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Speaker 1: This episode is also available as video on YouTube. You

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Speaker 1: can visit Nora Jones channel and be sure to subscribe

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Speaker 1: while you're there. Hey, I'm Nora Jones and today I'm

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Speaker 1: playing along with Lady Ray. I'm just playing long Weuy,

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 3: I'm Nora Jones.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show with me, as always is my

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Speaker 1: co host Sarah Oda.

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Speaker 4: Hello, welcome to our show. We have an amazing episode today.

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Speaker 4: We have the soulful singer songwriter with music that spans gospel,

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Speaker 4: R and B hip hop, the incredible Lady Ray. Her

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Speaker 4: latest album, Cover Girl, came out last fall in twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty five. Stay tuned for some music from that.

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Speaker 3: This was so fun.

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Speaker 1: I'm such a fan of hers and I know her

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Speaker 1: through our mutual producer friend Leon Michaels, and I just

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Speaker 1: love the work they've done together on the last few albums.

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Speaker 3: And we had so much fun. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, In this episode, you're gonna hear about her unique

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Speaker 4: history in this music industry and kind of the different paths.

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Speaker 3: She had to navigate to get to where she is today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's been in it for a long time and

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Speaker 1: her story is really interesting.

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Speaker 4: Plus beautiful duets, including a new take on one of

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Speaker 4: your songs.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was really fun. So stay tuned, Stay tuned,

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Speaker 1: and enjoy the episode with Lady Ray.

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Speaker 3: I used to never warm up, but.

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Speaker 5: I just kind of started vocal coach. Now, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's very good.

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Speaker 1: Have you been losing your voice a lot?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 5: And I said, when I write this album, I'm not

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Speaker 5: gonna get carried away.

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Speaker 3: And I still got carried away.

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Speaker 6: Ah.

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Speaker 5: And I told my mom, Mom, I was like, when

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Speaker 3: I was like, Mom, the songs require me to push,

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Speaker 3: and well, you're feeling it. I'm feeling it.

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Speaker 5: And I'm like, I tried to write songs that are

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Speaker 5: I just I failed again.

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Speaker 3: Got all right, what you feel?

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Speaker 3: You're right. I was like, maybe we're live.

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Speaker 5: I will try to kind of keep it in the

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Speaker 3: It's the church of me, it's the church in you.

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Speaker 3: That's fine. Definitely the church of me. It lives in me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, God doesn't want you to whisper it.

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Speaker 3: He does not. I'm gonna tell my mom that God

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Speaker 3: doesn't want me to whisper.

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Speaker 1: That's right, tell her tell her that, yeah, well you won't.

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Speaker 3: How's that, well you won't too low?

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Speaker 5: No, that's perfect, you can have Yeah, yeah, we're eda

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Speaker 5: James vibe.

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Speaker 3: Huh sweet? I like that. Oh see, so much better

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Speaker 3: for the piano. Yes, I see, bro, I can't. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I didn't do well in music. I didn't do well

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Speaker 8: Really.

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Speaker 3: I was like, I'll just stick the singing. It was

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Speaker 8: What did you do?

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Speaker 5: I did piano at a at a young age, and

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Speaker 5: when I was in course, I was I just couldn't

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Speaker 5: I just couldn't read it. And my brother he just soared.

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Speaker 5: He played the trumpet so he could read music very well,

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Speaker 5: and I just struggled. So I was just like I

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Speaker 5: want to try and get back into it. But I'm

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Speaker 5: just like, I don't know if the age and just

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Speaker 5: me just being all over the place. When I was younger,

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Speaker 5: I think I was more you know, focused.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Now I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Maybe maybe maybe you're you have a daughter, right, I do,

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Speaker 5: Maybe he's gonna do it.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you could do it together. Yeah, that would be cute.

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Speaker 1: She would be actually fun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's gonna do.

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Speaker 5: School of Rock when I get back homework on I

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Speaker 5: sign I wrote for that.

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Speaker 3: Do they have that here? Yeah, that's so cute. I

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Speaker 3: didn't know that was a thing. It's cute.

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Speaker 1: They also switched them around on instruments, which is kind

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Oh, she's gonna love it. Let me get a chance

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Speaker 3: to like try everything. I will try everything. She loved

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Speaker 3: the movie. She loved them. Oh, that's like one of

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Speaker 3: the best movies. It's the best movie ever. It makes

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 3: It is such a great film. It's so good and

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Speaker 3: I love Jack Black.

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Speaker 1: Who oh god, it's the best. We should have done

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Speaker 1: a Tennise Stea cover. I mean I should have said that.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know you were into the date.

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Speaker 3: There we go. What you want.

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Speaker 5: You can't have putting your heart in my hand. I've

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Speaker 5: been waiting, follering. Man, we've come to fall by faith.

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Speaker 5: We've come to fall by faith. Come on in, Come

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Speaker 5: on in, come on, come on in, baby, coming to

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Speaker 5: my life. We don't have a lot of time hoping

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Speaker 5: we can get it.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 8: I can tell you don't to lie. So come on, oh.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can't dream dreaming color.

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Speaker 3: Don't you listen.

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Speaker 8: To the nay say y'all said the boy?

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Speaker 5: Shut high the teller. We've come to fall by faith.

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Speaker 5: We come too far, Nora, and we come to five

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Speaker 5: by faith.

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Speaker 2: Come on in m hm.

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Speaker 3: See there, I'll find.

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Speaker 2: You where you are.

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Speaker 9: I know that is arising in thus starts.

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Speaker 5: So come on in, come on in, come on in,

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Speaker 5: come on in. Yeah, baby coming to my mind. We

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Speaker 5: don't have a lot of time open, we can get

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Speaker 5: it and a ride. I continue your doc to lie.

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Speaker 5: Come on, come on, a wedding for you, so I

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Speaker 5: want you come on in a come on, come on,

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Speaker 5: come on, come on, come on in m I won't

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Speaker 5: you to come on?

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Speaker 8: And I've been waiting for a baby a come on,

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Speaker 8: come on, come on, come on in hm, come on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, yeah, yeah, yeah, come on, come on?

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Speaker 8: Did I no you didn't corfect?

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Speaker 3: Yay, yay, that's good. That is fun to play. You

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Speaker 3: did that early on with Leon? I did that early on.

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Speaker 3: Was that your first record with him? Your second?

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Speaker 5: That was my second record. The first one was Queen Alone. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 5: that was fun too. That was right after I did

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Speaker 5: an album together titled Lady.

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Speaker 3: Nice, and I just took the name Lady and just

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Speaker 2: I like it.

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Speaker 3: It sounds good, it's vibe. I think people love that.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just tagged my last name on and you

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Speaker 5: have a cool last name. Yeah, well my last name

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Speaker 5: is changed because I'm married now. It's the cop it's different.

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Speaker 3: It's the coat Ray rayvect.

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Speaker 8: Ighth.

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Speaker 3: Melodis like, Mom, but you can't hear the w Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I was like, it's silent.

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Speaker 1: You have kind of an interesting history in the music industry,

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Speaker 1: very interesting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been going for a long time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The engine that could amazing.

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Speaker 8: Yeah it is.

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Speaker 3: I started in the late nineties with Missy Elliott.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy.

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Speaker 5: It's so crazy because back then it was it was

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Speaker 5: back then, you either meet the celebrities or you just

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Speaker 5: then Missy actually lived like right down the street from

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Speaker 5: me and my brother in Portsmouth. That's where I'm from, Virginia, Virginia.

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Speaker 3: She lived and I didn't know who she was. I

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Speaker 5: I was about sixteen when I met Missy and she

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Speaker 3: They performed.

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Speaker 5: My brother's a singer too, and She's like, well, you

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Speaker 5: He gave her our house phone, and she called the

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Speaker 5: And I remember walking we made like this path because

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Speaker 3: You know, back then, it was just so.

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Speaker 5: Now everything is like right in your face. I remember

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Speaker 5: like she has a magazine. She's like, I heard you

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Speaker 5: can sing, and I'm like yeah. She's like sing something

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Speaker 5: She called me the young Mary g Bloge back then.

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Speaker 5: She was like, you remind me of a young Mary.

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Speaker 5: And I think from that moment I just stuck to her,

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Speaker 5: deal too. I was like her little sister, that's amazing,

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Speaker 5: I got a record deal. I remember flying here to

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Speaker 5: I was so nervous.

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Speaker 3: I got on the airplane.

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Speaker 5: My mom was my manager back then, and I was

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Speaker 5: just like, I'm going to meet Sylvia Own.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know who she was either, but I was

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Speaker 5: I saw the lights and everything in New York, little

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Speaker 5: And she introduced me to Pharrell. I worked with Jimmy

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Speaker 5: I just kept growing growing. I was never writing anything,

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Speaker 3: Like, hum, like here we go again. What does this mean?

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Speaker 3: It was like, we're gonna work on our album.

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Speaker 3: That's such a crazy ride. Crazy ride, crazy ride.

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Speaker 5: And then I met Leon through Terry Walker, the girl

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Speaker 1: At the time.

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00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 5: They're not he's not they're not working together anymore. But Keith,

446
00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,399
Speaker 5: you know, he's from London, he's like swaggy, he's like

447
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,119
Speaker 5: eight mag you know. I love your writing, Nicole, and

448
00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,480
Speaker 5: you're just amazing. And I'm like, yeah, that's cool. But Leon,

449
00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,280
Speaker 5: they are doing some amazing things over and then they

450
00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,240
Speaker 5: wanted us to do a group so they went over

451
00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 5: there to Damon Dash's studio because I was still in

452
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:05,800
Speaker 5: cahoots with Damon.

453
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:06,800
Speaker 3: Dash with Terry Walker.

454
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,600
Speaker 5: That's how I met Terry Walker do Damon Dash, and

455
00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 5: so I'm like, everything was just happening so crazy back then,

456
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:15,240
Speaker 5: and I just felt like, I don't know if I

457
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:16,719
Speaker 5: even want to be on this ship anymore.

458
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:20,200
Speaker 3: It just was weird. I wasn't getting anything done. I

459
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 3: don't know what was happening. I was just happy to

460
00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:22,960
Speaker 3: not be at home.

461
00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,119
Speaker 5: I was like anything, just to just be sitting at

462
00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 5: home and not you know, you know, just being active

463
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,320
Speaker 5: and doing and you know, pushing my muscle, my music

464
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,440
Speaker 5: muscle and being creative. So I was just like, and

465
00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,879
Speaker 5: Leon they walked in, him and his music partner at

466
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 5: the time, and they walked in and it just felt like,

467
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 5: you know, like something out of a freaking seventies movie,

468
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:42,600
Speaker 5: like they're coming to save my life.

469
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,280
Speaker 3: I didn't walked in and they're like, who are these girls?

470
00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,359
Speaker 5: And we're sitting in there and Damon Dash he has

471
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:48,919
Speaker 5: this guitar, fake playing the guitar.

472
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,479
Speaker 3: I was like, you don't know how to play that guitar.

473
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,040
Speaker 5: But he's like, yeah, these are my girls. And they're like, well,

474
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 5: we want to work with them. We want to get

475
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,000
Speaker 5: them in the studio. So it went over to Truth

476
00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:01,639
Speaker 5: and Soul studio that was in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and we

477
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 5: started cutting this cutting some music with Terry with Terry

478
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,000
Speaker 5: and there was another girl that was Dayton. Damon Dadh

479
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,439
Speaker 5: at the time that situation did not live to.

480
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 3: See the light of day. She got kicked out of

481
00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 3: the group. It was just crazy.

482
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,200
Speaker 5: It was like a real sixties seventies movie that was

483
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,480
Speaker 5: happening right before my eyes. I had never been in

484
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:19,879
Speaker 5: a girl group, and I don't know if I ever

485
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:23,879
Speaker 5: want to be in one unless it's with you, Unless

486
00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,520
Speaker 5: it's with you, And I was like, what is happening here?

487
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,680
Speaker 5: And then she went her separate ways and we're still

488
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,000
Speaker 5: talking today, but you know, back then, it was just

489
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:35,080
Speaker 5: crazy chaos happening, and Terry and I just we just

490
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,760
Speaker 5: started rewriting the songs and it started feeling good and

491
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 5: we put the album out. And then you put that

492
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 5: album out with Truth and Soul. Leon, yeah, and he

493
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 5: wasn't if he was El Michael's affair back then, he

494
00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:48,560
Speaker 5: might have been.

495
00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:49,159
Speaker 3: I don't think so.

496
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 5: And then I get a call, I go back home

497
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,439
Speaker 5: and then let the married album kind of songs marinate.

498
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 5: Then Leon asked me to come and write on Lee

499
00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,440
Speaker 5: Field's album. And I remember when I very heard when

500
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,960
Speaker 5: I very first heard Lee feels, I thought that he

501
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 5: was an artist of the past. This music that I

502
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 5: heard me too, and it just brought me to tears.

503
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:10,640
Speaker 5: I'm listening to the music.

504
00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:11,199
Speaker 3: I'm in the car.

505
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,440
Speaker 5: My cousin had just passed away, and I'm like, who

506
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 5: is this man? And they were like, this is Lee Feels,

507
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,639
Speaker 5: I say, and I said, is this old? I said no,

508
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 5: this just was recorded like last year. I said, get

509
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 5: out of here. And I met him at a show

510
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,119
Speaker 5: and I just was overwhelmed and I just I don't know.

511
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,639
Speaker 5: I was just overwhelmed seeing him on stage and I

512
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 5: was like, this is crazy. And Leon was like, you

513
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 5: want to come and write with him? And I'm so

514
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 5: happy that Leon trusted me. Out of everybody I worked with,

515
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,120
Speaker 5: nobody seemed to ever like understand it. I can write

516
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 5: music too. They were like you need help, you need writers,

517
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 5: you know. But he was always been so consistent and

518
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 5: I love him like a real brother. Like he saw me,

519
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 5: he saw everything that I wanted to do, and he

520
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 5: was like, if you want to sing, let her sing,

521
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 5: and that's I'm like, I just want to sing. I

522
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 5: want to sing him write and this is what I

523
00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,719
Speaker 5: want to do. And I think ever since I've met

524
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,520
Speaker 5: Lee on everything, the doors have been opened. Everything has

525
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 5: been just flowing and flourishing. And just it's been consistent,

526
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,680
Speaker 5: and that's really all I ever wanted, and it's I'm here.

527
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 3: I'm here with you. That's so beautiful. I'm here with you.

528
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:12,639
Speaker 3: He really is the.

529
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 5: Best, is the best, so talented. He doesn't like to

530
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 5: be called a genius, but he's a genius. He's a genius.

531
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 3: I get it.

532
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: He's like it's a compliment. Ye, he's well, he's a

533
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:31,160
Speaker 1: sneaky genius because he's not. He's not like imposing right

534
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,119
Speaker 1: with anything. He's not never He's really good at recognizing

535
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,160
Speaker 1: things and like bringing them.

536
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 3: To bring it to light.

537
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 5: And there's no pressure. I felt like in my career

538
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 5: I was always chasing this. It's just as a high.

539
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 5: He's just chasing this one thing.

540
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 3: And now I'm not. I'm just like living in a moment.

541
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 5: I'm getting a chance to breathe, and in the studio,

542
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,880
Speaker 5: I'm getting a chance to breathe. I'm laughing, I'm having

543
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:54,679
Speaker 5: a good time. I'm not having someone yelling at back.

544
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 5: And it made me just a perfectionist and I don't

545
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 5: even know it sometimes And sometimes when i'm leon I'm like,

546
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 5: I'm overthinking it sometimes because it's in my subconscious and

547
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 5: I've been like on that crazy wheel of you get

548
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,680
Speaker 5: it right or you go home and and that's not

549
00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:09,120
Speaker 5: the case.

550
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 3: Now, No, that's not the case. It hasn't been for

551
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 3: many years.

552
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 5: But that's how I started with all that freaking pressure

553
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 5: as a young kid, as a.

554
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 3: Young kid, as a young kid. Yeah, that's really hard

555
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 3: to break out of. It's so hard. I'm proud of you.

556
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 4: I did it.

557
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 2: You did it.

558
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 3: I did it with a lot of prayer. It's amazing.

559
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 1: Well, Leon is really good at not chasing perfectionism, and

560
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: I think that's what's so good about the stuff he does.

561
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 1: That's why it sounds so good, because it's a lot,

562
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 1: and it's raw and it's it's amazing. There's plenty of

563
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: perfectionism on the radio.

564
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 3: There is. It's a lot. And I don't think it's

565
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 3: for everybody.

566
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 5: It's not for everybody, now, it's not. It's not unless

567
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 5: you out on the town, you got your drinks, you

568
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 5: hanging out, and then you know, I like it, but no,

569
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 5: you're right. But then in your moment you're like, this

570
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 5: is a little bit much and this is not my thing.

571
00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, he does, he does. He does the good stuff.

572
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,879
Speaker 3: I didn't read stuff all some juicy stuff.

573
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, so good, and it feels so great and I'm

574
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 5: just I feel blessed to have still been on this journey.

575
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:11,360
Speaker 3: And it had pivots.

576
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 5: It had moments that I didn't think I was in

577
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 5: a dark that I was gonna see that, Tonnel, I

578
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 5: promise you I've been I used to like cry on

579
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 5: my pillow and I'm like, and I asked myself, now,

580
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 5: I was like, have I ever been depressed?

581
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,119
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I have And I didn't realize. I

582
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 3: didn't realize it.

583
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 5: I would be crying in the room with the pillow

584
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 5: and I would see like the the mescala on the

585
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 5: pillow in the room I would live. I was living

586
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 5: with my mom, and it just was just I was

587
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 5: I never thought that I would just do anything that

588
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 5: I loved again that you know, And I didn't do

589
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 5: anything wrong. That's the thing I never done. I had

590
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 5: great relationship with every everybody. It's just that sometimes in

591
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,679
Speaker 5: the industry, people they move on, they forget, and they

592
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 5: move on to the next thing.

593
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 3: And I learned that at a young age, like, don't

594
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 3: get attached.

595
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 5: And that's always been my thing, and I want to

596
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,640
Speaker 5: get attached to people, and I asked people. People ask

597
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 5: me all the time, do you have any industry friends.

598
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,919
Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, Nora Jones, Claro, you know, you.

599
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 3: Know I have friends.

600
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 5: But back then I didn't have many friends because I

601
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 5: was always scarce or you.

602
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 3: You didn't let them get I didn't let them get

603
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 3: close because I just I felt like, you know, I

604
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 3: might get burned. You might have protected yourself from a

605
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,400
Speaker 3: lot of weird stuff. I know I did.

606
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 5: I I dodged a lot of things and a lot

607
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 5: of people that are coming up in this social media now.

608
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 5: I met I met the R Kelly's I met, I

609
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,199
Speaker 5: met R Kelly, and I felt like I dodged that bullet.

610
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 5: And I was such a big fan and when I

611
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 5: heard that stuff, I was just like, oh my god.

612
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,120
Speaker 5: I met him and I was just like, I really

613
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 5: wanted to work with him.

614
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 3: You were in that mix, I was in the mix. Yeah,

615
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,439
Speaker 3: well good you were protecting Yeah. I was definitely had

616
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 3: a shield.

617
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 5: And that that song Jesus be a fence all around

618
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 5: me every day. I was like, he it was a

619
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 5: fence around me every day in my career and I

620
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 5: am I just feel so blessed to still be here.

621
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 5: And to have some relevance of what's happening in the

622
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 5: music business and not be And I tell my daughter,

623
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 5: she's seven and she's already on top of she's growing

624
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 5: up in the industry where everything is right here to technology,

625
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 5: she's already grown up.

626
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 3: We didn't have that.

627
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 5: I'm like, iPhone. My husband's like, you want a new iPhone.

628
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't want to have to go and

629
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:23,360
Speaker 5: set everything back, but pably thank the Lord for her. Yeah,

630
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 5: thank the Lord. She's gonna learn so much more. And

631
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 5: my little old self, old school mind. I'm like, she'll

632
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 5: help me push me on.

633
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 3: It's crazy. Thank the Lord for children.

634
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.

635
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: I also think it's interesting. The writing thing.

636
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 3: I remember I.

637
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: Talked to Mavis Staples and you know, she didn't she

638
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: didn't get a lot of chances to write either. And

639
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: then she was telling me about this album she made

640
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: where she wrote all these songs and then they took

641
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: credit for the minute it just she never wrote again.

642
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: She said, yeah, you know, there's just like this thing

643
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: and and people put you with co writer now and

644
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: it's a whole industry in itself, and it's like it's

645
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: too busy. Is that coming from your heart. I mean,

646
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: maybe a lot of it is, but some of it isn't.

647
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 3: I know that some of it isn't.

648
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 1: I know that a lot of it isn't.

649
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 5: It's a ladder and it's a business. It's a business.

650
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 5: I always tell people music. Business is like ninety most

651
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 5: of the business is about the business, and it's really

652
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 5: less about it's a lot of the business. And the

653
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 5: business is scary, right, Yeah. Sometimes as a female, maybe because.

654
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 3: If I was a guy, I could be.

655
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 5: Like, I don't care, and I'm gonna go to sleep

656
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 5: and I don't think about all this crap. But sometimes

657
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 5: my little self, I get overwhelmed of the business and

658
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 5: in the nighttime, to me, everything seems so scary, And

659
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 5: in the morning it's just like it's all those thoughts

660
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 5: are gone.

661
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 3: The sun is coming up, and all those things.

662
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 5: That I've had in my mind at night about the business, no,

663
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 5: it goes away, and I'm like, Okay, I can handle this.

664
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 5: I've got this far in my career and I've made

665
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 5: some decisions, whether they've been bad, good or in between.

666
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,120
Speaker 5: But one thing I just don't like burn bridges. I

667
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 5: don't mess up relationships. I try to be on time,

668
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 5: I try to keep that part of when I was

669
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 5: young and keep that part of me because I I've heard,

670
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 5: like some artists are just like they're terrible, and I've

671
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 5: heard some stories. I'm like, I'm glad I'm not that,

672
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 5: And I was like, maybe if I was that way,

673
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 5: I've probably been further in my career.

674
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 8: Maybe maybe or not or.

675
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 3: You like, no, I've heard she is crazy. I'm not

676
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:28,239
Speaker 3: dealing with her.

677
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 5: Sometimes I think like some artists they get so far

678
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 5: and they're so bad. They're so bad and they're so

679
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 5: far ahead, but they won't last. They'll fizzle out somewhere,

680
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 5: or they probably won't sleep at night or something like that.

681
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 3: Crazy.

682
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: At least they're not having a good time have a

683
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: good time.

684
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 3: Maybe they're they're faking it.

685
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 1: Maybe they're faking it all.

686
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 3: They're faking it on social media.

687
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: It's such a weird business because it's so weird when

688
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: something hits and then something doesn't and you don't know

689
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: what's going to I.

690
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 3: Mean, it's like a gambling it's shooting in the darkness.

691
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: Like it would be weird to be a record executive.

692
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to be I would, well now it

693
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: would be awful. But like back in the day, even

694
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: it was probably exciting.

695
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 3: It was I saw the excitement.

696
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's all the parties and uh yeah, it was

697
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: if you put enough money behind someone then they will head.

698
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 5: They will but usually usually but not always and not always.

699
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 5: And now you have to you have to get on

700
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 5: that bike and take that ride. Yeah, and that ride

701
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 5: sometimes hurts your legs. Yeah, you're winded.

702
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 3: You're like, I'm going up this hill your eyes, yes,

703
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 3: you know what. You feel good.

704
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 5: I feel like now I'm learning because my management labeled like,

705
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 5: you gotta you gotta do this, you got and I'm like,

706
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,479
Speaker 5: I'm old school. I come from like the late nineties

707
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 5: and we didn't do all that. But I know now

708
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 5: I'm a tourist. I can be stumboring sometimes, but I

709
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 5: have to look at other people that are doing it

710
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 5: and it has to feel organic for me to want

711
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 5: to jump on that ship, right, And I'm just like, Okay,

712
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 5: now I see certain artists that are doing things that

713
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 5: look fun, and so if I can do it and

714
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 5: it looks fun and it feels fun unto me, I

715
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 5: will get on it. But if at first it was terrifying,

716
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 5: like TikTok, I'm like.

717
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I gotta get my hair done.

718
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 5: I gotta know I'm not the and I'm like, maybe

719
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 5: it's just just I'm learning about it too much.

720
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 3: This saying, just saying this sing and yeah, your podcast,

721
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 3: I'm just like.

722
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 8: Just so great.

723
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 3: Just sing on TikTok.

724
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 8: You know it's like do what works.

725
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, my managers like, you can sing the phone book Nicole,

726
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 5: just just sing And that was my first time hear that.

727
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 3: I can sing the phone books.

728
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: Just sing.

729
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's such a weird world. It is weird. It's

730
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 3: you have to be good at your self promotion. You

731
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 3: have to be you have to, you have to you

732
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 3: have to just do it all. Now.

733
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 5: Yes, I wrote my first resume just for fun when

734
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 5: last weekend, really I found a little app and my

735
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 5: husband's like, won't you just do it for fun? Just

736
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 5: because I've only had like one job in my whole life,

737
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 5: one job.

738
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 3: And I was like, I am.

739
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 5: I think I'm a real artist because when I look back,

740
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 5: and it was a job me and my mom had

741
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 5: and it was in Norfolk, Virginia. It was all summit

742
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 5: remodeling and we would just like sell, like get your

743
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 5: roof fixed. And I got fired because I was on

744
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 5: the phone singing.

745
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 3: You got fired for singing.

746
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 5: I got fired for singing. It's like, you can't come

747
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 5: here singing. And it was my only last job and

748
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 5: I don't even think I had a resume for that.

749
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 5: And my husband's like, you can do it.

750
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 3: You you have your own business. You were already doing marketing.

751
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 3: You're already.

752
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 5: And I was so nervous, and I put that freaking

753
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 5: resume together and I have it in my files just

754
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 5: in case I need.

755
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 3: To get a job one day. Oh my god, just

756
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 3: in case, just in case.

757
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 5: It's the cutest resume ever to see all my little

758
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 5: information on there and all my like, oh, it's just cute.

759
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 3: And it was fun to do. That's good.

760
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: You got to be a self sufficient.

761
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 3: You have no Yeah, and I put up their mom mom,

762
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 3: it's my first job. Yeah, oh my god. Juggling and

763
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 3: all juggling at all. Yeah, it's it's it's a thing.

764
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 2: It is.

765
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 3: It's a thing. Yeah, And it's a thing. People do it,

766
00:33:55,040 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 3: people do it. Yeah. So this new album you made,

767
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 3: I remember when you.

768
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: Guys were making it a few years back, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,

769
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: Leon was excited about it.

770
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we have boots on the ground. We just started.

771
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 5: Our first kickoff date was last night in Philadelphia at

772
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 5: the field More and it was cute and cozy. Yeah,

773
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 5: and my best friend from high school was in the

774
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 5: front and I just heard him yelling so loud and

775
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,439
Speaker 5: it was so cute. I mean, we still keep in touch,

776
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 5: but just to see him in the flesh, yeah, I mean,

777
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 5: I've seen him at Beyonce concerts. It's about to be

778
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 5: at my concert and he was right there front road yelling,

779
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 5: having a time with his life and singing and it

780
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 5: just felt so good.

781
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 3: So boots are on the ground. We got more places

782
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 3: to go, and we're just excited that this album is out.

783
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: It's really exciting when the album first comes out, it is. Yeah,

784
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: it is really exciting to sing new songs. And yes,

785
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: even if the audience doesn't know him yet, Yeah, it's

786
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 1: exciting for you.

787
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:52,359
Speaker 2: Yeah.

788
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 5: The last album was a few years ago, over five

789
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 5: years ago, and I've been just singing no songs and

790
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 5: maybe trying to do covers, and I'm like, it's time

791
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 5: for some new some new energy on this thing, you know,

792
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 5: and to have those new songs and the fans are there,

793
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 5: their eyes are lit up and they're like last night,

794
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 5: at the end of the show, after the encore, this

795
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 5: guy he's handing me his phone.

796
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 3: He's like, can you sing this song? I'm like, this

797
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 3: show is over. I'm so sorry, bye bye. Maybe next time.

798
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 3: But I thought it was so cute.

799
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 5: I met him after the show and at the merched

800
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 5: and he was just like, I'm a DJ, and when

801
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,919
Speaker 5: you're forty five came out and I plate this song.

802
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 5: You have to sing this song next time. So it's

803
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 5: certain songs, It's just so many songs. There's a lot

804
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 5: of songs. I'm just like, I think I need to

805
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 5: have like a meeting of what songs. I don't know

806
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 5: if that's a thing. I need to have a set

807
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 5: list meeting.

808
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,879
Speaker 1: I asked chat gpt to make me a set list

809
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: once and it kept naming songs that didn't exist.

810
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 3: Oh wow, I'm gonna ask.

811
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 8: I'm like, no, I don't know.

812
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 3: It's not quite there. Yeah, not right there. We're gonna

813
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 3: get you together. Yeah, you were on top of your

814
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 3: exactly do you ever do the song? Make it?

815
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: Uh?

816
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 3: Make it?

817
00:35:58,719 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 4: I have to.

818
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 3: I said I was gonna take it off. But if

819
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:02,800
Speaker 3: I do all do it, I still.

820
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 2: Do what I did it.

821
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 3: I do it all the time.

822
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 5: It feels so fun to rap and get this ye

823
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 5: freaking it wass not new energy because it's old, but

824
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 5: it's different from the different from the rest of the set.

825
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 5: And when I'm overseas, some people don't even freaking know

826
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 5: that I did music yesterdayear They're like, what is she singing?

827
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 2: But I like it, you know.

828
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 5: I can see them in the crowd is looking confused

829
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 5: but like into it, like what is this?

830
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 3: I don't know this song? And then I meet them

831
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 3: They're like, oh, I got to go find this music.

832
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,320
Speaker 3: And it's just so cute. That's so sweet. Just have

833
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 3: these songs that just.

834
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: They're still with you, yeah, and they change and probably

835
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: has a different.

836
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 3: Different meaning, different sound.

837
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 5: It feels like, I don't know, it's just amazing to

838
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 5: have that, yeah, and not to kind of be still

839
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 5: stuck there. There are some artists that I love and

840
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 5: I want to say no names, and I don't know

841
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 5: what's happening with them, but they are kind of like

842
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 5: just stuck with these same songs forever.

843
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 3: And I'm like, you gotta make some new stuff.

844
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 1: It's really nice to feel like you're able to do that. Yeah,

845
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: And I would, Yeah, I would. I would lose my mind.

846
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 3: I would lose my mind if I was just stuck there.

847
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just I don't know. But to

848
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 3: each his own. Yeah, do you want to do a

849
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:15,720
Speaker 3: song from the new album?

850
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 2: Yes?

851
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, album, let's do the title track.

852
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 3: And I'm losing my sight me too?

853
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 5: Okay, a bad way, but everything is like glory. But

854
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 5: they told me that I have twenty twenty vision. I said,

855
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 5: you're a freaking lie.

856
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 3: Are you talking about up close close? Does that happen? Terrible? Yeah? Same,

857
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 3: I just I got to like pull away this week.

858
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: I actually started wearing my glasses all the time, all

859
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: the time.

860
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 3: I got a new pair coming. When I get back

861
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 3: to the noise.

862
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 5: They should be at the house and I can wear

863
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 5: them all the time because they have the prescription at.

864
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 3: The bottom I was thinking of doing, and they can do.

865
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 3: They're gonna show me how to navigate them. But I'm

866
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 3: so excited. Did you get a cute pair?

867
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 5: They are so cute a night they look so cute

868
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 5: like the Devil Wears product the big frames.

869
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, they are so cute. Oh cute. I cannot wait.

870
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 3: I think I need to up my game up.

871
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 5: The geeah and so it's so many, it's a thousand

872
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 5: pairs of glasses, and I was like, what do I

873
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 5: And even you can do the sunshades, because that's what

874
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 5: I was gonna do. They can take those big frames

875
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 5: and put the prescriptions in those. So look at those

876
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 5: two and then.

877
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: They turn the sunglass in the sun.

878
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that is a lot. Or you don't

879
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 3: have to do that.

880
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 5: You can just take the frames of the sunglasses and

881
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,879
Speaker 5: put your prescription hear in those, because you can get

882
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 5: real funky with those. I think I'm gonna do those next.

883
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 5: My husband like, you have great sight. You don't need

884
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 5: to be focused on getting I was like, look, hush,

885
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 5: I can't see.

886
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 3: At least they're gonna be fun. They're gonna be fun

887
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 3: if I'm gonna wear them.

888
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: Did you see that SNL with Lady Gaga where it's

889
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: like the older ladies and.

890
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 9: The little red glasses.

891
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 1: I gotta see that, and it's like, yeah, if I

892
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: got my animal print you know, shirt on and my

893
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: little red glasses, you know, I'm still a little funky exactly.

894
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 3: That's cute. I gotta be that. Yeah, I would have

895
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 3: definitely that for sure. Oh my God, this little old

896
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 3: lady ever.

897
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 4: H m.

898
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm mm hmmm.

899
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 9: Uh when you look at me, way do you see?

900
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 8: Am I.

901
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 3: Your image of beauty?

902
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:40,760
Speaker 5: I've lost myself trying to please someone else.

903
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 7: I want to be me again.

904
00:39:52,440 --> 00:40:00,760
Speaker 8: Don't cover up, cover girl. Don't you hide from the world.

905
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 8: Don't cover up, color girl. Don't you had from from

906
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 8: the world. The joy that I have means more than

907
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 8: it easy.

908
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 9: I know.

909
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 8: Just who who loves me. It's me.

910
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 3: It's me.

911
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 2: Oh oh, it's me.

912
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 5: I am.

913
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 3: The beauty I see.

914
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 8: Don't cover up, cover girl. Don't you hide from the world.

915
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 8: Don't cover up.

916
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 10: Don't you cover cover a girl. Don't you hide? Don't

917
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 10: you hide from the world? Yeah, yeah, yeah, make up

918
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 10: colors so pretty? You think that's all that I am?

919
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 10: Youre so silly eyelashes, sunglasses.

920
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 3: Now you can't see me. I'm mute.

921
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:11,320
Speaker 8: Don't color up, color girl. Don't you hide from the world?

922
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 2: God, God, God, god god it.

923
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 8: Don't color up color girl.

924
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 6: Don't you hide from the world. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

925
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 6: color girl.

926
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 3: Oh that was pretty pretty.

927
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 8: I loved it too.

928
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I was like, oh my god, cute, Oh

929
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 3: my god.

930
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 1: I knew we were going to sing together. When I

931
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: met Remember, we were like best.

932
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 9: Night.

933
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:14,879
Speaker 3: I was like, I like her so much.

934
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 1: I didn't have a few margarita's, but yeah, it was fun.

935
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 3: Yeah. Leon was DJing. It was DJing. It was so awesome.

936
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 3: It was it was so fun. It was like, I

937
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 3: want I want you to meet somebody. I was like,

938
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:25,919
Speaker 3: who's like No, I was like Nora.

939
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:26,839
Speaker 2: Yeah.

940
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, I'm getting near. I

941
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 3: was like, oh my god, I'm going to be oh

942
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 3: my god. We had fun. We had so much fun.

943
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:32,760
Speaker 3: It was just chilling.

944
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:33,399
Speaker 2: It was chill.

945
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 3: We dance, we danced a little. The food was really spicy.

946
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 3: It was so good. It was good. It was a

947
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 3: fun night. It was lit, just perfect.

948
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 2: Yeah.

949
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 3: It was just a couple of us, a handful of us. Yeah,

950
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 3: I was small a restaurant. It was so cute. It

951
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 3: was great. Yeah. And then I saw you in Atlanta

952
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 3: on tour. Yeah. Yeah, that's when we got out. Was

953
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 3: like date night for me and my husband. And do

954
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 3: you get tired at night? Is it hard to go

955
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 3: to shows? I think I get geared up for it.

956
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 5: When I'm not, I would definitely be at home and

957
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 5: I will be in bed watching some movies I would

958
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 5: on a regular I wasn't no, I'm home.

959
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 3: I was happy you came out. I find that more

960
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 3: and more.

961
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 4: You know.

962
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: I live in New York, so there's always something to see.

963
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: I love that, and I have friends coming to town

964
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: that I want to see, but I never it's so

965
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: hard to go out at night.

966
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 3: It's so hard, and the world is crazy.

967
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: Now the world is crazy, but it's fun.

968
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,879
Speaker 5: You got to get out, Nora, and that was you. Well,

969
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 5: we just moved from Atlanta. We downsized, were put our

970
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 5: house up for rent, and my husband's in navy. Now,

971
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 5: oh wow, I'm a Navy wife too, talk about that.

972
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 5: But yeah, we downside. So we have a two bedroom

973
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 5: in Illinois and it's the cutest walk out of the house.

974
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 5: Everything is home Goods is right there, so you can

975
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 5: go get.

976
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 3: My hair done and go to Whole Foods.

977
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 8: Wait, so you moved up bar.

978
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 3: The bars are there. We get melloy and Nanny I mean,

979
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 3: Hubby are out.

980
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 5: We don't have to drive the car. We can walk

981
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 5: to the mall or ride a bike. I'm always wanted that.

982
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 1: So it's like a little bit of like it's like

983
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: a small town.

984
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,359
Speaker 5: It's a small town, Vernon Hills is so cute. It's

985
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 5: the cutest little town right out forty five minutes from Chicago.

986
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 3: That's amazing.

987
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: And then Chicago's International Airport.

988
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 3: That's how I think. Yeah, it's the cutest neighborhood that

989
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 3: I'm meeting. This lady in my building. Her name is Sue.

990
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 3: She's like the mayor.

991
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 5: And she was at the pool the other day and

992
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 5: she's like, you see that lady over there. I don't

993
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,800
Speaker 5: like her, and don't you talk to her. I was like,

994
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 5: whatever you say, Sue. She's like, I need to get

995
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 5: you some clips for your towel. What color do you want?

996
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 5: She like pulls out all these cute like clips for

997
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 5: the towel. I'll take pink.

998
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:34,479
Speaker 3: She is so cute.

999
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 5: She's like, I've been here when they open this place,

1000
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 5: and she said the pool needs to redo. She's like, yeah,

1001
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 5: I'm funky and I'm dating a forty year old.

1002
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 3: I say, good for you.

1003
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: I like Sue.

1004
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 3: I like her. She's awesome.

1005
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 5: Every time I see her, we're like talking and giggling

1006
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:47,720
Speaker 5: and she's so awesome.

1007
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 3: She's like seventy years old.

1008
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 5: I hang out with older women. It's older women and

1009
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 5: my fans are like older men overseas.

1010
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 3: Like all older men. I'm like, what's happening here? I

1011
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 3: wonder what that's about.

1012
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,399
Speaker 5: I wonder too cute, Like you should come hang out

1013
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 5: at my farm. I'm like, I don't think so.

1014
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 3: I don't want to. I love that you have a farm,

1015
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:08,880
Speaker 3: but I don't think I'm going to come to your far.

1016
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:10,800
Speaker 5: So when you go out to you go to Chicago

1017
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:13,320
Speaker 5: or is it, oh yeah, we do date night. No,

1018
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 5: it's like forty five minutes.

1019
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 3: It's not bad. We do. We do Ramen. We love Ramen,

1020
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 3: and we get like ideas.

1021
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 5: And we go to like hook a lounge just to

1022
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 5: get out, you know, because we were missing him for

1023
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 5: six months. He's doing did boot camp Wow, And it

1024
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:27,839
Speaker 5: was just different in our house because we had him

1025
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 5: there and then he just had disappeared.

1026
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh my.

1027
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 5: God, I gotta get this house situated. I gotta get

1028
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,720
Speaker 5: Melody ready for school, I gotta learn these songs.

1029
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 3: I gotta get here. I gotta plan to plan my life.

1030
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1031
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 3: And so to have him back is just like I

1032
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 3: can just breathe.

1033
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 5: That's nice, and just to us to be back together again,

1034
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 5: it just felt like a time just stopped.

1035
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: It's a hard life when somebody's.

1036
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,360
Speaker 3: Gone it was and they're used to being in the

1037
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,839
Speaker 3: equation is we deal with that a lot.

1038
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: Because I leave a lot.

1039
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 3: I leave a lot too.

1040
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: It's not like being in the military, but it's I know,

1041
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: it's still disruptive.

1042
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 3: Disruptive for the little ones.

1043
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Melody, she's like she's a she's a Gemini,

1044
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 5: So she has two different sides. She's sweet, you know,

1045
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 5: sweet and sour in a good way. But she's like

1046
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 5: she's like grown up with me and singing and the

1047
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 5: music and she knows that's what it is, and she

1048
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 5: she goes.

1049
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:21,879
Speaker 3: With the flow. Do you bring her on the road?

1050
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 3: She's been on the road before.

1051
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 5: And I'm kind of like a therapist mom too sometimes

1052
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 5: not trying to intrude, but I have my ways of

1053
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 5: I asked chat DBT, how do you ask this way?

1054
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 5: How do you ask these questions without making the kids

1055
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:34,399
Speaker 5: like get out of here, mom?

1056
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 9: You know?

1057
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 3: And I found I should do that. That's what It's

1058
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 3: so easy.

1059
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 5: And you just sneak it in and you don't even

1060
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 5: know that they're they're just talking to you about like

1061
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 5: some random stuff. And I feel like oh, she's sharing

1062
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 5: with me, but I have to approach it in a

1063
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 5: great way, right and not like make her feel like

1064
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 5: I'm trying to be a teacher or you know, and

1065
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 5: make her feel uncomfortable. But we had a puppy named

1066
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 5: Hello Kitty and I miss Hello Kitty the beautiful. She's

1067
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 5: a Multese poodle and that was Melody's first pet, and

1068
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 5: we were moving and it just didn't make sense for

1069
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 5: us to take the dog. So we put her on

1070
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 5: adoption site and we got so many hits because she's adorable.

1071
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:09,879
Speaker 3: She has a whole perfect dog, perfect dog.

1072
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 5: And we found a veteran and she's a veteran of

1073
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 5: Air Force and we met her and I thought she

1074
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,479
Speaker 5: was that Hello Kitty would have a nice home because

1075
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 5: I was like, she needs to be in a nice,

1076
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:20,399
Speaker 5: loving environment where a dog.

1077
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 3: If she wants to go outside, she can run around.

1078
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 5: And I asked Melody in my chat GBT, way, just

1079
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 5: want to ask her just some questions, just I just

1080
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 5: want to know because that's her dog, not mine. I mean,

1081
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:31,919
Speaker 5: it was all of ours, but that was her first

1082
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 5: pet that was gifted to her, and so I was

1083
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 5: asking little things to just make sure she was okay

1084
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 5: with it. And when I saw her, like packing up

1085
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 5: the clothes and like getting her ready, and she didn't cry.

1086
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 3: And she was like giving the lady.

1087
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 5: We were taking the stuff out of the house, and

1088
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 5: at last she had picked up Hello Kitty and took

1089
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 5: her and she gave her a kiss, and after she drove,

1090
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 5: I was like, do you miss Hello Kitty? She's like no,

1091
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 5: And I was like, are you sure? But I had

1092
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 5: already like prepped and asked questions, just because we would

1093
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 5: have kept her had she answered the questions in a

1094
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:01,800
Speaker 5: different way, and we would have made it work because

1095
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 5: my community it's all about dogs, and I feel like,

1096
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 5: oh my gosh, she would have been great out here,

1097
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 5: but they're moving around a lot. Yeah, And she gave

1098
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 5: her a little kiss and they did like a little thing.

1099
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 5: And the lady drove off and that was it, and

1100
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 5: I asked her, she's she sometimes she misses her. And

1101
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 5: I was like, when we move again and we get

1102
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 5: off forever home, then we'll get a dog. You can

1103
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 5: have a if you want to be inside or outside.

1104
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 5: You can get a dog or a cat because I

1105
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 5: like cats too, so we'll figure that part out.

1106
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 3: But it is, it is.

1107
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 4: It is.

1108
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 5: Hard, you know, being away from the kiddos and trying

1109
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 5: to you know, figure out where they are and homework

1110
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 5: and I'm like out of town and I'm doing it.

1111
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 5: I'm still doing homework on tour. I'm like, am I

1112
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:44,879
Speaker 5: in the second grade?

1113
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 3: Or am I on tour? I think I'm in the

1114
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 3: second grade in on tour? Oh my god, that's too funny.

1115
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 3: It just gets worse. Yeah, I'm like, what is this

1116
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 3: second grade math?

1117
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,439
Speaker 1: Dude? My fourth and my sixth grader? Now I can't

1118
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: even wrap my hand.

1119
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,120
Speaker 3: I was like, I need a tutor to tutor me

1120
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 3: to get me back into the uh. I was like,

1121
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1122
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: But I brought my daughter to Japan last week, which

1123
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,439
Speaker 1: was really special because it was a very short trip

1124
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,319
Speaker 1: and we had three shows and she had a few

1125
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,919
Speaker 1: days off school anyway, So I brought her and we're

1126
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: on a fourteen hour flight and our ten She's like,

1127
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: all right, I have to do my homework now. I

1128
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: was like, are you kidding me? I was like, now,

1129
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: we're going to do this homework? And we were both

1130
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: cross eyed. We were so tired, but we did it.

1131
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 3: It's good to get it done and out the way.

1132
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: I think I was actually really surprised and really proud

1133
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: that she wanted to do it.

1134
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 3: That's awesome.

1135
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:40,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, because usually she's a little more like, let's not

1136
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: do it.

1137
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's like, I gotta get it done. Let me

1138
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 3: just do it now. So when I get to Japan

1139
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 3: is at the time of my life. Yeah, smart girl.

1140
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 3: So it worked out.

1141
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: But we had like help, you know, fraction strips of paper.

1142
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 1: We were doing fractions, show the work it out. There

1143
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: was like homework paraphernalia, you.

1144
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 5: Know, and it's the work legs. Work this problem out.

1145
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:01,320
Speaker 5: Oh chat GBT word, that's problem out for me.

1146
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 3: Somehow it worked and she ended up figuring it out.

1147
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 3: That's amazing. I helped her.

1148
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 5: But yeah, I was a little rocky at the start.

1149
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 5: I'm sure I would be worried if this new math

1150
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 5: it's hard.

1151
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard. I'm like they are.

1152
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 5: If she's in college. In second grade, I know she's like,

1153
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:22,359
Speaker 5: but I want to skip twelfth grade. Mom, I'll say,

1154
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 5: you keep going to where you're going and busting out

1155
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 5: those a's, You'll be You'll be there, You'll be there.

1156
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 5: She's like, I want to be a venarian's see, whatever

1157
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 5: you want to do Babe, this guy is beyond You

1158
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 5: can go and do whatever you want. You can be

1159
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 5: the president if you want, because that's what you want

1160
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 5: to do. I'm going to support you whatever you want.

1161
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 5: It'd be tough, but I'm like, my baby is the president,

1162
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 5: get out of my way.

1163
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 8: Be fine.

1164
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, with a paint the White House pink, she will.

1165
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 5: She's gonna be like the White House has to be pink.

1166
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 3: That's great.

1167
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for doing this.

1168
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 3: Thank you, But I at home good. You can come

1169
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 3: back and easy. You're easy. You're easy.

1170
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 5: And there are other places. I'm like, this is gonna

1171
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 5: be nervous. I don't know what they're gonna ask.

1172
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:04,919
Speaker 3: It's supposed to be. It's supposed it's supposed to be fun.

1173
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 3: And I loved it. I loved it.

1174
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:07,399
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1175
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 1: I was thinking about, like, your background in church.

1176
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,759
Speaker 3: You grew up in church. I grew up singing in church. Yep.

1177
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 5: My mom and my dad when they were still married,

1178
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,919
Speaker 5: I felt it was actually my grandfather's church and him

1179
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 5: and my grandmother and well, not his church, but that's

1180
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 5: the church that he resided in, right, and he was like.

1181
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 3: A deacon in the church.

1182
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,760
Speaker 5: And then my mom and all her sisters and everybody

1183
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 5: started like just pull paling into this church, right, And

1184
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 5: I'm growing up and I felt like I went to church.

1185
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 3: I felt like it was like seven days a week.

1186
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, what church was it was? It was

1187
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 3: called Holy like Church of Deliverance.

1188
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 5: And I have the the craziest story which I felt

1189
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 5: like I was supposed to be a gospel singer. And

1190
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 5: I remember when I was about fourteen, my mom and

1191
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 5: I we went to church one Sunday morning and I

1192
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 5: was about to go work with Jimmy Jam and Terry

1193
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 5: Lewis in Minneapolis. And she they do this like church

1194
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 5: prayer bowl, right, and you put the prayer and you

1195
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 5: put your thing in and you drop it.

1196
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 3: You go sit down, you wait to hear the word.

1197
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 3: And so the lady's sister married out on her name.

1198
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:07,800
Speaker 5: She come with this big old head with like a

1199
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 5: big old feather on it, and she's like, I liked it.

1200
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,800
Speaker 5: We're gonna give devotion and we're gonna start praying for people.

1201
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 5: And this morning she started pulling out the thing. She's like,

1202
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 5: I like to pray for sister Nicole and miss Deva Ray.

1203
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,959
Speaker 5: They're going to work with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

1204
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 5: for her singing career. And I was sitting there like

1205
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 5: this is going well. The pastor gets up out of

1206
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 5: his seat and he's like gangster like he was this

1207
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 5: gangster pastor. He wears these dark gazelle shades that are

1208
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 5: like mafia driven right, and he gets up, disregard the

1209
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 5: prayer they're serving, the devil, Oh, disregarded, disregarded.

1210
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: I'm just like, oh my, he did not like you

1211
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: did not deserve that.

1212
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 3: I did not deserve it.

1213
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 5: And Sister Green Lord rest her soul, she said at

1214
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 5: the church, she said, he know he was wrong for that.

1215
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 5: How did you tell Hersonati fourteen? This was before my

1216
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 5: career even like began, and I always wanted to be

1217
00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 5: a gospel singer. And I think that was a pivotal

1218
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 5: moment that meh, because he should have said, look, just

1219
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 5: sing at church. He could have talked to us and

1220
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:06,879
Speaker 5: said pray for them and after church, maybe you don't

1221
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:07,760
Speaker 5: want to go that route.

1222
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 7: He was mean.

1223
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,400
Speaker 5: He was mean until he's still alive. He's like in

1224
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 5: his nineties. And I sung at my I sung at

1225
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 5: my aunt's funeral. He was there because they had the funeral.

1226
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 5: My family still goes to the church, you know. And

1227
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 5: I sung at my aunt's funeral, and I remember him

1228
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 5: just like just looking at me crazy, and I'm just

1229
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 5: like so nervous. And I had already made it in

1230
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 5: my career at this point, right and I'm an adult,

1231
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:30,919
Speaker 5: and I'm sitting there like he still got a chip

1232
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 5: on his shoulder instead of like, you know, embracing me

1233
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 5: and talking to me. Because he loved my dad. My

1234
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 5: dad was sung in his church, and he loved my dad.

1235
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 5: But somehow he just didn't like me for some reason.

1236
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1237
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 5: But and at my great grandmother's funeral, I'm up there singing,

1238
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 5: He's walks in there. It ain't for God, it ain't right.

1239
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 5: And I was just like, oh my goodness. He just

1240
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,280
Speaker 5: kept going and I'm just like, well that that deterred

1241
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 5: me right there.

1242
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 3: But I still I still I love going to church.

1243
00:54:59,600 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 3: I love it.

1244
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:02,319
Speaker 5: I still go to church, and sometimes I want it's

1245
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:03,880
Speaker 5: get up there and sing with the choir. And I

1246
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,800
Speaker 5: was telling Leon, I'm like, I want to bring my

1247
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,440
Speaker 5: church roots into this album. I just felt like when

1248
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 5: I was singing in the choir, I just felt so

1249
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:14,800
Speaker 5: free and just a choir and just everybody singing and

1250
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 5: clapping and having a good time and feeling something. Not

1251
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:19,479
Speaker 5: to say that I wasn't doing music that didn't feel

1252
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:21,720
Speaker 5: like something. I just always wanted to do a gospel album,

1253
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 5: and so I was like, I'm just bring those gospel

1254
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 5: roots into this album.

1255
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 3: And that's how that was birthed.

1256
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:29,879
Speaker 1: Well, you have all the harmonies, and that's such a thing.

1257
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, Missy helped me with that. Oh my gosh, she

1258
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 3: was harmonizing really fool. Yeah, she could just harmonize. I

1259
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 3: didn't know that.

1260
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:37,640
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1261
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 5: She and she'll write a song and like scribble and.

1262
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:42,919
Speaker 3: The song is done.

1263
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 5: I'm like I can't read this and she's like it

1264
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 5: goes like this. And she was always awesome. But you

1265
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:49,839
Speaker 5: know what, really, I think I got my early start

1266
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 5: with harmonies too, and not.

1267
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 3: Even know it church with church absolutely, and I mean

1268
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 3: I give.

1269
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 5: People a lot of credit, but I keep forgetting as

1270
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 5: a kid.

1271
00:55:57,320 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 3: I got my first song at church when I was eight.

1272
00:55:59,520 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 3: I sung it.

1273
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 5: Acquire eight all the way on up till maybe maybe ten,

1274
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 5: and then I stayed in church.

1275
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:07,359
Speaker 3: I still go to church today.

1276
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 5: And I told Melody, we're gonna go you need to

1277
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:11,359
Speaker 5: go to church and we go to church and you're

1278
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 5: gonna say grace. Because I was forced to say the

1279
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 5: grace in front of all adults, and like Nicole's gonna

1280
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 5: say to grace.

1281
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't know what to say.

1282
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 3: Just making up anything. I just make up anything.

1283
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:23,800
Speaker 1: Do you make her say it in front of everybody?

1284
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:25,680
Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't make her. I just want her. Her

1285
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:26,799
Speaker 3: grandparents make her.

1286
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:30,280
Speaker 5: They're old at old school, my husband's side of the family,

1287
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:31,880
Speaker 5: and she's staying there. She's like, I just want to

1288
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 5: eat pizza. I don't want She's like, I don't want

1289
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 5: to do it. And her grandma said, I'm gonna take

1290
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 5: that tablets.

1291
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:40,879
Speaker 8: Thank you, you'll pray.

1292
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1293
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 3: Well, it's funny.

1294
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: I was listening to all these you know podcasts, all

1295
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: these self help you know, you make your gratitude lists.

1296
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: I mean that's saying grace.

1297
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,719
Speaker 3: Right, Just say saying grace. You don't have to go deep.

1298
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 3: It's good for you. It's good for you. It grateful

1299
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:59,280
Speaker 3: things you should. You should be very grateful.

1300
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 5: It's not yeah, somebody is not having a great day

1301
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 5: or a great life, or or a moment, so it's

1302
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 5: to be to be thankful.

1303
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:08,360
Speaker 3: It's I think it's everything.

1304
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 5: That's that's the one important thing in this life to

1305
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 5: be grateful and just to give back.

1306
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you you seem very.

1307
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 1: I feel like it would be easy, with your story

1308
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: and your career for you to be bitter, and I

1309
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 1: don't feel I don't feel.

1310
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 3: Any of that far. Oh yeah, no, I don't think

1311
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 3: it's in me. I makeup. I cannot do it. I cannot.

1312
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 3: That's probably how you got through it.

1313
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 2: Yeah it is.

1314
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 5: I'm like, my god, how did I get this far?

1315
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:40,960
Speaker 5: And everybody will tell me if I was you, I

1316
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 5: would custom out.

1317
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Speaker 3: I would. I was like, that's not me.

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Speaker 5: And I think in the long run, it'll what karma is, look,

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Speaker 5: you know, And so I believe in my Daddy always like,

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Speaker 5: do you know that little lady named Karma? You don't

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Speaker 5: want to meet her? And I was like, I always

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00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 5: heard him saying that. In my mind, I don't want

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Speaker 5: to meet Karma. You know what some people do, and

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00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 5: and when that time comes, it'll be and I'll be

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Speaker 5: on the right side of wrong, on the wrong side

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Speaker 5: of right, or whatever you want.

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Speaker 3: To call it. Yeah, you know, so good. We I'm

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Speaker 3: proud of you, Thank you. I'm proud so much. Much

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Speaker 3: love to you, same to you. I love you too.

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Speaker 1: We should do this again sometimes do it? Do you

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Speaker 1: feel like singing one last song?

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Speaker 3: Let's sing? So this is my sort of version of

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Speaker 3: a gospel song.

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Speaker 1: It's like, you know, I feel like in the last

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Speaker 1: ten years any song that the songs that mean the

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00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: most that I've written are sort of to God. And

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Speaker 1: do you find that you write those kinds of songs.

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Speaker 5: I find they just come to me. Yeah, they come

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Speaker 5: to me naturally, my ancestors. I just think my great

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00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 5: grandmother when she was alive, she always sing And sometimes

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00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 5: I'm singing and I hear her voice coming through me,

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Speaker 5: and I know she's in heaven somewhere like my grand

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00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 5: great great grand baby is doing it and I feel

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00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 5: that that vibration.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you have to just let God just flow

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Speaker 3: wherever wherever he is I want to be. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: love it. Yeah, all right, Well, thanks for singing the

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Speaker 3: song with me.

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Speaker 2: Do it.

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Speaker 3: And after all been said and done, who said it best?

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Speaker 8: Will you the one?

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Speaker 1: Let's just forget, leave it behind and carry on.

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Speaker 3: If you should find the time to speak, then speak

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Speaker 3: to me.

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Speaker 5: I never keep you from your fine not detiny, so gary.

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Speaker 2: Into the choir, yet.

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Speaker 3: I am bound.

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Speaker 2: Well you have lost how never found?

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Speaker 5: I lost my nerve Yeppie surrounds so gary.

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Speaker 8: Y m hmmm into the chod it. I am bound.

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Speaker 3: What you've lost?

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Speaker 5: I've never found I've lost smiler, yeat, peace surround so

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Speaker 5: carry all.

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Speaker 8: And now that all.

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Speaker 3: Been said and done, who said it best? With you

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Speaker 3: the one?

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Speaker 11: Let's just forget leave it behind, hand carry on, Let's

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Speaker 11: just forget, leave it behind.

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Speaker 7: Heyy yay, so good.

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Speaker 3: That was beautiful. That's the first time I got to

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Speaker 3: sing sing. That was like somebody.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It felt so good. I love the lyrics. Yay, thank

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Speaker 3: you beautiful, thank you so much, thank you, love you,

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Speaker 3: love you.

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Speaker 8: We did it, We did it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that was so fun. I had no idea her

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Speaker 1: whole story. I know it was a wild You're super

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Speaker 1: super not.

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Speaker 3: What I knew about. I didn't know any of it.

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Speaker 3: That was amazing.

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Speaker 1: I really love singing with her too. I hope we

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Speaker 1: get to do more in the future. So thanks to

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Speaker 1: Lady Ray for joining us. We'll be back next week

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