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My Day Of Play Crazy Unedited Talks With Katfish The Band Plus Author Karen Lee Cohen · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the studio. These are my days of
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  Speaker 1: play where you're taking into the really vancent actions of
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  Speaker 1: how it goes down, long before the process of editing
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  Speaker 1: or cleaning up. The original purpose of these episodes was
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  Speaker 1: to give my broadcasting students something to edit, to practice with,
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  Speaker 1: and to call their own. And then I realized that, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you're just as important as they are. We begin things
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  Speaker 1: with Tommy Shoemaker, who originally formed the group Catfish as
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  Speaker 1: an acoustic duo that performs a variety of outlock country,
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  Speaker 1: Southern rock, contemporary, classic pop, and rock hits. And then
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  Speaker 1: we're going to wrap things up with motivator Karen Lee Cohen,
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  Speaker 1: author of the book Let's Be Piece. This is My
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  Speaker 1: day of play, completely unedited in the way of meeting
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  Speaker 1: the wizard behind the curtain. Hello, and good morning or
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  Speaker 1: good afternoon. Hey, how's it going doing fantastic? How are
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  Speaker 1: you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Hey, before we get started, I've got to I've
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  Speaker 1: got to ask the question because I went to the
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  Speaker 1: record label's website. By your name in quotations, it says
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  Speaker 1: shoe do you go by shoe or can? Or do
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  Speaker 1: you want us to call you Tommy? All right, Tommy,
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  Speaker 1: Well let's talk rock then, man, let's have some fun. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations on your version of Crazy. I mean, you own
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  Speaker 1: this song. It's bluesy, there's a lot of feelings in it,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's it's not necessarily a pop song. You
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  Speaker 1: you've made it a real, honest to god piece of music.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's a lot of It has a
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  Speaker 3: step more singer singer does. He's got a phenomenal voice,
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  Speaker 3: very soulful, you know, and and it's all awsome because
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  Speaker 3: I hear you know, the guy can sing anything in
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  Speaker 3: the phone book, you know, No to.
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  Speaker 1: What made led to the decision to actually put the
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  Speaker 1: song crazy out there?
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, you know, when we started this band shoot
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  Speaker 3: twenty years ago, you know, we decided that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we wanted to do something a little different, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like basically we started out.
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  Speaker 2: With the whole like we wanted to like the campfire.
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  Speaker 3: Type five you know, all acoustic guitars, you know, sit
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  Speaker 3: around a campfire and just playing songs. But we wanted
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  Speaker 3: to do we didn't want to be like a regular
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  Speaker 3: cover band. We wanted to like do cover songs that
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  Speaker 3: you know, we just made it our own versions, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just changed. We do a lot of songs that crazy
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  Speaker 3: that we completely just make our own.
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  Speaker 2: Version of it, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And basically with the with Dusty style of singing, we
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  Speaker 3: came up with the concept, you know that of how
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  Speaker 3: we wanted out.
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  Speaker 2: To put that song together.
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  Speaker 1: So no is it basically it started out to be
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  Speaker 1: as a as a jam band then yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well you know I think we're me and so, me
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  Speaker 2: and Dusty the singer, and I'm the lead guitar player.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we grew up together, you know, we lived
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  Speaker 3: in a small town in California, and we played football together.
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  Speaker 3: We went to high school together, and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: a couple of years after we graduated high school, we
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  Speaker 3: were starting to work at the same company and we
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  Speaker 3: had weekends where we had to work on the weekends
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  Speaker 3: and there was nothing going on on the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: So what we would do is we'd bring in acoustic guitars.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: We were like, hey, you know you played guitar sol.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just you know, get together and champ. So we
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  Speaker 3: started doing that, and then it started we hey, let's
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  Speaker 3: go home and play and learned a bunch of songs,
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  Speaker 3: and then we just kind of did that and then
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  Speaker 3: it just one night we were in the bar, you know,
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  Speaker 3: hanging out after work, and there was a band playing
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  Speaker 3: in the corner. We told the bartender and who we
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  Speaker 3: also knew from school, we were like, we're just as
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  Speaker 3: good as those guys.
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  Speaker 2: You should hire us. And we were just choking around
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  Speaker 2: and next see, you know, she's like calls us.
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  Speaker 3: The next day, I had you get it, And so
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  Speaker 3: we just decided, well, we'd better hurry up and get
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  Speaker 3: a whole bunch of songs together so we can start
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  Speaker 3: playing like that, and just started out to just to
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  Speaker 3: do it just me and him together.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 1: So we have three people is what we have to
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  Speaker 1: in the room. And so that Norm's gonna kick off
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  Speaker 1: the next question.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, So I mean you were talking about YouTube
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  Speaker 4: being together. I really got the feeling that you're I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you're a true blue collar band, you and Dusty. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: obviously you were phenomenal together and I've really only heard
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  Speaker 4: the music that you have together with your drummer and
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  Speaker 4: your bass player.
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  Speaker 1: And for me, I mean not to say it's bad.
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  Speaker 4: I love what sound you produced. Man, It's just fills
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  Speaker 4: the room and it's full of soul. Dusty's voice is amazing,
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  Speaker 4: the guitar is soulful. I mean it really almost felt
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  Speaker 4: like Delta Blues to me. But yeah, definitely, Outlaw Country
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  Speaker 4: is spot on. What are you guys looking towards doing
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  Speaker 4: in the future. I mean this Narls Barkley or this
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  Speaker 4: Narles Barkley cover is such a cool mashup. And I
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  Speaker 4: know that's a little bit pop, but the way you
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  Speaker 4: guys do it, it just feels so soulful. What are
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  Speaker 4: you guys looking forward to in the future, Well, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, just doing more shows.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually I've been writing a lot of songs lately, so.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to I would love to put.
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  Speaker 3: Out an EP this next year of all originals, maybe
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  Speaker 3: throwing a couple of our covers that we do our
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  Speaker 3: own Verden, you know, our own like you know, we.
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  Speaker 2: Do some crazy stuff, like we actually do all song,
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  Speaker 2: but we do it. We do crazy, you know.
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  Speaker 3: We we sold it up and you know, blues it
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  Speaker 3: up like we did with Crazy.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we might throw a couple of those in,
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  Speaker 2: but I really would like to get a couple originals
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  Speaker 2: out there going.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we I think we definitely love to hear that.
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  Speaker 4: That that sound you guys have is so cool. And
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  Speaker 4: we're in the South, so we have a world away.
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  Speaker 4: But man, that is that is right in line with
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  Speaker 4: what a lot of folks are listening to down here.
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  Speaker 4: I was thinking, Arrow you back me up. Myrtle Beach
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  Speaker 4: is a huge micro town. It's a it's a really mellow,
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  Speaker 4: laid back kind of a country on music town, and
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  Speaker 4: they would dig you like they really dig you guys there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm we would love to go that way.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: We played we played Sturgis the last two years and
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  Speaker 3: they at the at the motorcycle role and they really
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  Speaker 3: dig us up there.
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  Speaker 2: So that's kind of like our you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's our crowd, you know what I mean. So it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't hurt that Dusty Dusty right the heart it too, So.
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  Speaker 6: You know, so I know when I was listening to Crazy,
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  Speaker 6: it definitely took me to a deeper place that I
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  Speaker 6: didn't even think that the song could go. So I
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  Speaker 6: definitely appreciate that. Having said that, I read that you
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  Speaker 6: guys perform music from rock to rap, so it's an
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  Speaker 6: example of a rap song that you guys would cover.
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  Speaker 3: We do remember in the song of the Hunky Dance,
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  Speaker 3: we do that, we've done we've done Boys in the
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  Speaker 3: Good you know, but our own spin on it. Basically,
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  Speaker 3: how crazy is It's kind of that whole concept, that
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  Speaker 3: old genre.
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  Speaker 6: What I appreciate about Crazy is I didn't see it,
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  Speaker 6: especially once you actually hear the solo from Stevie d. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I felt like the song started all over again. It
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  Speaker 6: just took me to a completely different realm. So I
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  Speaker 6: want to understand that process when when like, how do
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  Speaker 6: you hear it first and then play it? Like, what
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  Speaker 6: is that process of you know what, I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 6: this song and make it my own? What does that?
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  Speaker 6: What does that look like?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 3: You know, we just so Dustin basically originally kind of
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  Speaker 3: came up with, Hey, I want to do this song,
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  Speaker 3: but let's try to slow it down a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and because like you said, we're all acoustic guitar,
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  Speaker 3: so there's not much effects you can do. So you
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  Speaker 3: kind of just got into that tempo and we get
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  Speaker 3: it before without you know, know, just to do it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just us on two guitars. But then when JJ
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  Speaker 3: and the bass player came especially JJ because JJ is
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  Speaker 3: a monster drummer, and it really all came together good.
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  Speaker 3: And then when we get the song to Stevie, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he which you want to think that, you know, Buck
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  Speaker 3: Jerry is a hard rocking band, you know, you want
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  Speaker 3: to think that he has that kind of soul like that.
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  Speaker 3: He played the hamm and B three on it too.
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  Speaker 3: He played the organ on it, and that just even
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  Speaker 3: that little bit the organ in it just.
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  Speaker 2: Really like when I heard it the first time, I.
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  Speaker 3: Heard it backup, but he did that, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: this this is going to be something for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So now, how much did Waylon Jennings play in your
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  Speaker 1: creation of sound? Because I mean when when Norman I
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  Speaker 1: first checked out your music, I'm going, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: this has got a Waylon Jennings kind of a vibe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well Waylon Jennings is my dad's favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, I have there.
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  Speaker 3: I have every one of every one of Whalan's Violyl
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  Speaker 3: records un Vinyl, you know there were my dads my
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  Speaker 3: room dat he handed them down, so I have all those.
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  Speaker 3: Good part of Woman was my mom and dad's wedding song.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, Whylan is a huge part of my life
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  Speaker 3: for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So I know one of the festivals that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be performing at this year is the uh Southern
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  Speaker 1: Rock Thunder. I mean, how do you prep for something
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  Speaker 1: like that when you've got so many other bands around you?
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  Speaker 1: What are you gonna do that's gonna stick out?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're gonna do all of our stuff like we do.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy. We're gonna completely, you know, do our own thing.
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  Speaker 3: And of course we can't do any covers because we
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  Speaker 3: do some skinnered stuff like that, so we can't do
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  Speaker 3: anything of those other tribute bands too.
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  Speaker 2: But so we're gonna do our own thing. We're gon,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna go out there player our best.
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  Speaker 3: We're starting it off too, so you know, we get
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  Speaker 3: to set everything up for the rest of the night
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  Speaker 3: for the show, and we're pretty excited about it. We
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  Speaker 3: played with both these bands before one other time last
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  Speaker 3: year and it just went offerting.
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  Speaker 2: Well, everybody dug it, and we know all of our
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  Speaker 2: styles together, it's kind of a perfect mix.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: You got with us with the acoustic, you know.
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  Speaker 3: The Americana like outlaw country field into the skinner stuff
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  Speaker 3: and then those guys.
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  Speaker 2: From Beer Drinkers and Hair Raisers is.
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  Speaker 3: An amazing Zzy Took tribute band and they're so good
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  Speaker 3: and it kind of just ends evening perfectly.
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  Speaker 4: Now you're with Valley Fire Records. Are they going to
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  Speaker 4: be putting a camera crew with you? Are they going
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  Speaker 4: to be trying to really capitalize on the things that
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  Speaker 4: you do live, because really we're in an age of
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  Speaker 4: going viral. I mean, I'd love to pass these videos
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  Speaker 4: onto people that I know so they can hear your sound.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's the way things travel today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I think JJ is hiring
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  Speaker 3: a guy to come out with us for at least
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  Speaker 3: a couple of these shows for sure. The first team
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  Speaker 3: we got going on is we're playing down at the
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  Speaker 3: Garden Amphitheater and Garden Grom and then at the Remote.
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  Speaker 2: Main stage, And I think he's got a guy coming
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  Speaker 2: for that to do all that.
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  Speaker 3: And then also a Valley and Fire Records is getting
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  Speaker 3: ready to put together a compilation record, which I think
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  Speaker 3: Crazy is going to be on that too, So we're
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  Speaker 3: pretty excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: So who is the social media guru on your team?
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  Speaker 1: Because man, you do it well real well, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, and I got to give that to JJ. So
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  Speaker 3: JJ is our drummer. Also he's our manager. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he manages a lot of other bands as well, so.
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  Speaker 2: It kind of we're kind of lucky to have him.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Not only is he a great drummer, but he's he
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  Speaker 3: knows the music is it's inside.
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  Speaker 2: And now he's only gets all of our shows.
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  Speaker 3: He's part owner of the Valley Fire Records, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so he does a lot when it comes when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to getting the good shows for us and get
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  Speaker 3: us into the right direction.
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  Speaker 6: So what are your socials so we know where we
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  Speaker 6: can listen to Catfish and learn more about the band.
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  Speaker 2: So we have for Facebook is captures with a K.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're the only ones with the K yep.
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  Speaker 3: And then and then also Instagram, we got Catfish Underscore Acoustic.
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  Speaker 3: There's our Instagram page, and I believe we have a TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry if I don't know that. I don't shoot.
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  Speaker 3: JJ's always posting stuff on TikTok, but I believe.
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  Speaker 2: We have a TikTok page.
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  Speaker 3: But also JJ Garcia on TikTok, he both posts nothing
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  Speaker 3: but captures stuff.
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  Speaker 2: On there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think that crazy is going to kind of
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  Speaker 1: cross that line the way he did back in the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen nineties, in the way of connecting adult top forty
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  Speaker 1: to Top forty, to classic rock to new rock. I
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  Speaker 1: can just hear this song on all four of those formats.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we've we've had played on several radio stations
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  Speaker 3: from from.
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  Speaker 2: A hard rock station to you know, the country is.
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  Speaker 3: A country station. So that's what we're pretty excited. You
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  Speaker 3: know what made me happy the post is I have
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  Speaker 3: two teenage daughters.
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  Speaker 2: And when that's all came out, my daughter.
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  Speaker 3: My oldest daughter, who actually just joined the Navy, she said, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's really good. So and after the music I hear
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  Speaker 3: heard listen to, you know, which is completely out of
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  Speaker 3: the realm that I used to play in or listen to,
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  Speaker 3: I was pretty excited that somebody in her age actually
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  Speaker 3: dug that song.
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  Speaker 1: One of the influences that I in listening to it
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  Speaker 1: and watching the videos is the fact that there are
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  Speaker 1: times that I feel like that I'm watching the birth
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  Speaker 1: of a new Eagles or and there are times that
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Tom Tom Petty. But more importantly, when
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  Speaker 1: you guys are playing and really having fun Dave Matthews
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  Speaker 1: one percent. I mean you guys, are you guys are
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  Speaker 1: showman on that stage?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure. You know. The funny thing is
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  Speaker 2: that that we not. So we try to, like I said.
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  Speaker 3: Keep it like a camp fire, right, So we bring
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  Speaker 3: stools out, we sit like close together. It's kind of
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  Speaker 3: like how Tesla you see ther five man Acouster chamb
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of like that, you know, we kind of
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  Speaker 3: like to be close together. We don't get up and
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  Speaker 3: run around, you know. And and does these real adamant
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  Speaker 3: about that. He goes, I want to make it instant, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I want the people to be into the song,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and with his voice of his vocals, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's not hard to get into.
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  Speaker 1: The song like that when you're performing live. At the
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  Speaker 1: end of the show. One of the things that I
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  Speaker 1: learned way way way back in my early days of radio,
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  Speaker 1: when those country music people came off that stage, they
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  Speaker 1: went into the audience. Do you do that so that
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  Speaker 1: you can build up that that that connection with the fans.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Like especially if we're an opening act, we as soon
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  Speaker 3: as we're done, we get back staves, we clean up,
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  Speaker 3: we'll go out to the to the crowd and watch
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the show as a fan as well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and we talk to.
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  Speaker 2: People, hand out stuff.
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  Speaker 3: We always had merch and you know, get picks to
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  Speaker 3: everybody and do all that stuff. So yeah, we're we're
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  Speaker 3: just as big as fans as we are artists as well.
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  Speaker 6: So I heard you say that your daughter just joined
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  Speaker 6: the Navy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I have a Navy background.
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  Speaker 6: I was married to a military man and we were
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  Speaker 6: stationed out in Cornado. I have a question for you,
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  Speaker 6: because I know that one thing that we enjoyed as
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  Speaker 6: the families, especially when our families were deployed, people would.
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  Speaker 5: Come out and perform.
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  Speaker 6: Would you ever think about performing for the USO and
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  Speaker 6: like performing for the troops.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, for sure. You know, I actually work on
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  Speaker 3: a military installation is.
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  Speaker 2: My day job. So I've been doing it for.
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  Speaker 3: The past twenty six years now, so yeah, and of
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  Speaker 3: course because of my daughter now is in a Navy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very very big into the military, and I would
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that would be an honor to do something
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: like that for sure.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So now what other songs are we going
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: to hear from you? Or this is going to be?
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: Are we talking EP or full album?
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: Here?
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: Well, I think we're going to try to do EP
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: this next year before we do the full album.
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: I have, I have.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: I have a handful of songs. I just gotta you know,
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: I did most like so far.
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: I've been doing all the news writing in and I've
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: been writing some stuff down and uh so you know,
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: I'll give them to Dusty and see fee dig them.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: You know, because that's making easy one. That's kind of
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: the portraying songs.
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: And I know Stevie's written a song for us that
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: we actually listen to.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: What we're done. So I think we're gonna do that
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: one and uh and then.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: We're gonna probably we might, like I said, we're gonna
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: do another color.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: We do a cool cover of gearing back.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: By Bullets by Winard Skinner like it's a whole different
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: vibe than the actual original recording. So we're thinking about
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: doing putting that one on the EP as well.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So then one one of the things that I
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: love about your band is the fact that it's almost
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: like you're that those guys next door and and and
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: and you and you happen to be Hey, we're gonna
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: we're gonna play down here at the Neighborhood Theater. Uh,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: make sure that you know you show up. How do
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: you keep your feet so planted in the ground.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, it's it's just because we are that
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: tide of we're in the band next short where regular people,
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: you know, we'll play like we still play our local
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: bars from our own home chapel.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: We'll go to the place and play in a place
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: that has, you know, a capabilion like fifty people.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: You know, sit in the corner and play. Or we'll
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: go out and play something like the the you know,
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: the Garden Girlanthe or something like that. They hold to
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: a lot of people. So we don't play anywhere. I
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: mean even we'll play in somebody backyard.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: And they asked the team.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: We have a lot of good friends that have been
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: listening to it for like I said, me and Dusty
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: have been doing this for over twenty years now, so
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: we'll still go to our friend's house and play shows.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: And they asked us to.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Wow, Well, of course, we live in this Spotify generation.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Everybody's got their own Spotify list. Have you come across
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: somebody's Spotify list and it's like, holy crap, that's my
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: band on there. They picked us to put on that list,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's kind of cool.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: So you know, it's kind of funny because there's a
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: band that I really did and I've just got into
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: them and it's and I'm sad that I got into
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: it too late because they're not even together anymore. But
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: it's a band called uh Bishop Gunn and they kind
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: of what.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I was listening to them the other day.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I was like, these guys are That's That's how I
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: feel like our sound is a lot like there's also
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: BlackBerry Smoke, you know, I think the influence on us,
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: So it's kind of that whole vibe is where we're
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: you know, I feel like we get right into that.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: And so it's kind of cool.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: But I do listen to Spotify or I like, you know,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: somebody will say, hey, you know what's your You know,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: let us know what your song is a Spotify.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: I'll send you a link and it'll save my Spotify and.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Then it'll play songs like Catface and those songs start
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: coming up.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: It makes me feel pretty good.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Actually, Yeah, So, now whose house has the studio where
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: everybody's dropping their tracks at my house?
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah right, I'm stating there right now talking to you
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: guys on my on my mixing and everything with the
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: headphones and my microphone and everything.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what that means, Tommy. That means
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: you're waking up at two o'clock in the morning because
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: you just got an idea.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: So you guys are obviously destined for more. I mean,
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: you love the music. We see that you're playing for
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: your for your core fans, and you're moving into these festivals.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Let's let's see you a few years down the road.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Ticket prices. Are you going Taylor Swift style? Are you
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: gonna keep it real for the for the working people
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: with twenty dollars tickets?
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: If we ever get a dig I'm gonna be like
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: how shit rocked in it? A couple of years ago,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: when you did the twenty dollars every ticket.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, because I want my kids to see
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: at least one one concert in their lifetime.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So twenty dollars and five five dollars drinks.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: That's how perfect you're a good man. So the Willie
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Nelson and Bob Dylan announced their Outlaw Festival a concert tour,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what I mean. I looked at
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: my wife and I said, if this band does not
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: get on that next year, I swear to god, something's wrong,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: because you guys need to be on that tour.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: That would be that would be awesome to do that
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: for sure. Like we're a huge really bands you know,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: of course we got to be, for we client it.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: We're you know, out longside of the country band.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: You've got to be a huge really now saying we
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: know way Land, Johnny Cash, all that stuff. So we're
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: if we've got on something like that, it would be
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: a dream come true for sure.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Well, what are you going to do if country music
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: steals you? I mean, in other words, puts you on there,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: you know, on a bigger rotation. I mean, because I mean,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: because that's how the Outlaw Music even got on it
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: was country music that adopted them, Yeah.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: For sure. And and a lot of stuff now.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: To me, a lot of the stuff that I hear now,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: for example, BlackBerry Spot. Yeah, you can hear them on
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: a natural country station, or you can hear them on
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: our local.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Rock and roll station.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: You know, so I kind of want that's how we
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: kind of think we fall into we can be on
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: both sides.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Yeap music is definitely stretching and there's room for everybody
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: to fit in and bring their own style. I think
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: you guys have an amazing sound.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: So one more time, where can people go to find
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: out more about Catfish with a K?
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Cat Rich WEK. So we are on Facebook. That's where
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: we post all of our you know, our our.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Dates, also Catfish Underscore Acoustic, Instagram, all of our stuff.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: We're posting him keep it up to date. JJ is
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: really on it, you know, he's we got a good.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Graphic design guy, and uh, you know, so we're always posting.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Stuff on there.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: We we got to set up in a follow up
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: conversation because I mean, I'm either either you tell Jody
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: that we need to do this, or I'll tell Jody
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: we got it. We got it, We got to keep
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: in touch with you so we can help spread the love.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, I appreciate it. Yeah, we will for sure.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Excellent. Well man, please come back to this show anytime
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: in the future.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, I will for sure. Man, thank you so much.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, I appreciate it.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: By guy, I don't know where the sound went.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: That was it not there earlier?
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Him on the speaker there.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Wow, it's and wow.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I'm like, is that coming out of his headset?
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Because yeah, I don't know what I'm sitting here wondering
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: if it didn't shut off like, no, that's that was
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: turning off wo. No, that wasn't Okay, that's what it was.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Let's try it again.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Your normal audio.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it did tring this down. So yeah, I mean
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I have no ice talking yours test Test one two.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know, guys.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: It was when the call experienced and were just meant
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: to just keep something happened when the call picked up?
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Oh when it did, yeah, because the phone hooked up
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: to that. But I turned off the bluetooth and and
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: so so I so maybe when I turned it off
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: here it turned it off there.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was trying to connect and you killed it. Yep,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: it may have severed that.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Wow, but I mean I.
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: Would think it would prioritize the hard wire.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, weird, Yeah, damn it. And and the worst thing
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: is we have plugs here. I wonder why. I guess
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: we should have gone and got the plugs. So yeah,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: all right, what'd you pick up on it? This is
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: this was your second one, this is his tenth fifteenth. Wow,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: so much drama. Holy Cow. Coming up next, Karen Lee Cohen. Hey,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: thanks for coming back to my day of play. Let's
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: get in there with author and motivator Karen Lee Cohen.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Karen. How are you?
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: I'm wonderful. How are you?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Heero?
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: I don't get to see you.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Huh hey.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: You know, radio people, we're not really here. We're non existent.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: It's just a voice that's, you know, kind of blowing
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: in the wind.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Well, I wanted you to see me because I've got
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: this beautiful background for the book.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it is. It's absolutely fantastic. And you
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: know what it really does kind of invite Yeah, it
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: invites the piece right into it. There we go.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I love the background that you've got there, because you know,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: your book is about peace, and it really does promote peace.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: What kind of thought went into the blending of those colors?
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: Oh wow, Well, I work with a designer who's actually
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: one of the contributors in the book. Her name is
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Kelly Rats laugh and she created the logo, which is
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: the little guy in the top. And then we just
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: started talking about you know, what piece means to us,
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: and and she came up, came up with the colors.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: So we'll give her all Reddit. But I love it.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: One of the things that I noticed right away was
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the color yellow inside or.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: You're fading in and out arrow. I just lost you
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: again that the.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Cover, the cover of the book is, uh, it's got yellow.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: What about now? Hello?
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Nope, not hearing you?
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Can you hear me?
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah? You just you kind of popped in and out again?
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's kind of crazy? All right? How about that
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: you use the color yellow on the cover.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Very very I can't hear you. Silence on your end.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: Let me get my phone number in case the.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Higher Hey, how are you? Can you hear me?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Now yeah, I can can you hear me? Okay?
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: I picked it up on my computer, not my phone.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: So I just want to make sure, it's yeah, it's
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: getting good sound.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: It sounds really good.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: What it is is that the i'm it's zoom sometimes
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: can be a painted the butt with the signal and
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: stuff like that. When it comes to the internet.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: I understand. Yeah, I've had pretty I've had pretty good
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: luck with it. But it's yeah, it's it's ketches, catch
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: can and with all the well, all the what's going
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: on with the atmosphere, there's more more technological issues for
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: more people. It's said, I get it.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. You use the color yellow wisely on that book cover.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I was very inspired by it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Oh interesting, tell me what that means to you.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Well, the one thing that will the one thing that
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I have learned about the color yellow is that it's
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: a power word. It also is a very positive word.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: It invites growth because you look at the sunshine. We
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: always use yellow for the sunshine, and so and Julia
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Cameron always had us do different things in the artist
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: way that dealt with the color yellow, and so it
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: became a very powerful, right, very powerful thing.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. Well, that's why I'm very grateful to I have
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: to give Kelly the credit. She You know, my colors
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: are are usually shape shades, of purple and violet. Yeah,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: and and she added the yellow gold depending on depending
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: on what your computer shows. It's kind of in the
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: book itself, it kind of looks more like a gold.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: But yeah, it is a powerful you know, it's this
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: book has been such a journey of miracles of everything
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: that's supposed to come together does.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: So.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: I'm glad you appreciate the cover. It's just another one
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: of them miracles of how this book goes together.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: The name of the book is Let's Be Peace. And
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, what's really unique about this is that when
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I hear that word piece, I instantly I start thinking pieces.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: In order to find peace, you've got to have pieces
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: that you can put together.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Interesting, Okay, I have never thought of it. I have
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: never thought of that way because the the Let's be
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: Piece theme is about being piece inside and in within,
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: And is that putting pieces together? Well kind of, it's
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: kind of knowing yourself. It's kind it's being And as
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: you know, the book theme is that when we are peaceful,
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: we will be more healthy, and when we are healthy,
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: we will be more peaceful. So the home messages ways
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: to find peace within and the book system that when
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: we are peaceful, one person at a time, we will
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: create peace in the world. You like us individually.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I like that. That's like, you know, before there can
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: be a tree, there has to be a seed, there
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: has to be water, there has to be the sunshine,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: before there could be paper for the poet to write.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: He's got to have that tree and build a relationship
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: with it. So you you believe in the power of
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: continuation exactly.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: That's that's exactly what it's all about.
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: That.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: It's one of the things that I hope your listeners
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: get is that it really is. It's it's not some
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: what you have to do is what it's going inside
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: and finding ways to create peace for yourself, which we offer.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: If you go to the website, let's vpiece dot com,
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: there's a you can just download the tips and how
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: to be peace inside. And it really it sounds like
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: it's it's it's a it could be difficult, but you know,
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: it's one thing at a time. It's about breathing, it's
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: about not being judgmental. It's which which is not easy.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: It's about forgiveness that we have like eleven or eleven
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: tips that that you can you can download. But it's
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: one of the things that I hope people take away
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: from the book and the movement because also this Kelly
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: who who did who did the did the cover? When
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: when I first almost two years ago, told her that
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: I was doing the book, She's like, Karen, this is
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: more than a book. It's a movement. And from that
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: moment on it became a movement. It was like, okay,
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: you know and and and it's it's me understanding that
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: my purpose on this planet. Took me seven decades to
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: figure it out, but it's to help spread peace and
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: anything I can do to help people find their way
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: to their personal piece.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: One of the things that you that you do so
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: so brilliantly is the way that you speak with your writing.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: It's like you're speaking to that reader one on one,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: like we're like we're sharing a conversation now. And plus
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: you use the word wi. I love that word wi.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: That means us, that means we're in this together.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, Thank you so much for pointing that out, Erro, Yes,
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: that is that is how I write. Yeah, I write
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: to the uh to to the reader, and and it
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: is it is one person at a time, and we're
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: we're going to spread peace. In the world, one person
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: at a time. And it's it's it's a matter of
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: being piece. It's not doing anything necessarily. It's not going
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: out in marching, which you can do, but you can
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: be piece and you can spread piece by just being you.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: When you when you speak like that, you remind me
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: so much of Tick not Haunt, who I have read
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and studied and and and just learn from. So am
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I speaking of somebody you know?
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: Well, well I know, but I'm I'm holding my heart
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: to compliment his way more than I can accept. But yes,
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: what a wonderful master he is.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Absolutely The book opens up with a meditation. I think
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I thought that was such a brilliant move because so
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: many times people will put those you know, at the
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: end of a chapter, or they'll put it at the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: end of a book, but you actually begin it.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's something that that seem to me. Quite a
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: while ago, I was I have my first book, It's
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: about Time, my award winning adventure, which you were wonderful
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: enough to interview me for that too. In the I
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: had a bookmark with that that had that quote, and
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: I knew and I kept you know, so I looked
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  Speaker 5: at it a lot and I knew that that was
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  Speaker 5: the way I wanted to start the book. I wanted
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  Speaker 5: people to know that that peaceful quote, so thank you
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  Speaker 5: for you are always so thoroughly our Oh thank.
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  Speaker 1: You for coaching people isn't a middle crisis thing. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you you know, we we actually should start in middle
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  Speaker 1: school or even even you know, younger than that.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, but you know, some of us naturally do that,
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  Speaker 5: and some parents and I'm sure naturally do that. And
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  Speaker 5: it would it would be wonderful if more educational groups
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  Speaker 5: would would talk about peace, what would coach children and
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  Speaker 5: how how wonderful their health and wellness is and how
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  Speaker 5: how important it is. And some of that's being done
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  Speaker 5: in some in some schools, but certainly not not everywhere.
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  Speaker 5: So the more we can do it ourselves. And I
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  Speaker 5: think that's what this time is about.
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  Speaker 1: Arrow.
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  Speaker 5: I think we're at a time where it's really about
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  Speaker 5: us understanding how powerful we are, how much we are
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  Speaker 5: able to heal ourselves and to take care of ourselves,
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  Speaker 5: and to own own who we are, own why we
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  Speaker 5: came to this planet and why we are here, and
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  Speaker 5: that we have great healing powers. I mean, I certainly
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  Speaker 5: believe in the Eastern and the Western medical systems. But
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  Speaker 5: as we point out in the book, it's important to
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  Speaker 5: take that information and use what feels right. I call
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  Speaker 5: it your internal GPS system.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely pay attention to that. You and I have
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  Speaker 1: something in common, you know, the workplace, motivating those that
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  Speaker 1: are around us. We're not being bossy, we're not doing
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  Speaker 1: anything like that. But the problem is a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people don't understand what motivation is, so they run to
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  Speaker 1: HR saying that we're trying to spread our poison. Did
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: you ever deal with anything like that where HR came
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  Speaker 1: knocking on your door?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 1: Wow, lucky you, lucky you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I really didn't, even when I was at
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: NBC all those years, and that's probably the only time
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  Speaker 5: that I that HR was apart. But I didn't you
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  Speaker 5: know that that was quite a while ago. And I
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  Speaker 5: even though I was considered I had an e collective personality.
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  Speaker 5: My general managers to used to say, but nobody really
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  Speaker 5: challenged that. And it wasn't like I was demanding I
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  Speaker 5: just I just spoke my truth and some people appreciate
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  Speaker 5: it and some didn't, But nobody really took offense. As
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  Speaker 5: far as I know.
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  Speaker 1: When you teach someone to open up their heart to exploration.
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  Speaker 1: That means that you've had you've been on that journey,
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  Speaker 1: you understand what it's required. Now we have to figure
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  Speaker 1: out how we're going to get other people to do
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  Speaker 1: the same with their seeds.
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  Speaker 5: And to me, it's it's nobody can do it for
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  Speaker 5: anybody else. It's it's it's about us doing it for
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  Speaker 5: ourselves and anything I can do and you can do
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  Speaker 5: to open people up to know that, to know how
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  Speaker 5: powerful we are and how gifted we are, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: and there are there are so many things we can
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  Speaker 5: do to help ourselves and in turn help others. It's
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: it's not about banging any drums. It's is I believe,
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  Speaker 5: it's about achieving peace within. And the book has a
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  Speaker 5: tremendous amount of alternative and complimentary health ideas for people.
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  Speaker 5: And when what I did was I interviewed these twenty
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  Speaker 5: extraordinary people and I'm the next book is going to
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: be called Let's Be Joy and another twenty extraordinary people.
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  Speaker 5: But I interviewed them and the only thing that I
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  Speaker 5: required was the answer the question what does Let's be
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  Speaker 5: Peace mean to you? And so everybody doesn't in the book,
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: And then and then I asked questions about the modality
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: and what it is and how people can apply it
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: and where they can get that information for themselves. For
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: a long time, my goal has been to open people
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  Speaker 5: up to the compliment an alternative and functional medicine fields,
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  Speaker 5: so they just know that there's a lot of alternatives
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  Speaker 5: out there. I'm not preaching for anybody to do anything specific,
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  Speaker 5: but just know that there are a lot of opportunities
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  Speaker 5: out there for you to achieve your wellness. And you know,
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: I call them teammates that I go to my teammates,
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: including the medical people.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Now with you being promoting blogging and you having these
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: books and you sharing the message, one thing that people
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: don't realize is that that actually podcasting started with bloggers
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: as well as authors. It didn't start with comedians, and
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: it didn't start with musicians. So now I have to
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: ask you, are you going to lift this up into
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: your own podcast and reach people that way?
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: Yes, I am you are. Yeah, yeah, I haven't quite
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: put it all together how I'm going to do that,
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  Speaker 5: but that it will definitely listen. Peace will definitely be
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: a podcast. I have started a YouTube channel, but there's
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  Speaker 5: no content on it. It's just the WESBI YouTube channel.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, I definitely plan on doing it. I just
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: have to figure out the best way to do it
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  Speaker 5: and the technological part, which is not my greatest strength.
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  Speaker 5: But as soon as I do that, I mean the
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: first twenty shows will be the twenty people in the book.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: And the other thing that I hope to do, and
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: I'm quite figured out how I'm going to do it,
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: is I want to have a monthly meeting for people
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  Speaker 5: to come and just talk peace. And I don't know
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: whether that's going to be Facebook Live or Instagram live
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: or on the YouTube channel, but I want a safe
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: place for people to come and they can come and
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: honestly and just talk about peace, talk what peace means
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  Speaker 5: to them and how we can spread peace in the world.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Oh I love where your heart is. Where can people
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: go to find out more about you and to get
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: their hands on this book?
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  Speaker 5: Thank you? Let's Be Peace dot com and there's a
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: link to the It's it's on Amazon. You can just
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: go Let's Be Peace Karen Lee Cone on Amazon, or
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: go to our website which is Let's beepeace dot com
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  Speaker 5: and there's just sign up and you can get the
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: you can download the PDF of tips for being for
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: being peace and right there there's a link link to
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  Speaker 5: Amazon if you're interested in buying the book.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Wow, well you've got to come back to this show anytime.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Then you know the door is always going to be
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: open for you.
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  Speaker 5: I thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Well excellent. Will you be brilliant today? Okay, I'll do
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  Speaker 1: my best. Thank you, thank you,