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Rockin’ with Julia Venable · STEVE 8

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_01: What's up?
• 0:01
  SPEAKER_03: Where are you at, man?
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_03: What you doing?
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_03: Sounds like you're at a party.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_01: I am at a party.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_01: My friend Jim's daughter, Julia, um, who who, you know, I knew when she was zero years old.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we're at she's performing and with her band.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_01: And Jim is is so she's the singer, and Jim is the drummer, which, and there they are right there.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_01: And it's just so awesome to see this, you know.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: She just took a break from her first set, and she's look, you know, she's talking to her fans.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_02: How old is she?
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm doing a podcast right now, literally.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: My podcast, I'm doing it right now, and I'm gonna do it on Julia's band.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_01: And so she's she's just glowing, and she just got done rocking a song that she wrote.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: So that's what I'm doing.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_02: That sounds magical, man.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_01: Does it sound awesome?
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_01: It it is awesome, and you know, again, it's so crazy to think I knew her when she was zero.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, my Jim's one of my best friends.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_02: How old is she now?
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: Man, no, she's 20.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: How old is Julia now?
• 1:24
  unknown: 26.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: She's 26.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so you know, she's she's a little older than Ava.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and it was kind of one of the first one of my friends who had a munch kid, you know what I mean?
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_01: So Julie was kind of leading the charge on on you know, kids, and um and it's just so awesome to see this young person kind of like find their thing, you know, you know what I mean?
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: Like when I'm watching her sing, and she just destroying it, you know.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, she's gonna be recording one of her singles for a group uh for for Brandy Mel Melville, which I think is a clothing clothing brand.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_01: Brandy, Brandy.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_01: I I they have a recording studio now, so she's gonna record there.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: And it's fun to think that on Steve 8, you know, we we were kind of one of the first podcasts to to to you know focus on this, you know, she'll she'll be a star.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, maybe maybe we are the first, maybe the first.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you and I can like get firm row tickets when she's like you know playing at the garden or something.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_02: What uh does she have a band name?
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's Julia and Company.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's the name of the band.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I think they should call their band zero years old.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_02: Should call them what?
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_02: Zero years old.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_01: Zero years old.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's awesome.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: It's awesome.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I'm watching her, I'm looking at her right now as she's just talking to people, and people are just gushing over her, and her eyes are so big and bright, and you know, and you can see, I don't know, it's just it's it you you you you nailed it, it's magical for sure.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's there's magic, and I'm watching it.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of crazy to think that you can experience magic when it's happening, you know.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_01: I know you've had moments like that too, and we've all had moments like that, but it's it's I'm I'm getting to an age where I'm trying to slow down those moments so I can hang on to them a little bit longer, you know.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_03: A California Saturday night, Steve.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's a California Saturday night.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and here's the thing she has to say hello to one person, and now she's like, Okay, dad, I gotta go to the next person, and I gotta go.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like, she can't just she she can't hover, she's got fans that she's gotta now she's meeting someone, a new hug, another hug, and now she's you know, and they're she knows how to do it, she knows how to work the crowd, they're gushing over her.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, it's just awesome.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's awesome.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_01: I remember I remember when I was with Ava when she was doing auditions, and and she was in TV shows and whatever, and I remember one time I picked her up after one of her shoots.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: She she did a show, uh, a TV show called The Last Ship.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, I was with her all day, and then I got her in the and then we got in the car after a day of shooting, and just man, her eyeballs were like on fire, electric, and you know.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_03: Well, they're kind of like that all the time anyway, with her.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: Well, they are with her, yes, yes.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: But again, it's just these moments in your life where kind of like the stars align, you know what I mean?
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, at that point she was probably experiencing something like really exciting.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: Well, for sure it was, for sure it was.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, she worked she worked her ass off, and you know, and um, yeah, so so I I I don't know.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's you know, my buddy Jim, who and so it's his daughter, you know, there's like a multi-tiered scarburst of of glorious wonderment um happening.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm I'm I'm I'm um oh yeah, here's Julia right now.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_01: Say say hi to Satchel.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: Hi there, this is Julia.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_03: Hi, Julia.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_03: I I hear you did a really good job.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_03: You're killing it on stage, and everybody loves you.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, I'm just happy to be here.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's have I'm having a great time.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, good.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_03: Well, congratulations.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm about to go back on now.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: So all right, have a great night, thank you.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you too.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, I don't, she's like, I don't know what's just happening right now.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like why are you putting me on the phone with this random woman?
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_03: That is so weird.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know what to say.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_03: This woman, she doesn't know me.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know her.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_01: She's a star.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_01: You got to, we got to, we had her voice on our podcast.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: Here, and I'm gonna have Jim.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: Here's Jim.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: Here's my buddy Jim.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: He's gonna say hi.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: And I he's not even gonna know why.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_01: Hang on, hang on, right there.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_01: Just just say hi, satchel.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: Hi, Satchel.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: Hi, Satchel.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: That's all you need to know.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: Now go hi and he he he didn't even he's gotta go get ready for the next set.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_03: Like this is oh he yeah, this is electric right now.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_03: I'm telling you, that's the drummer.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_03: That's the drummer.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's the drummer, and he's he's a he's a yeah, he's he's a amazing human and a glorious, glorious person.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: And oh, by the way, happens to be an awesome drummer.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, now it are Julia and him together?
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: Julia's what what do you Julia's I don't know.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_03: I'm trying to figure out if there's a band dynamic going on here.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: Jim's daughter, Julia.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: My friend Jimmy.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, they're in the band together.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: They're not my friend Jim, who I've known forever, we were DJs together, okay.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_01: He had uh his kid, Julia, Julia, who's in the band singing, which was one of the first kids of my friends having kids.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_01: So Julia's kind of like you know, um kind of where it all started with my friends having kids.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_03: So but Jim's not the drummer.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: Jim is the drummer, and he's the dad.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: How are you not following this?
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_03: That's that's a family band, it's a family band.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: Well, and and Julie's got her two buddies, they're playing basic guitar, but Jim's the drummer.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: So, man, yeah.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I missed some of it in the beginning.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_03: I had a busy night, it's like past midnight here.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm sure it is.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: Hang on, I gotta checkboard at eight minutes, hang on.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I gotta go, it's eight minutes.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, bye.