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Art vs Life with Georgia · BTG For President

• 0:00
  Speaker A: County coming from the city where no pity is. Shell. Shell. Somebody needs to do a song for LA, straight up.
• 0:13
  Speaker B: Hello, my name is Elaine, and I'll be your tour guide through south central Los Angeles.
• 0:19
  Speaker A: Count my dough and smoke up.
• 0:21
  Speaker B: I'm from California.
• 0:22
  Speaker A: Where you from? So what?
• 0:24
  Speaker B: California. California.
• 0:28
  Speaker A: This is Los Angeles.
• 0:30
  Speaker B: Where are we going? Westward house.
• 0:33
  Speaker A: You should be getting paid for you. You should be getting paid for yourself.
• 0:40
  Speaker B: I agree. Praise the Lord. Thank you.
• 0:43
  Speaker A: We need to be on that path. I said to myself last night, I said, we need to do an episode together. Why? Because we got something in common.
• 0:56
  Speaker B: What is that?
• 0:57
  Speaker A: We love art.
• 1:00
  Speaker B: Yes, we do.
• 1:02
  Speaker A: And I've been watching. See, this is what a lot of people don't tell each other is that we watch more than you think we do.
• 1:15
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 1:15
  Speaker A: Right now, some people might watch for other different reason. Some people might be watching the hate. Right.
• 1:24
  Speaker B: Right.
• 1:25
  Speaker A: And that's cool because all eyes is cool. Now, we don't necessarily like that energy over here, but I feel like you have authentic artist vibes. And what that mean is, as a creator, I'm sure you can understand that. There's times where you just don't know what to create. Sometimes you have an urge to make something and you just don't know what it is.
• 1:58
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 2:01
  Speaker A: Then there's times what I've seen by you. You just started posting all kinds of art pieces. You must have been set tripping that night.
• 2:14
  Speaker B: Oh, man, that is so true. I am the most random person.
• 2:19
  Speaker A: Yeah. Now, I want to start with the origin story, right?
• 2:25
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 2:26
  Speaker A: I want to start with the origin story of how you became an artist.
• 2:34
  Speaker B: Okay? So when I was a kid, I used to draw and color and coloring books all the time.
• 2:40
  Speaker A: Shout out to those coloring books. You got to give me your top two coloring books right now. I'm going to tell you one of mine. What was her name? Was it light bright?
• 2:51
  Speaker B: Oh, light bright. Okay.
• 2:52
  Speaker A: Yeah, light bright. Hair bears. Don't play with me.
• 2:57
  Speaker B: I had Alvin and Simon theater. I had a chipmunks one, and I had a ducktails one.
• 3:02
  Speaker A: I see where you went. Because those are classic cartoons.
• 3:05
  Speaker B: Yes, those are the ones I had. And the only reason why I remember is because my father kept them. And so he gave them to me about a couple of years ago. He gave me about five of them. So I had them, and I used to color and draw and doodle in my notebooks at school all the time. My mind would drift off in class and I'd just start doodling. And then fast forward to 2020 when we had COVID. And we were locked in the house. Me and my husband, we were watching a sermon on television, and the pastor used a painting as a prop. And I heard my husband say. He was like, I think I might want to start painting. So I said, okay. I locked it away, and I said I might pick up some stuff. So one day I went to Walmart, and I picked some painted materials. I brought it home, and I was like, here, babe. He was like, well, what is that? And I was like, you said you might want to paint one day. He was like, no, I didn't. And I was like, yes, you did. Because otherwise I wouldn't have picked it up. But I said, it's going to get used. And so I ended up painting, and I have not stopped since. Wow, that was October 2020.
• 4:02
  Speaker A: Yeah, October. That was during the pandemic, right?
• 4:05
  Speaker B: Yeah, October 2020.
• 4:07
  Speaker A: Okay, so guess what? I started my merch or learning how to make merch. March 2020.
• 4:17
  Speaker B: That was right when COVID happened.
• 4:19
  Speaker A: Yeah. I bought the cricket for my wife. It wasn't even for me, so it was kind of like the same thing. We got similar origin stories. It's just that I got into it a little bit more than her.
• 4:38
  Speaker B: A lot more.
• 4:41
  Speaker A: That's dope.
• 4:42
  Speaker B: And I have a cricut, too. But you know what? I had it for, like, a year or so before I took it out the box. And then finally when we moved here into our home, I took it out the box, and it's on the dresser, but I just do not know where to start with it because my husband's been wanting to make t shirts.
• 4:57
  Speaker A: Man, I was going to wait to bring him up at the end because I know he's a big 49. Yeah, I was going to talk about that towards the end because I was definitely rooting for you all. We'll get to that. But I'm happy for that. I'm happy because my homegirl, Britt, we just literally finished recording this show. She got into cricketing and making mugs and glasses and tumblers and stuff like that. So I'm glad everybody is. Look, I do not want to keep the recipe from everybody. I want everybody to figure out a lane to make extra money or to just. I think you could understand where I'm coming from, where I say some of this stuff is just therapy.
• 5:47
  Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, my gosh. That's 80% of what it is for me. Oh, my gosh. Because that's why I fell in love with it, because it's the one thing that I can do where I just lose sense of time. I'll be sitting there painting, and before you know it, one 203:00 in the morning. When I get done, it's like I come back to myself, and it's like, wow, did I do that?
• 6:06
  Speaker A: Yeah. Have you ever painted out of pain?
• 6:10
  Speaker B: Out of pain? Yes, actually, I did one. Yes. So when we first moved into our house, I think I posted about this briefly, but our house flooded the first night we moved.
• 6:22
  Speaker A: I remember that. I follow you.
• 6:23
  Speaker B: Yeah, we had a flood, so our whole first floor was gutted out. We stayed in here with a gutted out first floor for, like, six months, and I painted out of that pain. And then currently, my family is acting a little special, so I painted a piece about my family. It's called 70 times 70, because they need to learn how to forgive.
• 6:44
  Speaker A: Whoa, that's heavy.
• 6:47
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 6:50
  Speaker A: What's the largest piece you've ever painted?
• 6:53
  Speaker B: So the largest piece I ever painted was actually a practice piece somewhat, and it was for an individual who did not pay me for it. It's a huge piece. It's a woman with a crown. It's more of an african piece. And she has this neck. I put this neck garment on her to change it from the original. But the girl gave me a picture of something, a reference, and she was like, yeah, once you're done with it, let me know and I'll pay you. I was done with it three months later.
• 7:25
  Speaker A: Damn.
• 7:26
  Speaker B: Yeah. Three months later, she still hadn't called me about it. Then finally one day, she called me out the blue, and she was like, I'm ready for it now. I was like, oh, I'm sorry, it's no longer for sale because I was going to charge her much cheaper than what it was actually worth. And all the time it took me months to finish that painting.
• 7:42
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 7:43
  Speaker B: And so I kind of realized, I was like, no, I'm not going to sell it to you now. The price has gone up.
• 7:49
  Speaker A: Yeah. In a situation where when we're dealing with art like this, especially painting, that time is money.
• 8:00
  Speaker B: Yes, it is.
• 8:01
  Speaker A: Especially when you have in a relationship or you marry, got a family, whatever the case may be, we already know how difficult it is to split the time between you and your spouse having time for yourself. We got to figure out work and the whole nine. And it's like that little small window, that creative window that we have is not it. Don't be open that long.
• 8:27
  Speaker B: No, it's not.
• 8:28
  Speaker A: So to take three months to create a masterpiece like that, and then you pop up later, it's like, and I've had a couple of people run off on me, too, saying that they want this, that, and the third. And I jumped ahead of the gun and said, all right, I'll make the hoodie, or I'll make the crew neck or make the shirt. Then I don't hear nothing. And I'm like.
• 8:52
  Speaker B: I learned my lesson, especially with art. I get a deposit now.
• 8:55
  Speaker A: I like that. I like that. Is there a piece that you feel like you haven't made yet that you feel like that could possibly change around or garner more attention to your content?
• 9:16
  Speaker B: Is there a piece that I have not made yet that I feel like can garner more attention? There's always going to piece that going to be something that I've not created yet. I have so many ideas in my head. I have one that I want to do, which represents peace. Yeah. I don't know how to describe it verbally, but I just let the painting do the describing. But, yeah, I do have art like that.
• 9:49
  Speaker A: Okay. I like that because I got a spin off question that it'll probably help you a little bit more. Where do you get your inspiration from?
• 10:00
  Speaker B: Life situations. Like, if I hear a sermon, I church a lot. I church on Saturday and Sunday, and sometimes I'll get inspired by a sermon, or I'll get inspired by a lyric in a song sometimes. Like I said, my family is going through it. You asked me about pain, so that's kind of been prevalent lately. And so I've been painting, like you said, out of pain a little bit lately. I'm just inspired by life. Or I'll be driving. I'll see a cloud and see a shape or something. I try to take a picture so I can remember it and incorporate it. Then I'm inspired by everything. By life itself.
• 10:41
  Speaker A: Yeah, life itself. We're on the same train. I'm sitting in a different seat, though.
• 10:50
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 10:50
  Speaker A: I get inspired by the people that's no longer here anymore.
• 10:55
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 10:55
  Speaker A: And the reason why is because now at 41, I can understand why they had a large following at the moment and why people looked up to them, why people listened to them, why people watch them on TV. It's not just celebrities. And I try to separate the person from the fame and look directly at their art. So I just finished doing an episode with Britt. Britt. And we talked about MJ and Prince, and we had this ongoing debate, know who's better, et cetera, et cetera. Something that'll never die out. But at the end of the day, I knew the importance of both artists and what they brought to the table. And I just like the human side rather than the popularity side, of course, to not be able to bring those two artists together to make something dynamic, it still bothers me, but I feel like I may not even reach that level. Right. And that's cool because I want to be able to walk in target and nobody recognize me and bother me. But I do feel like having talks with people that in this field, as far as creativity, such as yourself, I think is important. You got something to say?
• 12:30
  Speaker B: Yes, I do. I just want to stop you and say that. You said, I may not even reach that level. I would rather you say, and this is just my opinion, you may not live to see yourself reach that level. I absolutely feel like your art could reach that level. You may not live to see it, but I think it could live on. Absolutely.
• 12:51
  Speaker A: Now that I can appreciate, and that's what I will want to shoot for. Yeah, I want to shoot for that. I don't care about the attention, but I would like to spread my message through merch just like you spread your message through painting.
• 13:09
  Speaker B: Kanye west wants. I think I heard Kanye west once say he wants to be like the man who invented the streetlight, the street light. He's like, nobody knows who invented the streetlight, but everybody knows about the streetlight, the red, yellow, and green light. He was like, that's going to be a thing for as long as we're driving.
• 13:29
  Speaker A: That's a fact.
• 13:29
  Speaker B: And it has been. He was like, nobody remembers who he is, but they remember what he created.
• 13:33
  Speaker A: Yeah. And I think that's where I want to go. I've always said that the merch that I've made mostly is just something to start a conversation. It's nothing too crazy. It's not like it's some type of expensive type of clothing. It's not in the Gucci or Louis Vuitton al or anything like that. But I do like when I see people wearing my merch and things like that shout out to stone. Stone is probably my number one customer. So it's good to see randomly waking up or throughout the day, somebody tag you and say, hey, appreciate this shirt that you made, or appreciate this hoodie that you made for me. But I also am a huge fan of pictures and the picture frames that's surrounding it. And so another reason why I wanted to bring you on the show is we got to talk. We got to do a.
• 14:43
  Speaker B: Like, I.
• 14:44
  Speaker A: Feel like we need to do a collaboration because I can't sit up there and say, man, I really wish I got to see two of the top artists of my time and prince and MJ dominate in that lane, but wasn't able to come together and create something. So I'm like, I need to create something with other people.
• 15:09
  Speaker B: Right? Dope. Yeah. I like that idea.
• 15:12
  Speaker A: Now, look, I don't know exactly what it is, but I just know it's just art. We got to figure out something. I almost feel like we come up with a concept, you paint it out, and I want to be able to put it on my merch.
• 15:35
  Speaker B: I was just thinking that. I was just thinking that. Yeah, I was just thinking that. Let me just take this time to say when you were saying that you like pictures, you're really consistent. Very consistent. And you're consistently getting better at your visuals.
• 15:52
  Speaker A: Yeah, I think. Thank you.
• 15:53
  Speaker B: The music and the visuals that you.
• 15:56
  Speaker A: Put together, nobody ever points that out.
• 16:01
  Speaker B: Oh, I noticed. Like you said, we've been watching.
• 16:04
  Speaker A: I'll be trying to match the music with the art.
• 16:09
  Speaker B: It goes well, my friend.
• 16:12
  Speaker A: I appreciate that. Now, when it comes to painting.
• 16:18
  Speaker B: Do.
• 16:18
  Speaker A: You have a pet peeve when it comes to trying to put things together, stuff that just doesn't work out for you?
• 16:28
  Speaker B: I'm not that good at abstract art, so I always have to draw things out because my brain is just so, like, I don't know, structured. Like, I like lines and straight lines. And if it's going to be circles, then it has to be almost a perfect circle. Like, I have to force myself to free myself and lose that inhibition of so much structure when it comes to trying to do abstract art. And it's almost a metaphor for how I am as a person. Like, I'm silly. I'm goofy in a certain ways. Okay, so let me just use the zodiac signs. I'm a Sagittarius. I'm on a cusp. I'm December 21.
• 17:11
  Speaker A: We are neighbors.
• 17:13
  Speaker B: Yes, we are. I am a Sagittarius. Right. But I present myself as a Capricorn.
• 17:20
  Speaker A: Okay.
• 17:20
  Speaker B: Capricorns are very structured, very put together, very about their business, which I am. But sometimes that translates through my art, and sometimes I just want to be wild and crazy with abstract. So that's something that kind of frustrates me because I have to kind of lose that inhibition.
• 17:37
  Speaker A: So you telling everybody that you're a Sagittarius with Capricorn ways, I present myself as a capricorn.
• 17:44
  Speaker B: So when you see me, you see me all put together. But when you really get to know me, you'd be like, this girl is a nut. She is crazy.
• 17:56
  Speaker A: Okay. All right. I like that with me is I can't stick with one idea.
• 18:06
  Speaker B: Me too.
• 18:08
  Speaker A: It bothers me, but I don't want to change it. I'm going to tell you this little secret. I don't necessarily like doing things over again. I don't like repeating what I did. I'm okay with doing it. If someone asks, yo, can I get this? Can I get. You made this one? Can I make that?
• 18:32
  Speaker B: Oh, okay. I see what you're saying.
• 18:34
  Speaker A: Yeah. I like making one of one. It's not being lazy, it's just that in my head I feel like I want you to feel special.
• 18:45
  Speaker B: And that actually, to me, makes the piece more valuable because it's a one of one.
• 18:51
  Speaker A: Yeah. I tell people that I was like, man, I want to make a shirt for you or a sweater for you, and nobody else has it. And then some people will come back and say, look, my coworker or my brother seen this or my sister seen this, and she said she want the same thing in this. And I'm like, nah, I don't want to go against my word. Now. I have done it. In certain cases, I have done it, but I really don't like doing it. I really like just making one piece and just saying, here.
• 19:24
  Speaker B: Yeah, I think that's the way to go. That could be like your thing, because I don't know many people who are doing that.
• 19:30
  Speaker A: Yeah, well, I mean, we don't figure.
• 19:32
  Speaker B: The only thing that can be the same on it is your tag.
• 19:35
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 19:35
  Speaker B: Like on the neck. Yeah.
• 19:37
  Speaker A: That's a fact. That's a fact. Now we got to help each other out with this one.
• 19:41
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 19:42
  Speaker A: I want you to give me some advice or some pointers or even an idea. One of the three, or all three, and I'll do the same for you in your lane. If you need some time, I can go first.
• 20:00
  Speaker B: Please go first.
• 20:02
  Speaker A: Okay. I would suggest, right, yes. That you make a painting out of nowhere. Right. Just one of those nights that gets you. You know how it is. Sometimes it's the midnight. It's the midnight candle that be up. You know what I'm saying? Hubby sleep knocked out. And your dog is just there. He chilling, not barking, just laying down. Like, look, you going to be in here painting, I'm going to be right here chilling because the vibe is here. You got your playlist in the background. It's down enough to where it's not going to wake him up, but it's up enough to keep you motivated to keep painting. You can't go to sleep. You don't feel like binge watching anything. Right. And you is just one of those nights. And I just want you to put something together, and I want you to give it to somebody in public.
• 21:06
  Speaker B: Oh, wow. Okay. That is not difficult. That's not difficult. It is doable. Oh, man. Now, the selfish part of the artist is like, oh, but give it to somebody. Okay, I can do that. I can do that.
• 21:28
  Speaker A: Yeah. And it could be any. I don't want to put that type of pressure where I say, no pressure.
• 21:33
  Speaker B: That's just me being a brat. That's okay. That's not a pressure. That's no pressure. It's a good idea. I appreciate a challenge.
• 21:42
  Speaker A: Yeah.
• 21:45
  Speaker B: Advice for you. Pointers. Advice, or really, Baylor, all I could tell you to do is keep up the good work. I like what you're doing. I'm a fan from afar. I'm in the bleachers just watching.
• 22:00
  Speaker A: You're on the sideline. You got sideline passes. I never do that. I never put you on the bleachers. You'll be on the sideline. You right there. Because if I need a sub, I need somebody to come in. Hey, she got it. She'll take over.
• 22:14
  Speaker B: No. Okay, so you gave me basically a dare. Let's see.
• 22:26
  Speaker A: I'm trying to save this world, like, one thing at a time, whether it's my playlist or merch, I'm trying to save this world some way, somehow. I need to build a team. I'm not the captain. I'm just one of the dominant pieces. I need to know what I need help with, though, or what I could upgrade.
• 22:48
  Speaker B: What you can upgrade? Well, here's my suggestion. It's similar to what you just told me, though. Make a hoodie or hoodie. Yeah, I would say a hoodie because it's cold. Do what you do on it. Do what you do on it and give it to a homeless person. Oh, give it to a homeless person also. Or put your brand on some socks, because socks are really important, too. And give them to a homeless person.
• 23:24
  Speaker A: You know what? I'm still figuring out the socks thing. I tried a long time ago before. I haven't quite figured it out, because the one thing about socks is when you put them on, it expands.
• 23:39
  Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Okay.
• 23:43
  Speaker A: And there's so many ways it's different, but that means I got to do more research on how to make socks. Now you want to talk about the challenge? That's a challenge. That's a challenge. But it's not a challenge as far as finding someone who's in need of it. I like that one.
• 24:08
  Speaker B: Yeah, that's something that I would do.
• 24:10
  Speaker A: I like that one. I like that one.
• 24:12
  Speaker B: If you say you're trying to help change the world, we may not be able to change the whole world, but individually, we can definitely reach our corner, and that's one way we could do it.
• 24:22
  Speaker A: I like that. Oh, man. Yeah, I'm going to do that one. I'm going to do that one. All right. And when I make it, I'll definitely send you the rough draft before I set it up and get it going and stuff like that. I like that one. I like that one a lot. One last thing before we get out of here, because I'm feeling artsy now. Yeah. I feel like I need to go down here and be doing something right now. How have you been working on your mental health.
• 25:01
  Speaker B: Lately? It's been a little rough because painting is my mental health. What have I been doing to work on my mental health? I paint. I sing a lot around here.
• 25:15
  Speaker A: Vacation.
• 25:17
  Speaker B: We need one. My husband and I definitely need one. We want to take another cruise. So hopefully we're looking at this summer.
• 25:23
  Speaker A: Can I suggest a spot?
• 25:25
  Speaker B: You up here?
• 25:27
  Speaker A: Well, down here.
• 25:29
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 25:30
  Speaker A: Down here? I can only go with what I know. Right. And we recently came back from Santa Barbara last weekend, and when I got there, when we got to the hotel, they had bikes in the. I said, and I was joking around, but I was dead serious. I wanted to do it before I leave. I said, I want to ride bikes before we leave. My wife was like, okay. Went with another married couple. They agreed, but I didn't think they was really listening like that. Then we actually found. The next day, we actually found some bikes, you know, the bikes that they have out on the streets. I'm not sure what the companies are, but these bikes. Yeah, you got to use your car to unlock them. Use them for about. I think we had one for about 30 minutes or something like that.
• 26:28
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 26:29
  Speaker A: And if I'm not mistaken, we rode the bikes for a total of 18 to 20 minutes or something like that. So we still have time to spare. But that 18 minutes of bike riding, we rode the bikes on the beach on the Strand in Santa Barbara, and that probably is a top five memory for me.
• 26:50
  Speaker B: Really?
• 26:51
  Speaker A: Yeah. I'm not going to say that I felt like a kid, but it just felt like it helped with whatever stress I had.
• 27:00
  Speaker B: Oh, dope. Okay.
• 27:01
  Speaker A: Yeah. And it was just riding bikes. Now, my homeboy he was weighing in front. You could tell he was the happiest riding bike because he was waving to everybody. He just waved to everybody. And I understood it. Did I wave? No, because I was trying not to fall.
• 27:23
  Speaker B: I just pictured forest gumbo on his.
• 27:25
  Speaker A: Bike, waving at his bike, literally. That's how it was, though. That's how it was. There's a video that I posted of us riding bike. And you can see this little kid riding his bike right past us. And the little kid waved and almost fell off his bike, but he was waving back at us. Yeah. I would love. Because I'm going to put an episode together about the Santa Barbara trip. I think y'all will love it.
• 27:54
  Speaker B: I think we would, too.
• 27:55
  Speaker A: I think that's up, y'all speed. Not only that, I forgot which exit it was, but it wasn't near the exit. I mean, it wasn't near the area that we was in, because that was my second time being in Santa Barbara. But the first time we went, there were some missions that we could go to. Those were dope.
• 28:13
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 28:14
  Speaker A: I'm not sure if they probably are still there, but we wasn't in that area. We was more in, like, the college area because we went too far from the college. And they have a street called State street out there where it's just a lot of restaurants and bars and stuff. And the speed was very vibe. It was cool. It wasn't too much going on. It was a lot of bike riding out there. A lot of bike riding out there, a lot of food out there. And it was just mellow. It was cool. I think you all will enjoy it. Not too fast paced.
• 28:53
  Speaker B: Yeah, no. My husband and I have actually spoken about taking a trip down there to LA, but I think what deters us is the traffic.
• 29:02
  Speaker A: Yeah. It ain't no getting around that. It's no getting around that. No matter where y'all fly, if y'all flew into. Doesn't matter. I think you can actually fly into Santa Barbara, but I think it might be a little bit more expensive. Yeah.
• 29:19
  Speaker B: But we were definitely talking about coming down there at least for a weekend, because with this cricut machine going back to that, he has said he wanted to come down there and get some t shirts. I'm like, we can just know up here to hobby lobby before we go to LA to get t shirts. We're not selling nothing yet, but he still wants to come down there. But I think that that's a great idea because he often talks about riding bikes. And then I have roller skates and roller blades that I like to do in the summertime.
• 29:43
  Speaker A: There you go. There you go.
• 29:46
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 29:46
  Speaker A: And one more thing, and I don't know if there's one near you, but if it's not, and you all happen to do come down here, I want you all to check this out. It's called float state.
• 30:00
  Speaker B: Float state?
• 30:01
  Speaker A: Yeah. I'll send you the link when we get off, but I think it's float state or float station.
• 30:08
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 30:10
  Speaker A: My wife got me. It was for my birthday, and I told her I've been wanting to do it for probably about a year or so. I wanted to go to a deprivation tank, and so I was in that tank, and I floated for about an hour.
• 30:25
  Speaker B: Oh, I heard of that.
• 30:27
  Speaker A: Yeah, I floated for about an hour. Let me tell you, whatever you go in there with you definitely not leaving without.
• 30:36
  Speaker B: Oh, wow.
• 30:38
  Speaker A: Yeah. I shouldn't say without. You're not leaving with it.
• 30:44
  Speaker B: Yeah.
• 30:44
  Speaker A: Now, they had some music that started so it won't catch you off guard. And they said that you'll know when to get up and is over and to rinse off and stuff like that, because the music will cut back on for, like, the last ten minutes. Do not get that water in your eyes. Do not get salt water. It burns.
• 31:12
  Speaker B: Oh, no. Okay.
• 31:14
  Speaker A: They have, like, this little oval hoop thing that you can lay your head on, but outside of that, you are about maybe a foot off of the ground in the water. And if you are as artistic as I think you are, once you close your eyes and you just let go.
• 31:43
  Speaker B: The idea is going to come.
• 31:45
  Speaker A: The idea is going to come. Or I talked to myself.
• 31:50
  Speaker B: Oh, that part. Okay.
• 31:51
  Speaker A: Yeah. I was in there talking to myself, and then I was quiet for about 30 minutes. It was at one point. This is going to sound crazy. At one point, I was floating, and my tippy toads touched the wall, right. So I pushed off the wall gently, and I was just relaxing. And I don't know if this is a thing, but I relaxed too much, and I was still floating back. The tank is not that big. I can push myself from side to side within a matter of seconds, but going from head to toe, it's a little bit of distance. I pushed myself off that wall gently, and I let myself go, close my eyes and just spread it, spread my arms, and I was still floating back, and I got into the vibe of it, and I thought I was falling backwards. It can get like that. And then besides that, they got a salt cave. My wife sat in a salt cave, and they have some healthy facts about that. They have a sauna. They got a coed sauna as well. And then you can get a massage there, too. But again, I'll send you the link to that. The purpose is certain things. And I just recently saw the Bob Marley movie, too. And seeing how he was artistic with his music and going to know massages, going on vacations and stuff like that, I think that's where we're at in our lives, right?
• 33:37
  Speaker B: Yes, Lord.
• 33:39
  Speaker A: And I think we need more of that. And if there's any piece of information or experience that I could share that I want people to get in tune with, I share it. And when I tell you it's life changing inch by inch, but it's life changing. You know what I mean?
• 33:56
  Speaker B: Absolutely.
• 34:00
  Speaker A: So what's next?
• 34:04
  Speaker B: What is next?
• 34:05
  Speaker A: What's next up for we still in the beginning of the year, we're still in the first quarter by the end of this year, heading into 2025. And I'm not trying to rush this year. I want to enjoy it. But what's the goal?
• 34:21
  Speaker B: Well, the goal for me is to figure out how to make quality prints of my artwork, okay? So that way I can move into that phase of my art and my art business. And I do private paint parties as well. And so I enjoy doing that. But I really want to get back into my art studio and work on these prints. So my goal is to get these prints on posters, possibly other merch, maybe tote bags or coffee mugs or whatever. But first, let's get them on paper and then we'll move from there. So I'm keeping my goals within reasonable reach.
• 35:04
  Speaker A: I'm glad you said tote bags. I'm looking into tote bags, too. Yeah. Do you ever? Well, I think for me, one of my goals that I said is that I want my merch to be featured on TV. I don't know. Cool. I don't care if it's a music video, if it's a TV scene in the TV show, or if it's in the movie. But that's my goal this year.
• 35:39
  Speaker B: Okay.
• 35:39
  Speaker A: I don't know who I'm going to find. I know how. I just don't know who. But I'm going to figure it out. I'm going to figure it out. Art gallery. Would that be a goal of yours? Not just to be featured in one, but do you see yourself opening up an art gallery one day?
• 36:01
  Speaker B: I would love to. I would love to. Actually, I made my stairwell in my home art gallery. Just to put it in my atmosphere, to start, I had been looking around and thinking about trying to get my art into hotels and different restaurants, because if you ever go to different restaurants, sometimes they have different art and hotels and hospitals have art, so you can shop around those different places. And so that's another goal of mine this year as well. I didn't think about saying that is to try and get them in front of some different eyes. But as far as art gallery, yes. I would just need to kind of lock myself in this art gallery, in my art gallery for however long it takes to push out that work, because it would have to be a cohesive art series. Like, the art would have to tell a story, not just random stuff like I do now.
• 36:58
  Speaker A: Where are you at with, do you believe in taking risk when it comes to your art?
• 37:06
  Speaker B: Yes, I believe in taking risk, period. Yes.
• 37:09
  Speaker A: Okay. All right. I'm not going to lie. I've tiptoed, and I think the main reason is because I haven't fully come to an agreement with what I really want to do, because I don't. And it's maybe because I want to please so many demographics.
• 37:36
  Speaker B: But.
• 37:39
  Speaker A: I know I want the message to be friendly, well received by everybody. But, I mean, that's almost impossible because you can't control how people.
• 37:51
  Speaker B: You sure can't.
• 37:53
  Speaker A: And I'm not afraid of criticism. It's not that you just want that one piece that everybody is like, yeah, that's it right there. No matter who it is. Because I'm not going to lie to you. I just don't want to make merch for black people.
• 38:10
  Speaker B: Yeah, of course not.
• 38:12
  Speaker A: Now in February, I do, but no, I want everybody to be like, no, that's dope.
• 38:20
  Speaker B: Yeah. And think about it this way. You're putting you in your art and you're dope. So it will be dope.
• 38:30
  Speaker A: Appreciate that.
• 38:31
  Speaker B: Some will be Dober than others. But art is essentially you. It is an outward expression of who you are. Yeah, you'll be fine.
• 38:44
  Speaker A: I believe so. Well, I knew this episode was going to be dope. I told you, I was like, why are we waiting this long? Why?
• 38:53
  Speaker B: I was like, lord have mercy. But, yeah, this was great. I enjoyed this.
• 38:57
  Speaker A: Yeah, I'm actually about to go make some merch right now. I don't know what it is. I'm just going to let the idea flow. I'm going to pop the software open and I'm just let it flow.
• 39:11
  Speaker B: If I could leave your listeners with one thing. I'll just tell you this. I am 41 years old. I don't have any kids. I'm married to have a dog. And another thing I do for self care is extreme make believe. If I believe I can do it, I do it. I started painting. I said, I'm a painter. I may believe I was a painter. I became a painter for a very brief time. I thought I was a podcaster. I got some stuff out there. But it's extreme make believe. If you believe you can do it, actually, just do it. Just do it. Even if you say, I'm pretending, but do it on a major scale. Just do it. You're never too old to live out your dreams at whatever state you're doing. At whatever state you're at, just go for it. But I call it extreme make believe.
• 40:05
  Speaker A: See, now, I'm not going to say I didn't expect her to come on here and preach something, but it did. She did. I like that. And we're going to leave off on that note, but you also got to let them know where to find you and your art page.
• 40:22
  Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. Okay, so my art page is, Lord have mercy. I have to look it up. If you go to Instagram, it's g b painting. P a I n t n. Lord, I need to know how to spell my stuff. And then let me make sure that's what it is. Lord have mercy. Oh, yeah. Okay, so it's g b painting. And on TikTok, it is going there, too. It's GBP painting. No dots or nothing. Just g b p a I n t n. Yeah.
• 41:00
  Speaker A: And that's where you're going to find some art pieces. Now, if you can share. If not, then we'll just talk about this behind a paywall. How much do your paintings range from?
• 41:16
  Speaker B: So it depends on the size. So it depends on the size. Yeah. So they start probably, I think, at maybe 200 and up. And that's probably 200 is probably for a small, and that's just for the size of the canvas. Everything after that is my work.
• 41:31
  Speaker A: Okay. And that's art, people, they better understand that. I want to thank you.
• 41:40
  Speaker B: Thank you.
• 41:40
  Speaker A: I want to encourage you to dust off that podcast, Mike, and go get some more of us. You know, it's a lot of artists out there starving just to get there, just to get it out. I even know no selling points. They just want to talk the art.
• 42:05
  Speaker B: Mean, I would have to do that, especially since you've extended this opportunity to me.
• 42:09
  Speaker A: Yeah, because you own the TikTok. TikTok ain't nothing but an extension of podcasting. In so many ways.
• 42:17
  Speaker B: Yeah, that's true.
• 42:19
  Speaker A: They need to hear. And you singing. See, this is why I'll be talking about you. We supposed to be saving the world and you holding all the key elements back. Art, music.
• 42:31
  Speaker B: Oh, what?
• 42:32
  Speaker A: It go hand in hand? You are walking therapy. And people out here needs therapy.
• 42:41
  Speaker B: Oh, boy. Okay. I'm a black girl turning burgundy.
• 42:48
  Speaker A: You're telling me right now that majority of the world don't need some type of therapy right now?
• 42:52
  Speaker B: Absolutely they do. Absolutely.
• 42:55
  Speaker A: People may not be able to afford it. I'm passing it out for free. I got a free playlist. I'm not passing out merch. Well, I am passing out merch for free. When I have it. When I'm up, I'm okay with passing it out. But we got to save this world. One playlist, one art piece. One piece of merch at a time.
• 43:18
  Speaker B: At a time. You can't save the world, but you can save your corner.
• 43:21
  Speaker A: There we go.
• 43:22
  Speaker B: There you go.
• 43:24
  Speaker A: Like that. We're going to leave on that note right there for sure. Bye.