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olive - A Melodic Journey · Cats & Pudding with Jennifer Dilandro

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  Speaker 1: This Aspect Cats in Butting podcast a Melting and now
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  Speaker 1: here's jam. Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to Kats and Pudding.
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  Speaker 1: And my name is Jennifer Delando, and today we have
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful guest. His name is Olive. Just olive, not olive.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the color olive. It's not the it's not
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  Speaker 1: the olive guata, olive.
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  Speaker 2: Olive garden, the olive garden.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that's it, just plain old olive. But you're
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  Speaker 1: not playing, you're far from plane and you're actually wearing
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  Speaker 1: some kind of olive.
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  Speaker 2: Green to represent the greens today.
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  Speaker 1: I see that you you tend to wear greens a
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  Speaker 1: lot because of your.
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  Speaker 2: Name, usually know, because I feel like it makes my
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  Speaker 2: skin look more greens. Just trying to stick with like
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  Speaker 2: red or something. But I was like, of.
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  Speaker 1: Green, and I love you love the color of green.
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  Speaker 1: I think dock of skin tones like ours. I think
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  Speaker 1: green looks fabulous.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, nice, nice, good to know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that's crazy. So Olive's got a great story. He
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  Speaker 1: is a model, and you also are a singer too, great? Correct,
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  Speaker 1: So what came first to check into the egg the
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  Speaker 1: modeling of the singing?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean okay, I'll have to go with the singing.
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  Speaker 2: But originally it started as piano.
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  Speaker 1: So how old are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm twenty four, Oh you're I have shoes old. I
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  Speaker 2: feel old. I feel old.
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  Speaker 1: Really, it's a fifty three. And then tell me about
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  Speaker 1: me and God will I get out of bed in
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  Speaker 1: the movement in the morning and I feel tired, Like
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  Speaker 1: that's it's bad.
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  Speaker 2: You and me both, and we'll go black shoes, you
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  Speaker 2: get some light? I know.
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  Speaker 1: Well you must do a lot though.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So modelin came first.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, music, music came first because both of my grandfathers,
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  Speaker 2: so my uh, I'm half Jewish German and half Haitian.
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  Speaker 2: And on the German side, my grandpa played piano by
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  Speaker 2: ear and likewise, actually on the Haitian side he played
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  Speaker 2: piano by ear.
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  Speaker 1: Do you speak French?
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  Speaker 2: I speak a little bit more Creole. I speak almost
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  Speaker 2: fluent Germany.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing. You think it a up with the U.
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  Speaker 2: N Actually I did a runway for the UN in September.
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  Speaker 2: That's literally inside the UN building.
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  Speaker 1: It was well, it was in New York.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful building.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was insane. Security clearance was like it was, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you have to be like some people like who were
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  Speaker 2: supposed to go couldn't even walk the show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like if you had like a parking ticket, you
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  Speaker 1: can't even got it. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, So I started just listening to them
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  Speaker 2: play piano, and over time I grew in interest, and
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  Speaker 2: I met a friend in seventh grade and he also
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  Speaker 2: played piano by ear, and we kind of had like
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  Speaker 2: a friendly competition thing going, and it kind of just
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  Speaker 2: escalated until like we all learned how to play, became
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  Speaker 2: like professionals. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing. And did you have a piano in your house?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I do have a yamaha when you were growing up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's how I learned how to play too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: my mother was I had a baby. Grand piano was
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  Speaker 1: starting way in my house. My mother was a constant pianist.
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  Speaker 1: She used to play. My friends would come to my
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  Speaker 1: house and my mother would be playing chopin Yeah and
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  Speaker 1: yeah it would be amazing And I would listen to
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  Speaker 1: her play and I would try to follow along. I
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  Speaker 1: should have went through. I should have followed more through
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  Speaker 1: with it, you know. But back then, in our generation,
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  Speaker 1: we're lucky. You know, well lucky. We even exactly know.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have cost seats, we had no helmets, just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there you go, here's to go to the mall by yourself.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are like eating children toys and lead pain exactly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We were eating pets for like for like launch and ship. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was crazy. That's why. That's why we're all funked up.
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  Speaker 1: It's true. It's tough. That's why we're gonna be tough enough.
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  Speaker 1: You guys.
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  Speaker 2: Generation I fully agree with you. I fully agree.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, you guys got it tough enough, man, Yeah
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  Speaker 1: you do.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, actually, so I graduated from the Rock Nation School.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's amazing in May. So what was that like?
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  Speaker 1: Whenever I hear that schools, I'm always thinking of that
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  Speaker 1: moving school of rock.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right right, I mean it might as it might
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  Speaker 2: as well be like coming out. Yeah, yeah, it was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And like while there, I learned how to read notes,
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  Speaker 2: so like, I know, so.
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  Speaker 1: You could actually read, uh sheet I could.
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  Speaker 2: Play if you give me sheet music of Mary had
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  Speaker 2: a little lamp, I could play it. But like like
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  Speaker 2: if you give me something Mozart, I won't be able
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  Speaker 2: to play. But then if you show me like a
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  Speaker 2: YouTube tutorial.
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  Speaker 1: Here and yeah, yeah, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, to get from the curse, because like I feel
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  Speaker 2: like it cuts me out of certain opportunities. But at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, I feel like the music is more
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  Speaker 2: authentic and I feel like it it really comes from
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  Speaker 2: in the like within. Sometimes I feel like when people read, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: when people read the sheet music, it's almost like copying
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  Speaker 2: something a little bit robotic. It's too like mathematical. So
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  Speaker 2: I think playing from the you know, inside is a
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  Speaker 2: lot more fluid.
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  Speaker 1: Do you what's your favorite type of music to play?
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  Speaker 1: Do you like classical music?
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  Speaker 2: Though I do. I just started learning this song I Forget.
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  Speaker 2: There's like so many complicated names of classical songs. It's
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  Speaker 2: like the one that it's like that that you guys,
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  Speaker 2: you guys watching my recognized watch that was me? That
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  Speaker 2: was me? But I like playing.
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  Speaker 1: Was it was it was It might have been Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I really like playing this one.
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  Speaker 2: Pianist Ludovic Italian, and he has some really really nice
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  Speaker 2: songs and for me, when I played them, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like like I'm in a movie. I'm in a trance,
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  Speaker 2: Like it's just like spilling out of me. It's like
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  Speaker 2: an exit for all of my emotions.
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  Speaker 1: It's like it's like going through an experience when you're
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  Speaker 1: listening to when you're listening to, especially when the piano,
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  Speaker 1: when it's just like it's it's like an out of
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  Speaker 1: body experience. It's crazy. Did you feel like do you
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  Speaker 1: feel like when you're playing which that's your favorite instrument?
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  Speaker 1: Is that the only instrument?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I used to play trumpet in like middle school,
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  Speaker 2: but when I got days, I had to stop playing,
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  Speaker 2: so like that, I just never looked back after that.
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  Speaker 1: Did they did they bully you with the trumpet? Did
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  Speaker 1: I say, did they like stop like socks and that
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  Speaker 1: they probably didn't bully you because you were too tall?
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  Speaker 2: No? You know what the crazy part is, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: grow until junior year, eleventh grade, so like eleventh grade
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  Speaker 2: there was like the star football player shout out my
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  Speaker 2: friend Johnny Hudson. He was like towering over me at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the school year. At the end of
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  Speaker 2: the school year, I remember like the last day he
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  Speaker 2: looked up at me. He was like, what the hell
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  Speaker 2: just happened? And I didn't even realize, like I'm six three. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but like it's weird because my dad's five eleven, my
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  Speaker 2: mom is five seven, five eight. But then like on
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  Speaker 2: the contrary, like my cousin six nine, the other one
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  Speaker 2: sixty six.
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  Speaker 1: So it runs in your family. Yeah, so you're tall.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I never knew I would play sports too. I did.
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  Speaker 2: I played basketball like in elementary school, and then I
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  Speaker 2: JV tennis in high school.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: I was really good at tennis. I really liked basketball
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  Speaker 2: and football. Yeah, but football was really what I really
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  Speaker 2: wanted to play. But my mom didn't let me be.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't want you to get hurt.
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  Speaker 2: She don't want me to get CTE and all that stuff. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: which I understand for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's a it's a tough game,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, let's be honest, not everybody is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a pro, you know, and to go through
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  Speaker 1: that and get injured.
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  Speaker 2: I know so many people who literally just stopped after
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  Speaker 2: high school.
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  Speaker 1: Well you, well, you have a gift. I mean you
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  Speaker 1: you know you you play, you play play piano, you're singer.
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  Speaker 1: You're a songwriter, yeah, most definitely, and you also are
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  Speaker 1: now you and you're an aspiring model.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so I've been modeling for about five years. My
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  Speaker 2: older brother got me into it. He was in Germany
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  Speaker 2: just doing like an internship over the summer and he
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  Speaker 2: got scouted in the street and they told they told
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  Speaker 2: him that they wanted to sign him, and he said,
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  Speaker 2: He's not going to sign unless they signed me.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So I came in. It was it was it tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: was another the day agency, and I came in two
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  Speaker 2: weeks later because I was already going to Germany, and
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  Speaker 2: they ended up signing us both. It ended up not
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  Speaker 2: being the right fit for us because they were primarily
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  Speaker 2: in Germany and since we were living in New York City,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't really have as much reach at the time.
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  Speaker 2: Now they do. But since then we've gone from there
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  Speaker 2: to MSA Models, which turned to State Models, and then
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  Speaker 2: I was at IMG Models for two years and now
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  Speaker 2: I'm with Yanni Models Unit Unite in New York City
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  Speaker 2: and then MGM in Germany.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing. So you're traveling the world right now. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're not doing it as much as this is the songwriting,
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I think yeah. For me, So modeling is like very
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, the entertainment industry. Things are on and
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  Speaker 2: off very constantly. Like the only constant in that it
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  Speaker 2: is like a vast change, so I try not to
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  Speaker 2: rely on it too much.
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  Speaker 1: I do it like an extract, an extra if you
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  Speaker 1: have a good opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, to keep myself prepared for it an actually I'm sure, yes, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, when jobs come, they come, Like I did
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  Speaker 2: a job earlier this week and that was amazing. I
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  Speaker 2: love it. But music is really like my passion. And
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  Speaker 2: on the triple other hand, I'm really like a businessman
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  Speaker 2: at heart, so like I'm starting like a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: business things at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, so what kind of businesses did you start?
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  Speaker 1: Did you talk about any of them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can. So it's honestly going to be
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  Speaker 2: the most random thing you've ever heard, probably ever. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm starting a toilet paper business.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know what, going through COVID worrying about toilet paper,
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  Speaker 1: that's actually a good thing to worry about, because if
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  Speaker 1: we ever have a what is again, then we need
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  Speaker 1: to have some ingenuity.
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  Speaker 2: And one thing, if you go into a supermarket and
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  Speaker 2: you look at the toilet paper aisle, there's all this
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  Speaker 2: colorful packaging, but then you open the packaging, every single
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  Speaker 2: toilet paper roll, I mean it has different like texts, applies,
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  Speaker 2: layers and textures, but it's all just plain white blocks.
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  Speaker 2: So me and my girlfriend actually had the idea to
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  Speaker 2: create like a st toilet paper rolls for like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: different colored bathrooms, and we're preparing to launch pretty soon.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing. So what kind of colors are you doing? Like,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of themes are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: So we have one that's just like almost like a slogan.
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  Speaker 2: It has like a heart with like eyes in the mouth,
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  Speaker 2: and then it has like a like a like some
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  Speaker 2: sentences underneath that say please don't do cocaine in the bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: So like when people come to the bathroom when they
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  Speaker 2: read that, like it's just a little that's great.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you wash it in as after to wipe yours.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good one too. I might have to use that.
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  Speaker 1: You want to get a copyright for that one?
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  Speaker 2: You got it? Yeah, So that's like like more of
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  Speaker 2: like a side hustle, you know. For me, music is
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  Speaker 2: something really spiritual, especially after both of my grandpa's passed
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  Speaker 2: years ago, and then one of my friends passed earlier
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  Speaker 2: this year, and he was like like like the friend
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  Speaker 2: that it had that was like the biggest like music artist,
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  Speaker 2: the most talented, the most hard working, and it really
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  Speaker 2: kind of like set in stone for me that music
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  Speaker 2: for me is beyond monetary. It's I wouldn't mind having
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  Speaker 2: millions of people listening to my music and not getting paid.
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  Speaker 2: Of course I would love to get paid, but to me, like,
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  Speaker 2: it's so deep to me that I truly, I truly
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  Speaker 2: would just I'll be fine with releasing music if people
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  Speaker 2: are hearing it and just reaping the benefit of knowing that.
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  Speaker 1: It would the impact on somebody exactly. Now, you do
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  Speaker 1: have any music out now? Is it streaming?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I have a bunch of stuff on
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  Speaker 2: like Spotify, Apple Music. I initially started, like my first
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  Speaker 2: song I released in like twenty eighteen, it was called War,
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  Speaker 2: and it was just literally just piano and vocals and
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  Speaker 2: I was like singing. I kind of shifted away from
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  Speaker 2: that a bit. Now I do more pop pop rock
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  Speaker 2: type stuff, and I'm kind of sticking for that. But
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, since I listened to so much music,
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  Speaker 2: my genre has really changed quite often, go from piano
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  Speaker 2: to pop rock tomorrow on the rap side to like
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  Speaker 2: literally just piano and no vocals, Like so it shifts
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: We need some more poets these days, because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: because you know what, all the all the music that's
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  Speaker 1: coming out today, I feel like it's not there's no
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  Speaker 1: It's like I love classic rock, I mean, and I
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  Speaker 1: love lyrics from like I mean, the Rolling Stones are
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  Speaker 1: like brilliant, you know, and you want to hear more
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  Speaker 1: music like that. You want to hear that kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know that that genre. Listen and I like rap
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  Speaker 1: with some Biggie love to Mack Machavelli because I love
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  Speaker 1: those are the old school those, but I feel like
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  Speaker 1: all the new stuff sounds the same. It's the lyrics
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  Speaker 1: are the same. There's no soul in it, and there's
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  Speaker 1: no like passion in it, and it's like and it's
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  Speaker 1: all about drinking and vagina and ass and you know,
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  Speaker 1: like after while, you don't it's some of the songs
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  Speaker 1: you want to It's okay to listen to that, but
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  Speaker 1: after a while, you want to hear some poetry, Like,
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  Speaker 1: you want to hear some soulful stuff and you can be.
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  Speaker 2: Like that even in that John, Yeah, that is so true.
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  Speaker 2: And I really think like the reason behind that. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, years ago when a few artists came out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that was when the drugs started getting pushed
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  Speaker 2: more and like you know, gangster like the gangster rap
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  Speaker 2: and all that. It's been around for a while, but
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  Speaker 2: like things kind of took a step up a few
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  Speaker 2: years back and now you know, we're in the age
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  Speaker 2: of TikTok. And don't get me wrong, I love it's
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  Speaker 2: a TikTok and I binge TikTok every night and I
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  Speaker 2: love posting on it. But music wise, I think it
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  Speaker 2: did take a hit on music. People make music now
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  Speaker 2: for that fifteen seconds of video that people to make
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  Speaker 2: with that song and that's it. And like oftentimes, like
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  Speaker 2: artists don't necessarily want to rap about this stuff and
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  Speaker 2: talk about this stuff, but they know that's what's going
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  Speaker 2: to sell, right. So it's kind of like like there's
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  Speaker 2: such a huge demand for this stuff and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people are supplying it. But on the contrary, there's
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  Speaker 2: also many people who truly appreciate music that's authentic and
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  Speaker 2: music that isn't just about all that rah rah drugs,
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  Speaker 2: shooting and all that stuff, because a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: could talk about that, and I feel like it's losing
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  Speaker 2: its value, especially this year, rap has really took a hit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that people are starting to get tired
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  Speaker 1: of it. I think it's just everything you hear and
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  Speaker 1: like I said, it sounds the same. All the girls
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  Speaker 1: look the same in the videos. It's like I want
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  Speaker 1: to I went to the to the the VMA's last year,
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  Speaker 1: and I swear every artist that went on was like
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  Speaker 1: all the And I don't want to say it because
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to sound like I'm not feminist. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a feminist from today, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: say make the feminist stuff today because they kill femininis.
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  Speaker 1: I'm an old school feminist. For me, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to see women. I'm sorry, but you want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about empowerment, You not empower yourself by going on stage
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  Speaker 1: being naked. I'm sorry. I am sorry to me. You
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  Speaker 1: give more power to yourself when you come out and
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  Speaker 1: you're classy. I don't think that that's powerful. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think talking about your vagina and talking about that stuff
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  Speaker 1: makes you a powerful as a woman.
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  Speaker 2: I true.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's disgusting. And I think that men.
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  Speaker 2: You know the one, the one.
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  Speaker 1: Why am I getting married? Why don't I have a
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  Speaker 1: nice guy? Because you're showing your vagina, I truly and
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  Speaker 1: everybody sees it. It's disgusting, and that's not being misogynist
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  Speaker 1: by me saying it. Why don't you proud men should
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  Speaker 1: put you out of pedestal. I still want my door
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  Speaker 1: open to me, and I'm a very powerful woman. I
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  Speaker 1: have businesses, you know, I do my own thing. I
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  Speaker 1: have cats and pudding. But I want that and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like that that is it's like reverse misogyny. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I truly truly commend you for saying that. That's I
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: feel like that.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna get killed on the incident saying it.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: I don't care if I get annihilated for it, but
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I am just say it.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: I think that people will have your back on that.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: It's it's the truth that hurts. And I think the
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: unfortunate part of that is that not only do you
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: have a modern day feminists, you know, advocating for and
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying like it's bad to do this, but
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: like advocating for showing more, wearing less. So the thing
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: with that is that a lot a lot of these
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: guys out here, they're advocating for the same thing. So
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: it's kind of like so you have modern day feminists
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: and then these creepy guys pushing towards this.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: So this is just a perfect storm for them, and
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: it's causing opening up more predators out there.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: And it's unfortunate, but I do believe that things will
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: eventually balance out.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: You're starting to go, you know what, people are getting
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: sick of it, and you know what, I was just
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: talking to this about another to another guest. Family and
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: unity is the basis of any society. When you try
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: to break up the family and you're telling them women
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: don't have kids, don't you know what mean? Sorry, everything
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I've accomplished in life, my children are my biggest accomplishment.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: And as a woman, that's not a bad thing to
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: say that about that that I was if I had
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: to give up anything, my children wouldn't have been what
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I gave up. I would have gave up everything else
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: for them. And I don't think that's the wrong thing
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: to feel that way.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: It's so true. Once the like the core family, like
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: the American what is it called the nuclear family or
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: something like. Once, once that's out the window, society really
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: takes it hit. That's when people start really getting confused.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: I really do believe that like having a tight knit
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: household with standards like plays such a huge role in
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: a productive society. You look at places like Norway, like Japan,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: I mean they're light years ahead of us.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's China the same thing.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's wild. But even my girlfriend, for example, like
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: she's such a good person and like she's so modest
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: in everything she does. Like I feel like me and
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: her the perfect match for that reason.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: What's her what's her what's her nationality? What's her background?
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: She is half so she's accord to Ukrainian, a quarter Polish,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: and then half Israeli.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: So all every all of those, did you say, we're
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: all big with family values, all three of those, all
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: three of those nationalities, which is excellent tight And they're tight,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: and they're tight with the other in the community. And
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: it's not a bad thing to be tight with your
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: own type of people. It doesn't make it bad or that,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: you know, it's just that you're gonna be with people
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: who alike and hold the same values as you.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: And I honestly think a lot of community is like
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: so growing up, like especially a lot around a lot
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: of Haitians, Like we're also very, very very tight. Ye,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: and so like I go to Haiti and I see it,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I'm like, wow, like it's beautiful. And then I come
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: back to America and it's different. It's a different dynamic
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: among Black Americans where there's like there's so much like
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: uh like everyone's spread out and pitted against each other. Yes,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: and there needs to be so much unity in that
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: and we need to take notes from these other cultures
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: and and stick together.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's but you know that that's the government
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: trying to divide and they it's still in them to er,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: let's blame this, let's blame But no, it's the government
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: that wants to keep people that in that way because
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: they want the control. They want the control, and they
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: don't realize that that's what's what's happening. They're now that
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: that's what that's what they're trying to do. Think about anybody,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: you know, a two parent household, the children are gonna
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: are going to develop more than having somebody with a
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: one parent household. I mean, it's just it's just a
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: known fact. That's it.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Any study orchestrated it.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Is it is. I mean, and I hope they do
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: a generation and I'm starting to see it, and I
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: see it even with my own with my own daughter
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: who's in the same how I will do twenty four. Yeah,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: my daughter is my youngest is nineteen. I saw I'm
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: starting to see it. She's like, she would say, your mom.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: You know, they desensitize us so much, like you know,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: with all the stuff that they show us that and
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: it's so true. It's like crazy, you know.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Like even on like so I had Facebook in like
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: what twenty twelve, I was thirteen years old. I've never
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: seen anything crazier in my life than the videos I've
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: seen at Facebook. In that time period, Facebook was a zoo.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: It was crazy. I saw things that should images that
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: are in my mind today because of that, and I
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: mean things like that. It still occur, and in some senses,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: it's good to see the true atrocities that are going
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: on in the world, because you know, it really opens
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: people's eyes. But at the same time, when it's when
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: when you open up social media and it's like the
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: first thing you're seeing is just straight horrible things, I
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: think that's very very bad for the mind. You know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: the subconscious doesn't filter out things. You can choose what
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: you want to see but like.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: What you want you see it. It's good. It could
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: it's imprinted.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Whether you like or not. It's it's going to be
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: in your head.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. And you know you're very you're very smart.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: That's it's it's like it's a broad the fresh air.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: You're the second guest I had today who's in your
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: generation who's had the same values. And I'm it's starting
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: to make me happy, amazing to hear that. You know,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: it's starting to make me happy to hear that. I
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: think you guys are realizing what's going on. And you know, listen,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: you guys are the ones who could change it. You
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: could change it all for the better.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: If not us, then who.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: That's you know what, If you guys don't change it,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: the human race is going to be gone.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Seriously, It's going to be back to cockroaches and sharks, alligators.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: And that's it. Yeah, that's all it's going to be.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: But we don't want that to happen, especially with beautiful
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: people like you in this world. Want you to populate.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: We want you to populate the society with beautiful children
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and and amazing, amazing minds and talent that you have.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: You know, to pass that along, and I like to hear.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: That, and I feel like music is also an avenue
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: down that alley of like spiritual awakening. Not all of
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: my music points in that direction. A lot of it
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: just points in my personal experiences, things I've gone through
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: in the US and Haiti, things with my friends. But
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I think music can really truly be a guide towards, like,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: you know, gaining more consciousness, you know, rather than just
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: seeing everything in your immediate view. You think outside the box,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: you know, And I think that's one of the powerful
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: things about music. What's his name, Nicola Tesla. He said,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: if you would like to understand the universe, think about
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: it in terms of energy, frequency and vibrations. And it's true,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: that's all everything is. And music is that in its
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: pure form, which is why it's so powerful. And it
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: can be weaponized, and it is weaponized. But there are
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: so many great artists. Shout out justin Love who's just here.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: He's one of them. I mean, I met him a
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: few weeks ago, and his music is amazing. It's how
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: he did something with the church choir and it's just
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: really touching off. So I think, like and everything there's
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: good and bad. But music is like so powerful, so powerful, and.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: You know, if you if you can help change the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: world with some other piece of music that will be
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: timeless and something that you know, with poet, like I said,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: poetry and beautiful. You know, people, I think people are
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: starving for that right now. I think they want that.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: People want that.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: It's been such a long time since artists like Bob Marley,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: John Lennon, Israel Kamakale, like Song over the Rainbow, all
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: these people who wrote these timeless songs that that were
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: positive songs, songs that felt like they were just sent down.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: From the head from God.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we need word definitely due for another anthem
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, like the last artist that I feel like
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: like brought such beautiful music like that, I swear. I
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: think Adele was the last person I saw on on
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: on on on a music show that like, I was
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: just floored when I heard her sing her you know,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I lovear I loved what's her name, I can't think
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: of her name. She was from London, Amy.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Wine House, beautiful.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Soulful music, like just beautiful. She was an old soul.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: You know those are those are two. That's the last
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: artists that I can really truly say that. I feel
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: like that. It was the last time ever I really
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: heard artist and real soulful music.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really hope one day I can I can
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: truly tap into that and really something like that. One
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: time when I was in Haiti, this is like really
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: what directed me down, like the the realization that like
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: music is really spiritual. I was in Haiti at my
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: uncle's resort, and there's this local guy in the neighborhood,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: very poor guy. I mean, this man like lives in
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: the in the hut made out of like just meddle
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: whatever things. This man, you know a lot of people
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: practice voodoo, and voodoo like any religion can be used
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: for good or bad, and he was using it for good.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: So for him, his thing was massages. So he volunteered
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: to give everyone who saying, my whole family, we're all
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: at the resort at that time, it was like sixty
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: of us. He gave all of us massages, and we
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: tried to pay him. We insisted that we pay him.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: He wouldn't take it. He said it's for a bigger
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: reason that he can't explain. And it's things like that
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: that you know, he's really tapped in with you know,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: with God, with the universe, with love, all the same thing.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Do you know what most people that I've come in
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: contact with who deal with like I guess psychics you
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: want to call them, psych is, heal is whatever. The
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: ones that you know are truthful, the ones that won't
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: take a dollar. They say that I got a gift
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: from God exactly, and if I take money for it,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: it's not it's that's not what it was meant for.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: It was meant to help. And I'm gonna get mine
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and whatever I need. If I have to make something,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: God will provide for me. And that's that's their attitude exactly.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: That's that's that's so accurate. And that's literally the reason
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: why I've never gone to a one of these psyde
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: chicks in the street. They charged like seventy books for reading.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I'm like, like, are you gonna tell me things whatever?
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Like generic things that will apply it to amost everyone
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: almost anybody. Yeah, exactly. But you know, but I've seen
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: and I've stayed with people who practice this stuff for
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: real and and like like real life, and I've seen
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I've seen effects, and I've been to Honduras and I
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: said with the I've stayed with the Garifoon of people.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I've been to Haiti and I've I've seen things there.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's this stuff is real, and the
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: people who are real by it and who do it
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: for good intent will never charge. Their benefit is in
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: the craft purely, and that's how I feel about music.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna turn down pay ever, because that's you know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: survival to some degree. But I absolutely wouldn't mind doing
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: music if my other side hustles are booming and I
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: don't have to worry about money.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: You would like to do it for to give to
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the world, to give something back. I think that's beautiful. Yeah,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: that's beautiful. Can you sing a little verse to something
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: for me?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah? It's gonna sound so bland right now, but I
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: had an idea, so like, when this comes out, I'm
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: gonna like clip this part and then I'm gonna put
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: the actual song like the other half. So I'm gonna
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: start it off and then when the chorus comes, I'm
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: gonna stop, and then I'm gonna edit it. And it's
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: gonna sound crazy right in a bad way. I'm hoping
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: that somebody falls changed my bad ways. I'm ready for
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: what's coming up. It's some bad things, some bad things
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: in and not this place. If I don't pay attention,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: this party's done, but I'm still in it. And then boom,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: how you feel? How you It's it's a crazy song.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: I just had this Spanish artist, she's from Spain, but
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: she's going to Columbia feature on it. And we just
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: made a video like two months ago, so it should
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: be like finished soon. It's gonna be crazy.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: But there's that sounds like more of a dance, a
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: dance song. Dance.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm actually gonna have an e EDM remix
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: that I made with my friend Sam Palmer already.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: And I could just see like I'm gonna can't cool exactly.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: You're gonna feel like you're in like the craziest club
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: at like three in the morning, just looking at the
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: stars and just going crazy. But yeah, it's gonna be amazing.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I love that you are. You're an amazing guy. You're amazing,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I think, and I think you're a beautiful soul and
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I love that. I love all everything about you. You're wonderful,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: your breath of fresh air you have. You have restored
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: my faith in the next generation. But well, you know
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: what it's it's it's it's nice to hear that. It's
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: nice to hear.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I have to credit my parents. My parents are both
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: amazing people, amazing people. My mom great person, my dad
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: great person. And my dad actually got me involved in freemasonry.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: My dad's my dad's a freemason. My grandfather was a freemason,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: and now I'm a freemason. And that's also something that
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: definitely helps me. I'd say, anchor myself and keep myself like, uh,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: how do I say this? Keep myself to a high
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: standard in terms of like how I behave, how I
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: portray myself, and uh, the ways I impact people around
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: me in the world.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Well, I love that you know what you are on
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the road to success, and you know what your parents
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: wants to be really proud of you. I'm proud of you.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I don't want something sending, but I have kids older
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: than yous and and you are You're wonderful.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: It was so nice for you to come here to
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to have you back again because I
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: definitely want to hear about your toilet paper and if
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: you use my saying, I definitely wanted to I want
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: to say, it's like call it gen gen saying just
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: give me, give me a little shout out.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: So I got that.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: It was so nice, meaning I have so beautiful.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: This was truly a pleasure. Likewise, this is a truly
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: a pleasure, and I'll.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: See you again. Everybody. Thank you for tuning in, and
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: please watch us on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. Do not
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: only watch the shorts, watch the whole video so you
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: could see this beautiful Nan sing.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: You learn a lot, yes, and we're learning a lot.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: From you today. You have a great day. Everybody did
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: not to be guilt him