The Jimmy Mallia Interview!!!

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We have a very special musical guest joining us tonight.
We're going to talk to him and find out about
his journey there. We got so many great questions we're
gonna ask, but we want to introduce to you joining
us tonight, singer songwriter. Please give a round of applause
to Jimmy Mollyer. Ladies and gentlemen in studio. I know
you probably can't hear it, but we don't.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Play out with the audience, So welcome, Welcome to Jimmy.
So nice to see you.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Thanks for coming to hang out, of course, but also
if I turn your microphone on, there we go. Sorry,
he did say thank you. He's got to be here,
so got a lot of great questions here. I listened
to the we're gonna talk about your new song, which fantastic,
by the way, I just want to say, off the bat,
I think it was. Now I will say I'm not

(03:31):
an overly diehard country lover, but there are certain songs
that do have They do kind of hit me in
the right place there, you know, And I think this
particular one kind of had a little bit more of
a I could see the story behind it, which I like.
I like the adventure of trying to understand where it's going.
So we're gonna dive into that and more. But how
we traditionally do this, since you are new to the show,

(03:52):
what we like to do is we ask our guest
to share a little bit. You don't have this site
to share about your music journey, just a little bit
about background. Who is Jimmy, anything you want to share
to help us get to know you a little bit,
and then we're going to pick apart your your music
career and things of that nature. So who is Jimmy, Mollie,
who can you tell us about yourself?

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Okay, great, Yeah, yeah, I'm Jimmy and I I'm six
years old. I was born in little island called Galveston
Island in Galveston On, Galveston, Texas. A lot of people
know about it. It's pretty pretty tiny, yeah, pretty small,
and great upbringing. Came from a fairly large family. Then

(04:31):
I went off to the University of Texas, started a
business career, went into insurance. I did it for gosh
thirty years.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (04:40):
And I I played guitar as a kid, and you know,
it's when I first started learning. It was probably I
actually learned probably at the age of thirteen. And I
actually had my first guitar teacher was a nun Catholic
school taught me how to play guitar.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
That was kind of interesting, you know, it was awesome.
I mean, I did any different, so it was kind
of fun. And but once I got into college, I
kind of put the guitar down, and then about sixteen
years or so ago, I picked it back up, started
taking lessons again and playing, and after a couple of
years started uh just randomly writing songs and wrote them

(05:18):
for a quite a while, just for no other reason,
just to write them and put music to it. And
a little over a year ago I kind of thought, well,
you know what am I going to do with these?
I would love for somebody to sing them. I'd love
to sell them, you know whatever. Started looking into it,
and I kind of just decided, you know what, I
think I'm going to release these on my own, you know,
with me actually singing. And so a little over a

(05:42):
year ago I started releasing songs on Spotify, YouTube, Amazon
and all the sites. That's a pretty pretty warm reception,
and so I just, you know, kept going and until
I don't get anymore I guess, you know, reception. So
it's been pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
You're you're kind of like reminding me of the regular
average day Eddy Money there, you know, kind of a
little one sided career, not expecting to hit the music scene,
and all of a sudden in the latter portion of
your career, music just kind of hits.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
You you know.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
I mean, nobody knew any money was in the New
York Police officer for what twenty some years, and then
all of a sudden he hits it big and that's
really all that he's known for now. So I love that,
and I also love the fact that and pardon me
and help me this to sound insulting any way, like
I love the fact even at your age where you're
taking that journey there, you know, it kind of breaks
the barriers of anybody can do anything at any age, right,

(06:30):
there's no really restrictions. So I personally think that's fantastic.
I think it's a great testament because especially following your passion.
You know, we've had we've had other artists, we've had
groups on the show. One in particular, I could think
of who you know, still a lot younger, but same
kind of rare quality where it's like, you know, something
I enjoy, something I love, I'm really trying to pursue it,

(06:51):
you know, whether or not I get big. And they're
kind of a small time band. They're starting to make
it big. But it's just the concept of not just chasing,
chasing the dream, of not worrying about the success necessarily,
but trying to find the passion there. You know, we've
had the discussions too, which we're gonna get in deeper
because I want to get your thoughts as well. But
how the music industry is today where a lot of

(07:11):
people are trying to get overnight success. They're not so
much worried about the quality of their song content they're
putting out. They're just trying to put whatever just to
say I want to make it big. So I think
that's that's really fantastic. And my first big question was
which kind of touched on it? But as I was
reading through your information looking at this, and this is
one thing that stuck out to me where you mentioned

(07:33):
too how you know about it? Stated there, you know
you weren't thinking about singing it. You just wanted to
do the writing you want. At what point did you
discover that, you know what, maybe I could sing this
or I wanted to Did you have that what led
you to decide to sing then your songs as you wrote.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
Them, Well, it first came that Okay, I've got to
get it out there, and I didn't know of any
way to get it out there and get heard other
than it being song, right, and so rather than kind
and just sending it off to places and trying to
find other artists who would sing my songs, I decided, well, okay,

(08:07):
I'll put it out there sort of just you know,
throw it out into the wind with me just singing it.
Probably you know, at least they'll maybe they'll hear the
story because most of my most of my songs are
like stories. They're basically stories of my life, you know.
And so it kind of got to be, well, who
better to tell the story than me? You know, you know,

(08:29):
And and there's a certain you know, tongue that you
know in a melody and everything that goes with it, Well,
it's easy to part you put your heart into it
when it's your story. There's something to that, you know.
You know, I know in a song where I want
to want it to sound a certain way, because that's
the intent of what I want listeners, you know, to

(08:51):
to hear and to feel more important, to feel, you know,
if I can get somebody to feel a certain way
and to feel the way this song is into to
make you feel, that's a win. Yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Sure.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
So so I did the first one, which my first
song was called Hey Hey, and it was about my
journey to sobriety and it's sung in a ballroom, sing
a long kind of song. Yeah. For me, sobriety is
a joyous, incredible, life altering thing after I drank for
forty plus years and it's so wonderful. But I felt
I could give it that passion that it needed to

(09:25):
have to get that message across. And that's what's starting.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah, it's kind of like a same thing.

Speaker 7 (09:31):
You know.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
It's sort of like if you if you wrote your
own movie or you had a script, you know. I mean,
obviously actors play the part, but sometimes you feel like,
and I don't. I always wonder like, for directors, how
do you get your message there? Because you know the
story you're trying to tell and there are a lot
of gifted actors you know that can pull it off,
let's be honest, but just trying to really you know,
communicate that between director actor, trying to get that out.

(09:54):
Same thing with music too, you know, I've I've done
sort of the similar thing. I wrote amateur songs there,
you know, I did that through the bands I played in,
and it's like, you know, trying to describe how I
want the sound and a lot of times the other
player guys are like, how do you want this sound?

Speaker 4 (10:09):
I'm like, well, I can hear.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
I'm trying to break it down for you, but it's
it's I can't really get you in my head kind
of thing, like unless you're in my head, you kind
of know. So, but it's that's really great. And I
will say, you know, you have the best way when
I listened to the song was It's given me that
Johnny Cash kind of smooth kind of vibe to it.
You know, you have that nice, dark, husky kind of

(10:31):
okie sound to it, you know, and it was really catchy.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
And that's the thing.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
The story of it just kind of like kept me
captivated through it because I'm like, I'm walking that journey
with you, like I'm almost living that experience. So and
I'm sure that's the goal and hopefully others too. Now
I haven't heard. Hey, I'm have to listen to it
because I'd love to hear about your journey to sobriety.
It is a wonderful thing. Congratulations on that too. That's
that's huge. You know a lot of people don't get

(10:55):
as fortunate, but it's nice to have that where you
have those real moments, you know, and people can connect
with you because you could say, hey, I didn't make
this up, this was really me. This is a story.
It's like reading your diary. Basically. This is between the
lines behind closed doors, which hopefully the audiences generate too
and they like I'm sure, but just the concept that

(11:18):
you know, you went out there, you're taking a chance,
you know, I mean again, you're familiar with the music there,
you had it kind of sort of in the background,
but coming in the stage and saying, you know what,
probably don't have many perks left, right, I mean, as
you get older, I don't know, I won't know probably
for a little while yet, but I'm sure you know
you say, you know what, what's what's the harm in that?

(11:39):
You know, you only live once, so you know, getting
out there and you know, for just just starting recently,
I mean again, it's it's incredible. What has that thrill
been for you since you start? Now you're you're seeing
some growth to it. How does that make you feel
like in the sense of accomplishment for the for this
lack of better term of you know, at least you know,

(12:00):
maybe you're not sure if it's gonna happen. But how
do you feel now that you're seeing like it's out there,
these songs are there and you're getting their responses back.
What does that signify to you?

Speaker 6 (12:10):
Well, it's been overwhelming, humbling, you know. Uh, and obviously
kind of affirmed what I what I wanted to do.
You know. When I first released say Hey It, it
actually was one of the most viral songs on Spotify
according to Spotify. I don't know what that means exactly,
you know, but win, Yeah, yeah, I think they're win.

(12:31):
They say it okay. So and I went out there
kind of with a bang. Not only did I my
first song was not just you know, okay one I wrote.
It was one that was deeply personal to me about
my sobriety and in hopes of encouraging people there is
joy and sobriety. It's actually a whole lot of fun.
And that was along with the message that it took

(12:53):
me forty years to get there. Yeah, you know, but
once I got there, it was a lot of fun.
So it's and it's a very you know, fun song
to do. And it was fun because it was the
first time that I had to pick out other instruments
to be you know, I was just being a guitar.
You know. That was so much fun to create that
part because I knew, no, I want it fast here,
I want it loud here. And then I wanted this emote.

(13:14):
I want to you know, emote this emotion here. And
so it was such an incredible experience I thought, okay,
you know, when I released it, I thought, okay, I
did it. Not only have I thrown myself out there
with words that I've written and my own voice, but
a very deep, deep issue for me, and it was
so well received and shot up and did very well.

(13:36):
I was like, wow, okay, maybe maybe I have something
maybe you know, you know. And so I've just continued
to do that, and each one of my songs has
a different sort of meaning, almost all about my life,
different stuff about my life, but somewhere in there at
intertwines with my life. And the reception has been you know, yeah,

(13:56):
I wouldn't say that I'm it's gone viral, and since
I'm not getting like a million streams and you know,
all that, not quite you know, so it's definitely not
any kind of overnight, you know, two months success, sure,
but it's enough it's enough for me. I have done it.
I've put it out there, you know, and we'll see
where the where it goes from there.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
No, it's a great positive reflection on that again, because
that's your heart, that's your work that you put into it,
that's what you you know.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
You're striving for.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Now, let me ask this, and again this is more
of a curiosity question given that I'm a bit of
a younger man, so I'm not quite as far in
the journey as you. But do you find since you
have equated your life experiences with your music, do you
find that the well is overflowing where you have plenty
of stuff to work with that you know you're not
gonna have constant writer's block you have you know, I

(14:45):
can pull this from my life. I could write a
song here, I could pull this. Do you kind of
find that flow when you do your creative process?

Speaker 6 (14:52):
Oh? Absolutely, yeah. I mean I've got probably twenty five
to thirty songs I've written. Wow, Okay, where there is?
So I've already got a pretty deep well. But it's
it's I haven't even touched the bottom. Because you know,
I'm sixteen years old and I've and I joke often
joked that my my life is not boring. You could
Netflix could get ten seasons out of my life easily, awesome,

(15:15):
you know. Uh, And and not I've not had a
boring year in my life, and so I've got a
whole lot of material I still have left untapped.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
That that's really that's impressive, I mean, And again, I
like the zeal there because you know, you're not looking
at it where you know, maybe some would say you
shouldn't be this exuberant, you shouldn't be this excited. You're
you're coming into the latter years. You know, you shouldn't
have this energy like you almost would have an energy
if somebody like me who's younger, with that enthusiasm. And
you know, but it's and again the concept core with

(15:47):
when when writing the music, and I've always been a
huge fan of it, especially like I love to listen
to scores from films. You know, obviously makes it. It
tells the story. It captivates the audience more so probably
than you know, the scenes. There's some movie areas where
the music actually makes the scene because it kind of
grips you down deep. So when you do that for
your material, and again, the personal connections. And I think

(16:09):
I think it's brilliant too, the fact you singing it
because who else, you know, who better and you know,
not that somebody else couldn't probably sing it and do
it justice. But at the same time, it's it's a
deeper reach to the soul where you can connect with
somebody too. And again let's just say use the example
of hey, hey, with you know the sobriety too, like
maybe somebody hears that message and when you say, you

(16:29):
know that is based on my life, Oh, you know,
this is a connecting moment. This is it's possible, it
can happen. It's uplifting. So I think that's that's really
incredible there. But just the I don't even know how
to put that in the phrase there, just the uniqueness
that you put into it. Like I read through some
of the lyrics there, I heard the song like again,
I was playing at looping it a few times because again,

(16:52):
it's it's not overly, it's not very drowned out. It's
not like super scory over the top. You know, you're
not playing a forty piece BA you know. But it
has a nice it has a nice tone, a nice
sound to it. You know, and again it's kind of
like it's there's stuff to interpret those things, not like
the music we have today we're younger, you know, like, well,
I don't myself count as music, but some of these

(17:14):
these bands that you can't understand the lick of the
worst they're saying. So I like the quality of that
now when talking about bridging the gap here and again,
this is where I wanted to just get your thoughts
on this too. When you obviously, you know, again not
super big time, but obviously I'm sure you follow what's
going on musically too. When you look at the music
world today compared to say, maybe when you were a

(17:36):
lot younger, maybe most of our age, so you know,
I'm in my mid thirties, you know, but uh, you know,
compared to the contrast, what is what is some major things?
Like I know there's going to be pros and cons
to everything, but like if you could go back and
tell yourself when you were younger too about writing music,
if you had the chance or there any is there
anything you would say, hey, look, this is what's coming
up down in the future, the things to consider. Would

(17:57):
it change your approach your style in any way? You'd
ever get any thought to those kind of things.

Speaker 6 (18:03):
I mean, I guess if I had started earlier, when
I was younger, in my twenties and thirties, I think
my songs would have been vastly different, to be honest,
and they probably would have been more mainstream. And I
don't consider my my song's mainstream whatsoever. I think there's
probably a niche market for it, but I don't think
that there's a lot of it out there. So I
think there's room for it out there in the music world,

(18:26):
you know, for people that want a song that reminds
them of a memory, of a feeling, of a something,
you know, that tells the story. Yeah, And at the
end of the day, that's all I'm really doing is
telling stories one way or the other, you know. And
so I don't think I would have had the experience
or the passion when I was younger. So I think

(18:47):
I'm doing it at the right time in my life
where it means something, and I think that meaning comes
out in my lyrics, you know. I think it's that
experience that I would not have had as a younger person.
In no way regret not doing it earlier. And if
I had done it, earlier, it wouldn't be what it
is now. So whether that turns out to be good
or popular or not, I don't know, but it's more true,

(19:10):
you know.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
Sure, No, that's that's a great way to look at
I mean, and you know, same thing where and you
can always Again, I'm a big advocate for at least
you know you tried it.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
You know.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
I'm a big fan of the old saying it's better
try and fail than never try it all. So, no
matter what stage of life you're at, you know, and
I've always had issues where I've had other, you know,
groups people I play with, all younger guys, like you
have to really hone your craft. You have to love
what you're doing there for that, you can't expect the
reward to happen overnight. I had guys that play with

(19:41):
It's like, I want to be in the rock and
roll Hall of Fame.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Overnight.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Doesn't happen like that. Nobody's going to be like the
Beatles is gonna hit big or the Stunt. Could it happen? Sure,
But if you're shooting for that bigger goal, you kind
of lose sight of the of everything that kind of
happens in the process, so you know, and and who knows.
You know, even at this stage you might say, well,
maybe it'll turn into something maybe. You know, obviously it's

(20:04):
got some would I make it big? Who's to say anymore?
I mean the game, the game has changed so much,
the dynamics of the music industry has changed. So I
like to say, and I'm always a big advocate, same
thing with sports. I like the root for the older guys.
I say, you know what, everybody should have a fair
chance to at least get an opportunity to, if nothing else,

(20:24):
get something heard out there. And you know, and who knows,
maybe maybe your song will get picked up for you know,
television or maybe a film. Perhaps you know, I don't
know if that's ever been a thought in your mind,
but it's always you know, it could happen.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
But I think I like that. I like the notion there.
You know, you're passionate about it.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
You you know, you can't look backwards, you know, obviously,
you know, move through life. I think we all have
that moment we look back and say, maybe I could
have done something different, you wouldn't be probably where you
are today. I totally agree with you there, But just
the journey itself. I mean, I think that's the most
and I I would ask ye too, just if you could,
even if these songs didn't go anywhere, would you even

(21:05):
regret the journey? Because if you love music so much, right,
it wouldn't change your outlook, right, you wouldn't. You wouldn't
trade it away. I mean, it's great if something comes back,
but even if it did, you would still love it.

Speaker 6 (21:14):
Right, Oh? Absolutely. I Mean the whole point was for
me to to do it, you know, a couple of
reason me, just at this age or stage of life
or whatever, to do something that it has been a
dream of mine, you know, back in the in the
back of my mind to do I've had other you know,
big successes in business and and other things, but this

(21:36):
was this is a passion, you know. And it's like
and the things I wanted to say and the way
I wanted to say it and the way I wanted
it to sound is what I'm putting out there. And
so yeah, it'd be great. It's if it's as success.
I will never hope to never get to the point
where it's like, hey, okay, this really works. But if
you do it this way, this is what people really like. Now,

(21:57):
I won't be that person that's not you know, I'll
put it out there. I hope obviously that other people
relate to it, that it touches people on a deeper
level than maybe they get in other parts of music,
and that against popular. But at no point do I
think I would ever go, Okay, well, maybe if you
sing about this, you know, people want to hear about

(22:19):
you know this, you know, then go sing about this,
you know, or make it sound like this. That's not me.
That's not my sound, that's not what I write about.
So if it goes nowhere, it goes nowhere. But as
the old saying, I did it my way, you know so,
and I'll be very happy.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
With that that I was going to ask you that,
you know, when you we've had several discussions I've been
on involved in other topics. We talked about this, but
in your opinion looking at it, when you see these
these younger groups, these younger artists who you know, they
have potential, they have great quality stuff, when you see
them make those sacrifices where they're sacrificing the quality just

(22:55):
because the record label signed them. But now you know
they record abel signs you will you sign over controlling
rights and you sign over you know that you got
to read the fine print of you sign the label,
they own your your album. You don't necessarily get control
with the music that technically is yours. But when you
see that kind of thing, you know, and again like

(23:16):
what do you how do you how do you feel
like as a true artist for that one when you
see these these young guys they sacrifice, How does that
make you feel?

Speaker 2 (23:24):
What is it?

Speaker 4 (23:24):
What do you?

Speaker 3 (23:24):
What do you think when you see these kind of things, Like, again,
they have so much potential talent, but they're selling out
everything just for a chance to make it big.

Speaker 6 (23:32):
Yeah, I think I think you, without sounding too extatuative,
you lose your soul, You lose who you are, you know,
because I think as a musician, I think most of us,
you know what We'll tell you, what we do is
our passionate, is who we are, and if we start
doing that to please other people, then we've totally literally

(23:52):
lost ourselves, you know. And so I luckily I have
a business background, so I would never sign away the
rights of my song. I don't care what you offered me,
but copyrights will be my copyrights will be my copig.
I will own my song. So you know, that probably
will limit any any you know, a lot of potential,
you know, people that want to recorded or whatever. But

(24:15):
it's just but that is far more important to me
than the other. You know, if I go down and smoke,
but I but I keep my songs, okay, so be it,
you know. But you know, and I would imagine being younger.
If you're younger and you just want to make it big,
you're gonna make those personal deep sacrifices to get there. Well,

(24:38):
you know what, I don't have to do that, you know,
so I'm not gonna you know, that's a luxury.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
Yeah, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
I mean, and again it goes back to that's a
plus column for being at the stage of life there too,
and I also think that at the stage of life
where you're at, that's also seasoned experience, where you know,
and again and then maybe perhaps in being in the
business world too, recognizing too that there's so much more.
I feel like to a lot of these younger artists,
you don't they don't read the fine print. They always

(25:06):
they don't sign the contract unless you're reading your fine print.
There's you know, it's kind of like the risk reward factor.
They get the reward up front, but you're not asking them, well,
what's it going to cost me? Because you know, there's
that old saying nothing in life is free. So you know,
maybe you get that recording contract, maybe you get that retainer,
that money up front to start recording working in the studio,

(25:26):
but they're not giving it to you for nothing. What
is it that they want that you're not reading the
fine print? So before you put your John Hancock there,
make sure you know you read it through because they've
seen it often. You know, the media there there's so
many art fights over controlling rights for songs. A lot
of guys, a lot of these popular artists are selling
their their entire catalogs just because they want to make

(25:49):
the money. Now, you know, and I'm thinking of myself, boy,
like like famous artists like have like three hundred songs
that you know they were all for decades that was
how do you just like, for lack of term, I
hate to say, like throwing it away, how do you
just like relinquish that? And you know it's like that
was your entire like life's work. You know, that was
something that you you know, you put your blood, sweat

(26:11):
and tears into and now, yeah, just because there's a
few more dollars you give it, but is it really
worth it? And I agree with you. I think you know,
you lose your soul there. But I think it's maybe
the generation of it too. I think it's the times
you obviously everything is digital now. You know, live performances
are not like they were, you know, popular way back
in the heyday. You know, obviously there's some live show performances,

(26:32):
but most people now get everything digitally. They download songs.
So most artists work in the studio now. They don't
go out touring or traveling as much as you know,
thirty years ago, that was a huge thing way back when.
But I think you're in a nice little, unique little cubicle,
if you will, if you kind of get the best
of that world where you don't have the pressures there.
You know, you don't have to deal with cameras at

(26:54):
your door. You know, you can live your own life.
You're not exactly under the microscope too, which has got
to be nice as well. But you still enjoying the
prospect of what do they say, the minor celebrity idea
like you're not necessarily selling platinum albums, but you're at
least getting out there too. So I and I think
it going back to again, your song's running about journey

(27:15):
and stuff. It's a great market that I think is
kind of is untapped. There's not a lot of people
that are going that route. They're trying to find creative
ways to be expressive, and what better way to express it?
When you write a song about your life, and who's
to say it's not going to be exciting. Everybody says, well,
I don't know if my life's interesting enough to write about.
I'm sure authors have the same problem with their autobiographies

(27:38):
and books. I can see where that happens, you know,
even for us doing songs. You know, I sat there
like I must have crumpled how many pages trying to
be like, I know what I want to say, but
I can't get it out, and it's kind of like
stuck in my head, and then trying to ask the
others to do it. It's like, how do we do
all this stuff? But it's really it's interesting when you
talk about that process there now and when I mentioned

(28:01):
it earlier though, if there was an opportunity, let's just say,
for example, if you were approached and someone said, you know, Jimmy,
we we liked these songs, this one particular song. We
have a TV show idea, we have a small maybe
movie part there. What would that be something you would
consider in negotiation with. I mean again, there's also the
creative issue too, But if that wasn't offer to you,

(28:22):
would you consider at least the process of potentially entertaining
doing something like that.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Yeah, I would definitely, depending on what they wanted to
do with this song, you know. For example, if they
wanted to take my song and put it into a
I don't know, let's say a New Age movie or something,
so they wanted to totally change the melody, you know, and
put some phonics in all electric, you know, and and
really change it up, I would probably honestly say no, thank.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
You, No makes sense.

Speaker 6 (28:49):
Yeah, if they wanted to keep it for the purpose
that the song was written, it fit into the movie,
you know, and it was a good movie. But absolutely, yeah,
of course, you know, you know, and I hope I
would stay away from well, I just got to do
this so I get it out there, you know, because
I think at the end of the day, I'll know
that I'd be able to live with myself number one,

(29:10):
and it wouldn't. I don't think it would go over
very well, you know, I have I have a pretty
good faith in that it'll end up in the right
place at the right time. And yeah, I could definitely
see some of my songs being in a movie.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
You know.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
I'ven't gotten that response a lot, like, oh my god,
this would be so great in this kind of movie,
you know. And I'm like, I would absolutely love for
one of my songs to make it into a movie,
you know, as long as they didn't alter it and
change it in you know whatever too.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Much, fair point, you know.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
And and again that's that's where that that you careful
with the creative side of you know. And like again
a lot of young young artists jumping at it saying,
you know what, yes, it's a movie or TV opportunity,
but what do they want to do with it? Like
just as an example, because I notic was talked about
and this is one of the songs that they don't
touch it when they when they did the Deadpool Wolverine film,

(29:59):
and I know Yan Reynolds came out and said we
had to go to Madonna.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
We went to her.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
House because she never relinquishes the rights to her songs.
But he's like, I wanted like a prayer in the movie.
But like we had to jump through hoops to even
take the meeting with her to ask her can we
use the song in the film and how can we?
Which it was great because they said we she was
working through the whole process like they wanted. They didn't

(30:23):
want to dishonor her with the song. It's a great song.
They said, you know, how can we We want to
tweak it, but we don't want to ruin it. And
they asked her. They had her involved in the filming process,
like where it fits. So it was kind of nice
and it worked out well. I think it fit the
film nicely. But you don't always get that. Again, obviously
at her level of celebrity, that's clearly you have to
bend and really jump through hoops to to acquire the rights,

(30:47):
which they said. She was gracious enough she allowed that
to happen, but you know, she wanted to be formally asked,
which Ryan Reynold said, Yeah, I'll come to your house
you offer me to do it. I would love to
use the film you know, what's it going to cost me?
I we be happy to do it. So those of
lengths to it, you know, it makes sense. But it's
kind of a nice idea. That's a nice frame of
when you know the quality is so good and someone says, yeah,
this would fit perfectly in this film. Maybe if it's

(31:09):
just a small little scene or a little maybe you know,
I was, I was even thinking the way I heard
a song like I can even hear some of your
stuff in like children's programming like these little you know,
just because of the story aspect, maybe there's a background
kind of like one of those storybooks come to life
kind of thing, or audio books kind of a thing.
And again there I would imagine there's not much change there.
But you know, as long as you're open minded, which

(31:32):
I'm sure you are, what would be the sky's the
limit for you as far as ultimate accomplishment if you
had to put a cap on it. You know, again,
I'm being as laid back as you are, though, But
if you had to say I have an ultimate goal,
what would that be.

Speaker 6 (31:46):
An open goal for what I want to accomplished with
my music?

Speaker 8 (31:49):
Use it?

Speaker 4 (31:49):
Yep?

Speaker 6 (31:50):
Yeah, Oh, I mean I absolutely would love to. I'd
love to perform, you know, at some point in time
in concert, you know, and and get a record deal,
no doubt, that's my ultimate goal. But but I don't
I wouldn't do it at the cost of Okay, that's great,
but we're totally trashing the melody in this song and
we're gonna we want you to do it this way.

(32:10):
I would I would not do that. Well, I don't
think I could do that because when you write the song,
at least for me, when I write the song, a
lot of them are so deeply personal that it'd be
like changing my memory, you know, because I know what
I I know what I hope it evokes, you know,
like Uncle. My last release, Uncle is very much a

(32:31):
true story about my childhood experience with an old, you know,
eccentric uncle of mine. But my hope is that other
people will have the same, similar memory of somebody in
their family. That meant they had this distinct memory they
could connect to that, right, you know, from six years old.
I remember this one. I was six years old.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
It was that important to me.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
That's what was So you know that, and you're hoping
someone else feels like, oh, that reminds me of my
uncle or my grandparents rapper. Yeah, so I and I
think that's a fair. That's a fair, says and again,
you're staying true to yourself. You know you're not And
I again I love that. I say it's old school
of the whole. You know, you're staying true to the
art form itself. You're not just going to sell out,

(33:11):
because if you did that, I'm sure you probably would
get signed overnight. That's that's obviously a huge draw there.
But you you're not willing to throw away, you know,
making them change your entire image and tire everything. You're
not willing to sacrifice that just to be famous there,
which again is such a rare quality because you know,
again a lot of the younger generation too, that's it's

(33:33):
instant famoustant success. They see all these big timers doing it.
They they want to follow that model. And again there's
nothing wrong with that, but there's got to be some
understanding reality. And again, if you are not true to yourself,
you know, how do you go about even trying to
make it there? Because the whole idea is for you
if you want to be unique, I don't. I wouldn't
want to be I wouldn't want to be any other artists.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
I want to mimic.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
I don't want to be another Drake. I don't want
to min I want to be me. I want to
be myself, you know, I want to If people are
gonna like the music, they're gonna like.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
It because it's mine, not because I copied.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
You know, any of these bands up there that did
all this stuff, And again it's no disrespect to them,
but it's it's just that concept of uh staying truly unique,
true to yourself there, which is fantastic. So that that
that's truly wonderful. What we do want to do here
is we are gonna have to reset our meeting time.
We're gonna take a break. We do have your song
cute up. We're gonna play it for you guys listening,

(34:24):
because we want to hear what we're talking about, to
give you a little taste that Jimmy here, what he's
got going on. We're gonna we're gonna talk more about
some of the other stuff. Maybe before the night's over.
We can see if he'll clue us in any projects
he's got under the under the blanket, if he's willing
to share to spill the tea.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
That's the saying. We'll ask him that.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
We'll talk a little bit more and get in depth
of that stuff as well. But we're gonna pause here.
I will be in touch with you off the air.

Speaker 6 (34:48):
There.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
We're gonna see if I can get the meeting restarted.
If we need a new link. I'm not sure if
that one will work. We'll coordinate. We'll get you back
in here. We have to wait about a few minutes
because the free program online lets us do so much sadly,
so we're still trying to work it out, but I
appreciate it. Patience there, we'll get you in so but
this is a great chance for you guys to have
a quick break. But listen to this. We're gonna play
this track first. The song is called Uncle, written by

(35:09):
Jimmy Mallier, a personal experience from him, a childhood memory
that he put a lot of time, a lot of
effort into it. Again, it's incredible. I listened to it
multiple times today. It just is very short, sweet to
the point. It's got a nice melody, and I think
you guys are really going to enjoy it. So we'll
be right back. I'm gonna close off the meeting here, Jimmy,
we'll get you back. Stick around, don't go far. But

(35:32):
for you guys listening, check it out. This is gonna
be uncle. We'll talk more about that with Jimmy Malier
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Speaker 9 (36:03):
Hey, uncle, where are we going? The Broadway?

Speaker 8 (36:08):
The bank, called the bar, through the driving toil along,
fo do groving.

Speaker 10 (36:15):
Green means going and red means stop the call.

Speaker 11 (36:23):
I'll tell you when from me other seat at home,
Janini you me my tream well you the homo.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
To everyone similly. Uncle was all that I knew. He
was loud, He was me and fun any love me?
That's much I know? Saturday? Where are day alone? Bunco
and me?

Speaker 6 (36:56):
The rest?

Speaker 4 (36:58):
I know?

Speaker 5 (37:02):
Jump out of bed, ready to go in the.

Speaker 9 (37:06):
Car, No luck and no buckles of Bubo nine.

Speaker 10 (37:12):
The stars the show, Same old, same old day, same
old jump.

Speaker 6 (37:22):
Well I was.

Speaker 12 (37:22):
He he was mine hard day and out of a spot.

Speaker 5 (37:29):
Well, I had my way. You to everyone simply on
the goal. All that I knew he was loud, he
was mean and fun, and he loved me this much.
I know.

Speaker 9 (37:50):
Saturday, we're alreaday alone, just Dumble and me West day.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
I know.

Speaker 7 (38:02):
We would go see baby dog who you would see
the banks, halls and bars.

Speaker 8 (38:10):
I was king pitch to one man all six years old,
driving in on coast.

Speaker 9 (38:18):
Ball Well I never lost sted Wo swiving the ball.

Speaker 5 (38:28):
From my bars.

Speaker 10 (38:30):
Dude you Thelmo to everyone simply Uncle was.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
All that I knew. He aloud, he was mean and fun.
Henny love me this much. I know.

Speaker 9 (38:49):
Saturday, where are day alone? Just Dumko and me?

Speaker 6 (38:55):
The best day I know.

Speaker 8 (39:00):
Illever No.

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Speaker 9 (42:17):
Hey uncle, where are we going? The Broadway?

Speaker 8 (42:22):
The bank called the bar, through the driving toil along
do groving? Green means God and red means stop the call.

Speaker 11 (42:37):
I'll tell you win from me of the seat at home.
Janini you mean my tree? Well you Holmo to everyone, similly, Uncle.

Speaker 5 (42:53):
Was all that I knew. He was loud, he was
mean and fun. Any love me as much? I know.

Speaker 9 (43:04):
Saturday world day alone, It's Bunko and me the best day.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
I know, jump out a bit, ready to go in
the car.

Speaker 9 (43:21):
No luck in, no bubbles off Bubo nine the Stars,
the show.

Speaker 10 (43:28):
Same old, same old day, same old jumble.

Speaker 12 (43:36):
I was he he was mine hard day and out
of a spot.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
Well I had my way you to everyone, simply on
the goal. All that I knew. He was loud, he
was mean and fun. Henny love me this much. I know.

Speaker 9 (44:04):
Saturday we're already alone, just dumblling.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Me West day.

Speaker 10 (44:12):
I know.

Speaker 7 (44:16):
We would go see baby doll who you would see.

Speaker 8 (44:21):
The banks, halls and bars. I was king fish to
one man all.

Speaker 9 (44:28):
Six years old, driving in on Coles ball.

Speaker 6 (44:35):
Well I never Lostted who.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Swiping the ball.

Speaker 5 (44:42):
From my bars? Dude?

Speaker 8 (44:46):
You the Almo to everyone, simply, Uncle was all that
I knew.

Speaker 5 (44:54):
He aloud, he was mean and fun. Henny loved me
this much. I know.

Speaker 9 (45:03):
Saturday, where are day alone? Just dump go and me
best day.

Speaker 5 (45:11):
No, I'm no.

Speaker 6 (45:18):
I'll ever No.

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Speaker 3 (45:51):
All right, welcome back, guys. If you took a break there,
we're back here. We are hanging out and talking to
Fulcan country singer Jimmy and we actually did a first
here on the show. We played your song not once,
but twice, because it's always better when you play it
a second time, because you always can get something. I
gotta say, I'm just sitting here just you know, bob

(46:13):
into it. It's it's so nice though, I mean really again,
I don't mean it to sound degrading there. It's simplistic enough,
but you can follow along where I don't know, and
I feel like I feel like I'm in the car
with you, Like I feel like I'm taking that journey.
Like when you're painting. I had my eyes closed. I'm like,
I'm going back to when I'm a kid thinking about
car trips I've took to my parents, and I'm like,

(46:33):
this is kind of like I could imagine me if
I were at your point. This is a song I
would write. Now, my car trips were probably a lot different,
but you kind of get the idea the similarities there,
but that that's honestly, that's that's fantastic when this song
kind of sparked for you, when this kind of became
you know, when you knew you wanted to write this,
You have the material. Let's say, you kind of knew
your life story already. You know, what was it like

(46:55):
when you were crafting it and putting it together? You
know again, because you're kind of reliving that experience and
you're trying to put it down a paper into words,
How did that feel when you actually got the process going,
even before like the rough draft, before the final result.

Speaker 6 (47:08):
Well, you know they usually when I start a song,
it's it's a line or a thought or a memory.
You know, it's just that one thing and I and
I sit down there and expand sort of from there.
And so with uncle, who's the real person, it started
with just all these very vivid, vivid memories of just

(47:29):
one you know, we did it a bunch of times,
but a Saturday, a typical Saturday morning with my uncle
and uh and and it's it's just replaying a memory.
But to be able to replay that memory and hopefully
hopefully build a visual for the listener. You know, it
is so at least I hope I did you know that? Yes,

(47:50):
I take you along in the car with me, and
you can visualize, you know, going into a barroom, you know,
with my uncle or not, you know, and all that,
and and I find it a really funny, humorous story
that as an adult you look back at your childhood
some of your best childhood memories and it includes just
hanging out with your uncle on a Saturday and going
around town and ending up in a bar. You know,

(48:13):
that in and of itself is kind of funny.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
Oh, you know, there's a whole comedy show right there
for that just alone. You can probably right forget about
Andy Griffith. This is like the more modern, you know,
different first, you know.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
But it's fun.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
It's fun though, because you know, like I said, when
I'm sitting there and I'm like, this is where I
can picture I can really put myself in that car
seat there, Like I feel like I can hear the
trees rustling when we're driving, and I mean literally it's
just so soothing when honestly, I could probably tell you
I might even put this on when I go to
bed tonight and just listen to it because it's got

(48:45):
me like so it's so relaxing and so comforting that
it's almost like that that comfort like you know little
kids have, like their their safety blanket or their stuff
the animal. It kind of feels like you're wrapped in that,
you know. And I've had nostalgic moments of memories and
you know, I wish I could. I you know, I
should have my own theme music, but I don't. But
maybe one day that could be a retirement plan for me.

(49:05):
But I just I just love the idea of that.
And you know, we'll be curious. I'm gonna we're gonna
track down your other song. I definitely want to hear
we are going to I did share this too, And again,
of course we always as long as you're okay to
we we have the NP three or m P four.
We do like to play it on our shows occasionally,
just to remind folks of the pokes that we have here.
So as long as you have no objections there, of course,

(49:27):
we always like to have permission for that too.

Speaker 6 (49:30):
Of course, Oh absolutely, I'd really appreciate that. I'd love that.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
No, no, we we we always love we had We're
getting quite a collection of every It's kind of like
our our trade symbol. Whenever we have a music guest on,
we ask them for a clip or two or a
song or two so that we can you know, put
it through and you know it just and for the audience,
it's just something that captivates and reminds them of, you know,
those moments there. Of course, obviously we will definitely welcome
you to come back at some point. We love to

(49:54):
hear your journey further too. But I want to I
want to kind of come in toward the latter part
or the end here where I want to see and
I'm gonna I'm gonna play. I'm gonna play the Harvey
Levin moment. I'm gonna be the media detective. Come in
and now again, we're not obligated to answer that. Is
there anything can we can we peek behind your music factory?

(50:15):
What have you got coming up next that you haven't
released yet that you can tell us? Is there anything
that you got cooking that you can share the spill
the tea with us? I don't want to, I'm gonna
be paparazzi here. I want to see if I can
push it? Can I can I get it out of
you know what are you willing to share? Come on,
give it to us right here, right now, exclusive right here.

Speaker 6 (50:33):
I haven't told I haven't released it yet, nor is done.
I don't think they've even done the press release or anything.
But it's coming up day after Thanksgiving, my first and
probably will only be my only Christmas song.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
H Okay.

Speaker 6 (50:48):
He's got to come out Friday after Thanksgiving. And it's
called All I Want for Christmas, not an original title,
but the theme is different, okay, and for the first time,
I kind of did a throwback again. It's kind of
a child memory, you know, being crossby Frank Sinapstein, all
those great you know musicians that played that holiday music
when I was a kid, So it's it's kind of

(51:08):
a tip of the hat to them. But you know,
I can never do anything without having that folky sort
of country sound to it. But it's I think has
a unique blend of both in it. Okay, and uh,
I like the lyrics. I think it's catchy. Uh. We've
got a lot more mix in it, you know, uh,
and instruments in it with jingle bells and all that
kind of stuff. But I think I think it's pretty cool.

(51:30):
It's just a fun, you know, happy song, you know,
and uh, I don't think they've been a whole lot
of new Christmas songs released in the last couple of decades. Yeah,
so I'm hoping maybe people find this to be nostalgic
and fun at the same time.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Well, let me just say this, and the audience knows too.
We've been sharing this and now we are coming into
our end of the Weekend's the end of November already,
if we can believe it. But our big draw we
love is we have Christmas music. We do have real
to free that we do share.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
We love.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
There are great tracks, a lot of great artists that
have shared this which we subscribe to, and we're able
to get their tracks to It's an absolute favorite. That
seems to be like our biggest draw of the year
is the holiday season. So I will say right off
the bat, since this is an exclusive there, I'm really
excited to track it down to hear it because we
got the Christmas music rolling in the house like all
the time. So if this is a Jimmy Molly, if

(52:23):
this is an original coming in like and I love
the idea. It's based off of classics it's based off
of but yet it's still you. Now, how how close
to home is this based? Because your songs are based
off of personal experiences. Just have a really good personal
Christmas moment from when.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
You were growing up.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
I shouldn't be surprised, but you know, I was just
wanted to do.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
Yeah. I don't want to assume though. I want to
make sure we're you know, clear but.

Speaker 6 (52:49):
Pretty with me. It's actually it's called all I want
for Christmas is my girls. My my girls. I mean
my three daughters. I have three daughters that are that
are a and uh so it's all about you know,
you can take all the rest of Christmas right away
from me, but just give me.

Speaker 4 (53:06):
That Wow that that's again.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
I gotta say, I will be disappointed if you if
any of these tracks don't end up in a feature
film or some maybe a home or a Christmas special.
Maybe the Christmas song could be there. I mean, yeah,
that's you know, you see some of these classic movies
and obviously there's original music. Why can't your song be there?
And again, how many movies are about family, all about
the holidays. So I'm definitely gonna write a letter to
the editor for that one, but we'll see how that got.

(53:31):
But that that's that's awesome. I mean again, it's it's
not shocking too because we're coming into the holiday season.
But so to be fair than to ask how long
have you had this on? Have you had this in
the works for a little bit, or how long have
it taken you to get this? Okay, so just the
actual release.

Speaker 6 (53:45):
Of part I've probably wrote it a year and a
half ago. And I mean, you can't release it in July, right,
I mean there is that part of marketing you do
have to adhere too, that's true, but that's a that's
about the only element that I have. So I've had
it and I spent a lot of time on the
instruments and the mixing and everything else because I really

(54:05):
wanted a certain sound to it, sure, and that throwback sound,
and I think I accomplished it with the great health,
great guys, and so we waited until Christmas.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Yeah, well you know, I'm actually again it makes sense
for that too, and I think it's it's it's great
and again, build up the hype and obviously you know,
we we'll mention that too, like everybody's gonna go Actually
technically by the time everybody hears this, it's probably released
today anyway, because it's gonna be Friday, and so it's
out there now. It's out there now, and again we
will before we close, and I too, we're gonna have you.
We do have some things we can share, but we
want you to tell everybody where we can find your music.

(54:37):
We always like to have the artists do that at
the very end. But I did want to ask this earlier.
But when you have a creative process, when you work
with other instruments, I'm assuming you probably have worked with
other musicians before. What is that quality, like, whether it's
a Christmas song or just a regular song, how do
you find that just the camaraderie even the creative process
when you work with other musicians and your process of

(54:57):
you knowing what you want, especially if it's your song,
how do you find the working relationship when you try
to get others to see your vision.

Speaker 6 (55:05):
That's a great question because I went through when I
first started this as a just a total novice. Still
am you know? I went to recording studios. That's what
you do. You go to write, you're paying your prime,
you go to a recording studio. So I went to
a couple and one of them did a fairly good job,
but I felt like I couldn't get my message across
about the sound that I wanted, and so I ended

(55:25):
up working actually with my son in law who's incredible
at mixing, and the guy that I write music with,
who's an incredible musician, play so many different instruments. I
could communicate with him like, no, but this is the
sound that I want. And it's even down to this
is the type of piano I want, like for hey, hey,
it is a stand up bar piano. It wouldn't be

(55:46):
that song without it. Sure, you know, an uncle, there's
a mandolin in it is the main instrument that you
hear in that that's a very unique sound to it.
But I wanted to sort of throw back ring instrument,
not just my guitar. Sure, And so it's been it's
been extremely important and to work with people that that

(56:09):
get my sound or get what I'm trying to communicate,
you know, because yes, the words do one thing, but
of course without the melody and the right instruments it
can you don't keep the message across.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
It's it's so often and I've I've heard a lot
of songs where again I always say it was so close,
it had potential, but the music just just didn't fit.
The words were good, but it was the wrong backdrop.
It was the wrong sound, you know. And again it's
not to be critical, but it's just from a from
a listener who's supposed to be, you know, join that,
and you're writing it to us as the audience listening.

(56:40):
I'm like, I just I just feel like it could
have went a different way.

Speaker 4 (56:44):
You know.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
Musically, the lyrics are fine, but they just don't seem
It's almost like having a jazz song with a rock
and roll it just doesn't kind of clashes there. So
and again I really say that that's the part I
loved about Uncle is the mandolin part. You can hear
it in there, like that's the And again, I've played
for a while and I'm used to. I mean, I'm
a drummer by nature, but I still understand and appreciate

(57:05):
the string, so I can hear the play and it's
I think that's what really makes it too. It's the
light plucking of it. It's not you know, it's not
something overdrawn like guitar could work, but you need just
that nice, little, that little light feel, but the sound
is still good, so, you know, very important. And I
think I was always a big believer. I talked to
a lot of musicians when I started playing, guys who've

(57:26):
done it. I'm like, you know, trying to get all
kinds of ideas. The one thing I always took into
when they say is less is more, so you know,
you don't necessarily have to go big and loud and
and crazy and all these things. Sometimes the less you
and I know a lot of guys will say, well, yeah,
but I want all this stuff. When I get in
the studio, I want, you know, every possible sound at

(57:47):
the soundboard. And I mixed it with engineers. I've done
that kind of stuff, like I, you know, amateurist, but
I did it myself. And I'm like, you don't understand
the levels you got to go through just to make
sure the channels fit. They're too hot, they're too loud,
even when you know you said with the bands when
we played, like I ran the guitar players through the soundboard,
I'm like, you know, you guys, one is too hot,
the others too.

Speaker 4 (58:07):
You know, it's it's a.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
Whole thing just to get the basic instrument sounds in
and now you're telling me you want this huge fanfare.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
How am I supposed to do that?

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Like, you know, these stunt recording softwares only go so
far too, like what do you want me to? And
then they look at me and I'm like, listen, I'm
doing this because there's no one else in the group
that can do it. But I'm like, I'm not a
composer by nature, and it's not like my forte so,
but I think that's I think it's great, and you
have I kind of also say your music's kind of
like that that old country store, that old mom and

(58:39):
pop shop, you know, And again it's it's I I
personally love the classics for that, I'm I'm I think
that's a very rare quality that you don't see anymore,
especially we know, and it's in our day and age.
It's almost like the stores that we see. We don't
see these mom and pop places anymore. That just doesn't
survive with economics and things happening. So to see something
of quality like that where it's like you're still in

(59:00):
business after forty years. You've been around forever and nothing's
taking you down. It's truly unique and truly special. But
we were looking forward to it all I want for Christmas.
We're gonna look for that. If we can find that,
I'm definitely gonna get it. We're gonna play it on
the show because it's gonna fit right in with our
Christmas holiday theme, which I haven't heard it, but I
know we're gonna love it. I'm not worried about that
if it's anything like Uncle, and I'm sure, hey, hey,

(59:22):
I'm gonna have to go listen to all of them now,
so I'm definitely gonna gonna be plugging. You're like, hey,
when's the next one coming out? Because I'm ready to
download it, so let me know. And of course I'm
sure the viewers will love it too. We're gonna share
that as well. But very very great. I love it.
I again, just at the core of your life where
you're at to Jimmy, you know, it's fantastic. And again
I mean that in all sincerity. I'm not you know,

(59:43):
I think that's wonderful. And I hope even for me
again being younger, like that's the kind of the model
I can look for myself. Maybe one day, you know,
I always tell myself what's my my future gonna look like?

Speaker 4 (59:54):
Because I don't know.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
I'm always interested in different endeavors. But I think it's
a great example and hopefully for listeners to hearing this,
you know, the big key motto is you're never too
old to follow your dream. You can go out there
and at least try to live once, because that's all
we get.

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
You know, there's no do over.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
So you know, again, I've always said it's better to
try and fail than never try it all because you
don't want to look back and say I could have
done that, maybe I should have, maybe I could or
whatever happened. I think a lot of people are scared
by that today because obviously, whether it's trying to start
a business and the economy is not good, or trying
to you know, they're just afraid to take chances, you know,

(01:00:29):
which is understandable too, and in that kind of frame too,
if you equate the business and the music there, if
you look at it as both in that trend, and
let's say let's say we were going to try to
inspire a young artist there who says, you know, Jimmy,
I want to put this out there. I'm trying to
go where you're going, but I don't know how to
do it? Do I bother doing it? How would you
advise them? Like say, again, they have the passion for it,

(01:00:50):
they want to try it. And again you could even
say it's a version of a younger you. What would
you want to inspire by telling this this individual person
or persons if they ask you, hey, what's your advice?

Speaker 4 (01:00:59):
How do I do this?

Speaker 6 (01:01:01):
Well? The first thing that when I did it was
my business mind was the first. Is the passion that
drove me, so that creative side, but it was the
business part of my mind that said, okay, investigated what
does it take? What are the new because I know,
you know, being a little bit older, you know, the
whole world of the internet, Spotify and YouTube and all
that was fairly foreign to me. And so I started

(01:01:24):
researching and how do you get on Spotify? How do
you distribute a song? How do you record a song?
How do you So I looked up and studied all
the how do you and and you know, and it
all kind of feel like, okay, I could do that,
you know. And I had the choice of going out
in the old style, going out in bars, let's say,
and just start playing and hope you get noticed. That
did not appeal to me at this stage of the day,

(01:01:48):
you know, and I thought, well, wait a minute, this
is pretty cool. This is when you know technology might
benefit me, is that I can put it out there
and it can be listened to literally almost anywhere in
the world. You know, you can't get such a bigger
audience than that. And so so that's what I did.
And it's funny, my, you know, when you get these
this data back, which I'm a data person, it was

(01:02:10):
you know, your big your most listeners are in this
and the countries that listen to it, it's it's hilarious.

Speaker 5 (01:02:15):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 6 (01:02:16):
And they're not even in English speaking countries, and I'm like,
how is this song even a success? There? You know,
it doesn't help when you want to get to that
concert level because your your fan base is spread out
all over the world. So you know, in time that
hopefully get concentrated and then I'll have enough draw to
get a record deal and go out on the road.

(01:02:36):
But that's how I started. I started with the passion
and the creativity and writing the songs, and then the
analytical side of me stepped in and said but how
do you get it out there?

Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
You know, big questions an important question yep, yeah, yeah
and I and again, I think that's that's the advice
I always give. You know, a lot of young guys playing,
like listen, the music itself is yes, it's critical, it's important,
and your crafting is there. But marketing advertise, you know,
like even for us, you know, we do shows like this,
you know, word of mouth we've had. It's funny you

(01:03:05):
mentioned the analytics. We look at it too, and I've
seen like the episodes.

Speaker 4 (01:03:09):
We put out.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
We've been on the air for a while. But some
of the countries that I'm like, I didn't think we
would reach outside the US. Well I'm seeing we're listening
to in countries like Turkey and Bangladesh, and I'm like,
and Slovakia and Slavama, like these places like I've heard of.
But I'm like, oh, people, actually they listen to us,
like which usually tend to be just goofy on the air,
but they listen to us. So I'm like, Okay, So

(01:03:31):
I guess the sky there's really is no limit when
you can see, like the world is your oyster. I
guess that's saying too but putting it out there, not
being afraid. And I think that's just taking the plunge,
committing to it. So you know and understand. And again
we've shared this, We've had topics of this discussion, and
we believe here too a big advocate for level of

(01:03:52):
success can be measured different ways. You know, there's no
there's no right answer, there's no wrong answer. You kind
of have to. My personal thing is start small success,
small goals, you know, don't try to go for the
whole pie. Try to set realistic small goals to baby
step to leap frog up into you know, bigger ones
instead of going from here to the big one you

(01:04:13):
got to get. You gotta cover the middle ground too,
So you know, I think that's important and key too.
And again, if you guys listening to you can see
obviously Jimmy is following his love and his dream there
and it's I can say again, I don't have a
crystal ball, and I don't know for sure, but I
would venture to guess at some point, as long as
you are continue to be as passionate about your music

(01:04:34):
as you are, and you keep putting it out there,
something good is gonna happen more so than it has lately.
I'm willing to bet money out. You're the horse I
would bet on for sure in that case. Like I said,
you can hear I said it here and remember me
if it happens. Hallmark TV special one of All I
Want for Christmas could be could be the next track
that highlights that mark my words. I can share that

(01:04:55):
for sure. But such a lot of great stuff. Jimmy,
I'm so glad you could come hang out. I hope
you want to come back again. We'd love to have
you revisit us here here how.

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
Things are going?

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
Before that we let you go to again. Obviously we
can share these, but we always like to have you
shameless plug on here. Where can we find Jimmy Malier's music?
Where are someplaces folks can download listen to where? Yeah,
give us to us, let us fine, I'm gonna go
looking tonight, so let me know where to find you.

Speaker 6 (01:05:20):
Yeah. Absolutely, Spotify YouTube with the big, big, biggest two right,
it's all my Amazon, It's on Apple. iHeartRadio just picked
it up. Yeah. So I've had some some pretty good
success and I always tell people just look under my
name because if you look up Toddle songs. I've never
had success to that. I don't know, like as so
many songs are close to the same time. Yeah, so

(01:05:40):
if you can learn just about my last name, that's
always the biggest obstacle. Jim L L I A.

Speaker 4 (01:05:47):
It should be, it should bear.

Speaker 6 (01:05:49):
There's not many Malays out there in the music world.

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
Well, I'll tell you what. So my last name, you know,
is pretty long too. And if I've actually googled myself
several times, I do come up, but there's really no
cop because there's who many people have that name. It's
a Polish name, it's an old can't find it anywhere.
So I'm like, when people go to look for me,
I always tell them, yeah, just just look up whole ass,
whole first name. How are we gonna find. You'll know
it's me, Believe it's it's not. There's no copycats. I'm

(01:06:13):
actually hoping. I'm hoping for copycats one day, just as
a form of flattery, you know, that'd be nice. But
maybe some Malier fans, maybe they'll sort a fans page
for you. You could have it there. We might just
start one just for the fun of it, just to
kind of put me out there too.

Speaker 4 (01:06:26):
So yeah, yeah, you know, I mean, why not. You
gotta have the doring fans.

Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
We're gonna troll you anyway, so but we'll definitely check
that out. You guys can find that. We'll get some
more links if you want to share them with us,
we'll be happy to you. We can get them from
Starlight too. They'll give us some stuff as well. But
Jimmy Malier, thank you for joining us here. A new
song uncle, And at this point, if you guys didn't
find All I Want for Christmas just in time for

(01:06:49):
the holidays, drop it. Go listen to it now. Put
it on your Christmas playlist. Play it while you're baking cookies,
while you're setting up the tree, wrapping presents, play it
all around and crank it up. Don't worry about the neighbors.
It's you know, just just just crank it up. You know,
it's Christmas. It's wholesome of that better than probably your
other neighbors play their stuff, so you know, why not
why not make it fun for that as well. But

(01:07:10):
we appreciate though, Jimmy, thank you so much for being
here as a pleasure. I'll look forward to seeing you again,
hopefully rather sooner than later, but we appreciate it's such
a great honored pleasure here.

Speaker 6 (01:07:21):
Thank you so much, Thank you very much. It's been
so awesome to talk to you. I really appreciate it.
I hope to be back on and who knows, maybe
a year from now. You know, I'll be a big success.
You know, I'll have you back on here go remember when.

Speaker 3 (01:07:33):
Yeah, we'll keep the keep that track. We save it
in the database like here, remember this track. We'll play
back the interview I said we knew you when before
he was famous. Then there you're gonna you know what,
there's your Netflix special right there. Yeah, and again we
don't have to be on, but if we would get
like a small like a little tiny note motion in
it happ be great or not mentioned there, that's great.
But you know, I'm not shameless plugging, but I am,

(01:07:55):
so I just have to put it out there. So
but thank you very much though to you Jimmy. Again,
I know it's a little bit past, but we hope
your Thanksgiving is wonderful, you have a great time with family,
but we can say happy Holidays, Merry Christmas to you
as well. Will definitely be in touch and we will
get you back on the sooner side too, and best
of luck even after Christmas with your endeavors, with the
tracks you come out. We're going to be following closely,

(01:08:16):
so excited to see what comes out next. But this
has been a great interview.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (01:08:21):
Jimmy Mollier check him out there wherever you can find
your music there again, learn to spell the name right.
If you get it right, you'll find it. We will
help you. We're going to advertise it, so if you
get it wrong, well that's your own fault. But we're
just saying just to put it out there. So Jimmy,
thank you so much. Have a wonderful rest of your evening.
We'll be in touch and take.

Speaker 6 (01:08:37):
Care very much.

Speaker 4 (01:08:41):
You're very welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
We'll get you back sin take care all right, you guys.
This has been another wonderful, wonderful episode. We are so
thankful you tuned in for this. I hopefull you guys
enjoy that plenty more to come. More exciting things are
going to happen. We hope that you will stay tuned
for that as well, and we are going to continue
to play he Jimmy song. Uncle will play it throughout
the next few episodes we got coming up, so we

(01:09:03):
hope you look forward to that. We will see you
tomorrow night, Saturday night, November thirtieth, it's Big Hoss's birthday bash.
Hope you guys can join us live. We are excited
to do that for him. The kick off the end
of the month and then our Christmas holiday episodes begin,
which we will definitely want you guys to be around for.

Speaker 4 (01:09:20):
You don't want to miss it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
All the fun, all the trimmings, the tree, the presence,
the snow, the morkage ass for It's fantastic, It's wonderful.
So we'll see you guys though tomorrow night. Thank you
as always for joining us. We love and appreciate all
your support. Go support Jimmy. Make sure you listen to
the music. You would appreciate that. We're gonna plug him
as well. Have a wonderful rest of your evening, good
night and goodbye for now, and of course and as

(01:09:42):
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