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Speaker 1: M. Welcome to episode Blanco Brown. The first time I

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Speaker 1: met you was at the house where the house Now,

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Speaker 1: first I met the house whenever I mean, I mean

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Speaker 1: that seems like ages ago. Man, it went the alone

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Speaker 1: go with time to pay my face to me, that

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Speaker 1: seems like ages ago. So this is how and then

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Speaker 1: I want to get under your story. But this how

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Speaker 1: I found you, much like anyone else. I was just

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Speaker 1: on YouTube and it was like videos you may know,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, well, this this is interesting. Guys

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Speaker 1: out from a trailer doing a dance. I could probably

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Speaker 1: do that. And so then I watched the video of

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Speaker 1: you and Laney, who, by the way, that video actually

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Speaker 1: brought her an eye to be close. And so I

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Speaker 1: was like Laney, I said, Laney, can you come and

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Speaker 1: teach me how to do this dance? And she goes,

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Speaker 1: I'll just call Blanco. Next thing you know, you're driving

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Speaker 1: up with shooting back at the pool. You pushed me

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Speaker 1: in the pool. We got ten million viewers on ours.

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Speaker 1: You got like a billion on your man and they

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Speaker 1: get up as as blown up. Let me play at

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Speaker 1: it to get up first. Here it isn't you have

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Speaker 1: dance dance this thing? Do you think over five thousand times.

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Speaker 1: I don't even count. You're doing your sleep now. I

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Speaker 1: hadn't done it a lot of times your whole life.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to do it right. Yeah, it ain't

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Speaker 1: gonna ever go nowhere. It's gonna be a part of

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Speaker 1: my journey. You know, you're about the only guy I

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Speaker 1: look at right now and go I relate because I'm

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Speaker 1: traveling like crazy, trying to eat, trying to work. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I see last night. I saw you Sunday at

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Speaker 1: the Titans game singing the national anthem, and then you

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Speaker 1: were doing the dance in the end zone, and then

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Speaker 1: I see you at the World Series last night, and

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Speaker 1: then you're back here tonight. You're you're hitting hard. Man.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I couldn't turn down them tickets. I

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Speaker 1: was like, this is an experience I've always wanted to

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Speaker 1: go to one, and this is bucket list. What's the

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Speaker 1: last six months been like for you? Uh? Non stop, busy, busy.

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Speaker 1: I mean I haven't been in Atlanta longer than three

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Speaker 1: days at a time, none stop. And are are you

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Speaker 1: in a mix of so appreciative but also so tired

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Speaker 1: and just going? Man? I can't wait for the holidays.

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Speaker 1: I mean not even that I'm tired, um holidays. I

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Speaker 1: may be working doing a holiday. We're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: a couple of things. We'll talk about the album, which

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Speaker 1: it's out. I want to do a little bit about

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Speaker 1: you first. And your real name is where Blanco Brown

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Speaker 1: comes from, because I neither wanted those are in your

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Speaker 1: real life. I also used a pseudonym, so Blanco Brown

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Speaker 1: is from what people used call me ben in Blanco

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Speaker 1: from the Bronx. But I'm from Atlanta. Um, my real

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Speaker 1: name is Benny and Brown. I dedicated Brown to my

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Speaker 1: grandfather who was adopted. UM, and that was our original

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Speaker 1: last name. So that's how you got Blanco Brown. And

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Speaker 1: so you don't want to go by how do you

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Speaker 1: say your name? Benny? Benny Benny Yeah, Amy Amy? Are

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Speaker 1: there two other Benny Amy's ahead of you? Yeah, my

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Speaker 1: were like, Benny Amy, that's not a stage name because

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Speaker 1: I didn't use mine. My real name is Bobby. My

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Speaker 1: my real last name is Bobby Est. And I was like,

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Speaker 1: dang name. Yeah, I mean really, people started calling me

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Speaker 1: That's what everybody called me in you know, in Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: l A, New York, it was just Blanco. You grew

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Speaker 1: the country, but the Gioga which is Taylor County, and

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Speaker 1: I spent that time with my bunts and cousins and

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Speaker 1: family down there and learned the other side of the world.

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Speaker 1: And so growing up for you kind of talk to me,

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Speaker 1: talk to me about what it was like growing up

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Speaker 1: at like age ten, eleven, twelve years old. Um man,

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Speaker 1: I mean it was a lot going on in the world.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't seen so much by then and had been

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Speaker 1: You didn't really know my circumstances. Um, I just didn't

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Speaker 1: enjoy life. But even then, there was a lot of

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, I mean my childhood it's always been about music.

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Speaker 1: Let's talking a couple of things. I wanna talking about.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to the like the childhood performing because I'm

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Speaker 1: because I'm not super familiar with your circumstances, Like what

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Speaker 1: three families in one three bedroom apartment. It was me,

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Speaker 1: everybody playing freeze cups. And I was, you know, I

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Speaker 1: I ain't like to eat it from the top. I

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Speaker 1: the soft, good, sweet part of the freeze cup. And

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Speaker 1: um man, I mean the lightning bugs, catching the lightning

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Speaker 1: bugs playing not not zoom where you go to somebody

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Speaker 1: you through red, Like I mean, like the the goose,

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Speaker 1: how didn't go Seek? How didn't go get? I mean

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Speaker 1: like that was my childhood and those are the memories

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Speaker 1: and they're like I mean, just talking about them and

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Speaker 1: thinking about them, it's it's still up a moment in

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Speaker 1: the space I would do all over just the way

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Speaker 1: it was. It's funny you say that, because I grew

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Speaker 1: up a poverty kid too. I'm pretty proud of it

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Speaker 1: because and I say that often. It's funny that you

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Speaker 1: I'm very resentful that I had to grow up and

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Speaker 1: on food stamps or welfare. I used to be really resentful,

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Speaker 1: But as I got older, I started to go, man,

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Speaker 1: I'm so strong from that, and I also know what

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Speaker 1: I think there are so few of us that understand

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Speaker 1: like as you're telling your story and I'm watching on, oh,

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Speaker 1: I get that. I understand that. And when you say

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Speaker 1: because as we rise, we're able to help others, like

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Speaker 1: others helped us at some point. Yeah, and you talk

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Speaker 1: about my grandma raised me, adopt me for a while,

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Speaker 1: and so your grandparents are a big part of your life. Um,

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Speaker 1: my grandmother's. My granddad was like never really around, and um,

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Speaker 1: as I got older, I could have spent more time

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Speaker 1: it was the most hurtful thing in the world, and

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Speaker 1: I just went back to that moment of Man, I

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Speaker 1: could have changed that situation on my own. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if he didn't want to be around, if it

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Speaker 1: was something that was going on within the family, you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I don't really know the details

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Speaker 1: of it, just know that I've badly seen him. When

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Speaker 1: that too a little. All my cousins I used to live,

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Speaker 1: you just live where you can live, right, Like everybody's

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you got money to pay rents. You all moved together.

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Speaker 1: gonna use education like that was my thing. It sounds

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Speaker 1: like yours was music. Sound like you were doing music

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Speaker 1: way early. Yeah. Then my first deal and I was seven.

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Speaker 1: You what? Yeah, my first deal when I was seven

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Speaker 1: years old? And how did that come about? And how

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Speaker 1: did you get to a place where someone could see

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Speaker 1: you at seven to go? I like that, kid, man,

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Speaker 1: that's a good question. I never really got the answer.

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Speaker 1: I never asked that question. I just know that we

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Speaker 1: were we're recording and doing records like just like that.

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Speaker 1: I just remember who it's seven years old discovers you. Um.

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Speaker 1: I really can't remember how it happened. You're seven years old? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just know we were singing, recording, practicing, going to school.

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Speaker 1: Who's we by the way, me and my brothers? Okay,

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Speaker 1: the pictures. Now, where were you in the age group

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Speaker 1: of the three brothers? Um, I'm in the middle, okay,

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Speaker 1: And so you got with the goal of what I know,

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Speaker 1: you're only seven. But looking back, were they trying to

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Speaker 1: we were like really singing, like you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: But Jackson five, it was that would have been hard

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Speaker 1: to Jason five laden there. Man, they weren't legendary tal

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Speaker 1: after they were legendary though, Like they had to even

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Speaker 1: we were the eight, they were already like Jackson five

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Speaker 1: just singing or you guys doing hip hop stuff too,

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Speaker 1: just singing. And I was the rapper in the group,

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Speaker 1: so wait where are you rapping? I was like the

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Speaker 1: the uh, but it's from immature who I was did

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Speaker 1: like the sexes talking. I did the sexest talking eight.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, yeah, girl, you know all this time

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Speaker 1: I've been playing around. I mean like, yeah, I've been

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Speaker 1: playing with my g I Joe's and POGs Girl, and

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Speaker 1: I've been thinking about you. I know, I'm nine, man,

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Speaker 1: that is hilarious. I know I'm a third grade girl,

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Speaker 1: but I'm drinking milk. Yeah. I mean so that's kind

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Speaker 1: of how you know, um growing up I was I

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Speaker 1: didn't have the confidence to sing, so they would give

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Speaker 1: me the parts where I was more like mellow talking,

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Speaker 1: kind of rapping kind of singing. I didn't find my

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Speaker 1: singing voice until like fifteen sixteen. So you're fifteen sixty.

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Speaker 1: Are you still in school? Yeah? Definitely, okayt you graduate

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Speaker 1: high school? Ye? Okay. So you're singing all the way

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Speaker 1: through high school all the way? Are you known as

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Speaker 1: that kid? The singing kid? In high school? Like we're

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Speaker 1: all known as something? I was a nerd. I wasn't

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Speaker 1: known as the singer. Okay. So you're singing all the

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Speaker 1: way through and as you go through up until about

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Speaker 1: twelfth grade at that point, is your biggest break before

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Speaker 1: you graduate high school? Uh? I mean we met with

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Speaker 1: you're like, holy crap, can't believe the traction is getting

426
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: So the infancy of the get up, let's let's start back.

427
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: Did you go I think I'm gonna do a song?

428
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 1: Wear they dances? Or did it just kind of come

429
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 1: and phases? Um? I did a song, and I said,

430
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 1: people gonna love this record. It's gonna bring a lot

431
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 1: of smiles to people faces. It feels like a two

432
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 1: dound nineteen two twenty eight can break your heart. To me,

433
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: it can be next level. And I just remember telling

434
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 1: myself this is special. I put out a one minute

435
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: clip in April on TikTok or just on another platform,

436
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:52,160
Speaker 1: not even on YouTube. Um and five maiden views first week,

437
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 1: and then the gas from TikTok. What before we get

438
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 1: to take it? What? What clip did you put up? Though?

439
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 1: There was one me dancing in front of the door. Okay,

440
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 1: so it was visual and it was okay, so it's

441
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: you dancing. The dance was like like the hook or

442
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,360
Speaker 1: do you verse? Okay? So I gonna do the two

443
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 1: this part here and you're doing the dance in front

444
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 1: of the door in the house. Yeah, with some basketball shouts.

445
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 1: Song a Western black shirt, a cap and some church socks.

446
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: I was just really messing around um with the dance

447
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 1: and said, I want to record it because the floor

448
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 1: kind of feels slippery. Rear Groovy had already came up

449
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 1: with the dance, but I did the dance and sent

450
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,199
Speaker 1: it to Zach Cat's John Loeban, my homie Jasper Cameraon

451
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: and my brother and it was just like, man, this

452
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,639
Speaker 1: is out of here. Were you surprised to see that

453
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: many people watch that video that first week? Yeah, I

454
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: was shocked. You're just like what, there are a lot

455
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 1: of videos. How came minds getting five millions? It blew

456
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 1: upon this guy name DJ Big Shaka page first, and

457
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: he started hearing me like in boss and me keeping

458
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 1: me updated like on like what it was actually doing,

459
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: the impressions and everything on it. He was like, man,

460
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: this is crazy. I never had anything like this many

461
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,400
Speaker 1: views and this demand on my page. And then other

462
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: people started posting my video on their page and they're

463
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: started getting one Magan two million, three million views, and

464
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 1: by then, I mean before I realized it was on TikTok,

465
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 1: he had already had like close to sixty million views.

466
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,160
Speaker 1: So it goes over to TikTok was the first big

467
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 1: TikTok video? Or that kid puts his arms out like

468
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 1: this he does like that? Is that is that the

469
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:45,640
Speaker 1: first really big one. It's probably been the first really

470
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: big one that everybody know of. But by time he

471
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: did it, it already had like so many millian views. Um,

472
00:26:55,680 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: this guy named a journey I saw my video and

473
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 1: did a dance on TikTok and that your dance. He

474
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: did his own version. He did his own thing, and

475
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: that's the version that Harvard did. They got problem with

476
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: the arms out? Who you later put your video? And

477
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 1: a Johnny is in my video too? Oh yeah, they

478
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 1: in it. I got a little a little running note.

479
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: I'll take it, run it. We're good. So when you

480
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,359
Speaker 1: travel and listen, when you travel all the time, that happens,

481
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: you got it. You wash? I wash my hands all

482
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: the like. I am obsessed with hand washing because I'm

483
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: on the road so much that I start like my

484
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: hands are raw from all the washington that I do.

485
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 1: You got to Yeah, I'm just not a lotioner. I

486
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: don't evenink I owned lotion, Like anywhere in my house

487
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: do I have lotion? I think when I was like eleven.

488
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: I want to do it a little back up, and

489
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: you have a big booger in your nose right on it.

490
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: So it's blowing up on TikTok. And it's only TikTok

491
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: sixty seconds fifteen seconds, two versions, which which was blown

492
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,479
Speaker 1: up for your fifteen or sixties. Okay, So they're doing

493
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 1: fifteen second clubs of TikTok. And this is the infancy

494
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,640
Speaker 1: of TikTok where unless you're like fourteen, you don't even

495
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:28,160
Speaker 1: have TikTok. Yeah, but that ain't true. Wow, listen, I'm

496
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: on it now. It's uncomfortably a lot of fourteen year olds.

497
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you. I posted on TikTok. It's

498
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: my favorite platform, by the way, because there's so much

499
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 1: funny content. But these four year old girls gonna never

500
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: start dancing and shaking there. But I'm like, not next,

501
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: it's like all all kids, okay, most most, I don't know.

502
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: There's a lot of four on TikTok. I don't know

503
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: what section you being good listen. Then there's that four

504
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: you sexually keep sending me those videos. I don't know

505
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: what it says about that. Hey man, When I go

506
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: on TikTok, it's not okay, let me pull out my

507
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: TikTok and let's just see what happens, and let me

508
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: let me pull out my mind. So I'll pull up

509
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: my first How old this girl right here? It would

510
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: be yeah, the first one that pops. I don't follow

511
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: her and so she look what I get? You got

512
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: an old man? He has like ganded off the grade

513
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: I have like a fifteen year old girl. All right,

514
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: let me swipe another one. I'll go my turn, swipe.

515
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: This is a how old is this boy? Here? He's

516
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: probably okay, you swipe yours up. Now, let's see what

517
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: you get another adult? I mean, he's alright, My phone

518
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: is not. I don't like the algorithm that my TikTok

519
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: is giving me. Oh everybody that will, Yeah, Wilsmon's funny

520
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: on TikTok. Look at this the hold this girl next

521
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: nuf one about seventeen eighteen. Yeah, well, I don't like

522
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: what mine showing me. I need to have a talk.

523
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: My TikTok's all I never see. Um. I don't like them.

524
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: I don't know why they keep giving them to me. Yeah,

525
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: it's the algorithm thing, probably, But maybe you've got special

526
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: tiktoks that you No, I ain't got no special TikTok.

527
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: You know, TikTok, TikTok, TikTok. So it does the thing,

528
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: it does the thing of TikTok, and that world it

529
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: blows up. That took it to the next level because

530
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: so many people are on the platform and it's just

531
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: one click, you know you yeah, slap slash slap, keep going,

532
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: and a lot of people were doing it. Yeah. I

533
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: mean like over three points some million people have done

534
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: the dance just on that platform alone, but across every platform.

535
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: It's Yeah. I was reading and you don't have to

536
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: comment on this that you have made somewhere from about

537
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: a million dollars in YouTube and TikTok out money money

538
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 1: from the playing your videos about a million dollars. I'm

539
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: saying anything. I'm saying that out loud. That's just what

540
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: it says. Estimated different things from YouTube channel alone ranges

541
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: around one million dollars. I look at that. Good on you.

542
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: I was reading the YouTube comments. I'm saying anything back.

543
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm just saying that out loud. Good

544
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: on you, and on you. I don't know if you

545
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: ever read the YouTube comments. I tend to not but

546
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: that your number one comment is actually super positive. That

547
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: when a guy named Jonathan Baker, he says, this is

548
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: so refreshing to see a dance video without half naked

549
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: women and instead of a dude and a trailer park

550
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: wearing jeans, epic. You're the man. So rare that a

551
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: top YouTube comment will be positive and yours is. And

552
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: I was drawn to it because in the video or

553
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: you're teaching it, which is why watching first, you're standing

554
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: outside because your your friends like a trailer park. You

555
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: guys live by. Oh yeah, he stay right. He used

556
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: to stay right beside it, and his name Cavin, y'all.

557
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: He did like this picture right here. Um he did

558
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: to get up cover. I mean that was that was

559
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: like another thing that wasn't gonna be a cover. We

560
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: was standing in the same trailer park and I took

561
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: a picture on the steps and I looked down like this.

562
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: He said, make that face again. I said, you got it.

563
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: I did like two shots with the sky behind me.

564
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: It became the cover. Um. I went back to his house.

565
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: We was hoping doing some stuff. I said, hey, man,

566
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: I want to shoot a vertical video in front of

567
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: that trailer. It was an abandoned trailer and um, he

568
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: said cool. So we went down there. It was kind

569
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: of sprinkling outside like sprinkling. We pulled out a little generator, shot,

570
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: did two passes. You put oh two paths together and

571
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: uploaded and then boom again. At that point, so many

572
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: of so much to the content and the song is

573
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: blowing up that you have to go, there's something here, like,

574
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: you can't blow up this many times and get this

575
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,959
Speaker 1: it's not luck. After the third time it blows up

576
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: and you have to go, all right, there's something here.

577
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: It was organic, no money behind it, no radio behind it.

578
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: It was straight consumers, people going clicking on the song

579
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: listening to it. I mean, like twenty million plus views

580
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: on that trailer part before then I think it's like

581
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: fifty something now something. It's never actually in the song

582
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: that the words to get up, never a dedicated to

583
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: title to my grandmother. She's come early in the my owner,

584
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: she vasseling on me and my stibiling face, my cousin,

585
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: everybody that was in the house in a loving manner,

586
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: though you know what I'm saying, and and say get up.

587
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: That just meant being vertical with the world of finding purpose,

588
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: finding joy, finding happiness. Um, you couldn't do that laying down,

589
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: and she meant that both grandmothers. Was there ever a

590
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: title of the song before they get Up? Yeah? We

591
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: was there a working title? Yeah, Um, I actually look

592
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: like I guess, let me guess Cowboy Buggie. Nope, too,

593
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:16,760
Speaker 1: Now I can't be two steps because cow that's bad.

594
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: Hold down, hold down. It had then to do with

595
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: the song, ain't I ain't the title of the session

596
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: God's Gift, and that was gonna be the the working

597
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: name of the song. Yeah, that was never the name

598
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 1: of the song. It was just when I created it, it

599
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 1: it felt like there was God's gift to me, and

600
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: that's the original title of the session. I have it.

601
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 1: I have it on my laptop like right now. So

602
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: the get up starts to blow up? And what what's

603
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,879
Speaker 1: like the big first crazy call you God where it's like, Wow,

604
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: I get to go do this now? Oh the c

605
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: m A fest I dreamed the performer there the year before.

606
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: A lot of people didn't even know it, but I

607
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: had already done my deal with Broken Bowl Records and

608
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: BMG a year prior to me putting out a one

609
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: minute video clip. So they get Up didn't get you

610
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: a deal. You had already signed talked, worked out a

611
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: deal with the record. I didn't know that I signed

612
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: the deal, uh eighteen and uh mayor June and the

613
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 1: get Up I wrote September two thousand eighteen. When you

614
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,960
Speaker 1: sent it off to John Loebo, for example, what's his

615
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: response back? It was like, man, this right here is impressive.

616
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 1: That is strong, you know, John, that's that is strong.

617
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: And then you go out and you have to do

618
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: radio tour. Yep, Well set out the radio tour two

619
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: and a half, three months after the song had already

620
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: been out. It had already done what it was doing,

621
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 1: and then um decided to take it to radio. But

622
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: you you have pop stations playing you, you have country

623
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: stations playing your little bit. Were they like, oh, we

624
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: kind of don't know what to do with it, so

625
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna let everybody go with it. Like what was

626
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: the plan? Oh? I don't I really don't even know.

627
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: I think, Uh, I really don't know. Grandma would taught

628
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: me and my mama. See I don't say my mama

629
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: a lot, but she taught me a whole bunch. I

630
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: used to saying my grandmother. But look, if you don't

631
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: know what to say, just don't say nothing, because I

632
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,400
Speaker 1: don't know the process of that. UM. When they decided

633
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: to pisit to the radio, I just went on the

634
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: radio tour, and I told them that I wanted to

635
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: go on the radio tour and I wanted to be

636
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: and the people faces and getting to meet them and

637
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: greet them, and and that was like priority to me

638
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: to go on the radio tour. So John said, let's

639
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: make it happen. Where's the weirdest place you did the dance?

640
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: Not even radio touris in general because you've done it.

641
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: I see like on local news. I see you at

642
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: zoos yell. I just did it yesterday at the uh

643
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,720
Speaker 1: the World Series game during the ninth ending and somebody

644
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: was getting struck out. I was just in the middle

645
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: of the out doing a dance. Cooler celebrity you've seen

646
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: do the dance. I mean it's a it's a lot

647
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: of people. Name one. I can't even don't start with

648
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: Monica again, No, I can't even one celebrity ain't seen

649
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: how do the dance? No, but one name one celebrity

650
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: is seen to the dance. So it's pretty cool, man.

651
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: It's it's the one of the one of the one

652
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: that took me out was Howie Howie? Who's Howie? You

653
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: don't know? How We? How We? How are the duck?

654
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: How are we? From back Street Boys? How We? Who's

655
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: how We? I'm gonna let you figure it out. Who

656
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: took you out? I'm saying that. That made me like, laugh, Mike,

657
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: do you how he is? Howie Mandel? Howie Mandel? Okay? Okay?

658
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: Would have been my fourth how we pack? You just

659
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: said how we like I don't look he go out

660
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: at the first one. I was just like, I'm I'm

661
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna play a little game and let you

662
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: guess this one since you don't want to say Monica again.

663
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: It was Howie Okay. Um, you've been all over the

664
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: world language barriers with the song weird or now uh.

665
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: I haven't had any issues there. I see people just

666
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: enjoying it, laughing, enjoying themselves and funny accents. I'm going

667
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: to do the two staff bad. I'm trying to think,

668
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: if you know what, let me let me do something

669
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: right quick. But as you look at up, I'm gonna

670
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: do something here. So the album is called Honeysuck on

671
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 1: Lightning Bugs obviously, to get Up. Here's some of Georgia

672
00:38:50,840 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 1: power right here. Thank God, Yeah, yeah yeah. Any miny

673
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: miny miny miny mode. I'll never ever ever let it

674
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: take my soul. Any miny miny miny miny mode. I

675
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: don't ain't, dude. I don't see any many many miny

676
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: miny mode. Everything that the world a little bit of

677
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 1: let's tennessee whiskey. Tell me not say you're are glass

678
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 1: of shipping and understand, I see game. Tell me what

679
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: about to do? And here is a little bit of

680
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: temporary insanity from the record I feel so cold. You

681
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: look out for this one. Players. You love this one, man,

682
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you like that was one of those

683
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: records like to get Up. I wrote it right before

684
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: I was done with my album. I'm actually playing good

685
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 1: turn there too. I played in these keys and I

686
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: tuned to a certain way to make sure they had

687
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: that dark texture, so I didn't tune it in like

688
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: you know, the regular standard tune um and it has

689
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:21,399
Speaker 1: a dullness about it. It felt magical to me. Here's

690
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 1: some more of this turn it out, like everything and

691
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: anything that broke me and took it away and you

692
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: feel my pain. Proud of this one? And that was

693
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: me talking to myself. Everything that was a little bard.

694
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: I was putting my poppy sing away. He ain't how

695
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: many times to take the single this one down? I

696
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: mean I sung it like two times through kidding me,

697
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,800
Speaker 1: you know what I know. I'm gonna tell you the

698
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 1: first experience. So we have met at the house. He

699
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: came over and then I said, hey, you should come

700
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: up and do the show and play. And I figured

701
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: you'd be good. And we were in a temporary studio

702
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: because we're building a new studio, and everything was kind

703
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:13,919
Speaker 1: of a mess. And you walked in and you had

704
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: the guys from Parmally Matt came in with Parmaly's right

705
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: and you started singing, and I was like, oh my god,

706
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: you may you And again I don't have a system,

707
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: but you maybe, if not the one of the best

708
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: singers ever being just sing straightforward. I was blown away.

709
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: And I don't throw out compliments like that very often

710
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: unless I mean it. And again I don't have a

711
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:41,879
Speaker 1: full ranking system, but you may be the best singer

712
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: I've ever had in that room. And we have a

713
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 1: lot of great singers in that room. It's my eyeballs

714
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: were so big. I was like, oh, this is it

715
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 1: right here. It was crazy, man. That comes from trying

716
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 1: to be hurt for so long, going through the hurt,

717
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: not being accepted, uh, wanting to never fit in but

718
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: stand out. And you can just hear the pain in

719
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: my voice when you started, I was born a real

720
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 1: I was like as soon as you started, hm and

721
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: you left, and we were all like, well, nobody needs

722
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: to come in the next couple of days because they

723
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: can't do that, Like, you gotta start the concert over.

724
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: You gotta have a new show. No one needs to

725
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: follow that. People surprise when you because you're the get

726
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: Up such a dance song. Are they surprised when you

727
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: just blow the place with your vocals? Yeah? I mean

728
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: you know you go from to the left to the left,

729
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: now to the ride to the ride. It's different from

730
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 1: built in. You know what I'm saying, to get up

731
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: start the purpose for what it is and what I'll

732
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: forever will be. Um the get up is like you

733
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 1: hear it, and you see this house when you dig

734
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 1: into like the album, you end the house. Now you

735
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,760
Speaker 1: see how I decorated everything you get to enjoy the furnishing.

736
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 1: What handles did he choose? How did his kissing come together?

737
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: Why is there marble in the middle? You know what

738
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:22,359
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Why is there this? You kind of paint

739
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,280
Speaker 1: the picture. Honeysuck on lining bugs the album ten songs,

740
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: You're right on all the songs. It's important to you

741
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 1: to be a writer. Um if somebody give me a

742
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: record that just touches my heart, then I definitely cut it.

743
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: And uh, I have a couple that I've cut that

744
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: I've probably go on the second album. You already working

745
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: on the second album? Yeah? I mean I chose ten

746
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: records for this album from like an eighty song catalog,

747
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: straight trailer's wrap and the rest of your life. You

748
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: what we're doing to get up and you're good with that.

749
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: I'm good with that. The last movie you saw in theaters? Yeah,

750
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 1: I can't do a while. Yeah, I ain't been in

751
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 1: a minute. Last concert you bought tickets for um that

752
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: I personally bought. Yeah, they didn't give you. Mumford and

753
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: Science where l a one? One more question? What's superstition?

754
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: Do you believe is true? Will you walk under a ladder?

755
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 1: And I don't believe in that. Okay, so you walk

756
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 1: under a ladder, I will too. I don't believe that.

757
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: Will you break a mirror? Someone said, you're tin bucks,

758
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: break that mirror? Yeah, break all right? If a black

759
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 1: I need them, tim, But I'm not a superstition guy either. Well,

760
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: it's it's it, it's a it's a really interesting story.

761
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: I'm glad that we could, we can talk about it

762
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: shared a little bit. I appreciate that. Thank you for

763
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: you evory thing. Yeah no, I just such a fan,

764
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: such a fan. I hope everybody listening to this check

765
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 1: that honeysuck on loney bugs. I'm gonna go back and

766
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: really listen to temper Insanity because I see, like that's

767
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: your favorite, like that not but that's something you're really

768
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: proud of. Like I want to go spend more because

769
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: I listen to the record a couple of times. I

770
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: really like it. I mean the first line like I

771
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: never meant to break your broken heart. These lonely nights

772
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:21,439
Speaker 1: keep me staying awake hoping that my phone we ring.

773
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: All my life, I've been chasing charts. Never felt like

774
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,320
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like it's getting into the

775
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: depths of things, because now it's all reversed. Now that

776
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: I'm doing my own music, I could care less about

777
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 1: looking at the charts every week blood Persson going up

778
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: and down. I just want to make music that's purposeful,

779
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: that people can relate to, that people can feel. And

780
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: I'm not looking for one big old combustion, one big boom.

781
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: I want people to go along a journey and wrap

782
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: with me and get to know and grow with me.

783
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 1: I'm thutty folk. I'm not trying to fast forward nothing.

784
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,439
Speaker 1: It's still the same process. I'm doing everything one step

785
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: at a time, as if the get up don't exist.

786
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: It's just a blessing to be here. I saw the

787
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: Timber Girl story two in the tweet you intended to

788
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: don't take the girl? Yes, that was like, so how

789
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: did that come together that I never knew could happen? Um,

790
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:26,959
Speaker 1: we had a show in Australia together and John told

791
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: me that he wanted to meet me. He said, Hey,

792
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,359
Speaker 1: don't get your hopes up. I don't know what's gonna

793
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: happen when you meet him. He may get too busy,

794
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: you say, But y'all are being the same place at

795
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 1: the same time, so more than likely would happened. I

796
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 1: walked in the room one of the nicest guys I've

797
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: ever met. Uh. They had a good talk and some keys.

798
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: I said, oh, it's about to go down. I went

799
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:02,479
Speaker 1: to sweating and he was like, you know the song right?

800
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: I said, of course? And I said I got one

801
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 1: fact for you that you probably ain't thought about. Johnny

802
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:15,280
Speaker 1: would be thirty three today. His son would be Tim.

803
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: In the song. They had him at twenty three, and

804
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: when Johnny was eight, I was nine. So I know

805
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: Johnny age. You know what I'm saying. He was just like,

806
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,919
Speaker 1: that's a good one. We saw in the song. Where

807
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: did you sing the song? Uh? In the green room?

808
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: And so that record, I'll play it right here. So

809
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: this this don't take the girl? You and Tim, you

810
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: guys are just playing in the green room. Was that

811
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 1: it was like surreal? I mean I still look like

812
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: at the video and like this is really happy. I mean,

813
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: it ain't a moment that can make up for that

814
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: reason that has its own shelf, is own book. And

815
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: you get to play the ring your debut November nine.

816
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? I'm going there and give

817
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 1: it my all. Do you know what you're gonna sing yet, Yeah, yeah,

818
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,359
Speaker 1: you don't say huh, I mean I'm I mean, you're

819
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: definitely gonna hear temporary insanity. Yeah, you're gonna hear to

820
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:21,359
Speaker 1: get up. Yeah, you're gonna hear jowls to power Tian whiskey.

821
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:26,439
Speaker 1: You know, might have another one. Congratulations, Thank you so much.

822
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,439
Speaker 1: I appreciate the time there is. Check it out the record,

823
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:32,879
Speaker 1: honeystuck on Lightning Bugs Blanco Brown and on Instagram at

824
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: Blanco Brown and if you do the dancing tag him

825
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: here I post it. Okay, you're always watching, always watching

826
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: the stories, and I'm working on some secret things. Well

827
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: that does nothing for me. You're rolling your hands all right.

828
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know what a secret thing is,

829
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: but some some great things coming. Just remember you heard it.

830
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,359
Speaker 1: We heard that you're working on a secret thing. Yeah,

831
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: guess what. I also I'm working on a couple of

832
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: secret things. But I will give you anything else and

833
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 1: then feel good? Does it holding? Alright, that's an episode

834
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: two and nine with Blanco Brown. Uh, check out the

835
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: whole record. It's been a few minutes with it. Alright.

836
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: Good to see you. Thank you. H