BMP (Buffalo Music Players) BREAKING EPISODE: Wax

Wax is coming to Buffalo at Electric City and wants to see you there. The eclectic rapper and guitar player came on the BMP pod to promote his tour through our fair city on July 21 at Electric City.

As a youth, Wax toured through Buffalo as a punk rocker, going to places like Mohawk Place and Broadway Joes. Now he's back with a DJ and a guitar and some sick bars to have you enjoying yourself like its the weekend.

Hope you enjoy the show and this episode of the BMP podcast.

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SPEAKER_05 1:48

Hello listeners, this is the BMP Podcast. I'm your host, Benjamin Joe, and I'm with a very talented um well not with technically, we're talking by phone, but um he's a very talented rapper and singer and guitar player, and he's coming to uh Buffalo in the very near future in July to play at Electric City. Uh Wax, can you introduce yourself to the listeners?

SPEAKER_00 2:08

Hey, what's going on? I'm Wax, like you said. Uh I I know we're far away, but I do feel like I'm with you. And we I'll be there on July 21st. Uh, if you don't know who I am, I'm a rapper, singer, and songwriter, and I've been doing I've been making music independently for many decades now. Uh I guess I've been professional since 2009. That was the last time I had to work a real job besides doing music. And I have certain albums, including a brand new one that I put together with me and my friend DJ Hoppe, who produced the album, and the album's called Highway Hotel, and that's that's what we're uh that's kinda, you know.

SPEAKER_05 2:45

That's what you're touring under. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

That's what I'm touring under, yeah. I don't know exactly what the word is for that. Yeah, I don't know what it was.

SPEAKER_05 2:52

In honor of tour yeah. You know, you always hear about people touring because of an album, but you don't necessarily know the relationship between the tour and the album except that you'll be playing songs from the the album on the tour.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

Well well, make being a musician is a creative job, but really some of the some of the ins and outs of it are pretty cut and paste. You write, record, tour, right? Record, tour. So I guess they call it the cycles, and the cycle that I'm on right now is touring for the album that we just recorded.

SPEAKER_05 3:23

So That's awesome. That's awesome. Where where are you from, Wax?

SPEAKER_00 3:28

Uh I grew up in Maryland, right side right outside of Washington, DC. Oh, okay, cool. But yeah, that's where I grew up, but I've been but I've lived in Southern California uh for exactly twenty years now. I live I moved out here in two thousand six. Right now I live in San Diego.

SPEAKER_05 3:43

Oh nice. San Diego is great. Yeah, I that's funny because I actually I I moved to Buffalo about twenty years ago in twenty oh four or twenty oh six, so where were you before that? Uh Massachusetts. Grew up in Massachusetts, uh, you know, um kind of central Massachusetts, I guess. Not in Boston, but not exactly in the Green Mountains either. Just kinda like if you know where Worcester is, it's in Worcester County.

SPEAKER_00 4:03

I know exactly where Worcester is.

SPEAKER_05 4:04

Oh yeah, nice. Have you been to the been to the Palladium? Have you played the Palladium?

SPEAKER_00 4:08

I didn't play the Palladium. The last time I was in Worcester, there was actually a festival that was literally downtown in Worcester in like the Wow. In like the the park. There's like a s I don't I don't remember what the name of the like square park is, but I know what you're talking about though, yeah. Yeah, I've also played at Worcester Polytechnical Institute, I believe it's called. Yep. Uh yeah, on campus. And I might have done I might have done some other stuff in Worcester, but yeah, I definitely run run through there a few times.

SPEAKER_05 4:36

Yeah, it's a cool place. The revolution actually began in Worcester. Like uh the the townspeople revolted and put all the uh the English men in jail and uh didn't declare a new government before the Ballaston Massacre and the uh you know Revolutionary War. But this is a little interesting.

SPEAKER_00 4:51

It's funny, I I was just in Boston recently. I did a private gig in Boston in April, so it was like two months ago. And it was I've been to Boston a million times. It was the first time where I had an extra day to like be a tourist. Oh no. Cool. Yeah, I went downtown and I learned more. I mean, I I had learned about the Boston Massacre in like elementary school or something, but like to read to re-catch up on it now was quite interesting, and we walked around, you know, where where that where where that occurred and we saw the graveyard where like Paul Revere is and all that.

SPEAKER_05 5:22

Yeah, the revolutionary graveyard. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 5:25

That is really cool. You know, I always wonder if other people learn as much as I learned about Massachusetts history, because like it seems pretty important, like, you know, the beginning of the country and everything like that. But I'm like, but everywhere else has a story too. Like now I live in uh in Buffalo, so I'm always hearing about the war of 1812, uh, the McKinley vassination, um, Tesla, um, the the guy who invented a air conditioning, apparently. And um, yeah, yeah, it always surprises me. I'm like, I you know, I I did not know anything about 1812, but now all these school children know everything about it.

SPEAKER_00 5:58

I'm like, I but also it's often it also contextualizes history differently when you're older and you realize and you look at everything from the perspective of an adult who's living through current history, and you see that there's a lot of similarities between what was going on then and what was going on now. Oh, for real. So in Boston there it like, you know, for example, obviously we have Republicans and Democrats and it's really divided now, but what a lot of Americans don't realize is there was a ton of people that lived here that were loyal to the king. Yeah, the Revolutionary War, we were fighting against Britain, but there was a lot of people here that didn't want to do that, you know?

SPEAKER_05 6:36

They probably should have won the right to do that. I think we'd be much better off with the king.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Um Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 6:44

Oh, maybe maybe not. I'm not sure. I I'll I'm still I'm stepping on people's toes now. I've had uh activists on this uh podcast as well. They probably would not want to hear that I'm in favor of a monarchy, but I don't know. Queen Elizabeth, uh no, she wasn't that great either. I don't know. It's just democracy is a very strange and interesting uh thing. I think uh Socrates was actually against it, and then um after the Democrats won, he he was poisoned in jail. And um Right.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

From what I under from what I understand of the the the Athenians and Athenian democracy in general is like there democracy gets to a point where there's just too many people to have a pure democracy. Like that was literally the whole everybody in the town would get into one place and vote, you know? Yeah after a while, this whole representative democracy, it's like, come on, dude. You know, i corruption is just how where everything leads. Whether it's a monarchy, a democracy, you know, communism turns to fascism because they got the somebody wants to have everything, you know, whatever it is.

SPEAKER_05 7:47

But yeah, this this is a very surprising turn of conversation. I had hope I hope that while you were in Boston you got to see the aquarium, because that's that's a pretty cool place, actually.

SPEAKER_00 7:55

Right, right. You could always yeah, that's a good way to lighten it. I could bring up Buffalo Wings, you know, we could bring up the Boston, like any sports team in Boston, but yeah, I was there, I was there, I was there for a show and it was really fun.

SPEAKER_05 8:06

I bet it was. Yeah, it uh Boston does like at the Hatch Shell is always a great place to go and hear some music. Um T T and the Bears, um a lot of places around all the squares, Davis Square, Copley Square, Harvard Square, uh Porter Square, they all always tend to go and have like a a hip little scene going around there. Then and there's Alston, Lower LA as I used to call it.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

Um but um Yeah, I almost I almost always almost you know, eighty percent of the times I've played in Boston, I played at uh the Middle East in Cambridge. So wow there, which is which is cool. I like that place. And um I will say that Boston and Philly are kind of tied for me in terms of the hypest fans, you know.

SPEAKER_05 8:46

Well, now you're coming to Buffalo, so like you may just you you we may blow you out of the water. Is this your first time coming to Buffalo?

SPEAKER_00 8:54

No, I played in Buffalo a few times. I played uh the last two times I was there, I played at a place called Buffalo Ironworks. Oh yeah. Yeah, so I've never played Electric City, which I'll be, but I saw I'm not familiar with Electric City, but I yeah, I played in Buffalo a few times. I've even before that I oh man, I can't remember the name of the place, but I played at a dive bar there back in the day for sure. I've I've done a few shows in Buffalo.

SPEAKER_05 9:15

Yeah, we've definitely got a couple dive bars. Mohawk plays or Broadway Joe's shut down like a decade ago, I think before COVID. Oh, nice. I love that place. Thousand percent.

SPEAKER_00 9:25

Thousand percent. My old band my old band used to play there multiple times.

SPEAKER_05 9:30

Oh, that's so sweet. That is amazing. That's uh yeah, that that was like within walking distance of my house when I first moved here. And uh, I would be there every Tuesday night. It was open mic and like beer for a quarter in a Dixie cup. Yeah, you could get you could that could be dangerous. It it was, except that I was walking. So that the only problem I found was when I was walking home, a uh a car was suddenly kind of close to me on the road, and I thought that they were like, you know, just going on the shoulder a little bit. Then I realized I was on the opposite side of the road. They crossed the entire line of the road and almost hit me and then went back. And I was like I was like, well, that's that was not surprised, that was surprising.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

Yeah. Keyword being almost, thank God.

SPEAKER_05 10:12

Yeah, yeah. I live to tell about it, so you know, you know. Don't drive drunk, kids. It's a bad thing to do. You could hit a perfectly innocent podcaster on the road just trying to go and get home. So tell me t tell me about yourself, box. Uh you grew up in in in Maryland, that's cool. Like, what was it like? Do you have any siblings growing up? Um Yeah, yeah, I have I have I actually have an identical twin brother. Oh, no kidding.

SPEAKER_00 10:38

Yeah, and me and him did music together. We always have since we were little kids. So wow. He was a little when we were in the elementary school he had a drum set, and then by the time we got to like middle school I was I I got a guitar for Christmas one year and we I took guitar lessons in middle school and then uh we were really into making music and we uh we liked rock and rap and whatever was on MTV, you know.

SPEAKER_04 11:02

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

And we you know, we we formed a couple of different bands and by the time we were in high school we had a a band that we're pretty serious about, and then we went to college and we're still in the band. Then out of college we're still in the band and we played at places like Broadway Joe's where we were in the band. But then in my um early twenties the band broke up and I uh somewhat shortly afterwards moved to California and I ended up in Los Angeles trying to now make make music solo, you know. Wow. And um and around around that same time, uh I was right when pretty much when YouTube kinda came out, you know, the early days of YouTube. And that's where that's where that's where I got my initial jump start of to having a fan base to where people would actually come to my shows to see me and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_05 11:51

So That is so cool. That's just like oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, I forgot that you were a YouTube viral hit, like one of the early the early ones.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

Um early on in YouTube for sure. Very early.

SPEAKER_05 12:03

That must have been weird. Yeah, I mean 'cause there's no there was no book being like, you know, there was no steps to follow in those days.

SPEAKER_00 12:09

I mean like No, and in those days in the early days of YouTube, it was definitely considered you know, especially for a rapper, it was considered kind of like nerdy or something, or like to post your videos on YouTube or um look at the I got in early and you know, like uh I got I got into that early and then you know, me and my brother who was who was at that point was kinda like my still we still make music together, but it pr kinda kinda just became me. And uh you know, I got a lot of followers on YouTube. I m and I moved to LA, I got a record deal and I had some success with a I had a song that blew up in Europe and all the while making just albums on my own and touring and stuff and I've just slowly slowly built a little bit of a cult fan base, you know, so nobody really knows who I am, but there's a lot there's a s a small a small amount of people out there that that really love me, you know.

SPEAKER_05 13:03

So that's how I've it's a cult following I think you've gotten me into it too, because um I've been listening and watching music videos all in the afternoon. I gotta say, like these they your songs buck. They are really good. They're just really fun to listen to.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

Appreciate that, man.

SPEAKER_05 13:18

Hey, what what came first? The rapping or the singing, though? Like I'm just curious.

SPEAKER_00 13:23

Uh I I would say about the same time, you know.

SPEAKER_05 13:27

I just I uh 'cause you don't necessarily see a lot of that. Like usually there's people who are singers. Well, no, no, I'm I'm wrong. There's a lot of people who do a lot of singing along with rapping, but um in the mainstream, you're either a rapper or you're a singer, if you know what I mean, right?

SPEAKER_00 13:41

Right, right. Yeah, in recent years it's kinda converged with all the rapping be so being so melodic, but yeah, definitely especially back then it was kind of considered two different things, and I guess that uh I guess that I before I was either of those things, I w I was a writer, you know. Oh yeah. If you write if you write rap songs and you write singing songs, somebody's gotta rap them and sing 'em. You know, I didn't know anybody I didn't know any I didn't know anybody else to do it, so I did it myself. I I guess that would be how that how that happened, you know.

SPEAKER_05 14:09

Yeah, you're you're such a funny guy, you know.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

To this day I don't really consider myself like I sing, but I don't really it's not like I'm a s like I couldn't go on American Idol, you know. I'm not like a singer singer, you know what I mean? I can only sing my shit.

SPEAKER_05 14:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:27

That's my own songs.

SPEAKER_05 14:30

Um, one thing about your songs, they seem so melodic and like just off the top of your head. I'm just kind of wondering, like, um where where do you come up with them? Do you write all the lyrics down or are you just kinda like hit still humming to yourself while playing guitar or like what what what is the uh what is the process of being made? I like to know how the sausage is made, honestly. I just it fascinates me.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

Well, in this in this particular sausage factory, it would have to be a conveyor belt that switches every time you make a new type of sausage, because it's really it's really different every time. I mean, there are some formulas that I follow. Like I have a place where I go to with my guitar and it here in San Diego there's like a little cliff it's you know, there's like this little essentially a park bench I sit on by the ocean and I I just play my guitar and see what comes to me. But a lot of times the best songs like I'll just be walking down the street and like a chorus will come to my head or something'll happen to me. Like I this just happened today actually.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

Oh cool.

SPEAKER_00 15:26

Just something happened to me and I just thought of a chorus to a song. But then there's other times where it's like somebody'll send me a beat, like a producer like will send me a beat and I'll I'll just kind of have it in my headphones or driving around in my car and I'll try to think of stuff and sometimes it feels more like it feels a little bit more like writing a paper in college than it does just coming up with something off the top of your head. So a lot of times, you know, w it's interesting with the rapping and singing, like sometimes you come up with the chorus of the song really fast out of out of out of thin air, and then writing the verses to the song, it's like more like writing a novel where you have to do your rough draft and then you have to edit it and then finally get your final version and you know, a lot of times you're not happy with it anyway, but uh it yeah, kinda it kinda comes from comes different every time, you know.

SPEAKER_05 16:15

I hear that. I hear that. You always keep a sense of humor though. At least at least I don't know, there's probably like a million songs that are not funny at all that you just kinda keep under wraps or something like that, but like most of the ones on YouTube are pretty funny. Like, um I'm wondering, like, were you were you thinking of being comedian before you were gonna be a musician, or was it um well I don't know, hey, we all need to laugh, like you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 16:36

You're like Yeah, I mean there's you know, life is funny, you know. I I actually did uh I never ever thought that I would be a comedian as a kid, although there was about s there was about a five year period between like 2015 and 2020 where I was living in LA and I I did a I did do stand-up comedy. Oh um the pandemic happened and then I and then I just never started b started back up. I don't know, but I I don't like love it the way I love doing music, but it definitely has has made my performance skills a little bit a little bit better. In terms of why this why this stuff's funny, I guess uh I always gravitated towards um funny things and a lot of my a lot of my best songs might might be like taking a serious subject and and adding some humor to it. But a lot of my favorite rappers are funny, you know?

SPEAKER_05 17:24

I think uh most hip hop is pretty funny. Kind of yeah, kinda was hilarious. Um Snoop Dogg is pretty funny. Um take yeah, taking from that nineties hip hop and stuff like that. That's all it's almost always. I think I'm I'm quoting Beck at this point, but I think he said something along the lines of uh like hip hop is funny and I want to make a funny album, like and just like laugh about Right.

SPEAKER_00 17:45

And Beck is Beck is funny himself.

SPEAKER_05 17:47

Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. You know. That's really you know, it's just like you're such a funny, charismatic guy, and I I feel like I feel like uh like coming up for you has been like like at one like almost like a dream come true, but at the same time, like almost like a surprise, if you if you or like a haunted house almost. Like, you know, I mean it would did you always know how you were gonna succeed, or did it just like happen? And like I guess I guess what I'm wondering like and now you're here, like, um, is there any misconceptions of like be succeeding or making it that you'd like to kind of dispel or demystify for us?

SPEAKER_00 18:24

I mean I mean, you know, I think for a lot of people, myself included, like we don't like I don't really feel like I've succeeded yet. I mean I feel like I feel like success is kind of something some days I feel like I'm succeeding because the minimum what I always want what I always wanted to do was to not have to have a work regular job and I could make it easy for a living, but I've been doing that for a long time. But the problem with that is I've I've been like I've been barely getting by for the last fifteen years. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. It doesn't really feel like success because you know, let's say you're successful at your regular job, right? Every year you get a little raise. Music music does not work like that. You know, you might do good one year, then bad the next year. Like I'm talking strictly financial here, you know? And now, you know, it's real now. I got a kid, I got, you know, family.

SPEAKER_05 19:14

Oh, congratulations.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

Thanks, man. And um it feels a little bit more real in terms of that, but I guess I guess I you know, I I kinda never I kind of like for the for the last seventeen years have felt like I'm like almost there, you know? I've never I've never felt like I made it, you know.

SPEAKER_05 19:33

But you you've gone have you been around the world? I know you go around the country. I was just looking at your tour your tour list the other day, and uh um have you been to other countries?

SPEAKER_00 19:41

I have gone to uh yeah, I I went like I said, I had a hit hit song in Europe in 2013.

SPEAKER_05 19:47

Oh right, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

It was just I I've spent a lot a lot of time in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and I've also toured in like I've also toured in um uh the UK and Ireland and a little bit in France but I've only been I've never been to Asia or South America for for music or anything. But um regardless, I will say this. I think one of the coolest things about doing music uh in terms of in terms of the travel aspect of it is in the United States you go to you go I've been all I've been to all these you know, I've been to Boston, Buffalo like I've probably been to Buffalo seven times, you know?

SPEAKER_05 20:24

Long time travel.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

And most people most people like maybe they've been once, you know. My point is, and forget Buffalo, Buffalo's a cool place, but uh take a city like Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Okay. Most people most people haven't been.

SPEAKER_05 20:39

I have not. It's one of the few states I haven't been to.

SPEAKER_00 20:41

Dakota is so what's cool my point is that it it takes you to places where you wouldn't have gone. Like, yeah, it takes you to New York City and everybody wants to kind of visit New York City or maybe LA or San Francisco. But you know, you might not you might not realize how cool Boise, Idaho is. You know? It's cool, it's awesome. It's a great place, you know. I had I had a three day three days off on tour in Boise and it was and I realized I was like, man, I could live here, this place is awesome. So my point is like it it takes you places you wouldn't have gone otherwise.

SPEAKER_05 21:13

Cool. Well hey, um, is there a song of yours that you think that the people in Buffalo might like like to hear? So maybe they get like uh a sneak peek at what the show's gonna be like on in July?

SPEAKER_00 21:25

Yeah, I think a good a good song for them to hear maybe since since uh it's for the new album. Uh you know, the single the single is called Blau, B L. Oh, I love that song.

SPEAKER_05 21:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:38

I'm definitely gonna do that one. In fact, what I've been trying to do is like shoot a little tiny piece of a music video for that song in every city that I go to, and Buffalo will be no exception. So if you want to be in a music in a music video that well, you know, like a short form content video, come to the show and be in it.

SPEAKER_05 21:57

Yeah, absolutely. I love that song. It's about the the the drink, Blau, right? Like guys watching television and um Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

Yeah right, right, right. That's the video.

SPEAKER_05 22:09

That's so cool. That's so cool. Alright, well hold on. Let's let's just uh take a minute and listen to Blau.

SPEAKER_02 22:19

Like me now. Just quit. Go to town. Look around and find out. Number eight. Down down the inner state. It's my whistle off the road. Off with the dead, all your dead, then I'm walk with the bread. You walk in my bed with a wall for the bread. Don't be mad, you had a closed world until I broke the scan.

SPEAKER_03 23:03

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SPEAKER_03 23:47

Wow, that sounds great. I'll check it out.

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SPEAKER_05 24:10

And we're back.

SPEAKER_01 24:12

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 24:13

Uh Wax, um, tell me, you're coming to Buffalo in July. You've been here a few times, but this is the first time at Electric City. I'm just wondering what should uh we expect, you know, in this late in the latest uh visit of yours to Buffalo.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

Well, this will be the since it's uh me and DJ Hoppa's tour for our Highway Hotel album, it will be me and DJ Hoppe on the stage. We actually we're actually bringing an opening act, Khan, with us, who's an amazing rapper and performer. Cool. Uh when me and when me and Hoppa play, you know, it's kind of like your classic two turntables and a microphone, a hip hop performance for the first third of the set. Then the middle third of the set, uh, I have my guitar and I play it, I kind of take it to the campfire a little bit, but uh you know, play play some acoustic songs and me and me and hoppa have some stuff where we bounce back and forth with the like, you know, he's really good at doing uh scratching and beat juggling and whatnot, so we kind of bounce back and forth from the guitar to what he's doing, then I play some songs just by myself, a couple slow songs and whatnot. And then he comes back then he comes back up and we kind of bring the energy back up until the end of the set. Uh I usually do like maybe an hour and twenty minutes, something like that. I I think Con will probably do a half an hour, 40 minutes. So and there there may be a first of three acts that's a local to Buffalo act. I'm not sure that we're still figuring that out. I I mean somebody probably has already figured it out but hasn't relayed that information to me. But but don't come to the show thinking that I'm gonna have a live, a full live band like I've had in the past, because that won't be like that this time.

SPEAKER_05 25:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:50

He's like he's the rhythm section and I'm the lead section, you know.

SPEAKER_05 25:53

That's very cool. Very cool. And um, let's see, it's an electric city, so everybody knows where that is in Buffalo. If you don't know where it is, it's kind of it's kind of close to the library and kind of close to Mohawk Place. Um if you're walking around downtown, if it looks really nice, it's probably you're probably close to Electric City.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

So I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad to hear that.

SPEAKER_05 26:17

It it is. It's a weird thing about Buffalo downtown. Like, if you're on any given corner, it's like a completely different city. And it's not even like like by the library, you look out and you see all these skyscrapers, skyscrapers, and um like big billboards and stuff, and you're like, wow, I live in a really like you know, vibrant community, and you just go up a block, and suddenly it's just like, well, there's no there's no stops, everything is boarded up, a train is coming through, and you're and you can't see any skyscrapers or anything like that, except the ones that are directly right there, you know. So it's a weird thing about Buffalo is a city of many different names and many different images. It has a long history, and um and I think interesting place. Yeah, yeah. And I I guess the the the the uh the newest uh history making uh um event is wax coming in. And where will you be coming from? Are you are you where I I know you're on tour, but I don't know exactly where you're coming from before Buffalo. Like what what's your tour route?

SPEAKER_00 27:12

The night before the night before I'll be in Toronto.

SPEAKER_05 27:14

Oh wow, cool. You're gonna have to go over the border. Is that gonna be a problem?

SPEAKER_00 27:20

Uh that's a long story. It ha it has been in the past. I wasn't allowed in Canada for a long time. But a couple of years ago I I changed that and I now am allowed in Canada, but it's like I have my passport kind of rings when they scan my passport it kind of rings the this guy is suspicious bell and they always have to pull me to the side and you know, I just did a show in Vancouver and they they I would have been fine to come in, but they almost didn't let me bring the uh the merchandise I wanted to sell. But they let me off with a warning and let me go, but we'll see what happens this time. But I won't have a problem getting the Buffalo thing will be fine. I definitely won't have a problem getting back into the United States. I'll be good with that.

SPEAKER_05 28:03

So Good be careful. Perfect. Alright. Well, I guess that's all the time we have for today. Wax, thanks so much for coming on the on the program. Um Thanks for having me, Benjamin. Looking forward to it. And um, listeners, always remember you can follow Buffalo Music Players on Instagram as well as WordPress and Buzzsprout. So, um, have a good day. Wax, uh, bid our listeners um adieu.

SPEAKER_00 28:33

Alright, I bid you guys ado, Buffalo. I hope to see you on July 21st. Thank you, Ben, for having me.

SPEAKER_05 28:38

Alright.

SPEAKER_00 28:39

Wax.com.com is my website, W-A-X-D-O-T-C-O-M.C-O-M.

SPEAKER_05 28:44

Alright, guys, may Sauce be with you.

SPEAKER_03 28:51

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