November 1, 2024 • 51 mins
Born and raised in Montreal, Maya decided to take a train to Toronto, and see what happens with her career, after releasing some amazing music back at home! Taking a page out of Andy Kim's book, she took a chance and inserted herself in T.O. to see what she could make of it. The result, a new album, acting and voice over work, and that's just the beginning! This was a fantastic conversation. Thanks again to our friend, Beth, for making this happen!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Silly, Episode one zero four of this pokey little podcast
that we do call Canadian as Heck. Right here, Revolution Radio, Canada,
nine pm E Certain Standard time. My name is Craig Ge,
(00:45):
alongside my man dmitriolex SIU and Derek Lewis, who is
currently trying to sign in having some tech issues unfortunately,
but we will. We will be chatting with him very
very shortly, so looking forward to that. We have a
new bestie here at Revolution in Radio Canada. Her name
is Maya Milk and we're going to have a chat
with you, my friend. So I just wanted to say
(01:06):
huge thanks for joining us tonight. We greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Of course, thank you so much for having me awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, so our good friend at beth At. What's the story.
So she's actually helped us out a few times now,
which is great. So she's one of our best ties
as well. And yeah, so you can't thank her enough.
So listen, let's get right into this, my friend. Let's
kind of start at the beginning and sort of, you know,
take everyone through sort of your journey and kind of
(01:34):
where you are in your art, you know these days.
Where were you born?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I was born in Montreal, Quebec, I think specifically Lasal
Hospital if you want to do too. Yeah, born and
raised Montreal.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Nice. When did you move to Toronto?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I just moved to well, actually I say just, but
it's been like almost four years now, so in November
it'll be fourth or all. I've been here for four years.
I moved here in November twenty twenty, like peak pandemic.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So oh wow, So you've spent basically your whole life
pretty much, I guess then, if that's the case, mostly
in Montreal.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, yeah, I I mean, well, so my mom has
always been in Montreal and my dad has always been
in Toronto. So I was one of those like literally
since before I was born they weren't together, so it
was kind of like always going back and forth between
Montreal and Toronto for holidays and stuff. So I definitely
and my siblings lived in Toronto and stuff, so it
never felt like it wasn't home. But I definitely didn't
know the city super well. I'm definitely born and raised
(02:35):
Montreal and like that's my hometown, but it didn't feel
too foreign to come to Toronto either.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Did you plan to move during the pandemic?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
No, could plan anything during the pandemic.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I mean I was already the pandemic when I decided
to move, but it was because I had always I
knew that I wanted to experience living in Toronto, and
after I graduated Universe City, instead of moving, I kind
of ended up in a relationship instead, and it was
kind of this like I felt like my trip to
my I don't know, my Toronto experience got delayed. So
I finally when COVID hit and I was like not
(03:11):
in that relationship anymore, and I just bought my first
like car for me. I was like, you know what,
what's stopping me from just driving and living there? And
like I was so bored already that like I felt
like at least, you know, my daily mental health walks,
I got to experience like new you know, buildings and
streets as opposed to just like I don't know, kind
of felt helped me feel like my life was moving
forward in a very stagnant time.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
FANTASTICO. So what's essentially when did music get started for you?
Would you be able to kind of give us like
an age roundabout roughly? Yeah, I mean like bands, because
we do obviously we've got one band here that we
we'd have to talk to you about that.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, Oh, hello.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
There, sore.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Derek just wanted Derek, I just wanted to let you
know we appreciate your name in the bottom left hand
corner of your screen.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Direct shirt cocking.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Unbelievable. So welcome, Welcome by It's a revolution radio care.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Like the pandemic conversation that you were just having. Hello Maya.
By the way, I'm not wearing fucking pants.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh yeah, that's like the at home zoom calls or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah exactly, I no, no, no, we know, we don't
have to know.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I'm gonna I'm actually gonna make sure it's that's it.
I'm not wearing pants. And I'm gonna that's that's I'm
sorry I've been.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So we're welcome Derek Lewis to the broadcast. So yeah,
let's let's let's go back to your musical beginnings.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah yeah, I mean I it started from a young age,
I think just because I all my whole families in
the entertainment industry. So from I grew up in a
very creative family, like all almost all of my family
works in like the film industry or like somehow on.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
TV or and what type of work do they do?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
So my mom is a film producer. My dad spent
a lot of his career as a first assistant director
for a lot of like Hollywood movies. And then he
invented a board game and that really wait wait.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Wait wait what he invented a board game? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Do you know do you know the game things taking
in a wooden box?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Okay probably.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, they have it at Snakes and Lante. They actually
did a whole series with Snakes and Lante. At one
point he actually hit just the game was on like
Ellen and stuff like three times, like it was a
successful game. Yeah, okay, anyways, and now he's making a
new game. But also my uncle is like, I don't
know if you guys know who Evan Solomon in, but
Solomon is he.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Was the editor Shift and he was you're Evan Solomon
is your uncle?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You want to get him on the program I just like.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
He doesn't. Yeah, he's the nicest guy ever.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
All I would love to have on the programs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway,
sorry sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Him and my aunt just moved to New York and yeah,
so anyways, but yeah, my whole family, that's my vibe.
Like my my, my dad's wife, Christine, my stepmom, she's
a radio personality. So everyone's kind of already doing this
kind of thing. So it's kind of interesting because it's like, honestly,
me doing music is like almost like the black sheep
of the family because no one else is doing music.
But it never felt weird to do like a creative
(06:28):
sort of path for me. So and it was all
that to say that my mom enrolled me in a
fine arts school pretty young, Like as of grade three,
I was attending a school called Face in Montreal, which
is a stance for fine arts core education. So I had,
you know, choir classes, instrumental classes, drama and all that
from super young age, and yeah, I was learning piano
(06:50):
at home, taking guitar lessons, and that's kind of like, yeah,
so super super young, like grade three, I had to play.
I had to learn how to play the classical flute
for like seven years.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Man, I just interject that I'm very much enjoying all
the pantomime, for all the musical instruments that you play.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm like, my wife does exactly the same thing. Right.
She will say I had a drink of coffee this morning, right,
and she'll show you a mug.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I can't help that.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
She's a hand talker as well. So it's all good.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I know, you guys know what a piano is.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
This, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I was like, well, for the hearing impaired, you know,
for those people that you know they're right maybe you know.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
And then oh, she's talking about piano.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Can you play the triangle?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I'm not very good at rhythm.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
But why let me.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Ask you this. Who were some of your earliest musical influences.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh yeah, I mean there's it's it's so hard to say.
I feel like I grew up in the era of
kind of like you know, like film soundtracks and stuff
like that. So I feel like you know, Mike CDs,
Burn CDs and stuff, but like so many like I
feel like, you know, I was It's kind of like
Teeking and Sarah. The Con is kind of the album
that I go back to a lot because it was
the first. Yeah, it's great. It's one of the first
(08:20):
albums that I was gifted that I like heard, and
I was like, oh, these people have kind of like
voices like my voice. Like I'm not out here belting
or anything, you know, it's very like the voices are
very calm and soothing, and they weren't doing anything super
extravagant vocally, but they were super cool. And that kind
of like made me realize, Oh, I think, like maybe
(08:42):
I can sing then if they can sing, you know,
like this is cool music, and I feel like I
can make music like this. So I go back to
that record. But like, you know, there was like a
lot of like MGMT and stuff when I was in
high school, kind of the indie ALLLT bands of that era,
I mean, all American rejects. I went to a few
of their.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Cults absolutely, yeah, great stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, And I mean I also I grew up you know,
having like like all the classics, like the Britney Spears CDs.
Avril Levine was one of my first concerts I had
listened to, like Billy Talent and so, I don't know,
I like a lot of Canadian artists, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Okay, so good for you. I was actually all of
the bands that you're talking about. I worked at a
radio station in Toronto called CF and Y, and so
I was there during that whole period with all of
that great stuff, the Strokes and Frans Ferdinand and Billy Talent.
You know, Billy Talent. Ben Kualowitz that used to work
at that radio station. He was working there when he
(09:38):
was rehearsing with Billy Talent. Yeah, so really really cool stuff.
So yeah, you you grew up in a great time
with with you know, being influenced by some amazing stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah. And then also like kind of like you know,
the movies of the time, Like I was super intolately
the ten things I hit about You and stuff. I
had all those CDs that had all those like mixed
kind of like soundtracks, and I was a classic teenage
groll you know. So I also had my Likelizie McGuire
movie sounds.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Like brilliant great love movies are great, love.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It, love it, but I know it right, all of
that stuff Scott Pilgrim and.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
All all those one of my favorite Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, speaking of metric, uh right, yeah, so perfect. So
if if you are kind of like, what is that
sound in the background, My two dogs are play fighting
right now?
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Nobody cared.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Oh wow, No, it's okay. Derek and I. Derek and
I have kind of been in each other's throats all day,
so it's okay. Uh So, now you've made me lose
my train of thought.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Thanks Derek, you were Danny Elfman, No, you.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Are okay, okay, inside jokes, never mind, never mind.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Just damn just as long as as of an acting
background as as your music background though.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Well, so I wanted to be an actor. Yeah, when
I first started, when I was a kid, I actually
I had like an agent and everything was part of
the union and stuff from very young agent, going to
auditions and stuff, because I thought that that was my path.
But I kind of realized that acting acting. You can
love acting as much as you want, but you still
(11:18):
need like eighty five people to agree that you are
the person to get the job, you know. Whereas with
when I started to do music, and started to write
my own songs. You know. I kind of started writing
my own songs when I had like my first like
breakup and was experiencing all these intense emotions, and I
was like where do I put them? And so I
started to write music and I realized that I could
just at the time, I could just like put them
(11:38):
on SoundCloud and share them with my whatever hundred friends
on there, and it was already out and people could
just say things. And then it was like I was
experiencing this creative outlet that was like very different to acting.
And also I was able to do it immediately and
no one could had to give me permission.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, so I would you sorry to make sure would
be able to hazard of guesses to what you or
was you started putting things on sound Cloud?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I want to say as early as like like I
want to say as early as maybe twenty ten, because
I was I was trying to learn to like that's
when I was like I was not good then, but
that's I was just doing whatever I could, and I
was kind of like playing on garage band and like
recording things like on my computer and stuff like. It
(12:24):
was it wasn't great, but it was I was trying,
and it was definitely like the leeway, right, Like that's
how I ended up meeting my bandmates and everything. Like.
But but yeah, I think with acting, it kind of
I fell out of love with it when I realized
how much work it was. And also I hated auditioning
so much it took up my whole day for like
a one line across the city. And like I'm at
(12:46):
this point, I'm like in university and I'm like, I
don't I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Do it, and it progressful as hell.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
It is.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
It's a it? Am I?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Am I what they want? Am I going to say
it the right way? Are the Is it the wrecked monologue?
Am I gonna stumble over words?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Am I sitting in the room with like seven people
that like look the same as you as well?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Exactly the same?
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Right?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Pressed me out? But honestly, I fell back in love
with acting when I moved to Toronto. I got an
agent here for voiceover work, which is what I use
this for. We'll talk to yeah, but but yeah, so
I kind of transitioned away from on camera stuff, although
my agency is pushing me a little bit for some
more on camera commercial like stuff, but really I mostly
(13:31):
use my voice now for most of the things that
I love you.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, you had no you had a first question, you
were in you go okay, big guy.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
So breakups are amazing for music historically, historically, and so
that and a lot of that was like, okay, that
motivated you to sound cloud and also that was like
your your Congratulations album was my breakup.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, but I just saw you have a Second City
shirt on. I did a two week program at Second
City for improvlems. Anyways, it was super super fun.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
But yeah, it totally is. It totally is. But I
don't know whether you want.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
All right, go ahead, but yes, talk about Second City
for an hour.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I know, I know, and that's not what that might
not be what our audience is here for.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
But it's fine.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
They got on the wall and there.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
It started in Chicago, though, Derek.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
But but yeah, are you gonna call me shirt cockin sure?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Concin? I was, well, will you accept that as your name?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I will accept that as my name.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Revolution Radio when it's affiliates do not support anything that
comes out of Derek's.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Mouth anyways, and then your realize name.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Sure you deserve that, Derek, I don't I don't take
it badly.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
No, man, I make up.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I make up stupid names names for.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
A real name. For Derek, Lewis is his name.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Lewis is my real name.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
For the longest time, I had like uh derk Wonderstone uh,
and then I was I was Derek Alan Cross but
with without with a lot more expletives.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Lewis.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, I just I don't know. It's it's I just
I have fun with my life. And you know why
what Derek shirtcockn is just it's just funny.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
If you say so, Derek, if you say so.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
You have a lot of it. You said it, you
did it. And then if I ran with.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It, so Derek, you actually were gonna have a question
in mind I have.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I also didn't. I don't feel like I answered to.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Nobody cares.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Yeah, but why why do you so? Why do you think?
Why do you think that that the breakup fueled you creatively?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I mean that album so like that's my first solo
album release, right, which came out last year.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Was a relationship.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Oh dear, Yeah, it was. It was a very intense relationship.
It's one of those things where it's like it started
out great, but it was it ended up really toxic
and really abusive, unfortunately, And I think it was like
there were so many emotions that were being pent up
in me that I like felt like once I finally
broke free, I was like, I got so much to say.
(16:37):
This whole album is gonna be just every like the
whole album. I kind of like described it as like
the beginning of the end because the first song, which
is Honey, it has a little bit of like something
is not working here, even though it's kind of a bouncy,
fun song. But then every song afterwards kind of just
goes through like the end of the end. So the
beginning of the end to the very end. And like,
you know, my first song that I released was Hostage
(16:57):
from that album End. Even in the title there, it's
like the song is super bouncy and fun, but if
you listen to the lyrics, it's not super jolly.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
So right, and just to follow up before we go
to Shirtcocking, it's shirt pocket. So do you and do
you think that that the process of making all that
music uh developed you develop forced you to grow in
a certain way and learn something about yourself.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Oh yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, like, like music
has always been a way for me to kind of
express my emotions. Like when I was younger, I wasn't
necessarily like I don't want see like a shy kid,
but I feel like I was shy in some ways,
like I was super outgoing, but then there were somewheres
with like it was like I only was really expressing.
Sometimes I didn't understand how I felt until I was
like putting it into like musical format, you know, and
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it's like that's when stuff starts coming up and you're like, oh, wait,
this is how I'm feeling about this. Yeah, And I
feel like there were so many little melodies swirling in
my head at the end of that relationship and when
I finally left and started to Actually, when I wrote Hostage,
I wasn't even fully gone from the relationship. I went
to a SOACAN writing workshop in Toronto, and I was like,
y'all at the time, and uh, it was supposed to
(18:11):
be four of us and two of the people ended
up being six. It was just like me and a
producer in the room. So we usually had a SOCN
writing workshop. You're like, who's the song going to be for?
We'll discuss after. But if it's just me and a producer.
I was like, I guess it's for me. But at
this point I didn't even really have a solo project,
so I was just doing I had my other band,
you know and stuff. So I was like, I don't know,
that song poured out of me. We had from like
(18:32):
nine am to five pm to write a song. Hossage
was like born, and it was kind of like, Oh,
I think I'm gonna start a solo project. I think
I'm going to bring up with my boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So oh.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Do you think that that idea of a solo project
would have ever happened to you if more people had
shown up.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Honestly, I think yes. I think I was moving towards
that already kind of it was already kind of bubbling here,
but it definitely launched it. And like when I showed
it to the Soaka office and stuff, you know, they
were so like, this is an awesome song and then
they made it like the Soakan Song of the Week
and all these things. So it kind of like started me,
like at the beginning of meeting, like oh, maybe this
is something that I is like exciting and that I
could actually like do you know.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Well, I would just like to extend thanks to the
people who didn't show up.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
And ex boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yes, thank you, the divine forces that were on that day, Derek.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yes, sir, Yeah, I just like saying it.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
It's good.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
I have a two part question. Oh, I have two questions.
It's not two parts.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's just going to take fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
One if I had a mute button.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I'm the host, you can't. Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
One.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
My first question, what was the name of the young
lady that walked into the bar you were working at
with the ukulele that you ended up playing in a
band with.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Her name is Emily Skane. Did you find that information
on the internet. Yeah, her name is Emily Skane. And yeah,
that is a very happenstancey circumstantial thing that also kind
of happened. That was like if that hadn't happened, holy moly,
(20:23):
like a good ten years of my life would just
be gone, which is so weird. But yeah, I was
starting a job at a karaoke bar and I got
there and no one was there to train me, Like
the manager had not showed up, and Emily had quit,
So she had recently quit and she was coming into
the bar to pick up her four percent. So this
is truly the last time that that this was this
(20:46):
could have potentially happened. So I was just trying to
I had never worked at a bar before. I was
like eighteen. I didn't know how anything worked. I was
like trying to pour like like a glass of beer
and it was pouring four leater pictures and so it
was just like I didn't know what I was doing.
And anyways, she walked in. She put her like little
ukulele on the bar, and she was like, do you
need help? And I was like, yes, literally don't know
(21:09):
a lot of help. Yeah, So she kind of trained
me a little bit. She was teating me how to
use everything. And then during that I was like, oh,
like you have a little ukulele here, like do you
write music? And she was like yeah, actually where like
me and my bandmate were looking for like a third
girl for our like female led project. And I was like, oh, well,
I kind of make you know I'm a girl, Like
(21:30):
I'm a girl. I got a sound cloud that's kind
of shitty, but like there's stuff on there, and so
I gave her the link to my SoundCloud and yeah,
within like I think three or four days, I was
in their living room and we were kind of just
playing each other songs and the band like technically already existed.
They had had another third member that left for BC,
(21:50):
but I feel like I kind of just fit right
in as like the missing puzzle piece, and we I
don't know really that motel like really happened so randomly
and then so quickly, like we only had ten songs,
and it wasn't like we were like, these are the
best songs we have. We were just like, these are
the songs we do have, and you know, and we
(22:11):
all record them and like we did like a fun
breathing like a crowdfunding Indiegogo campaign thing to kind of
get it going. And because one of the songs was
in search Light at the time, it was the first
time that search Light had ever happened, and we ended
up getting first in Montreal and then fourteenth in all
of Canada. That's how our managers found us, So before
(22:32):
even our first album was out, but it was being
recorded because we had crowdfunded it. We all of a
sudden had managers who had just who had just stopped
managing Walk Off the Earth and then all of a sudden,
Warner Canada also attached to this project and it was like,
and we're about to release our first album that we
were like we did with like a little shoe string.
Were like, doesn't sound very good, but hopefully it's fine.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It was so far well, it was great for one
And look at look at look at all.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Like the stand of your career is all by happenstance.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I know, like you're just in the right position for
this thing, and then you're in the right position for
this thing, and then you're in the right position for
that thing. Lucky girl, I'm excited to see where else
you go. Like this is this is you're literally a
doctor Seuss book. It's it's fascinating.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I think, you know, you have to be in the
right place at the wrong time, but you also have
to have the right kind of like mindset and like
be able to seize the opportunities as they come, because
I think, you know a lot of people would. I
was super shy when I joined that band, and I
think you know, the first few shows we played, it
was like disastrous. I don't know what I was doing.
I was stopping and starting. I was like I don't
want to be looked at. But you know, it took
(23:41):
the chance anyways, because I kind of had this like
thing in my gut that I was like, you gotta
do this.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So it's really it's great that you say that, demetries me, Derek.
Second part is going to come up in two seconds.
But when Dmitri and I interviewed the great Canadian legend
Andy Kim, he said a lot of same thing of
the same things along those lines of you know, yeah,
if you're in the right place at the right time,
you just kind of have to let things sort of happen,
like just just got yourself in that put yourself in
(24:08):
that place and and just kind of let it happen.
And Andy Kim talked about that a long action.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Yeah, yeah, cool, yeah, because like that's a that's an
improv lesson, yes, and.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yes, absolutely, and I feel that's improv but I guess
I picked that up. But yeah, you know, you really
have to just you do have to kind of let
it happen. Like a lot of people don't realize that,
like so much of a successful career in anything is
like all the times that you fell into got back
up right, like a bit cliche, but it's like, yeah,
(24:39):
we like messed up a lot of times. We had
so many bad shows. We didn't do everything perfectly, but
like you know, still here doing it. So that's how
you have a career eventually, just a bunch of things
that like some mistakes and then something's go right and
that's great.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Exactly what you do it.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
My second question bubble tea and what flavor.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Pearl milk tea? Oh do you guys?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Why wait? Why do you ask that?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Because it's yeah, I do know that you like bubble tea.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
He's being a little nerd waish, right, That's what.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
I do well that I do.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I find tidbits of information, I go, this will screw
them up.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
And I'm just waiting for Derek to be like and
in twenty eleven, you entered the kitchen at about eight.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
No, no, it never gets crast it's going on.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
No, no, no, yeah, no. Pearl milk tea is definitely
me too.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I like the tapioca, I'm not like I do like
the tabioka. The bubbles, yes, but I get it half sweet.
I don't like it too sweet, and I really don't
like the fruit ones. It's not for me. Nope.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I do a regular sugar fifty percent excuse me, fifty
percent sugar regular ice.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
See.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, nice, Hell.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I can't do it. Bubble tea, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I have I have.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I tried it, and I've tried it two or three
times now, and I'm just like, I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Have you tried Hour one though the promo t fifty
sugar regularly?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I have not, So.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
We're gonna have to go for bubble tea and almost
see what you think after that.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Done, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I'm not like a big like I don't drink promo
tea or like a bubble tea every day, but when
I do go that's my guy.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
So this Thursday is Halloween?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Is it true?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
And it's also the release of It's a Me Thing?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yes? Very true?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Yeah? Why did you is that rigged? Did you rig
an album release on Halloween?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I break Halloween? It's all, it's all.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
This is all because of you. Amaz No.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
So essentially I'm kind of just like it is my
album released on Thursday, yes, and I don't want to
take away from it. But at the same time, there's
only one new song that's coming out on Thursday. Like
my album. I got funding from the Toronto Arts Council
and the Ontario Arts Council maybe two years ago to
make this record, and I learned from my first album
(27:21):
release that I wanted to release a lot of the
songs as singles in order to have them each kind
of like have a moment, because I found when I
released Congratulations, the songs that eversed to singles that did
really well, and then the ones that I didn't kind
of fell off and it was hard to get people
to pay attention to like four songs at a time
sort of thing, you know. So I decided that I
was going to roll out the album like I essentially
(27:43):
set myself up for a Nightmary year this year, which
was a song released every five weeks and trying to
like like get people the pre save and have enough
content and all this stuff to like push every song.
But it did actually work in my favor in the
sense that, like all of the songs have gotten a
lot more love that way. So the final song that's
coming out on Thursday, which brings the whole all the
(28:05):
songs I've been releasing all year long into this pretty
bow where I can tell the Ontario Arts and Toronto
Arts that I did, in fact release an album is
called Welcome to My Funeral. So when I was looking
at the calendar and I knew it was going to
be in October anyways, I thought, well, it's a funeral
theme song and it'll probably be like some sort of
funeral theme visuals attached. Why not release it on Halloween?
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Good shoe? So it would you start marketing?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, I think you should actually make a video for it.
Make sure that you're dressed in lots of black, with
black neil polish, right white, you know, face paint, lots
of gothic imagery. I think you should do a video
for this song.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I was. I was thinking about that too. I thought
it would be a really fun video of almost like
like a zombie like couple, because the song is about
like kind of like trying to rebirth yourself and like
everyone's invited to my funeral, but it's not really my funeral.
It's actually like kind of like my like coming into
myself party. And the song is kind of shaped as
(29:08):
like a love song in the sense that there's like
a lot of like I buried my heart like six
feet underground. No one's gonna find it just leave me
alone and like sort of thing. So I thought it
might be funny to have kind of like a zombie
that had kind of like eaten my brains being like,
I'm so sorry that I hurt your feelings. I'm like, no, no, no,
you can't come to my funeral.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
You know that's awesome. We should get Derek to film
it for you.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
So sure, that could be a thing.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
It could be a thing.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I actually have this whole thing in my head where
instead of instead of being being being dead, you kind
of regenerate through the through the end and by the
end of the song, you're You're back to.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
You mm yeah, or I'm like a vampire, you know,
like I never die after that.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
That's also good. But the but It's a Me thing
is also different from congratulations in that congratulations is fueled
by breakup and the making of It's a me thing.
You're not an emotional upheaval, and like what was writing
in that state? Like for you?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
It was super interesting, Like this whole solo project has
been interesting for me right because I come from a
band background where I'm used to having like literally instruments
and people in a room where we're like building the
songs that way, kind of the more old fashioned way.
But then also, you know, when you're in a band,
there's and especially one that's led by multiple people, there's
you know, we always had to there's like, of course,
(30:33):
there's some compromising and stuff. Sometimes compromise can be awesome,
and sometimes it can feel like, oh I wish it
kind of could have done it my way. So you know,
it's like this solo project was kind of my venture
into what does it look like when everything is done
just by like my way sort of thing, and what
does that sound like? And so for Congratulations, I was
super super hands on, and I was like, no one
(30:56):
is writing with me. I'm the only writer on this,
Like everybody else can just freak right off. But for
the second.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
You're allowed to swear on this show, by the way, it's.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
No good, So that way, yeah, yeah, So I really
just wanted it to be kind of just my point
of view, my lens and stuff, and I had, like
I said, a lot to say. But then when I
came to the second album, you know, like I said,
I had gotten the Toronto and the Arts Council grants
quite a bit in advance for the second album, and
so my deadlines were starting to come up, and I
(31:27):
was like, oh, I have to write a whole older album,
and I my heart's not hurting right now. I'm totally fine,
Like what am I gonna say? And that's when I
started to be like, Okay, you know what, maybe I
can loosen the not on this like it has to
be only me and only me at all times, and
I can like start inviting in some of my like
super awesome artist friends whose music I love, you know.
(31:48):
So a lot of my friends are in these writing
rooms with me. So I invited, you know, a few
people into different sessions. And I was kind of just
thinking like, okay, well what do I want to write about?
And I was like, well, the whole album my first
alb and so the only music that I have out
as a solo artist right now is all about this
one thing, and it's all a relationship. I kind of
want to write like steer away from relationships and talk
(32:10):
about other things. And then I was like, well, what
who am I? Who am I? You know? And so
I started to kind of like look at myself and
what makes up me? And I was, you know, there's
a song on there about my like my hypochondria. It's
a mean thing. Song is about being super indecisive and
(32:30):
just kind of like looking at these things that I
know to be true about myself and writing about that instead.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
So yeah, yeah, and so like and now how are
and how and what have you learned about yourself? Again?
Like at this time around?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That's a really good question. What have I learned about myself?
I learned that I am like regaining trust in life
myself in the sense that, like you know, when you're
in like an abusive relationship or something toxic, there's a
lot of like, oh god, am I making the right
decisions for things? And when I when I wrote the
(33:10):
first album, like I said, it was very just me
and the producer, and you know, that ended up being
awesome and working out. And then for this album, when
I invited people in, even though it's a bit nervous
to do that, it also was awesome and it ended
up working out. It's like I've kind of like just
realized that like when you trust yourself and you just
kind of like go for it, and you also involve
people that you trust and let people like good people
(33:30):
into your life that they can't really like, there's not
that much that can go wrong unless there's like a tragedy,
you know. So it's like I'm very much a believer
of now, Like the song writes itself, so no matter
who's in the room, it's probably going to write itself
as long as like, oh, obviously we're not just gonna
sit there and do nothing. We have to do something.
But like if there are some like some like words
(33:50):
that don't fit perfectly at the time, I'm always going
to be able to pinpoint it later and either fix
it in the session or afterwards. Yeah, I think I've
learned that, Like I am complicated person like anyone else,
and I think, you know I I with the title
track the hook is like they say, when you know,
(34:13):
then you know. I guess I don't know yet, And
I kind of just have like learned to like embrace
the fact that it's okay to not know and to
absolutely keep just to like allow yourself that like grace
to like I don't do whatever you want, and like
the right thing will come and even if you don't know,
you will know eventually. Or it's also maybe you don't
know anything, Like maybe you don't ever really fully know,
(34:34):
and maybe you just have to just go for that,
you know, definitely right, do you do.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
A lot of write writing primarily by yourself first or
do you do a lot of writing sessions more more so?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
I I mean now that I'm like, so this is
part of part of why I wanted to move Toronto
as well, is that in Montreal it's not really well
at least the scene that I was in it was
very banned scene, right, like there's not really like writing
rams and a lot of the bands there don't really
want you in the writing room if they're not in
their band, They're like why are you here? So I
feel like in Toronto it's very much more so kind
(35:08):
of like a songwriter city. So it's definitely like at
first I would have said, you know, I used to
be way more like I would like for the band.
Sometimes I would like write a song by myself at
home and then bring it to the project and then
sometimes you would like have an idea in the room
and create a song like that. But it was very
much that was my band and these are the people
(35:28):
that I write with. And then when I left the project,
I already haven't left the project, but when I like
started this project instead, it was like Okay. I was
doing a lot of voice noting, like recording like lines
into my phone, which was not something I had ever
really done before for songwriting. Like usually I would sit
at my guitar and that's how the ideas would come.
But for this first album that I did, it was
(35:50):
very much like, Okay, this sounds catchy to me. Let
me just do this and then bring that to a
producer and then yeah. For this second album, some of
it was like, oh, I have an idea, but a
lot of it was going into the room with nothing
but being like, I think I like these songs right now.
These are my references for like songs that I'm listening to.
(36:12):
Maybe I'll want a song like this. I know that
maybe like what am I feeling right now? Because I
was also inviting like pretty much my best friends into
the songwriting rooms with me, right so it was like
we do that classic thing where it's like a bit
of a therapy session where it's like even one of
the songs on my album called Neutral, I was like,
I don't feel like I can write a song today
because I don't feel like I have any feelings. And
I was like, well, I guess that could be a song,
(36:33):
and so then you know song control was poor and
where it's yea perfect, So there's just like yeah, so
every it's interesting because also you know, I wrote some
other songs during that time, but the ones that really
ended up being part of this collection of songs are
all kind of in a similar topic or in a
similar kind of universe in my head, where it's like
(36:56):
I did end up writing a few other songs that
we really kind of like some are like love songs
or whatever, like heartbreak songs. I was like, doesn't work
on this album. That'll be after, It'll be for next year.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
Or something nice.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
So you're already ahead of the game.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Well then you gotta be apparently streaming world.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
So as far as the voiceover stuff goes, I've been
dying to ask you about this now. Yeah, like forty
minutes we've been talking. So as far as all the
voiceover stuff, is there anything that's out right now that
we would kind of go, oh, there's there's maya like,
is there is there anything?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Well? Yes, I know I do, like I've done some
some work for Pure Leaf and like Iced Tea, and
apparently it's all over Netflix, is what I'm hearing. If
you don't have the Netflix, it doesn't have ads. You're
apparently being bombarded with my voice twenty nice.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Here you go.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
But yeah, I've done a lot of like in the
last well I say a lot. It's still like really
like it's hard to like book them. There's a lot
of auditioning, but but I've.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Done a few voice things to it. It is hard.
It's really really hard.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Yeah, it is hard, but it is nice when you
I feel like, you know what. It took me eight
months of auditioning to like book my first everthing, and
then after that it kind of felt like it started
to roll. So now I've done like like I've been
the voice of Google. I did McDonald's. I did actually
an as mr spot for McDonald's. That was like I
had to like be like like whatever, and it was
(38:28):
like a Spotify ad. And so there's actually like Reddit
threads dedicated to how much they hate my McDonald's ad,
which I thought was very funny because I was like,
I just want to rip my.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Ears out if they're talking about you, that's a good thing, right, yeah, listen.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
That no one's gonna know that's me, so they will now,
But you know whatever, it's going to stay.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
A little late for that one.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
And that purple and pink ball is what you use
for your voiceover just for.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
My auditions, but I usually I'll go into like a
studio like Grayson or something to do like the final product.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
Yeah, the chaos balls are great, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
They're fantastic.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Yeah, it's a little handy tool because they don't really
have a soundproofed room.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yeah both. Yeah, the sound booth, Yeah exactly. Well that's awesome,
So listen, we do need to talk about kind of
next steps I think for you as far as it goes.
So the album comes out Thursday, which is fantastic. When
are you doing shows?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I have an answer to this question. I'm doing a show.
So the album released party is on November twenty third
in Toronto at Division eighty eight, and it's like a
that's like a less traditional space. So it's cool because
I got to invite some of my friends and who
aren't only like musicians to kind of do some stuff.
(39:49):
So we're gonna have like some like food and stuff.
It hasn't really been announced, but essentially, I'm one of
my friends who's a chef. He's like an influencer chef
and he's like gonna be there making food for us.
I have a lot of friends opening and stuff. The
openers have not really been announced, but they are on
the event right page, so I people want to go,
look they can. I just have a host on Instagram.
(40:12):
And then in Montreal, I'm also doing an album release
show on the twenty nine that Leni Star, which is
like this really cool venue. It's like an old bank,
and I'll have some openers there as well. So those
are my two shows right now. And I'm currently making
CDs and some new shirts and stuff of the first
and the second album for the CDs.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
So love it.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Yeah, I love I love the I love the era
that you grew up in. Right now, there's a bunch
of people listening, going, what's a CD.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
To know, like if I should be making tapes or
vinyls or CDs, like because people do buy like I
found with Motal It's like people love to walk away
with like a physical item like I do or something
I do.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I do, I do well, I just find it and everything.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Yeah, yeah, I just find that. Like well, speaking of
another Montreal artist, no bro Okay, that all female punk bit.
They I went to their show in January. They only
had a vinyl copy of their current album, and I
would and I so wanted a CD because I have
(41:18):
a CD player in my car still, and I'm like,
so that you there, because.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
I almost did vils and said, but they're just so
much more expensive and I just wasn't sure if like
people would actually buy them. So I said, I'm going
to start with CDs and then see if if that
does well, and then if people like those, then maybe
I'll do runner vinyls. But yeah, it's good to know
that people still have CD. It's true. They people have
c players.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Oh absolutely, yeah. Lots of cars still still do them. Soay.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Up until twenty twenty, I had a van that had
a tape player in it. So I used to have
like galanas more set and so you know, like, I
don't know, I think that's fun too.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
A little bit of pop trivia for you. As of
twenty twenty five, Ford f one fifties no longer come
with an AM radio.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
What oh yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Longer come with it. In the four one fifties do
not come with AM radios anymore.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Alan Cross is doing the whole thing on on the
on the the Death of AM Radio.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Oh cool, okay, well that's weird. Let's do it wrong.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Just so you know, twenty twenty five subarus still come
with a CD player?
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Oh there, nice?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Do you have I don't remember if I don't have
a twenty twenty five super Oh okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Did you just look it up just now? That's actually
quite impressive. That's some impressive Google foo skills. That was Yeah.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
I didn't even touch my phone.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Wow, that's amazing. That's what we call Google fo. Nice.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
What's Dimitri died?
Speaker 4 (42:41):
There?
Speaker 2 (42:41):
You go, Dimitri passed, passed out, he's back.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
All right, there's your music video right there. Dmitri died,
came back.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Well, listen, we really want to keep in touch with
you because I personally i'd love to I really would
love to see you play live. I really would. I
bet you just put on a killer show. So congratulations
on the new record this coming Thursday. All right, so
maybe sure that you freaking get it. If you don't
get it, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 5 (43:20):
If you don't get it?
Speaker 2 (43:21):
That's right. If you don't get it, I don't people, Yeah,
you're dead It's a mean thing comes out Thursday. Everywhere
you get your fine albums on streaming services as well
as CDs. You see what I'm doing. I'm doing. I'm
doing a back cell, so.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
It seems like a front cell.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
It seems like well cut.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
No one will be available till November twenty third, just
so you know, but but the after that will be online.
But I wanted to come to the show.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
Are they going to be tickets available for the show?
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Yeah? They tickets already. Yeah they're aready a?
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Oh are they?
Speaker 4 (44:00):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (44:01):
Sweet?
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Yeah, I'll put.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
The I'll look for the invent bright link and put
it in the and put it in the chat.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
Please do yeah, put it up there. We'll just wait
while you do it.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
You music background, We're not we're not playing the Jeopardy theme,
so listen. Is there We're going to play Welcome to
My Funeral, Maya. Is there anything that you would like
to uh to say about this tune before we spin it?
Speaker 5 (44:31):
And other than you but you already have.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
I mean, it's just kind of like a silly tongue
in cheek song, Like even the lyrics in there, you know,
we go like, oh silly me, where my heart? I'm
asleep again and now did good thing I dated you?
So it's kind of just like a silly Yeah, I
don't know. I love the song. Oh. Also it was
I wrote it with my friend Layla and this producer
(44:55):
Dex who he did that song stunning. Do you guys
want a song some neck? I'm a pretty boy. It's
a really big on TikTok anyway, so he was he
like reached out to me for it. So he's he's
part of the team for that one as well.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
Dude, you're on my earphone'shead. Cat he's adorable. His name
is Chuck Finley.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Actually, I have a cat who is named after pearl milk.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (45:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (45:29):
I have Chuck Finley and I have I don't know
where ema is being that being the being as being
the age that you are. That I don't actually know
the age you are, but considering you're talking about what
you're talking about musically, you know whoma is?
Speaker 5 (45:44):
I actually know you?
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Do you because you don't remember watching Emperor's New Groove?
Speaker 5 (45:51):
Oh my god, I loved by earth a Kid.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
I loved by earth a Kid. Yes, wait, I actually
loved that.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
Scary beyond all reasons. So long.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
Yeah, okay, well I'm gonna google the character because do it.
Speaker 5 (46:09):
Scary beyond all reason. No, we'll wait, We'll wait for
you to do it.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
I remember, Yeah, that's my cat and she is exactly
that character, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (46:22):
She is that character.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
She really is skinny.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
She actually she's no, she's actually quite fat because apparently
she gets three dinners because I wasn't informed that my
wife had fed them before she left, and so I
came home and then she was just yelling at me
all morning all night when I got.
Speaker 5 (46:40):
Home, and I was like, fine, I'll feed you here.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Sorry, geez, I had forgotten, and then she got food
and now she's left me alone.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
So she's quite fat. But she looks like Earth the kit.
Speaker 3 (46:52):
So that's hilarious. That's a deep cut. I'm gonna try
to watch that.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
You have to.
Speaker 5 (46:57):
It's so great.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Tong says, thanks.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
I helped out.
Speaker 5 (47:05):
Because put the link up in the thing.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
Yeah, is there is there another? Is there another event?
Right link for the Montreal album release?
Speaker 3 (47:15):
There is one for the Montreal but it's not an
event right it's but it's also in my it's on
the ministag website. It's in my like bio on Instagram.
But I can also like send it to you guys.
I guess I can find it.
Speaker 5 (47:28):
Yeah, if you go down. There's a little chat down here.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
It's just that I'm like on my iPad, so to
be able to copy it there, I think I would.
Speaker 5 (47:38):
Send us an email and we'll put it up or
make it.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
I can get best to Yeah, I can do it too.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
But anyway, Yeah, so there's a there's an album release
in Toronto and the link is in the chat. And
then there's another album release in Montreal and you got
to do a little legwork to get that one.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
It's on It's on my Instagram link. Okay, okay, there's
a little linko in.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
Bio Lincoln bio first one of the first two.
Speaker 5 (48:09):
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Speaker 3 (48:13):
The longest introduction is welcome to my Funeral.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
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You let's talk more about cats.
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here called welcome to my Funeral. To me thing is
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thank you so much for being here, and honestly we'd
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Speaker 3 (48:43):
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Speaker 3 (49:19):
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Speaker 6 (49:27):
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Speaker 3 (49:31):
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Speaker 8 (49:36):
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Speaker 3 (49:50):
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Now you're sending flowers and condoles.
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affect to mean, Oh my, and my my six feet deeper,
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Speaker 5 (50:16):
I'm like, it's all good.
Speaker 6 (50:17):
I can't have to talk them all sell jerious now,
darting sis now sells even the jerious.
Speaker 8 (51:00):
Silling me with my arms sleeve and I always do that,
you don't me.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
A sweet, sweet, sweet indie pop song by our new
best Maya Malk and I love it. Two minutes, good
and done, done o sweet. Good for you, that's right, sweet,
that's awesome to the point. Good for you. That's awesome again.
Thank you so much for your time tonight, my friend.
We really appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
Okay, all the best, Okay, we'll talk to you again.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
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Speaker 2 (51:30):
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Hey, it's Derek from Canadian as Heck. We gotta, we
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Silly, Episode one zero four of this pokey little podcast
that we do call Canadian as Heck. Right here, Revolution Radio, Canada,
nine pm E Certain Standard time. My name is Craig Ge,
(00:45):
alongside my man dmitriolex SIU and Derek Lewis, who is
currently trying to sign in having some tech issues unfortunately,
but we will. We will be chatting with him very
very shortly, so looking forward to that. We have a
new bestie here at Revolution in Radio Canada. Her name
is Maya Milk and we're going to have a chat
with you, my friend. So I just wanted to say
(01:06):
huge thanks for joining us tonight. We greatly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Of course, thank you so much for having me awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, so our good friend at beth At. What's the story.
So she's actually helped us out a few times now,
which is great. So she's one of our best ties
as well. And yeah, so you can't thank her enough.
So listen, let's get right into this, my friend. Let's
kind of start at the beginning and sort of, you know,
take everyone through sort of your journey and kind of
(01:34):
where you are in your art, you know these days.
Where were you born?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I was born in Montreal, Quebec, I think specifically Lasal
Hospital if you want to do too. Yeah, born and
raised Montreal.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Nice. When did you move to Toronto?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I just moved to well, actually I say just, but
it's been like almost four years now, so in November
it'll be fourth or all. I've been here for four years.
I moved here in November twenty twenty, like peak pandemic.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So oh wow, So you've spent basically your whole life
pretty much, I guess then, if that's the case, mostly
in Montreal.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, yeah, I I mean, well, so my mom has
always been in Montreal and my dad has always been
in Toronto. So I was one of those like literally
since before I was born they weren't together, so it
was kind of like always going back and forth between
Montreal and Toronto for holidays and stuff. So I definitely
and my siblings lived in Toronto and stuff, so it
never felt like it wasn't home. But I definitely didn't
know the city super well. I'm definitely born and raised
(02:35):
Montreal and like that's my hometown, but it didn't feel
too foreign to come to Toronto either.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Did you plan to move during the pandemic?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
No, could plan anything during the pandemic.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I mean I was already the pandemic when I decided
to move, but it was because I had always I
knew that I wanted to experience living in Toronto, and
after I graduated Universe City, instead of moving, I kind
of ended up in a relationship instead, and it was
kind of this like I felt like my trip to
my I don't know, my Toronto experience got delayed. So
I finally when COVID hit and I was like not
(03:11):
in that relationship anymore, and I just bought my first
like car for me. I was like, you know what,
what's stopping me from just driving and living there? And
like I was so bored already that like I felt
like at least, you know, my daily mental health walks,
I got to experience like new you know, buildings and
streets as opposed to just like I don't know, kind
of felt helped me feel like my life was moving
forward in a very stagnant time.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
FANTASTICO. So what's essentially when did music get started for you?
Would you be able to kind of give us like
an age roundabout roughly? Yeah, I mean like bands, because
we do obviously we've got one band here that we
we'd have to talk to you about that.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, Oh, hello.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
There, sore.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Derek just wanted Derek, I just wanted to let you
know we appreciate your name in the bottom left hand
corner of your screen.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Direct shirt cocking.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Unbelievable. So welcome, Welcome by It's a revolution radio care.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Like the pandemic conversation that you were just having. Hello Maya.
By the way, I'm not wearing fucking pants.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Oh yeah, that's like the at home zoom calls or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah exactly, I no, no, no, we know, we don't
have to know.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I'm gonna I'm actually gonna make sure it's that's it.
I'm not wearing pants. And I'm gonna that's that's I'm
sorry I've been.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So we're welcome Derek Lewis to the broadcast. So yeah,
let's let's let's go back to your musical beginnings.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah yeah, I mean I it started from a young age,
I think just because I all my whole families in
the entertainment industry. So from I grew up in a
very creative family, like all almost all of my family
works in like the film industry or like somehow on.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
TV or and what type of work do they do?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
So my mom is a film producer. My dad spent
a lot of his career as a first assistant director
for a lot of like Hollywood movies. And then he
invented a board game and that really wait wait.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Wait wait what he invented a board game? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Do you know do you know the game things taking
in a wooden box?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Okay probably.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, they have it at Snakes and Lante. They actually
did a whole series with Snakes and Lante. At one
point he actually hit just the game was on like
Ellen and stuff like three times, like it was a
successful game. Yeah, okay, anyways, and now he's making a
new game. But also my uncle is like, I don't
know if you guys know who Evan Solomon in, but
Solomon is he.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Was the editor Shift and he was you're Evan Solomon
is your uncle?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You want to get him on the program I just like.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
He doesn't. Yeah, he's the nicest guy ever.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
All I would love to have on the programs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway,
sorry sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Him and my aunt just moved to New York and yeah,
so anyways, but yeah, my whole family, that's my vibe.
Like my my, my dad's wife, Christine, my stepmom, she's
a radio personality. So everyone's kind of already doing this
kind of thing. So it's kind of interesting because it's like, honestly,
me doing music is like almost like the black sheep
of the family because no one else is doing music.
But it never felt weird to do like a creative
(06:28):
sort of path for me. So and it was all
that to say that my mom enrolled me in a
fine arts school pretty young, Like as of grade three,
I was attending a school called Face in Montreal, which
is a stance for fine arts core education. So I had,
you know, choir classes, instrumental classes, drama and all that
from super young age, and yeah, I was learning piano
(06:50):
at home, taking guitar lessons, and that's kind of like, yeah,
so super super young, like grade three, I had to play.
I had to learn how to play the classical flute
for like seven years.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Man, I just interject that I'm very much enjoying all
the pantomime, for all the musical instruments that you play.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm like, my wife does exactly the same thing. Right.
She will say I had a drink of coffee this morning, right,
and she'll show you a mug.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I can't help that.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
She's a hand talker as well. So it's all good.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I know, you guys know what a piano is.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
This, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I was like, well, for the hearing impaired, you know,
for those people that you know they're right maybe you know.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
And then oh, she's talking about piano.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Can you play the triangle?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I'm not very good at rhythm.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
But why let me.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Ask you this. Who were some of your earliest musical influences.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh yeah, I mean there's it's it's so hard to say.
I feel like I grew up in the era of
kind of like you know, like film soundtracks and stuff
like that. So I feel like you know, Mike CDs,
Burn CDs and stuff, but like so many like I
feel like, you know, I was It's kind of like
Teeking and Sarah. The Con is kind of the album
that I go back to a lot because it was
the first. Yeah, it's great. It's one of the first
(08:20):
albums that I was gifted that I like heard, and
I was like, oh, these people have kind of like
voices like my voice. Like I'm not out here belting
or anything, you know, it's very like the voices are
very calm and soothing, and they weren't doing anything super
extravagant vocally, but they were super cool. And that kind
of like made me realize, Oh, I think, like maybe
(08:42):
I can sing then if they can sing, you know,
like this is cool music, and I feel like I
can make music like this. So I go back to
that record. But like, you know, there was like a
lot of like MGMT and stuff when I was in
high school, kind of the indie ALLLT bands of that era,
I mean, all American rejects. I went to a few
of their.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Cults absolutely, yeah, great stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, And I mean I also I grew up you know,
having like like all the classics, like the Britney Spears CDs.
Avril Levine was one of my first concerts I had
listened to, like Billy Talent and so, I don't know,
I like a lot of Canadian artists, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Okay, so good for you. I was actually all of
the bands that you're talking about. I worked at a
radio station in Toronto called CF and Y, and so
I was there during that whole period with all of
that great stuff, the Strokes and Frans Ferdinand and Billy Talent.
You know, Billy Talent. Ben Kualowitz that used to work
at that radio station. He was working there when he
(09:38):
was rehearsing with Billy Talent. Yeah, so really really cool stuff.
So yeah, you you grew up in a great time
with with you know, being influenced by some amazing stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah. And then also like kind of like you know,
the movies of the time, Like I was super intolately
the ten things I hit about You and stuff. I
had all those CDs that had all those like mixed
kind of like soundtracks, and I was a classic teenage
groll you know. So I also had my Likelizie McGuire
movie sounds.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Like brilliant great love movies are great, love.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It, love it, but I know it right, all of
that stuff Scott Pilgrim and.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
All all those one of my favorite Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Yeah, speaking of metric, uh right, yeah, so perfect. So
if if you are kind of like, what is that
sound in the background, My two dogs are play fighting
right now?
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Nobody cared.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Oh wow, No, it's okay. Derek and I. Derek and
I have kind of been in each other's throats all day,
so it's okay. Uh So, now you've made me lose
my train of thought.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Thanks Derek, you were Danny Elfman, No, you.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Are okay, okay, inside jokes, never mind, never mind.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Just damn just as long as as of an acting
background as as your music background though.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Well, so I wanted to be an actor. Yeah, when
I first started, when I was a kid, I actually
I had like an agent and everything was part of
the union and stuff from very young agent, going to
auditions and stuff, because I thought that that was my path.
But I kind of realized that acting acting. You can
love acting as much as you want, but you still
(11:18):
need like eighty five people to agree that you are
the person to get the job, you know. Whereas with
when I started to do music, and started to write
my own songs. You know. I kind of started writing
my own songs when I had like my first like
breakup and was experiencing all these intense emotions, and I
was like where do I put them? And so I
started to write music and I realized that I could
just at the time, I could just like put them
(11:38):
on SoundCloud and share them with my whatever hundred friends
on there, and it was already out and people could
just say things. And then it was like I was
experiencing this creative outlet that was like very different to acting.
And also I was able to do it immediately and
no one could had to give me permission.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, so I would you sorry to make sure would
be able to hazard of guesses to what you or
was you started putting things on sound Cloud?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I want to say as early as like like I
want to say as early as maybe twenty ten, because
I was I was trying to learn to like that's
when I was like I was not good then, but
that's I was just doing whatever I could, and I
was kind of like playing on garage band and like
recording things like on my computer and stuff like. It
(12:24):
was it wasn't great, but it was I was trying,
and it was definitely like the leeway, right, Like that's
how I ended up meeting my bandmates and everything. Like.
But but yeah, I think with acting, it kind of
I fell out of love with it when I realized
how much work it was. And also I hated auditioning
so much it took up my whole day for like
a one line across the city. And like I'm at
(12:46):
this point, I'm like in university and I'm like, I
don't I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Do it, and it progressful as hell.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
It is.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
It's a it? Am I?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Am I what they want? Am I going to say
it the right way? Are the Is it the wrecked monologue?
Am I gonna stumble over words?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Am I sitting in the room with like seven people
that like look the same as you as well?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Exactly the same?
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Right?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Pressed me out? But honestly, I fell back in love
with acting when I moved to Toronto. I got an
agent here for voiceover work, which is what I use
this for. We'll talk to yeah, but but yeah, so
I kind of transitioned away from on camera stuff, although
my agency is pushing me a little bit for some
more on camera commercial like stuff, but really I mostly
(13:31):
use my voice now for most of the things that
I love you.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah, you had no you had a first question, you
were in you go okay, big guy.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
So breakups are amazing for music historically, historically, and so
that and a lot of that was like, okay, that
motivated you to sound cloud and also that was like
your your Congratulations album was my breakup.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, but I just saw you have a Second City
shirt on. I did a two week program at Second
City for improvlems. Anyways, it was super super fun.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
But yeah, it totally is. It totally is. But I
don't know whether you want.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
All right, go ahead, but yes, talk about Second City
for an hour.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I know, I know, and that's not what that might
not be what our audience is here for.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
But it's fine.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
They got on the wall and there.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
It started in Chicago, though, Derek.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
But but yeah, are you gonna call me shirt cockin sure?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Concin? I was, well, will you accept that as your name?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I will accept that as my name.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Revolution Radio when it's affiliates do not support anything that
comes out of Derek's.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Mouth anyways, and then your realize name.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Sure you deserve that, Derek, I don't I don't take
it badly.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
No, man, I make up.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I make up stupid names names for.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
A real name. For Derek, Lewis is his name.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Lewis is my real name.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
For the longest time, I had like uh derk Wonderstone uh,
and then I was I was Derek Alan Cross but
with without with a lot more expletives.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Lewis.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, I just I don't know. It's it's I just
I have fun with my life. And you know why
what Derek shirtcockn is just it's just funny.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
If you say so, Derek, if you say so.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
You have a lot of it. You said it, you
did it. And then if I ran with.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It, so Derek, you actually were gonna have a question
in mind I have.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I also didn't. I don't feel like I answered to.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Nobody cares.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Yeah, but why why do you so? Why do you think?
Why do you think that that the breakup fueled you creatively?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I mean that album so like that's my first solo
album release, right, which came out last year.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Was a relationship.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Oh dear, Yeah, it was. It was a very intense relationship.
It's one of those things where it's like it started
out great, but it was it ended up really toxic
and really abusive, unfortunately, And I think it was like
there were so many emotions that were being pent up
in me that I like felt like once I finally
broke free, I was like, I got so much to say.
(16:37):
This whole album is gonna be just every like the
whole album. I kind of like described it as like
the beginning of the end because the first song, which
is Honey, it has a little bit of like something
is not working here, even though it's kind of a bouncy,
fun song. But then every song afterwards kind of just
goes through like the end of the end. So the
beginning of the end to the very end. And like,
you know, my first song that I released was Hostage
(16:57):
from that album End. Even in the title there, it's
like the song is super bouncy and fun, but if
you listen to the lyrics, it's not super jolly.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
So right, and just to follow up before we go
to Shirtcocking, it's shirt pocket. So do you and do
you think that that the process of making all that
music uh developed you develop forced you to grow in
a certain way and learn something about yourself.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Oh yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, like, like music
has always been a way for me to kind of
express my emotions. Like when I was younger, I wasn't
necessarily like I don't want see like a shy kid,
but I feel like I was shy in some ways,
like I was super outgoing, but then there were somewheres
with like it was like I only was really expressing.
Sometimes I didn't understand how I felt until I was
like putting it into like musical format, you know, and
(17:49):
it's like that's when stuff starts coming up and you're like, oh, wait,
this is how I'm feeling about this. Yeah, And I
feel like there were so many little melodies swirling in
my head at the end of that relationship and when
I finally left and started to Actually, when I wrote Hostage,
I wasn't even fully gone from the relationship. I went
to a SOACAN writing workshop in Toronto, and I was like,
y'all at the time, and uh, it was supposed to
(18:11):
be four of us and two of the people ended
up being six. It was just like me and a
producer in the room. So we usually had a SOCN
writing workshop. You're like, who's the song going to be for?
We'll discuss after. But if it's just me and a producer.
I was like, I guess it's for me. But at
this point I didn't even really have a solo project,
so I was just doing I had my other band,
you know and stuff. So I was like, I don't know,
that song poured out of me. We had from like
(18:32):
nine am to five pm to write a song. Hossage
was like born, and it was kind of like, Oh,
I think I'm gonna start a solo project. I think
I'm going to bring up with my boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So oh.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Do you think that that idea of a solo project
would have ever happened to you if more people had
shown up.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Honestly, I think yes. I think I was moving towards
that already kind of it was already kind of bubbling here,
but it definitely launched it. And like when I showed
it to the Soaka office and stuff, you know, they
were so like, this is an awesome song and then
they made it like the Soakan Song of the Week
and all these things. So it kind of like started me,
like at the beginning of meeting, like oh, maybe this
is something that I is like exciting and that I
could actually like do you know.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Well, I would just like to extend thanks to the
people who didn't show up.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
And ex boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yes, thank you, the divine forces that were on that day, Derek.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yes, sir, Yeah, I just like saying it.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
It's good.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
I have a two part question. Oh, I have two questions.
It's not two parts.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's just going to take fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
One if I had a mute button.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I'm the host, you can't. Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
One.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
My first question, what was the name of the young
lady that walked into the bar you were working at
with the ukulele that you ended up playing in a
band with.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Her name is Emily Skane. Did you find that information
on the internet. Yeah, her name is Emily Skane. And yeah,
that is a very happenstancey circumstantial thing that also kind
of happened. That was like if that hadn't happened, holy moly,
(20:23):
like a good ten years of my life would just
be gone, which is so weird. But yeah, I was
starting a job at a karaoke bar and I got
there and no one was there to train me, Like
the manager had not showed up, and Emily had quit,
So she had recently quit and she was coming into
the bar to pick up her four percent. So this
is truly the last time that that this was this
(20:46):
could have potentially happened. So I was just trying to
I had never worked at a bar before. I was
like eighteen. I didn't know how anything worked. I was
like trying to pour like like a glass of beer
and it was pouring four leater pictures and so it
was just like I didn't know what I was doing.
And anyways, she walked in. She put her like little
ukulele on the bar, and she was like, do you
need help? And I was like, yes, literally don't know
(21:09):
a lot of help. Yeah, So she kind of trained
me a little bit. She was teating me how to
use everything. And then during that I was like, oh,
like you have a little ukulele here, like do you
write music? And she was like yeah, actually where like
me and my bandmate were looking for like a third
girl for our like female led project. And I was like, oh, well,
I kind of make you know I'm a girl, Like
(21:30):
I'm a girl. I got a sound cloud that's kind
of shitty, but like there's stuff on there, and so
I gave her the link to my SoundCloud and yeah,
within like I think three or four days, I was
in their living room and we were kind of just
playing each other songs and the band like technically already existed.
They had had another third member that left for BC,
(21:50):
but I feel like I kind of just fit right
in as like the missing puzzle piece, and we I
don't know really that motel like really happened so randomly
and then so quickly, like we only had ten songs,
and it wasn't like we were like, these are the
best songs we have. We were just like, these are
the songs we do have, and you know, and we
(22:11):
all record them and like we did like a fun
breathing like a crowdfunding Indiegogo campaign thing to kind of
get it going. And because one of the songs was
in search Light at the time, it was the first
time that search Light had ever happened, and we ended
up getting first in Montreal and then fourteenth in all
of Canada. That's how our managers found us, So before
(22:32):
even our first album was out, but it was being
recorded because we had crowdfunded it. We all of a
sudden had managers who had just who had just stopped
managing Walk Off the Earth and then all of a sudden,
Warner Canada also attached to this project and it was like,
and we're about to release our first album that we
were like we did with like a little shoe string.
Were like, doesn't sound very good, but hopefully it's fine.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It was so far well, it was great for one
And look at look at look at all.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Like the stand of your career is all by happenstance.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I know, like you're just in the right position for
this thing, and then you're in the right position for
this thing, and then you're in the right position for
that thing. Lucky girl, I'm excited to see where else
you go. Like this is this is you're literally a
doctor Seuss book. It's it's fascinating.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I think, you know, you have to be in the
right place at the wrong time, but you also have
to have the right kind of like mindset and like
be able to seize the opportunities as they come, because
I think, you know a lot of people would. I
was super shy when I joined that band, and I
think you know, the first few shows we played, it
was like disastrous. I don't know what I was doing.
I was stopping and starting. I was like I don't
want to be looked at. But you know, it took
(23:41):
the chance anyways, because I kind of had this like
thing in my gut that I was like, you gotta
do this.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
So it's really it's great that you say that, demetries me, Derek.
Second part is going to come up in two seconds.
But when Dmitri and I interviewed the great Canadian legend
Andy Kim, he said a lot of same thing of
the same things along those lines of you know, yeah,
if you're in the right place at the right time,
you just kind of have to let things sort of happen,
like just just got yourself in that put yourself in
(24:08):
that place and and just kind of let it happen.
And Andy Kim talked about that a long action.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Yeah, yeah, cool, yeah, because like that's a that's an
improv lesson, yes, and.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yes, absolutely, and I feel that's improv but I guess
I picked that up. But yeah, you know, you really
have to just you do have to kind of let
it happen. Like a lot of people don't realize that,
like so much of a successful career in anything is
like all the times that you fell into got back
up right, like a bit cliche, but it's like, yeah,
(24:39):
we like messed up a lot of times. We had
so many bad shows. We didn't do everything perfectly, but
like you know, still here doing it. So that's how
you have a career eventually, just a bunch of things
that like some mistakes and then something's go right and
that's great.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Exactly what you do it.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
My second question bubble tea and what flavor.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Pearl milk tea? Oh do you guys?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Why wait? Why do you ask that?
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Because it's yeah, I do know that you like bubble tea.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
He's being a little nerd waish, right, That's what.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
I do well that I do.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I find tidbits of information, I go, this will screw
them up.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
And I'm just waiting for Derek to be like and
in twenty eleven, you entered the kitchen at about eight.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
No, no, it never gets crast it's going on.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
No, no, no, yeah, no. Pearl milk tea is definitely
me too.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I like the tapioca, I'm not like I do like
the tabioka. The bubbles, yes, but I get it half sweet.
I don't like it too sweet, and I really don't
like the fruit ones. It's not for me. Nope.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
I do a regular sugar fifty percent excuse me, fifty
percent sugar regular ice.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
See.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah, nice, Hell.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I can't do it. Bubble tea, I haven't.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I have I have.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I tried it, and I've tried it two or three
times now, and I'm just like, I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Have you tried Hour one though the promo t fifty
sugar regularly?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I have not, So.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
We're gonna have to go for bubble tea and almost
see what you think after that.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Done, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I'm not like a big like I don't drink promo
tea or like a bubble tea every day, but when
I do go that's my guy.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah. Nice.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
So this Thursday is Halloween?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Is it true?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
And it's also the release of It's a Me Thing?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Yes? Very true?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Yeah? Why did you is that rigged? Did you rig
an album release on Halloween?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I break Halloween? It's all, it's all.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
This is all because of you. Amaz No.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
So essentially I'm kind of just like it is my
album released on Thursday, yes, and I don't want to
take away from it. But at the same time, there's
only one new song that's coming out on Thursday. Like
my album. I got funding from the Toronto Arts Council
and the Ontario Arts Council maybe two years ago to
make this record, and I learned from my first album
(27:21):
release that I wanted to release a lot of the
songs as singles in order to have them each kind
of like have a moment, because I found when I
released Congratulations, the songs that eversed to singles that did
really well, and then the ones that I didn't kind
of fell off and it was hard to get people
to pay attention to like four songs at a time
sort of thing, you know. So I decided that I
was going to roll out the album like I essentially
(27:43):
set myself up for a Nightmary year this year, which
was a song released every five weeks and trying to
like like get people the pre save and have enough
content and all this stuff to like push every song.
But it did actually work in my favor in the
sense that, like all of the songs have gotten a
lot more love that way. So the final song that's
coming out on Thursday, which brings the whole all the
(28:05):
songs I've been releasing all year long into this pretty
bow where I can tell the Ontario Arts and Toronto
Arts that I did, in fact release an album is
called Welcome to My Funeral. So when I was looking
at the calendar and I knew it was going to
be in October anyways, I thought, well, it's a funeral
theme song and it'll probably be like some sort of
funeral theme visuals attached. Why not release it on Halloween?
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Good shoe? So it would you start marketing?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, I think you should actually make a video for it.
Make sure that you're dressed in lots of black, with
black neil polish, right white, you know, face paint, lots
of gothic imagery. I think you should do a video
for this song.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I was. I was thinking about that too. I thought
it would be a really fun video of almost like
like a zombie like couple, because the song is about
like kind of like trying to rebirth yourself and like
everyone's invited to my funeral, but it's not really my funeral.
It's actually like kind of like my like coming into
myself party. And the song is kind of shaped as
(29:08):
like a love song in the sense that there's like
a lot of like I buried my heart like six
feet underground. No one's gonna find it just leave me
alone and like sort of thing. So I thought it
might be funny to have kind of like a zombie
that had kind of like eaten my brains being like,
I'm so sorry that I hurt your feelings. I'm like, no, no, no,
you can't come to my funeral.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
You know that's awesome. We should get Derek to film
it for you.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
So sure, that could be a thing.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
It could be a thing.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I actually have this whole thing in my head where
instead of instead of being being being dead, you kind
of regenerate through the through the end and by the
end of the song, you're You're back to.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
You mm yeah, or I'm like a vampire, you know,
like I never die after that.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
That's also good. But the but It's a Me thing
is also different from congratulations in that congratulations is fueled
by breakup and the making of It's a me thing.
You're not an emotional upheaval, and like what was writing
in that state? Like for you?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
It was super interesting, Like this whole solo project has
been interesting for me right because I come from a
band background where I'm used to having like literally instruments
and people in a room where we're like building the
songs that way, kind of the more old fashioned way.
But then also, you know, when you're in a band,
there's and especially one that's led by multiple people, there's
you know, we always had to there's like, of course,
(30:33):
there's some compromising and stuff. Sometimes compromise can be awesome,
and sometimes it can feel like, oh I wish it
kind of could have done it my way. So you know,
it's like this solo project was kind of my venture
into what does it look like when everything is done
just by like my way sort of thing, and what
does that sound like? And so for Congratulations, I was
super super hands on, and I was like, no one
(30:56):
is writing with me. I'm the only writer on this,
Like everybody else can just freak right off. But for
the second.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
You're allowed to swear on this show, by the way, it's.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
No good, So that way, yeah, yeah, So I really
just wanted it to be kind of just my point
of view, my lens and stuff, and I had, like
I said, a lot to say. But then when I
came to the second album, you know, like I said,
I had gotten the Toronto and the Arts Council grants
quite a bit in advance for the second album, and
so my deadlines were starting to come up, and I
(31:27):
was like, oh, I have to write a whole older album,
and I my heart's not hurting right now. I'm totally fine,
Like what am I gonna say? And that's when I
started to be like, Okay, you know what, maybe I
can loosen the not on this like it has to
be only me and only me at all times, and
I can like start inviting in some of my like
super awesome artist friends whose music I love, you know.
(31:48):
So a lot of my friends are in these writing
rooms with me. So I invited, you know, a few
people into different sessions. And I was kind of just
thinking like, okay, well what do I want to write about?
And I was like, well, the whole album my first
alb and so the only music that I have out
as a solo artist right now is all about this
one thing, and it's all a relationship. I kind of
want to write like steer away from relationships and talk
(32:10):
about other things. And then I was like, well, what
who am I? Who am I? You know? And so
I started to kind of like look at myself and
what makes up me? And I was, you know, there's
a song on there about my like my hypochondria. It's
a mean thing. Song is about being super indecisive and
(32:30):
just kind of like looking at these things that I
know to be true about myself and writing about that instead.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
So yeah, yeah, and so like and now how are
and how and what have you learned about yourself? Again?
Like at this time around?
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That's a really good question. What have I learned about myself?
I learned that I am like regaining trust in life
myself in the sense that, like you know, when you're
in like an abusive relationship or something toxic, there's a
lot of like, oh god, am I making the right
decisions for things? And when I when I wrote the
(33:10):
first album, like I said, it was very just me
and the producer, and you know, that ended up being
awesome and working out. And then for this album, when
I invited people in, even though it's a bit nervous
to do that, it also was awesome and it ended
up working out. It's like I've kind of like just
realized that like when you trust yourself and you just
kind of like go for it, and you also involve
people that you trust and let people like good people
(33:30):
into your life that they can't really like, there's not
that much that can go wrong unless there's like a tragedy,
you know. So it's like I'm very much a believer
of now, Like the song writes itself, so no matter
who's in the room, it's probably going to write itself
as long as like, oh, obviously we're not just gonna
sit there and do nothing. We have to do something.
But like if there are some like some like words
(33:50):
that don't fit perfectly at the time, I'm always going
to be able to pinpoint it later and either fix
it in the session or afterwards. Yeah, I think I've
learned that, Like I am complicated person like anyone else,
and I think, you know I I with the title
track the hook is like they say, when you know,
(34:13):
then you know. I guess I don't know yet, And
I kind of just have like learned to like embrace
the fact that it's okay to not know and to
absolutely keep just to like allow yourself that like grace
to like I don't do whatever you want, and like
the right thing will come and even if you don't know,
you will know eventually. Or it's also maybe you don't
know anything, Like maybe you don't ever really fully know,
(34:34):
and maybe you just have to just go for that,
you know, definitely right, do you do.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
A lot of write writing primarily by yourself first or
do you do a lot of writing sessions more more so?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
I I mean now that I'm like, so this is
part of part of why I wanted to move Toronto
as well, is that in Montreal it's not really well
at least the scene that I was in it was
very banned scene, right, like there's not really like writing
rams and a lot of the bands there don't really
want you in the writing room if they're not in
their band, They're like why are you here? So I
feel like in Toronto it's very much more so kind
(35:08):
of like a songwriter city. So it's definitely like at
first I would have said, you know, I used to
be way more like I would like for the band.
Sometimes I would like write a song by myself at
home and then bring it to the project and then
sometimes you would like have an idea in the room
and create a song like that. But it was very
much that was my band and these are the people
(35:28):
that I write with. And then when I left the project,
I already haven't left the project, but when I like
started this project instead, it was like Okay. I was
doing a lot of voice noting, like recording like lines
into my phone, which was not something I had ever
really done before for songwriting. Like usually I would sit
at my guitar and that's how the ideas would come.
But for this first album that I did, it was
(35:50):
very much like, Okay, this sounds catchy to me. Let
me just do this and then bring that to a
producer and then yeah. For this second album, some of
it was like, oh, I have an idea, but a
lot of it was going into the room with nothing
but being like, I think I like these songs right now.
These are my references for like songs that I'm listening to.
(36:12):
Maybe I'll want a song like this. I know that
maybe like what am I feeling right now? Because I
was also inviting like pretty much my best friends into
the songwriting rooms with me, right so it was like
we do that classic thing where it's like a bit
of a therapy session where it's like even one of
the songs on my album called Neutral, I was like,
I don't feel like I can write a song today
because I don't feel like I have any feelings. And
I was like, well, I guess that could be a song,
(36:33):
and so then you know song control was poor and
where it's yea perfect, So there's just like yeah, so
every it's interesting because also you know, I wrote some
other songs during that time, but the ones that really
ended up being part of this collection of songs are
all kind of in a similar topic or in a
similar kind of universe in my head, where it's like
(36:56):
I did end up writing a few other songs that
we really kind of like some are like love songs
or whatever, like heartbreak songs. I was like, doesn't work
on this album. That'll be after, It'll be for next year.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
Or something nice.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
So you're already ahead of the game.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Well then you gotta be apparently streaming world.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
So as far as the voiceover stuff goes, I've been
dying to ask you about this now. Yeah, like forty
minutes we've been talking. So as far as all the
voiceover stuff, is there anything that's out right now that
we would kind of go, oh, there's there's maya like,
is there is there anything?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Well? Yes, I know I do, like I've done some
some work for Pure Leaf and like Iced Tea, and
apparently it's all over Netflix, is what I'm hearing. If
you don't have the Netflix, it doesn't have ads. You're
apparently being bombarded with my voice twenty nice.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Here you go.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
But yeah, I've done a lot of like in the
last well I say a lot. It's still like really
like it's hard to like book them. There's a lot
of auditioning, but but I've.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Done a few voice things to it. It is hard.
It's really really hard.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Yeah, it is hard, but it is nice when you
I feel like, you know what. It took me eight
months of auditioning to like book my first everthing, and
then after that it kind of felt like it started
to roll. So now I've done like like I've been
the voice of Google. I did McDonald's. I did actually
an as mr spot for McDonald's. That was like I
had to like be like like whatever, and it was
(38:28):
like a Spotify ad. And so there's actually like Reddit
threads dedicated to how much they hate my McDonald's ad,
which I thought was very funny because I was like,
I just want to rip my.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Ears out if they're talking about you, that's a good thing, right, yeah, listen.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
That no one's gonna know that's me, so they will now,
But you know whatever, it's going to stay.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
A little late for that one.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
And that purple and pink ball is what you use
for your voiceover just for.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
My auditions, but I usually I'll go into like a
studio like Grayson or something to do like the final product.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
Yeah, the chaos balls are great, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
They're fantastic.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Yeah, it's a little handy tool because they don't really
have a soundproofed room.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yeah both. Yeah, the sound booth, Yeah exactly. Well that's awesome,
So listen, we do need to talk about kind of
next steps I think for you as far as it goes.
So the album comes out Thursday, which is fantastic. When
are you doing shows?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I have an answer to this question. I'm doing a show.
So the album released party is on November twenty third
in Toronto at Division eighty eight, and it's like a
that's like a less traditional space. So it's cool because
I got to invite some of my friends and who
aren't only like musicians to kind of do some stuff.
(39:49):
So we're gonna have like some like food and stuff.
It hasn't really been announced, but essentially, I'm one of
my friends who's a chef. He's like an influencer chef
and he's like gonna be there making food for us.
I have a lot of friends opening and stuff. The
openers have not really been announced, but they are on
the event right page, so I people want to go,
look they can. I just have a host on Instagram.
(40:12):
And then in Montreal, I'm also doing an album release
show on the twenty nine that Leni Star, which is
like this really cool venue. It's like an old bank,
and I'll have some openers there as well. So those
are my two shows right now. And I'm currently making
CDs and some new shirts and stuff of the first
and the second album for the CDs.
Speaker 5 (40:32):
So love it.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Yeah, I love I love the I love the era
that you grew up in. Right now, there's a bunch
of people listening, going, what's a CD.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
To know, like if I should be making tapes or
vinyls or CDs, like because people do buy like I
found with Motal It's like people love to walk away
with like a physical item like I do or something
I do.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
I do, I do well, I just find it and everything.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Yeah, yeah, I just find that. Like well, speaking of
another Montreal artist, no bro Okay, that all female punk bit.
They I went to their show in January. They only
had a vinyl copy of their current album, and I
would and I so wanted a CD because I have
(41:18):
a CD player in my car still, and I'm like,
so that you there, because.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
I almost did vils and said, but they're just so
much more expensive and I just wasn't sure if like
people would actually buy them. So I said, I'm going
to start with CDs and then see if if that
does well, and then if people like those, then maybe
I'll do runner vinyls. But yeah, it's good to know
that people still have CD. It's true. They people have
c players.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Oh absolutely, yeah. Lots of cars still still do them. Soay.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
Up until twenty twenty, I had a van that had
a tape player in it. So I used to have
like galanas more set and so you know, like, I
don't know, I think that's fun too.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
A little bit of pop trivia for you. As of
twenty twenty five, Ford f one fifties no longer come
with an AM radio.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
What oh yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Longer come with it. In the four one fifties do
not come with AM radios anymore.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Alan Cross is doing the whole thing on on the
on the the Death of AM Radio.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Oh cool, okay, well that's weird. Let's do it wrong.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Just so you know, twenty twenty five subarus still come
with a CD player?
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Oh there, nice?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Do you have I don't remember if I don't have
a twenty twenty five super Oh okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Did you just look it up just now? That's actually
quite impressive. That's some impressive Google foo skills. That was Yeah.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
I didn't even touch my phone.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Wow, that's amazing. That's what we call Google fo. Nice.
Speaker 5 (42:40):
What's Dimitri died?
Speaker 4 (42:41):
There?
Speaker 2 (42:41):
You go, Dimitri passed, passed out, he's back.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
All right, there's your music video right there. Dmitri died,
came back.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Well, listen, we really want to keep in touch with
you because I personally i'd love to I really would
love to see you play live. I really would. I
bet you just put on a killer show. So congratulations
on the new record this coming Thursday. All right, so
maybe sure that you freaking get it. If you don't
get it, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 5 (43:20):
If you don't get it?
Speaker 2 (43:21):
That's right. If you don't get it, I don't people, Yeah,
you're dead It's a mean thing comes out Thursday. Everywhere
you get your fine albums on streaming services as well
as CDs. You see what I'm doing. I'm doing. I'm
doing a back cell, so.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
It seems like a front cell.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
It seems like well cut.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
No one will be available till November twenty third, just
so you know, but but the after that will be online.
But I wanted to come to the show.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
Are they going to be tickets available for the show?
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Yeah? They tickets already. Yeah they're aready a?
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Oh are they?
Speaker 4 (44:00):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (44:01):
Sweet?
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Yeah, I'll put.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
The I'll look for the invent bright link and put
it in the and put it in the chat.
Speaker 5 (44:07):
Please do yeah, put it up there. We'll just wait
while you do it.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
You music background, We're not we're not playing the Jeopardy theme,
so listen. Is there We're going to play Welcome to
My Funeral, Maya. Is there anything that you would like
to uh to say about this tune before we spin it?
Speaker 5 (44:31):
And other than you but you already have.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
I mean, it's just kind of like a silly tongue
in cheek song, Like even the lyrics in there, you know,
we go like, oh silly me, where my heart? I'm
asleep again and now did good thing I dated you?
So it's kind of just like a silly Yeah, I
don't know. I love the song. Oh. Also it was
I wrote it with my friend Layla and this producer
(44:55):
Dex who he did that song stunning. Do you guys
want a song some neck? I'm a pretty boy. It's
a really big on TikTok anyway, so he was he
like reached out to me for it. So he's he's
part of the team for that one as well.
Speaker 5 (45:11):
Dude, you're on my earphone'shead. Cat he's adorable. His name
is Chuck Finley.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Actually, I have a cat who is named after pearl milk.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (45:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (45:29):
I have Chuck Finley and I have I don't know
where ema is being that being the being as being
the age that you are. That I don't actually know
the age you are, but considering you're talking about what
you're talking about musically, you know whoma is?
Speaker 5 (45:44):
I actually know you?
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Do you because you don't remember watching Emperor's New Groove?
Speaker 5 (45:51):
Oh my god, I loved by earth a Kid.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
I loved by earth a Kid. Yes, wait, I actually
loved that.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
Scary beyond all reasons. So long.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
Yeah, okay, well I'm gonna google the character because do it.
Speaker 5 (46:09):
Scary beyond all reason. No, we'll wait, We'll wait for
you to do it.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
I remember, Yeah, that's my cat and she is exactly
that character, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (46:22):
She is that character.
Speaker 4 (46:23):
She really is skinny.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
She actually she's no, she's actually quite fat because apparently
she gets three dinners because I wasn't informed that my
wife had fed them before she left, and so I
came home and then she was just yelling at me
all morning all night when I got.
Speaker 5 (46:40):
Home, and I was like, fine, I'll feed you here.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Sorry, geez, I had forgotten, and then she got food
and now she's left me alone.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
So she's quite fat. But she looks like Earth the kit.
Speaker 3 (46:52):
So that's hilarious. That's a deep cut. I'm gonna try
to watch that.
Speaker 2 (46:56):
You have to.
Speaker 5 (46:57):
It's so great.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Tong says, thanks.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
I helped out.
Speaker 5 (47:05):
Because put the link up in the thing.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
Yeah, is there is there another? Is there another event?
Right link for the Montreal album release?
Speaker 3 (47:15):
There is one for the Montreal but it's not an
event right it's but it's also in my it's on
the ministag website. It's in my like bio on Instagram.
But I can also like send it to you guys.
I guess I can find it.
Speaker 5 (47:28):
Yeah, if you go down. There's a little chat down here.
Speaker 3 (47:32):
It's just that I'm like on my iPad, so to
be able to copy it there, I think I would.
Speaker 5 (47:38):
Send us an email and we'll put it up or
make it.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
I can get best to Yeah, I can do it too.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
But anyway, Yeah, so there's a there's an album release
in Toronto and the link is in the chat. And
then there's another album release in Montreal and you got
to do a little legwork to get that one.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
It's on It's on my Instagram link. Okay, okay, there's
a little linko in.
Speaker 3 (48:06):
Bio Lincoln bio first one of the first two.
Speaker 5 (48:09):
That's what the kids say, Lincoln.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
The longest introduction is welcome to my Funeral.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Ever but right, wow, right, the longest and probably the
most painful one.
Speaker 5 (48:21):
You let's talk more about cats.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
Yeah, no, let's let's uh, let's a wicked, wicked tune
here called welcome to my Funeral. To me thing is
the name of the record. Our new best are you
right here on Revolution Radio?
Speaker 5 (48:34):
Can thanks for having my light?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Yeah? You are awesome. Yeah, you really are awesome. So
thank you so much for being here, and honestly we'd
love to have you back.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
Okay, so of course, and we're going to go for promo.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
So yes, done, and don absolutely Canadian is Hack episode
one oh four with mya Maulkin right here on Revolution
Radio Canada.
Speaker 8 (48:58):
Don't fine lock that up. And about ship died, I'm
sure you an't know. It's fine, pride. You all get
the best to mean that would affect me? Oh my,
my might be six feet deep, but it's better than
being Jurish.
Speaker 5 (49:18):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (49:19):
Yeah, I'll come to my.
Speaker 5 (49:23):
Please say you see and enjoy.
Speaker 6 (49:27):
The ship.
Speaker 5 (49:29):
Is all good, heads, it's all bad.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
I'm all in my grade.
Speaker 5 (49:33):
You want me, I'll say me.
Speaker 8 (49:36):
Your mom, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Try to fucking dances.
Speaker 8 (49:44):
Yeah, your career and dramatic monologue is full and old.
Speaker 7 (49:47):
And my famous last words were they's.
Speaker 3 (49:50):
Ain't gonna work.
Speaker 5 (49:51):
Now you're sending flowers and condoles.
Speaker 7 (49:53):
No, you don't get the best to mean that would
affect to mean, Oh my, and my my six feet deeper,
it's gonna lump. Being Jewish welcome, yell, welcome to most few,
Please say to see enjoy sure.
Speaker 5 (50:16):
I'm like, it's all good.
Speaker 6 (50:17):
I can't have to talk them all sell jerious now,
darting sis now sells even the jerious.
Speaker 8 (51:00):
Silling me with my arms sleeve and I always do that,
you don't me.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
A sweet, sweet, sweet indie pop song by our new
best Maya Malk and I love it. Two minutes, good
and done, done o sweet. Good for you, that's right, sweet,
that's awesome to the point. Good for you. That's awesome again.
Thank you so much for your time tonight, my friend.
We really appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (51:25):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
Okay, all the best, Okay, we'll talk to you again.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Okay, bye, god bye.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
Thanks
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