EP #4 - Slacker Dave Loves Myles Jasnowski

This is episode number 4 of the Slacker Dave Loves Nebraska podcast!

On this episode Dave and Myles Jasnowski hang out, eat some food at the Hi-Way Diner. Topics during this interview range wide: from what makes a kid from Nebraska fall in love with the blues, the decor on the walls of the diner, the many bands he plays with, cruise lines and he also gives his recommendations on what to do in the town of Aurora Nebraska! 

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:49

There we go. Hey. Welcome to the Slacker Dave Loves Nebraska podcast. Hi, I'm Dave. Um gotta uh thank everybody for listening so far uh during the episodes. I'm pretty blown away by uh some comments and people have told me and uh pretty exciting. We're gonna keep this going. Uh I'm uh once again, we're uh coming from the Highway Diner. I am joined in the studio. Uh the the studio. See, there's I got it, the radio guy thing. Uh Miles Jasnowski. Hello. If you don't know who Miles Jasnowski is, uh you probably should, or we'll we'll tell you who he is during this. You'll learn learn you'll learn who is Miles Jasnowski. We're gonna have to open up the pleasure chest and find out what's inside. Highway diner, amazing signs and stuff on the wall. That RCA Victor sign, right? Very that that's the first thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

Well, besides the uh that and then the X-Lax um chocolated laxative temperature gauge.

SPEAKER_02 2:04

Yeah, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Um yeah, I love this place. Love your highway down here. Um so mild, uh originally from Aurora? Aurora, Nebraska, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

Good old Aurora. Uh born there? Born there, raised there. Still still love going. Graduate of graduate, grandma graduate. In fact, what's today, the 17th?

SPEAKER_02 2:33

I don't even know.

SPEAKER_00 2:33

Two days ago, or two days ago, 15 years ago, I graduated high school.

SPEAKER_02 2:38

Oh, wow, wow, wow. How time flies. I uh uh I am going, uh Amanda and I are going to uh my 40th uh this this weekend. Is that gonna be uh uh fun for you? I think so. I haven't been there in a while. I'm looking forward to it. I know some people I know are going, and you know, like, hey, I'm going. So, you know, okay, I'll go. You know, I haven't been there in a while. And you know, it's good to see people every once in a while. And you went to what uh Wisner Pilger, uh, the home of the Gators.

SPEAKER_00 3:21

Okay, Wisner Pilger Gators. Let's say that three times fast.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

Heck yeah. It's just the gators, it's not the navigators, it's just the gators. We actually we had a gator, yeah, an alligator as the thing. Now, I don't know technically, as I look back, I think I should look next time I go there. Is it a gator or is it a crocodile on the logo? Because sometimes people get those mixed up, yeah. But you know how you differ, you know how you can tell the difference uh between an alligator and a crocodile? Tell me. Uh one will see us say uh see you later in the one say after a while. Yeah. So uh Miles, uh guitar player.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

You play in uh bands right now, such as Um, right now I'm playing with Josh Hoyer and the Colossal Four, or Josh Hoyer's Colossal Four, I guess would be more grammatically correct. Um Vibe Check is a band that plays at the Zoobar uh every other Wednesday for now. Um Afrocious Jungle Cat, I've played with a lot in the past, but we're you know we're pretty selective these days, uh, depending on everyone's availability and and if you know if if it's right for us to play, then we'll do it. Um I'm playing uh in group with um Mitch Town, who's an organ and keyboard player from Omaha, and uh John J.R. Robinson, who's a legendary studio drummer, played with Rufus and Chocta Khan and um Michael Jackson, Lionel Ritchie, Steve Wynwood, Whitney Houston. I mean, just an insane list of artists that he's played for. And actually, it's timely because next Monday, a week from today, we're going down to Virginia Beach and we're gonna record uh part of an album. Oh, cool, cool. Like hopefully five songs in five days. Why Virginia Beach? Well, we did this um cruise in January called the David Foster Hitman Cruise because JR plays drums for David's band and has for a while. And has played with artists that that David Foster has produced. He's a for those that don't know, David Foster's a multi-grammy winning uh number one chart topping songwriter, producer, plays keyboards. Um and so we did this cruise that he put on, and a guy that was on the cruise was like, he came to see us, he really likes J.R.'s playing, and he's like, hey, if you guys are interested in, you know, recording, I have a studio um in Virginia Beach. It's actually funny side note, it's actually the producer Timbaland Timbalind, yeah. It's his old studio that this guy bought. So there's all this really nice gear in it, you know, it was already outfitted as a recording studio, and now he just you know owns it and does all sorts of projects there. But he uh he's letting us record at his studio, and yeah, we're we're gonna be there for five days. We're doing a live, in addition to recording a few tunes, we're gonna do a live capture of some tunes with a camera crew. Oh fun, fun. And of course, record the audio. It's for a company called Session Wire. They have a platform that allows you to uh with with near zero latency, you can ri rehearse and jam with people across the world, basically. So they've they've kind of, I don't know, figured out how to do this.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

Are they the ones that do the videos of the people all the cars doing the same song? Is that just an editing?

SPEAKER_00 7:17

Yeah, I think yeah, no, yeah. I don't they're they're a newer company and they do have an online, like they do have stuff that they put out. Um, but this will be my first time working with them.

SPEAKER_02 7:28

So I might have saw when the last time the what's the big expo thing in NAM. Yeah, I think I saw videos of that when that was around last time. You can tell when that happens because your reels all of a sudden just become NAM things for like a month.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Yeah, you watch one like, you know, like uh, I don't know, SEAL video, and now it's just it's just all seals.

SPEAKER_02 7:59

I saw I've seen uh speaking of the uh every other Wednesday for the vibe check, I've seen Riley, who used to do the catalyst session, randomly pop up in some NAM video.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

Really?

SPEAKER_02 8:16

And then I saw him randomly pop up in some van life video. Yeah, he was doing that for now out of the blue. There's there he is in the background or whatever, you know?

SPEAKER_00 8:26

Yeah, shout out Riley.

SPEAKER_02 8:28

Heck yeah. Doing it, doing it. The dad said, I think the dad said he was in uh not in the country anymore. He's oh yeah, like like Vietnam or Taiwan. Something like that, yeah. So dad, he was uh an amazing singer, um, musician. Good runs in the family there. Runs in the family. Absolutely. So that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 8:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

I think that was five bands currently.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, give or take here and there. I play with uh, you know, I do uh some some sitting in and some uh like occasionally I play with uh sax player from Omaha named Chad Stoner. And he does like uh contemporary RB, uh Neo Soul, you know, he often plays the vocal melodies on his on his sax, which is super cool. Very very uh smooth and gifted sax player, and the band is the whole band is great. I play in that band with Mitch Town as well, so we get to play another opportunity for us to play together, which is fun. It's nice playing with someone consistently and developing a chemistry, you know. Yeah. And uh he's he's uh full of knowledge and has often shares with with me, you know. So I'm like, remember that, because I'm gonna ask you about it after the gig.

SPEAKER_02 10:07

Nice. Yeah. Nice. One of my favorite things after a gig is when we get in the van or whatever, and you're like, hey, during that song you did this thing, you know, and you start talking about some little mess up that was like the most perfect thing in the world. You know. AI could never no, no, no, no. Could never. Well, we know you're standing on AI thing, Lori, but we won't even get to that question, which I probably wasn't even gonna ask.

SPEAKER_00 10:40

Yeah. I mean, I don't I haven't really used it for and certainly not gonna use it for music creation because Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:49

So uh little jazzy, a little blues. Jazzy, a little bluesy, a little soulsy. Where uh where does uh Miles heart lie?

SPEAKER_00 11:00

Mmm. In tar in terms of like what's what's my what do you what's your true, what's my true?

SPEAKER_02 11:08

Yeah, you you love what's your when you play it, it's just like the gri- I mean, other than like every time you play, yeah, because that's that's I'm not asking for that answer, because I know every time you play you're excited and every song's great. Yeah. But I mean, if if if you were setting up your you know your dreamy thing, right, right, you know.

SPEAKER_00 11:29

Yeah, I mean, um, well, it's kind of a top it's kind of a two-way answer because I was first drawn to the guitar through blues music, which obviously, you know, is a type of music that goes really deep and and you know there is a rich history of how what age was that? Um uh 11, 12, I mean, like you were playing the violin before that, I think I remember you telling me that. Yes, played the violin, played, studied Suzuki method, classical violin, uh, for about eight years. And then, you know, through hearing music that my that my folks had on throughout the house, and my dad's a singer, so you know, him singing, and he had a band in in college called the Elastic Band, which is they have a recording from uh like they ran through their set before they had the gig and they recorded it. So we st I still have that recording. Oh, what kind of music was that? So well they were they were like a an event band, like a cover band. So they did like Steely Dan, uh Doobie Brothers, Chicago, um, you know, that kind of style of Beatles, you know, that kind of style. Um and so that kind of music was always surrounding me growing up and and influencing, you know, what I still like to this day, you know. But you know, the blues was like something that I just was drawn to through guitar players like Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix and John Mayer was a big influence because he was like really putting this a spotlight on the guitar for young, you know, as a young guy. Um and and even making blues, bluesy music, you know, music that has elements of blues and soul and so forth. But um, so like I would say it's you know that that was like my initial kind of draw to the instrument, but like if I were to have a gig that I'd want to play, it'd probably be like an RB, you know, an RB leaning gig, RB soul, just because I feel the most comfortable on the instrument playing that type of music. And I think that comes through.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

And you can lean into the jazz and you can lean into the blues, and it works at you know, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

It's a it's it's a nice marriage of of the two. Yeah. Of lots of different, you know. So when did you quit playing the violin? Um well, I actually picked it up um the other day. Not I don't still play it, but like I just decided to be a little bit of a little bit of a gate mouth brown video that keeps in you, like um no, I I I when I started playing guitar, I pretty much was done with violin. That was when I was 13.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

Yeah, yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

But I still but I like yeah, I still have it. Yeah, busted out every once in a while, you know, to rosin up the bow, make sure the strings are broken, you know, just just in case.

SPEAKER_02 14:48

Just in case I just play play your scale or whatever, the one scale.

SPEAKER_00 14:52

Uh um Allegro. Bim, bim, boom, boom, bum, ba, ba, ba, boom, boom. That's the one.

SPEAKER_02 15:01

Awesome. Awesome. Um, so the Josh Hoyer, that's done pretty good for you. You guys won the uh 2025.

SPEAKER_03 15:13

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 15:14

Whoa got international blues competition. International blues challenge, yeah. Challenge.

SPEAKER_00 15:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:19

I always get the C messed up on that one.

SPEAKER_00 15:21

You'll get not get it messed up. They'll come after you.

SPEAKER_02 15:26

Kind of like saying uh Des Moines, Des Moines's, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:33

Yeah, yeah, that was a really, really neat experience. Um, you know, just getting to, I'd never been to Memphis. Memphis is uh, you know, obviously musically, historically, uh, you know, a lot a lot has happened there, which kind of informs the way the city is today. And um, yeah, I mean it was it was uh you know, got to have some cool opportunities come out of that. Tell your ride, Boolsfest, and the Las Vegas Blues Bender was really cool. Um where do they do that at? The Las Vegas Blues Bender? Oh, in I was like in Las Vegas Bender. Well, no, I mean um resort hotel casino. It was at oh gosh, I don't know. They're all the same, aren't they? It was it was one of the big one hotels that has like different conference rooms attached to it. So it's like weird playing playing like a show in like a giant like conference room meant for meant for like a men.

SPEAKER_02 16:37

Really, like you know, just like yeah, yeah, yeah. You're really in the conference, like oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

It was huge too, like like hundreds of seats in there.

SPEAKER_02 16:46

I mean, that's still I mean it's still fun that you're doing it, but that's really weird vibe.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

Yeah. Well, we all there was different venues, like we got to play a smaller venue that was more like a club. Yeah. That was that one felt you know, obviously more natural to like perform in. So it doesn't feel like you're like, and now please welcome to this, you know, like yeah, yeah. Like you're at like some sort of conference.

SPEAKER_02 17:12

Um so when you go on the road, do you like uh to uh what what do you like to do? Do you like to do touristy things? Because uh sometimes I wish I would do done more touristy things in towns that I've been to, you know.

SPEAKER_00 17:25

I'm just I'm an explorer, I like to explore. Not necessarily like have uh a goal in mind, you know. I mean, sometimes it's cool to to see sites and and you know, if a city has something in particular that is of importance, like I can get down with that for sure, but I just like walking around basically and like popping into random spots and you know seeing seeing what's up, like living the you know, if I was like visiting Lincoln, I'd probably just like go downtown and walk around and just you know see see what's happening. So that's cool. That's cool. Yeah, what about you?

SPEAKER_02 18:07

Uh I'm up for all of it. Then there's sometimes I just want to sleep on some random couch for a couple hours, you know, quiet. Mm-hmm. Gotta it's imp the rest is important, you gotta get it when you can. Yeah. Sometimes, you know, people, you gotta get away from people for a minute. Oh yeah. And then you get in a van, then you're stuck with the same people. Which is no matter what, it's still the greatest time of your life. You know. Very fun. Very fun. Um, so we haven't even talked Miles Daznowsky's solo stuff yet.

SPEAKER_00 18:52

Well, not much to talk about there.

SPEAKER_02 18:55

Well, you pumped out a couple things there, like what a year ago.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

Yeah, I've uh I have a you know, I have a lot of music I'm sitting on, but the hard part is uh just ponying up and and finishing it all and like, you know, doing everything yourself is a task, you know. Like the last thing that I put out was a song that I actually had some other people play on, this organ player Sam Frybush and this drummer Jordan Rose, and I had Blake DeForest and and James Ballorin, trumpet and sax player from Omaha play uh play on it as well. But you know, just coordinating all of that and like you gotta have like running a business. Yeah, you've gotta you've gotta really like uh be disciplined in in uh how you approach it. So I've got a bunch of stuff that I'm sitting on. In fact, I wrote a song for the JR and Mitch project that we're gonna record, instrumental mainly. Um most of the stuff I'm writing is instrumental as of now. I've been listening to a lot of like instrumental funk music, so that's like been what I'm writing just so just naturally, like that's what comes out. Uh and I think it's really fun. Like, I've been the I've been listening to, well, not so much recently, but like I guess I would say my most listen artist for the for the past like five or six months has been Soul Live. They were an instrumental funk trio, funk jazz trio that was pretty popular early 2000s, and just just really cool, you know, music that I I really dig. So just writing stuff in that kind of vein. Um and yeah, hopefully, you know, I mean, I'm not I'm not really pressed to put anything out, but I I just want it to come naturally and and when it feels right, it you know, it happens.

SPEAKER_02 20:55

And and uh I mean that is one good thing about the digital age. Uh you can you can put out one song.

SPEAKER_00 21:03

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, see what happens, why not?

SPEAKER_02 21:07

Yeah, and it and it you're not spending, you know, thousands of dollars pressing. Yeah, I mean, I did I did I a CD single, yeah, which I still think is one of the stupidest things ever. Uh CD singles.

SPEAKER_00 21:22

I don't, I'm not familiar.

SPEAKER_02 21:24

Well, back in the day, they used to have they would literally do the CD singles. So you had a you could buy a CD that would just like the song and then maybe a uh mix of some sort or you know, a different another song, you know, like literally like a single. Like a whole bunch of dead space on the CD then? I uh whatever. Maybe they got real I don't know what the size. I don't uh CD technology uh storage space is not my uh not your forte. Not my forte. Uh but uh Okay. Yeah, but then you know they had to put all the packaging and everything, and it was just for like one song. Right. You know.

SPEAKER_03 22:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

It's like the cost on it was just had to be just stupid. I I'm I'm just pure cost, just pure cost. I mean, there might be some cool stuff on there.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

Right. Yeah, way easier to. I mean, the barrier to to entry is is you know super low these days.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

So that's why it was like really kind of non-existent.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

Yeah, like I mean, you could you could I mean you could you could record whatever you want and put it out as a song tomorrow if you want it, which is wild.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

But yeah. Yeah. But you know, you gotta I mean I was lucky back when I like booked Chuppies back then for a band to come through town, I mean, to come on to a tour, they had to have some kind of recording. You know, so they had to, you know, had that, they had the recording, you know. They they had to go to a studio and do that. You know, it wasn't like somebody's basement. I mean, it ended up starting to get that way, but still you had to buy all the equipment to do it just like a studio. So there was a you had to be a pretty good band to make that, you know, to have enough to do the recording. So if they somebody sent you a demo tape, even if it was demo tape, you know, they still had it still was something nowadays. Somebody could do that in their you know, yeah, basement with just them with no other band, people in the band, and then you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:43

Uh hey, speaking of Duffies, did you were you at that Nirvana show? No, I was not at the Nirvana show.

SPEAKER_02 23:50

I was not there. Yeah, big, yeah, it was Ben I just saw some photos, but no, I was working at a works at that time. Okay. No, no. I mean, that would have been cool.

SPEAKER_03 24:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:01

I mean, I have a lot of friends that were there.

SPEAKER_03 24:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

You know. Uh on the last podcast, I was talking to Reg McMean, and we were talking about like how many people were probably there. He probably thinks about 120, 140. Wow. Like, but you know, there's probably, you know, 1200, 1400 people that are that have been there, that were at that show, or sitting outside. Yeah. You know, watching it through the window. Uh which is kind of funny. Like Woodstock, you know.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

Yeah. I have another question in that vein.

SPEAKER_02 24:35

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Which has to do with Highway Diner. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you have any particular stories or memories from this place or like after show shenanigans or anything that stands out to you?

SPEAKER_02 24:53

Oh, I I don't know, because after a show, for me, I was, I was mostly back then I was working.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:01

So I had to work and help I clothe, help close, and so you know, I'd show up. There was always some party going on that, you know, but it wasn't my house. A lot of bands stayed at my house, and so then a lot of people just on the road just wanted to get and go to sleep. Yeah. You know.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

So no crazy highway diner stories.

SPEAKER_02 25:21

No crazy highway diner stories. No, always be respectful.

SPEAKER_00 25:24

Well, it's never too late.

SPEAKER_02 25:26

I do remember one night. Let's open her up. Late, late, late, uh having uh, I don't know why, I just remember this glorious, it was just oatmeal. It was just one of the best meals I ever had. I don't know why it was, but it was just oatmeal. Did you make it? No, it was here. Oh, really? Like I was here by myself middle of the night, just needed some food.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

Because they used to be open 24 hours.

SPEAKER_02 25:48

Yeah, they used to be open 24 hours. I don't think there's a diner in Lincoln, Nebraska that's open 24. 24 hours. Shoemakers, no. I don't think shoemakers is. McDonald's? I'm kidding. Sorry. All right, so we're gonna end this interview. No, I'm uh which is a really good, by the way. Sad thing. Sad thing. So um, you know what? I think we're gonna take a little break. Thank our sponsors, such as uh Aurorx, uh uh Rick Peters, uh Duffy, uh not Duffy, sorry, uh uh uh the world famous Zubar. Oh so alright, we'll be back in a couple couple here. Hey, want to give a big thank you to Rick Peters for sponsoring the Slacker Dave Love Nebraska podcast. Rick is an independent insurance agent, uh AMS Insurance Center. The phone number is 402-476-3599. He's a great guy, great personal service. Amanda and I have been uh customers of his for years. You're just a real good guy. You just you want to come see him. But the most important thing about Rick is he is a host of not one but two shows on KZUM 89.3 FM. Uh he hosts Rockin' Bones on Friday nights from 6 to 7.30. Rockabilly and all that kind of related fun music. And then Tuesday mornings from uh 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. It's the Sugar Frosted Chocolate Bomb Diggity Good Time Show. And you never know what you're gonna hear on there, but you know, they call him Rickabilly. I like to call him Rickopedia. He knows a lot. Great shows. Thank you very much. Hey, y'all. I just want to thank uh Rourks Tavern for sponsoring Slacker Dave Loves Nebraska. Rorks Tavern, it's Lincoln's downtown. It's like a neighborhood bar right in the middle of downtown. We're at 1329 O Street, and uh, you know, Rorks I've always described as kind of like the backstage to the Lincoln uh musical community. They do fun things all year round, they got specials every day, they got two pool tables, they do dance parties, they got a chili cook-off every year. So you just want a nice, relaxing time, come on down, see Jordy and the whole family down here at O'Rourke. Thank you. Hey, uh, I just want to thank uh Pete and Amanda from the Zoobar for sponsoring the Placker Dave Loves Nebraska podcast. Zubar, wonderful place. Uh live music almost every single night, sometimes most of the weekends, twice a night. Uh Zoo Fest, July 10th and 11th. Put that on your calendars. But thanks, Pete. You roll. All right, thanks everybody. Uh thanks for the uh Rourks in the zoo and Rick for uh sponsoring. Hey, uh, also uh happy to be a part of the Scratch the vinyl podcast uh uh network. Uh Kane and Randy, thank you. Uh Kane, thank you for all you do. And uh as of course to my lovely wife Amanda. I love you. All right. Um let's see here. Did I do something? I must have moved something. All right, so one of my questions always is like, uh, what made you think that you could be in a band, but your dad being in a band, it's kind of like you're like, well, anybody can do this. Is that right?

SPEAKER_00 29:50

Or was there I guess I never really thought about I never that thought never really crossed my mind because I just it's always been there. Yeah, I mean, it was just like it just felt like, okay, well, I'm here's this thing that I really like, and I think I'm pretty good at it, or I'm I'm getting to a point where I'm you know feeling good at it. And actually the first band I was in was in high school, was like a country rock cover band. So that that, you know, I performance aspect of it um came pretty quickly into playing guitar, so I just kind of had to get used to it. How old were you then? Uh I was 16.

SPEAKER_02 30:43

16? Yeah. How old were the other bandmates? All the same age, or were you like the young gun?

SPEAKER_00 30:49

Definitely the young gun. Um the lead singer, Deanne, she was uh, you know, she was the next uh close closest in age to me. She was probably 30, 30s. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um the drummer John was uh quite a bit older, 50s. Gordy on keys, um, you know, older guy. Uh and then bass players, we kind of I think we kind of there was like a couple that we rotated through. And I, you know, it was so long ago, I don't really have many memories of of that band. I do there's a couple a couple memories I have. One gig we played uh Kansas's largest rodeo. I forget where it's at, but it's night night. Yeah, it was crazy. How many people were there, but it thunderstormed like right before we were about to play. And I had to kind of scramble to move my pedal board underneath the drum riser, but it ended up getting wet, and our show that night ended up getting canceled. The next day it was just night, you know, sunny out, so I take my pedal board out to like test it, and uh a couple pedals are are not working. So I just opened, literally opened them up, unscrewed the back, laid them out in the sun for like an hour, and then put them back together and they work. So I get I got lucky there, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 32:28

So how does a 16-year-old kid end up with uh in a band like that?

SPEAKER_00 32:32

Well, my I had a teacher who came to Aurora to teach lessons who studied at the Musicians Institute in in Los Angeles, really gifted guitar player named Jared. Jared Bader. And I took lessons from him for a while, and he was playing in this band, and then he had a change in his life, and so you know, submitted me my name as a fill-in, and yeah, thought it would be you know a good experience for me to get some uh performance, you know, experience and just just be in a band and you know rehearse and travel and you know uh definitely not you know like I I was as a beginner-ish, you know, like open to all kinds of music, but like never really listened to country music. So it's been kind of a uh a hurdle there for me to, you know, to jump over. But it was really fun. Cool, cool. Probably making good money for that age. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, it was definitely it was beat mowing lawns, which was my other high school job.

SPEAKER_02 33:44

You know, if you want to make money around Nebraska and be in a band, be in a country cover band. But you gotta add a little rock in there too. Yeah, you gotta have the rock cover country, you get free dances, county fair, a little bit of something for everybody there. That you'll probably make the most money of anybody in a band in Lincoln, Nebraska.

SPEAKER_00 34:06

Unfortunately, that's true, yes.

SPEAKER_02 34:08

You know.

SPEAKER_00 34:10

Uh we were called Sling Shot.

SPEAKER_02 34:12

Slingshot. Yeah. Nice, nice. Do you think they still play today?

SPEAKER_00 34:17

I don't think so. I don't think the band plays anymore, but I think some of the members play individually. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:24

Cool. Cool.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

I every once in a while I'm on Facebook.

SPEAKER_02 34:28

Do some research and then just show up at one of their guitar already, ready to go. Your little your little boxed, your little magic box, like Ralph Macho. Yeah, coming in, Ralph Macho style.

SPEAKER_00 34:44

I love that movie also, too. That was a big influence on Crossroads? Yeah. Yeah, I was like really into that movie, as well as School of Rock, my favorite movie ever, probably. I can recite every line before like as it happens. I it's so good to me. I love Jack Black. Uh and some of those kids still play, uh uh do play in uh they did like a reunion show with Jack Black and and some of the other kids, which is super cool to see, and they just rocked it. Yeah. Still, still all planned, still sounding great.

SPEAKER_02 35:21

Cool. Yeah. I think somebody might have just passed away on that one. It was the drummers. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

Yeah. Unfortunately.

SPEAKER_02 35:28

It was the coolest person because drummers are always the coolest members. Here's a serious question for you. Why does it take guitar players so long to set up?

SPEAKER_00 35:41

Well, obviously you haven't seen me set up. I don't know, I don't know who you're referring to.

SPEAKER_02 35:48

I'm I'm just I'm just saying, in general.

SPEAKER_00 35:52

Well, it's because uh, you know, the the the tone can't be rushed.

SPEAKER_02 35:59

Yeah, oh nice, nice, nice, nice. I don't know, that was stupid. Nice. Oh, but uh actually, here's uh here's a uh question from uh Kane uh Stevenson host of uh uh Scratch the Viola. He was uh I told him that I would ask you about your gear.

SPEAKER_00 36:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 36:17

What guitars do you roll on?

SPEAKER_00 36:18

Well, everyone's been waiting to listen to you.

SPEAKER_02 36:20

Yeah, want to know your gear. What are you rolling with? What's uh what do you like? You gotta different things for different things, I'm sure. Well, here, let me just open up my pleasure chair. Not gonna never be funny, you know.

SPEAKER_00 36:36

I mean, I want to know the history behind this box.

SPEAKER_02 36:40

I'm sure.

SPEAKER_00 36:41

Looks like it has some sort of anyway. Maybe we'll maybe I'll we'll ask somebody at work singer. Um yeah, in terms of gear, uh so lately it's always kind of changing, you know. It's like the hunt, the hunt for tone is just never-ending. Um but lately I've been using this amp. I've gotta give a shout out to uh Garner uh Sukup, I think is how you say his last name. But he lives in Seward and handmakes amplifiers, really beautiful amplifier. So if you see me play lately, I've been using this sort of um, it's called Leapfrog Green covered amp that he made, um, right, right there at his house in Seward. And uh it's just it's incredible. The the quality and the craftsmanship and the sound from it is really, really nice and has I've you know played it on many gigs and I'm always pleased with it. And people see in the audience, they're like, what is that? Like, what did you and it's really cool because it's kind of one of a kind, you know, it's one of one. It's not really he's made a few amps, but you know, this is the color I specifically chose because I thought it would, you know, stand out on a it's a dark stage, or um, you know, it's you don't see many like green, you know, pieces of gear, so it's kind of cool in that regard. But so I've been using that amp built by him. Um I've been lucky enough to have some relationships with different companies over the years, and one of which is heritage guitars. So I play a few heritage guitars, which are made in in Kalamazoo, Michigan, at the old Gibson factory. Oh, okay. Yeah, so when they changed whatever happened back in the day, I mean the company has gone through several, you know, uh people buying it out and trying to bring it back, but um, but now yeah, so the the the old Gibson factory makes heritage they also own are owned by the same company that owns Harmony guitars, which is an older brand, but they have been uh brought back to life and and they're making really nice, you know, affordable.

SPEAKER_02 38:56

How did that happen?

SPEAKER_00 38:57

How did you become uh just just uh you know, posting videos on Instagram and and getting visibility there, and and then someone from the from the company, you know, seeing that and being like, you know, hey, we like your stuff. If we you know, if we we can have you come to LA and film some videos for us and promoting our new products, and um in turn, you know, you can play our guitars, and so that's been a really cool, cool uh thing to just to uh to live out because you know it's it's uh it's it's validation for you know all the hard work you put in. And um yeah, so I play mainly play Heritage Harmony. I have a few other guitars that um you know, I have a telecaster that I I bought when I first moved to Lincoln actually from Roots Music that I really love. Um that guitar is the main one I played for the first few years that I was in Lincoln with Frocious Jungle Cat. I forgot to love my father. It's another band that I played with. Oh my god, I forgot about that. Yeah, yeah. Um, and yeah, I mean, pretty much everyone I was playing with, that was basically the only guitar I had that like felt comfortable taking the gigs. I also have a strat that was like my first real guitar that I bought um or my my parents bought for me when I was you know first starting out. And unfortunately the neck on that is like messed up, so I need to get a new neck, so it just sits in its case now. But I'd love to love to fix that one up and and get it back in the you know in the lineup, but I have I have a lot of guitars, so it's hard to give them all their proper. I'm trying to slim down actually because it's just like it's like I don't ever I don't ever play that, so why do I have it? kind of thing.

SPEAKER_02 40:54

Well Neil Young said I read one time he said there's a song in every guitar. Every guitar you pick up, there's a song for you in there. I like that.

SPEAKER_00 41:04

Yeah. Okay, well then I'm keeping them.

SPEAKER_02 41:07

Could it be?

SPEAKER_00 41:08

In fact, I'm gonna go buy another one right now.

SPEAKER_02 41:10

Need another song? Get another guitar. Kind of guitar math, you know.

SPEAKER_00 41:15

Exactly. It's like, yeah, you hear the phrase girl math, which is like cat math. Yes, exactly, justifying something that you probably don't need, but if you look at it in a certain way, it kind of makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

Yeah, yeah. Uh so uh like back 16-year-old Miles, uh, what was he playing for an amp, guitar, that those shows? My first And were you in this band, were you just like rhythm guy, or did they you just come in and be a lead guy right off the room?

SPEAKER_00 41:49

If to Lim If?

SPEAKER_02 41:50

What's that?

SPEAKER_00 41:50

I forgot to live my father. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 41:52

Oh shit hook. I mean slingshot. Slingshot.

SPEAKER_00 41:55

Shithook. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 41:56

That was that is your dream gig, right?

SPEAKER_00 41:58

Yeah. Um slingshot, yeah. So with that band, I was playing that Stratocaster, like this this uh Olympic white strat. And I think the amp that I had at the time, with one of my first amps, was a Fender Hot Rod Deville, which is a popular back line amp. Backline being uh, you know, sometimes venues or festivals will provide you with certain types of gear, drum kits, bass amps, guitar amps, and a lot of times those amps are this series of uh fender amps called hot rod, whatever, hot rod deluxe, hot rod to. So the first amp I had was a hot rod develop. Way too loud. It was like 60 watts. Like unbelievable, like it's loud for anyone, really. I mean, let alone little me, like barely carry it around. But um, you know, that was just what I what I saw, and I was like, okay, I guess that'll work. And then when I actually when I got to Lincoln, I got a Vox AC15, which is like a much more manageable, smaller combo amplifier, and that amp I really loved too. And you know, one of the many things that I've sold over the years that I regret, but you know, it all comes back around. You get gifted cool things or come across cool things that you know you you might not otherwise. What do you roll for pedals? That I mean, I don't even know if you want to sit through that. I have got a I've got a ton of pedals that I just kind of like trade. You know, I'm always swapping out. Actually, the guy that built the amp built a pedal, and I was at his house yesterday because he's fixing a different amp that I that I uh that I asked him to fix. But he's like, here, take this pedal, try this out. And so I've I've got that on my Pedal board and uh gonna play it at the gigs this week. There's a vibe check this week, and then Josh Blair is playing at the zoo on Saturday.

SPEAKER_02 44:09

I don't know if this will be out in time, but you know.

SPEAKER_00 44:12

Well, you'll hear it eventually. You'll hear the pedal eventually because it'll be on my board because it sounds really good. But yeah, I mean a couple couple of overdrive pedals, uh reverb delay, usually on there, some kind of modulation, usually a phaser, kind of classic. I really am into vibrato too. Like I love like a slow, like a pitch very slow, just kind of like lazy kind of sound. Adds a nice, like, you know, motion, like 3D kind of enhancement.

SPEAKER_02 44:44

I can see that behind some Josh Corgan.

SPEAKER_00 44:48

Yeah, yeah. I I use it on a few tunes where there's but it's more of a fast kind of like, you know, a little bit more of a uh uh dynamic effect, you know, to really kind of like jump out at you. Um yeah, and that's then a tuner, obviously. That you know, that's most important most important piece of the puzzle is staying in tune. So that's that's what I'm rolling with.

SPEAKER_02 45:14

That's a beautiful answer right there. Yeah. So now you you you keep doing these cruises. You've done a few of them now. You can't you don't take an amp, they don't give you an amp.

SPEAKER_00 45:26

Let's see. On the the the cruises with um so uh the Josh Hoyer band had done a couple of cruises and uh and uh the way that that uh situation worked was uh everything that could be like everything that would normally have an amplifier didn't it, so like the bass amp was like direct, the guitar was direct, the keys were direct kind of thing. The drums were the only drums and the horns were the only thing that was uh acoustic, you know, basically. So I have an amp simulator pedal, so it's it it simulates the sound of a guitar amp, and then that just gets pumped out of the speakers, which is fine. I mean it works, it works great, but it I prefer to have a little bit of like an amp, at least a little bit on stage. And actually for the other two cruises that I've done, the blues cruise and then the David Foster cruise, they actually had amplifiers on the stage.

SPEAKER_02 46:23

Yeah, so so those are just like a normal performance, except you're and you're doing how many shows a night day on these things? Well, all they all kind of vary. Well, like the the Josh things.

SPEAKER_00 46:35

We played like six nights a week for like two, two and a half hours. So it was really, you know, relatively, you know, it wasn't like a oh, I gotta play all day. Kind of, you know, it was like it was like it was.

SPEAKER_02 46:50

You weren't doing multiple.

SPEAKER_00 46:51

Yeah, doing multiple sets and and every day was fresh because we got you know, we got to hang out on the ship and or get off the ship and come back and play music at the end of the day, which is just a great way to to end it.

SPEAKER_02 47:05

So pretty pretty good job to have.

SPEAKER_00 47:07

Yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, those those gigs are are uh you know, they're not easy to come by, you know, if if like unless you're actively playing, you know, that you want to make it a goal of yours to play on a cruise ship. But um lucky to to have those opportunities for sure.

SPEAKER_02 47:28

There you go.

SPEAKER_00 47:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:29

There you go. Um, I had a place to go.

SPEAKER_00 47:34

Now I I I I lost my uh uh that's probably because I was rambling about my pedals.

SPEAKER_02 47:39

Uh no, no, no. I'm sure there's people that are gonna be really excited about that. Um kind of different. You know, once you get a little bit sponsored for your guitars now, really, or amps, kind of like got a relationship, you don't really have dream stuff anymore, right? Because those are your ones. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:59

I mean I mean I'm sure you'd take a dumbbell if somebody gave you a mean yeah, and I'm excited this this upcoming recording, the the guy, the studio owner has a a two-rock amp, which is like another kind of a lot of people really you know love these amps, but they're very caught they're very pricey. So I'll be that's the amp that I'm gonna use there. So I'm excited to finally get to play through one. I've never played through a you know, like a a newer model of these. My friend that lives in New York has an old two-rock like back way back in the day when the company was first starting, and I think they've changed ownership and you know, they've obviously changed some of their circuits around and stuff, but we'll see. Hopefully it sounds good. Otherwise, an SOL. We'll just have to go direct. Turn on the rat pedal.

SPEAKER_02 48:51

There you go, the rat pedal, the tube screamer. The tube screamer.

SPEAKER_00 48:55

Uh mic up the guitar, the electric guitar strings.

SPEAKER_02 48:59

The uh the yeah, heck yeah. Um New York, so you go out there every once in a while.

SPEAKER_00 49:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:07

Is that you just go out and play some friends? You lived out there for a while, didn't I?

SPEAKER_00 49:10

I lived out there after I graduated high school, lived with my sister for a while, and then my brother, my my brother-in-law, my sister's husband's brother also lived out there. So yeah, just just uh living out there and and working my way in different places I could. I mean, I was young, so it was, you know, a little bit. It's not like you can go hang out at the bars and uh yeah, and just and also, you know, like definitely probably looked a little out of place, like as a young kid from Nebraska, and like not clearly not uh not having the like um I don't know, just a different persona, I guess, like than if I would have grown up in the city, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Um but I ended up you know in a few different bands and making some some friends that I still uh talk to and and hang out with today. And one of those is a guy that I play with out there. Um you know, we used to play a lot more uh a couple times a year at this club called the Bitter End. But uh, you know, life just life gets busy and he's he's doing his own thing and just had a baby. And so we're is that like a three-person thing, four-person thing? It's usually four, yeah. Beehee and I both play guitar and kind of lead some songs, and then we usually have bass and drums.

SPEAKER_02 50:34

Yeah, trying to work out the timing where four people can be there.

SPEAKER_00 50:39

Yeah, we usually the last couple of gigs we've rehearsed the day of, like we sent out a song list like a week before, and then we're like, okay, can we get together or are we just gonna hang it?

SPEAKER_02 50:50

But so of those 72 bands that you're currently in, um how many practices do you have a week? Or no practices? There's nobody practicing anymore.

SPEAKER_00 51:02

I with with um oh and I I forgot to also mention I play with um Kevin Lloyd is a player from the yeah. We do some instrumental, yeah, some instrumental fun stuff. Um but I was just thinking about you know uh rehearsing, but Vibecheck doesn't kind of intentionally doesn't rehearse.

SPEAKER_02 51:24

Well, isn't your show just pretty much a rehearsal?

SPEAKER_00 51:27

Well, we do a lot of improv improvisation, and we come with tunes that are like very loosely bait, you know, like with just like A, B, sometimes C sections, and then I'll call out when you know when things change or someone else will you know start something in the middle of a song that will turn into something else, you know, and and basically just try to have fun and keep it loose and um just you know create a good vibe, man. But uh yeah, with with everyone else, you know, we we definitely before big gigs like to have a rehearsal or two. And um, you know, luckily everyone puts in the time beforehand uh to practice on their own. And actually the last we've been practicing at at in my basement where I have a little studio with with Joshua, and um I've been recording all the practices, so that's really invaluable as a as a tool, a reference tool to just hear. You know, when you're doing things live, it's you can't take it all in because you're also concentrating on playing, everyone else is like concentrating on doing their thing, so you can't really hear how it's coming together as a whole until you listen back to it, and maybe you can go, oh, this needs to be tweaked, or we need to drop this section, or whatever. So, yeah, always be recording yourself as you know, it's like a a good rule to just have for anything, you know.

SPEAKER_02 52:57

For so I uh on my radio show, uh Jeremiah Weir just sent me a song from a peach trucking company practice that he was like, yeah, there's a good one. And if I played it on the radio. Oh fun. You know, he recorded, he he that's his thing too. I think he always records.

SPEAKER_00 53:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 53:17

You know, if you're practicing, you're he's recording. Yeah, all it is tape rolling. All it is is uh gigabytes and gigabytes, that's all.

SPEAKER_03 53:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 53:29

Yeah, man, they couldn't have done that back in the day. That's uh having that tape is expensive. Right. And now you can just put put this up and yeah, we're doing this whole podcast essentially through my iPhone, and then whatever magic Kane Stevens does, you know, to put it out. I don't he's he's the the uh uh magician on that. I don't, you know.

SPEAKER_00 53:54

Well, here's a question for you then. What was the impetus behind starting this podcast? Well, because I met those guys because there's 43,000 other podcasts.

SPEAKER_02 54:06

Yeah, I think four forty-three million other podcasts right now. Man, I messed out with hosting trivia and I messed up a question. Uh uh.

SPEAKER_00 54:16

You're saying you met those guys?

SPEAKER_02 54:18

Well, I met those guys, and uh on my radio show I love to do interviews, but sometimes I always feel bad when I do an interview on the radio show because I'm you know, people are I always figure, you know, I'm on 10 to noon, people are working. They don't they don't they don't have the they don't have the ability to listen to the you know what somebody's saying, you know, they just want to hear the music because they're working, they're doing something, they don't want to have to pay attention to what somebody's saying. So I always feel bad about that, but I still love doing it. And so now this gives me an ability to blab away with people, try to learn something, you know, uh hopefully uh put something out in the ether that maybe somebody about some band that you know we talk about that nobody else really knows about. Maybe that'll be, you know, somebody will remember that band, like Slingshot.

SPEAKER_03 55:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:23

You know? Yeah. You know.

SPEAKER_00 55:25

Yeah. A way to see, look, take a look inside what, you know, maybe someone shares something that they haven't, you know, mentioned or or other people wouldn't know about them.

SPEAKER_02 55:35

So you know, and then also I named it Slacker Dave Loves Nebraska, because I just don't, it's not gonna all just be music. Right. Because, you know, there's other great things. And I'm not saying it's all gonna be about Nebraska either. If I get, you know, an opportunity to do something that's not Nebraska, but I still, you know, I mean it doesn't have to be that way. So, you know, I uh Matt Steinhouse and I talked on their second one. We just talked about random things, foods made and invented in Nebraska, and railroads and you know, just the Rubin. Yeah. Which is a contested thing. Uh he informed me that there's uh advertisements showing uh that they're in Lincoln before it was in Omaha, or advertised in Lincoln before Omaha that they have proof of. But then there's also someone in uh in New York that said, you know, so I mean you know who knows the truth. And it might have been simultaneous. Who knows? They were both named Ruben, you know.

SPEAKER_00 56:33

Maybe this maybe this is a potential idea for your for your podcast is to find the lineage of the Rubin Stanley thinking.

SPEAKER_02 56:42

I think that I think that all that all that I could learn has already been learned.

SPEAKER_00 56:48

You know, I think it's anyone's that got it.

SPEAKER_02 56:50

Obviously, the truth is Ruben historians that have done quite the research on where the original Ruben is. And I mean, I could do a whole podcast on that, but it's not like we're gonna learn anything new. So no knowledge. But still, it's a good idea. I'll I'll call Matt on that one. Uh but uh, you know, I just I don't know. I like doing it. I like to listen to podcasts, I like listening to KGM. Uh, you know, I like to talk. I talk a lot. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_00 57:24

Yeah, it's great, man.

SPEAKER_02 57:25

Well, thank you for so I do have a question for you. Uh trying to make this a thing on my show, if I remember to do it.

SPEAKER_03 57:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 57:36

So someone's coming to Nebraska. Uh they got like vacation in Nebraska.

SPEAKER_00 57:45

Vacation in Nebraska, okay. Where are you sending them? First thing that comes to mind is like a float trip down the Niagara. Oh, yeah. That's a pretty special experience. Um, not that you can't do that in other states, but like it's a qu it's it's something that you wouldn't expect, I think, to find in Nebraska, you know. So I always loved doing that. Did that several times over the years. Um yeah, beyond that, I mean a Husker football game, like if you can get go to one of those, even though you know it's like it's an experience. It's it's an experience to to feel the energy and and be let down.

SPEAKER_02 58:36

It's gonna be this year. It's gonna be this year.

SPEAKER_00 58:39

Yeah, this is our year, right?

SPEAKER_02 58:40

Every year, every year. Can't give up.

SPEAKER_00 58:44

And of course, gotta gotta go to the zoo bar. Oh, yeah, we gotta go see see some music. You mean you don't have to have to see any music, just go and hang out. Look at the walls. Look at the walls.

SPEAKER_02 58:54

Just go downtown.

SPEAKER_00 58:55

There's use the bathroom.

SPEAKER_02 58:56

There's great restaurants, great bars, yeah, nice, walkable, you know. Yeah, hopefully gonna be more. What about Aurora? Where are you sending them in Aurora? Because isn't there somebody famous that was born in Aurora?

SPEAKER_00 59:12

Well, Harold Edgerton, who invented the strobe light, that's among other things, has a center, the Edgerton Center, which is right down the block from my childhood home. But really cool, you know, uh science-y, you know, kind of. Is it a museum? Is it open? It's a it's uh yeah, it's open daily, but it's like more of an interactive, you know, thing for kids. And I mean, but there's enjoyable stuff for adults too. Like there's like a well last time I went there was a flight simulator, which is really cool. There's like kinetic robot things, there's a uh different, you know, lots of different stations that you can do stuff at. And then that up front, at least the last time I was there, they have like those candies that the suckers that have like bugs in the middle. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, the little mealworms or whatever, and like crickets and stuff. So good place to take to go with the fam, or just if you if you find yourself in a row. Also, next to the Ederton Center is the Plainsman Museum. They have a lot of really cool early 20th century, 19th century, like you know, exhibits, and they actually have a whole like street inside the museum. That's like what it would look like.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:32

Yeah, there's like a dentist office, kind of like a mini saloon, mini pioneer village, but yeah, not pioneer village.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:39

Yeah, like a little bit later than that, I think. And like a bank, they have a sod house that you can walk through. Aurora, yeah, a bunch of really cool artifacts that have been found in Nebraska.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:50

Where are we where are we eating at an Aurora?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:54

Um, I would say uh Rath's Cafe. It's kind of like highway diner-esque, good breakfast. There's also Pueblo Viejo, which is a newer Mexican restaurant.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:09

Small town cafe, diner, yeah, Espressions, you guys. Might be the greatest uh food ever, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:17

Yeah, always a always a you know, an experience as well. Where are we getting ice cream? Ice cream. Through an ice cream place? Yes, but I don't JJ's gelato, I think is what it's called. It's like a newer spot. But you know, growing up, we didn't I didn't really, I guess run McDonald's or Runza have ice cream. But also what we did was the Schwanz man.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:43

Oh, you did the Swans man? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got the good ice cream.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:47

Yeah, the dark, the, the the cherry, the cherry with the dark chocolate chunks.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:53

Oh, god dang.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:54

Really good. Mint chocolate chips.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:56

And then where are we drinking at?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:59

Um there's a couple, a couple bars down down. The square is a really nice place to visit because Aurora's the county, the the county seat of Hamilton County.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:10

So is it literally building in the middle?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:13

Giant courthouse, big old red brick courthouse, yeah, yeah. And then a square, you know, with with shops. There's a couple bars, Grandview Cafe is a bar, and then there's a Bucks bar.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:25

Where where are you going first?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:29

Probably probably Bucks, just because I actually played there one New Year's Eve. Um, but it's a family friend that owns the place, so probably going there. And it's got cool, like black and white tile floor, fun, fun, neon signs, pool table, that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:48

And uh uh a hidden cool thing in Aurora. Um a hidden cool thing in Aurora.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:57

You got lakes, you got rivers, you got anything like that going through there? There's a little creek um that has like a really nice walking bike trail. I would I would recommend that. It kind of goes throughout the the park there. Um gosh, I can't remember. Streeter Park maybe, or is it there's a couple nice parks in Aurora? Oh, they also have a disc golf course. I can say that too. Nine whole disc golf course.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:23

Here we go. Uh you're in high school in Aurora. What are you field? Where are you partying at? Field, lake, uh, in the middle of a cornfield in the irrigation where the irrigation pivot is at.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:39

Never did that.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:41

Probably like someone's garage. Someone's garage. Yeah. Not not country, country. You know, again, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:49

No, yeah, I mean, never, never did that. Probably like you know, someone's someone's parents are out of town. They're like, come over in the garage.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:00

There you go, there you go. That was a huge part of your uh tell everybody where you can uh where you can find uh all things Miles Jasnowski. Yeah, well they wanna book you, they wanna uh send you fan mail.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:15

Sure, yeah. Well, my you know, I I try to stay active on like Instagram and and Facebook. Um it's just my name, Miles Jasnowski, Miles with a Y, J-A-S-N-O-W-S-K-I.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:28

And um Josh Courier has something, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:32

Yeah, yeah, we're playing. I mean, we're playing a bunch in in town uh over the summer. So you could just. Vibe check have any kind of social. No, I just you know occasionally post about that. But you know, the the fact that we're consistent is like kind of the calling card. Is like, well, you know, is it Wednesday? Maybe Vibe Jack's play. Let's look at it. 50-50 chance. Yeah. So come see us at the Zoo Bar. It's free, always free, usually 8, 9 p.m. Sometimes we play the early show, but we'll advertise that if it's if it's early. But uh yeah, just uh, you know, see you out there this summer. Gonna be around a lot.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:09

So all right, thanks. Thanks, Miles. I appreciate this. It's been fun. Thank you. Uh thanks for the highway diner for allowing us to make noise in here. So and now the moment you've all been waiting for. All right, see you later.