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are out there giving it. They'reall for me, for you, and
for the world. Well, guys, I want you to meet our next
guest, Gary All, a remarkablefigure whose life story reads like a roller
coaster of rebellion, redemption and artisticrebirth. You know, from a rebellious
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teenager to an academic achiever and nowa passionate musician. Our guest journey is
a testament to the power of selfbelief and transformation. His latest single,
Way Out of My League, toucheson modern relationships with the mix of humor
and insight, reflecting on his diverselife experiences, and as we dive into
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his musical world, we will uncovera story of relentless pursuit, personal growth
and the magic of self expression throughmusic. And with that, let's welcome
him to the show. Hello,Hello, Hello, welcome, welcome,
Well, thank you, Jeanie,this is god reed All. I thank
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you for that introduction and it wasvery nice, you said some nice things.
And also I heard your opening remarkstoo, they were quite inspirational.
We all have to be reminded.I think that we were lucky to be
on you know, be on thisearth, and every every day above ground
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is a blessing and we should reallyreally appreciate all the things we have and
like. And I, you know, I don't want to be sound like
a super patriot. There may bea little extra blessing if you're in a
you know, a free country likethe United States or some of the others
around in the world where you canexpress yourself freely without you know, having
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to worry about it too much.But absolutely absolutely, and you're you're so
welcome, is it? Gori gori? All yeah, yeah, it's got
red and then the last name ofPaul. All right, My apologies for
that mispronunciation, but yeah, yeah, it is truly a blessing if you
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were in the States and able toexercise your freedom, you know, live
in a free state. I don'tknow how long we have with those privileges,
but take it and be thankful foryou you know, right, yeah,
be thankful? All right, allright, Well, well, welcome,
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welcome, welcome. We are soexcited that you are here and your
transition from academics to music, it'sfascinating. I remember telling my parents a
long time ago that I no longerwanted to do and I just wanted to
be a musician, and they werelike, what, Nope, You're going
to school. So for anybody who'sable to escape that, I'm not saying
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that academics is bad, you'll needit. Trust me, you'll need it
as you climb the ranks in life. You'll definitely need academics. But what
inspired the shift in your life andhow has this journey influenced your approach to
music and songwriting. Okay, wellthere's two major shifts, so I want
to be clear which one you're askingabout. There was the shift from the
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juvenile, delinquid high school dropout toI guess you could say an academic starre
uh. And then there was theshift from a career mainly an academic life.
I did do a little some otherstuff as well, but mainly academic
life. And then to this kindof rebirth of my creative side, which
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I had played a little bit with. You know is a teenager now and
then, but never really focused thoughon one session you know, got into
writing academic papers and teaching classes andso so. So there's really like these
two kind of transformations in my life, and which one would you want me
to focus on? Let's start atthe juvenile Delincoln? Okay, all right,
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Well I grew up without a father'sthe last of seven children. Had
a single bomb I dedicated a songand a video music video called mother Tough
to her uh and you know shewas busy with lots of kids and really
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no support in working her job asa grocery clerk. So you know,
I had a lot of probably morefree that I should have had, you
know, too early in life.And you know, I guess I would,
you know, kind of an explorerfrom the beginning, and then kind
of got in with a crowd.They weren't like the worst people, but
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they they were the you know,they were the bad boys at school there.
You know, we we called theother kids, uh, you know,
who were from seemed a little bitdoing, they were better academically or
you know, their clothes were alittle better. So well, our nickname
for them was the Socialize and wecalled ourselves the river Rats. And we
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were a gang, you know kindof but not I mean we were going
around shooting people or didn't like that, but we did. We did like
the tease the police when they wentby, you know, shouting out things
like what are pennies made up?And someone would answer the dirty copper,
things like that. And so normallylike the outsiders, what like the outsiders?
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Yeah, something like that. Okay, So the drinking there was,
I'd been a fair amount of drinking. And I mean my father was an
alcohol ache and I had brothers whodrank pretty heavily. I was the youngest
of seven, and I mean bythe at fifteen, I was already hanging.
I was saying, mainly with guysa little bit older at that time.
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And but you know, it wasevery Friday Saturday night we get a
case of quartz and go off andpark in some secluded spot, usually with
some girls, thank goodness. Uhand you know, would drink and spoke
cigarettes this kind of stuff and uhand you know there, you know,
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basically there was some disorderly conduct,some things that happened and we got cooled
in and stuff. So there wasthat kind of stuff and you know,
my family really and then I droppedout of school. I'll drive to school
because like they willn't. She gotback. I dropped out the first year
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for various reasons, begin somewhere inthe second semester. Then the but I
was on the football team, thefreshman football team. I got a letter
and the next year I went backin September. They let me rolling back
in. Great, you know,now I'm going to go back on the
team and everything. And then theycalled me in and said, well you
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can't. You can't go off forfootball or any sports any because of your
academic past. You know, youmissed that semester. You're an academic probation,
so until you get your grades.You know, this is like choocrasy,
not understanding what somebody wants. BecauseI was, you know, I
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was okay with that, and whenI wanted to do something like back in
what was it the seventh grade,I had a really good history teacher,
missus Stune. I got a's forher, you know, but if I
didn't care for a teacher or thesubject for some reason or other, I
always got a good student. Butso so the football thing, I said,
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no, that's kind of was mymotivation to go back, so i'd
be on the team, you know, And so I don't know what it
was. A week or two afterthe heck with it, I'm just dropping.
I'm looking for a job, andso you know, that's what happened.
Then. I never went back thenin the but but even though I
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was a high school drum, Iwas reading books like I mean, oh,
you know, long novels. Iread Shakespeare and stuff when I was
like fifteen. Uh, and thenI started reading some a little different group
of people who were more intellectual artistic, particularly a fellow named Jean I got
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close with. And he had beento college. He had We were big
into Jack Harrow, Actus and beAway Before Your Time. But there's a
novel called On the Road, Uhthat influenced really what they called the Beat
generation, you know, people likeAlan Giinsburgh, the great poet spoken word
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ours. And so Jean had beento college. He had also hit his
hype to l a something that wasjust to be seemed like, how could
anybody do that because we're stuck inat the little count in the southern Midwest.
And so anyhow we became pretty close, and uh he said at one
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point, well, I'm I've gota couple of years in college. I'm
going back and I'm going to finishup get my English degree, teach english.
He loved literature and got me intothat, and uh, you know,
he kind of wanted me to gowith him. So well, when
I'm twenty years old and I gotprobably not even a semester of high school
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credit, I don't know. Butthen it turns out the state law did
have something called general what was itcalled GDED General equivalencies of POEMA. You
could get the equivalent of a highschool diploma by passing a test. So
I studied for the test, Ipassed the test and got it that and
then and then I passed the entranceexam at Illinois State after hitchhiking up.
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There was as much money for anyof this. I told my mom nothing
about this or anybody except Gene andyou know, maybe a couple of their
pals around, but I don't wantmy mother annoying them about it in case
it did not work out, youknow, like I got rejected by the
college or whatever. So then Isink it was like maybe the first day
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of September, this letter came inthe mail. I hoped up and it
said you have been admitted to theuniversity. So this was then I told
my mother. She was all flabbery, acid and overjoyed and crying and everything.
So I made up my mind,now I'm going to make the most
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of this as probably the last chanceI'm going to get to get an education.
So I took a part time job. It's the hospital there. I
was the evening cartman. She getthis. I had paid eighty five cents
an hour, but but you gotyour evening meal, and believe me,
that was like one or two mealsI got done there, so that was
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a big bonus of the job.And uh and then I roomed with Jeane,
which meant and he got a cheaproom, and you know, I
had an extra bed, so thatrent was cheap. That helped I got
uh see, I think I gota loan. I'm going well, And
that wasn't easy because this is backquite a while. And at the time
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I got a big black mustache,which was not popular at that time.
I had a pretty fairly conservative,you know school the middle of Centralise.
But some kind loan officer, Idon't know whatever, maybe he looked at
my scores from the entrance exam orsomething, which I guess we was pretty
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good and they for they gave mea little loan you know, that covered
my tuition and some books and stuff. And then for the you know,
the money from the hospital helped alittle bit with the rent and all of
that. So off I was.And then once there, I said,
okay, I'm doing this the I'llshow you the the the importance of things
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being really measured. The first testI took was in a psychology co internet
in psychology and different Strugus. Thisis going to be a dry run.
It really won't count. So whathappened, of course, is I didn't
study who lot and I got aD. But then he said, okay,
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h and you know, next weekwe're going to have a real tast
and it'll cover some of these samethings but also some of this new material.
So I got an A on thattest is going to count. I
got an A in of course,And so I've started to realize I really
liked this studying reading writing papers inEnglish, and I enjoyed it, and
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I was doing very well at it, and so I just stuck with And
the funny thing is how you knowthe mind works? You think? I
mean, I was like academically anobody starting off but when I started having
success. I think it might havebeen late in the first semester, or
maybe it was somewhere early middle thesecond semester. I, uh say,
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you know what, now, amI going to get this degree? Here?
I could get a PhD. I'mgoing to get a PhD. I
said that. I didn't say thatanybody else, by the way, at
that time, I said it tomyself, and by golly, I didn't,
which would have been totally under whichwould have been not predicted by anybody,
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you know what I mean, probablyeven Queen Genie. Uh, I
don't anybody would have predicted that atthat time. But I was determined,
and uh so, you know,I took a number. That was the
first part time job. I hadseveral others working my way through. Uh
and then uh, I had verygood I made an honors day and all
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that kind of stuff. And thenwhen it came time to decide what to
do, I had various offers.I had offers outside of academia. Actually,
that whole government made me several officersoffers to come in and be and
there are many of an intern programthat's kind of tempting. Uh. You
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know, I took a bus toWashington, DC to be interviewed by several
agencies. That went well, andthen there were other things I was thinking
about, like, you know,there's a whole profession called city management.
I said, that might be interesting. But then I got several offers for
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graduate school. Yeah, I said, well, that's you know, I
did think about that. THHD back, maybe I'll just do that. So
uh, I decided to go withthe one that gave me the most money,
which was at that time there wassomething called National Defense Education Scholarships or
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something. So anyway, I gota I got one for three years,
covering all tuition, all books,plus a stipend for you know, renting
food, and uh, okay,I'm going to do that. I did
that, and then as that wasrunning out, the some of the professors
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really you know, I guess likeme, encouraged me, and that I
began. I got teaching assistant jobsfirst with you know, I worked with
professors, and then I had myown little classes that once a week.
Uh, and then eventually I gotmy own class that's either you know,
I had the master's by that timeto still working on the doctorate, but
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then my own classes to teach andstuff and that. And by the way,
the first time that happened when Iwas in a much bigger class,
and I had classes of two hundredor more people, and then you'd have
maybe five for six sections of thirtyor forty students, and I would have
one of those once a week.I ever told any people this story.
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But the first time I went tothat, I'm walking, I know what
room it's in, you know,and I'm walking down the hall and I
got my you know, I'm preparedand everything. Wait a minute, this
is being You've heard the term impostersytrol, right, so I get a
case. I'm starting to get acase of imposter syndrome, because wait a
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minute, these all these kids theresitting in there, got got pretty good
grades to get undergraduate University of Illinois. It's one of the that there's a
lot of good schools in the BigTen. It's you know, it's one
of the top schools in the BigTen. And this said there, you
know, they're kind of those arethe people like we just call the social
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lifes. Here, I am ariver wreck. I'm gonna walk in there
and teach them. Oh my god. I started getting a little bit nervous.
I thought, maybe, you know, I could walk away. But
back to the end, what amI going to tell the big professor?
You know, I'm going in thereand I am doing it, and I
just I just forced myself to getin there when put my name on the
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trump board and started lecturing. Andever since then, I've been like very
relaxed. In fact, over time, I kind of got to miss the
fact to being a professor where youhave kind of a captive audience shall and
you can you know, lecture andyou can have sewit a and all that
kind of stuff. I think that'spart of why I've come we come to
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love the live performance is part ofyou know, the you know, the
pole music industry, not just theyou know, the recording the other things
that go and and of course thewriting and creating process of itself is very
important, but getting up there onstage, it's something that was I guess
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I kind of stin away without realizingit, and then I got so I
decided to start doing that. It'ssomething actually new for twenty three In January,
I went to my first open micnight and did a live performance,
and I've been doing a number ofthem since then. I really enjoy that
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part of the year of the businessabsolutely. So we've been talking about trying
new things almost long. Have youhad a chance to accept the new challenge
or venture into unfamiliar territory in yourmusic career or even in your personal life?
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Huh? That's interesting. Well,I'd say there's a few of One.
I just kind of mentioned to gointo doing the live performances, which
you can kind of you know,not just recording things and then putting them
on SoundCloud or fire or YouTube,but actually going out in front of real
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people, exposing yourself and expressing yourselfand seeing how they were. So that
would be one. Also, uh, and this isn't a done deal shit,
because I'm just now starting. It'sa little bit of a challenge for
me, you know, being older, I mean kind of fat fingers,
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but I'm I'm starting to learn theguitar because mainly I'm a lyricist and a
vocalist. But I really, forsome reason this well, I shouldn't be
able. I should play a littlebit of guitar at least, So I'm
just starting that. I really hadit going for a while, but then
with you know, this Thanksgiving holiday, we had I had a lot of
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travel, mainly all by car withme doing driving, and so I had
a street going you know, don'tbreak the Chane kind of street with guitar,
and unfortunately got away from that.So I now kind of settled in
a little bit. So that's onthe to do list word more to get
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back to, uh learning some basicguitar. And then I guess one other
thing and it just came to merecently. Uh, I guess it's a
while back. I wrote a songcalled Humanhood and did perform it live.
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I've got you know, polite applause. It hasn't I don't know if I
I know it's on SoundCloud. Excuseme. I know it's on SoundCloud,
but I don't know if I privatizedit yet or not, but maybe public.
But anyhow, the point is thatsong made me think that while I
still like to do kind of likefun songs, like part of the one
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we're talking about tonight is I thinkthere's two aspects of that song. There
is the fun side and then there'sanother side of the thing maybe talk about
too, but well, and Istill like doing that, and I like
doing you know, more less serioussongs, you know, those that don't
have necessarily a great message. Ithink I do want to more and more
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start getting the kind of message.I guess I kind of would like to
be a little part of it's goingto be just all me, you know,
but maybe just be a little partof kind of being a bridge between
different generations, genders, races,and so forth, and not be you
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know, so divided. I mean, if I could just take a couple
of seconds, the opening of thesong youmehood goes like this, absolutely nothing
wrong with brotherhood or sisterhood, butfor all of us, it would be
good to celebrate our common humanhood.M hm. So I think the world
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might need someone that oh yeah,oh yeah, I agree, but it
goes and I've kind of taken thaton that I want to do more along
those lines, and even if it'snot as popular as some of the other
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things I've put out, like IWant to Be a Kid Again from last
summer, or the Way out ofMy League, which is streaming pretty well
on Spotify now, but you know, not that I would. I'm happy
to be popular so forth and allthe things that come with that, but
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uh, I think, you know, trying to do some good in the
world and trying to maybe make thingsa little bit better. It is just
more important than popularity. Absolutely.All right, guys, are you ready
to jump into some music? Wehave god Rie all with this song,
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way out of my league, andthen we'll be right back for more.
Goy ri all stay tuned. What'sthat, baby that you want me to
do? WHOA? Now that's ano goal. I'll maybe you know that
I love you, and not becauseyou're a huge celebrity, and not because
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you love me more than even yourkitty, and not because your creativity has
given you riches be unbelieved, andnot even because you clearly prefer me to
the big chief. No, it'sbecause you're the complete package in every way,
not just a phenomenal lay to makeyou happy. I will do all
the rest and give it my best, but I won't do what you request.
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Anything else you request I will dowith his ass. Though you are
crazy rich and I thought, nottoo much of a bitch, and ever
so beautiful even when wearing a mask, I still won't do what you ask.
I love your long flowing tresses ofblonde and your big eyes are blue,
but I won't do what you're askingme to do. You are way
out of my league, and everyway and every day I pray you will
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not send me away or astray.You and your family are really high class
and you sure have a beautiful ass. But the task that you ask is
on my do not do list.And sorry if that makes you pissed.
Yeah, I know you're a bigslib and wildly popular over the world and
web your ivy league. By educatingthis league, you're certainly well bred.
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I'm struggling just to get ahead,and I dread being banished from your bed.
Yeah. I know you've headlined manya sold out concerts, tickets at
a hefty price. You're millions offans think you're the queen of Paradise.
You have toured through various errors aroundthe globe while I've been out of state
only thrice. But though I mightkiss your taint, lick your taint,
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I ain't. You are way outof my league and every way and every
day I pray you'll not send meaway or astray. Since you keep insisting
and demanding, I know your requestis not in jest, but is it
a test of my love or justto prove that you are so far above
You're insisting you're starting to give methe scaries. Some think you're the greatest,
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but I'm not going to lick yourdingle berries. I love your long
flowing tresses of blonde and your bigeyes are blue, but I'm not going
to lick anywhere near your pools.You are way out of my league,
and every way and every day Ipray you'll not send me away or astray.
Tell you what to end this altercation. You gift me tax free three
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milk and if your ass new consideration. Yes, my dear, it'll take
that much loot for me to getnear the end of your poops. Yes,
my honey, I know it's aton of money, but it'll take
at least that much loot for meto get friendly with the whole from which
you two, for me to frenchkiss the end of your poop. Shoot.
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All right, all right, welcomeback, guys. That was way
out of my league by gar Ray. Oh all right, all right,
that was very refreshing, humorous.It's always unique to hear something different,
you know, And yeah, let'sgo ahead and bring them back. Hey
man, welcome back. That wasa very unique track. Thank you,
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Yes, sir, yes, sirman. What challenges have you faced in
transitioning to a music career. Wow, that's a good question, because I'll
prepare to talk about the song challenge. I said, Well, I think
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there's the main one is if youwent to you know, all the gate
keepers in the music industry, youknow, whatever record labels or even the
whatever indie anything, and they toldyou what they're looking for. I mean,
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I am so far from the cookiecutter, you know. You know,
they're they're looking for the next toJustin Bieber, you know, the
female version of Justin Bieber, whatever, Ariana Grande. You know, I'm
different in a lot of ways,being more mature, how would say,
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older as one, and you know, and not having been really involved except
as a consumer of someone who lovesthem, you know, nearly all kinds
of music, and from having hada kind of a really different lifestyle.
I think makes me quite unusual.And that's kind of a challenge because uh,
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you know, I had not that. I really looked very hard for
a manager. But I haven't seenanybody, you know, jumping out and
saying, uh, you know,maybe they think, you know, because
I'm so different, I don't fitwhat they want. And you know,
it's not gonna work, but Idon't care because I love what I'm doing.
I love the creative process, Ilove performing, I love writing.
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You know, I have thirty sixsongs already registered with ASCAP. I have
ideas for several more. I'm gonnakeep doing it and do it and do
it and doing it and and soyou know, that's uh, that's I
guess that would be one big challenge. And then the same fact that you
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know, I don't want to playthe violin here. But you know,
we were very poor growing up.There was no I think I went to
the dentist once at the age oftwelve or something. There was there was
nobody ever thought about their music lessonsor anything like that, so I didn't
have that kind of a background.The only thing is a couple of nephews
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on different wings of the family did. We're vocalists. One of them plays
the harmonic harmonica pretty well, andmy the other thing where I think it
may come from my grandmother. Onmy mother's side, we lived in a
small town in the southern Midwest,the big but it was a very Catholic
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town and it was a huge cathedralthere. I think either the oldest or
the largest in the state of Illinoisat that time. But when it came
time you're saying, Ave Maria,they called them my my grandmother Elizabeth Schooner
to do that. And when itwas Christmas Eve and it was time to
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do Silent Night, she was asolo us for that. So I think
there was some you know that kindof you know maybe that did. But
again I don't think anybody really,you know, nobody that played the piano
around me or anything like that,which I wish that had been that sort
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of things, but there wasn't.So it's a little bit of a challenge
being kind of instrumentally any everything.But you know, it's just another challenge
that I will take on and getbetter at that part of things and continue
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to you know, to write bylyrics and perform absolutely. So let's talk
about the song. What is thestory behind the single and what inspires you
to explore modern relationship wos Okay,I just want to first say out there
because some people might miss it,but there are really two aspects of the
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song. One I think you alreadyallude it to, which is sort of
a there's a fun, comedic,sort of humorous flavor to some of the
lyrics. But at the same timethere's also an underlying, uh more serious
aspect, which is this, wheneverthere's a large status gap in society and
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in some kind of a relationship,it could be in a you know,
in an office setting, it couldbe in some kind of other business or
some kind of show business. Ofcourse, is one where that can happen,
really almost any kind of relationship betweentwo people, when there's a large
stated gap this song has in it. There then also exists the potential for
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abuse, for taking advantage. Now, there are some very fine people who
are at the top of the youknow, the hierarchy, who do not
do that, and you know,God bless them, but unfortunately there are
many people who do take advantage ofit. During the Me Too movement,
I wrote a song called Cheeky whichyourself is a double on tundra and music
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video. But and I made anunfavorable reference to Harvey Weinstein there, because
that is mainly the way it happens. It's mainly powerful men taking advantage of
women. Occasionally you might get KevinSpacey type taking many an other man,
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or you know, you could getany kind of situation really, but there
are you know, I was readingsome report I guess in a you know
paper on my where and this apparentlythis has happened more than once now in
the last few years, just inour country, where a female school teacher
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of course an authority figure is takingadvantage of a younger male and you know
it came to light and they losetheir job and all of that. So
I began thinking, well, youknow, write something about large state.
It's got, but flip it alittle bit. Uh, even though it's
you know, more unusual, it'susually the other way. There's been plenty
(38:37):
said about that than me too.Movement had a lot of good stuff and
that's great. So I thought,let's just do it the other way and
see if there's like this woman islike pushing this guy to do something he
really doesn't want to do. Uh, and he's pretty resistant pretty much throughout
the whole song. You know,this is the I that is artis do
(38:59):
not do list, etcetera, etcetera. But then he shows that there
is a price. Uh, it'sa hefty price of three million tax free.
So I wrote it with that inmind that you know, kind of
like make people aware there are thesestatus gaps. They can go different ways.
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Uh it's you know, it canbe celebrity, it can be power,
it can be wealth, it canyou know, it can be whether
you make the team or not.Who knows all kinds of things. And
Okay, I wrote it and itwas there, and I had it,
uh the lyrics down pretty good,and uh, I hadn't quite gotten around
(39:47):
to recording it because you know,I've got various other ones that are working
on. And then of course there'sthe news. Uh there team this news
celebrity kind of news where show businessmusic kind of got linked with football,
which, of course, along withmy interest in music, I do have
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my sports, including football, Andso I gave it a little bit more.
I changed I would say ninety fourto ninety five percent of the song
was already written, but I addeda few lyrics to kind of get that
top culture flavor. And you know, I was that kind of celebrity culture.
(40:32):
And I think, firstly, Ithink this country goes a little too
nutty with the whole celebrity thing.But uh, you know, and that
particular couple, I wish them allthe best, but I just couldn't resist
poking a little fun their way,and so that's how I put the final
(40:52):
lyrics in and then I did therecordings absolutely absolutely, all right, all
right, where can I listeners connectwith you online and hear more music and
stories? Okay, Well, Ihave a website and that's it's called you
(41:13):
enjoy Now and it's the full wordyou and the word enjoy and the word
now and dot com. That's thewebsite. There's a lot of stuff on
there. Uh. I haven't beenreal big on social media in the past,
but I've been getting a little moreinto it. But mainly I'm on
Instagram, and so if you gothere, it's you know, it's regular
(41:40):
Instagram, and it's just it's gotreall g A R E E A l
L. You'll find me there.I have a YouTube channel where you'll we
have this the song we're talking about, plus many others like just too many
(42:01):
to mention, dry Christmas and myold hippies been here on there. These
are music videos. Not all mysongs are have yet been made in videos,
and probably some of them never will. But there's a number of music
videos there and you could you couldget to that. Just why putty good
YouTube got real It should come up. I am kind of lightly on Facebook
(42:22):
and lightly on TikTok, and Ido a little bit on x formerly Twitter,
not a whole lot, uh.And I'm also on LinkedIn, which
a lot of people don't use inthe music industry, but I feel I'm
a little bit kind of like abroader kind of entertainer, speaker, author,
(42:45):
So I decided to go on LinkedIn, and I am on there as
well. Oh and if anybody's mynext live performance will be on January nine,
and that will be at the ArtsGarage in Delray Beach, Florida,
(43:08):
at eight o'clock in the evening.If anybody contacts me, say they listen
to this great radio show, theGielanti Radio and they contact me through my
website or get my email or howeverthey want to do it, and tell
(43:29):
me that they're planned to be there, I will show up there with a
T shirt for them, and ifthey'd like to get together after the show
chat a little bit, that'd begreat, right, all right, And
listeners, just in case you didn'tget any of those links, no worries.
I will have them in the descriptionof this episode and in the show
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note. So all you guys haveto do is just click those links.
Well, we want to thank youonce again, Gayrie ah GORI sorry about
that, for connecting with us tonight, and as we conclude our conversation,
we are inspired by your remarkable journeyfrom educator to musician and the diverse experiences
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that shape your unique sound. Thankyou so much for sharing your insights and
musical adventures with us and to ouraudience, we encourage you to explore his
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into the minds of these incredible humanbeings, you know, the ones who
are out there giving it. They'reall for me, for you, and
for the world. Well, guys, I want you to meet our next
guest, Gary All, a remarkablefigure whose life story reads like a roller
coaster of rebellion, redemption and artisticrebirth. You know, from a rebellious
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teenager to an academic achiever and nowa passionate musician. Our guest journey is
a testament to the power of selfbelief and transformation. His latest single,
Way Out of My League, toucheson modern relationships with the mix of humor
and insight, reflecting on his diverselife experiences, and as we dive into
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his musical world, we will uncovera story of relentless pursuit, personal growth
and the magic of self expression throughmusic. And with that, let's welcome
him to the show. Hello,Hello, Hello, welcome, welcome,
Well, thank you, Jeanie,this is god reed All. I thank
(05:19):
you for that introduction and it wasvery nice, you said some nice things.
And also I heard your opening remarkstoo, they were quite inspirational.
We all have to be reminded.I think that we were lucky to be
on you know, be on thisearth, and every every day above ground
(05:42):
is a blessing and we should reallyreally appreciate all the things we have and
like. And I, you know, I don't want to be sound like
a super patriot. There may bea little extra blessing if you're in a
you know, a free country likethe United States or some of the others
around in the world where you canexpress yourself freely without you know, having
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to worry about it too much.But absolutely absolutely, and you're you're so
welcome, is it? Gori gori? All yeah, yeah, it's got
red and then the last name ofPaul. All right, My apologies for
that mispronunciation, but yeah, yeah, it is truly a blessing if you
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were in the States and able toexercise your freedom, you know, live
in a free state. I don'tknow how long we have with those privileges,
but take it and be thankful foryou you know, right, yeah,
be thankful? All right, allright, Well, well, welcome,
(06:46):
welcome, welcome. We are soexcited that you are here and your
transition from academics to music, it'sfascinating. I remember telling my parents a
long time ago that I no longerwanted to do and I just wanted to
be a musician, and they werelike, what, Nope, You're going
to school. So for anybody who'sable to escape that, I'm not saying
(07:08):
that academics is bad, you'll needit. Trust me, you'll need it
as you climb the ranks in life. You'll definitely need academics. But what
inspired the shift in your life andhow has this journey influenced your approach to
music and songwriting. Okay, wellthere's two major shifts, so I want
to be clear which one you're askingabout. There was the shift from the
(07:30):
juvenile, delinquid high school dropout toI guess you could say an academic starre
uh. And then there was theshift from a career mainly an academic life.
I did do a little some otherstuff as well, but mainly academic
life. And then to this kindof rebirth of my creative side, which
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I had played a little bit with. You know is a teenager now and
then, but never really focused thoughon one session you know, got into
writing academic papers and teaching classes andso so. So there's really like these
two kind of transformations in my life, and which one would you want me
to focus on? Let's start atthe juvenile Delincoln? Okay, all right,
(08:24):
Well I grew up without a father'sthe last of seven children. Had
a single bomb I dedicated a songand a video music video called mother Tough
to her uh and you know shewas busy with lots of kids and really
(08:46):
no support in working her job asa grocery clerk. So you know,
I had a lot of probably morefree that I should have had, you
know, too early in life.And you know, I guess I would,
you know, kind of an explorerfrom the beginning, and then kind
of got in with a crowd.They weren't like the worst people, but
(09:07):
they they were the you know,they were the bad boys at school there.
You know, we we called theother kids, uh, you know,
who were from seemed a little bitdoing, they were better academically or
you know, their clothes were alittle better. So well, our nickname
for them was the Socialize and wecalled ourselves the river Rats. And we
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were a gang, you know kindof but not I mean we were going
around shooting people or didn't like that, but we did. We did like
the tease the police when they wentby, you know, shouting out things
like what are pennies made up?And someone would answer the dirty copper,
things like that. And so normallylike the outsiders, what like the outsiders?
(10:00):
Yeah, something like that. Okay, So the drinking there was,
I'd been a fair amount of drinking. And I mean my father was an
alcohol ache and I had brothers whodrank pretty heavily. I was the youngest
of seven, and I mean bythe at fifteen, I was already hanging.
I was saying, mainly with guysa little bit older at that time.
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And but you know, it wasevery Friday Saturday night we get a
case of quartz and go off andpark in some secluded spot, usually with
some girls, thank goodness. Uhand you know, would drink and spoke
cigarettes this kind of stuff and uhand you know there, you know,
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basically there was some disorderly conduct,some things that happened and we got cooled
in and stuff. So there wasthat kind of stuff and you know,
my family really and then I droppedout of school. I'll drive to school
because like they willn't. She gotback. I dropped out the first year
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for various reasons, begin somewhere inthe second semester. Then the but I
was on the football team, thefreshman football team. I got a letter
and the next year I went backin September. They let me rolling back
in. Great, you know,now I'm going to go back on the
team and everything. And then theycalled me in and said, well you
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can't. You can't go off forfootball or any sports any because of your
academic past. You know, youmissed that semester. You're an academic probation,
so until you get your grades.You know, this is like choocrasy,
not understanding what somebody wants. BecauseI was, you know, I
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was okay with that, and whenI wanted to do something like back in
what was it the seventh grade,I had a really good history teacher,
missus Stune. I got a's forher, you know, but if I
didn't care for a teacher or thesubject for some reason or other, I
always got a good student. Butso so the football thing, I said,
(12:15):
no, that's kind of was mymotivation to go back, so i'd
be on the team, you know, And so I don't know what it
was. A week or two afterthe heck with it, I'm just dropping.
I'm looking for a job, andso you know, that's what happened.
Then. I never went back thenin the but but even though I
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was a high school drum, Iwas reading books like I mean, oh,
you know, long novels. Iread Shakespeare and stuff when I was
like fifteen. Uh, and thenI started reading some a little different group
of people who were more intellectual artistic, particularly a fellow named Jean I got
(13:01):
close with. And he had beento college. He had We were big
into Jack Harrow, Actus and beAway Before Your Time. But there's a
novel called On the Road, Uhthat influenced really what they called the Beat
generation, you know, people likeAlan Giinsburgh, the great poet spoken word
(13:22):
ours. And so Jean had beento college. He had also hit his
hype to l a something that wasjust to be seemed like, how could
anybody do that because we're stuck inat the little count in the southern Midwest.
And so anyhow we became pretty close, and uh he said at one
(13:43):
point, well, I'm I've gota couple of years in college. I'm
going back and I'm going to finishup get my English degree, teach english.
He loved literature and got me intothat, and uh, you know,
he kind of wanted me to gowith him. So well, when
I'm twenty years old and I gotprobably not even a semester of high school
(14:07):
credit, I don't know. Butthen it turns out the state law did
have something called general what was itcalled GDED General equivalencies of POEMA. You
could get the equivalent of a highschool diploma by passing a test. So
I studied for the test, Ipassed the test and got it that and
then and then I passed the entranceexam at Illinois State after hitchhiking up.
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There was as much money for anyof this. I told my mom nothing
about this or anybody except Gene andyou know, maybe a couple of their
pals around, but I don't wantmy mother annoying them about it in case
it did not work out, youknow, like I got rejected by the
college or whatever. So then Isink it was like maybe the first day
(15:01):
of September, this letter came inthe mail. I hoped up and it
said you have been admitted to theuniversity. So this was then I told
my mother. She was all flabbery, acid and overjoyed and crying and everything.
So I made up my mind,now I'm going to make the most
(15:24):
of this as probably the last chanceI'm going to get to get an education.
So I took a part time job. It's the hospital there. I
was the evening cartman. She getthis. I had paid eighty five cents
an hour, but but you gotyour evening meal, and believe me,
that was like one or two mealsI got done there, so that was
(15:46):
a big bonus of the job.And uh and then I roomed with Jeane,
which meant and he got a cheaproom, and you know, I
had an extra bed, so thatrent was cheap. That helped I got
uh see, I think I gota loan. I'm going well, And
that wasn't easy because this is backquite a while. And at the time
(16:08):
I got a big black mustache,which was not popular at that time.
I had a pretty fairly conservative,you know school the middle of Centralise.
But some kind loan officer, Idon't know whatever, maybe he looked at
my scores from the entrance exam orsomething, which I guess we was pretty
(16:30):
good and they for they gave mea little loan you know, that covered
my tuition and some books and stuff. And then for the you know,
the money from the hospital helped alittle bit with the rent and all of
that. So off I was.And then once there, I said,
okay, I'm doing this the I'llshow you the the the importance of things
(16:52):
being really measured. The first testI took was in a psychology co internet
in psychology and different Strugus. Thisis going to be a dry run.
It really won't count. So whathappened, of course, is I didn't
study who lot and I got aD. But then he said, okay,
(17:14):
h and you know, next weekwe're going to have a real tast
and it'll cover some of these samethings but also some of this new material.
So I got an A on thattest is going to count. I
got an A in of course,And so I've started to realize I really
liked this studying reading writing papers inEnglish, and I enjoyed it, and
(17:37):
I was doing very well at it, and so I just stuck with And
the funny thing is how you knowthe mind works? You think? I
mean, I was like academically anobody starting off but when I started having
success. I think it might havebeen late in the first semester, or
maybe it was somewhere early middle thesecond semester. I, uh say,
(18:03):
you know what, now, amI going to get this degree? Here?
I could get a PhD. I'mgoing to get a PhD. I
said that. I didn't say thatanybody else, by the way, at
that time, I said it tomyself, and by golly, I didn't,
which would have been totally under whichwould have been not predicted by anybody,
(18:29):
you know what I mean, probablyeven Queen Genie. Uh, I
don't anybody would have predicted that atthat time. But I was determined,
and uh so, you know,I took a number. That was the
first part time job. I hadseveral others working my way through. Uh
and then uh, I had verygood I made an honors day and all
(18:51):
that kind of stuff. And thenwhen it came time to decide what to
do, I had various offers.I had offers outside of academia. Actually,
that whole government made me several officersoffers to come in and be and
there are many of an intern programthat's kind of tempting. Uh. You
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know, I took a bus toWashington, DC to be interviewed by several
agencies. That went well, andthen there were other things I was thinking
about, like, you know,there's a whole profession called city management.
I said, that might be interesting. But then I got several offers for
(19:33):
graduate school. Yeah, I said, well, that's you know, I
did think about that. THHD back, maybe I'll just do that. So
uh, I decided to go withthe one that gave me the most money,
which was at that time there wassomething called National Defense Education Scholarships or
(19:56):
something. So anyway, I gota I got one for three years,
covering all tuition, all books,plus a stipend for you know, renting
food, and uh, okay,I'm going to do that. I did
that, and then as that wasrunning out, the some of the professors
(20:18):
really you know, I guess likeme, encouraged me, and that I
began. I got teaching assistant jobsfirst with you know, I worked with
professors, and then I had myown little classes that once a week.
Uh, and then eventually I gotmy own class that's either you know,
I had the master's by that timeto still working on the doctorate, but
(20:40):
then my own classes to teach andstuff and that. And by the way,
the first time that happened when Iwas in a much bigger class,
and I had classes of two hundredor more people, and then you'd have
maybe five for six sections of thirtyor forty students, and I would have
one of those once a week.I ever told any people this story.
(21:04):
But the first time I went tothat, I'm walking, I know what
room it's in, you know,and I'm walking down the hall and I
got my you know, I'm preparedand everything. Wait a minute, this
is being You've heard the term impostersytrol, right, so I get a
case. I'm starting to get acase of imposter syndrome, because wait a
(21:27):
minute, these all these kids theresitting in there, got got pretty good
grades to get undergraduate University of Illinois. It's one of the that there's a
lot of good schools in the BigTen. It's you know, it's one
of the top schools in the BigTen. And this said there, you
know, they're kind of those arethe people like we just call the social
(21:47):
lifes. Here, I am ariver wreck. I'm gonna walk in there
and teach them. Oh my god. I started getting a little bit nervous.
I thought, maybe, you know, I could walk away. But
back to the end, what amI going to tell the big professor?
You know, I'm going in thereand I am doing it, and I
just I just forced myself to getin there when put my name on the
(22:14):
trump board and started lecturing. Andever since then, I've been like very
relaxed. In fact, over time, I kind of got to miss the
fact to being a professor where youhave kind of a captive audience shall and
you can you know, lecture andyou can have sewit a and all that
kind of stuff. I think that'spart of why I've come we come to
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love the live performance is part ofyou know, the you know, the
pole music industry, not just theyou know, the recording the other things
that go and and of course thewriting and creating process of itself is very
important, but getting up there onstage, it's something that was I guess
(22:59):
I kind of stin away without realizingit, and then I got so I
decided to start doing that. It'ssomething actually new for twenty three In January,
I went to my first open micnight and did a live performance,
and I've been doing a number ofthem since then. I really enjoy that
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part of the year of the businessabsolutely. So we've been talking about trying
new things almost long. Have youhad a chance to accept the new challenge
or venture into unfamiliar territory in yourmusic career or even in your personal life?
(23:42):
Huh? That's interesting. Well,I'd say there's a few of One.
I just kind of mentioned to gointo doing the live performances, which
you can kind of you know,not just recording things and then putting them
on SoundCloud or fire or YouTube,but actually going out in front of real
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people, exposing yourself and expressing yourselfand seeing how they were. So that
would be one. Also, uh, and this isn't a done deal shit,
because I'm just now starting. It'sa little bit of a challenge for
me, you know, being older, I mean kind of fat fingers,
(24:26):
but I'm I'm starting to learn theguitar because mainly I'm a lyricist and a
vocalist. But I really, forsome reason this well, I shouldn't be
able. I should play a littlebit of guitar at least, So I'm
just starting that. I really hadit going for a while, but then
with you know, this Thanksgiving holiday, we had I had a lot of
(24:49):
travel, mainly all by car withme doing driving, and so I had
a street going you know, don'tbreak the Chane kind of street with guitar,
and unfortunately got away from that.So I now kind of settled in
a little bit. So that's onthe to do list word more to get
(25:12):
back to, uh learning some basicguitar. And then I guess one other
thing and it just came to merecently. Uh, I guess it's a
while back. I wrote a songcalled Humanhood and did perform it live.
(25:36):
I've got you know, polite applause. It hasn't I don't know if I
I know it's on SoundCloud. Excuseme. I know it's on SoundCloud,
but I don't know if I privatizedit yet or not, but maybe public.
But anyhow, the point is thatsong made me think that while I
still like to do kind of likefun songs, like part of the one
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we're talking about tonight is I thinkthere's two aspects of that song. There
is the fun side and then there'sanother side of the thing maybe talk about
too, but well, and Istill like doing that, and I like
doing you know, more less serioussongs, you know, those that don't
have necessarily a great message. Ithink I do want to more and more
(26:22):
start getting the kind of message.I guess I kind of would like to
be a little part of it's goingto be just all me, you know,
but maybe just be a little partof kind of being a bridge between
different generations, genders, races,and so forth, and not be you
(26:47):
know, so divided. I mean, if I could just take a couple
of seconds, the opening of thesong youmehood goes like this, absolutely nothing
wrong with brotherhood or sisterhood, butfor all of us, it would be
good to celebrate our common humanhood.M hm. So I think the world
(27:10):
might need someone that oh yeah,oh yeah, I agree, but it
goes and I've kind of taken thaton that I want to do more along
those lines, and even if it'snot as popular as some of the other
(27:30):
things I've put out, like IWant to Be a Kid Again from last
summer, or the Way out ofMy League, which is streaming pretty well
on Spotify now, but you know, not that I would. I'm happy
to be popular so forth and allthe things that come with that, but
(27:52):
uh, I think, you know, trying to do some good in the
world and trying to maybe make thingsa little bit better. It is just
more important than popularity. Absolutely.All right, guys, are you ready
to jump into some music? Wehave god Rie all with this song,
(28:15):
way out of my league, andthen we'll be right back for more.
Goy ri all stay tuned. What'sthat, baby that you want me to
do? WHOA? Now that's ano goal. I'll maybe you know that
I love you, and not becauseyou're a huge celebrity, and not because
(28:37):
you love me more than even yourkitty, and not because your creativity has
given you riches be unbelieved, andnot even because you clearly prefer me to
the big chief. No, it'sbecause you're the complete package in every way,
not just a phenomenal lay to makeyou happy. I will do all
the rest and give it my best, but I won't do what you request.
(29:00):
Anything else you request I will dowith his ass. Though you are
crazy rich and I thought, nottoo much of a bitch, and ever
so beautiful even when wearing a mask, I still won't do what you ask.
I love your long flowing tresses ofblonde and your big eyes are blue,
but I won't do what you're askingme to do. You are way
out of my league, and everyway and every day I pray you will
(29:22):
not send me away or astray.You and your family are really high class
and you sure have a beautiful ass. But the task that you ask is
on my do not do list.And sorry if that makes you pissed.
Yeah, I know you're a bigslib and wildly popular over the world and
web your ivy league. By educatingthis league, you're certainly well bred.
(29:47):
I'm struggling just to get ahead,and I dread being banished from your bed.
Yeah. I know you've headlined manya sold out concerts, tickets at
a hefty price. You're millions offans think you're the queen of Paradise.
You have toured through various errors aroundthe globe while I've been out of state
only thrice. But though I mightkiss your taint, lick your taint,
(30:10):
I ain't. You are way outof my league and every way and every
day I pray you'll not send meaway or astray. Since you keep insisting
and demanding, I know your requestis not in jest, but is it
a test of my love or justto prove that you are so far above
You're insisting you're starting to give methe scaries. Some think you're the greatest,
(30:34):
but I'm not going to lick yourdingle berries. I love your long
flowing tresses of blonde and your bigeyes are blue, but I'm not going
to lick anywhere near your pools.You are way out of my league,
and every way and every day Ipray you'll not send me away or astray.
Tell you what to end this altercation. You gift me tax free three
(30:57):
milk and if your ass new consideration. Yes, my dear, it'll take
that much loot for me to getnear the end of your poops. Yes,
my honey, I know it's aton of money, but it'll take
at least that much loot for meto get friendly with the whole from which
you two, for me to frenchkiss the end of your poop. Shoot.
(31:18):
All right, all right, welcomeback, guys. That was way
out of my league by gar Ray. Oh all right, all right,
that was very refreshing, humorous.It's always unique to hear something different,
you know, And yeah, let'sgo ahead and bring them back. Hey
man, welcome back. That wasa very unique track. Thank you,
(31:45):
Yes, sir, yes, sirman. What challenges have you faced in
transitioning to a music career. Wow, that's a good question, because I'll
prepare to talk about the song challenge. I said, Well, I think
(32:07):
there's the main one is if youwent to you know, all the gate
keepers in the music industry, youknow, whatever record labels or even the
whatever indie anything, and they toldyou what they're looking for. I mean,
(32:28):
I am so far from the cookiecutter, you know. You know,
they're they're looking for the next toJustin Bieber, you know, the
female version of Justin Bieber, whatever, Ariana Grande. You know, I'm
different in a lot of ways,being more mature, how would say,
(32:51):
older as one, and you know, and not having been really involved except
as a consumer of someone who lovesthem, you know, nearly all kinds
of music, and from having hada kind of a really different lifestyle.
I think makes me quite unusual.And that's kind of a challenge because uh,
(33:20):
you know, I had not that. I really looked very hard for
a manager. But I haven't seenanybody, you know, jumping out and
saying, uh, you know,maybe they think, you know, because
I'm so different, I don't fitwhat they want. And you know,
it's not gonna work, but Idon't care because I love what I'm doing.
I love the creative process, Ilove performing, I love writing.
(33:43):
You know, I have thirty sixsongs already registered with ASCAP. I have
ideas for several more. I'm gonnakeep doing it and do it and do
it and doing it and and soyou know, that's uh, that's I
guess that would be one big challenge. And then the same fact that you
(34:04):
know, I don't want to playthe violin here. But you know,
we were very poor growing up.There was no I think I went to
the dentist once at the age oftwelve or something. There was there was
nobody ever thought about their music lessonsor anything like that, so I didn't
have that kind of a background.The only thing is a couple of nephews
(34:24):
on different wings of the family did. We're vocalists. One of them plays
the harmonic harmonica pretty well, andmy the other thing where I think it
may come from my grandmother. Onmy mother's side, we lived in a
small town in the southern Midwest,the big but it was a very Catholic
(34:46):
town and it was a huge cathedralthere. I think either the oldest or
the largest in the state of Illinoisat that time. But when it came
time you're saying, Ave Maria,they called them my my grandmother Elizabeth Schooner
to do that. And when itwas Christmas Eve and it was time to
(35:07):
do Silent Night, she was asolo us for that. So I think
there was some you know that kindof you know maybe that did. But
again I don't think anybody really,you know, nobody that played the piano
around me or anything like that,which I wish that had been that sort
(35:28):
of things, but there wasn't.So it's a little bit of a challenge
being kind of instrumentally any everything.But you know, it's just another challenge
that I will take on and getbetter at that part of things and continue
(35:50):
to you know, to write bylyrics and perform absolutely. So let's talk
about the song. What is thestory behind the single and what inspires you
to explore modern relationship wos Okay,I just want to first say out there
because some people might miss it,but there are really two aspects of the
(36:13):
song. One I think you alreadyallude it to, which is sort of
a there's a fun, comedic,sort of humorous flavor to some of the
lyrics. But at the same timethere's also an underlying, uh more serious
aspect, which is this, wheneverthere's a large status gap in society and
(36:37):
in some kind of a relationship,it could be in a you know,
in an office setting, it couldbe in some kind of other business or
some kind of show business. Ofcourse, is one where that can happen,
really almost any kind of relationship betweentwo people, when there's a large
stated gap this song has in it. There then also exists the potential for
(37:06):
abuse, for taking advantage. Now, there are some very fine people who
are at the top of the youknow, the hierarchy, who do not
do that, and you know,God bless them, but unfortunately there are
many people who do take advantage ofit. During the Me Too movement,
I wrote a song called Cheeky whichyourself is a double on tundra and music
(37:30):
video. But and I made anunfavorable reference to Harvey Weinstein there, because
that is mainly the way it happens. It's mainly powerful men taking advantage of
women. Occasionally you might get KevinSpacey type taking many an other man,
(37:51):
or you know, you could getany kind of situation really, but there
are you know, I was readingsome report I guess in a you know
paper on my where and this apparentlythis has happened more than once now in
the last few years, just inour country, where a female school teacher
(38:14):
of course an authority figure is takingadvantage of a younger male and you know
it came to light and they losetheir job and all of that. So
I began thinking, well, youknow, write something about large state.
It's got, but flip it alittle bit. Uh, even though it's
you know, more unusual, it'susually the other way. There's been plenty
(38:37):
said about that than me too.Movement had a lot of good stuff and
that's great. So I thought,let's just do it the other way and
see if there's like this woman islike pushing this guy to do something he
really doesn't want to do. Uh, and he's pretty resistant pretty much throughout
the whole song. You know,this is the I that is artis do
(38:59):
not do list, etcetera, etcetera. But then he shows that there
is a price. Uh, it'sa hefty price of three million tax free.
So I wrote it with that inmind that you know, kind of
like make people aware there are thesestatus gaps. They can go different ways.
(39:23):
Uh it's you know, it canbe celebrity, it can be power,
it can be wealth, it canyou know, it can be whether
you make the team or not.Who knows all kinds of things. And
Okay, I wrote it and itwas there, and I had it,
uh the lyrics down pretty good,and uh, I hadn't quite gotten around
(39:47):
to recording it because you know,I've got various other ones that are working
on. And then of course there'sthe news. Uh there team this news
celebrity kind of news where show businessmusic kind of got linked with football,
which, of course, along withmy interest in music, I do have
(40:10):
my sports, including football, Andso I gave it a little bit more.
I changed I would say ninety fourto ninety five percent of the song
was already written, but I addeda few lyrics to kind of get that
top culture flavor. And you know, I was that kind of celebrity culture.
(40:32):
And I think, firstly, Ithink this country goes a little too
nutty with the whole celebrity thing.But uh, you know, and that
particular couple, I wish them allthe best, but I just couldn't resist
poking a little fun their way,and so that's how I put the final
(40:52):
lyrics in and then I did therecordings absolutely absolutely, all right, all
right, where can I listeners connectwith you online and hear more music and
stories? Okay, Well, Ihave a website and that's it's called you
(41:13):
enjoy Now and it's the full wordyou and the word enjoy and the word
now and dot com. That's thewebsite. There's a lot of stuff on
there. Uh. I haven't beenreal big on social media in the past,
but I've been getting a little moreinto it. But mainly I'm on
Instagram, and so if you gothere, it's you know, it's regular
(41:40):
Instagram, and it's just it's gotreall g A R E E A l
L. You'll find me there.I have a YouTube channel where you'll we
have this the song we're talking about, plus many others like just too many
(42:01):
to mention, dry Christmas and myold hippies been here on there. These
are music videos. Not all mysongs are have yet been made in videos,
and probably some of them never will. But there's a number of music
videos there and you could you couldget to that. Just why putty good
YouTube got real It should come up. I am kind of lightly on Facebook
(42:22):
and lightly on TikTok, and Ido a little bit on x formerly Twitter,
not a whole lot, uh.And I'm also on LinkedIn, which
a lot of people don't use inthe music industry, but I feel I'm
a little bit kind of like abroader kind of entertainer, speaker, author,
(42:45):
So I decided to go on LinkedIn, and I am on there as
well. Oh and if anybody's mynext live performance will be on January nine,
and that will be at the ArtsGarage in Delray Beach, Florida,
(43:08):
at eight o'clock in the evening.If anybody contacts me, say they listen
to this great radio show, theGielanti Radio and they contact me through my
website or get my email or howeverthey want to do it, and tell
(43:29):
me that they're planned to be there, I will show up there with a
T shirt for them, and ifthey'd like to get together after the show
chat a little bit, that'd begreat, right, all right, And
listeners, just in case you didn'tget any of those links, no worries.
I will have them in the descriptionof this episode and in the show
(43:49):
note. So all you guys haveto do is just click those links.
Well, we want to thank youonce again, Gayrie ah GORI sorry about
that, for connecting with us tonight, and as we conclude our conversation,
we are inspired by your remarkable journeyfrom educator to musician and the diverse experiences
(44:12):
that shape your unique sound. Thankyou so much for sharing your insights and
musical adventures with us and to ouraudience, we encourage you to explore his
captivating blend of music and storytelling.Be sure to catch his upcoming performance and
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evolution and stay tuned for more ofthis dynamic and inspiring artists. Until next
time, keep embracing new paths andthe transformative power of music. Thank you
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