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Allyson Galloway on Music, YouTube Success, and Creative Inspirations · The Scene Projects

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  From the grid of Memphis to the millions of streams that she has now today, we're joined by
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  a voice built on resilience.
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  She's the country meets rap powerhouse turning raw truth into anthems.
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  Please welcome Alison Galloway to the network.
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  Scene Project features interviews with independent musicians, comedians, and artists
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  from across the Midwest.
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  Become part of our community and support local art wherever you are.
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  Welcome in to another exciting episode of the scene.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts, and with me today is Alison Galloway.
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  Welcome to the show, Alison.
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  Hey.
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  Thank you so much for having me.
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  It's my pleasure.
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  A little bit different situation than when we first met, just a few week and week and a half,
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  two weeks ago.
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  I don't even know.
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  It's been a whirlwind, but we've had a Josie music awards on the red carpet.
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  What a time.
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  Yes.
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  I will say we had some fun that night.
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  And it's hard not to with a a vibe that high.
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  So many musicians in there.
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  Obviously, everyone can't go home a winner, but to be nominated out of 86,000 plus submissions
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  is already such an accomplishment for so many.
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  I agree.
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  I I was so honored to be there.
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  Yeah.
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  And just from the red carpet, which I I barely got a picture on the red carpet before the
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  people were kicking us out of there.
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  But through MediaVillage and just everything that was there, there's just such a buzz around
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  the entire evening and then a, you know, a a pretty full building, for an independent music
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  act with no major headliners.
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  Right?
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  A lot of people in house at the Grand Ole Opry house.
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  Yes.
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  A lot.
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  It was so, amazing to see all those entertainers and just to be there with
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  everyone.
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  And I got to see a lot of my friends from Nashville, and that's exciting anyways.
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  I I just enjoy being out with everybody.
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  Well, I'm sure we'll talk a lot more about it, through the rest of the interview, but I wanna
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  give you a few minutes here close to the top of the show to, just allow you the floor and to
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  give us a little bit of your backstory.
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  Okay.
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  Well, mine's an interesting story, I guess.
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  I'd say I started with, not a lot of not a lot of home life.
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  You know, some of my home life was kinda bad.
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  My childhood was a little rough, and my parents grew up in the eighties, so you can imagine.
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  And it was it was a tough time when I was younger.
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  And as I grew up, I I had a child at 16, so I didn't make it easier.
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  And once I got through that, I raised him and just continued.
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  And once I continued the journey through sorry.
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  When I continued the journey through raising him, I went into music, and and I started to do
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  music again.
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  As a child, it helped me through a lot of rough times.
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  So I feel like music's always been in my blood, and I just always wanted to be a part of it
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  some way, somehow.
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  But after that, I I started music three years ago, and it's been just such a amazing journey.
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  People are so welcoming, and they've just welcomed me with open arm.
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  And, on YouTube, I I have almost 2,000,000 and, well, I I think we just reached 2,000,000
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  actually.
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  And, that that's an amazing accomplishment.
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  I really only went into this saying I wanna get a million viewers, you know.
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  And now, of course, I know, you know, the impact it can make.
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  I feel like I need to to grow even further because my story I thought it was unique, and,
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  unfortunately, it's not.
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  And a lot of people grew up the way I grew up, and my grandparents raised me.
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  So being raised with my grandparents and not my parents, it was challenging for me to grow up
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  in a Catholic school on top of it.
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  You know, Catholicism really looks at a lot of, you know, marriages as as one thing and and you
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  you kinda go through it.
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  But with my family, way that it was, it was it was a broken home and I didn't understand it.
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  So going through Catholic school was a little rough too, you know, trying to learn, you know,
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  grow as a as a child.
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  But I will say the choir and the band, I kept going through all of that, and, I was the talk
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  of the school most of the time.
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  So I definitely was, always a performer at heart.
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  That's an incredible story, and that's exactly why I wanted to, you know, have you on for an
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  actual conversation.
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  Right?
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  There's very little you can get done in ninety seconds at
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  a price That sounds fast.
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  Like this.
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  And, obviously, you're a very deep, deep person with with a lot of not just history, but, you
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  know, an inspiring story to share.
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  Right?
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  And I'm sure going to a a Catholic school raised by your grandparents already and then
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  having a child at 16, you gave them plenty to talk about, didn't you?
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  I definitely did.
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  They I'm sure they're all watching on YouTube now and looking at the woman you've become and
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  and watching you continue to flourish, really chaps some people's ass.
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  Hey.
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  That's the goal.
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  I swear.
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  That is definitely the goal.
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  I, I love the fact that, things are working out for me on the music side of things.
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  But, honestly, I just want to show people that they're not by themselves because I felt like I
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  was by myself for a long, long time.
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  And, that was because of the people that I'm, you know, hoping to chaps their ass a little
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  bit.
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  And, honestly, I I just think that growing through this process has really taught me how
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  much music can change people's lives and people that I never even thought would relate to me
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  actually relate, and and that's something in itself.
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  You you just never know.
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  Don't judge a book by the cover.
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  Everybody looks at me and says, oh, well, she's got it all together.
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  You know?
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  She's got her hair done and her makeup on, and everything's good, but ultimately, it's a
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  wreck.
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  Like, it's a disaster someday.
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  It's you know?
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  I even have a new song called Beautiful Disaster that we're gonna be trying to put out
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  on the next album.
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  So it's a it's a definitely a beautiful disaster.
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  We can say that for sure.
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  Well and, you know, while there were many, pitfalls and possible tragedies that could have
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  stopped you along the way, it seems like music was a constant for you that you really, you
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  know, dug into and kept going back to, like a best friend, having the band or the choir that
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  you always had that.
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  And now to see it, you know, really, you know, pursuing music, you say, for the last three
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  years and and having this and over 2,000,000 streams on YouTube is no joke.
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  It's taken us six months to get to 300,000, and we put out a ton of content.
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  Right?
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  A lot of that is just each each video, right, over a thousand uploads, each getting a little
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  bit of attention.
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  To have over 2,000,000 views is insanity.
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  So was that just on, like, one one video or a series of videos?
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  Or or what what were you doing that kinda set you apart?
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  Well, I think, what it is, I'm very honest.
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  I, tend to be very honest, and I do live shows on my YouTube.
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  So my live shows tend to get more traction because I'm I'm right there in the moment.
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  And as I'm in the moment, people are like, you know, either they're being mean or they're
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  being nice or, you know, it may be somewhere in between where they're just trying to get to
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  know me or whatever the case is.
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  But I react, and those reactions cause other reactions.
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  And it just becomes this trickle effect where everybody's wanting to know, well, what what
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  would she do if I said this?
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  Or you know?
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  And so it becomes like, well, some people ask me questions on there, and sometimes they'll
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  ask, how do I do my makeup?
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  What kind of makeup do I use?
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  Things like that.
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  I just kinda answer any questions that are asked, and I try to relate to, everyone in one
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  form or fashion, because I think I can.
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  I I just have a lot of interactions with people over my life.
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  I was a salesperson for years, so I I just have talked to everybody around my area.
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  So pretty much anybody in Memphis probably already knows my name or knows who I am because
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  I've done so many different jobs with sales and customer service and things like that.
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  So I'm just so used to people.
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  It's it's like second nature.
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  It feels like you use and you're performing live on your YouTube show as well?
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  Yeah.
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  I get on there and I'll I got a a big speaker that I hook up my microphone to, and I'll just
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  get on there and and, you know, play around.
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  To be honest, I'm not ever serious on YouTube.
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  If you ever see me on a stage, I'll be like, okay.
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  And then I gotta I gotta sing right, you know, make sure it's really good.
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  And, you know, on YouTube, I'm just like, you know, whatever it is.
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  And I'll just be singing along to, you know, wild ones or singing along to save me or
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  whatever.
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  You know?
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  I just kinda sing along to all the different songs, and I play different videos.
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  And and some people ask me to play their music, and it just depends.
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  But we really look at music as a as a healing time for us.
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  You know, we all just get on there and play around.
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  I I can have a 100,000 people in my live show just hanging out with me.
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  So it's just kinda like that.
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  You know?
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  That those are crazy numbers.
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  It is.
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  I've I've I've adopted the mantra nobody's listening, mostly to set other people at ease
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  when they come on the show and letting them know that, hey.
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  This isn't this isn't Joe Rogan.
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  We're we're not gonna, you know, put that out there.
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  So don't really worry about what you say.
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  Because so many people that we have on, you know, we're a lot of people's first podcast or
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  really their first foray into that.
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  You know, being upper Midwesterners, I live in South Dakota.
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  And Okay.
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  We we don't see a lot of media attention in this way, especially to artists and different
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  things.
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  Now it's growing.
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  It's it's changing for sure, but we were definitely kind of the tip of the spear in that
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  in a lot of ways and still are.
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  So it it can be very nerve wracking for a lot of people to even come on and talk with us on
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  the show.
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  Really?
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  Even with this is just prerecorded.
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  Right?
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  It's not going live anywhere.
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  It's recording live, and it's not like I'm gonna go back and spend hours and hours
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  chopping it up.
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  But Yeah.
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  We we really kinda pride ourselves on, almost having a little bit of a anonymity Oh,
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  Oh, well, yeah.
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  Here still, which it feels like you don't really have that luxury anymore.
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  No.
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  I just kind of I'm just open.
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  You know, I'm a open book.
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  And, honestly, I wrote a book, and I got to where I started writing, and it was, like,
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  7,000 words.
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  And I was like, this gets to a level of I'm barely telling the story at this point with the
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  book.
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  So I'm thinking I need to do, like, a series of books and then maybe even the songs.
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  And that's what got me into the music and started writing all the songs because they're
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  true stories, most of them.
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  And if they are, you know, incriminating, I didn't do it.
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  But, ultimately, as far as the actual songs go, they are true stories.
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  And, it it, you know, it's based off my life, and I'm trying to tell some of the stories that
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  are gonna be in the book.
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  So later on, people will be able to purchase the book.
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  I'd give it a couple years.
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  I'm still trying to get the attention on the story first just so people can understand.
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  I mean, hell, right now, I'll just tell you, to be honest, my even right now, I'm going through
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  hell with my family because of all of this mess with my grandfather passing away.
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  All of my fans know about it, but my grandfather recently passed away in April.
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  And he left me his house because that was my inheritance, I guess, because my he raised me.
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  So he left his house.
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  Mhmm.
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  And and that's where I was raised at.
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  So because of all of this, he was he was on his deathbed, and my mother was forging power of
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  attorney.
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  And we believe she forged the will as well and and created a new will.
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  And and now they are partially piecing this house apart, and they're trying to say that I,
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  like, took from him or something.
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  And it's just a big mess, but now I don't even have enough money to fight it.
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  So what can I do?
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  It went through the court system.
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  Everything's already done at this level.
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  So I've just lost the family home that I had my entire life, and my mother still could care
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  less.
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  And then on top of it, she's kicking my sister out.
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  So it's just a big old mess with all this.
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  Honestly, my family is just awful.
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  Swear, I try to give it a rhyme or reason, but it's just awful situations, awful choices made.
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  I'm trying to break the cycle if I can.
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  That's the goal.
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  It's a small wonder why people are attracted to you when you get on YouTube.
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  It's
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  That's what it is.
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  I just talk, and I'm like, yeah.
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  This is what's going on.
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  Like
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  I mean, that's that's how my podcast started, and that's how it continues is just me being
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  real about where I've been and what I've been through.
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  You know, I spent two years in prison for selling marijuana.
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  Right?
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  So you know?
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  And don't I don't ever shy away from that conversation.
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  I think most of our fans on the show know about my sordid past.
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  Right?
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  Oh, well.
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  But it doesn't change who I am.
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  Right?
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  No.
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  It doesn't change who who who's sitting in front of you.
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  And Well, that's what I tell people.
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  I smoke weed.
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  I mean, shit.
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  I smoke a lot of weed on YouTube, so everybody knows about it.
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  So it's not even a big surprise, but, ultimately, it doesn't change who I am.
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  It doesn't change what I've been through, and it doesn't change what I have to say.
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  And that's the biggest thing I think.
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  You know, most of the people listen because I think that they've realized I've learned so
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  much over this, you know, chaotic life of mine that I I feel like I can, you know, maybe tell
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  someone, in a better way of, like, what I went through and maybe don't do what I did.
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  You know?
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  Like, maybe maybe I'm that prime example of don't do what I did, do what I tell you to do.
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  But, yeah, that's basically what they do.
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  I even have, like, some young ones, I'd say 15 or 16.
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  You know, I try not to let too young, but I can't control who watches me.
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  But either way, I try to tell them, like, no.
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  If you're eight and 10 years old, maybe maybe go watch something.
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  Access to full YouTube anyway, kid.
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  I agree.
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  Yes.
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  And I tell them, like, does your parents know you're on here?
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  And they're like, no.
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  But some of them, I'll be honest, some of them say, well, my parents are fighting in the other
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  room anyways or Right.
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  My parents aren't here.
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  You know?
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  And it's sad to think that that's even possible, but it it is the truth.
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  Some kids are alone in a situation where they can get on YouTube like that.
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  And I try to watch what I say and do then, but, of course, I can't always shelter everyone.
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  You know what I mean?
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  I just try to do the
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  same thousands of people watching at a time.
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  How are you gonna police that?
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  I mean, you
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  know, whatever.
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  I I try when when I when I noticed the the chat and things getting a little crazy, I won't
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  smoke, and I'll notice.
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  And I'll start entertaining more, and we'll start really partying it up then, you know, and
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  trying to play songs that are fairly in a or fairly appropriate.
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  I was gonna say inappropriate, but, no, I I play the inappropriate ones any other time, but
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  I try to play the appropriate ones for them, you know, just to work it out.
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  And and some kids, their parents do know that they watch me, and they're okay with that.
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  They they actually watch me themselves, so it's pretty funny.
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  You know?
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  I don't know how it works, but they do.
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  They're very supportive on YouTube.
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  It feels like you, you take this attention that you're getting.
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  You take it very seriously, and you're not taking it for granted.
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  And that you feel a certain responsibility to to not just be real, but to try to, you know I
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  I don't know if educate's the right word, but at least share your experiences as as
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  straightforward as you can to help other people.
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  Is that fair to assess there?
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  Oh, yeah.
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  That's the honest to god truth.
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  I got in it sorry.
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  It kinda The Broken Ones is actually the best way to describe it.
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  I have a song called the broken ones.
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  It was actually originally written about jelly roll.
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  But the weird thing is I wrote it about jelly roll, but it it ended up being way more than
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  that.
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  It ended up being about music and how it can impact someone's whole life.
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  And I heard save me for the first time, and it changed my life to where I realized that people
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  can write their feelings and then sing them.
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  I did not know in my mind or in my heart that it was that way all the time.
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  Back in the day, I always heard these stories, but I never realized they might actually be
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  true.
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  I always heard these different old country songs.
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  And once I realized they were true, I was like, oh my god.
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  I can write my own stories and sing them?
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  And then I just went off the the handle with it and started writing everything, but the broken
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  ones truly tells you what I do this for, and it's for people like me.
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  And as long as I know there's somebody out there that needs something like this, somebody
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  like me, I'm I'm down for it.
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  I'm here.
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  You know, I'm not doing anything else.
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  I figured might as well.
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  You know?
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  No.
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  And that's something that I've kind of forgotten, because I've always had that.
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  I I've been writing since I was a teenager and getting these feelings out, and my songs were
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  always very personal.
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  And since starting the podcast, I've kinda put my music career in the background.
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  I'm a songwriter.
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  I'm a musician myself, but I've really kind of put a lot of that career aside the last
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  eighteen months because I believed in what we were creating here with the scene projects.
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  And Yeah.
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  It needed it demanded my full attention.
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  Right?
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  Not that I don't play a few shows here and there.
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  But over the course of the last year, I was able to get in the studio with some of the most
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  talented people I know, whether we were in there together or they were overdubbing tracks.
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  And we finally released that out into the world just this week, actually, on 11/11.
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  And Really?
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  I'll take the northern lights that night in in Southeastern South Dakota as a good sign that,
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  you know, the music gods are pleased with it.
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  But
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  That's awesome.
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  That it's music is healing.
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  Right?
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  And so much of what I've done with the podcast has been healing, just talking about it.
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  And I think you know this.
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  I think you your YouTube bits that you do are a podcast.
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  Right?
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  And you're not necessarily calling it that, but that's what it is.
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  It's Yeah.
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  A lot of people have said that.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's not just you kinda doing your live performance.
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  It's you connecting with your audience and doing that.
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  And I think that's something that now that I'm home a little bit more in the winter months and
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  around this time of year, South Dakota gets a little cold.
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  And Not bad.
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  But I think that's gonna be a big part of what we continue to do is more live hits and just
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  spending time.
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  You know, I'm always in front of this camera.
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  Right?
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  Like, you're this is my battle station.
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  This is just somewhere that I come in I'm
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  gonna send him.
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  Hang out, you know, for the purpose of doing interviews.
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  It's somewhere that I'm spending a lot of my time anyway.
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  So why don't I just have the camera on it and be rolling with everyone and to have some
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  really great conversations and to to heal people?
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  And I think that's, that's so cool to hear that, you know, you're really using this
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  platform and this attention that you're getting and the reason for that attention being that
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  you are healing people.
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  You are finding and reaching out to the broken ones.
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  And I think there's a lot more of us out there, myself included, that, that need it, that need
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  to feel like somebody's out there that understands them, that gets them.
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  Right?
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  And I agree.
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  I I felt like that with jelly roll.
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  You know?
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  Honestly, it was like I hate to say it, but jelly roll reminded me of my family a little.
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  And it was a a little chaotic and a little a little messy, but ultimately lovable, and and
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  it really became a part of me.
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  And I wanted to try to just do something bigger.
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  I didn't know about writing music and doing anything like that, so I started with the book.
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  And when I started with the book, I met Jelly Roll.
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  And then after I met him, I went to his concert, and I saw the impact that he made just
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  on myself.
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  And the impact alone just brought me to music.
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  It just it changed my life.
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  Seeing his concert at Bridgestone Arena, that was the most incredible thing I've ever seen.
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  And I just realized then I wanted to make an impact like that, and I didn't know how, but I
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  started to sing.
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  And when I started to sing, people took to my voice.
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  I couldn't sing more shit.
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  I still can't hardly.
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  But when it comes down to it, they liked the voice behind it, and they they appreciated what
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  I was singing.
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  So I think that after a while, they started growing accustomed to my actual singing.
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  Because like I said, I I don't know.
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  I I don't know how to sing.
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  I have never been given a vocal lesson in my life.
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  I'm just sorry about all.
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  But, yeah, I've just done, just choir, you know, regular choir.
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  I did a few, competitions, but no lesson.
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  And, I did band and learned all the instruments, but I don't even play a whole
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  instrument.
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  Like, I can play a little bit of everything.
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  So I can pick up an instrument and play a couple of little things, show you a few things,
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  but, generally, I don't actually play, you know, formally all the time.
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  You know, it's funny you mentioned Jelly Roll because he was such a big inspiration to me.
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  I mean, I've always done music.
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  I've been in a band or playing on stage since I was, you know, 14, 15 years old.
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  I did concert band and things before that, choir, choir competitions.
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  And, like, I've always been on stage.
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  And then kinda getting out of prison in 2018, I thought that part of my life was kind of over.
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  Right?
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  I thought that, like, oh, okay.
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  Well, you know, whatever dream you had of being a rock star, connecting with people in that
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  way, that's kinda gone.
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  You're gonna, you know, just live a very, you know, a normal life.
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  Right?
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  And and seeing Jelly Roll and seeing because I thought I was gonna have to hide that part of
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  my life.
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  Right?
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  I thought I was gonna have to hide those two years and the bad decisions before that.
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  And what Jelly kinda taught me was that you're not gonna you're not gonna run from those
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  things anyway.
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  If people wanna find them out, they're going to.
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  So I'd rather just be upfront about it and tell you that I'm a mess and to let you go, oh,
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  you're not as bad as you make it seem.
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  Right?
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  And you're like, well, you should've had me a decade ago.
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  Right?
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  I know what you mean.
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  I know.
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  And I'm the same way.
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  It was it was ten years ago when a lot of these stories happened that I'm telling now, and it
• 25:05
  was right in the prime of my stupid times.
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  You know?
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  It was the worst 22 year old craziness that I could ever come up with.
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  Anything.
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  I would do whatever the hell.
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  You know?
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  At one time, I I told myself I'm a write a song about it, but I don't know exactly how I'm
• 25:21
  gonna work it in.
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  But I rode on top of a a car, and I was going, like, 80 miles an hour.
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  I'm driving on top of a car, and I'm just riding it.
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  And it felt like I was flying.
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  It was the most incredible thing I've ever done in my whole life.
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  Like, literally, I was amazed with the result of it, but it was terrifying at the same time.
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  So, ultimately, I wouldn't recommend it.
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  Don't do what I do, I tell y'all.
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  But I still I still say, you know, when it comes down to it, I I gotta write a song about
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  that one day.
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  You know?
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  That's gonna be a hell of a song.
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  Maybe feels like I'm flying.
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  Who knows?
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  I've done the same.
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  I don't know that we were doing 80, but, it was just as dangerous.
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  And, yeah, I was probably about the same age that you were to be I think it was my 20
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  birthday party, honestly.
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  I didn't I didn't wanna celebrate at the bar, so I celebrated in the woods with, you know,
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  piles of
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  Same here.
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  Yep.
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  It was the woods, and and it was one track.
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  That was all all we did while we went 80 because I had one track.
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  So it was it was funnest time ever.
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  But, yeah, I just Don't do it.
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  I said write what you know.
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  Yeah.
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  Don't do what I do, like I said.
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  But write what you know.
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  That's the biggest thing.
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  If you can write what you know, people will relate.
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  You know?
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  Awesome.
• 26:42
  Well, Allison, I gotta let you get out of here.
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  Go ahead and share everywhere that people can find you, obviously, on YouTube.
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  And, yeah, I'll let you get out of here today.
• 26:52
  Oh, yeah.
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  I appreciate you so much, and, definitely, we'll do it again.
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  Maybe I can get down to South Dakota.
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  I'm trying to shoot a music video for a song that we're doing, and I need some snow.
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  So I may have to make my way.
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  We'll probably get plenty of it this year.
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  So plan accordingly.
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  Alright.
• 27:11
  Well, thank you so much.
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  I appreciate it again.
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  Did it break up?
• 27:22
  Nope.
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  Oh, okay.
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  Alright.
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  I was just checking.
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  Yeah.
• 27:27
  You're good.
• 27:28
  You have website or anything that people can go check you out?
• 27:31
  Oh, yeah.
• 27:32
  Like well, I guess my YouTube is my go to Instagram.
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  But if you look me up, Allison Galloway Music, you can Google Allison Galloway, and I am all
• 27:42
  over that thing.
• 27:42
  So you can find me any which way.
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  I swear, you might even find my phone number.
• 27:47
  Try not to, though.
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  Please.
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  That's what I tell people.
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  I'm trying to do a podcast.
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  Everybody's finding her number online and calling her in the middle of it.
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  Yeah.
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  That's what's gonna happen.
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  Possible.
• 27:58
  Allison, thank you so much for joining me today, and thanks for being part of the scene.
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  Thanks.
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  I appreciate it.
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  Have a good one.