The Music Between The Notes With Eric Everett

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The whole idea here is to understand that we all have different perspectives and you don't have to agree with it, but you do have to respect the fact that they have it.
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That's what uh that's what makes the world go round.
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Um the beauty of life is that everybody, you know, reality is out there and we're all seeing it through our own window.
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Right.
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And uh different shapes and sizes of what's reality is kind of a conglomeration of what everybody sees.
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And uh yeah, you know, I uh I like diversity of mind, you know.
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That's that's how that's how grand new ideas come to the table.
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Ooh, okay.
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Grand and new.
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I like the I like where you're going.
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Okay.
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Throw all different ideas and perspectives in a pot.
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That's where the real brainstorming starts.
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And then kind of give it a give it a little spin, and you never know what direction it's.
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Um I went to basically what Rhythm Royale is.
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It is a um whose line is it anyway for musicians.
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There's a f several wheels, and they have the emotion, uh, the key, uh, different little facets of the track that that help comprise it.
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And they can be adjusted and we can create themes for them.
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Um I recently just sang about a horror story about the flat Earth.
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Um we'll we'll include a link to that below because both Eric and I uh we got picked, and when I heard his his song, and it's about five minutes where you you you're jamming with all uh maybe five or six different other musicians.
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Um we have uh keyboards, drums, guitars, bass, sometimes saxophones, sometimes vox, sometimes that's how you say it, right?
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The vox.
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I don't know.
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Is that how you say it?
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I think that's how you that's how it's spelled.
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Yeah, sounds sounds good.
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Right, okay, cool.
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Um, and and we put everybody together for five minutes, and um you can play, you get opportunities to play with artists that you could have never dreamed of in a million years, and maybe those artists are at a different rung of the uh you know of of the uh of the atmosphere or of of the the level playing field that we all try and stay on, you know, and everybody's got a little bit, you know, everybody's a different a different notch, you know.
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Uh see they see it from a different from a different point of view.
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And uh it's really cool to be able to.
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I got the jam with uh Diamond Canopy.
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Um who were you uh singing with?
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I was uh we had Mikey on guitar, okay, who I uh played in a band with actually.
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So what's Mikey's last name?
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Mikey Bosch.
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Okay.
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Cool.
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We had Nestor on bass, which is pretty big time.
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Hey, Messi.
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Yeah, it was it was the real deal.
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So we were trying to we were trying to really throw down to that one.
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I don't remember the guy's name.
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He was on the drums, but he was I I like that.
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Well we'll find out, we'll make sure we we get his information.
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Our rhythm section was kicking, and uh, you know, me and Mikey were up there like we gotta we gotta put the spice on this.
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You know what?
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Well, let's uh so first off, my name's AWOL.
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I go by AWOL artist, A-W-A-L-L-A-R-T-I-S-T, and I am a singer-songwriter from Baltimore.
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You know, I haven't been doing the intros this way, and I've been speaking with some people, and it's you know, it's smart for me to let you know what I do because not everybody, you know, watches this and knows what either of us do.
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Maybe you just happen to see this for the first time.
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So I'm a singer-songwriter from Baltimore.
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Uh, I started my own collective called uh Unidentified Enterprise, and I have been writing music for 20 years, and uh I'm super passionate about bringing people together and turning my thoughts and ideas into music, which feels like medicine for me at this time, and I'm able to create my own medicine, and it's it's super powerful, and it's powerful enough to get its own darn chair now.
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We we used to sit in a couch.
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I'm sure if you've seen some of the other episodes, this is a whole different um uh vibe for what uh we used to have and staying trying to stay true to the name.
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We're uh we're switching things up.
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And um I have Mr.
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Eric Everett here.
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Uh you heard that we we met uh actually, I think we originally met at the Rhythm Royale podcast.
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Oh, yeah.
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And I noticed his gosh, his ability to improvise was really cool, and it inspired me to want to dig a little bit more.
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And I uh found that this gentleman has played almost every instrument that you can think of, at least picked one up and played it at some point uh to some degree, and I was really impressed by his ability to just perform a a track that was not thought about ahead of time.
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And I I I really respect that out of out of an artist to be able to to at any time be able to on the spot, be able to to paint and and create how you do.
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So thanks.
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Gosh, tell tell uh the respecting prospectives uh crowd who you are and um you know how you made it here.
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Well, yeah, my uh think he said my name's Eric.
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Um I am uh yeah from the Maryland area, grew up Columbia, Ellicate City.
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Uh spent a lot of time coming down to Baltimore for the music, the music community, the art community in Baltimore is just it's a beautiful thing.
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Balmour.
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Um I uh started coming out to these rhythm royale um that he's talking about a few years ago now.
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And yeah, like he said, there's just an incredible group of people that come up here and um the way they I'm just as inspired as you know you're talking about by hearing hearing you get up and improvise too.
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So thank you.
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Yeah, it means a lot, dude.
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Yeah.
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Means a lot, seriously.
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Yeah, so it's cool to be able to see that in someone else, you know, and uh yeah, gosh.
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How how long has uh how we've known each other, maybe a year or two?
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Yeah, I was gonna say a couple years, probably.
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Okay, yeah.
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And every time it's in a setting where we're being super productive and just playing instruments and just really um, you know, um stretching that uh that our imagination with other people.
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And it's really cool, isn't it?
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Yeah, oh yeah.
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Love that, man.
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Yeah.
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Tell the tell the the people here, um, give them a little bit of a background into like some of the things that you've been a part of when you were younger.
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And um, you know, me and Eric had had had a few conversations.
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I try and I try and have some conversations with people before we hop up here.
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That way we can just get an idea of, you know, I want to figure out just what we can highlight and and the things that that really stand out, you know, and and you know, it's it's all part of the story.
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It's all it's all important, but at the same time, um, I think just like when you're recording a song, you're you know, you really are taking that time once you you know you book certain amount of studio time because that is the time where you know you're gonna be pressing record and you're taking that to the next level.
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Yep.
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You know, so that's how I can do that with these um with these uh podcasts.
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And um I got to learn about him.
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You tell people about um let's see, you're coming up in your dad's jewelry shop and then some some bartender stuff where you were super successful, made a lot of money, and we're able to move on.
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Tell them.
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Sorry, I let me shut up now.
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Oh no, you're good.
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Yeah, I mean, I uh I I like being creative, so I find myself in different creative endeavors.
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Yeah, like you said, bartended for a while, uh um got to uh you know learn how to mix up some nice drinks, create drinks.
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My dad's um he's had his own jewelry store for longer than I can remember.
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Oh wow.
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So I've uh grown up around it, you know, been around it.
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Um, and uh he's got a real neat uh location he's been at um for I don't know eight years now in Clarksville.
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And uh yeah, so I worked there with him.
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We we host open jams ourselves right out in our shopping center.
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Tell tell tell us a little more about that.
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Yeah, so my daddy's got his guitars on the wall.
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He's uh you know, he's a he's a music lover too.
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And um it's a really it's a real neat shopping center where they try to do communal things, bring the community together.
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Um they'll uh they have like a family movie night, put up a projector and play, you know, Indiana Jones, you know.
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You just come yeah, bring, bring up some lawn chairs and sit in a little grass circle there.
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So different different things like every night, um the farmers markets and stuff like that, kind of get the uh get the community in the shopping center together.
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You try and do some little bit more than just just a place you go to stop and shop, you need and leave.
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Could you uh it's in Clarksville?
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Clarksville is there any specific name of the shopping center?
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It's the Clarksville Commons.
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Okay, there you go.
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So if you ever want to find out any information about some of the local events that are happening there, um search Clarksville Commons.
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Clarksville Commons.
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Yeah, and uh the the store is Everett Designers of Fine Jewelry.
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Oh, there you go.
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And uh we do our jams outside so we don't do it through the winter.
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So we'll we'll be starting up soon, a couple nights a month, and we keep it real loose.
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You just jump right in and play.
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We set up a bunch of amps and set my drum set up there and you know put a cooler beers out.
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Nice.
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Yeah, so we keep we keep it real low-key and loose, but uh yeah, it's a nice way I get to play with my dad and um spend uh spend a lot of time practicing on the drums because you know you get so many guitar players coming up.
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Not often you get uh you can get drummers coming up.
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So for years and years, I'd I'd be out there playing drums for four hours a night.
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So it's nice, you know.
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I've got work on those chops a little bit.
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Those skills.
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Yeah, nice, yeah, nice.
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Um, let's see here.
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What was what was the most challenging instrument that you found throughout time?
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Oh man, that's uh that's a tough one.
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Uh you know, they all have they all have their own challenges in their own little ways.
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Yeah, you know, uh, you know, with drums, it's uh unlocking all those limbs together.
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You can't really think about what all both arms and both feet are doing.
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Once you get locked in, you kind of get to that point where you can zone out.
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Oh, sure.
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And your body's just kind of doing it.
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Your body's just doing it.
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It just it it happens out of nowhere.
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Yeah, but you know, the guitar, uh, you know, a lot of the harmony stuff, you're playing with other melodic instruments, other guitars, or um, you know, and finding those harmonies and finding, you know, your own little spot within the sound.
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It has its its own little challenges there.
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Um, you sing too, so you know, I'm sure you know uh I try.
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Yeah, I'm trying, man.
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Yeah, that I'd say one of the big challenges was I always wanted to get to the point where when I hear my singing back, I'm not like, oh, that's that's my voice.
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Uh you know.
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That's so funny you say that.
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Yeah.
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So you know, that was and it, you know, it took years, but you know, got to the point where I could listen to myself singing, oh yeah, that's not a good thing.
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Nice.
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Now talking, I don't know, and go listen back to this and you're my talking voice.
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That's a different story.
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No, dude, it's all about, you know, it's you know this, it's all about your energy and all about you know what you bring.
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I will say you're kind of camo with the uh with the the um chair here.
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So you might only see a part of of him like at certain times here.
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Um hey, give us a little bit about um who inspired you when you were younger as far as bands go that kind of helped you kind of navigate the the the pathway of music that you you know decided to take throughout life.
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Well, so yeah, how far back you want me to go?
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Dude, where I go back, you know what?
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Go back to when you you gave me a memory about wait a second, this is really cool.
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He told me a memory about when you were at the desk.
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Take us back to the desk.
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Okay.
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Alright, and you were, you know, you're beatboxing on the desk and and Yeah, so yeah, spent years just drumming on the desk.
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And that all kind of started.
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I was in fourth grade, and I was playing cello in the orchestra at the time.
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And uh, you know, I've I'd listen to, you know, my my parents you know play the classics, you know, listen to Zeppelin and the Beatles, and and I loved the rock music, and you know, I did the did the orchestra thing because you know it was something new, but they uh they had us do a uh a recital in front of the school.
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Okay, and uh we did ours and you know it was fine.
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And then we go and sit down, and the band teacher comes up and she says, Well, now this the band is gonna play a song now.
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This is contemporary music, so you can get up and you don't have to wait to the end to cheer.
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If you want to get up and cheer at any point, you can do that.
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If you want to get up and dance, and I was like, Well, this sounds fun, and uh I was like, Oh, freedom, nice, yeah, and then the band came out and they played Louie Louie, the old 50s rock and roll tune.
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Louie Louis, yeah, we got gooh nice, and I was mesmerized, yes, and it was the uh it was the the drummer was doing that like um oh what what what do you call that beat?
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The uh is it the the break beat?
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I don't remember it's like the one that it's been sampled a million times and there you go.
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So I just spent years just tapping that on my desk.
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And uh eventually uh I was about probably about 15, I got a drum set.
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Okay.
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I started learning the drums.
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Pivotal, pivotal point in your life, probably, right?
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Yeah.
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So yeah, a real big uh turning point for me is I grew up playing baseball.
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I love playing baseball.
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And um, you know, I think I'm getting into that high those high school years, and all of a sudden it's it's getting serious, you know.
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Now you're competing with other people on your own team for starting position.
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It kind of sucked a lot of the fun out for me.
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I love playing like the rec ball and just being out there having fun with my friends.
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Yeah, for sure, for sure.
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And you start playing music, and I get a group of guys together, and we get in the basement and we start, and it's all of a sudden, oh, there's there's no competition here.
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Oh nice.
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We can do whatever we want.
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We can't make our own rules, yeah.
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Nice.
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I did.
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Um, so you know, it kind of gave me that the outlet I'd really always been looking for.
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Okay.
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You know, say I could still play in the sandbox, like like like being a little kid, you know, with your friends playing, playing with your friends.
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That's awesome.
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So that kind of really set me on the path to just um you know get going deep into the music.
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Nice, nice.
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Um, let's see here.
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Tell us though, um some of the inspirations that uh that you had.
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So back at back at those in those days, I was I was getting real into the uh the harder, you know, rock and roll music.
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I uh my my dad took me to Velvet Revolver when I was 15 and uh seen Scott Wylan, um, and how the crowd just went wild.
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The security is peeling these these older women off him that are trying to rip his pants off.
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And I was like, I think being a front man is probably a pretty cool job, right?
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And you know, I wanted to play shows, and I was thinking, I want to be on stage, but I don't want to be sitting the whole time.
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So I wanted to start a band where I could where I could sing be a front man.
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You know, I'd never sang before.
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I was like, how hard could it be?
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You wanted to be up there kind of moving around, moving and shaking.
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Okay, I see you.
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I see you.
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Yeah, and um then uh I got uh I got my parents to uh let me go with some friends to see Motley Crue.
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Okay, and uh I see that down in uh the big arena there in Baltimore.
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I was 16 at the time.
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And uh you know, Tommy Lee, he pulls out his titty cam.
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The titty cam.
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And you know, just me and me and my two friends 16 years old in an arena, and then just it's just the entire arena of these women just whipping their tits out.
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I can just picture it now, dude.
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I was like, I was pretty sold on rock and roll music at that point.
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But uh, you know, or what really what really brought it home was uh there's a couple next to us, older couple.
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They'd been you could tell they'd been right there in the 80s on the sunset strip seeing these.
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Nice.
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And uh little lady sitting on her husband's shoulder, she turns to us, big sagging titties, and just oh, that is so funny, dude.
00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:47.119
How do you like these boys?
00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:49.200
They're old smokers.
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Yeah, you like these babies.
00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:57.119
Whatever this rock and roll is doing to people, I'm all about it.
00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:00.079
There's no turning back for me at that point.
00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:02.000
That is such a good story, dude.
00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:05.119
Uh you need to put that in your autobiography at some point.
00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:06.160
You know what I mean?
00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:08.000
Oh, that's too good, dude.
00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:25.119
Um, let me ask you, uh, as far as uh bands go, you know, what was uh what was the first time there you kind of really put put a group of guys together and realized that you know you could you could give it a name and you could you know travel with those guys?
00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:25.599
Yeah.
00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:28.960
So well, so we're at you know, right around that point, I started being a front man.
00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:29.440
Okay.
00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:41.440
And uh we'd we'd play the Judas Priest Motley Crude tunes, and we were getting up there in leather chains and you know, biker jackets and cut-off finger gloves and stuff like that.
00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:45.519
Would you have to cut the thing out yourself or was it would it already bottom like that?
00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:46.640
Yeah, cut out, pre-cut.
00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:48.319
Probably would have been cooler if I cut it myself.
00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:49.359
Pre-cut though.
00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:50.240
Okay, I see.
00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:57.359
But yeah, it was just a complete thrill to just get up there and just explore this other side of myself, you know.
00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:04.799
You're kind of you grow up, you know, nobody really pushes you in that in that direction.
00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:08.559
Oh, why don't you go put some leather on and go sing Judas Priest songs?
00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:13.279
But yeah, that's kind of where you know really started gigging doing that.
00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:18.000
And uh then uh you we'd sit around we'd we'd write songs, it was fun.
00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:21.839
We'd get in a whole band together and we'd write songs as a as a team.
00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:28.960
Nice, and uh, you know, but I'd kind of just be sitting around and wait till they got some music for me to pen some lyrics down.
00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:30.319
You were doing the lyrics, okay.
00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:30.720
Gotcha.
00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:35.759
And but then they'd be done their part and they'd be off goofing around and I'd and I'd have to sit there and write lyrics.
00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:36.160
Right.
00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:41.680
So I started picking up guitar because I was like, well, you know, then I can be more part of the the process.
00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:43.039
A little more productive.
00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:46.000
Yeah, start learning chords and a little rhythm guitar.
00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:46.559
Nice.
00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:49.920
And then before long I'd just fell in love with the guitar.
00:20:50.079 --> 00:20:50.480
Yes.
00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:53.200
Um, so what was it?
00:20:53.359 --> 00:21:01.519
What was it that um if you could describe what it was about either the sound or or what it was that that that drew you to it?
00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:25.759
A big a big thing was you know, once I felt that the singing over while playing, um kind of a similar thing like I mentioned with the drums where you can't really think about all your limbs doing it at once and singing and playing guitars the same way, you kind of get locked in and you can't really think about playing and singing.
00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:29.279
So you get but you get to this point where you're just kind of playing.
00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:29.839
Okay.
00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:39.039
And you're singing, and you know, then you know whatever that is you the your conscious is, you know, then realizes oh wow, I'm singing and playing.
00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:43.359
And then well, how am I think thinking about how I'm singing and playing?
00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:49.039
Well, you know, it just you know it's it's a very cathartic feeling, I guess.
00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:50.160
Good word for it.
00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:50.559
Yeah.
00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:51.039
Yeah.
00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:56.799
Um, so that that was kind of really what what struck for me at first.
00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:11.119
Um but uh You know, then uh then then down the down the line a little bit when I started uh getting into um maybe uh some might say more sophisticated kinds of music.
00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:12.160
Ah, there you go.
00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:12.640
Okay.
00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:14.720
Caveat with the caveat.
00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:18.799
I ended up at uh I went to Bonnaro in 2012.
00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:22.720
Shoot, okay, nice fish headlined on Sunday.
00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:29.920
And uh I it was just a complete game changer of a moment for me.
00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:40.960
Um never really was real familiar with them at all going into that, but I just saw, you know, a couple hours before they went, I saw hordes of people wearing tie-dye walking by.
00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:46.319
I was like, uh these are like I didn't know hippies still existed.
00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:47.599
Yeah, they're here, dude.
00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:49.920
Yeah, these this is like a fun crowd here.
00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:50.319
Yeah.
00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:57.359
And then get up there, and you know, I was used to shows where everybody's like pecked in like sardines and you know, don't move, you know.
00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:09.039
You can't mean it, yeah, you can't get past uh, you know, like that that fish crowd, everybody had their little dancing space, and everybody was so friendly and kind and walking out of the crowd.
00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:20.160
I between the the crowd and then just the music just going deep into just you know minutes and minutes of jams.
00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:23.440
Jams on jams on jams on jams.
00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:31.200
It's like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with no peanut well, a little bit of peanut butter, but every kind of jam you could think of.
00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:32.000
Yep.
00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:33.680
So I'm really kind of set.
00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:46.799
Well, now I want I want to learn how to not just play guitar, but be able to really play play in the sandbox with a group and kind of go off script and talk with the instruments.
00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:50.720
Have a conversation with the with the guys you're playing with.
00:23:51.599 --> 00:24:03.599
Um you know, uh so that that that that was really kind of pivotal moment that kind of set me now, you know, to to get to where I am today, I would say.
00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:10.480
Dude, that's awesome to be able to take a peek into kind of you know what brought that out of you.
00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:12.799
And um it's it's so cool.
00:24:12.880 --> 00:25:03.519
I I was trying to describe what a jam is to my vocal instructor who um she is a um she sings um uh opera music and it is you know totally different than or the process of her practicing and and performing is totally different than the process of a a jam, you know, um, and she was trying to understand how you come basically kind of not like unprepared, but just not knowing what what is going to happen, you know, and that unpreparedness, it's not it's not even a bad thing, it's not that you're unprepared, it's just like not do you have a different word for it?
00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:06.079
Oh man, improvise.
00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:10.160
I guess improvise, winging it, yeah, yeah, winging it, exactly.
00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:13.119
You made a good point.
00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:19.039
Uh the yeah, I up until then I was used to rehearsing it.
00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:22.160
We play a show, we'd rehearse everything down to a T.
00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:22.799
Yeah.
00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:30.079
Um, you know, maybe like you'd have a few bars for like a you know, a keys or guitar solo or something.
00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:34.880
Now you go a little bit off script, but you know, you really stick in within the framework.
00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:54.079
Whereas the jams, it's like you kind of you get to maybe maybe have a song section, but then you get to a point where it's like now we're gonna just go and explore together and exploration, see where we get to from there, and just kind of figure it out on the fly.
00:25:54.400 --> 00:25:54.880
I love that.
00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:57.519
It's kind of like an exploration of sound, you know?
00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:11.599
Um you're real, you're really uh you're feeding off the crowd, and the crowd is feeding off you, so there's this real give and take between between you and the crowd when you get to when you get get into that jam.
00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:12.160
Yeah.
00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:14.000
Describe, get into that a little more.
00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:29.200
I think that's kind of a cool, uh, a cool subject of the give and the take from uh the audience and the performer themselves, and also the give and the take between like the the instrumentalists and the and the singers.
00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:30.000
Yeah, yeah.
00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:34.880
Describe give us give us a little bit, take us kind of like a bird's eye uh view.
00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:40.640
Oh well, I mean, when you're on stage, uh, I mean, I'm sure you know, you just you would feel that energy.
00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:41.200
Yeah.
00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:48.160
Why not you know, when people are out there dancing and they're they're shouting, you you feel it.
00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:57.359
And um, you know, I guess as a as a musician, you're you're you're you're working on channeling that and giving it right back to the audience.
00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:01.599
Feed that energy, keep them going, and they're keeping you going.
00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:14.480
And then like you said, yeah, then would you're playing with the other guys in your group, guys, gals in your group, um, then you're you're feeding off each other.
00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:18.160
It's it's like like I said before, it's like a you're having a you're having a conversation.
00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:19.359
Oh, right, right.
00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:19.759
Okay.
00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:22.160
Yeah, it's this give and take.
00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:40.720
And uh, you know, somebody hits a lick that just boosts it up a little bit, and then the other guys kind of take that and run with it, and then you know, they the train is you know starting to really you know, really get some get some power behind it, and you're you're going, you're going, yeah.
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:54.079
But then the the flip side is when we want to pull that energy back and you kind of get intimate with it and you get soft and it's a little soft, you know, you gotta lower your voice.
00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:54.960
Yeah.
00:27:55.359 --> 00:27:56.000
Yeah.
00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:04.240
And then uh, you know, people start uh yeah, people on stage and people in the crowd.
00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:10.319
Well, then you're you really you start to pay attention and feel that the that intimate moment together.
00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:15.119
You know, I've been there where you know I'm out in the crowd where I'm just coming to tears.
00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:17.839
And uh, you know, might not happen.
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:18.799
I'm crying right now.
00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:19.119
Yeah.
00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:20.160
Just so you know.
00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:29.519
There's something about the music, you know, they're saying something, I don't know what it is, but sometimes it just it hits you and it's beautiful.
00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:31.519
Yeah, it's really cool, isn't it?
00:28:31.599 --> 00:28:31.680
Yeah.
00:28:31.839 --> 00:28:34.559
To be able to, like you said, share that moment with everybody.
00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:45.440
And I think being an artist and being prepared enough to, you know, know the theory that's involved.
00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:50.000
And it's funny because like there's two, I feel like there's two kinds of people with that.
00:28:50.079 --> 00:28:57.599
Like, there's the people who know the the theory, and then there's the people who just know the sound of it, you know.
00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:13.279
Um, and I think it's cool because if you have a little bit of each, you can kind of put that together, and um, you know, like you said, you're kind of bouncing those conversational ideas with each instrument, you know, to each other.
00:29:13.359 --> 00:29:14.400
And it's it's so cool.
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:15.359
I I I love it.
00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:19.279
You know, it's it's I'm grateful to be able to share that type of.
00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:20.880
Yeah, I just had a thought.
00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:34.799
Um that you know, I've thought about this before, where like you're thinking about like the the history of of music, and you know, it's it goes back as far as you know, for humans go back in history and way back.
00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:45.200
Man, back to the days where you know when the when the tribe wanted to co commune together, you know, maybe around the campfire, when you'd have people people playing music.
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:47.279
No, that's how you brought the community together.
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:51.119
Music was always something that was you're talking back in the day.
00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:52.160
Yeah, back in the day.
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:57.839
But yeah, and it's uh it's carried over to this to these days, you know, it's the the community.
00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:10.559
It's it's you know, the at the show you feel that community, but then just sitting here with you, and we're talking about the the rhythm royale gems, and you're getting to get up on stage with different people every time.
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:36.720
And uh that community is building than the Baltimore, you know, community, but it you know, it it it's uh you'd see the threads that go all throughout everywhere, you know, as people come and go as artists travel around and share their thing in other places, and you know, it it get this whole web of community going.
00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:39.759
Before you know it, everybody's your neighbor.
00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:42.880
Whoa, before you know it, everybody is your neighbor.
00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:45.279
That's a that's a cool way to think about that.
00:30:45.519 --> 00:31:01.279
Um yeah, I guess you know, if yes, the the an interconnected web, it makes me I was thinking about this earlier today, and like, you know, we are one and like as as so above is below.
00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:24.720
And just think like if gosh man, like part of this grand scheme of of this universe, and like dude, you know how lucky we are to like be able to like have that have that experience, like to and and if we are connected, like look at this thing, this, this, this, this massive, the biggest thing that you can ever even imagine.
00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:32.640
Like, you are a part of it, you know, and like we're we're just we're lucky to be able to to share that.
00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:41.680
And I think music really helps us, you know, kind of put your barriers down, especially, you know, um in today's climate.
00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:52.480
You know, there's lots of walls being put up, so you got to try and figure out how to, you know, what walls are needed and what walls um you know you you need a door for, you know, you need to get through.
00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:53.920
Oh, I was gonna say break right down.
00:31:54.079 --> 00:31:55.359
You break right down, dude.
00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:56.799
Yeah, break down.
00:31:56.960 --> 00:31:59.359
You know, so I think it's important.
00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:03.039
And sorry, I just cut I kind of kind of got uh introspective there for a second.
00:32:03.599 --> 00:32:03.920
I like that.
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:11.759
I like that you know, so um, but yeah, man, I mean, gosh, you know, tell us a little bit about uh the Mojo Collective.
00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:16.319
Give us, you know, this is your this is your current band current the current project, yeah.
00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:17.200
Crew, dog.
00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:19.839
Tell them about the crew and and and what you got going on.
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:22.319
And so we got we got a big show coming up.
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:28.960
Uh we're playing Sweebo Southwest Baltimore Fest in a few weeks since uh May 24th, I think.
00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:30.079
Sounds about right.
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:32.640
This is going to be released after that.
00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:34.079
I'm gonna be honest with you.
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:40.240
So we'll put a link down below for like uh a feed or something that they can they can watch at some point.
00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:42.079
So support them in that way.
00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:42.559
Okay.
00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:42.960
Yeah.
00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:43.599
All right.
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:48.799
Well, um, then we already played it and we rocked the house.
00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:50.640
That's what I'm talking about, dude.
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:54.880
But uh, yeah, so we we we've been um we've been grinding.
00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:58.640
Um uh so we get it's the collective.
00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:02.640
We we uh a lot of times there's six, seven people up there on stage with us.
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:08.559
Sometimes um some somebody's friend oh he plays saxophone.
00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:10.640
No, let's get him up, play, play this gig with us.
00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:14.160
Call him somebody's mom plays the fucking the violin or something.
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:14.720
Yeah, yeah.
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:23.119
You know, so you have a real collective kind of feel to it where uh you know I don't know how many gigs we've played where it's been the same crew every time.
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:23.599
Nice.
00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:28.240
Um they would definitely you know have our the a lot of the core core guys there.
00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:30.319
You mentioned a few of them earlier.
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:32.400
Did you mention did you give everybody a shout out?
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:40.240
Mikey uh on guitar, he was um you know, in this jam you're talking about that uh the rhythm royale.
00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:44.400
Christian, he comes up to the the watermelon rooms and plays a lot on bass.
00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:45.920
Um we got Ian.
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:49.440
Um see three of me, Ian, and Mikey all on guitar.
00:33:49.599 --> 00:33:52.319
So uh if you like guitars, we got three of them on stage.
00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:52.960
Nice.
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:58.880
Um Jake on drums, who is just an absolute beast behind the kit.
00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:11.920
Um and uh Matt uh Matt Feldhouse on Keys is a more recent addition to uh to the to the group, but he's a good buddy of ours, so we're really excited to uh be playing with him some more.
00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:12.639
Nice.
00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:22.559
Um yeah, man, uh a lot of times you'll see us with a uh with a sax player, a trumpet player, and it's a good chance that it's our first time playing with them.
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:24.719
But you ever had a trombonist?
00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:26.079
Um didn't we?
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:27.840
That's actually a good question.
00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:29.440
I used to play the trombone.
00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:34.800
I'd like to maybe do a no, I I can't even speak like that because I haven't played the thing in a long time.
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:36.880
You should have a tr uh uh a trombone.
00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:46.159
Or trumpet, maybe like having a few and get getting those you know, especially like funk music and you get those like yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:46.639
You know?
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:47.920
Yeah.
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:53.039
Um, but uh yeah, you know how'd the band come to be?
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:59.840
So uh you know a few of us started renting out a practice spot together a couple years ago, uh a few years ago now, I guess.
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:00.400
Uh-huh.
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:07.920
And um, you know, started out, you know, just getting together when we could and just just jam it out for hours.
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:22.559
And um then uh this is Christian I mentioned uh just kept just kept running into him at shows and we'd be hanging out, and uh one day uh he turns around and what instrument do you play?
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:24.159
I was like, I play guitar.
00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:26.159
And he was like, I play bass.
00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:30.400
And I was like, Oh, you know, uh plenty of times we're we're up there.
00:35:30.559 --> 00:35:37.920
Um and we're a few of us guitar players are switching off uh on uh you know on bass.
00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:41.840
You know, it'd be nice to have we should give a shout out to my buddy Vance.
00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:43.119
He'd play bass with us sometimes.
00:35:43.280 --> 00:35:47.360
He's played uh shout out to Vance, he's done a gig with us too, um, filled in.
00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:52.800
And um, but yeah, Christian here, he uh so he starts coming up and he lives closer to Annapolis.
00:35:53.119 --> 00:35:59.280
Okay, but uh he's got he's got some good ends with um you know getting you know some bar gigs down there and stuff.
00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:00.320
In Annapolis?
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:05.199
Yeah, then Annapolis area, Crofton, Annapolis, you kind of down that way.
00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:11.920
At first it started where uh got an opportunity for last minute gig be like three, four in the afternoon.
00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:15.039
He hit up he hit us up, like does anybody want to play this uh bar?
00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:16.239
And you gotta be there at seven.
00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:17.119
Oh that night?
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:18.079
Yeah, right, little.
00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:22.400
So you know, a few of us would show up and uh we'd just completely wing it.
00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:29.679
We'd be up there, like, oh, I got you know, there's a cover at three chords, and just tell each other the chords real quick.
00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:30.079
There you go.
00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:33.119
Jam it out, yeah, put the lyrics up on our phone or something.
00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:38.880
You got the language, yeah, the lingo, and we'd do three, four hours, you know, those little breaks in there.
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:51.360
But yeah, just really winging it, and then um, you know, uh we uh more and more we got playing and trying to get more more preparation for each time we play.
00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:54.320
Of course, it started and started coming together more and more.
00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:58.719
But uh yeah, a lot of what we've done so far has been in that Annapolis area.
00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:03.519
Okay, but um, you know, a lot of us are more up closer to Baltimore here, so Baltimore.
00:37:03.920 --> 00:37:09.920
Um yes, I mentioned that Swebo, so we're excited to uh Suibo Fest right outside in the middle of the city.
00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:10.480
Nice.
00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:15.840
Um excited to uh you know get some more stuff going on up around Baltimore area.
00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:17.199
Nice, yeah.
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:22.159
Um, and if people want to find you, what what should they search to Mojo Collective?
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:24.800
We're on Facebook and Instagram right now.
00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:26.159
M-O-J-O.
00:37:26.639 --> 00:37:28.559
Yeah, M-O-J-O collective.
00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:30.000
Yeah, okay.
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:32.719
You got Instagram and Facebook and all that stuff.
00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:34.719
Yeah, you got a TikTok?
00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:36.239
Uh not that I know.
00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:38.400
Not that you know, dude, he might have a rogue.
00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:43.440
What if you have like a rogue TikTok that's like just just numbers, doing numbers, you know?
00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:44.480
Hype us up.
00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:45.760
You hype them up.
00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:46.800
Oh shoot.
00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:53.119
Okay, we're gonna take a second here and um we're gonna take a pea break and you never know.
00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:59.039
We might have a special special cocktail uh brewed up on the on the bewitched.
00:37:59.119 --> 00:37:59.760
All right, you ready?
00:37:59.840 --> 00:38:00.239
Do this here.
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:00.960
Go like this.
00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:02.159
Ready, set.
00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:05.039
Here we are.
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:06.239
Oh, look at this.
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:06.960
Look at that.
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:07.840
What do you know?
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:08.320
Wow.
00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:08.880
Cheers.
00:38:09.039 --> 00:38:09.840
Cheers, Squire.
00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:13.119
My little uh thank you to having me on your on your show.
00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:15.519
Yeah, thank you for thanking me.
00:38:16.719 --> 00:38:18.480
Thank you for thanking me for thanking you.
00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:19.599
Yeah.
00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:22.880
Uh it's uh we what do we have here?
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:32.639
Tell the tell the guests what uh nice little uh spring cocktail here is um it's uh unless it has another name.
00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:34.639
We're we're calling it the garden party.
00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:35.440
Oh dang.
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:44.960
It's uh cherry blossom flavored gin with uh well, I forgot the elder flower liqueur, which is is kind of a shame.
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:52.559
So it's missing one ingredient, but it does have a little rose water too, so it's still it's still a garden party.
00:38:53.039 --> 00:39:08.559
And the uh the rosemary, so you got the floral flavors, and then just a little bit of grapefruit and uh some blood orange bitters to give it a little bit of citrus, bitter citrus to just uh you know cut that sweetness a little bit.
00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:14.639
And then uh this uh tonic water, the fever tree tonic water, has a little bit of salt in it.
00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:19.039
So uh, you know, it's another little thing, just cut the sugar.
00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:20.320
So it's got a little salt.
00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:20.719
Yeah.
00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:21.039
Okay.
00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:26.079
So, you know, it's got some sweetness in there, but it's not doesn't taste too sweet, right?
00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:26.800
No, dude.
00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:28.480
This thing is right in the middle, pretty much.
00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:33.280
As far as sweetness goes, it's got sweetness, but it's also refreshing, you know?
00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:35.199
Yeah, it's kind of like a fresca.
00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:37.760
If a fresca was like kind of like uh, let's see here.
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:44.400
This was like if a fresca had like a late night out, yeah, a long night.
00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:46.480
This would be that it tastes like this in the morning.
00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:46.960
Oh, yeah.
00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:50.480
Yep, fresco, little bit of punch to it.
00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:51.280
Yeah.
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:53.760
I'm calling it a Freszi punch.
00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:54.800
Freszi punch.
00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:55.360
Okay.
00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:55.840
Yep.
00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:56.719
All right.
00:39:57.679 --> 00:39:59.840
I mean at Garden party, I love it.
00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:00.800
I'm down with it.
00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:02.800
I I think we have to do at least an AKA.
00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:06.000
Your yours describes the flavor pretty well, I gotta say.
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:07.760
Little yeah.
00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:09.280
Little one-two punch.
00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:09.679
Yeah.
00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:27.119
So we're back here, and um, gosh, you know, I'm I'm super appreciative of having uh Eric here on the podcast, and um there's a few things that I like to do um, you know, uh uh on a little bit of uh uh the uh you know the off the dome type tip.
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:28.239
Um who's this?
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:29.440
Who is that actually?
00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:30.400
Wait a second.
00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:32.079
What is the what is that noise?
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:33.039
Do you hear that?
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:34.480
Yeah.
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:38.400
Wait, who is this?
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:40.960
This is young Eric?
00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:46.320
OG Eric like 20, 30 years ago, Eric.
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:48.719
Okay, I hear you, Eric.
00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:51.280
Listen, you're lucky you're in luck.
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:55.840
I'm with somebody right now, and they basically want to tell you something.
00:40:57.599 --> 00:40:59.039
This guy's a bit of a wild man.
00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:00.800
He's off the cuff, dude.
00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:02.880
Take a breath before this one.
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:05.599
What's up there, buddy?
00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:07.199
How are you doing?
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:21.199
Uh well, you know, uh first things first, uh, I don't remember having this call when I was when I was your age, so I gotta make sure we don't break the space-time continuum here.
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:34.559
Uh so yeah, you know, uh basically I gotta say, uh, you know, do uh do everything that uh that I would have done, and uh it doesn't end up so bad so far.
00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:47.679
But uh, you know, never lose sight of the uh the people around you who uh make life worth living, who support you.
00:41:49.360 --> 00:42:11.199
Um you know go and find your people, the people that get you excited to uh to work hard, to uh to offer a little bit to other people around you more more than just yourself.
00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:16.800
Um and uh you know have fun along the way.
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:24.079
And uh you know, uh go ahead and fly, but don't fly too close to the sun.
00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:26.639
Don't get those wings clipped.
00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:35.280
Um and uh, you know, you might be wondering, but it's it's true.
00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:38.960
Rock and roll is still just as tight as it ever was.
00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:45.679
But uh maybe lay off the adrenaline a little bit, just a little bit.
00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:51.679
Yeah, the music the music get that adrenaline going.
00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:53.920
Yeah, just just go with that.
00:42:54.239 --> 00:42:55.679
I'll do it for ya.
00:42:57.199 --> 00:43:05.599
And uh, you know, uh work hard, play hard.
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:08.800
And love hard.
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:15.679
Friends, family, the community, the world, the universe.
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:24.719
What's that?
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:27.360
You gotta go put on those leather pants.
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:32.480
The British DLG's free spell buckle.
00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:33.119
All right.
00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:34.559
Go rock it, son.
00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:37.920
Tell them you love me.
00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:42.800
Oh, and just always remember I love you.
00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:47.840
No matter how friggin' wild you might get.
00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:51.199
I'll always love you.
00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:58.800
Alright, you ended up being a pretty cool cat, just so you know.
00:43:59.199 --> 00:43:59.840
Pretty cool.
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:02.719
In fact, and listen to what he said.
00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:04.159
Peace.
00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:05.840
Nice.
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:07.280
Good stuff, right?
00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:07.920
Dude.
00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:08.880
You know what I mean?
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:09.440
Good stuff.
00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:13.440
I'm not disappearing, so I don't think I've I don't think we wrote the space time.
00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:14.639
No, no, no, not yet.
00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:15.039
Not yet.
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:15.360
Not yet.
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:16.400
Nope.
00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:18.960
Okay, I have a few questions for you here.
00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:21.840
And um, this is kind of like a rapid fire.
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:22.239
Okay.
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:22.719
Okay.
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:30.159
Um, answer these as quickly as possible, and also kind of just be as honest as possible as you can.
00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:30.639
Okay.
00:44:31.280 --> 00:44:33.840
Um, let's see here.
00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:35.199
Okay.
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:38.320
All right.
00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:40.800
I got a few for you here and a few for you there.
00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:41.440
All right.
00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:43.599
Put 20 seconds on the clock.
00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:44.239
Okay.
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:49.599
Who is your favorite character from DC or Marvel Comics?
00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:51.599
I'm gonna have to go with Superman.
00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:52.639
Superman down.
00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:54.880
One of the greatest love stories ever written.
00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:55.840
Ever written, dog.
00:44:56.400 --> 00:44:57.039
Think about it.
00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:00.239
What do you not want to be when you grow up?
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:01.199
Grumpy.
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:03.280
Grumpy old man, dog.
00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:04.000
No.
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:04.800
Okay.
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:09.280
Which actor should play you in a movie about your life?
00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:11.199
Well, it's gotta be somebody with no hair.
00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:11.679
Nope.
00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:14.960
And Jason Statham, maybe Vin Diesel.
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:16.320
The beekeeper it is.
00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:16.880
Okay.
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:17.920
Alright.
00:45:18.079 --> 00:45:20.639
Do you like the music your parents listen to?
00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:21.679
Hell yeah.
00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:23.280
Cheers to that, dog.
00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:24.239
Cheers to that.
00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:25.280
They know it's good.
00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:25.920
Mm-hmm.
00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:31.599
If you could have any superpower in the whole entire world, what would it be?
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:33.360
I think I'd have to fly.
00:45:33.599 --> 00:45:34.000
Fly?
00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:34.880
Where would you fly?
00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:36.159
What's the first place you fly to?
00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:37.920
Well, not too close to the sun, I'll tell you that.
00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:41.679
You know, I think I would just cruise around the world.
00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:43.119
Around nowhere.
00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:44.159
Maybe with Lois Lane.
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:45.840
Around nowhere.
00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:47.360
Okay, cool.
00:45:47.519 --> 00:45:48.400
Next, you ready?
00:45:48.719 --> 00:45:49.760
You're doing good at this.
00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:51.199
You find a magic lamp.
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:52.800
What's your first wish?
00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:54.960
First wish.
00:45:56.239 --> 00:45:57.119
Come on, what is it?
00:45:57.920 --> 00:45:58.639
I'm flying.
00:45:58.880 --> 00:45:59.360
Flying.
00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:00.480
He's flying again, dude.
00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:02.559
That's what he wants to do.
00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:04.800
Alright, what's your favorite smell?
00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:06.159
Ooh.
00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:13.360
Favorite, you know, once it hits the old factory in the schnazz there, your favorite.
00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:15.199
Oh man.
00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:16.400
I don't know.
00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:17.039
Honey?
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:18.000
Honey.
00:46:18.719 --> 00:46:19.440
Well, sweetness.
00:46:19.679 --> 00:46:20.559
You'd have to think about that later.
00:46:20.639 --> 00:46:21.440
That's what came to mind.
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:22.480
There you go.
00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:23.199
There you go.
00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:25.119
Okay, what's the worst emoji?
00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:34.079
The uh you know, quick rapid fire, rapid fire.
00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:35.039
The laugh emoji.
00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:36.480
There you go, laugh emoji.
00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:36.960
Cancel it.
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:38.639
Call call uh jobs up.
00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:39.599
Delete it.
00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:42.159
Alright, favorite member of the Beatles.
00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:46.639
The Beatles, you can't pick, you can't choose one Beetle.
00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:48.159
You can't pick one Beetle.
00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:48.320
Okay.
00:46:48.639 --> 00:46:49.440
You gotta go with all of them.
00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:50.000
All of them.
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:51.199
All the Beatles in once.
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:53.519
Okay, what's my spirit animal?
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:55.199
Your spirit animal?
00:46:55.360 --> 00:46:56.000
Yep.
00:46:56.400 --> 00:46:59.519
Oh, I am getting a uh Spear.
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:00.079
Come on, baby.
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:02.800
Give me a one of those honey badgers.
00:47:03.039 --> 00:47:04.480
Honey badger, yes.
00:47:04.719 --> 00:47:05.519
Okay, okay.
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:06.880
I could see that.
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:07.440
All right.
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:10.000
Um, you walk into a casino right now.
00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:12.000
What's the first game you're playing?
00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:18.480
I'm going right up to the roulette table and uh firing off the whatever number feels feels right.
00:47:18.559 --> 00:47:21.920
And I'm just gonna put 20 bucks just on that one number.
00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:23.599
Nice, perfect, dude.
00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:24.159
Perfect.
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:27.599
It's hitting 37 to 1 or 34 to 1, something like that.
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:29.360
All right, best duo.
00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:30.480
Rapid fire.
00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:31.519
Best duo?
00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:32.159
Duo.
00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:32.800
One, two punch.
00:47:33.039 --> 00:47:34.079
You know, I was just talking to my old self.
00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:35.360
I'm gonna have to go with black keys.
00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:36.159
He would love that answer.
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:36.960
There you go.
00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:37.440
Perfect.
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:39.599
Okay, East Coast to West Coast.
00:47:41.840 --> 00:47:44.559
I love the East Coast, but give me that West Coast.
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:45.599
Give me that West Coast.
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:46.239
Love it.
00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:48.880
All right, worst pizza topping.
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:50.639
Pineapple.
00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:52.320
Throw it away.
00:47:52.639 --> 00:47:57.760
Alright, what's one thing you've always wanted to do but haven't?
00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:07.039
Um, I guess uh oh man.
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:08.159
That's a real brain.
00:48:08.719 --> 00:48:09.280
Rapid fire, dude.
00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:10.239
We're still on rapid fire.
00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:10.639
All right.
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:18.320
Well, I guess uh I guess I wanna jam some deep electronic grimy funk.
00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:19.519
Okay, there we go.
00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:20.559
Listen heavy.
00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:26.480
If you're listening and you can make help make this man make that possible, reach out to us, okay?
00:48:26.719 --> 00:48:30.559
Um, one last one coconut or pineapple.
00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:32.800
Oh, give me that pineapple, just not on pizza.
00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:34.639
Oh, he went right off.
00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:35.760
Love that.
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:43.199
I try I try and revisit that one to everybody because like when I'm thinking about like coconut and pineapple, I'm like, I can't decide, dude.
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:46.159
Like I'm like, I'm cut in the middle.
00:48:46.400 --> 00:48:48.239
It is it will start a war.
00:48:48.480 --> 00:48:49.360
Yeah, yeah.
00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:50.000
Oh, yeah.
00:48:50.159 --> 00:48:50.719
So it's hard.
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:51.599
I I don't know, man.
00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:52.079
I can't.
00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:57.039
I still one day I feel one way, and another day I feel another.
00:48:57.280 --> 00:49:02.159
I've I've been acquiring the coconut taste over the years more and more.
00:49:02.239 --> 00:49:03.679
Uh I like the flavor.
00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:08.320
I was on that the texture was always kind of weird to me, uh the confetti texture.
00:49:08.559 --> 00:49:08.960
Right.
00:49:09.199 --> 00:49:13.840
But uh yeah, pineapple had to I go to town on pineapple.
00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:14.480
Damn.
00:49:14.719 --> 00:49:17.280
This man went to a different town with a pineapple.
00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:19.679
He carries the pineapple with him to that different town.
00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:36.400
But listen, seriously, I uh I want you to give the people listening a last message, something that really hits home and um you know leave everyone with some inspiration.
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I guess uh, you know, in the these trying times in the world around us, just always remember that uh the people we're with is what makes it worth it.
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And get with a lot of people, make friends.
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Love that.
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Make family.
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Good stuff, dude.
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Good stuff.
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Yeah, thank you for being here and taking the time to kind of you know put your I know I don't know.
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Am I asking a lot of you to be on on the podcast?
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You know, does it does it seem like a not like a burden, but like what what what do you go through when you're when you had to think about this, if you could elaborate a little?
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You know, I I would say it was a it's a it's a similar feeling to uh getting up on stage and performing.
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You know, uh sometimes you write lyrics and you pour your whole heart out, and then you find yourself up there singing it to a crowd of strangers, your deepest, you know, thoughts, your deepest feelings, your journal, you know, diary entries that you're shouting on top of a mountain.
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For sure.
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Similar feeling to getting up here, but instead of uh you know, putting it all out there and sweating bullets, getting sit here and just relax and you know getting getting to know AWOL a little bit more.
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Nice, dude.
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This is it's beyond uh a pleasure.
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Uh uh I I I'll cherish this.
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I'll really cherish this.
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This is the beautiful thing you're doing.
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Um, just watching y'all set up here.
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Um, the love and care that goes into this.
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Um, you know, this is a really special group of people.
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Um and uh I I feel blessed, just absolutely blessed to be here.
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Thank you so much, dude.
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Man, just just being able to have you here and just, you know, we got a few people coming through today, and uh I'm uh, you know, I try and give everyone the same amount of respect as I can, and I try and be as open as possible to each conversation.
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And I love how you brought the drink through.
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You you came at me with that idea.
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I was like, let's run it.
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You know, we're trying to think of new, you know, different little segments to bring, you know, that kind of just help us uh, you know, just help us get to know each other a little bit and figure out, you know, how each other is ticking and how we can help each other, you know, kind of get through some uh some some you know the the times, you know.
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And sometimes you need it more than other times.
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There's times where you don't really need it, you know, but then there's times where you do really need it, you know, and I'm glad we can provide that for people.
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So thanks for uh thanks for your messages that you were able to give everyone good looks on the drink.
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Uh dude, just superb.
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And uh we'll see y'all on the next episode of the Respecting Perspectives Podcast.
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Peace.
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Cheers choir.
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Cheers.