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Episode 57: WHP Desert Island Discs
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Imagine Amy & Janessa are stuck on dessert islands. They each can only bring 8 songs, 1 luxury item (cannot be used to escape) and 1 book. What would they bring ? what would you bring? Join them in this light hearted episode filled with random moments of awe and laughter.
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Introduction and Podcast Overview
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Welcome to the Wounded Healers podcast.
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I'm Janessa. And I'm Amy. We were brought together by our shared wound of an autoimmune condition in our early 20s. This is a place where we explore our wounds with our listeners and guests who recognize the challenges of being human in hopes of helping all of us let the light in.
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Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the Wounded Healers podcast. I'm Amy and I'm here with Janessa, of course. hey everyone we're back We're back. And I was thinking ah before we started recording this, is this the first broadcast this year or did we do another one already? this We did another one already. So our silence one came out in January. Second of 2025. Yes. And what a start to the year everybody's having. We wanted to take a second. I feel like Janessa, you should do it because you're much more um
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Oh okay.
Current Events: Los Angeles Fires
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Hey everyone. So I'm in California yeah and right now what's happening currently is there's some pretty intense fires in l LA that are reaching through and they're not very contained right now. and So we know that this, mentioning this kind of dates the episode, but what we wanted to do is extend our prayers and thoughts to anyone impacted by fires right now and If you're listening to this maybe years later and you are going through a natural disaster as well Just know this is extended to all so we want to extend again. We hope that you are safe We hope that you are being cared for right now and we hope that you have a community
00:01:55
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nearby who's able to assist and help you with your needs during these hard times. So we wanted to say that and just say we send you our love. So we are thinking of you guys. We are not turning a blind eye to that. Yeah. So our prayers are with you. Our love is with you. Yeah. It's an absolutely insane. I mean, I have been crying watching some of the coverage, like actual tears.
00:02:19
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and from thousands of miles away. So I can only, I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to be anywhere close to that, even having it in your state. and Yeah, it's really, really shocking. So yeah, as Janessa said, we are thinking of you and hoping this episode can be a little bit of light relief.
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and comfort in whatever hard time you're going through, if you are.
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Stay strong out there. Stay strong. I'm like, I don't know how to say that. Yeah, no, stay strong. Remember to let light in. Not yet though. At the end.
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um Okay, so today's episode, we aren't going to do hot or not because we think this is going to be a long one anyway.
Desert Island Discs Concept and Rules
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And the whole thing is it's going to be quite a fun lighthearted concept anyway. So we thought we probably didn't need a fun icebreaker.
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So being a Brit, there's something really famous in Britain called Desert Island Discs, which is a radio show that's been going for decades on the BBC where celebrities, very famous people are interviewed and they talk about the eight songs or eight records that they would take with them if they were stranded on a desert island.
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And yeah, it's something that's been going on for a while. I remember hearing it when I was a kid, just it was like on on Sunday afternoons when we were like driving as a family somewhere. And I thought it would be interesting to do here, mostly because Janessa's taste in music absolutely slaps and I wanted to hear what her songs would be. Oh my gosh, I'm honored.
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And this I think it's a good way for you guys to get to know us more personally as well. A little bit more about our backgrounds that aren't necessarily about our past traumas and more just about like fun times and fun things. um So yeah, I posed poed the idea to Janessa. She was like, let's do it. And then you, did you listen to a full episode as an example or?
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um i can't lie no i listened to parts he sent me this really good one uh with whoopi goldberg and i i skimmed through i lightly skimmed so earlier i was like amy can you go first yeah um yeah now i realize i maybe shouldn't be scared No, you'll find it. I mean, the the concept is simple. You say eight songs that you would take and explain why. um And then you say and ah one book as well and one luxury item. So we're both going to do that. And then
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the other person will maybe ask questions if there's something to ask. So yeah, I don't think I'm forgetting anything. That's just... I think we're ready. I can't wait to hear your songs. I literally was like, what if we have one of the same songs? That's what I thought as well. I was like, I think there's... I think the odds... I feel like, yeah, I was gonna say I feel like the odds on We Might, but also like there's just so many songs in the world, probably not.
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and All right, so I'm gonna kick us off with this was the the first song that I was immediately like, yes, there's no doubt it's going in. It's like an all-time favorite of mine. And it is Friday I'm in Love by The Cure.
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to this. Wait, is this on yours as well? No. No, but I literally was like debating. I was like, should I kick off another song for this? So it's a good one. Yeah,
Personal Music Connections and Memories
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nice. I'm glad you, it's Janessa approved. um So the reason this song is meaningful to me, the reason that I'd want to have it with me if I was stuck on a desert island, my parents are huge fans of The Cure. Obviously, their kind of peak was very much my parents lay adolescence early adulthood um so I mean I know that they went to gigs together um and they just love them and we also would always listen to The Cure when we were like going on a family holiday so back in the day you had like a sexy date well we I think I back back in the day you had like tapes but like by the the noughties
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um And my dad would always have pretty nice cars because he worked in sales. So he'd have like company, you know, but he'd be like rolling up to a client. So he always had a decent company car. So we always had the tech. Sorry, I'm rambling. of that So he'd always have a 60D changer. And there'd like always be like some sort of like soulful jazz from the 60s. And there'd always be like the best of the cure. So yeah, and I just love Terms of Friday, I'm in love. I love the way it comes in with like the car wheels screeching. Like it's just that the start of the song. You're just like, I know this is going to be good. um
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good vibes, up V. um Yeah, I love Fridays, always have. I was born on a Friday. Friday's my favorite day of the week and I'm a lover girl, so I love it when people sing about being in love. So yeah, but this was my no-brainer. I was getting straight into it.
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And I think we kind of- That was such a good clip. Yeah. Okay. and ok We did say that we were going to try and play a clip of the song.
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Okay. And we should also say, Oh, come on. Sorry. I was gonna say so hard not to say. Yeah. Just take over the mic right there.
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sing it like lipid and Um, yeah, I absolutely, it's just such a vibe. Um, and what was I was going to say? that That was another reason why I put it on. I was like, I feel like,
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an upbeat song that you can dance to would be required. And dance songs aren't always my favorite. So I was like, we got to get one good vibe in there. Do you know what I just thought, though? Maybe we could do it rather than all of mine. Maybe we could do back and forth. What do you think? Oh, I love that. Yeah, I think that's what I do. Yeah. OK, of course. Let's do it. Also, oh, sorry. I was going to say that song.
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Low key. So it reminds me also when you came to visit for Yosemite, I think we played the cure on the way to Yosemite. And you were like, oh, this is good. I was like, yes. Nice. Oh, even more, even deeper meanings.
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Okay, i mine are in no particular order. I just couldn't you know i couldn't fathom putting one of these eight in front of the other. um So I'm gonna start with one that I feel like the most most people will know that's on my list. um So this song, it's Could You Be Loved by Bob Marley and the Wailers. And this song is just, ah since I was like a little kid, hearing this always made me feel just so good and wanting to like kind of just like,
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dance or just be there. um My earliest memory with this one is my family has a really tiny cabin in the little nowhere. No internet, no cell phone service. It's just really the basics. But we did have a little tiny cassette tape player. And when I was younger, my mom would bring an I home for your iPod. So we would play this on an I home. And it just was the perfect cabin song to just being out in the wilderness hearing it. So Yeah, I really have I just I don't know it's good vibes. I've got nothing else to say about it I feel like you guys probably know it so I'll play like a very brief clip of it cuz I don't know if you don't know this, please Please please listen. It's so good. All right, here's the clip Perfect Island song as well
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right I would just be there dancing on the island alone yeah to that. And I feel like probably shaking my hair a lot too, which is a hair-shaking song. Yeah, that's beautiful. I was nearly gonna put um the Casey Musgrave's cover of Bob Marley on my... and little bird Yeah, because I thought that would be pretty but big. But yeah, I'm really glad Bob Marley made it into one of our lists because I think very appropriate for a desert island.
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Yeah. I mean, I was about to let that song go the whole way. I was like, just let that play. Yeah. I think the listeners would have liked that as well. Okay. My next one is we're progressing a little bit in my life now. So this is very song that takes me back to my teenage hood. So this is the first proper gig i went to like i went to a few smaller gigs but this is my first one in Hyde Park in London like outdoor massive and it was a rock gig um
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And I should say the song is Manhassen by Kings of Leon. So I think if you maybe we might say a little bit overdone, but it just, nothing hits for me like this one. Again, it's the good similar to Friday I'm in Love. It's the good like, I love a guitar riff. um And yeah, it just makes me think of, I went to this, my my boyfriend at the time bought me tickets to this.
00:12:47
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I felt just prime like 17 just felt like the coolest like rock chair with my like that I was like obsessed with at the time as you are when you're a teenager. I remember I actually had like a one of my final exams the next day, and it was just very me at that time to be prioritizing like going to a rock gig rather than like cramming for an exam. And my results showed that. But I i still think it's, yeah, again, kind of like the the cure. It just takes me back to a really special time in my life.
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and I think I'd want to be taken back to that if I was on a desert island. And it also, there's lyrics in the song that talk about, I think there's lyrics in the song that like talk about being at a fireside. And I just think that's very appropriate for being on a desert island. So I will play it.
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um Also, listening to it just then has reminded me how much his voice hits as well. He has one of the best vocals like in rock, truly, I think.
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I have never heard that song so I'm super excited. Yeah, I just knew that the Sex is on Fire song or whatever.
Musical Discoveries and Influences
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They used to play that on MTV when I was little and that's what I know of Kings of Leon and maybe like one of their songs. I hadn't heard that song so I was like oh. Oh my god, Janessa, you would love them. This is from their album Only by the Night. It's one of their earlier albums and one of their best, to be honest. Yeah, you gotta listen. You would love it.
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My next one, like I said, no particular order and now I'm like, which one do I do next? um Okay, so my next one's gonna be The Fall by Ry. And this, I found this song my freshman year of college and it just like hit very right for me. I don't know, it just did.
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And I found it on Spotify on some random playlist that was pre-made. And I, for the longest time, told everyone, Rai is like the most beautiful female singer I've ever heard in my life. This is not a woman. I'm really sorry I assumed the gender when I was younger. I was like, beautiful female. but Not a woman, which even more amazes me that this amazing person can just hit these notes. So um yeah, the fall also I should say really intrigued me because it's about two people in love and it's like how they used to be when they were in the prime of their relationship and then it shows how they are now.
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and it's like 30 years past marriage so it's kind of like once the honeymoon is over um and it's just so beautiful because it's like a last kind of grasp at the relationship of being like remember why we fell in love like no so used to this that you forget that it's so good. Deep. So it's deep and I know I just ah the voice is just so beautiful and that is why I would bring it and low-key I'm gonna be crying a lot on that island. I already know that about myself so this would facilitate my cry. um So anyway yeah I'll give that a start and enjoy.
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Really strong entry. Yeah. So fucking good though. That voice. yeah Goodness. um um Yeah, I played like the most provocative part, of I guess, but it is so damn good. Highly suggest any of any of Ry's music is just cuts to my heart, to my soul. It asks like those questions that you hope you don't have to ask someone, yeah you know? Or if you've been through a major heartbreak, you probably have asked them. Yeah. So it just hits, right? Love. That's nice. That is nice. And I don't think I've heard that one. So that's fun to discover something new again as well.
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um ah Now, which one do you know? I also thought of while you played that, I thought of one that I was like, oh my God, I wish I've added this, but we're going to stick to what we've got, but let's just say maybe there's more we'd like to include than eight songs.
00:18:05
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Okay. So my next one I'm going to go for is maybe a bit of a change. Yeah. Okay. So.
00:18:17
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I am going to go for Soak Up The Sun by Cheryl Crow. oh So this is, people might think this is like a bit of a silly song. Like maybe you might be like, oh, you should be, you're on a desert island. You should be having me know meaningful, emotional songs of which this isn't particularly. But something I love about Cheryl Crow's music is She just has an innate optimism that runs through all of her songs, like an optimism and a kind of like,
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palms wide open, like heart wide open, like it's not that serious, like a lot of her music is like that and it's something I try and cultivate in my life and it's something that I think you'd need more than ever if you were stuck on a desert island. um This song, Soak Up The Sun, particularly talks about a lot of like capitalism stuff that's like very like I don't need you know I don't need things I've got myself and I woke up this morning and that's all you need in life um which again I thought was very apt for a desert island
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And more than anything one of the main lyric is I want to soak up the sun which like you can't beat the irony of that. I think you'd be feeling pretty grateful when you listen to it that you may be stranded on a desert island but you have the sun and ultimately that's one of our you know five basic needs, right? According to the Maslow's hierarchy of needs. So um yeah,
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I'll give her a little play. It's also very, just one more thing, it's just very like 90s. It just makes me think of like a 90s sitcom, which also just makes me feel like fuzzy inside.
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It's such a vibe. Like I wish you could see like the smile on Janessa's face. That's what made uss what we need on the island. So this was It was so I knew that this band had to be on the list for me. And it actually was the second band that automatically I was like, I don't think I could live without their music. like genuinely um So the first was the Beatles. And I didn't have that coming later. But the second for me was Tame Impala. I saw Tame Impala in sixth grade um before they had ever gotten big and they were so small and they played
00:21:21
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at the Fillmore Theater in San Francisco. And the reason I went is because at the time my friend Susie, or her dad was really, had such a great taste in music and same with her mom. um He was like, hey, there's this really cool Australian band. They're just getting started up and they're gonna play. It's, you know, let's go see them. So we went and saw them. It was a really small crowd. They all played barefoot, all three of them.
00:21:46
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ah And I was in awe and after they threw the setlist into the crowd and I caught it. And I was so excited because I was like, I really liked their music.
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um Anyway, I could go on and on, but every step of my life after I heard them, every time they'd release an album, it just felt so congruent with where I was in my life that I was like, guys, do you know like what's going on in my life? so When I was in college, the um album Currents was released. It was just so tough to pick a song because I love all their albums. but New Person, Same Old Mistakes by Tame Impala. It's the deepness that I crave in a song and in people. um So yeah, I will play it and I think it just, I don't know, it just makes me feel seen all of their music. So here's Tame Impala.
00:23:04
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You guys, these lyrics, I swear. Anyway, that's team Impala. That's new person, same old mistakes. I can, I devour this song when it comes on. Just the way it starts, like, cause it came out when I was in college and I, it came out also.
00:23:22
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the year before I was diagnosed with RA. And I was not living my best life. I thought I was, but I was partying a lot and drinking a lot. And this song just hits so right. Cause it starts out with, how could you let us down? And that says, but they don't know what I've found or see it from my state my side round or feel it overtake all that it used to hate. It's just so, oh, you guys it's emo with a funkadelic vibe.
00:23:47
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That is ah fantastic. That is kind of in many ways what I look for in music. It's like very heartfelt melodies. And then like, but just the rest of the music is just like mellow, easy to listen to. I feel like Tame Impala. Yeah, get that perfect. Perfect mix. I love them. I love them. Also, I just have to say Kevin Parker, like,
00:24:16
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I didn't know he writes all this stuff. He makes every single lyric, but also writes every single instrument part. And so the people who play with him are just hired to play with him at shows. But he literally goes to a cabin um and he like stays there for months until he creates albums. wow And he's like alone with a bunch of instruments. wow It's amazing. I was like, yeah, I wish I could, I wish I could just have dinner with them. I have just so many questions.
00:24:46
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Right, you saying that has literally made me just do a last-minute change on my list. You. Is it for Bonnie? Yes! Okay, Zach said that is exactly who would be on my desert island list.
00:25:00
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yeah Oh my God. It's the cabin. It's the cabin. Yeah. But I was like, I just, when you said that, I was like, how could I forget about this song? um Perfect. Wow. That was meant to happen. um So I love Bon Iver. Always have done perfect. Like sad girl autumn, sad girl winter.
00:25:22
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track. I bought my brother tickets to see Bonover after he graduated from university. It was like my unit my graduation present to him. Me my brother have been to a few gigs in our life, but there was something really special about that as well, very special to listen to because the music is just like very magical.
00:25:49
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um and yeah it was obviously a special time in my brother's life as well and I think that's probably the only time I've gifted him tickets. I think the rest of the time we've like um paid to go ah together and it just there's like the funniest this is like back when said my brother would have ah I don't know I would have been like late teens but I remember I drove to this gig And it was inside a Wembley Arena, not Wembley Stadium, Wembley Arena. And everyone was smoking weed inside. And I was like freaking the fuck out. I was like, am I going to get high? My brother's like chill.
00:26:30
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you're not gonna get high from being in an arena with some people that are smoking weed. I was like, is this a hot box? Like, anyway. This is a hot box. But very like, I So the song is called Blood Bank and it um just adds on to the brotherness of it all because like there's a lyric in it that's like, um I saw our blood like next to each other and like our blood looks the same or something. a i I'm sure I've butchered those lyrics but it just
00:27:08
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I have a really special relationship with my brother. And and and it I think it would be really nice to have a song on the desert island that can that can connect me to him. So I'll play it. Thank God you just reminded me of this. like because Yeah, thank God. Okay.
00:27:59
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And it it just gets so much more beautiful after that, like the harmonisation is stunning. and Yes, so glad I remembered that. um yeah see how they yeah See how they resemble one another even in their plastic cups? like You are your family. like It doesn't matter where you are. Oh, that's beautiful. I need to listen to that one after. Yes, you would love it.
Musical Legends and Their Impact
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My next one is Heart of the Country by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney.
00:28:31
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I want to say that Paul McCartney is also one of those, there's like particular artists I feel like that have like, I don't know, they just like speak to my soul. And one of them is just Paul McCartney, whether it was in the Beatles or on his own with the wings, you know, whatever he did, I just feel like he did it wholeheartedly.
00:28:53
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and to like just say i guess i've thought about this quite a bit he's like so one of the few people who i listen to who i know has lost like everything you know like he lost his mom his mom died when he was younger he lost john like which was his best friend and then he lost his wife which is like so i like i don't know how one person could continue to like be a light in the world after like losing everything that is so important and invaluable. you know like You cannot replace those things. So to Paul McCartney, I just feel like his soul is just made to make music. and ah Anyway, and just I just thought all of that makes me respect him as an artist too, that he like didn't give up on his art. The song is in the heart of the country, and it's just the life I want to live. So here you go.
00:30:06
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It is so good. It's so beautiful. And it goes on from there. And it just says heart of the country where the holy people grow, heart of the country, the smell of grass and the meadow. It's just like everything that, you know, i it's spiritually wealthy, that song. It does. I feel like, a yeah, he's got down to like the real bones of what people want. And I think,
00:30:36
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I actually think famous people, or not famous, but accomplished wealthy people, they have a better view of that sort of thing than any like average Joe ever could because they're not chasing anymore. And it's like the universal story that people are like, I got to the finish line.
00:30:59
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And I realized that the things that mattered weren't the things that I thought would matter in the end. um And yeah, I feel like that's really, I could, I've heard not even 30 seconds of that song and I'm like, that's songs, that's what that song is speaking to me. But yeah, I feel that. So what direction am I gonna take this in now?
00:31:23
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So this is a song called Quiet, the acoustic version. So this is a um worship song that we me and Janessa have been getting into our worship music recently, sending it to each other. um And I don't, know I'm still not, I'm still not coming out here saying like, I'm a Christian, but and there's a lot of There's a lot of messages in the music which I love and I think we can all appreciate um without getting any feelings in the way about Christianity, you know? um Like songs about God, songs about something bigger than you, and songs about, the you like you know, you can interpret it as the universe, Mother Nature, whatever you want it to be.
00:32:13
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um But I thought there were going to be times on this desert island where I'm looking for comfort, I'm looking for answers, um and that is what a lot of like worship music is about. so yeah um I love this song and I listened to it a lot. I sent it to Janessa the election night when she was freaking out about the future of her come country. um And yeah, it's a song about um God giving you answers and you not having to worry, you not having to be in control.
00:32:52
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um yeah like god's in control of everything and you just need to be quiet and yeah i thought this is a song that i would take a lot of comfort in if i was on a desert island so i'll play it now
00:33:45
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Yeah, I mean, what a perfect song for a desert island when you're freaking out. Yeah, when you're on the road of like, now hating your age. Please give me something. Yeah, there's all my thoughts. Okay, my next song.
00:34:03
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it's called feel it all around and it's by washed out and it I remember hearing this in high school I feel like I shouldn't say this on here but I was not sober when I heard this and I just remember thinking I have to remember this song but I literally thought I cannot forget this song and I tried so hard to remember the lyrics but they're very like vapor wavy so you can kind of like tell but not really ca so I searched for this song for so long late high school
00:34:34
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I was watching Portlandia with my parents and the theme song is this song. And I was like, what is that song? There it is. You know, you know that feeling like you've been looking for something and you just couldn't find it. And then when you finally find it, it could be years later and you're stoked. I want to say that I just feel like that feeling is so rare now that we have the internet.
00:34:56
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like I remember that when I was a little kid being like, oh, I wonder why it's like this. And like, you didn't just look it up on the internet. You tried to figure it out or you asked people about it. um It involved a lot of connectivity to figure things out. Yeah. Yeah. So this was kind of the last.
00:35:12
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time i feel like i've felt that feeling of like oh my god i can't believe i found this song in the whole wide world it finally just re-came up so i would take this um it's such a good vibe song and i don't know it's just like you hear it i hear it and i just feel like i don't know i just feel a soul connection to it don so here's washed out
00:35:47
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are
00:36:00
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So if you didn't understand that, you're not alone. The first time I heard this, I was like, I don't really know what they're saying. and You couldn't remember the lyrics. What is this beautiful song? um But to just sum up too quick in the beginning, it says you feel it all around yourself. You know, it's yours and no one else. And you feel the thought of love again, it's all right. In spite of all the things you did, we'll work it out. It's just so, ah it just, this song just hits. It's fantastic. So yeah, thank you to Portlandia for making that your theme song, or else I may never have found that song again. Getting it coming back into Janessa's life. You know that if I may, I feel like that sounds quite a lot like Tame Impala.
00:36:49
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An undercurrent I found to all the music I love, and it stems, I believe, truly from the Beatles. Because Tame Impala, he's really influenced by the Beatles. You grew up listening to them. So there's almost, it depends on the era of the Beatles, but it's mostly like, I don't know, like they're Sergeant Pepper stuff. Like it gets funky and like very sixties. And um you're going to hear that for another song I got in here. So.
00:37:17
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Yeah, you can tell. I just like that. like ah I don't even know what it is. It's like a trippy vibe in a weird way that I love it. It's Janessa. It's Janessa. It's Janessa. So my next song came into my life um with from the parent track soundtrack. And this is my favorite film growing up. um Loved Lindsay Lohan. Still love her now.
00:37:44
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um And yeah, this film is just beautiful. If you haven't seen it, I really recommend. It's really timeless. Like me and my friend Bradley watched it the other day and it still was just perfection. um But there is a song on the soundtrack called Every Time We Say Goodbye, which is a duet with Betty Carter and Ray Charles.
00:38:06
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charles and And it's beautiful and it's very like the scene in the movie is it's rainy and they're in London and there's like a kind of a surprise ending to the film, and which is a really nice moment.
00:38:21
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And there's also something about music from the fifties, like the kind of soul blues, jazz, all of that. It kind of makes me think of my
Nostalgia and Music Across Generations
00:38:34
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grandparents. I think, you know, like back, this is the era where our grandparents, they would actually put a record on because they didn't have like, you know, everything that we have now, like they would literally have a record, put it on, the whole family would like listen to it. um So yeah, anything from this era kind of makes me think of my grandparents. They weren't necessarily um Ray Charles fans, so I don't know if they even knew this song, but it just is like reminiscent of that for me. um And it's a really beautiful song. and
00:39:08
Speaker
It's about saying goodbye to people and not wanting to say goodbye to them. Which again, I think would be very um appropriate when you're like missing people when you're stuck on a desert island, so.
00:39:56
Speaker
I mean, I'm sorry, like, his vocal... God damn.
00:40:05
Speaker
Yes. Oh, No, that's a good cry one on an island for sure. It's like one of those songs where if I have lost enough on an island, I probably would make like something out of palm trees to dance with and pretend like like my Wilson, like from Castaway. I know, just like sing that ballad to it and just be like, damn, I miss people.
00:40:32
Speaker
Oh, God. Beautiful. Love it. All right, I'm going to go for it. So i can I can't pronounce the name of this song. It's not in this language that I speak, so I don't even know what language it's in. ah But it's by Eric Sauté and Philippe Entremont. I'm so sorry if I said your name wrong. But I'm pretty sure you guys are kind of dead now. Anyway, it's an old song. Sorry. I don't think they're alive. Sorry, because of the name. They're dead.
00:41:04
Speaker
So the name is, I think it's Jim. g Oh my gosh. Jim-no-pede number one. I'm going to spell that shit because you guys know me. G-Y-M-N-O-P-E-D-I-E number one.
00:41:19
Speaker
It is so fucking beautiful. I needed at least one song with no lyrics. i I think why I need that is because it's a side of me that I really rarely expressed to people, but like I grew up playing violin. So I used to play privately violin lessons.
00:41:36
Speaker
and then I played in school and I stopped in middle school because I learned it wasn't cool to do it anymore and I kind of wish I would have stuck with it honestly I still own my violin still break it out every once in a while but I really loved classical music when I was younger um And this song like just supersedes all and kind of a beautiful thing about it is um my husband Zach also really loves this song. And so we kind of united on this song coming in on like a playlist at one point. and We were like, oh man, this just speaks to us. And then um another beautiful synchronicity is his one when his grandmother passed away and we flew to Ohio.
00:42:16
Speaker
She had pre-selected songs to play at her funeral um And this was all we both just kind of had a moment looking at each other. We're like, oh, yes So here goes that song I can't pronounce but it's so beautiful
00:42:58
Speaker
Like where do you even stop that? There's no right place. Yeah. He's like super dead. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Yeah. This is from 1887. So, um, I'm sorry. I just had to confirm. I was like, maybe he's no, he's not alive. Um, beautiful song. Like truly, if it's from the 1800s, that has yeah lasted the test of time that that song is like, it's like my rainy day song. Like I could just watch rain.
00:43:28
Speaker
from my window, I'm drinking a cup of tea, and that's what it would mentally give me on a desert island. like I'd be like, oh, yes. um Meanwhile, I'd be like sunburnt and like delusional. But that's my song I'd bring.
00:43:43
Speaker
What better song to be like delusional, to like losing, I can imagine like if this is a film, the time you finally lose your mind and that song's just playing. I'm just staring into the distance, holding the hand of my palm tree figurine or whatever I mean.
00:44:01
Speaker
Exactly that. you Yeah, that is the that is the final song. um It's not the final song though. Good news guys, it's not the final song. But yeah, I love that choice. I love that choice. I really love that song as well.
00:44:14
Speaker
ah um Okay, we're coming to the end. I've only got two more songs left. um I'm gonna go for, this is the one where I was like, this is gonna be such a cliche to put in because I feel like one of the TV programs ruined it recently. I think it was that program which is that game that e everyone played, the apocalyptic game that everyone played. They recently turned it into a TV show on Prime, I think. I don't know. Anyway, I'm gonna play the song. ah um And then, well, it's definitely like, there's recently been an an apocalyptic film or an apo apocalyptic show where they use this song in like, and not necessarily an ironic way.
00:45:04
Speaker
and but So imagine that had never happened and just listened to this song like for its message and don't think of it in an ironic end of the world way. So the song is What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong. So kind of like right Ray Charles, I mean Louis Armstrong's voice is even more I think iconic than Ray Charles and I think it just brings instant comfort, the like, the deepness, like the, I gotta say it's baritone, I don't fucking know if it's baritone or not, I have no clue. But like, you know, like the deepness, the kind of like scratchiness is like instant comfort. Like I feel like he would just be like surrounding me and keeping me safe. And yeah, the message of the song being like,
00:45:56
Speaker
all the small parts of the world like every little bird every little thing that happens like it's the world is beautiful um i think we forget that all the time in our normal lives and i think we'd be forgetting it even more if we we're on a desert island so i can't i don't know what the intro is like on this one i think maybe quite long but we'll play it and we'll see what happens
00:46:32
Speaker
I see them blue
00:46:48
Speaker
they made a children's book out of that song and it's all the lyrics and it's the most beautiful book and it's like Louis louis Armstrong showing a kid like a flower and like it's it's actually super sweet so i could bring that to the island oh good i'm glad so the next one i'm gonna play is the Beatles This, I like, that was
The Philosophical Depth of Lyrics
00:47:12
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my first thing. I was like, the Beatles are coming. um For me, this was, it was hard for me to choose which song. I have to tell you it was between A Day in the Life and this song. A Day in the Life is one of my favorite ones to just straight up just sing in the car. um But I chose Within You and Without You because the lyrics, I remember hearing this for the first time and I was like, whoa.
00:48:04
Speaker
You guys, hot damn. Yeah, I would bring this, the lyrics on this, Okay, what you heard, and it gets a lot better than that. um He says we were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion, never glimpsing the truth, and then it's far too late when they pass away. ah i like This song is deep as fuck. Like literally the first time I heard that I was in high school, maybe middle school, and I was like, I understand the meaning of life now.
00:48:38
Speaker
It literally gave me those kind of vibes. ah Jokingly I say that I do not understand the meaning of life yet. Nor will I ever. But it was just so they speak so much truth in that song and also just the instruments in the background are like very Beautiful and I know they did like a lot of study and music in India So like you have these really just stunning instruments throughout that whole song that whole song does kind of feel like you're tripping I'm not gonna lie like you
00:49:09
Speaker
It's got a very like weird melodic way of going about, but it, and then it has very long periods of just the instrumental, but you guys, it's so beautiful. yeah And I feel like I'd probably be losing it anyway. So it may be comforting for that. So yeah.
00:49:28
Speaker
Yeah, yeah maybe that's your maybe that's your losing it song. Or that's when you've- Right when I thought I was going to lose it, but then like I had a spiritual moment where I was like, no, I don't know how I got this. And then I do think I'd i'd probably go out with the the Jim Pa-la-la-la-la number one.
00:49:47
Speaker
No, that' that one is for when you've uncovered a berry that sends you into a hallucinogenic state. Exactly. I wonder if I need this.
00:49:59
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yeah girl
00:50:02
Speaker
I have to say I didn't realize that I'm not I wouldn't say I'm a Beatles fan and it's unfortunately it's nothing to do with the Beatles but I have a real thing when I can't get past old recordings and i wish i was different because there's a ton of music that people absolutely love that i can't listen to because i just can't get past the recording like a lot of the old like 80s rock that like my dad would like
00:50:36
Speaker
um I can't, I just hate when it's like crackly and they sound like distant. But anyway, I feel like the a lot, some, not a lot, but some of the Beatles music is like, that is obviously like recorded in the 60s, so that's how it sounds.
00:50:51
Speaker
um but i just So I didn't realise that they have so much like variation in the type of music that they're producing. like I didn't realise it was like some rock and roll and some like Eastern music. and like you know I thought it was just, I only know that like the famous rock and roll kind of tracks.
00:51:14
Speaker
same Yeah, this has been a bit of an education for me. They were so cool. They went to India. They had like a whole thing. They worked with the gurus. like It's just beautiful. I love them. I would highly suggest, but I know what you mean about the crackling. And the funny thing is I like the crackling. I'm like, yes. No, exactly. And I feel like that there's people that are like, that's how music should sound. You know what I mean? like There's people that that ride so hard for that. And like that is no disrespect to it.
00:51:43
Speaker
ah It's just something personal to me that it just bothers me. I'm like, I want to feel it. It like stops me feeling it. Cause I'm like, it's yeah, the clap, like I need it to be like bouncing around in my brain. But I feel like that music, like that, it can't bounce around in my brain. I'm being, I'm being weird. Um, okay. It's my last track.
Celebrating Positive Music Vibes
00:52:07
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It's my last.
00:52:08
Speaker
And this was one, um I love this song. We've done my, we did some happy ones at the beginning. And then I think we've done my like deeper meaningful ones. And I thought I'd round it up with another fun one. It's similar. It's got like a similar vibe to soak up the sun, but I think she's British. Everyone will miss speaking, but I think she's British. And it's a song all about like,
00:52:37
Speaker
Girlhood and I'd love that. It's a song. I mean it's she is black. She's a black artist and she's definitely like written it for um Young black girls like those talks about like having afros and stuff like that, which obviously I can't participate in, but I love it all the same. And I think if you look at it as from just like a girlhood, innocent, the future is like unknown, but it's all going to be okay. Like have some fun. It's just that vibe. And I thought, um yeah, again, it would be a really fun one to have on the desert island. But this one, it doesn't have the same level of like,
00:53:19
Speaker
emotional emotional connection for me. Like it doesn't, you know, remind me of family or remind me of my life. It's just like a really good feel good.
00:53:56
Speaker
But it's alright
00:54:00
Speaker
Yeah. That's it. That's my last one. Pay your records on Korean Bailey Rae. Oh yeah. You know that one. Huge in the US. Huge. Like I can guarantee you, I think she is. It's just, it got into some film or like also, I don't know, but it made it to the early 2000s, like top charts here and it stuck around. It's like, I promise you, I would be shocked if the American listeners don't know that song.
00:54:27
Speaker
It's a good one. It's such a good one. Good. No, I'm glad. It needs, the girls need to know it. It's absolutely prime girlhood. And I feel like, yeah, it's a feel good. And I feel like sadly she was like maybe a little bit of a one hit wonder. Oh yeah, she has English. Yeah, no, it's sad. It's sad. She, hopefully she like went into writing or something and has made a ton of money writing rather than performing. I almost want to change my last song, but no. Ooh.
00:54:57
Speaker
um ah Okay. Oh, no, I can't. No, I can't. Okay. No, I'll stick to what I had. There's a song. There's a song called Orange Blossom. And it's so damn good. it But it's very similar to that kind of right all around slash team and Paula. So I'll stick with the one I have on here. So my last song is called Charmed by Estella and ready now. Oh, I don't know how to say these names. They're actually not
00:55:28
Speaker
in English either. It is just a song I found more recently. I don't know. It just feels good. I got nothing else to say about it. It just feels good and I'd want it on the island for sure. So here it goes.
00:56:21
Speaker
So really beautiful. The chorus is very different, but beautiful as well. Uh, uh, Orange Blossom is so good. Like, damn. ah Okay. Do you want to, ah do you want to play a bit of Orange Blossom? I gotta, it's so strange. It's so, um, it's Janessa. It's Janessa in a song.
00:56:45
Speaker
Um, not all of Janessa though, just a little bit. and so It's gardens and villa and it's orange blossom and it's just trippy and beautiful.
00:57:26
Speaker
is so good fun it's so good i love it and the best part is the way leader but i love it it's so good that was exciting and also i realized i guess the songs i picked all have pretty long intros for the most part and i was like i never noticed that yeah so i wonder if that means you like like delayed gratification Oh, probably. That sounds about on point for my life. I feel like you're not put off by having to wait for things, which is yeah interesting. Yeah. So I am practicing more patience in my life. But yeah, there's something about the, for me, it's interesting. I feel like lyrics do a lot for me on their own, but also I'm kind of a strange hybrid in that way that like,
00:58:16
Speaker
That if the instruments are not good, but the lyrics are good, I can't quite get there. but And if the instruments are really good, but the lyrics aren't good, I can't quite get there. But if it's just good instrument, I can get there. And if it's just good lyric, no instrument, I can get there. But if it's a combo of both, it just hits the right way for me. It just has to be like, I just can't, I can't handle the other ways around. Which Zach is, he's more of a, as long as the instruments are good.
00:58:44
Speaker
I can get there. It's like, I'm not as worried about the lyrics. Yeah, I think that Eduardo is like ah exactly like that too. And I feel like maybe that is more of a man thing. I feel like women are always looking for like the emotional connection. They're looking for other people's stories, all of that, which is a huge part of what like I feel like song making is, is telling stories. um Whereas I do think men can just be a little bit more like, this sounds good and makes me feel good.
00:59:12
Speaker
yeah and Simplicity. Yeah. Yeah.
Desert Island Book Selections
00:59:16
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i Okay. So it is customary at the end of desert island discs for the person to also get to choose one book to take with them and one luxury item to take with them. So Janessa, I want to know which book you're taking and what your luxury item is going to be. All right. So actually it was weird cause I thought I'd have a hard time with the book. Um,
00:59:41
Speaker
But by the way, when I read the b BBC rules, it says you do get already the full works of Shakespeare in the Bible. So I was like, that's great. That'll entertain me. um So aside from those, my chosen book is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. oh It is a book that has stuck with me since I read it and I need to reread it again and again and again It's the most wonderful haunting romance um Slash I don't know it it gives you like Pride and Prejudice vibes. It's like in that era um But there's so much mystery and there's beautiful beautiful romance
01:00:24
Speaker
um Yeah, it was written in 1847 and I swear Charlotte Bronte just wrote such a masterpiece. So if you haven't read Jane Eyre, I would highlyy highly, highly suggest it. Oh, fun. I don't know why I wasn't expecting that from you. I didn't think you'd pick a classic, but I love that you have.
01:00:45
Speaker
I didn't think I would either until I was like, no, that book just like imprinted so deeply on me. Once I read it, I was like, that was brilliant. That was like the such a well done book. And then when I found out it was from like 1847, I was like, girl.
01:01:01
Speaker
You were ahead of your time. That's so good. Yeah, they were proper pioneers like Bronte's sisters, um Jane Austen, like, yeah. And I know they get their credits. That's good. But they, they often didn't get their credit in their lifetime. Like it's something that like they really, people fell in love with their writing after they'd gone. and Yeah. Okay, cool. And then what's your luxury item?
01:01:25
Speaker
Oh, I have luxury item. I have it blank still. i ah Okay, so I'm stuck between like multiple things. yeah I'm stuck between like survival mode, like would I bring a knife? Yes. Or like would I bring a mattress so I can only sleep well? um But then I just think, you know, I I don't know. I think I'm just gonna bring my guitar. I really do think that. And I know that's so silly and stupid and people will be like, why would you do that? I gotta tell you, my mind will need to like express itself. And if I don't have like paper to write on or anything else, I could gladly express myself through song or through playing. yeah And I just feel like you get really good at guitar.
01:02:14
Speaker
so good and the best part would be it would just be for myself like there would be no one else so i feel like i would get as good as i want to get without feeling like i'm doing it for anyone else yeah so true yeah and then and i mean like okay then the survival mode kicks in because i'm like if i really need to i could take the guitar strings off and use it to like cut fruit and stuff those are like pretty hearty guitar strings um Yeah, there's things you could do. There's a lot you could do with it. Yeah, it's multifunctional. You can store things in it. You could use it as your save. Totally. Put all my cool coconut husks in there that I've saved up. Some cool seashells. Exactly. Fair enough. Love that choice. What about you, Amy? What book are you bringing? So my book, this actually came to me really easily.
01:03:12
Speaker
Um, my book would be a course in miracles because this is the only time I would ever be able to complete that book. So for those that don't know, a course in miracles is like this huge.
01:03:27
Speaker
metaphysical text that has been like the inspiration to a lot of people that I follow in my life, like especially Gabby Bernstein. It's supposedly, I think someone wrote it as like a ah direct download from Jesus, which listen, I don't know about anything to do with that, but it's something that's always intrigued me. um And if it is the foundation for a lot of spiritual lessons that I already like in my life. um I would love to know more about it and I'd love to read it but it's absolutely is so dengue so I don't anticipate I would actually read it in my life right now but I thought what a perfect time to read it um but also what a perfect opportunity to be reaching well for one you'd need a miracle if you were stuck on a desert island. I was like do you know what I'd read that book and I would manifest my escape from the island
01:04:27
Speaker
um I mean yeah or I mean I'm so morbid I'm like my escape might just be ascending out of my body and be like I just like really peacefully die out on the island and it would be beautiful. Exactly that's perfect to you but like yeah I thought that would make a lot of sense as a choice book.
01:04:47
Speaker
And then my luxury item, I'm sorry to be boring, but it would be the biggest Swiss army knife with everything on, including fire lighters because unfortunately I am and not an outdoorsy person at all and when I say like I couldn't do a single thing like I i don't know any of the rules of building a fire like let alone starting one like I wouldn't even know like yeah I don't know anything I literally don't know anything and I'm not very strong I just yeah I'm sorry to be I know it's like mundane but
01:05:26
Speaker
No, it's a good tool. It's a good tool to have. It would be required. Like, yeah, I can't dig my my fingers a week. Like, I can't even break things. Like, I literally, I wouldn't stand a chance of surviving. I wouldn't even make it through my eight songs without a Swiss army knife, truly. i' written like I would die before I could even make it to the end of the eight songs. So, yeah. And I would like to survive.
01:05:53
Speaker
Your luxury item screams survival. Mine screams I think I'm ready to go now. So wait, I kind of love the juxtaposition. Amy's like, I'm getting the fuck off this island. I feel like I'm probably gonna die here. I'm gonna play some really awesome music though. I love it, yeah.
01:06:16
Speaker
Yeah. Wow. That was fun. That was fun. Yeah. And I hope you guys enjoyed listening to that and it wasn't too self-indulgent for us. I think hopefully you had a good time.
01:06:29
Speaker
yeah hopefully you figured out how weird I am now with my music you're like whoa um but no I'm super excited I actually really want to hear one or two songs that our listeners would bring yeah so yeah when we post this to Instagram we'll put you know a little question there yeah and if you feel like sharing it please do because I'd love to listen to what you guys would bring yeah or yeah and also we learn we're gonna do a playlist to go with this of our songs if you want to listen to our songs in full and we'll just make that public so if you have spotify just add your songs on there yeah o i love that because then we actually will 100 listen to them it won't just be like you message us on instagram and then we're like no that's nice like we will actually listen to them so that'd be cool and we want to do things with you guys we want to collaborate
01:07:25
Speaker
h Yes. Oh, good start. Well, I think that was a really fun episode. Amy, thank you for introducing me to this. I had never heard of desert island discs before. No, and i I want everyone to listen to them. They're on YouTube and they get some proper famous people like this isn't just like you know, random famous people with, this is like Robin Williams. This is like, I felt like they've got like Hans Zimmer, like they've got some major, major players. So do check them out on YouTube. We'll see you again in two weeks. And until then. Remember to let the light in. Bye.