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Speaker 1: A podcast playground, I'm Busnight, I'm the next Taking a

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Speaker 1: Walk podcast singer songwriter Chad Tepper is our guest.

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Speaker 2: I've been an artist in my whole life. Unfortunately, I've

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Speaker 2: always been that weird kid writing poetry, you know, singing,

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Speaker 2: making up melodies and songs. And I was that kid

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Speaker 2: where you know, I would hear jingle on the radio

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Speaker 2: and then I would rewrite it to make it funny,

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Speaker 2: or I would rewrite it to make it something that's

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Speaker 2: going on in my life, and from there I would

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Speaker 2: I started drawing when I was a little kid, and

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Speaker 2: painting and just all these things that I shouldn't be doing,

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Speaker 2: especially as a homeless kid. Like there was times where

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Speaker 2: my mom, my dad, and my two brothers, uh the

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Speaker 2: only time, so we didn't have TVs. Sometimes we had

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Speaker 2: a little black and white TV that we got like

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Speaker 2: a thrift store. But a lot of times the entertainment

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Speaker 2: that I would process through would be my dad would

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Speaker 2: turn on the radio in the morning when we'd wake

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Speaker 2: up in the car or before we'd go to sleep

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Speaker 2: and turn the radio on. For me, I've always been

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Speaker 2: an artist because it's been a way for me to

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Speaker 2: distract myself. For a little bit to take myself out

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Speaker 2: of a horrible life and a hell of a world

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Speaker 2: that I was living in, and I could escape by

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Speaker 2: being an artist or taking in art. So it's kind

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Speaker 2: of been this thing that's got saved my whole life.

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Speaker 1: That's next time I'm taking a walk.