Dapper Days: Chris Keaton Talks Style and Music with Eddie Perez

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Hello, loved ones, I'm Chris Keaton and this is Random Acts.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to this episode of Random Acts.
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I can't even believe it, but it's been almost a year since we started this version of Random Acts and I'm having the best time ever Just a blast all the time.
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I want to give a shout out to my producer, director Andrew DePue, who's a great guy.
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He keeps me laughing all the time and thank you very much for letting me do this.
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And I want to thank the people here at Blue Ridge PBS for such a great studio, and they let me come in here and be myself, and I appreciate that very much.
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So talk about being myself.
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I got a few things I want to talk about today.
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One saw a couple of signs this morning and this is just kind of what I see.
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This one it said we're looking for dreamers, believers and go-getters and I thought, well, that's good, that's cool.
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And then, a few minutes later, I see a truck that says it's a pest control and the name was Killinger and I thought, well, that's cool, killing is in the name.
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So I don't know, go from dreamers and go-getters to killers.
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I don't know what that means.
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Sorry, but here are five things.
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Five things about me that you may or may not know.
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Number one I have a really bad habit of pointing at people when I'm talking to them.
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My wife Gina.
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It drives her nuts and she's always going stop pointing, stop pointing.
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So if I'm ever talking to you and I start pointing, please remind me not to point.
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Thank you Also.
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Number two I don't particularly care for it when I say thank you, or like I say thank you, and the response is no problem.
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I think it's supposed to be you're welcome, okay.
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Also this one really drives me nuts when I say excuse me to somebody as I'm passing by, I go excuse me and they go oh, you're fine.
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I always want to say hey, just tell me something I don't know.
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Okay, all right, know, okay, all right.
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One benefit of writing the book dapper is because when I used to go places, all the time people go hey man, you look so dapper, you're really nice.
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Well, now, when they say, hey, man, you're really dapper, I go.
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Well, I ought to.
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I wrote the frigging book.
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So, anyway, that's it.
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And then, number five earworms.
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You know those songs that you just can't get rid of.
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Well, I think this is the mother of all earworms right here, and it's a TV show theme.
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Green acres is a place to be Farm, living is a life for me.
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I won't go any further, but now that's my gift to you.
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You'll be stuck with that for the rest of the day.
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You can thank me later and I'll say you're welcome.
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Okay, storytellers, we are all storytellers.
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We tell our own story, we're parts of other people's stories, and that's what we do as human beings.
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Well, today my guest is a total rock star, and I mean total rock star, great guitarist.
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This guy looks like a million bucks and he's a dear friend of mine, eddie Perez.
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He plays guitar with the Mavericks.
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If you've not seen the Mavericks live, please, you owe it to yourself to go check them out.
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Between his playing, the rest of the band and then Roll singing.
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It's just a show not to be missed, I'm telling you.
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So I got Eddie on in just a few minutes and he's going to blow you away, I promise.
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And there's always a through line.
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My through line has always been music.
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It will always be music.
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I will always talk about music and tell stories and I hope that you will always come back and let me talk to you and tell you stories and listen to your stories too.
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Eddie's coming on in just a minute.
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Hang on, all right, all right, all right, friends and neighbors.
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It might be better than it was before.
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Watch for me, all right, all right, all right, friends and neighbors.
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I told you I was going to have somebody really cool on here today, and I'm telling you what this guy is an absolute rock star with a capital R, one of my favorite people in the whole world, eddie Perez.
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Eddie, how are you?
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Good morning, my friend.
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It's lovely to see you.
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I'm doing great man, I just got to tell you this is, this is so much fun for me, just so I can kind of let people know.
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You and I got to meet each other at a Grammy event a few years ago and then that's become like our annual date because we run into each other every year that is true and, and it's just, it's just so much fun because I love your musicality.
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You are the lead guitar player and you're also one of the mainstays on stage of the mavericks, and it's just, it's always fun to see you, and it's just, it's always fun to see you and it's always fun to hear you talk.
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So, man, let me.
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So what got you into playing guitar?
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How'd that all start?
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Boy, chris.
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I, you know, I have been playing so long that it feels like it was always.
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You know it was second nature to me.
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I really got my start, started playing.
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I had a big I wouldn't say musical family, but my family really loved music and, being Mexican-American, latino, from Southern California, our family at the time was very together all the time.
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It was a way that my family used to kind of communicate and have good times with each other and they used to bust out instruments.
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I, my grandfather, used to play, you know, mexican mariachi music and he would.
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He would be the instigator, he would pass out instruments to everybody, regardless of whether he knew how to play or not.
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He was one of those you, you know, and so I think it was always around.
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My father is probably perhaps my biggest influence, um, in music, uh, you know, I grew up being his little buddy, uh, but he loved all kinds of music.
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So I think it's through through all those circumstances, just being around it all the time, um, I, just I, when I started taking to it, I took to it rather quickly.
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It was, again I say, second nature, but I want to say by the time I was eight, nine years old, I was already teaching myself, you know, all the chords to the Beatles songs.
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Wow, you know.
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Yeah, I mean I was so into it, not just because I wanted to be a part of all that, you know, that fellowship and all that stuff that was going on with family, because as a child, you know, that made me feel connected and great, but but I was also training my ear, without even knowing it, you know, because of all the music that my father exposed me to and and he loved.
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I mean he was taking me to concerts when I was 10, 11, 12 years old, so I can't really remember a time where it wasn't in front of me all the time.
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Yeah, you know, and it just over the course of my life.
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I got very lucky and it became something that over time I became somewhat pretty good at.
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You know?
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No, I would say so, yeah, some are pretty good at.
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Yeah, you know?
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No, I would say so, yeah.
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But I mean that makes so much sense to me hearing it now, because I cannot imagine you not playing.
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I mean you just have this, it's like it's part of you.
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The guitar is not something that you put on, it's like an extension of who you are.
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So and you also play out so many styles.
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Where in the hell does that come from?
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I mean, most, most cats play one way, right and they, they find a lane.
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Your lane is multi lanes to me yeah, that's well again, you know my perhaps my greatest influence, my late father.
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But he used to tell me, eddie, there are only two types of music, good and bad.
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And he would say, he said, why not love it all if you really dig it and it moves you?
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He says, let that speak to you and let that guide you.
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He says, let that speak to you and let that guide you.
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And so you know, growing up in the 70s I mean, I was fortunate enough to grow up in that era where you know, talk about you know having the template for the era of the rock star.
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Yeah, yeah, I mean as a 10-year-old kid in, you know, 77, I'm like I'm looking at that and I'm just soaking it all in while I'm teaching myself and learning how to play.
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Yeah, but we had music in the house all the time.
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Again, it was everywhere, from in the car to at home, when we'd be doing our chores.
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And, you know, on the weekends Dad would have, you know, those consoles we used to have back in the 60s and 70s.
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Oh yeah, big pieces of furniture.
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Yeah, the big wood thing yeah, yeah, they were huge.
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And then you know math well, he would put records on them and you know he would allow us to pick them, but it was anything from from sinatra to james brown to to buck owens to zz, it was everything.
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And I think that it was from there that I started getting a vocabulary and understanding the spirit behind the music, even though as a child I really didn't know how to articulate that.
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But as an adult now, with all the experience, looking back now, I can tell you that that's what I think I was doing.
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I was so into I.
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You know when they say that some people yeah, I got lucky and I realized that I had a natural calling for it, um, and I had an environment that helps support that.
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In the sense of the love of it, yeah, but in terms of supporting and knowing how to navigate in the business and home and all of that, my journey has been one foot in front of the other.
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Yeah, you know you talk about following the yellow brick road I love that that's me, so you know, and so so you're, but you're so you're.
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Yellow Brick Road, though, so it starts in Southern California.
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Tell me the journey from there to Nashville.
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And then cause I, you know, I know you played with other people before Dwight and a bunch of other people to, to get to.
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Mavericks, give me a little piece of that.
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So how you got from one place to the next.
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Right on.
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Okay, so well, in the early 90s I'm talking 90, 91, somewhere around there is when I started going out and started trying to meet people, trying to, you know, in a club scene in the neighborhood, I hooked up with this one band.
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It was a local band in the neighborhood, I talking that like 1991.
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Okay, this is way back.
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And, uh, this is at the starting of my journey.
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I I 'd already been in some, like you know, teenage bands and whatnot you know, but nothing that was, uh, that had taught me how to really be in a band and then what it took to to do it and to tour and to all of that you know.
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So, uh, but in 1991 I started, I joined this local band and it's from this band.
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We would do like swap meets and birthday parties and you know, but nothing serious, and the players were, you know, I mean, it was what it was, but it was a great experience because it taught me how to navigate and how to network, you know, and and through, of course, this crazy life it is.
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It is a lot of the times it's not necessarily who you know, but it's I mean what you know, but it's who you know.
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Oh, yeah, and so I started just making friends and, and you know, all the time working on my craft, I was also very serious and very ambitious and driven about it.
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There was also that too.
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So I started just meeting people and I started going to clubs.
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I started hanging out at some of these.
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I would go to car shows because I love vintage cars.
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I would go to record swap meets in Pasadena, california.
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We had this amazing record swap meet that we would go to record swap meets in Pasadena, california.
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We had this amazing record swap meet that we would go and and you would see a lot of rockabillies and a lot of.
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You know, at the time in Southern California there was a healthy, not only a rockabilly scene and a swing jump, blues and swing sing, but there was a blues music scene as well and it's pretty vibrant.
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And there were you know, this is back when there were still little, small little venues and things like that to go and congregate and to meet and to play and whatnot, and so really it kind of got started there.
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Um, I found myself in a particular situation where I got asked to be a part of like a blues band and it's through that band that I started kind of immersing myself into the music scene started amassing some friends, and then, you know, one thing leads to another.
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Then I meet another person.
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But my real pivot moment came around 1995, when I met an artist, my good, long-time dear friend artist James Zinfeld.
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Uh-huh, yeah, okay, james.
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If anybody knows anything about the rockabilly scene in the 80s and 90s, james was a massive part of that and still is, you know, but he's full-on Renaissance man.
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I mean, he's an actor, a director, a writer, a musician, a singer.
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I mean, he's one of those guys.
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You know what I mean.
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But he was already immersed in the business.
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He was at least 10 years my senior, so he had connections in nashville.
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Whenever nashville people would come to california they'd ask him to put a band together and me playing guitar for him.
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I kind of got to go along for the ride.
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Well it's, it's in the mid 90s era where I really started meeting people from nashville that were doing what it out, what it was that I wanted to be closer to.
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Yeah, right, uh, so I'd already had the musical background.
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Uh, my father was born and raised in Bakersfield, california, so that's where I get the country music from.
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Yeah, you know he was coming up with Buck Owens and Merle Haggard and Tommy Collins and all that stuff, clippy Stone.
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So I, I got, I got to know all of that through him as well.
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So at the time the experience and the networking started meeting.
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The ambition was around 1995.
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And then by 96, I'm already going out and doing small tours and since then I basically have not stopped.
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I've been on the road with somebody somewhere since the mid-90s, other than those two years of the pandemic.
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But I've lived pretty much most of my adult life through the lens of a touring musician.
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It's been an adventurous life.
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I've just always tried to remain the same.
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Just put the best of myself behind it because it's genuine.
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You know you say you said something earlier about when you see the Mavericks on stage and you see what it is that I do with the Mavericks, it comes across in the way that you perceive it, because it is intended that way.
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That's how I feel it.
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Yeah, I don't know how to do this thing any any way else other than to throw myself completely in it.
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Well, to me it also what I hear and what I have seen from seeing you play live.
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It's a joyful thing.
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I mean you are, you are spreading joy to the audience, and not only that, but you're feeling it come back and it just makes this whole thing work.
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I mean, raul is the same way.
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This is just my perception of it.
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You know, you guys feed off of the audience and you're feeding the audience the joy.
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It's a beautiful thing to witness.
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I mean, I just it's again, it's very.
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Thank you, witness.
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I mean, I just it's again it's very thank you for saying those lovely things, because it is absolutely that experience on stage as well.
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You know the whole, the whole rigmarole starts about an hour before the show.
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You know he starts getting ready, we're in the buses and playing music and we're having a cocktail or two or maybe more than that, yeah, and you know we're playing the tunes or two or maybe more than that.
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Yeah, and you know we're playing the tunes and, and you know, putting on the, the duds and whatnot.
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I mean the show has already started an hour before we even step on stage, wow, you know.
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But we're in the bus and we're having again, you know we're we're longtime buds.
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I mean all of us.
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I mean we go back almost 30 years at this point and we've been through a lot, you know, uh, and that's saying something, because I think we have such a unique thing together that the friendship and the decency and the kindness and all that stuff that has always been at the forefront of what drives the mavericks.
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If we don't have that, there's really enough.
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How do you spread joy if you have, don't have that foundation?
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it's true.
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So what?
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So what people feel from us it's one of the things I'm the most proud about after all these years is that we still have that.
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We still have the joy of hanging out with each other and cutting it up with each other.
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But then when we step on stage, there's an unspoken seriousness, and the seriousness is about the joy and the fun and spreading that and being in the most honest, real, if you can say perfect moment we can be in, and I would tell you that the moment we step on stage, we feel that stuff coming off of the audience right off the bat.
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So, yes, it's a circle.
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It's a circle and the audience is every bit as important.
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As you know Julio on the trumpet or Paul on the drums it is a communion and that is what we try to spread, that's what we try to achieve, that's what we go with the intention of doing.
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You know, it's not just to put on a show for people, it's we're there to have a party and have a good time.
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I mean, you know it's weird there to have a party and have a good time.
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I mean, you know, it's almost like.
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You know, it's almost like you're inviting the audience in.
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It's like.
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It's like it's like you're getting the audience in on the joke.
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It's not a joke, though, but you're inviting the audience to the party that started an hour earlier on the bus, when you're putting on your duds and you're putting on your duds and you're tuning up and having a cocktail or two or three, or yeah, yeah, but it's, it's just a fun.
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It's just a fun thing.
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I mean I again watching you guys play.
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I'm envious of that, because it's obvious that you guys are.
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You're just having a good time.
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And it's a joyous occasion.
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You know, when people ask me like there's a question I get asked a lot in interviews and whatnot it's like the question is always you know, you've been known as a genre-defying band, how would you describe your music?
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And I said, well, I don't use those terms anymore because it doesn't matter.
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I tell people we make joyous music.
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You make good music, like your dad said that's what we do.
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Yeah, right, you know, and you know all that vocabulary and all that experience.
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I'm not the only one in the band that has that.
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See, the special thing about the Mavericks is that each one of the players that's up there, we all have the same sort of vocabulary.
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It's a very wide, very massive, yeah, musical vocabulary, because we're, we're, and the other thing that's one of the biggest elements of all is we're still fans, yeah, we're still fans of, of doing it.
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I mean, there, I've had moments, chris, on stage, where, uh, I'm forgetting, I've forgotten that I'm participating in the moment, like I'm having such a good time.
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I, I'm like kind of an, I still feel that I'm an audience member and that's still what drives me, I, I'm, you know, it drives everything.
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Yeah, uh, and for me at least, and uh, and so I, I, I seriously think about that, I think about the good time I think about you know, you know, uh, if I was going to the concert, if I was paying for the ticket, I was sitting in the seat and I had my beer and my hot dog or whatever it is, yeah, and I want to see something.
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That's how I approach that.
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I, I approach it with that point of view, um, but at the same time, it's I'm I'm the one contributing to it.
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So I have unique moments like that where I sometimes, uh, I go along with the ride as it's going on and sometimes I snap back into it.
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I'm like, wait a minute, I'm contributing to this thing in the moment.
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Yeah, it's been.
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Yes, it's exactly as you said.
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It is as joyous, it feels as joyous, it's solid and connected and I feel, after all these years, that we're still doing it in the same fashion and also at the same level.
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I mean, the band is extraordinary and I feel it's a very special thing, and thanks for allowing me to highlight some of this stuff.
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Absolutely, man.
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Well, look, before I let you go, two things real quick.
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First off, your sense of style is absolutely off the charts and I want to tell people, go see these guys play.
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You'll see a massive, you know different costume, not costume, but it's like I asked you this before, I was like dude, who's your tailor man?
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I mean because your clothes, you dress the part, you are the part.
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And again, like I was talking about with the guitar, it's like it's not, it's not something that you hang around your neck, it's part of you, and also part of you to me is just this whole persona, this style.
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You, you have the look that you would be unapproachable, but you're not that at all.
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You are totally approachable.
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You make eye contact with people, you smile at people and they feel your heart.
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I feel it all the time, every time I'm around you, and I want to thank you for that.
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Oh man, thank you, brother, that's softly kind.
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Appreciate that.
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You're very welcome and you're very deserving, so let me ask you if people want to follow you, how can they find you on socials?
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Well, you know, I, I'm one of those.
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I'm one of those dinosaurs man.
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I fight it as much as I can.
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I don't know, it's a lot of.
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It is not my bag.
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You know especially how divisive it has been in our society.
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I have to watch it.
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But, that being said, you also have to live in reality too, and the reality of our business is that socials is a big part of the way of how we can connect to people, how we let them know what's going on.
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You know, you can find I only do a few things.
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I do Facebook and I do Instagram.
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Okay, and quite honestly, when I'm not on the road and dedicating myself to that whole life and traveling and whatnot, besides being a homebody, I spend all my time with my 18-year-old son.
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He's my true masterpiece.
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He just started college and so we've been busy together doing lots of things, and it's an interesting point to be at now, because what I'm realizing in this age, now at 18, is that the parenting, everything that I knew about parenting it's like closing the book and starting another one, because now he's a young man and a young adult and now the things that I have to teach and the things I have to influence are different things.
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Now, yeah, you know, what I mean.
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So, uh, so, besides the music, I'm, uh, the proudest thing that I can say about myself is that I'm a really great father, um, and that's the number one thing for me most of all.
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Yeah, you know, um, but you know, you remarked about the style and about.
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You know where does that come from?
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Real quickly, I'll tell you.
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Um, I've always been into fashion and into art, ever since I can remember.
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Uh, at one point, and after getting out of high school, at one point, I even went to the art institute in pasadena, wow, took some courses there and I was about to, I was about to go to the fashion Institute in LA as a graphic illustrator.
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Wow, no kidding, that's what I, that's what I thought I was going to do.
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So, when you talk about the fashion and you talk about, you know, also, I've, because I travel, I have the the you know, the privilege of traveling all over the place.
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I find pieces of clothing and I find stuff everywhere and I just put it all together and it's one of the things that absolutely helps me to stay engaged, it helps me to stay creative, it helps me to still be excited.
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Again, it's been a long journey to stay inspired to stay creative, to stay open.
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Above all, you know you have to find things and you have to work on that.
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It doesn't come easy and so I'm always finding stuff and the fashion and all that it's just another extension of you know, like Dolly says, figure out who you want to be and then start being it right.
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That's it.
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Well, that was me since as long as I can remember, man.
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I mean, I always wanted an adventurous, moving life where I went out and saw things and met people and just experienced it.
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You know, and I feel so grateful to be in this situation after all these years.
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And you know, had I not been in this situation, I would not have met somebody as fantastic and fabulous and awesome as you, my friend.
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So thank you for the invite to allow me to come on here, and you know gab a little, but I certainly enjoy seeing you pal.
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Well, listen, you're so welcome, eddie.
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You're one of my favorite people on the planet.
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Don't stop In fact, never stop being Eddie, because you are the man.
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We love you.
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Eddie Perez, thank you so much for being here, god bless you and the.
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Mavericks.
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And just take good care.
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Bye everybody.
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Thank you Good, is he not the coolest looking guy ever?
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I mean, truly, he's a sweetheart of a guy.
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He's as friendly as they come and when I talked about him smiling and making eye contact with people, he really does.
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He does that all the time.
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Okay, now I'm going to tell you a story.
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So a few years ago, I was fortunate enough to get a call from this guy named Michael Monaco, who is a video director in Nashville and around the country.
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I mean, he's really really well known, he's really good, and he was shooting the Luke Bryan video for the song Light it Up.
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Now he told me I was going to be featured, you know, and it was going to be kind of cool.
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And so they had me come to Lipscomb University in Nashville, to the gymnasium, because essentially what it was going to be, it was going to be centered around a basketball game.
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Well, I walk in and I'm ready to go and I'm sitting on the court side and there's like 10 basketball players out there.
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Well, one group of them is in white outfits, the other one are in a different color.
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I had no idea who they were, I just figured they were actors like me.
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Well, that they were actually actors.
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I was just playing me.
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So my role in this video was to be a reporter and follow one of the guys into the dress room and ask him questions.
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Well, again, I had no idea who this guy was.
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Well, it turns out he was actually, and still is, an NBA basketball player.
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His name is Jimmy Butler.
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At this point in time he was playing for Philadelphia, I believe.
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But I mean, this guy is like, you mentioned his name and everybody knows who you're talking about.
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He's been on GQ and Esquire and all these magazines, sports Illustrated, the whole nine.
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Well, monaco is telling me ask him questions, get a reaction, just ask him anything.
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So I was asking him stuff and Monaco yells to me ask him something that will make him really react.
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And so I just held the mic over and I said dude, do you still live at your mom's house?
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It was not the best thing for me to do, because he looked at me like he was going to kill me or like beat me up or something, and I was like, well, this is not that great.
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So then we take a break.
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I walk out into the hallway and these two big dudes come over and go.
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Dude, do you know who that guy is and I'm like, no, he's an actor, right?
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They said hell, no, it's Jimmy Butler man, you ought to watch the way you talk to him.
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So I did.
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But anyway, I am in that video and I'm not really featured and in fact, at 27 seconds in you can kind of see the back of my head.
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But anyway, it was a joyous and fun experience and that's the way that I got to meet Jimmy Butler.
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Now maybe, if I get to see him another time, we can laugh about it and we can just move on forward from there.
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Anyway, all right, so before I leave, I do want to remind you once again please follow me on the socials Instagram at Chris J Keaton.
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Facebook Chris Keaton Music.
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I will get that one day, I promise I will.
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You can follow me on YouTube at Chris Keaton Random Acts.
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Ta-da, that's where you are and going forward.
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Please don't forget to buy my two books Dapper, which I talked about, and the other one that I wrote about a subject I know nothing about, which is confidence, and it's called Confidence on the Fly.
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Do me a favor, do yourself a favor.
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They make a great Christmas gift.
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It's not too early to start shopping for Christmas.
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Trust me on this, but please get a copy of my book.
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You can get it at bookbabycom or at amazoncom and also the Song Inside you.
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If you have always wanted to be a songwriter, but you put your career ahead of you and you did other things first, I'd love to talk to you about a plan I've got for you.
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It's called the Song Inside you and you can look it up online thesonginsideyoucom.
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So that's all I got this time.
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Thank you, eddie Perez, for being here, thank you, friends and neighbors, for being here, and I'm Chris Keaton and I just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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See you next time, beautiful.