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Love Noise, Bubba's Unreleased Tracks, and Building Community in The Scene Projects · The Scene Projects

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  Welcome in to a very exciting episode of the scene.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts.
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  And with me today are my cohosts, Boo Boo and Wild Willie.
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  Man, this is love noise.
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  Welcome in, everybody.
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  Our first kinda trial run.
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  Boo Boo, why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself and let the people know who you are,
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  where you're from?
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  I'm Boo boo.
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  I am the producer for the Scene Projects from South Dakota.
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  I'm also the host of an upcoming podcast, the boo boo show.
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  I'm the host of Freestyle Freakouts and cohost the love noise.
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  That's right.
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  How about you, Willie?
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  Well,
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  I'm Wild Willie.
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  I am an owner of Backwards Production, but my main focus right now has been my podcast, Soul
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  Impact, how music saved us, and, you know, I'm just doing my thing out here.
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  Both of you gentlemen are big parts of what we've been doing here at the Scene Projects
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  these last several months.
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  This is the first time we're getting together to do Love Noise, which is our brand new show
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  focused on really supporting the music that infatuates us around the scene projects crew.
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  Obviously, those of you who are fans of the show, you know that we host artists on our
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  programming every single week.
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  And now this is kind of our chance to introduce you to the music from the artists themselves.
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  So what we're gonna do tonight is similar to what we're gonna do in the future with other
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  artists.
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  Tonight, we're gonna feature a couple of my songs, but in the future, we'll be bringing on,
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  hopefully, other artists and listening to their tracks and giving them a little bit of
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  feedback, what we like, what we didn't like, interview them a little bit, and kinda just our
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  hangout.
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  This is a giveback to our community of the scene projects, which has been growing rapidly.
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  And very, very much thanks to the success of shows like Soul Impact and from the hard work
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  that Boo Boo's been putting in behind the scenes for us and really looking forward to Boo
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  Boo's show and some more stuff from Freestyle Freakout.
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  So I think Freestyle Freakout has a has a future using StreamYard like we are tonight
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  too.
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  So really excited about this fellas.
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  How are you feeling about it?
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  I'm excited.
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  I feel great.
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  I think this is an awesome way to do things.
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  And the fact that now you're on here with us too, you know, and it's all three of us.
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  I think it's gonna be an even better show each week.
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  Oh, absolutely.
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  I I can't wait to get further into it.
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  You know?
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  When you first came to me with it, I was so excited just, you know, it kinda ties right
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  into what I'm already doing with my podcast.
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  So it just it comes natural because, you know, I did a lot of people that when they talk to
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  me, they send me their music, and they're like, I'm having trouble putting it out there.
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  So then I can be like, hey.
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  I got this.
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  You know?
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  So it kinda gives them another another stepping stone.
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  It's really kind of
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  a full circle.
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  Right?
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  We're all interviewing artists all the time and and bringing them in to to, you know, talk
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  about them and share their story.
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  But it it's not always easy, you know, in the settings that we've been in to play their music
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  and to listen to it and and to be able to bring that out to our fans as well.
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  So this is really, I'm really excited about it, man.
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  This is this is totally rad to be able to come on here.
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  And for me, these are two unreleased songs that I'm kinda bringing out here for the first time
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  to let my buddies hear them and just kinda thinking about what what that means to me as an
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  artist.
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  I've been so focused on this podcast now for the last eighteen months that I've kind of
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  forgot about the, the the songwriter in me.
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  Right?
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  I've kinda buried that man as, I've been very focused on supporting other songwriters.
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  But tonight, I'm looking forward to have a lot of fun.
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  So I think it's time to get into some music.
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  What do you guys think?
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  Yeah.
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  Let's do it.
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  Let's dive into
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  these are from my my band starts and ends.
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  These are some songs that I've been working on in the studio, for the last, like, nine months
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  or so.
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  Kinda laid the the beginning tracks of these down back in December when I was out in the
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  Black Hills.
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  Shout out to my buddy Tom Freer with Cottonwood Studios.
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  Diami Drew is on base on this one.
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  You're gonna hear a little bit of Johnny Hastings on guitar here later too.
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  Tom Freer also played drums on this one.
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  So, some really epic tracks that we've been working on, and the first one I wanna play for
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  you guys is called everlasting.
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  That's me.
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  Oh, I know who it is.
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  I was used to as a men's band before we were friends.
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  I ain't got light.
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  Kinda wanted me getting up dance.
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  Kinda made me wanna get up and dance.
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  Yeah.
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  Like
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  Cool, man.
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  It makes me feel so good to share that with my friends, you know?
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  Not a lot of people have heard these songs, right?
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  You know, I've played this one live a little bit and we definitely had the I've had this
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  idea out there for quite a while.
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  So, actually, the song or the song is about when I found out my granny that the cancer she
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  had beaten, you know, twenty years earlier had come back, and it wasn't it wasn't gonna be
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  long.
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  Right?
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  And I had an a very finite amount of time left, with my mom's mom.
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  I, you know, I called her my granny.
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  And, it just kinda hit me, man.
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  And this is this is how I get my feelings out.
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  Right?
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  And it was all the you know, you think you have all the time in the world, but but it you never
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  do.
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  You know?
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  And and kinda dealing with that a little bit this week too and kinda share a little personal
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  story, but, you know, just just over a week ago, I had a cousin, probably one of my
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  favorite cousins.
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  I mean, everybody loved him.
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  My cousin Jeremy starts, 49 years old, man, died.
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  Like, you know, heart complications, we don't really know exactly what, or at least I haven't
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  heard yet, but, you know, just gone.
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  One of the healthiest people that I ever knew.
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  And, I think that this song really this song really captures that that energy.
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  Right?
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  That just go live it energy that I think I've always kind of, lived my life by, that you just
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  gotta go for it.
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  You you can't wait for tomorrow because none of us are promised tomorrow.
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  Parenthood.
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  Yeah.
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  This song means a lot to me.
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  And I know it's a really you know, it's not necessarily a song that my you know, that would
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  have been my granny's favorite genre or or that, but it was really that emotion that
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  struck me and that it you gotta keep going.
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  Right?
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  You you gotta go live that life to the fullest.
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  You can't pull your foot off the gas at any point.
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  And, there's one point in there actually where the, after that second chorus, and there's a
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  part where, like, all the sound finally stops.
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  Right?
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  You've been the whole song, and then there's a little bit of just like a breath in there.
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  And I thought the guys in the studio really captured that, and we were able to to mix that
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  down and to really make that moment come through.
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  You know?
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  It's one of the hooks of the song, especially when you're gonna get in your truck and you're
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  gonna crank it up, and it's just thumping away.
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  You know?
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  Diami just killed that baseline.
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  Right?
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  Thumping that whole thing out.
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  And, that little breath, that's the essence of life.
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  Right?
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  Those little moments that is only a half of a second.
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  It's a smile.
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  It's a, you know, it's a small, tiny memory, but those are what live on with us, you know,
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  from, you know, the people that we love, that we lost.
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  So that song's really, it's really a deep one for for a very straightforward kinda rock and
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  roll song.
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  It really has some deep, deep meaning to me personally, and I hope that in time, other
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  people kinda gravitate to it for that reason as well.
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  So, Willie, what'd you think?
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  Oh, I try not to.
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  It gets me in trouble.
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  But, honestly, from coming from you you know a little bit, not everyone does, but the health
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  cares I had and just listening to the lyrics.
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  You know?
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  I've kinda gotten, and that's why if you kinda was watching, I closed my eyes when I hear a
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  song for the first time because unless I'm driving.
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  Okay?
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  But if I'm really sitting down to listen to a song, I close my eyes and I listen to, one, the
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  beat of it, two, the lyrics.
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  And, you know, I kinda getting that vibe, you know, just go for it.
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  You know?
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  You said everlasting, and it was just time everlasting.
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  And, you know, that just kinda stuck because, you know, that's kinda what I got out of, but
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  also at the same time, I could see that song that was me, a DJ aspect.
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  It's very catchy.
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  It it really is.
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  I could see that being a song that I I play at a DJ event, and people will be like, yeah, you
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  know, up there grooving and, you know, so it had a lot going for it.
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  And, you know, you take the compassionate story and you hit it with a little uptempo music, and
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  it completely changed how the story was told.
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  What you got, boo boo?
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  Honestly, I really liked it and, like, I felt the emotion in the song and knowing where it
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  comes from, you know, like, it hits me a lot more because, like, both of my grandmas before
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  they passed, they would have loved that song.
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  Like, hearing the word everlasting, like, I thought it would last forever.
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  And literally in the blink of an eye, I watched their health fall out of nowhere.
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  And so, like, I don't know.
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  The song hits hard and, like, it's got the right kind of emotion because, like, well,
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  like, yeah, the story that brought you it was sad.
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  The song still feels really uplifting and, like, you know, you're trying to more push the
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  better side.
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  Like, you know, it's not forever, but you can still, you know, make it last, it feels like.
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  Yeah.
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  And I just love the the wordplay in the song.
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  Right?
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  The time's everlasting, but time never lasts.
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  Exactly.
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  Was just kind of the line.
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  That was really the, like, the start of the song.
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  Right?
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  Thinking about my granny.
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  And, I mean, we could have lost her twenty years ago.
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  She had a very rare form of of of cancer that, I mean, kills, like, eighty percent of the
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  people that that did it.
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  Right?
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  I think it was a form of osteosarcoma.
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  I think it was a form of bone cancer.
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  Oh, wow.
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  It was very rare.
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  I don't know for sure exactly what it was, but the the experimental drugs.
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  Right?
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  Like, they they gave her us two decades with my granny, and we lived right next to her.
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  I was very close with her.
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  Right?
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  I was very close with my mom's mom throughout my whole life.
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  And it kinda was like, you know, did you did you do enough in those twenty years that you
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  got to to really, you know, to to let her know that you loved her and and that you learned you
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  learned the lessons that she was trying to teach you and yeah, it just yeah.
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  I love writing songs, guys.
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  It's always been how I get out all of this emotion in me.
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  I mean, you guys know you've seen me get fiery.
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  Willie's Willie's seen me step on stage when it's time for hell house to shut the hell up.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  How how fiery I can get.
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  And, you know At
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  03:00 in the morning.
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  Oh
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  my goodness, man.
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  Such a good time.
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  Shout out to captain Jacks down there at Summersville, Missouri.
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  I had a great time at Vibe Fest, man.
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  Me and Asher landed down there.
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  We made a lot of noise, and I was so happy to get to share those moments.
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  But, yeah, boys, it's 2AM.
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  Shut the fuck up.
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  He didn't even say shut up.
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  Let's just be honest.
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  Yeah.
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  Let's to look to Willie, and the speakers went dead.
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  He just gave me this, I'm gonna fucking kill you, Luke.
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  And I was like, I got it.
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  I got it.
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  He's he looked at
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  you and said, Willie,
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  I wasn't even mad at Willie.
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  Said
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  Man, if they would have been playing some music, boo boo, and it would have been
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  chilling.
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  It probably would have let him go all night.
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  But these dudes are on here shouting at no one.
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  Right?
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  Like this festival was super small.
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  Everybody's chilled out, and they're acting like there's 30,000 people there screaming on
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  saying, like, I understand.
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  I know you wanna bring that vibe.
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  You know?
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  We gotta get people up.
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  But, boys, read the room.
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  You're acting like it's hadn't even started yet.
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  Morning.
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  Festival hasn't even started yet, though, to be honest.
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  I was right.
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  As I was more mad about Thursday night today.
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  No.
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  It's not.
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  Because Thursday night, we got there early to set up sound.
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  And then with me and Bubba, we tagged team sound.
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  And two, 03:00 in the morning, I was like and sometimes that's where I need to be a little
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  more firmer and be like, no.
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  You guys are done.
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  Well and who's gonna tell you no, Willie?
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  Like, gonna who's gonna walk up to your big ass and be like, I'm gonna do it out.
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  No.
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  They go they're gonna listen.
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  Just got that entire sound.
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  Oh my god.
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  Oh, so good.
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  Well, I'm I'm really glad that you guys liked that one.
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  Well That song means a lot to me, as you can tell.
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  I mean, even getting choked up now, you know, talking about it because I kinda in some ways,
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  as an artist, I kind of I kinda hide my emotions inside of that too.
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  Right?
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  I don't I kinda put them there, and I leave them there.
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  And then it happens to to kinda come out more when I'm when I'm doing it.
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  Right?
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  As I'm as I'm singing it, that emotion can come out, you know, songs that I've written for my
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  wife kind of the same way.
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  And so real, really happy that you guys dug that one.
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  So the next one I got for y'all, we're gonna bring
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  them up.
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  Real quick.
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  Go ahead.
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  When you do release that, you let me know because I'm gonna have you back on the show.
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  I I just did.
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  I just released it right I don't even think I'm putting this stuff on the streamers, man.
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  I think I'm gonna put it available as an m p three if you wanna come download it off the
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  website.
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  Right?
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  Like, I'm just I'm so done with all the garbage streaming and everything.
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  Like, I ain't never gonna make any money off of this.
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  They're never gonna let me in.
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  You know what I mean?
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  The music industry ain't never gonna let me in because I won't let them buy me, and I won't
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  let them crush my soul, and I ain't gonna give them a piece of nothing.
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  I'd rather go out here and be broke and maintain my integrity and have what I built in
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  this community.
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  I've spent twenty five years building around me and to keep that rather than ever giving an
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  inch to these people that don't want me anyway.
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  If they wanted me, I've been here the whole time.
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  Exactly.
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  And, honestly, what's the point of going on streaming platforms?
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  I've made what?
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  A dollar off of one year worth of streaming platforms.
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  And in two month in the in the two months I had my merch supply, I sold out.
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  Right.
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  I sold it all out.
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  Made a 100 times that.
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  And I don't know Boo Boo that well yet, but it's getting there.
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  But the way and I can tell you this.
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  The way you meet people, Bubba, and I have not heard a person like, even on the people that
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  you have sent to me, they speak so highly of you.
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  And I'm not saying this to give you a big head, so don't think that.
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  But they see the passion you put into everything.
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  It's not just your it's your music, your everyday life.
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  You know?
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  And we we talked on my show about how I'm a I'm a fuck it up.
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  I know.
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  But how basically when
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  you get
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  up there and you're seeing, people know your story.
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  That may not be exactly how you said it.
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  And like I said, I know I'm gonna fuck it up.
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  But that is what makes an artist.
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  And I honestly and I'm not knocking anyone, but that's what I want when I hear a song.
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  I want that here I am laid all out on the line.
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  And not
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  And these these are the stories of my life, man.
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  Like, when when I talk and so when I like, every single song that I've written has a
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  story, and I can tell you exactly where I was at that moment and where I was in my personal
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  life and where I mean, physically where I was when I wrote the songs.
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  Right?
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  I mean, I was right I was right here when I wrote everlasting.
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  I'm literally right in this same spot writing this song just a few short years ago.
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  And, for now to hear it sound like it does, it's really it's really a treat.
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  Alright.
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  I got another song for you guys.
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  You wanna hear it?
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  Yes.
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  Of course.
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  This next one is called fools.
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  So this is actually a a much older song, but really happy.
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  It's got the right vibe, man, and I know I had the right guys for it too.
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  Diame Giroux is one of the best bass players I've ever seen, man.
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  Young cat.
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  He's maybe 22 now.
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  I don't I don't even know.
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  He's young, man, but he's so so good, and he's such a a lovable kid, man.
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  And and he offered to come in and to help me with these songs, and he came in so well
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  prepared.
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  I mean, we really ran through these songs like three takes.
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  Me, Tom, and Diami had never even played together before.
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  Not like this.
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  Right?
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  And we literally jumped in the studio, wrapped them a few times, and then it was like, okay.
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  Let's hit record.
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  And, so this is fools.
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  Johnny Hastings on guitar on this one.
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  That's not me.
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  Wow.
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  That's my favorite guitar player in the world, fellas.
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  That's Johnny Hastings, man.
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  Understand why.
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  What a freaking treat, man.
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  Un unbelievable.
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  God.
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  I love I love the way that that one came out.
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  That man is amazing.
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  Man, that song's been in my head.
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  Right?
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  That song's been in my head, and I played it with the band, you know, 02/2009, 2010 and had
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  a band, and it sounded pretty good then.
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  But that song's been on a shelf for fifteen years.
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  Yeah.
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  Fifteen years, this song's just been sitting on a shelf not doing anything.
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  Right?
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  And to have it now, like this is just, man, unbelievable.
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  And Johnny just Johnny killed it.
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  I cried.
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  I cried.
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  When he sent me these songs back, I was just like, what?
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  Like, that's that's that's that's how that sounded?
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  Sick.
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  Wow.
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  Sick.
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  Oh.
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  That is an amazing song.
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  Thank you.
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  Is.
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  That's probably my favorite one I've heard so far tonight, and that includes all the other
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  stuff I heard before the show.
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  I will say this much.
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  It is a good song, but, man, it it puts you in your fillers.
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  Like That is Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Especially for somebody like you, Willie, who's been through the ringer.
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  Right?
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  Oh, yeah.
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  I mean and I ain't gonna lie.
• 25:48
  I I sit there and listen to it, and it you know?
• 25:52
  And I'm horrible with wording, so I don't get upset if I mess the words up.
• 25:57
  But where it talked about the I'm sitting here with a bottle.
• 26:01
  It's either the bottles or the booze or blues.
• 26:05
  You know?
• 26:05
  Yeah.
• 26:05
  I I was there two and a half, three years ago.
• 26:09
  You know?
• 26:10
  My ex wife had left, and it was like, that's probably one of them songs that you put out
• 26:15
  there.
• 26:15
  It's gonna be downloaded by this guy because, you know, it's songs like that is the reason I
• 26:22
  do what I do.
• 26:23
  You know?
• 26:23
  And it makes you realize that maybe you've not dealt with some of the demons, yeah, you
• 26:32
  encountered.
• 26:32
  Or on the flip side of that, for me, it made me realize how far I've come.
• 26:39
  You know?
• 26:40
  Because here I was three years ago chasing chasing another bottle, doing what I needed to
• 26:47
  do.
• 26:50
  Not necessarily the right choices, but, man, it it that song kinda smatch in the face with it.
• 26:55
  If you didn't get that message you know, if you didn't hear about how, you know, you know,
• 27:03
  you're thinking about that person.
• 27:05
  You've been with that person for however long,
• 27:07
  and then it's just thousand shiny daggers every time I hear your name.
• 27:11
  Right?
• 27:12
  Oh, yeah.
• 27:12
  This Yeah.
• 27:13
  How how's she doing for people that don't know you're broke up, and you're just like, you
• 27:17
  gotta tell that story again.
• 27:18
  Right?
• 27:19
  Oh, yeah.
• 27:19
  It's like
• 27:20
  A stab, man.
• 27:21
  Yeah.
• 27:22
  What's funny about this Yeah.
• 27:24
  Willie, is that I wrote this song while I was with my oldest boy's mom, and things were good.
• 27:30
  Right?
• 27:30
  Not knowing that that was gonna be by far the worst breakable.
• 27:33
  I mean, still breaking up.
• 27:34
  My son's 13.
• 27:36
  This woman still sticks the knife in me when she gets a chance to.
• 27:39
  You know?
• 27:40
  So, yeah, to to finally get this one out the same way, man.
• 27:44
  We're just like, man.
• 27:46
  And then to have Johnny Hastings just absolutely destroy the guitar on it.
• 27:51
  I mean, I he wasn't with us in the studio.
• 27:54
  So, me, the drummer, and the bass player all got together.
• 27:58
  Like I said, we ran through the songs a couple of times and hammered them out, and I was
• 28:01
  trying to get through as many as I wanted to because I didn't wanna waste my time.
• 28:04
  I recorded this back in the Black Hills Of South Dakota.
• 28:07
  I live five hours away.
• 28:08
  I don't make it out there very often.
• 28:09
  So I wasn't I knew the process was already going to be drawn out.
• 28:13
  So we had to maximize the time while we were there.
• 28:16
  And we got, I think, five tracks done in in, like, four hours.
• 28:19
  Like, that's unheard of.
• 28:20
  People don't do that, especially songs that you don't it took boo boo four hours to do a vocal
• 28:25
  track, and the dog screwed it all up anyway.
• 28:28
  Well, I got it done.
• 28:29
  The dogs just kept screwing it up.
• 28:30
  I had to leave until I could get it done.
• 28:36
  So so to to to be in a position where we got all of these songs done, and that was like,
• 28:43
  cool.
• 28:43
  I I knew it was gonna be a while till I made it back again to do any kind of vocal work or
• 28:47
  anything like that.
• 28:48
  And kind of in the meantime, was able to go and sent him off to to my boy Johnny with some
• 28:57
  scratch vocals on him and then came back and did the the true vocal tracks on him.
• 29:02
  And, man, I got some stories about stories about that day too.
• 29:06
  That that was a wild one.
• 29:08
  But, man, I got one more for you guys that I actually wanna play, after hearing Johnny.
• 29:14
  Yes.
• 29:14
  I freaking I just love it so much, man.
• 29:16
  I mean, I really felt that last one.
• 29:18
  I can't wait to hear the next one.
• 29:20
  Wow.
• 29:21
  This next one is called Drifter.
• 29:22
  And I hope it don't put me in my fillers.
• 29:25
  Well, it might.
• 29:26
  You never know.
• 29:27
  You never know, man.
• 29:29
  Is These are these are, man, these are just in the mixing process, so they are totally raw.
• 29:35
  They haven't been mastered yet.
• 29:36
  This is this is a raw track.
• 29:38
  So you're gonna hear a little bit a little bit of a flub at the beginning here, but I I think
• 29:43
  it kinda adds to the song, and I do it.
• 29:46
  So this is Drifter, and I hope everybody digs on this one.
• 29:50
  Now, he's gonna put me my feelers with this one, I bet.
• 29:57
  Playing?
• 29:58
  I'm not hearing
• 30:00
  anything.
• 30:01
  I'm hearing like a buzz.
• 30:02
  I'm not hearing anything either.
• 30:04
  Alright.
• 30:04
  We're gonna have to Like
• 30:09
  There it is.
• 30:13
  Oops.
• 30:15
  That was supposed to we'll edit that out in post, guys.
• 30:17
  Don't worry.
• 30:19
  Alright.
• 30:19
  Here we go.
• 30:20
  Here's the
• 30:21
  Leave the wrongness of it.
• 34:43
  I'm leaving that little bit in at the end too when we press it on vinyl, I think.
• 34:48
  Well, that one definitely definitely put me in my feelers.
• 34:55
  Think anybody I think anybody who's lived a little, that that's that one's gonna get you.
• 34:59
  Right?
• 35:00
  Yeah, I mean, that one really reminds me of like, I mean, you know what happened back in
• 35:04
  high school, you know, like right after my girlfriend died, you know, when I felt like
• 35:07
  nowhere was home, it really, you know, felt a lot like that song, you know?
• 35:11
  Brother, I've been there, man.
• 35:12
  But I felt like there was nothing and I was nowhere for me to go.
• 35:17
  I actually wrote this one in prison.
• 35:19
  So I wrote this song eight, nine years ago.
• 35:22
  You know, married to another woman at the time.
• 35:24
  I didn't even know Danielle then.
• 35:26
  I I hadn't seen my kids.
• 35:27
  I hadn't seen Judah in probably five years at that point, six years.
• 35:33
  I my I met my daughter through the glass.
• 35:35
  Right?
• 35:36
  My daughter was born while I was in.
• 35:38
  I hadn't seen my son, Mickey.
• 35:41
  And now, like, the song means so much more now than it ever did.
• 35:45
  Like, it told the story of, like, me leaving that life behind and then coming into the life
• 35:52
  I have now.
• 35:53
  Right?
• 35:53
  And and it's kind of fun that a lot of these songs are getting finished now when things are
• 35:58
  so good.
• 35:59
  Right?
• 35:59
  The network is moving on to you know, not moving on to.
• 36:02
  It's moving on to Roku and And that, like, huge
• 36:05
  Yeah, man.
• 36:05
  We're we're we're on TV, baby.
• 36:08
  You know?
• 36:08
  I've been on I've been on network television or not network, but, you know, local, you know,
• 36:14
  cable TV, you know, eight times or nine times in the last year and a half, and, it's just
• 36:21
  such a different life now than where I was then.
• 36:25
  And for, like, the songs to be done now, I feel like is somehow closing the chapter on a lot of
• 36:31
  those things too.
• 36:32
  So, what'd you
• 36:34
  think, Willie?
• 36:36
  I think it goes hand in hand with that last one.
• 36:39
  I really do.
• 36:40
  Because, like, it that last one, you know, talked about the bottle and who you were, and
• 36:47
  that one basically starts out you know, it takes me back to my first real relationship,
• 36:54
  you know, that it broke out.
• 36:55
  So I went to truck driving, you know, and I spent five months over the road.
• 37:00
  I didn't come home.
• 37:01
  I had no reason to.
• 37:03
  So, you know, for that, it just takes that you know?
• 37:08
  And I tell everybody now, I couldn't go back to truck driving because I'd miss my family.
• 37:12
  I I'd miss my daughter.
• 37:13
  You know?
• 37:15
  So I there's no way I could do it.
• 37:19
  You know?
• 37:19
  And it just tells you how us as humans have evolved in our life and outgrew the things that
• 37:32
  we thought we would never outgrow.
• 37:34
  Like, you know, for me, trucking, I thought I was gonna truck the rest of my life.
• 37:38
  You know?
• 37:40
  Because I enjoyed it.
• 37:41
  But then it there's comes a point where that lifestyle, you know, pretty much a trucker is a
• 37:49
  drifter if you're never home.
• 37:51
  You you I mean, you think about it.
• 37:52
  And It's the same life as a rock star too.
• 37:55
  Right?
• 37:55
  Or or as anyone with an addiction.
• 37:57
  Yeah.
• 37:58
  You might not be you could be in one place, but still drifting.
• 38:01
  Right?
• 38:01
  And still being listless in an ocean.
• 38:04
  Yeah.
• 38:05
  I mean air.
• 38:05
  Heck, I lived in one place, but I didn't have a home, really.
• 38:09
  You know?
• 38:11
  I mean, a lot like what Willie
• 38:12
  said Parallels between mine and your life, man.
• 38:16
  Like, I could.
• 38:18
  What's crazy is, like, how many things we have in common that we experience or how different,
• 38:22
  like, how far apart we are in age, you know?
• 38:28
  Not to not to make you sound old.
• 38:30
  You're not old.
• 38:31
  No.
• 38:32
  But, bro, I mean, it's I'm almost twenty years older than you.
• 38:34
  I I I am very much your senior, but I you know, the reason that I probably gravitate so much to
• 38:44
  you and try to be that, you know, kind of that that mentor, that big brother figure is because
• 38:49
  I see so much of my experience in you.
• 38:52
  Right?
• 38:53
  You know, you're you're a young musician and songwriter, and you want this thing, but, like,
• 38:58
  bad shit just keeps happening to you.
• 39:00
  Right?
• 39:00
  Like, you didn't have the best upbringing.
• 39:03
  You didn't you weren't equipped with the skills to deal with what you've been through in the
• 39:09
  first place.
• 39:10
  So to see you now, you know, sober and and and off of probation very recently.
• 39:16
  Right?
• 39:17
  Like, to see you doing those things, I never even got off probation.
• 39:21
  Right?
• 39:21
  Like, I just kept on running.
• 39:23
  I was like, Oregon's like, don't come back.
• 39:24
  I was like, fucking peace out.
• 39:26
  Turn it into a shithole anyway.
• 39:28
  And I I was right, sadly.
• 39:31
  But, you know, and but, you know, prison was kinda that chapter to me, right, where I I I
• 39:37
  wasn't gonna run anymore.
• 39:38
  Right?
• 39:39
  South Dakota was gonna come get me no matter where I was.
• 39:41
  They did.
• 39:42
  And and it allowed me to kind of, finally sit still for two years, right?
• 39:48
  To just be to be still, to sit with all of those feelings, to sit with all the things that
• 39:53
  I had done, and to make peace with that man, with that boy, right?
• 39:58
  So, like, I really grew up in my thirties, right?
• 40:02
  Being being 30, 31, 32 in a prison cell, you know, in an adult daycare that that is, you
• 40:09
  know, kind of a medium security prison and just looking around and being like, yeah, this ain't
• 40:14
  this ain't for me.
• 40:15
  This this ain't the life that I wanna live.
• 40:18
  This isn't my kids didn't ask for this.
• 40:20
  Right?
• 40:21
  And and thank goodness that they were all young enough to not really they don't remember me
• 40:26
  being in prison.
• 40:26
  They wouldn't even know that I had gone if I wasn't honest with them and told them.
• 40:30
  But I also tell them as a warning, like, look.
• 40:33
  There's yes.
• 40:33
  I am a lot stricter on you than my parents were.
• 40:36
  But my parents were like, no.
• 40:37
  It's cool.
• 40:37
  You can smoke weed.
• 40:38
  No.
• 40:38
  It's cool to to drink and party, and, like, that was the role models that I was looking up
• 40:43
  to, and it didn't freaking end well.
• 40:45
  Right?
• 40:45
  Exactly.
• 40:46
  I'm a lot better man and role model for my kids and all the people around me and and to to to
• 40:54
  give you these lessons in these songs and to deliver them and and especially this whole
• 41:00
  album man.
• 41:02
  The this whole five songs that that we've done put together are the embodiment of those
• 41:08
  lessons, And really, really happy that I got to share them with you guys tonight.
• 41:14
  It really meant a lot to me.
• 41:15
  I know, I can see there's a couple people watching on YouTube and shout out to y'all for
• 41:20
  for joining us.
• 41:21
  I don't know if you follow the scene projects.
• 41:23
  If you do, thank you and if you don't, please subscribe to the channel.
• 41:28
  We love you.
• 41:29
  We got a great thing going.
• 41:31
  Our our channel just got onto Roku and Amazon Fire and Apple TV.
• 41:37
  So, you can find some of our content on those major streaming platforms and I kinda wanted to
• 41:43
  use this first episode of Love Noise to introduce myself, introduce myself as a
• 41:48
  songwriter because it would feel wrong to start to bring on all of these, you know, we did 250
• 41:53
  episodes last year, y'all.
• 41:55
  So, it would feel wrong to have everyone else on and to not have this pilot episode with my
• 42:02
  dudes, Wild Willie and Boo Boo here with me to to kind of absorb these and and to be here to
• 42:09
  share this moment with me.
• 42:10
  So I really wanna thank you guys for, staying up late on a Wednesday.
• 42:13
  I don't know if it's late for you.
• 42:14
  It's late as for me.
• 42:16
  But, I go was trying to bed at 08:15 when Boo Boo wasn't answering my messages.
• 42:23
  I was like, I'm done.
• 42:25
  You might be old, bubba.
• 42:26
  You might be old.
• 42:28
  No.
• 42:28
  Listen.
• 42:29
  Wanna I wake up at 04:00 in the morning, boo boo, so it rolls around real quick when you
• 42:33
  don't get to bed early.
• 42:35
  And listen, bubba, I wanna touch on what you said.
• 42:39
  Bubba, you need to cherish that.
• 42:42
  I will tell you.
• 42:44
  I wish I woulda had that mentoree, mentor relationship.
• 42:50
  So he's I'm gonna say this, and he's probably gonna get a big head, but I'll deal with that
• 42:56
  later.
• 42:57
  But he's actually a pretty one.
• 42:58
  Gonna be as big as your head, Willie.
• 43:03
  You're right.
• 43:04
  You're right.
• 43:05
  But see, I don't have a big head.
• 43:08
  It's proportion to my body, so it you just have a smaller body.
• 43:12
  Okay?
• 43:13
  But cherish that.
• 43:16
  I mean, he is actually very knowledgeable.
• 43:19
  I mean
• 43:20
  Oh, yeah.
• 43:20
  He is very smart.
• 43:22
  I've not known him.
• 43:23
  Almost everything from him that I know about this industry and everything, and you know I
• 43:29
  appreciate you.
• 43:31
  Right, Bubba?
• 43:32
  I I do.
• 43:33
  Hey, man.
• 43:34
  You keep showing up and working for free.
• 43:36
  That says all I need to know about you and about how you feel about the the the guidance
• 43:42
  and the, you know, the lessons that I'm trying to bring into you.
• 43:46
  And and sometimes, you know, it seems like it's about the work, but it's about being a man.
• 43:52
  Right?
• 43:52
  And even today, we had a conversation where, you know, in your sometimes the relationship
• 43:59
  can kinda feel like I'm your boss.
• 44:00
  Right?
• 44:01
  And you're looking to me for that, You know?
• 44:03
  What do I need to do now?
• 44:05
  And the the conversation we kinda had today was like, look, brother.
• 44:09
  I'm teaching you all these things so you can stand on your own two feet so I don't have to
• 44:13
  tell you what to do.
• 44:15
  You know what needs to be done.
• 44:17
  Just go do it.
• 44:18
  Right?
• 44:19
  And if you screw it up, I'll go fix it.
• 44:21
  You know?
• 44:22
  But you gotta be able to to to feel comfortable taking risk and taking chances and going out
• 44:27
  there on your own and, to have confidence in yourself too that you're going to do it right.
• 44:33
  Right?
• 44:33
  Like, I have that confidence in you.
• 44:34
  I know you're not gonna screw it up.
• 44:35
  If you put the wrong video up there, then then some of that's on me.
• 44:39
  Right?
• 44:39
  I have to take responsibility for that and be like, know what?
• 44:41
  I didn't tell him not to do those ones, But literally, hey.
• 44:44
  Who how do I know you're gonna pick the one freaking video out of the two of
• 44:48
  them?
• 44:48
  How?
• 44:49
  That
• 44:50
  I don't know how I did that.
• 44:53
  Man, your picker is just broken.
• 44:54
  We're gonna fix that in your life.
• 44:56
  We're gonna find you a good woman.
• 44:58
  We're we're gonna get you settled down here in the next ten years and
• 45:01
  Woah.
• 45:02
  Really take it in.
• 45:03
  But
• 45:03
  If you're good with finding good woman, I'll take one too.
• 45:06
  Okay?
• 45:07
  Well, we'll put it out here on the show.
• 45:09
  Ladies, both these gentlemen are single.
• 45:12
  So, you know, actively seeking some real good women in their lives.
• 45:17
  I know I'm going for now.
• 45:19
  I gotta stabilize my life first.
• 45:22
  You both hit, like, online girlfriends, so they ain't, like, in your house trying to screw shit
• 45:27
  up for you.
• 45:28
  And that's exactly.
• 45:28
  You hit on a note that you couldn't be further right.
• 45:32
  Before you need and I joke around, but before you can even try to get anything else right,
• 45:38
  you didn't make sure you're right.
• 45:40
  You know?
• 45:41
  Not you know, I learned a lot from my past.
• 45:44
  You know?
• 45:45
  I used to jump from relationship for the relationship, then I did that and then not
• 45:52
  proud of it.
• 45:54
  But the wiser I get, the more gray hairs I get.
• 45:59
  I'm realizing it's okay to take time.
• 46:02
  I've been two and a half years and it's okay to work on yourself.
• 46:10
  But also on what he was talking about, you gotta believe in yourself.
• 46:16
  There's an old saying, and I don't know who said it, so don't quote me.
• 46:20
  It's one of my favorite sayings of all time, and the artist an author, I know who it is.
• 46:25
  I just slip in my mind right now, but it's one person with a belief is equal to a force of 99
• 46:32
  with just an interest.
• 46:34
  And that quote tells you how powerful it is to believe in yourself.
• 46:38
  I'm really starting to with working with you too.
• 46:41
  You guys are really helping me believe in myself and really helped me, like, take the
• 46:46
  chance, like, to actually, like I mean, I'm literally because of the confidence that, like,
• 46:51
  working with you guys have given me, I literally just did a verse on EDM song tonight.
• 46:57
  Sick.
• 46:57
  Well, you know what, boo boo?
• 46:59
  Let that be a, yeah.
• 47:02
  So we're gonna do boo boo songs next week, boys.
• 47:05
  I think that's what we need to do is we need to bring in some of boo boo's tracks.
• 47:08
  And then in week three, Willie, I know you don't perform necessarily, but I I want you to
• 47:13
  find three tracks, whether it's by one artist or it's just three that mean a lot to you.
• 47:19
  Obviously, with with your show, I know you got three of those songs and we'll we'll see if we
• 47:25
  can't get rights rights to some of these things.
• 47:28
  Maybe find some independent artists that you like that'll that'll let you, borrow their
• 47:33
  music.
• 47:34
  But
• 47:35
  I already have some.
• 47:36
  I've already have some I've been talking to.
• 47:38
  Good.
• 47:39
  Good.
• 47:39
  Well, yeah, see if see if we can bring a couple of their songs on too.
• 47:42
  Obviously, we're probably not playing any George Strait on here or something you'd wanna
• 47:46
  cry to because we don't wanna get sued, and and we don't want these shows to get immediately
• 47:51
  pulled off because I think they're gonna be really powerful.
• 47:55
  And, I'm really happy to have shared this moment with you guys and with our fans here on
• 48:01
  the Scene Projects YouTube.
• 48:02
  We're gonna do a lot more of this.
• 48:04
  We're we're gonna be hanging out here every Wednesday.
• 48:07
  We're gonna bring you love noise.
• 48:08
  The three of us knuckleheads are gonna get together, and, but we're we're gonna we're
• 48:14
  gonna razz each other a little bit.
• 48:16
  We're gonna have a we're gonna listen to some great music.
• 48:19
  We're gonna talk about how that music makes us feel, and we're gonna have a really great time
• 48:23
  doing it.
• 48:23
  So continue to tune in here here on the scene projects on YouTube.
• 48:29
  Remember, you can join our community at thesceneprojects.com.
• 48:33
  Make sure you're checking out boo boo.
• 48:35
  You can find Willie there as well.
• 48:37
  We will have links to boo boo shows coming up where you can get on his show.
• 48:42
  You can get on Willie's show.
• 48:43
  You can book yourself onto the scene projects as well, all in one place.
• 48:47
  That's the sceneprojects.com.
• 48:49
  And, fellas, any parting shots before we get out of here?
• 48:52
  Well, I mean, I guess I'm just gonna, say, like, I appreciate everyone here.
• 48:56
  I love y'all, and the real music comes next week, Wednesday.
• 49:03
  Listen.
• 49:04
  Listen.
• 49:05
  I know we're not suck, boo boo.
• 49:07
  I will get if they suck, I'm a I'm a lay into you, dawg.
• 49:13
  Listen.
• 49:14
  I got something wrong.
• 49:15
  To the lyrics.
• 49:16
  You gotta listen to the lyrics.
• 49:18
  Uh-uh.
• 49:18
  Uh-uh.
• 49:19
  See, you gotta listen to the whole song.
• 49:22
  You just you can't sell me a taco and leave out the meat.
• 49:26
  Come on.
• 49:26
  Anything
• 49:34
  to say before I let us get out of here, Willie?
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  No.
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  I just y'all stay tuned.
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  And if you see this and you're an artist, get a hold of the one of the three of us, and we can
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  get you on here.
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  We got a form to fill out.
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  If you want your music heard and you're struggling, and you just need some help putting
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  yourself out there, get ahold of one of the three of us.
• 49:57
  All three of us are on Facebook, YouTube, Theme Brugge.
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  All social platforms.
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  Literally on your Roku.
• 50:08
  We're on your Apple TV.
• 50:09
  We are on your Amazon Fire TV.
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  We are on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, x, whatever you wanna call it.
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  We're there.
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  I don't spend a lot of time on there because it's a dumpster fire.
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  But TikTok.
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  TikTok.
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  I'm there too, man.
• 50:23
  Yeah.
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  You can search my name.
• 50:25
  You can search Willie, and you can search the shows as well.
• 50:29
  Soul Impact, how music saved us.
• 50:31
  We have the scene projects.
• 50:32
  Boo Boo's going be helping us out with the Get Better Together project as well as his own
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  shows.
• 50:37
  That'll be featured here on the network.
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  So, lot of good stuff coming from us and I want to thank you all for tuning in to this episode,
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  and we will see you next week here on Love Noise, and thank you for making yourself part
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  of the scene.