hey guys last week I received the Sonna Warrior Award, which is Songwriters of North America's

Award that they give to people who are advocates for the songwriting community.

It was also given to Ray and Prophet and Thomas Shearer and Andrea Martin, so it was

amazing to be to receive the award along with them.

Anyway, so the event was at Skirball Center in Los Angeles, California,

the people at Sonna and the writers felt like it would be a good thing to show you all the acceptance speech because we discuss things in it that the songwriting community and the music industry as a whole should discuss loudly.

So hopefully you enjoy it for a little context. Benny Blanco had just done an

intro and given me the award, so that's the Benny I think in the beginning. And if you feel like donating to Sona I think you should because they're the

closest thing to a union we got. All right without further ado here's the

acceptance speech.

Thanks. speech.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Thank you, Benny.

Thank you Sona.

Wow that's so going.

Okay.

Welcome to the Warrior Awards. I am your recipient, Ross Golan.

If you know that tone, you know and the writer is. It's a little podcast, my friend Joe London and I started 200 episodes ago to highlight

the most creative humans who've ever existed on Earth literally and my friend

Benny Blanco was the very first guest.

I remember going to his apartment in New York where he had only one platinum record on his wall.

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