Speaker 1: And That's what You Really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and That's what You Really miss Podcasts. This
Speaker 1: is a very special episode, yes, featuring two of our
Speaker 1: winners from the Karaoke Knockout competition.
Speaker 2: You texted me a couple months or like almost a
Speaker 2: year ago, I feel like about possibly doing something with
Speaker 2: this two incredible organizations. And I was like, yes, whatever
Speaker 2: you need, So why don't you tell us about Yes,
Speaker 2: these two incredible organizations, and that led to our guests
Speaker 2: being on the show today.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, So I.
Speaker 2: Work with.
Speaker 1: This organization called Help Us Adopt. It's a New York
Speaker 1: based organization. It's a five to one C three so nonprofit,
Speaker 1: but they work internationally domestically, they work through Foster Care
Speaker 1: and it's a grant program that actually helps couples and
Speaker 1: or individuals just with the cost of adoption by awarding
Speaker 1: them grants up to like thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Ye, so expensive.
Speaker 1: It's so expensive to adopt. And this is amazing. And
Speaker 1: the founder, Becky who Becky Fawcett, who I've connected with
Speaker 1: for many, many years, obviously because adoption is very close
Speaker 1: to my heart we have just always, you know, kept
Speaker 1: in contact and collaborated together in any way we can.
Speaker 1: And she has two adopted children, so she's amazing. The
Speaker 1: work she does is really incredible. Check them out. It's
Speaker 1: help us Adopt dot org. But then Colossal came in,
Speaker 1: this really colossal organization, and they teamed up with help
Speaker 1: us Adopt to help them raise more funds obviously for
Speaker 1: the grants for these families to bring children into their family.
Speaker 1: A Colossal was like, let's do this really cool competition
Speaker 1: where we're gonna do It's gonna be karaoke because obviously
Speaker 1: you are ugly person and it has to do musical
Speaker 1: And they came up with this really cool idea and
Speaker 1: there were submissions from around the world clearly, and people had,
Speaker 1: you know, their friends and family and social media followers
Speaker 1: vote and then the finalists got to come to la
Speaker 1: if they didn't live here, and Kevin and I went
Speaker 1: to the venue and we watched them all perform and
Speaker 1: got to choose the winner no pressure. They were two winners.
Speaker 1: One was based on more technical vocal ability and one
Speaker 1: was more performance based.
Speaker 2: Through that whole thing, we found out that day that
Speaker 2: they raised over nine hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Incredible. When they told me what they were like projecting
Speaker 1: to raise, I was like, wow, I don't know, yah,
Speaker 1: good luck yeah yeah, but no, really incredible they do.
Speaker 1: They do amazing work and it's one of the biggest
Speaker 1: raises that Help Us Adopt has ever benefited from. And
Speaker 1: it's just it's so great. So we had such a
Speaker 1: fun time watching these performers, you know, give it they're
Speaker 1: all and also doing this for a great cause. So
Speaker 1: with all of that said, we have the winners here today.
Speaker 1: Who do we have Kevin?
Speaker 2: We have Megan Alba Dress and we have Rache Sanchez,
Speaker 2: both respective winners for the different categories. They're both very talented,
Speaker 2: saying very different songs. Everybody that like, we just want
Speaker 2: to say thank you to everyone that participated, that put
Speaker 2: their name in the ring, and then those who made
Speaker 2: it to the LA to the final eight, because it
Speaker 2: takes so much gut sticked up there and perform and
Speaker 2: they did it and everyone was so remarkable and so good.
Speaker 2: But these two were our picks for the winners. Here
Speaker 2: are Rashe and Meghan.
Speaker 1: I want to hear from both of you how you
Speaker 1: heard about the contest and how what it was like
Speaker 1: like getting into the top eight.
Speaker 3: So I actually saw something pop up on Facebook about it,
Speaker 3: and my first thoughts was, Okay, this sounds like a scam.
Speaker 3: But I was like, I'm going to sign up just
Speaker 3: just for you know, to do it. And I remember
Speaker 3: when it first started, I thought I wasn't going to advance,
Speaker 3: And honestly, the first two rounds weren't weren't that hard
Speaker 3: to get through. But when it came down to like
Speaker 3: the last round, I remember me and this other girl
Speaker 3: were just neck and neck, neck and neck, and my
Speaker 3: parents actually bowling a bowling league. So they had the
Speaker 3: people at the front desk announced like three or four times,
Speaker 3: Hey you guys vote boat boat boat boat. It's like
Speaker 3: the last hour boat boat boat, And I swear like
Speaker 3: the last two minutes. I bumped into first and I
Speaker 3: was just watching.
Speaker 1: The amazing And did you how many times did you
Speaker 1: have to record a video of you singing? Was it
Speaker 1: just the same video that you submitted with or did
Speaker 1: you have to do multiple videos?
Speaker 3: So I think the videos were I don't know if
Speaker 3: they were a requirements or not, but I was. I
Speaker 3: posted a few different videos on Facebook and a few
Speaker 3: on like my Instagram stories and stuff, and that's that's
Speaker 3: pretty much how I got the boats and everything.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Meg, and I want to hear about
Speaker 1: that about your experience as well, and then we're coming
Speaker 1: back to you, Riche, because I want to know about
Speaker 1: your background and music. Okay, Megan, tell us about your experience.
Speaker 4: So I saw it pop up on like as an
Speaker 4: Instagram ad, like for at least a month, like for
Speaker 4: a little while, and I was just like, oh, that's
Speaker 4: like that sounds cool, but that's like not a real thing.
Speaker 4: So I always scrolled past it until I was like, Okay,
Speaker 4: what if it is a real thing. So I just
Speaker 4: signed up just in case. I thought it would be
Speaker 4: fun since.
Speaker 2: I got got by the Instagram ads.
Speaker 4: Yeah, god every time. So yeah, I ended up joining in,
Speaker 4: and like Richet said, the first couple of rounds were
Speaker 4: pretty easy and it started getting gradually a lot more stressful.
Speaker 4: But yeah, and it was super neck and neck too.
Speaker 1: Totally.
Speaker 4: I had that same experience. You're just like watching the
Speaker 4: timer and like in my family group chat and my
Speaker 4: mom's like contacting our family in Mexico and they're refreshing
Speaker 4: the page on their end over WhatsApp. It was like
Speaker 4: a whole thing. I only did one video because the
Speaker 4: videos were not mandatory. They were like weekly challenges more
Speaker 4: so like incentives for like like your social media followers
Speaker 4: to like see what you're doing and make them want
Speaker 4: to vote. I should have done more, but I think
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just worked. Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Megan, what is your background in music? Like what?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I told you to this.
Speaker 4: Well, I was making Glee videos. That's directly what pulled
Speaker 4: me into this. If I wasn't like so heavily doing
Speaker 4: like Glee content at the time, I don't know if
Speaker 4: I would have been like so eager to jump on
Speaker 4: something like this.
Speaker 2: She's a real gig of the week, you know, She's
Speaker 2: like a true.
Speaker 1: Videos are very good, by the way, very so.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, thank you. That's crazy. I mean, that's
Speaker 4: so crazy.
Speaker 1: I thank you.
Speaker 4: It's like crazy. But yeah, I mean I went to
Speaker 4: I graduated from Berkeley College of Music. So I've been
Speaker 4: doing music like my whole life, essentially singing and stuff
Speaker 4: like that. So yeah, that's pretty much my journey. I'm
Speaker 4: a producer, so I love like arranging vocals and stuff.
Speaker 4: That's how I got into Glee videos and started making
Speaker 4: them really like advanced.
Speaker 1: So yeah, amazing, I'm Rishee. What about you? What's your
Speaker 1: musical background?
Speaker 3: So fun fact, when I was like, I think it's
Speaker 3: like eight or nine whenever Lee first came out. The
Speaker 3: show choir part of Glee is what really sparked my
Speaker 3: interest in doing music more. And when I got to
Speaker 3: high school, they had a show choir, so I joined
Speaker 3: show choir. I had a solo part in one of
Speaker 3: the one of the songs we did. And after high school,
Speaker 3: I wasn't really sure like what to do if there
Speaker 3: was any show choir things or you know. So I
Speaker 3: had found different competitions, so I started with state competitions,
Speaker 3: and then after that I was in an international compet
Speaker 3: petition in Las Veiga, or not Las Vegas, Lachland, Nevada.
Speaker 3: And then I saw the Karaoke Knockouts, so another competition,
Speaker 3: and I was like, Okay, if it's real, I'd like
Speaker 3: to do this. It sounds like a really cool opportunity.
Speaker 3: So I did that, and now I'm actually going to
Speaker 3: be in a national competition in Las Vegas, Nevada in August,
Speaker 3: and if I advanced through there, I will be in
Speaker 3: a world competition in Finland. So I'm excited for that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm so excited. So yeah, thank you?
Speaker 1: Why sick?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 1: How fun?
Speaker 2: Jenna and I came into this like sort of intentionally,
Speaker 2: like not knowing too much about who was going to
Speaker 2: be singing. Yeah, and the the act that first of all,
Speaker 2: everybody was super super talented for real, everyone was very
Speaker 2: different and very talented. And I love that you two
Speaker 2: one and are so experienced, Yeah, because it fully showed
Speaker 2: where you both have these incredible sort of like musical
Speaker 2: backgrounds and resumes and love it. It seems like it's
Speaker 2: such an important part of your life. And I think
Speaker 2: that's just that extra spark that you can see when
Speaker 2: somebody's performing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what was the experience of actually being in the finals?
Speaker 1: Like for you guys, were you nervous? It seemed like
Speaker 1: you guys are all pretty tight by the time we guys,
Speaker 1: we got there, but you had just met probably the
Speaker 1: night before, right, like tell us everything.
Speaker 2: Well in just some context real quick for those.
Speaker 1: Listening, Thank you.
Speaker 2: You guys all got if you're not from LA, you
Speaker 2: all got brought into LA and you had to perform
Speaker 2: in this sort of hotel ballroom I think is a stretch.
Speaker 2: And it was a small issue room, conference room, and
Speaker 2: they set up a stage, and they set up a
Speaker 2: PA system and sort of like this a real karaoke system.
Speaker 2: And as anybody who's a performer, performing in a small
Speaker 2: thing like that is like my worst nightmare, and I
Speaker 2: don't think anyone really loves that. It's almost easier, I
Speaker 2: know this sounds in saying to perform in like a
Speaker 2: full packed theater or an arena because you can't really
Speaker 2: see anybody. It was daylight, like you could see the
Speaker 2: sweat on everybody's mind, included like I don't know me,
Speaker 2: but you all got up there like it was nothing.
Speaker 2: And after each performance General Jenna and I were like,
Speaker 2: how are they doing this? Because it was so impressive
Speaker 2: and obviously you two, you know, were no exception to that.
Speaker 2: It was incredible. So that was sort of the setup
Speaker 2: for everyone listening and you guys, like, what was your
Speaker 2: journey there? And I don't know if there was a
Speaker 2: rehearsal or you know, everything through your performance? What was
Speaker 2: that like?
Speaker 3: So when we first got there, honestly, everything was like
Speaker 3: everything was just all in order, like getting there and
Speaker 3: everything hotel and everything, and I was super nervous to
Speaker 3: meet everybody because being in past competition, I had thought
Speaker 3: everybody was just kind of gonna be like, you know,
Speaker 3: against each other. But everybody was super nice. We were
Speaker 3: pretty much all like a little family, even that we
Speaker 3: only knew each other for like a day, and I
Speaker 3: mean even the moms. All of the moms befriended each
Speaker 3: other on Facebook, and I've been in contact with some
Speaker 3: of the girls still. But I mean, other than that, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we did have a rehearsal, and I'm really glad that
Speaker 3: they did that so we could kind of see if
Speaker 3: we needed to just anything. So that was nice, and
Speaker 3: I was pretty nervous, but I rehearsed in the room
Speaker 3: before I actually had the hotel, like bring me tea
Speaker 3: kettle because I was having some allergies and stuff.
Speaker 1: Of that help too.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, other than that, after I started
Speaker 3: performing on stage, I loosened up, got comfortable, and I
Speaker 3: was really happy with my performance.
Speaker 1: Yeah you should be. You were great.
Speaker 3: Thank you really really great.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was so impressed when you started singing because you
Speaker 4: were so shy and when you got up there and
Speaker 4: just like unleash I was like, Holy Molly, that the
Speaker 4: hell of a singer.
Speaker 3: It was so cool and it was so shy.
Speaker 4: That's the coolest though. It's it's so awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was also.
Speaker 4: Pretty nervous. I didn't I didn't have a plus one
Speaker 4: for a second because I just didn't think my mom
Speaker 4: would be able to make it. The Colossal team was
Speaker 4: so so helpful, and they flew out my mom like
Speaker 4: within like a day's notice. I found out that my
Speaker 4: mom would be able to come here. My mom just
Speaker 4: like dropped what she was doing. She's like, yes, I'm
Speaker 4: getting on that flight, And so that made me feel
Speaker 4: so much better. And also just because everyone else's moms
Speaker 4: were there, that would have sacked if my wasn't for me.
Speaker 4: But yeah, the moms were awesome. Yeah, but the I
Speaker 4: was worried it was gonna I guess I feel the
Speaker 4: same way about competitions or Shay, Like I feel like
Speaker 4: everyone's like they're competing, so they have this sort of
Speaker 4: edge to them. I was worried about this like dance
Speaker 4: mom's situation that would unleash, But it actually was like
Speaker 4: really great, Like the cocktail party thing like the day before,
Speaker 4: I think just like really gave us a good chance
Speaker 4: to talk and like get to know each other, and
Speaker 4: that was really, really, really fun. And then once you
Speaker 4: get to the actual competition, I was super nervous just
Speaker 4: because I don't know, you know, you have all this
Speaker 4: like family support and stuff, and not to say that,
Speaker 4: you know, it was just it was nerve wracking, but
Speaker 4: especially because I hadn't I don't really perform. I hadn't
Speaker 4: in a really long time. So and my song got
Speaker 4: changed last minut I didn't know what my song was
Speaker 4: going to be until the night before. No I thought
Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be a oh God,
Speaker 4: oh Sherry by Steve Perry, and then I found out
Speaker 4: it was actually Hot and Cold by Katy Perry, which
Speaker 4: was one of the options that I put in, but
Speaker 4: they never I didn't get the confirmation of which song
Speaker 4: it was going to be, so I thought I got
Speaker 4: to choose and I didn't find out, And so everyone
Speaker 4: was talking like, oh yeah, I really wanted to do
Speaker 4: that d song, but they said I had to do
Speaker 4: this one. I was like, they let me do what
Speaker 4: I wanted, and then they were like I asked, and
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, thank god, everyone's talking
Speaker 4: about that or else I wouldn't have known. So, like
Speaker 4: I was in my room, like I like came up
Speaker 4: with some like very light choreography that I could just
Speaker 4: like whip out, just because I felt like I had
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 2: For the choreography thrown together thing.
Speaker 4: I was like with hot and Gold, I can only
Speaker 4: go for crowd pleaser. Everyone else is singing these amazing songs.
Speaker 4: I was like, all right, I'm figuring out the dances.
Speaker 4: My mom was helping me in my hotel room. She's like,
Speaker 4: what if in the middle of the second part you
Speaker 4: take off the jacket and you're splinging it around like
Speaker 4: that and throw it off the stage. I'm like, okay, stage,
Speaker 4: Mom like she did? She?
Speaker 1: I like.
Speaker 4: She what it was like. I didn't even know she
Speaker 4: had that in her I was.
Speaker 2: Like, wow, that's so cute.
Speaker 4: It's awesome. Actually was giving me all these pointers. It
Speaker 4: was so much fun though, and everyone was. And then afterwards,
Speaker 4: I feel like everyone was all loosened up because it
Speaker 4: was like, oh, finally it's like over with and I
Speaker 4: was just.
Speaker 2: Hang out all before.
Speaker 4: Yes, then it was just fun. And then when we
Speaker 4: were doing karaoke, like after everyone felt was just like
Speaker 4: not nervous and like bringing their best too.
Speaker 1: It was like it was really fun.
Speaker 4: It was awesome.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that the vibes were so good and it
Speaker 2: wasn't stage bombs and like dance moombs type situation because
Speaker 2: you just right, I think that it's safe to assume
Speaker 2: that that might be the default. And we could feel
Speaker 2: it that. There was so much love and support for
Speaker 2: everybody as soon as we walked through that room, which
Speaker 2: was very nice. It was nice to be able to like,
Speaker 2: it would be very different if everyone was on edge
Speaker 2: and like, I have to win this because look, you
Speaker 2: guys were you were competing. The prize was ten thousand
Speaker 2: dollars and there were gonna be two winners and that's
Speaker 2: not a small amount of money. And so even in
Speaker 2: this joyful, you know, experience, and we're doing karaoke and
Speaker 2: it can seem light, it's sort of a serious situation
Speaker 2: on the other side of it, but everyone was just
Speaker 2: it was so nice. The air and there felt light.
Speaker 2: It felt good and celebratory, and it was so nice
Speaker 2: to get to watch you guys just sing your faces off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the feeling was very positive.
Speaker 2: I will say when getting your song change or finding
Speaker 2: out what you were supposed to be doing the night
Speaker 2: before is crazy. But hot and Cold, I mean I
Speaker 2: think how we were judging too about like the two
Speaker 2: different categories where it wasn't necessarily about like a hot
Speaker 2: and cold has to be just the crowd pleaser. I
Speaker 2: think it was. You can also it's hard to sing
Speaker 2: that song, yeah, yeah, or it's like I think we
Speaker 2: know as performers, it's like you know, a good gusta
Speaker 2: wind or something, and all of a sudden, I'm flat
Speaker 2: or my throat's dry and I'm not gonna hit any
Speaker 2: of these notes. It doesn't matter how hard or simple
Speaker 2: the song may seem. It's like being able to perform
Speaker 2: and dance and then also maintained the pitch through all
Speaker 2: of it, and like the breathing correctly and all the technique.
Speaker 2: You both had such incredible technique, and like we were
Speaker 2: noticing that too, where it's like you both seem so professional,
Speaker 2: like this is clearly what they do. What went into
Speaker 2: picking an evanescent song, because I feel like when you
Speaker 2: came out and started doing they were like, oh, this
Speaker 2: is different, this is very different than what everybody else
Speaker 2: is doing. And also, yeah, so hard to sing there's
Speaker 2: a couple people I remember, like growing up watching American Idol,
Speaker 2: and people would come out and do like Alicia Keys,
Speaker 2: and the judges would be like, it's really hard to
Speaker 2: do because her voice is so stinct. She's a very
Speaker 2: distinct style of singing. Evanescence is similarly similar. Yeah, exactly, yes,
Speaker 2: So what was that like? Is that like one of
Speaker 2: your go tos?
Speaker 3: So actually that my first song choice was not Evanescence.
Speaker 3: It was actually Hurt by Christina Aguilera.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, okay, even harder?
Speaker 1: Exactly, great, great, great.
Speaker 3: A few days before I found out what song I
Speaker 3: was doing, or a few days before the competition, they
Speaker 3: told me what song I was doing, and I honestly
Speaker 3: I had everything set to go for Hurt. I was
Speaker 3: so confident that that's the song I'm doing. I put
Speaker 3: in my song right away and it said you are
Speaker 3: doing call me when you're sober, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: And so I had to think of an outfit, idea,
Speaker 3: put that together, get my like performance going what I
Speaker 3: was gonna do, and I felt really good about it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've sang that song a lot, like in
Speaker 3: karaoke bars and stuff, and I've been told that it
Speaker 3: really suits my voice and that I sound pretty similar
Speaker 3: to Amy Lee. So I was like, okay, so well,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna just thank you. I was just hoping, like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be confident with this, give it my all
Speaker 3: and just see where it takes me. So I'm really
Speaker 3: glad that everything turned out good.
Speaker 1: It did, I mean, it worked out. Your tone is
Speaker 1: very similar. So is hurt your go to karaoke song
Speaker 1: or is there another go to?
Speaker 3: Usually it is, yeah, And actually my top three songs
Speaker 3: that I put in were my go to. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you saw like the karaoke knockout picture that
Speaker 3: they had of me with the microphone, but that was
Speaker 3: a performance for a different competition, and I was just
Speaker 3: for a heartbreaker by at a Tard That was my
Speaker 3: song choice if I didn't sing call Me when You're Sober.
Speaker 2: Very good choices, all very different too.
Speaker 1: Megan, wonder is your go to karaoke song?
Speaker 4: You know that song by Hooty and the Blowfish that's
Speaker 4: like I don't want to be Ye. Actually it's like
Speaker 4: low key my go to song because I love to
Speaker 4: like it's always when I'm like out and I look
Speaker 4: good and I think it's funny to just like be
Speaker 4: like a cute looking girl go up on stage and
Speaker 4: just sell it in your best footing in the blow
Speaker 4: and so like it. I do love doing that. I
Speaker 4: also love a good like Grenade by Bruno Mars too, though.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 2: Also not an easy song to sing, all.
Speaker 4: Right, Oh my god, No, I don't know how he
Speaker 4: does it. I can barely do it.
Speaker 2: You guys are wild picking, but I feel like that's
Speaker 2: the like magic of karaoke. I always try to pick
Speaker 2: a I always try to pick a song that it's
Speaker 2: like a slight challenge. Yeah, like, I don't know very well.
Speaker 2: I will never do this in normal life. Let me
Speaker 2: try what it's like. Oh, I did Disturb You by
Speaker 2: Rihanna once in the original key. It was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't have the range for this.
Speaker 4: We all watched Glee. I think you have the range
Speaker 4: for that.
Speaker 2: No, you weren't in that karaoke room, thank god, because
Speaker 2: it was rough.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's what karaoke is supposed to be. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not right.
Speaker 2: I rap most of the time, to be honest, Oh
Speaker 2: you do rap a lot.
Speaker 1: At least Glee Alicia, what did winning mean to you?
Speaker 3: Honestly, it felt so good to win. But at the
Speaker 3: same time, I mean when my name was called, I
Speaker 3: was I was pretty shocked because everybody sounded so good,
Speaker 3: and I mean I wasn't all I was shocked. I honestly,
Speaker 3: everything didn't settle in for I would probably say for
Speaker 3: a couple of days, Like it was just really shocking
Speaker 3: to me because this has probably been a bigger competition
Speaker 3: since you know, the prize money was up there and
Speaker 3: with the trophy and everything too, So it felt really good.
Speaker 3: I it was a really good opportunity, and I could
Speaker 3: say that I was one of the first to do
Speaker 3: that because I think this was their first ever knockout competition,
Speaker 3: So it was really cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. What about you, Megan, I was.
Speaker 4: Equally just as shocked. I mean, yeah, everyone was so good.
Speaker 4: It really was so neck and neck. I genuinely had
Speaker 4: no idea who was gonna win, what I mean. And
Speaker 4: then when he pulled out, like the dollar bills flying
Speaker 4: them in the air, Young I roast to everyone in
Speaker 4: the audience, but dazzled head to toe the phone. I
Speaker 4: looked at my mom and I said, We're not going
Speaker 4: home with this prize money. So it was such a shock.
Speaker 4: I like blacked out, like once I got on stage,
Speaker 4: I just just saw bright lights and even if there
Speaker 4: weren't bright lights, I was just like out of it
Speaker 4: and it didn't like hit me really until I like
Speaker 4: cash the check into my savings and I was like.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, that's awesome. And we also have to
Speaker 1: know we have to ask, obviously, because this is a
Speaker 1: Glee podcast, Megan, what moved you to make or like,
Speaker 1: how did you start making these Glee videos?
Speaker 4: Oh my god. It started as a joke, like I
Speaker 4: because there was one video I did that like I
Speaker 4: did like this acapella background music to like awkward Q
Speaker 4: scenes in sitcoms like Doo Do Do Do? And that,
Speaker 4: and then someone was like, okay, Glee music. And then
Speaker 4: another one of my friends my accommodated, oh my god,
Speaker 4: do a Glee video. So then I did one Glee
Speaker 4: video and that was just like Quinn me imitating Quinn
Speaker 4: doing that Aretha Franklin song for the audition and like
Speaker 4: the Holy Trinity or just sounding like a complete choir
Speaker 4: of women.
Speaker 1: Was like the whole joke.
Speaker 4: And then I did like the Glee Entrances video and
Speaker 4: that one was really easy to do because that was
Speaker 4: just like quick pop songs. And then I did another
Speaker 4: one I couldn't help myself but add some harmonies, and
Speaker 4: then someone was like, wow, like a Taylor Swift episode
Speaker 4: would go crazy, and I was like, well, maybe I
Speaker 4: should do like individual like episodes as best as I can.
Speaker 4: And then those started going like crazy, so I was like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, I have to keep doing this, and
Speaker 4: then like TikTok doesn't do the creator fund anymore, so
Speaker 4: like I stopped because I wasn't like getting like any
Speaker 4: money from it. And from the time I started was
Speaker 4: like it would take like I don't know, like first
Speaker 4: video took like an hour, yeah, and then like the
Speaker 4: last video, the Dojacat one was like a fifteen hour
Speaker 4: thing along with like the Weekend video. It took fifteen
Speaker 4: hours to make. Wow everything by myself.
Speaker 2: That was my next question, because they're so like detailed
Speaker 2: and thought out, they're so complex. They're very very good.
Speaker 4: I mean usually I like can hear like what I'm
Speaker 4: going to do musically and like arrangement wise, it was
Speaker 4: it was when I started adding the warblers, like who
Speaker 4: why am I doing this? And that really put in
Speaker 4: so much work for me, but it was really fun.
Speaker 4: I like wish I had like time on my hands
Speaker 4: to like keep doing them as often as I would,
Speaker 4: But I am a planning like a chaperone episode and
Speaker 4: the episode amazing, it works.
Speaker 1: Amazing, so much fun. Well, thank you guys so much,
Speaker 1: congratulations on winning the competition. And also I was so
Speaker 1: nice to like talk to you guys for more than
Speaker 1: five minutes after the competition. Right, good luck to you, Megan,
Speaker 1: good luck.
Speaker 4: Thank you Jenna and Kevin so much. I like, just
Speaker 4: release a single and I just want to say.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Money.
Speaker 4: I wanted to like star artist project, so I released
Speaker 4: the song fresh out called this Love and the artist's
Speaker 4: name is shut Up Natalia. So everyone streamed this Love
Speaker 4: by shut Up Natalia.
Speaker 1: That's it amazing. And Meghan, where can we find you
Speaker 1: on the Gram or wherever you are.
Speaker 4: On Instagram? You can find me at Megan Alba dress
Speaker 4: and TikTok. You can find me at Demi DeVito or
Speaker 4: Megan alber dress too Perfect.
Speaker 1: And Rache, what about you?
Speaker 3: On Instagram? I'm under Riche Lynn r I s h
Speaker 3: a E l y n n E. And on TikTok.
Speaker 3: I am under my first and last name, Che Sanchez
Speaker 3: r I S H A E s A N C
Speaker 3: H easy.
Speaker 2: I just want to say it was beautiful like circular
Speaker 2: moment for like like Rasche watching Glee growing up and
Speaker 2: then getting in the show choir and then getting in
Speaker 2: the Glee competition right and winning it and Megan, same
Speaker 2: thing with your tiktoks and like it's just it's really
Speaker 2: cool for us too to be a part of the
Speaker 2: whole circular journey. So thank you also for entering that competition.
Speaker 2: That competition raised so much money for an incredible organization. Yes,
Speaker 2: and I know, like seeing that thing online, I don't
Speaker 2: know if I would have thought it was a scam either. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so the fact that you took a chance, you
Speaker 2: put yourself out there, you have to get votes, and
Speaker 2: it ended up raising almost a million dollars. So thanks
Speaker 2: to you, guys, So thank you for even participating that
Speaker 2: to begin with, and thanks for letting us, thanks for
Speaker 2: coming on and talking to us about this whole journey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you guys, Thank you for having us.
Speaker 2: Of course, good to see you, Good to see.
Speaker 3: You guys, Good to see you guys.
Speaker 1: Well, congratulations to Shane Meghan. It was really nice to
Speaker 1: connect with them again. I'm so glad you guys could
Speaker 1: take the time to come on the pod and tell
Speaker 1: us about your experience. Thanks for helping in raising close
Speaker 1: to a million dollars for help us adopt, and thank
Speaker 1: you to CLOSSL for having us and letting us be
Speaker 1: hosts and judges. I guess I don't know why we're
Speaker 1: qualified to do that, but we're not. Yes we are.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed the episode and.
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