November 10, 2024 • 27 mins
In this weekly series, we share highlight clips from the past week of some of the podcasts on The Nashville Podcast Network- Take This Personally with Morgan Huelsman, The BobbyCast, 4 Things with Amy Brown, Sore Losers, Movie Mike's Movie Podcast and Get Real with Caroline Hobby. You can listen to new episodes weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
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-The BobbyCast- @BobbyCast
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-4 Things with Amy Brown- @RadioAmy
-Sore Losers- @SoreLosersPodcast
-Movie Mikes Movie Podcast- @MikeDeestro
-Get Real: @GetRealCarolineHobby
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hey guys, time for the Sunday Sampler Lunch podcast in
the Nashville Podcast Network. On the Bobbycast, I sat down
with Madeline Rolo and we talked about Shania Twain, Keith
Urban almost made her crash her car, how she was
in My Little Pony as a voice. It's really good
that's coming up. Also, take this personally with Morgan Hewlesman.
She talked to flirt Coach Benjamin Cameras. I don't even
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know what that is, but you're gonna hear that. Four
Things with Amy Brown. We're gonna start with that right here,
So be sure if you like any of this, go
and subscribe. It would help us. Maybe you find a
podcast you like. We'll be back next week to sample
some other stuff. But let's go now. Here is a
clip from Four Things with Amy Brown.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Personality. What's loss.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So excited right now? I am joined by Benjamin Cameras,
the flirt coach, which we all need a little more
flirting in our lives, so this is exciting. Benjamin, how
are you?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
I am doing quite well, Morgan. Very excited to be
here on the show today and connect with your listeners
and talk about.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Flirting and more.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Naturally humans would like connection, right, but connection is also
very scary, so it's hard. Yes, yeah, so you know,
and everybody's asking the same question, right, everybody who's I
should say, in the dating world specifically, is asking the
same question. Where can I meet single partners? And how
can I actually go up to them? What's the right
things to say?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
What do I do?
Speaker 6 (01:46):
So?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What are those first steps you'd tell somebody, Hey, go
here and give this a try kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
So I frame the flirt all around connection first and foremost,
because I think that's a really natural and beautiful place
for it to start.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
And how I define.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
The flirt is that flirting is the genuine expression of
interest in the present moment, without expectations, and so that
is where I think it really starts. You could also
think about it, and I share that the flirt can
also be an active service. Maybe it's putting a smile
on someone's face, helping them have a better day, helping
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them just get into a better mood. Maybe it's a
way for you to observe something around you. Maybe you
learn something new about yourself, learn something new about someone
that you're talking to. You're flirting with. So if the
flirt can start from a place of connection, then I
think it can evolve and become more layered from there
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if you want to spice it up, make it a
little more juicy, if it's someone you're starting to date
or even in a relationship with. But the flirt is
not in my mind. And like, you see someone that
you think is attractive out you're out one night at
a party, let's just say, and you just walk over
to them and be like, so, I think you're hot,
want to go out? Like that's what That never actually works,
(03:13):
does it? No? And that is not flirting. That is
a very specific question that you are asking with one
result in mind.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Yeah, not a flirt. Not a flirt. That's just a question.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
A few of those come up, and I can really
say they've never panned.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Out into anything.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
No.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
But if that started a little bit differently, maybe this
person was making some eye contact from across the room,
maybe that you saw them and you started to flirt
with the eyes a little bit, some body language. You're
sort of dancing around this space. They walk over to you,
approaching you from the front right, not tapping you on
the shoulder, catching you off guard, but approaching from the front.
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It's like, say, I noticed you from across the room.
You really caught my eye. I wanted to come up
and introduce myself.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
My name's been how are you.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I just got like little goosebumps as you did that.
I was like, if somebody did that for me, I'd
be flattered.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Oh my gosh, such a big difference.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Right, and then you're making so genuine expression of interest.
It's just looking to Okay, let me learn this person's name,
let me learn one or two things about them. Let
me make some observations around this space. You're at the party,
what music is happening, who else is there? What kind
of food do they have?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
What are we wearing? Right?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Starting to make that connection in the present moment, So
feeling your way through the flirt rather than thinking your
way through it. A lot of people tend to be
in their head. They're analyzing what I'm going to say next.
They're picking apart every little thing about Oh my god,
the body language looks like this, or oh they just
said this, or ooh you know, last time the flirt
didn't go well for me, so maybe this time it's
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not either. Let's come back to the moment. Just feel
our way through it, and then the lack of expectations piece.
It's like, if you are coming up to talk to
this person and solely because you think they're hot and
want to go on a date, well, then your flirt
is very much one dimensional and happening specifically because you
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want this one thing to happen. Your flirt may not
be received that way and the other person may not
want the same thing. So if you can let go
of those expectations and just get to know a little
bit about who this person is and let the flirt,
let the flirt evolve from there, because the other person
gets to receive the flirt how they want to flirt
back or not, how they want to really respecting and honoring.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Who they are. It just it establishes that.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Point of connection first and foremost, which can who knows
what could happen from there. Maybe it leads to a date,
Maybe it leads to you know what, they're taken, but
they've got a single friend. Or maybe you find you
have a mutual friend in common, or you just have
a really awesome conversation about a concert you both saw
and you didn't know you were both there. Maybe that's
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the flirt and why can't that be enough? Sometimes you
made a connecttion.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
What prompted you to move to Nashville specifically?
Speaker 8 (06:11):
I always wanted to. I visited Nashville I think at
like fifteen or sixteen for the first time, as soon
as I figured out there was like a magical land
where people came and wrote songs for a living and yeah,
and then I was pretty determined. But as a Canadian,
it's hard. You need a visa. You can only stay
for six months without once, so you kind of need
a company to like sign off on you. It's expensive,
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there's like a lot of kind of hoops you got
to jump through. So I just like worked and saved
up money and had a career up in Canada and
still do tour it a lot and had a lot
of great experiences. But it was always like, as soon
as I could move to Nashville, I was going.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So did you need someone in the States to like
co sign mm hmm, not even the term you use.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Kind of Yeah, I mean it's a process, right, they
have to like basically vouch for you that like they'll
send you back if needed, and they're like low key
responsible for you and that they're going to supply you
with work. And so when I moved to town, like
I didn't really have that, and so you just started
like harassing anyone that would like make eye contact with
me and be like, listen to my song? Have you
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heard my song? It was like this clock that was
counting down.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You moved here without that, Yeah, so you basically had
six months. It was like the numbers, dud, dude, it's
counting down.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
I think it's like to play in the US, there's
a visa call the P two, which will kind of
like get you in for like one specific show. So
I think I had one of those at the time,
so didn't like raise any red flags. But that was
done and the clock had started, and I was like, okay,
I need to get a publishing deal essentially.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And how did you go by getting that? You moved here?
What was your apartment like, I'm always curious that people's
first Yeah, like the first like three months here, What
was your apartment like? And what were your first couple of,
you know, ventures out in the music world.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
I lived in Midtown in one of like the little
apartments there. I cried like every day. I had no
friends and no, anybody, no roommate.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
No.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
I would listen to your guys show, actually, and I
listened to a ton of Bobby Cast and I felt
like you had the scoop on everything and I had
no friends, and so you.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Guys were I was your friend.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
I just you are that, yes, yeah, but honestly it
was like anyone like you'd have one kind of friend.
I actually remember Hannah Ellis, who was an artist. I
had to write with her, and she invited me to
a party, I remember, and I was so scared and
I never forgot that she did that because I was like,
literally knew nobody was petrified and just rolled up.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So how do you make friends with no? No, No,
I've to do it.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
It's hard to do.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I just wonder how you did it here and all
your friends are probably also competing or trying for the
same goals you have.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
Yeah, I would say, I mean it's hard. I remember
being like if you're at like a yoga class, you
just like be like hi, Like, I mean, I'm awkward
as it is, So I don't really know. I think
through like song writing, and then you meet kind of
one friend who introduces you to their friends and you
kind of click with people. But I find that Nashville's
pretty open. Like when I moved to Toronto, I made
(09:05):
like one friend in like.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Two years, like I had the whole time you left
one friend?
Speaker 8 (09:08):
Yeah, like one friend I could call.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Did you do the n S A I? And I say,
I deal on songwriters? Or how did you get your
friend rights?
Speaker 8 (09:17):
I like I had just known a couple people through
Canada because I would come down here and write with
a couple of people, Like I knew Phil Barton and
knew like a few people. And then I went to
be and my I went to ask cap and just
was like please, like just set me up with rights
and just started like compounding and then like can I
jump up with you and sing at the listening room
or can I do this? And just I felt like
(09:39):
really did everything I could to meet anyone, like going out,
if you were playing a show, I was gonna be there.
I was just trying to talk to people, and yeah,
I just needed to be able to stay.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
Up.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Little food for yourself life. Oh it's pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
It's pretty beautiful, beautiful, laugh for.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
A little more.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
You're kicking it with four with Amy Brown.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
What is your first core principle.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I think my first one is and this is going
to sound like I hope it doesn't come across like
I'm trying to be humble but making sure that I
live a life and service to others. And I think
that's certainly a core belief in my faith. Is a
Christian is that it's not about me. But I just
noticed that whenever I'm feeling most unhealthy, this is I'm
(11:00):
being selfish, but like there's too much that's about me,
too much, I'm worrying about myself. There's too much attention
on just things that are centered around me. And I
am happiest and I feel healthiest, and I feel like
I am serving God's purpose for my life when I
am every day finding a way to serve someone else
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big or small, like that could be in the simplest ways,
whether it's serving someone on our team in like a
random act of encouragement or kindness, or whether it's something bigger.
I mean, I think not to celebrate ten years or
however long we've been friends, but we were just saying
it's been over a decade. I think where I've always
appreciated you is, you know, the foundation of our relationship
(11:44):
was on service and wanting to come together and do
something for others, and I think that's what we're all
called to do, you know. I think we kind of
not to sound critical of all the tools and resources
that are out there, but there's a lot of like
self care, take care of yourself, for which I believe
there's a lot of validity and value in that. And
(12:04):
you can't pour into someone else if you've got an
empty cup. But I do believe that we're meant to
focus on others, and we're meant to focus on God's
will for our life. And that's kind of how I
start my day, is thinking how can I be a
service of someone other than myself.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
I think that times where I've been on calls with
you and you've sounded just not your best are times
when you know that you haven't been prioritizing service or others,
and you eventually get there you're like, I don't know,
just something's just off, and then we'll talk for a
little bit and you're like, yeah, it's just I've got
(12:43):
to figure out a way. Like right now, I'm just
so focused on this, this and this, and I don't
have time and it's just all about me and work
and this and that and strategy and what's next, what's next,
and you eventually have the awareness like, oh, I need
to slow down and do something outside of this bubble
that I'm in right now. And I do think, yes,
(13:07):
there's absolutely something to putting your oxygen mask on first
before you take care of others. We do need to
do that. But I like that you brought that up,
because when you take time to be of service to others,
that could be your oxygen mask.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
That could fill.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
Up your tank a little bit. And you may not
think that because it doesn't have anything to do with you.
It has to do with others.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No, And I'm so grateful, like you have been a
constant obviously in my life for many years. But I
think again, over this past year, I've realized, you know,
we've been building a business the last few years and
I've never done that before. And we've had some some
things go really right, which has been a blessing. But
(13:53):
in that it's kind of like you feel like you're
just trying to keep pushing things up the hill. And
I think my priorities at times have not been always
in the right spot. But it is every conversation I've
had with you, there's always something that goes back to like, Man,
I mean I even started the group chat with you
and Walker because every time I'm around Walker, Walker Hayes
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like his spirit for just loving on other people. It
is so genuine, sincere. You're like, hey, Walker, can we
do this for someone? And He's like, yep, I'll be there,
like I'm in and it just feeds my soul in
such a way, especially when you get to do it
alongside people you love, and then even more so bringing
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strangers into the fold and you know, serving together. It's
just yeah, selfishly, it's amazing, and so I try to
do a little bit more of it every day.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
So fun fact, if you are new to the podcast,
Walker Hayes is the singer of the theme song here,
and we are cooking up something different for the podcast
that is in the works And I'm even smiling as
I say it, and I wish I could say more
at the moment, but well, first of all, you and
I need to revisit that text thread with Walker because
(15:04):
we've got to figure out what we're doing. But also
I need Walker to put together a new little song.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
We'll just send him a link to this episode and
he can kind of get the subliminal hint hint that
he needs to get to work on that.
Speaker 11 (15:18):
Hey, it's Mike d and this week a Movie Mike's
Movie Podcast. I did my Desert Island movie bracket. I
took twelve movies and pitted them against each other to
decide if I could only take one movie with me
on a desert island, which movie would I want to
have with me. It was really hard for me to
do because the twelve I picked are all out classics.
So you can hear me debate that. I'll play you
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just a clip of it now. We'll be sure to
check out the full episode of Movie Mike's Movie Podcast,
starting with the first matchup, Goodfellas coming in at two
hours in thirty two minutes versus Heavyweights coming in at
one hour and thirty five minutes. Both nineties classics in
their own regard, good Fellas is an all time classic,
(16:01):
my favorite Martin Scorsese movie.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
You get everything.
Speaker 11 (16:04):
You get the rise and fall, you get, the drugs,
you get, the betrayal, you get, murder, you get sex,
you get all the things that make a movie great.
So many iconic lines in This movie has my favorite
opening line to a movie of all time. Rayleiota Rip
gave his best performance in this movie, but then you
have Robert de Niro, Joe Peshi. Even the movie poster
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itself is iconic. I would wear it on a T shirt,
I'd throw it up on a poster in my wall.
Has an amazing soundtrack and is one of the most
influential movies of the nineties. And it's also at a
really great runtime of two hours and twenty six minutes.
It's a movie that, back to that example of earlier,
you could jump around and catch it at any moment
and be so intrigued and so engaged because there are
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so many different levels to storytelling and goodfellas. And on
the other hand, the reason I decided to include Heavyweights
on this list is because it is such a comforting movie.
One of my favorite movies growing up, because I was
a chunky kid and I loved seeing a story about
other chunky kids and accepting just being yourself even though
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you're not the cool skinny kid. Because in Heavyweights, it's
all the chunky kids that are the cool kids, and
the skinny weirdos are the losers and why I decided
to include Heavyweights is I believe, if I'm stuck on
a desert island, I want something nostalgic. I want something
that is going to ease the pain of hunger in
my stomach, make me well. Even though they do eat
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a lot of food in this movie. Maybe I didn't
think that all the way through, but I want something
to distract me from that, and the power of nostalgia
to put me back into my young mind and how
I was when I first watched this movie. I think
that is powerful. Whenever I need any kind of comfort,
I just go to like mid nineties Nickelodeon, live action
Disney movies from that time, Animated Disney movies from that time,
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anything in that genre is instantly going to put me
into a good mood, back when life was still just
fun again and you experience things and didn't realize how
significant that was going to affect the rest of your life.
So that is why I put Heavyweights on this list
over any other animated or Disney movie. Heavyweights is the
movie that does it for me. But we gotta look
at this matchup here, good Fellas versus Heavyweights. I think
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I made that point about I'm gonna be hungry on
a desert island. I'll probably be surviving off of fish
and coconut and random plants and berries. And seeing the
heavyweights kids eat Twinkies on their pizza, sneaking beef jerky,
putting candy inside of hollowed out bedposts. I think that's
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gonna have an effect on me. And I also look
at Good Fellas with that two hour and twenty six
run time. That is a lot of movie. That's a
lot of bang for your buck. It's a Martin Scorsese masterpiece.
Moving on to round two is gonna be good Fellas,
and sadly going up in Flames is gonna be heavyweights,
all right. Next match up in round one, The Dark
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Night at two hours and thirty two minutes versus is
TMNT Secret of the Ooze coming in at one hour
and thirty minutes, A tight packed in ninety minutes. The
Dark Knight has my favorite opening scene to any movie,
has a lot of my favorite superhero quotes.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Ah.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
That is a movie that just instantly sucks you in
from that opening scene, and that's why I love that
movie so much. And since two thousand and eight, out
of any superhero movie. I think it's held up the
most because it doesn't even feel.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Dated at all to me.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
That movie is cemented in not even two thousand and eight,
but just stands apart as being one of the best
accomplishments from Christopher Nolan oh Man. That is a really
tough one because on any given day, that could be
my favorite movie of all time.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
A couple movies.
Speaker 11 (19:46):
Battled it out at one and two, and if you
put a gun to my head, I think I would
go Dark Knight over everything. But I have to think
about the desert Island scenario. And I've already seen The
Dark Knight so many times. I rewatch it at least
once a year at this point, sometimes twice a year.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
So it's a.
Speaker 11 (20:04):
Movie that I feel does have a lot of rewatchability
because I've proven it I've done it so many times.
But do I need to continue to watch it based
on the amount of times I've already seen it. That
is a tough one because it is just so great,
so perfect. Nothing bad I can say about that movie.
He's ledger everything about it. On the other hand, you
have kind of, like the earlier matchup, the complete opposite
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of that.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Secret of the Ooze, which is the.
Speaker 11 (20:29):
Second TMNT movie ninety minutes of fun, incredibly nostalgic, my
favorite iteration of the Turtles, where it's the perfect combination
of comedy and then being the heroes that we need.
But there are some elements now as I watch this
more and more into my thirties, that I feel the
movie starts to date itself. Even though this was my
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favorite TMNT movie growing up and it instantly puts me
back into a good mood. It would take my mind
away from anything going on in this desert island. I
could watch when I wake up in the morning to
the sounds of waves crashing, or it could.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Comfort me at night.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
The movie really has it all.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (21:06):
I love Shredder and Secret of the Ewes, but I
think if I had to go up against the Dark Knight,
it's really hard to beat it. And even though this
is one of my favorite movies from my childhood, I
don't think it could beat the Dark Knight. So the
Dark Knight, We'll move on to round two, and sadly
Secret of the Ooze will go up in flames.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Carral Line, She's a Queen of talking and it was
a song.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
She's getting really not afraid to face it's so soul.
Just let it flow.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
No one can do it quiet. Car Line. It's time
for Caroline.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
I'm just gonna keep making the good music and being
me and hopefully it keeps working.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
You know, we'll see.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
So what were you like growing up?
Speaker 9 (22:01):
Because you started pursuing your career at age sixteen and
actually like doing it for real, which is way sooner
than most kids and young adults do. Most people are like,
you know, dicking off for a long time before they
start like getting into something legit. But you were like focused,
ready to go, like pursuing this career at such a
young age.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
What were you like as a kid, Like, how did
you even start this path?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (22:23):
What's your family like? Do you have siblings?
Speaker 10 (22:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:25):
I have three siblings. I got a little sister, little brother,
and then our youngest sister.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
You're the oldest, the oldest.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Yeah, And my family's cool. We're very tight knit family
still to this day. They're my best friends. I mean
they are, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
My siblings are.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
No.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
My dad actually lives down in Alabama.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
My mom's back home with my sisters, and we're all
really tight unit. But I guess me growing up, I
don't know, I'd say I was always kind of like.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Was your dad with you all growing up? Or did
he leave?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
He was?
Speaker 6 (22:58):
He was with me early on in my career, So
it was like within the last few years that that's
all switched up. But which has been a transitional thing.
I talked about that a little bit and a couple
of songs on the album and thing.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Your parents got divorced?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Yeah, like twenty twenty.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Unfortunately, is that hard as an adult to go through that?
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I think that that was one of the weird things
is like, you know a lot of people that I
know where their parents aren't together.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
It's just been that way.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
It was a weird thing for me to be like
twenty years old and then you know my siblings have
to go.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Through it too and have to be there for them.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
So yeah, it was definitely not like the most typical
way I feel like of that going down.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
But were they like trying to wait for everyone to
grow up and then do it.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
No, No, I was kind of just out of nowhere
thing like it just kind of you know, didn't work out,
and oh that's.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Hard at any time no matter what, you know, I'm
a parent now.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
So, like I understand, I have friends who are going
through divorces at the young age and stuff, and I
understand how things don't work out. But it's like when
you're the kid, no matter what your parents, whatever your
parents do, no matter what age you are, it's always
gonna Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
I mean that's the thing too, is it just affects
everybody all the way around the whole family in general.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
You know you wrote about that. Yeah, yeah, I wrote
a song about it.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
What's the song.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
It's called Daddy Drinks Whiskey. Oh man, Yeah, it's pretty deep.
It's probably like the deepest song I ever put out.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
So so it's about alcohol too.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Yeah, man, alcohol is a beast.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
It is, and it's crazy because like it was never
like that in our house, like and then it just
kind of got out of hand.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
A little bit.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Yeah, the dark monster fortunately for really.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Yeah, it's something that you always got your respect and
and make sure you can control because it can, you know,
it can mess things up pretty quickly, anything like that,
any substance or anything.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
You know, it's it's hard.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
But what we were talking about, you have your family
heard that song?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Has your dad heard it?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Oh? Yeah? Yeah, it's on the album.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
I played it for all my family members before I
even released it because I wanted to see it's their
story too, you know, and I wanted to see how
they They all cried and they all said, man, that's real,
and you should put it out of you know, it's
time for you to talk about it, because it's something.
Even with the song, like, I wanted to share my story,
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but I also wanted you know, anybody else that goes
to those difficult things and has a family member or
a friend or you know, loved one that struggles with
addiction or you know, alcoholism, substance abuse, anything. I wanted to, like,
you know, share my story so people could feel okay
to talk about theirs because it can be an embarrassing thing,
can be something you want to yeah, you don't want
(25:24):
to like address, and then holding that back really hurts sometimes.
So to like put it out there, I hope that,
you know, I would help everybody else who has similar.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Things and let them know they're not alone and they
can talk about it too.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
That's powerful of being so young to be able to
hit that topic too and share that with your.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Age group mm hmm, definitely. I mean it's crazy. I've
talked to a lot of people, even just on this
tour because we just started playing it.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Oh you're playing it live.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
In the set list.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Yeah, and it's like a pivotal moment of the set.
I'd say it changes the whole vibe of the show.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
In the room. And you know, we pick it back
up pretty quick after that.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
But those are those songs that let people know you
as an artist exactly. You know, it's like, this is my.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Story, this is my life, and then people are like, dang,
this is my life too, and thank you for sharing
because it's very hard to talk about heart those kind
of topics and somebody has to be the voice for
it so others can relate.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Yeah, and that's what I'm proud of about that one.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
I'm proud of you.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Thank you, thank you. I appreciate that. But uh yeah,
I played it for all them. They cried and they said,
you know, your story to share too, if you're ready
to talk about it. It was written for probably like
a year and a half or so before we finally
released it.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
And and your dad said release it too.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Oh no, my dad didn't hear it until it came out.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Okay, So okay, have you all talked since?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
No, we don't talk very much. That's that's the other
part about it. It's just kind of like, you know,
I'm ready to talk about it. Let people kind of
hear about what's been going on in my life and
have that relatability, you know, and understanding of, you know,
what my last four years is entailed, you know, just personally.
So that's another story, you know, that I was just
waiting to share, and I'm finally glad that I did.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Thanks for listening to the Sunday Sampler. New episodes arount weekly.
Go check them out. Have a great week, everybody,
Hey guys, time for the Sunday Sampler Lunch podcast in
the Nashville Podcast Network. On the Bobbycast, I sat down
with Madeline Rolo and we talked about Shania Twain, Keith
Urban almost made her crash her car, how she was
in My Little Pony as a voice. It's really good
that's coming up. Also, take this personally with Morgan Hewlesman.
She talked to flirt Coach Benjamin Cameras. I don't even
(00:29):
know what that is, but you're gonna hear that. Four
Things with Amy Brown. We're gonna start with that right here,
So be sure if you like any of this, go
and subscribe. It would help us. Maybe you find a
podcast you like. We'll be back next week to sample
some other stuff. But let's go now. Here is a
clip from Four Things with Amy Brown.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Personality. What's loss.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So excited right now? I am joined by Benjamin Cameras,
the flirt coach, which we all need a little more
flirting in our lives, so this is exciting. Benjamin, how
are you?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
I am doing quite well, Morgan. Very excited to be
here on the show today and connect with your listeners
and talk about.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Flirting and more.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Naturally humans would like connection, right, but connection is also
very scary, so it's hard. Yes, yeah, so you know,
and everybody's asking the same question, right, everybody who's I
should say, in the dating world specifically, is asking the
same question. Where can I meet single partners? And how
can I actually go up to them? What's the right
things to say?
Speaker 5 (01:45):
What do I do?
Speaker 6 (01:46):
So?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
What are those first steps you'd tell somebody, Hey, go
here and give this a try kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
So I frame the flirt all around connection first and foremost,
because I think that's a really natural and beautiful place
for it to start.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
And how I define.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
The flirt is that flirting is the genuine expression of
interest in the present moment, without expectations, and so that
is where I think it really starts. You could also
think about it, and I share that the flirt can
also be an active service. Maybe it's putting a smile
on someone's face, helping them have a better day, helping
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them just get into a better mood. Maybe it's a
way for you to observe something around you. Maybe you
learn something new about yourself, learn something new about someone
that you're talking to. You're flirting with. So if the
flirt can start from a place of connection, then I
think it can evolve and become more layered from there
(02:49):
if you want to spice it up, make it a
little more juicy, if it's someone you're starting to date
or even in a relationship with. But the flirt is
not in my mind. And like, you see someone that
you think is attractive out you're out one night at
a party, let's just say, and you just walk over
to them and be like, so, I think you're hot,
want to go out? Like that's what That never actually works,
(03:13):
does it? No? And that is not flirting. That is
a very specific question that you are asking with one
result in mind.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Yeah, not a flirt. Not a flirt. That's just a question.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
A few of those come up, and I can really
say they've never panned.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Out into anything.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
No.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
But if that started a little bit differently, maybe this
person was making some eye contact from across the room,
maybe that you saw them and you started to flirt
with the eyes a little bit, some body language. You're
sort of dancing around this space. They walk over to you,
approaching you from the front right, not tapping you on
the shoulder, catching you off guard, but approaching from the front.
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It's like, say, I noticed you from across the room.
You really caught my eye. I wanted to come up
and introduce myself.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
My name's been how are you.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I just got like little goosebumps as you did that.
I was like, if somebody did that for me, I'd
be flattered.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Oh my gosh, such a big difference.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Right, and then you're making so genuine expression of interest.
It's just looking to Okay, let me learn this person's name,
let me learn one or two things about them. Let
me make some observations around this space. You're at the party,
what music is happening, who else is there? What kind
of food do they have?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
What are we wearing? Right?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Starting to make that connection in the present moment, So
feeling your way through the flirt rather than thinking your
way through it. A lot of people tend to be
in their head. They're analyzing what I'm going to say next.
They're picking apart every little thing about Oh my god,
the body language looks like this, or oh they just
said this, or ooh you know, last time the flirt
didn't go well for me, so maybe this time it's
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not either. Let's come back to the moment. Just feel
our way through it, and then the lack of expectations piece.
It's like, if you are coming up to talk to
this person and solely because you think they're hot and
want to go on a date, well, then your flirt
is very much one dimensional and happening specifically because you
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want this one thing to happen. Your flirt may not
be received that way and the other person may not
want the same thing. So if you can let go
of those expectations and just get to know a little
bit about who this person is and let the flirt,
let the flirt evolve from there, because the other person
gets to receive the flirt how they want to flirt
back or not, how they want to really respecting and honoring.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Who they are. It just it establishes that.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Point of connection first and foremost, which can who knows
what could happen from there. Maybe it leads to a date,
Maybe it leads to you know what, they're taken, but
they've got a single friend. Or maybe you find you
have a mutual friend in common, or you just have
a really awesome conversation about a concert you both saw
and you didn't know you were both there. Maybe that's
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the flirt and why can't that be enough? Sometimes you
made a connecttion.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
What prompted you to move to Nashville specifically?
Speaker 8 (06:11):
I always wanted to. I visited Nashville I think at
like fifteen or sixteen for the first time, as soon
as I figured out there was like a magical land
where people came and wrote songs for a living and yeah,
and then I was pretty determined. But as a Canadian,
it's hard. You need a visa. You can only stay
for six months without once, so you kind of need
a company to like sign off on you. It's expensive,
(06:33):
there's like a lot of kind of hoops you got
to jump through. So I just like worked and saved
up money and had a career up in Canada and
still do tour it a lot and had a lot
of great experiences. But it was always like, as soon
as I could move to Nashville, I was going.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So did you need someone in the States to like
co sign mm hmm, not even the term you use.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
Kind of Yeah, I mean it's a process, right, they
have to like basically vouch for you that like they'll
send you back if needed, and they're like low key
responsible for you and that they're going to supply you
with work. And so when I moved to town, like
I didn't really have that, and so you just started
like harassing anyone that would like make eye contact with
me and be like, listen to my song? Have you
(07:15):
heard my song? It was like this clock that was
counting down.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You moved here without that, Yeah, so you basically had
six months. It was like the numbers, dud, dude, it's
counting down.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
I think it's like to play in the US, there's
a visa call the P two, which will kind of
like get you in for like one specific show. So
I think I had one of those at the time,
so didn't like raise any red flags. But that was
done and the clock had started, and I was like, okay,
I need to get a publishing deal essentially.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
And how did you go by getting that? You moved here?
What was your apartment like, I'm always curious that people's
first Yeah, like the first like three months here, What
was your apartment like? And what were your first couple of,
you know, ventures out in the music world.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
I lived in Midtown in one of like the little
apartments there. I cried like every day. I had no
friends and no, anybody, no roommate.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
No.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
I would listen to your guys show, actually, and I
listened to a ton of Bobby Cast and I felt
like you had the scoop on everything and I had
no friends, and so you.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Guys were I was your friend.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
I just you are that, yes, yeah, but honestly it
was like anyone like you'd have one kind of friend.
I actually remember Hannah Ellis, who was an artist. I
had to write with her, and she invited me to
a party, I remember, and I was so scared and
I never forgot that she did that because I was like,
literally knew nobody was petrified and just rolled up.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So how do you make friends with no? No, No,
I've to do it.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
It's hard to do.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I just wonder how you did it here and all
your friends are probably also competing or trying for the
same goals you have.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
Yeah, I would say, I mean it's hard. I remember
being like if you're at like a yoga class, you
just like be like hi, Like, I mean, I'm awkward
as it is, So I don't really know. I think
through like song writing, and then you meet kind of
one friend who introduces you to their friends and you
kind of click with people. But I find that Nashville's
pretty open. Like when I moved to Toronto, I made
(09:05):
like one friend in like.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Two years, like I had the whole time you left
one friend?
Speaker 8 (09:08):
Yeah, like one friend I could call.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Did you do the n S A I? And I say,
I deal on songwriters? Or how did you get your
friend rights?
Speaker 8 (09:17):
I like I had just known a couple people through
Canada because I would come down here and write with
a couple of people, Like I knew Phil Barton and
knew like a few people. And then I went to
be and my I went to ask cap and just
was like please, like just set me up with rights
and just started like compounding and then like can I
jump up with you and sing at the listening room
or can I do this? And just I felt like
(09:39):
really did everything I could to meet anyone, like going out,
if you were playing a show, I was gonna be there.
I was just trying to talk to people, and yeah,
I just needed to be able to stay.
Speaker 9 (10:13):
Up.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Little food for yourself life. Oh it's pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
It's pretty beautiful, beautiful, laugh for.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
A little more.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
You're kicking it with four with Amy Brown.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
What is your first core principle.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I think my first one is and this is going
to sound like I hope it doesn't come across like
I'm trying to be humble but making sure that I
live a life and service to others. And I think
that's certainly a core belief in my faith. Is a
Christian is that it's not about me. But I just
noticed that whenever I'm feeling most unhealthy, this is I'm
(11:00):
being selfish, but like there's too much that's about me,
too much, I'm worrying about myself. There's too much attention
on just things that are centered around me. And I
am happiest and I feel healthiest, and I feel like
I am serving God's purpose for my life when I
am every day finding a way to serve someone else
(11:21):
big or small, like that could be in the simplest ways,
whether it's serving someone on our team in like a
random act of encouragement or kindness, or whether it's something bigger.
I mean, I think not to celebrate ten years or
however long we've been friends, but we were just saying
it's been over a decade. I think where I've always
appreciated you is, you know, the foundation of our relationship
(11:44):
was on service and wanting to come together and do
something for others, and I think that's what we're all
called to do, you know. I think we kind of
not to sound critical of all the tools and resources
that are out there, but there's a lot of like
self care, take care of yourself, for which I believe
there's a lot of validity and value in that. And
(12:04):
you can't pour into someone else if you've got an
empty cup. But I do believe that we're meant to
focus on others, and we're meant to focus on God's
will for our life. And that's kind of how I
start my day, is thinking how can I be a
service of someone other than myself.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
I think that times where I've been on calls with
you and you've sounded just not your best are times
when you know that you haven't been prioritizing service or others,
and you eventually get there you're like, I don't know,
just something's just off, and then we'll talk for a
little bit and you're like, yeah, it's just I've got
(12:43):
to figure out a way. Like right now, I'm just
so focused on this, this and this, and I don't
have time and it's just all about me and work
and this and that and strategy and what's next, what's next,
and you eventually have the awareness like, oh, I need
to slow down and do something outside of this bubble
that I'm in right now. And I do think, yes,
(13:07):
there's absolutely something to putting your oxygen mask on first
before you take care of others. We do need to
do that. But I like that you brought that up,
because when you take time to be of service to others,
that could be your oxygen mask.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
That could fill.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
Up your tank a little bit. And you may not
think that because it doesn't have anything to do with you.
It has to do with others.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No, And I'm so grateful, like you have been a
constant obviously in my life for many years. But I
think again, over this past year, I've realized, you know,
we've been building a business the last few years and
I've never done that before. And we've had some some
things go really right, which has been a blessing. But
(13:53):
in that it's kind of like you feel like you're
just trying to keep pushing things up the hill. And
I think my priorities at times have not been always
in the right spot. But it is every conversation I've
had with you, there's always something that goes back to like, Man,
I mean I even started the group chat with you
and Walker because every time I'm around Walker, Walker Hayes
(14:14):
like his spirit for just loving on other people. It
is so genuine, sincere. You're like, hey, Walker, can we
do this for someone? And He's like, yep, I'll be there,
like I'm in and it just feeds my soul in
such a way, especially when you get to do it
alongside people you love, and then even more so bringing
(14:34):
strangers into the fold and you know, serving together. It's
just yeah, selfishly, it's amazing, and so I try to
do a little bit more of it every day.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
So fun fact, if you are new to the podcast,
Walker Hayes is the singer of the theme song here,
and we are cooking up something different for the podcast
that is in the works And I'm even smiling as
I say it, and I wish I could say more
at the moment, but well, first of all, you and
I need to revisit that text thread with Walker because
(15:04):
we've got to figure out what we're doing. But also
I need Walker to put together a new little song.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
We'll just send him a link to this episode and
he can kind of get the subliminal hint hint that
he needs to get to work on that.
Speaker 11 (15:18):
Hey, it's Mike d and this week a Movie Mike's
Movie Podcast. I did my Desert Island movie bracket. I
took twelve movies and pitted them against each other to
decide if I could only take one movie with me
on a desert island, which movie would I want to
have with me. It was really hard for me to
do because the twelve I picked are all out classics.
So you can hear me debate that. I'll play you
(15:39):
just a clip of it now. We'll be sure to
check out the full episode of Movie Mike's Movie Podcast,
starting with the first matchup, Goodfellas coming in at two
hours in thirty two minutes versus Heavyweights coming in at
one hour and thirty five minutes. Both nineties classics in
their own regard, good Fellas is an all time classic,
(16:01):
my favorite Martin Scorsese movie.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
You get everything.
Speaker 11 (16:04):
You get the rise and fall, you get, the drugs,
you get, the betrayal, you get, murder, you get sex,
you get all the things that make a movie great.
So many iconic lines in This movie has my favorite
opening line to a movie of all time. Rayleiota Rip
gave his best performance in this movie, but then you
have Robert de Niro, Joe Peshi. Even the movie poster
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itself is iconic. I would wear it on a T shirt,
I'd throw it up on a poster in my wall.
Has an amazing soundtrack and is one of the most
influential movies of the nineties. And it's also at a
really great runtime of two hours and twenty six minutes.
It's a movie that, back to that example of earlier,
you could jump around and catch it at any moment
and be so intrigued and so engaged because there are
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so many different levels to storytelling and goodfellas. And on
the other hand, the reason I decided to include Heavyweights
on this list is because it is such a comforting movie.
One of my favorite movies growing up, because I was
a chunky kid and I loved seeing a story about
other chunky kids and accepting just being yourself even though
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you're not the cool skinny kid. Because in Heavyweights, it's
all the chunky kids that are the cool kids, and
the skinny weirdos are the losers and why I decided
to include Heavyweights is I believe, if I'm stuck on
a desert island, I want something nostalgic. I want something
that is going to ease the pain of hunger in
my stomach, make me well. Even though they do eat
(17:29):
a lot of food in this movie. Maybe I didn't
think that all the way through, but I want something
to distract me from that, and the power of nostalgia
to put me back into my young mind and how
I was when I first watched this movie. I think
that is powerful. Whenever I need any kind of comfort,
I just go to like mid nineties Nickelodeon, live action
Disney movies from that time, Animated Disney movies from that time,
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anything in that genre is instantly going to put me
into a good mood, back when life was still just
fun again and you experience things and didn't realize how
significant that was going to affect the rest of your life.
So that is why I put Heavyweights on this list
over any other animated or Disney movie. Heavyweights is the
movie that does it for me. But we gotta look
at this matchup here, good Fellas versus Heavyweights. I think
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I made that point about I'm gonna be hungry on
a desert island. I'll probably be surviving off of fish
and coconut and random plants and berries. And seeing the
heavyweights kids eat Twinkies on their pizza, sneaking beef jerky,
putting candy inside of hollowed out bedposts. I think that's
(18:34):
gonna have an effect on me. And I also look
at Good Fellas with that two hour and twenty six
run time. That is a lot of movie. That's a
lot of bang for your buck. It's a Martin Scorsese masterpiece.
Moving on to round two is gonna be good Fellas,
and sadly going up in Flames is gonna be heavyweights,
all right. Next match up in round one, The Dark
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Night at two hours and thirty two minutes versus is
TMNT Secret of the Ooze coming in at one hour
and thirty minutes, A tight packed in ninety minutes. The
Dark Knight has my favorite opening scene to any movie,
has a lot of my favorite superhero quotes.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Ah.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
That is a movie that just instantly sucks you in
from that opening scene, and that's why I love that
movie so much. And since two thousand and eight, out
of any superhero movie. I think it's held up the
most because it doesn't even feel.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Dated at all to me.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
That movie is cemented in not even two thousand and eight,
but just stands apart as being one of the best
accomplishments from Christopher Nolan oh Man. That is a really
tough one because on any given day, that could be
my favorite movie of all time.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
A couple movies.
Speaker 11 (19:46):
Battled it out at one and two, and if you
put a gun to my head, I think I would
go Dark Knight over everything. But I have to think
about the desert Island scenario. And I've already seen The
Dark Knight so many times. I rewatch it at least
once a year at this point, sometimes twice a year.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
So it's a.
Speaker 11 (20:04):
Movie that I feel does have a lot of rewatchability
because I've proven it I've done it so many times.
But do I need to continue to watch it based
on the amount of times I've already seen it. That
is a tough one because it is just so great,
so perfect. Nothing bad I can say about that movie.
He's ledger everything about it. On the other hand, you
have kind of, like the earlier matchup, the complete opposite
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of that.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Secret of the Ooze, which is the.
Speaker 11 (20:29):
Second TMNT movie ninety minutes of fun, incredibly nostalgic, my
favorite iteration of the Turtles, where it's the perfect combination
of comedy and then being the heroes that we need.
But there are some elements now as I watch this
more and more into my thirties, that I feel the
movie starts to date itself. Even though this was my
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favorite TMNT movie growing up and it instantly puts me
back into a good mood. It would take my mind
away from anything going on in this desert island. I
could watch when I wake up in the morning to
the sounds of waves crashing, or it could.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Comfort me at night.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
The movie really has it all.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (21:06):
I love Shredder and Secret of the Ewes, but I
think if I had to go up against the Dark Knight,
it's really hard to beat it. And even though this
is one of my favorite movies from my childhood, I
don't think it could beat the Dark Knight. So the
Dark Knight, We'll move on to round two, and sadly
Secret of the Ooze will go up in flames.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Carral Line, She's a Queen of talking and it was
a song.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
She's getting really not afraid to face it's so soul.
Just let it flow.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
No one can do it quiet. Car Line. It's time
for Caroline.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
I'm just gonna keep making the good music and being
me and hopefully it keeps working.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
You know, we'll see.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
So what were you like growing up?
Speaker 9 (22:01):
Because you started pursuing your career at age sixteen and
actually like doing it for real, which is way sooner
than most kids and young adults do. Most people are like,
you know, dicking off for a long time before they
start like getting into something legit. But you were like focused,
ready to go, like pursuing this career at such a
young age.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
What were you like as a kid, Like, how did
you even start this path?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (22:23):
What's your family like? Do you have siblings?
Speaker 10 (22:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:25):
I have three siblings. I got a little sister, little brother,
and then our youngest sister.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
You're the oldest, the oldest.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Yeah, And my family's cool. We're very tight knit family
still to this day. They're my best friends. I mean
they are, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
My siblings are.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
No.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
My dad actually lives down in Alabama.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
My mom's back home with my sisters, and we're all
really tight unit. But I guess me growing up, I
don't know, I'd say I was always kind of like.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Was your dad with you all growing up? Or did
he leave?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
He was?
Speaker 6 (22:58):
He was with me early on in my career, So
it was like within the last few years that that's
all switched up. But which has been a transitional thing.
I talked about that a little bit and a couple
of songs on the album and thing.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Your parents got divorced?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Yeah, like twenty twenty.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Unfortunately, is that hard as an adult to go through that?
Speaker 6 (23:13):
I think that that was one of the weird things
is like, you know a lot of people that I
know where their parents aren't together.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
It's just been that way.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
It was a weird thing for me to be like
twenty years old and then you know my siblings have
to go.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Through it too and have to be there for them.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
So yeah, it was definitely not like the most typical
way I feel like of that going down.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
But were they like trying to wait for everyone to
grow up and then do it.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
No, No, I was kind of just out of nowhere
thing like it just kind of you know, didn't work out,
and oh that's.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Hard at any time no matter what, you know, I'm
a parent now.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
So, like I understand, I have friends who are going
through divorces at the young age and stuff, and I
understand how things don't work out. But it's like when
you're the kid, no matter what your parents, whatever your
parents do, no matter what age you are, it's always
gonna Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
I mean that's the thing too, is it just affects
everybody all the way around the whole family in general.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
You know you wrote about that. Yeah, yeah, I wrote
a song about it.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
What's the song.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
It's called Daddy Drinks Whiskey. Oh man, Yeah, it's pretty deep.
It's probably like the deepest song I ever put out.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
So so it's about alcohol too.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Yeah, man, alcohol is a beast.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
It is, and it's crazy because like it was never
like that in our house, like and then it just
kind of got out of hand.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
A little bit.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Yeah, the dark monster fortunately for really.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Yeah, it's something that you always got your respect and
and make sure you can control because it can, you know,
it can mess things up pretty quickly, anything like that,
any substance or anything.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
You know, it's it's hard.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
But what we were talking about, you have your family
heard that song?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Has your dad heard it?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Oh? Yeah? Yeah, it's on the album.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
I played it for all my family members before I
even released it because I wanted to see it's their
story too, you know, and I wanted to see how
they They all cried and they all said, man, that's real,
and you should put it out of you know, it's
time for you to talk about it, because it's something.
Even with the song, like, I wanted to share my story,
(25:04):
but I also wanted you know, anybody else that goes
to those difficult things and has a family member or
a friend or you know, loved one that struggles with
addiction or you know, alcoholism, substance abuse, anything. I wanted to, like,
you know, share my story so people could feel okay
to talk about theirs because it can be an embarrassing thing,
can be something you want to yeah, you don't want
(25:24):
to like address, and then holding that back really hurts sometimes.
So to like put it out there, I hope that,
you know, I would help everybody else who has similar.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Things and let them know they're not alone and they
can talk about it too.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
That's powerful of being so young to be able to
hit that topic too and share that with your.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Age group mm hmm, definitely. I mean it's crazy. I've
talked to a lot of people, even just on this
tour because we just started playing it.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Oh you're playing it live.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
In the set list.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Yeah, and it's like a pivotal moment of the set.
I'd say it changes the whole vibe of the show.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
In the room. And you know, we pick it back
up pretty quick after that.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
But those are those songs that let people know you
as an artist exactly. You know, it's like, this is my.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Story, this is my life, and then people are like, dang,
this is my life too, and thank you for sharing
because it's very hard to talk about heart those kind
of topics and somebody has to be the voice for
it so others can relate.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Yeah, and that's what I'm proud of about that one.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
I'm proud of you.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Thank you, thank you. I appreciate that. But uh yeah,
I played it for all them. They cried and they said,
you know, your story to share too, if you're ready
to talk about it. It was written for probably like
a year and a half or so before we finally
released it.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
And and your dad said release it too.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Oh no, my dad didn't hear it until it came out.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
Okay, So okay, have you all talked since?
Speaker 6 (26:40):
No, we don't talk very much. That's that's the other
part about it. It's just kind of like, you know,
I'm ready to talk about it. Let people kind of
hear about what's been going on in my life and
have that relatability, you know, and understanding of, you know,
what my last four years is entailed, you know, just personally.
So that's another story, you know, that I was just
waiting to share, and I'm finally glad that I did.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Thanks for listening to the Sunday Sampler. New episodes arount weekly.
Go check them out. Have a great week, everybody,
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