April 27, 2024 • 24 mins
UNREHEARSED IS BACK WITH A NEW SEASON! We heard the amazing response from Season 1 and decided to run it back! In this debut episode, we catch y'all up to speed on what has happen since the end of Season 1. An amazing season lies ahead, so STAY TUNED!
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NOition
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tilted
cuz behind the scenes I'm not sleep
Get out of here.
Caption is most not a morning person.
I am, don't come for me.
Wakes up, hi guys, how's it going?
Welcome to God Rised.
I am a morning person.
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You rolling on all three?
Holy smokes.
Rolling.
You want to?
Okay, yeah I do.
Okay, go ahead.
That's what I was doing on the ice
cause I don't be sleeping on the job.
Father God, we just thank you for this morning, Lord.
We just wanna just give you glory
where you deserve Father, Lord.
We're just so blessed Father, just for Brandon, Ricky,
DeShawn, myself, Father God,
we just thank you for the team, Lord.
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We ask that you continue to bless the team,
continue to just lead us and guide us, God,
and continue to provide as you do.
We just wanted to take a moment
to just say thank you, Lord, amen.
Amen.
Thank you.
Amen.
Okay, let me do a facial check real quick.
Okay, cool.
We good.
Yeah.
Rolling, rolling, all is good.
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Holy smokes, season two.
Season two.
Who are we?
Oh my gosh, season two with a little bit of upgrades.
Is this in the shot?
Can they see all of this?
No.
Probably not.
Hi.
Maybe, but okay, so in case you can't see it,
but we got some technical upgrades.
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You know, we got more people helping us out.
Woo hoo, shout out to. More good friends.
Shout out to Brandon.
Brandon.
You know, we shout out Brandon every single episode.
He's amazing.
Shout out to Chris.
Chris edited all of the first season.
Thank you.
Much love and thank you to Chris.
And 99% chance, nah, bump that 100% chance.
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He's gonna be editing all of season two as well.
Let's go.
Shout out Ricky.
Woo hoo.
Bro.
Like.
That's right.
Shout out Ricky, who's honest, I mean,
he's provided the upgrades.
Audio equipment, like.
Audio engineer providing the upgrades.
I was like, let's go, just like put in the plug there.
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Making sure that we sound good.
You know, I said it all throughout the first season.
You gonna know who's helping us put this together.
Yeah.
Shout out, shout out, honestly, shout out God.
Yeah.
Shout out Joe Papa.
Shout out all of you guys who tuned in to the first season.
Yes, we love y'all.
And encouraged us to do a second one.
Come on.
We actually doing this.
I love this.
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This makes me feel like I'm in radio.
I know it does make me feel like I'm in radio.
I'm like, next we're gonna play.
This makes me feel like I'm in radio.
All we need going forth is like little things
for like a little sound bite.
Yes, yes, in the name of Jesus.
I was like, it's gonna come.
We gonna get it.
The farther we go, the more we gonna upgrade
and just keep improving and making it better.
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But yeah, we back in this mug.
What's good with you, Mo?
What's good with me?
He starts to cry.
I'm just kidding.
Sorry.
What's good with me?
I'm like, where do I even start?
There's so much.
How's life been for you since the last was on unrehearsed?
Life has been really good.
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Really good.
There's a lot of, I feel like old things
but new things happening.
So I'm like Deshawn.
I don't have two degrees.
So I'm in the middle of getting mine.
So that being said, I'm just in summer classes right now.
I'm taking three classes.
Don't come for me guys.
I know, I already said I was like, dang,
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that's kind of crazy.
But you're both just trying to get done.
So I'm just like, it doesn't even seem like a lot
because I'm just like, you just stay ahead of the game
and I got this, it's fine.
And so yeah, and then so next semester
is gonna be my last semester at a community college.
And then I'm finally gonna be able to go to a university
and hurry up and get this degree so I can make more money.
Yay.
Where are we going?
We are going, I haven't fully decided
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but I just feel like I was gonna say settled.
That sounds so bad.
But I feel like I just settled on CSU East Bay
because yeah, at first I was like, I wanna go to Howard.
And then I was like,
cause the way that I am is I'm just, I'm not,
I'm not very like, I can do great in vacations.
Like I don't go on a lot of vacations for multiple reasons.
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But like one of the things that I do like about a vacation
is like when I'm there in the place for four to five days,
anything else more than that, I'm like,
I'm ready to go home.
Like I'm like, I've seen all that I wanted to see,
like I'm done.
So yeah, so that being said,
I feel like moving to Washington DC would be exciting
like the first week and then the second week,
I'd be crying to my mom like, I wanna come home now.
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So yeah, so instead of doing that
and putting in the hard work
to like build a whole new community and stuff,
I'm like, why not just stay where we are?
And then also podcast stuff as well, so.
Well, hey, we wish you all the best.
East Bay is good, I am an East Bay alumni.
Oh, excuse me.
Okay, I was like, we're talking to a professional.
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For me, East Bay was cool,
cause well, I transferred like at the beginning,
I guess of like the shutdowns from COVID.
And so- Oh, so wait,
you went to community college first?
Yeah, so I started off at, I start off at LMC,
Las Madonnas College.
And my first degree was in recording arts.
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Shout out Ricky, that's where I read,
that's where me and Ricky met.
Oh, that's right, we met at John,
or JM3, our boy John's.
Like his house or his what?
It's music video.
Okay, you're like, yeah, I was like John's what?
I thought it was a concert at first,
but music video makes sense for sure.
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And then like later on, we ended up like crossing paths
at LMC, but I got my recording arts degree there.
And then I transferred to East Bay.
But when COVID hit, everything was just like from home.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
So for me, it was perfect because I didn't think
I was going to like homeschool, but I ended up loving it.
Wow.
It ended up being like the best thing for me.
Cause otherwise I'd have to drive back and forth
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between the campus and I did everything from my-
That's like so interesting now.
I did. Okay.
You know what?
Cause I didn't know that he went to like,
he was doing school at home, but I'm like,
that just like changes my understanding
from the things that you've told me about.
Yeah. Anyways.
I did everything at home and I took summer classes too.
I finished a year early.
So it was like-
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I was like, it just keeps getting better.
Take those summer classes, bro.
If you like, you trying to get done.
ASAP.
It doesn't really seem like much at first.
At first, like it just seems like, man,
I'm in school all the time.
And that was me like, bro, every day I'm in school.
Everyone on got three months off.
They got the winter off and I'm in two, three classes
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all the time.
And then next to know you meet with your counselor,
like, oh, you're going to finish a year early.
Let's go.
It was like, I'm in school.
I'm in school.
It made it all.
That's so interesting though.
Cause like in high school and obviously
middle school, elementary, like you get months off,
but like once you become adult, it's like,
you don't have that time.
So I'm like, why do y'all condition us to get comfortable?
Like 12 years taking the summer off when we just,
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when we become adults and it's like, we work all the time.
Like I don't get three months off. What is this?
So yeah, anyways.
No, that's, that's actually a very dope point.
Yeah. Just putting that out there.
Yeah. It took an, it was like, I had to adjust to it,
you know, for me.
And I ended up really like liking it because it helped me
to build like strong consistency.
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It helped me to like learn the value of consistency,
but like not as crazy because it's like you in,
you in school for your normal amount of time,
like during like the fall or the spring.
And then traditionally that summertime hits,
you have three months off,
you chilling doing whatever you want,
but there's folks in classes,
summertime trying to get it and go, trying to finish.
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Like, and next thing you know, I mean,
it's not a competition. It's definitely not a race, but
next thing you know,
the people that you just had class with then jumped over you
or like they got finished.
Like, you know, if, if I didn't do what I did,
I would have just now graduated.
Come on. Wow. Stop.
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Literally I would have just graduated like a couple of
weeks ago. College students pay attention. Come on.
Get it done. Summer classes.
I was like, young folks, get it done while you're young.
Seriously. Not for real.
You don't want to do it when you're older. I'm, I'm 26.
It's, it's not hard, but I'm just like, ah,
like I literally just like,
I reflect and I would just have liked to got it done already,
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but it's okay. You know, we all have our own paths,
all have our own timings and stuff.
I was just trying to figure out what I wanted to do.
And I was like, I just don't want to be here wasting my time.
So yeah. So it just took me,
it took me a little longer. Some of us are slow,
slower than others. So, so yeah.
There are a lot of like benefits of getting,
getting done early. So consider those things.
There's pros and cons to everything.
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Yeah. So there's that. And then, and yeah.
And so I just, I got a new job, you know,
and I'm a behavior tech.
So for those of you who don't know what that is,
I pretty much- She whoop kids for a living.
No, that's not what I do.
My mom was my behavioral tech growing up.
That sounds so- That's not what behavior tech is guys.
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Don't try those things at home.
So pretty much what it is,
is I work with children who are on the autism spectrum
or have special needs. So yeah, it's very rewarding,
very challenging. A lot of the students that I've come across,
they are nonverbal. So yeah,
so they tend to be more aggressive just because they're not able
to express themselves the way that we could,
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just with our words. So yeah, but it's worth it.
I really enjoy my work and I've always been curious about
children who have autism,
like just the way that they see the world,
the way that they understand us.
You know, it's so funny cause I feel like we look at them
and they just seem so weird or just out of place maybe.
But I'm just like, they probably look at us and think that
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we're like aliens or something.
They're just like, what's wrong with these people?
And so I was just like, that's such an interesting thought.
But yeah, so that's that. So that's my life. Yeah. Woo.
That's dope. Good stuff happening.
It definitely takes a special person to want to like,
you know, do that as like a job and stuff.
I had an autism cousin got arrested.
So autism cousin, autistic, my fault.
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Okay. I was like, that sounds so bad. I'm sorry.
Autistic cousin, a special needs cousin.
Not quite sure if it was exactly autism, but it seems.
Just somewhere on the spectrum. Yeah. Yeah.
But his mother would always take him to church.
So, you know, and then, you know, he wasn't,
he was nonverbal as well.
And so he would have his like,
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I for lack of a better way to put it,
I guess you could say his outbursts or something,
something along those lines where he would get aggressive
and stuff like that, you know, mis-service.
And as, as little kids not knowing what's happening,
it might freak you out a little bit at first,
but then you kind of like learn more about it as you go,
especially, you know, talking to the mom.
And you just kind of be able to understand it more,
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understand them more. And, you know,
because I feel like at first as kids, you know,
if you're not really like exposed to it,
it can be a little, it's scary.
A little strange. It's like, who are these people?
Yeah. It's a little strange at first,
cause you know, in the mind of a child,
it's like, oh, they're not,
you feel like something's wrong with them,
but that's not necessarily like it.
Yeah. You know what?
But kids are so sweet.
Like I'm watching this one little girl right now
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and she's actually in a wheelchair.
And like I will, I catch these kids staring for days.
Like they will literally stop walking
and just be looking at her for heck along.
And I'm just like, are you going to ask what's wrong?
Like what's going on here?
And then eventually they're like,
so what's wrong with her?
And I'm like, well, there's nothing wrong with her.
And I try to explain it to them that it's just like,
cause she has cerebral palsy.
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So that just, it's a function in the brain
that doesn't let her body function the way
that the rest of our bodies function.
So yeah. So I was just trying to explain it
to like six year olds and they're like, oh, okay.
And I'm like, yeah.
And they just walk away and I'm like, okay, cool.
Like, I don't know if you really cared,
but thank you for asking.
Hopefully they understand.
Yeah. So yeah.
That's good, man.
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How are you?
Me?
How's Mr. DeShawn Forest?
Me, man.
So how I'm doing.
So at the time of us shooting this,
DeShawn Forest is super active behind the scenes.
And when I get real active behind the scenes,
I notice I kind of like slowly start to stop posting
as much on social media.
Cause it's like, man, there's other matters more important.
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They'll see this at some point.
Okay.
But yeah, man, I don't think I can, I mean, shoot,
this episode probably be out by the time.
Everything out?
Well, actually, yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'll just say-
So just keep it big.
Yeah. We just working on some very important stuff.
Got a lot of big plans.
Got a lot of things laid out before God, a lot of prayers.
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Prayers are being answered.
And then there's other prayers that I haven't heard yet.
So we just going through the process,
going through the motions and just trying to continue
to elevate and be great and get to a point where this is
like a full scale, well-oiled machine
and not just something that's being done on the weekends.
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Period.
Wow. Hurt my soul.
So that's what I've been working on.
Other than that-
You're not going to give us a little bit more.
That was like super vague.
I was like, just a little, just a little something.
Give us a teaser.
Little teaser.
Tease the people.
Well, I finished another music project.
Um, Piyom Piyom Piyom. Piyom Piyom Piyom Piyom Piyom.
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Skadoom doom.
Don DeMarco.
DeMarco.
But I finished another music project.
Let's go.
And you know, we just been kind of getting ready
for the release of that.
Yes.
A lot of stuff goes behind the scenes
when we're getting ready to release, you know,
you got to get your press kits and all of that kind of stuff.
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You got to get poop.
Darn. Okay.
You got to get poop and darn.
You got to get your press kits, your music videos,
your photo shoots, and then you just got to, you know,
call up the people that you want to work with.
You got to, you know, a whole lot of meetings,
a lot of stuff happens before anything comes out.
So that's kind of what I've going through
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the pre-release motions as I call it.
But yeah, that's pretty much been me.
I mean, work is work.
You know, it's not horrible.
It's pretty smooth. It's good. You know?
So when people say work is work,
does that mean that they like their jobs or the silence?
Ah, that was heavy.
Well, for me, when I say work is work,
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I mean, it's like, it's cool.
It's fine. It's like-
I mean, they paying me, so.
Yeah. I mean, I'm not at risk of losing my job.
Yeah. You know?
Well, that's good. Woo.
You know? And yeah, I mean, it's paying.
But, you know, I'm longing for the day,
like I said, for where this is a well-oiled machine,
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and then I can scadaddle up out of there.
In the meantime, I got to do what I got to do.
But yeah, that's kind of where I've been, you know?
You know, I'm at a place now where mentally,
and I think this is a result of just
staying true to the journey.
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Okay. Staying true to the journey.
Everyone that's like has made it always say,
like, the journey is the best part,
not necessarily the destination.
Anyone who keeps up with the content or with the music
knows that I like to create exactly
in the moment that I'm in.
So, you know, I don't necessarily want to,
like, wait till I get to the top and then be like,
okay, now let me tell you about it.
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I want to tell you about it as it's happening.
So maybe what I'm about to say is a result
of staying true to the journey,
but I feel like now more than ever,
like, the things that I'm going after feel like more-
unattainable, like they're closer in age.
It feels a lot more, it feels like,
because, you know, you go through these things
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where it's all mental.
The battle is really, for me at least, it's all internal.
No, it is all mental.
And at first it feels, man, it's so far away.
Maybe it'll happen, maybe not.
Will I ever get there?
And then you just kind of keep going,
you keep climbing up, and then it's like,
yo, wait a minute, there's actually a chance-
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Come on.
That, you know, I believe it will happen,
but there's a chance that it could happen pretty soon.
Yeah.
You know?
And so that's where I've been at.
It's like, yo, this joint, you know,
if God decides to, you know-
Speed it up.
Or if he just approves of the timing,
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because it's all God's timing.
If he approves of the timing, you know,
it could be, you know, it could be now.
Because, you know, I look at everything,
I'm being vague on purpose.
I don't want to say too much.
I know, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
I look at everything and it's like,
okay, last time probably didn't work for X, Y, Z reasons.
That's not the case now.
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Okay, maybe this was out of place,
so I rearranged pieces and do this here.
Pray about this, pray about that.
Things start happening, you know,
pieces start coming together, people start coming together.
You know, and it's like, yo, wait a minute,
this is like what you need to elevate
as like a group, like you need that oneness.
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You need that, those connections, those open doors,
those people that are willing to give you opportunities
and not wait till, not necessarily wait
till you got a bandwagon to hop on, you know what I mean?
Because it's easy to hop on somebody's bandwagon
when they got some buzz, but it's like,
you know, people's like, no, I see what you're doing.
I see your potential.
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I want to help, stuff like that.
And, you know, so I see stuff like that
and I get a little juiced.
I get a little juiced, but I get like super determined
and I'm like, you know, I get real, like, I guess,
obsessed and it's like, yo, baby.
But yeah, that's me.
Okay, well that's good.
All I focus on is this kind of stuff.
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Okay, I was like, what do we have
for the people in season two?
Season two, man.
What is it looking like?
For me. What it look like?
This is for me, from my perspective, season two.
Well, first, let's talk about season one briefly
and I'll go into season two.
Okay, yeah, let's talk about it.
Season one was absolutely fun to shoot.
It was so much fun.
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And we loved it.
For me personally, it was like my leap of faith season.
Aw.
Nah, like for real, because like,
Leap of faith season.
If you remember on our Chasing Our Dreams episode,
I think it was maybe that one or maybe one,
the one right before it, where I talked about how,
when I was first getting into music,
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I needed like a leap of faith project,
just to see that I can actually do it.
I feel like that was episode six.
It may have been that dreams episode, but.
It was.
I needed, for musically, I needed a project
that was like a leap of faith that I can prove to myself,
yo, I can actually do it.
I can commit the time.
I can be consistent.
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I can actually put effort into it and get it done.
And, you know, try different things and, you know,
just put myself out there like that.
So I felt like for me, that was what season one was.
So then at that point, it's like, okay, do it again,
but like, do it better.
Period.
I know for a fact, there's a lot of topics
that we wanted to get on,
that we actually hinted at in season one,
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but didn't touch on it for various reasons.
And there's just, you know, just expect better, you know,
expect better conversations, more deeper conversations,
expect a greater show, better production.
Like, this feels very like radio station to me.
Yeah, it does.
Just expect, you know, like great efforts,
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efforts towards greatness.
Yeah.
That's for real.
Dang, well, my perspective from season one
actually was kinda like, he's talking about leaps of faith.
I feel like it was kinda like a push of faith
because I was like, I don't know if I can do it.
And then he's like, we're doing this.
And I'm like, okay, if we're doing this, it's happening.
And so, yeah, so honestly, it was season one for me.
It just showed me, it showed me a lot about myself
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because I think I just was struggling a lot.
And y'all probably heard me throughout the season,
just how I'd be like, I don't know if I believe in myself.
I don't think I ever said it,
but it was just always like that,
mm, like a lot of self doubt.
But I definitely feel that season one
gave me a lot more confidence
and just let me really tap into my creativity
and just my ability, like you can do it.
Like, and not only can you do it,
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but you're doing amazing at it.
And so, yeah, so for season two, I'm just super excited.
I'm excited for just the conversations, the guests.
And yeah, I'm just excited to continue to have a fan club.
No, I'm just excited though,
to continue to just give y'all these episodes.
And yeah, cause I just feel like y'all get to know us more,
we get to know y'all more.
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And just thank you for everyone
who just faithfully watched every episode.
And just for those of you who tapped in every once in a while,
like we really do love and appreciate y'all.
And we just want y'all to keep coming back,
keep giving us feedback,
cause we get better as y'all continue to give us feedback
and answer our surveys and things like that.
So we just appreciate y'all.
Heck yeah.
And y'all know if y'all stay consistent with it,
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that I typically shout out everyone.
I'm gonna take the opportunity to shout out Mo,
cause you was talking about, you-
I was like, what?
Yeah, totally unexpected.
Right.
But you was talking about how like,
it was like a push of faith,
whether or not you can do it, whether, you know,
stuff like that.
I'm about to gas you up real quick.
I was like, don't gas me up.
Nah, bro, like Mo, like for this show is like,
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like I can't even entirely put it in the words.
One, like the creative direction of this joint
in large part was driven by her.
The freaking name for crying out loud was from Mo.
Like, you know, and I'm taking note of this like on my own
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and I'm thinking about this, I'm like,
she got something, bro.
She got something like, we gotta do this.
And you know, that's, you know,
that's one of the reasons why I wanted to do this so much
because like Mo is just like a well of like creative ideas.
I am, I am.
Like she provides a different like perspective
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and a different set of like brain power that I
just don't have, you know,
and probably can't even really develop all of the way
because we do podcasts and that's cool.
I go home and I pull up, I turn on my computer
and now I'm working on music stuff
or I'm working on, maybe I'm working on getting
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certain designs done or, you know,
maybe I'm writing out films and music videos.
So while, you know, while Chris is editing the episodes,
me and Brandon can go off and shoot a music video.
It's a lot more, lot more responsibility for me,
but Mo is like all in for like unrehearsed, not to say that.
I'm not, but like she, just what she brings to it
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creatively and just like for the show.
Down to the little things.
If y'all remember like the photos we took for season one,
the color scheme, she dressed me for that episode, bro.
I'm not even joking.
I'm not even a fashion person.
I'm not even joking.
Like she literally provided like the colors, you know,
she provided, you know, she provided the set,
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like the set we own is because of Mo.
So all that to say, you got it.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
I'm gonna humbly accept all the kind things
you've said about me.
Don't doubt yourself.
You got it.
You good.
Thank you.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
But yeah, man.
We ended on that episode.
We ended on that.
Yeah, I would say so.
Yeah, unrehearsed.
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We don't know how to start and we don't know how to end.
Right.
Yeah, stay tuned for season two.
We just wanted to tap in and just kind of, you know,
kind of bridge the gap a little bit,
let y'all know what's been going on in our lives
and what's been going on behind the scenes
for unrehearsing for all the transparency,
trying to take it up.
And we here.
Y'all know what I'm saying?
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Bye fam.
Till next time, you dig?
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tilted
cuz behind the scenes I'm not sleep
Get out of here.
Caption is most not a morning person.
I am, don't come for me.
Wakes up, hi guys, how's it going?
Welcome to God Rised.
I am a morning person.
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You rolling on all three?
Holy smokes.
Rolling.
You want to?
Okay, yeah I do.
Okay, go ahead.
That's what I was doing on the ice
cause I don't be sleeping on the job.
Father God, we just thank you for this morning, Lord.
We just wanna just give you glory
where you deserve Father, Lord.
We're just so blessed Father, just for Brandon, Ricky,
DeShawn, myself, Father God,
we just thank you for the team, Lord.
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We ask that you continue to bless the team,
continue to just lead us and guide us, God,
and continue to provide as you do.
We just wanted to take a moment
to just say thank you, Lord, amen.
Amen.
Thank you.
Amen.
Okay, let me do a facial check real quick.
Okay, cool.
We good.
Yeah.
Rolling, rolling, all is good.
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Holy smokes, season two.
Season two.
Who are we?
Oh my gosh, season two with a little bit of upgrades.
Is this in the shot?
Can they see all of this?
No.
Probably not.
Hi.
Maybe, but okay, so in case you can't see it,
but we got some technical upgrades.
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You know, we got more people helping us out.
Woo hoo, shout out to. More good friends.
Shout out to Brandon.
Brandon.
You know, we shout out Brandon every single episode.
He's amazing.
Shout out to Chris.
Chris edited all of the first season.
Thank you.
Much love and thank you to Chris.
And 99% chance, nah, bump that 100% chance.
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He's gonna be editing all of season two as well.
Let's go.
Shout out Ricky.
Woo hoo.
Bro.
Like.
That's right.
Shout out Ricky, who's honest, I mean,
he's provided the upgrades.
Audio equipment, like.
Audio engineer providing the upgrades.
I was like, let's go, just like put in the plug there.
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Making sure that we sound good.
You know, I said it all throughout the first season.
You gonna know who's helping us put this together.
Yeah.
Shout out, shout out, honestly, shout out God.
Yeah.
Shout out Joe Papa.
Shout out all of you guys who tuned in to the first season.
Yes, we love y'all.
And encouraged us to do a second one.
Come on.
We actually doing this.
I love this.
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This makes me feel like I'm in radio.
I know it does make me feel like I'm in radio.
I'm like, next we're gonna play.
This makes me feel like I'm in radio.
All we need going forth is like little things
for like a little sound bite.
Yes, yes, in the name of Jesus.
I was like, it's gonna come.
We gonna get it.
The farther we go, the more we gonna upgrade
and just keep improving and making it better.
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But yeah, we back in this mug.
What's good with you, Mo?
What's good with me?
He starts to cry.
I'm just kidding.
Sorry.
What's good with me?
I'm like, where do I even start?
There's so much.
How's life been for you since the last was on unrehearsed?
Life has been really good.
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Really good.
There's a lot of, I feel like old things
but new things happening.
So I'm like Deshawn.
I don't have two degrees.
So I'm in the middle of getting mine.
So that being said, I'm just in summer classes right now.
I'm taking three classes.
Don't come for me guys.
I know, I already said I was like, dang,
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that's kind of crazy.
But you're both just trying to get done.
So I'm just like, it doesn't even seem like a lot
because I'm just like, you just stay ahead of the game
and I got this, it's fine.
And so yeah, and then so next semester
is gonna be my last semester at a community college.
And then I'm finally gonna be able to go to a university
and hurry up and get this degree so I can make more money.
Yay.
Where are we going?
We are going, I haven't fully decided
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but I just feel like I was gonna say settled.
That sounds so bad.
But I feel like I just settled on CSU East Bay
because yeah, at first I was like, I wanna go to Howard.
And then I was like,
cause the way that I am is I'm just, I'm not,
I'm not very like, I can do great in vacations.
Like I don't go on a lot of vacations for multiple reasons.
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But like one of the things that I do like about a vacation
is like when I'm there in the place for four to five days,
anything else more than that, I'm like,
I'm ready to go home.
Like I'm like, I've seen all that I wanted to see,
like I'm done.
So yeah, so that being said,
I feel like moving to Washington DC would be exciting
like the first week and then the second week,
I'd be crying to my mom like, I wanna come home now.
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So yeah, so instead of doing that
and putting in the hard work
to like build a whole new community and stuff,
I'm like, why not just stay where we are?
And then also podcast stuff as well, so.
Well, hey, we wish you all the best.
East Bay is good, I am an East Bay alumni.
Oh, excuse me.
Okay, I was like, we're talking to a professional.
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For me, East Bay was cool,
cause well, I transferred like at the beginning,
I guess of like the shutdowns from COVID.
And so- Oh, so wait,
you went to community college first?
Yeah, so I started off at, I start off at LMC,
Las Madonnas College.
And my first degree was in recording arts.
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Shout out Ricky, that's where I read,
that's where me and Ricky met.
Oh, that's right, we met at John,
or JM3, our boy John's.
Like his house or his what?
It's music video.
Okay, you're like, yeah, I was like John's what?
I thought it was a concert at first,
but music video makes sense for sure.
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And then like later on, we ended up like crossing paths
at LMC, but I got my recording arts degree there.
And then I transferred to East Bay.
But when COVID hit, everything was just like from home.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
So for me, it was perfect because I didn't think
I was going to like homeschool, but I ended up loving it.
Wow.
It ended up being like the best thing for me.
Cause otherwise I'd have to drive back and forth
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between the campus and I did everything from my-
That's like so interesting now.
I did. Okay.
You know what?
Cause I didn't know that he went to like,
he was doing school at home, but I'm like,
that just like changes my understanding
from the things that you've told me about.
Yeah. Anyways.
I did everything at home and I took summer classes too.
I finished a year early.
So it was like-
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I was like, it just keeps getting better.
Take those summer classes, bro.
If you like, you trying to get done.
ASAP.
It doesn't really seem like much at first.
At first, like it just seems like, man,
I'm in school all the time.
And that was me like, bro, every day I'm in school.
Everyone on got three months off.
They got the winter off and I'm in two, three classes
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all the time.
And then next to know you meet with your counselor,
like, oh, you're going to finish a year early.
Let's go.
It was like, I'm in school.
I'm in school.
It made it all.
That's so interesting though.
Cause like in high school and obviously
middle school, elementary, like you get months off,
but like once you become adult, it's like,
you don't have that time.
So I'm like, why do y'all condition us to get comfortable?
Like 12 years taking the summer off when we just,
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when we become adults and it's like, we work all the time.
Like I don't get three months off. What is this?
So yeah, anyways.
No, that's, that's actually a very dope point.
Yeah. Just putting that out there.
Yeah. It took an, it was like, I had to adjust to it,
you know, for me.
And I ended up really like liking it because it helped me
to build like strong consistency.
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It helped me to like learn the value of consistency,
but like not as crazy because it's like you in,
you in school for your normal amount of time,
like during like the fall or the spring.
And then traditionally that summertime hits,
you have three months off,
you chilling doing whatever you want,
but there's folks in classes,
summertime trying to get it and go, trying to finish.
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Like, and next thing you know, I mean,
it's not a competition. It's definitely not a race, but
next thing you know,
the people that you just had class with then jumped over you
or like they got finished.
Like, you know, if, if I didn't do what I did,
I would have just now graduated.
Come on. Wow. Stop.
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Literally I would have just graduated like a couple of
weeks ago. College students pay attention. Come on.
Get it done. Summer classes.
I was like, young folks, get it done while you're young.
Seriously. Not for real.
You don't want to do it when you're older. I'm, I'm 26.
It's, it's not hard, but I'm just like, ah,
like I literally just like,
I reflect and I would just have liked to got it done already,
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but it's okay. You know, we all have our own paths,
all have our own timings and stuff.
I was just trying to figure out what I wanted to do.
And I was like, I just don't want to be here wasting my time.
So yeah. So it just took me,
it took me a little longer. Some of us are slow,
slower than others. So, so yeah.
There are a lot of like benefits of getting,
getting done early. So consider those things.
There's pros and cons to everything.
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Yeah. So there's that. And then, and yeah.
And so I just, I got a new job, you know,
and I'm a behavior tech.
So for those of you who don't know what that is,
I pretty much- She whoop kids for a living.
No, that's not what I do.
My mom was my behavioral tech growing up.
That sounds so- That's not what behavior tech is guys.
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Don't try those things at home.
So pretty much what it is,
is I work with children who are on the autism spectrum
or have special needs. So yeah, it's very rewarding,
very challenging. A lot of the students that I've come across,
they are nonverbal. So yeah,
so they tend to be more aggressive just because they're not able
to express themselves the way that we could,
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just with our words. So yeah, but it's worth it.
I really enjoy my work and I've always been curious about
children who have autism,
like just the way that they see the world,
the way that they understand us.
You know, it's so funny cause I feel like we look at them
and they just seem so weird or just out of place maybe.
But I'm just like, they probably look at us and think that
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we're like aliens or something.
They're just like, what's wrong with these people?
And so I was just like, that's such an interesting thought.
But yeah, so that's that. So that's my life. Yeah. Woo.
That's dope. Good stuff happening.
It definitely takes a special person to want to like,
you know, do that as like a job and stuff.
I had an autism cousin got arrested.
So autism cousin, autistic, my fault.
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Okay. I was like, that sounds so bad. I'm sorry.
Autistic cousin, a special needs cousin.
Not quite sure if it was exactly autism, but it seems.
Just somewhere on the spectrum. Yeah. Yeah.
But his mother would always take him to church.
So, you know, and then, you know, he wasn't,
he was nonverbal as well.
And so he would have his like,
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I for lack of a better way to put it,
I guess you could say his outbursts or something,
something along those lines where he would get aggressive
and stuff like that, you know, mis-service.
And as, as little kids not knowing what's happening,
it might freak you out a little bit at first,
but then you kind of like learn more about it as you go,
especially, you know, talking to the mom.
And you just kind of be able to understand it more,
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understand them more. And, you know,
because I feel like at first as kids, you know,
if you're not really like exposed to it,
it can be a little, it's scary.
A little strange. It's like, who are these people?
Yeah. It's a little strange at first,
cause you know, in the mind of a child,
it's like, oh, they're not,
you feel like something's wrong with them,
but that's not necessarily like it.
Yeah. You know what?
But kids are so sweet.
Like I'm watching this one little girl right now
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and she's actually in a wheelchair.
And like I will, I catch these kids staring for days.
Like they will literally stop walking
and just be looking at her for heck along.
And I'm just like, are you going to ask what's wrong?
Like what's going on here?
And then eventually they're like,
so what's wrong with her?
And I'm like, well, there's nothing wrong with her.
And I try to explain it to them that it's just like,
cause she has cerebral palsy.
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So that just, it's a function in the brain
that doesn't let her body function the way
that the rest of our bodies function.
So yeah. So I was just trying to explain it
to like six year olds and they're like, oh, okay.
And I'm like, yeah.
And they just walk away and I'm like, okay, cool.
Like, I don't know if you really cared,
but thank you for asking.
Hopefully they understand.
Yeah. So yeah.
That's good, man.
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How are you?
Me?
How's Mr. DeShawn Forest?
Me, man.
So how I'm doing.
So at the time of us shooting this,
DeShawn Forest is super active behind the scenes.
And when I get real active behind the scenes,
I notice I kind of like slowly start to stop posting
as much on social media.
Cause it's like, man, there's other matters more important.
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They'll see this at some point.
Okay.
But yeah, man, I don't think I can, I mean, shoot,
this episode probably be out by the time.
Everything out?
Well, actually, yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'll just say-
So just keep it big.
Yeah. We just working on some very important stuff.
Got a lot of big plans.
Got a lot of things laid out before God, a lot of prayers.
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Prayers are being answered.
And then there's other prayers that I haven't heard yet.
So we just going through the process,
going through the motions and just trying to continue
to elevate and be great and get to a point where this is
like a full scale, well-oiled machine
and not just something that's being done on the weekends.
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Period.
Wow. Hurt my soul.
So that's what I've been working on.
Other than that-
You're not going to give us a little bit more.
That was like super vague.
I was like, just a little, just a little something.
Give us a teaser.
Little teaser.
Tease the people.
Well, I finished another music project.
Um, Piyom Piyom Piyom. Piyom Piyom Piyom Piyom Piyom.
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Skadoom doom.
Don DeMarco.
DeMarco.
But I finished another music project.
Let's go.
And you know, we just been kind of getting ready
for the release of that.
Yes.
A lot of stuff goes behind the scenes
when we're getting ready to release, you know,
you got to get your press kits and all of that kind of stuff.
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You got to get poop.
Darn. Okay.
You got to get poop and darn.
You got to get your press kits, your music videos,
your photo shoots, and then you just got to, you know,
call up the people that you want to work with.
You got to, you know, a whole lot of meetings,
a lot of stuff happens before anything comes out.
So that's kind of what I've going through
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the pre-release motions as I call it.
But yeah, that's pretty much been me.
I mean, work is work.
You know, it's not horrible.
It's pretty smooth. It's good. You know?
So when people say work is work,
does that mean that they like their jobs or the silence?
Ah, that was heavy.
Well, for me, when I say work is work,
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I mean, it's like, it's cool.
It's fine. It's like-
I mean, they paying me, so.
Yeah. I mean, I'm not at risk of losing my job.
Yeah. You know?
Well, that's good. Woo.
You know? And yeah, I mean, it's paying.
But, you know, I'm longing for the day,
like I said, for where this is a well-oiled machine,
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and then I can scadaddle up out of there.
In the meantime, I got to do what I got to do.
But yeah, that's kind of where I've been, you know?
You know, I'm at a place now where mentally,
and I think this is a result of just
staying true to the journey.
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Okay. Staying true to the journey.
Everyone that's like has made it always say,
like, the journey is the best part,
not necessarily the destination.
Anyone who keeps up with the content or with the music
knows that I like to create exactly
in the moment that I'm in.
So, you know, I don't necessarily want to,
like, wait till I get to the top and then be like,
okay, now let me tell you about it.
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I want to tell you about it as it's happening.
So maybe what I'm about to say is a result
of staying true to the journey,
but I feel like now more than ever,
like, the things that I'm going after feel like more-
unattainable, like they're closer in age.
It feels a lot more, it feels like,
because, you know, you go through these things
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where it's all mental.
The battle is really, for me at least, it's all internal.
No, it is all mental.
And at first it feels, man, it's so far away.
Maybe it'll happen, maybe not.
Will I ever get there?
And then you just kind of keep going,
you keep climbing up, and then it's like,
yo, wait a minute, there's actually a chance-
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Come on.
That, you know, I believe it will happen,
but there's a chance that it could happen pretty soon.
Yeah.
You know?
And so that's where I've been at.
It's like, yo, this joint, you know,
if God decides to, you know-
Speed it up.
Or if he just approves of the timing,
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because it's all God's timing.
If he approves of the timing, you know,
it could be, you know, it could be now.
Because, you know, I look at everything,
I'm being vague on purpose.
I don't want to say too much.
I know, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
I look at everything and it's like,
okay, last time probably didn't work for X, Y, Z reasons.
That's not the case now.
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Okay, maybe this was out of place,
so I rearranged pieces and do this here.
Pray about this, pray about that.
Things start happening, you know,
pieces start coming together, people start coming together.
You know, and it's like, yo, wait a minute,
this is like what you need to elevate
as like a group, like you need that oneness.
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You need that, those connections, those open doors,
those people that are willing to give you opportunities
and not wait till, not necessarily wait
till you got a bandwagon to hop on, you know what I mean?
Because it's easy to hop on somebody's bandwagon
when they got some buzz, but it's like,
you know, people's like, no, I see what you're doing.
I see your potential.
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I want to help, stuff like that.
And, you know, so I see stuff like that
and I get a little juiced.
I get a little juiced, but I get like super determined
and I'm like, you know, I get real, like, I guess,
obsessed and it's like, yo, baby.
But yeah, that's me.
Okay, well that's good.
All I focus on is this kind of stuff.
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Okay, I was like, what do we have
for the people in season two?
Season two, man.
What is it looking like?
For me. What it look like?
This is for me, from my perspective, season two.
Well, first, let's talk about season one briefly
and I'll go into season two.
Okay, yeah, let's talk about it.
Season one was absolutely fun to shoot.
It was so much fun.
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And we loved it.
For me personally, it was like my leap of faith season.
Aw.
Nah, like for real, because like,
Leap of faith season.
If you remember on our Chasing Our Dreams episode,
I think it was maybe that one or maybe one,
the one right before it, where I talked about how,
when I was first getting into music,
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I needed like a leap of faith project,
just to see that I can actually do it.
I feel like that was episode six.
It may have been that dreams episode, but.
It was.
I needed, for musically, I needed a project
that was like a leap of faith that I can prove to myself,
yo, I can actually do it.
I can commit the time.
I can be consistent.
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I can actually put effort into it and get it done.
And, you know, try different things and, you know,
just put myself out there like that.
So I felt like for me, that was what season one was.
So then at that point, it's like, okay, do it again,
but like, do it better.
Period.
I know for a fact, there's a lot of topics
that we wanted to get on,
that we actually hinted at in season one,
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but didn't touch on it for various reasons.
And there's just, you know, just expect better, you know,
expect better conversations, more deeper conversations,
expect a greater show, better production.
Like, this feels very like radio station to me.
Yeah, it does.
Just expect, you know, like great efforts,
(20:05):
efforts towards greatness.
Yeah.
That's for real.
Dang, well, my perspective from season one
actually was kinda like, he's talking about leaps of faith.
I feel like it was kinda like a push of faith
because I was like, I don't know if I can do it.
And then he's like, we're doing this.
And I'm like, okay, if we're doing this, it's happening.
And so, yeah, so honestly, it was season one for me.
It just showed me, it showed me a lot about myself
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because I think I just was struggling a lot.
And y'all probably heard me throughout the season,
just how I'd be like, I don't know if I believe in myself.
I don't think I ever said it,
but it was just always like that,
mm, like a lot of self doubt.
But I definitely feel that season one
gave me a lot more confidence
and just let me really tap into my creativity
and just my ability, like you can do it.
Like, and not only can you do it,
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but you're doing amazing at it.
And so, yeah, so for season two, I'm just super excited.
I'm excited for just the conversations, the guests.
And yeah, I'm just excited to continue to have a fan club.
No, I'm just excited though,
to continue to just give y'all these episodes.
And yeah, cause I just feel like y'all get to know us more,
we get to know y'all more.
(21:08):
And just thank you for everyone
who just faithfully watched every episode.
And just for those of you who tapped in every once in a while,
like we really do love and appreciate y'all.
And we just want y'all to keep coming back,
keep giving us feedback,
cause we get better as y'all continue to give us feedback
and answer our surveys and things like that.
So we just appreciate y'all.
Heck yeah.
And y'all know if y'all stay consistent with it,
(21:31):
that I typically shout out everyone.
I'm gonna take the opportunity to shout out Mo,
cause you was talking about, you-
I was like, what?
Yeah, totally unexpected.
Right.
But you was talking about how like,
it was like a push of faith,
whether or not you can do it, whether, you know,
stuff like that.
I'm about to gas you up real quick.
I was like, don't gas me up.
Nah, bro, like Mo, like for this show is like,
(21:55):
like I can't even entirely put it in the words.
One, like the creative direction of this joint
in large part was driven by her.
The freaking name for crying out loud was from Mo.
Like, you know, and I'm taking note of this like on my own
(22:17):
and I'm thinking about this, I'm like,
she got something, bro.
She got something like, we gotta do this.
And you know, that's, you know,
that's one of the reasons why I wanted to do this so much
because like Mo is just like a well of like creative ideas.
I am, I am.
Like she provides a different like perspective
(22:37):
and a different set of like brain power that I
just don't have, you know,
and probably can't even really develop all of the way
because we do podcasts and that's cool.
I go home and I pull up, I turn on my computer
and now I'm working on music stuff
or I'm working on, maybe I'm working on getting
(22:58):
certain designs done or, you know,
maybe I'm writing out films and music videos.
So while, you know, while Chris is editing the episodes,
me and Brandon can go off and shoot a music video.
It's a lot more, lot more responsibility for me,
but Mo is like all in for like unrehearsed, not to say that.
I'm not, but like she, just what she brings to it
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creatively and just like for the show.
Down to the little things.
If y'all remember like the photos we took for season one,
the color scheme, she dressed me for that episode, bro.
I'm not even joking.
I'm not even a fashion person.
I'm not even joking.
Like she literally provided like the colors, you know,
she provided, you know, she provided the set,
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like the set we own is because of Mo.
So all that to say, you got it.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
I'm gonna humbly accept all the kind things
you've said about me.
Don't doubt yourself.
You got it.
You good.
Thank you.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
But yeah, man.
We ended on that episode.
We ended on that.
Yeah, I would say so.
Yeah, unrehearsed.
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We don't know how to start and we don't know how to end.
Right.
Yeah, stay tuned for season two.
We just wanted to tap in and just kind of, you know,
kind of bridge the gap a little bit,
let y'all know what's been going on in our lives
and what's been going on behind the scenes
for unrehearsing for all the transparency,
trying to take it up.
And we here.
Y'all know what I'm saying?
(24:24):
Bye fam.
Till next time, you dig?
ils
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If you eat, sleep, and breathe true crime, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT is serving up your nightly fix. Five nights a week, KT STUDIOS & iHEART RADIO invite listeners to pull up a seat for an unfiltered look at the biggest cases making headlines, celebrity scandals, and the trials everyone is watching. With a mix of expert analysis, hot takes, and listener call-ins, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT goes beyond the headlines to uncover the twists, turns, and unanswered questions that keep us all obsessed—because, at TRUE CRIME TONIGHT, there’s a seat for everyone. Whether breaking down crime scene forensics, scrutinizing serial killers, or debating the most binge-worthy true crime docs, True Crime Tonight is the fresh, fast-paced, and slightly addictive home for true crime lovers.