Bryan Greene

Like, hey, Paul, remind yourself to give a beat.

Like, give a beat so the laughter can reach the back of the room, and then I can move on to the next beat, right?

That's insane.

I have to imagine that for all the different reasons, when you're a kid, essentially, and you're de-rigging these...

this might just be an indication of how old I am, are the guys who do the rigging and the de-rigging of these big stadiums, watching them as they shift around these huge stages and go up into the rafters.

And I've always been interested by that kind of backstage life.

And it's dangerous, it's hard work, but it looks like, you know, a bit of fun too.

But how... I mean...

Do you still to this day, do you still get that feeling when you go into one of these rooms and you've sold it out?

And just 20, 25 years ago, you were the person taking down this lighting or whatever it was.

Do you still get that?

Holy shit, Paul, you did it.

That's an interesting statement that you just made and one that I don't think I've heard before, but makes a lot of sense if you follow the industry and you understand, especially what a lot of musicians have been talking about for years.

And that is that these big stadiums, even the medium sized rooms, the expense involved in putting on a show and getting there and getting the rigors and all the stuff, right?

Everything from, you know, craft services to, you know, having making sure there's some food in the dressing room to all this other stuff.

and the immense amount of money that the ticketing agencies and the arenas themselves and the production companies take away from every single seat sold in the building makes it almost if you break even you've won the day like you've won if you almost if you break even you think that oh he's selling out the o2 arena he just made six million dollars that's likely not true right it's likely

That you broke even, but you did it because you could do it.

It's almost like it's a little, it's a flex, it's a statement, and hopefully an attention grabber for the next big thing that you're going to do.

She charges a million dollars a corporate gig.

Do you do corporate gigs?