Alex Mackenzie

It's not like music where you're like, oh, just play the hits.

Not so much.

Like, I try and do a little bit of local stuff always.

If you can have like three to five minutes of like local references or that, just I think it's something nice for that city, that town to kind of show like, hey, I did a bit of research on you guys and, you know, that makes you relatable.

But generally I'm always trying to build a one hour show.

So it's constantly like you just have this hour, you go out and you run it and then you keep like tweaking it and tweaking it.

And then by the end of the tour, usually you have it great.

And you're like, okay, now I've got this thing and it's good all the way through.

And then that's when you book like a taping and you film it and then you put it out and no one watches it.

And then you try again.

Ooh, uh, they were great.

You know, like I, I, I learned so much about myself, uh, that I would say it was worth it.

You know, it is a really good book is called the alchemist and kind of like, uh, not to ruin it, but the, the moral of that story is basically to go on an adventure and

and end up back where you started is not the same as not going on the adventure at all.

So, you know, even if this thing failed and I ended up going back to my old job and then working there, it's like still everything you learned along the way and doing that adventure was worth it.

Well, I don't know.

By the mill I worked at, shut down.

So that's what I always tell people is I'd say like people were like, oh, you're taking a big risk.

And the safe route was to stay at that job.

Well, that safe route's no longer there anymore.