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Fyre Wyte on Authenticity, Songwriting, and Building a Community in Music · The Scene Projects

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  Today, we're welcoming Fire White to the show, a passionate artist who lives and breathes
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  music.
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  Drawing inspiration from legends like Elvis, Justin Timberlake, and Kurt Cobain, Fire White
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  is setting the music world on fire.
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  Let's get into the show.
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  This program is part of the Scene Projects
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  podcast network.
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  Scene Project features interviews with independent musicians, comedians, and artists
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  of our community and support local art wherever you are.
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  Well, welcome in to another exciting episode of the scene.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts, and with me today is Fire White.
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  Fire, welcome to the show.
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  Hey.
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  Thanks for having me again.
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  Yeah.
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  Well and this one will air way after, the episode we did last night live on YouTube, but
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  we got to spend a a a good bit of time together, talking about life, listening to your
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  music.
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  And, I just wanna thank you because it was everything that, when I thought about that show
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  and I was building it out, that was everything that it was supposed to be, everything that I
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  could and should be.
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  So thanks for spending some time with me and Willie last night.
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  Of course.
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  So before we get into all the stuff that you're up to and the new music that you got coming out
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  and all all the things, we wanna know a little bit about you for our listeners and watchers.
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  You don't have to go all the way back to the beginning, but give us a little taste of who is
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  Fire White.
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  Fire White.
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  She is she is, like, alien sometimes to this this humanness that she lives in and amongst.
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  And, she wants so much to, you know, feel peace, joy, and accepted within, you know, the
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  the music world and just, you know, creating period.
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  Life is is art.
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  And so, you know, coming from a very, you know, rough childhood where I was often, you know,
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  you know, bullied for being different at such a young age, to, you know, growing into this,
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  like, super you know, from this really quiet, bullied person to this, like, super, like, you
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  know, loud on the outside.
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  The exterior seems kind of loud to finally, like, finding myself and, you know, syncing
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  myself with not all the all the labels that have been thrown onto me, to just, honing in
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  to, you know, who I meant to be and and also, like, honing in to what messages I really wanna
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  share with the world, meaning, you know, my truth, from all the dark places I've been and
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  going into the light in which I am, you know, finding with each day.
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  Like, life is a journey, and it's taken me all this all this time to get where I am today, and
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  I'm I'm blessed to be here.
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  And yeah.
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  And I am blessed to know you.
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  We got to meet in person back at Vibe Fest at Captain Jack's RV Park Campground there in
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  Summersville, Missouri.
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  Our good friend Willie was running sound, and I was just I was blown away by your performance.
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  And it wasn't, I wasn't getting a chance to really listen to the lyrics like we did last
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  night.
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  I was just blown away by the stage presence and the way not just you carried yourself, but that
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  you carried the moment, if you will, that that you owned it, and the crowd wasn't massive or
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  anything at that.
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  You didn't let that affect you.
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  You went up there.
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  You stood, and you delivered.
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  And that's what really attracted me to the the persona.
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  Right?
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  But I think last night, I I really got to know the person behind that, and it only endeared me
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  to you that much more because you are a very deep introspective person.
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  And and that comes from those early years of your life and being bullied and and living this
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  very hard traumatic experiences that you you'd been through and maybe not having an outlet to
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  talk about those things.
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  And now that you've have music and you're producing and you're writing and expressing
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  yourself that that you're freeing that that small child.
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  Right?
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  That that bullied child is kind of getting freed to be who she was always supposed to be.
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  And I think just watching this short journey that I've known you only a few months, but in
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  listening to your interview on Soul Impact, with Willie and knowing you a little bit now
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  that this has been a a long growth and a steady growth that you've been on.
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  And I'm just kinda seeing maybe where the curve has gotten a little steeper, and you and you
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  seem to be growing exponentially now.
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  Yeah.
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  I definitely feel I feel a lot different than I did, like, even, you know, two months ago.
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  Like, I definitely feel like, I have I have, like, been more and more and more and more
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  accepting of myself and everything that I am and everything that I am not and everything
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  that I'm meant to become.
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  Like, I'm just you know, I said last night, you know, divine timing.
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  Like, once you accept exactly where you are, but also, like, you know, understanding that,
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  like, you do have a voice, and this is a community.
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  So, like, how you wanna project that voice, and I think speaking truth, your truth, is the most
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  important thing that I can do for people.
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  You know?
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  It it looks messy.
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  It looks a lot of ways, but it's mine.
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  And feeling safe within myself to share that is is a gift, you know, that I am so grateful to
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  feel, you know, that I can release at this point because it did you know, I didn't have a
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  voice.
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  I felt like I was choking, you know, for those early years of making music.
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  Like, I I was in my room for a long time.
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  I just never came out.
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  I I had I had bands, if you will, like, three different bands, and, you know, I never came
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  out of the house.
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  I was just so fearful.
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  And, yeah.
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  So now, like, owning my truth, owning, you know, everything that I am, everything I am
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  not, and coming out, you know, full force with that, like, no matter if it's one person or,
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  you know, however many people that it it will end up being, like, yeah.
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  I'm just I I want so much to just continue to own everything in my full authenticity because
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  this is the only way.
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  Right.
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  Because that's the only way that it's gonna resonate with people.
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  If you were trying to go out there and be, you know, a female version of Justin Timberlake,
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  right, like, that's not going to that's not going to be necessarily you.
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  It's it's not even possible.
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  It's like I I think back to myself when I was, like, doing the talent shows, and and I will
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  say, you know, how that felt to get up there and to dance and sing to NSYNC.
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  Like like, it was, like, it was awesome.
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  It was the best feeling at the time I had ever felt, and that's when I knew this is this is my
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  calling.
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  This is what I wanna do.
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  But, you know, not being Justin Timberlake, not having all the things that he naturally had,
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  like, it seemed so anyway.
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  He just you know, Elvis too.
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  Like
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  They're just cool.
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  Right?
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  They're smooth, and they're talented.
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  And they're And
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  And so being inspired by them being inspired by them was you know, it it was like, at first, it
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  was kind of discouraging, you could say, because, I was never gonna amount to a lot of
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  things that because I'm not them.
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  You know?
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  So when you put yourself in this, like, little, you know, little like, all these filters of,
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  like, well, I'm not this and I'm not that and I'm not that, then you kind of lose who you
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  even are.
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  So it just took a really long time for me to really, like, go, who am I?
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  And, now, you know, I'm able to go, hey.
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  This is who I am.
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  And, yeah, it's it's just it's it's very liberating.
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  You you touched on it a few times now.
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  The accepting who you're not or what you're not.
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  Right?
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  And I think that, you know, accepting who we are is kind of easy.
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  You know?
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  Accepting that we're not maybe going to be something that maybe we've thought we really
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  wanted to be.
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  Right?
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  Like, we you know, whatever that dream is and you think that you really, really wanted it,
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  and maybe that's not who you're destined to be.
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  And the accepting of that seems so much harder.
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  Right?
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  You know, I talk a lot on the show about how when I quit my factory job in February '24,
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  like, I thought I was quitting my job to be a rock star.
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  I had a bunch of gigs booked, and I had, you know, things wherever.
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  I was like, cool.
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  This is it.
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  And in that time, the podcast was just kind of in the background, and I was doing interviews,
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  and I was, you know, hanging out with my friends.
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  And it was just kinda something that I was I was doing.
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  I didn't know what I was doing.
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  It was just like, I think this is something.
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  And the more I did it, the more I was like, no.
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  This is really something to where now, like, my performance career as an artist is all I mean,
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  next to nonexistent.
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  I do have some shows coming up, you know, in the next few weeks and some songwriter, you
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  know, weekends and things like that.
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  And that's much more of who I want to be.
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  You know?
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  Like, I I don't necessarily want to be in a in a bar band.
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  That's not really my scene.
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  Right?
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  Like, I am much more comfortable around songwriters bearing their souls and laying
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  their truth out there than I am bands playing cover songs for dancers.
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  And, like, I can't it's it's not saying that I don't have fun if I go to watch something like
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  that, but that's not necessarily who I am or who I what like, I strive to be anymore, where
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  for twenty years, that's what I was trying to be.
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  Right?
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  And I I feel very blessed now to understand that, like, no.
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  It's it's you're a campfire strummer.
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  That's who you've always been.
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  You have these, you know, almost cowboy songs.
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  Right?
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  And say maybe not, you know, country, you know, you know, tried and true, you know, country
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  western music, but they're cowboy songs, man.
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  It's stories about the road, stories about life and loss and it's just it's the songs that the
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  outlaws sang to each other out there when nobody was trying to get famous.
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  You're just trying to express yourself and, tell your story.
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  Yeah.
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  Fame's overrated anyway.
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  I live in a town of a thousand people, Fire.
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  Like, how how much more famous do you need to be?
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  Everybody knows me.
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  Everybody knows where I'm at and what I'm doing.
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  Like, I don't that's good enough.
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  I don't need billions of people around the world knowing my every move.
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  I'm cool with it.
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  You know?
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  Anonymity is, like, glorious.
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  Yeah.
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  I guess that's the thing.
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  It's so nice to, you know, to go out there, do your thing, and then go home, you know, to your
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  your space, you know.
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  This is like my sacred space, and to not have the noise of the outside world.
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  So that's like the same thing to me.
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  I don't, I think at first I had this thought like, I'm gonna be famous.
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  I know I'm gonna be famous, and I don't want it.
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  I don't want it.
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  I don't want it.
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  I don't want it.
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  I was so frightened by all the things that, you know, it just seems like it like steals
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  something from your soul.
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  And I I very much like, if if I got famous when I was young, it what a fucking mess that would
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  be like.
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  You know?
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  So it it's like now whatever happens, however that looks, like, I feel a lot more grounded to
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  where I understand myself a lot more to where no no matter what, like money, admiration, like
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  anything, like, you just have to, you know, know that, like, all of that could wash away in
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  an instant.
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  So you have to stay, like, solidified within yourself and your happiness no matter what
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  happens.
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  If anything, it's just abundance.
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  You know?
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  It's it's extra.
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  It's, you know, it's it can be a good thing, you know, having, you know, those those things
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  that are considered, you know, fame.
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  But, yeah, I'm definitely at a place now where I'm ready for you know, I'm ready to take on
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  whatever and however that looks.
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  But I do very much appreciate my my space and my peace and from, you know, the noise of the
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  outside world.
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  And I think and it may be our our age a little bit, but right now in this time in my life, I
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  want to have impact.
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  Right?
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  I wanna impact the lives around me.
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  And for me, our our podcast has been a a great vessel to do that.
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  I hope I always hoped that my music would be that as well, and and it is.
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  But I'm such a personal songwriter as I know you are.
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  Like, I'm writing about the things that happened to me, and not everyone has had my
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  lived experience.
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  Right?
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  So it might not resonate with everybody.
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  And it on mass, it really probably doesn't resonate because we've lived lives less
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  traveled.
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  Right?
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  And I don't wish the life that I've led onto anyone.
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  I don't I don't want anyone to ever be bullied in high school like I was for something that I
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  had no control over.
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  I don't want anyone to go into the depths of addiction like I did and to experience a deep I
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  don't want you to go there.
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  Right?
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  Like, that's the last thing in the world that I would wish upon anyone.
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  But there's you know, these songs that I've written are for the people that have, if that
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  kinda makes sense.
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  Yeah.
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  I definitely write music both for myself and the thought of you know, I I guess it's still
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  for myself in a way, but it's also with the thought of, like, uplifting people.
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  Like, the song Take Flight I played last night.
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  Like like, I didn't know when I wrote it exactly that I wrote it for me.
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  I kinda thought I was writing, you know, for people.
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  And then I realized, wow.
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  This is literally my story.
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  Like so, again, that's that subconscious, you know, like, writing for you.
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  Sometimes, like, you're just, you go in the studio one day and then you come in another day
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  and you're like it's like fresh ears and you can really hear what you were saying a lot more
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  than when you were presently in it.
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  And it's just it's super cool.
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  Yeah.
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  It's the the inspiration.
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  Right?
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  The muse or or whatever term you kinda wanna wanna bring to it that brings these things
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  forth.
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  You know, I've always said about my music is that I just kinda I'm just the antenna.
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  Right?
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  And my lived experience has shaken me in some way.
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  And and what you're kind of receiving out of the end of that pen is that vibration.
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  Right?
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  It is the the end of that antenna that's actually vibrating and and writing that and
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  making those chords and these things.
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  Like, it's very hard for me to and I talk to a lot of people now that, you know, work or live
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  around in Nashville and in the scene of, like, writing songs to advance a career.
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  Right?
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  Like, you gotta keep writing, and you're writing songs just for the sake of writing
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  songs.
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  And for me, that's never necessarily been why I've done it.
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  I've been, you know, tear soaked pages because something has just struck me, a breakup or me
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  just being an asshole to my wife, right, is kinda one of the big, you know, one of my
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  biggest songs right now that I'm getting ready to release is just my apology.
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  Right?
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  It is like, I was a jerk.
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  I'm sorry.
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  You are my everything.
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  I don't know how to say that outside of a song.
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  Right?
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  So here's this.
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  And, yeah.
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  Like the word it's like a way to
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  slow down versus verbal communication sometimes can be so messy and the emotions that come with
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  it.
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  It's like when we write, we can actually really, like, hey.
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  Can you hear this?
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  Because I mean this.
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  Like, every word, like, this is this is how I feel.
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  Yeah.
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  So music's so awesome.
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  Because we're especially because we're fast talkers and fast thinkers.
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  And and there's not a long gap between our brain and our mouth.
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  Right?
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  Like, of us are very much in that field.
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  And so to just talk is just talking sometimes.
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  Where when I sit down to write, I am examining that feeling and that thought, and I'm really
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  taking my time.
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  And there's not a lot of editing that goes into my songs.
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  Like, the editing takes place in my head.
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  I don't write it down until it's, like, ready to be out there.
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  And and I find that said it.
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  I
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  am so not that winning.
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  No.
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  Write it all down.
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  Scratch it out.
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  Write it again.
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  And
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  I yeah.
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  I do all the things.
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  I don't have I don't have a method.
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  It's all madness.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, the madness comes out in some really beautiful music.
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  I I was really grateful to get to to just hang out and to listen not just to the songs, but to
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  listen to you wax poetically about your songs.
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  And, you know, these I mean, I I hate to, like, equate it to children.
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  Right?
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  But definitely a a a gift, right, that you've made for the world that you're like, I'm so
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  proud of this thing, right, that I've made and that now I can share it with the world.
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  And you played some unreleased stuff with us that I'm very grateful that you chose our
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  platform to kinda put those out there in the public sphere, for the first time.
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  Like, that that means the world to me that you felt that comfortable in this little thing that
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  I've built, in this space that I've created to bring your gift and to lay it out there and go,
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  what what do you think of this?
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  Right?
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  Before I show it to anyone else, what do you think?
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  And that's a that's a privilege that I don't take lightly.
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  Right?
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  I couldn't be more proud that our our little you know, I call it a stupid podcast.
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  It's not stupid.
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  It's really fun, and I I'm so appreciative of people that are tuning in and listening to it.
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  But it was it was kinda just a joy.
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  It fell on me.
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  Right?
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  It was like the house in the wizard of Oz where it was like, all of a sudden, Harry, you you
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  have this now.
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  Right?
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  Like, go forth and smash, young man.
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  Go.
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  And we just, you know, grabbed it by the reins, and we have no intention of of ever stopping.
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  How could you?
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  After we had as much fun as we did last night, how could you ever stop wanting to?
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  Right.
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  Well, when you're living, you know, within your light and yourself and you're spreading, like,
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  you know, positive through all all the different things that, you know, people, all
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  the different walks of life, like, that's infectious.
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  So, yeah, why stop?
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  Yeah.
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  We're gonna infect the whole world.
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  Right?
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  Let's let's go infect the whole world with that loving vibration and to keep supporting,
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  awesome people who write awesome music and, you know, show up at awesome places.
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  I know, as we're recording this, you're getting ready to head back down to Captain Jack's for
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  Spookstock.
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  This episode will come out much much longer after everyone is already home and recovered
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  from the weekend.
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  But, you know, I I I wish I could be there with you guys this weekend.
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  I know we'll have other opportunities, so I I'm not sad about it.
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  But, I definitely, you know, I I love the family that is building around the scene
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  projects that includes the Cannafam down in Missouri, and it includes a lot of other small,
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  you know, and and larger groups around the country and around the world now.
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  Same here.
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  Same here.
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  It's so great to be a part of a community and to be able to share, you know, the gifts that
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  we're we've been given and to feel safe to do that amongst people like that is awesome.
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  It's it's a good it's a good starting point.
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  Like, I started with Sticky's Cabana, you know, that super like, this is behind someone's
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  house.
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  Sticky's awesome.
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  And, yeah, they're they're a group of people and, you know, what they what they started and
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  where they're at now.
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  And, I I was grateful to start in a place that literally felt like, you know, a family.
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  And then I get the can of fam, and it's, like, the same thing.
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  Like, it's just on a grander scale.
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  It's a little bigger, a little bigger.
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  And each year, you know, these things get a little bigger, and, it it's just it's cool.
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  It's cool to to feel that.
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  And I I feel like soon, you know, that family is just gonna grow in a way to where maybe
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  there's a lot of people there, and they're there for you.
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  And and it still feels safe.
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  It's not like, oh my god.
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  There's so many people out there.
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  I'm so freaked out.
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  It's like, no.
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  I've been growing this.
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  These are my people.
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  And that's I guess that's the, you know, something I I'm looking forward to is, you
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  know, playing for a good amount of energy back at me, if you will.
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  Like because, yes, I I play for people, like, you know, just even a few people, you know, and
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  you bring that same energy.
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  But definitely will say I'm looking forward to, like, more of a, you know, grander scale of
• 23:21
  people, like, receiving it and feeling it and getting to feel that energy back at me so that
• 23:27
  I can I don't know?
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  I think that you only tap in more and more to self the more that you feel, like, you can
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  just, like, release.
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  And how to put it into words?
• 23:46
  Sometimes words can be so challenging.
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  As a lyricist, you would think it would just be like, but it's actually, like, kinda messy, and
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  you gotta manipulate it.
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  And you're like, wait a minute.
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  I didn't mean that.
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  Can I, try that again?
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  Pull those words back
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  in.
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  You so like that.
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  So like my problem.
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  And especially, as the crowds grow, that that feeling, that ah feeling.
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  Right?
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  We've had the opportunity to open for a couple of national acts, at the Levitt Amphitheater in
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  Sioux Falls, and it's, you know, several thousand people.
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  And getting to step out on that stage and to have that crowd, you know, for thirty, forty
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  five minutes just absorbing all of it.
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  Right?
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  And I anytime I get that opportunity, I'm not going out there and playing cover songs.
• 24:34
  Yes.
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  I've dabbled in a couple just to kinda bring them in, but the last time we played, it was
• 24:39
  forty five minutes of just original music.
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  And I got to just go out there and to play, you know, 11 of my songs and to watch people react
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  in that way to songs they've mostly never heard before.
• 24:53
  Right?
• 24:53
  And to see that effect that it had, that's why I thought I was quitting my job to be a rock
• 24:57
  star back then.
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  I was like, oh, man.
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  This is it.
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  Well, this is it.
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  Right?
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  We're on it.
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  But there's so many stages, and there just wasn't there wasn't someone out there that had
• 25:08
  a platform like this for independent artists to launch off of.
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  And instead of just sitting around and going, god, I wish somebody would build that for us, I
• 25:17
  grabbed the hammer and I grabbed some friends, and I went, hey.
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  We're gonna build this thing because this is what's gonna be necessary for all of us to
• 25:25
  launch.
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  And it's gonna take time, and it's gonna take a lot of elbow grease, and it's gonna take a
• 25:29
  little bit of luck at certain points.
• 25:31
  But, you know, now, and granted we shot the episode almost a year ago, but, you know, my
• 25:37
  good friend Samantha Grimes is now nominated for two Grammys.
• 25:42
  Like, what the now so now we have Grammy, you know, nominated artists, and god, if she wins,
• 25:48
  then we have Grammy winners that are in our close circle.
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  I mean, I could call her right now and she'd pick up the phone, and I want that for
• 25:55
  everybody around us.
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  We wanna turn everybody into those people and to really leave our mark on the world and not
• 26:04
  just as individuals, but as a community.
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  And I think we're just we're well on our way, and there's no stopping the momentum that we've
• 26:14
  built even if we wanted to.
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  Like, you can't put the brakes on a speeding train.
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  Like, it's gonna it's just gonna keep on going.
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  So I'm thrilled to to be where I'm at, to accept the things that I am and the things that
• 26:29
  I'm not.
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  And, you know, to to be here and to spend a a good, you know, a good little amount of time
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  with you in the last, you know, twenty four hours has been, an absolute joy.
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  And, I would love to give you an opportunity to to share, you know, anything that you wanna
• 26:49
  plug.
• 26:49
  I know you got new music that's coming out very soon, and you're gonna be doing a lot more here
• 26:55
  over the course of the next few months.
• 26:57
  So your opportunity to plug away, Fire.
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  Well, I keep getting a lot of opportunities for different shows.
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  So I'm that's just like that's super awesome for me, because I I feel like I just was
• 27:14
  waiting for so long.
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  I'm just like, I'm I'm doing all this work.
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  I'm I'm in my studio.
• 27:19
  You know?
• 27:20
  I'm making this music, and I'm putting in this time.
• 27:22
  But, you know, I'm going to open mics and stuff, but I I wasn't really booking shows.
• 27:28
  You know?
• 27:28
  So I wasn't given given a lot of, like, significant amount of time on the stage.
• 27:33
  And now I'm like, people are seeing me, and I'm getting these opportunities.
• 27:37
  And I'm like, hey.
• 27:38
  Come play here.
• 27:38
  Come play here.
• 27:39
  And so now I just got an opportunity to go play in Omaha, Nebraska, which is the furthest I've
• 27:46
  traveled well, will be traveling.
• 27:47
  So that's that's really cool.
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  And, yeah, I tried to not say no to any opportunity.
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  And within reason
• 27:56
  hell houses event?
• 27:58
  Yeah.
• 27:58
  Yeah.
• 27:59
  Yeah.
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  It's like a cherry drive.
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  You just made up my mind.
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  I'm gonna be there.
• 28:04
  I'm a be there to support you.
• 28:05
  He asked me to come down there too.
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  Hey.
• 28:08
  That's awesome.
• 28:09
  Where
• 28:10
  he couldn't talk me into it, you did, girl.
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  So now
• 28:14
  I got some perspective.
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  This month.
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  Right?
• 28:18
  I think it's in November.
• 28:19
  I think it's in November.
• 28:20
  Okay.
• 28:21
  Okay.
• 28:22
  Yeah.
• 28:22
  Maybe yeah.
• 28:23
  November 20.
• 28:24
  Maybe that's what it was.
• 28:26
  He's got me doing another show, at the Skate Bar, like, October 26 or something like that.
• 28:32
  It'll be my first show in Kansas City.
• 28:34
  And then I have another show in Kansas City at the Skate Bar, opening for Sabertooth, like, in
• 28:40
  November.
• 28:41
  So that's pretty exciting as well.
• 28:43
  Yeah.
• 28:44
  It's just gonna keep on climbing for you.
• 28:46
  Where can people find you?
• 28:49
  You can find me on a I'm really big on Facebook, so that's where, you know, I'll post
• 28:54
  a lot.
• 28:54
  Like, I have shows coming up, and, you can add, you know, my fire white page, f y r e w y t e,
• 29:01
  or, you can add my my my other page, which is, yeah, which is Candace, with a k, Larissa.
• 29:09
  And then, you can see me on YouTube, Spotify, TikTok, Instagram, a lot of platforms that
• 29:18
  DistroKid, you know, uses because that's where I release my EP.
• 29:21
  And, yeah.
• 29:24
  So here's to here's to keeping spreading my message and to releasing all this music that
• 29:29
  I've waited so long to to let come out.
• 29:32
  I'm really excited for everybody to hear the new stuff.
• 29:36
  I'm excited for them to hear it too.
• 29:38
  I I got a sneak peek, and anybody that listened and tuned in to Love Noise with us last night
• 29:43
  or wants to go find it, you can hear it right now live on our YouTube page.
• 29:48
  And, Fire, thank you so much for everything that you've given me these last few hours of
• 29:55
  our lives, and thank you for being part of the scene.
• 29:59
  Same.
• 29:59
  Thank you so much.
• 30:01
  Appreciate you, Bubba.
• 30:04
  Same.