Megan (29:30)
Okay. Everyone's like, oh, no, I was just having the. No, like, you can feel when they, like, just kind of go into, like, song mode, and everyone's just like, cool, so what are you guys doing afterwards? Like, there's. There's. There's a real thing there, but, like, the conversation after the show, to me, and maybe I'm the one in the wrong here, but it's not so much why you had a great time and I didn't have a great time or why I had a great time and you didn't have a great time, or why we both had bad times or why we both had awesome times. It's like, what did the band do on stage? And how does that. Like, how does that stay with us later? So the third thing I want to talk about, though, is, like, the resource element of going to a fish show and why. I really, really think this conversation is pretty offensive, to be honest. Simply put, it's really, really expensive to go to a fish show. Like, one fish show. Like, it may not be a lot for everyone, but it's a lot, like, for some people to go to these shows. And as a result, like, it's. It's. It's a big commitment when you do this, like, to go to A show in my town is at base level, like, before I bring in really any, like, crazy fun. It's like a 500, 600 night out, if not more. And that's fine and all, like, because this is, you know, what people choose to spend their money on. But, like, that type of experience is something a lot of people have to be, like, they have to pick and choose, you know, and, like, what you have going on in your life may prevent you from going to certain shows, and that may crush you, and that may be something you have to just, like, deal with, but the show still goes on. You may choose not to, like, go someplace because that money can be used towards, you know, a different vacation or towards, like, shit that people need, like, at the end of the day to go to one of these experiences. Like, it's an investment that people have to make. And if you're just, like, on tour. And I don't want to get into, like, how people make their money, but, like, there's like, like, like seeing every single show requires, like, an insane amount of flexibility from a working situation. It requires a lot of, like, money on hand to keep your life at home going, while also your life on the road, which is increasingly more and more expensive if you live far away from where the band is playing. The logistics of that, if you have kids, the costs of that are that much higher. And Fish, as we mentioned, like, they're doing increasingly more and more, like, boutique events where it's kind of like a VIP package experience to go to Mexico or to go to the Sphere or like, in some cases, like msg, the. The festivals. Like, these are, you know, for some people, it's like, very easy to make happen. More power to you. For a lot of people, though, it's like, it's a ton of picking and choosing. And, you know, one thing I've been thinking about over the last year is, like, this conversation continues to, like, hang out in the periphery, and I hear it every so often. And then, like, you know, someone will send us, like, a screenshot from, like, online conversations about it. Like, I was very, very lucky to go to Mexico 2024. I was able to make it happen. I was able to get time off of work. I was able to make it work financially, and I got down. I was able to get coverage for my kids, and, like, I got two of the greatest jams I'll ever see in my entire life. But when I got home, I texted with a friend of mine who watched from the couch, and, like, he knows just as much about this band as I do. And he had very similar, like, deep dive, enthusiastic thoughts about this stuff as I did. And like, the only difference between our experience is like, I paid a premium for it. Now I don't regret paying that premium. I chose to do that. But like, that is not something that everyone has the capability to do. And the more that this band does it, which more power to them, like, people are coming. Fine. But it gets back to like, your comment about, like, there are two teams to this. Like, there are people that can be there and like, can make it happen on a regular basis. Yeah, but that is not like, like we're living in almost like two different worlds. If, like, you can do this literally night after night after night or like a significant amount of times throughout a year, this is something that you can make happen. Like, that's a rare thing from a percentages standpoint. And so the idea that because things work out that you're able to be there and other people cannot, means that you completely get this and they don't. I just find like, pretty offensive and just like very short sighted in terms of like, what we're actually dealing with here from like a financial standpoint.
