Here where I live there is a song writer. He wrote a lot with Toby Keith (RIP) and was the co writer of many of Toby's big hits. We were talking a while back and he used to get BMI checks in the tens of thousands every single month. Then it started slowing up and then it was a trickle. There is no money in the traditional sense anymore. It is there for the huge artists. Those fractions of a penny from streaming add up to a lot when you get a billion streams (not an exaggeration just ask Taylor Swift). Rick Beato, like him or hate him, had a couple of good videos not too long ago about all this. The business side. He and Tim Pierce did one about the death of the middle class musician in the Los Angeles studio world. Just a crazy world now.

My wife asked if I had seen the dog bowl. I told her I didn't even know he could.