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Scooter Braun

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“It happens all the time. I get a phone call, I'll pick up, I'll just see Paul. Hey, brother, I love you. Just want to call and tell you. I'm really grateful. Like I have so many different people I can name. And what was really interesting is... Before all this happened, I don't know if you can relate to this, but I spent so much time looking Trying to impress people who didn't want to love me. Instead of realizing how many people already did.”
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“My friends rip me. Like, if people saw the text messages between us, they would think we hate each other But we love each other deeply, and the best part about the message is the random, hey guys, I love you.”
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“and I never felt like one of the guys. Like I felt like I had those friends, but I just couldn't let them all the way in because I felt, well, maybe I'm smarter, maybe I'm this, maybe I need to be perfect. And it wasn't until... I really hit rock bottom that I realized that they always had my back and I made all these stupid ideas in my head. They were there, and they weren't there for Scooter. They were there for Scott. I see you getting a little emotional too Because you probably have the same type of friends. So I did it so you can do it too. What are their names?”
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“I thought it was the opposite my whole life. I thought you had to be cool. You had to be tough to be one of the boys. And it was funny because they didn't, all the achievements, not only did they not give a shit about, I probably lost touch with them more so. And when everything fell apart they were the ones that were there, the ones who knew Scott, the ones who didn't care about any of it. And I've never really even said that out loud to this extent until right now. And I'm actually glad I get to say on here both their names because They picked me up In a really, really tough time and a time when I couldn't even look at my own brothers because I was too ashamed.”
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“And Mike and Vook told me at forty years old when I was doing this work, we've known you since you were eleven, and this is the most we've ever known you. And I'm not surprised or insulted,'cause they say you haven't changed. But we didn't know you. Because I was always even to them presenting what I thought they needed me to be perfect. And then I broke, and then I said this happened and this happened. When I was a kid, this was going on and this was. And they were like, We love you. And I really became one of the boys for the first time in my life. I became one of the boys because the boys became vulnerable.”
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“And he told me, he was like before, he's like, nobody goes on, it's like this. He's like, you know, I just didn't, he goes, he goes, I didn't think you were real. I thought you were full of shit. And he was right. I mean, I didn't know myself because I had no reason to do so. And it wasn't until I had some real hardships and real pain and real scares and real rock bottom moments that I started looking at myself and started figuring out who I was. And then everyone got to know me. My best friend since I was 11 years old, they're the people I hang out with the most. Two of them live out here, Mike and Vook. And I hang out with them all the time. And people who know me, they know these guys because they've been my friend since we were 12 years old, 11 years old.”
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“I want to tell you something funny. I usually don't say names in these things, but I want to give him credit because I think it's hilarious. Michael Rapino is the CEO of Live Nation. He's an amazing guy. I think he's one of the most impressive people in the entire entertainment industry because he wields so much power, but he also empowers other people so well. And after the divorce, after the big machine and stuff that happened with that, all these different things. And you know what Michael told me? He goes, I like you a lot more now because you seem human.”
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“That I had the night before, thought about Know just shutting it all off. It wasn't even an idea that I wanted to die. I just wanted the noise in my head to go away. I wanted the failure, the disappointment, the fear. I was going to fail in my mind. I couldn't control it. I'd always been able to navigate out of failure and head towards success. A pit stop. But I had left what I found it often I told you is my name, the inner child, the Scott. I had built this mask so big. I wanted to feel like me again I didn't realize how far away I had gotten from that. Building up this armor, building up the mask. You know,”
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“I never was depressed again. And the most interesting thing that happened on the other side of it is six years ago I was the biggest manager in the perfect marriage and everything I touched turned to gold and there was no negative press about me ever. Six years later I'm divorced. I don't manage anymore. I've had negative press. And I couldn't be happier It doesn't mean it doesn't ebb and flow, but I get to be the dad I've always wanted to be in the friend I've always wanted to be and it doesn't mean that things aren't going to go be hard and I'm going to suffer more things and go through them but I'm in a place that I understand a more fati it's like everything's a gift and I'm being super long winded, but that's the story.”
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“They told me that they could get me in in two weeks because there was a cancellation. October 24th, and that was the release of Ariana Grande's Dangerous Woman album as the busiest week of the year for me in work. And I started laughing in the parking lot of this video shoot, and she goes, do you want us to pick another week? I said, no. I said, I've spent my whole life pursuing these things, doing this, choosing this, choosing scooter, choosing that life, choosing the clients. And the top of my game, yet I wanted to kill myself last night. Something's got to change. And I chose to go to that place instead. And the hard stuff actually came after I got out of Hoffman. You know, I ended up going through a divorce. I ended up going through all this different stuff.”
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“I had a suicidal thought for twenty minutes, where I was like, if my marriage is going to fall apart, I'm not going to be with my kids all the time. I can't control this. I'm not going to be this perfect image that I've presented to the world. And if I can't be this perfect image, I don't want to be here. And it went to a very dark place, and after twenty minutes I said, what the hell was that? That's not me. I would never leave my kids. I'd only leave anybody. Like, what was that? And the next morning... I was on the set of a video shoot and a friend of mine called and he said, you know, what's going on with you? And I told him, I told him about that night before. He called me back with another friend and they said, you need to go to Hoffman. We did it. It changed our life.”
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“The Hoffman process is his one week no phone, no email. Intense work on your early childhood to understand why you are the way you are and give you tools to go out in the world and understand yourself. The reason I went was October of 2020, my marriage was falling apart. The whole world thought I was crushing it. Ariana's crushing it. Justin's, all these people were on fire. And”
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“And I actually sometimes look back at that and I go, the universe was trying to teach me something. And I navigated out of it. I found a way out. So then the universe went, oh man, we tried to give you a warning sign. We try to like, you're sailing by in the Titanic and we're waving like iceberg. And then the universe said, okay, you really didn't pay attention and you still aren't doing the work. That one got me. That one got me to pay attention. Losing my kids 50% of the time? That one changed everything. Still couldn't move me I was still able to figure out the chessboard. But my kids and my marriage? That one rocked me. Woke What's really crazy is when I told you I did this Hoffman process. Won't tell you the process because you're not supposed to, but I can tell you at the end of the week they.”
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“Resistance trying to navigate it, trying to understand it, trying to figure out how to fix it. And then I couldn't, but then I did financially. Like I couldn't fix the relationship that I didn't have. But then I was able to figure out, okay, you know what? We will sell it In a world of streaming, re-records will only help the old catalog as much as they help the new catalog. Both will get a bump. I presented that. I showed, you know, how everyone can be a winner here, and I was able to sell the catalog. And I don't want to go into too much detail, but I offered it. It's that now come out very factually that I did offer it. There's evidence of that multiple times in that process. They said no. I sold it to someone else and I'd wash my hands of it and moved on.”
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“surrender and participate. That's the big thing for me. It's more than just surrender. It's surrender and participate and just enjoy the ride. That's why I got the tattoo. You know, it was. I can't worry about everyone's niece being mad at me. You know, it's what I got to do is show up for my niece. And I got to show up for my friends and my family, and I wish everyone.”
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“It just felt unfair. It felt like but so much of course it happened to me, right? Of course because here I was thinking my value was from all this praise. You know, and everything was me making sure that I was living up to it. And then this happens, and it's unfair and I can't control it. And of course, the universe was like screaming at me. Like God's screaming at me like, hey, wake up. You're not in control. You can't navigate all of this. You don't get to decide what your legacy is, and you just get to decide who you are on a daily basis and who you choose to see in yourself and how you treat the people that love you and the people you can actually interact with.”
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“But I also don't. Yeah, but I also don't know what was being said on the other side, you know, because I never got to have the conversation. You know, so I think when people aren't communicating and refusing to communicate, a lot of things can get misconstrued. And I don't want to hold any hatred or like everyone moves on, you know? So yes, I appreciate you saying that. I appreciate you actually doing the research. But for me I choose to see it as a gift. I choose to see it as being able to have a perspective that very few people in the world have, of knowing what that's like, of feeling that on a global level.”
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“I mean, look, I'm grateful for a couple things. One my kids were really young when it happened, so they didn't feel it as much. It was very hard at the time. It was hard on the marriage. It was hard on our family.”
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“When something happens to you that you feel is fair, you're just like, oh, I deserve that. You move on. You feel justified because you saw it coming. When something happens to you that feels deeply unfair and you can't fix it? Then you really got to look at everything and realize the role you played in this or maybe this or that or who do you want to be or how to so I'm grateful”
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“was not deserved, and all the hate I got after that moment was not deserved. Cause none of these people knew me. She didn't know me, this person didn't know me, this person who met me three times, they didn't know me. I could show respect for all of them because I don't know them. I can love em where they're at. But the gift of pain. Was awareness. And the other part I was going through something very personal shortly after I was going through the divorce, my marriage, and all these different things. And it just felt like one after another. But I look back at those things that didn't happen. I really think they're all gifts because when something's fair, you don't respect it.”
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“And the announcement came out and I'm calling Scott Barchetta and saying, hey, send me her number. I just talked to Thomas Rhett. He's excited. And I just talk to this person and they're excited. And I'm calling, you know, Florida, Georgia line next. And then this tumblr comes out and says all this stuff. And I was just like shocked. It's been five, six years. I don't need to go back into it. But what I can tell you is everything in life is a gift. Having that experience allows me to have empathy for the people I worked with who I would always say, yeah, I understand, but I never knew what it was like to be on the global stage like that. I never knew what criticism like that felt like. And like I told you, the biggest gift that I got from that was understanding that all the praise I had received up until that moment.”
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“Yeah, yeah. When I bought big machine, I thought I was going to work with all the artists on Big Machine. I thought it was going to be like an exciting thing. I knew that Taylor, she and I had only met three times, I think in my life, three or four times. And one of the times, it was years earlier, it was really a great engagement. She invited me to a private party and we respected each other. We had a great engagement in between that time since I'd seen her last, I started managing Kanye West. I managed Justin Bieber. I knew she didn't get along with them. I had a feeling, this is where my arrogance came in. I had a feeling she probably didn't like me because I managed them, but I thought that once this announcement happened, she would talk to me, see who I am, and we would work together.”
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“Can just continue to create, you continue to build. And I want to be in that place in my life now of how big can I think. I saw this Jeff Bezos interview the other day and he just said one of the biggest curses of an entrepreneur is not thinking big enough. And I think, you know, think big. You only get one ride around this thing. Think big, have fun, love your friends, love your family. Dance laugh, cry, you know, do all the things and get to know yourself more and more every single day.”
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“Honestly, the timing of what had happened for me is I was in such a place, like I said, of surrender. that I really wasn't looking at it as achievement or money or something like that. I more looked at it as what are you going to do now? Are you going to try and control? Are you going to participate? Like I told you earlier. And I started to just be curious for the first time. Instead of, I love this idea of a competitive mind versus curious and creative mind. A competitive mind is what I had, and it's where I was of there's always something finite when you're competitive. You know, it's going to finish. There's going to be an outcome. And then what? But when you're operating from a curious and creative mind, there's no end.”
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“So it was time It was time for some of the most amazing artists that I worked with to also spread their wings and do their own thing.”
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“Yeah, and like I said, it happened. In hindsight, it was what it was supposed to be at the time. It was supposed to be. I think the reason why I wrote 23 years and why I quit, I wouldn't say I quit when I retired and stopped doing that, when I moved on. How about that? When I moved on to something else, was because what exactly what I wrote? I was too afraid to find out who I was without it for so long that I probably should have left earlier. But I finally got to a point where I realized either you do it now or something, you're going to have to learn the hard way again.”
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“But at the same time, it must be heartbreaking the other way. It's such an interdependent relationship and it's such a I don't, you know, the people always say on your side of the street. I try to do that. It's easier for me to move on with my life and be happy by staying on my side of the street. So yeah, I've definitely felt betrayed a hundred times. I've definitely felt misunderstood so many times. But I also try to give empathy of if someone is doing this to me, they must be hurting for some reason. And maybe I did play a role in it, even if I don't know I did. You feel betrayed? Yes, especially in a job of service.”
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“Of course, but I'm sure that goes both ways. Like, as much as I felt betrayed, music business can be heartbreaking. Management can be heartbreaking. If you watch David Geffin's documentary, he says management is like move the mountain over here and they say it was supposed to be there.”
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“and ended pretty abruptly of like, oh, this is it. And some want to leave and some want to stay and yeah, I'm done. I don't want to do this anymore. And some people understood it and other people didn't, but it happened. and no one could ever take that away.”
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“He said young man, it will never end the way you want it to, but it doesn't mean it didn't happen. And I didn't know how much I needed that in the years to come. You can plan it, you can try and control it as much as you want. But Barry Godi is right. It will never end the way you want it unless you're Derek Jeter on the Yankees or you're messy. But most of us, it's not going to end the way we want it. However, it happened. And how cool is that? How cool is that we get to do this and get to have this life? And I thought, that's the way I wanted to end 23 years because me stopping managing and ending managing and it didn't end the way I necessarily wanted. I would have wanted a giant concert where all the artists come out, we celebrate everything we did together.”
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“And boy was he right. And he said, you know, do you know what the Motown 25 was? And I said, absolutely. It was the first time Michael Jackson did the moonwalk to Anna Ross. And he's like, oh, you really are a Motown fan. I was like, yeah. And he said, well, do you know I didn't want to go? I said, what? He goes, yeah, I didn't want to go. At the time, Michael had left for CBS records. Diana had left for CBS Records, and everyone was saying that I took their publishing. And I was like the bad guy for all these people that I had supported and lifted and like, I was so angry. And I didn't want to go. I said, well, what changed? He goes, my family made me go. And I said, yeah, because I remember you were in the balcony and I kept cutting to you. And he goes, you know, the first, I get there, and Diana Ross's hosting, Michael's going to perform. He's the biggest thing in the world. I'm mad. But as the night went on, I suddenly realized little Barry from Detroit would have lost his mind knowing this was coming.”
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“So before Barry Gordy, black musicians would make incredible music and a white person could come along and just cover it and make it theirs. And Barry Gordy took that back and gave us Motown Records and changed the entire music industry. And I was at a dinner and Barry Gordy was placed next to me. And I was just like freaking out. Barry Gordy sat next to me. And we start talking. And this is years before. He said, I'm going to tell you a story, and you're going to need it one day.”
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“But it was, I appreciate you saying that, but it was from the heart. And I remember waking up, posting it, and then just like falling down because I was like, oh my God, like this thing I've been doing since I was 19 is now over. And what I wrote in there is the truth. My entire adult life, that's all I had known. So, not being in that situation, I didn't know what a normal adult life was like. I didn't know you could have a weekend. I didn't know that's what it was. I was on call all the time for 23 years. And it wasn't one. It was a lot. And finding out what a normal adult life was like was pretty wild to me and also really interesting. But I had some of the most incredible memories. And I'm very grateful. But if you remember, do you remember the Barry Gordy quote at the end?”
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“I prefer not to say that there's a bunch of legal stuff around that, everything else, but she. She informed me and I respected the hell out of it that she felt that way. But I had had that conversation with others too. I mean, I wrote it all in 23 years. The reason I posted that at the time was already made the decision a year prior, but I'd never talked about it. And, you know, when you're running a big company, there's all these legal things and we had to wait till everything was in order. And then I could say it. And they were like, well, you've already been out of it for a year. Why say it now? And I just felt I need to say it for me. But I also need to say it. So I hold myself accountable not to ever go back. And I, you know, it was way too long. It was like 10 slides on Instagram”
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“I think it was an interesting time, but like I said, if someone beats that, they deserve the credit. So I don't deserve any credit in that. He does.”
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“And they recommend I go. And I went to Tu Allen meetings. And it was very helpful at the time. And one of the things I learned there was one this concept of it is not your fault. This is not about you, that you have to love them where they're at. But the biggest thing I really learned was be a rock. You know, this person said to me, Home doesn't move around. Home is a constant place that someone can come back to. If someone beats addiction, it is because of them. They've made that choice and they deserve the credit. But if you want to be helpful, this person said, just try to be a constant place. They know that no matter what, at the end, they can come back and you'll be waiting.”
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“When I was dealing with addiction with someone I managed, someone I really respect told me about Alan. Alan is for a support. It's like AA, but for the families.”
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“I thought, you know, maybe if we get the records right, if we get the music, if he gets on the road, he gets out of rehab, like, you know, this would be enough. It's one of the biggest tragedies because I can't tell you how good he was. I mean, he just a special, special talent. You listen to this guy's record. Sometimes I always say I want to reach out to his family and be like, let's just release the records, like the ones that I have that the world's never heard. And all the money should go to a cause to help people in a similar situation. I wish we could do that. I'd love to get permission to do that because he was one of the most special talents I ever came across.”
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“About addiction. And when he got out, we thought, okay, he's going to be clean and everything great. We made this video and we started getting going. We made the Spencer Lee band. And we started putting him out there like paying for everything to kind of get it going. And he started doing festivals. And we started getting phone calls of like, hey, people are coming to see this insane talent with this voice. He went back to drugs. He overdosed last year And he's no longer with us. And we got the news because his grandmother, who's the sweetest, she called to say thank you for trying and everything else. And that was the love of her life, and she lost him. That one I got wrong because”
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“I had an artist Honestly, maybe the most talented artist I ever signed. His name was Spencer Lee. Spencer Lee got brought to me by a buddy my name Freddie. And we did a deal for Spencer and Dave Appleton. Oh, I told you about my buddy was trying to handle in management. And Dave started calling me saying, hey, there's some real addiction issues here. And we're really struggling. And we put him into rehab. And then he wrote one of the most incredible songs, River Water.”
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“I'm participating in an incredible game and I can bring what I bring to the table and I'm not going to be able to control this game, but maybe I should start enjoying the game a little bit. I'm out here. I'm participating. That's pretty freaking cool. And I think That is what anchors me at this point, that I have no idea what the next five to ten years of my life are going to look like. I used to think I did. Now I know it can change like that. And I think I'm excited for love in the future. I'm excited for adventure. I'm not looking forward to the pain, but I know if it comes, there's a reason for it.”
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“I no longer think I'm in control, but I think I'm participating in one hell of a game. I can't control the alcome. Steph Curry and LeBron could be at the height of their game, but even they can't control the game. They can influence it. So that for me, it was like the first half of my life was manifesting, I'm manifesting, I'm doing this, that youthful energy. And then you turn 40 and this stuff happens and you start the other half of your life, you're like, you know, Michael Singer, I need to surrender. You know, you're at their surrender experiment. You know, like everything surrender. And then I realized there's a balance. There's this balance of.”
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“If you don't have kids, that's when you definitely do the self-work because your anchors you. And the truth is I've really gotten to a beautiful place of I fully expect to be misunderstood in the future. I expect tomorrow something can happen where, especially because my life has been somewhat in the public eye. Get misunderstood all the time. People make up stories, they twist things, someone's hurt, and it comes out this way, that way. I could get pulled into this stuff that's happened to me already. And so I've come to terms with that. What I've realized is being on the other side of it already happening to me, all it does is end up making room for something else. So for me, what anchors me is”
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“On the other side of all these experiences, I've come to learn that both were not deserved. The people who were praising me did not know me, and the people who hated me did not know me. And it's like one of my favorite, I saw Tom Hanks say this on like an actor's table one time. He goes, this too shall pass. Remember that? So great. He's like, You think you're killing it? This too shall pass. He's like, you think it's going to be hard? This two shall pass. It's true.”
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“And everyone was asking him questions about business. And I asked him a question about life. And afterwards, his guy contacted me. He goes, Charlie liked your question. He wants me to meet this other guy that he really likes. He's a brilliant businessman. And I meet this other gentleman, and he tells me he's a statistician by trade. And the reason he's excited to meet me is because people in my world who are part of so many different stories live in dog years. Because they get to get a part of kind of so many other people's things. But it's a unique thing. But I told you it The biggest lesson I learned from all of it? is that at one point in my life I received so much praise, and then the next moment without me expecting it, I received so much hate.”
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“It's just been a really cool experience, but I got to see it in so many different arenas. And you're only there for a flash, right? You have this little tiny, small moment here, a little tiny, small moment here, but to get to witness so many different rides. It's a really cool thing. I remember as a kid, I heard this great saying, don't just read stories, try to be a part of them. Try to be a story. And I think I've always tried to take that into my life.”
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“I never say a top 10. A good manager knows how to do that. I got to work with a lot of incredible artists a long time. I mean from Zach Brown band to Black Eye Peace to Justin to Ariana to Martin Garricks. We signed while he was at Club Med with his parents. We contacted him because he had the song Animals and we heard it. Dan and Shade, I mean, just to so many over the years, it was pretty incredible to be a part and so close to so many incredible stories, you know, and to see, you know, going to a coffee shop to see Tory Kelly sing, to seeing her walk on a Grammy stage. I got to see really incredible moments in people's lives to, you know, Demi telling me I want to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl. And show me a tweet that she wrote this years ago to seeing her actually perform at the Super Bowl. So it's.”
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“No, not at that point. I think I was also at that point. At that point, it had been a couple years where I knew I wanted to do something else. And I wanted to find out who I was. I wanted to experiment with a different career. And we were both communicating enough with each other. The writing was on the wall.”
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“I think I would have had a therapist on the road for all of us. I think that's the biggest difference. I think I would have slowed down all of us. I think I would have made every single one of us stop and do that hour, you know, because we were all kids and we were all moving so fast. And we all wanted to succeed so bad and we all wanted. Excitement, and we wanted to make kids' dreams come true and bring them down from the upper decks to put them in the front row and, you know, to help Justin get that number one and, you know, to help Ariana do this. And we all wanted it and we were excited and we were doing something that was so unique. And everyone in the world was so excited for us. Oh my gosh, you guys are a part of this. This is so cool. I didn't know. I didn't know to go inward for the dopamine hit.”
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“And then without the stage, you were looking for that dopamine hit. No, it's Like I said, I'm very proud of The job that we did and how much we cared and how much the team cared for all the years that we did But it doesn't mean I don't look back and wish that I knew what I know now.”
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