Fabian Perez has been working as an artist manager, tour manager, and business manager in the music industry for about a decade. Born and raised in Austin, Texas (Leander), he attended Texas A&M, where he was a member of the Corps of Cadets. Since leaving a financial-investment advisory job to get into the music biz, he's worked with many amazing artists and bands, including Delta Spirit, Pedro the Lion, Ruthie Foster, Wild Child, David Ramirez, the Wild Reeds, Mineral, Lo Tom, Israel Nash, Leslie Stevens, Leon III and Grace Pettis (somehow, he manages). In addition to artist management, Fabian's earned his road warrior card tour managing for Ruthie Foster, David Ramirez, Glorietta, Israel Nash, Pedro the Lion, and others. He's worked with a few labels too: Lost Highway Records and Public Hi-Fi (founded by Jim Eno of Spoon). He's smart, organized, creative and hardworking and a good friend. I'm really lucky to get to work with him. If you read this far, you also now know that there's a selfie with a sloth on Fabian's Instagram page.

Several artists that Fabian works with have new material coming out soon, including David Ramirez, Delta Spirit, and Wild Child (more info in the notes section for this episode).

We review Star Trek (the Original Series), Season 1, Episode 15, “Shore Leave." Topics include: how long Grace and Fabian have been working together, the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets (what even are they?), a pair of boots that cost Fabian ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, everybody and their mom has Covid, from the street team and the family business to running a label and managing artists and tours, when Fabian stopped wearing suits, working with Ruthie Foster and David Ramirez, why Fabian prefers artist management to tour management, Next Generation and the varsity baseball coach’s daughter, the weird sexual overtones of “Shore Leave,” Theodore Sturgeon and “Amok Time,” pon farr and why can’t Vulcans just masturbate?, echoes of Westworld, they’re in “Omicron Delta” and so are we, echoes of the Holodeck, why is no one imagining a pizza?, the men have very aggressive violent fantasies and the one woman on the planet wants to be princess and/or be brutalized by a fictional character, no one is upset enough when McCoy DIES, no one notices when Angela DIES, Shatner wants to wrestle a tiger, the elephant in the room, Vasquez Park Natural Park Area, why the rocks were spray painted, this whole episode as a drug trip, William Blackburn, the professional ice skater who played the White Rabbit, “a crewman’s rights end where the safety of the ship begins” in the age of Covid, the uncredited Big Bird showgirls, Angela Martine/Teller, following the white rabbit as a metaphor for curiosity and imagination, and why is there a tiger??