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Mojo Juju Brings Rock Back to Vegas | 332 · Hey BigHead: The Vegas Local Podcast

0:04
SPEAKER_00: Julie! Yes.
0:05
SPEAKER_00: Look at us.
0:06
SPEAKER_01: Look at us.
0:07
SPEAKER_00: We're recording on a Saturday.
0:08
SPEAKER_01: I know.
0:09
SPEAKER_00: What could possibly get us out of our slumber?
0:12
SPEAKER_00: We have such a long hard week.
0:14
SPEAKER_00: What could possibly get us to come back to the studio and record on a Saturday?
0:17
SPEAKER_01: Maybe it's that we wanted to be able to listen to some music today without disturbing the neighbors.
0:22
SPEAKER_00: God, I love live music and I love disturbing the neighbors.
0:24
SPEAKER_00: Two of my favorite things live music and disturbing the neighbors.
0:26
SPEAKER_01: No, I'm excited.
0:27
SPEAKER_00: Tell them what's going on.
0:28
SPEAKER_00: I'll gladly tell them what's going on.
0:30
SPEAKER_00: So, being that we're in a new studio, I wanted to make sure that the first musical guest that we have rocks the fucking roof off of this place.
0:38
SPEAKER_00: I want to lose my security deposit today.
0:40
SPEAKER_00: That's how hard I want to.
0:45
SPEAKER_00: Even better with the snort.
0:47
SPEAKER_00: Um leave the snort in, by the way.
0:48
SPEAKER_00: I I want to make sure we emphasize on the snort.
0:51
SPEAKER_01: There's at least one snort in every episode.
0:53
SPEAKER_00: It's a big head tradition, clearly.
0:55
SPEAKER_00: So I couldn't imagine any other musical performance with here in Las Vegas than to have Mojo Juju be with us here.
1:04
SPEAKER_05: Mojo Juju, welcome to the show.
1:07
SPEAKER_00: Now I want to Leah, right?
1:09
SPEAKER_00: It's not Leah.
1:10
SPEAKER_05: Leah.
1:10
SPEAKER_00: It's Leah and Nas.
1:12
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:12
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:13
SPEAKER_00: I am so excited to have you two on.
1:14
SPEAKER_00: I've seen you guys perform live.
1:16
SPEAKER_00: I've heard so many people talk about how incredible of a live show you guys are.
1:20
SPEAKER_00: Um you have an incredible portfolio, incredible resume.
1:24
SPEAKER_00: And you really haven't been in Vegas for too long, is that right?
1:26
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
1:27
SPEAKER_00: How long?
1:27
SPEAKER_06: Five.
1:28
SPEAKER_05: I mean, five years now.
1:29
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:30
SPEAKER_06: Bands have been around four years, but been here five years.
1:33
SPEAKER_00: I love that.
1:33
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
1:34
SPEAKER_00: So let me get a little backstory.
1:36
SPEAKER_00: Before we get too in-depth, Leah, and I we so Julie, what she does is on every notes uh that she puts together, she makes sure to how to pronounce everybody's name.
1:47
SPEAKER_00: Because I am so bad at saying the wrong, like uh wrong emphasis on the wrong syllable or whatever it is.
1:53
SPEAKER_00: So Julie is my lifesaver.
1:55
SPEAKER_01: My favorite one was when I spelled out Nas.
1:57
SPEAKER_01: I put N-A-W-Z.
2:00
SPEAKER_01: Knowles.
2:02
SPEAKER_06: Knowles.
2:03
SPEAKER_06: That's she kind of cool.
2:05
SPEAKER_06: Whoa.
2:06
SPEAKER_06: Switch it up a little bit.
2:12
SPEAKER_00: So I I I'm assuming you're you're not named after Princess Leia then, because no, although now I see you love Star Wars.
2:18
SPEAKER_00: I do.
2:19
SPEAKER_00: I do.
2:19
SPEAKER_00: And I understand that you just started to learn about Star Wars.
2:22
SPEAKER_00: You just got into Star Wars a little bit.
2:24
SPEAKER_02: I just watched all of them, except the new, the new new ones.
2:27
SPEAKER_06: You didn't see the last one.
2:28
SPEAKER_06: The very last of the new ones.
2:30
SPEAKER_02: But I watched all the originals.
2:31
SPEAKER_02: Love it.
2:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
2:32
SPEAKER_02: It was What are your thoughts?
2:34
SPEAKER_02: Um, it was amazing.
2:35
SPEAKER_02: Not okay, so I'm sure you've heard of this.
2:37
SPEAKER_02: There's a way to watch it called the machete version.
2:40
SPEAKER_02: Maybe.
2:40
SPEAKER_02: And it's like I'm intrigued.
2:42
SPEAKER_02: They start with what is it, three and four?
2:45
SPEAKER_06: You start with the original.
2:47
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, the original.
2:49
SPEAKER_02: And then you go back because it's in uh it's the full story.
2:54
SPEAKER_06: So you just follow the story chronically order.
2:58
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
2:59
SPEAKER_06: Easy for you to say.
3:01
SPEAKER_02: Which was cool because there was no spoilers, and so you're watching it almost as if it's like the full timeline.
3:07
SPEAKER_02: That's fantastic.
3:08
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
3:08
SPEAKER_01: Was it weird going back and forth between like different quality of media though?
3:12
SPEAKER_02: It was.
3:13
SPEAKER_02: I was I was so immersed in it.
3:15
SPEAKER_02: And I'm not a huge sci-fi fan, but I I loved how Shakespearean the story is.
3:20
SPEAKER_02: Like it felt like almost a timeless story that you could, you know, drop into any time.
3:26
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
3:26
SPEAKER_02: It was so cool.
3:27
SPEAKER_00: Who got you to who who who convinced you to finally jump in?
3:30
SPEAKER_00: Nas.
3:31
SPEAKER_00: Nas?
3:32
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
3:32
SPEAKER_06: I always can I always um recommend movies.
3:35
SPEAKER_06: Are you never seen this movie?
3:37
SPEAKER_06: She goes, nah, I'm like, you trust me.
3:39
SPEAKER_06: You trust me.
3:40
SPEAKER_06: I always start with that.
3:41
SPEAKER_06: And then she digs it.
3:42
SPEAKER_00: The answer is always yes.
3:43
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
3:44
SPEAKER_00: And Nas we trust.
3:45
SPEAKER_00: Nas is a man of culture.
3:46
SPEAKER_00: And I I tip my my hat to you, sir.
3:48
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, sir.
3:49
SPEAKER_06: Start making braces.
3:50
SPEAKER_06: I got a hat for you, too.
3:51
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I can't wait.
3:51
SPEAKER_00: Oh, bro.
3:52
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I can't wait.
3:52
SPEAKER_06: I've been watching you.
3:53
SPEAKER_06: I was like, I got I got one for you.
3:54
SPEAKER_00: This guy.
3:55
SPEAKER_00: This guy.
3:56
SPEAKER_00: You and I, Nas.
3:57
SPEAKER_00: I feel like we're going places, you and I.
3:58
SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you something.
3:59
SPEAKER_00: This is the beginning.
4:00
SPEAKER_00: Do we just become best friends?
4:02
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
4:02
SPEAKER_01: Favorite dinosaur on three.
4:04
SPEAKER_01: One, two, three, full of strapper.
4:06
SPEAKER_00: Yes, clearly we are uh a show full of culture as well.
4:09
SPEAKER_00: Movie culture for sure.
4:11
SPEAKER_00: I love that.
4:11
SPEAKER_00: Um, so how how did you guys connect?
4:13
SPEAKER_00: How did you guys get together?
4:14
SPEAKER_06: Um, so after COVID, uh I had a call to do the show 27 I was telling you about.
4:20
SPEAKER_06: I was actually living in Atlanta.
4:22
SPEAKER_06: Um, I left LA during COVID, went to Atlanta where my family was, spent time with them.
4:27
SPEAKER_06: And when I was called to do the show in Vegas, we had to go to LA first for uh rehearsals.
4:32
SPEAKER_06: Yes.
4:33
SPEAKER_06: And that's where um I saw Leah just kind of walk by.
4:37
SPEAKER_06: Um, she asked me if my hair was real, and I was like, At the time, was it?
4:41
SPEAKER_00: I judged.
4:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, okay, okay, good.
4:43
SPEAKER_06: Just make it check.
4:43
SPEAKER_06: I know.
4:45
SPEAKER_06: Maybe is it still um, but uh yeah, and I was like, oh god.
4:51
SPEAKER_06: She asked me if my hair was real.
4:52
SPEAKER_06: No, but I saw her go on stage.
4:55
SPEAKER_06: Actually, I didn't.
4:56
SPEAKER_06: I was outside, and uh the guy that was playing Kurt Cobain the show goes, Go in there, bro.
5:01
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, go in there.
5:02
SPEAKER_06: His face.
5:04
SPEAKER_06: I'm like, okay.
5:05
SPEAKER_06: And I walked in and I was completely captivated and mesmerized.
5:10
SPEAKER_06: Because, yeah, she's a good singer, but it was the way she like her eyes, her, her, her like demeanor, and I was like, that's special.
5:19
SPEAKER_06: That's special.
5:19
SPEAKER_01: Is it for portraying Amy Winehouse?
5:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
5:22
SPEAKER_00: So 27 is a show that was it was here in Vegas.
5:25
SPEAKER_00: Yes, and it it was what it was all these musicians and uh entertainers that passed away at the age of 27, is that right?
5:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, correct, yeah.
5:31
SPEAKER_02: And it was also chronological.
5:34
SPEAKER_00: So they didn't have a machete version of 27, is that what you're saying?
5:37
SPEAKER_00: Okay, it's no.
5:38
SPEAKER_00: We should start one.
5:38
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
5:39
SPEAKER_00: Is 27 still around or no?
5:41
SPEAKER_00: It's gone.
5:41
SPEAKER_02: No, well, they're still doing like one-offs here and there.
5:43
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
5:44
SPEAKER_02: But um, yeah, so we it was here in Vegas for seven months at the Virgin Hotel.
5:49
SPEAKER_00: Gotcha.
5:50
SPEAKER_02: And it started with Robert Johnson and it went to um Janice Chopin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kirk Cobain, and Amy Winehouse.
5:57
SPEAKER_06: That's great.
5:57
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, Jimmy, he played Jimi Hendrix, I played Amy Winehouse.
6:01
SPEAKER_06: Well, that's literally how we met.
6:02
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it was you know, I what's crazy, and I'm a believer in this, or it could just be science, I don't know.
6:07
SPEAKER_06: But when I saw her, dude, this is no bullshit.
6:10
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I looked, I had this split, like second vision, you call it, of us doing what we're doing right now.
6:18
SPEAKER_06: Really?
6:18
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and it's like it was just I can't explain it.
6:21
SPEAKER_06: Like it was long, but it was a split second at the same time.
6:24
SPEAKER_06: But I saw like struggling, I saw theater, I saw, and I don't know why theater, which was weird, but I saw this like musician type band thing, and I was actually working.
6:34
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and then you know, I snap out of it, I'm like, dude, this dude's tripping.
6:37
SPEAKER_06: But yeah, it and it manifested out of you know not planning on having a band.
6:42
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
6:43
SPEAKER_00: Funny how that works out.
6:44
SPEAKER_00: Isn't that little does it?
6:45
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know how boring life would be if it worked out the exact way you thought it would.
6:49
SPEAKER_00: That's great.
6:49
SPEAKER_00: Actually, we need we need a little spice in our life.
6:51
SPEAKER_00: And Leah is that spice in your life.
6:53
SPEAKER_00: That's exactly what she is.
6:54
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, Peppa.
6:56
SPEAKER_06: She goes, she goes, she walks down, and I was really impressed.
7:00
SPEAKER_06: I was like, You're you're phenomenal, you know.
7:02
SPEAKER_06: And uh she says something about being Italian, and I was so cheesy, bro.
7:07
SPEAKER_06: And I go, I'm gonna sucker for Italian.
7:09
SPEAKER_06: Like I still today I'm like, oh god.
7:12
SPEAKER_06: But but it was it was true.
7:13
SPEAKER_06: I was like, You're Italian.
7:14
SPEAKER_06: I'm so I just have this thing with Italy.
7:17
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he does.
7:17
SPEAKER_06: And she said, Well, she used, do you want to tell him what she said in Italian?
7:21
SPEAKER_06: That's it.
7:21
SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay.
7:22
SPEAKER_02: So that I know one line really well in Italian, please, and I convinced him that I knew more than that.
7:28
SPEAKER_02: But he's like, speak a little Italian for me.
7:29
SPEAKER_02: And I went, Yo capisco bestanza ma non parla troppo bene.
7:32
SPEAKER_02: And he was like, So Yeah, dude.
7:35
SPEAKER_01: I was like And when did you find out that that was all she knew in Italian?
7:40
SPEAKER_01: Today?
7:42
SPEAKER_01: Just announcing three years later, breaking news on Big Head.
7:47
SPEAKER_06: That's not true because we were in Japan and there was an Italian woman with her daughter, and she they started.
7:53
SPEAKER_02: I was like, oh my god, I know more than I thought.
7:55
SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's kind of you, yeah.
7:58
SPEAKER_02: So Nas was like, yeah.
8:00
SPEAKER_01: Thanks, Duolingo.
8:02
SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Duolingo.
8:03
SPEAKER_00: All right, so then Leah, so when what's your first impression of Nas when you guys first saw each other?
8:06
SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh.
8:07
SPEAKER_02: So we were doing the rehearsals in LA and we were running the show, which I had never seen.
8:12
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
8:12
SPEAKER_02: And there's a point in the show where Nas did the Jimi Hendrix's version of the Star Spangled Banner, which is, I mean, already so emotional.
8:20
SPEAKER_02: And we were all sitting in this theater together.
8:22
SPEAKER_02: I'd never met anybody, and I literally started crying really because he it was so overwhelming to me.
8:28
SPEAKER_02: I was like, I felt like it would have felt to actually see it when you were at Woodstock or something.
8:33
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it was absolutely unbelievable.
8:35
SPEAKER_02: And then he had all these lights behind him and it was coming through his hair.
8:38
SPEAKER_02: It was like Oh, I love that.
8:39
SPEAKER_02: It was really emotional.
8:41
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was it was really cool, and then that was my first impression of you.
8:44
SPEAKER_02: And I I'm not gonna lie, I took a shot that day because I was so freaking nervous.
8:50
SPEAKER_06: I was like, She was uh you were new on the show.
8:54
SPEAKER_02: I was the only new one because uh everybody else had done it together.
8:57
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we did one show in LA at the Troubadour, and then the next day COVID closed everything down.
9:03
SPEAKER_06: So the show started in in LA, but then you know, was moved to Vegas after COVID.
9:08
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and so she was new.
9:10
SPEAKER_02: They all knew each other, and I just felt I and I had been in LA for like five four years grinding, grinding, grinding, and not really getting anywhere, working as a hostess at a restaurant, working as a receptionist.
9:24
SPEAKER_02: And then I got this call to audition for Amy Winehouse, and it was almost like what Nas said about his vision.
9:30
SPEAKER_02: It was like in that split second, I was like, I know I have the part, yeah, I knew it.
9:34
SPEAKER_02: And I went into audition and they called me at seven in the morning the next morning.
9:38
SPEAKER_02: So the part is yours.
9:39
SPEAKER_02: Love that.
9:40
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, I'm going to Vegas.
9:42
SPEAKER_06: Like you were up at 7 a.m.
9:45
SPEAKER_02: Well, I know.
9:45
SPEAKER_02: That's hard to believe.
9:48
SPEAKER_02: You're just waiting for that call.
9:49
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I was.
9:50
SPEAKER_02: Um, but I I was like, I'm not, I'm not gonna go to Vegas for any longer than like six months, you know.
9:57
SPEAKER_02: And then we we actually fell in love with it.
9:59
SPEAKER_00: That's fantastic.
10:00
SPEAKER_00: So you got you guys connected.
10:01
SPEAKER_00: When at what point from there did you say, you know what, Mojo Juju, let's do this?
10:05
SPEAKER_00: Or were there milestones in between that that got you to where you are with the Mojo Juju band?
10:10
SPEAKER_06: Um, so when we were in 27, when I realized Leah could literally sing anything, I would grab an acoustic all the time, we'd hang out, and I would like I'm like, I can write anything I want.
10:20
SPEAKER_06: And she could sing, you know.
10:21
SPEAKER_06: And we do that, you know, kind of jam around, didn't play in a band, it's just fun, I'd make beats or whatever.
10:27
SPEAKER_06: And then 27 ended.
10:28
SPEAKER_06: And when it ended, it was like you gotta move out of your house like tomorrow.
10:33
SPEAKER_06: We were like, Oh, not again.
10:36
SPEAKER_06: And I didn't have, you know, they were paying for housing and everything, so I was like, I guess I'm going back to Atlanta.
10:41
SPEAKER_06: Everyone's going to to LA, but I was like, I'm not going back to Atlanta, I gotta figure out what to do in this town.
10:46
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, sure.
10:47
SPEAKER_06: So I knew um a guy named Ben Carey who uh books barbershop and stuff.
10:52
SPEAKER_06: And I met him uh while so I went to barbershop and I was like, hey man, I'm looking for work, like I lost my job.
10:58
SPEAKER_06: Is there any way I can substitute for you, you know, play guitar?
11:01
SPEAKER_06: And uh he was like, Why don't you start a band with Leah?
11:06
SPEAKER_06: I'll get you bass player uh and a drummer three days, learn 40-something songs in three days.
11:13
SPEAKER_06: Oh my god.
11:13
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, but me hearing that in that moment, I wasn't like, oh fuck, I was like, yes, let's do it.
11:18
SPEAKER_06: Oh my god, there's the lifeline, you know.
11:20
SPEAKER_06: So I I called Leah, I was like, we need to learn, we got it, we got it, we just need to learn uh 40 something, and we just started right away, just grind.
11:27
SPEAKER_06: And we knew some songs, so it wasn't like we probably knew like five or six.
11:31
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, um, so we just grinded, and I remember trying to remember all these songs, man.
11:35
SPEAKER_06: Like, I'm like, how does this go?
11:37
SPEAKER_06: Oh man, and I had so much stress because I was like, I gotta lead the band and and kind of if someone falls, I gotta be on it.
11:44
SPEAKER_06: These are all cover songs of like, yeah, you know, mixed rock, and you know, we did uh some Amy Winehouse Hendricks, which was our early stuff, and you know, a lot of the songs we still do, you know, like Barracuda and but yeah, so three days, and then I'm I'll never forget that day.
11:58
SPEAKER_06: We showed up, barbershop, plugged in.
12:01
SPEAKER_06: We wasn't perfect, played the night, and some guy made it rain.
12:05
SPEAKER_06: Uh, dollar bills.
12:06
SPEAKER_06: He was dressed like Scarface.
12:07
SPEAKER_06: Yes, I know.
12:08
SPEAKER_06: That was me.
12:09
SPEAKER_06: Yes, that was me.
12:11
SPEAKER_06: You're welcome.
12:12
SPEAKER_06: Oh my gosh, it was a full circle moment right here.
12:14
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, but I remember that he was like making it, you know, and we're counting all these tips afterwards, and I was like, we just made 500 each and one dollar.
12:22
SPEAKER_06: And I remember going home going, oh my god, we got a job, and this is but it was rough, man.
12:27
SPEAKER_06: The beginning was super rough.
12:28
SPEAKER_06: We were playing weekdays, it wasn't a lot of money around.
12:31
SPEAKER_06: We were paying for it was like, dude, yeah, it was brutal.
12:35
SPEAKER_06: But we did it strong for a year, and then after a year slowly got better.
12:39
SPEAKER_06: Each year gets better, you know, is what I noticed.
12:41
SPEAKER_06: But it's it's that's how I was born.
12:43
SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Ben Carrie.
12:44
SPEAKER_00: But you're the second person that's brought Ben Kerry up.
12:46
SPEAKER_00: We had um, I believe Johnny Hazard was who, and and Michael Richter too, on the show.
12:51
SPEAKER_00: Yep, but um, they say nothing but great things and they kind of list off you know people in the city that have helped them.
12:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and Ben Carey seems to be a common name in that list of people that helps up and comers and yeah, people get it.
13:02
SPEAKER_06: In the scene, he as far as you know, he also books the like we were talking about, like some of the best venues, as far as barbershop, yeah, Caspians, those venues are extremely unique because one, it packs up, you know.
13:14
SPEAKER_06: The sound for someone that comes and hears it is like stadium sound, you're just like, you know, and you know, the stage, and it's just two and a half hours straight, and and it's just a great venue.
13:26
SPEAKER_06: And if to get asked to play there, it's like wow, you know, like and then a lot of bands play.
13:31
SPEAKER_06: And speaking of Michael Richter, he was actually uh what Ben does, I think, once every few years is do a battle of the bands.
13:37
SPEAKER_06: Yes, yeah, and he actually invited us to to vote, remember?
13:40
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we voted for Michael.
13:42
SPEAKER_06: We were like, this kid is a star, he's great, man.
13:44
SPEAKER_06: He really is.
13:45
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it was just like, and you know, like I've been on the other side where people are like, you know, obviously that's a show, but they're watching you and they're like, and I hate it.
13:53
SPEAKER_06: I hate auditioning, dude.
13:55
SPEAKER_06: I'm like, I too.
13:56
SPEAKER_02: I hate auditioning.
13:57
SPEAKER_06: So if I'm being a judge, yeah, I'm far from being a judge.
14:01
SPEAKER_06: Like, I'm like, dude, you you know, like you try to make sure not to say you say something constructive if you see it, but you also have to be like, I'm a musician too, man.
14:09
SPEAKER_06: I I get it.
14:10
SPEAKER_06: I go what you're going through, you know.
14:12
SPEAKER_06: So, but yeah, so Ben is uh has definitely opened up uh the scene a lot more.
14:17
SPEAKER_06: That's great, I think, for bands like us, like Michael, and yeah, yeah.
14:20
SPEAKER_02: So but there was uh I mean it when we started playing at the barbershop, it was kind of like all or nothing because we knew if we didn't get that gig, we would probably have to go back to Atlanta and LA.
14:30
SPEAKER_05: Sure.
14:31
SPEAKER_02: So we were we worked our asses off for that because we were like, we want to we want to make this work.
14:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you do it was real.
14:38
SPEAKER_00: So at what point during the because you guys are still performing at barbershop in Caspians and elsewhere, at what point was it where you're like, okay, I see that we're on the right track.
14:46
SPEAKER_00: I I see that what we're doing is is along the direction that we should be going.
14:51
SPEAKER_00: Was there something that happened, or was it just kind of like you just realized that one day, like, oh, we're doing the right thing?
14:56
SPEAKER_06: Um, so again, yeah, the band was starting kind of out of survival mode.
15:00
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, but eventually I think we saw the magic on stage and the magic between her and I more and more.
15:08
SPEAKER_06: And this is before we we we wrote, we always wrote.
15:12
SPEAKER_06: But um, I'm sorry, what was your question again?
15:15
SPEAKER_00: When when did you realize Mojo Juju was on the right track?
15:17
SPEAKER_00: Like, okay, this is actually something.
15:19
SPEAKER_06: I honestly think like the first week.
15:21
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
15:22
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was it was pretty quick.
15:24
SPEAKER_02: It was in December of 2021, and then we weren't allowed to play weekends yet because we were still part of the city.
15:30
SPEAKER_02: Because the owner has to see you.
15:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and then the we it was a whole ordeal.
15:35
SPEAKER_02: We had the owner come in and he went, Oh yeah, for sure.
15:38
SPEAKER_06: Within within 20 seconds of the song, yeah, he goes, duh, and leaves.
15:43
SPEAKER_02: And so that was a big moment for us.
15:45
SPEAKER_02: We started playing Fridays and Saturdays, we started getting other venues, then our our names started getting out there, and then we we ended up getting uh booked for these military tours that we've done.
15:55
SPEAKER_06: That was a big uh turnaround for us.
15:57
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it was like, oh, finally we get to tour and travel the world, and it's for something good.
16:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
16:04
SPEAKER_06: So that like, I mean, that's a whole other subject, but that was you know, when I went, holy like not just Mojo in my career.
16:12
SPEAKER_06: I go, wow, I get it.
16:13
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, like we've been we have a gift, you know, and it's not about you, it's not about us, it's what you're giving to others.
16:20
SPEAKER_06: That's why there's fans, that's why like people.
16:22
SPEAKER_06: I listen to my favorite band when I'm feeling a certain way, whether I'm happy or sad, or or or you know, and you're like, ah, and that's what I feel when we go to especially these military tours.
16:31
SPEAKER_06: Yes, these guys are young and they're away from their families, and they're you know, you don't know when a work break.
16:36
SPEAKER_06: It's just and you get close to them, and when you play, you just see this joy.
16:40
SPEAKER_06: And I'm like, bro, like wow, I get to do this for you.
16:44
SPEAKER_06: Like, this is you can't buy that.
16:46
SPEAKER_01: And not only that, excuse me, I don't know what's in my throat today, but y'all are giving them this like space to get together and do something other than like work or go to the cafeteria, and like you're giving them a space to bond with each other over your music, and then they probably talk about it for forever afterwards.
17:03
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's yeah, it's amazing.
17:05
SPEAKER_06: And uh, I have a good friend that's in Korea right now, he's in uh and we actually played his bass, it was awesome.
17:11
SPEAKER_06: And uh, I brought him up, and afterwards he wouldn't stop thanking me.
17:15
SPEAKER_06: He's like, dude, you don't know what you just did for me.
17:17
SPEAKER_06: Oh, that's awesome.
17:18
SPEAKER_06: He's like going up, and it was a bit they were fun.
17:20
SPEAKER_06: They were fun.
17:21
SPEAKER_06: The air that Air Force base was fun.
17:22
SPEAKER_06: They were just going crazy, and you know, and it just see that.
17:25
SPEAKER_06: And then uh we were in Japan at the uh Mount Fuji base, and there was a Marine, we were uh a bunch of Marines, and there was this kid, he's just looking at me, you know, and I can tell I was like, I know he plays guitar.
17:36
SPEAKER_06: I know when a guitar player sees another guitar and wants to play.
17:39
SPEAKER_06: It's that look in their eyes, it's that look, it's an it's an aura, you know.
17:42
SPEAKER_06: He's like, and then he goes, Can you play any Hendrix?
17:44
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and I start Hendrix, yeah.
17:46
SPEAKER_06: He throws a song and I haven't played in a while, and I start playing it, and I stop and I go, You play a guitar?
17:50
SPEAKER_06: He goes, and I just gave it to him.
17:53
SPEAKER_06: Oh my gosh.
17:54
SPEAKER_06: You play Hendrix, yeah.
17:55
SPEAKER_06: He came up and rocked out and hit bro.
17:57
SPEAKER_06: I have pictures.
17:58
SPEAKER_06: That's beautiful.
17:59
SPEAKER_06: I want to frame that one of the things.
18:00
SPEAKER_06: I know.
18:01
SPEAKER_02: Everybody's freaking out.
18:02
SPEAKER_02: Oh, dude.
18:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, where did the name Mojo juju come from?
18:06
SPEAKER_02: So we were at because we were uh asked to do barbershop by Ben, he was like, I need a name in 24 hours or less.
18:13
SPEAKER_02: And I was just sitting there and I went, Mojo Juju.
18:16
SPEAKER_02: It was so it was like this weird download.
18:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and Nas was like, All right.
18:20
SPEAKER_01: I've got a question about that.
18:21
SPEAKER_01: Did you grow up watching the Powerpuff Girls?
18:24
SPEAKER_02: Yes, everybody says Mojo Jojo.
18:26
SPEAKER_02: Oh Mojo Jojo is that the villain on the Powerpuff Girls.
18:29
SPEAKER_06: Oh, I think is that the monkey?
18:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
18:31
SPEAKER_01: When I first heard your name, I was like, am I misremembering something here?
18:34
SPEAKER_01: But no, I think it's a great name.
18:36
SPEAKER_01: You don't have any idea where it came from.
18:39
SPEAKER_02: It just I mean, the um there's a line in a Jim Morrison song where he says um Mr.
18:44
SPEAKER_02: Mojo Ryzen.
18:45
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, Oh, that'd be kind of cool to have like a you know a little um piece of 27 in the name.
18:51
SPEAKER_02: But Mojo Ju, it just came out of nowhere.
18:53
SPEAKER_02: And people have asked me, have you ever seen The Office?
18:55
SPEAKER_01: They're like the Office calls.
18:57
SPEAKER_02: They're like, is it do you remember Angela's uh Voodoo Mama Juju or whatever?
19:01
SPEAKER_02: I see people ask me if it's from that too.
19:04
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, I don't know.
19:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm definitely getting a handful of vibes, and I'm getting I'm getting Kevin vibes over there.
19:12
SPEAKER_02: Thanks.
19:13
SPEAKER_01: Thanks a lot.
19:14
SPEAKER_01: I feel like he really does talk about some of the like the mean character works on characters.
19:19
SPEAKER_06: I'm laughing because I don't know what you got the cover.
19:23
SPEAKER_06: I've watched a bit.
19:24
SPEAKER_06: That's funny.
19:24
SPEAKER_06: That's funny.
19:25
SPEAKER_00: That's very funny.
19:26
SPEAKER_01: He's fully convinced that he you said you're Jim or whatever.
19:29
SPEAKER_00: I'm definitely the Jim Halpert of the Hey Big Hand.
19:32
SPEAKER_01: You know what, Leah, if it makes you feel better, he also called me Angela.
19:35
SPEAKER_02: Oh we could be Angela together.
19:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
19:39
SPEAKER_00: Together, you're double Angela.
19:41
SPEAKER_00: So outside of the band, the two of you, you're you're very you're obviously very uh talented in in the music side of things.
19:49
SPEAKER_00: Do you also perform solo acts as well for for the two of you?
19:53
SPEAKER_00: Or is it really right now your focus is on the duo of you together?
19:57
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we're super, super dialed in and focused on the band, Mojo Juju.
20:03
SPEAKER_02: But I've had um my own solo project for the last eight years called Le Freak, um, like the song, and that uh project has been synced on every TV show, every reality show.
20:17
SPEAKER_02: So if you watch HBO or like Love Island or Love is Blind or anything, say trust season eight, episode one.
20:25
SPEAKER_01: Collect it.
20:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:26
SPEAKER_01: You'll see.
20:27
SPEAKER_00: Julie was obsessed with learning all the Love Island songs that were on that were related to you.
20:32
SPEAKER_01: So I've got a playlist.
20:33
SPEAKER_01: I love that.
20:34
SPEAKER_00: She's on there.
20:35
SPEAKER_06: We're watching, and your voice just comes on.
20:37
SPEAKER_06: Did you did you know you're gonna be on that at that moment?
20:39
SPEAKER_02: No, because they put my music in a library and they don't have to tell you when they use it.
20:43
SPEAKER_02: So a lot of times I'll be watching a show and I'll be like, There's me.
20:46
SPEAKER_01: Do you get paid for that?
20:48
SPEAKER_01: Or yeah, okay.
20:48
SPEAKER_01: I was about to say they can't just like no, yeah, yeah.
20:51
SPEAKER_02: But it's a it's like and the music industry is nuts.
20:54
SPEAKER_02: It's like a six-month delay on all of that because it takes a long time to collect the royalties, all that kind of stuff.
20:59
SPEAKER_02: But so I'll be watching a show and I'll be like, oh, there we go.
21:02
SPEAKER_02: And I'll I'll call Nozzin and I'll be like, listen, it's me.
21:05
SPEAKER_02: And so that's the goal with with Mojo too, is to get our songs on you know, streamed on the TV stuff.
21:13
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I don't even know, you know, Mojo is such a thing that was born out of nothing.
21:19
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
21:20
SPEAKER_06: Out of survival in a way.
21:22
SPEAKER_02: And what's what's weird, I mean, I did LaFreak for eight years and I've I'm still doing it on the side, but it took a lot of effort and work.
21:31
SPEAKER_02: I felt like I was pushing a boulder uphill with LaFreak.
21:34
SPEAKER_02: And it just was I was trying and trying and not getting anywhere, not really getting crazy fans.
21:40
SPEAKER_02: And then like literally within a year or two of us starting this band, it's been like it's been like crazy the difference.
21:49
SPEAKER_02: And I feel like that's how I know I'm on the right path.
21:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
21:52
SPEAKER_01: In your opinion, would you say it's it's generally harder to to be a solo performer with success versus like having this partnership?
22:00
SPEAKER_01: Or does it just kind of depend?
22:01
SPEAKER_02: I think it depends.
22:02
SPEAKER_02: I think nowadays uh solo artists are favored over bands.
22:06
SPEAKER_02: Like you rarely see bands nowadays, but I feel like it's because of social media and it's so easy to just go over here and hop on this project.
22:15
SPEAKER_06: No, you don't have to have a band, you can just use a track or whatever.
22:18
SPEAKER_02: Or like people are using Suno and stuff.
22:21
SPEAKER_02: It's like it's crazy.
22:23
SPEAKER_02: So the the original artist, the singular artist, I think is more valued.
22:27
SPEAKER_02: But when I started playing with Nas, I was like, oh my god, this changes everything.
22:31
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
22:32
SPEAKER_06: It gave Leah, Mojo gave Leah a lot of stage time, more than she ever had, you know.
22:37
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
22:38
SPEAKER_06: And my background has always been the band.
22:40
SPEAKER_06: You know, I was always in the band, and it's one after the other, you know, get signed.
22:44
SPEAKER_06: Oh, this is gonna be the one.
22:46
SPEAKER_06: And always there's some sort of wall where I felt I always I'll be honest, I always felt held back.
22:51
SPEAKER_06: Every band I played in, I felt held back, man.
22:53
SPEAKER_06: And it's the worst feeling because you you have so much to offer and do, but you have to hold your light, you damn your light, just so others can catch up.
23:02
SPEAKER_06: But that drove me crazy.
23:03
SPEAKER_06: And I was like, I need to, and then I watch, you know, I'd compare myself to people that were successful, and I'm like, they're doing dumb, they're not holding back, they're they're on a you know, you can't be afraid to to speak your mind if you want you need something for you, type thing, you know.
23:19
SPEAKER_06: So with Leah Mojo, I was like, finally, you know, I I just I'm like, I can write what I want.
23:26
SPEAKER_06: And Leah comes in, she hears the tune.
23:29
SPEAKER_06: Okay, and then she writes her stuff, her lyrics, her thing, and then I go, try this.
23:34
SPEAKER_06: And she does it.
23:35
SPEAKER_06: I'm like, oh my god, now try this.
23:37
SPEAKER_06: And I push, and like you know what harmonies are?
23:39
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I'll be in the studio, I'll stack 20 to 25 harmonies.
23:44
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, because she does them all, and it just sounds like queen, like erotic, like epicness.
23:49
SPEAKER_06: But that's that's the best part, is that there's no helding back.
23:53
SPEAKER_06: There's there's we can write the way we want, we can perform the way we want, and and even live.
23:58
SPEAKER_00: You know, so take me through your work because so you both write each other's part.
24:02
SPEAKER_00: You write the lyrics, you write the the music, and then I'm sure you guys mesh somewhere else.
24:06
SPEAKER_00: We mesh it all up, yeah.
24:07
SPEAKER_00: So when you're writing your part, do you tar do you kind of mold it around her and and and her abilities, or do you kind of just write it based on you think this is gonna work, and you kind of throw it and see if she's able to play with it.
24:21
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
24:21
SPEAKER_06: Um, it really depends because uh we had a deadline to write three songs, for example.
24:26
SPEAKER_06: And I'll I'll run up to my studio and I was like, I gotta write three.
24:30
SPEAKER_06: And I'll take I don't write on guitar a lot of times, believe it or not.
24:33
SPEAKER_06: I'll take a keyboard or bass.
24:35
SPEAKER_06: And I'm by the way, when I'm writing, I'm writing the drum part, the bass part, the keyboard part, the guitar.
24:39
SPEAKER_06: You're able to hear that all in your head?
24:40
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's wild.
24:42
SPEAKER_06: I love classical music, so it's like you know, but and you know, it's not as crazy as it sounds.
24:47
SPEAKER_06: You know, you can put a drum uh a drum loop or you make drums using a keyboard.
24:51
SPEAKER_06: So once I have a beat, I'm like, oh, okay, I can this is like you know, this sounds cool.
24:57
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and then you start to second guess yourself, it comes in, it starts to haunt like uh this isn't pot.
25:05
SPEAKER_06: And I'm like, what am I doing?
25:06
SPEAKER_06: I'm an artist, man.
25:07
SPEAKER_06: I write what's I'm downloading, and eventually, so that's how I think, you know.
25:11
SPEAKER_06: I go, okay.
25:12
SPEAKER_06: And then I'll write a full song, listen to it, be finishing, and then I'll trash it.
25:18
SPEAKER_06: I'll go, horrible.
25:20
SPEAKER_06: No, I don't have anything.
25:21
SPEAKER_06: I come, yeah, and then her mom, who helps the band a lot, she's manager hears the song.
25:28
SPEAKER_06: She goes, This is an incredible song.
25:30
SPEAKER_01: I was like, Do you think it's the same thing?
25:33
SPEAKER_01: You know, when you like say the same word over and over, it starts to feel fake.
25:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, when you're listening to something you've created over and over before you've gotten feedback from other people.
25:41
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, do you think it's whatever that mechanism is in our brain that's like I've heard it too much, I don't like it anymore.
25:47
SPEAKER_06: Right.
25:48
SPEAKER_06: Um, but that can happen.
25:49
SPEAKER_06: That can happen, especially with guitar, like with me and guitar when I sold on my sick and hearing myself.
25:54
SPEAKER_06: But with music, it's more of like for me, at least, it's what I've been through.
25:58
SPEAKER_06: You know, like being denied, like writing beautiful songs and being confident, and you go to a record label and you forget it's a label, it's a business, yeah, and they just bash your song.
26:08
SPEAKER_06: Or they'll take the best part and just be like, take that out.
26:12
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and you're like, you know, yeah, and then I started writing in a box and it didn't get anywhere.
26:18
SPEAKER_06: So then I was like, wait a minute, what am I doing here?
26:21
SPEAKER_06: Write anything I want and and just believe in it.
26:24
SPEAKER_06: That's what I've gotten better at that as the years go back with Leah.
26:27
SPEAKER_06: Because I was a little jaded, man, from writing.
26:29
SPEAKER_06: Sure, I don't blame you.
26:30
SPEAKER_06: So, so yeah, so you know, now I just write, and then she comes, and this is what she does, and she's quiet.
26:37
SPEAKER_06: So I'm like, what are you doing?
26:39
SPEAKER_06: She's quiet, dude.
26:40
SPEAKER_06: She'll sit there, and if she kind of feels it, she'll start singing right away.
26:45
SPEAKER_06: And then sometimes she's like that.
26:47
SPEAKER_06: So I go, hear me out.
26:48
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I always go, hear me out, let me cook.
26:51
SPEAKER_06: Hey, let me cook, let me cook.
26:52
SPEAKER_06: This is SR saying, and then you know, I'll give her a melody idea.
26:55
SPEAKER_06: I'm like, you know, and she'll do it.
26:58
SPEAKER_06: And then she'll take that, and then she'll come up with a melody, man.
27:01
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that not in a lifetime I would hear.
27:04
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and I thought I heard everything, and I'm like, okay, this is a collaboration now.
27:09
SPEAKER_06: This is now we're on to something.
27:10
SPEAKER_06: So that's what's special with her.
27:11
SPEAKER_06: She'll do notes that I don't hear.
27:14
SPEAKER_06: So I'm like, okay.
27:15
SPEAKER_00: And that's what how it should be.
27:17
SPEAKER_00: So then take take me through your mindset then of when you hear him putting something together, you walk in, and just like you said, are you are the wheels already turning?
27:25
SPEAKER_00: Or what what goes through your mind when you hear something new that he just produced?
27:29
SPEAKER_02: Well, he's so creative.
27:31
SPEAKER_02: I mean, like, he'll he'll build like these operatic, you know, tracks or or theatrical tracks, queen-like tracks, and I've never really worked with anybody like that.
27:42
SPEAKER_02: So I I had a lot of training in LA where you were put in a room with four writers and a producer, and the goal was to get a fully finished song within six hours and go home for dinner.
27:53
SPEAKER_02: Right.
27:53
SPEAKER_02: You know, it was very like mechanical.
27:56
SPEAKER_02: And when Nas and I got together and started the the original side of Mojo Juju, our deal was don't judge, don't judge anything that comes out, and we're not gonna create anything for the purpose of a label or somebody else.
28:12
SPEAKER_06: And so you think how it should be, yeah.
28:14
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, how it should be.
28:15
SPEAKER_02: And so when I hear tracks that he plays me, I it's so freeing to be able to let go of that constriction that I was trained, you know, in LA.
28:26
SPEAKER_02: And it's cool, and it takes it takes a minute, usually, like it depends, it depends on the tunes, but yeah, how how much of the track is produced by the time you introduce it to her?
28:37
SPEAKER_06: I would say like 80 to 90.
28:39
SPEAKER_06: Okay, yeah, and then and then what happens is songs always have potential, I say.
28:44
SPEAKER_06: So we go to the studio to record, and then more ideas.
28:47
SPEAKER_06: There's this magic in the studio, and it doesn't have to be a fancy, it's just there's an environment, you know, you're you're in another place, and you get these creative ideas that don't happen at home wherever I'm recording.
28:58
SPEAKER_06: It's environment, and then that's where we get even more deep, and then we'll leave, we'll go home, maybe release a song in a month, and then I'm like, I gotta go back.
29:06
SPEAKER_06: So we go back, scrap some stuff, redo it, and it's it's this process, you know.
29:11
SPEAKER_06: And then okay, we're good with this.
29:13
SPEAKER_06: And then guess what?
29:15
SPEAKER_06: We have to go back and redo it.
29:17
SPEAKER_06: And that's what happened with Misfit.
29:18
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
29:19
SPEAKER_06: The last song we released.
29:20
SPEAKER_06: It was written, it was in a trash folder, pulled it out, wrote it, went to the studio, recorded really fast.
29:26
SPEAKER_06: We recorded three songs super fast that day.
29:28
SPEAKER_06: We sat with it, and I hated it.
29:30
SPEAKER_06: Every time I heard that song, I was like, oh god.
29:33
SPEAKER_06: Really?
29:34
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, man.
29:35
SPEAKER_06: And and so we went back in the studio and I rewrote the verse to where there was no drums.
29:41
SPEAKER_06: It was just her and like a guitar going doll dah doll.
29:43
SPEAKER_06: It was boring, but you know, cool.
29:46
SPEAKER_06: We're like, all right, this is great.
29:47
SPEAKER_06: Let's re-record.
29:48
SPEAKER_06: We have two drummers on the song, by the way.
29:49
SPEAKER_06: That's all the things.
29:50
SPEAKER_06: And then we go home, I'm like, oh, this is beautiful.
29:53
SPEAKER_06: Then we hear the older version, and I'm like, oh god, I kind of like it the way it was.
29:58
SPEAKER_06: It's like that, you know.
30:00
SPEAKER_06: And then we stuck to it.
30:02
SPEAKER_06: And when we were about to release it, I told I gotta be careful how I say stuff to Leah.
30:07
SPEAKER_06: She'll take it so light.
30:09
SPEAKER_02: I I am I'm a sensitive artistic soul.
30:12
SPEAKER_06: No, but that's we are, you know.
30:14
SPEAKER_02: I I we were talking to his friend on the phone, and I said, I'm a delicate flower.
30:17
SPEAKER_02: And he goes, No, Leah, you're a cactus.
30:21
SPEAKER_06: That's my guitarist, Gil.
30:23
SPEAKER_06: Gil's funny.
30:24
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, but yeah, the um that that's the process.
30:26
SPEAKER_06: And when we were about to release the song, I was like, is it fully produced?
30:30
SPEAKER_06: Like I said, we pulled all the potential we could, you know.
30:33
SPEAKER_06: You don't want to overdo it.
30:34
SPEAKER_06: We even redid vocals, added operatic elements, but I was like, it's not my favorite song.
30:39
SPEAKER_06: I didn't say I, you know, so it's not my favorite song.
30:42
SPEAKER_06: And she was like, You don't like it.
30:44
SPEAKER_06: Well, because it's not about me, it's about who's gonna receive it.
30:47
SPEAKER_02: But that's the interesting part of being in a band, too, is if you're a solo artist, you can not release a song if you don't like it.
30:53
SPEAKER_02: But in a band, you have multiple people that have multiple opinions.
30:57
SPEAKER_02: But for me, lyrically, the song is probably one of the most special songs I've written.
31:02
SPEAKER_06: That's what I love is the lyrics.
31:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so it was like I felt that this song is gonna reach somebody.
31:08
SPEAKER_02: I don't know who it's gonna be.
31:09
SPEAKER_02: I know it's gonna get out there to somebody that needs it.
31:11
SPEAKER_02: And so I was like, we gotta finish this and put this out.
31:14
SPEAKER_06: And that's the approach of a good songwriter.
31:16
SPEAKER_06: You hear what she said?
31:17
SPEAKER_06: Like who's someone that needs it?
31:18
SPEAKER_06: You know, she's writing for someone else, you know, for to inspire others, and that's what every artist should be doing.
31:24
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's not, you know, you're you're you're making music for fans, for others, you're sharing something.
31:30
SPEAKER_06: So I love that you said that.
31:31
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, because it's it's real, and the lyrics are I'm I'm someone that listens to more instrumental, like instrumental versus lyric.
31:38
SPEAKER_06: I've always been like that.
31:40
SPEAKER_06: But once I read them after the song was released, I was like, wow.
31:44
SPEAKER_01: You read them after the song was released.
31:46
SPEAKER_02: It's so funny.
31:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's funny, how funny how that works.
31:48
SPEAKER_00: Go ahead.
31:49
SPEAKER_01: I have a uh question about how y'all create together still.
31:54
SPEAKER_01: So when you're making the instrumental, the music, I'm sure there's a a feeling or a story for it that's going on in your head.
32:02
SPEAKER_01: Right.
32:03
SPEAKER_01: And then when you pass it to Leah, how often does the story line up?
32:07
SPEAKER_01: Like how often does she have the same feeling, the same goal with the lyrics that you did with the music?
32:13
SPEAKER_06: That's a great card.
32:14
SPEAKER_01: That is a great question.
32:14
SPEAKER_01: Or you can I mean you can answer too, you know.
32:16
SPEAKER_06: The the the most of the time when I'm writing, I don't have a goal of what the song's about.
32:24
SPEAKER_06: I just kind of let the music guide it, like whatever's coming out.
32:27
SPEAKER_06: Um but this last next song that's coming out, which is my favorite that we've written, that one finally I'm gonna tell you, after since COVID, I haven't write written lyrics, and that one I had a vision for.
32:38
SPEAKER_06: I said Leah, and we actually sat down together and wrote lyrics together, and that was the best feeling I've had in a year.
32:45
SPEAKER_01: And this is the one that is not released yet.
32:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, okay.
32:47
SPEAKER_06: And it's it it that was but it's interesting because that one actually had like a message.
32:52
SPEAKER_06: I wanted again, it was a song about moving, keep going, like and our struggles.
32:57
SPEAKER_06: Because you know, you can struggle your whole life, but you have to express it, you have to use it somehow.
33:02
SPEAKER_06: Right instead of sit with it and live with it.
33:04
SPEAKER_06: So that song I was like, it was a release for me, but I know oh my god, it's gonna speak to someone so you know.
33:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's a common it's a common theme, I think, in our music is like overcoming what's the word?
33:18
SPEAKER_02: Overcoming uh uh I was gonna say obstacles, adversity.
33:23
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's not over.
33:24
SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah, sure.
33:25
SPEAKER_02: Let's go with that.
33:26
SPEAKER_02: Adversity is important.
33:28
SPEAKER_02: Right.
33:29
SPEAKER_02: Um but you know, just we've both been through so much in our careers and our personal lives, and then I felt like when we came together, it was almost like everything just started weirdly working.
33:42
SPEAKER_02: So I feel like a that's what a lot of our music is about is adversity.
33:47
SPEAKER_02: Adversity.
33:48
SPEAKER_02: Overcoming adversity.
33:49
SPEAKER_00: There it is.
33:50
SPEAKER_00: I knew you'd get there.
33:51
SPEAKER_02: We played a late show last night, so I'm still half asleep.
33:54
SPEAKER_02: That's okay.
33:55
SPEAKER_06: No, but that's that's very true.
33:56
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's uh it is working, you know.
34:02
SPEAKER_06: Like, you know, my parents are old school and they've always been like, you need a job, you know, you need this, stop.
34:07
SPEAKER_06: And you know, you hear that as you're struggling trying to do something.
34:10
SPEAKER_06: It's the last thing you want to hear about.
34:12
SPEAKER_06: The last thing.
34:13
SPEAKER_06: My dad, even one time, he was like, I was like, listen, I'm gonna have to cut my hair if you know.
34:16
SPEAKER_06: He's like, get a job, you brought.
34:17
SPEAKER_06: I was like, all right, I guess I gotta cut my hair.
34:19
SPEAKER_06: And he goes, It's okay.
34:20
SPEAKER_06: He goes, be like Madonna.
34:21
SPEAKER_06: She wears a wig when she When's the last time you cut your hair, by the way?
34:25
SPEAKER_06: It's a phenomenal episode.
34:26
SPEAKER_00: It's been a minute.
34:26
SPEAKER_00: Good hair.
34:27
SPEAKER_00: It's been a minute, yeah, yeah.
34:28
SPEAKER_02: It's been uh that's his that's his uh six signature.
34:32
SPEAKER_00: Six months, yeah.
34:33
SPEAKER_00: Can I it's a mess right now?
34:34
SPEAKER_00: Can I surprise you guys with something?
34:35
SPEAKER_00: So we did a back in the day, we did a Howard Stern episode.
34:40
SPEAKER_00: We just talked about Howard Stern.
34:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, talked about this is right before we didn't know if he was gonna renew his contract or not.
34:47
SPEAKER_00: So clearly, I, as somebody who is uh an entertainer myself, I like to dress up, and so I dressed up as Howard Stern.
34:54
SPEAKER_00: So happens you show up, Moss.
35:01
SPEAKER_00: So And then he's also gonna add to add the cherry on top.
35:06
SPEAKER_00: I dressed up for St.
35:07
SPEAKER_00: Patty's episode.
35:10
SPEAKER_00: Look like slash I was going for the Nas, but I'll take Slash too.
35:16
SPEAKER_00: That works too.
35:17
SPEAKER_00: It's a little bit hard to see, but this is I don't know how you do it.
35:19
SPEAKER_00: The phone is possible.
35:21
SPEAKER_02: Oh my god, that's so that's a good look on you, actually.
35:23
SPEAKER_02: I'm trying.
35:26
SPEAKER_01: Essentially, right now we look like the store brand of Mojo Juju.
35:29
SPEAKER_01: It's the T Mu.
35:31
SPEAKER_01: We're the T-Boo version.
35:33
SPEAKER_06: Oh, that hair's way better than Mojo Juju.
35:36
SPEAKER_01: That's wet and taking care of the leave-in condition.
35:41
SPEAKER_01: I got up to grab the hat because I didn't know if you had noticed.
35:43
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I got it.
35:44
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I got as soon as you walked in with the green hat.
35:46
SPEAKER_06: Green hat.
35:47
SPEAKER_06: I should have brought you a dude, story of my life.
35:50
SPEAKER_06: Taking hair out of the whole thing.
35:53
SPEAKER_06: Especially when we're playing live, I'm like singing back when I'm like, huh, better hair.
35:57
SPEAKER_01: You or leave?
35:59
unknown: Yeah.
35:59
SPEAKER_01: I think he has better hands.
36:01
SPEAKER_00: Who spends longer on their hair?
36:03
SPEAKER_00: I know.
36:05
SPEAKER_01: You don't do like the plop bowl method for your curls.
36:08
SPEAKER_01: Oh, for him?
36:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for him.
36:09
SPEAKER_01: You should try that.
36:10
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't do anything.
36:12
SPEAKER_01: You gotta take care of your curls.
36:13
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
36:14
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
36:14
SPEAKER_06: Because I was used to always uh different environments, so I just wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and go.
36:20
SPEAKER_01: You can do that.
36:22
SPEAKER_06: I literally went like this.
36:23
SPEAKER_06: It tells you in my brain.
36:25
SPEAKER_06: That works out.
36:25
SPEAKER_06: What is you want to have?
36:27
SPEAKER_01: That's a really good attitude to have.
36:29
SPEAKER_00: I love that attitude.
36:30
SPEAKER_00: We absolutely love that attitude.
36:32
SPEAKER_00: Um, dude, take care of your curls like like we do, dude.
36:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, come on now.
36:35
SPEAKER_01: Your curls kind of look greasy.
36:37
SPEAKER_00: I look like a dark-haired carrot top in this thing.
36:40
SPEAKER_00: This is this is embarrassing.
36:42
SPEAKER_00: Listen, here's what we're gonna do.
36:44
SPEAKER_00: Because Mojo Juju came, they're gonna perform a few songs for us, which I am extremely excited for.
36:49
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna fix this wig.
36:51
SPEAKER_00: Get some hair out of my mouth.
36:52
SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah.
36:53
SPEAKER_00: Let's let's take a quick break.
36:55
SPEAKER_00: Let's get set up, and uh, I'm gonna fix my wig.
36:57
SPEAKER_05: Let's do it.
37:00
SPEAKER_00: The very first band that I wanted to play in this new studio was, of course, Mojo Juju.
37:04
SPEAKER_00: And also, I'm I'm very excited about the fact that my wig is matching Nas's hair so flawlessly.
37:10
SPEAKER_00: It's a mirror.
37:11
SPEAKER_00: It's a thing.
37:11
SPEAKER_00: It's it's it's it's our thing.
37:13
SPEAKER_00: Um, but Leah, so we're gonna play a couple songs for us.
37:16
SPEAKER_00: The first song, The Only High, is it's it was my request because I listened to this song.
37:21
SPEAKER_00: Out of all the incredible songs you have, this is definitely on my top you know hundred songs of 2025 or 2026 that we're definitely gonna have.
37:30
SPEAKER_00: Do you play The Only High acoustically often?
37:32
SPEAKER_02: No, this is our first time exclusive.
37:36
SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's almost like I planned it this way.
37:39
SPEAKER_00: I didn't, but I I'm absolutely taking full advantage of this.
37:42
SPEAKER_00: Why haven't you played The Only High uh acoustically alive yet?
37:45
SPEAKER_02: Wow, we've been saving it for you.
37:46
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's so sweet of you.
37:48
SPEAKER_00: All right, well, I don't want to get in the way.
37:50
SPEAKER_00: If you need me to jump in, I know this song by the back of my hand.
37:52
SPEAKER_00: So if you need me to jump in, Nas and just you know play the keyboard or whatever, I got you.
37:55
SPEAKER_02: Tambourine.
37:56
SPEAKER_00: Tambourine's, yes, I will tambourine it.
38:04
SPEAKER_03: You got a funny way of trying to explain the feelings that you got for me.
38:10
SPEAKER_03: You're on a high, and when you come down, I'll be caught in your web underneath.
38:16
SPEAKER_03: Give me sugar, and you tell me that is sweeter than a bit of truth.
38:22
SPEAKER_03: But now I'm sober and I wanna scream because all the cravings lead to you.
38:28
SPEAKER_03: And I don't know why why I'm addicted to you.
38:33
SPEAKER_03: And I don't know why why I'm addicted to you.
38:39
SPEAKER_04: Oh no, I'm a big under the scale, cut it again, I'm a big But you see the way I'm tryna keep my ooh when I know you're around.
39:15
SPEAKER_03: But if you're looking through my face, you see that all the walls are crumbling down and I don't know I I am addicted to you.
39:27
SPEAKER_03: And I don't know I am addicted to you.
41:09
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
41:11
SPEAKER_00: That was in my mind, I had an idea of how this song, acoustically live, would go.
41:17
SPEAKER_00: You exceeded, both of you exceeded my expectations.
41:20
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, that guy.
41:23
SPEAKER_00: That's the first time I heard that was incredible.
41:26
SPEAKER_00: No, no, not at all.
41:27
SPEAKER_00: That was raw, that was unfiltered.
41:30
SPEAKER_00: I loved everything about it.
41:30
SPEAKER_00: That was pretty raw, that was great.
41:32
SPEAKER_00: Well done, both of you.
41:33
SPEAKER_00: Get in front of that mic, Nas.
41:35
SPEAKER_00: Don't be shy.
41:35
SPEAKER_00: Get in front of that.
41:36
SPEAKER_00: I want to hear every word of this.
41:37
SPEAKER_00: I forgot.
41:38
SPEAKER_06: Yes.
41:38
SPEAKER_06: I was gonna say, I wasn't sure.
41:40
SPEAKER_06: I was waiting for the big note, and I was like, is she gonna still sing like acoustic?
41:44
SPEAKER_06: She did not hold back.
41:45
SPEAKER_06: And I saw the switch.
41:46
SPEAKER_00: He was like, I did swim here.
41:49
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
41:50
SPEAKER_00: I know it's a little toasty in here, but I you you crushed it.
41:54
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for for just letting it all out.
41:56
SPEAKER_00: Like I said, I don't want the security deposit back.
41:58
SPEAKER_00: And I feel like the roof has been blown off with an acoustic performance.
42:02
SPEAKER_00: And you, Nas, you were rocking out, man.
42:04
SPEAKER_00: What what's the deal with this guitar?
42:06
SPEAKER_06: Brand new 12-string guitar.
42:08
SPEAKER_06: My buddy Gil found me.
42:10
SPEAKER_06: It's uh Taylor, it is beautiful.
42:13
SPEAKER_06: Shout out to Gil.
42:14
SPEAKER_06: Gil's the man.
42:15
SPEAKER_06: We love Gil.
42:15
SPEAKER_06: Gil Rosotto.
42:16
SPEAKER_06: Gil Rosado.
42:17
SPEAKER_06: What's good, baby?
42:18
SPEAKER_06: He's my guitar tech since day one.
42:19
SPEAKER_06: Is it 12 string?
42:20
SPEAKER_06: Is that what you called it?
42:21
SPEAKER_06: 12 string.
42:22
SPEAKER_06: So what a 12 string is, is six string.
42:24
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
42:24
SPEAKER_06: And each string has an octave.
42:26
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
42:26
SPEAKER_06: So you have a lower string, and then right below it is an octave.
42:33
SPEAKER_06: Which makes it's the same note.
42:34
SPEAKER_06: Like you want a piano.
42:35
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, sure.
42:36
SPEAKER_06: You have an E here, and then you have one on another octave.
42:38
SPEAKER_06: So this is what this is.
42:39
SPEAKER_00: Interesting.
42:40
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
42:40
SPEAKER_00: So you really have to be precise with what you're strumming.
42:43
SPEAKER_06: You do, and you know it's new to me, uh, but I'm starting to get used to it.
42:46
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
42:47
SPEAKER_06: It's it's the actual neck is huge.
42:50
SPEAKER_00: So I'm like trying to grip it right, but can you play me something that you can do on a 12 string that you can't do on any other normal guitar?
42:56
SPEAKER_00: You could do you can you can play anything that you you would.
43:00
SPEAKER_06: I love playing Bach on this.
43:01
SPEAKER_06: Do you?
43:02
SPEAKER_06: Can you give me a quick little bock?
43:04
unknown: You ready?
43:05
SPEAKER_00: I'm ready.
43:47
SPEAKER_00: I screwed up.
43:48
SPEAKER_00: Listen, again, yeah, that was incredible.
43:51
SPEAKER_06: Adds so much.
43:52
SPEAKER_06: You know, it's almost like uh when I play Bach on a 12 string, it sounds like a harpsichord or like a old school instrument he would play.
43:59
SPEAKER_00: Playing Bach on a A 12-string guitar with a wig like this feels like I should be drinking champagne out of my energy drink cup.
44:05
SPEAKER_00: That's what it feels like.
44:06
SPEAKER_00: It's a mix between champagne and energy drink.
44:09
SPEAKER_00: I'm here for it.
44:10
SPEAKER_00: That was great.
44:11
SPEAKER_00: So uh the the only high is that was is that your biggest song so far you feel like?
44:16
SPEAKER_00: Like that's what has been most received and most listened to for sure.
44:19
SPEAKER_00: Is it?
44:19
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean it's our highest like on Spotify.
44:22
SPEAKER_02: Um, and we had some uh you know videos go viral of that.
44:26
SPEAKER_02: So that part where it's like I just can't laugh.
44:29
SPEAKER_06: Yes like that crazy part went viral on um Facebook and Instagram and the timing of the note she throws feels off, which is what makes it cool, and it was an accident.
44:40
SPEAKER_06: Really?
44:40
SPEAKER_06: And I kept it.
44:41
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I went, wow, you know, so that's the magic of making music.
44:45
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it really is.
44:46
SPEAKER_06: Accidents become like wow.
44:48
SPEAKER_00: So they really do make that like they make the song more unique.
44:52
SPEAKER_00: You don't expect it to happen exactly the way that you go, like there's a little surprise to it.
44:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and it kind of adds again your own little unique flair to it.
44:59
SPEAKER_06: I wonder if it's like that with everything, you know, like just life in general.
45:02
SPEAKER_06: Like you make a mistake and it can lead to like something awesome.
45:06
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, dude.
45:06
SPEAKER_00: I think so.
45:07
SPEAKER_00: What's going on with these?
45:09
SPEAKER_00: No, I'm sober, I swear.
45:11
SPEAKER_06: That's fantastic.
45:12
SPEAKER_06: I've always been like that.
45:14
SPEAKER_00: You see the beauty everywhere.
45:15
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I try.
45:16
SPEAKER_06: I try.
45:16
SPEAKER_06: I definitely try.
45:17
SPEAKER_00: It's beautiful.
45:18
SPEAKER_00: So in that wig.
45:20
SPEAKER_00: Especially if it's like, dude, every time I see it move, I'm like, I feel like I feel like you and I are doing like this.
45:25
SPEAKER_00: I love it, bro.
45:26
SPEAKER_00: I love this so much.
45:28
SPEAKER_06: No one's ever done that.
45:29
SPEAKER_06: That's the shit.
45:29
SPEAKER_00: Good, good.
45:30
SPEAKER_00: I want to be the only no one's ever done The Only High Live, and no one's ever worn a wig while watching Nas rock out.
45:35
SPEAKER_00: This is fantastic.
45:36
SPEAKER_00: Um, well done.
45:37
SPEAKER_00: All right, so second song you have coming up, what's it gonna be?
45:41
SPEAKER_02: This is Out of Out of Your Mind, which is the first song, original song we released.
45:45
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
45:45
SPEAKER_02: Um, and we're actually coming up on our one year of releasing original music in a couple weeks.
45:50
SPEAKER_02: So congratulations.
45:52
SPEAKER_05: We released this while we were in Japan.
45:53
SPEAKER_06: We released this one while we were in Japan.
45:55
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
45:55
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
45:56
SPEAKER_06: Very cool.
45:57
SPEAKER_06: All right.
45:58
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
45:59
SPEAKER_05: Do you want to start together or want we get started?
46:02
SPEAKER_04: Uh I used to look for you in the crowd in the room.
46:16
SPEAKER_04: I used to wait for you, but yeah, I think you how much me would I dream.
47:16
SPEAKER_04: You made a mountain out of me, then crushed it down and watch me be.
47:23
SPEAKER_04: You spoke so sweet and then poor cabin.
47:28
SPEAKER_04: Cause you know, be the same.
48:22
SPEAKER_04: Big red phone.
48:23
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
48:24
SPEAKER_00: Yes, you did it.
48:26
SPEAKER_00: You did it.
48:26
SPEAKER_00: I was so not nervous because I know you guys are professionals, but I was nervous that we're being that it was the acoustic side of things that we were gonna miss out on that.
48:34
SPEAKER_00: Like the uh, like the just the build-up.
48:37
SPEAKER_00: Oh that that that that's me doing Leah.
48:41
SPEAKER_00: Sorry, was that not good enough for you?
48:43
SPEAKER_00: No, I was right.
48:45
SPEAKER_00: Wow, wow.
48:46
SPEAKER_00: How long did it take you to write that song?
48:49
SPEAKER_06: I wrote it in a day.
48:50
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
48:51
SPEAKER_06: She went to sing at Delilah.
48:52
SPEAKER_06: She went to sing Delilah.
48:54
SPEAKER_06: And I was uh at home, and this was one of the first songs I completed um after my not writing for a while.
49:02
SPEAKER_06: Yes.
49:02
SPEAKER_06: So I wrote it all drums, and I literally believed in it.
49:05
SPEAKER_06: I was like, oh my god.
49:06
SPEAKER_06: She came back at like one in the morning, walks in, and just comes up with that, dude.
49:11
SPEAKER_06: Phenomenal.
49:12
SPEAKER_06: I didn't have anything to do with vocal melody on this one, um, except for the very I think we worked on like uh those high notes, whatever.
49:18
SPEAKER_06: But everything, all the vocal melody lyrics is all Leah.
49:22
SPEAKER_06: It's uh you do that's the day I was like, holy mold, here we are.
49:26
SPEAKER_02: We were like, Oh, there's something here.
49:28
SPEAKER_02: And then that's that song came out almost a year ago today.
49:30
SPEAKER_06: And funny enough, uh it was written, but we never like played it or recorded it yet.
49:36
SPEAKER_06: And we had to go play on the news.
49:38
SPEAKER_06: And we didn't plan anything, we just showed up and it was five.
49:44
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, nice it was brand new, brand new song, and brand new song.
49:47
SPEAKER_06: It was fun, and we actually took ideas from that performance that was improvised and used it in the song.
49:53
SPEAKER_06: Which part?
49:54
SPEAKER_06: Um, the uh the and then there's a certain line when she sings the what would you call that?
49:59
SPEAKER_06: A bridge.
49:59
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
50:00
SPEAKER_06: In the bridge, uh, we add little um she goes, nah, da da da and I do the same thing on my guitar.
50:08
SPEAKER_06: It was just so cool.
50:09
SPEAKER_06: It was a moment.
50:09
SPEAKER_06: We're like, okay.
50:10
SPEAKER_06: That's incredible.
50:11
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, but things like that.
50:12
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
50:13
SPEAKER_00: So you guys had a new song just come out, right?
50:15
SPEAKER_00: What's it called?
50:15
SPEAKER_02: Misfit.
50:16
SPEAKER_00: Misfit.
50:17
SPEAKER_00: Yes, favorite song.
50:18
SPEAKER_00: Is it your favorite song?
50:18
SPEAKER_00: Why is this your favorite song?
50:20
SPEAKER_02: Um I don't know if it's my favorite.
50:23
SPEAKER_02: Lyrically song.
50:24
SPEAKER_02: Lyrically, yeah.
50:25
SPEAKER_02: I I think um like I was saying before, I just feel like a lot of people can relate.
50:30
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
50:31
SPEAKER_02: I've I've been through a lot in my life, he's been through a lot in his life.
50:33
SPEAKER_02: I feel like we've all we've all been.
50:35
SPEAKER_06: We've all have stories for sure, everybody.
50:37
SPEAKER_02: And I feel like um we've all felt like a misfit or an outsider at one time or another.
50:42
SPEAKER_02: And so I wanted to speak to those people that have felt that way.
50:45
SPEAKER_02: And and when I wrote the verses, I was like, whoa, this is way more like about myself than I thought it was gonna be.
50:52
SPEAKER_02: And it just ended up feeling special.
50:55
SPEAKER_00: It's it's so crazy when you write something like that, you don't realize the you know, when after you're done or after you see it on paper and it kind of sinks in, you're like, Whoa, this actually has more meaning than than I thought it would.
51:04
SPEAKER_00: That's fantastic.
51:05
SPEAKER_00: So on Nas, on your end of this uh of Misfit, did you start with the melodies and the the music first, or was this the lyrics first?
51:12
SPEAKER_06: Uh definitely, yeah, the music first.
51:14
SPEAKER_06: It was this was another one that was fully written with drums and everything.
51:18
SPEAKER_06: And uh I showed it to Leah, but we didn't touch it for two year and a half, two years.
51:26
SPEAKER_06: Wow, it took that long.
51:27
SPEAKER_06: It's another one that was trash folder type song.
51:29
SPEAKER_06: And I remember I had three songs to write real quick, and that was one of the ones I pulled out.
51:34
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, because I wrote two, but I cheated.
51:36
SPEAKER_06: So um, yeah, it was written, and then Leah, I helped Leah with the on this one with uh chorus melody.
51:42
SPEAKER_06: Okay, yeah.
51:43
SPEAKER_06: The choruses.
51:43
SPEAKER_06: If she, you know, it's it's it's more of my influence, I would say.
51:47
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, but again, it's uh that process where I was like, Oh, here's a melody, and she does it, and then she just kills the rest of the song, just crushes.
51:55
SPEAKER_06: And then we went back in the studio and I made her do a bunch of harmonies again.
52:00
SPEAKER_02: Queen Queen Harmony Harmony.
52:02
SPEAKER_06: You kind of hear them and but it made it so cool because right before the chorus hits, she says here.
52:07
SPEAKER_06: Okay, and it used to be just one voice going here, which is cool, but I'm like, we're in the studio, bad elements, yeah.
52:15
SPEAKER_06: You want to go here, and one goes, Whoa, what?
52:17
SPEAKER_06: You know, yeah.
52:18
SPEAKER_02: So I had a I had a you know, I have a my notes app is full of like sure crazy, like if you read my notes app, you'll probably think I'm crazy.
52:26
SPEAKER_02: It's just like random scribblings, and I had the line, your tears they fall in silver ink.
52:33
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, that has to be the first line of something.
52:35
SPEAKER_02: And then when Nas played me the song, I was like, this fits.
52:38
SPEAKER_02: I was trying to like jam it into this song, and then it it ended up working.
52:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love I love what you came up with.
52:44
SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm very excited.
52:45
SPEAKER_00: The song is fantastic.
52:46
SPEAKER_00: I've listened to it a handful of times even before you guys came in here, and I I love it.
52:50
SPEAKER_00: I'm very excited to hear it live because I haven't heard it live yet.
52:53
SPEAKER_00: So please, without further ado, Misfit.
52:57
SPEAKER_06: Misfit acoustic version for the first time.
52:59
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
53:23
SPEAKER_04: Cause you don't know how to rig to fight a wood.
53:29
SPEAKER_04: You tell me you've seen better days.
53:32
SPEAKER_04: How can you carry that much weight when the ocean won't stop dragging you below?
53:41
SPEAKER_04: I know someday you'll find your voice.
53:48
SPEAKER_04: I know you'll break through all the night.
53:54
SPEAKER_04: I know it's fun and so it's coming soon.
54:26
SPEAKER_04: I got me out of my shot.
54:40
SPEAKER_04: You think nobody understands, but I've held hell in both my hands and came back with a different kind of faith.
54:52
SPEAKER_04: I'm dreaming of a better life for kids like me who die inside but build their armor out of love and grace.
55:05
SPEAKER_04: I know someday you'll find a fun.
55:11
SPEAKER_04: I know you'll pray through all the show It's calm and so I bless the girl God bless the boys.
55:57
SPEAKER_04: I bless the girl God bless the boys, I bless the girl.
56:39
SPEAKER_03: Baby, you're a misfit.
56:45
SPEAKER_00: I'm standing up with it.
56:46
SPEAKER_00: I gotta I gotta get a stand up, man.
56:48
SPEAKER_00: That was phenomenal.
56:49
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
56:50
SPEAKER_00: But the the two of you, you were you guys improvised?
56:52
SPEAKER_06: That was was it really?
56:53
SPEAKER_06: What was improvised about that?
56:54
SPEAKER_06: Which part of the song, but I just the way I'm playing the guitar on it, I'm playing it different than what's on the record.
57:00
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
57:00
SPEAKER_06: But it's acoustics, just her and I.
57:02
SPEAKER_06: So I have to like play bass and guitar if that makes sense.
57:05
SPEAKER_00: It does.
57:05
SPEAKER_00: And are you not able to do that with without the 12 string?
57:09
SPEAKER_00: Uh no, no.
57:09
SPEAKER_00: Of course.
57:10
SPEAKER_06: You can do it, but just 12 string just adds more uh fullness.
57:14
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
57:14
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's just full, but the two of you together.
57:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was incredible.
57:19
SPEAKER_00: The two of you together are such a great team because like Nas, your enthusiasm, I feel like, feeds off her voice, and your voice feeds off your playing, and like you guys are just you guys are in sync, and that like you have the same type of excitement and enthusiasm throughout the entire song.
57:32
SPEAKER_00: You got me pumped up.
57:34
SPEAKER_00: I was right on, dude.
57:34
SPEAKER_00: Nas's face was like I was I looked at you, I was making the I looked to you and I was like, Did you hear that?
57:40
SPEAKER_06: You saw him something.
57:42
SPEAKER_06: Bro, I'll be on stage and she'll just hit something, and I go, I stopped playing, I go, what?
57:47
SPEAKER_00: Like that steak he faced, like what was that?
57:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well done.
57:51
SPEAKER_02: What's the ultimate compliment?
57:52
SPEAKER_02: Is the thing the steak?
57:54
SPEAKER_06: The steak or your whole guitar?
57:57
SPEAKER_06: You ever seen the guitar player thing where they photoshopped like Santana, whoever, and they're like this?
58:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but they put a slug in their hands, but they're like, it's so there's how much how much of the uh of what you do, and this is a question for both of you, feeds off the audience, or are you just not focused on the audience when you're up there that you're just focused on yourself?
58:17
SPEAKER_02: Oh my god, everything is the audience.
58:19
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, really audience.
58:20
SPEAKER_06: You know what synergy is?
58:21
SPEAKER_06: Absolutely, it's when it comes back to you.
58:23
SPEAKER_06: So if you're putting it out there and the crowd's just like you feel that, but if they're uh with you, you just get more energy and then you give them more, and so on.
58:31
SPEAKER_02: It's a you know Oh my god.
58:33
SPEAKER_02: My my mom has come to so many shows, and she d has said that there's like a handful of times she's been in the audience where you can literally feel the energy going and it's just like people get like so crazy, and then we go harder, and it's like this crazy and you gotta read the crowd, especially for cover stuff.
58:54
SPEAKER_06: You gotta keep them entertained, you know.
58:57
SPEAKER_06: Cause like let's say if there's like uh you know, a mixture, let's say someone's between the age of you know 25 to 35, let's say that that range, and you gotta make sure the songs you're playing, yeah, they don't like shredding, you know, it's very rare.
59:12
SPEAKER_06: But they you know, you play them just more like songs that are like girl bass, like you know, what's her name?
59:17
SPEAKER_06: Uh Katie Perry and all that stuff.
59:19
SPEAKER_06: We rock out of everything, which is fun.
59:21
SPEAKER_06: But you you have to read that.
59:22
SPEAKER_06: So you know, if I see those girls, I'm not gonna go into a Zeppelin song or Esther.
59:27
SPEAKER_06: But if I see, you know, there's dudes and women, a mixture, I go, oh yeah, A C D C.
59:32
SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah.
59:32
SPEAKER_06: And I see it change and work.
59:35
SPEAKER_06: And what I usually let is just intuition guide me.
59:38
SPEAKER_06: I'm like, we should play this, and I just go for it, you know, and it works.
59:41
SPEAKER_06: But if I set as soon as I have a second thought, I'm like, ah, I'm losing somebody.
59:47
SPEAKER_06: So it's challenging.
59:48
SPEAKER_06: But for original music, uh, like in Japan, yeah, we did that big crowd.
59:53
SPEAKER_06: They say that it was 30,000, but I think it was less than that.
59:56
SPEAKER_06: It was probably like 10, I mean it was 15.
59:58
SPEAKER_06: It was still a lot of people.
1:00:00
SPEAKER_06: But you know, for for example, that crowd, yeah, I was reading it, but I was reading it more of a sense like I'm performing this.
1:00:05
SPEAKER_06: Yes, like this is our and they're into it.
1:00:07
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they're like that was the craziest show we have ever played.
1:00:11
SPEAKER_02: I mean, they they'd never even heard of us.
1:00:12
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we went out there and they were and they started slowly coming in, remember?
1:00:16
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, oh that's a great idea.
1:00:17
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we had to go.
1:00:19
SPEAKER_06: After a few songs, they came on, and the video is actually impressive.
1:00:23
SPEAKER_06: And you know, the biggest crowds we've played to twice now has been Japan.
1:00:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Japan is just I know.
1:00:28
SPEAKER_02: So funny.
1:00:29
SPEAKER_06: Did you know who we opened for in Japan?
1:00:30
SPEAKER_06: This is so random.
1:00:31
SPEAKER_06: Who'd you open for in Japan?
1:00:32
SPEAKER_06: Sean Paul.
1:00:33
SPEAKER_06: Really?
1:00:33
SPEAKER_06: Sean and Paul?
1:00:34
SPEAKER_00: I love that.
1:00:37
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
1:00:37
SPEAKER_00: What's the Vegas music scene like?
1:00:39
SPEAKER_00: I I always ask this all the performers we have come on.
1:00:41
SPEAKER_00: I'd love to get your feedback on what you feel like Vegas.
1:00:44
SPEAKER_00: Is it very uh welcoming?
1:00:45
SPEAKER_00: Is it very competitive?
1:00:47
SPEAKER_00: What's the deal with Vegas?
1:00:48
SPEAKER_06: Vegas is definitely um welcoming.
1:00:51
SPEAKER_06: There's a lot of bands out here, cover bands.
1:00:53
SPEAKER_06: I think the only issue that I've ran into in this town, as far as the music industry, is there is this like thing that's hindering around the scene, which is like I gotta be careful how to say this.
1:01:07
SPEAKER_06: But just old news, like the same old like the same way of business you've been doing for the past like 20, 30 years, or the way you book bands, things like that.
1:01:17
SPEAKER_06: I think more bands in this town, I hope they hear this, is they need to stick up for themselves and believe in themselves, meaning, you know, but feel your worth.
1:01:25
SPEAKER_06: You know what's right, what's not.
1:01:27
SPEAKER_06: And I do understand when someone's desperate, they're scared, they're looking for work, they kind of just let things happen.
1:01:32
SPEAKER_06: But not realizing that if if one person lets something slide by, whether it's a pay thing or a time thing, it affects everyone else.
1:01:40
SPEAKER_06: Sure.
1:01:41
SPEAKER_06: So if one person or a few stand up and go no, and you have some sort of name, then it starts to change, and it's okay.
1:01:47
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, you know, you're not hurting anyone, you're just going, hey, it's not fair.
1:01:50
SPEAKER_06: There's young guys out here, everyone's trying to work and and live, but there's definitely every the music industry, wherever you are, you're gonna run into icon artists or sharks.
1:01:59
SPEAKER_06: It's just the industry.
1:02:00
SPEAKER_06: So I just try to tell you know, people in you know, younger bands or people with us, like starting out, like, man, just just have your worth.
1:02:10
SPEAKER_06: This is a town, this is one of the biggest towns for for entertainment, and you're here performing is a big deal.
1:02:15
SPEAKER_06: So own it.
1:02:16
SPEAKER_06: Own it.
1:02:17
SPEAKER_06: Don't be afraid to to you know ask for more income or or if something's not fair with uh some people try to make you play for like four hours straight.
1:02:24
SPEAKER_06: That's wild.
1:02:25
SPEAKER_06: That's because they don't think about long activity for certain bands, like Leah is and I I'm not just saying this because I play with her, but she's a world-class singer, man.
1:02:35
SPEAKER_06: And to be working with someone, I feel responsible to look out for her.
1:02:38
SPEAKER_06: You know, so if I see her singing and her voice is getting tired and these people want more, I'm like, no, this is we have a future here that's we're working towards.
1:02:47
SPEAKER_06: We can't, you know, lose it over a couple hundred bucks, you know, things like that.
1:02:51
SPEAKER_06: But so that's that's the music scene in Vegas that I've been challenging lately.
1:02:57
SPEAKER_06: But on the positive side, it is a town with a lot of work.
1:03:00
SPEAKER_06: Right.
1:03:01
SPEAKER_06: You have to know the people, and people are cool here.
1:03:03
SPEAKER_06: They're cool.
1:03:04
SPEAKER_06: You're cool, respect, you get the same back.
1:03:07
SPEAKER_06: Um, I haven't ran into anyone that uh in this town from here that gave me a feeling like uh at all.
1:03:14
SPEAKER_06: I promise you that it's it's but there are you know people doing business here that I gotcha are not qualified.
1:03:21
SPEAKER_00: Do you guys have any uh venues that you're you you enjoy playing out of?
1:03:27
SPEAKER_02: My favorite by far is the barbershop at the Cosmopolitan.
1:03:31
SPEAKER_02: Um that's the first venue we played uh when Ben asked us to do born, Mojo was born.
1:03:36
SPEAKER_02: Mojo was born there, and then the birthplace of Mojo.
1:03:39
SPEAKER_02: The birthplace of Mojo.
1:03:41
SPEAKER_02: And um really I just think it's the gold standard for for any venue, and and it's the only venue and one of the only venues in town where you can go and expect there's gonna be a party every night.
1:03:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:03:54
SPEAKER_02: It could be a Tuesday, you know.
1:03:56
SPEAKER_02: So we we walk on that stage and it feels like we're rock stars.
1:04:00
SPEAKER_02: People are people are ready and waiting.
1:04:02
SPEAKER_02: They don't even have to know who you are, they're just ready to party.
1:04:05
SPEAKER_06: Although I gotta say something really cool that's been happening.
1:04:08
SPEAKER_06: Since we've been going low viral, we have people that are like, we just flew in from Alabama to see you.
1:04:13
SPEAKER_06: Shit.
1:04:14
SPEAKER_06: Whoa.
1:04:15
SPEAKER_06: That's been really cool.
1:04:16
SPEAKER_06: It's been happening like multiple.
1:04:17
SPEAKER_02: That's been really cool.
1:04:18
SPEAKER_02: We had a we had a crazy January.
1:04:20
SPEAKER_02: We got like over 10 million views on Facebook and Instagram.
1:04:24
SPEAKER_00: Fantastic.
1:04:25
SPEAKER_02: And people, it was the first time in either of our careers where people were messaging us going, Oh, we're flying to Vegas to see you.
1:04:32
SPEAKER_02: We're fans now, where can we get an album?
1:04:34
SPEAKER_02: And we were like, Whoa, this is really like starting to happen.
1:04:37
SPEAKER_06: And it happened fast with the social media.
1:04:39
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, as far as for some reason, Facebook, we have a lot more followers, like it's cracking on there.
1:04:45
SPEAKER_06: Instagram, the followers are all natural and they're going up, which is so cool to see.
1:04:49
SPEAKER_06: But the videos are going viral, which is awesome.
1:04:52
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I'm like, and it's bringing traffic that way.
1:04:55
SPEAKER_06: Do you guys handle your own social media?
1:04:56
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, Leah works her ass off, man.
1:05:00
SPEAKER_02: I do.
1:05:00
SPEAKER_02: I I spend like probably three to four hours a day minimum.
1:05:03
SPEAKER_02: It's a beast.
1:05:04
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it truly is insane.
1:05:05
SPEAKER_02: It's it's a second job.
1:05:06
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it really is.
1:05:07
SPEAKER_06: You know what blows my mind about social media is the content that goes viral.
1:05:12
SPEAKER_06: I'll give you an example.
1:05:12
SPEAKER_06: Please I can sit here right now with the nicest cameras light and play you an incredible piece, note for note, and I'll post it.
1:05:20
SPEAKER_06: No one cares.
1:05:22
SPEAKER_06: It's cool.
1:05:23
SPEAKER_06: She, I'm in my room and my PJs, my hair's up in there, there's PlayStation control on the ground, Doritos crumbs all over.
1:05:30
SPEAKER_06: Dude, yeah, and I'm she's it's my back, and I'm playing this uh my favorite guitar player, Ingve Momstein.
1:05:36
SPEAKER_06: Okay, I'm playing, you know, a lake from his playing along, and she's just filming.
1:05:40
SPEAKER_06: I have no idea.
1:05:41
SPEAKER_06: Dude, she posts it and writes, How come you don't go to the club anymore?
1:05:45
SPEAKER_06: Oh, because I'm playing guitar for eight hours, right?
1:05:48
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, bro, it goes viral.
1:05:50
SPEAKER_06: Phenomenal.
1:05:50
SPEAKER_06: And it's and p and fans of the guitar player, but in my PJs and my hair up and like there was no perfection, it was just a very natural moment.
1:06:00
SPEAKER_06: And that's when I started to realize about social media.
1:06:02
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, what truly works, unless you have followers and you can post anything you want, yeah, is the simplicity, is the raw moments.
1:06:08
SPEAKER_06: Like right now, you and I hanging out going, oh man, oh man.
1:06:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
1:06:12
SPEAKER_06: Someone goes, Oh my gosh, it's just these things that you don't expect to go viral, go viral, but you're smart with that.
1:06:18
SPEAKER_06: And so the way she uses the caption on the video, you get that aspect.
1:06:21
SPEAKER_02: But I think in my personal opinion, it's actually a much bigger message.
1:06:25
SPEAKER_02: Like it it speaks to people's need for authenticity nowadays.
1:06:28
SPEAKER_02: And and also we are so we're like anti-AI because so many people are using AI in their music right now.
1:06:35
SPEAKER_05: That that hurts.
1:06:36
SPEAKER_02: And it's hard to tell.
1:06:36
SPEAKER_02: There's a lot of people who think this is my favorite artist and they're not even real.
1:06:41
SPEAKER_02: And so I feel like authenticity is such a it's a baseline of who we want to be seen as.
1:06:46
SPEAKER_02: And in the future, in the next 10 years, as AI gets better, the only way that you're gonna be able to enjoy real music and know it's real is to see a live performance.
1:06:55
SPEAKER_00: Well said.
1:06:55
SPEAKER_02: So it's like that's what people want.
1:06:57
SPEAKER_00: They just want the real we've had so many successful business business owners and decision makers here on this show that we've been so fortunate to have.
1:07:06
SPEAKER_00: And we always kind of dive in to see, you know, what are they doing right or what works for them, or maybe not them, but the people that they're engaged with or succeeding with.
1:07:15
SPEAKER_00: What's this what's the secret?
1:07:16
SPEAKER_00: And 99.9% of the time, it's authenticity.
1:07:20
SPEAKER_00: Being authentic, showing those raw moments, connecting with the fans from Alabama is is the reason they come out to you is because you have that authenticity, and that's where more and more people are finally realizing.
1:07:30
SPEAKER_00: And and some succeed with it, some still have problems, you know, fighting against it.
1:07:34
SPEAKER_00: But it's so true.
1:07:35
SPEAKER_00: Authenticity.
1:07:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's refreshing to hear that.
1:07:37
SPEAKER_02: And I think um, you know, like we have like nieces and nephews, and they're like, you know, between you know, 10, 16, 17, and they never got to grow up with blood Zeppelin.
1:07:47
SPEAKER_02: Right.
1:07:48
SPEAKER_02: They never got to see any of that.
1:07:49
SPEAKER_02: And they they want to I mean we didn't have Zeppelin either.
1:07:51
SPEAKER_02: We didn't either.
1:07:53
SPEAKER_00: How old am I?
1:07:54
SPEAKER_00: Listen, as long as you're over the age of 27, we're all good.
1:07:57
SPEAKER_06: We never saw him.
1:07:59
SPEAKER_02: But they there's like this whole generation of kids out there that are dying for this like real unique experience, live experience.
1:08:07
SPEAKER_02: So I feel like it's kind of making this comeback of this turnaround.
1:08:10
SPEAKER_06: So it is, and you know, the world right now is changing.
1:08:13
SPEAKER_06: There's definitely different thoughts, different people are finding out things they never knew.
1:08:17
SPEAKER_06: So it's a time right now to be authentic as as as much as possible.
1:08:21
SPEAKER_06: And that's the good word I was trying to use when talking about writing music.
1:08:25
SPEAKER_06: Is I try to it has to be real, yeah.
1:08:28
SPEAKER_06: It has to, yeah, you know, people can feel it, it has to be, and it's hard for a musician to get shut down when you write something very real, but you have to remember it's a business.
1:08:40
SPEAKER_06: If someone's coming at you, you put yourself in a record, they see it as a bag of chips.
1:08:45
SPEAKER_06: I don't like how the bag of chips is orange, change that.
1:08:48
SPEAKER_06: Oh my god, it's the best part.
1:08:49
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so you have to keep that in mind, but you don't have to go with it.
1:08:52
SPEAKER_06: You don't, man.
1:08:53
SPEAKER_06: You don't, and some of some, I think most great bands that I grew up listening to have stories like that where the belief of their music, they no matter what, even if they got dropped, they stuck to it, but it was worth it.
1:09:06
SPEAKER_06: Yes, yeah.
1:09:06
SPEAKER_06: Do you know Muse?
1:09:07
SPEAKER_06: The band.
1:09:08
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I do.
1:09:08
SPEAKER_06: That's my favorite band.
1:09:09
SPEAKER_06: Is it by oh my god.
1:09:11
SPEAKER_06: I love Muse because classical music.
1:09:12
SPEAKER_06: I'll give you, I'll tell you something.
1:09:13
SPEAKER_06: What inspires me by them is when I was in LA uh trying to get signed, there was uh we call them uh AR, you know.
1:09:21
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, and she goes, you know, I founded Muse.
1:09:24
SPEAKER_06: I brought them to New York.
1:09:26
SPEAKER_06: You loved that.
1:09:26
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, they had an album out, you know, that was like okay.
1:09:29
SPEAKER_06: Brought them, and Madonna's label back then was Madonna again.
1:09:33
SPEAKER_06: Was uh Maverick Records.
1:09:35
SPEAKER_06: They signed them.
1:09:36
SPEAKER_06: They were like, oh man, great.
1:09:38
SPEAKER_06: They put them in the studio, they record a phenomenal album.
1:09:42
SPEAKER_06: They're about to put it out, and the label goes, We're not putting out this operatic weirdness.
1:09:47
SPEAKER_06: Falsetto, his signature is his it's uh do you know what falsetto is?
1:09:52
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:09:52
SPEAKER_06: It's his falsetto, it's his yeah, and they were they don't want that.
1:09:56
SPEAKER_06: And so most bands, I say most bands would have gone, okay, fine.
1:10:01
SPEAKER_06: What do you want us to do?
1:10:03
SPEAKER_06: And then that's the fail right there, because now you're not authentic anymore and you're in a box, and you're still not gonna, you know, so amused it said, all right, screw you.
1:10:12
SPEAKER_06: They went back to England, they went home, they released that album, it went platinum in Europe, and the rest is history.
1:10:19
SPEAKER_06: But just to tell you the labels ruined, they had no money, they they they dropped, they left a label in America, but that's a big deal.
1:10:27
SPEAKER_06: But just to tell you to stay true, and now they're the biggest like bands in the world, they're not mega mainstream, but they sell out arenas twice two nights in a row.
1:10:39
SPEAKER_06: That should tell you something, and that's authentic, and the fans are like like me, like Muse fans are real fans, they're not followers.
1:10:48
SPEAKER_06: Do you know the difference?
1:10:48
SPEAKER_06: Like, you go on someone's Instagram, they got 30 million followers.
1:10:53
SPEAKER_06: It doesn't mean it's fans, right?
1:10:54
SPEAKER_06: You know, so that the fan out of that maybe is a million, you know, say that.
1:10:58
SPEAKER_06: But it's so that's the way to get there.
1:11:00
SPEAKER_06: Well said.
1:11:00
SPEAKER_06: It has to be authentic.
1:11:01
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:11:02
SPEAKER_00: Well said.
1:11:02
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
1:11:03
SPEAKER_00: What are some um up-and-coming bands that you guys are playing alongside with or having fun around town with?
1:11:09
SPEAKER_00: Are there any that you can think of at the top of your mind?
1:11:11
SPEAKER_06: You know, the the ones that I can think of right away is uh my friend Gabriel's band.
1:11:15
SPEAKER_06: Gabriel's uh virtuoso, he plays guitar and keys at the same time.
1:11:20
SPEAKER_06: That's wild.
1:11:20
SPEAKER_06: He's phenomenal.
1:11:21
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
1:11:22
SPEAKER_06: And the most thing I respect about him is his work ethic.
1:11:25
SPEAKER_06: You know, so there's him, his band's called Iconic.
1:11:28
SPEAKER_06: Um, that's actually his his fiance playing bass.
1:11:31
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
1:11:33
SPEAKER_06: And then there's Indy.
1:11:34
SPEAKER_06: Indy's been around, actually voted for Indy back in the day.
1:11:37
SPEAKER_06: Before I played Barbershop, they invited me to vote.
1:11:39
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
1:11:39
SPEAKER_06: And Indy was one of the bands I remember voting for, and he's been there since 2020 before us, before we started playing.
1:11:45
SPEAKER_06: That's someone that kind of is in the scene.
1:11:46
SPEAKER_06: But as far as like, you know, bands we play with, like on a build, you don't really see that here.
1:11:52
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
1:11:52
SPEAKER_06: It's your oh, Mojo's playing Friday night and blah blah blah.
1:11:55
SPEAKER_06: But um, I gotta give a shout-out to uh a friend of ours called a band called In the End.
1:12:01
SPEAKER_06: Um, they're a tribute band of uh Lincoln Park.
1:12:04
SPEAKER_06: Yep, and they they actually did us a huge favor.
1:12:07
SPEAKER_06: They play sell out sold-out shows, and they had the House of Blues and had us open for them and you know, packed house, so we got to do our um originals.
1:12:17
SPEAKER_06: But as far as in Vegas, we still haven't uh found bands that we're like touring with or you know what I'm saying, like on a bill with, but again, we haven't done any original shows in Vegas.
1:12:27
SPEAKER_02: We haven't done any original shows in Vegas, so we're in our other show.
1:12:30
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, we're we're kind of but I think once we start doing that, um, that's where community comes in.
1:12:36
SPEAKER_06: Yes.
1:12:36
SPEAKER_06: You find like-minded bands and you work together, you know, to sell out shows or whatever it is, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:12:42
SPEAKER_06: And they're definitely people go, Vegas has no community.
1:12:45
SPEAKER_00: Yes, it does, buddy.
1:12:46
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah, it definitely does.
1:12:48
SPEAKER_00: No.
1:12:49
SPEAKER_00: Does the guy from Indian, does he try to sound like Chester, or does he because it's so hard to sound like Chester?
1:12:53
SPEAKER_00: He's so good.
1:12:54
SPEAKER_00: He is or to put his own spin on Lincoln Park songs.
1:12:57
SPEAKER_02: He sounds like him, but like his own version of it.
1:12:59
SPEAKER_06: He's one of those people who's just a savant.
1:13:02
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he is.
1:13:02
SPEAKER_02: He's he's and I'm you know, I'm a being a singer, you're ultra critical of other singers, and he's one of the best.
1:13:08
SPEAKER_06: I've got makes it even better.
1:13:12
SPEAKER_06: He's a cool dude, and they're a huge band.
1:13:14
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I mean, they're like Lincoln Park, they have the production, they have gear, they're definitely check them out.
1:13:21
SPEAKER_06: They're true, uh what I call real bands, you know.
1:13:24
SPEAKER_06: It's a thing we say, meaning like they have their shit together, they have their sounds or sound guys, yeah, like gear out of this world, and they have a business of huge team, and and you know, it's impressive, and they sell out, they go around, they have diehard fans.
1:13:38
SPEAKER_06: I'm sure.
1:13:39
SPEAKER_06: And it's a tribute band, but they're like their fans have tattoos of their names, and I'm like, Yeah, like for a tribute band.
1:13:45
SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna tell you, I'm I'd be a little freaked out if a fan showed up in a wig.
1:13:50
SPEAKER_06: In a wig and a no, that would just make me so happy.
1:13:54
SPEAKER_06: You might cry.
1:13:55
SPEAKER_06: I feel accepted.
1:13:56
SPEAKER_00: I might cry.
1:13:57
SPEAKER_00: I might cry.
1:13:57
SPEAKER_00: I've cried behind these curls at least three times today so far.
1:14:00
SPEAKER_05: So does he.
1:14:01
SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
1:14:04
SPEAKER_00: Listen, well, uh, I guess I'm we're gonna cut the part where I show you my mojo tattooed that I have on my ass.
1:14:09
SPEAKER_00: My mojo in his ass.
1:14:12
SPEAKER_06: I'm already the left one, just the left one.
1:14:14
SPEAKER_06: You lost a bet for sure.
1:14:16
SPEAKER_00: Or maybe I won a bet.
1:14:17
SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
1:14:18
SPEAKER_00: Winner gets to get mojoed.
1:14:23
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
1:14:24
SPEAKER_00: Uh so lastly, everybody's gonna want to check you guys out.
1:14:28
SPEAKER_00: Where can they find you on social media and where can they find you in Las Vegas?
1:14:32
SPEAKER_02: Uh social media is at Mojo, M-O-J-O-J-U-J-U, and you can find that uh Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, every YouTube, everywhere.
1:14:42
SPEAKER_02: And then our website is mojo jujuband.com, and that has all of our upcoming dates, and we uh delineate what's a what's a cover show versus an original show on there.
1:14:53
SPEAKER_02: Um and you can check us out at the barber shop at the cosmopolitan.
1:14:57
SPEAKER_02: We do Caspians at Caesars Palace, we do Rock's Lounge at Red Rock.
1:15:01
SPEAKER_02: Um, what else?
1:15:03
SPEAKER_06: This this month I would say uh it's the rest of the month we have Saturday at Barber.
1:15:08
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:15:08
SPEAKER_00: You guys are very photogenic.
1:15:09
SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at your website right now.
1:15:11
SPEAKER_00: You guys have fantastic photos.
1:15:12
SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
1:15:13
SPEAKER_02: That's all my my mom's photography.
1:15:14
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, is it Kelly here?
1:15:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:15:16
SPEAKER_00: Well done.
1:15:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you guys are very photogenic.
1:15:18
SPEAKER_00: She's great.
1:15:18
SPEAKER_00: Can you give us an idea of when this unreleased song is is potentially hitting uh hitting the public?
1:15:25
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I want to release.
1:15:27
SPEAKER_06: I want I just you're good.
1:15:29
SPEAKER_06: It's the hat.
1:15:29
SPEAKER_06: It's the hat.
1:15:30
SPEAKER_06: I want to release it tomorrow if I could.
1:15:32
SPEAKER_02: But but it's uh I yeah, he's so funny because he's like, let's release, release, release.
1:15:36
SPEAKER_02: But me working in the social media, I'm like, we need time to you know really let Misfit simmer and get it out there because we have every single song we've released, original we've released so far, there has been something that's gone viral from that song.
1:15:51
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so I'm like, let's let's put in the effort and then we'll release the next one.
1:15:56
SPEAKER_02: So it's exciting.
1:15:57
SPEAKER_06: It's still there's still a little more.
1:15:58
SPEAKER_00: That's a lot of info there.
1:15:59
SPEAKER_00: I will listen.
1:16:00
SPEAKER_00: I want it and I want it now, but I understand.
1:16:03
SPEAKER_06: By your rules, it was written on keyboard.
1:16:05
SPEAKER_06: There you go.
1:16:05
SPEAKER_06: That's print.
1:16:07
SPEAKER_06: And then I added that's the best when you like lay down with another instrument.
1:16:11
SPEAKER_06: And I'm not like an advanced player, I just know basics.
1:16:14
SPEAKER_06: But then you add guitar on top, like my instrument is.
1:16:17
SPEAKER_06: You're such a tease.
1:16:18
SPEAKER_00: Damn you, Nas.
1:16:20
SPEAKER_00: Damn you, Nas.
1:16:20
SPEAKER_00: You're such a tease.
1:16:22
SPEAKER_00: Just just dangling it right here.
1:16:23
SPEAKER_00: Nope, nope.
1:16:23
SPEAKER_00: You want this?
1:16:24
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
1:16:26
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
1:16:27
SPEAKER_00: Well, guys, thank you so much for coming in.
1:16:29
SPEAKER_00: This was phenomenal.
1:16:30
SPEAKER_00: Leah and Nas from fucking Mojo Juju.
1:16:33
unknown: Thank you.
1:16:34
SPEAKER_02: That was awesome.
1:16:35
SPEAKER_00: This was so much fun.
1:16:35
SPEAKER_00: Listen, uh, Julie, any last questions?
1:16:37
SPEAKER_00: I know you're off mic right now, but scream it if you got any last questions.
1:16:42
SPEAKER_00: Julie, off camera, off mic, says that she loves the both of you.
1:16:45
SPEAKER_06: We love you too, and welcome to Vegas.
1:16:46
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
1:16:47
unknown: Come to see you great line.
1:16:48
unknown: I have it.
1:16:48
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
1:16:49
SPEAKER_00: Yes, barber shop.
1:16:50
SPEAKER_00: We'll put you on the list.
1:16:51
SPEAKER_00: You're on the list now, Julie.
1:16:52
SPEAKER_00: The good list.
1:16:53
SPEAKER_06: Please do.
1:16:53
SPEAKER_06: Please do.
1:16:53
SPEAKER_06: I'll be awesome.
1:16:54
SPEAKER_00: The good list.
1:16:54
SPEAKER_04: The good list.
1:16:55
SPEAKER_00: Well, guys, thank you so much for coming in.
1:16:56
SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't want any other band to be our first musicians here in the new studio.
1:17:01
SPEAKER_00: I'm excited to show you the uh the end result of this.
1:17:04
SPEAKER_00: This will come out next week, so it'll be good.
1:17:06
SPEAKER_02: Can I ask you a favor?
1:17:07
SPEAKER_02: Let me pause real quick.
1:17:08
SPEAKER_00: Hold on.
1:17:10
SPEAKER_02: Can you wear that?
1:17:11
SPEAKER_02: Can you wear that all the time?
1:17:12
SPEAKER_02: You know what?
1:17:12
SPEAKER_00: I think I actually I tried to take it off in between bricks and it couldn't come off.
1:17:15
SPEAKER_00: So I think I'm gonna have to.
1:17:17
SPEAKER_00: Oh I think I'm kind of stuck this way.
1:17:18
SPEAKER_00: You were talking about I don't have a face for a hat.
1:17:21
SPEAKER_00: Oh no, I do.
1:17:22
SPEAKER_00: Now I do.
1:17:23
SPEAKER_00: It's this, it's the whole thing.
1:17:25
SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
1:17:27
SPEAKER_00: Oh, thank you everybody for tuning in.
1:17:28
SPEAKER_00: Catch a big head up.
1:17:29
SPEAKER_00: Uh I can't even talk right now.bighead.com.
1:17:33
SPEAKER_00: Mojo, doojo.
1:17:35
SPEAKER_00: I love you guys.
1:17:37
unknown: Yeah.