We'll be going in just a second, everyone. Hang tight for a minute.
All right, we are going to start. It looks like. Thank you everyone for coming to our spaces. I know we're waiting for some audience to jump on, but I'm very excited to have a dynamic conversation
all around a live events industry and specifically how much is broken and whether or not FT's can fix it. The first thing I would like to do as we start getting
our different speakers in place is introduce some of the folks on stage. We do have our esteemed Chief Content Officer, Michael J. Casey with us. Michael, my question for you is, was your first concert?
Great a divo. I'm really showing my age here Yeah, it was divo. It was working in a coal mine for guys with these weird plastic hats on their on their heads in in Perth, Western Australia Does that help? It now is it help it's fantastic
Anyone who's who's old enough to no diva expects that anyone who's young enough, please ensure that you go Put in whip it on Spotify whip it would be the coma classes Excellent. I also am very
happy to speak with Fonz from token proof, Fonz, what was your first concert? GM, I think it was radio head around 1996, I would say something like that. Radio head and divos sort of cut from the same cloth one could say.
Amazing. Also, additionally with us, we have Fahad Karim, who is our amazing generative artist that we worked with on the Microcosmos project that we'll be talking about in a second. Fahad, before we get to any specific details, what was your first concert?
Oh man, I can't even remember.
I don't know, maybe it was like life hell or something. I'm not, uh, can't remember.
life house, it is, have less commentary about them to be honest, but so just to set up what we're going to talk about today.
We are in an interesting space where the live events industry has had a really productive and challenging