WEBVTT - NATASHA BEDINGFIELD: Roll With Me 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:10.799 De Hello, my friend, and welcome back to another edition 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:15.880 of Love Someone, my podcast. I have had such a 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:20.200 great time this year doing these podcasts. I love talking 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:23.880 to people on the air, but when you hear a 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.560 call on my radio show, it's usually only two or 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.639 three minutes long, and sometimes people have a lot more 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.559 to share than we can cram into two or three minutes. 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.320 And so we decided to do these podcasts so that 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:43.720 I could talk to people in depth about things that matter. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:44.519 Now. 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.559 There are some podcasts that are political in nature, some 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:51.320 all about sports, some about cars. There's some really amazing 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.160 podcast out there. I mean, anything you are interested in, 0:00:55.800 --> 0:01:00.320 you can find a podcast about. But what we focus 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:04.560 on is talking to real people about ways to make 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:08.920 a real impact in the world. A lot of times 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.240 we wait for someone else to fix it. We wait 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.200 for the county to fix it, or the state to 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.360 fix it, or the government to fix it, or the 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.319 church to fix it. We wait for other people to 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:29.360 step in and fix huge problems climate change, pollution, animals 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:35.000 dying off and becoming extinct, human trafficking something we're going 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:39.480 to talk about today. We're waiting for somebody to fix 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:45.039 these things. But in reality, we have to be the 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:49.520 change that we want to see in the world. We 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.480 have to be willing to step outside of our comfort 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:57.480 zone and make a difference, make a difference in our 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.280 corner of the world. A day in the studio with 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.560 me is a woman who has been doing that for decades. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.960 It's hard to believe, but Natasha Bettingfield has been singing 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.560 and speaking out against human trafficking for a couple of 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.280 decades now, which is really weird because she's so young, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:22.480 and so beautiful and so so sassy. If you met her, 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.080 if you were to meet her, you would think she 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.600 was probably twenty twenty one years old. But she's been 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:32.160 around the block three times, maybe four. And today she's 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.840 going to spend some time talking about her new music, 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:39.360 talking about her baby, talking about her family, talking about 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.320 her brother who is a dear, dear friend, Daniel Bettingfield, 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:47.919 and talking about human trafficking. It's a bigger problem than 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.600 most people know. It's one of those dirty little secrets 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.919 we don't want to talk about. When people talk about slavery, 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.600 they talk about slavery. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:02:59.240 In the past tense. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.320 Did you know there are more people enslaved today than 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.359 at any other time in the history of our world. 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.240 Natasha is going to shed a little light on that. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.960 But before we get started in this wonderful conversation, I 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.760 want to acknowledge the folks at the Home Depot. They 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.440 make this podcast possible. I appreciate the Home Depot not 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.679 just as an advocate, but as a devoted customer who 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.800 loves shopping there. They have everything I need. 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I've seen 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.680 them do great work moving furniture, carpeting stairs. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.480 They do it all the Home Depot. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.680 More, saving more doing with me in the studio is 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.320 somebody that I have known from a distance, for probably 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.320 twenty years eighteen years. 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:23.400 Wow. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.280 I have seen pictures of you at a hospital bedside 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.960 when you were nurturing somebody back to health. 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:30.520 Wow. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.120 But this is the first time I met you face 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:32.520 to face. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.239 That's amazing because you are really great friends with my brother. 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.840 I Yeah, and he loves you. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.680 I love your brother like my own child. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.560 Yeah. I truly he feels that the same with you. 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.679 When I met him, there was such an instant connection. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.240 By the way, for those of you, for those of 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.880 you listening to this broadcast, I'm talking with Natasha Battingfield. 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.240 Hi, who's gorgeous. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:57.040 Thank you. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.280 You are just naturally beautiful. And we're going to talk 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.760 about your new music. You're going to talk about your 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.640 old music. We're going to talk about your new baby. 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:06.240 We're probably going to talk. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.240 About your mom and her ministry and what you do 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.920 was stopping child trafficking and sex trafficking. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:13.080 We're going to talk about all of. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.520 That, right, and my brother, but we're gonna lead with 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.719 the brother like it's also a thing. Actually had two 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.240 hits before I did in the world. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:26.800 Two amazing hits and amazing world tour. Daniel Beddingfield, who 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.000 is one of the most talented human beings I have 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:31.679 ever met. 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.599 Absolutely, I mean, I like he like when you see 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.080 him on stage, he makes so much sense because on 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.080 stage he's just he is. On off stage, he's a 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:42.240 larger than life character. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.000 He is he's But did you ever see Mozart Amadaeus 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.279 when they were saying, just take it's too busy, take 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:50.520 some of those notes out. 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.640 It's like, I can't take notes out of a song 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.960 amazing that is created. I can't. I can't be less 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.520 I am. This song is is what it is. I think. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.919 I think Daniels people, I know, white people love to 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.760 categorize and to contain, to label, to contain. It's impossible 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:09.599 to do that with him. 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.240 He's It's impossible to do it with anyone, but especially 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:13.360 with Daniel exactly. 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.120 And he was my older brother. That's what I grew 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.240 up with him, and I grew up just like learning 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.760 everything off him. He's very generous and he taught me 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.040 how to sing. And he was a staff from the 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:22.880 moment he was born. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.120 And I knew you were going to be very famous, Natasha, 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.560 because when I met Daniel, he was a teenager. Yeah, 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.520 oh wow, he was not yet twenty and you were 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.640 a kid, and he was saying, he said to me, 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.120 if you think I'm talented, wait until you hear my 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:38.760 little sister. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:40.080 Isn't that that's amazing? 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:41.839 And I'm like, yeah, but but you're in the spotlight 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:43.159 right now. He goes, I know, I know, I know, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.480 but wait until you hear my little sister. 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:49.000 That's amazing. That's so beautiful to hear that. Because he 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.080 he like taught me everything I know. And he was 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.839 hard on me sometimes, like he like he was like 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.919 he had to high standards. Yeah, but that's why because 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.240 he saw me as he knew what I was capable love, 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:00.839 I think. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.440 And was it hard like a dad to me? Well, 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:08.920 he's I don't know if he's like, but he is. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.200 He is a force to be reckoned with for sure. Yeah, 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:16.600 he's genius. And uh and I knew that I was 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.440 going to love you because just all the lovely things 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.160 he said. But he shared pictures of you with me 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.720 for years and he shared your mom with me. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:27.560 That's so cool, isn't that? 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.440 So he did. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:35.280 Daniel was very kind and when he saw the energy 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:39.240 level of my two young children, they were like, you know, 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.280 five and six or something ridiculous younger than that. 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.520 They were, you know, in diapers or something. 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.320 When when we first met and he came to the house, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.880 I have the house where my studio is now, and 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.679 I had a trampoline in the yard and he played 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:57.600 on that trampoline for hours with my children. Yeah, and 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:02.800 he saw that my boys had some unique character traits. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.480 He said, please call my mother's Please call my mother. 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.040 She's such a good counselor, and she's such an expert, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:17.239 and she helped me to navigate and to avoid letting 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.320 the doctors put them on medicine all of his young life. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.160 I never want allow the doctors had a sense to 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.600 put him because because of in part of your mom, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.840 what your mom taught me, and she's sent me literature 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.640 and had me read books and learn about the you know, 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.640 the side effects of the medication to fix Adhd. 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.880 And I'm like, I'm Adhd. I don't want to fixed. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.240 It's what allows me to to juggle my life and 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:44.000 live my life. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.880 So but your mother is lovely. 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.040 Thanks, I think I did. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.880 Yeah, and now you're a mom. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.920 I'm a mom. And I waited a while like I 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:59.080 had like full already full career, like I have this 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.040 married for ten years and then I just had a baby, 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.280 and it's amazing. I don't know why I was waiting 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:04.720 so long. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.000 So let me ask you this, Natasha Beddingfield, who's had 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:14.240 how many hits and great success and you're beautiful? 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:19.080 How much more full. 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:24.480 Is your heart, your life, your soul since becoming a mama. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.920 I mean, it's incredible, It's absolutely incredible. And I also 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.200 feel so much more in touch with people in general 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.880 because I know now what people go through and what 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.720 it takes. And my little son is such a joy. 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:38.880 So what's his name? 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.520 His name is Solomon, and he's almost two. Yeah, he's 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.320 going to be two in three months. And I mean, man, 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.240 I can't imagine, Like that's a hard thing. Like when 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.640 you open your heart to love, is that you can lose, 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.640 something can happen, Like you know, you can lie awake 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.360 thinking of the terrible things that can happen to your child. 0:09:58.080 --> 0:09:59.880 You don't want to focus on that stuff, of course, 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.880 But like I feel like I never, really I didn't 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.920 want to love somebody that much? Is it terrible? Like 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.720 I would keep I kept my heart a bit closed 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:09.560 because I didn't. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:10.840 Want It's not terrible. It's true. 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.640 You know, why would we purposefully set ourselves up to 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:15.720 be crushed like that? 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.080 Yeah, but that's love and that there's the thing is 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.240 you're not living life if you if you close down. 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.760 And I think I guess I was living a bit 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.319 closed down. So for me, now that I've opened up 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.120 to having this little being in my life who I 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.720 can't control, I can't predict. I can just love and 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:35.800 hear you love me. But I feel like there's a 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.640 new flow in my life. It's it's really interesting, like 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.800 there's just this energy. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.240 So tell me how that translates in your music, because 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:45.680 now you've got a new song out. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:47.680 Yeah, So I signed a record deal, I got offered 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.719 a deal, I left my label, and then I got 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.880 offered this amazing indie deal by Linda Perry, and we 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:58.080 wrote She's Incredible, And this album just came together in such. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.240 A talk about genius. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.680 Just felt like, yeah, such a genius too. And the 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.440 flow was just not try hard, and you as you 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.880 hear the album, you can hear it's not. It just 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.120 isn't try hard. And a lot of pop music you 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.560 can get in that zone where you start being safe, 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.560 where you're like, oh, this is a guaranteed hit, Like, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.800 no one can guarantee a hit, but you start kind 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.800 of writing a bit like that with these kind of 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.960 executive label people, like saying what people want. 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.200 Have you seen the video it was on YouTube? It's 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.960 gone around social media where two guys play every song 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.000 that's been a hit in the last five years. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.160 Yeah, and they all sound like the same. 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.840 Quote, the exact same two And I'm like, whoa, you 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.240 don't even realize how formula. 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:42.960 Like so formulaic. 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.040 Yeah, everything has become. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.240 And it's just staying in a save zone. And I 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.560 mean that's just you're You're not growing if you kind 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:50.960 of do that. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.040 So, so tell me about roll with me, tell me 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.160 about some of the songs. 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.280 Okay, so roll with me. What's fun about this album 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.240 is it is really fun, but I also got to 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.720 talk about some of the stuff that really matters to me. 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.800 For example, so there's a song called Hey Papa, which says, 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:13.040 hey Papa, what's the news? What's going on in the world? 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.440 This is there's some crazy stuff like every time you 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.000 wake up in the morning, every time I wake up 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:18.320 in the morning, I look at my phone and then 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:19.839 I'm like, oh, what bad news am I going to 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.960 see as well, Like I'm almost afraid to look at 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:22.160 my pon. 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.960 You know how you unfollow people that are I have 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.760 this stuff. I have unfollowed a lot of news feers 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.560 that used to come into my phone because I would 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.839 wake up and then I would be instantly terrorI exactly 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.560 terrified or in a negative kind of not that I 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.720 don't want to be aware of what's going on, but 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.679 I can't be inundated every day with negativity. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.160 Yeah, and there's there's the first line of songs. There's 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.040 kids and guns. Starting out so young, we normalize and 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.120 empathize and then hold our hands over our eyes, so 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.640 like this, it's like this, there's been so many gun 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.680 shootings this year. When you hear about so many, it 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.360 almost desensitizes you and you can end up like just 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.960 like burying your head under the blankets and just not 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.160 even doing anything about it. And so it's great because 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.000 I never really talked about stuff like that in my 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.679 last albums. They were all just about personal like relationships 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.240 and stuff and fun things. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.199 So now that you've been married ten years. 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.000 Yeah, and now I've had a kid, and now I 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:20.960 care about things more. But I feel like I've got 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:22.440 a microphone in front of my face, and I have 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.600 the freedom because I'm in an indie label too, and 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.200 I'm working with someone who also cares about that kind 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.920 of stuff too. So I just I feel that's quite 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.600 a release for me because I've definitely had that thing 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:35.840 that a lot of women feel if I mustn't be 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.640 that angry woman or I mustn't be like, I mustn't 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.320 rock the boat. So yeah, it's great. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:43.400 So let's rock a few boats. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:48.880 Yeah, let's rock a few boats and talk about another thing. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:54.480 I know you're passionate about trafficking. Trafficking, Yes, that rocks boats. 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.559 Yeah, you know why, because we love to celebrate that 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.960 we're a free society. We love to you know, England 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:06.720 and America, that we have democracies and that we abolished slavery. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.920 But the problem is that a lot of the companies 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.880 that we buy all our products from are not accountable 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.960 and they don't check and they poposedly stay ignorant about 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.760 the fact that they use a lot of slave labor 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.160 to make all of their products. 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.600 And yeah, nobody wants to believe that. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:24.440 No, but this is shocking. There's more slavery today than 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:28.480 there ever was. When I'm crazy and we celebrate anti slavery. 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:33.160 I go to West Africa at least twice, sometimes three 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:38.240 times a year, and I go to the slave castles 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:43.240 where humans were exported as chattel sixty million, wow, over 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:47.240 the course of three hundred years. And I see people weeping, 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.400 I see people crying. I see people going back to 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.960 the roots and trying to wrap their head around it. 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.280 And I stand there screaming. But it's going on today, 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.000 right right, There are more slaves today. There are more 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.520 people being trafficked today than ever in the history of 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:04.080 our world. 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.280 And then we celebrate things like fourth of July Independence Day, 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.880 and we talk about the amazing constitution, and we talk 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.800 about all these freedoms that we. 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.760 Have while we neglect to pay attention to the fact 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:20.000 that thousands of children go missing every year. That's right, 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:24.800 tens of thousands of human beings are trafficked, not just 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.360 across state lines, but country to country. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:29.720 There's a whole network. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.320 And when you go up and down the corridors on 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:36.920 either coast, there's people every day being trafficked through the 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:42.040 truck driving stops. You know they're in they're enslaved. 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.160 And we close our eyes. 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.160 And because it's in a different country. But it's not 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.240 it's not you're right, it's not you're right. It's right 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.360 here too, right because people can't see it, like people 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.840 like to focus on the nice and fluffy and like, 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.560 I'll tell you a funny example my mom, because she 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.720 found out about that a lot of chocolate companies use 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.400 labor to make the chocolate. And when you talk to them, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.360 they're like, they're like, oh, we don't we can't really 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.720 tell you, know, they they purposely don't know about it. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.320 We outsource our chocolate exactly, yeah, exactly, No, we just 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:13.200 buy it in bulk. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.120 Yeah, own the excitations. 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.040 So she told us, she told she did a press 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:23.280 release instead that our family are all fasting chocolate. Well 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.360 she didn't check with us, and chocolate happens to. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:26.520 Be my favorite food. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.840 And I was like, I'm sorry, mom, I'm not fasting chocolate. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.480 Pick another, Pick another food. 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.000 There are chocolates though you can find. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.960 There are there are fair trade, fair trade chocolates, so 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:39.560 they're delicious, especially dark. 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.880 But this is why it's so hard. It's because we 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.640 love we love you know, we love our mobile. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.640 We don't want to know that our soccer balls that 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.000 our kids are kicking around were sown by four year olds. 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.200 Exact want to know exactly. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.760 That the jeans that you're wearing are sown by men 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:59.320 and women imprisoned for not violent crimes, and they're making 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.760 twenty five since an hour two to make the jeans 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:04.320 that you're wearing. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:05.359 We don't want to think about them. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.440 I don't think about it right now. I don't. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.760 I truly don't want to think about it. No, I 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.960 know I don't, but it's true. 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:18.159 Yeah, oh it's it's such a horrific, pervasive problem and 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:19.879 nobody wants to talk about it. But you're you and 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.720 your mom and my brother and my brother. 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.680 And there's a company that I've been so the name 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:28.359 of the ministry that well, my MoU's ministry is called 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.800 it's a charity called Global Angels, but she works very 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.120 closely with Stop the Traffic. And then there's another one, 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.120 a guy called justin Dylon, and his charity is called 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:43.600 Freedom f R d M, Freedom No Vows, And what 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.399 he does is he works on talking with companies to 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.359 keep them accountable because companies have realized, oh my gosh, 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.240 we are going to be in trouble when people figure 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:51.439 it out. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:52.239 People figure out. 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.000 Yeah, And it's just like the organic food, Like if 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.560 there's enough demand for something, then suddenly you see a 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.560 whole aisle full of organic food. And so his thinking is, look, 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.600 if companies could know like that this is important to people, 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.600 that's where our power is, you know, because these companies 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.320 are just doing what they think people will accept. I 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:13.240 talked to my friend who runs the charity Freedom that 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.399 I mentioned, and he said that, like, we did a 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.600 documentary together called Call and Response, and this is about 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:21.359 ten years ago, and we were talking about this issue 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:23.760 because nobody knew about it ten years ago. There's definitely 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.800 a lot more awareness. But what he said is that 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.600 in England and in Australia, there was a law past 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.520 that makes companies have to be responsible for what at 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.120 least on with this level with you know, with companies, 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:37.960 at least they have to be responsible for the people 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:39.359 who work for them into making their. 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:41.960 Products so that they're paid a fair wage. 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.080 Yes, so it's an act that was passed that makes 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.640 it legal that they have to. So that's just good 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:52.040 news because we are making progress and that pressure from 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.359 the public does actually work. And so that's the kind 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.440 of stuff that we need to see happen in America. 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:58.960 And I think that one of the things that I 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.960 you know, people are strung so hard. Everyone listening here, 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:03.960 we all have our own issues that we're dealing with, 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:05.840 not to mention let's talk about all the stuff that's 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.119 happening in other people's lives, but also our own lives. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.840 I think it's sometimes we just get overwhelmed and people 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:15.760 feel apathetic, like my voice doesn't count. So something that's 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.400 important to me is that people that my music would 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.360 encourage people to feel like their voice counts and that 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:23.280 you should. We all need to get involved. And we 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.840 are in a democracy, and basically people love to take 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:28.760 people's power away and to make you feel like you're 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:30.880 just nothing and that you just don't have a voice. 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.360 But we do have a voice, and so the more 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.480 active we get, the more it can change can happen. 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.000 Amen. Amen to that. So we're bouncing around here, but 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.080 let's get back to roll with me. 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.119 I love it, thank you. Let's bring back to my album. 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.240 Yeah, bring it back to your album because I want 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.040 to learn more. I want to hear more about some 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.920 of the singles that we're going to be hearing from there. 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.920 Thank you. Yeah, okay, roll with me? How to get 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:59.960