1 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:12,960 Speaker 1: Back with a Sunday sampler. Matt Stell in New Orleans. 2 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: That's what you're here from me. We were at the 3 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 1: super Bowl and he played against Lebron James in high 4 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: school and his mom recorded over the video and so 5 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 1: we're gonna play that coming up in a second. But 6 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: you're gonna hear clips of a bunch of podcasts here, 7 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: and if you like any of the stories, go check 8 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: out that individual podcast. I would recommend Doctor Josie's podcast 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: if you love animals and celebrities, and check out Morgan's 10 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: new podcast as well, called Take This Personally. 11 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 2: But I want to start with this. 12 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: It's an episode from the Bobby Cast this week with 13 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 1: country music superstar Matt Stell. 14 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 3: I moved to Nashville, finally got a publishing deal, and 15 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 3: about six months into that publishing deal, I think, all right, 16 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 3: prayed for You with a couple people in town and 17 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 3: my manager at the time, I'm and Alison Vell. Shout 18 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 3: out Alison the songs about her husband, and I wrote 19 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 3: pray for You, and I I thought we had written 20 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 3: a good song that day, but I I had no 21 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 3: idea it was like gonna be a life changing hit song, 22 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 3: and no idea, and so my publishing company were putting 23 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 3: out an EP and they're like, we should put these songs, 24 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 3: and my publishers like, man, you should put Prayed for 25 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 3: You on there too. 26 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: I was like, okay, well, let me stop you for 27 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 1: a second, because if you wrote write Pray for You, 28 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 1: you three were just together generally writing, and then your 29 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: publisher were just gonna go and pitch the song. You 30 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 1: aren't writing for anything specific. She didn't have anybody in mind. 31 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 3: So I think they were I mean, I think we 32 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 3: were kind of writing for We were writing for me, 33 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 3: because you know, the idea was like, we're gonna put 34 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 3: an EP together. I get, you know, pitched to lay. 35 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 3: We'll see we get some traction. 36 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 1: But I wanted to know, like what was the purpose 37 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: of the right to me? 38 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 3: I was in there writing this song that is like, 39 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 3: I'm proud to say it's a good song. I'm really 40 00:01:57,720 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 3: proud of that song. It's not the kind of music 41 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 3: that I thought I would be making, you know, from 42 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 3: what we just talked about. But I wrote that song 43 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 3: and I was, you know, cool, awesome, wrote. 44 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 4: A good song. 45 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 2: The day you finished. 46 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:09,239 Speaker 1: Did you think it was good? 47 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 4: I thought it was good. 48 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:11,519 Speaker 1: It was for you. 49 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 5: No, No, I didn't. 50 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 3: I didn't know, Like I had never written a hit 51 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 3: song before, Like I wasn't one of these guys that 52 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 3: just moved to town and like lighting it hits in 53 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 3: a battle. 54 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: Like thematically when you finished it were like nothing says Stelle. 55 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: I prayed for you, like I just wonder right, I know, 56 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: because it doesn't sound based on the things that you 57 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: heard that didn't resonate with you. And this is the 58 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: irony of it, is that, especially the music you wanted 59 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,239 Speaker 1: to make, you finished the song and it's like man 60 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: stamp of Stelle just right there exactly. 61 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 3: And you know, to be honest with you, Bobby, I 62 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 3: have I've tried to put more and be more me 63 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 3: in the music that I've made as an artist because 64 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 3: I wasn't an artist at that, Like I wasn't a 65 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 3: person on the radio with then like we put that 66 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 3: song out in that EP out and John Marx was 67 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 3: at Spotify at the time, and my other manager emailed him. 68 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 3: They put that song on Spotify and it started. It 69 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 3: was like a million streams a week on without much 70 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 3: at all playlisting. And then it, I mean it organically 71 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 3: did it blew? 72 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: It went viral. Before that, it was that social media 73 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: was viraling songs to deals. 74 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 5: Yeah. 75 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 3: For yeah, it was it went viral. Yeah, basically like 76 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 3: for me music, my socials have always followed my music. 77 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 3: They have not like my George Birds, you know, one 78 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 3: of my good friends, he's a little bit the other way, 79 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 3: you know, social media. He's really good at it, and 80 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 3: he's also very good at music, but his socials are 81 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 3: the are the the bell cow you know, that gets 82 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 3: all that great music to people. And me, I've always 83 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 3: my soles have always lagged behind whatever music I had. 84 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 3: And yeah, man, that happened. 85 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: And then we shot it a single, like was it 86 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: in your mind? Because again, if you send it to 87 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: Spotify and John used to be the guy Spotify, was 88 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: it this? I guess singles a weird word if you're not. 89 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 4: Actually it was the single. 90 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 3: It was the song, It was the scene. It was 91 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 3: the one song we sent. 92 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: Okay, so we were you trying to service it to 93 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: radio as well? Well? 94 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 3: At that point we were, you know, I was going 95 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 3: and playing some songs in some offices downtown, but I really, 96 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 3: you know, hadn't nailed anything. You know, we had a 97 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 3: little interest here and there, but I didn't have a 98 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 3: record deal or anything. 99 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: Did you feel like the song where you were like, oh, man, 100 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 1: it's a good song, but I don't really want this 101 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: to be the single. Even though the song was good. 102 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 1: Did part of you not want to be the single 103 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: because it was love? 104 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 3: And in my you know, if I'm being honest, I 105 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 3: wanted that song to be a multi week number one 106 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 3: for Blake Shelton or for whoever. Like I thought that's 107 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 3: what I was doing because I thought we'd written a 108 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 3: good song that day. But man, you know, for me 109 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 3: in this business and how hard it was and to 110 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 3: get started and getting started late, you know, if you 111 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 3: have an opportunity, I've never been one that was so 112 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 3: confident in myself that I would be picking and choosy 113 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 3: about opportunities. And so when that song hit like it did, 114 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 3: we started getting calls from some labels. Then we got 115 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 3: a call and signed a deal and blah blah blah. 116 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 3: You know that led to you know, whatever, did. 117 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: You have to have like an internal conversation of this 118 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: is not exactly what I thought it would be, but 119 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: this is awesome, so we're gonna commit and just. 120 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 3: Go Yeah, Well I knew I just wanted to make 121 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 3: music that mattered to people. And I did struggle with 122 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 3: this a little bit earlier. Yeah, to answer your question, 123 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 3: but like I had, I always want to make music 124 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 3: that mattered to people. But I never thought I was 125 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 3: gonna be as someone who wrote like one of the 126 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 3: bigger wedding songs. I wasn't married. I mean, if it like, 127 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 3: I wasn't even engaged at that time, I don't think 128 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 3: maybe you know, I can't remember. 129 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 5: Maybe I was. 130 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 3: Those those timelines seem like they're parallel, but they're different 131 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 3: tracks of mine. 132 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 5: But uh, yeah, I had no idea. 133 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 3: And now you know, now that I am married and 134 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 3: found somebody that I that I think those things about 135 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 3: that song makes even makes more sense to me now. 136 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 3: Number one, But number two, it is really really humbling 137 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 3: and special that people want to include that song, get 138 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 3: it tattooed on them, somebody has those lyrics on a 139 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 3: headstone like that. I that there's no amount of like, 140 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 3: oh wow, I wish this. I wish my famous song 141 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 3: was about whiskey. You know, Like dude, I'm just glad 142 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 3: to have made any music that matters to people. And 143 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean there was that the questions you're 144 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 3: asking were questions I asked myself, And these are the 145 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 3: answers to those questions. 146 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: Cast up little food for your song. 147 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 5: Life. It's pretty, it's pretty beautiful. 148 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 6: That for a little moth would it's exciting? 149 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: A course said he you're kicking it with full thing 150 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:11,679 Speaker 1: with Amy Brown. 151 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 7: All right, let's talk about why we put things off 152 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 7: that we really want to do. Like I want you 153 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 7: to think about something that you really wanted to do 154 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 7: but you put it off, or that you currently really 155 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 7: want to do, but you are putting it off at 156 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 7: this exact moment, even though you know it's something that 157 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 7: you're going to totally enjoy and you want to do it. 158 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 7: I have done this many times now, about a year 159 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 7: and a half ago, I think it was maybe even 160 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 7: two years at this point. Time has been weird lately. 161 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 7: I took an improv class and I absolutely loved it. 162 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 7: I left it feeling energized, and I told myself that 163 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 7: I would sign up for another session soon. So they're 164 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 7: eight week courses. But guess what, I totally put it 165 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 7: off and put it off and put it off. I 166 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 7: originally signed up for after I had that teeny tiny 167 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 7: role in the Christmas movie Holiday harmony. My scene was 168 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 7: in the bathroom. Not sure if y'all saw it. My 169 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 7: kids thought that my bathroom scene was hilarious. My debut 170 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 7: in a movie and I had my lines in a bathroom, 171 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 7: but I loved the entire experience. So after that, I 172 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 7: decided to take improv lessons and acting lessons to you know, 173 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 7: hone in on my skills. I obviously should have done 174 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 7: that stuff before I filmed the movie, but I was 175 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 7: playing myself and it was sort of a last minute 176 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 7: thing that I got invited to do, and I was like, 177 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,079 Speaker 7: I don't have time to take any lessons. I'm just 178 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 7: gonna go for it. And I had no idea how 179 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 7: much I was gonna love the whole thing. So then 180 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 7: I decided I would like to pursue more of these opportunities, 181 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 7: So I'm gonna do the acting lessons, I'm gonna do 182 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 7: the improv And I did all that and then just stopped, 183 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,719 Speaker 7: stopped going, didn't pursue anything. And I really think it 184 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 7: boiled down to that. I the rejection, and I don't 185 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,559 Speaker 7: know why we do this to ourselves, because I know 186 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 7: better than that I have heard from others. I've even 187 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 7: shared on this podcast I know that we have to 188 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 7: just go for things. We can't fear the failure because 189 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 7: even from the failure, obstacle is the way we will 190 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 7: learn from it. We will grow from it. We have 191 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 7: the question that Donald Miller gave us, what does this 192 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 7: make possible? So I know all the things? So why 193 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 7: was I putting it off? Like why did I quit? 194 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 7: And then why did I just ignore it even though 195 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 7: I've had it on my list for sure the last 196 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 7: six to eight months. Sign up for another improv class, 197 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 7: sign up for another improv class. Like when we know 198 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 7: we want something and then fear creeps in. Uh, it's 199 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,079 Speaker 7: the worst when the fear wins. And that's what happened 200 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:53,599 Speaker 7: to me. I feel like we easily convince ourselves that 201 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 7: we don't really want it because that's easier than failing. 202 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 7: And it's sort of what I started to tell myself. 203 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 7: I'm like, well, I guess it's not so something that 204 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 7: I really wanted, because if I wanted it, I would 205 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,559 Speaker 7: be signing up for it. Or we tell ourselves that 206 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 7: we're going to wait for the perfect time, then the 207 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,199 Speaker 7: perfect time never comes, and we think about doing it 208 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 7: so much that we exhaust ourselves before we even get started, 209 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 7: and that's exactly what happened to me. However, I had 210 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 7: a turning point today. I finally signed back up for 211 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 7: the improv classes. Like before I hit record, I made 212 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 7: myself go to the website. I signed up. I'm gonna 213 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 7: be taking classes starting in March. It'll be for eight 214 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 7: weeks every Tuesday night, six thirty to nine thirty. I'm 215 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 7: sure I'll run into some issues there, but I'm gonna 216 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 7: have to navigate around that. This is something that's important 217 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 7: to me. So for the next eight weeks, that's where 218 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,679 Speaker 7: I'm going to be on Tuesday nights. You can't miss 219 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 7: more than two or you have to start over. And 220 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 7: I did level one a while back, and I got 221 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 7: to do level one again because so much time past, 222 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 7: I would feel ridiculous going into level two. So I'm 223 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,680 Speaker 7: gonna start level one. I'm going to see how it goes, 224 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 7: and then if I still love it, I'm gonna roll 225 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,959 Speaker 7: in to level two. But I'm proud of myself for 226 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,559 Speaker 7: finally signing up for the class, and I hope that 227 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 7: that will encourage any of you right now, if there's 228 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 7: something you've been putting off, maybe even pause this right 229 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 7: now and go look up what it is you need 230 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 7: to do. Go to the website. Can you sign up 231 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 7: for it? Do you need to look at your calendar? 232 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:28,719 Speaker 8: What is it you need to do? 233 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 7: Like, if you've been putting off something, ask yourself why 234 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 7: you're putting it off. Is it fear? Is it perfectionism, 235 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 7: is it lack of time, whatever it is, Acknowledge why 236 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 7: you're putting it off, and figure out a way to 237 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:49,559 Speaker 7: make it work. When we do that, it will help 238 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 7: get us out of the what if cycle, which is 239 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 7: what I need to get out of. I will just know, 240 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 7: and I owe it to myself to give it a try, 241 00:11:57,480 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 7: and so do you. 242 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 2: We're gonna do it. Live Oh the one, two, three, 243 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 2: sore losers? 244 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 5: What up, everybody? I am lunchbox. I know the most 245 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 5: about sports, so I'll give you the sports facts, my 246 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 5: sports opinions, because I'm pretty much a sports genius, y'all. 247 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 5: It's Sison. 248 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 2: I'm from the North. I'm an alpha male. I live 249 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 2: on the north side of Nashville with Bayser, my wife. 250 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 5: We do have a farm. 251 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,839 Speaker 2: It's beautiful, a lot of acreage, no animals, a lot 252 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 2: of crops, hopefully soon corn pumpkins. Rye I believe maybe 253 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 2: a little fescue to be determined over to you, coach. 254 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 5: And here's a clip from this week's episode of The 255 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 5: Sore Losers Jasmine with Nashville sc Hi. I'm just letting 256 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 5: you know I'm your new ticket rep. 257 00:12:58,559 --> 00:12:59,680 Speaker 2: How's it going, Jazzy? 258 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 5: And I'm like okay, And she's like, I just wanted 259 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 5: to call and see as a season ticket member. If 260 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 5: every if you're happy with everything that's going on and 261 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 5: every the process and everything. I said, well, I do 262 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 5: have a few questions here we go, Do I have 263 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 5: any comments? And she goes, are you just are you 264 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 5: looking forward to this upcoming season? I was like, well, 265 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 5: last season ended on a little bit of a rough note. 266 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 5: You know, we were really pissed poor towards the end 267 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:24,959 Speaker 5: of the year. What do you like on the in 268 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 5: the midfield? Like? What what did we do to address 269 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 5: the situation? She's like, excuse me, I'm like, like, how 270 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 5: are we going to score more goals? It seems like 271 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 5: it takes a lot of effort for us to score 272 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,719 Speaker 5: just one goal. When we go to the games, we 273 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 5: don't really score a lot of goals and we get 274 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,079 Speaker 5: beat two to nothing, three to nothing, and if we 275 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 5: score one goal, it's a it's a miracle. How what 276 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 5: have we done to improve that need? Somebody better than 277 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 5: muck tar And she's like, oh, sir, I'm just calling 278 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 5: about your season tickets. 279 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 2: That wasn't in her training class. 280 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,079 Speaker 5: And I'm like, yeah, I know you're calling about my 281 00:13:58,080 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 5: season tickets. But you said if I have any questions, 282 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 5: and I said, and I saw that we let our 283 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:04,959 Speaker 5: backup goalie go. Do you know was there a reason 284 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:05,439 Speaker 5: behind that? 285 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 9: Oh? 286 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 2: Contract issues? 287 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:12,559 Speaker 5: And she's like, I didn't make that decision. I'm just 288 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 5: your ticket rep. Like I'm just handling anything on your 289 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 5: season ticket sales, Like if you need any help with. 290 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 2: That, dude. She's just trying to draw check in the 291 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 2: box by your name. 292 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 7: Bro. 293 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 5: She has a list of people that she is supposed 294 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 5: to call now that she has this job, to introduce 295 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 5: herself and like get the ball rolling, like just so 296 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 5: you know who she is. And she can say, yep, 297 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 5: I did that, yep I did that. She reports or 298 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 5: a boss. I talked to all thirty people on my 299 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 5: list and they are all happy. And I just start 300 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 5: pestering her with questions. I said, you know, last year 301 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 5: was the first year we didn't make the playoffs. Like, 302 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 5: what's the you know mood around the office. 303 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 2: Well, at the office, we always like to network on Fridays. 304 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 5: She says, Well, we're really looking forward to this season, 305 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 5: and you know, we're really glad that you're a season 306 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 5: ticket member. Is there anything else I can do for you? 307 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 5: And I'm like, well, like, how are we going to 308 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 5: handle the firepower of Messi and his boys when they 309 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 5: come up from Miami. 310 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 2: She's like, I went to a couple of games with 311 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 2: the girls and drink. 312 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 5: She goes, if you do need me at a game, 313 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 5: I will be there if you you know, if you 314 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 5: tell me beforehand, I can come down to your seats. 315 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 5: And I'm like, well, how is that gonna help us 316 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 5: stop Messi? And she's like, I don't I don't know that, sir, sir. 317 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 2: I'm just trying to get you to renew at your 318 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 2: rock bottom price of forty dollars for the season pass. 319 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 5: I mean, I hit her with like ten questions, cut 320 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 5: her on the phone for at least fifteen minutes. 321 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 2: It's got to improve her life and how you view 322 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 2: your job. If she does enjoy ted Lasso. 323 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 5: I should ask her. I said, Hey, did ted Lasso 324 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 5: inspire you to apply for this. 325 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 2: I should have had that one because that does make 326 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 2: it cooler that she's working at a stadium and then 327 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 2: also can just go outside and watch the games. I 328 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 2: wonder if her offices are at the stadium. They have 329 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 2: to be. 330 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 5: Oh, that's a great question. 331 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 2: Then that makes me jealous that they had the ted 332 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 2: Lasso life because that was pretty cool. How the one 333 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 2: lady whoever the owner of the Yeah, how she'd always 334 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 2: go into her office. Sum, Yeah, it was so great. 335 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 2: That's a pretty dope office. 336 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: That was that. 337 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 5: I wonder, my friend Jinny works for Austin FC, and 338 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 5: I'll ask her if her office is at the stadium, 339 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 5: because that would be so. I would have asked questions 340 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 5: like that. Instead you're being a dick and you're like, hey, 341 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 5: so Hanni. Muktar and Zimmerman they weren't very social when 342 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 5: they would lose a game and then you guys would 343 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 5: have your meet and greets you, why don't you do 344 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 5: something constructive where you said, hey, it was really hard. 345 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 5: The one cool time was when my kids played basketball 346 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 5: with Muktar. There's been other times though, where they get 347 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 5: one hot dog and you guys run out, why didn't 348 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 5: you address that? I should have addressed Meet the Team Day. 349 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 5: I'm like, hey, so two years so fit with meet 350 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 5: the Team Day. Two years ago we went to Meet 351 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 5: the Team day and you, if you were a season 352 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 5: ticket member, you got to go and you got to 353 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 5: do all this stuff. But my kids didn't get to 354 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 5: do anything because everything we did was, oh, you have 355 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 5: to have a risk band for that, you have to 356 00:16:58,240 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 5: have a risk band for this, you have to have 357 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 5: this collar risk And there were no damn wristbands. But 358 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 5: no one said that on the copy, like how have we. 359 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 2: Worked to improve that? That would have been a good question. 360 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 5: That would have been a great question. 361 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 2: She would listen. 362 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 5: She would have been like, I didn't even know we 363 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 5: have fan Meet the Fan day. This is only my 364 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 5: second day on the job. 365 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 2: Sir, You're gonna hang up and listen. You're hanging up. 366 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 5: Uh So, I thought, I'm sitting there laughing to myself. 367 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,639 Speaker 5: And I get off the phone and my wife was like, 368 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 5: who was that. I said, Oh, that was our new 369 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 5: season season ticket rep with Nashville. Escia's Jasmine. She goes, well, 370 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 5: what the hell were you asking her all those questions for? 371 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,159 Speaker 5: And I said, oh, I thought I was being funny. 372 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:43,479 Speaker 5: She goes, that is so awkward. I'm like, I cracked 373 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 5: myself up. She goes, She's not going to know the 374 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 5: answer to that. That poor girl is just trying to 375 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 5: do her job. She has so many more people to call, 376 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 5: and you just took up fifteen minutes of her time. 377 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,880 Speaker 5: And I'm like, I laughed to myself, And my question 378 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 5: is is that Jasmine girl When she gets off the 379 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 5: phone with me, was she laughing or was she was like? 380 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 5: What the hell did I get myself into? What you 381 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 5: did was funny. 382 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 2: The nation will think what you did was funny her 383 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 2: that was part of her job, so that you were 384 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 2: probably a nuisance. But I will say I love that 385 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 2: you had fun with people on the phone. I do 386 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 2: it a little too much to the now, the point 387 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 2: baser makes me go in the other room even if 388 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,120 Speaker 2: I'm ordering pizza, because I'll be like, hey, how's it going, 389 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 2: what do you What are you guys doing there at 390 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 2: the old pizza joint? 391 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:24,640 Speaker 1: Yeah? 392 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're just gonna do two pizzas, gonna try and 393 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 2: eat them up and sop up that beer. You know 394 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 2: what I'm saying. She gets so secondhand cringe that she'll 395 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 2: make me go in the other room and do it. 396 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 2: My wife said, I was suffering from second hand embarrassment. 397 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 2: She goes, that makes me so uncomfortable. You just gotta 398 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 2: do in the other room. 399 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 5: Guys have been there. 400 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: You do it. 401 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 2: You on the patio, you have a little fun with 402 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 2: the local pizza joint, whether it's a kid that smoked 403 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 2: a little too much or a guy that's a dead 404 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 2: end job. You can't just make these phone calls cut 405 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 2: and dried. 406 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 5: My last question to her was, uh, coach Callahan, Like 407 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 5: what has he been doing around Nashville in the offseason? 408 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:02,360 Speaker 5: Is he getting it because we hired him midway through 409 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 5: the season, Like has he put down roots here? And 410 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:09,160 Speaker 5: what's his attitude like? And she was like, I haven't 411 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 5: met the coach. That's surprising. Well, she's only been there 412 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 5: for like a week. 413 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 2: Oh she really only had Yeah. 414 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 4: Yeah. 415 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 5: I was like, I'm your new ticket rep. I just 416 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 5: started with National sc I'm just reaching out to let 417 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,400 Speaker 5: you know the h here's the list that this one 418 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 5: man asked me. I need to know all of this stuff. 419 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 5: Apparently I'm supposed to call him back by Wednesday. Dude, 420 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 5: I didn't know they're going to give you personalized calls. 421 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 5: I might need to become a season ticket member, dude. 422 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 5: They were pretty hands on. No, No, they only call 423 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 5: you when they first start the job to introduce themselves 424 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 5: and if you need anything. Do you have any questions? 425 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 5: She said, do you have any questions? And so I 426 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 5: had questions, how are we going to score more goals? 427 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 5: What did we do to improve our midfield? Why do 428 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 5: we let our backup goalie go that blocks all the pks? 429 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:51,959 Speaker 5: And I want to know what the coach has been 430 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 5: up to. 431 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 2: If a place did call you after you went to 432 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 2: an event, a restaurant or anything, would it annoy you 433 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 2: or would it seem like the the fact she's calling 434 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 2: you seems like she cares what you're saying. It only 435 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 2: happens once a year and. 436 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 5: Once a year and it's like I get a new 437 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 5: ticket rep every four months. They don't stay around very long. 438 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 5: Is she trying to upsell you? I don't get hout 439 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 5: is How is it a base pay? No, it's it's see. 440 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,239 Speaker 2: If I was her, i'd try to upsell you. Why 441 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 2: is she not trying to get you in a better seat? 442 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 2: I'd have turned it on you. Well, I don't know. 443 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 2: You want to be right next to coach and ask 444 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 2: those questions. We can get you in our premium seating 445 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,639 Speaker 2: right on the first base line, which is also that's 446 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 2: I use baseball terminology. I'm not familiar with soccer, but 447 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 2: that's right along your visitors dugout zone the net pitch. 448 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 2: So dude, I'm gonna try and hit you like that. 449 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think. Like I said, they had the 450 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 5: chance for upgrades a couple months ago, like you could 451 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 5: change your seats, you know what I mean, Like they 452 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 5: already went through that. She missed that part. 453 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 2: Here's how I would have hit you. I would have 454 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 2: hit you with, sir, when you go to our games? 455 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:56,359 Speaker 2: Are you getting the party pack? Uh? No, I just 456 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 2: get a hot dog and lemonade? Okay, Well are you 457 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 2: the cheap skate of your What if you got some 458 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 2: better seats? Is that can help with clients, your family, 459 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,919 Speaker 2: your wife, your kids, getting a better view of the players. 460 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 2: Let's try and get you locked in today. See, I'm 461 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 2: gonna upsell your ass. 462 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 5: It's not bad. Yep, Damn, I need to look into that. 463 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 5: Do you want to see the coach come on and 464 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 5: off the field where you can hear those questions. You 465 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 5: need to move to the other side of the stadium 466 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 5: where you're at. The coach will never even know you're 467 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 5: in the stadium. 468 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 2: Well, my seats are pretty high. 469 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 5: Oh oh yeah, I mean I do see him down 470 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 5: there when I pull out my binoculars and I. 471 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:26,359 Speaker 2: Look and I can see him. And I got a 472 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 2: problem with our seats. They're in the sun. Sir, if 473 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 2: you do this upgrade today, I'm personally I'm going to 474 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 2: deliver a pair of ray Bans to your office on Monday, 475 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 2: and you can wear those every time you come to 476 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 2: the game. Coach, I need to be in sales. I'm 477 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:38,640 Speaker 2: at I'm in the wrong industry. 478 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 5: Oh man, So that that was my I thought I 479 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 5: was funny, but I don't know if Jasmine enjoyed my jokes. 480 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 5: My wife didn't. And so then I was like, man, 481 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 5: does everybody go through this where they they're in their 482 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 5: own head like this is so damn funny, Jasmine, what 483 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 5: are you wearing? No, I didn't ask that. I didn't 484 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 5: ask that. I didn't ask that you were in the 485 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 5: national sc uniform. Do you have that new jersey? By chance? 486 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 5: Can you send one over my way? Because you know. 487 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 5: I'm a season ticket member and I never got one. 488 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:07,160 Speaker 5: They used to send them to the station. 489 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 2: Nothing, Jasm been here at work. They don't let us 490 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 2: wear sweatpants or hoodies anymore. What are you wearing? 491 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 5: What's the dress coat over there at NSC? 492 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 6: Oh? 493 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 2: Just the high heels and slacks and then sometimes skirts. 494 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 5: Sometimes I wear some soccer shorts, you know what I mean? 495 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 5: And I put a jersey on. 496 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: Do you like that? 497 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 2: Wonder how old Candae is doing over there? 498 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 5: Oh, she don't work there anymore. 499 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 10: I think you told me that, Erica, thank you so 500 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 10: much for joining me. 501 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 4: How are you? 502 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 11: Thank you? I'm good. I've been really excited to talk 503 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 11: to you. 504 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 8: What's super frustrating on dating apps? Because you get on 505 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 8: there with great intentions. 506 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,719 Speaker 12: When the constant pimpelling happens, you get very frustrated. Why 507 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,560 Speaker 12: do you think it is that people find themselves in 508 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 12: this kind of rotating pin pal type situation. 509 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:13,159 Speaker 9: I think most people are generally clueless. They don't know 510 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 9: how to how or when to transition from that conversation 511 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 9: to the date. And so if I can do anything 512 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 9: to help people speed that up, I certainly will. I 513 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 9: don't think people have I don't think I'm in general, 514 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 9: I don't think people have some nefarious intentions to just 515 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 9: waste your time on this. 516 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 3: Some people do. 517 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 9: Sure, some people are doing it for that validation. Oh 518 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 9: look at me, I'm still desirable. But I never want 519 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 9: to meet these people. Oh I'm just out of a relationship. 520 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 9: I don't actually want to date. I just want to 521 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 9: make sure people still like me. Yeah, of course there 522 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 9: are some people out there like that. But on the whole, 523 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 9: I think people generally do want to meet, and they 524 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 9: really just don't like no one taught this. 525 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 7: Skill in school. 526 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,680 Speaker 11: It's a new skill, and so people really just don't know. 527 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 11: So I would say, give the benefit of it out. 528 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 9: That's why you're going to use your language to try 529 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 9: to get it closer to a date, or just ask 530 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 9: yourself and then you know from their answer, because they 531 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 9: could either just not answer you, in which case there's 532 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 9: clearly no date. They could ignore your suggestion of meeting, 533 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 9: in which case they either didn't understand or have no 534 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 9: interest in meeting, or they could grab. 535 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 13: It and run with it. 536 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 11: You win either way because you know exactly what your 537 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:23,040 Speaker 11: next step is. 538 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 8: It's the basic skill of communicating, which. 539 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 11: It is, but but again, maybe it's not basic, Maybe 540 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 11: it's not common. Maybe it's not basic. 541 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,520 Speaker 12: Yeah, you also have this step which I love and 542 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,679 Speaker 12: I've incorporated into my dating and it's been super helpful 543 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,200 Speaker 12: to find who really is a good communicator. 544 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,679 Speaker 8: Is the ask two questions and then make a statement. 545 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 11: Oh my god? Yes, So tell everyone about it in 546 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 11: case they don't help. 547 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 8: Well, I want you to tell them you're the expert. 548 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: You came up with it. 549 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 11: I mean you, you nailed it. 550 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 9: So okay, So let's have a mock conversation. So we 551 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 9: are on a dating app, we match and send me 552 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 9: a message. What would you ask me? 553 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 13: And what I've whatever? Anything? 554 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:00,959 Speaker 1: I don't care. 555 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 8: Hi, Erica, what are your favorite genres of food? 556 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 11: I love Italian and tie? 557 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 8: Oh that's really exciting. What's your favorite place in town 558 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 8: to go to? 559 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 6: Uh? 560 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,680 Speaker 11: There's this place called Regent Tie. 561 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 12: I really like. 562 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 8: Oh that's really good. 563 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 2: We did it. 564 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 5: We did it. 565 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,199 Speaker 11: That was the exercise, So exactly what we did here. 566 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 9: You're engaging me in conversation, and I am shutting it 567 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 9: down at every turn by not asking you a question 568 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 9: back even an and you and you would be anything 569 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 9: would be so easy, and so my recommendation. I call 570 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,800 Speaker 9: it two qs, two questions in a statement. So you 571 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 9: ask question one what type of food? I gave a 572 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 9: statement Italian and tie? Question two, oh, do you have 573 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 9: any favorite places? I gave a statement Regent tie. And 574 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 9: then you're not going to keep asking me questions. You're 575 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 9: not my interviewer here. And but the reason I do 576 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 9: have you answer that last message in a statement is 577 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 9: because I never ever want anyone. 578 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,919 Speaker 11: To accuse you of ghosting them. We're not answering, and. 579 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 9: So we're simply closing out the conversation with a statement. 580 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,679 Speaker 9: Sounds great, sounds delicious, Yum yum, I love pad Thai, 581 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 9: I don't care. So ninety percent of the time the 582 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 9: conversation was done anyway, and you're just sort of shutting 583 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 9: the door. 584 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 11: They already shut the door. You're just like putting the 585 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 11: deadlock on it. 586 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,479 Speaker 9: Ten percent of the time the other person will come 587 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 9: back and ask you a question because they go back 588 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 9: to the conversation, realize there's nothing to talk about, realize, oh, 589 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:37,880 Speaker 9: I didn't ask a question. 590 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:40,920 Speaker 11: Half of that ten percent. 591 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 7: Will be how's it going or how's your day, which 592 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 7: is a non starter. 593 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 4: Hey, and this week a movie Mike's Movie Podcast, I 594 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 4: broke down what I believe to be the five most 595 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 4: important superhero movies of all time, all throughout history. These 596 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 4: are the ones that were most important to the success 597 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:14,440 Speaker 4: of the genre. I also gave my spoiler free review 598 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 4: of Captain America Brave New World that a lot of 599 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 4: people disagreed with, but I had to say it. So 600 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 4: here's just a little bit of my top five list. 601 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 4: Be sure to go check out the full episode to 602 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 4: hear my full review, but right now, here's just a 603 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 4: little bit of movie Mike's Movie Podcast. At number one 604 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 4: is Batman nineteen eighty nine. Why I believe this is 605 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 4: the first most important superhero film is it created a 606 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 4: new public perception of Batman, and it legitimized the genre 607 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 4: and took Batman from being a comedic character to a 608 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 4: greedy character even by nineteen eighty standards. And this was 609 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 4: a big deal, more so than Superman that came. 610 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 5: The decade before it. 611 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 4: This is the one that I feel, without its success 612 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 4: would not have led to any other super We hear 613 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 4: a movie being made before this. Batman hadn't been a 614 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,120 Speaker 4: gritty character. And even if you look at nineteen eighty nine, 615 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 4: now it's not as gritty as what we know to 616 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 4: be now as a gritty Batman, But at the time 617 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:16,640 Speaker 4: it was revolutionary because everybody associated Batman with Adam West's 618 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 4: depiction of him, which was great at the time, but 619 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 4: that show was a comedy. It made him really zany. 620 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 4: It made the fight seems overly cheesy with the bam 621 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 4: zap Powell. It made Robin a very just one dimensional character. 622 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 4: And for the longest time this movie was trying to 623 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 4: be made in this way. Michael Uson, who is somebody 624 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 4: who was fighting for this. He had the rights to 625 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 4: Batman for a decade, maybe even longer than a decade, 626 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 4: and he was fighting for the depiction of the character 627 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 4: that he knew was out there. He was a fan 628 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 4: of Batman from when he was a kid, and he 629 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 4: was the person whenever that TV show debuted he was like, 630 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 4: Oh no, this is wrong, this is bad, this is 631 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 4: not the Batman I love. So he bought the rights 632 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 4: for such a little amount and kept trying to find producers, 633 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 4: kept trying to get a movie like this green lit. 634 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 4: And it wasn't until nineteen eighty nine's Batman that his 635 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 4: love of Batman, his complete nerd Hm actually came to 636 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 4: life and he was able to do it. So he 637 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 4: was this driving force trying to bring this darker, more 638 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 4: serious version of the character to life. And then you 639 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 4: combine that with Tim Burton and we finally got it, 640 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 4: and it changed the public perspective of not only what 641 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 4: Batman could be, but what superhero movies could be as 642 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 4: a whole. Now, even in nineteen eighty nine, these movies 643 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 4: were still being geared towards kids, with the idea being 644 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 4: you put out a movie and then you sell a 645 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 4: bunch of merchandise, which has always been the model. Star 646 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 4: Wars was the one who really made that a thing, like, oh, 647 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 4: you put out the movie, then you sell a buttload 648 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 4: of toys. That was the model. So we weren't there 649 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 4: quite yet, but it did show that you can make 650 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 4: something for kids because it is a superhero movie, but 651 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 4: also that would appeal to the older audience. If you 652 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 4: look at this one at times, it doesn't feel like 653 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 4: a kid's movie. This movie moved on to Batman Returns, 654 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 4: and that one you had a public outcry from parents saying, 655 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 4: this is not a kid's movie. Whatsoever. You have penguin 656 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 4: biting at people's noses causing them to be all bloody, 657 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 4: and there was a big problem with that. But the 658 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 4: reason I believe that this movie was so important is 659 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 4: because it was the first movie to really usher in 660 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 4: this new era of superhero film and say, a movie 661 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 4: like this can be made and you can change what 662 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 4: everybody believes these characters to be. And you're gonna see 663 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 4: this theme throughout my list because whenever you set a standard, 664 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 4: everybody starts following that and then it almost takes somebody 665 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 4: else to break that mold yet again to re revolutionize 666 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 4: the genre. But this movie did that. It gave us 667 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 4: not only the gritty hero, but also the gritty villain. 668 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 4: Jack Nicholson's set the standard for creating a villain like 669 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 4: this made everybody who played the Joker after him have 670 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 4: some really big shoes to fill. So at number one, 671 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 4: I have Batman nineteen eighty nine. At number two, it 672 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 4: would come almost ten years after this in nineteen ninety eight. 673 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 4: My next most important superhero film of all time is 674 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 4: Blade from nineteen ninety eight. Why this movie is so 675 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 4: important one I feel it's underappreciated, it's underrated, and how 676 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 4: revolutionary this movie was and how important it was for 677 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 4: Marvel's success. It proved that you could make a superhero 678 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 4: movie a comic book character for adults. Because this movie 679 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 4: is R rated, it's bloody, it's violent, and it's cool. 680 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 4: And at the time, Blade wasn't even a popular character 681 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 4: in the comic books. Even after this movie came out, 682 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 4: his comic still struggled and they readapted them to fit 683 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 4: the movie character. More so, it wasn't even a top 684 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 4: tier character, not even the second stream character. Even now, 685 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 4: the character of Blade isn't as popular as all these 686 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 4: other Marvel characters, and you look at their model now, 687 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 4: and this is what later Marvel would bank on because 688 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 4: there had been attempts to make other character movies before 689 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 4: this be successful. You had pretty much made for TV 690 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,240 Speaker 4: movie with Captain America Spider Man, and those just never 691 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 4: quite worked out. This was the first successful Marvel movie ever. 692 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 4: It was the second one because before this, back in 693 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 4: nineteen eighty six, they made a Howard the Duck movie. 694 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 4: I don't know why they decided to go with Howard 695 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 4: the Duck first, but that movie was awful, terrible, and 696 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 4: it was a long time until Marvel had success. So 697 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,480 Speaker 4: this movie was important, not only for Marvel because without 698 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 4: its success, it was right there at the brink of bankruptcy. 699 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 4: It had been fighting bankruptcy for so long because they 700 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 4: just didn't have a successful movie. This was their first 701 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 4: big hit, their first big taste the success, and it 702 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 4: also inspired and was the stepping stone for a lot 703 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 4: of R rated movies to come. If there wasn't Blade, 704 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,480 Speaker 4: we would have never got Deadpool, we would have never 705 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 4: got Logan, we would have never got other comic book 706 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 4: movies outside of Marvel, like Watchmen and kick Ass or 707 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 4: even Suicide Squad. All of those movies' success had to 708 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,640 Speaker 4: come from proving that you could make an R rated 709 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 4: superhero movie, even more so that you could do it 710 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 4: without a popular character. Now, at the time, Wesley Snipes 711 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 4: was a very popular actor, so that brought in some fans. 712 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 4: Vampires in the nineties were all so hot as well, 713 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 4: so that helped. And I believe this is what Marvel 714 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 4: started to do whenever they sold all the rights to 715 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 4: their main characters to Sony and to Fox, and later 716 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 4: when they're trying to build things, they decided, okay, well 717 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:54,120 Speaker 4: we can't use our most popular characters. Let's build a 718 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 4: team of all of our second string and third stringers 719 00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 4: and see if we can make something out of this, 720 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 4: and that proved to be successful. So it's working with 721 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 4: what you have and also ahead of its time because 722 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 4: you had a black lead in this movie in a 723 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 4: superhero film. He was the first successful black superhero in 724 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 4: mainstream cinema. Paved the way for Black Panther. And I 725 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 4: know X Men was already in development that would come 726 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 4: out in the year two thousand, but if it wasn't 727 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,319 Speaker 4: for the success of Blade, that wouldn't have set up 728 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,839 Speaker 4: the X Men. And it made one hundred and thirty 729 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 4: one million dollars worldwide on a forty five million dollar budget, 730 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,480 Speaker 4: and Wesley Snipe said it best in Dead Pull and Wolverine. 731 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,319 Speaker 4: There will only be one Blade, so hopefully they still 732 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,399 Speaker 4: bring this character back to life at number two from 733 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,880 Speaker 4: nineteen ninety eight. I have Blade at. 734 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,400 Speaker 5: Carylone. She's a queen talking. 735 00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:57,239 Speaker 6: He was so. 736 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,399 Speaker 3: Not afraid to feel episode, so just let it flow. 737 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:09,400 Speaker 3: No one can do it quiet carey line, its sounding 738 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:10,360 Speaker 3: care line. 739 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,320 Speaker 14: One thing I really do love to take is constructive 740 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,439 Speaker 14: criticism and encouragement from people that have went through things 741 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:18,160 Speaker 14: that I've went through. 742 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 13: That's why I really feel like it's very. 743 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,080 Speaker 14: Important for artists in general to be behind one another, 744 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 14: creative people in general, specifically women. And yeah, I like 745 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:34,760 Speaker 14: to get together with my female compadres in this industry, 746 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,640 Speaker 14: and I think those are the safest places other than 747 00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,880 Speaker 14: true therapy, to talk about all these things that may 748 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,759 Speaker 14: feel like first world problems and entitled problems to have. 749 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,400 Speaker 14: But when you have the load that you have on 750 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,799 Speaker 14: yourself as an artist and as a creative, it's nice 751 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,120 Speaker 14: to be able to go to others and go I'm 752 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,359 Speaker 14: tired of getting glammed every day and I've had four 753 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 14: hours of sleep and I am living the dream. 754 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,920 Speaker 13: But it's much harder than I think this was gonna be. 755 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 14: And just you know, it's I think it's really nice 756 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,880 Speaker 14: to get those little stressors off your chest. 757 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 13: By talking about it in safe spaces. I am a 758 00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:12,920 Speaker 13: big component of safe spaces. 759 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,440 Speaker 6: Mmmmmm, So do you feel. 760 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:16,560 Speaker 13: Like you have a safe space in life? 761 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:16,719 Speaker 6: Like? 762 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 13: What do you feel like? How did you This is 763 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,279 Speaker 13: a cool thing I love to ask people. How did 764 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,200 Speaker 13: you build your village? Like your people that you go 765 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,560 Speaker 13: to for anything in life? But that community? 766 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,440 Speaker 6: Well, okay, that's a great question. I started off, thank 767 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,600 Speaker 6: you for turning the tables on me. Oh sorry, Now 768 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,719 Speaker 6: I love podcasts because it's really this is coming back 769 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,600 Speaker 6: to you too. I'll do mind briefly, but then we're 770 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,160 Speaker 6: going we really want to hear about your village. 771 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:40,399 Speaker 13: Okay. 772 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,040 Speaker 6: I'm from Waco, Texas, and I grew up in a 773 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,520 Speaker 6: great family. Like my parents are great. They had great friends. 774 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:52,520 Speaker 6: So I started off with friends of my parents' friends, 775 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 6: like the kids who are still my best friends to 776 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 6: this day. So I feel like I have like deep friendships. 777 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,160 Speaker 6: And then when I came to Nashville, it took me 778 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,239 Speaker 6: a long time to find a village. I was absolutely 779 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,320 Speaker 6: terrified when I came here. I moved here when I 780 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,600 Speaker 6: was nineteen, and I was just like super nervous, didn't 781 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,520 Speaker 6: know anyone. I was moved from my hometown of Waco, 782 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,680 Speaker 6: Texas to hear and like was overwhelmed. I was also 783 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,000 Speaker 6: chasing the music industry and all of that, and just 784 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,080 Speaker 6: like super intimidated, and I didn't have a lot of 785 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,040 Speaker 6: self worth back then. It's take me a long time 786 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:26,920 Speaker 6: to get my self worth. I've had to really develop, 787 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,279 Speaker 6: but I've still like pursued all my dreams despite the 788 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,080 Speaker 6: fact I did not feel worthy but I knew that 789 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,400 Speaker 6: they were my dreams and I was supposed to do it. 790 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,399 Speaker 6: But I always felt like, oh my gosh, if people 791 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,319 Speaker 6: find out then I'm really a fraud and I'm really 792 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 6: not worthy, then it's all going to be uncovered. 793 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,680 Speaker 14: Or if they discover that you actually think you're good 794 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,480 Speaker 14: at something. I was always if someone said something nice 795 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:46,840 Speaker 14: about you. 796 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,480 Speaker 13: I have to put myself down. Oh I have to 797 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:49,080 Speaker 13: put myself down. 798 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,279 Speaker 6: But see, here's the thing with you that's different. You 799 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,839 Speaker 6: were born with this voice. So like a lot of people, 800 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 6: like myself, I'll use myself as an example. I have 801 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,440 Speaker 6: a lot of things I'm good at, but like you 802 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,400 Speaker 6: and your voice are in a whole other stratosphere. Like 803 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,640 Speaker 6: you are just like that kind of singer, Like you're 804 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,160 Speaker 6: like in the celeandons of the world. 805 00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,080 Speaker 8: Like you have like the voice that is like hand motion, 806 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:11,880 Speaker 8: but it can't be. 807 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 6: Replicated, you know, although I do hear a little Dolly 808 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:14,759 Speaker 6: Parton in your voice. 809 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,360 Speaker 11: Do you hear that people love Dolly? 810 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:17,920 Speaker 13: It's just from being raised old her. 811 00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,160 Speaker 6: But like you have a voice though that like you 812 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,319 Speaker 6: can't you can't learn to sing like you like, Yes, 813 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 6: I'm sure you can take lessons and you can learn 814 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,120 Speaker 6: things and like whatever, but like your tone, your texture, 815 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:29,960 Speaker 6: the way it all comes out like that is like 816 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,200 Speaker 6: a god given gift that you have. And so were 817 00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,239 Speaker 6: people hard on you about that growing up? Like? Were 818 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:36,759 Speaker 6: people do they get jealous of that? 819 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:39,000 Speaker 2: No? 820 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 14: I do remember one girl in high school when I 821 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,320 Speaker 14: won the pageant, the school pageant, she I didn't know, 822 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,239 Speaker 14: you know, I didn't own a BlackBerry. But I went 823 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:48,719 Speaker 14: to school the next day and they said, did you 824 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,640 Speaker 14: see what she wrote? And I guess BlackBerry had kind 825 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,520 Speaker 14: of like it's on Facebook coordever, you could put statuses 826 00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,799 Speaker 14: and anyways you can tell I was a flip phone girl. 827 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,400 Speaker 14: But the raiser, Yeah, so many of those. 828 00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:02,920 Speaker 2: Like this. 829 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,239 Speaker 14: But the thing is I remember her saying, like, you know, 830 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,480 Speaker 14: I didn't realize it was a talent show. I thought 831 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:14,120 Speaker 14: it was a pageant, And no, there's really I don't 832 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,400 Speaker 14: know as if life was hard on me because of 833 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,560 Speaker 14: my voice, I think I was harder on myself than 834 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,560 Speaker 14: I ever really allowed life to be. 835 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:23,279 Speaker 4: Okay, I. 836 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,960 Speaker 14: Think a lot of the turmoil that I have went 837 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:33,799 Speaker 14: through emotionally that has impacted me just as much as 838 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:38,839 Speaker 14: true tragedies in my life is because I was too 839 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:40,840 Speaker 14: hard on myself. 840 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,200 Speaker 13: Really so very much. 841 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,319 Speaker 6: So what are some of the things that you feel 842 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,719 Speaker 6: like you were too hard on yourself that caused you turmoil. 843 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,160 Speaker 14: Well, once people started to acknowledge my voice, you know, 844 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,759 Speaker 14: I kind of went from the odd kid out to 845 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,880 Speaker 14: all of a sudden people liked me, you know, and 846 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,440 Speaker 14: I had something that was interesting. 847 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,120 Speaker 13: And I just remember for so long. 848 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,759 Speaker 14: As a young girl trying to be whatever I thought 849 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,080 Speaker 14: people would like so that I could fit in and 850 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,920 Speaker 14: I could have friends and I could feel that connection 851 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,400 Speaker 14: that I always felt slightly like I was out on 852 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:17,760 Speaker 14: the outside and I couldn't understand it. And the minute 853 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,920 Speaker 14: that I started singing, I started to get accepted. And 854 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:23,840 Speaker 14: I know that sounds so bad, but then I started 855 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:27,000 Speaker 14: putting a pressure on myself that this is my personality. 856 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,360 Speaker 14: If this is what it is that gets people to 857 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,200 Speaker 14: like me and to listen to me and to hear me, 858 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:39,040 Speaker 14: I have to be the best. Then there's no alternative. 859 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,200 Speaker 14: And then there's also that pressure of I can't mess 860 00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,560 Speaker 14: this up. What if I messed my voice up? And 861 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,120 Speaker 14: then the one thing that all these people have invested 862 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,320 Speaker 14: in me and believed in me for I've lost it. 863 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:52,200 Speaker 14: I've ruined it. 864 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,399 Speaker 6: Oh my god, So you were stressed out about your voice? 865 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:55,440 Speaker 13: Oh very much so so. 866 00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,759 Speaker 14: Also, I have deafness that runs in my in my 867 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,319 Speaker 14: dad's side of the family, so I was always scared 868 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:03,200 Speaker 14: I would lose my hearing. 869 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:05,920 Speaker 13: I just was always panicked about it. 870 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,600 Speaker 14: Once I realized that I had new gift, I realized 871 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,040 Speaker 14: how sacred of a gift it was, and I was 872 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,880 Speaker 14: terrified to somehow mess it up. But I think a 873 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:18,520 Speaker 14: lot of my life I have been terrified to mess up, 874 00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,279 Speaker 14: And at thirty years old, I can finally look back 875 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:26,480 Speaker 14: and realize that I made things so much harder than 876 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:27,160 Speaker 14: they ever. 877 00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,800 Speaker 13: Actually had to be. It gets to be easy. 878 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,160 Speaker 14: And I didn't realize that when I was younger. I 879 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:39,480 Speaker 14: didn't realize that I could forgive myself. I didn't realize 880 00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:43,040 Speaker 14: that I could mess up and forgive myself. I didn't 881 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:47,640 Speaker 14: realize that all the mistakes you make they're great stories. 882 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,600 Speaker 14: When you get older, it's the stuff you laugh about 883 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,520 Speaker 14: with your friends, you know, it's the stuff you write 884 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,480 Speaker 14: songs about and people connect to and you can reach 885 00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,719 Speaker 14: people that are going through those odd moments too. As 886 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 14: a kid, I remember the first biography we ever had 887 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,719 Speaker 14: written up and there was something in it that I 888 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,000 Speaker 14: had said in an interview, and it definitely didn't come 889 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,239 Speaker 14: across the way I wanted, But I had said something 890 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:14,320 Speaker 14: about I had always wanted a life that someone would write. 891 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,239 Speaker 13: A book about because I loved books. I was just 892 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:16,799 Speaker 13: obsessed with. 893 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,280 Speaker 14: Books from a young age, and so I wanted something 894 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,920 Speaker 14: that was exciting and riveting and would make you want 895 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,239 Speaker 14: to turn the page. And I don't think I really 896 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,400 Speaker 14: realized what I was signing up for by trying to 897 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,040 Speaker 14: manifest that and praying to God every night, give me 898 00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,920 Speaker 14: an interesting life. Really gave me something fun? Give me 899 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:34,720 Speaker 14: was that never let me get bored? 900 00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:47,000 Speaker 1: Yes, hey, thanks for listening to this week's Sunday Sampler, 901 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,840 Speaker 1: The Bobby Cast Four Things with Amy Brown, sore Losers. 902 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:53,080 Speaker 1: I mean you heard all the shows. 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