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Wild Heart, Absinthe, & Vegas Burlesque with Melody Sweets | 321 · Hey BigHead: The Vegas Local Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: A booby dooba buddy buddy wow.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_00: How about that for an intro talk?
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be a fun episode.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_02: I'm excited.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back, everybody, to an episode of the Hicks.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: Take care of that for me, will you?
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: I will.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: Put it on the business card.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm excited because we have a really, really fun guest on today.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: Who is it?
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's Melody Sweet.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_02: Who is it?
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I love her.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: You and I actually we've met a handful of times.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Did you know this?
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_02: Don't do that to me.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_02: We met so many times.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_02: Oh no, we did where?
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_02: Why would you do that to me?
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: It was at Absinthe.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: You were as the Green Fairy.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: You were coming down from the top of the tent.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: You were singing.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: You were dancing.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: I was the one in the audience.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: I was the one in the audience.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_02: I love that.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, you did.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: So you you and I have a deep, a deep connection.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you do.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_02: You're just another one.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't even think twice, apparently.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_02: Very one-sided.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: When you're when you're floating down from the top of that, the top of the tent there, what were you thinking of or looking at?
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like is everything just kind of a blur and you're kind of just blacking up?
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_02: No, I would sit up there because that at when I was in absinthe, I wasn't on any kind of safety or anything.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_02: So I had to go up pretty early.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah and I would look down and plot my revenge with the audience.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_02: No, really, I'd be like, oh, he's, you know, go for the older guys and the just to see, you know, you can kind of suss out if the people are going to be fun, or you know, that's what I would do.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_02: I'd be like, all right, he's he's on my my list.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_02: So you called Andrew fun and old.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_02: Fun and old.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: I was the old guy.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just saying, like, you know, there's different vibes of audiences, you know, you could always feel the vibe of the audience.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_02: I I could because I'd be in the room as people were filling in and stuff, but I loved being a part of that show.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_02: It was a lot of fun.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: It didn't help that I came to the show with a walker, and that was that may have thrown off the whole Andrew being old.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, you were trying to get cast at stuff.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_01: Did you really go?
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, because that's probably why I didn't.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, oh, this guy needs to be motivated.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: This poor bastard.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: He needs a motive.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: He needs some boobs in his face tonight.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, geez.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_02: This is a fantastic way to start.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: So for everybody that that is hearing Melody for the first time, the few people that may be understanding or witnessing who Melody is for the first time.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: Give us like a quick little rundown of who you are, what you do.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: Just a 30-second elevator pitch.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_02: Um, well, I'm a weirdo recluse that likes to hang out at her home, moontan, and get slobbered on by her 160-pound dog de Bordeaux.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: I have so many more questions than this.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_02: What's basically what I love?
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: What's a moon tan?
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_02: You know, in Vegas it can be like 100 degrees in the summertime at nighttime.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_02: So you can just go out into your backyard and moontan.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: Does it do anything?
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_02: It's very freeing.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: Are you like, are you what are you wearing?
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: Are you wearing a bathing suit?
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: Are you wearing this?
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: The moon.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Just whatever God gave you.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_02: I'm wearing the moon.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: You are one of the one of the top performers in in Vegas, and I I say this with all seriousness, is looking at doing our research on you, knowing that I've seen you, and actually I I didn't actually know uh you at the time, but the looking doing our research and seeing that you were the Green Ferriot at Absinthe, seeing all the shows that you've been a part of and uh are are working on right now, which we're definitely going to talk about.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um you have an incredible resume here at town.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_02: So that's I do have to just really quick if you knew who I was all the way back then and you're doing all this quote unquote research, it's sounding a little stalker-ish.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'm the stalker.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: I'm the one that did the research on you after he got thoroughly motorized.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, he said this one time this woman put her boobs in my face.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: Please research her.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: We need her on the show immediately.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_01: No, really, I I was researching people that interested me in Las Vegas, and I came across your profile and I fell in love with you.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: Oh that's and that and that's really what happened.
• 4:16
  unknown: Thank you.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's a lot more innocent when it comes from her as opposed to when it comes from me.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_02: No offense.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: So take me back.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh how did you become a performer?
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: Like what growing up, how old were you when you were like this?
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's this is what I want to do.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: Because you you're not from Vegas, right?
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_02: No, I um I can't remember when I didn't want to be a performer.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_02: I remember like some of well my some of my earliest memories, my mom put me in like beauty contests and talent shows, and so I'd be like four years old, six years old, walking down the runway with these big poofy dresses, and you know, and I have a photo of myself.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_02: I won second place of all of all the girls.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_02: Congratulations.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, thanks.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_02: Although it was not a win for me, even that young.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_02: I've had the photo is of me looking at this girl.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_02: She has the flowers and the tiara, and I'm sitting there scowling at her, like because she's wearing all the sparkly things, and I wasn't.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_02: And I think that's what started my entertainment career is I wanted those sparkly things.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: You wanted the sparkly things.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, I wanted that tiara.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: Don't we all?
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: Don't we all want the sparkly things in the tiaras in life?
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_02: So um, very, very young.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_02: I used to do shows in my front yard when I uh lived in California when I was younger.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_02: And um I would get the neighborhood kids, these two neighbors, three girls, and I would put the choreo together, and then I'd go around to the neighbors, knock on their door, and give them the invite, of which they had to pay a quarter to come and sit on my front yard while I danced with these three girls back up to Salt and Peppa.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_02: Ah, but I was like 10, you know.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_02: I don't even know.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_02: I was so young.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_02: But um yeah, so I don't know how to be anything else.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: You're you're a you're a performer and you're a businesswoman.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: You're you you're you're making money even at the young age of 10 with putting on these shows.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_00: I love this for you.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh but you ended up before Vegas, you were in New York, right?
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: What was that like?
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_02: What New York is my What were you doing there?
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_02: Um since I was a little girl, I always wanted to live in New York City.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_02: I, you know, I always I used to think I would be a dancer, and then I I quickly realized that I wanted to be a singer and um moved to New York with that in mind.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_02: And I slept on many people's couches in the basements of many bars while I first moved there and um and then I I started doing uh burlesque and singing um in a show called um oh geez, a blushing diamond, I think it was called.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_02: And it was in this um office building uptown on like 23rd Street and you had to get uh go into the freight elevator, you had to know the secret password, and um it was incredible because people like Bjork came and and it was only about 50 seats in this office.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_02: It just turned into a full-on cabaret, illegal cabaret, and it was just I was hooked.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's so cool.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, New York definitely um shaped me in terms of a performer for sure.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: When it comes and so you're you're in New York, one of the top entertainment cities in in the world.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody, I'm assuming everybody's there is is talented, they're all attractive, they're all extremely good at what they do.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: Was it hard for you to kind of be part of that?
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm assuming where you came from in California, I don't I don't know which part of California, but going to New York, you're kind of thrown into it.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: Did you expect to be have so much competition in the New York scene and the entertainment scene?
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I didn't find it like that at all.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_02: Really?
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_02: It was a community.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_02: Um I actually uh before I found the burlesque community and I was just doing the band thing, like I would perform at CBGB's and all these places that you might have heard of.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_02: And it was very hard to gain traction, and I kind of I enjoyed singing, and that's why I kept doing it, and I loved that being in a band and being in a in a group, you know, that camaraderie.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_02: But um it was burlesque that really allowed me to uh just do whatever I wanted, and that's what started gaining traction.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_02: And with that, I found the burlesque community and they were so welcoming at the time.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_02: I I think it's a little different now, but but then when I first started doing burlesque, every all the women in burlesque were so helpful and so um they were on your side, they're on your team.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_02: And I think it's also a different animal in New York because most people that go to New York are hustlers.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_02: You know you're gonna have to hustle to make it there.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_02: So there's this bonding that happens between people that I haven't found anywhere else that I've been.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_02: And it I think it's because you're all in it to win it, and and you realize that it's you know a hustle and you won't get there alone for sure.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: Well said.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: I my next question, I'm gonna modify because my next question was when did the Melody Sweets like persona fully click?
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: But just talking to you even before the cameras were rolling, I feel like who I was talking to then and who I'm talking to now is nearly the same person.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like you this is who you are.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: I just maybe it's an extension of your true personality.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know, but how would you feel who you are compared to who Melody Sweets is when you see them see her and at Absinthe or see her performing?
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: Is there any difference really, or do you really kind of just have an extension of your true self?
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I'm wearing makeup.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_02: That's different.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: You're not moon tanning right now.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not moon tanning right now.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_02: Uh no.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, besides the fact that I often look like a homeless person when I'm at home calling.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_02: I find that extremely hard to believe.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_02: Other than that, I feel I'm I'm the same person.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_02: You you wouldn't recognize me.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: I find that very hard to believe.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'll send you some.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_02: No, I won't.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: Fine.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: Send it to Julie.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: Good, yes.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'd like to see Melody Suites with the dogs.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, and I won't be able to do that.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_02: You girls can hang, do things covered on, not just by me, but by my dog as well.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_02: I love dogs.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody's getting slow.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: So after you're going to be able to do that, but sorry.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: Next time, next time you're on.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: Next time you're on.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: I was just, I was gonna ask.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: So when you decided to come to Vegas, was there a plan?
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_01: Or did you just say time for a change?
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: Vegas sounds like the right place.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: No, actually, um the producers of Absinthe found me in New York.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_02: I was doing my own show in New York, and uh they came and saw me perform and um basically for about two years uh talked to me about Absinthe opening.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: And after a while, I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, just show me a contract because it was so long of just talking, talking, you know.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_02: And it was because we were the Absinthe was supposed to open up originally in the Fountain Blue before the stalled right, yeah.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_02: And so thank God it didn't, because I really think it wouldn't have worked there.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_02: I think the tent brings you know part of that uh excitement.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_02: It's like part of the cast when you watch it.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_02: Experience and everything.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_02: Um I I uh I don't think it would have worked there.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_02: I forgot what we're saying.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we're just saying about the plan when you came to Vegas.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_02: Oh they found me.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_02: I had no plan, obviously.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: Clearly no plan.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_02: Clearly no plan.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_02: They had a plan for me.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_02: Um no, but he finally they actually sent me the contract, and it was like in a month, I had a month to get everything situated.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, oh, okay, I guess I'm going to Vegas now.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_02: And um I did not think I was gonna stay here really at all.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_02: It was a six-month contract, and you know, we were getting in a lot of trouble when we first uh came here, and I really thought that I was gonna go home with uh, you know, like two risque for Vegas on my resume and you know, be really cool.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_02: But it wasn't.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: Too risque for Vegas would be wild.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_01: It'd be so great, right?
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_02: Here I am, I'm like drying out in the desert, yeah.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: Well, and I I know you said the camaraderie in New York, so when you came here, did you feel a sense of community here, or was there more pressure to like find your like weasel your way into the pressure of Vegas entertainment?
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_02: I think when I first came here, I wasn't looking for a community because I didn't think I was staying.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I had my show I was going back to and my place and everything, and um so I didn't really plan anything.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: I definitely thought I was going home.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm glad I'm glad you stayed.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_02: I love it here.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_02: It took me a while because I think, like a lot of people, you come into Vegas and you believe the media.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_02: It's like you stay in a hotel room and you get wasted for the weekend and there's nowhere to live and there's no friend, you know.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but once you realize actually there's a wonderful community here, you just gotta find it and you know, look for it a little.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_02: And definitely have grown since I've gone here.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, absolutely.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: This is 15 years now.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_02: God, why do you say those numbers?
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_02: So mean loves to say those numbers.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: So meaning is is it over five years now?
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: Is this how it is?
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yelling at me.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm passionate, Melody.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_02: Jesus, it's been a while.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_02: Here I am.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_02: Did you have to I came here in 2011?
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, we'll we'll let our listeners do the math at home.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_02: You do, thank you.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_00: You wouldn't even know that you at least just focused on on the motorway.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_02: I probably forgot at that moment that this is a video.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, right.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_03: Here we go.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: Did you have to audition for Speaker World in Absinthe, or did they just come to you and say, You're you're perfect, I want you.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_02: Um, all yes to all of that.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_02: They they said that, and also I had to audition, but the audition was amazingly awkward because it I so first of all, I go to the tent in the little area.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_02: This is in New York, where they have all these singers doing like vocal acrobatics and warming up, you know, and all this stuff.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm sitting there putting glitter on and pasties, and I'm like, oh well, you know what?
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just gonna do it, you know.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_02: And I go into the tent, and it's the original tent, so it's got the stained glass windows, it's bright as you know, anything in there.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_02: It's daytime.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_02: There's three people in there: the gazillionaire, the original, and the uh producer.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_02: And I sing my song, I do my little number, strip down, and then I was like, like, that's it.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_02: You know, grabbed my stuff and got off the stage.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_02: And uh on my way out, I heard I heard she's got it right.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, yes, nice.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_02: See, all you had to do is get naked.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: And and that's spoiler alert for Julie, who's maybe the only person in Vegas that hasn't seen Absinthe yet.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: To be fair, I have lived here less than a year, so I am new to Vegas.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: You're you're you're getting close to not being able to use that excuse anymore.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: I know I haven't seen it since I left.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: She's never just seen it.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: She's always been there for a new.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: Did you have a problem?
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: Because there is a part where you at the end, I think you take the top off, you have the pace, you have like the You think.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: I well you you have the the tassels on, whatever it is.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_01: The pasties.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: The pasties.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's so awkward.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: Is it getting hot in the city?
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_02: What's happening right now?
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody turned the AC over.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_02: Are you on film?
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_02: Just us.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_02: No, he is as well.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_02: You saw the original cast, so you saw my friend Penny Pibbots, the original.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_02: I I I I the best of brilliant comedian who I'm bringing her name up right now because I did this uh interview on uh on air interview, live interview uh a few years ago, and I had my bangles on, and she decided to call on air and tell me to take off the bangles.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_02: So uh Penny.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: This one's for you.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_02: This is for you.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_02: I love them.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_02: I hope you're watching or listening to this.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: I I I do think Penny was the best.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: I think the original gazillion is.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: They're all fantastic, they're all very talented, but uh the the originals were then wrapping wrapping up our our talk about Absinthe before we do move on.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: When you left that show, did you feel like you had learned anything about yourself as an entertainer in Vegas specifically?
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: Like once you were out of the Spiegel tent.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_02: Um I think what I learned from doing that show and from doing my own solo shows that I would do after the show is that at that time anyway, I really thought that Vegas was starved for authenticity.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_02: And I think that's another reason why Absinthe was such a huge hit because it was not so polished, it's wrought in your face.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_02: And and I think that it definitely helped me grow as an entertainer in realizing that I didn't really need to put on a show, I could be myself, and it resonated more.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_02: And then I also, you know, got a better connection with people by doing that as much as we did it twice a night, six nights a week when we first got here.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_02: You know, it really made me um focus a lot more on the women in the audience because a lot of times, like I said, the men are easy, right?
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_02: I don't even think they knew I was singing half the time.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_02: But the ladies, uh, you know, there would be some ladies in the audience that would be scowling or, you know, and it became this challenge and goal of mine to make them feel comfortable, to make them realize that I this is me, I'm in control, I'm having a good time, I'm letting you see what I want.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_02: There's nothing, you know, disrespectful here.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_02: And and we can all love this, you know, and so I would just really focus on the ladies in the audience more because I want them to feel good.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_02: I want them to leave having a great time and not feeling any kind of I don't know, whatever they were going through.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_02: But you know what I mean?
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_02: And I still do that now, right?
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_02: You know, like the ladies in the audience to me are you know the I I love having them there.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_02: I love seeing them smiling and beautiful in the audience.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_02: It just makes me really happy.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: But other than your upcoming show, which we will get to, what is your favorite one?
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: Like which one is your your baby that you've created?
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_02: I've done a lot, but um I think the one that I had the most fun at, and it was electric in the air, was the show I produced.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_02: It was a midnight show in the absinthe tent.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: It was called the Big Top Circus and Burlesque Show.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_02: And it had um guests like Dirty Martini, it had the original gazillion Aaron Penny, but they were uh um clown.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_02: I don't remember there.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_02: The band were clowns, um Jimmy Slonina, who is a brilliant artist in town, he was a uh this miming clown, and and uh had the Walenda Liana Walenda up on the wire.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_02: She stripped from a gorilla, full-on gorilla suit on the wire, on one foot.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god, I love you so much right now.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: And that was real full-time on the wire, it's just phenomenal.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_02: But there were six standing ovations throughout the show.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, it was just phenomenal.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_02: Oversold show.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_02: Don't tell anybody.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and brilliant.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_02: It was just, it was one of my all-time favorite shows.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_02: Bring it back.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: Bring it back.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, gosh.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: So anybody give me some money.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: You've been here for X amount of years.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, how much has Vegas, the entertainment side of it, changed from when you first got here to where it is today, you think?
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_02: Uh well, I think one of the things that I love is when I first got here, there wasn't really a big burlesque community, or you know, there wasn't a lot of burlesque happening.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_02: And now you can go almost every night, any night of the week, and see a burlesque show downtown in weird places.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_02: But they're happening, and that's exciting to me.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_02: And um, to see it thrive now is really cool.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_02: To have Dita uh Vontiz on the strip with those beautiful performers, and her beautiful show is really great.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_02: You know, she represents uh burlesque to a mainstream audience, and I think that's very important.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_02: She does it with class and beauty, and and she always has amazing, you know, performers.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_02: But don't go see her show, go see mine.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_02: Just putting it out there.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_02: Go see both.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, go see both.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yours first.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_02: Don't go see hers on the 23rd.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: Don't you dare.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: We're busy on the 23rd, Julie.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: We're busy.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: We're busy.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_02: Wait, because you're coming to my exactly.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_02: Melody.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: We're assholes, but we're not that much of I've had people, but oh yeah, we'll be there.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, they're not liars.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, good to know.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: So then, so tell us about Wild Heart then.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: This is the show that you have, right?
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_02: Tell us about that.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um, it is a Uh I got it the this theme because I wanted to do the exotica music from I don't know if like that exotica tiki style loungy music of the lots of percussion and you know um I was just about to do a gorilla sound don't do that on air melody correct yeah I mean you can yeah so I've I don't shh so um it's uh big band that this time I've got drums, percussion, uh stand-up bass, piano, uh trumpet, trombone, saxophone, vibrophone, backup singers, and uh beautiful burlesque by Maud Zaleam.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_02: I love I love burlesque names.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_02: I can listen to you say that every time.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: That's incredible.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and uh I'm really looking forward to this show.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_02: It's definitely a bit more wilder than the shows that I usually do at Myrons.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: What do you mean by wilderness?
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_02: I'm pushing my limits.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_02: I hope Myron's not listening right now.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_02: What do you mean by wilder?
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um the content of the show, the performers, um Myrons.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_02: When I think about Myrons and Smith Center, I'm obviously I think about upscale and maybe you know, little you know, nose in the air kind of audience.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, um I just try and um uh uh push my limits with what I can do there.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_02: I do it uh in as much bling as possible so it looks pretty.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_02: And usually that lets you get away with a little more naughtiness.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_02: Of course.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Without giving away too much, what's something that the audience can kind of expect as soon as they walk in?
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: Well, what are they feeling?
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: What are they expecting when they when they walk into that?
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_02: Into Smith Center?
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_02: Oh In the Wild Heart Heart.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_02: In the Wild Heart.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um well I I hope that everyone is uh donning their best tiki gear and um they can expect a lot of in-your face entertainment.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's what people always expect from me anyway.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_02: I enjoy singing in people's laps and um getting, you know, to know people well in the audience.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: You are the only person I've ever heard say, I enjoy singing in people's laps.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: I enjoy singing, I've never done it in a lap.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_02: You should try it.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_02: It's so fun, it's so awkward, and it gets the best laugh.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_02: I I did this show in Colorado Springs.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my God.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_02: And I sat down on this guy, and the whole song I'm I try to sing to one person for this whole song.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_02: And when I sat down on his lap, he was dry.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_02: When I stood up, he was not.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_02: It was so horrible.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_02: It was just a memory that I wanted to share.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for sharing that with me.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: That's when you wash whatever costume you're wearing.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: It was special, it was a moment.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Melody, when we talked about this earlier, you said you wouldn't bring up that story of me and you.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so embarrassed right now.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: I can't believe this.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: This is unbelievable.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: I tried to say it was Colorado Springs.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for trying to hide it.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: Is there uh in Wild Heart, is there one number or costume or or in anything in particular that you are most excited about?
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_02: I'm actually just excited about fitting into the costumes that I haven't worn in a while.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_02: So you're gonna know that if I'm painted like a tiger, then you know I did not fit into my costumes that I'm excited to wear.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: Well, insider info though.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, it's exciting times.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um but I am excited about these costumes.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_02: I I'm excited to do a costume change at Myron's because there's no way to like quickly leave Myron's stage.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_02: There's no like backstage immediately behind the um There's not like a wing.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_02: No, so you it's like a a mile and a half walk to the green room, to the dressing room.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_02: So you know it's it's hard to get off of the stage and come back in a new costume.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_02: So I've worked it out with the band and the performers so that I can do that.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm excited about that.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_02: Um I'm always excited about working with these musicians.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_02: Um, this one in particular, uh, Sergio Adame.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_02: I hope I'm saying your name right.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_02: Um player, but he's also a phenomenal percussionist.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_02: He's actually Wu-Tang clans percussionist.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_02: Totally name-dropping because I think that's awesome.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so cool.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_02: Because I love them.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_02: And um, so I'm excited to have him play and and uh yeah, I'm excited to see the performers do their thing in the audience and that's exciting.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there's only like I think like 13 seats left.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, and hopefully if if it's not booked by the end of by the time this episode airs, it will be.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_02: I hope so.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_02: It'll it knock on you, knock, knock, knock on wood.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_02: If you sing it, it reinforces it.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I'm using that.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's very good to know.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um I have not had a non-sold-out show yet.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_02: Ever uh at Smith Center before.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: So how many shows is it?
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: How many shows is Wild Heart going to have going to have?
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, just one.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: Just one.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I do these one-offs at Smith Center.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: Why just why do you do just one-offs?
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_00: You don't want to like all the time and effort.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_02: No, I get them on the line.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I actually have two shows for my holiday show this year, December 19th, which is also my birthday.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_02: Oh.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_02: So I probably won't remember those shows, but they'll be great.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_02: And I just booked a Halloween show there.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_02: So that's also Halloween's my favorite Halloween show.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_02: That's mine.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_02: Ooh, I love it.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: What's the Halloween thing?
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: Is it gonna be like a scary thing?
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: Is it gonna be like burlesque, sexy, spooky?
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_02: No, they just contacted me like two days ago.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: And so I have to get through Wild Heart first before I So when you do when you finish these wild, these one-off shows, and they're you put all the time, effort, you're exhausted, you everything went great, you're happy.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_02: I fit into my costume.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: You fit into your costume, you're not wearing the tiger paint, you're everything's good.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: What's the feeling like when you're done?
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: Is it just a sense of sigh of relief?
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_00: Is it like I can't wait for the next one?
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_00: What what goes through your mind?
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_02: Well, when I first get off of any stage, I usually need a moment of silence to myself to think about what I just did.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_02: You don't get that at Smith Center because you have to leave through the audience.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_02: So it's a little like a ha ha ha, you know.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um yeah, that's that's it.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_02: Other than that, I really look forward to the French fries that I have immediately after the show and maybe like a cheese steak.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_02: Oh God, I can't wait.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_00: You seem like a mustard type of girl with your french fries.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: Oh what?
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's insulting.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_01: That's not I eat mustard with my French fries.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: What do you what do you have with your French fries?
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_02: Ketchup.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_02: Don't be a maniac.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, have you seen Dita's show?
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_02: I have.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: What'd you think of it?
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's beautiful, and I think the dancers are beautiful and and she's beautiful, and it was all beautiful, and I'm jealous of that room, I have to say.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's a gorgeous room.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_02: Isn't it just beautiful?
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's it's perfect for for that show.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: It was at uh it's at Horseshoe, right?
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_00: Where was it?
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, that's where it started at.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_02: In the old Jubilee.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: The old Jubilee.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_02: Which is perfect also.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, yeah, Dita's show.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: I I saw it uh a couple years ago, maybe a year ago, and it was phenomenal.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_00: Such good vibes, and yeah, the the performers were fantastic, the music was incredible.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_02: My favorite show is Dirty Martini Anywhere.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_02: What anywhere you can do in any show.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_02: She's in she's in Dita's show.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but she is a show amongst herself, and she's just one of my favorite people and performers.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_02: And if you ever have a chance to see her performing.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_02: Dirty Martini?
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_02: Dirty Martini, yes.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: What's her thing?
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: Is she a singer?
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: She just fabulous, very authentic, amazing burlesque performer.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_02: She's so fun.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you just love her when she's on the stage.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_02: Have you worked with her before?
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, always.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_02: I've had her in numerous shows of mine, and we've performed in shows together in New York, of course, and she's just a wonderful human, and I think she is.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_02: To your to answer your question, she is my favorite show in Las Vegas right now.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_02: Well said.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_02: Love that.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_01: I think she's fabulous.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: So you've worked with her and many, many other people.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: Who is somebody on your bucket list that you hope to work with one day?
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't have to be in Vegas, just my husband, Wayne Newton.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: Donkish.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_00: Sing it.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my somebody look up his age.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_03: Donc he's still around.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: He's still cleaning.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_00: Wonderful.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_02: He's always so kind to me when I see him.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_02: And we were actually supposed to share a room at um uh Caesar's Palace when he was in the uh I'm assuming you mean like uh Cleopatra's barge.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_02: What were you gonna say?
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: You should share a room at a hotel.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's hysterical.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, be honest, that is how you want I've seen Vegas vacation.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: I saw the way that he goes after stage.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_02: We were supposed to share the same stage.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_02: I'm blushing only because I'm like, oh wait.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_02: We'll make sure he sees it.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's so rain.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_02: That's so I love him.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_02: He's always just so kind.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_02: I see him.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_02: And he's he seems like a genuine incredible entertainer, obviously.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so I was really bummed when that didn't happen.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_02: It was right as uh the pandemic came and then they closed that room forever, and and now I'll never share a room with my husband.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_02: Wayne Newton.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_00: Wayne Newton, he's he's a legend.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, God bless him.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so with the 13 tickets that are left, they're going fast.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_02: They're going fast.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: Where can people get tickets to these 13 remaining?
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_02: Smithcenter.com.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_02: I think that's what it is, is it?
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_00: Let's find out.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna look it up.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_02: We'll pull it up.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_00: We we want authenticity here on the website.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_02: I can't, I didn't put it on my website, you haven't put it on your website?
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_02: No, don't say that so loud.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_02: You said it first.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_02: How dare you?
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it is thesmithcenter.com.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: And let's see, we got station.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_02: In Myrons.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: In Myrons.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: Do we have to specify in Myrons?
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_02: Myrons beautiful room.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_02: I think you could just search for my name, maybe.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I'm trying to do here.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_00: Hold on.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_00: We're pull up the calendar.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's see.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: Did you do you see any Broadway shows when you were in New York?
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_02: No.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_02: I saw Broadway shows when I went to London.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: I saw me.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_02: No, this is funny though, because I saw my first Broadway show in London and the show was Chicago.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_02: It was a very strange experience.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_02: Strange.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_02: It was seeing Chicago with all those British accents.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_02: It was like, wait, something is not free revolution.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_02: Matthing, mathing.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was fun, but I had a good time.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: All right, Melody Suite's Wildheart, May 23rd, and the venue is Myron's.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: You're right.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh approximately 75 to 90 minutes with no intermission, Julie.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: So you have to hold it.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_01: I don't need any intermission.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: You have to hold it.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_01: Unlike that guy who did not hold anything.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: Well, he wasn't wet down there.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_00: Where was he wet?
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: Where was he wet?
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_02: He he had a soaking wet.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_02: How did you go back to he was just started sweating and he got really nervous?
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_02: And then he ended up following me around the club all night.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, really well.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: Julie, get the skeleton out.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_00: We want you to point out where he was wet on the skeleton.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_02: We need the anatomical figures.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_02: All everywhere.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like I I I usually like to run my fingers through their hair and don't do that to him.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Melanie.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: That's a bold move.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_00: That's a bold move.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_01: Outside of Wild Heart, if people want more Melody Suites, where can they find you?
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, baby.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_02: Um at the moment, they could find me moontanning in my backyard.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I didn't mean where can they stalk you.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_01: I meant where can they find you on the internet?
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, on the interweb.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_02: Melody Suites Official.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, because someone else stole Melody Suites.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_02: Melody Suite's Official on Instagram.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody stole Melody Suites?
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_00: There's another Melody Suites out there?
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_02: No, they just took it.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_00: Haters.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_02: Rude.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_02: Haters.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: Haters.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_00: We don't tolerate haters here at YouTube.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_02: So Melody Suites Official on the Insta.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_02: And that's it.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: And thesmithcenter.com.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_02: And the Smith Center on May 23rd.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_02: At Myron's.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: At Myrons.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: 8 p.m.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_02: 8 p.m.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_00: 13 tickets left.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yep, come in.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_02: Your fabulous tiki selves.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: You really won't.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the Smith Setter really won't do another show if you sell out.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, that's why.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_02: Um well they won't at this late in the game, but you have to schedule it in advance.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_02: So that's what they did for my holiday show.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_02: Because last year my um Christmas show sold out in July.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_02: So they added a second.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_02: Good for you.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was great.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_02: It was so I loved it.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_02: Although I was really sad when Christmas came around because so many people that I know who are lame and wait for the very last minute to get tickets weren't able to come because that's too bad.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: Because they were lame.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_00: Bunch of lames.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_02: No, I'm just but now they can all come.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm not calling you lame.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_02: I hope you come to my show.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: Please, please come see Melody Suite's Wild Heart May 23rd, 8 p.m.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, please do.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_02: Come watch me motorboat uh old friend.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, oh and a and a new friend.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_00: Motorboating all the friends.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody's getting motorboated that night.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we don't do handshakes or hugs anymore.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_01: We just straight for it.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_00: Well, listen, I could play the outro song and do my little spiel, but I'd rather you kind of just do your outro song for us while I over while I talk over you.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_00: If that if that works.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_00: You ready?
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_00: I just need like 10 seconds of output.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: 10 seconds.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: You ready?
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_02: Uh huh.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_00: Well, this was great, Melody.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for being here.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_00: Check out new episodes each week on heybighead.com.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see you next week.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_01: Perfect.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: Your voice is so soothing.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_01: That was really good.