NextGen on Elevate Springfield with Ellie Ferriell: Concert Experiences

Summary

In this episode, Robert and Ellie share their recent concert experiences, tips for attending live events, and insights into the evolving concert industry, including ticketing issues and safety tips.

Key topics

• Concert safety tips and best practices
• Experiences attending major concerts like Ariana Grande and Lollapalooza
• Tips for managing storage and equipment at concerts
• Insights into ticketing issues and Ticketmaster's dominance
• Community impact of local events and festivals

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to Elevate Springfield, where we will dive into strategies and stories that help you rise to your full potential. Each episode, we'll talk about how you can take intentional steps to elevate your life and your business while making a meaningful impact on those around you. Along the way, we're gonna bring in the change makers from our community that are already elevating. We'll bring the actionable strategies, you bring the discipline and follow through, and together, we can elevate Springfield. Alright, let's go, y'all. Time to text.

SPEAKER_02 0:35

Hey everyone, welcome to next gen on Elevate Springfield. I'm Ellie and I'm here with my dad Robert.

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SPEAKER_02 1:47

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of NextGen on Elevate Springfield. I'm Ellie and I'm here with my dad.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

Why, hello, Ellie. How are we doing today?

SPEAKER_02 1:54

Why, hello, Robert.

SPEAKER_00 1:55

What did I did I draw that out?

SPEAKER_02 1:57

I can't even do it. I'm not even gonna try, actually.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

I drew I did draw it out a little bit, but that's okay. I thought it sounded good.

SPEAKER_02 2:03

I guess that's like one of our new intros now. I just make fun of what you say.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

Yeah, you've done that like three times out of the last five podcasts.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

Is it getting too repetitive, you think?

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Probably.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

Drop it down in the comments.

SPEAKER_00 2:13

Yeah, let us know.

SPEAKER_02 2:14

It's just genuinely my thoughts, though, so I'm sorry. I get it. I may not even listen to your advice if you drop it down in the comments. Who knows?

SPEAKER_00 2:21

But well, I guess that is part of what a podcast is, is uh dropping your thoughts. So well, the state fair started this past week. Got some cool stuff going on in Springfield as usual. We haven't gone yet, but we're gonna be going to the code.

SPEAKER_02 2:35

We can't say much about it because we haven't gone yet, but we're going to. Trust, we will, we will, trust. I think we're going tomorrow as we're filming this.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

But they've got some good concerts this year. Oh yeah. They got some headliners. They got some good stuff.

SPEAKER_02 2:46

Last year, wasn't it last year when they had Meghan Moroni? That was last year.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

I can't recall.

SPEAKER_02 2:50

But I mean, the past few days that the fair has been open. I mean, I've heard of a lot of people going, but the weather has been a little bit rainy.

SPEAKER_00 2:55

A little rainy.

SPEAKER_02 2:56

I'm glad we waited a couple days at least.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Yeah. No, they've got uh seem to have more headliners. They always have good acts, but they seem to have more headliners this year.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

Right, because they had Bailey Zimmerman and Ella Langley, and those are two really popular.

SPEAKER_00 3:11

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:12

Laney Wilson was there too.

SPEAKER_00 3:13

Got a lot of good folks. I don't think we're gonna hit any of the concerts there this time. We're gonna go out to the fair, but I don't think we're gonna catch any of the concerts. At least not the grandstand concerts. We might see some of the small concert stages as we walk around and stuff, but we don't have tickets to any of the grandstands as we're sitting here talking. But who knows? Maybe later in the week we decide to do that. You never know. You never know. We seem to have a good time.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

Most of the time, most of the time they're really good. They've always been really good, well-known headliners. They've just never been somebody where we're like, oh, we gotta see them. It's just like, oh, they're they're here. That's cool.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

Yeah, no, it's it's good for Springfield. A lot of people come into town for the fair, so a lot of good economic impact for us here in the community. That's what we're looking for.

SPEAKER_02 3:56

So Yeah, and Lollapalooza just happened too in Chicago.

SPEAKER_00 3:59

Oh, did it?

SPEAKER_02 3:59

Yeah, that was yes. Yeah, that was like a couple weeks ago before we went to our concert.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

I guess it shows you how I'm staying up with the pop culture stuff. I guess it's obviously not staying up with it.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

Yeah, like Charlie XEX was there, and I think Zara Larson was there too. You don't know either of those people, do you?

SPEAKER_00 4:16

I do know who both of them are, but I couldn't tell you anything that they actually Zara Larson is um now I found another question. Okay, then yeah, I know that one. I know that one.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

I don't know the other. I mean, I know the other one.

SPEAKER_02 4:29

Charlie XEX had that big like brat somewhere. If you ever heard of brat somewhere from a few years ago, I think the apple's rotten right to the core.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

That was good, but I don't remember that. But yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

It's okay. You wouldn't get it.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

Gotcha. Okay. Well, anyway. Good concerts all the way around in Lollapalooza, that's always a big thing, but we didn't go to that. We did go to another one though.

SPEAKER_02 4:51

Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

Yeah, it was fun.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

It was the best night ever.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:55

Who did we go see?

SPEAKER_00 4:56

I can't remember her name actually. I just I actually just bought the tickets for you. I had no idea who this person was.

SPEAKER_02 5:02

Really, only the best vocalist of our generation and up there in best vocalist of all time, you know. Only her.

SPEAKER_00 5:11

She might be in the top five. Who knows?

SPEAKER_02 5:12

I knows. And she is.

SPEAKER_00 5:14

I might agree. I would not put her in the middle of the city.

SPEAKER_02 5:16

I disagree with your I might agree.

SPEAKER_00 5:18

I don't know that I can put her number one yet, but I I could put her in the top five potentially. Hundred thousand million percent.

SPEAKER_02 5:25

Really great vocalists over the years, but I mean she played Glinda, if you if you're picking up what I'm putting down.

SPEAKER_00 5:32

Yeah, because we haven't said the name yet. You continue to kind of skirt the name. Are you ever gonna say who we're gonna get? Are you ever gonna say who we saw? I mean, if anybody follows my socials, they would have already seen who we saw. But if they don't, who do we go see?

SPEAKER_02 5:48

We went to go see Ariana Grande at the Eternal Sunshine Tour.

SPEAKER_00 5:52

Yeah, that was fun out at the United Center in Chicago. So that's the is that the third concert we've been to together at the United Center or just the second?

SPEAKER_02 5:59

Uh United Center specifically.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

Yeah, second at United Center, I guess. Because we saw we saw an hype in there once and Ariana this time. So second.

SPEAKER_02 6:07

Yeah, we've had our fair share of concerts, I'd say, and they've all been very different genres. So I'd say we're pretty equipped to talk, you know, give a couple of things.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

We're gonna talk a little bit about concerts, are we? Yeah, it's becoming a becoming a little bit of a tradition for us. Yeah. I mean, we do smaller concerts here in town and everything, but we all it seems like at least once a year the last handful of years, sometimes twice a year, we've gone to a bigger concert just you and I. Now we've gone to some other concerts that the whole family has gone to, but it's become a little bit of a tradition for you and I to go to a concert just us.

SPEAKER_02 6:40

Mm-hmm. And we definitely could have we didn't go in twenty twenty-five. The last one I went to was in twenty twenty-four, but I could have gone in twenty twenty-five. I could have gone to Sleep Token or Madison Beer. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

But we didn't go to the King Country or something last year, or was that not last year?

SPEAKER_02 6:58

Oh, it was not last year.

SPEAKER_00 6:59

Did we take a break in 25?

SPEAKER_02 7:00

We did. We didn't go to any concerts in 2025.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

Are you sure? Yes. What was that one we went no, we went to Phil Wickham.

SPEAKER_02 7:06

No, that was 2024.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

Oh wow. So did I just skip past 2025 completely?

SPEAKER_02 7:10

Yeah, we did. I think so. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

Well, did we hit like four concerts that year? Because we did Phil Wickham, we did King and Country, we did In Hyping. So we must have just did a bunch in one year. Well, because we hit a Christmas one with the King Country set.

SPEAKER_02 7:24

But then we did another for King Country, we did Unsung Hero too.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

Yes, we did two of those, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

I'd like to see Kylie Cantrell, I think. And her tickets, I looked at hers and hers were like sixty bucks a piece, so not much.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

Not bad at all for concert tickets. That's next month. In September. Yeah, but where?

SPEAKER_02 7:38

Chicago.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

Back in Chicago. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

I don't know where. I just I need to look at the venue. It won't be United Center because she's not.

SPEAKER_00 7:45

No, she's not that she's not as big as a but I actually do genuinely like her music though.

SPEAKER_02 7:49

And she's a good dancer and a good vocalist. Not a good actor, but what do you like about concerts?

SPEAKER_00 7:54

Why do you like going to these things?

SPEAKER_02 7:55

It's just really fun. Like, I don't really like crowds at all. I don't think anybody likes crowds. I think I think there's two types of people, right? There's the type of people that hate crowds, and there's the type of people that are that are indifferent to crowds. I think I'm somewhere in the middle of those. So I'm like, you know, I'll I'll deal with it, I think.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

But I just love we sure go to a lot of places with crowds for for people that don't necessarily like crowds.

SPEAKER_02 8:20

Again, that's what I'm saying. Nobody likes crowds though. Like who says, Yeah, I want to go and like weave in between armpits of people.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

There's gotta be some people that like that, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 8:29

Sounds kind of weird.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Everybody has their thing.

SPEAKER_02 8:31

Right. That's sounds kind of odd. It's just you can't be hearing your favorite songs live. You just can't. Especially when it's Ariana Grande, because you know that mic's gonna be on.

SPEAKER_00 8:42

Mm-hmm. Yeah, because that is another thing. You don't want to go to a concert and pay a bunch of money and then they're up there lip syncing the whole thing.

SPEAKER_02 8:49

And thing is, is that here's here's my thing with that is that if they're primarily a singer, but also a dancer, like they're primarily a dancer that sings, like it's kind of 50-50, I guess. For example, Tate McCrae, she is a very good singer, but she is very dance-heavy. So she does put on this big production, but she doesn't live sing very much until she finally slows down and does one of her slow songs, you know. She doesn't really sing live very much because she's dancing the whole time. So, like, you know, but if it's someone like The Weeknd, where I'm not saying he lip sings, I don't think he does. I'm just saying if they're an artist like that, where their songs are easy to sing live, fairly based on whatever you get what I mean. And they're not doing a million other things, and you're gonna go and they're just lip syncing the whole time, it's kind of like and I also do digress because it's like even if they're lip syncing, if you love the songs enough and you just want to be around crowds of people that also are passionate about the same music, and you just want to feel that sense of like community.

SPEAKER_00 9:52

I think that's a big part of going to concert.

SPEAKER_02 9:54

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's also fine. It's just like it you can't you can't be singing live. Singing live is just so good. That's why I was really excited to go to Ariana with you because I knew her mic would be on basically that entire time. So I didn't have to worry about that, you know?

SPEAKER_00 10:10

Well, and in comparison and hyping, which I'm pretty sure they were lip syncing the whole time.

SPEAKER_02 10:13

So hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, kidding, kidding.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

I don't think they were. Occasionally I think they might have because they're yeah, they're super dance heavy. I mean, they are they're like running around this.

SPEAKER_02 10:23

I'm assuming they probably lip synced a lot. I'm assuming they had live auto-tune. That's my guess.

SPEAKER_00 10:30

That could be.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

Because you know live auto tune is a thing. Yeah, I think I think that's what they did. I think they were lip syncing maybe some of the time, but I did hear live vocals, so I think it was like live auto-tune or something.

SPEAKER_00 10:41

Mm-hmm. It was a sellout crowd though for Ariana this time.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

Of course.

SPEAKER_00 10:45

Of course, sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:46

What do you mean this time?

SPEAKER_00 10:48

Well, for all of them, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 10:49

This time. This time.

SPEAKER_00 10:51

It was starting to feel it was getting close to the start though, and it wasn't. I was like, man, where is everybody?

SPEAKER_02 10:56

I know.

SPEAKER_00 10:56

And then all of a sudden it got full.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

You're funny. You're funny thinking that the venue would be empty for Ariana Grande. I know, but I think that just came down to we were we went on the last night. Yeah. So, and I was looking around and I was like, you know what? A lot of people are way too chill about this. Like, we're about to see Ariana Grande in front of us, and we're gonna be breathing the same air as her. Why are we just eating cheeseburgers out here and not in our seats? Like, what's going on? But we were on the third night, so I'm sure a lot of people went to the first two nights and they've already like experienced it. So they were fine, maybe getting their merch this night or something before the concert starts, and then getting in there like right as it starts. But do you have any do you have any advice for somebody going to a concert for a first time or what to expect or something?

SPEAKER_00 11:39

Well, every time we've gone and it worked out pretty well. I mean, probably go a little earlier than you think you need to, even though I mean even though it wasn't I mean, we got in there plenty early and you had plenty of time to get pictures and do all the things that you want to, but sometimes getting through security can take a little bit, and sometimes getting everything and getting through lines and all that can take a while. And if you're wanting to get pictures and stuff beforehand, make sure you're there early enough. And apparently if you're going to the United Center, don't wear uh meta raybands. You can't do that. I walked up with my meta ray bands and I had to go run them back to the car.

SPEAKER_02 12:14

So that was very annoying. I was in my platform boots and all the way back.

SPEAKER_00 12:23

Which I guess it makes sense, but it also doesn't make sense to me.

SPEAKER_02 12:27

I guess a little bit because I tried to tell you it's way more inconspicuous than a phone is. Like you can clearly see like the flash of a phone or like the lens of the camera much more than, oh, you're just wearing glasses until you're doing something sketchy with them, and then I mean the glasses have a little light on them too, though.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

And it's and you can it's hard to not know that those are meta ray bands because they're a little bit thicker than the normal ones. They look like it, and it's just I found I found it a little bit odd because there's thousands of people in there, and every one of them has a cell phone video and everything. And I couldn't bring in my it's not that I was gonna video a bunch of stuff, it's just I was gonna wear them, and that's what I was wearing as my sunglasses that day because it has the transition lens. But anyway, that's a rule for United Center if you happen to have those.

SPEAKER_02 13:11

Yeah, I think it might just boil down to security can see that his ray bands, but maybe not everybody else can, and it just boils down to like general safety, general like, you know what, if there could be a problem with it, we'll just ban them all together, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

Yeah, because I guess if you're wearing them in places that yeah, bathrooms and stuff, yeah. That would be the I guess that would be the issue.

SPEAKER_02 13:32

Which is funny that he says to get there early, right? Because we're I'm I'm in the hotel, I'm ready, and he's just like, I'm coming. Then we get in the car, and then it takes us like a bazillion million hours to even get down to the United Center, and we get there like right when the door.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

So it took like 25 minutes. I mean, we were staying in the hotel downtown closer to Michigan Avenue, and then we drove out to United Center.

SPEAKER_02 13:55

So it takes a little bit because it was kind of rush hour traffic when we head over there because it was which was fine because when we got there, there was no line for securities, which we walked right in. It was fine. But one of my tips, since I've gone to a big artist like this now, which this was like my first artist that was really big like her.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

And hypens sold out United States.

SPEAKER_02 14:15

Well, yeah, yeah, they did, true. So yeah, I guess there wasn't like too many.

SPEAKER_00 14:19

But Ariana is she's higher in terms of celebrity qu celebrity quotients, whatever you want to call it.

SPEAKER_02 14:25

Yeah, obviously. But but what I'm saying is that and hyphen also didn't have multiple days. Ariana had three days in Chicago and she sold out all of those.

SPEAKER_03 14:32

True.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

And hyphen sold out one day. So now that I've been to a concert where the artist is performing multiple nights, I definitely say if you can, go to the last night because this kind of leads into one of my other tips that if you're able, again, this is really only you're really only able to do this with big artists because Ariana had her merch trailer. So the merch trailer opened up at two, and that was around the United Center. So then we could just go at two, pick up our merch, and then not have to worry about it later. So 100% do that if you're able to, because it was the line was not long because it was night three. I'm sure everybody already got their stuff on the previous nights. So I didn't have to worry about anything. I mean, I'm sure a couple things were sold out. So if there's something you really, really want, then maybe you'd want to go and wait in the long line. But I was just like, hopefully they have stuff. I just I want whatever's there, I guess. I want whatever shirt and merch is there. So I went, I didn't have to wait in line at all. And then I didn't have to worry about it when we got to the concert. So that just kind of all ties in together. Like, go on the last night because it'll just feel way chiller. I mean, I didn't go on night one or night two, but you can just assume night one would be kind of hectic, like insane. Then night two, kind of in the middle, and then night three, it's like everybody's like, we got the hang of it now, you know? And I I didn't go to any other night. So then when I got there, I was like, wow, this is a lot easier than I thought it was gonna be. So try not to worry about merch like at the actual concert. We got lucky with in hype and merch that one day when they like just open the line or something, and you just like zip right in right in there. And I was like, How did you do that? I'm so confused. But yeah, if a merch trailer is an option, 100% use that, and then try and go on the last night of your city that they're touring in.

SPEAKER_00 16:11

So the in hype and how I got to the front of the line there, I used my Disney skills. Uh you see me going around Disney, how I'm make my way around all those crowds and make my way to the I use my Disney skills.

SPEAKER_02 16:22

Your facial awareness antennas, your ear hairs.

SPEAKER_00 16:25

Yes, exactly. That's right. That's right. Uh kind of a kind of a weird thing to say on a podcast.

SPEAKER_02 16:31

Yeah, yeah. It is kind of a weird thing to say. That's what I said when you said it for the first time. Because you know, I don't know. You just made that up. You know, we all get ear hairs sometimes, you know, and then let me just pluck it for you. And then you're like, it gives me better spatial awareness. And I'm like, you know what? Can't argue with that.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

So you know, you just have to make fun of me at least once on every podcast. You just gotta get it in. That's part of the deal. It's not that embarrassing. Part of the deal. Maybe we should do you know how I do my Elevate Springfield mic drops where I do like good quotes of the of the week. Yeah. Seen those on there. Should we do a dad burn of the week from you? Yes. How you busted me or something on each uh episode of the podcast.

SPEAKER_02 17:10

I still have cooth. I don't say everything, of course. I would never embarrass you like that.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

Right.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

There's just so many options, you know? Like so I would I couldn't.

SPEAKER_03 17:18

So much to make fun of me about.

SPEAKER_02 17:20

Yeah, I could never say all of them because then we'd be here all day, you know. So like I could just never do that. It's not because, you know, I respect you or anything and don't want to like embarrass you in front of all your colleagues. It's here. It's just purely because they're just there's just so many, you know. So it's okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

I'll tell you, when we were in Chicago, it was nice to see Chicago hustling and bustling up there because we were the last time we were there was actually two years ago.

SPEAKER_03 17:44

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 17:44

Right? Because we again dictated. Twenty four. For some reason, twenty-five just kind of slipped by us and we didn't apparently didn't go to any concerts or go up there at all.

SPEAKER_02 17:51

You're just saving the money for the RE concert. That that took up like two or three concert concert tickets.

SPEAKER_00 17:57

I guess. But this time, compared to even just two years ago, Chicago seems to be back to what I remember it in terms of the amount of people on Michigan Avenue, the hustle and bustle and everybody moving and shaking, really, because even in 24 when we were up there, it just felt still kind of felt dead. Not quite as dead as when we went during COVID, and it felt like that was zombie. That was really bad.

SPEAKER_02 18:19

That was really bad. And I I even remember like the streets being like kind of gray, the sky was gray, and there was nobody outside, and it was just like, huh. So this is not the Chicago little me remembers.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

Right. But yeah, no, this time there was tons of people around. Felt like uh tons of people. Felt like old Chicago.

SPEAKER_02 18:36

That's why it took us so long to get to the United Center because everybody was walking on the streets and we could not turn for the life of us because everybody was just moving. But it was really great. I really, really loved how many people there were downtown and everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 18:50

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

And I'm talking like swarms and swarms and heaps of people. Like it was awesome.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

Back to normal. So speaking of concerts, it's over now, but you caught a couple, what, two or three of the Levid Amp concerts this summer. Yep. Those were good. Had some fun there, right?

SPEAKER_02 19:05

Yeah. I think ooh, one of your tips should be that, you know, he has sensitive ears.

SPEAKER_00 19:09

I do have sensitive ears.

SPEAKER_02 19:12

So he has sensitive ears, and I I don't I don't know if I have sensitive ears, but we've brought earplugs to a lot of concerts.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

I almost every time. Yeah, almost every time.

SPEAKER_02 19:23

So we were we sat down, he's like, I forgot my earplugs. And I was like, oh, whoops. So definitely if you have like trouble with sound, which I feel like I do, I just don't care enough to do anything about it. Like I'm definitely kind of jumpy with things, especially I think it's more if I'm like anticipating it. Let's say something's about to pop and it's really big, you know, and I'm just like watching it and I know it's gonna do it, and then that's when I like jump really hard because I'm expecting it. When I think that me expecting it is gonna make my reaction better, but I think it just makes it worse. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:54

Well, with me with the the earplugs, it also depends on what kind of concert you're going to. So this one wasn't as bad in terms of the shriekiness. Okay. I was expecting more shrieky, shrill yells because that's what really gets me. Oh, yeah. When we were in hyphen, there were so many the you know, the girl shriek, the girl shriek, and it was just this chorus that really burnt my ears up.

SPEAKER_02 20:22

Okay, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 20:23

I was glad I had my earplugs, but yeah, Ariana didn't, which is surprising.

SPEAKER_02 20:27

I mean, it was probably Well, I think it's because most of the girl shrieks at Enhypen are just like, oh my gosh, they're so hot. You know, that kind of shriek, like, oh notice me, notice me. But at Ariana, it's genuinely like, I love you. That it's it's a different kind of thing.

SPEAKER_00 20:42

So it didn't get me I felt it in my ears for the rest of the night and into the morning. I should have worn my earplugs still, but it wasn't as bad as I think the inhypen would have been because yeah, that when I took my earplugs out a couple of times at that one and heard the shrill, it just belted right into my eardrum and I felt like I was going deaf right there.

SPEAKER_03 21:00

Oh yeah. So yeah, do that.

SPEAKER_00 21:02

And you can still hear the you still hear the music great. It just drowns out a little bit of the the high-pitched shrill.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

Right. Yeah. The extra, like I kind of see it in the way that I don't know if anybody else has noticed this, but like when I'm watching TV, I'll turn it up, right? And then that background noise, I guess I can just call it background noise. I don't know. Something in the sound cadence is really in your eardrum, you know? And then I turn it down one and then it calms it down slightly. Like it's still at the same volume, I think, but it just I always picture as taking the bite out of it.

SPEAKER_03 21:35

Right.

SPEAKER_02 21:36

I guess. And I've noticed that a lot where I'll turn it down one and I'm like, huh, that makes a big difference, but it's also not a big difference because I feel like it's the same volume that I just had it at. Anyway, you're welcome. You're welcome. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 21:48

Yeah, there you go. Yeah, no, I can't really think of any other tips, just they are fun and it's turned into a a cool uh Oh, I can think of more cool thing for us. What do you got?

SPEAKER_02 21:57

Yeah, it's fun. Thank you for being my concert, buddy. Um Get a clear bag. And I'm not talking clear backpack, clear satchel, big, big bag. I'm talking not fanny pack size. You can go bigger than fanny pack, but what is it? 13 by 6?

SPEAKER_00 22:11

Uh might be a little smaller than that. More might be like a what is it, eight by eight or yeah, like eight by eight bag or something.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

Because I'd rather just not risk it because there are so many different venues, and most of them require a clear bag. And if they don't require all bags to be clear, it'll be it has to be smaller than this, or it has to fit in this square. So just don't, just don't risk it. Take the safe route, get a small, clear bag. It does not have to be tiny. Like my bag is fit all that I need. Just don't chance it, okay? Just don't be like, do you think they'll say anything? Like, don't even do that. Just be smart, get a small bag. They're really cheap on Amazon. They're like 12 bucks.

SPEAKER_03 22:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

So just get a small, a small pot. And bring a power bank. We've never used our power bank that we have.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

I got a little close this last time.

SPEAKER_02 22:55

I know. I started my phone at 99%. I ended the concert at 32. And I would not feel safe if it got down to like 29 or something.

SPEAKER_00 23:04

You don't feel safe if it gets lower than like 65, quite frankly.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

Well, if I'm out and about, yes, you're correct. If I'm at home, it's like whatever. But yes, I legit was like, my phone cannot die in Ariana Grande concert. So we literally bought a power bank. I didn't use it, but definitely get one because our phones are different than your phone. So I don't know how fast your phone runs out of charge. So definitely get one of those. Again, cheap on Amazon. I think you got yours for like 10 bucks.

SPEAKER_00 23:30

Yeah. I'll tell you, I I almost ran into a different issue. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

Which we did not check.

SPEAKER_00 23:35

Which I didn't check because on my cell, on my phone, I've got a I've got one terabyte storage on my phone, which is a lot. But with what I do, I have a ton of videos that take up a lot of space on my phone. So I had my phone was at about 987 gigabytes of the one terabyte. And when I started doing all these 8K videos at the comp at the concert, it started filling up in a hurry. So by the time the concert was over, I had about, I don't know, a third of a gigabyte left in storage. I got them all in.

SPEAKER_02 24:15

Better I because you were at the concert. I saw you messing with your phone, and I was like, wow, you're recording. You were like, I'm running out of storage.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

Yeah, I I because I hadn't looked at it in a long time. And I had because I'll go through and I'll I upload everything to the cloud, of course, but if I haven't deleted it off my phone in a while, the stuff that I've already uploaded to the cloud can fill that up. One terabyte seems like a lot, but it fills up in a hurry when you have a ton of high-quality videos on your phone. And I didn't check that before.

SPEAKER_02 24:41

So definitely check that.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

You know, I think most a party foul on me. Almost.

SPEAKER_02 24:45

I see people run out of storage at concerts, and I'm just like, how could they ever do that? Like, how could you not check that? And then I was like, how could my dad be one of those people? What?

SPEAKER_00 24:55

Your father almost did that.

SPEAKER_02 24:58

Yeah. Just just be prepared, I guess. Just think of everything and have everything, okay?

SPEAKER_00 25:04

You know what's funny? I was watching it actually, my phone brought up it as I was recording, brought up a countdown how much time I had left based on stories.

SPEAKER_03 25:12

What?

SPEAKER_00 25:13

Wait, what'd it say? It got down to about seven minutes. And it was when she was doing the last song, and she's like, Oh, I hope is she gonna do a reprieve? Is she gonna come out? So it's like if she does another song, I don't think I am going to have enough storage to get it. So luckily, I got it all. And then I was able to clear off my phone and call it. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 25:34

So yeah, but I love concerts. I think they're so fun. Ariana was definitely my favorite I've ever gone to. I definitely cried multiple times. It was so good. Yeah. It was my favorite.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

Happy 16th birthday.

SPEAKER_02 25:45

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 25:46

Ding ding.

SPEAKER_02 25:47

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

So what's our next one we're gonna go to?

SPEAKER_02 25:49

I don't know. We can make it to Kylie or whenever whenever Sleep Token tour again. But they take like five years to make an album though. So I might have to go by myself.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

I might need to wear earplugs for that one.

SPEAKER_02 26:00

Kylie?

SPEAKER_00 26:00

No, sleep token, don't they get it?

SPEAKER_02 26:02

Oh, oh yeah. They scream.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

Pretty good, right? Don't they? Yeah. Yeah, I'll get earplugs for that.

SPEAKER_02 26:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:07

But even if you're not going to a concert out of town anytime soon, there's still plenty of time to go catch concerts at the state fair, and there's tons of concerts around here all the time. So attend the local ones. Head out to all the venues that have local bands playing here. There's so much great stuff. Take advantage of it. Even if you're not going to the big ones like we were just talking about today.

SPEAKER_02 26:27

Yeah, I think my number one tip would be just don't have the mindset that, oh, it'll be fine. Like I don't stress about it. I don't want you to stress about it. I want you to have like so much fun and don't stress leading up to it. But I think it's more of a better to be safe than sorry mindset for concerts. Because I've seen so many horror stories like me at the concert of my life, my phone runs out of storage, or oh, I had to go back to my car because I didn't bring the small clear bag, even though they said not all bags could be should be clear. So just be safe because I've never had any issues with any of the stuff I've brought. I got my bag, I've never had any problems with that. Just prepare, do the things.

SPEAKER_00 27:06

And then take it all in. You'll be prepared and you can just take it all in.

SPEAKER_02 27:08

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 27:09

And download your tickets to your Google wallet or whatever wallet you use. That way you don't have to worry about if there's tons of people there and the cell signal gets all jammed and you're having trouble pulling up your tickets. Put download it into your Google wallet. That's what I do every time.

SPEAKER_03 27:21

That's a good idea.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

That's what most people that's what you should do if you're because that way, like in a situation like that, there's so many people there. Sometimes that can start jamming up the signal and have trouble getting up your ticket.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

So that was really smart.

SPEAKER_00 27:33

If you download it into your Google wallet, it's right there on your phone. You don't have to worry about a signal. Ding ding. We're in and off you go.

SPEAKER_02 27:38

And buy water. Especially if it's an outdoor concert, buy heaps and heaps of water because you're not allowed to bring water in and like I'm I get so sweaty and my chest feels all tight as I'm dancing. Like at an indoor concert, I can't even I cannot even imagine Lollapalooza or any type of other concert. Like, ugh. You know what? We might have to do another episode on Ticketmaster and the state of concerts today, actually. Oh we should do that because I I was about to go into that in the beginning, but I was like, that's a full other conversation about Ticketmaster, scalpers, scammers, how expensive stuff is now, the state of performers nowadays. Let us know.

SPEAKER_00 28:16

Yeah, because we had to pay up a little bit for those Ariana tickets because we had to get it from a reseller because we weren't able to get it on the original date. I tried.

SPEAKER_02 28:23

I actually just watched an entire video. This is just a little sneak peek for next episode. We should do that for next episode. Just a little sneak peek. I just watched an entire video on this on how Ticketmaster basically has dominated the entire field of ticketing and bought out all of their competition. And basically, if artists don't partner with them, they can't go to the big stadiums. Like they can't perform at big stadiums if they don't park partner with Ticketmaster. Oh. So genuinely, they're the Disney villain of ticketing and concerts, and they've ruined a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_00 28:54

Wow. That'll be a good one. Yeah. We'll talk about that next time.

SPEAKER_02 28:57

I literally have Ticketmaster and Seat Geek in one album on my phone, and I named it Torture.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

We'll get into that next time. For all you guys out there, though, don't forget. I haven't talked about it in a couple of episodes. We've got our local first Springfield Fall Soiree on October 1st. We're going to be giving away our small business grant, and we're going to have live music, drinks, dinner, a lot of networking. Come on out and have fun. You get that ticket on the local first Springfield website. Come out and join us.

SPEAKER_02 29:23

Well, thank you for joining us on NextGen on Elevate Springfield. We'll see you next time.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

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