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038 - Wizard of the Pod w/ Molly Neeley · Here's to You

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  Just kidding. Well guys, welcome back to us to
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  Here's To You Podcast. As you guys know, I'm your
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  favorite host. And right next to me, I have
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  your very soothing voice. Dusty DJ Leave.
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  Yo-yo yo. So dusty, how you been?
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  Not too bad. Trying to stay cool.
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  Last couple weeks has been like 100 degrees, like all day, every
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  day. Oh man, it was hot.
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  Just could not get nothing done. And I wanted to fight the heat
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  and the sun at the same time. I was.
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  It was like 107 that what day it was, I can't remember, but it
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  was hot as fuck, yeah. Hot.
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  So glad today's not as hot. It's like 88 degrees outside.
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  Mmhmm. It's nice.
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  But sitting across from me, somebody who is very hot.
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  Probably 105 degrees. Yes.
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  We have our special guest, Molly Neely.
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  Hello. You like our effects?
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  I do especially that one. Hi, Molly.
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  Well, thank you for coming to our podcast today.
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  You know, we already took a couple shots in and everything
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  like that, but you know, we're here.
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  Talk about just basically everything you know, Just don't
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  be nervous. We we are.
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  We a lot of our guests always says they're nervous.
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  But the same book, when the drinks keep coming in, you're
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  going to be like, OK, I'm not that nervous, I'm already
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  feeling calmer just sitting here, kind of letting the The
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  Moscow Mule sit in. Yes, yes, to let you guys know
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  today we are drinking Tito's, but you know it's a brand new
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  bottle and we already finished it.
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  But anyways so. Molly So tell us about yourself.
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  I am a Wichita native, born and raised here.
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  I've been a music teacher for the past 10 years and I perform
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  around town a little bit here and there.
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  OK, so here local in Wichita. Yep.
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  Do you also ever go out of town? I haven't until actually this
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  summer. I went up to Kansas City because
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  I have family up there and I never have before.
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  I was like, let's go to a few open mics and just kind of see,
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  we just called around a little bit and she has three kids, so
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  we weren't going to go far party, yeah, yeah.
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  But just to check it out and she was such a good sport and she,
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  we went to two of them, maybe 3 and every single one I saw
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  somebody from Wichita. It was very close.
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  It was, yeah, there was the first one.
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  It was somebody he grew up and Goddard and.
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  Who would have thought yeah I know.
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  And then that there was another one.
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  It was basically just an open jam going on and sunshine the
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  Bunny was up there. I would so I got I was like wow
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  I feel totally at home here and that was actually really fun.
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  So other than that I haven't I haven't really done shows out
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  too much outside of Wichita. Cheney, the Sedgwick County Fair
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  and but just pretty much locally.
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  Cool, cool, cool. So what was your life growing up
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  in Wichita? How was it?
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  Let's see I. What made you also grow up with
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  music? Let's do that, okay.
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  So I have, it's going to say I have one older sister and she
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  and I have always been really into music and but really I feel
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  like it came from my mom when I was little.
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  She had like a record player and these huge speakers in the
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  basement and how she'd wake us up in the morning.
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  All like the way volume. She'd turn on those cleaning.
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  Yeah, like Elton John. Crocodile rock at like level 100
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  at like 8A. M Saturday.
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  So wow, it's time to vacuum. I'm like, OK, I guess if this is
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  happening then we might as well jam to it.
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  So I really, really have always loved music because of her.
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  Yeah, that's good. That's good.
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  So you guys wake up to loud music.
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  You're like, oh, I know this is. I think it's time for us to get
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  up and clean. It's a chore day.
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  That's how we knew it was chore day, because it was like just
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  music. And then you'd hear it kind of
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  slowly from the basement and then louder and louder and I'm
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  like. OK, let's just get this Fine.
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  But I actually have that record player now.
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  I think it's pretty much trash. I've tried to get to work so
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  many times, but I have all of her records too.
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  So those are kind of I have like Thriller on Vinyl and Stevie
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  Wonder and the Eagles and that's all kind of easy that I I love
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  that. You know, and it's like, crazy
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  how, like, you know, we went from record players to like
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  digital CD and now we're streaming, you know?
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  Dusty, you know you're a DJ. You know, you guys will buy like
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  records or CD's too as well, you know now kids, the Generation Z,
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  right now they'd be like, what's a record, you know?
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  And they. Anything.
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  You know, they look at my ancient butt and they're like,
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  you still play MP3's. We're streaming it from our
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  computer to the thing. Do you not know what I Spotify
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  is or iTunes? They say now, like when you ask
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  a kid, like the phone, anything with the phone symbol or like
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  hanging up the phone, They don't really understand why you'd hang
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  up the phone. They don't know any.
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  Of that. So yeah, I'm like, yeah, I'm
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  about a million years old now. Yeah, you guys make me really
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  show my age. Yeah, 'cause back then it was
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  that's what it was. It was hanging.
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  You had to hang it up. Mmhmm.
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  But now we just it's end. You end the call.
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  Mmhmm. Yeah, that's just press it
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  really hard. If you're mad, that's all you
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  can. Do and you know, and and you
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  know people hang up on you and you're like, you don't even have
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  to hang up. So like, yeah, you know, 'cause
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  usually when you have like the phone dial, you know it usually,
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  yeah, you have to, you know, turn, like actually hanging
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  hanging up. But you're like, alright, you
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  hang out first. Boop.
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  Done. Done, you know.
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  Back in your pocket, it goes. Back in your pocket, it goes,
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  yes. Um, what type of music did you
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  listen to when you were younger with?
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  OK, let's see. Well, my dad liked country a
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  lot, so we'd listen to country music.
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  I still actually really like 90s country.
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  Yeah, me too. And then like sixties, 70s, kind
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  of classic rock and musicals. I love musicals.
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  I've always loved musicals. You have a favorite musical.
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  OK, I've actually had a debate about this because I always say
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  The Wizard of Oz and then someone's like, The Wizard of Oz
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  isn't a musical. I'm like, absolutely.
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  They did not watch it, no. That's what.
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  I'm saying they probably watched The Wiz, but even that is a
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  musical. So but I was there like no,
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  that's a move. And like, what has music all in
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  it. Somewhere Over the Rainbow is
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  one of my favorite songs of. All did not seen how the Tin Man
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  was singing. And then, yeah, if I only had a
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  brain. If I only had a heart.
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  Yeah, exactly. Dorothy is talking about all
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  kinds of Bluebirds over the rainbow.
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  Come on. They did not watch it.
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  Yeah. I also grew up.
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  This is kind of odd now, but in fifth grade we studied Phantom
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  of the Opera. And I always, I know, it's
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  really like, kind of twisted and weird, but I would, Yeah.
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  Now looking back, I'm like, and and being a music teacher, I'm
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  like, that was kind of some dark theme.
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  Yeah, like kidnapping, you think?
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  It's OK. You're like, he must really love
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  that. Like, wow, she's so beautiful
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  and sings so pretty, but he's like, he's killing people in the
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  back of the auditorium. I was going to ask you if that
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  if that was a musical because if so, that's.
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  Probably the only one that I like.
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  Yeah, do you like that one? And.
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  The opera is like one of the classics, to be honest.
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  Yeah, yeah, I remember. Because a lot.
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  I remember in high school, a lot of our theater, you know, the
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  theater class always do Phantom of the Opera too, as well.
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  What was another one too? That they always do.
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  They do The Wizard of Oz. And there's another one I can't
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  remember. It's always like they always,
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  always do Hamlet. There we go.
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  Is it Hamilton or Hamilton? Hamilton.
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  Hamilton is the is newer? Yes.
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  Oh yeah. But see, I was used to tell my
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  students that you have to kind of watch in Kanto because that
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  has the same guy, Lin Manuel Miranda, who wrote all the
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  music. Because you can't tell.
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  The whole thing starts with he says something about a bastard.
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  How does a poor man bastard? I'm like, I can't teach that to
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  my little kids, like, so just go watching Conto and then when you
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  get home, I want you to look up Hamilton.
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  Yes, exactly. Like, go listen to Bruno and
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  then come back to me. Yes, because we don't talk about
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  Bruno. We don't talk about Bruno.
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  Oh yeah, Addams Family is one too as well.
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  Yes, I saw Chicago in on Broadway in New York City.
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  Chicago There we go. I was like, man, it's it's in my
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  head. It's a Sound of Music.
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  Sound of Music? Yes.
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  Yeah. I think the sound of mix is
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  really good. I loved it.
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  Yeah. I tried to.
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  I've tried to leave before, like for little kids, for Subs and
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  stuff, The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins, and they cannot
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  get into it. But I was like these are the
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  best movies of all time. And Julie Andrews fucking
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  killed. Yeah, she killed.
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  Till she dies. Till she dies.
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  She's so good. I love her.
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  I love her. Over here, talk about musical.
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  I love musical. You know when you ask a kid
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  what's a musical? High School Musical.
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  Yeah. I've never seen that TikTok.
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  You've never seen High School Musical.
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  I don't know that I've seen it start to finish, but there's
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  also like 7 of. Them do you know?
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  So, fun fact, you know how? Zac Efron, He's like the singer
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  there, you know, He's not actual the singer.
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  Someone else is singing for him that checks out.
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  I believe that. Yeah, I believe that one. 100%,
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  yeah. He does not sing.
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  So like my little sister, she loved High School Musical.
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  And I was like, this man. He could sing.
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  Look at that. And then they had a concert and
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  it was a different man. And I'm like, wait a minute.
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  This this is different. I came here to see Zac Efron.
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  What the fuck? This is not Zac Efron.
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  And then, like, I Googled it and they're like, yeah, but I think
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  it was Vanessa Hudgens really singing.
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  Yes, she was really singing. Everybody in that cast sings
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  except Zac Efron. I was in a musical.
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  I mean, technically, if you can call it that, in middle school,
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  and we did Annie Junior and we had this guy play Daddy
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  Warbucks. It was like the only kid that we
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  felt like was a dude that could learn his lines and he couldn't
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  sing for shit. And so they were like, just
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  speak all your part. They literally.
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  And so it was OK until we had this stuff where we both like a
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  duet where he and I are both singing.
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  So then I'd sing my part, and then he'd be like and
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  everywhere. You're like, this is very This
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  is the only Daddy Warbucks we could get.
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  He must be the only big bald guy.
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  Yeah, it being a 7th grade bald guy is hard enough.
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  Now they're going to make you be daddy warm.
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  So mean. Oh man.
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  Did you had to? Were you Annie?
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  I was. Annie did.
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  You wear the red hair? I OK, it's way worse than that
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  actually. In our head it was going to be
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  so much better if we just spray painted my hair with hair
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  changing color, whatever. But we got like a neon and so I
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  was like neon orange on top of my black curls.
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  And when I go out on stage, when the lights would go out to
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  change scenery, it glowed in the dark and so I'd go out to like,
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  get the props and carry him back in and be.
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  Like, who's this? Who's one little thing?
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  Watch It's like look like a caution cone just running back
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  and forth on the stage. Directing traffic if I could go
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  back, If I could go back, I would wear a wig, I think.
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  Yeah, for sure. No, man, we used like three or
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  four games. That spray paint too.
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  I mean, you had did you had like jet black hair?
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  Yeah, I had pretty naturally dark and like a dark brown and
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  we just sprayed straight on top of it like it was going to be
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  amazing. It was not amazing.
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  It's like it's going to cover. Did you play any instruments
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  when you were little or anything?
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  Did you grow up? I'm.
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  I always say I'm not. I'm not really very good at any
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  instruments, but I had to take a lot of different classes in high
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  school to be a music teacher. I went to Wichita State and you
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  almost get kind of a You're certified to teach K through 12.
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  You could teach band if you want, or orchestra or choral
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  like saying. You learned all like the little
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  notes scenario so I had to so they make, but they make you
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  just take. It's a methods class.
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  So like I had to take for one semester, you have to take some
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  brass instrument and then one strings instrument.
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  So I played. I had to play the.
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  How do you remember all this? Well, it haunts my dreams
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  mostly. Truly, there was a running joke
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  when I had to take the semester when I played trumpet.
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  You do record your playing test and send it to your professor,
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  and it seemed like it was a joke, like it was a satire, was
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  like I was trying to play like a Claire de La Luna.
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  I was like and I just sent it anyway.
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  I hope this gives me an A I practice for 2 1/2 hours.
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  This is what you're getting today.
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  You got it. Send it before 11:59 PM.
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  Exactly. Exactly.
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  And so but yeah, I had to play a little strings, a little of
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  everything and then you have to pass a piano test.
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  So I'm like kind of a what's that saying Master of none.
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  Kind of a tried it all but master of none.
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  So and then I play a little ukulele but instruments and true
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  instrumentalist that, I mean I have so much respect for that
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  because it's just not one of my talents.
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  It's truly not. So it's called Jack of all
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  Trades, Jack of all. Trades the masters of none.
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  There you. Go.
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  There you go. Oh man.
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  When I was, I think I was in fifth grade.
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  I think it was fifth grade or 6th grade.
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  The only instrument is they call it a string.
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  Let's say that string because I was an orchestra, I played the
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  Viola. OK.
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  Let me tell you the the reason why I play the Viola.
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  So it looked good on my resume, Yeah, yeah.
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  And and can you can you read Alto Clef?
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  Bitch No. I was the beginner when I said
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  beginner. Well, we have like, you know our
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  concert. I'm way in the back like my mom.
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  Be like, I'll come watch you and I'm like, you're not going to
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  see me. You're you're going to hear
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  everybody but except me. You're just going to have to
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  imagine. It you know how like I'm there,
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  you know how like you share the the stand with the with your
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  sheets, right? I have my own stand because
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  nobody wants to share. I did.
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  I did marching band in high school for a little while.
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  It will humble you to step in a hole and fall down with a
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  clarinet, like in a weird hat that you never wanted to put on.
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  That has humbled me. I I fell down on football field
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  in the middle of the halftime show for sure.
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  And all and all that gown and like, that's hot, you know?
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  You know, back in the day I remember like in band people
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  wear the hats and then like all that stuff, you know, you hot in
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  that. But now they don't even wear
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  those. They're.
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  I don't, do they? I don't know.
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  I haven't even seen. I don't think they they just
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  wear the the costumes, but they don't wear the hat anymore
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  because I'm my brother, plays for high school and sometimes
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  they go there and play for the soccer teams and they don't
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  wear. I just wear tshirts.
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  Oh, that's it. Like, damn, they're so lenient
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  now. I know I almost had a heat
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  stroke several times during band camp.
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  I can actually say like this one time at band camp.
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  Nothing good ever follows it. Oh man, I went to an orchestra
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  camp too as well. You know, it was a joke because,
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  like, I don't know shit. I just went for the experience.
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  It's the dying. So I had to play violin and I
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  called it the Dying Cat Parade cuz it was just.
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  It was so hard cuz like you're you're literally on your like
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  you know, half of your chin and then you're like trying so hard
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  and you have to look in the corner eye of your, you know,
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  note sheets and everything like that and then your director and
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  then your instrument. Yeah, hey, but I give them props
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  no matter what they I give him props because like my brother,
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  he plays the cello. And I'm just.
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  And he's like the golden child. I'm gonna tell you, he's the
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  golden child of the whole family.
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  And I'm just watching this little skinny ass kid carrying
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  this damn cello everywhere he goes.
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  And I'm just like, but the cello is beautiful.
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  Oh, it's beautiful. It's such it's one of my
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  favorite. It's so bass.
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  I love it, yes. It's like the backbone of every
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  song. Yes, makes.
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  Everything like romantic sounding.
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  That's true. That's true.
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  I'm gonna tell my man be like, hey, can you play me a cello
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  real quick? Just play me a cello solo for a
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  date night. My brother, he I'm gonna tell my
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  brother that cuz he has a girlfriend.
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  I'm like, you should just play. Oh, she plays the cello too, so
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  they're perfect for each other. Cello buddies.
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  Cello buddies. Yeah.
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  Anyways, we're so off top of that.
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  How they met. They're like, hey, do you want
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  to share the stand together there you?
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  Go so Jay so let me think cuz I've been to so many concerts
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  and I just, I don't know how many.
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  There's so there's too many. There's like a freshman there's
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  like a Symphony and then some other one I can't remember it
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  was called like the there's like three.
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  He plays for both. He don't pay the freshman one.
• 20:52
  He pays for a Symphony. And I don't know what the other
• 20:55
  one is like a mixed ensemble. Ensemble, yes, there you go, a
• 20:59
  Symphony and ensemble. So like they have to try out and
• 21:03
  do all that stuff so they both play play on the both of the
• 21:06
  groups and then they got they got all ones that ones that's
• 21:11
  the best. So yeah, they got all ones
• 21:14
  against all the schools here in Kansas and they got to go in the
• 21:17
  state. They got to go to state and they
• 21:19
  won state. So yeah, it's crazy cuz I was
• 21:22
  like, man, you guys are pretty good.
• 21:23
  Where does he go? Southeast High SE, Yeah.
• 21:27
  So that's where he goes, yeah. The Wichita School District has
• 21:31
  some really good band and orchestra and coral stuff that
• 21:35
  I've seen, yeah. Mmhmm.
• 21:37
  They do. Getting better and better.
• 21:38
  Cuz when I was in high school singing, I didn't know what I
• 21:41
  was doing at all. I'm like, they really look like
• 21:42
  they know what they're doing. So when you were little, did you
• 21:46
  also join choir and all that stuff too?
• 21:48
  Not the girl. Don't worry.
• 21:49
  Yeah, it's OK. I think we all are lit right
• 21:52
  now. I haven't had dinner yet.
• 21:55
  Guys, I'm so sorry. I checked two shots before the I
• 22:00
  texted my boyfriend. I was like, we finished the
• 22:02
  bottle, Baby. He's like, didn't you just
• 22:04
  started like in 15 minutes ago? I was like, yeah.
• 22:10
  But yes, did you start the choir and all that?
• 22:13
  So I had, and I I told her so many times.
• 22:16
  She's embarrassed by now, but I had the best elementary music
• 22:19
  teacher ever. She have.
• 22:21
  Always. She's still teaching at the same
• 22:24
  school. OK, elementary.
• 22:27
  OK, elementary and. What's her name?
• 22:29
  Nina Kent Nina Wilson is her married name.
• 22:32
  But I she was Nina Kent when I had her and she was like, she's
• 22:38
  she's the other reason, like my mom and Miss Kent.
• 22:41
  That's why I loved music so much grown up.
• 22:44
  So. So she's she's your influence.
• 22:46
  Yeah. And she just had this.
• 22:48
  Even now when I've I've gone to watch her teach and I'm she's
• 22:51
  just like a magical fairy Princess.
• 22:53
  And so I was in a lot of she has an honor choir and she kind of
• 22:57
  got me interested in doing some other sorts of choirs.
• 23:00
  Outside of that, I was in one where I had to wear bow ties and
• 23:04
  cumberbunds. It was very attractive.
• 23:07
  You know what a cumberbund is that because nobody wears them
• 23:10
  anymore, they're not a thing. It's like a belt for your belt,
• 23:14
  except worse because it was bright red and then we wrote
• 23:19
  wore like bright red bow ties and white button down shirts and
• 23:24
  slacks and we were like little kids all Well, it was actually a
• 23:27
  mix. It was adults and kids.
• 23:30
  Oh like that. So no.
• 23:32
  Like the one that's kind of Purpley on the 2nd row.
• 23:36
  That one. That the Purpley thing on his
• 23:38
  waist? That's a cumberbine.
• 23:40
  You wore that as a kid and I just pictures, could you
• 23:44
  breathe? Describe what this looks like to
• 23:54
  our guests so that they hear this.
• 23:47
  Bow tie was worse. The bow tie was worse.
• 23:50
  And so we sing a lot of coral. So it's a I mean, I set a belt
• 23:57
  for your belt. What else would you say it's a?
• 24:01
  It's like a high waisted belt. It's like a.
• 24:03
  It's a matching the bow tie, belt, satin, maybe satin or silk
• 24:10
  wrapped around the waist. The main idea was for us to all
• 24:14
  look the same, and it was a women's and men and children's
• 24:19
  choir, so we're all supposed to look uniform.
• 24:22
  Oh, that one. Made a cute look at that one on
• 24:24
  the bottom. But they don't know fashion back
• 24:26
  then, so you know, I don't care. They don't.
• 24:29
  I was looking at this problem over.
• 24:31
  Where? There.
• 24:32
  A red bow with the red? Right there.
• 24:34
  Yes. Yes.
• 24:36
  Was it that one? That's actually me.
• 24:44
  Yep, that was me Inquire holding the breadstick.
• 24:48
  I. Was gonna say all these guys
• 24:49
  that have been wearing. These Do you want cheese on your
• 24:52
  Alfredo man? Why is he holding it like a
• 24:54
  cigarette? I don't get it.
• 24:55
  He's holding a breadstick like a cigarette, but here's George
• 25:00
  Clooney in one. So how bad can they really be?
• 25:02
  George Clooney looks pretty. No, he's not wearing.
• 25:06
  He's not. He's not.
• 25:07
  No one wears them, girl. No one wears them.
• 25:10
  So it's not good. But the experience was good, and
• 25:13
  I was in. And then that set me up to do it
• 25:15
  all in middle school, high school, college.
• 25:19
  In college, we got to go to Carnegie Hall and sing in
• 25:22
  Carnegie Hall in New York City. You went to New York?
• 25:25
  Yeah, that girl. Look at that.
• 25:27
  Really awesome. You have experienced a lot.
• 25:32
  Yeah. I don't know.
• 25:33
  New York City in a Cumberbund. I don't know.
• 25:38
  That's a lot. Hey at least you made it to New
• 25:42
  York City cuz like you know how those are the thing right here
• 25:46
  Either you too dumb. Are too ugly.
• 25:49
  You're not in. What's it called?
• 25:52
  I don't know, but I'm oh for two right now.
• 25:53
  So California is too ugly. California is like people who
• 25:57
  are really pretty over there. And New York is where everybody
• 26:00
  who's smart's over there, because Wall Street's over
• 26:03
  there, you know? And then LA is basically
• 26:06
  Californians basically like where all the models are at and
• 26:09
  everything like that. But hey, you made it, girl.
• 26:11
  You made it. So must be smart.
• 26:13
  Yes, you, you smart. We'll see after I finished the
• 26:17
  Moscow Mule like she is not smart, you guys.
• 26:21
  I gave her like a jumbo drink. I'm sipping it while I was while
• 26:25
  my boyfriend was cleaning this cups, he was like, babe, do you
• 26:28
  think this kind of safe? And I was like, yeah, it'd be
• 26:30
  OK. I took a huge mint.
• 26:34
  Why wouldn't it be safe? Nice.
• 26:35
  That's pretty big. It's OK.
• 26:41
  I'm not. I'm not really picked.
• 26:43
  Like you had asked me like what? What kind of drink do you like?
• 26:46
  Or whatever. I was like, I don't have any
• 26:49
  really picky things. I don't care at all.
• 26:52
  I This is the best Moscow Mule I've ever had.
• 26:54
  I'm not lying. Shut up.
• 26:55
  I'm not lying. Shut up.
• 26:56
  I swear. I swear.
• 26:58
  Because I'm not a huge ginger beer person.
• 27:01
  Yeah. And it's not overwhelming.
• 27:03
  Yeah, with that. And then the there's more mint.
• 27:06
  So I think I like. I think more the mint, the
• 27:08
  better It makes it, like, more refreshing.
• 27:11
  Yeah, I like less ginger beer, a lot more alcohol apparently, and
• 27:16
  lots of mint to trust alcohol, so they.
• 27:20
  Call a double. You want a double or a single,
• 27:23
  ma'am? Anyways, OK, we're getting off
• 27:27
  track, guys. Just let you know Fanny will be
• 27:30
  like you guys. We gotta bring it back.
• 27:32
  And I'm like Fanny, I love you so.
• 27:33
  Fanny's really good as kind of bringing it back.
• 27:36
  Oh no. We're we're just like we're just
• 27:38
  like we're like squirrel it's OK I'm here it's fine.
• 27:43
  We're I'm the best. One since you mentioned
• 27:46
  squirrel. Oh my God, my dog has gotten
• 27:51
  sprayed by skunk. Twice in less than seven days.
• 27:55
  What? Last night being the second
• 27:58
  time. Oh, hell no.
• 27:59
  And I. Was like, are you kidding me?
• 28:01
  I've never had that happen because I haven't had a dog.
• 28:03
  So don't you have to give him a tomato bath?
• 28:07
  Girl, I don't know. That's an old myth, apparently.
• 28:10
  OK, apparently. So you didn't try it and it
• 28:12
  didn't work? No.
• 28:13
  I would try it. I would try it too.
• 28:15
  I read somewhere cuz I remember that too from Rugrats.
• 28:20
  If you're gonna learn your life lessons, learn them from
• 28:23
  Rugrats. Literally.
• 28:26
  Everybody remembers the orange video, cassette tape, the VHS.
• 28:32
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, yeah.
• 28:33
  The nickel, yeah. Was that Rugrats?
• 28:36
  Yeah, I thought it was anything. Nickelodeon came out orange.
• 28:39
  I don't know, I I only had the Rugrats one if it was, if that's
• 28:43
  the case, But I know what you're talking about.
• 28:46
  OK, so your your dog got sprayed twice by a skunk.
• 28:50
  What'd you do? And I bet it's the same one too.
• 28:53
  Yeah, skunk has come back. Or they multiply.
• 28:57
  It might be their baby. I.
• 28:58
  Was real mad. No, I I gotta look at him last
• 29:01
  night. Is your backyard like a forest
• 29:03
  in the back? No, but we.
• 29:05
  Or the the house is close to the Pawnee Prairie Park over there.
• 29:10
  So like, you know there's animals that live over there and
• 29:14
  kind of make their way in the neighborhood.
• 29:16
  I. Guess yeah, because there's
• 29:17
  like, we get rabbits all the time in the backyard and the
• 29:22
  occasional possum. But this skunk and my dog is
• 29:28
  very aggressive. She's a Shih Tzu Terrier.
• 29:30
  Terrier stands for terrorists. So cute though.
• 29:33
  So cute though, if I know. I mean, I don't know a lot about
• 29:37
  breeds, but I know that those two breeds are both super cute.
• 29:40
  Yeah, she's alright. She's stinky, but a lot.
• 29:44
  Of that's your everything, bro. You know that's your everything.
• 29:48
  Terrier stands for terrorists, and that's what she is.
• 29:51
  Otherwise, that's your everything.
• 29:52
  So what's her name? Misha Misha.
• 29:56
  And so you know she, when she sees rabbits, step back and she
• 29:59
  she runs after them. You know, like when she catches
• 30:02
  the ice. So.
• 30:04
  Oh, she charged at it. Yeah, the skunk.
• 30:06
  She Oh my God, charged at it. She's protecting you guys.
• 30:09
  That's what she's doing. Yeah, she's a guard dog.
• 30:12
  Yeah, sprayed in the face. Oh, and does it like I did?
• 30:17
  They kind of whimper and whim. She's like.
• 30:19
  Yeah, she got. She got irritated.
• 30:21
  She started, like, going crazy. And then ohh poor girl rubbing.
• 30:24
  Her face in the grass? No.
• 30:25
  And then just the smell, The overwhelming smell.
• 30:29
  Just the whole backyard. So what did you what did you end
• 30:32
  up doing? So the first time I you know.
• 30:36
  Gave her a bath immediately with her regular shampoo and then the
• 30:40
  next day I went and got some like there's a solution you can
• 30:43
  make with like dish soap, hydrogen peroxide and baking
• 30:46
  soda. OK dog Dad, look at you.
• 30:59
  Just put some Dawn dish soap on me.
• 30:49
  Baking soda will fix anything. Anything.
• 30:52
  And and apple cider vinegar. Yeah, like somebody shot me in
• 30:56
  the arm. I'd be like just pour some apple
• 30:58
  cider vinegar on it. See what?
• 31:01
  I'll be fine Baking soda. So that that worked for the most
• 31:05
  part, but you can't. Get it in their eyes And like,
• 31:08
  she's not closing her eyes, 'cause she's all paranoid,
• 31:11
  'cause she doesn't like bads already, and so I couldn't
• 31:14
  really get her face. How big is this dog?
• 31:16
  Then her face, Kind of. Like a medium dog, OK?
• 31:19
  Yeah, yeah. Like 10, like £10 OK.
• 31:23
  Yeah, that's a small dog. I usually, yeah.
• 31:25
  Yeah, yeah. She thinks she's big, big and
• 31:29
  bad again. Big and bad.
• 31:32
  Yeah, so you know. So for the last like four or
• 31:35
  five days, just her face has been a little smelly, but the
• 31:38
  rest of her's been all right. And then last night I let her
• 31:40
  out like I'd been looking first like.
• 31:43
  Yeah. Before you go, take her out.
• 31:44
  Yeah. That was out there, right?
• 31:45
  But last night I was like busy doing something.
• 31:47
  I was like all you need to go out like.
• 31:49
  The skunk came back. The skunk was back.
• 31:51
  Then, God damn it, Parch. Right at it again.
• 31:54
  And I was like, I was like, I was like, are you attacking
• 31:57
  something? And I was like, oh shit.
• 32:00
  And then like, yeah, then like, she got sprayed.
• 32:02
  Then like, I see. And then I see the skunk kind of
• 32:05
  trot away, and I was. Like he's like, bitch, I told
• 32:07
  you so. I was like, again, you want a
• 32:09
  third time. Come and see.
• 32:11
  Move. At me again I was.
• 32:12
  Like, you're fucking kidding me. Like, I just shut the door,
• 32:16
  drove over to Walmart. They have some like skunk
• 32:18
  shampoo. Cuz I was like at least maybe
• 32:20
  with that, like maybe I can get her face some.
• 32:22
  Yeah, yeah. Got back her beard.
• 32:26
  My dog's beard was all oily. Sounds like Dang, you got direct
• 32:31
  hit in the face. Speaking of dog, I have two.
• 32:36
  I thought you were gonna say something.
• 32:37
  OK, you know me. I gotta say something.
• 32:43
  So I have two dogs too, as well. And I have.
• 32:46
  I have a German shepherd. I have a miniature poodle as
• 32:48
  well. OK.
• 32:49
  And my, my German shepherd, she's really good.
• 32:54
  She's really smart. She's she's a guard dog.
• 32:57
  She barks, that fucking everything at the door, but
• 32:59
  she's the sweetest little. She's the sweetest girl in the
• 33:02
  whole wide world. She just barks because she's
• 33:04
  like, you're you're intruding me.
• 33:06
  That's a guard dog. Yeah, she's a guard dog, great
• 33:08
  dog, everything. She's like, like, we can leave
• 33:12
  the door unlocked because I know for sure she'll fuck that person
• 33:15
  up. She has, she has.
• 33:18
  And then then here's my son. My boyfriend's like, that's your
• 33:24
  son. And I'm like, OK, he is he he's
• 33:29
  the mama's boy. Mama's boy, you guys are making
• 33:32
  me want a dog so bad, to be honest.
• 33:34
  Like if you I'm not supposed to have them where I live, so I'm
• 33:38
  going to move. Oh, where I live, we just told
• 33:41
  we have one, but it's OK. One plus, my son.
• 33:46
  Yes. So my miniature poodle, his name
• 33:49
  is Bruno and. My stepdaughter, she loves
• 33:54
  Encanto. So she Yeah, Bruno.
• 33:57
  And so he's he's he's nine months years old and he's just
• 34:01
  trying. He's just figuring out what's
• 34:03
  going on in the world and everything like that.
• 34:06
  But he he's a klutz. He really is.
• 34:10
  This is him right here. Oh my gosh.
• 34:13
  She's so cute, right? Yeah, he Oh, man.
• 34:16
  So that's Bruno. That's Bruno.
• 34:18
  Yes. Every morning he uses he just.
• 34:22
  When I wake up, he's like, I hear him, He's like, I'm like,
• 34:26
  Oh, my son is here's my baby. Yes, he's looking at me every
• 34:29
  morning. Oh my God.
• 34:31
  Every morning he comes to the bathroom with mom and sits
• 34:33
  there. Oh my God.
• 34:35
  Yes, but man, he's a klutz. I'm gonna tell you this girl,
• 34:39
  miniature poodles are the smartest dogs.
• 34:43
  But I don't know about this one because this one is kind of, but
• 34:46
  I don't know about this one. I think he got his mother's
• 34:50
  brain. He He tried.
• 34:54
  Only nine months old. Maybe.
• 34:55
  Maybe he'll get smarter. He's still a pup.
• 34:58
  That's why he's still a pup. But let me show you this video
• 35:01
  of him. Watch.
• 35:02
  Just just this is him. If you guys know I'm.
• 35:07
  I'm showing my dog, too. Molly watch.
• 35:14
  Ohh, I was like what is that noise?
• 35:16
  I didn't know you were doing a video.
• 35:17
  Yeah, and look at him. The Zoomies almost had that one.
• 35:29
  Almost. Had that one every morning,
• 35:32
  girl, he tries to jump up on the concrete, but he always miss it
• 35:37
  and he just gets up and try it again.
• 35:40
  And he's like, So what are we doing today?
• 35:43
  So what's up? What did I?
• 35:45
  Miss, are we going inside? Oh, guys, we're getting off
• 35:50
  topic. Let's go.
• 35:51
  Fanny will be like you guys, shut up.
• 35:53
  I wish. She's listening to this right
• 35:55
  now. She'll be like, guys, what's
• 35:57
  going on here? We miss you, Fanny.
• 36:00
  I do. I We really.
• 36:01
  We're doing it our way. Our way, Not your way.
• 36:04
  You do. Sorry.
• 36:06
  This is what happens when we prank Dusty and Emily together.
• 36:10
  Let me tell you something. The last time me and Dusty were
• 36:13
  hosting. We got very drunk.
• 36:17
  What's that like? Which episode was?
• 36:21
  You were the trap house. That was the last time me and
• 36:24
  you did it alone. Yeah, you guys were at a.
• 36:26
  Trap house. So my friends, they have a group
• 36:31
  for like cars and bikes and everything like that.
• 36:33
  And they have a bike group called Trap House Okay.
• 36:38
  So yeah, So not an actual trap house.
• 36:40
  No, ma'am. It would have been a field trip.
• 36:43
  A field trip, yeah. But anyway, let's talk more
• 36:46
  about you. So you played so in college you
• 36:50
  had to play the all strings, right?
• 36:51
  And then you had to play the trumpet.
• 36:53
  Yeah, violin trumpet. Had to do some percussion.
• 36:56
  Piano. You have to pass a test.
• 36:58
  How was that? I was awful.
• 37:00
  Like your fingers like have to be like awful.
• 37:04
  I always tell people it does not matter if you wanna be a
• 37:09
  musician when you grow up. I think it's such a good idea to
• 37:12
  play piano as a kid because it's so good for you.
• 37:16
  It's good for your motor skills, it's good for your sight reading
• 37:20
  skills and it would have cost me or would have helped me not shed
• 37:25
  so many tears. In college I cried over my piano
• 37:31
  proficiency test and I finally passed and I'm pretty convinced
• 37:36
  it's just because I cried so much.
• 37:37
  They're like this bitch needs to go pass her.
• 37:42
  Just tell her just to sit. You pass, you pass.
• 37:45
  But yes, primarily. So that makes me, I'm.
• 37:47
  I'm just. I'm primarily vocal.
• 37:49
  I will give it a try, but I will not be good at any instruments.
• 37:54
  Yeah. So what we're going to do right
• 37:58
  now, we're going to take a break, OK?
• 38:00
  But you know, we're going to talk more about you and
• 38:02
  everything like that. Even though we got off topic, it
• 38:04
  was a great conversation. I loved it.
• 38:06
  I love it. I hope you don't feel nervous
• 38:08
  anymore. I don't.
• 38:09
  Good. Good.
• 38:10
  See, I told you. I know.
• 38:11
  You're so easy to talk with and it's really fun, yes.
• 38:15
  OK, guys, we'll be right back. Put it down down on me, I'll.
• 39:02
  Be straight, I promise. If you fuck.
• 39:04
  Me, right? Fuck me, right?
• 39:06
  And that's honest? Maybe.
• 39:07
  But it. Damn, damn, don't be.
• 39:09
  Damn don't. Be yo-yo, yo.
• 39:11
  Welcome back to segment #2 up here.
• 39:14
  See you in the podcast. We're back with our special
• 39:17
  guest, Molly Neely today. Yes.
• 39:21
  Molly, how's that drink? Cheating.
• 39:22
  Yeah, so good. It got some fresh ice and it's
• 39:26
  tasting delicious. Emily, what'd you make us today?
• 39:29
  Guys, what's today? I made a just simple drink.
• 39:32
  You know cuz my girl loves Tito's and what you can't with
• 39:36
  Tito's gotta mix with a Moscow meal.
• 39:39
  So today I'm in a Moscow meal for Molly today.
• 39:43
  Um, so basically, as you guys know, we use Tito's and then you
• 39:46
  add some lime juice and ginger beer.
• 39:49
  Very good. Just a really good, refreshing
• 39:51
  drink for the summer. You know, just a little bubbly,
• 39:54
  you know, to have your alcohol and in it, you know, some lime
• 39:58
  make you feel like you're just feeling a good breeze when
• 40:01
  you're in the summer. Exactly, exactly.
• 40:06
  So Molly, how was your drink, girl?
• 40:07
  So good. I I told you this earlier, but
• 40:11
  I'm going to say it again because I'm not lying.
• 40:14
  I This is the best Moscow Mule I've ever had.
• 40:17
  Yeah, I told you. Not just Cuz there's two shots
• 40:19
  in it. Two shots.
• 40:24
  So in the ingredients they say only one shot.
• 40:27
  But is like, you know since I went to went to what, amateur
• 40:31
  school, right? That's is that where I went.
• 40:33
  To amateur university. Amateur university off
• 40:35
  Craigslist, right online. Yep.
• 40:38
  I'm Valevatorian here, girl. I'm still attending and I'm not
• 40:42
  even graduated yet, so you're above me.
• 40:45
  But yes, I made you a Moscow Mule.
• 40:48
  I knew you loved Tito's and I was like, this is the best drink
• 40:51
  I have to make. Like some mint, some lime, lime
• 40:55
  and the mint extra. I think for me.
• 40:57
  Extra lime, Extra mint. Yeah, exactly.
• 41:00
  So we're we're talking about all these things that earlier, you
• 41:04
  know, it was amazing, good to know you and everything like
• 41:07
  that. Let's talk about how we live in
• 41:09
  the moment right now. Like how now you, you know you
• 41:13
  were a teacher for 10 years in music.
• 41:18
  You let you. I love music.
• 41:21
  You're a singer. Your mother.
• 41:24
  What influenced you? But you also mention me that
• 41:27
  someone else influenced you as well.
• 41:29
  Your teacher, right? What was her name again?
• 41:32
  Nina Kent. Yes, Nina King.
• 41:34
  Shout out to you. Without you, Molly Neely would
• 41:40
  not be the house she is right now.
• 41:43
  So basically. So living in the moment so often
• 41:45
  phrase us way to find joy and fulfillment.
• 41:48
  How do you personally practice living in the present and how
• 41:51
  does that influence your creative life in music?
• 41:55
  Basically, I am. It's, it's weird.
• 41:59
  I have a very creative side, but I also have a lot of type A
• 42:05
  tendencies. So with the living in the
• 42:08
  moment, it takes work for me. Like I have to make myself stop.
• 42:15
  I have a couple of things I do actually don't have it on
• 42:18
  anymore, but at the beginning of the would have been a year ago,
• 42:22
  like the beginning of the school year last year.
• 42:25
  I had an alarm on my phone that would go off twice a day and it
• 42:30
  said list three things you're grateful for and I've told I'd
• 42:35
  like. I didn't create this, I just
• 42:37
  read it somewhere and did it. But I've told my friends about
• 42:40
  this. When you start looking for
• 42:43
  things to be grateful for, if you tell yourself why I can't
• 42:46
  repeat anything, yeah, then you really do start looking for good
• 42:51
  things because you're like, okay.
• 42:52
  Well, I know I've got a that damn alert on my phone that's
• 42:55
  going to go off and it's going to tell me I need a list of
• 42:59
  things. I need three different things
• 43:01
  and I can't say. The same thing over the same
• 43:03
  thing I said this morning. You know, I can say, oh, my
• 43:05
  coffee was really good this morning.
• 43:07
  And I didn't hit any red lights. And yeah, the obvious things
• 43:10
  like I have a roof over my head and I have, I have food to eat,
• 43:13
  I have loved ones. Like those things you should be
• 43:16
  grateful for. Yeah, absolutely.
• 43:18
  But if you're telling yourself, OK now look for new things.
• 43:22
  Yeah, after it. It takes some work.
• 43:24
  It does. Because you know, you repeated
• 43:26
  something three things already and you're like, OK at the
• 43:28
  tomorrow, you're like, OK, I have an alarm set up.
• 43:30
  I have to think what other? Things keep me positive and all
• 43:35
  and I've been a little bit satirical with it before.
• 43:37
  I've been like, oh, I'm so thankful that person cut me off
• 43:41
  in traffic and I'm like, OK, never motherfucker like wait,
• 43:45
  wait, wait, that doesn't count. I'll.
• 43:47
  Bring it back. I'm gonna bring it back.
• 43:48
  You are not a motherfucker, but you are a fucker.
• 43:51
  Fucking cutting me off. Well, saying I'm gonna be like,
• 43:54
  OK, Juan, very thankful that I didn't have a car accident or
• 43:57
  I'm very thankful that it can be little things and so it can be
• 44:01
  the tiny, the funniest thing. Like I said, like my morning
• 44:04
  coffee one day I was like, well, this is a dumb one, but.
• 44:06
  It I should have put a lot extra Creamer in this bitch but this
• 44:10
  is actually kind of nasty but at least I haven't so but that I I
• 44:15
  am one of those people where I have to work at it I don't.
• 44:19
  I know I have so many like I have amazing friends that
• 44:22
  they're just they're chilled out.
• 44:24
  That's why I like to hang out with them, because I'm not.
• 44:28
  But it doesn't come easy to me. So doing things in the moment,
• 44:34
  appreciating them for what they are and taking the time to
• 44:39
  address, like, hey, I'm grateful for this, I'm grateful for that.
• 44:42
  That's kind of how I do it. That's good.
• 44:45
  You know, not a lot of people think like that because like,
• 44:47
  you know, people get up like, OK, I have a routine, I know
• 44:50
  what I'm going to do and everything like that.
• 44:52
  But that's good that you actually have you.
• 44:54
  You noticed three things. What you think, what you're
• 44:56
  grateful for? And I had to set an alarm
• 44:58
  because I'm. I am one of.
• 44:59
  I'm not. I'm not a perfectly happy
• 45:02
  person. So I have to do it.
• 45:04
  Everybody coops at different kind of type of ways.
• 45:08
  Like me in the morning, I always have to meditate in the morning,
• 45:13
  even if it's 5 minutes, 15 minutes or even like it's like 2
• 45:16
  seconds. I have to recoup myself.
• 45:20
  I do have a routine. I do have like, like, you know,
• 45:22
  a eight to four job and everything like that.
• 45:24
  But you know, meditating to myself is like, really?
• 45:30
  Keeps me insane because I know myself.
• 45:34
  Like I told you before, the only person got you is you.
• 45:37
  Yeah, and that's always going to be that way.
• 45:39
  Even though you have a partner or you have family, family got
• 45:44
  to you. But the only person really got
• 45:46
  to you and know yourself is yourself.
• 45:48
  Right. And and like I said, you, you
• 45:50
  try to run that yourself is really the only thing you can
• 45:53
  never run away from. So you can run away from anybody
• 45:55
  else. But if you turn around, you're
• 45:57
  going to be there no matter what exactly, and you've got to make
• 46:00
  peace with yourself. So what's great about us is that
• 46:04
  we, so Fanny and I go to therapy and we're really big in that.
• 46:10
  We're really big in self love and we're really big on health,
• 46:14
  basically mental health because like.
• 46:16
  We all go through it. Everyone goes through it.
• 46:18
  Even people, people who said they don't have to go through
• 46:21
  it, they do. And I know people that if you're
• 46:24
  never having you think. You're not crazy.
• 46:26
  You're fucking crazy, yeah? If you don't think you're the
• 46:29
  problem, you're the problem. Yeah, I know.
• 46:31
  That's why when I I watch a comedian, his name is.
• 46:36
  Coy joy. He's like, oh, I've seen him,
• 46:39
  yes, if he, he said. If you think you're not crazy,
• 46:42
  you are fucking crazy. And that's kind of true, you
• 46:44
  know what I mean? Like, everybody's crazy.
• 46:46
  Everybody where I know a lot of people that that, even if they
• 46:49
  weren't like, I've always had a lot of anxiety.
• 46:51
  I'm a heavy anxiety person and my friends that don't have
• 46:55
  anxiety, they don't. They how.
• 46:57
  Do you live? They're like, how do you get,
• 46:59
  how do you? I'm like, what's it like to not
• 47:01
  worry about anything? Like it's pretty cool.
• 47:03
  I like it a lot. But tell me your ways.
• 47:07
  Tell me your ways. But over 2020 and COVID and all
• 47:14
  that, I had a lot of people that I knew that were like, I've
• 47:17
  never really had anxiety before and now I'm experiencing it and
• 47:21
  I. Don't know by themselves and I
• 47:23
  don't know how to cope because I've never had it before.
• 47:26
  Here we are, the people who who does have anxiety.
• 47:29
  My time to shine. I'm like, hey, we know what to
• 47:32
  do. Let me tell you.
• 47:35
  I do this and then this and then this and this and you still feel
• 47:38
  like shit, but it's better. You know when people are like, I
• 47:41
  hate being alone and we're like, we love it, Yeah, I need a
• 47:44
  certain amount of loan time a day.
• 47:47
  Don't talk. To me, between when people talk
• 47:49
  about how they're like, my God, COVID was so hard and I'm here
• 47:53
  like. I kind of like being by myself.
• 47:57
  It was actually nice. Like, you know, like you you
• 48:00
  figure out who you are, what you like to do, and you're like, oh,
• 48:03
  I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that and I'm going
• 48:05
  to do this. And you're like, this is
• 48:07
  perfect. But everybody's like, I need, I
• 48:09
  need attention. I need all this.
• 48:11
  And you're like, but it's hard not to, because I'll even find
• 48:15
  that I like to be by myself and I'll be by myself for a long
• 48:19
  time. And then if I like, get on
• 48:21
  social media or I see something that I'm like, oh, nobody else
• 48:24
  likes to be alone, like I better get out and start doing some
• 48:27
  stuff because. You're like, am I?
• 48:29
  Am I the only Am I the problem? Am I?
• 48:32
  Am I the problem? But I mean, yes, COVID, they
• 48:38
  really kind of really helped a lot of people too as well to
• 48:41
  figure out how like Okay coping by yourself, you know, because
• 48:46
  when you caught COVID, you had to be like 14 days isolated and
• 48:50
  everything like that. You know, to be honest, when I
• 48:53
  caught COVID, because I worked at the healthcare field, I
• 48:57
  caught COVID for the first time. And you know, that first ten
• 49:01
  days I was like, oh man, this is wonderful.
• 49:04
  But those four days I was like, oh shit, I'm a civilization.
• 49:08
  The last four days you're like, I think I cannot put any more
• 49:12
  dry shampoo in my hair. Exactly, exactly.
• 49:14
  And I'm going to have to actually.
• 49:17
  So you know how you were a teacher for 10 years?
• 49:20
  Tell me, how did you do deal with that?
• 49:22
  Does during COVID too, as well as a teacher.
• 49:25
  So it was. I mean, I don't think anybody
• 49:29
  would. I give you props, not say it's a
• 49:32
  shit show. I give you props.
• 49:33
  You you guys are the most you guys, so much patience in it.
• 49:38
  I give you guys props. Not a lot of people give
• 49:40
  teachers props, but hey, I give you props because you guys were
• 49:45
  like, you know, usually doing in person because a lot of people
• 49:49
  would like, oh, I cannot learn. Over the screen, you know, and
• 49:52
  it is hard then the younger they are, the harder it is.
• 49:55
  Because they're like, oh, a screen.
• 49:57
  I don't have also, nobody really knew how to do it.
• 50:00
  So it would be like, OK, well we're going to start this new
• 50:02
  thing now and we're going to roll it out, but we got to hurry
• 50:05
  up and train you on it so that you can roll out and do it.
• 50:08
  And I like I always think there was a time like mid COVID, like
• 50:14
  during the lockdown when everybody was like pay teachers
• 50:16
  more money. Oh my gosh, I'm having to do
• 50:18
  this with my kids and I'm seeing how much how hard it is and what
• 50:22
  and it did not last long. It was like as soon as we are up
• 50:26
  and running on the Internet and teaching remote people were like
• 50:30
  why don't you have this figured out yet.
• 50:32
  I'm like well, cause nobody does this has never happened before.
• 50:36
  So I like some of the people that I know that are teachers
• 50:40
  are the hardest workers I've ever met and it goes beyond like
• 50:47
  what they're doing for their. Job Green.
• 50:49
  Yeah, You trying to pay? And it's the kids.
• 50:52
  You think, OK, you get on a Zoom meeting with somebody and, you
• 50:55
  know, oh, they forget to put themselves on me?
• 50:57
  There's no way a kids gonna sit there.
• 50:58
  They're five and six and seven years old and they're like log
• 51:03
  on for the entire day when I was that little.
• 51:07
  Absolutely not. We were absolutely not.
• 51:10
  And I was a good kid. I'm like, absolutely not.
• 51:13
  So it was hard for the kids. It was hard for the teachers and
• 51:17
  the the main thing too is once we got back into the classroom
• 51:21
  was the immediate need to hurry and catch up.
• 51:25
  Like everything that we missed, hurrying, going to back on
• 51:28
  track, okay. Well, we're like 2 years behind
• 51:31
  at this point where it's going to be a an ongoing process to
• 51:36
  kind of get them caught up. And one thing that I noticed I I
• 51:40
  don't have any kids of my own and I would see the
• 51:44
  developmental because people were very worried about
• 51:47
  academic. But developmental, like, Can you
• 51:51
  imagine being a kid and somebody tells you stay 6 feet away from
• 51:55
  everybody at all times, and then they go back to school and
• 51:58
  they're like, OK, and I'll step by this kid, play with the skid,
• 52:00
  line up with this kid. They didn't know how to get
• 52:02
  along anymore. They were swinging on each
• 52:04
  other. They were arguing with each
• 52:06
  other. They they didn't understand.
• 52:08
  COVID kind of changed a lot of people.
• 52:11
  It really did it kind of just like like, how do I say this in
• 52:16
  the most polite way? Not to be cancelled, but like it
• 52:22
  just really just. Changed everybody how everyone
• 52:27
  thinks and it highlighted a lot of issues that were already
• 52:31
  there. Exactly Like we gone through
• 52:34
  this so many years and it's coming back again.
• 52:37
  Like, you know, it's just, it's just heartbreaking coming.
• 52:40
  Back again? Is it coming back again?
• 52:42
  Oh, the pandemic. Oh, no, no, no.
• 52:44
  I was like, what is coming? Oh my gosh.
• 52:46
  Oh, now you know, cuz you know I worked in the hospital for like
• 52:49
  10 years. I find out that.
• 52:53
  Imagine me. During COVID.
• 52:55
  During that time, girl, I can't. I mean, I don't even know.
• 52:58
  It was a struggle. It was a struggle I can't even
• 53:00
  imagine. I'm gonna tell you that it was a
• 53:02
  struggle, like, oh, man, like it was such a struggle.
• 53:08
  But I was. I was blessed.
• 53:10
  I still have a job. It was great, you know, But the
• 53:14
  same time, like I was getting paid more.
• 53:17
  Less than other people, you know, doing a lot less work from
• 53:21
  home. Exactly right.
• 53:23
  And there's days I'm like, man, I don't want to be a central
• 53:25
  worker anymore. No, I don't blame you.
• 53:29
  I don't want to be a central worker anymore, but but yeah,
• 53:33
  like, it's just, it's just it was hard.
• 53:36
  It was really hard because like we're out there in the field and
• 53:42
  we're putting yourself and like no one wants it.
• 53:44
  That's why people isolate each other.
• 53:45
  But you know, we're out there. Working to make you feel better,
• 53:49
  right? And we're going to do whatever
• 53:51
  we can to make you feel better. So we jeopardize our life,
• 53:54
  right? For you, right?
• 53:55
  No matter what, if you tell me, and that's a choice you have to
• 53:58
  make every single morning when you get up and go to.
• 54:01
  Exactly and no matter what, to be honest, like still to this
• 54:04
  day, I will always say my patients always first, no matter
• 54:07
  what. Like you know, I I'm here to
• 54:09
  take care of you and I will always take care of you.
• 54:12
  I'm not here to think of myself, I'm thinking for you no matter
• 54:15
  what. That's that's my mentality no
• 54:17
  matter what. But it was hard because even
• 54:22
  though I worked in the healthcare field, I still have
• 54:25
  family come home to like my parents, my brother and
• 54:27
  everything, and I have to isolate myself because I don't
• 54:31
  want them to get what I'm getting.
• 54:32
  You know, even though I don't feel anything, they'll probably
• 54:35
  feel something too, right? So, and it was so different from
• 54:38
  passing a person. So I have I have to tell them
• 54:40
  like. Hey, I'm at home like I'm
• 54:43
  stripping in the garage, putting my clothes in the in the washer
• 54:46
  already and then they're in and. There I have to Lysol myself.
• 54:51
  Wipe myself with the Clorox. Wipe everything.
• 54:54
  Every single little thing I touch.
• 54:56
  I have to wipe it like every single little thing, like the
• 54:59
  doorknob, Wipe it my car. I have to spray Lysol everywhere
• 55:03
  I go, spray the handles, everything.
• 55:05
  Like I have to do everything because I have to keep my family
• 55:07
  safe. Luckily they didn't get it while
• 55:12
  I was still working there, but they got it when they still go
• 55:15
  out there in the world, right? I mean, right.
• 55:17
  But it was hard. It was a job like you and I live
• 55:21
  for first going back. And it was, I mean, several
• 55:24
  years ago now or a few years ago now.
• 55:26
  But adults were getting it, but kids really weren't.
• 55:30
  And so then. They went first time.
• 55:31
  They were like, oh, kids can't get it, Yeah.
• 55:33
  And then the kids started getting.
• 55:34
  Started getting in. They're like, oh, animals can't
• 55:36
  get it. But the animals got it.
• 55:38
  Yeah. So it was like every time a new
• 55:40
  thing came into play where we were like, all right, let's go
• 55:43
  back to the drawing board. You know, it's crazy.
• 55:45
  Like you would think about it. Like now those are going to be
• 55:48
  in the history books for kids now.
• 55:49
  Like you, I thought about how many pictures are going to be in
• 55:53
  history books with masks on and people are going to be like,
• 55:56
  what were they like? That was a reality for almost
• 56:06
  like 2 years. Wow, they all had to wear masks
• 55:59
  and what were they doing and what like?
• 56:02
  But that was just our reality at the time.
• 56:08
  Still to this day. People still wear masks to this
• 56:10
  day. But yeah, it was pretty crazy.
• 56:15
  But anyways, sorry. Off topic, guys.
• 56:17
  Fans would be like, guys, shut the fuck up.
• 56:19
  I'm like it's 2023 when we're talking.
• 56:21
  About COVID, so we talked about. What, though?
• 56:23
  Like, I enjoyed being at home. That's how the conversation
• 56:29
  started, though. We started talking about how we
• 56:31
  like being alone, yeah. That's true I.
• 56:35
  Was getting a paycheck. Still, I had time to make all
• 56:37
  the music I wanted to for a lot of people.
• 56:40
  To learn new skills. Yeah, it was great.
• 56:43
  Even though you got COVID, you still get paid.
• 56:46
  Well, I have a friend that said she's a music teacher too,
• 56:49
  actually. And she said, I feel like
• 56:52
  there's going to be such a huge renaissance of arts after this,
• 56:56
  because that's what kind of happens when there's so much
• 57:00
  chaos is like beautiful art is. Made my one of our good.
• 57:04
  He was our guest too as well. Remember Chris?
• 57:07
  He said during COVID he needs so much art and he is an amazing
• 57:12
  artist. Like, oh, I mean during, you
• 57:15
  know, all the artists we have in our group came into our, you
• 57:19
  know, everybody's everybody's, oh, fuck, I can't even think
• 57:23
  right now. What's that?
• 57:24
  Word does. So you think of it.
• 57:27
  I can't even think because I'm so I don't.
• 57:28
  Know, but I mean, you know, a lot of artists.
• 57:31
  Music or talented? All our our guest is always
• 57:33
  talented and everything like I think every single one of our
• 57:35
  guests is talented. During our tattoos series, we
• 57:43
  had so many talents that artists came in and they said during
• 57:46
  COVID they brought out a lot crazy.
• 57:49
  A lot of, yeah. Yeah, cuz cuz you know, I was
• 57:53
  gonna say a lot of artists music wise or you know, regular art
• 57:57
  wise painting. Anybody.
• 57:59
  Whatever. Like.
• 58:01
  A lot of us work day jobs to make ends meet and stuff and
• 58:05
  then a lot of time we don't have time to get to our art that we
• 58:09
  wanna do. So that time downtime during the
• 58:14
  pandemic and any time that there is an intense amount of emotion,
• 58:18
  whatever it is, cuz there was all kinds of things happening
• 58:21
  during that time. I feel like anytime there is a
• 58:24
  lot of emotion, that's when the best artist created.
• 58:27
  Oh yeah, exactly, exactly. I think.
• 58:30
  I think anybody who tried to do something.
• 58:33
  I think whatever you do, you can make anything into art.
• 58:37
  Oh yeah, anything. Well, Art's relative.
• 58:39
  Exactly, exactly. So Speaking of art, we've seen
• 58:44
  your page. You have done a lot of
• 58:46
  performance and collaborations, yes.
• 58:48
  How do you navigate that? So when I first started
• 58:54
  performing kind of even in college and stuff, I did like
• 58:58
  coffee shop shows and and I I've known a lot of really talented
• 59:05
  musicians. That's the key for me.
• 59:07
  To be able to keep performing is like performing with other
• 59:12
  people that really kind of inspire me even all the way
• 59:15
  going back to college and the people that I went to school
• 59:19
  with. And I've done shows with so many
• 59:24
  people that it kind of really inspires you to want it keep
• 59:30
  making more. And I kind of feel like what
• 59:33
  Utah has gotten really good about that about the
• 59:36
  collaboration because way better and it just keeps growing and
• 59:42
  growing and growing. And so I really, in 2015, I kind
• 59:52
  of made a decision. I was like, I really kind of
• 59:54
  want to start performing wherever I can.
• 59:58
  And so I would just go to open mics in Wichita and get together
• 1:00:02
  with my friends and jam. And that's kind of what led to
• 1:00:06
  my music page and performing around town and stuff.
• 1:00:13
  So you know you did a lot of collaborations, you did all
• 1:00:17
  these performance and everything like that.
• 1:00:19
  That's great that Wichita has expanded a lot.
• 1:00:22
  They're noticing. You know what I love about
• 1:00:25
  Wichita as well? They love local.
• 1:00:28
  And that's, yeah, there's an appreciation for appreciation
• 1:00:30
  for local as well. Yes, I love about that.
• 1:00:35
  You done a lot of performance at the Brickyard.
• 1:00:38
  I've seen that you done at the gnomes.
• 1:00:40
  What's the Hopping Gnome? Hopping Gnome as well?
• 1:00:43
  Do you have any upcoming performance?
• 1:00:47
  You're coming up and everything. Yeah, so I am playing with a
• 1:00:51
  really talented guitarist. His name is William Flynn.
• 1:00:55
  He plays, I've seen him play a lot of jazz and he's fantastic.
• 1:01:02
  And so we're kind of combining to do some of my more my style
• 1:01:07
  like some acoustic and some kind of pop rock and and folksy
• 1:01:12
  stuff. We have We're going to play at
• 1:01:17
  Garlicfest in September at Brickyard.
• 1:01:21
  Now it's September 10th, but I am curious if the drinks are
• 1:01:27
  garlicky or if the food is garlicky.
• 1:01:30
  But it's a whole garlic fest, so apparently everything will be
• 1:01:34
  garlicky, will keep the vampires away and.
• 1:01:40
  We we like to play at Morts. I like to play at Hopping Gnome
• 1:01:44
  a lot. Do you play inside in Hopping
• 1:01:48
  Gnomes? Because I know for sure, because
• 1:01:50
  it's just like a very small. So it it was, but they they they
• 1:01:54
  moved. And so they've been so cool to
• 1:01:58
  me and we played at their first anniversary.
• 1:02:04
  And so they've always had us back, but they do this amazing
• 1:02:07
  like block party thing where it's just morning till night.
• 1:02:11
  They have food trucks come and I've we've played for like 6-7
• 1:02:15
  years in a row and this last time they actually have moved.
• 1:02:19
  They're kind of back behind where they used to be.
• 1:02:23
  They have this really cool patio area and what do you call it?
• 1:02:30
  Cornhole. Cornhole.
• 1:02:32
  And so when we played, there it, we were it was an outdoor show.
• 1:02:36
  Oh cool. So they have kind of enough
• 1:02:38
  space now to cuz it was it was kind of small, it was like
• 1:02:41
  quaint and I liked it but like now it's kind of like room to
• 1:02:46
  spread out and chill and that's cool.
• 1:02:49
  Yeah. To you.
• 1:02:50
  Yeah. Go hopping.
• 1:02:51
  No go hopping? No.
• 1:02:54
  So you know, you do a lot of acoustics.
• 1:02:56
  You also make your own music as well, like your own lyrics or
• 1:03:00
  anything like that. I do, but I have to be honest
• 1:03:02
  with you. I've never performed them.
• 1:03:04
  What No I do. I do.
• 1:03:05
  Because my thing is if I I write it, I have several songs that
• 1:03:11
  I've written and I have the melody to them and like kind of
• 1:03:16
  a backing chords to them. But I think OK, if I sing a song
• 1:03:21
  that's by. The Beatles, We know it's a good
• 1:03:24
  song. Yeah.
• 1:03:25
  If I sing a song that I wrote, maybe it's terrible and I won't
• 1:03:32
  know. At least I know that if this is
• 1:03:34
  a song that all these people have loved, that I know it's a
• 1:03:38
  lovable song. So I have a little bit of fear
• 1:03:42
  of putting my own stuff out there in case it's not as good.
• 1:03:47
  But there's stuff. There's stuff hiding.
• 1:03:49
  There's stuff hiding, yeah, yeah.
• 1:03:50
  It's back there though. OK.
• 1:03:52
  When in the future, maybe in the future, yes, in the future.
• 1:03:56
  But you know, give us a little snippet too as well, you know,
• 1:03:59
  we love to hear it of course. So basically you said September
• 1:04:04
  what? September 10th at Brickyard
• 1:04:06
  Brickyard. It'll be during the day 11 to 4.
• 1:04:11
  Is the the gig? Is that on a weekend or?
• 1:04:14
  I think it's a Sunday, Sunday. Are those Sundays dusty?
• 1:04:18
  Saturday or Sunday? I'll look here, let me see.
• 1:04:21
  I handy me and got it quiet. Hold on, I'm pulling up the
• 1:04:38
  thing cuz I I actually have. It's a Sunday I've been wanting.
• 1:04:42
  To go to the Garlic Fest for like, a few.
• 1:04:44
  Years now. So you so you've heard it, so
• 1:04:46
  you know, I hear of it. So we were supposed to play
• 1:04:49
  either last year or the year before and it got rained out.
• 1:04:51
  So I didn't actually get to go. So I am excited to see kind of
• 1:04:56
  what it's about. Yeah, cuz yeah, every year,
• 1:05:00
  like, my God, yeah, I gotta go next year, you know?
• 1:05:02
  And then like, I feel like, I don't see like that it's coming
• 1:05:06
  up or whatever. And then like the day it's
• 1:05:08
  happening or whatever, like, hey, where are you at?
• 1:05:10
  Oh, we're at the garlic fest. Like, oh Dang it, I wanted to
• 1:05:12
  go. That I've never heard of the
• 1:05:14
  Garlic Fest before. I'm down because I can get down
• 1:05:18
  on some garlic, anything. I love garlic bread, let me tell
• 1:05:21
  you. And even sometimes if I'm
• 1:05:27
  outside of a restaurant and I just smell, I'm like, my gosh,
• 1:05:30
  I'm on just like what's called Golden Corral, No.
• 1:05:21
  Let me tell you something. I put garlic and fucking
• 1:05:23
  everything. Olive Garden, Sorry.
• 1:05:40
  OK. Those are really different.
• 1:05:42
  Sorry, I'm just so drunk I can't even think around there.
• 1:05:45
  I don't remember the last time I was.
• 1:05:47
  Outside of a Golden Corral? Yeah, I don't.
• 1:05:49
  I went to the West Side and there's a Golden Corral over
• 1:05:52
  there. I did not know.
• 1:05:54
  I was like this. Still still standing.
• 1:05:56
  It's the one that used to be by the palace.
• 1:06:00
  Yeah, by the palace. The palace.
• 1:06:02
  Oh man, that was some good price.
• 1:06:04
  They. Developed the weirdest habit at
• 1:06:06
  the palace. When that big pink building.
• 1:06:10
  OK, of course I want my popcorn if I'm going to watch my movie,
• 1:06:13
  my $2.00 movie. But also, you get a pickle and
• 1:06:16
  you get Nacho cheese. Oh yeah.
• 1:06:19
  Dip your pickle in the Nacho cheese.
• 1:06:21
  I've had so many people make fun of me.
• 1:06:23
  It's so good. You know, I'm not a pickle
• 1:06:26
  person, but I've noticed. OK, so OK, I hate warm Pickles.
• 1:06:32
  Yeah, but I like cold Pickles. It has to be cold.
• 1:06:35
  OK, I'll dip it in cheese. I'm going to try it.
• 1:06:38
  Yeah. Try it in Nacho cheese the and
• 1:06:40
  I've gone to the Warren. They used to be able to go to
• 1:06:43
  the Warren and get a pickle from the cantina and the Nacho cheese
• 1:06:48
  from the front, and since they switched over, they don't have
• 1:06:52
  Pickles anymore and it it it's hurtful.
• 1:06:55
  That's true, yeah. It was good Nacho cheese, Nacho
• 1:07:04
  cheese. But anyways, Pickles.
• 1:06:59
  Everybody try it. Cheese with Pickles.
• 1:07:01
  She will fucking tell. So what's your next plans in the
• 1:07:07
  future for your music career? I am really excited about
• 1:07:14
  playing with William. We're going to be booking in the
• 1:07:17
  Wichita area in the fall. I'm going to be completely
• 1:07:22
  honest, I. Kind of wimped out for the
• 1:07:26
  summer because most summer gigs are outdoors and it's been 100
• 1:07:33
  billion degrees. You don't want your makeup
• 1:07:34
  sweating. So no, my no.
• 1:07:36
  My face will run into my clothing before we even get set
• 1:07:39
  up for the gig. Exactly.
• 1:07:41
  So, but I'm now that it's getting a little bit cooler and
• 1:07:45
  we have the September show, I kind of just see us building
• 1:07:48
  from there and hopefully booking as many Wichita places as I
• 1:07:52
  think you perform well if you feel well.
• 1:07:55
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, for sure.
• 1:07:59
  And no, I mean, I I love an outdoor performance, but
• 1:08:03
  Wichita's weather has just been so brutal.
• 1:08:07
  I haven't been Kansas. I have not been able to go
• 1:08:13
  there. Yeah.
• 1:08:15
  So, Molly, what we're going to do right now, thank you for
• 1:08:19
  showing us what's first. One more question.
• 1:08:21
  OK. What's the most important thing
• 1:08:23
  in your life right now? I know it's very How do you
• 1:08:28
  prioritize? That could be anything,
• 1:08:32
  whatever. You want?
• 1:08:34
  Honestly, the most important thing right now for me is faith.
• 1:08:41
  It helps me like what we were talking earlier about staying in
• 1:08:44
  the moment. Yeah, and kind of staying
• 1:08:48
  centered and kind of remembering what's important a lot of times
• 1:08:52
  what. I tell myself is not nice, but
• 1:08:57
  what my faith that I've, you know, really leaned on is peace
• 1:09:07
  that you don't really even have to understand to accept it and
• 1:09:10
  have it. It's you get that peace.
• 1:09:13
  And that's been really carrying me through.
• 1:09:17
  So as your first, you know, I bet you every performer
• 1:09:20
  remembers the first performance. How was your first performance?
• 1:09:25
  I can't tell you that I remember my first cuz I would have been a
• 1:09:28
  kid. What was your most favorite?
• 1:09:31
  Performance stands out. I mean I've had a lot that have
• 1:09:34
  stand would stand out but when you said that and I was trying
• 1:09:37
  to think down down down to when I was younger I.
• 1:09:42
  I got to perform at a or. I got to sing a song.
• 1:09:46
  It was from Wicked, a musical wrapping the background at my
• 1:09:50
  high school graduation. And it almost didn't work out.
• 1:09:54
  And I really just felt it was. It was weird.
• 1:09:59
  I was so young. I was like 17, but I felt like I
• 1:10:04
  could kind of feel my mom there and.
• 1:10:10
  I felt like really comfortable and safe, even just being
• 1:10:12
  little. It's one of my favorite times
• 1:10:15
  that I've gotten to sing to this day.
• 1:10:19
  That's good. That's good.
• 1:10:21
  I understand your mom did pass away too, as well.
• 1:10:24
  Yeah, less than peace to her as well.
• 1:10:27
  But yes. So what we do is a lightning
• 1:10:31
  round, OK? We just ask.
• 1:10:33
  If you listen to our podcast and do some research with us, we
• 1:10:37
  basically just tell you all these questions, OK?
• 1:10:40
  There's like 10 questions. Yeah.
• 1:10:43
  Um, Dust is gonna start with it. Yeah.
• 1:10:45
  Right before we get to that. That's funny that you said you
• 1:10:50
  were thinking about the first performance and you thought back
• 1:10:52
  to when you're a kid. Like I never considered those as
• 1:10:56
  like. Performances, performances.
• 1:10:58
  Yeah 'cause you think about it and you're just like, who would
• 1:11:01
  have thought? But now I'm kind of like that
• 1:11:03
  was. One that sticks out is really
• 1:11:05
  special, Yeah. And that's good.
• 1:11:06
  Do you know? And that's will always be a core
• 1:11:08
  memory for you. Yeah.
• 1:11:09
  And that will always be be. Yeah, 'cause?
• 1:11:12
  Yeah 'cause I'm thinking about it now like I did have
• 1:11:14
  performance. Yeah, when you're little.
• 1:11:16
  Yeah, you done so many, you know, you done so many, you
• 1:11:20
  know, for being a singer from like you're a little wee little.
• 1:11:23
  I am. A wee little lassie, yes, but
• 1:11:27
  yes. So we're gonna start the lining
• 1:11:28
  round. Does he's gonna start again?
• 1:11:32
  All right. So just answer these questions
• 1:11:34
  is whatever first comes to your mind real quick and we'll try
• 1:11:39
  not to take your time, drag it on.
• 1:11:42
  I guess cuz we always do. But anyways, all right, first
• 1:11:45
  question, what would you take on a picnic?
• 1:11:49
  Hot dogs. Yeah, you're right.
• 1:11:53
  I would too. I would too.
• 1:11:56
  My go to is a hot dog as well. I just learned they're called
• 1:12:00
  Glizzy's now. What have you heard that?
• 1:12:02
  Have you heard that What I went to a baseball game and they were
• 1:12:06
  like, you're going to I want a glizzy.
• 1:12:08
  Yeah, that sounds like so naughty to me.
• 1:12:11
  Yeah, and I also felt so old, like Gen.
• 1:12:14
  Z or whatever. Like Glizzy is.
• 1:12:16
  You're stupid, but I like. A hot dog at a baseball game.
• 1:12:20
  And I was so excited and I was like, how's your Glizzy?
• 1:12:22
  And I was like, how dare you? I was like, no, that's a hot
• 1:12:26
  dog. Is that a slang?
• 1:12:29
  I stayed dizzy for the glizzy. Yeah, at a picnic.
• 1:12:34
  God, that's a good one. What would you take on a picnic?
• 1:12:44
  The last time that I went on a picnic, I'd brung but me
• 1:12:48
  sandwiches. Those are good too.
• 1:12:50
  For real. You saw a I have.
• 1:12:53
  OK, it was kind of a date. I had her meet me by the river,
• 1:12:57
  you know, by the keeper. And I was like, yeah, I've got
• 1:13:00
  these bun me sandwiches, 'cause we, I knew the timing of it and
• 1:13:03
  the IT was a Friday or something.
• 1:13:04
  And I was like, did you make these bun me?
• 1:13:06
  Sandwiches. Probably.
• 1:13:07
  You didn't eat dinner yet, but you know, just in case.
• 1:13:09
  It's kind of. Like did you make him?
• 1:13:11
  No, I didn't make him so dark. Where'd you get from?
• 1:13:12
  Asian restaurant. Kim LAN on Broadway.
• 1:13:16
  Because now that sounds amazing. I do have a one really funny
• 1:13:20
  story, really quick story about. So I was teaching a second grade
• 1:13:24
  class and the song was called Going on a Picnic.
• 1:13:28
  So like, going on a Picnic in the park today and then they're
• 1:13:33
  like, what are we going to have? So I'd have them all listed and
• 1:13:36
  they were like, oh, we'll take lemonade and we'll take.
• 1:13:39
  You know, hamburgers and we'll take chocolate and glizzies and
• 1:13:43
  whatever. And this girl who is so, so
• 1:13:47
  quiet, but she has older brothers and sisters and the
• 1:13:50
  whole crew. A whole crew at home.
• 1:13:52
  She raises her hand and she was like beer and I was like she
• 1:13:58
  probably my niece. Root beer.
• 1:14:00
  We're gonna take root beer on our picnic.
• 1:14:03
  She's probably my niece. Hey, But deep down we're like,
• 1:14:08
  yes, yes, you, right you right you.
• 1:14:11
  Gotta come to our picnic. OK, next one, Dusty.
• 1:14:18
  What is something you really want to do this winter since
• 1:14:20
  it's coming up soon? So I'm Christmas crazy.
• 1:14:26
  Anybody that knows me knows I am stupid Christmas crazy.
• 1:14:29
  So I get out my tree in November.
• 1:14:32
  I don't care about the presents. I care about how I look, how you
• 1:14:34
  smell, everything. And I don't.
• 1:14:36
  I don't care about the presents, but I love the Christmas cheer.
• 1:14:39
  So as soon as it's chilly. As soon as it's chilly, I'm like
• 1:14:43
  Christmas time. Yep.
• 1:14:46
  Are we putting up the tree? We have Christmas carols,
• 1:14:50
  Christmas lights. Gotta go look at them.
• 1:14:53
  Hot cocoa. I'm all for it, it says.
• 1:15:04
  Little Bailey's in there? Me too.
• 1:14:57
  You. You go, you go around like
• 1:14:59
  Christmas lights and you get hot chocolate and then you put a
• 1:15:01
  little bit of cocoa Spiket. Yes, exactly.
• 1:15:07
  I'm not into the decorating myself as much, but I like going
• 1:15:10
  to look at the lights and I do get into the spirit.
• 1:15:13
  Yeah, everybody does it. I always tell people Christmas
• 1:15:17
  fills the cracks in your heart. I'm the same way.
• 1:15:19
  I'm oh man, I'm so glad I met someone who thinks the same way
• 1:15:23
  too. Because everyone's like, why do
• 1:15:25
  you like Christmas? It just feels so sad because you
• 1:15:28
  had to crack. You have to, like, buy all these
• 1:15:31
  gifts. No, it's not about the gifts.
• 1:15:34
  Have you ever seen the Grinch? It's not about what you buy.
• 1:15:37
  You could have a small ass heart and you're still growing.
• 1:15:40
  It grew 3 sizes that day exactly.
• 1:15:46
  Yeah, I'm just all about trying to show my loved ones love and
• 1:15:51
  exactly like my brother. He's 16 and you know, kids,
• 1:15:56
  teenager like, oh guess I want the biggest thing.
• 1:15:58
  I want this, this and that. No, my my 16 year old, he's
• 1:16:02
  like, he's like, oh, I can't wait because the snow is so
• 1:16:06
  beautiful. The lights hit on it like it's
• 1:16:09
  it's just so calming because I'm like, I think the same.
• 1:16:11
  Way now winter weather is awful, but it is.
• 1:16:15
  You know what? I'm driving it.
• 1:16:16
  But if I'm not driving in it and I'm just sitting there next to
• 1:16:20
  it. With a Christmas tree and a hot
• 1:16:22
  cocoa. Yeah, With a fire going on.
• 1:16:25
  Oh, yes. I love what you think, girl.
• 1:16:28
  I love what you're thinking. Yeah.
• 1:16:30
  Next one Dusty. 3 words that define your style.
• 1:16:36
  Oh, that's. Can you go 1st?
• 1:16:39
  3 words that define your style I I would say um, I I see it
• 1:16:57
  glamorous. OK, you see, you think
• 1:16:59
  glamorous, I think glamour. Because you know you love.
• 1:17:02
  You love to present yourself very well.
• 1:17:06
  Maybe you know, like. I was gonna say like.
• 1:17:10
  I wear so much I hardly ever wear color.
• 1:17:12
  I was going to say neutral. Oh, I'm going to treat you a
• 1:17:14
  beige nutri. Black, Brown.
• 1:17:17
  Beige. Yes.
• 1:17:20
  So it's going to say like neutral.
• 1:17:19
  Me too. Me too.
• 1:17:19
  Me. I'll say neutral, classic and
• 1:17:23
  glamorous. And she said glamorous.
• 1:17:25
  I'm I I would never call my. I'm so into that I like you.
• 1:17:29
  I I think it. I think it because like you
• 1:17:31
  know. Oh, for you.
• 1:17:33
  No, for you too as well. No, for you too as well.
• 1:17:35
  Because whatever you Because like the colors are you wearing
• 1:17:38
  in the neck? But they're all they're our
• 1:17:41
  bass. And look at me, I'm basing.
• 1:17:43
  Right. We actually match a little bit,
• 1:17:45
  that's, yeah, yeah, definitely. Do did we become best friends?
• 1:17:53
  Yup. Yup.
• 1:17:55
  You wanna go play? What does it say?
• 1:17:56
  You wanna go play something in the basement?
• 1:17:58
  Yup. There's so much room for
• 1:18:04
  activity. It's up with you Riverside
• 1:18:07
  people in basements. You're not the first Riverside
• 1:18:10
  person of it. We're gonna talk about basement.
• 1:18:12
  We're talking about step brothers.
• 1:18:15
  And bunk beds. And bunk beds.
• 1:18:17
  Yeah, Hammer that shit. What are you doing?
• 1:18:21
  No power tools, OK, Dad. And they pull on the the what's
• 1:18:26
  he called Wookie or what's the thing from Star Wars?
• 1:18:30
  And he's like, it's OK that mine's not movie quality the the
• 1:18:35
  the storm trooper, right? Well, it was the the guy that
• 1:18:39
  goes the Chewbacca. Oh.
• 1:18:41
  Chewbacca. They should put on our Chewbacca
• 1:18:42
  map. Thank you.
• 1:18:44
  They put on their Chewbacca mask.
• 1:18:45
  It's OK. Mine's not move.
• 1:18:46
  Equality. My favorite part is when I'm on
• 1:18:48
  a boat. They made that music video.
• 1:18:52
  I'm on a boat. That's my daddy's boat.
• 1:18:55
  I'm on a boat. Sorry, that's.
• 1:18:59
  Lightning round is not so lightning you're.
• 1:19:00
  Good. I knew Step brothers would make
• 1:19:02
  its way in here somehow. Some way somehow?
• 1:19:08
  All right, if you could have any superpower, but it only worked
• 1:19:11
  while you were slightly intoxicated, what would you?
• 1:19:15
  Say that's a weird because I always say if I could have any
• 1:19:19
  superpower it would be to fly. I always say that, but if I was
• 1:19:24
  slightly intoxicated, I don't think I should be flying.
• 1:19:31
  I would look like a weird drunk bird.
• 1:19:34
  So maybe. Superpower, I would say.
• 1:19:40
  If I so if I was sober, it'd definitely be flying.
• 1:19:43
  If I was drunk, it'd be super speed.
• 1:19:45
  No, that seems dangerous. You'd be tripping.
• 1:19:48
  You'd be tripping. Maybe.
• 1:19:50
  Maybe. What's that word was?
• 1:19:52
  Sorry, the T. Telekinesis, where you can read
• 1:19:56
  people's minds, Teleport, teleport.
• 1:19:58
  Oh, teleporting. Yes, cuz that we never need Uber
• 1:20:01
  again. Exactly.
• 1:20:03
  Teleporting. I agree with that, but I still
• 1:20:05
  have a. A fondness for I've always
• 1:20:08
  wanted to be able to fly. I sometimes it's weird, but I
• 1:20:13
  love bird watching. I think it's because I'm getting
• 1:20:15
  old. I think you trick you get into
• 1:20:17
  your 30s and you're like, I love bird watching now.
• 1:20:24
  I love the way that they soar. I think the same way because I
• 1:20:20
  like seeing a pyre. I like to see what's out.
• 1:20:26
  I love. So I I live where there's a lot
• 1:20:30
  of trees around and I love that the way they'll just land on a
• 1:20:33
  branch. They never.
• 1:20:34
  Worry about whether or not it's going to drop them.
• 1:20:37
  They feel safe and comfortable going from place to place to
• 1:20:40
  place and moving around, and I respect that.
• 1:20:45
  I love it. I love the way you think I love
• 1:20:47
  it. I think I fell in love with you,
• 1:20:50
  Molly, to be. Honest, I'm so.
• 1:20:52
  I love it too. I'm so excited.
• 1:20:55
  I love it. OK doesn't keep going.
• 1:20:57
  What number are we on if? You are a cocktail.
• 1:20:59
  What would your name be? And what ingredients would be
• 1:21:02
  included to represent? Don't think of this drink.
• 1:21:05
  Think of something else. OK.
• 1:21:07
  Well, I love raspberries. I think raspberries would be in
• 1:21:13
  there. Tito's.
• 1:21:16
  Probably Tito's and maybe something a little tart because,
• 1:21:22
  like, I'm just a little too much.
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  Maybe it's yeah. What would you call it?
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  What would you call yourself? I would call it so.
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  I don't know because a lot of Times Now, if I introduce myself
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  and I say, hi, I'm Molly. And they're like, what?
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  Like what is it? I like the drug, like I'm like
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  Molly. I'd call it Molly.
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  Like the drug. Oh, I like that.
• 1:21:49
  I like that. You should put that.
• 1:21:51
  You should. If you were in a dating website,
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  you should put that I'm a drug. Like Molly?
• 1:21:55
  Well, because people will say like, I'll be like hi, I'm
• 1:21:57
  Molly, and like Polly. Like no Molly, bitch, why would
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  I be Polly? Polly One No cracker.
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  But people say all kinds of stuff, like Holly, What?
• 1:22:11
  What I'm like, no, Molly, like the drug.
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  And then they always remember after that, oh, they're like,
• 1:22:15
  oh, that bitch is so addicting. Right.
• 1:22:21
  OK. Next one.
• 1:22:21
  Let's see. What's the conspiracy theory
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  that you believe in? Ooh, I'm ready for this.
• 1:22:26
  And it can't be aliens cuz. They are the.
• 1:22:30
  Government already said it, God damn it cuz I do.
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  It I actually did have one that I was just thinking about the
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  other day. I can't think of that off the
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  top of my head. Is the Epstein thing a
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  conspiracy? No.
• 1:22:47
  I mean, it could be. It could be.
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  Does it count Do. You think he he killed himself
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  or? I offed himself.
• 1:22:54
  I I legit think that he didn't. No, absolutely not.
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  And the cameras off. Bitch, please.
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  No, absolutely not. Bitch.
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  Please. And I've watched, so I like, I
• 1:23:04
  watched so many documentaries. It's probably not healthy.
• 1:23:09
  And that's why I'm like, I should be able to think of like
• 1:23:11
  a million. Conspiracy theories, but that
• 1:23:14
  was one that I watched and I was like, this seems weird that
• 1:23:17
  people are not taking more into this, so.
• 1:23:20
  I'll go with that one. You see how they brought out the
• 1:23:22
  list? They didn't, did they?
• 1:23:24
  They did, They did. The list is on there.
• 1:23:28
  I feel like it's a an edited list, you know?
• 1:23:32
  I think the same way, too, because there's so many people
• 1:23:36
  who are like, so you know what I really think?
• 1:23:40
  OK, so you know how, like they talk about the, the sex
• 1:23:42
  trafficking. You know what I mean?
• 1:23:43
  Like that. Oh, man, all these famous people
• 1:23:47
  that's on that list made me think of them so different now.
• 1:23:50
  Absolutely, so different. And I'm just like, how did you
• 1:23:54
  know human trafficking is the number one thing right now than
• 1:23:59
  drugs? And I heard that Wichita is
• 1:24:02
  actually a big town for that because it's you just hop right
• 1:24:05
  on the highway, all the I-70. Yeah, so.
• 1:24:09
  I That's scary, isn't it? Yeah, it it it's so scary
• 1:24:13
  because, like, you teach your kids out here like the world is
• 1:24:15
  OK, but now you deal with the racism you think about.
• 1:24:19
  Now you see people are in, like, human sex trafficking.
• 1:24:22
  Like you cannot trust this world anymore.
• 1:24:24
  No, you can't at all. Nope.
• 1:24:26
  But yes, I agree with you. I agree with you.
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  Epstein, That's my conspiracy theory.
• 1:24:31
  That fucking island. There's an island.
• 1:24:34
  Well, every. All you think it's gonna happen
• 1:24:35
  to Ghilane? I honestly, I I think she'll be
• 1:24:41
  fine. I hate to say that, but I think
• 1:24:44
  she will. And and she'll be in hiding.
• 1:24:47
  Yeah. I mean, she's in.
• 1:24:49
  She's in well, when she gets out, she'll be hiding.
• 1:24:52
  I just watched a part of a documentary on Well, Like it was
• 1:24:57
  like a season of it and it was on the Girls Gone Wild guy.
• 1:25:01
  Joe Francis And so obviously, like, that's not a savory or
• 1:25:07
  great business to begin with. But it was talking about all of
• 1:25:10
  his different like police runins and all these different things
• 1:25:13
  and he just moved to Mexico and just lives there now.
• 1:25:17
  Like if he comes back to America, he can be in trouble.
• 1:25:21
  But he's just fine down there, just living like millionaire,
• 1:25:23
  and they can't touch him down there.
• 1:25:25
  How is this not so? Yeah, yeah, I believe it.
• 1:25:28
  I believe it. The world is crooked, the
• 1:25:32
  government says. The government, I'm just gonna
• 1:25:36
  say it. It's.
• 1:25:39
  The most adventurous thing you've done, Molly.
• 1:25:41
  This is wild because I always have a good answer for this.
• 1:25:45
  I am not a bit adventurous. I have so much anxiety, but I've
• 1:25:50
  been skydiving. What?
• 1:25:52
  And I have anxiety and I didn't. Even done it yet?
• 1:25:55
  Not only that, I was blindfolded and driven there.
• 1:26:00
  And surprised, surprised. We're going skydiving.
• 1:26:03
  And I went, I'm part of you. I I was proud of myself.
• 1:26:08
  Was like I almost had a panic attack.
• 1:26:10
  I'm proud, but I did it. But hey, if you were there by
• 1:26:13
  yourself, there's no way you've got out of that plane.
• 1:26:15
  Absolutely not. Well, and I I did jump with
• 1:26:18
  where. You go with somebody else.
• 1:26:21
  Yeah. And so I kind of feel like if he
• 1:26:23
  hadn't, like, kicked us off, I would have been like, no thank
• 1:26:25
  you, no thank you. I'll stay here.
• 1:26:28
  Even though the light is green, I'll still be here.
• 1:26:30
  No, we'll just wait till he's on drawn down.
• 1:26:34
  How many? How many questions is that 10?
• 1:26:37
  Two more, Two more, two more. What's your favorite song to
• 1:26:40
  perform live? It kind of changes and the mood.
• 1:26:48
  Yeah, for a really long time. I want to say years.
• 1:26:53
  It was a song by Florence and the Machine called Cosmic Love.
• 1:26:58
  We always performed at last. It's my absolute favorite.
• 1:27:05
  But I will say that I I think I'm going to have some new ones
• 1:27:12
  coming up, some new favorite ones coming up.
• 1:27:15
  So it used to be cosmic love. Now it's gonna be something new,
• 1:27:20
  exciting, exciting. Alright, last question is who is
• 1:27:25
  your favorite singer of all time?
• 1:27:30
  This is gonna sound really corny, but can you go with
• 1:27:33
  anybody else except MJ? I mean, I feel like Michael
• 1:27:36
  Jackson hands down and. Performer, a singer.
• 1:27:39
  Performer like he's the best artist of all time.
• 1:27:42
  I would love to see him live right now.
• 1:27:44
  I know and and it like, hurt me when he passed away that I was
• 1:27:48
  like, I will never see him live now.
• 1:27:51
  Yeah, I I've got to say, I'm Jay.
• 1:27:53
  I say so too. But Molly, I appreciate you for
• 1:27:57
  coming to our podcast. It was a wonderful time.
• 1:28:00
  Thank you. I had so much fun.
• 1:28:02
  I was really nervous and you guys were awesome.
• 1:28:04
  Thank you so much. I had so much fun and well,
• 1:28:08
  thank you so much for coming in. We really appreciate you.
• 1:28:11
  You wanna tell our audience? Where can we find you?
• 1:28:14
  Absolutely. So on Facebook, I have a music
• 1:28:18
  page called Molly Neely Music. It's facebook.com
• 1:28:23
  Mollyneelymusic. And then on Instagram, I am at
• 1:28:28
  Mollyneely. N EE Ley ohh Alright guys, well
• 1:28:34
  thank you for coming in, Molly, we really appreciate you for
• 1:28:36
  coming in. Um, cheers to guys.
• 1:28:39
  We say we're going to say in Spanish 'cause Fanny always says
• 1:28:42
  so. Pariva, Pariya, Bavajo.
• 1:28:46
  Pacentro, Pacentro.