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Music, Vibration & the Soul: How Sound Shapes Emotion, Energy, and Consciousness | Eye Opener Society · Eye Opener Society

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You know, music is the spark of life, part of your soul.
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Every time we listen to it, it brings back memories, it jars up new ones.
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Music is always incredible. My name is Gary Dean, and this is Eye Opener Society.
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So today we're talking about music. A little stretch, a little bit of something
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different, but you know what? when it comes to spirituality,
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music fits right into this whole gamut.
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And Lizzie and I are here to talk about it.
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And I think Lizzie, music, well, let me start with you with this.
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What does music mean to you?
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Music is just part of the art of life, you know, kind of to tie into everything
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that we're talking about, whereas like I'm coming from a perspective where life
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is about connection and creation.
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Music is one beautiful way that people create and connect together,
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because like you said, it can be it can take you back to a moment in time.
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There's so many beautiful cosmic messages in people's songs.
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There's just like the list of things you can do with it. It just goes on and on.
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And yeah, I just, I love music. I probably play it too much.
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I'm playing it all the time.
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Yeah, music touches everybody in a different way. And when it comes to spirituality,
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we could talk about alchemy.
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Music can alchemize any situation. If you're in a really down,
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depressed state and you keep listening to down, depressing music,
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it's going to keep that state of mind right there.
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Once you turn the tempo up And the beats start really rocking And then you start
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listening to some more You know,
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upbeat songs That's your transmutation The alchemizing situation Suddenly everything
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is going to seem So much different Once you change the type of music So we can
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relate this spiritually,
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Yeah, exactly That's what I like to do Like if I'm
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really feeling my feelings I like to start with the
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song That just feels like it really captures it you know
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where you kind of want to like spiral into it a little bit and
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instead of spiraling and focusing and thinking you
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just like relax your body and just
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let all the emotions flow and then you kind of
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either yeah step up to something to where you're kind of ending the music session
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with something upbeat and exciting and and inspiring for the future and I think
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that's just a great way to do it this kind of takes your emotion through like
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a full arc and gives you a new opportunity to feel something different.
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Yeah, I remember a concert I went to, I seen Sully Erna, he's from Godsmack,
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and he does his own solo work, which I think is absolutely fantastic,
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he does such a wide range of music, and at the beginning of a show,
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he basically explained just how simple music is,
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it's nothing more than a vibration, and that vibration.
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All you gotta do is change it to get the different notes and the tones and all,
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that's all you gotta do, so again, spirituality,
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that's what we work with we work with these vibrations that
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are within us so when the music hits right it's because
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it's vibrating right along with us and all we
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got to do is change the station if a song doesn't work in that moment
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and it works so much better for us that's an
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amazing analogy that he gave and it always stuck
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with me i said yeah for sure music is nothing
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more than vibrations just like we are oh yeah
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for sure and if you get like a big crowd of people all like
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rocking and dancing singing i've seen
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you can alchemize as like
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a group i don't know if uh you because
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you don't have kids i don't know if you saw the whole k-pop demon
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hunter thing that came out nope okay well
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i never watched the movie i don't know much about it but i listened to a lot
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of the soundtrack because i went to this event for kids there's a stem event
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but an accidental uh concert popped up in the corner and it was really really
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beautiful actually because this is actually a perfect example.
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The first time the girl came up and she danced she was like kind of shy in the
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moment she noticed that the people were recording because it's an event you
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know what i mean um she just like backed out and then she came up a little bit
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later and all these kids are obsessed with this soundtrack because it's what
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the what's newly come out you know what i mean.
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So the next time she comes up she's got like a
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couple of friends with her and they're like a little bit more confident you
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know they're they're doing like I guess the dance from the
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movie and they're feeling a little cooler right and then
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the next time it was like more and more until it
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was like this big crowd of people and it was like the energy
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and the emotion that was coming off these like 30 to
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50 kids was just like it was beautiful it
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was beautiful to witness that is that sounds
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really beautiful and it's no different you go to concerts
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and you get that the emotion from the crowd you
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know no matter what genre you're listening to you are immersed
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in that situation and much like the feelings that
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we have if we have feelings of peace and love and we can spread that just by
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being around other people and it moves from person to person music amplifies
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that it moves it faster and further now yeah i that's okay if you want to jump in there go for it,
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finish go ahead yeah no i was um the thing now though when it comes to music me personally.
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I don't know this last decade or so i really
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haven't listened to music i and it's the furthest thing from my mind most of
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my music um began in the 80s and back in the 80s it didn't matter your playlist
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you could have john denver and slayer on the same playlist and nobody cared.
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All of a sudden i think in the last 10 years music has really fizzled out there's no more,
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true emotion in it maybe a few bands here and there and i don't get the same
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type of emotion like from the 70s, the 80s,
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even through the 90s grunge, and even the earlier 2000s, it just kind of faded
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away. I would say maybe 2010.
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And so I haven't really listened that much.
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And I will say that I try finding more of these unknown bands,
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local bands, ones that are trying to change things up, trying to get that true,
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authentic sound and putting that emotion back in.
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Because what do we have now?
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Most of these bands that I grew up on, they're all in their 80s and some of
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them retired and then they're coming out of retirement.
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They don't have the same energy that they did when
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they were 20 and i don't blame i mean i admire them
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for getting up there and doing what they're doing but most of
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them their voices are shot they can no longer sing or
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carry a tune depending who you're listening to there there
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are a couple of guys that can really still rock out but i
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think it's falling flat now i miss the
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freaking 80s when everything had a meaning
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to it no matter what genre you were listening to there was
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something involved in the 80s and i don't know if you
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agree with me on this oh i have so
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much to say let me see if i can pull something together okay so
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the 80s everything about the
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80s from their hair their makeup their attitude
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the music no matter the genre music it
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was all a subtle rebellion same as
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like the 20s everything was just just what
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you could do that would just slightly piss the older
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generation off and that breeds beautiful
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art when you're in a system of oppression but then
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after the 80s it kind of it tailored off because it became accepted right the
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90s was kind of like the accepted 80s and that was really beautiful but it changes
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the tone of all of it oh see I lost my train of thought I had too many opinions here.
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No, I got too excited. That's fine. All right.
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Well, I'll start talking a little bit more about the 80s. You see,
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that's when I started really getting involved because growing up,
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listen, I'm from the Bronx, New York, but I used to listen to like outlaw country.
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That was my thing when I was a younger kid.
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And then once I got into middle school and then I was introduced into the heavy
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metal scene and that was it. Changed my life forever, man.
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That's all I ever wanted. and then we went
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from that 80s heavy metal to more of the
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glam rock and then uh it started
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to get some more of the underground i started getting involved in that underground stuff
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like the anthrax and metallica when they were first starting
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you know you're getting that harder heavier and everybody wanted to be faster
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and nobody wanted to be posers anymore you know and then we also had a little
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bit of a blend of that punk rock that was going on in there So I was introduced
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to a lot of this And it really set the soundtrack For most of my childhood A
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lot of these bands And a lot of this music.
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And I loved it And like I say I think grunge,
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Once it took over I think we needed that We needed that change Because like
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you said I think we became very mainstream Even punk rock became very mainstream
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too As well towards the later 80s,
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Yeah, that's where I was going with it. Once it became accepted,
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it then just got eaten into capitalism.
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Right. And so now even rock, even all these like freedom of expression things
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were done through the lens of capitalism, which frames it into mainstream.
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And art became such a
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way uh the local band is such a
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good way to find more authentic music because a
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lot of the times at least in previous decades it was
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hard to find anything that somebody authentically made
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because it had to go through so many like teams
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of producers teams of like you know what i mean in order to be accepted by the
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record labels and same with like the art that you saw it had you kind of almost
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had to like know somebody to get your art up in a gallery unless you were going
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to pay twenty thousand dollars to do it which again you know what i mean and so.
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I think right now we're in a transitional period where people are really coming to that.
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And I actually think AI pushes this because now on some of the streaming services
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like Spotify, you can, if you're just listening to the suggested playlist,
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you're likely finding AI bands you don't know are AI.
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And they're just being absorbed into it. If you are not listening for that raw
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emotion, because to my knowledge, AI can't do that.
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But you could put it on the ai song
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like if you really resonated with it for sure and
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i don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with it maybe there
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is that's like a whole other thing that's people's own business but
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my point is is that a lot of people now
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aren't going through the record labels they themselves are
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also just putting it on spotify which means
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they don't have teams and teams of people and maybe they don't get
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their song out in front of millions of people within the
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first year but they're growing and learning something
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completely different than the previous generations were able
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to do back then you were stuck in the garage if
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you were that raw authentic couldn't get approved by these teams of people you
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were a garage band and you were going to stay there but now you can get on tiktok
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and you can show people your music and that you know what i mean and so we are
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starting to get very a very different kind of music than we used to.
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We do. And one of the wonderful things I said, like you're pointing out how,
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yeah, we have teams and teams and all directors.
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And basically, it's what they're doing is they're taking the raw energy that
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formed as that garage band.
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And then they're just kind of watering it down for the capitalistic algorithm
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of life. And what I really enjoy, honestly, is that garage band,
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that raw sound with the mistakes.
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You know, to me, that is fucking music. I'm telling you, that's where it really is.
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I miss that. And that's why I like listening too.
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And now to change kind of the subject a little bit, as far as music goes, we,
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We have something horrible happening. And I see this every time I'm reading
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about a band, no matter who the band is, like on Facebook or whatever.
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Oh, they have a new song. Oh, they're back on the road or this.
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Hundreds and hundreds of negative comments on every damn thing.
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You don't see anybody just saying, hey, man, it's great to see them back.
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Hey, that was a halfway decent song.
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Or, you know, that song didn't really, you know, it's all I hated it.
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This is they they suck. Like they did, it's never anything positive because
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again, what happens now, this day and age, everybody's worried about the gatekeeping
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and, oh, it's only my music.
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Just the music I listen to is the only thing that's going to be out there.
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And that's the only thing I'm going to listen to. And I don't care about anything else.
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And I also think people just have this thing like, okay, maybe you don't like
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the band, but where's your band?
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You know, did your band sell out, you know, three or four arenas, you know?
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These bands have the background. You either like them or you don't.
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That's what I, and you know, it's much like this show.
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We could reach six or seven people a day. No big deal. Because we don't have
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a team of people behind us pushing this forward.
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Because we are raw, we're authentic, and we're putting out what we feel works.
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People are going to like us or people are not going to like us.
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This is the same thing with music today.
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Yeah, exactly. And I actually think that if everybody just does that,
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learns to quit editing themselves in casual conversation, in the art they put
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into the world, whatever that be, podcast, painting, music.
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Energy work, you know what I mean?
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Whatever it is that you're doing I think if people just get
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more raw more themselves I think everything
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is just gonna like little fairy
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godmother I really have
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this belief that if everybody was just their
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real raw self anything that
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needs to be worked out which is rarely as much as people
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think automatically does and we
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all fit together like these little puzzle pieces and that's
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how communities are supposed to build but we're stuck
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in this place where like you're supposed to be able to do it all yourself within
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a set system and then you're supposed to find someone
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else who can do it all themselves in that system and then
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team up and pick one of your guys's dreams and like go
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for it you know what i mean like that's kind of like how
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everything is but like that's just it doesn't work for people
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we don't like that that's why the system's crumbling is
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because even though people are going through it with their actions
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their their energy is not behind it they don't believe in the system anymore
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that's why it just has to crumble and something new
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is going to be built and i think if we're all real about
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it and just learn out loud get ugly if you have to like it's fine we'll actually
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build something just so beautiful that actually works for everybody but if we
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keep trying to be perfect and we try to build the perfect world and fix the
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system perfectly like we don't
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even know enough to do that do you know what i mean Like we've got to,
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we've got to like see what everybody's got to offer.
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Everybody's stuck at their nine to five. They're not able to create.
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They're not able to do what they came here to do.
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And on that note, and especially with the music thing, try and put this into words.
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Whatever music you like, whatever music you enjoy, that's your space.
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And people need to respect that space. At that same time,
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The person next to you may be listening to a whole different brand of music,
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a whole different genre, one that you don't like, but that's their space.
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And once we start recognizing we all have these little spaces,
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the thing is what we have in common is the music.
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Regardless of what type of music it is, what genre it is, we have the music.
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And the music is what's supporting everything. It is the foundation for everybody.
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We can relate it to food When we go into different cultures Food is the ultimate
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communication Even when you can't speak the same language Sharing of food Is
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like the ultimate Welcoming into a community,
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Sharing your music Is the ultimate way Into another person's world Because music
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creates that world For that person And when you hear the music that they're
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listening to You get a good idea Of what that person's all about Oh, yeah, for sure.
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I was having so much fun sharing music back and forth with you.
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You know, we're all talking about what's going on in our world and then sending
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music and we're like, oh, yeah, that is their vibe.
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That is what they're doing right now. Yeah, and it's true. Yeah, I did.
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I listened to some of those songs and I said, okay, well, this is probably what
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Lizzie is listening to right now. And this is Lizzie being Lizzie in her world.
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You get that glimpse into it. And that's the beauty of music.
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And that's the spiritual connection of music.
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And we need to recognize it a little bit more.
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And we need to cut the gatekeeping and we need to cut the comments. comments.
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And we just need to just respect that everybody has an ounce of talent somewhere.
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And all we need to do is encourage that person, just like they could turn around and encourage you.
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Yeah, and I think we need to chill a little bit on what we don't like in the world.
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Like, if you really don't like it, just don't look at it. Don't listen to it.
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Walk away. But I also challenge you to explore why.
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Because really, if you didn't have an emotional charge against it,
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then it wouldn't bother you. You just either would tune it out or whatever.
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You know what I mean? But if you've got a piece of art or music or a person
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that's like, you know, there's an emotional charge.
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And I see this a lot with people Like they just like can't stand country music
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Or they can't stand You know what I mean Whatever it is And it's just like it's
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kind of interesting Because I wonder what emotions they have wrapped up in that.
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Yeah that's a very good point Like how is it bothering you so much I get it
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there's just certain things You just don't vibe with The sound just doesn't work for you,
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And there's hundreds of bands that I listen to But
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they have some songs where I say Wow that's just a crappy song it
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just doesn't sound right and these are normal but
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people are taking it to the to their egos because
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i don't like this nobody else should let
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me tell the whole world how much i hate this where is
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that charge coming from like oh turn
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it off i hate this change the station like respect
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okay fine you know you don't have to listen to it
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but also why why does that bother you
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so much yeah yeah we've had
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like especially when i was in middle school it was always you know
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during that time uh rap and
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hip-hop was just starting to form it was in its infancy and there was always
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the metalheads and then the hip-hop and there was always that divide but it
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was a healthy one because we still supported a lot of that and even anthrax
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they came out um with the songs uh with um.
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What's his name? Flavor Flav. And they merged heavy metal and rap.
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And they came out with the song, Bring the Noise.
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Dude, still to this day, so damn relevant to see something like that happen.
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And it's still a song when it comes on.
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I got to get up and dance and slam into the walls because it just brings back
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so much emotion from those days.
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Even when we were saying, oh, we don't like the hip-hop guys Or we don't like
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the metal guys This year brought everybody together,
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Yeah, and you know Just the same as with the emotional charge In the songs that
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you can't stand It's the ones that you just like Love and obsess over,
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Like it's just, like you said Like a beautiful expression Into your own was happening And I think,
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Yeah, maybe I need to send you More songs, Gary, if you're not connecting to
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enough of them because there's a lot of beautiful ones that are being created.
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Yeah i i don't mind listening like i
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say it's just lately i just think the emotion fell
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out of a lot of these mainstream bands i'm finding like a couple of them that
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i actually resonate with and there's very few of them but it's just the past
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10 years music just lost its soul and i'm blaming the music industry i think
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the direction that these bands are trying to go into because They're saying,
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oh, well, it's going to sell an album.
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I don't think music ever should be trying to sell an album.
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Obviously, you want to become famous, but I think you really just need to concentrate
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really on the music more than the direction the music wants to take you in,
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if I'm saying that right.
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Yeah, exactly. You're supposed to create something because you want to create it.
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And then you share it with the world because the people who connect with it
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are going to love it. And the people who aren't are going to move on.
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And as you go on creating, like, okay, sure, maybe some people get famous, maybe not.
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But honestly, in the new world, I don't really think people are going to get
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famous like they used to.
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I really think it's going to be the smaller influencer. It's going to be more local people.
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I think the world's going to get bigger and smaller at the same time.
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And I think that more people will come out with really, really beautiful things,
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More opportunity to connect with it But in order to do that,
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people really need to let go of hating things.
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You know, just reroute a little. Yeah, I think that's a big key to all of this.
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It's just, you know, sit down and listen to things.
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Listen to things you don't normally listen to. You'll find that there's a lot
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of similarity across all music genres.
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They all have their roots going way back, and we just kept expanding.
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It's almost like the universe. It started with that big bang, and it just expanded.
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So we started with a sound, and then we turned it into notes,
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and then we turned it into chords,
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and we built music, and then there's music theory and it just kept
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expanding and different genres just kept coming out of it so
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in the grand scheme of things when we bring it all back
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they're all related everything's all related and that's the wonder of music
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and even sometimes i wish i could play music on here but again then there's
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always copyrights and then you get in trouble and they take your podcast and
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all that so we can't even have like music playing in the background and i would always love that.
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Something that will drive the theme of us, you know, like a theme song for us.
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It's fantastic. And of course I could do it if I pay for the license,
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but I don't want to pay for anything. That's the problem.
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Maybe we need to get somebody to write us a theme song.
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We can reach out to the audience and I tell you, if there are any musicians
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out there, just want to get your sound out there.
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Yeah. Write us a theme song or just write some music that we could have to play
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at the beginning. I'll definitely do that for you.
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You know, Well, it's kind of an exchange of energy right there. Not a bad idea.
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Um okay okay on the topic of music
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but just like a little bit off i was we were talking
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about marinating the other day i went
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and i bought a marinate i'm gonna marinate some tofu
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and it's i'm so i'm so excited about it
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but in connection to music i think music is one of the best ways to marinate
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in a frequency over the last couple of years i went through a phase i'm just
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getting out of it kind of slowly over the last six months but i just like only
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listened to happy kind of.
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Affirmationy you know thing and that's kind
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of what i was doing was i was marinating in frequencies i
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didn't understand because once
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you once you know a frequency you can copy
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it it exists in you you know what i mean and
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so if you get to know a frequency you've never experienced through
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a piece of art and then you kind of marinate in
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it and it kind of sinks into all the little pores of your
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existence it's like even without that
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piece of art it exists as part of you now and
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you can just kind of like bring that up and definitely I was way too limiting
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on myself but I was like I was doing a thing it was important for my face but
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um I think that that is something that's still just so very powerful to just
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marinate in a frequency.
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And music is a good one to do because you can do it throughout your day.
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Whereas like art, you can marinate in a frequency, but then you got to stare
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at it, you know, like a painting, which is beautiful too, but you only have
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so much time for that. I'm a multitasker.
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I want to marinate while I'm living in the 3D world.
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Yeah, I like that. And with the marinating, yeah, because I go through...
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You know, days like that, I might have like four or five songs I'm only going to listen to.
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And only those four or five songs, because in that moment I'm marinating in
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that. That's, that's my marinate, you know?
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And then, um, it may be just one band or just one artist that I'm just going
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to sit and listen to all day and nobody else.
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Cause I'm marinating. Cause whatever frequency that, that I'm on is matching that.
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And so, yeah. And we come out nice and tasty afterwards.
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Exactly. i think i drive my daughter crazy because
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i'll pick you know like 10 to 20 songs at a
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time and i just kind of play those songs for a
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while like probably too much
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and you know if it's not the groove that she's on then that can get pretty annoying
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but i i see now that that's what i was saying was i was just marinating in the
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frequencies well we hope everybody else marinates beautifully as well i know
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everybody probably has so much to say about music and their favorite bands or favorite songs,
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favorite memories we have from a certain song or a band or a group or a certain concert we went to.
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Those stories could go on and on and on. So allow them to open up your heart,
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open up your mind to these things,
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allow it to alchemize, let it take over, bring back those beautiful memories,
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bring back all those beautiful moments that you've had, put on those songs,
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get those playlists going, turn that radio up.
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If it's too loud, you're too old, let's go and rock.
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So I hope everybody enjoyed this little music episode.
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We definitely enjoy having you here. I hope this here broke up the sequence
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of all the spiritual stuff, but we put it into a different light for you,
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which is what we're trying to do to keep things exciting rather than just mundane all the time.
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So be ready because we've got some other episodes that are going to be coming
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up that are going to be just kind of like this, where we're going to go off
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track a little bit, and we're really going to start expanding what we talk about here.
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Lizzie and I, we're prepared for it, but we want to thank you again for listening.
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We really enjoy having you, and I enjoy having you, Lizzie. Thank you for coming
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on and bringing up the subject.
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Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. Absolutely.
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You have a great one. And everybody, be blessed, be healthy, and stay safe.