Why Bigger Deals Require Less Money

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Jack Butala:                       Jack and Jill here.

Jill DeWit:                           Hi.

Jack Butala:                       Welcome to the Jack Jill show. I'm Jack Butala.

Jill DeWit:                           And I'm Jill DeWitt, broadcasting this week from sunny southern California where everyone seems to play the guitar in public. Have you noticed this?

Jack Butala:                       That's exactly what happens.

Jill DeWit:                           It's really kind of funny.

Jack Butala:                       That's incredibly perceptive.

Jill DeWit:                           I was somewhere the other day and it was just the oddest space and I'm like, I'm hearing a guitar. It was almost like in a parking lot, like a covered parking lot, I'm hearing a guitar and I don't know quite where it's coming from.

Jack Butala:                       There's that guy down the street who plays guitar and sings. Not often.

Jill DeWit:                           Is it the one that sits on the wall?

Jack Butala:                       No, like right down our street.

Jill DeWit:                           Oh.

Jack Butala:                       And I'm like this guy needs to go straight to Hollywood.

Jill DeWit:                           That guy. Oh.

Jack Butala:                       I don't know who he is or I don't know what the story. I'm like, this is the greatest stuff I've ever heard, ever.

Jill DeWit:                           Yeah. He was at our birthday party. We don't see him very often, and I don't think that's his day gig, but boy, is he good. It's just like a hobby and that guy's good.

Jack Butala:                       This is a funny topic. So, I saw this guy where we have a storage thing. I think the guy lives there, but he's standing outside with just shorts on. He's totally a southern California guy.

Jill DeWit:                           That's one way to afford living at the beach.

Jack Butala:                       And he's killing it. He's just ripping the heck out this guitar. He's killing it. Everybody just exudes talent in this town.

Jill DeWit:                           That's hilarious.

Jack Butala:                       Except me.

Jill DeWit:                           Where do you live? U-Stor-It. U-Stor-It Redondo Beach. That's where I live.

Jack Butala:                       That's how you get a girl. Hey, you want to go back to my storage unit?

Jill DeWit:                           I got one of those roll-up doors. Those are cool. Those roll-up wall doors, I got one of those.

Jack Butala:                       Come on back to the storage unit. I'll play you a little song. Pour you a gallon of wine.

Jill DeWit:                           Exactly. Out of my little mini fridge that I plugged into the ... rewiring the light at the ceiling socket. There we go.

Jack Butala:                       Jill, you're crazy.

Jill DeWit:                           The other thing I've noticed, too, about the people that live here and the guitars, when I've lived in other places and you go to a bar and they have live music and there's a guitar playing there, they're not always that good. It's hit and miss. I remember being with you in Scottsdale one time that we actually heard a guy that was really good.

Jack Butala:                       Yeah, I remember that.

Jill DeWit:                           Where we ran to our friend who owns a bar and like, "You gotta hire this guy. Have him come in," and he did. He listened to us. It was really good. But that was a one-off. You don't find that very often. But here in southern California, everyone's that good because they were probably a studio musician that retired now. They just do it for fun.

Jack Butala:                       It's in the water.

Jill DeWit:                           The talent here is up ten notches. So,