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Candid conversations with music industry leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, creators, and people pursuing alternative lives. Join audio engineer, punk, and business man Dave Swillum in the thick of pursuing a creative passion in a serious way.
Episodes
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Another episode with another mixed background guest we are excited to chat on. Today we speak with NFL running back, rapper, and photographer Jonathan Hilliman. We speak through the experience of going after the NFL and what it’s like inside. Being more than an athlete and bringing out that creative side through music art, and mindset.
Jonathan speaks to Black Lives Matter prepping for a release focused on it next month and his newest EP out called “Long Over Due” noting a hiatus he took from writing and performing in rap. Discussion around being a renaissance person and doing your best and staying focused on your craft despite how big or small the stage or field is.
In This Episode We Cover
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Professional sports and creative living
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Renaissance mind set
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Breaks
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Going after the NFL
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Add something new to your game
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Be different
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Don’t think too much about it, just try
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It’s what you’ve been doing for how long
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Being more than just an athlete
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Don’t judge till the end
Quotes
“It get’s to simplifying the moment and seeing it for what it really is rather than looking around and being like Whoa! You gotta be like we are playing the Washington Redskins at 1 o’clock at Giants stadium.” - Jonathan Hilliman
“When you’re depressed or sad, when you’re in pain, that’s all you can really see, what you’re sad about right now. Even in the dark clouds and the rainy day the sun is still there, but you don’t really see that you say man it’s dark. Don’t judge something until the end of it. It’s not over.” - Jonathan Hilliman
Jonathan’s Links
Twitter/Instagram
@thrilliman
@rnlthelabel
@imperialvisionz
Jonathan's Recommended Resources
by Tim Grover
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
Email
Youtube Channel
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Rock Band Broadwing
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
Tuesday Oct 20, 2020
E80
After having 64 jobs and 4 businesses win and fail Tanner is here to talk through where he’s been and what he’s up to now. Today we are joined by Tanner from Portland Pod based in South Portland, ME. Tanner has grown his own podcasts and now works everyday to help others to the same.
He speaks through his story and we talk on a lot about that. Being resistant to the issues that come your way and enjoying the process. Understanding your audience and making connections while still working on your craft to form a the marriage between the two. We all search for meaning and have expectations on when it should be delivered. Let’s talk about when and how that should look. Creative service business, creative life, and getting creative to make that life a reality COVID and beyond.
In This Episode We Cover
- Resilience
- Enjoying the process
- Understanding your community
- Searching for meaning
- Changing with the move
- Ethical choices in business
- Creating luck
- Creating the vibe
- Knowing when it will work
- Skills gathered from previous roles
- Success isn’t linear
- Short cuts aren’t good
- Business owner verses Entrepreneur
Quotes
“People don’t like cockroaches but when the nuclear bomb hits they’re the only life left.” - Host Dave Swillum
“You have a path, it’s not destined for you, its the path that you have and you don’t really have a choice about that path but you have choice about what you do with the things that happen to you when you’re on it.” - Tanner Campbell
“There is success and there is prolonged, sustained, feelings of security which is to me what I think success really is.” - Tanner Campbell
Tanner’s Links
Website
Twitter/Instagram
@theportlandpod
facebook.com/portlandpod
Tanner’s Recommended Resources
Community Texting Software
https://www.community.com/get-a-number
Gary Vaynerchuk
https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork
Facebook Community to connect to creatives
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/
wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com
Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber
For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Rock Band Broadwing
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
E79:
Growing up playing music it was always awesome to get to know a promoter and it only happened when you got along with them well. That’s how I know our guest today. TJ Vegas is currently host and one of the founders of the Just Plain Filthy Podcast and lifestyle brand. He blends his love for wrestling, hardcore and alt music, and beliefs into one brand and group to be apart of.
Today we talk on being authentically you as part of your band. Solo time and collaborative time. Creating controversy and pushing diversity forward and the local music scene during COVID times leading toward the future.
In This Episode We Cover
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Trial and error
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Starting young
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Starting an agency
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Solo vs collaboration
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Taking breaks
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Like minds
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One love of many things combined
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Authentic you
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Being an outcast
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Controversy in art
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Heavy topics forward
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Merch sales
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Building your own brand
Quotes
“I would just walk there after school and book shows on my own.” - TJ Vegas
“I would use the library printer to print out all the flyers for my shows.” TJ Vegas
“We want to make a family for people who don’t have a family.” - TJ Vegas
“I believe that people can’t keep up the act. Its exhausting to not be you. You literally wake up and you’re that person.” - Host Dave Swillum
TJ Vegas & Just Plain Filthy Links
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok/Facebook
@killmurray603
Twitter/Instagram
@jpfpodcast
Website
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
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Email
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For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Rock Band Broadwing
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
E78
We all want all the gadgets and gear when it comes tor our creative career, business, hobbies, and passion but we shouldn’t always act on those impulses. When you are working to go full time keeping overhead low and mitigating debt and risk is the name of the game. Buying what’s needed to get the job done and give the time and quality needed is important but overbuying is really easy and justifying not acting until you have something is easy to do. Let’s talk about a buying habit that has helped me buy what I need over what I want for growing a business. Just in time buying habits for business and creatives.
In This Episode We Cover
- Start faster with Debt or take longer with less overhead?
- Chicken or the egg with gear and equipment
- Managing risk
- Deciding on market or gut
- Lead business model
- Just in time buying
- Buy what you need to do the job
- Get it if you NEED it
- Excuse of gear stopping you from starting
- Value of time
- Where should you save?
- Not saving on the things you shouldn’t save
Quotes
“ I would take the deposit and go buy the equipment to do the gig.” - Host Dave Swillum
“ It’s really easy to tell yourself because you don’t have the best mic that you can’t start a podcast, that if you don’t have the best computer in the world you can’t buy an interface and start recording at home. Can you do the thing with something else in the meantime?” - Host Dave Swillum
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
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Youtube Channel
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For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Rock Band Broadwing
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
E77:
It’s hard enough finding what your true vision for life is let alone finding where and when to share it so it benefits your efforts. Join me on this quick solo episode breaking down what I’ve learned and experienced from sharing my vision with others.
Controlling the energy and pressures induced from sharing it with others to help you get closer to your creative goals. Not everyone should know what you are planning all the time because they may not help while others definitely should. Sometimes it isn’t the time or place but manifesting comes from sharing what you can offer to the world. Let’s chat.
In This Episode We Cover
- Writing, telling others and saying out loud manifests
- Finding your people
- Who can and can’t hear it?
- Where will you get negative and positive reactions
- Energy & Pressure
- Accidentally challenging others
- Self awareness and empathy
- Trial vision sharing
- Putting out bread crumbs of the vision to gauge the room
- Is it an open or closed conversation?
- You need a compass that people see
Quotes
“ When you right it down or say it to other people you are creating pressures and energy that make it more real or easier to achieve.” - Host Dave Swillum
“ In the middle can be a slippery slope because you can be in the middle for a long time. You can get one goal done and go on to another and it stays in the middle.” - Host Dave Swillum
“ Gauge your room, gauge yourself.” - Host Dave Swillum via Meagan Swillum
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
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Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)
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Youtube Channel
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For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Rock Band Broadwing
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
E76:
Another repeat guest now that we are getting two years out from launch a lot has changed. Today is about sharing something I’ve never been able to speak to with certainty but hear a lot of listeners and friends speak on. How do you start a business when you have a kid? We’ve had some amazing guests that do both but I wanted to share a fresh perspective on both the business and being a parent.
Please join me with Coach Jake Lospennato again to speak on being a new father and new business owner full time. It isn’t easy but it can happen and in this episode you’ll hear how if you thought about it before past or pre tense. Talk about societal pressures, having the right partner, being the best you can for your child BY pursuing your dreams, balance, and a lot more.
In This Episode We Cover
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Having your first child while going after you dream
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Leaving something you tried hard for
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Recreating the vision
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When Income disappears
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Focusing on being a dad to focus on the dream
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List out everything that you’ve done
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Having the right partner
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Perspective shift
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Societal norms that get in the way
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The fear of having kids and being stopped
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There is no 100%
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Boundaries
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Balance
Quotes
“We didn’t plan to have a child, it was a surprise. Ashley is a rockstar mother and it helps so much because she supports me to be able to do what I do. Having a partner like that, I’m not sure everyone has a partner that’s that supportive. If your partner isn’t that supportive. Really put some thought into if you want a partner like that if you are trying to transition into a business.” - Jake Lospennato
“ It’s always a work in progress, you’ll never be 100%.” - Jake Lospennato
Jake’s Resources
You Were Born Rich
By Bob Proctor
https://amzn.to/2FUBkb0
The Secret
By Bob Proctor
https://amzn.to/2FUBkb0
Dr. Joe Dispensa
Jake’s Links
IG
@coachjakelospennato
FB
Jake Lospennato
Website
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
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Dave’s Indie Rock Band Broadwing
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
E75:
Sorry the title is super lame but I am too so that’s kind of part of it. Another IG connection. Jamie has tuned in on and off for some time now and we connected more through IG and found we have VERY similar interests and live really close which is weird because I am a pretty mixed dude. Fun episode, stays light hearted but hits on a lot of points between all the interests.
We talk on why the blend makes sense and how it helps and hurts us. Lifestyle choice and design, and dig into each piece. If you like all or none there’s something here but still really at large why we both ended up doing all these things. What blend makes you up?
In This Episode We Cover
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Taking opportunities as they come
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It’s easy to stay in a job you don’t like
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Blending what you like
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Glass ceiling
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Lifestyle choice
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Seeing opportunity
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Renovations
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Paying or doing?
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No overhead means freedom
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Sacrifice now
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When are you setting up for? Long term?
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No input/output for time anymore
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Success leaves clues
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Harness your 20’s
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Start early
Quotes
“ I”m taking opportunities as they come and I’m letting the universe guide it. Whenever opportunities come, take advantage of them, and play your best hand with the cards that you got.” - Jamie Ryan
“Dealing with bosses and having that glass ceiling above over your head. Like your working your ass off and they’re only giving you like $20 dollars an hour with a little bit of commission. I can’t deal with that.” - Jamie Ryan
“None of it is cool, none of it is a fun thing but If I could do this for a little bit then I could wake up and do whatever I want then it’s worth it.” - Host Dave Swillum
Jamie Ryan’s Resources
The One Thing
By Gary Keller
Bigger Pockets Podcast
https://www.biggerpockets.com/
Jamie Ryan’s Links
IG/FB
@jcryan25
Groove Renovation’s
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
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For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Rock Band Broadwing
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
E74:
If you have problem taking action this one’s for you. Solo episode w/ Dave in shorter length. I’ve seen countless creatives and business owners prevent themselves from taking the next steps because they come up with problems that don’t exist yet. They come up with how something will be a problem before knowing.
This episode is about walking through why it makes sense in some situations to actually cause a problem you need to solve to get your business or creative life moving forward. We can all say we don’t have time, its too much money, I can’t from this area, I don’t know the right people…….we can’t have these problems until it happens. Let’s talk it out on E74.
In This Episode We Cover
- Taking an action
- You can always solve a problem
- We solve problems all day
- You are choosing your problems
- Creating Action
- Limiting Belief
- No one has time
- A real problem
- The mind is trained to protect
- We need risk
- Mitigate it
- We fix our biggest problems first
- Problems are still problems, but what do you want?
Quotes
“ No one has time, if you have time you fill it up with shit to do. No one has time…..it’s the biggest limiting self belief.” - Host Dave Swillum
“Make a problem a real problem.” - Host Dave Swillum
“You will by habit focus on your biggest problems first.” - Host Dave Swillum
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
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Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
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Youtube Channel
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For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Rock Band Broadwing
www.broadwingband.bandcamp.com
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
E73:
In today’s episode Dave speaks with long time friends Ethan and Katelynn Hunter of Hunters Van Life. For awhile now I’ve wanted to interview some van life or other “alternative life” people out there to get perspective on the why behind it. I believe the why is the same why many of us have just in a different approach at achieving a life we want to live all the time being creative and having time to create.
We speak about the process, working for what you want to have happen. Control on life and perspective of time. Perception of the life and time we want verses what we actually have to do and what is not real. Lots of deep conversation sprinkled with some pre-game wine and jokes between friends. Lots to think about here but not too deep to go for a run and hang with us.
In This Episode We Cover
- Seeing where your money is going
- Wanting less
- Having less
- What do you need, what do you care about?
- What is for you? What other ways can you live?
- Minimum expenses
- Creating a schedule
- When you want you can make it happen
- Things have to suck sometimes
- Time when your in it vs when you look back
- Controlling time
- There are other ways to live
Quotes
“We just worked two weeks, now we are all set for the next 3 months.” - Ethan Hunter
“ You don’t have to do the 9 to 5, you don’t have to buy the house with the picket fence and fill it up with things. There are other ways to live. People think this is what we are supposed to be doing and if you aren’t feeling like thats meant for you or that brings you true joy then there are other ways.” - Katelynn Hunter
“When there’s something that you really want you just do it, you make it work. If there’s something you really want I truly believe you just make it happen.” - Katelynn Hunter
“I need that game to play, I need the other game to play, and I know that.” - Host Dave Swillum
“When your in your 30’s or 40’s looking back 6 months feels like nothing. When your in 6 months, 6 months feels like 10 years and your like this is awful, how am I still doing this?!?!” - Host Dave Swillum
Ethan & Katelynn Website & Links
Website
www.thehuntersvanlife.com
Insta
@thehuntersvanlife
Ethan & Katelynn’s Noted Resources & Artists
Eamon & Bec
www.eamonandbec.com
Trent & Allie
www.trentandallie.com
Waking Up From Work Podcast Links
Website
Instagram/Twitter/Tik Tok
@davewakeup
Merch To Support Us!
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Youtube Channel
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For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Rock Band Broadwing
www.broadwingband.bandcamp.com
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
E72:
As an audio engineer I always have to steal time with other engineers to talk on music and production. Today is someone I’ve loved the work of for awhile so it was awesome to chat. Kevin Billingslea records mostly out of the greater Portland, ME area and has backed artists like Lamb Of God, Vanna, Cruel Hand, Valley Heart, and so many others.
We talk on getting what you put into your art, choosing the right things you need not for flash or charm but for purpose and function. Not needing the best place or gear to get going and what leveling up looks like so you aren’t chasing clients to the bottom. Imposter syndrome, amazing hidden Chipotle recipes, and band dad stories. You will find something for all creative entrepreneurs in here to stir your thoughts and strategy in what you love.
In This Episode We Cover
- Watching others work
- Band dads are the best
- Outgrowing your space
- It’s not the tools it’s the fool
- Investing in the important things first
- Not the gear
- Big career benchmarks
- Professional relationships
- Lighting in a bottle moments
- How to keep energy in art after a long career
- Managing consistency
- If you won’t invest what you are doing, no one else will
- Never race to the bottom
- Only being you in your work, say no when you should
- Chipotle
Quotes
“ Geniuses, when your around them all you can really do is hope to zap every bit of wisdom you can from them.” - Kevin Billingslea
“I’ve seen a lot of bands go into incredible studios and come out with garbage and I’ve seen a lot of bands go into squalor studios and come out with something that’s rippin’.” - Kevin Billingslea
“What do I really need to make this happen? And sometimes it’s just an audio interface and a Mic in a room with ok acoustics.” - Host Dave Swillum
“There’s no plug in that injects feel into a vocal take, it just doesn’t exist.” - Kevin Billingslea
Kevin Billingslea Website & Links
Website
The Halo Studio
Kevin’s Band Too Late The Hero
https://www.facebook.com/toolatetheherome/
Insta
@kevinbillingslea
Kevin Billingslea Noted Resources & Artists
Network!
Valley Heart
https://www.facebook.com/valleyheartma/
Kevin’s Secret Chipotle Recipe
Burrito
- Get double wrapped because it doesn’t cost anything extra and why not?
- Get the white rice, the least healthy shit ever, but, that ship is well on it’s way
- Pinto Beans
- Steak: To get double meat, wait to tell them about your double meat order until after they’ve done the first scoop. If you tell them beforehand they will compensate their scoops.
- Corn salsa is acceptable
- Tomato salsa soaks everything else
- Sour cream
- If you like heat the red stuff is fine
- No lettuce because it’s just taking up space
- You can do guac if you want but Kevin is allergic to it
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For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave
Dave’s Indie Rock Band Broadwing
www.broadwingband.bandcamp.com