Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's Sammy J. And welcome to my podcast.
Speaker 1: I hope your day is going great. For this episode,
Speaker 1: we have Dixie Damelio as our guest. She is the
Speaker 1: absolute sweetest, talk about music, cancel culture, how to or
Speaker 1: at least try to have a healthy relationship with social
Speaker 1: media through new podcast with Charlie, and so much more.
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Speaker 1: Hi Dixie, Well, thank you so much for coming on
Speaker 1: my podcast. Of course, I was thinking about this and
Speaker 1: I know you just graduated last year. I'm currently senior
Speaker 1: in high school, and your life has changed completely from
Speaker 1: what it was a year ago. Today you graduated high school,
Speaker 1: you're out in l A, You're doing music, you just
Speaker 1: came out with your first single, you're working on an album.
Speaker 1: How has this transition been? I mean, this time last year,
Speaker 1: I still have my snapchat memories come up. And this
Speaker 1: time last year I was on the bus to field
Speaker 1: hockey games. I didn't even do TikTok like at all.
Speaker 1: I didn't post a video I was on in I
Speaker 1: watched it. I was a fan, and it's insane, like
Speaker 1: I already was getting already gone to college. I was
Speaker 1: doing field hockey, doing school, and that was about it.
Speaker 1: I had no idea. I mean, obviously I had no idea,
Speaker 1: but how everything changed so quickly, it's just crazy. I
Speaker 1: think it's so cool that you're living out in l A.
Speaker 1: How do you like it? Oh? I like it. I
Speaker 1: feel like I just love the East Coast a lot.
Speaker 1: I hate how there's no rain here because I love
Speaker 1: like raining days. But it's really I love the rain.
Speaker 1: It gets I hate to say it, but it does
Speaker 1: get boring being perfect every day like the sun. Totally
Speaker 1: get that. I totally get that. I lived in New York,
Speaker 1: so I I know how you feel, so you're enjoying
Speaker 1: the perfect weather. Have you been recording music at your house?
Speaker 1: So over quarantine? I was him in Connecticut and my
Speaker 1: manager had a studio in his house, and it was
Speaker 1: crazy how we did it. But I don't think I
Speaker 1: ever was in the same room with him once because
Speaker 1: we were just like I didn't leave my house for
Speaker 1: two months, but I was terrified to even walk outside.
Speaker 1: So when he was like, we need to come record,
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, like I've never done this before.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do, but okay. So I
Speaker 1: would like go to his house and change all my clothes,
Speaker 1: like go into the room, and then record for like
Speaker 1: eight hours. And we did that a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and that's how I started on music. And then now
Speaker 1: it's we realized, like it's a lot safer than we thought.
Speaker 1: So I've just been recording a lot in um studios
Speaker 1: and how has it been. Did you Did you ever
Speaker 1: think that this is what you're going to pursue as
Speaker 1: a career this time last year? Absolutely not. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I I didn't muse it growing up, and I loved
Speaker 1: it and I sang and did like musical theater, but
Speaker 1: I never thought I was willing to do anything more
Speaker 1: with it. I was like, Okay, I did music for
Speaker 1: like I don't even know how long, a very long time,
Speaker 1: and then I moved on to sports and I was done.
Speaker 1: I was going to college, never looking back on that.
Speaker 1: And then once this all started and both of my
Speaker 1: managers were in the music business, they were like, just
Speaker 1: try it like you used to do it. I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I mean I'll try it, Like why not? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So now I'm very happy that. Um everyone convinced me.
Speaker 1: So you're working in an album right now? Um? Yes,
Speaker 1: new stuff coming very soon. Album. At some point I
Speaker 1: think I don't know like how it all works. I mean,
Speaker 1: people explain it to me and I'm like, okay. Well, also,
Speaker 1: like if you've never experienced that, you just kind of
Speaker 1: go like you gotta trust who's telling you what to do.
Speaker 1: My whole life is just going with the flow, which
Speaker 1: I love because I just think that's so much more fun.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and also it allows you to be able
Speaker 1: to have these like life changes that you wouldn't have
Speaker 1: normally had. Were you surprised by the response from be
Speaker 1: happy just with how many people related with it, not
Speaker 1: with how many people related to it. I just thought
Speaker 1: I was. I was terrified. I thought people are gonna
Speaker 1: like when I first posted the singing video of me
Speaker 1: singing it, I was like, if this does bad, I'm
Speaker 1: never releasing anything every again. I will never sing a
Speaker 1: single note. But when it got very good reaction, I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, I can do this, I just need
Speaker 1: to do it. Yeah, I think, especially if you haven't
Speaker 1: sang in a long time, that must be so nerve racking,
Speaker 1: just like releasing a song for like how many of
Speaker 1: these that like eighty eight million people now? Uh like
Speaker 1: on everything? I don't even know. But it was terrifying
Speaker 1: because I don't even sing in front of my family,
Speaker 1: Like I would sing in the car, but I wouldn't
Speaker 1: even sing in the shower because someone might hear me.
Speaker 1: And now I'm here, I'm like, okay, the Irons racle,
Speaker 1: the Ironies sterical. Next. So when people are your friends
Speaker 1: now ask you to sing, can you do it? Or
Speaker 1: is it just like no, no, I don't do it.
Speaker 1: Or if someone like I play songs like that, I'm
Speaker 1: doing for my really really close friends, like two of
Speaker 1: my friends, and that's about it. Everything else. If like
Speaker 1: I'm out and someone plays be Happy, I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, stuff, like my heart drops. I get so nervous.
Speaker 1: Even though everyone's already heard it, Like all my friends
Speaker 1: have already heard, I still hate like then hearing it
Speaker 1: with me there. Yeah, it's hard to hear the sound
Speaker 1: of your own voice. Yeah that too. Yeah, Like when
Speaker 1: I'm just like editing, like these podcasts. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't why am I doing this. I don't like the
Speaker 1: sound of my voice. I don't know how I'm doing
Speaker 1: this right now. I feel like there's so many parts
Speaker 1: to music and creating music that I don't even know yet,
Speaker 1: Like even touring. I've never toured before, and that's like
Speaker 1: a whole other, huge part of it. Are you excited
Speaker 1: to actually sing live in front of people or is
Speaker 1: that just nerve wracking. I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: get scared about that. I think I would have nerves,
Speaker 1: but it would be like exciting nerves sometimes, like the
Speaker 1: scariest things don't scare me, and the little things scare me,
Speaker 1: So I feel like I might be fine. I know
Speaker 1: exactly what you mean that. There are some singers that
Speaker 1: I've talked to and they can like do Madison Square
Speaker 1: Garden and it's no big deal, but then like singing
Speaker 1: in front of ten people they can't do. It's like
Speaker 1: that weird juxtaposition where it's like I don't even know
Speaker 1: what to do at this point. But be Happy is out?
Speaker 1: You just released like a remix of it. With the
Speaker 1: pandemic and the crazy year, we've been having. Has making
Speaker 1: music been your main creative outlet. It's definitely like recording
Speaker 1: and all that is probably one of my favorite things
Speaker 1: to do. Um, it's kind of took a while to
Speaker 1: find something that was interested in and not even since
Speaker 1: social media just like ever it's like I usually just
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, are we done, Like I'm bored of
Speaker 1: this whatever moving on. But with music, I just haven't
Speaker 1: felt that at all, which has been nice. Do you
Speaker 1: have any other outlets that you used to try and
Speaker 1: just like escape, get away, relax yourself or has that
Speaker 1: just been music even though it is work. I love
Speaker 1: doing YouTube. I just think it's so fun because people
Speaker 1: like my personality, which I was scared of because I
Speaker 1: was just kind of I'm not one of those super like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, here's what we're doing today's super fun.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not that type of person. So the fact
Speaker 1: that people kind of are okay with my mellow like
Speaker 1: monotone voice and some of my videos, they really like
Speaker 1: it and that's nice. So I don't have to put
Speaker 1: on an act like I feel sometimes you have to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like it's refreshing for people because,
Speaker 1: like you've said, a lot of YouTube. It's been like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: what's up today. It's like this totally like overhyped, not
Speaker 1: really yourself, but I think that, you know, like it
Speaker 1: shows your yourself. And also I think social media, it's
Speaker 1: social media is so crazy. What has it been like
Speaker 1: to gain such an intense audience and fan ends who
Speaker 1: are like, you know, they're streaming your song, they're buying
Speaker 1: your merch What has that been like to all of
Speaker 1: a sudden have like all of these people like know
Speaker 1: who you are. I don't even I really just I
Speaker 1: don't think. I think about it enough. And then sometimes
Speaker 1: when I'm doing I'm like why, I just say why
Speaker 1: what happened? I wasn't doing this year ago? What the
Speaker 1: heck happened? So that kind of hits me. But then
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's kind of not crazy. Like I talked
Speaker 1: to my fans like on Twitter a lot, and I'm
Speaker 1: just in group chats with them, like telling them stuff,
Speaker 1: and I'm like kind of forget that they are there
Speaker 1: for me, and I'm like, oh my god, I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm friends with them, which is nice. So it's
Speaker 1: just kind of like I have a lot of friends. No,
Speaker 1: I mean that's it. Is it ever weird when you're
Speaker 1: out and people know who you are versus that didn't
Speaker 1: happen a year ago if they didn't know you. It's
Speaker 1: very weird. It's weird when I'm like when I see
Speaker 1: people trying to sneak pictures of me, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I really like, I try to remember. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: really hope I never did that if I saw a celebrity,
Speaker 1: because it's so obvious because I've met like celebrities before,
Speaker 1: like concerts or whatever, and I'm like, did I do that?
Speaker 1: I try to think back on it because I'm not slick,
Speaker 1: and it's definitely obvious. Pretend you're texting look, and it's
Speaker 1: just exactly I definitely have done that before, or even
Speaker 1: to like a guy, like if I thought he was attractive,
Speaker 1: I probably took a picture and he definitely probably knew
Speaker 1: intending to take a selfie. But you're really just like
Speaker 1: angling it the wrong way. Yeah. I think I think
Speaker 1: everyone's done that to some extent, if it's with someone
Speaker 1: in the public eye. We have to take a quick break,
Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll talk about your new
Speaker 1: podcast with Charlie and I want to talk to you
Speaker 1: about having a healthy relationship with social media, if that's
Speaker 1: even possible. And we're back, so I'm still trying to
Speaker 1: find a balance with social media and to have a
Speaker 1: healthy relationship with it, um, because as great as it is,
Speaker 1: it can be toxic sometimes. So what tips do you
Speaker 1: have to kind of not let the hate get to you,
Speaker 1: but also to just like stay present even though your
Speaker 1: job is so focused on being on the internet. Um,
Speaker 1: I do a really good job at not reading the
Speaker 1: comments anymore, Like it was hard in the beginning because
Speaker 1: it's like, what are people saying about me? And sometimes
Speaker 1: I still do it and I'm always like, sadly, I
Speaker 1: wish I could stop this habit, but like looking at
Speaker 1: tea pages looking at what people are saying, but like
Speaker 1: on my personal post, if I know it's not going
Speaker 1: to be good the comment section, I just I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's if I see one thing I would close in,
Speaker 1: it's like not worth reading the rest because I'm going
Speaker 1: to get stuck in a loop of reading every comment
Speaker 1: and it's not worth it because they don't know who
Speaker 1: you are personally, so how can they have an opinion
Speaker 1: on you? And that's also being going from a person
Speaker 1: who was a fan and who was on TikTok and
Speaker 1: had my opinions about people, and then meeting these people
Speaker 1: and like, Okay, what was wrong with me? That's so rude?
Speaker 1: Why would I do that? Because I don't know who
Speaker 1: they are. I don't know their personality. Because sometimes people
Speaker 1: have an audience so they act a certain way on
Speaker 1: the internet that's not really them. I can't even imagine
Speaker 1: what it's like to just I've been trying to be
Speaker 1: more cautious of this as well, because sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: if you're in a friend group and they they aren't aware,
Speaker 1: they'll say these things like do you hear about selling
Speaker 1: so I saw this video and so and so, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, um, like do you know them? Like
Speaker 1: is that? Did they really say that? It's it's like
Speaker 1: trying to find that balance. Has it been hard people
Speaker 1: knowing so much and trying to know so much about
Speaker 1: your personal life? Um? Yes and no, just because like
Speaker 1: I know that comes with it and people are interested,
Speaker 1: but it's annoying when yes, you can know, but it's
Speaker 1: not really your place to have an opinion on it.
Speaker 1: And a lot of the internet is just very bandwagon,
Speaker 1: I would say, so if one person says something, everyone
Speaker 1: else says it and that's when it just gets a
Speaker 1: lot and it's like, but have they met you in person?
Speaker 1: And it's so hard to not try to explain yourself
Speaker 1: on every single thing. Even if you do explain yourself,
Speaker 1: it's like people are never going to Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: please everyone, and that's what I think. It's been the
Speaker 1: biggest lesson out of all of this. I've been trying
Speaker 1: to figure that out as well, and it's it's hard
Speaker 1: because like I want people to, you know, like like me,
Speaker 1: and like I don't want you to think this about me.
Speaker 1: But it's like, at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: can't control what you think of me. If you know
Speaker 1: who you are, that's all that matters. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: you want people to have a good like the idea
Speaker 1: of you, and when they think of you, you want
Speaker 1: them it to be a good thought. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, it's like if you can't, some people just
Speaker 1: don't like you. Yeah, Like there's people who are who
Speaker 1: have said things like when Charlie had the hype and
Speaker 1: now this year when everyone is kind of like, oh Charlie,
Speaker 1: like we love her, blah blah, blah and I they
Speaker 1: like used to hate on her. They're like, I just
Speaker 1: didn't like her because other everyone else inould like her
Speaker 1: and because I was jealous, and that kind of coming
Speaker 1: back around it makes me happy. It obviously like back
Speaker 1: then it sucks seeing all the hate she's getting, but
Speaker 1: now it's like, Okay, well everything changes. I feel like
Speaker 1: a lot of people everyone has gone through that time
Speaker 1: where everyone hates them and then the next day everyone
Speaker 1: loves them and you just kind of have to wait.
Speaker 1: You just kind of have to go with it. But
Speaker 1: it's also hard because you know the people that aren't
Speaker 1: talking all this stuff about people, it's like they if
Speaker 1: they would be in those shoes, like if they could.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's that jealousy that I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people have to remember. And it's not even just
Speaker 1: like on social media. It's if people have something that
Speaker 1: you want. It's a hard balance. I think it was
Speaker 1: like almost a year and a half ago, but I
Speaker 1: shut my phone off for two weeks because my xaety
Speaker 1: was just so bad. I had so much extra time.
Speaker 1: I learned how to play the ukulele. The time I
Speaker 1: had on my hands was shocking. Do you ever just
Speaker 1: out off your phone. I try, I really try to,
Speaker 1: but then like I would shut off my phone and
Speaker 1: then I'm like, oh my gosh, I have so many
Speaker 1: um like notifications or my home screens a mess, and
Speaker 1: so would have an excuse to get back on my
Speaker 1: phone and like be saying I was helping myself, and
Speaker 1: then I end up like on TikTok or Instagram. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I have a lot of time. I have,
Speaker 1: like the time where I'm working where I'm not on
Speaker 1: my phone, and then I've time with my friends who
Speaker 1: were like they won't let any of us be on
Speaker 1: our phone. When we're hanging out, we're not on our phone.
Speaker 1: So that time where I am chilling, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: well let me just see what's going on. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: am still a teenager, and every teenager is like obsessed
Speaker 1: with their phone, so exactly. And also like TikTok is
Speaker 1: like a hole that when you go on for one minute,
Speaker 1: you're going for two hours. Yeah, you can't get out
Speaker 1: of it. What do you think of the do update
Speaker 1: on the iOS fourteen? I don't know. I wanted to
Speaker 1: do all the cool things that I was doing to
Speaker 1: their phone. I never figured it out, so I was like, okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: it looks so complicated, but it looks so cool. When
Speaker 1: people were like posting there, I don't know. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to figure out if I like it or not. I tried,
Speaker 1: I asked. I was like asking my fans to explain
Speaker 1: it to me because they all had such cool ones.
Speaker 1: And then no one did it enough where I could
Speaker 1: figure it out. So I was like, okay, whatever, I
Speaker 1: just want. There's nothing more satisfying than seeing like an organized,
Speaker 1: like home screen. In my opinion, she was like aesthetically beautiful. No, no,
Speaker 1: what's it been like working and doing music during the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I say this all the time because people ask me
Speaker 1: like how is everything, Like how is your life change?
Speaker 1: And like everyone's life changed. I don't. I mean it's good,
Speaker 1: but I don't know what it could be. And I
Speaker 1: think that's what's the exciting part, because once all this
Speaker 1: kind of calms down, I think my life is going
Speaker 1: to be insane. Yeah, but traveling and like meeting people,
Speaker 1: Like all I want to do is like meet my fans.
Speaker 1: And I was talking to my friends last night and
Speaker 1: they're like, we've never even got a chance. Because everyone
Speaker 1: was planning tours and then two days later the whole
Speaker 1: country shutdown, like the whole world shutdown. So I just
Speaker 1: can't wait to get back into that. Okay, the first
Speaker 1: thing that you do, the pandemic ends. First thing you
Speaker 1: could do anything. I want to go to Italy with
Speaker 1: my family in Italy anywhere, uh not Rome? I agree.
Speaker 1: I think Rome is the equivalent of like Times Square. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: yes it is. I went there and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is so overrated. It is the most touristy place.
Speaker 1: I was like, why is this thing? No? I went
Speaker 1: to Rome like on a school trip, but I want
Speaker 1: to go with my family. But I went and I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, this is like Times Square exactly. It's
Speaker 1: just I love Um. I loved it. It was fun,
Speaker 1: but I just I don't think it was like fun
Speaker 1: to go again because I want to go, like to
Speaker 1: Milan or Um I went to. When I went, I
Speaker 1: went to Rome, Sorrento and Cook. Have you go to Florence? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I heard that was really good. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go to Naples. I think Naples is nice. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: my dad is like almost he's like really Italian and
Speaker 1: he's never been. But me and my mom and my
Speaker 1: sister will have so I want to go together as
Speaker 1: a family. You got it. My brother was doing a
Speaker 1: semester abroad in Italy right when the pandemic happened, so
Speaker 1: he had to like fly home. Luckily his area wasn't infected,
Speaker 1: but it was like the craziest thing just to see
Speaker 1: how much the world changed with all of that. A
Speaker 1: lot of the people that have watched his podcast, I've
Speaker 1: been getting dams from and they've talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: because life is now on social media, especially with the pandemic.
Speaker 1: It is, you know, cyber bowling has been a thing,
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's increasing a lot with cancel culture.
Speaker 1: What advice do you have for those people who are
Speaker 1: struggling with it and are letting it affect them and
Speaker 1: those people and what advice do you have to people
Speaker 1: who are saying those things behind the screens? I think,
Speaker 1: just like again, same thing. You know who you are
Speaker 1: as a person, I don't. I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: know everyone switches up constantly, so there will be one
Speaker 1: days where you're hated, one days when you're loved. Just
Speaker 1: I try to reach out to anyone who's getting a
Speaker 1: lot of hate or just not doing well, and you
Speaker 1: can tell on the internet because you need to sometimes.
Speaker 1: So I just try to do my best to support people.
Speaker 1: But it's hard and it's hard to find real people
Speaker 1: out here, especially I feel like when when I go
Speaker 1: to l A, it's hard to find those people who
Speaker 1: are you know, are real and not. It's not just
Speaker 1: trying to be friends because you have followers. You're like
Speaker 1: for the Cloud, especially out in l A, a lot
Speaker 1: of its business motivated. I mean, I feel like that
Speaker 1: does happen, But for me, I kind of have a
Speaker 1: different case because no one really comes up and it's like,
Speaker 1: let's make a TikTok because I don't know any of
Speaker 1: the dances. I just like kind of post what I want.
Speaker 1: So I'm friends with everyone, and I think people just
Speaker 1: know that I don't use anyone. I rarely post with
Speaker 1: other people and I I just kind of do my
Speaker 1: own thing. So but I do see it for other people,
Speaker 1: like if Charlie or Addison walked into the room, everyone
Speaker 1: kind of is like, how's your phones out? Like what's
Speaker 1: going on? I'm like, okay, I mean I think that's
Speaker 1: good because, like, you know, you're not a dancer. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a terrible danswer. You're trying to learn to TikTok
Speaker 1: dance for me is impossible too. I can't do it.
Speaker 1: I can't do it for the life of me. We
Speaker 1: have to take one more quick break, but when we
Speaker 1: come back, we'll talk about your new podcast with Charlie
Speaker 1: College and a very cool charity that you're involved with.
Speaker 1: And we're back. So you and Charlie have started this podcast.
Speaker 1: I have so many questions. First of all, how's it going.
Speaker 1: We do argue a lot, so we're trying to get
Speaker 1: past like the we need to do all, we need
Speaker 1: to do this, but like we need to focus and
Speaker 1: get this done. Even though I just piss you off
Speaker 1: or your CROs We're gonna wipe the tears and do it.
Speaker 1: And it's not even like, oh, we're like, we have
Speaker 1: a lot of things that we love talking about. We're
Speaker 1: fun talking about. Like even just yesterday, she said something
Speaker 1: and she went back and forth with me for like
Speaker 1: two minutes. I was like so mad. I was like,
Speaker 1: you need to apologize to me, and she was like,
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything, and then we went back and
Speaker 1: forth and then we finished the podcast and we're fine.
Speaker 1: But it's like doing it with a sister is so hard.
Speaker 1: I can only imagine. I had my brother on for
Speaker 1: one of the episodes because he's like a basketball geek,
Speaker 1: and we had Kevin Lum and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is great because it will earn me some like
Speaker 1: sister points, like getting him to talk to Kevin love.
Speaker 1: And also we probably won't fight, and luckily we didn't
Speaker 1: because I feel like we have a little bit of
Speaker 1: a different dynamic because he is older. But it's trying
Speaker 1: to find that balance, like working with your family and
Speaker 1: something can be hard. Sometimes it's like nice when it
Speaker 1: goes when we're together and it's um, like we're having fun,
Speaker 1: but if if either one of us is in the
Speaker 1: slightest mood, it's like oh god. But then we get
Speaker 1: home and we're fine. It's like, why don't we just
Speaker 1: argue it's just sisters, but like exactly, that's like sibling stuff.
Speaker 1: But I feel like that's what people like to because
Speaker 1: it's like it's not We had like a small back
Speaker 1: and forth or in our last podcast and I was
Speaker 1: trying to explain something to her and she was not
Speaker 1: getting it, and people were posting in like this is
Speaker 1: so funny and like no, I was actually so mad
Speaker 1: because she wasn't understanding what I was saying. But like
Speaker 1: like that's why I think, but that's that's sisters, and
Speaker 1: I think that's what's great is like you guys, don't
Speaker 1: hide it because I feel like a lot of people
Speaker 1: act like they're great, but it's like they're sibling rivalry.
Speaker 1: Always if you have a saying you have a sibling,
Speaker 1: you know? Yes? So how long have you been doing
Speaker 1: the podcast so far? Um? I think we've been doing
Speaker 1: it two months? Maybe do you have a favorite conversation
Speaker 1: you've had with her that's stuck out or that has
Speaker 1: had a lot of interesting response? Not really, I mean
Speaker 1: there's some, but like stuff that isn't out yet just
Speaker 1: because we kind of we we did like a few
Speaker 1: week because of just trying to figure out what we
Speaker 1: would do, what we talk about, and now we kind
Speaker 1: of have the hang of it, so they're gonna just
Speaker 1: get better and better. Like the first one I listened
Speaker 1: to it was like, oh my god, what are we saying?
Speaker 1: But now I'm I'm excited now that we get to
Speaker 1: talk about Now that we know we're going to talk about,
Speaker 1: what are you going to talk about can we say anything,
Speaker 1: UM just kind of like kind of responding to hate
Speaker 1: on there, but all like using it as a way
Speaker 1: to talk about things. If we're getting um a lot
Speaker 1: of comments about it, we'll talk about it on there
Speaker 1: and address it there so people couldn't hear our voices
Speaker 1: and it's not just like a comment on a post.
Speaker 1: And then also like interacting with our fans UM and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, just try to make it more interactive,
Speaker 1: which is exciting. Yeah. I think that's super exciting. Especially
Speaker 1: it's the way where you can control your own narrative
Speaker 1: of what you want to say and if there's any
Speaker 1: miscommunication or any people's opinions. I think that's really cool
Speaker 1: that you're doing that. Yeah, definitely. So Okay, I have
Speaker 1: to ask. I know you've been doing, You've been doing
Speaker 1: on YouTube videos, you have the podcast, now, you've been
Speaker 1: doing music, which has been awesome. Is there anything else
Speaker 1: that you're working on that you're super excited about for
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like I feel like everything just comes
Speaker 1: so fast I forget what I'm doing. I think that's
Speaker 1: it for right now. Probably March or something. We'll get
Speaker 1: in there somewhere before Christmas. What do you ever want
Speaker 1: like your own clothing line. Yes, definitely, that's kind of
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do anyways, Like without social media,
Speaker 1: I was my dad was in the clothing business, so
Speaker 1: I love that. So hopefully at some point, once I
Speaker 1: get more settled down and not like moving um around
Speaker 1: all the time, I definitely want to work on that.
Speaker 1: Is that where you're what you're going to go to
Speaker 1: school for. I was going to school for business and management,
Speaker 1: and that was kind of my hope at some point
Speaker 1: to be in the clothing business. That is so different
Speaker 1: from what you are doing now completely. Would you ever
Speaker 1: go back to that? Um? If we want to try
Speaker 1: college at some point, I say, like everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: she didn't go to college, but it's always going to
Speaker 1: be there though, Yeah, I mean this was It's like
Speaker 1: college is a once in a lifetime experience. I'm like,
Speaker 1: so is this I don't know, I just feeling exactly.
Speaker 1: I feel like college is always there. It's always there,
Speaker 1: but like the opportunities you're having, they can go away.
Speaker 1: M and I would love to go to college, like
Speaker 1: I was so ready to go. The only reason why
Speaker 1: I didn't end up going is because it was going
Speaker 1: to be a lot of traveling, which I didn't think
Speaker 1: was a good idea for like my family or the
Speaker 1: people I'd be around. So it was like, take a
Speaker 1: gap year, see what happens. I'm considering taking a gap year.
Speaker 1: Do you have any tips or advice on the college
Speaker 1: process and your thoughts on gap years? Because I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people listening our seniors right now. For me,
Speaker 1: I'm more of a visual learner, so same doing and
Speaker 1: experiencing things helped me so much more than anything else,
Speaker 1: like being in class or reading books online. I was
Speaker 1: or reading books. I was like, I just feel like
Speaker 1: I could be doing something more that I'm more interested in.
Speaker 1: I know I'm not going to be doing anything with this,
Speaker 1: So I stayed back sophomore year because I switched schools,
Speaker 1: so I had an extra year all of senior year
Speaker 1: to take all elective classes, which was very nice because
Speaker 1: I kind of got to found what I was interested
Speaker 1: in and I really loved like engineering and um what
Speaker 1: other classes I take? I took poetry, which I found
Speaker 1: interesting and and having that experience was awesome. So if
Speaker 1: you're going to take a gap year, maybe like go
Speaker 1: to a community college and like take elective classes or something,
Speaker 1: just so you can try to find what you're interested in.
Speaker 1: That that's what I'm thinking about doing. I think it
Speaker 1: just depends on what happens with the world. And I
Speaker 1: kind of also want to see what happens because, like
Speaker 1: I am about saying, like school and all of this,
Speaker 1: it's during a pandemic, so I kind of want to
Speaker 1: see what could happen if I just like work for
Speaker 1: a year, you see, like what can happen. And also
Speaker 1: about call, I feel like there's such a idea college
Speaker 1: you need to go to the best school, like community
Speaker 1: college is like you can't go to community college. There
Speaker 1: was no problem if you like work and whatever you're doing,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how you get there. There's people who
Speaker 1: one goes to community college, one goes to an IVY league,
Speaker 1: and they both end up with the same job. It's
Speaker 1: like it's how much work you put into it. And
Speaker 1: I feel like it's just given such a bad rap,
Speaker 1: like you have to go to this school to be
Speaker 1: this person, and that's not true. You have to get
Speaker 1: straight a's, And it's like I try to remember like grades,
Speaker 1: like do your best, but that's all you can do
Speaker 1: at the end. Of the day. It took me three
Speaker 1: years to finally get like good grades and figure out
Speaker 1: how I learned, and some people just it takes a
Speaker 1: long time to figure out how they learn. So it's
Speaker 1: just kind of you need to put the work in.
Speaker 1: There's nothing you can do with like not putting the
Speaker 1: work in. But once you figure it out, it makes
Speaker 1: life a lot easier. Yeah, I couldn't agree more and like,
Speaker 1: there's nothing there's no better way to learn than just
Speaker 1: by doing. That's what I like to think. So for
Speaker 1: this season, what I wanted to do, Like many others,
Speaker 1: I've been feeling very helpless UM with the state of
Speaker 1: the world that we're in, and I want to focus
Speaker 1: on highlights some charities that I think are really great.
Speaker 1: Are there any charities that you've been working with or
Speaker 1: that you're aware of that you just want to spread
Speaker 1: the word about. Um. Actually, I'm working with a charity
Speaker 1: UM with best Friends the Dog fostering an adoption. So
Speaker 1: I'm fostering a dog for two days and just trying
Speaker 1: to raise awareness for it. So, oh my goodness, that's
Speaker 1: I want to foster a dog. I'm fostering it, but
Speaker 1: I'm really considering keeping it honestly, it's it's like it's
Speaker 1: like a trial kind of yeah, and my puppies bored
Speaker 1: by herself. I think she needs a friend, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to convince my family of that for
Speaker 1: such a long time, like our dog needs a friend.
Speaker 1: Thank you Dixie for coming on my podcast. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. It is so fun. Thank you guys so
Speaker 1: much for listening to this week's episode. As always, subscribe,
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