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Speaker: A adrenaline in my soul Every thought out of control Do it all to get them off their feet Crowd is here, about to blow Waiting for me to stop the show Out the curtain like the world before
Speaker: I feel like I feel when I've seen some drugs It's my body and I don't do drugs So tell me how I know what that feels like And am I feeling normal?
Speaker: But Feeling normal for the first time I see my friends on a socialized Build by a future and open eyes Really love to feel if this is what normal feels like
Speaker: Feel like how I feel when I have those late nights Worrying about how I feel until the daylight Keeps up on me, I'm sorta tired, no sleep Ain't got no time for no dreams, I'm in my headspace Feeling released, made you stand up, then I meet You got a smile on the seat, I don't want none of it But we slow it down, baby spell it out for the people in the park
Speaker: With your arms fiddled, I guess I'm down, feeling in the middle Feeling normal for the first time I see my friends wanna socialize Build right future and open eyes Really love it, build it, this is what normal feels like Feeling normal for the first time I see my friends wanna socialize Build right future and open eyes Really love it, build it, this is what normal feels like
Speaker: I'm feeling normal for the first time I see my friends wanna socialize Feel a bright future and open eyes I really love to feel like this is what normal feels like I'm feeling normal for the first time I see my friends wanna socialize Feel a bright future and open eyes I really love to feel like this is what normal feels like
Speaker: what What's going on everybody happy Friday Welcome to clicks house of music. Hopefully y 'all had a good week and Hopefully you're about to have a really good weekend. Hopefully we can help you do so If you're not already go ahead and check out the network you can find all the shows on all the socials Facebook Instagram X and Twitch X and tick -tock. Sorry, you think I know how to say this by now. I You can also join us live Monday through Sunday on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch. You can hang out in the chatters box. Get in there and add your two cents. We enjoy hanging out with you guys. And don't forget, you can also listen anytime, any place, wherever you listen to podcasts at all at the nonsensical network, where you can simply go to bio dot .link slash nonsensical network. You're going to see it scrolling down at the bottom of your screen all night. All those links are down there. You know, the drill gives follow. Give us a like, be so kind, give us a listening to share. We'd greatly appreciate that.
Speaker: But let's get to business. It's clicks have some music. You know, what's up. You know, I'm going to be hanging out with somebody. We got one, Mr. J St. John in the building with us tonight. What's going on, Jay? Nothing much, man. How's it going? yeah Appreciate you taking time out of your Friday night to come hang out with me. I know Fridays can sometimes be a little hectic for musicians. ah You know, if you're trying to book gigs and and have shows and all that other stuff, but I was the genius that thought, oh, you know what's a good time to do an interview on a musician? Friday.
Speaker: Well, I will say you are my last Friday night show. Uh, after tonight, uh, the show is moving to Tuesdays. So, uh, it should be good. Yeah. Hopefully it'll, it'll make it a little bit easier for you guys. Cause I, I have a lot of fun, uh, getting to know you guys, getting to meet you guys and, and, and getting to hear your music and, and share your, your guys' stuff with, it with, without with everybody. Uh, so I do appreciate you taking the time to come hang out with, with me for a little bit tonight. What's going on, Arliss?
Speaker: Yeah, there might be a big bag under the cabinet by the sink. OK. Sorry dad moment. What's going on? Our list are listed lead singer of the Southern Outlaws band jumping in the chat. um So sorry we started a little late. We had to. We pulled an audible. He's a football fan as well. Who get that? We pulled an audible right right when we were getting ready to start the show. So no big deal. ah So with that audible I'm getting to hear. music for the first time tonight. And right off the gate, man, I like that. That song is cool. I could definitely see that on my playlist. um Where did that come from? Because I know you're a writer. So that came from somewhere. If you don't mind. Yeah, that song is actually like fully about like my time in COVID. Like that was like actually I had COVID writing that song.
Speaker: And I was like finally getting better. And I was like, you know, let me hop on the bandwagon with all the other artists and maybe write something about COVID. I felt like everyone had a COVID song. So that's kind of my COVID song. It's just about getting back to normal, being able to hang out with your friends after qua and quarantining. uh, you know, doing the whole six feet apart, a lot of online gaming, you know, it didn't really feel like I was as social as I like to be. I'm a big, big social butterfly. Just didn't feel right. And so, um, there's that, um, there's a little bit about, um, what's the best way to say it? Just like coming of age, you know, throughout the song, you know, uh,
Speaker: I kind of talk about people being complacent with where they're at, twiddling their thumbs as referenced, ah and how we can't just accept things for how they are. you know We got to move on. We got to find what ah what normal is going to be again. So that's sort of what the song's about. Yeah, because you were barely out of high school when COVID hit, because you said you're what? 22. I'm 22. I was actually i actually my senior year of high school. like I didn't get to graduate, like walk the stage. I was the COVID class. I was the COVID class. Yeah. So, and then college was kind of weird, but it got better towards the end. So I was going to say, yeah, I mean, everything being online and stuff like that. um
Speaker: and and Fortunately for me, I, you know, I too, you know, I too am a social butterfly, but most of my socialization and whatnot revolves right here. on the right on ah yeah on The interwebs with the podcasting and you know gaming I don't game as much as I used to now, but I still like to get on there and and You know get on a little call of duty here and then and whatnot. So I'm all out with you and but My life wasn't too too, but I'm old. I'm i'm an old man. So yeah ah I'm damn near twice your age. so
Speaker: Um, so my life didn't change a lot. You know, I, you know, my job didn't change. I delivered auto part. I was delivering auto parts at the time. Uh, so, you know, in my truck, listening to podcasts or coming up with new ideas for shows, uh, most of my days. So, yeah, I know my kids, you know, being in school, it was, it was, it was a wild time, man. Cause it's like,
Speaker: parents already have, you know, all the duties of normal parenting, working, paying bills, cooking dinner, getting the kids ready, but then we became teachers. Yeah. 24 seven with the kids now. Yeah. Hey, you want to talk about feeling like a dummy. You know, here's, here's my math. Hey, seeing that in 20 some years. Let's, let's just Google the answers. you know Right. 100%. I'm with you. Yeah. But um how how long how long have you been doing the music thing? Is it something you've always done or was it just something that crept up on you and it was like, yeah, I think I'm going to be a musician or a music producer. Yeah, um honestly, a little bit of my backstory is that I'm adopted. And so me and my brother both adopted together and
Speaker: He had this really cheap like Walmart acoustic guitar and that he was trying to learn and we'd always had this kind of side joke that he would be a drummer like our dad was and I would be the guitarist and some make believe brother band that we'd be in one day. Well, My brother didn't have a ton of drive, it turns out, for the for the music world. So he was learning the acoustic guitar and ah eventually it became a contest on who could learn the guitar better. This is about when we were 15 and 16. And so my thought was, if I learn this thing, A, I'll get a lot of women one day and that'll be awesome.
Speaker: Yeah. And B, which was definitely second on my list at the time that I could sing in church or maybe I could play guitar in church because at that time I could not sing. I sounded, my sisters used to say that I sounded like a dying horse. So ah when I'd say I've i've heard worse. yeah Right. but So, you know, 16 years old, I was kind of like hitting the puberty full on finally like converting over to a deeper voice and it was just a bad time to be trying to learn that. But you know, sure enough, learn the guitar pretty good. um Had the thought that, you know, the whole girl getting girls things is going to work better if I can sing and play guitar. So I was like, I need to do that.
Speaker: So I started singing and just would come home every day after school and and play and sing on the guitar, just learning like songs I grew up with, church songs or pop songs. you know um I'd spend five hours a day on that. you know I'd forget about homework. My grades would slip. and It was a good time though. You know, lots of good memories. Um, I got really skilled at the guitar, um, and then came to singing. And I remember I knew that I was getting somewhere with singing because to me, my voice hadn't been changing much, but that's what happens when you have slow growth. You don't really notice it, you know, uh, but eventually, uh, at church and, uh, they would stop saying no, uh, for me to have the microphone.
Speaker: who would Or my sisters would make less and less comments about how I should shut up. So that's sort of how I knew I was getting a little better. Just took a lot of work. So there's a video somewhere out there. There's a couple of videos out there of me somewhere singing really, really horribly. ah So yeah, that's sort of how it got its start. I wrote my first song. I was in a class in high school called creative writing. And one I was either, I was tasked to write a five page paper or you could write a single song. But the the task was that you had to sing and you had to sing or perform the song for the entire class. So I was like, well, that sounds a lot easier than a five page paper. Yeah.
Speaker: And the teacher kind of did that because she didn't think anyone would do it. So I was, of course, the only one that did it. ah And I went all out and I i produced it on GarageBand and didn't have any idea what I was doing. And I made like a little really crappy YouTube video for it and put it all together and they played it for the class. And I remember thinking like, man, I really need to do this whole thing. And I was just like putting together really crappy things all the time. and Now here I am. So, I mean, you got to start somewhere at the end of the day. No, I, that's a little origin story for you. Yeah. I went, my senior year of high school, I went to a trade school. So I only had one class and I was working, but my one class was with this. It was an English class and I hated it. I hated it mainly because the teacher was like an, like a thousand years old. I'm pretty sure she was a witch.
Speaker: ah but uh she uh she gave me a uh she came to me with a deal because we didn't like each other and it was the only credit I needed and she said I'll give you an A and you don't have to come to class the rest of the year but you have to do three five -minute speeches in front of the class one is of my choosing the second one is an impromptu one of your choosing and then the last one is one of your choosing And I was like, you ain't learned anything in the last, in the last year of dealing with me. and I like to get up in front of people and talk. Yeah. So she thought she got me and she, the impromptu one was about butter. I went up there for about 15 minutes in front of the class and was talking about butter. I talked about the Amish making butter, the different brands of butter you could get butter.
Speaker: Needless to say, that was the only speech I had to give because that was the first one that she hit me with. And she said, I'll give you your a please don't come back to my class the rest of the year. That's awesome. Yeah, I mean, I loved it when and what kept happening, you know, for my last that last year of high school was after I did that, she gave me the option for all the rest of my assignments to just write songs. So that was like, that was all the motivation. And I was like, you mean to tell me that like that was to a high schooler getting paid to do it because it counted for a high school credit. Yeah. yeah yeah that was
Speaker: I had to go home and my homework was what I love to do. You know, so I was like, say less. I'll do it. I'll do it every time you ask. So I'm in. Yeah. I'm in. Let's go. Yeah. You're going to, it's kind of like me. You're going to put me in front of an audience and I get to talk and I can basically say and do whatever I want. yeah im I'm in, I'm all in. Um, what, what kind of, what were you writing about back then though, as a six? Oh, yeah. I believe I remember, I vaguely remember, uh, 16 year old Glick and I knew what was on my mind at 16 years old. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I think I really tried hard to have a lot of introspective thoughts or like, you know, what could I write about? That would be different. Um,
Speaker: But ah so my first song I ever wrote, it was called White Lies. And I couldn't even like like tell you the lyrics anymore. I just can kind of remember the melody. But ah I just remember like thinking, this is going to be really deep. And like thinking back, it was not that deep. you It's more cheesy than anything. But you know it was a funny time. ah It was deep for a 16 year old man. We didn't have like, we didn't have any real world knowledge, you know, like, yeah, we've gotten our hearts broken a couple of times in high school. exactly We didn't, we didn't have any real life experiences. So like, you know, I can only imagine, you know, a 16 year old writing a song thinking, uh, Oh, this is going to, this is, this is going to be inspiring. This is going to be deep. I mean, what am I going to write about? You know, if 16 year old me went, I'm going to write about playing football or baseball or.
Speaker: You might, whoever my current girlfriend was at the time or, you know, whatever my, my, I hate my job. you know type deal Right. Yeah. I, my first song that I put out officially as an artist, um, it was called tsunami and it's off of, uh, platforms. Now you might be able to find it on YouTube or yeah,
Speaker: yeah you probably found it. I did, I did come across it on YouTube. I kind of liked it. Uh, you were, uh, it was like an acoustic. You were just kind of hanging out in your room. Um, I liked it. What up, man? So Cameron, um, yeah, it was, uh, something a little different. You know, that's my, that that video you saw, that was a little bit more stripped back. Um, but yeah, I made that song. um put it out on SoundCloud and then a couple of people in high school really liked it. So I put it out everywhere and it got some really good streams. I got played on the radio one time. That was really cool. It was made on GarageBand though, you know, by 16 year old Jay who didn't know what he was doing. And it's not a reflection of what I am now. That's why you won't find it anymore. Because I don't want that to be the first song people hear.
Speaker: ah after you guys listen to the rest of his stuff come hit me up i got i got the hookup for tsunami got behind the scenes yeah i mean you you have no idea so many of my friends know like even songs that i never released there's so many inside jokes about them uh just like little references i mean just the other day uh yesterday i posted the tiktok and my friend Christian commented, you should write a song about stop signs. Cause I have this song back when I was 16 that he loved. that He's one of my best friends that was called stop signs. And he's just like, please put it out. I'm like, no, never seen the light of day. You just, you just, you you just, ah you just repackage it and repurpose it, you know, it, it, it just, you know, don't keep the old recordings. Cause it, dude, it it it is so cringy. I hate, uh,
Speaker: the other night we we had a we had a dead air night and i was like let's see if i can figure out a little trick on stream here again as i said i'm always learning new things i learned a new thing just the other night i and i learned something and i put up our very first live episode yeah my podcast and i listened to about 20 minutes of it and it was like these guys suck ah yeah more I almost forgot that it was me and my my best friend from high school, Jeff, who's my co -host, my co -creator. And I'm like, God, these guys suck, man. Yeah, I can't listen to this anymore. I get that. Yeah, I totally get that. We are our own worst we are own worst enemies and our biggest and our own and our biggest critics when it comes to creating content. I totally get that, man. It makes a lot of sense.
Speaker: um Real quick, you'd mentioned like your TikTok and stuff like that. Shut up, Cameron. You'll be sleeping on my porch in September. ah You had mentioned your TikTok real quick before we get too, too far in and I'll ask you to do it again. You want to throw out your social so everybody can, can, can find you and and listen to some of your stuff. Yeah, my Instagram is just my name. If you type in jstjohn, it should pop up, be the first one. J -A -Y -S -T dot J -O -H -N, no spaces, it'll pop up for you. My TikTok is same thing, but just add the word music. I think there's no period in that one. And then you can find me on all streaming platforms, just jstjohn. So it'd be awesome if you checked it out. I really appreciate it.
Speaker: Yeah. And if that's too hard for you, just go to our page because I tagged him. Yeah, that'll work. You're already following us. Just go to our page. I tagged him. Yeah. Definitely. Definitely check about, give him, give him a follow guys. He's he's got some good stuff out there. Um, as far as your music goes, cause I'm a music nerd. I love all genres. Um, you know, I, I lean more towards the country rock world or country and, and rock, but I listened to everything. And I'm not prejudiced against any any style music of music. If it gets in my ear and gets me s singing along, bopping along, whatever, you know I'm down for it. I shock a lot of people because I'm an old school hip hop head. ah But what would you classify your your your style of music?
Speaker: I think that's every artist's hardest question to answer. you Yeah, so I would classify it, you know, it's it's hard because the easier way out is pop, you know, it's it definitely is pop music. I would ah classify it as Christian music as well. But a lot of my music, and I really like to say this, it doesn't have Not all of my music is going to have the largest religious undertone. Like you could listen to my newest song, claustrophobic, and you could hear the Christian undertones if you listened for it. But if you didn't try to listen for it, you wouldn't hear it, you know. So I hope to reach a little bit of a wider audience because of that.
Speaker: um The thing is, though, when you you can't have your you can't have your feet in both ponds, you know, you can't be a Christian artist and you also while also being a secular artist. So um my feet are fully in the Christian artist kind of realm, working on a lot of Christian music this. And I hope people know that that's my intent behind it. So I just wanted to bless people or to really like yeah you know, people that want to have an awesome song without like a ton of like bad message behind it, you know, then I'm your guy. Yeah, exactly. And, and you you know, and I'm not a fan of the, you know, I might be a little vulgar at times, i you know, I, you know, I might come across a little, a human yeah, crazy at times. But, uh,
Speaker: I don't, I don't like the the music that's out there. That's, uh, I don't like a lot of the rap music today. Uh, but I don't like the music that's out there. That's, it's just like, ah we're going to be as over -sexualized as we possibly can. Or, or just like, uh, you know, I don't want to say violent because again, I listened to a lot of rock music and unfortunately, you know, there's a lot of songs. I'm a, I'm a huge mega death fan. I'm a huge Iron Maiden fan. metal Yeah. love no
Speaker: yeah and And so, you know, there's, there's that violent undertone, but you know, when that's there, when that's there, like, uh, there you go, Cam. Yeah. Um, that's when that's like their whole shtick is just to be overly sexual or just overly violent. I'm like, yeah, I'm checking out. I'm i'm good. You know, I like music that, that I can either one up motherfucker, uh, either relate to, or have a good time listening to, or, you know, something like that. Um, you know, very few artists have been able to, you know, play in both worlds with the Christian music or, um, alternatives slash pop, whatever, um, you know, POD, I think they were originally a Christian band. Um, right. You gotta, you gotta be r either one or the other.
Speaker: Yeah, Jars of Clay, which was back in my younger days, yeah they were up and yeah where that would they they were like strictly Christian, but you would hear them on the pop channels as well. I was actually a fan of of Jars of Clay when I was growing up. They were a cool band and I got to see them a couple of times. ah You know, like I said, when I was younger and and and and my mom would force me to go to church, now I'm pretty sure if I come within 500 yards of a church, I'm.
Speaker: going to get struck by a lightning or or catch fires or something like that. But uh but one of the churches we went to, there was uh there was a concert venue that they were that that was a part of the church and they would always bring acts in and George the Clay was one of those acts that would come through once or twice a year every year and I really liked them. So, you know, being you know, thirteen, fourteen, you know, I thought I was going like I'm going to a rock concert. But they were a good band. I still find myself every once in a while, they'll pop up on my playlist and I'm like, man, I forgot about this song or I forgot about these guys. And I listen to them in forever and then all of a sudden next thing I know I'm diving into that rabbit hole. Man, this is a good band, I forgot about them. But I think it is very hard and you do almost have to make that decision.
Speaker: um And being a young guy and and and and having your your head on straight, I so i told Hunter this this, I told Hunter the same thing. Knowing what you want and knowing where you want to be at is is is something you don't see a lot with with the younger generation. So that's that's really cool that that you know you you know the path you want to go down for the most part. You want to do your music, you know where you want to be. So there ain't nothing wrong with that. ah So how'd the learning guitar and learning how to sing work out for you in the, in the, in the, in the girl department? Did you, did you, did you have? Yeah. Um, I had, uh, I had a stint where I was, uh, definitely, uh, live in a life that I wasn't super proud of. Um,
Speaker: I wasn't living a ah life that I'm proud to say I lived. right now. I was singing on the streets of Broadway downtown in Nashville here. yeah um And that scene is definitely hard to walk the walk -in as a Christian. Eventually, you know, I would be singing worship music down there and then still end up partying later. You know, I felt like the biggest hypocrite for a long time.
Speaker: still have a lot of regrets. But man, the coolest thing is, despite all of my troubles down there, because I was down there for a little under a year, making bad decisions, having some really cool moments. God was using it all, though. It was really awesome. Lots of people I got to pray over. ah I was the only person down there singing worship music. You know what I mean? Everyone else is out there getting drunk, partying and hooking up. um Did my best to avoid that. But again, I was down there and I just shouldn't have been learning my lesson that way. I also had no accountability. I was just by myself, young dude, and lots of girls that walk up to you. And that's all I'll say about that. So, um, You know, I I'm a firm believer I'm not the most religious guy in the world, but I'm a firm believer that Everything happens for a reason and and we are we are where we are when we're supposed to be there Regardless, you know and and you know, we all make bad decisions. We all make mistakes as an older guy Trust me. I've I've beat myself up for years over the things that I did in my 20s and it's like, you know, I
Speaker: It was all part of making me who I am today. And, you know, fortunately you're, you're young and you learn that lesson very, you know, very fast and and and and early on, but some of us don't learn those lessons as quick as others. But, uh, you know, it's all, ah it's all that path that we go down to make us who we are and to make us, uh, you know, I guess you would say better people or get us to where we need to be. Um, I've always believed that. And I, and I believe that. people come into our lives, good, bad, or indifferent, uh, for the same reason. So, you know, they might be there to teach you a lesson. They might be there to, you know, help you move forward, whatever the case may be. Um, so, you know, I, again, 20 year old me, hothead me would say a totally different story, but 43 year old me says, you're looking back at some of the people that I've met in my life and even past relationships, even, you know, recent past relationships. It's like, you know, can't be mad at him.
Speaker: That wasn't that wasn't where the where the book was going. This was just ah a little side chapter or or, you know, whatever. So to get me to where I am today. So I wouldn't let that stuff beat you up too much. We all make mistakes. We're only human. right where don and you because I still have your cage, Cameron. You know, what I think is funny is, about that whole thing or not really funny, sorry, wrong word. The cool thing about all that was I ended up meeting my wife down there. So she just ended up being in town for a ministry event from West Virginia and was leaving at the time. She had a boyfriend, was not interested in me. I saw her for a very brief moment, thought she was very beautiful.
Speaker: Um, and wonder why she couldn't just live here. Uh, and she, we followed each other on Instagram and that was all she wrote. And then a couple of months later, I was playing a show on Nashville here and she had, uh, I guess moved on from that boy she was with, um, and told me that she wanted to fly out and come see the show. And I was like, you're joking, like, you're not going to come back. I'm a stranger, you know, and sure enough, she was joking. She was just kind of pulling, uh, pulling my chain a little bit. Well. It worked because I was definitely hooked on her and so we started starting an online relationship, you know, starting but buying plane tickets left and right to see each other. And then she moved down here and then very quickly we ended up married so. Yes, yeah, i say you guys just got married. Congratulations on the on getting married and again that goes back. You were where you needed to be.
Speaker: in order to to to meet you. We won't hold it against her that she's from West Virginia though. We'll we'll let that. Yeah, she went to WVU if that's what you're referencing so. Oh, she's a mountaineer, huh? She is. That is a party school. Yeah, it was. She hated every minute of it. She was like, dude, they would burn couches and throw it out of their dorms like every Friday. And I'm like, that sounds crazy. It's, it is wild that I had a buddy of mine who went there. Um, he, he played, uh, he played baseball down there and, and, and everyone's, you know, and that's only a hop, skipping and jump away from Ohio. So every once in a while I'd be like, eh, I guess I could come to,
Speaker: to West Virginia for the weekend. You know, I was going to go to OU, which is another party school here in Ohio down in Athens. And, uh, but yeah, man, it is, uh, that is a wild campus down there, man. It really is over there, I guess, for me, but, um, no, that's cool, man. And like I said, you know, I, and, yeah and, you know, you, I said it and you hit it out the park by saying that you were fortunate enough to meet meet your wife while you were down there doing your, doing your thing. So. Um, and again, congratulations on the marriage. Wish you guys nothing about the best. You said what, two years now you guys have been married? Just about. Just about two years. Don't forget them dates. Don't forget them dates, man. Yeah. um I try my best. I try my best. Put them in your calendar. Tell her you got a great idea for a romantic tattoo and get them tattooed on your arm.
Speaker: Yeah. Well, she just got her own tattoo. She loves books. And so I got to try to show it off. Oh, nice. I like that. That's cool. Yeah. So he loves my tattoos a lot. And she loves books. That's her thing. She does a ah book, tick tock and a book like podcast. And so just talking about her favorite books. And it's it's definitely something I support her all the way in it. So my fiance, she's she's I call her a nerd. she's she's got
Speaker: i told i nerd all the way yeah I actually named her her Kindle Wendell because that's her other boyfriend Wendell. Yeah. Oh my god. I've never related to you more than anything. We'll be sitting on the couch watching TV and she'll look over. She'll be like, you should probably play Call of Duty or something. I'm like, what? She's like, oh, okay. She's like, I'm just going to read three or four chapters. Since she's moved in with me, she's she's lived with me about a year now, maybe a little over a year. Uh, I think something like that. No, she hasn't. Maybe about a year shoot just since she moved in, she's read like 500 Dagon books on her Kindle. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't even read five books in my entire life. I'm like all the way there. I'm like, man, i
Speaker: I read like maybe two books a year, three books a year, you know, if you're not counting the Bible, you know, like for enjoyment. I'm just like, I don't know. It's just not my thing. I do it. You know, if I, it's got to be an awesome book that hooks me, if I'm going to read and she just flies through it. Like she reads a book a day. I swear to God. Yeah. And that's, I think, I think my fiance, man, I think she was like, that's one or two books a day. Like. She likes to take baths when she's home during the week, if I'm doing the podcast. yeah She's like, yeah, I read a book and a half while I was in the bath. I'm like, how? Yeah. tell us you you know yeah like i can't I read the books that I do read. i'm I'm real big into the paranormal, like ghosts and stuff like that. And and it's I'm also real big into true crime.
Speaker: But I'm not going to, I'm not going to pick up a a true crime and serial killers and whatnot. I'm not going to pick up a book, like one book about Jeffrey Dahmer. So to say, I want to pick up a book that has multiple stories. So like my paranormal books and, you know, each, each story is different. And I'm a big history buff. And that's part of the, well like, part of the reason why I like the paranormal stuff, because you get a lot of the history, you know, and stuff like that. But. I don't have the attention span to sit down and read. and i and And I would like to read comics every once in a great while or a graphic novel because I'm an adult now and I read graphic novels. I don't read comic books. yeah but But again, it's something that's constantly changing. I don't know if it's because I have ADHD or what it is, but I can't sit down and read a book. And if I do pick up an actual book, it might take me a year and a half to read because it's just like,
Speaker: Yeah, this is boring. lose my I lose my interest on it and whatnot. I do want to take a real quick minute. I want i would like to play one of your one of your songs here. um We were talking about claustrophobic earlier. Do you want to give like a a brief background on that or anything like that? Like where you know like where that came from, where where where you were, or mindset or anything like that before we play it? Yeah, so I've been sitting on this song for a really long time. I wrote it probably four years ago, oh three or four years ago, and had it produced not the best, just you know a demo.
Speaker: Finally came to the point where I was sitting down with my friend Brandon. A lot of people know him as Beacon Light. He's a Christian rapper. no pretty awesome guy and bumped into him. He he lives here now. I knew him back home in Wisconsin and Michigan. Bumped into him down here and we got lunch and he really just encouraged me that I needed to get back into releasing music. And so I was like, all right, well, Brandon, what do I do? He was like, Jay, you need to get like 10 songs completely done and a lot of content made for all of them. And then he just got a steady release that
Speaker: And then as you have that stuff built up, then you can get the rest of your stuff. You can work on new stuff as that's sort of coming out. I'm like, you know, that makes a lot of sense. So I got together all of the rest of my music that I felt really proud of over the last couple of years. And claustrophobic was one that I've always just felt really proud of. And I felt like it was very fitting to be the first song that came out kind of starting back up my music career. so yeah Really excited to come out with it. It's about um feeling like you're not at a good spot to have any sort of relationship, whether it be a friend or, you know, a boyfriend, girlfriend. Yeah. um Just like you're not going to be good for them. So, you know, take a couple of steps back from me, like I'm going to hurt you. And if you don't take a couple of steps back, I'm sorry for what happens. Like I'm just not in a good spot.
Speaker: Um, and I like to think that you, um, when I wrote it, I was really felt like I was saying those things to God. Like I was like, God, I don't want to, um, I don't want to be close to you right now. I don't feel like I'm worthy to be close to you. Um, I'm a mess. Don't know what I'm doing with my life. And so I was just kind of writing from that pain. Um, thankfully God is you know, who he is, he's a great father and he always comes back and reassures you. But I like i like to kind of keep it open -ended in this song because it's like a lot of people don't, you know, you're not at that point where you're at the resolution now that I am there four years later. You know, I still have seasons like that. You have a season and you have seasons like that where you feel like you need to push people away and that's what this song is about.
Speaker: Oh yeah, absolutely absolutely, man. Um, I mean, that's one of the biggest struggles we're dealing and with, with, um, with mental health. Uh, you're constantly, uh, you know, when you find yourself in those dark places, you want to push people away. And that's the great thing about faith. Uh, you know, whatever, whatever religion you believe in or whatever you follow is having that faith. That's the great thing about it. Uh, at the end of the day, it was being able to kind of fall back on it and rely on it. and to to kind of have that as a safety net. And that's like, and the great thing about what you just said there is nice, the nice thing about music is we all interpret it differently. You might've been feeling one way when you wrote the song, um but some, you know, somebody else listens to it and they interpret it and it hits them a totally different way. But I'm going to shut up because I have a hard time doing that. And we're going to play the song. This is cost report. And you just released this, correct? Just not too long ago, like the full song.
Speaker: just ah a couple weeks ago. So yeah this was a song that grabbed my heat this is what grabbed my attention for for for Jay to reach out to him was this was a couple year little snippet post. So we're gonna play it. We'll be back here in just a few minutes in and sit down and listen to it and enjoy. it Let's go.
Speaker: Loki, I think I just need to breathe In between the lines I read Oh my, just leave me alone I'm coming to be mean to you I know you think you're precious Every single thing you say Makes you sound so pretentious Clean into perfection Never learn your lessons When you're gonna finally turn your focus on Try to tell you I'm not the guy you want I've been feeling in the dark from way too long
Speaker: I'm sorry but I can't fix this right now I feel claustrophobic, don't get any closer Take a few steps back, I can handle that I've been on the low end, so that I don't really need to mess with your heart I don't find out about myself, I'm just claustrophobic
Speaker: This time last year I was by myself I think I'd rather be there than here with somebody else You make me feel so close and in -car at all Control of my thoughts Can't turn you off
Speaker: I knew I was spoken but you wouldn't be warned This content close to before I've always been Caused to fall big, don't get any closer Just a few steps back, I can't handle that And I've been on the level with, feeling I really didn't mess with your heart at all
Speaker: And they're too close now I can't get out Stuck here in this jail cell And I'm still comfortable still And even when you're blind My mind says you're not I'm just claustrophobic
Speaker: by master so
Speaker: yeah yeah let's go Well claustrophobic firm from Jason John ladies and gentlemen, make sure you guys go check it out stream that hell out of it wherever you listen to music at You know, just go find it and just stream the ever living hell out of it I appreciate it. goes against Like I said, that was, you know, I was telling you backstage, you know, with doing this show ah and my algorithm is all local up and coming and brand new artists and stuff like that. And, you know, in that 30 second to one minute clip, if a song grabs my attention, the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go find you on Spotify. I want to find you on YouTube.
Speaker: I want to hear some other stuff you've done. I want to see. And, and, you know, I found the wrong YouTube channel, but nonetheless, uh, still the songs that were on there, I enjoyed. And I was like, you know what? I like this. I like what he's doing. I like these songs. I love claustrophobic. Um, I can't tell you how many times I've listened to it since, since you released the full song. Um, but, um, you know, I was like, let me, let me reach out to this guy. Let me, let me give Jay a shout. Let me see if he'd be interested in coming on and hanging out for a little bit. Uh, you know, it's not your typical, uh, quote unquote interview show. It's more of like a hangout. I like to get you guys on here. Obviously there's questions that people want to know. well Where do you get your writing style from? How long have you been doing the music? But we've heard those for a million years on the radio stations and on TV. I want to make it more of like a couple of buddies hanging out. Um,
Speaker: You know, get to know each other. The audience gets to know you, not only as an artist, but also as a person. Right. Because, you know, like you're like, like with your faith and and and you have in your religious background, that's not always going to come through. and and And, you know, when you hear a song, you might not go, oh, wow, this guy's definitely 100 percent Christian because you're not blatantly smacking somebody over the head with it. Or, you know, you hear some artists and it's like, then you get to talk to them and you find out, well, you know, this is a husband, a dad, you know, he's a truck driver on and on his free time, when he's home on the weekends after the kids go to bed, he sneaks down in the basement and he and he records his stuff. You know what I mean? So it's cool to kind of get that behind the scenes.
Speaker: ah knowledge of the artist speaking of the behind the scenes things when you're not working because as we were talking behind the stage you're a blue collar guy like me you're out in the you're out in the heat out in the sun you know you're you're you're doing the not that i spend a lot of time out in the heat the sun loony honest these days but i put my time in right ah but uh What do you, what do you like to do, um, for fun or, or what do you do when you're not doing music or you're not at work? Um, you know, there's the, you know, there are things out there that, uh, you know, whether you do it with your, with your wife or, or, uh, on your own, what do you, what do you do in your free time? Yeah.
Speaker: Um, well, like you said, uh, I work as a roofer. So, uh, when I'm not working my tail off, uh, selling some roofs to people, uh, I'm making music, um, or I'm spending some quality time with my wife. Um, just kind of hanging out either, uh, having, we go to the movies a ton. We've got the AMC movie pass. So, uh, like, I think it's three movies a week if we wanted to. Now, that's a lot of that's a lot of movies. So, we don't see that many but um you got no kids yet, right? Right. We don't. It's like twenty -something bucks a month though. You know what I mean? It's like unlimited movies and one movie ticket costs twenty -something bucks. So, that's what I was just saying. More than pays for itself. You know? Yeah. You know, if we see twelve movies a year, more than worth it. So,
Speaker: um So, you know, I'll be doing that. We've got a ton of really awesome friends. Right now, been making a lot of content that's been eating up a lot of my time. One of my best friends, Jake Collins. ja collins ah He does all of my videography and photography. Please go check him out. His social media is Jake Allen Photography. And his other page, he actually focuses highly on
Speaker: 21 Pilots and he has an entire ah YouTube fan base out there and just so like a huge fan base. So like you you wouldn't believe the fans that he that he has just about talking about being fans to 21 Pilots. It's awesome. ah Yeah, it's awesome and I really love what he does and he's helped me with so much. Can't thank him enough. If you listen to this, Jake, I appreciate you and you deserve the world, my man. His wife and my wife are in Stanley Close as well, so it doesn't get better. on that Yeah, you can't you you can't beat that when
Speaker: when you know, your, your friends and your significant other, you know, when, when everybody gets along, cause sometimes you have that, you don't always have that group dynamic, you know, on the so you introduce the wives and you're like, why didn't you guys click? And you're like, I don't know. um yeah ah So, so I'm assuming he does all your like your photo shoots and your video stuff and whatnot, like that you post on the Instagram and Tik TOK because he's doing for you. Yep.
Speaker: We, we kind of tag team editing. saying yeah and Check out J social media. Yeah. Check out J social media and you'll see exactly what he's talking about. that that The guy does amazing work because there's some really cool photos, really, really cool videos on there. So, um, yeah, blow out the water way, way higher than my expectations were. Mm -hmm. Has a really awesome eye for detail. Besides that, I mean. I love hanging out with my guys. I love a good cigar. You can see my my poster. My wife got me for Christmas and says all cigar lovers love a good butt. Which is highly true of me. I love watching the Bucks and I love watching the Packers during their respective seasons. I like to game. You can see some of my gaming stuff back there.
Speaker: the bucks, which, which, suits which bucks team more. Okay. Okay. Okay. I thought you were going to say Buckeyes. I was going to end this interview right now. The Ohio state, but we don't like Jay. Don't follow Jay, but it means so many things. You can mean the speaking of your, uh, green Bay Packers. I don't know if you've seen the breaking news, but, uh, Jordan love has just become the highest paid quarterback in the NFL. Yeah. Yeah. mother
Speaker: milk yeah It scares me because I know when that happened to Aaron that I think things got a little cocky, you know, um, I don't know that I, and I think that he earned that status though, you know, like that was after like his, his season of like, like four consecutive touchdown, how Mary's to win the game. you Remember that season where he was going crazy. Yeah, I mean like you deserve at that point to be the highest paid if you can throw an 80 to 90 yard touchdown, of course, but I don't think Jordan Love has done enough to earn that status. So I mean awesome for him. I think i think he's going to do really well. I just hope that he lives up to how much money they're giving him. So hey, you know what?
Speaker: At least you're not the Cleveland Browns who gave a guy who's only played six games in two years, like a billion dollars guaranteed. yeah but like What are you doing? and it it The joys of being a Cleveland Browns fan. yeah It hurts my heart. yeah Yeah, I'll pray for you, brother. Trust me, we need all the prayers we can get, so I appreciate it. I mean, yeah I mean, in all honesty, you know, we we've had some, you know, recent years have been have been good for us and good to us. I hated that we got Baker Mayfield. I'm a huge Baker Mayfield guy. I love that Tampa's taking care of Tampa's Tampa's kind of becoming my second home and and and Tampa has kind of become, you know, the Buccaneers and as much as I hate to say it because as far as hockey goes, I am a Blue Jackets. Well, I'm a Penguins fan first, but I'm a Blue Jackets because
Speaker: That's our team here in Ohio, but I grew up a Penguins fan, but the Lightning kind of has a little rivalry with, uh, with, with Columbus. And, uh, you know, they got a little something going on with Pittsburgh, but, um, but Tampa's kinda, I got a lot of friends down there that are in, uh, in the, in the podcasting world, music world, uh, and Tampa's becoming the new home for standup comedy. And I've got some friends down there that are into comedy and whatnot. And, uh, you know, so Tampa has kind of become my second home and I root for the bucks. And I was so excited when they signed Baker Mayfield. And then when they re -signed him this year, I'm like, let's go and Baker Mayfield, you deserve it. I loved him in Cleveland. I was so mad when they got rid of him and signed Deshaun Watson. But this season is for me, this season is put up or shut up with Deshaun Watson.
Speaker: You know, we either got to go to the Super Bowl or you got to cut you count your losses and cut your dang on ties because Last year was an anomaly five different starting quarterbacks and make the playoffs. You know, like exactly was ridiculous yeah, that's um'm I'm a huge football guy. I'm a big football nerd. So Yeah,
Speaker: yeah are you um' um'm I'm working on a sports show Uh, I'm just, my fiance might murder me if I, I host four shows as it is. And, and I'll make the new, I'll make the new big announcement tomorrow night. We lost a show last week, which was going to be the sports show hosted by somebody that I thought was a friend. I don't know. I don't want to talk. I don't want to talk ill with the kid. I don't know what's going on in his world, but.
Speaker: Hopefully everything is good in his world. Hopefully he's all right, but he's not a part of the network anymore. But there's a new show that's going to fill that empty slot that I'll announce tomorrow night on on the big show, um which I'm really, which will be a fist show that I'm hosting, which probably not going to fly, but my fiance is like, cause I'm, I'm tracking you. Yeah, but this this show I'm um um very I will say this much i'm I'm very excited to do it because it's with my son you know He's only 11 But it's it's gonna be a show that I'm gonna do with him. So I'm super excited for this this this new project But we'll make all that tomorrow night. Make sure you guys tune in tomorrow night. Tune in tomorrow night, Jay
Speaker: but people Yeah. Well, you're plugging your ears after the first 20 minutes, but it sounds good. But, um, no, man, uh, you know, so are you, are you, you're still down in the Nashville area? Yep. Yep. Right. We're in Murfreesboro right now, which is about 20, 30 minutes south. Okay. Okay. Um, and I know you were saying, and and shout out to your boy, uh, Brandon for telling you to get back into the game and, uh, feel free to send him my way. I'll sit down and chit chat with him. I've been trying to get more rappers. I think I it's I've been trying to get some rappers on the show and and and Not the best of luck so far. I do have one coming up Tuesday night So umm I'm looking I'm excited for that But I've been trying to get some more some more people in the rap game on the show But but shout out to him for getting you back in the game and and and telling you man. Hey Get back to work
Speaker: um Have you, have you been doing any recent gigs or are you at that stage where you're doing anything like live shows or anything like that? So right now, um, it's, it's a lot of just releasing and just trying to get content out there, grow the following, uh, let people know that I'm back in this thing, you know, um, kick the door and I'm back. Yeah, exactly. And that kind of takes a minute before you start to get people that are invested enough, want to come out to see you besides just your first, it's like, I like to think about it this way, you know, you get your, you get your first song back, and you got everyone that's like, Oh, my God, yeah, let's go. Let's stream this song. Yeah, second strong back though. Now you lost all the people that are like, Oh, I'll give him a shot now that he's back.
Speaker: Now all you got left is your actual fans, you know, people that are going to actually support you. Same way when you start doing shows, you know, you'll you'll have one really good show. Your second show, a couple months later, your turnout might be a little bit less if you're not doing the right things promotion wise. So we're really trying to just kind of promote it, promote, promote, promote, make lots of fun, interesting, engaging content. ah Just talking about the music. I really want people to to know that um I'm here to to make really good music and for it to be something that's long lasting this time around. so when you When you do, when you do and and i I totally understand that, you know yeah you come back, you you start something new, you're doing something new, you get all these eyes and ears on you and then as you progress, you know that that that those eyes and ears start to ah fade and it can almost be
Speaker: can almost be disheartening at at times, you know, but yeah it's those things you, you know, you want to get, you actually, uh, you lose followers when you first start as it's like, it's funny, man. If you go to my Instagram, uh, like, just like my, like the information, right? Like I've gained like 60 new followers this month, but um I've lost 55. Uh, And I think that's funny. It's good, right? The growth is there still. you just It's just kind of behind the scenes. I lost 55 people that stopped caring about who I was probably years ago, but still followed me. I realized, oh, I still follow this guy. Let me get him off my page. okay right But I guess signal yeah exactly i got new people now, though, that are that i here that are caring about me that want to be a part of this journey. And I'm really excited about that.
Speaker: takes a minute for that to kind of cycle through all the way before you start gaining another following again. So excited for that. When, when you do start to get back out and and doing shows and stuff like that, do you, do you think it'll be hard for you with, you know, with, with, with your style or is there, or is there an, um, Oh, I lost my train of thought words are hard. Um, it can be hard. I know. You mean, It can be hard because I'm not going to put myself in a situation where I'm opening up for an act that gets up on the stage and goes, what the f is up, everybody? You know what I mean? Like my message and their message is going to be completely different. So it makes it harder to schedule certain shows. But
Speaker: There are venues specifically tenured for Christian artists, thankfully, and who are believers and kind of market their venues that way and which make it a lot easier for starting up artists or for smaller artists. Okay, yeah, that's kind of where I was going was, you know, was is there a stage for you, you know, because I'm assuming, you know, you want to get out there and you want to put your stuff out there. Have you done light cover songs before? Is that something that you've done or anything like that? And what do you cover when you if if you do dabble in that world? I just cover anything clean that I love. I love Post Malone. I love him to death. He's a huge inspiration, so at least in the secular world.
Speaker: And, uh, I just recorded, uh, at curb records, uh, last week, just, uh, just to help buddy out. He needed, uh, he needed a recording of, uh, and something to mix, uh, for an example for somebody. So we did a cover of circles by Post Malone and justing on it. And, uh, that'll probably get posted on YouTube eventually. Probably won't get put put on a Spotify or anything like that, but y 'all can look out for that eventually. And. took took Jake along with me, got some cool content with it and fun little project. So nice. Yeah, man. That's right. I'm a I'm a big fan of I don't know what it is about Post Malone, but man, I honestly cannot get enough of the guy. Yeah, I know. But you know, not to judge a book by a cover, but you look at it, it's just like, man, you know, you're like a skeezy dude, but
Speaker: Then you get to listen into his music. And I love that he's starting to kind of dabble and play in the world of country. yeah go um I'm loving that. yeah you know He has the voice for it, you know, and he does really good. I could totally see you doing some Post Malone style songs with your with your man. I really am losing my train of thought tonight ah with your style and whatnot. I could see you doing Post Malone covers and and and whatnot. um Yeah, like you said, I mean, the guy, I mean, the guy he lives a lifestyle, yeah you know? But but he's he's a hell of an artist. He's so i don't i don't hell of a songwriter, a hell of an artist and performer. So not a not a terrible guy, music -wise, to look up to. I wouldn't know. Exactly. Yeah.
Speaker: um Yeah, man, I mean, i think I think it's really cool that you're back in the game. um I mean, me personally, i'm I'm a fan. I'm looking forward to the new stuff. you know Make sure yeah you you know get it set my way. Usually, I'm playing i'm paying pretty close attention. and and and we're go i'm gonna get you know I told you backstage, I'm gonna get you into rotation, man. I'm gonna i'm go get you on the shows. We're gonna be playing your music. So I don't know if that's going to help you or hurt you at the end of the day. Well, I appreciate it. I appreciate the exposure. You guys, you're associated with them nonsensical boys. I don't know about all that. not We're not all bad. All right. We just like to cut loose and have fun a couple of nights a week outside of that. We we do. we We do some serious stuff outside of, you know,
Speaker: You got you got the new you got a brand new song. It's getting ready to come out and yeah August 9th We'll play that here in just a couple minutes gonna be a little different. It's gonna be a little bit different It's not gonna be like a video. It's actually a new thing that I've learned on here. I can play it in the background and and and and whatnot so cool ah and know The cameras won't drop, the mics won't mute unless I mute them or or if I drop the cameras, but this song will play. um But da outside of you know working on um you know getting these songs out there and and and and whatnot, and do you have any other projects that you got going on? Are you are you trying to put together an album or are you just trying to get your name and and voice back out there right now? Right now,
Speaker: um An album, yeah like you know i'm I'm thinking of like six to eight month goals and I think ah some sort of some sort of shows in six to eight months is definitely going to be necessary. I would love to play. So Life Fest in Wisconsin just happened. ah That's a very popular music festival. It's a Christian festival. um just put They just had that festival a couple weeks ago. Love to play that festival next year. That's like one of my main goals.
Speaker: So that's something I'm working on, get some shows out there before that as well, really perfect kind of my live stage presence as well. Some other projects, right now, like you said, you know, no album, just gonna be a lot of singles, like a new single every two to three weeks is kind of the goal, which is a lot for me, but we're making it happen, we're making it happen, so. Now that, I mean, that's, that's, that's awesome. You know, you setting up the goals and and wanting to be, you know, knowing where you're wanting to go. And like I said, you let me know when they drop and they'll get played on the very next show. If they drop on a Friday, they'll be played on Saturday.
Speaker: Um, i pretty good do you have outside of church, uh, you know, performing at church and stuff like that. Do you have a lot of experience on, on stage? Have you done a lot of like, and not necessarily like, what's it called? Uh, you know, quote unquote street performers or buskers or anything like that. Have you, have you got the opportunity to get on stage and, and, and, and be on stage? Yeah. Um, so. Before COVID, I was opening up for some Christian artists at venues and that was like my first kind of real stage presence. I feel like I got out of my awkward stage the first couple of times, you know, you're up there and you're like, what do I do with my hands? You're up there without a guitar and you're like, oh my gosh, like I've got a, I've got a saying, you know, I remember like the first time I got comfortable
Speaker: And I was dancing around and I was getting, I was doing like the crowd high fives. Yeah. that's a Good memories, good memories. That's what I was going to ask. I was like, that's where I was going to go next to you. Do you have a stage presence or are you? Yeah. You know, the more yeah that's one thing that when it comes to artists and and as a music fan, I'm going to speak for me, this is my opinion only. I don't know if anybody else will agree with me, you know,
Speaker: I was, you know, when stained first come out, I was a huge fan. I loved their music, what they were doing. And then I seen them. Oh, Lord. You probably weren't even alive yet.
Speaker: Wow. I've reached that stage of my life. Awesome. Uh, family values too. I think it was, or the Vans Warped Tour, one of the two. I don't know. It was late nineties. And and and they were they were one of the acts. And Aaron Lewis got up on stage, and I say this all the time, I say this a lot on this show. get our ah But he he literally came up and he sang every song like this, and he didn't move, he didn't move around the stage, he just sang like this the whole time. And it was like, wow.
Speaker: I can't got a board like, dude, you got all these, you got like limp biscuit and, and corn and, and all these bands, man, that are putting on these that are, that you know, the music's great. They, they're putting on a stage performance. I'm not even a huge kiss fan. I seen kiss back in 96, 97. I think it was. Buddy of mine was a huge kiss fan. and He was like man My girl broke up with me and I got this extra ticket You want to go see kiss and I was like, yeah, I'll go on it. I'll go on a date with you, bro. I got you, you know yeah and that one for buddies as well Yeah, like, you know, I'm not a huge kiss fan. I like some of their music. There's a few songs that I really like But and those guys put on a show They fireworks and
Speaker: running around the stage and dancing and very theatrical, the whole period. And then coming out and doing not one, but two encores, it was like, holy crap, this is cool. But all these years later, you know, Aaron Lewis puts out a country album, some of the songs he writes or where he was at that point in his life. He was very depressed. He was miserable. The record labels. kind of dictated who he was and how he was going to be. So he was, he was, he was a miserable guy. He hated life. Flash forward to ah three, four years ago, I went to a lot of the life music festival out in Louisville and Kentucky. It's a rock fest and stained was there. And I was like, Oh man. But it was a complete 180 Fran Lewis.
Speaker: The guy was all over this. He was running around the stage. He was dancing. He was doing the, you know, like jump down in the crowd, high five. And it was just like, wow, now they're changed a lot. Yeah. You know, he got rid of his demons, so to say, you know, he exercises demons and was able to be himself. So I always ask that question of people because I think that that stage presence can can make or break you at the end of the day. You know, you can have You have to actually practice it. You need to like go in your room or your living room and you got to pretend that it's just like giving a speech. You got to pretend you're putting on a show for it. Get like three of your best friends and you're going to perform that the way that you would perform it in front of 2000 people. yeah You know, be super confident and have something that sets you apart. And and and that's the other thing. It's really cool. You know, when when artists.
Speaker: as a Music guy and I used to go to a lot of concerts a lot of local venues as well You know, I still try to get out to someone I can these days. It's just a lot harder um now, but there was there There's a band that I really like local to my area and I don't even know if they're still together anymore because the lead singer is doing something else but nonetheless ah Wouldn't seen them they were opening for friends of the show we'll call them friends of the show and And, and I was like, damn, these guys are good. These kids are really good. And they hit me up. They're like, Hey man, we got a show at this. They were at this like bar and podunk middle of nowhere, Ohio. And I was like, Oh, so that's my hometown. You know, it's, it's 20 minutes from where I live now. I'm absolutely coming out there. And there might've been 20 people in this bar, but the way that they were, the show they put on, you would have swore they were in front of a hundred thousand people.
Speaker: I got dude the lead singer Matt was ah shout out to Matt Warren if you if you hear this he was all over the stage he was running through the bar he was dancing on the seats you know like he was he was having a ball man and and I think it's amazing when you can get an artist like that that doesn't matter if there's five people there or like you said you know a couple thousand you you're still gonna Those regardless of the venue, you're still going to get the same show. And I think that's, I think that's, that speaks volumes on who you are as an artist. Um, and, and also, you know, kind of, it can also be your own worst enemy at the same time. Right. So I feel that a hundred percent, you know, shout out to Arliss who was in here earlier. I don't know if he's still watching or not.
Speaker: He's the lead singer of the Southern Outlaws band. And they got late they got a couple day but couple Labor Day shows coming up up in Northeast Ohio. And I was invited to, I made a joke one night on the show and it came back and bit me in the ass. But I was invited to to do stage announcements. I don't do so hot in front of big crowds.
Speaker: And as my, as my buddy said, dude, you host multiple podcasts every week, almost every day, you're doing something on the internet where people watch you and see you. This should be a walk in the park. So that's the mindset I'm trying to get into is when I go up there and I, and I do the, I don't even know. I really don't even know what I'm going to do, but I'm going to go up there with a mindset of a, it's just a podcast. It's just, yeah that's all you go yeah. So, you know, I, that's why I always ask you guys, you know, have you developed that stage presence? What's it like? Are you, you know, did you get that awkward stage? Like you said, what do I, what do I do with these things? You know, that's where I'm going to be like, what what do I do? Do I put my hands in my pockets? And I'm a guy who I'm sure you've noticed. I talk a lot with my hands, my, um, I might be borderline,
Speaker: Italian. I don't know. but yeah the way I talk with my hands, but no, man, ah you know, I'm glad you're back doing music. You know, I'm excited for it. I am a fan. um I can't wait to see what you do next. You know, yeah you got got you got friends here. You're a part of the nonsensical family. We're heathens. Just so you know, we're we're heathens and degenerates. But we'll, you know, we might be a lot of We might be a lot of bad things, but one thing that we are, we we we are super supportive. And you know for me, as a fan of the music world and artists, I love watching you guys blow up, man. I love you know seeing you guys, I don't wanna say start at the bottom, but you know get started, watch you grow and and and and and change and evolve and and and just blow up, man.
Speaker: and and we're always gonna be here to support you. Speaking of which, this, y 'all, this is becoming the norm around here. I got exclusive music tonight. but Yeah, you do. No one has heard this song, and if you you're hearing it right now, it's the first time you're gonna hear it, so. First time you're getting to hear this, I will, you know, I will let you introduce it, you know, kind of, whatever you want to say about it, wherever you want to go with it, I'll let you introduce it. And when you're done, I'll, I'll queue it up. This is a, this is a Glick's house of music, exclusive, totally unplanned. Didn't even see it coming. He right before we started, he was like, Hey, this one's not released yet. If you want to play it tonight. Yeah. So it's called s slow. I swear I just started promoting it a little bit comes out on August 9th. Um, I wrote it about taking things slow in a relationship. Um,
Speaker: basically just not trying to hurt them, trying to respect them, honor them the way that the Bible kind of teaches us to honor people. um you know I mentioned in the song that it's important to let to be led by God yourself before you're led by God in a relationship with another person. And that's sort of that's sort of what it's about. It's making sure you're right yourself with God before you're hopping to something where you got to leave the other person. So. Nice. Yeah, here it is. And and because I learned the new trick tonight, you guys are going to have to look at my stupid face while this song plays. Yeah, we get a get a live reaction from Glick. Yeah, but exactly. So here it is. ah Slow, I swear. Brand new song, not even released yet. Please work.
Speaker: but but
Speaker: I've never been this way. Got this, baby, my emotions are coming to And I see your face, but I, and the control that needs to abuse And I hope you can't do the same They keep slower than I ever have They give emotions, they hold them back Even though it's hard to But I see you standing there I keep no burden, keep that face so It's not a race falling in love with your soul Even though I want to And I see you anywhere I think it's though I swear I do this, do this, do this I present myself in asking what's the point in this I won't watch the time I was used to allowing myself to watch your face right out of my life Just meant you couldn't come in on it I have never met someone until I did To where we both feel it is something I don't wanna miss It's got to be even us, you're the kind to focus We better see your face But I, I still can't hold it, I'm still fusing You and I still with the same I think it slows me than I ever are Take these emotions and hold them back Even though it's heartless And I see you standing there I keep my heart and keep that face closed I don't waste all your love with you So even though I'm haunted And I see you anywhere I think it slows me
Speaker: so it is for the long game you need to catch your birds stay final way let us anytime so you in i't working on the you on yourself when people ask you hurt each other i now got her on heaven
Speaker: You've got these people lost in kind of knowing that I see your face But I never controlled them, used to abuse them, until I'm the same
Speaker: I keep on watching the calls and I know it's obvious that see the our head Take these emotions and hold them back Even though it's hard to And I see you standing there I'll keep my word and keep that face so It's not a race falling in love with your soul Even though I want to When I see you anywhere I think you're so I swear Hell yeah man Yeah I like that I like that I was the quality on your end ah It wasn't it wasn't bad
Speaker: But you can tell it is playing for you right now. It's about to play again.
Speaker: No, man, it wasn't bad. You could tell it's not quite perfected yet. But I like that song, man. and and and And it speaks volumes just kind of from my perspective. um You see a lot of people ah ah of all of of all ages, brush into relationships, man. In today's world with with social media, a relationship almost becomes a social status. yes but So you see people die headfirst into relationships and then
Speaker: you know, six, seven, eight to a year later, you know six, seven, eight months to a year later, you see those relationships fall apart and and and it it almost becomes content for social media. Some people use relationships as a as a status symbol. on on Unfortunately, I was engaged to somebody like that. ah You know, it was the brand new relationship. And all the things that go with it and getting all the likes and all the comments and blah, blah, blah, blah. And then while that's starting to fade out now, now we got to move to the next step. So it was like pressuring to get engaged. And after my divorce, I said, I don't know if I'm ever going to get married again.
Speaker: and And then there was that pressure to shoot because she wanted because that was that next step for the social media Was to be engaged so she get all the likes and the acolytes and and and everybody. Oh my god I'm so happy for you. What a beautiful ring bobbity blah blah blah and then you know the wedding planning and putting all that on social media and then all this is old and this is boring and I'm not now I have to I start a new relationship and you know for me somebody who coming out of a divorce and having three kids and taking such a huge step it was like wow they were kind of a huge blow right you know that that song speaks volumes to me i you know i yeah
Speaker: I'd like to say that my fiance and I took things slow, but we definitely didn't. But there was that connection. I mean, you guys, like you said, you and your wife are were married relatively quick. you You obviously have that connection. When the connection's there, you know when it's real and when it's not real. Yeah. My fiance was about just like, it doesn't matter how long you take. It's just like that, the thought behind the, you took the moment to hesitate, you know, and you thought, You know, I know what I'm I'm recognizing. I know what I'm doing by getting into this is sort of is sort of the thought behind it. I do want to mention, I think the file got corrupted a little bit, because it sounds normally a lot cleaner than that, so it will sound better. than oh yeah i was I was going to say the original file I got kind of sounded like that, so it might have gotten a little bit corrupted and and like transfer, and then I had to turn it into an MP3. I mean, it still sounded good, um but ah I'm looking forward to the.
Speaker: to the, to the full on release. I think it's a great song, man. I think it's a great song about relationships and, and you know, people should hit the brakes a little bit. You know, it's if if my, if my co -creator was here, he would be all over me for what I'm about to say. yeah He's a bit of a man whore, but it's not about getting into bed as quick as you can. No. I've never been that guy. And again, if he was in the chat, he he would attest to that. He'd be like, yeah, Christmas clicks up a square. yeah But um and it's not just like rushing into everything. And I like that. It's a good message. It's it's a really good message. And it's and it's and it's an even a better message coming from a young guy. You know, you're
Speaker: yeah You're a baby man. You're just a baby. I want to ask you, uh, I know we're, I know we're getting close to the end here. Um, first and foremost, uh, and I'll probably say it to you again, uh, you're welcome back anytime, man. You're welcome on to any of the shows you'd like to come on. Um, you know, we, we have a men's mental health show. Um, and that's just real life. That's just real life, real talk. Um, There will be a sports show. So I'll probably hit you up down the road. And once I get to sports show started somehow, some way and be like, Hey, let's, let's, uh, football season. Let's talk a little, let's talk a little football. You into college football at all. I'm not as much of the college fan just being from Wisconsin. Uh, you know, it's not that I don't like the Badgers. I definitely do. Um, it's just, you you know, being in Wisconsin, you're not as hardcore college.
Speaker: Yeah, ah it's just not as much of a culture thing there as it is down down here in the South. I realized quickly. I'm like, Oh my gosh, people love college ball more than the NFL in the South. I feel like I um was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin. So all my life is that always been. the only and of So yeah, it's all package. Yeah. No, I mean, you know, the sec, that, that, They're clowns anyways. I'm just going to get that out there and put that out there for everyone to see. You guys are a bunch of clowns and you're overrated. But it's tough to be a Wisconsin fan too because I love. a bars all
Speaker: yeah You know, I love the NFL, but the the Badgers, man, they're a roller coaster ride. It's like we got one really good year and then and then we're going to get two good years and then tank for a couple of years. It's just like, you know, there's no consistency for for badgers. But so I would. Sorry, side track squirrel. ah Have you have you and not say that you've released it or you're going to release it or anything like that? Cause it was always like, I wish I, I wish I had the creativity to like write a song. Have you, have you written a song or, or do you, or do you, I don't want to play it down. I'll just ask, have you, have you written a song for your wife or something like dedicated to your, to your wife or anything like that? I do have a couple. Yeah.
Speaker: yeah Nice. I always think that's so cool when artists write and and and do a song for their significant other. I've always thought that would be cool. yeah I love John. like one One is going to be coming out. Oh, nice. Nice. I don't have a date set, but it is definitely going to be pretty soon. Nice. On the flip side of that coin. how how does How does she react to that? what how what I'm assuming it was positive since it's going to come out down the road. but like Well, like it's it's funny you say that because that song we just listened to slow, I swear. That was written about a girl in a past relationship like a long time ago, just a past experience I had. So yeah like she hears that and she's like, you know,
Speaker: she's She's very confident girl, so she's not like, oh man, that makes me jealous. You can't put out that song because you wrote that about a girl. You know, I'm like, that's just, it's a story. It's an experience from the past, you know. It's not like I feel those things now for that girl. um She's got, and my wife's got way ah more, you know, amazing songs anyway for her than anybody else does anyway. ah
Speaker: I mean, she loves it. I mean, I asked her to be my girlfriend ah with a song. Oh, you wrote I wrote her a song. And it's man, it's like a it's like a storybook moment. It's one of my favorite stories to tell is I was playing a separate. So, you know, I told you about how she wanted. She said she was going to fly out, come see me. at Yeah. show She was just joking. Well, a couple of months down the line, we were now dating. And, you know, I wrote this song for when I really liked it. and I was playing another show. And I decided I was going to play that song just to play it just because I needed another song on my set list. And I don't know, I was playing like six songs or something like that. And the crowd was all there. And then, man, it was a Halloween show as well. So we were we were at like ah it was like a backyard house show. So it's probably 60 people there.
Speaker: But it felt way more because it's packed, you know, it's like a backyard, it's full. yeah And I'm about to start singing this song. And sure enough, then I see my wife back then, my girlfriend, she's in the crowd. I'm like, what the heck? You're supposed to be in West Virginia. So she did surprise me and thank very much so down the road. And so then I got to sing that song and I got to talk to everybody and everyone realized and it was a really sweet moment. But I got to sing her song to her in front of 60 other people. And it was just like me and her were in the room and it was a really sweet moment. No wonder she said yes to be your girl. You put her out in the spot, man. She had no other choice. Well, we were already dating at that point. I had asked her with that song to be my girlfriend already.
Speaker: two so I did not know. But I did ah did because we met when I was busking. so I was at the top of this hill and I had my guitar case open and the sign on my guitar case said, will you marry me? I had like gross pedals and set of money. and so It worked out pretty good. um I mean, I'm a big softy at heart. you know yeah don't Don't let don't let the don't let the the stature and the beard, I'm a big guy, but I'm such a big teddy bear. I'm such a big softy at heart. And I love i love stories like that. you know I'm a hopeless romantic at the end of the day.
Speaker: And I love stories like that. that That's so awesome. And then I gotta say, man, you posted a video of her and I think it was claustrophobic where she was like, ah yeah she's adorable, man. She is freaking adorable. Yeah, I told her, I was like, I started playing my song and I looked at her. I was like, Hey, do me a favor right now. Like, as soon as this chorus drops, just go crazy. And she was like, but And I was like, people people keep asking me, how many takes did that take? I'm like, that was that was take number one. like number one like That was not a plan to thing. I literally was like, hey, let me see you bust a move to my song. She was like, I got you. and then Did it on the first shot and I posted it.
Speaker: that's all yeah no she was she's absolutely adorable and that video cracks me up i you know i i when i seen it i was but she's a trip she's a she's she's she's a good one um yeah and i love that too you know i was gonna ask you you know about the supporters she is she like your number one support supporter big support system for you to keep shit man she's such a
Speaker: She's ah such an awesome support. She's also my biggest critic, man. She will tell me I'll be i'll be playing a song or I'll be singing. ill yeah I could be singing like a verse, like I could literally be recording and like like focusing hard and i'll hear and I'll hear through my headphones, through my mic.
Speaker: that doesn't sound good. i'm like Like what? It's not even done. It's not even like an idea yet. It's not an idea till I recorded it. Okay, like you can't get the input. You got to you got to keep those for you got to keep those for like bloopers and and and then you can release them down the road. Right? Yeah. only man So she'll hear something and man, I'll see her go. Like she's really vibing and all of a sudden she'll just kind of Uh -huh. but but I'm not liking it anymore. I'm like, all right, all right. I'll go back to the dry board. so there that's That's awesome. and i that's my rough It to show you, though, it's all subjective because she actually really hated claustrophobic for most of the for most of it. like It's grown on her.
Speaker: So she just wasn't a fan of it. And now she loves it. So yeah, I mean, and that and that makes sense. I mean, with with with the you know subject topic line and and whatnot, you know, but it's a a a it's a great song. Yeah, the the lyrics are great, but it's also catchy. It's catchy as hell, man. Thanks, man. Yeah, it really it really is. You know, like I said, I was scrolling and and I was was like, ah who's this pretty boy who's scrolling?
Speaker: Oh yeah, we get it. Nice photography. You're by the lake. You're by the river. Hold on a second. That beat caught my ear real quick. I'm going back. You know, and but no, I listened to it and I was like, man, I kind of want to hear the rest of the song because he's got me. He's got me hooked and it's a great song. ah You know, uh, not just blowing smoke up your ass. I'm a fan of it. Uh, you know, yeah yeah you started seeing the snippets of, um, of the new one and I was like, I don't want to see where this goes. Like I want to hear the rest of it, you know, um, I was gonna, I was going to say something to, uh, again, sorry. I totally lost my train of thought, but no, I like, I like those romantic stories. I like those love songs. I'm a huge fan of John. legend I love John Legend. Uh, again, I'm a music guy. I will, you know, love RMB. RMB is probably right up there with country and rock for me, but I love John Legend and, and I absolutely,
Speaker: Uh, love his wife, chrisy Chrissy, Chrissy Teigen. I think she's, she's a hot mess most days. I follow her on social media, but their relationship is like, it's, it's one of those things youre like, man, I really hope this isn't for social media because right it's like, that's what me personally, is I kind of want that relationship. And he writes so many songs about her and so many songs about their relationship. And and and she always pops up in the videos and stuff like that. i just i'm a sucker I'm a sucker for it, man. i'm I'm a sucker for the sappy love songs and and and romantic stories. So you know that's I'm looking forward to seeing what you got, what you put out for your wife and and and whatnot.
Speaker: um um I'm definitely looking forward to it and hopefully anybody who listens to this and watches the replays or Listens on the podcast. Hopefully you guys go check out Jay, you know, he's he's across the board Jay Saint John It's not hard to find go show him some love Actually, I can figure out how to work my buttons here Right there just just in case you have a hard time Jason John type him in you're gonna find him you know and And if you have a hard time finding them and you're already following us on social media, just go back to the post. I tag them in it. and I do that on purpose. Don't do that for my own good. I do that for you guys. So you guys can find them if you if you like what you hear and like what you see. Now, dude, I'm excited for you, man. I will say you have a new fan in me.
Speaker: um Hopefully you get some new fans from from this exposure and the continued exposure that we're gonna put for me on here. And i can't i honestly, i can't I can't wait to see where you where you take this to, what happens. you obviously Obviously, now you're not playing the guitar and singing to get the girls. You know, now you're doing it for the love of music. You got your girl, you know, so now you're doing for the love of what you do. So I'm excited to see where this journey takes you, man. And, and you know, maybe have a, you know, I'm excited to to sit sit in the cheap seats, so to say, and and and and and watch you grow and and and watch and see where you go at the end of the day. Yeah. Well, I appreciate that. I'm excited. I'm excited myself. And it's been a really cool getting to talk with you today.
Speaker: No, I really do appreciate it. i want I'm going to ask for one more thing. So I'm going to play one last song before we before we get out of here. But if you keep playing out for a few more minutes, um usually what I like to ask my guest, if you if you have a quote that resonates in your brain, constantly up there, keeping you moving forward, pushing forward, ah keeps that drive alive, or any words of wisdom you want to drop on anybody else, But again, I thank you. you know this This means for me, you have no idea how much this means to me that that you got that you that you were willing to take time out of your Friday evening, come hang out with me for a little bit, come be on the show and allow me to introduce our listeners and and our followers to to your music.
Speaker: right You know, i'm I'm in the same boat you're in, my friend. We're both just chasing a dream. This is this is not something that that that I take as a hobby or anything like that. I want to be a full -time podcaster. I want to be one of the lucky, fortunate ones that lands on the radio and has his own radio show. I want to get paid to do this. So, you know, you and I are are in the same boat and and I tell all the all all the artists this. It means the world to me and I'm very grateful that you guys actually take a chance on some goofy bearded Sasquatch who has a laptop and a microphone. So thank you so much for popping up here, man. It really does mean the world to me. The last song that I have here is, is and much like I've done all night, is Thornbush. You want to give us a little something something about it or or or
Speaker: Oh, yeah. Yeah, man. I remember when I wrote this, I was in my childhood bedroom. My brother was there and all of a sudden I started rapping the verse because it's it's got a lot of rap in it. A lot of cool rap and my brother like looks over at me and he goes. This is the one that gets you out of the basement. he was like He's like, oh my gosh. He was like, keep going. we go Like he's like freestyle the rest. Like just go. And he was just like, uh, he was my biggest. He, he genuinely, uh, my brother, he's a, you're younger than me. Uh, we're Irish twins. Uh, he is just a man.
Speaker: He's my best friend to this very day. He's my biggest supporter. He hears every single song. He tells me what's good and what's not, and he has the biggest voice along with my wife. And yeah, um I mean, this song, what's what's about, honestly, it's just it's kind of just about like kind just about some thoughts in my head. It's about,
Speaker: like, when you know you shouldn't ah be met. So you know, it's the idea, the whole idea is, you know, if you if you pluck the rose, you're going to get the thorns, you know, i mean yeah, so it's kind of messing around with that idea that you're now you're walking into real life. There's some things that you should probably watch out for that you shouldn't do. And I'm just admitting in the song that I have a tendency to to grab the rose because it looks really awesome. Uh, and then always end up bleeding because of it. Uh, and so it's a little bit more of a deep song, uh, but you know, uh, I really liked it a lot and I'm glad I put it out. So I think i think it's something that we can all relate to too. you Yeah. but Kind of the simplest form, you know, you grab ahold of that. Like you said, you grab ahold of the rose, you don't think about it.
Speaker: They got thorns, man. You're going to wind up hurt. You're going to wind up bleeding. You're going to wind up making regret in that decision. And I got, I want to add real quick before I play it. I think winning over siblings is sometimes more important than winning in over anybody else. Oh, one hundred percent obviously you got your significant other, but I think some of the, I think not even compliments, but. some of the best feelings I've ever had. Cause I got, I got, I got three sisters in a broaster. Long story short, my broaster used to be my sister and this is now my brother. So I call him my, my broaster. So I have four siblings and, uh, you know, they listen occasionally, but one of my sisters, uh, came across the podcast and it's not like it's a secret, you know, it's, it's, it's out there. But she listened to a few episodes a couple of weeks back and she was like, Hey,
Speaker: you're doing a great job. You know, I listened to one episode and then I found myself six episodes deep. And it says so like, that's, that's, that's a bigger compliment. And that's a bigger achievement to me than like, yeah, you know, don't get me wrong. I love all of our fans and all of our listeners, but you know, the fact that, you know, one of my siblings, you know, cause you grew up, you go to war together, you go to war with each other, you know, you, to to win them over is huge. and And you and your brother are being so close, my broster and I are the Irish twins. There's only a year apart that separates us. yeah So when I started this, he's been, you know, he might not watch or listen to every episode, but he's been one of my biggest supporters. he's he He was genuinely happy for me when I told him I was starting my podcast and stuff. So I was like, cool, you know, all right. Now, i you know, it's like, all right, we got that little extra. And every time I start to feel a little
Speaker: i What am I doing tight? It's that little extra kick in the ass like hey, you're doing a good job, you know, so Sorry, this this is how my brain works a million miles an hour. So we're gonna we got one last song for y 'all tonight From Jay Saint John make sure you guys show them some you show them some love And it's a and we'll be back to close up the show
Speaker: If you let me, I'll be honest Love is something that is where I have always wanted Every time someone shows me that emotion I just take each of it down because I'm on my pockets I like to save it a lot, use it all at once Maybe a little too much, I'm addicted to trying to feel some Fake love, put it on the phone I call it what you want, I guess it's still love And I really like to hold it I've been looking for love I've been throwing bush cuts all over my heart I see the roses ever since eight years old I wanna hold it I'ma say I take it slow but I never listen I've been looking for love and I always put your cuts all over my heart I didn't notice now I'm nineteen years old my hands are bleeding I should probably just set it closed but I never listen I've been looking for love
Speaker: I've been looking for love in a rose bush That's all over my heart, I didn't notice No nights in years old, my hands are bleeding I should probably just set it cold, but I never listen
Speaker: I've been on the watch just like your wrist Look for love if it exists Underneath rocks, see the diamonds in my neck Material life, it oversteps Everything I wanted, fake love, no caution Hazardous emotion, really love to hold it I said I really love to hold it Starting to realize how everything is what it seems
Speaker: I've been looking for love I'm a thorn bush cuts all over my heart I see the roses ever since eight years old I wanna hold it Mama said take it slow but never listen I've been looking for love in a row
Speaker: Now I'm 19 years old, mine's depleted I should probably just let it go, but I never let it I'ma say, take it slow, but I never listen I've been looking for love in the wrong stuff Dressed all over my heart, I didn't notice No, I'm 19 years old, my ears are bleeding I should probably just let it go, but I never listen
Speaker: I'm down with that, man. I like it. And spoiler alert, ladies and gentlemen, three of the four songs tonight, I never heard until tonight. i' heard Like I said, my band's at the back, like, like damn Peyton Manning, yelling, yo Omaha, Omaha, Omaha, calling audibles before the show starts. and that's yeah I like it, man. I, you know, again, i I got three new songs I got to hear tonight for the first time and I'm not mad at them and I like them. um They're going into the rotation. So, you know, as long as you're okay, I'm not going to play a slow. I swear I'm not going to play that until it's officially released. ah But the the other songs I'm going to put into rotation as long as you're cool with that. Yeah. Yeah. That's totally fine with me. I appreciate it.
Speaker: Nice. Nice. So like I said, uh, thank you guys for listening. Thank you guys for hanging out. Uh, feel free to check us out on all the social medias, uh, Facebook, Instagram X and tick tock. Uh, don't forget we do have live shows Monday through Sunday. We have a new show coming up. I'll give you guys the details on that tomorrow night. Uh, And we do those on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch. You guys can come in, hang out, get in the chatters' box. We love the engagement and we love hanging out with you guys. And if you can't join us live, you can listen to us any place, anytime, where we listen to podcasts at all at the Nonsenseable Network or simply go to bio .link slash Nonsenseable Network. And while you're at it, don't forget to go give my man some love too. Jay St. John on the Instagram. He's the only one there, I promise you. And with TikToks, Jay St. John music, correct?
Speaker: Correct. Once you find one place, you're going to find them everywhere. Get that link and and and go check them out. Go show them some love. but Keep supporting them so he keeps putting out good music. Before we take off, Jay, anything you got, anything, any last closing thoughts, quotes, or anything you want to say before we before we get out of here? Yeah, I just want to you know say thanks again, Glick, for letting me hop on here real quick and doing a quick little interview. just appreciate, you know, getting to talk a little bit about myself. You don't get that opportunity a lot. Getting to share a little bit about my past and about what's to come. I always want to share this verse. It's one that I've been memorizing lately. It's 2 Corinthians 12, 10. It says, that is why for Christ's sake, I delight in weakness and insults and hardships and persecutions and in difficulties. For when I am weak, I am strong.
Speaker: And I chose to share that just now after thinking while that song was playing, because man, life can feel hard. I mean, me and Glick, before we got on, we were talking about how we had long weeks. And it doesn't matter if you had a long week, though. You got, you know, God's got you. And it's going to be all right. That verse explains it perfectly. and We're still able to do what we love because of that support and the strength that he gives us. So I just appreciate you guys for taking a listen today and I hope that encourages you. Absolutely, man. Absolutely. That's, that's, that's a hell of a burst too.
Speaker: as I know a lot of times there's been times where life's been kicking me in the head and I'm like, you don't want to be so much easier just to give up. good Um, but now I know, man, I, again, thank you so much for coming on. Greatly appreciate you. Welcome to any time, brother. Uh, welcome to the nonsensical family. Uh, whether you like it or not, you're a part of the family. Uh, you know, we're going to be here for you at whatever you need from us. If you want to pop up on a Saturday night, we always, what we we call it the open door challenge. We dropped the link in the chat. If you got something new coming out, you got something you want to promote, you got to show, uh, let us know. ah We can have you pop in on any of the shows to to promote whatever you need to promote.
Speaker: or you see us live Saturday night, hit that link and jump in. And we're going to, we're going to open the doors up and welcome you in and say what you got to say. And be like, if you don't want to stick around, just be like, all right, I'm out guys. I said my piece, but you're, you're always welcome here, man. Uh, whatever we can do to support you. Just, just let us know. Um, with that being said, ladies and gentlemen, I don't get to say this a lot very often, but this has always been one of my favorites. When you find yourselves at the crossroads of life in that little demon sitting there and he's He's telling me he's got the hell, he's got one of the best deals he's ever going to give you. Always ask yourself, five simple letters, five simple words, WWNND, what would Nonsense Will Network do? And then do the complete opposite.
Speaker: but Be good or be good at it, ladies and gentlemen. We'll see you guys next. Actually, I won't see you on Fridays anymore. Tune in starting this Tuesday, Tuesday nights for Gilex House of Music. But make sure you check out the rest of the shows. There's good stuff on there. hit this button hits but now what
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