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Majesty of Mayhem with Jasmine White and David Price · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: Well, good morning and a big old happy birthday going
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  Speaker 1: lot to get to this morning. Rex is out and
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  Speaker 1: jazz is in. Not jazz music. Jasmin White, who is
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  Speaker 1: my guest this morning, and first of all, welcome to both.
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  Speaker 1: You got to introduce this cat next to him because
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  Speaker 1: you just have at it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, please everyone, This is the amazing and creative David Price.
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  Speaker 2: And he is an incredible musician and the co writer
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  Speaker 2: of Majesty of Mayhem?
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  Speaker 1: So what is and I was you know, I posted
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit about this yesterday? What is Majesty
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  Speaker 1: of First of all, everyone knows you jazz from Jasmine White,
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  Speaker 1: from Heartless, Born and raised right.
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  Speaker 2: Here mostly I primarily lived through Vermont, born in California, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then kind of adapted in what high school did you
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  Speaker 1: go to?
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  Speaker 2: You? Thirty two the Zoo?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Graduated in what year.
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  Speaker 2: Supposed to be ninety seven? Did ninety six? Graduated early?
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  Speaker 2: Hit it off to college?
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  Speaker 1: All right? And you still live and work right here
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  Speaker 1: in central Vermont? Yes, all right? Your band Heartless is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Last time I saw you was over at the Nodes
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  Speaker 1: Family Farm Benefit and it was just electric.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was wonderful to be a part of that.
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  Speaker 1: Had goosebumps when you guys were getting into some of
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  Speaker 1: the zapp I.
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  Speaker 2: Did, had some of my favorite stuff, all of it.
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  Speaker 1: Man, it's just so good. So you you have created
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  Speaker 1: you and David together and nice to meet David, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, have created a rock opera. And you said
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  Speaker 1: something to me about this a little bit shortly before
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  Speaker 1: you went on stage the last time. I gotta get
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  Speaker 1: with you, gonna talk about this rock op and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: what do you what are you talking about? So, so
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  Speaker 1: here's me. When I hear the words rock opera, I
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  Speaker 1: think of of the Who, Tommy and Zicky, Ziggy Stardust.
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  Speaker 1: But outside of that, what exactly are you doing? Jasmine?
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  Speaker 1: What is this? You take the lead diamond.
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  Speaker 3: Put it on. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Majesty Mayhem is a a rock opera that is based Majesty,
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  Speaker 4: which is the king of a kingdom. I play Majesty
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  Speaker 4: in that and the story is centered around all the
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  Speaker 4: different personalities what make up who Majesty is, whether it
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  Speaker 4: is the darkness, the happiness, the good, all those things
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  Speaker 4: that make up all of us. You know, when we
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  Speaker 4: have our doubt, when we have our dark times where
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  Speaker 4: we feel like everything is crumbling, there's depression coming in,
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  Speaker 4: thoughts that we can't keep going on. You know, this
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  Speaker 4: story really touches all the aspects of that. It touches
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  Speaker 4: suicide and addiction, but also overcoming all those things. So
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  Speaker 4: it's a story that really anybody can relate to because
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  Speaker 4: everybody has those moments where they sink to the darkest
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  Speaker 4: points and a lot of times they may have people
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  Speaker 4: on the outside trying to pull them out that, but
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day they have to be
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  Speaker 4: willing to pull themselves out of it. So everybody, all
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  Speaker 4: the characters in in this production are the different personalities
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  Speaker 4: within me, so the good, the evil, and you really
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  Speaker 4: get to watch the story as it progresses, you know,
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  Speaker 4: taken down to the very pits, the lowest, but then
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  Speaker 4: also overcoming that, you know, with the love, the guidance,
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  Speaker 4: the faith, the nurturing, yeah, all those things. So it's
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  Speaker 4: it's really something everybody can relate to, you know. And
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  Speaker 4: the story is you know, centered around you know, Majesty
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  Speaker 4: in the Kingdom.
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  Speaker 3: So we have you know, the Maiden of Love.
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  Speaker 4: We have a Jester we have the beast, which is
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  Speaker 4: you know, the darkness, the duke of sound, which is
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  Speaker 4: more of the what keeps us centered, you know. So
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  Speaker 4: there's really something to or something for everybody to attach
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  Speaker 4: themselves to and really relate to with the story, but
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  Speaker 4: also kind of puts it in more of a theatrical setting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, so it's so it's a performance. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's music. It's non NonStop music. Correct,
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  Speaker 1: There's no dialogue that's going on here. It's the message
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  Speaker 1: is in the music and in the lyrics, but also
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  Speaker 1: song choice.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, this is crafted carefully, very Yes, we we've gone
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  Speaker 2: around and round with some certain song choices. But if
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  Speaker 2: you think about tribute bands, you know, paying tribute to
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  Speaker 2: amazing artists, we're looking at alternate rock and metal arts.
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  Speaker 2: So we have a system of a down in there.
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  Speaker 2: We have Corn in there. We have Evanescence in there.
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  Speaker 2: That's Summak, Benjamin Disturbed.
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  Speaker 1: You got some heavy ship in there.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, very complex. For for all you who know me,
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  Speaker 2: they know that if it's not complicated, I won't touch down.
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  Speaker 2: But it is. It's taking the lyrics of the songs
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  Speaker 2: as well to tell the story. Of the decline to
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  Speaker 2: tell the story about how we go through our mental
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  Speaker 2: health when we're plummeting. And so there was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of songs that we had originally thought that we have
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  Speaker 2: either tossed out and newer songs that we've discovered that
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  Speaker 2: have come in. Yeah, and then we've written all the
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  Speaker 2: interludes and transitions in between them, plus put in our
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  Speaker 2: original songs as well. So it's you know, tribute to
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  Speaker 2: certain well known artists meets theater meets opera.
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  Speaker 1: You know. One of the things that we attempt to
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  Speaker 1: do here on aired out every week a little bit
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  Speaker 1: is chip away at hopelessness, which is such, you know,
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  Speaker 1: is a massive umbrella here and it's connected to everything,
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  Speaker 1: and try to restore some some hope, some positivity, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's your mental health, whether it's the weather, whether it's politics,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it may be, and come out on the on
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  Speaker 1: the bright side of it. And it seems like in
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  Speaker 1: the end that's what this is maybe attempting to do,
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  Speaker 1: is restore hope.
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  Speaker 2: And it dives deep. It's very because of the theatrics
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  Speaker 2: of the show. All of us as the musicians, we
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  Speaker 2: are also the actors, so we are transit on that
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  Speaker 2: stage all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Costumed, costumed, very costumed.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we talk in Elton John esk we're talking Renaissan Renaissance.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's where the royal court within his mind
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  Speaker 2: if you think of inside out, but put them in
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  Speaker 2: in a kingdom, all right?
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  Speaker 1: In whose mind? Magic Jesus? Which is you? David? You're
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  Speaker 1: so you're vocalist? Yes, no instruments, You're you're singing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah with this, I'm I'm no instruments on this one.
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  Speaker 1: So okay for you, for me? Okay? Uh. And who's
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  Speaker 1: who's joining David? Who's joining you on vocals?
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  Speaker 3: Jasmine is the other main vocalist.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, she does know how to sing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it's a really good pairing.
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  Speaker 2: But to be clear, i'm secondary vocal He is the
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  Speaker 2: lead of the show. Yeah and very well yeah, no pressure, no, what.
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  Speaker 1: What's he sound like? Jazz? I'm asking you what's he has?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know you've got he's well. He and I
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  Speaker 2: started working around the rock vocals because you were more
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  Speaker 2: of a country vocalist for a long time and a
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  Speaker 2: blues vocalist, and so when we met and got to
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  Speaker 2: know each other, we started working on rock vocals and
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  Speaker 2: he's got a growl in him that I'm like, hey, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but he's always attached himself to more of like the
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  Speaker 2: the alternative rock sound stuff. So we tried it out
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  Speaker 2: and it was, it was, it was a perfect fit.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, everything that you're involved with Jasmine is never half assed.
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  Speaker 1: You always take it to the to the extreme, whether
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  Speaker 1: you're on stage or whether you're creating something off stage.
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  Speaker 1: I you know, I want to I'm already anxious to know,
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  Speaker 1: like when is this thing going launch?
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  Speaker 2: We're hoping for the fall of next year. We still
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  Speaker 2: have so much to build.
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  Speaker 1: And we're a year out on this.
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  Speaker 2: We're already a year and a half in. We're a
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  Speaker 2: year and a quarter in building. And then yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is something that you don't just throw up on
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  Speaker 2: a stage. Every piece has to be crafted. All my
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  Speaker 2: years of community theater and direction and acting and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that, all that comes into play. So the blocking
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  Speaker 2: has to be right, the emotion on the stage has
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  Speaker 2: to be right, the lighting's got to be right, the
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  Speaker 2: staging has to be placed just so. And why it
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  Speaker 2: takes a lot to put a production like this together.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just show up and play, so we both
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  Speaker 2: know that unless we feel it is the best it
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  Speaker 2: can be, it won't be on a stage because the
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  Speaker 2: weight of the mission of the show is huge. It
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  Speaker 2: looks at mental health in a very deep way. It
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  Speaker 2: talks about the things we don't talk about, the dark,
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  Speaker 2: and and it brings it to light, It brings it
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  Speaker 2: to focus, and it allows people to resonate with that.
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  Speaker 2: We all have that within us, and we go through
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  Speaker 2: that journey together and then at the end we learn
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  Speaker 2: that it's our our self love and what do I
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  Speaker 2: want to say?
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  Speaker 1: So many of us have have lost that or it's
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  Speaker 1: maybe not fully lost, but clouded over with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of other distractions that are going on in our lives. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and we are and putting our energy into everything else
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  Speaker 1: except ourselves. I think I'm guilty of that myself.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the community right now, you know, everybody
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  Speaker 2: is struggling with what's right, what's wrong, learning values about
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  Speaker 2: their who's right, who's right, or who's wrong or And
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  Speaker 2: the reality is we're all in this world. It's all
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  Speaker 2: turning together. We're all a part of that, and we're
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  Speaker 2: a lot more similar than we all think. We're all
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  Speaker 2: very we're all struggling in the depth of our mental
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  Speaker 2: health right now, and who's not exactly exactly. So this
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  Speaker 2: hopefully brings all of our hands together to talk about
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  Speaker 2: that type of journey that we can get through together.
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  Speaker 2: We asked that the show be almost culty in a
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  Speaker 2: way where we want people to come expressing those certain
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  Speaker 2: emotions that are on the stage, to cheer on Majesty,
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  Speaker 2: to cry with Majesty, to crumble with him, to be
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  Speaker 2: angry in those moments where there's one abusive scene where
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  Speaker 2: you just attack love, which is me. He doesn't actually
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  Speaker 2: hit me, but he looks like he doesn't, and it
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  Speaker 2: gets really dark. But our feelings are dark. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about the dark, not just the overall all mental health.
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  Speaker 2: This person's depressed. What is depression? What is the depth
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  Speaker 2: of that? Where are the things that we go through?
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  Speaker 2: That's what the show.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost part of me. That's like not to get
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  Speaker 1: super personal here, but I mean this is a really
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  Speaker 1: personal and a lot of private stuff we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: How are you guys able to incorporate this on stage
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  Speaker 1: without having dappled yourself in some of these things.
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  Speaker 3: I don't Yeah, I don't think you can approach this
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  Speaker 3: unless you've.
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  Speaker 1: Done that, That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: So, and.
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  Speaker 4: I think it would be hard pressed to find anybody
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  Speaker 4: who could watch the show and at the end of
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  Speaker 4: it be like, oh I didn't relate to that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I just don't see that happening. Because even if you
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  Speaker 4: think down to the most minute thing, like you're at
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  Speaker 4: the store or something you really want you go, and
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  Speaker 4: it's not there in a way that attacks just that
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  Speaker 4: little bit of anger or frustration.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's an emotion.
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  Speaker 4: So like this, this show is on a much bigger scale,
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  Speaker 4: but it just brings out all those little things, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, like there may be points where the Jester
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  Speaker 4: kind of just pops in and it's that little bit
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  Speaker 4: of the voice in your head that's kind of good,
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  Speaker 4: kind of evil. You don't really know where it's going
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  Speaker 4: to guide you, you know, And that's kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of the unfiltered thought.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm thinking, uh, it's just got so much
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  Speaker 1: in my mind here. But does the very Opera House
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  Speaker 1: know that this is being created right now? Does the
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  Speaker 1: Virgen's Opera House know about this Lost Nation Theater?
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  Speaker 2: So no, we don't. We are at the very infancy Chandler. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I would love I would love to do the Chandler.
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  Speaker 2: So we're at the infancy of this project in retrospects
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  Speaker 2: of production. The musicians, we've been practicing for quite some time.
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  Speaker 2: We spend seven to eight hour rehearsals once a month
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  Speaker 2: where we go through that and then of course heartless stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And then we have been writing and finalizing the script
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  Speaker 2: and retweaking and rethinking and beating ourselves over that with
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  Speaker 2: being creative and having Aha moments since June twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: And then now we're wrapping up the music. So we're
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  Speaker 2: bringing in Dan Flanders right now to start with the
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  Speaker 2: costuming and the set design and how that's going to work.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm now starting to write the stage blocking and
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  Speaker 2: the characterization of how do our musicians play the music
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  Speaker 2: but also show the audience and make the audience feel
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  Speaker 2: what emotion they're playing. So it's not just stagnant playing,
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  Speaker 2: it's acting as well. It's being involved in transit on
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  Speaker 2: the stage and working with Majesty during these ebbs and
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  Speaker 2: flows of his plummet of insanity. I guess at that point, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the peak, you know, peak of the show is the
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  Speaker 2: suicide scene. It would be very triggering. Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: How do you get Majesty off the ledge? We do
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  Speaker 2: that and it's dark and it's real, and we get
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  Speaker 2: very emotional when we sing that song. It's Dance with
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  Speaker 2: the Devil by Breaking Benjamin. We'll be doing that and
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  Speaker 2: a waltz at the same time while we sing that.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's very dark.
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  Speaker 1: This is relatable on so many different levels here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking king about all of the different emotions that that
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be embracing. This is really profound stuff, man,
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  Speaker 1: this is who else is doing this?
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  Speaker 4: Actually the the band is Heartless. I'm the only addition
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  Speaker 4: to this one that wasn't originally the plan. Mike Bouclaire,
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  Speaker 4: the drummer, was going to come in with Jazz and
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  Speaker 4: I and then in the search for a league guitar player,
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  Speaker 4: we actually had an audition from Carson, which is one
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  Speaker 4: of the guitar players for Heartless. Yeah, he came into
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  Speaker 4: audition for Majesty of Mayhem and wanted him one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 4: But also when we were about to do the audition,
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  Speaker 4: he just started warming up with Barracuda.
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  Speaker 3: Of course we're we're in the room.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's Heartless Jazz starting singing, and I knew instantly,
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  Speaker 4: and I told her after I said no, no, he's
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  Speaker 4: off limits because she was also looking for a guitar player,
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  Speaker 4: so we both kind of had to get our way
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  Speaker 4: with that. So he was kind of an approach with Carson, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: how do you feel about doing both? And then when
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  Speaker 4: we brought Cobalt in, it was kind of the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: With Cobalt. He was wanting to audition for Heartless. I
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  Speaker 4: wanted him for Majesty in Mayhem. We actually met him
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  Speaker 4: out at live band karaoke he.
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  Speaker 2: Runs live band karaoke and Montpellier at Bent Nails Bistro. Brilliant,
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  Speaker 2: brilliant guy.
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  Speaker 4: The second they started playing, I knew Cobalt was our jester.
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  Speaker 4: I knew immediately. I told her, I said, that's our gester.
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  Speaker 4: And at first he kept turning us down because he
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  Speaker 4: didn't think he was good enough, which is crazy because
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  Speaker 4: he's so good.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: So and he was auditioning for Heartless and him and
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  Speaker 4: Cobalt into being there the same day for the Majesty
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  Speaker 4: of Mayhem audition, and those two are You know when
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  Speaker 4: you just see two musicians that instantly, it's like they're
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  Speaker 4: almost twins. Just it's instant the way they connected, and
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  Speaker 4: it just kind of it fell into place, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And then Michael Streisberg not his.
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  Speaker 4: Style of music at all, and I think he was
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  Speaker 4: more or less thinking about just coming in to kind
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  Speaker 4: of cover for a bit, and then he found out
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  Speaker 4: that he had a huge love for this music he
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  Speaker 4: did not know he had. And then Dana on keys
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  Speaker 4: and you know her and Jasmine, their harmonies are undeniable together.
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  Speaker 4: So it's just kind of after talking about it, it really
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  Speaker 4: didn't make sense to search for other people when you
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  Speaker 4: already have this core group of musicians that work so
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  Speaker 4: well together on a professional level but also just a
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  Speaker 4: friendship and a respect level.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then for me, it's.
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  Speaker 4: A huge win and I know that it is to
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  Speaker 4: be able to be welcomed into that, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm I'm really excited.
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  Speaker 4: We really haven't told anybody that it's heartless plus me,
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  Speaker 4: So it's, uh, it's it's been a very quiet thing
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  Speaker 4: the last few months and just been waiting for us
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  Speaker 4: to talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess we're here talking about.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: It that you know, you could sit around you know this,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: you could sit around all day for days on end,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and try to cherry pick your cast of characters. But
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: in the end, it's there's an energy that that that
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: draws them together that's maybe outside of your yes, your control,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and when when when people just naturally gravitate toward each other,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: there's a magic in that that that you absolutely you're
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: not really driving the bus on.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, this the newest lineup of Heartless. It feels effortless. Yeah,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: it really is.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: That doesn't happen all the time.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: No, it doesn't. It's something that I'd always strived for
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: and it just happened upon us. I feel like when
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: we get on stage, it's not thinking about oh, what
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: notes next, what lines next, stuff like that, It's about
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: enjoying that stage together. And we really do. And it's
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: shifted the show in a very emotional way, which we've
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: always wanted, you know, with Heartless. But that really propels
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: itself for majesty of Mayhem, because not only are every
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: one of our musicians incredibly creative in their mind, very
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: much like me, you know, and David, it becomes that
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: that space, safe space to write music together where it
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: is only positive, there's no negative talk in that space.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Whatever you know, everybody's always ooh, how can we tweak
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: it like this, or let's try this, or that didn't
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: quite work, or let's just sit down crisscross apple sauce
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: with our guitars and figure this little thing out and bam,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: there's a product and it's brilliant. I'm able to trust
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: all of our musicians to be in it one hundred percent.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: And we're now starting to walk into that discussion of
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: portraying those emotions. What are those feelings? How does that
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: translate to how you play? You know, we see the
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Beast who is not as when Majesty's how on his upswing,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: he's he's playing his cadence like he normally is. But
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: when the Beast is raging, Mike is just.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: How do you guys? How are you guys getting into
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the framework in your mind when you have jobs, you
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: have this this other life that you you lead. I
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: mean that that's not let's let's be honest, not really artistic.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Are you distracted during these other chapters of your day
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: of who you have to be?
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Not really?
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: With your rock opera?
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Not really?
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I think you're writing a movie, you're writing a book,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: you're writing a story.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: And that's gotta It's always there. It's always there, it's
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: always you know, inside of us, and there are moments
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: of the day where it could trigger an inspiration of
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: something in the show.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Really good at flipping my hats, you know, and saying, okay,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: this is you know today, I'm a state worker today,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: I'm this today, I'm not I'm a mom, I'm all
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: those things. Yeah, And then as soon as Dave and
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I are in the room, it's like, okay, creative mode, whoop,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: here we go and craziness. And I just love this guy.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: He and I we just do this, you know. We're
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: right there with each other and we challenge each other
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: on the thoughts. There are some ideas. I'm like, oh,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: what about this, And he's like, I don't know about that,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: what about this? And we just we build it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: It's sometimes, though, amazing that that can get a little
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: warm where emotions are are getting well. Yeah, but I
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: really this is my vision. I really, and you kind
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of can sink your nails into it a little bit.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: And bands break up over this kind of stuff. They
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: do artistic differences.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: We're not scared of being emotional with each other. We
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: have sobbed in front of each other literally, you know,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: it's this type of work is emotional, and so we
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: have to be one hundred percent vulnerable and truthful with
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: each other when there's things that trigger us in that show,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: and there is there's things that trigger me really bad.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: There's things that trigger David really bad. We talk about it,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: we walk through it, we modify it, we understand it.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: So how we can both approach this one area of
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: the show of how we can make it better and
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: how we can make this relatable to our audience. Yeah,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: we have a there's a reason it's taken time to
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: do our script.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: And we have a lot of moments where what I
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: see in my head and what I want to portray
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: with something is completely different from hers. And I typically
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: tend to be one of those people that I just
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: kind of go with the flow, especially if there's if
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: my counterpartner somebody who's very strong and determined person like
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Jasmine Jazzin's usually the type of person that I would
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: just say, Okay, I'm just gonna follow you.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to bow down to it.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: But Jasmine is really, I think the first person I've
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: ever had in my life to where if I don't
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: agree with her, I'm just upfront and honest with her.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: But then she'll explain her point, and a lot of
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: times it's we find out we're kind of both right,
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: we just had to figure out how to mess it together.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: And we've never hit a moment to where it's like, Okay,
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: she's really getting under my damn nerves right now, like.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: What all of us should be operating this way?
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Right? The kid?
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Well, really, we also we have that we have a
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: really good friendship outside of that, so we're also we
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: both kind of cope with things, I think a lot
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: of times by laughing and giggling through things. So even
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: when we're frustrated with each other, I think, are we
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: just kind of yeah, we don't take it so serious
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: because it's not so serious, you know, And at the
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: end of the day, one of us or both of
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: us is gonna have to budge a little bit on something,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: and we do, and it's, you know, we're we're obviously
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: not one hundred percent. We're not gonna be a hundred
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: percent exactly lining up all the way through because that'd
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: be ridiculous to even I just think that that could happen.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: But to have a working relationship like this, to where
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: I can be one hundred percent honest she could be
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: one hundred percent honest.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: With me, and we don't get angry.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: We actually appreciate the fact that we have these points
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: of views, and you know, where I can say, well,
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: even when it comes down to some of the songs
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: we're singing. You know, one of the songs we're doing
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Creep by Radiohead and we've slowed it down, made it
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: a ballad duet, you know, And there have been times
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: even we're working on that, you know, and she said, well,
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: why don't we hold out this note here? And in
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: my mind I hear no, Like the word creep is
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: short because it's in that lost moment. You're not going
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: to be so much to hold a note out. It's
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: going to be like a lost moment. So creep is
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: kind of fading out. It's you're just kind of barely
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: hitting the word, and it's more of a despair. It's
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: that low point. Then she's able to see where I
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: come from and how I envisioned that song, and she's
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: like okay, and then she's like, I see your point.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: So we're doing that here, and there may be somewhere
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: else she hears or sees something different, and you know.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Especially let's try it and see how it feels.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: You know, especially when it comes from an emotional standpoint.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: If one of us is very strong and this is
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: how I connect to this, we're very good at being
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: able to explain to the other person in a way
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: that lets him in to where they can understand, and
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: it kind of completes that story.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Wow. Jasmine White and David Price are my guests this morning.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: This is something that has been in the making for
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: quite a while and still will be for a while
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: before it actually takes flight. It is a rock opera
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: that's being written and produced and will be performed locally
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: called Majesty of Mayhem, hoping that there's going to be
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: plenty of opportunities to I don't want to say see this,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: but experience this right here in Central Vermont. Who else
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: is creating rock operas like this regionally?
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: We're hard pressed to find it at this caliper So
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: we feel like this is kind of one of it's
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: kind right now. Intentionally, we want to be able to
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: really own this process and be really real with our
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: audience too. This is a personal journey for both of us.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we have so we're building the show to
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: eventually tour. We would love to be able to tour
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: this out because the mental health awareness doesn't happen just
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: in Vermont. No, we yeah, we want to talk about
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: it hard we can.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: And your set builder again, Danders, He's so he's making
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: things that have got to be able to move.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because we have full full set design and so
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: you know, there's gonna be a castle scene with balconies,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: there's gonna be a scene with dining room table and chairs.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: The Beast sits on the Majesty's thrown with his drum.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Set like it's you know, the.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: My quarters and her quarters.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: So there's full bedroom, set changes, costume changes, it's it's
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: constantly flowing. So it's going to be a big it's
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: going to be a big tech crew because also in
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: those transitions with projection, smoke and lighting pieces are going
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: to be coming in and out. There's there's a lot
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: to it, and Dan protectly has a lot on his plate.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm imagining myself as Dan right now. I'm stressed out.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Oh that's Dan.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: But no, he has got one of the coolest creative
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: minds I've ever met. He really thinks that he gets it.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: He gets it, He thinks outside of the box.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: He stay job, he works. He builds props for movies
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: and ah museums.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: He actually works for a company I don't know the
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: name of it here in Barry, so that's what he does.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: He just built a giant Jaws Jaws bust for the
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: museum in.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: No wherever Jaws was set at.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: You know, I get folks in here who joined me
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: on the air and have for years that are very
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: right brained, and then I've got folks that are very
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: left brained. But the ones that really fascinate me are
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: the ones that can perform on a new killer level
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: on both sides. And that is really amazing to me.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: That is so fascinating that you guys, we're all such
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: interesting creatures, are we not.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, we're all very deep and complex too.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: So we all have our own very unique and private
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: life experiences. How we take things, how we digest them
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: or not, and what we carry around, what we carry around,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: and we all know what it is that we carry around.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: We may not have it written on our shirt sleeve,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: but when we sit down in the audience, for majesty
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: of Mayhem. It's going to tap into that. No matter
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: what it is, it's going to tap in do it.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's it's literally an hour and a half
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: of people watching if they really look at the show
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: from their own perspective, they're watching their emotions, who they are,
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: everything they go through or could go through, or you know,
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: even if somebody doesn't get to the point they feel
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: like ending their life is something that you need to do,
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: most people know somebody who's been to that point. So
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: there's this understanding or even if it's not so far
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: like I'm going to take it, there that fleeting thought
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: and it's a way of putting it in a safe
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: space to where they can see that but also see
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: that there is hope to overcome those things.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Sure, so it's a yeah.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Like I said, it's something that I think everybody can
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: relate relate to, just kind of through the almost a
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: medieval times type of settings, you know.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: You know, the big attraction, I think one of the
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: biggest attractions to this, in the addition to what you're saying,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: is look, Vermons, we love entertainment. We have thirteen months
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: of winter up here. We need to get out of
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: the house. We need to go and experience things, like
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: you say, in a safe space, in a confined area
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: where we can enjoy music. We love big shows when
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: they come into our state, but ones that are being
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: produced and performed organically and created right here in the
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Green Mountains by vermontors. Is in a special attraction for
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: something like this, I think anyway.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not something we often do see. And there's
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: a lot of wonderful community theater around the state, and
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: there's some incredible bands in the state, but you don't
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: see them together. Yeah, right, So for this you will
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: that that's it's a game changer.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Are you are you hoping? Are you are you thinking? Gosh?
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I you know, I I really wish the Flynn is
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: listening maybe some day and paying attention, because this sounds
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: like something that you guys could easily fill the twenty
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: five hundred.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Let's hope, right, They've got to build it and they
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: will come.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to build it.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, that's I mean, that's the intention the staging.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: It's not something for a small theater, it wouldn't fit.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: So with that in mind, we gotta build this just right.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: And that's so that brings us kind of to our
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: next step about, uh, why we wanted to start talking
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: about it and at this point because we're looking for
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: those that want to engage with the mission, who are
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: creative people who want to be involved in the production,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: and importantly sponsors, you know, finding finding support out there
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: to help, whether that's set build or tour funds or
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: marketing and advertising. You know, all of our shows will
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: have playbills to them that we create so that we
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: can have this be a community project in a way.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: It's not just about us and you know the musicians.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: The musicians get paid, but underneath the rest of the stuff,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: it gets cycled in the show to make it bigger,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: better and further outreach. That that is the goal. I
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: want to be able to meet people at the end
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: of the show, or David meet people at the end
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: of the show and have that raw human connection. Yeah wow,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: that that get home from or you know, thank you
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: for saying what I'm feeling, feeling or not able to say,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: or that that's what it's about. It's not about the money.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: It's about connection and having people be raw enough to
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: talk about it instead of just putting a medication on it.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Or putting a label on it, or putting it in
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: the software you know, wow.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Or the fact a lot of people stigmatize anything related
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: to mental health. They they look at it as a detriment,
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: as something to look down on. And the reality is
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: we all have mental health struggles every song on some level,
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: and there's no reason to look at it in a
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: negative light, even if it's something negative you're going through.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: And that's really what this show is about, is the yeah,
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: that negative is happening, down is happening, but there is
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: hope a way to overcome that.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: We all we all have our egos that get in
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: the way of our vulnerability, majesty.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: That's that's part of that. And into it as well
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: is that resistance. Oh I'm fine, I'm I you.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Know, I just had a friend not long ago say
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: oh my god, oh my god, I think I might
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: be on the spectrum, and I'm like, bro, We're all
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: on the spectrum somewhere, all of us. Yeah, absolutely, God, man,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: get over yourself.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: And and it's okay, it's okay. We're everybody is unique
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: and individual, and you know, we all have our strengths
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: and our weaknesses. We all it's all okay.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: And I think there's also an aspect to it of
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: you know, a little bit, actually a lot of bit.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: There's a in the world.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: There tends to also be a lot of toxic masculinity,
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: and a lot of times with men, they're afraid to
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: touch those emotions.
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: And then this putting, putting me in that in this seat,
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: I think is a way for a lot of men
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: to see that it is okay to attack these these emotions.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: Because this is not a show. I'm I'm probably gonna
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: cry through it. There's there's gonna be all those emotions,
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: you know, because there are some songs that have a
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: much deeper meaning to me that a lot of people
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: may not really understand going through there. Sure, and even
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: when we're rehearsing, we just we dive into those emotions
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: because it's the only way we're going to be able
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: to connect.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, for me, it's it's a lot
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: of people who.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: Look like me, act like me, seeing that it's okay
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: to be vulnerable, it's okay to let that out, you know,
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: because like I said, a lot of times, it's that
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: toxic masculinity.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: It's I can't show my emotion. I can't cry.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: I have to be this tough person, and it kind
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: of it, you know, show starts out from the toughest
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: that Majesty can be to literally on the floor crying. Sure,
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: and so it really does give a safe space. And
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: you know, I think the way I look at it,
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: if the entire audience is crying at the halfway point,
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: we've already accomplished our our goal, because then everybody's they're
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: letting go and understanding the emotion, you know, and then
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: hopefully they stick around for the second half, you know,
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: and they can realize that there's also the positive out
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: of that, and you can celebrate overcoming those things and
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: not look at the stigma of it.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Any anyone, any business that's listening right now might be
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: interested in attaching themselves to this rock opera, Majesty of
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Mayhem coming in about a year. What do they do?
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Do they reach out to you jas.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, reach out to myself or reach out to
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: David and we will talk about, you know, what some
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: of the show needs are, how they would want to
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: be represented, and it's really fluid right now. Any any
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: support we would love or ideas or ideas, absolutely, and
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: nothing is too small.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: Or even if it gets down somebody out there's listening
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: and they just want to help paint some set pieces.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: When it gets to it, let's do it.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: I'm more than happy to take those people to help
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: with that because it's you know, a lot of what
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: I think we've both done with productions is hands on.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: There's a lot to do.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of gluing and painting and sure ryan
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: stoning and nails.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of that stuff.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: So even if people don't want to dive in or
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: they can't dive in monetarily to help sure, if they
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: want to get behind the story and help set builds
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: or promotion anything, just help get the word out.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: If they want to go on the road and be
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: a part of the backstage production, or if somebody is
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: really keen on you know, lighting changes or costume changes
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: or whatever that is. It's a community build and eventually
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: it'll be able to sustain itself. So we hope out
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: on the road where that becomes more of a you know,
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: a paid full tour type of thing. Right now, our
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: hands are organic, we're in it, our hands are in
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: the dirt, and we're building.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: This is fascinating. Obviously, we're gonna get you back in
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: here maybe, and you tell me when when the time
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: is is right, Yeah, we'll get you back in here
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: and remind folks that this is coming and it's huge. Yeah,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: it huge.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: Let me get some of our crew in here as
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: well and talk about how emotions it. I would love
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: to have Dan here with us too, to talk about
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: the set build and promote what he does for work.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely check out Dan.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: He had Manic Mart, which you can find on Facebook
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: Green Mountains of Madness.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: He runs that they have a lot of really cool events.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: If you're into anything medieval horror related. Yeah, wow, spooky
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: season three hundred and sixty five days a year, that's
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: the group for you.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: So, you know, bringing Dan in just made all the
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: sense in the world. It's a show.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: His big task is designing Beast's mass so that it's
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: adaptable to someone who's playing the drums, sweating a lot,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: you know, all those things, but also assimilating the same
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: type of mass for Majesty, but in pieces so that
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: we can build the Beast through the show and break
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: it apart during the redemption. So he's so creative. I'm excited.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: We were just just last weekend in Salem, Massachusetts. Wow,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: have you been during or close to Halloween?
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: It's been a long time in Salem.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Holy crapy first two days before Halloween.
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: I don't necessarily know you want to go two days
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: before because you can't move.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, JD. Wait, do you see my house?
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: It spoke to the nut. I'm sure it is.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: I can only imagine. I mean, there was there was
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: a clown walking around on stilts and it was just
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: like the scariest freakin' I mean, you know, here's me
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: and adultamly you. It's Halloween. I'm not really scared of anything,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: you know, but this Halloween has or this this that
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: clown towering over me looking down at me, uh is
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: something that has uh may or may not have been
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: renting a little bit of space in my mind over
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: us over the last couple of days or so. I mean,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: this is unbelievable, man, It's really it's incredible. I can't
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: wait to experience this. I really can't.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: We can't wait to deliver it and just be super
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: real with people. It's it's been at least for me,
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: it's writing this with David has been a big life changer.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: And it's forced me, especially in the last you know,
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: year and a half, to really dive a little deeper
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: on my own mental health. Yeah, and identify that in
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: a different lens. I think it's helped a lot with
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: some things that I struggle with and.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: We man, we all struggle with stuff. Some of us
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: verbalize and others Barry Yeah, yeah, yeah for sure. And
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: that's I think that's just something that we can all
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: relate to on some level. And relatability is it's the
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: peg that I try to hang my hat on here.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: It aired out more than anything else. And there's a
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: couple of a couple of big things, but that's probably
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: the biggest right there.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: I can't thank you both enough.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Thank you JD for having us to talk about this project.
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: And yeah, we really haven't put a lot out there.
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: It's you know, we have we have our social media,
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: but it's kind of sparse.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Right now, it is. But in the first forty eight
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: hours we hit just over five hundred followers immediately, So
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: we haven't we haven't dived into the marketing piece. That's
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: something that we're looking for sponsoring with because we're not
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: ready to launch and we're not quite there. To use
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: what we have in the show for the meeting. Yeah,
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: we've got to do it right right, So it's now
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: in our sight of what we want to have. So
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: anybody that I've talked about it privately with has said, oh, yes,
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: I'm ready. I want to see that. You know, there's interest,
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of interest out there. Yeah, a lot
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: of great questions that come so I'm sure.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's just been a lot of I've had a
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: lot of people ask who's even in the band. They
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: know Jazz and I are doing it, but everything has
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: been kind of secretive about who's.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Been in it.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: So I'm excited to be able to kind of pull
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: that band aid off finally, because you know, I'm really
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: proud of these musicians.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: They're amazing.
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: So to be welcomed into that is like for me
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: mind blowing, you know, because I've been doing music for
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: thirty years and you know, I've played in bands. I've
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: never played with musicians at this caliber. So it's one
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: of those things you always dream of and then to
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: actually just be like, oh, they're welcoming me in. And
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: it's also the flow in that room, the energy and
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: the support. It's you know, we have big hopes that
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: it could be a national tour. I mean, that's what
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: we'd all really like. But for me, even just to
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: be at practice with these musicians is already a dream
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: come true for me, So I'm excited for everybody else
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: to get to see it.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Wow, good stuff, man, great stuff, amazing. You've sparked a
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: lot of interest. I think this morning coming in here,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: this is gonna be big, Majesty of Mayhem. It's a
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: rock opera and man, it is coming. It is unstoppable.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: And be on the watch of the aired out Facebook
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: page beyond the listen, we're paying attention. Jazz and I
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: are going to stay closely in touch and we're going
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: to get you back in here, both of you, plus
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: plus Jasmin White and David Price this morning. Thank you
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: both so much. Appreciate you.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: We love you guys. Everybody and be kind.
• 52:33
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• 52:38
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• 52:50
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• 52:59
  Speaker 1: It is going huge and the weather's going to be
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: perfect for it. The one week I should mention from
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: today is the Trunk Retreat at Montpellier Volkswagen and Mazda
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: from four to seven. That's going to be just ridiculously huge.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: On the twenty fourth is Maulaween. One week after that
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: at Berlin Mall, Central Vermont Marketplace Sunday. This weekend, Central
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: Vermont Cars and Coffee have their their big car show
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: from nine till noon over at the Aspen Dental parking
• 53:36
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• 53:42
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• 53:46
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• 53:49
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• 53:53
  Speaker 1: All part of the US Youth's Soccer Outreach program, a
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: national program and it's big and it's right here in Ramond. Yes,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking more on Carving for K and
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: the other pumpkin shows, the one in Williamstown in the
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: coming days and weeks here, the Sox Sale, Bogey Brothers.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: We're going to be getting into all of it. Yes,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: I will take a deep dive into all of these
• 54:18
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• 54:24
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• 54:28
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• 54:32
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• 54:35
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