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RELIVING OUR DISCO DAYS WITH SPECIAL GUEST KC! (KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND) · Uncluttered and Unfiltered: The Podcast For Women Over 50

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Welcome to Uncluttered and Unfiltered, the podcast urging
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you to let it go and don't look back, with nationally acclaimed
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professional organizer Christine Stone and self-proclaimed Hot
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Damn Mess radio and TV personality Eden Kendall.
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Welcome everyone to a very special edition of Uncluttered
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and Unfiltered. We have a special guest, I would
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say a mystery guest, but in order to attract more listeners,
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I'm sure we've put his name in the title and we'll be doing all
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kinds of advertising of this of this podcast.
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So remember when you were a big Donny Osmond fan?
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And so we decided to talk to Donny Osmond on the podcast.
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You remember. That you remember that and then
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remember that. I loved Sean Cassidy, so we
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reached out and Sean Cassidy was on our podcast.
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That was a. Fun day.
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It was a fun night when we went to his concert.
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We did and then you have been pretty recently to a concert
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from today's guest and you and I have tickets to go while you
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come when he's coming back through our.
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City. I can't wait in June and I'm
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talking about Mr. Harry Wayne Casey Casey of Casey and the
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Sunshine Band. I'm so excited and he is going
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to be popping into this recording very, very shortly.
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So let's talk a little bit about Casey of Casey and the Sunshine
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Band, or as I insisted to all of my friends when I was an avid
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reader of Tiger Beat. His names Harry.
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It's not Casey Terry. I didn't even know his name was
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Harry, I only know him as Casey and that I this is the first
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time I've even hearing that. I just didn't really think that
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he had. Because it's a very nerd thing
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to know. I mean, it's one of those things
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where you're like trying to show off because you read it
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somewhere, you know? I mean.
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I have loved this man for I can't tell you since I'm I'm of
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the era of the disco error, so I have.
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I've always loved Casey and the Sunshine Band.
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He was at my grad night in Orlando in 1980.
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We went. And saw him I every one of his
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songs was a hit during my high school year.
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So it was he I have nothing but wonderful things say and I went
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to his concert already in the fall.
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Yeah, it was in the fall and amazing.
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So we saw Casey and the Sunshine Band perform in the year 2000
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and it was at the Jaguars AFC championship game against the
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Titans and he came out, he did the halftime show and we
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proceeded to lose the game. So and did not go to the Super
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Bowl for that reason. And so my husband has a lot of
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beef with. Casey.
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Uh oh. He wasn't a good luck charm.
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But I could not love him anymore.
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And actually, I'm kidding. My husband is going to be our
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designated driver and photographer at the KC and the
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Sunshine Band shade. You're going to love him.
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I thought he was phenomenal. He'd has not missed a beat.
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He sounds exactly the same. I, I, I.
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It was just such a great show. And, and if I'm being honest, he
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looks like he's having every bit as much fun on stage as his
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audience. He, I, he looks like he is
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loving life right now. That's just what he looks like.
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So he, I think he loves this big resurgence.
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I mean, when I went, it was sold out.
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There was not, not one seat available.
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So it's he's he's doing great. And it was it's I think right
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now people are getting very nostalgic for old school songs.
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You get that type of thing. So it just brings you back to
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your childhood and it's a more innocent time.
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And I just, I'm thrilled to talk to him.
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I just love him. I remember doing a dance, so
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boogie shoes. You told me this was on the
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Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, and I didn't really remember
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that until you said it. But I also think it was the B
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side of one of his big songs because I remember doing a
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dance. Maybe it wasn't that song, but I
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feel like my friend and I made-up a dance.
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You know how you used to make up dances and make your parents
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come watch and that kind of thing?
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I, we did a dance to boogie. You know, it had to be Boogie
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shoes because I feel like I can't even remember.
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Or was it? I'm your boogie man?
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I'm your boogie man, No. No, I think it was Boogie shoes.
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I don't know. I want to put on.
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I don't think. I knew much about Boogie until
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that time. Boogie.
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But anyway, so we are going to be joined by Casey of Casey and
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the Sunshine Band and we're going to be right back.
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Here he is. He's our very special guest.
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Not a mystery because we couldn't keep a secret.
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It's Casey of Casey and the Sunshine Band, or as me as a
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little know it all girl used to tell my friends his name's
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Harry. It's not Casey, it's Harry.
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Do you, do you go only by Casey now?
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Or is that was that ever even a thing?
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My friends call me Harry, some call me Casey, and I have a
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nickname. Other people call me and.
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Do we? Do we get to know what that one
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is? Sparky.
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Sparky. Sparky, I love that.
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Can can we just call you that? Sure.
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Why is he sparky though from. From I I was very hyperactive
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kid. I think I don't know my
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grandmother kind of renamed all of her grandchildren and none
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none of us like I I never knew who my real cousins names were
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until like I was 50 years old. I, I was in the kitchen 2 of my
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cousins, Gloria and Tona, but but we called Gloria, Doty and
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Tona 2 years. I don't know.
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She's she's. And somebody says, hey, Gloria,
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I come and said, who's Gloria? That's fantastic.
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And that that was down in Miami. Yeah, down in Miami.
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So even though the two of us are here in Jacksonville, FL, we're
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both South Florida girls grew up on why?
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Why one? 100 Y. 100 Y one. 100 S Florida
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those. Were the days.
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Yes, those were the days. People don't understand growing
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up in Miami in the 80s and the 70s was totally different it.
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Was. It is, and we have so many
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questions. And I'm still here, so.
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Are you still are down there? I am, yeah.
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I lived in, I'm in Miami. I lived 10 miles from where I
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was born and where I grew up. OK, so, so Sparky, I mean Casey,
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I mean Harry, we my girlfriends and I had a type when I was in
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high school and it was Cuban guys.
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So we used to go to the Westland Mall and pop the hood of the car
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and just hang out and just see. You would come talk to us some
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assistance. That's awesome.
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While. Listening to your music.
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So do you feel responsible for that?
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I hope so. Well, we're so glad.
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We're so glad to have you. Christine actually has some well
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researched questions and things like that for you.
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But she saw you in concert and at the Did you go to Florida
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Theatre, Chris? Yeah, I went to the Florida
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Theatre. I saw you in the fall.
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Amazing concert and I loved, I mean, it was great.
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It was so much fun. Everyone was having such a good
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time and I was so excited because growing up in Miami in
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the 70s and 80s, that's all you heard and you were at my grad
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night in Orlando in 1980. So I, I've loved you forever and
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your music is, I mean, it's timeless.
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I have my kids dancing to it. I I mean, it's everywhere.
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So how does that feel to know that you're touching so many
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different generations? I mean, you know, our
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demographic has always been like that since the very beginning.
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And to know that, you know, it's sustained the test of time and
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we have 3 and 4 generations coming to the show sometimes
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it's pretty, pretty amazing. And I mean, it's a great
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feeling. I mean, I, you know, I made this
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music to bring happiness to to music and to people.
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And, you know, I'm glad that, you know, I'm able to do that
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and still, you know, and enjoy, enjoy the moment.
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So yeah, it's just, I mean, you know, you don't think of a lot
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of those things though. I mean, when you're growing up,
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when you're doing stuff and making the music, that would be.
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I feel sure that like so many people back in the 70s, you, you
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know, you weren't even thinking about ever how it would be like
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to be older. You know, we're all thinking
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about we're here in this moment, we're in, we're in the disco. 84
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I totally retired. I didn't want to have anything
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to do with the music business or music in it or ever again.
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And you know, 10 years later, Arsenio Hall wanted to see a
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reunion on the band on TV. And I went and did the the show
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and bells started ringing and thinking like my father's had
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passed and thinking like, you know, he'd said you should never
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give up. And James Brown tell me I should
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never give up. And all these things, all these
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things started clicking in my head and I realized that I had
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left something I really, really loved.
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And so I kind of started doing some shows with meeting the
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girls, some clubs and it was, you know, a lot of fun and put a
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band together and with the drug rehab in 95 and here I am.
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So go ahead, Chris. Well, I just like Speaking of
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youth. So when your songs started to
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become popular and your song was in Saturday Night Fever, are you
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able to appreciate that when you're younger or just now
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looking back on Wow? I mean, that's a big deal to me,
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it is. I never even saw the movie.
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You know, the first they they wanted to put Shake Your booty
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in the movie and I never even had seen the movie at all.
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And I, you know, I said, no, you can't do that.
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How about putting boogie shoes in because we were getting ready
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to release Shake Your Booty And so Boogie shoes in the movie.
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I don't think I saw it. I don't maybe a Barry and
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Maurice and Robin that I don't know if anybody ever saw the
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movie. And I didn't see the movie till
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years and years later and, you know, 'cause it was, I don't
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know. It's just, you know, who knew it
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was going to become, you know, such a huge motion picture and
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sell as many records. It didn't, you know, what
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happened with that movie. So I don't think, you know, knew
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what was going to happen there. And.
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Was was Boogie shoes AB side because I made-up a dance with
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my friend to that and I know I didn't go out and buy Boogie
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shoes at that time. It was the B side.
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It was the B side. It might have been the B side of
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Shake Your Booty. I can't.
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I don't. I'd have to go back and look
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now, but yeah. Because we made-up this dance
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and then no one had ever heard the song and were like, no, it's
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on. I have the record, I have the B,
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it's the B side. So can, can we go back to the
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you went to rehab in 95. So you're saying that throughout
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from from that time in the 70s all the way through into the
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80s, you were battling like that?
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No, no, I did all this in in the beginning of the 80s.
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OK. You know, just started testing
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and doing things that I never, ever would do in my, prior to
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that. And, you know, just, I, I,
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sadly, I enjoyed it. I was turned on to it by
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managers in LA and, you know, I, I, I liked it.
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And so that was my I, I, I, I started doing things in my 30s
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and I think people do in their teens.
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I don't know if I was making up for loss.
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I don't know what the hell I was thinking, really.
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Be honest with you, you know, not a great decision, but you
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know, I guess it was, it's all part of growing up.
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And I miss so much of growing up.
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I have no idea what it's like to be a normal 20 year old you
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know, and to to what normal 20 year olds go through in life
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you. Really don't.
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You know, it's, it's, it's completely missing part of my
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life. So how old were you when you
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first had your first hit record? 2223.
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Oh yeah, you were young. So, yeah, so you know, I, I
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don't know what those experience.
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I know that everything experience is up to that point.
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I just don't know what goes on after that.
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So does yeah, I mean, that's that's something that's so
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unbelievable to think about because it is such a rare little
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tiny bit of our population that experiences what you did more
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now with social media. For me to go to Westland Mall,
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they would pretty much close it down and close the store down
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and then I could go to the mall. You know it.
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That was the that was the life. Yeah.
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So. Was it now?
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Was it lonely at times? Very lonely.
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It was kind of the loneliest times of my life.
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Yeah. Yeah, What about now though?
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Can you all? Of this because we all have this
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desire to want to be around people, to want to be with, you
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know, in certain situations and you just can't it just, it's not
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possible even though if you try it just gets out of hand.
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It's just not possible. So it, I, it, it, it is, you
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know, a very, I think a very lonely moment for, for every
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artist. Can you, can you go out now?
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What is it like in the community now?
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I can. I mean, especially since I grew
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up, grew this and stuff, it's, it's easier, you know it.
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The other thing is it it took me 40 years or so to finally kind
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of understand what kind of it happened to, to actually
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accepted be comfortable with it my own success, to know how to
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deal with it in public and to handle it.
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And, you know, a lot of times I'd be really nervous about it
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and wouldn't know what to say and how to say it.
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And my boss said, my manager just said, you know, two things.
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He said when you walk out the front door, you belong to the
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public #2 just say thank you. I was like that easy.
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Oh, I love that. Yeah, it just, you know, and so,
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yeah, it's I, I get around pretty good.
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And, you know, it's, it's, it's good.
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It's all good. Well, we're glad you're getting
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around pretty good in the real world, out in the wild.
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But on stage you're really getting it.
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You're really getting down. You wake up sore after shows.
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I mean like, you know, I, I. Because your audience does.
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I mean, I, I do, I mean, I haven't been going as much as I
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was playing after the pandemic. That's where I gained all this
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weight. But I, you know, I was at the
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gym every day. I played tennis pretty much
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tried to play tennis every day that I can and got a little bit
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away from it. And Sunday it's my, I, I play
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with a trainer every, you know, every day I play tomorrow.
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Actually, I wanted to play today, but he wasn't available.
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Yeah. So when I saw you, you, you were
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dancing up a storm. And I even thought I told Eden,
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I said I don't know how he does it.
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At my age, I would never be able to do what he's I mean.
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I, I think, you know, I, I'm always kind of sore because
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after the car accident, you know, there's some permanent
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damage. And then I had back surgery back
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in 95, also 9495, I had to have the two, the L4 and five
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removed. So I'm limited to what I can do
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or whatever, but so I still have, you know, pain in my legs
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and things like that. So on a daily basis I probably
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wake up with pain. But you know, you kind of learn
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to deal with those things and you just get up and you go and
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find that, you know, the more I hurt that, the more if I
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exercise it, it feels better actually.
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So, you know, I think that's kind of the key too, is like
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just keep, you know. Well, we when I saw the Gloria
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Stefan musical, the jukebox musical, but it was about her
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life. I thought that you needed that
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you. We need to be able to go see a
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musical about your life. We want a mega mega mega
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Broadway Tony winning, award-winning.
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Show that's interesting because it just premiered in London last
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year and a major Tony Award-winning producer is going
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to be producing it for for the US here.
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I met with him a few few months a month ago and just waiting
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we're we're having to rewrite the the script because I mean I
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didn't realize that the different levels that a
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production goes to and you you put it out you test it and you
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get the feedback and the the reviews and then you change it
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and you put it out again and you test it and it's still in
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development. So I think this next step is
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going to be great. When he when we had the
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conversation a few few weeks ago whatever he actually brought me
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to tears. I mean it was just what what he
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what, what he what he saw and, and and what his kind of vision
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is of it's going to be and everything really brought a lot
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of emotions out of me. So I'm excited about it.
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It's it's more about my life growing up.
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You know in, in in Hialeah up up until the success.
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But all the songs are there's 22 songs in it summer new ones.
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It'll make you laugh, it'll make you cry, you know?
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It's, it's, I'm really proud of it and it's really exciting
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because it's, I don't know if it's going to be so much like a
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jukebox music because it's not about Casey in the sunshine.
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Then it's about me and growing up.
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With even better, so much better.
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I agree. Can we focus on the show for a
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minute and then we are seeing you June 3rd at the Florida
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Theatre in Jacksonville. But it's a tour and we are a
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global podcast as well as this will air locally and in
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Jacksonville on TV. So tell us what to expect.
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Well, I mean, you know, I, I, it's all the hits for sure.
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It's a production. There's fifteen of us on stage,
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the dancers, the singers and I like to share, you know, every
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moment. You know that the musicians are
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so talented and I, it wouldn't be right if I didn't let their
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talent shine through. Also because it is Casey and the
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Sunshine Band and there's just all these different moments that
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we put in the show. The show was originally
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choreographed by a guy named What's his name?
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He he, he he actually was part of the the last choreography of
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the Michael Jackson This Is It movie.
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Can you? Ortega not not Kenny, but his
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associate, I. Wow.
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Yeah, so, so bits of pieces then.
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We also brought in Lisa recently.
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Who didn't love the career for the musical to re choreograph
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the girls and, and, and, and parts that I do?
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So yeah, it's, I mean, it's, you know, it's a it's a show.
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It's it's, it's a production. It's you know, some people say
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it's Vegas, but I mean, it's just, you know, I want to
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entertain everyone and I want everyone to have a good time.
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And there's a lot of bits and pieces of the music.
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You know, we, I do some covers because I'd rather do covers and
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things, not full covers of them, but bits and pieces of things
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that people know and they're familiar with it.
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You know, I mean, I want you to be familiar with as much as
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possible in this show. But if you're really a die hard
19:38
fan, there's lots of bits and pieces that go on throughout the
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show, you know, and that that we put in there.
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And I, I, I think it's a great show and, you know, I enjoy it a
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lot. A lot of the audiences enjoy it.
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Not a lot of them. All of them do.
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I loved it and you loved. It and we're going back.
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We're going to be. There, we're going back all
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twice in one year. I mean, that's how much I love
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to. Do.
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That's awesome. Great.
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I can't wait to be there. We cannot wait.
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So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for the time.
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I love your energy. We're just super fans.
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You know, beyond the Super fans, it's just I think this is your
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energy in your life and and that's amazing to see because
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we're a lot of people are missing that and you got you
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girls, you ladies are missing that and I think that's amazing.
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Oh. Thank you.
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Thank you. We were so excited.
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I personally was so excited to see you and meet you.
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I've been a fan since the 70s so.
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And Chris is enamored. She has a girl crush on someone
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on that was on your stage, that is Marie.
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Marie. It's amazing.
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She's close to our age, so I think she's younger than us,
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but. She's probably younger, but she
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was amazing on stage, yeah. I think she just turned 65 maybe
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OK. Yeah.
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So I mean, that's phenomenal. I mean, she was, so I can.
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Definitely say hello for her please.
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Do yes, just tell her I'm a I'm a girl fan.
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I. Have Rachel get yourself.
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We want her on our show. We would love to talk.
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Really wanted her, yeah. Oh yeah.
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Sure, I would love it. I would love it.
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After I saw you, I immediately said to Eden, there is a backup
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singer that is probably younger than me, but she was amazing.
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I want to know where she gets her energy.
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I want to sell. She's an Italian and she has one
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of the most amazing voices you've ever heard in your entire
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life. So she's going to be with you in
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Jacksonville? Absolutely.
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Oh yeah, maybe we can meet. Yeah, you can for sure.
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Fangirl. OK, so we're going to let you go
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because again I said I want to be respectful and here we are
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like taking you 5. Days.
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Thank you. And we're back.
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It is time now, even though we had such a very special guest
22:01
joining us for this episode, we're still going to sneak in
22:03
that organizational tip like we do.
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And we are in Florida. So you may may still be in luck
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in some parts of Florida, maybe not all the way South where
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Casey's from, but you might still have temperatures that
22:19
will allow you to clean out your garage.
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You better get on it. You better get on it in the in
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Florida and at least up north in those areas they have they still
22:29
have a lot more time. But in Florida, yes, we do hit a
22:32
window. And the reason why I like to
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talk about garages, especially in the spring, early summer, not
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only is it the perfect time to do it, but it allows you open
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that garage door, get your ducks in a row and really get rid of
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the stuff that you no longer, if you're an empty nester and you
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still have all your, your kids sports equipment, let it go,
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donate it. I those type of things.
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If you don't garden anymore, but you have tons of gardening
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things, let it go. Old paint cans, make sure you
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dispose of them properly because you can't just throw them in the
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garbage can. So you'd need to check locally
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where you can dispose of them. But how many people have 20-30
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cans of empty paint that has been sitting in the garage for
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10 years just going through and really, really doing a heavy
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cleanup so that by the time summer rolls around, your garage
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has only the things you're going to use and make it your goal to
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be able to park your car in the garage.
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I cannot tell you how many houses that I do and then parked
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a car in their garage in five years.
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And when we're done, they're like, Oh my gosh, I can park my
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car, car in here. Now a garage is should be
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considered part of the home. A lot of times people put
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everything in the garage that they don't want, but yet they
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don't get rid of it. It just becomes a nightmare in
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the garage full of things people don't want or don't know what to
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do with. So really tackling your garage,
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getting your ducks in a row, like I said on what you're going
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to do with the items you're going to get rid of.
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But I'm telling you, you will be so happy once you come home to a
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clean, organized garage. Do you think this is also a good
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time to go ahead and schedule and a lot of times when you're
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talking about different areas of your home that you get, you go
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ahead and schedule the donation to kind of force your hand?
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Yes, that is the perfect time because all they do is back that
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truck in and you just point and they take it away.
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It's also a good time if there are larger items in your house
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or bigger things that you've been meaning to get rid of.
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I don't know, lamps, curtains, whatever it is to put it out in
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the garage if you've scheduled someone to do a pickup.
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That way you're also getting rid of some items in your home at
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the same time. You might as well do it while
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someone's coming anyway. But yes, definitely schedule a
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pickup for the garage because it's so easy for them to back
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their truck in and just take it away.
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OK, All right, well, this has been a very all over the place
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in a very fun way episode getting a chance to talk to
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Casey of Casey and the Sunshine Band.
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Of course, you'll get our full report when we go to the show
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like we did with the other shows we've been to.
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And let's see what else. How can we end this?
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I think we we should do a garage thing on this.
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If you have a garage full of sports equipment that nobody is
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ever going to use, you can let it go.
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And don't look back.