Were these themes inspired more by excitement, fear, or simple curiosity about where we're headed as humans?

Well, you know, man...

In the mid-90s, I started reading about different things that people would call conspiracy theories nowadays, like David Icke and people like that, and Robert Anton Wilson, you know, alternative viewpoints and alternative books and, you know, the metaphysical stuff.

Yeah.

So... you know, I started kind of looking at where society was going even back then when, when as technology started to take off, I mean, in the beginning of the internet, everyone's like, Oh my God, it's going to, this is going to happen that, but it took a while.

So everyone's like, ah, it's fine.

You know, but we are slowly slipping towards, you know, these, uh, Things that were talked about back then, digital currency.

It looks like a kitty still, like a little baby.

But it's finally something that is 100% your vision.

absolutely no absolutely i mean it's you know it's a dream come true because you know like i said something i fantasize about uh a lot over the years because you know sometimes i'm in a band and a couple things are falling short and i start making suggestions and sometimes they listen and sometimes they're like no dude you know and all of a sudden i'm like okay i'm being blocked here and i know that if we do this this and this it can lead us to that at least you know to the next step whatever And sometimes I get shut down in it.

So being able to really be in a place where I'm like, it's an open road, 100%.

You know why? Because I'm the one saying what's happening here.

I'm in charge of it.

And that's the way my mind is.

I'm a natural, forward-thinking, forward-moving person.

know how they check out the new album all the new videos and everything else that will be up and coming and anything else that you did weren't and that we didn't touch on that they you think they need to know

When, when in your career did you kinda become the go-to guy that, you know, hey, we need a guitar player, where's Ira?

That's a great question.

I mean, you know, for me, I've always been all in.

From the beginning I'm like, "I'm doing this.

I, I wanna play music for a living." I, you know.

And, you know, so I've always stayed active in a band.

So in the beginning, of course I wanted to be in one band.

Do you wanna touch on that a little bit?