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I think that music is, at least for me and most
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people I know, it's the greatest medicine.
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Welcome to the one you feed throughout
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time. Great thinkers have recognized the
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importance of the thoughts we have, quotes
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like garbage in, garbage out,
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or you are what you think ring
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true. And yet for many of
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us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower
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us. We tend toward negativity,
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self pity, jealousy, or
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fear. We see what we don't have
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instead of what we do. We think
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things that hold us back and dampen our
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spirit. But it's not just about
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thinking. Our actions matter. It
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takes conscious, consistent, and creative
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effort to make a life worth living. This
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podcast is about how other people keep themselves
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moving in the right direction, how they
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feed their good wolf Yea,
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thanks for joining us. Our guest this
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episode is Langhorne Slim, a celebrated
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singer songwriter described by The New Yorker as
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having lead Belly's gift for storytelling
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and Dylan's ability to captivate crowds.
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We caught up with Langhorne in between gigs
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to talk music, sobriety, and life.
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You can learn more about Langhorne Slim
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and this podcast at one you Feed
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dot net slash Langhorn, Hi,
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Langhorn, Welcome to the show. We're glad you could
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be here, glad to be
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here. Hello, Hello, Um.
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I first saw you, I think in Nashville
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one evening. I was traveling on business and on
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a on a lark, I went out to a club to
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see you play. It's been it's probably been five
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years at least, and and I was, I
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was totally blown away. And I've seen you a couple of times
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in Columbus since. So uh, great
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live show. And I've I've always
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enjoyed, enjoyed your music. Thank
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you very much. I appreciate it. Our
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podcast is called The One You
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Feed, and it's based on the old parable
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where there's a grandfather who's talking with his grandson
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and he says, in life, there are
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two wolves inside of us who are always at
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war with each other. One is a good wolf
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represents kindness and love and joy,
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and the other is a bad wolf and represents
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greed and fear or hate or pick
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pick your poison. And the grandson
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stops and he thinks and he says, well, grandfather,
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which one wins? And the grandfather says the
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one you feed. So yeah,
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the way I like to start the interview off is
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just to ask you kind of what
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does that parable mean to you in both
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or either your life or your work. Yeah.
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In my case, there were two old men, and they were
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old Jewish men that lived in
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Philadelphia that told me that, and in
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their own way, those were my grandfathers.
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Um. But I love that. That's
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that's what you sent me, um when
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when you when you got in touch with the message. And I
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read that and thought, how how
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cool it was. Off. Guys like me are
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fortunate to have people you want to talk to them about
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their music or what they do. Um,
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it's not it's usually driven with
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kind of less interesting,
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um soulful topics
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and dynamics. So so I really do
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like that and appreciate the
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the chat. What does it mean for me?
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Probably what it means for us all. I mean absolutely
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there's two. I guess there's the
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the dark demon of
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like you said, of fear and greed
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and
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and all that, and then you
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know the the light
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and the
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the true soul and all
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that, and so it's just kind of figuring
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out as as we go through life,
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what at least for me, what feeds
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my soul, what feeds the When
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I say light, I don't mean as far as weight,
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because I do like
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heavy things, heavy heavy and
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soulful things. But
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you know what feeds the
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the love and the light, and what
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what kind of detracts from from
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the shittier the shittier things.
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For me, it's music, it's friends,
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it's creating, it's traveling,
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it's keeping very very very busy or
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else I get. Um.
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I think I'm always a strange one, but I get strange
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in in not fun ways.
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So it's a daily
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it's a daily weird ass
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adventure. Um that sometimes
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feels and sometimes it's like
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you're walking you can feel your footsteps and they
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feel heavy. And then other days you just walk in and
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singing a little tune in your head and
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and the stunder shining everything kind of feels
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it feels cool. Um.
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And then there's a lot of shoot in between. So it's just
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kind of the venture in the
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these paths that we choose in
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all of that, Yeah,
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exactly, And I like how you talked about
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the things that that feed you feed
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you, and music is definitely one for
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both Chris and I, which is why we try
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and get musicians on here as often as we can,
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because it's a it's a big part of
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of what feeds our good wolf. Um. You
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brought up the you brought up your grandfather's
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and that was actually a question I was going to go to
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at some point. So you've got a song on
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your most recent record called Song
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for Sid, which I think is about one of
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your grandfathers. Do you want to you want
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to talk a little bit about that song. I
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love that all man a
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praise. Here's where he belongs,
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hanging where the prey wants
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go, where let go.
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I can tell you a bit about that song. Uh, I
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just can tell you a bit about my grandfather's. They
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were huge, huge figures
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in my brother and I was life. Um.
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But yeah, my grandfather's, my
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grandparents in general, had a huge part in raising
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my brother and I and uh kind
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of forming us into
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the into the men that we are. Um.
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Both of them passed in the last five years.
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Um. Both of them I had
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spent significant time with at
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the end of their their lives,
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their physical lives here and
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and was very I consider those to
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be some of the greatest gifts that I've been given.
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Was to have them both um
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in my life, and to have been fortunate
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enough through what I do to to be
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able to be close to them at at
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their end, and to have heard
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out of their mouths that they were ready to move on, that
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they enjoyed their lives, that they loved their
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families. Uh, and and parted
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some wisdom to me and said, you please,
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don't don't spend a whole lot of time being
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too sad about this, because uh,
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it is time to get the f out of here. And
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and it's been real and I love you very much and
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uh and all that so for
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me in my thirty three years, that those were two, you
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know, to the most important guys
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to me and and incredibly
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significat. Yeah,
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yeah, that's a. That's the
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song is a it's a touching song. And there's
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there's one other song where you, um,
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you reference your grandfather and you say, and
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it's a line that I really like and I think about
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a lot, which is that, um my
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grandfather once told me that all pain
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hurts the same. And the idea is basically,
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even though other people may have less than
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us, or we can think about this person
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has no access to clean water, or this person
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was, you know, abused by their parents,
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but realizing that hurt is hurt, um,
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and we have to find ways to deal
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with that in ourselves. I really like that part of that
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song. Well, thank you, that's
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exactly that was exactly the conversation.
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And that's what that's what he told me about. It
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retives relative to you and relative to
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me and relative to what I was doing with
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it. So what are the other things that
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I noticed recently? Uh?
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That has that has come up in your life? Is you've
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recently, um, become sober.
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Can you share a little bit about I
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guess what brought you to that point and how
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that experience has been for you so far. Yeah,
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it's it's a new experience. Um.
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It was a long time coming. But I've
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been for about five months. And
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when friends of people ask me what why and
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what brought me to it? I think what brings a
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lot of those of us that I s over it
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to it, which is a lot of whatever
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the vice that we liked, um, And
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for me it was I drank. I drank
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as much as I could. I tried to drink at all. I
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left some for those that are still drinking um
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and uh, and really through since
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I guess I'm about fifteen, kind
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of tried everything, um,
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thirty three now, and
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it became it
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became more of a weight, more of a burden,
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and something that was just more in my way. Then
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then I want something. And somebody told me a long
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time ago. And I didn't take this as a religious
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vibe really when she said it, but she I
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was talking to her about it. Um,
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I'm a man full of love and full of passion
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and that that well within
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myself as deep. And I was talking to her about kind of where
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I wanted to go in relationships and in music
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and a career, and she said, well, you
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can't serve two guys, she said. And
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again I didn't take that as a religious thing. I took it as
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if I want to love this
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human being in my life, you know,
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hypothetical human beings a single
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man right now, but um,
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you know, and and put energy and love into
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this human being. How can you do that if
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you're spending Let everybody spend
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so much time and energy drinking
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or doing drugs, but some of us do, and some of
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us did, so how can
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you put put all of yourself or the best
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of yourself into that in the same of music
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and art UM and I got to
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a point even though I knew when I was fifteen and I started
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drinking, I said to my high school sweetheart, I just saw
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yesterday it was a birthday, I said, Eventually
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I just started drinking, and I said, eventually, I will
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have to stop this to get to where I need to go UM.
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And it was on my thirty first birthdays and was
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a long time coming, but I said to myself,
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today is Today is the day. And
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I haven't looked back since and should have been
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wild. I think when you are, when
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you are invested in UM,
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being high and drunk, it's
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all that and medicated for
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for a large part of your life. When you when
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you transfer into silber
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state. I've heard a lot of silver people say
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this and I kind of nothing of
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it, or maybe even rolled my eyes at it. But it's its
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own and oxicating feeling
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in and of itself, and it's its own trip in
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and of itself. And I
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I'm doing that dance right now and it's uh,
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it's been really cool. Congratulations
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on on on five months. I've
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I've walked that road myself,
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and you're right in the beginning. There's something
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very h I just remember
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sort of being blown away again and again
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with these insights like whoa, whoa,
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I you know, and and uh and
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and I agree that it is a certain point. I think most
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people who end up giving it up it is
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because they finally realize
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that that's the that is
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the god they're serving, you know, they're serving
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the god of their alcoholism
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or drug addiction, and that that is the most important
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thing. And that's I don't think anybody
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intends for it to be that way, but that's the way it ends
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up. And you want to talk about feeding the bad wolf.
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I mean, that's the big bad wolf,
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right, you know. And again
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it's not When I talked about this, which I'm
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happy to and I'm open about it, I don't
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mean it for any I don't know what everybody else's path
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is and and and people's experience
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with it. So I talked very much on a personal level,
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but I know that, I
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mean, why why I love music and why
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I do what I do in such
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a passionate way is to is
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to get to my to my center, to
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my truth and to and to be
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real and raw. And
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for me that
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became really clear that I wasn't being real and
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raw by
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kind of um medicating
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my fears and my my discomfort
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and my anxieties, and to to have a
12:41
breakthrough in my relationships in
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this life. Uh. In one of
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those relationships being the
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music is obviously very important
12:50
to me. I felt like in order to have a true breakthrough
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with that, and then a true breakthrough romantically
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the next time that comes into my life, um,
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break through the ceiling that I've breached
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a certain level, but daddy,
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nothing to break through it. This
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was something that I needed to, um to have
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in my life and to see what it was all
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about. Um.
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You know, look looking looking through
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these these weird sober brown
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eyes as opposed to these weird uh
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fucked up brown eyes. So yeah,
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the uh the first time that
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that you uh that people
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in general, myself, I guess I should say, experience
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something sober, whether it be getting up on
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a stage and playing music for the first time
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sober, or dancing somewhere the first
13:35
time sober, or you know, intimate
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relationships. It's like whoa I have. There
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has been sort of a nice protective
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barrier around me all this time,
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and now I've I've sort of taken that off and
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and The thing about your show I mentioned earlier
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when I saw you in Nashville was I
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was, I was sober at that at that point I
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went there and UH in your music did
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have that sort of transformative effect
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of sort of free you know, giving that
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that that freeing from the day to day
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UH cares and moments that alcohol sometimes
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gives, UM, but it's wonderful
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when you get it other ways. And so
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I was, I was, really, I really enjoyed that.
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I really appreciate that. Thank you. So
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how is it five months? Are you finding
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it to be a challenge? Are
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you are you wrestling with uh, with
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with staying sober or right now? Is it? Is it pretty
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pretty easy for you? The
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benefits and the beauty that
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has been the last five months far outweighs the
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difficulty of it. I find um
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like to be beautiful and wonderful,
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but also difficult and a challenge. Uh.
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I think that that's going to be the case
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whether I'm drinking or doing drugs
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or sober. Um.
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I'm not struggling with the I'm very stubborn
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and set in my ways, and as weak as I can be, I can
14:55
be that strong. So it's like if
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I kind of if
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I if I say to myself, this is what I'm doing. And then
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I started talking to uh, people
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that I that I don't know on recording
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devices like you, and say, because it means
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I'm really ready. I'm ready for it. Man.
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Then I'm embracing it. And just
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like I was when I was you know, when I was drinking,
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I drank, I drank a lot and
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uh, and now I don't and I'm and I'm into that.
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So I'm definitely an
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animal of extremes um and I
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don't know if that's going to change much. But
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but no, I mean, you
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know, I think that the worst thing that has
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happened was I went to a party
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that they that they have in Nashville, really fun
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party. It was a bunch of my friends
15:44
and people dance and drink and
15:46
have have a great time. And it was and this
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was some months ago, and I went in and I found
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that it was it was, in fact, a bit
15:52
more difficult for me to dance
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and like get into it. And I laughed
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and I was like, man, that really sucks. And
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I thought to mess up, Well, if that is the that's
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the worst thing. And I had a recording session the next
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day and this morning, I look at that's the worst thing that's
16:06
going to happen that I'm gonna feel a little
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bit more uncomfortable in this kind of you
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know, crowded bad dance party situation.
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So I'll be able to get up tomorrow morning and sing my ass
16:15
off at this thing. Then it's then it's a prefair trade
16:17
off. Um,
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and it gets easier to dance. You know. It's just
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it's like it
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ain't it ain't these things booze or drugs or
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whatever that that a lot and dance looks. Use
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that as a as a metaphor. I don't just mean, you know, shaking
16:30
your ass on the dance floor. Um,
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if you're if you're able to do it with it, you have it.
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It's within you. So I
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don't know, man, It's it's a complicated subject
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because you know, taking certain things throughout
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my life did inspire me creatively
16:46
at times, did did further the process.
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And since I've been sober, that has um
16:52
said my creativity. So it's I
16:54
don't regret things that I've
16:56
done necessarily. Well, I do have
16:58
some regrets to cancer that's on
17:00
the pynolysis, But I think it's just the past,
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um, and there
17:05
was there was good things that happened in those years
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and shitty things. Um.
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And within the five months,
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it's definitely it's where I need to be and
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it feels right and that dance I'm
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in rhythm with with my own steps with that,
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So that's that's cool by me, um.
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And I'll keep going. I'll keep
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going in that direction, um.
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You know. And see, like I said, I told myself
17:28
when I was a kid that that eventually this
17:30
day would come and that would further
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than me with with my with my things, that I'm truly
17:35
in love within life, which is this
17:37
music and performing. And
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you know, I still got the dream. The dream is still
17:43
a lot that I will find a wonderful uh
17:46
you know, relationship and still
17:49
with that. So I'll
17:51
put I'll put this new self up
17:53
against those things and see see how
17:55
it works. And that that that takes time, that
17:57
doesn't happen overnight necessarily up
18:00
and it's you know, I think what you said about I
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think all of us the that
18:05
the alcohol or the past. I mean, there was magic
18:07
in it for a long time and that's why we why
18:10
we did it. It's just at a certain point that magic
18:12
runs out and and theed and
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you know, I think I always say that nobody's gonna
18:17
nobody's gonna get into recovery until
18:19
the pain of it is worse than the pleasure of it. And it takes
18:21
a water get there. And if we're talking about the two
18:23
wolves, you know, feeing the two wolves,
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You're right, nobody starts to do
18:27
these things in a such an intense and addictive
18:30
way. It feels like you're like you're
18:32
feeding the light. And it can
18:35
if you're a poet or or
18:37
a painter, or a musician or whatever you are, or
18:39
just trying to be comfortable socially, it
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feeds that fun like you
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know, like I could talk a little bit easier,
18:47
I feel like I look better or whatever.
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It is, like it makes you feel better. And like you
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said, eventually you realize
18:53
that it it um you'd be better
18:55
off without it. And it's likes to feed the dark, the dark side.
18:57
So that was true for me,
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man, That's that's what got me to to
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one and out of it. Yeah, I agree
19:04
with you your your insight that all
19:06
that stuff is sort of inside us anyway,
19:08
and it's a matter of how do we get it out? And
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and I think alcohol
19:13
and drugs can sometimes be a shortcut to
19:16
getting that stuff out, but it's you
19:18
hit a point where it doesn't doesn't work anymore,
19:21
and then it's just a it's another level of
19:23
discovery of how do I, how
19:25
do I excavate these things that are inside of
19:27
me that I want to get out into the world and I don't. If
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you don't have that shortcut, that's
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right. And if you get into that and embrace
19:34
that, and I'm just you know, it's
19:36
beginning my journey with that. That's a beautiful
19:38
thing because that's a longer journey
19:41
for your own personal truths and your
19:43
own you
19:45
know that it's a it's a deep, deep
19:48
well of that that we all have
19:50
within us, and the shortcuts
19:52
could get there. You're right to those songs or
19:54
those poems or this or that, But
19:57
yeah, I'm more into the long game in
20:00
the short game at the moment. So yeah,
20:03
well, congratulations, good good luck to
20:05
you with that. It's uh, you're certainly
20:07
you're in a you're in a profession that is
20:10
that is certainly challenging in
20:12
that regard to be to be kind
20:14
of around it all the time. But but
20:16
early in my recovery. I played in bands and
20:18
was around it a lot, and it's certainly, you
20:20
know, there's plenty of examples of people that do
20:22
do it, so there are I
20:24
enjoy a good challenge, and I've never been too
20:26
afraid of not
20:29
fitting sitting in. What I've learned
20:31
actually is at thirty, maybe more so when
20:33
we were really young. But there's I think there's
20:35
just as many of us in this in the field
20:37
that I am and that are that
20:40
are not doing it as there are that are doing it.
20:42
Um, it just seems to be what what happens.
20:44
Eventually a lot of us decided
20:47
that enough enough, you know. Yeah,
20:49
it's that that pace will will
20:52
wreck wreck you after a time, that's
20:54
for sure. So
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UM, I want to ask you a couple
20:59
other questions. Is about about a few different
21:01
songs um of years off a couple
21:03
of different records that I've really enjoyed. I
21:05
think maybe one of my favorite songs of
21:08
years is uh is
21:10
Diamonds and Gold. Do
21:12
you anything you want to you want to share
21:14
about that song. You
21:17
can have all the diamonds, you
21:20
can have all the goal, but
21:23
someday you're still going to get old. You've
21:27
got to learn to get happy along
21:30
the way. It's
21:33
my mother's favorite song of mine. It's
21:36
one of the songs that that kind
21:38
of comes to you that I
21:40
didn't have to work too hard at, which I
21:42
really love when that happens. All songwriters
21:44
appreciate when that happens. It's not as often as
21:46
I'd like it to to happen.
21:49
And it was really just self
21:51
therapy, advice to myself,
21:54
a reminder you
21:56
know that that
21:59
it's all right, it's all liked to smile. Yep,
22:02
you gotta get a little happy, happy along
22:04
the way. Speaking of your mom, did you
22:07
did you recently? Uh do a trip
22:09
with her? And where you guys did a duet? We
22:11
did. She got on stage and sang that tune with
22:14
me um in Philly,
22:16
we had a Pennsylvania
22:19
Lang. Warren is a town in Pennsylvania. I'm from the Turn
22:21
outside of Philly, so it was like a big kind
22:23
of homecoming show first there and she
22:25
got up and saying, and then I took her to
22:28
one of my best friends in the world is from Galmida, and
22:30
so I've been able to go there a few times, quite a few
22:32
times, and I took her for her sixtieths there
22:34
and had a little solo show and
22:37
she joined me on
22:39
stage for that. Do
22:41
you get some of your musical talent from your parents? My
22:45
mom is a great singer, could have been a professional singer,
22:47
but didn't didn't take it there. Um
22:50
my dad, I'm not sure if he's got a musical account,
22:52
but he's uh a music
22:55
lover. So I had and my grandparents
22:57
were huge, huge, huge music
22:59
lovers. My grandpop Jack was a jazz
23:01
drummer. Um,
23:04
and so I grew up with with a lot of a
23:08
lot of music around and a lot of passion
23:10
and sensitivity in my family
23:13
from music. Got cousins that are my
23:15
cousin David actually taught me how to play guitar,
23:17
taught me from Nirvana tunes and
23:20
yeah, it's it's in the family. I
23:23
think I heard you say that Polly was the first song
23:25
you learned to play Polly Manatala,
23:28
not to play guitar. My
23:30
mom tried to get well, I like beanked to
23:32
get this guitar fixed up, and she agreed
23:34
to fix the guitar up, and then I got um
23:37
some lessons for my first lessons,
23:39
I didn't learn anything from because the guy was trying to show
23:41
me like teach me scales,
23:44
which I still don't out to do scales, and teach me
23:46
like aarrowsmith out and I wasn't into aarro smith,
23:48
so I couldn't learn. And then, um,
23:51
I really looked up to my cousin. He was in this great
23:53
punk band in New Jersey and I would
23:55
go and listen to his band play and was just so blown
23:58
away by it. And the feeling was like my
24:00
first feelings of real life, this
24:02
is what I'm gonna do, and just feeling wild
24:04
and free and yeah, because remember
24:07
that feeling, It's incredible and
24:10
yeah, so he thought it took not
24:12
learning from like in a
24:14
you know, a real legiment of like these are your scales,
24:17
is your homework and here's your arrow from the song
24:19
to just like in his basement teaching me Polly.
24:22
That that blew the doors wide
24:24
open for me. What's
24:27
next for you musically? You mentioned you were in
24:30
doing a recording session recently. What
24:33
what what's coming up? Well,
24:37
you know, this has been like time off quote
24:39
unquote this winter, but I'm not good
24:41
at time off, so I've been I've
24:43
been right. Yeah, you know, I've
24:45
been writing for the next record, which hopefully we'll record
24:47
in the fall, but we'll see how that all pans out. And in
24:49
the meantime, I've just been working on UM
24:54
but working on a song called Animal
24:56
actually that it will come out. We're gonna
24:58
have a limited Vinyl Eminence release
25:00
to Records to a Day that comes out in April,
25:05
and working on some demos
25:07
and just writing for what
25:10
will be the next record, and
25:12
then we're doing I've got a tour coming up
25:15
UM next month. We're gonna
25:17
get to do Conan O'Brien again on
25:19
the eighteenth of February. So keeping keeping
25:22
busy in the off time, gotta
25:24
keep moving. How
25:26
was it playing on Conan the first time?
25:29
It was great? Um, that
25:31
old thing was crazy because he
25:35
Um, you spent a lot of time
25:37
to Yeah, like a publicist
25:40
and manager and you try to get
25:42
on these shows and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
25:44
I gotta call or like a
25:46
text from this painter friend, mean,
25:49
Natalie Irish, who I
25:52
only kind of sort of no, she's a friend now, but at
25:54
the time I only kind of sort of knew, and she really loved the band,
25:56
my sons and stuff, and she said, I just got
25:58
on Conan O'Brien I have this feeling,
26:02
the spiritual feeling or something that he will
26:04
love your music. So if you want to send me
26:06
a CD, and when I do the show, I'll try to get
26:08
it to him. So I thought that was a lovely thing
26:10
and very kind and sweet. Um,
26:12
but I didn't think anything really of it, that it would pan
26:14
out to anything. So I sent the CD lo
26:17
and behold, she went on and gave it, gave a Vater
26:19
album of one of his producers, who then gave
26:21
it to him. He listened to it and really
26:24
connected and love the album,
26:26
so he wound up getting in touch with
26:28
us like personally. He wrote me a note
26:32
telling me how much you liked the record and that
26:34
he was hoping that we could come on the show, and um,
26:38
it's just been I've been a fan of his
26:40
and watched his shows since I'm a kid, so it was
26:42
just pretty incredible. So we got to go and do
26:45
a show the first time, and then played
26:47
the Troubadour in l A and he came and joined the band
26:49
and played a few songs with us, and now we'll go
26:52
back and do it again and a little under
26:54
a month. So it's
26:56
been cool. Cool, It's can be what song
26:58
do you think you'll play? Oh? Uh,
27:01
well, I know, I know a song will play. Will play a song called
27:03
Past Lives. Okay, yeah, that's off
27:05
the latest record, So yeah, we're excited
27:07
about that for sure. Well,
27:10
I think we're coming to the end of
27:12
our time here. Is there anything that
27:14
you want to talk about related to the theme or
27:16
or anything else that we haven't covered. I
27:18
think that music is, at least for me and most
27:21
people I know, is uh is great. Is
27:23
perhaps the greatest medicine to
27:26
music. Nonalcoholic
27:29
beverage to music, or if you drink
27:31
of a highly alcoholic beverage. Well,
27:34
thank you very much for taking the time to join us.
27:36
I know you have been kind of all
27:38
over the place, so I'm glad we were able to squeeze
27:40
it a little bit of time and and talk me
27:43
too. I appreciate it, and I look forward to
27:45
seeing you somewhere out there. All right, Take
27:47
care, Thanks, thank you, Take
27:50
care bye.
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