It's a beautiful Thursday night in Los Angeles.

We're on Sunset Boulevard.

And it's always a pleasure to be able to podcast outside of the studio, especially from, you know, Montreal because it's quite cold right now, at least where we're from.

But we have a special guest today.

Lou and I often do these audio podcasts alone.

But every once in a while, we always have a friend of ours come in.

And this was years in the making. Yeah, this one's years in the making because, Sean, we met you back in Atlanta,

and I believe December of 2022.

Yes.

From the moment that we met, we knew that you'd be a fantastic guest to have on the podcast

just because of your knowledge of music, your experience in the music industry.

You just did something incredible where you traveled to 30 different places? Was it 30 different days of 30 different places or was it

sporadically spread out? It was yeah it was first of all thank you. But it was a sporadically

spread out over 30 days. It was a lap around the world backpacking 30 days exploring music with

strangers in every country that I went to. And the eventual goal of this trip is to create some sessions that would lead to maybe

parts of songs for the new album.

Yes, exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And just encapsulating the overall essence of what the album is supposed to mean and what I feel like

music as artists, what we should be headed towards,

which is like inclusivity across all measures.

Beautiful.

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