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Glick's House of Music: Reckless High
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Glick hangout with Solo AKA Reckless High we talked about his music journey as well as his struggles with mental health and substance abuse and so make more was a great interview and conversation
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Introduction and Social Media Engagement
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And anti-social
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yeah! oh yeah What's going on, everybody? Happy Tuesday. What's up? I'm Glick. You guys know that. This is Glick's House of Music. Long time no see. Feels like I haven't seen you guys in forever. Anywho, we are part of the nonsensical network.
Return to YouTube and Social Media Presence
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If you're not following us already, well, then go get to it now. We're everywhere. Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok for the time being. For the time being, I hear TikToks going away.
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I don't know. They've been talking about it for the last four years. This might be the real deal, but for the time being, we are on Tik TOK shows are live Monday through Sunday. Welcome back to YouTube. We got in trouble. Got our bottoms spanked and we were gone for a week, but we're back.
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YouTube and
Welcoming Mr. Solo and Musical Influences Discussion
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Facebook, we're live Monday through Sunday. You guys can get in the chatters box and shoot the shit with us edges. And as always, you can listen anytime, anyplace, wherever you listen to podcasts at all at the nonsensical network, or you can simply go to bio dot.link slash nonsensical network. Got all them links there, including the links to our.
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merch store, if you're interested in that stuff. We got some goodies up there and we're going to be working on some more goodies ah here in the very near future. Once we get past the holidays, because as we all know, it is a crazy, crazy time of year right now. So with that being said, we'll kick ass music to start the show. By reckless high anti-social and we are joining tonight.
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Uh, one, Mr. Solo. What's going on, brother? Yo, yo, what's up, man? What's up? Reckless high right out the gate. I got to address something, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Talk to me. Talk to me. Genre. Whatever you want to call it. I love that. Yeah. Yeah. You guys are a nice little hybrid of, I mean, I don't know what you would want to say, like rock, punk. Uh, yeah.
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yeah you know so and and and whatever other combinations are there. What kind of music influenced you?
Impact of COVID-19 on Music Scenes
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and To be honest, man, all kinds of music, bro. That's why that's why there's just you know so much diversity within the band. um you know Growing up, it was a lot of classic 70s,
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um disco music. I mean, it was just a variety from country to rock. I mean, my my dad was a drummer in his in his own band. They played like Mexican rock music and oh nice. And so yeah, you know, that's where that's where it all comes from, man. It's just a melting pot. That's why I just don't, I don't like to fit myself in a genre, you know, even though when we first started, uh, we were strictly new metal. Um, and, uh, but you know what, man, you grow, you evolve and you get tired of one town and you just want to have fun. You know, I think that's ultimately one of the best things about artists is when you can kind of come to a point where it's like, I just want to have fun with the music. And if you're not enjoying what you're doing, then why do it at the end of the day?
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Yeah, exactly. Exactly. You know, I come across you guys like I come across pretty much every artist I've had on here is through Instagram. And, uh, yes, sir. You know, you guys are promoting a song and it catches my ear and I'm like, Oh, let me where they at either. Cause usually you catch me and like, yeah, scroll. We're all guilty of the scroll. Just kill. Oh, for sure. For sure. And then I'll go, well, they got Spotify, they got YouTube. So.
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going back on your YouTube channel, some of your older stuff that you guys got posted, you definitely hear the new metal sound. Yeah, yeah, yeah. and It's it's really cool as you listen through to see that evolution to where you guys are now. Yeah. Kind of finding your finding your groove. um Say that because I've become a fan. ah You know, this is cool for me because I'm generally not just reaching out to every any and every artist, you know, because you might you but They might have one song that really catches your ear and then you go listen to their catalog and it's just like Very amateur no good production. Yeah Yeah, yeah kind yeah just kind of whack so it's like yeah, and and I'm a music nerd, you know, I listen to all genres all eras decades whatever yes, so, you know, ah but I've become a fan and and
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And I'm looking forward to, you know, as you guys progress and and more stuff you got coming out down the road. Now, you're you're a Houston boy, right? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I hear you say not born and raised, but. I lived, I lived a long time out here, but that was I claim it. There you go. There you go. Each town, each town. Yes, sir.
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I was gonna say Texas is uh, you know, Texas is known for their they got quite a bit of music out there Different different styles of music different influences and and oh, yeah um oh you been I've never been out there. I do I do want to get out there eventually one day I got a buddy that lives in Austin and he was like dude. Yeah, so you got to He said, you'll love the music. You'll love the food. ah Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So
Mr. Solo's Journey Through Addiction and Music
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Austin Austin's different compared to Houston, though. it's It's it's night and day. I'll tell you that right now. Austin is very ah it's strange to put it that way. You know what I'm saying? But it's cool, though. It's a whole vibe. And, you know, we played out there um a lot back in the good South by Southwest days.
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uh you know when when things were really really grooving and popping you know after covid you know it just destroyed it just destroyed the scene um same here in houston before covid oh dude we were we were gigging out here uh a lot of great bands were coming up And then COVID hit and it went downhill, but, um, you're right, man. There's still a lot of, uh, great talent out here. A lot of the music scene is still buzzing. So we're just trying to stay, stay in it, you know? Yeah. I was, I was talking to, I think it was last week. I was talking to the, my guests I had last week, we were talking about COVID now. Have you guys, have you, has there been any kind of recovery with, with the music scene and and the live gigs and stuff like that? It's just kind of a slow burn or anything.
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It's just, it's just, it hasn't picked up, not for us anyway, cause like COVID happened and then um went through some lineup changes. And so, you know, covid COVID man, just COVID, you know, lineup changes, venues not booking, venues were struggling, ah just like everybody else was. It was just, you know, it was horrible. A lot of a lot of the like historical venues here in Houston, they closed their doors. And for good, for good, for good, for good. um the the The Houston scene was really good, bro, before COVID. ah COVID hit, dude, and it destroyed everything. It's sad to see one of my favorite clubs here in Houston, Acadia Bar, it was like one of the main spots that locals went to. out um
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uh, national touring bands always played there. It was a, it was an awesome stage and, you know, they closed their doors about and six, seven months ago, I think. And, uh, it was sad, dude. It was sad. Uh, a lot of these venues have been holding on, not making very much money. And, uh, you know, it catches up, you know, it catches up. Yeah. that that You know,
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I hate hearing that because, you know, as ah as a fan perspective, you know, I'm a huge, you know, obviously we all have our big name acts that we like and and stuff like that, but I'm a huge, huge supporter. And, and, and, you know, when I have the time and I'm able to, I love to go to check out the music, the local music scene.
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I love the local musicians. I don't care if it's ah if it's a 80s hair band cover band and that's all they do or our covers or if it's a local band doing all originals and stuff like that. um It seems like here where I'm at, I'm in Columbus, the Columbus area here at Ohio. The music scene is definitely thriving.
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um And I don't get out as much as I would like. And then in my little town where I'm at, we have several bars and stuff like that that seems like every weekend. They have some some music there, live music. I'm sure they do. So it's unfortunate to hear, you know, talents you know places like like Houston or, you know you know, even some of the other areas that have been affected that are known for music or have a a good music scene that kind of i Oh, yeah. Hit that skid. And, you know, unfortunately, you know, here we are, what, three years, four years later. And a lot of things still haven't quite recovered from the whole COVID fiasco, whether no matter what you believe one way or another or how your opinion is on COVID. It hasn't have been longer than three, three years that it was like.
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like five, six years ago? Yeah, it has been. Hell, I don't know. I don't even know. Yeah, but I'm flying by so quick, bro. Yeah, nah, nah. Yeah, you know what, though, dude? It's sad. You know, it's a sad thing. But you know, there's still a lot of, you know, a lot of the bands that were coming up the same time we were coming up in like 2012 when we first came out, like a lot of bands had a lot of potential.
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um and i And I felt like we had potential too to really take it out further than, you know, than the city. And to see a lot of those acts that they don't exist anymore. And a lot of these musicians that I know, they're just, they're not playing anymore. They're not. And I'm like, dude, that music's your life. Like, come on, you know, you got to get something going. Like,
Balancing Personal Life and Music Passion
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and you know, a lot of people just kind of just just clocked in with it.
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Because um you know let's face it, man, music is music is a is healing to people. Music is is that therapy to people. But for the musician, sometimes it gets real tiring, real stressful for us to keep creating it. But you know we're motivated by that fact that people ah you know listen to our music and heal from it. But some of the subm musicians that I know, really talented individuals,
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I just said, hey man, I just i can't i can't do it no more. you know I got a family, I got to focus on other things. And COVID was kind of like that eye opener for them because they got a lot of downtime. And for me too, dude, I was ready to give up. I was ready to step away because I'm 15 years in the music industry yeah and having quite got that number one hit, having quite that traction. Have we had some success? Yes, you know we've had some great opportunities. but you know covid hit bro and it just kind of just tanked a lot of stuff but you know what i decided to keep going i decided to keep writing i lost my lineup my second lineup of the band uh and i just i just said you know what i'm gonna do this on my own and for the past two years i've been i've been producing all the music i've been writing all the music here right right here in my little studio
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yeah It's just deadly, just deadly moving, you know. Yeah, man. you No, that's, that's awesome. You know, it always sucks when you see people kind of lose that passion for whatever they're doing, whether it be, uh, music or art or podcasting or or whatever, you know, it always sucks, especially when they're talented, you know, but it speaks, it speaks volumes for you as a, you know, for you as a person. and
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everybody else who somehow finds a way to keep that fire, you know, finds that little spark, that little ember to keep that fire alive and something you truly enjoy or something you truly like to do. For real, man, it's hard. It's hard. And, uh, I'm grateful. I'm grateful to keep on doing what I'm doing. And even though, uh, I'm not making money off it and i'm actually I'm at the point where it's not even about that anymore. Yeah. You know, I'm 35.
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I thought I'm old or anything, but I started reckless high when I was 20 years old. Oh, wow. So, you know, wasn't even old enough to buy beer, you know, and um it's it's one of those things where I do it for the one or two people that hit me up in the in the messenger are like, yeah, I've been listening to you since 2012 and twelve and like you know I really love your music. and you know that that That keeps me going. that keeps me going because So many times I want to give up and just focus on my life and and my my kids. and But you know what?
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And i'm I'm a musician to the core and it's in my blood. So as long as I can inspire one or two people, which I've been grateful to have more than one or two people, man, I have a nice little phone when I talk to people on the daily, uh, people by merge, it's, it's been, it's just been a ah brick by brick kind of thing. You know, just, just be to build it, building it up. Yeah, man. yeah i And like you said earlier, you know, for, for, for for people, for some people, music is therapeutic.
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It's healing. I'm one of those guys. You know, you might not. ah we We have a show here on the network for men's mental health on Mondays. And, you know, what and when I first started that show that, you know, it's sometimes it's hard to talk to people about what you're going through. And sometimes we feel alone. But when you listen to some music and some artists who really put their heart and soul in what they write and what they do,
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Sometimes you you find those songs that you can really relate to and it's like, all right, this is going to be that song that helps me get out of my dark place because I'm not, you you finally come to that realization that, oh my God, I'm not, I'm not the only person going through this same situation right now. You know, I'm not the only one feeling this way right now. So, you know, yeah and and to inspire people and to to help people, you know, you never know what song or, you know, or, or what words you may say.
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that will really help somebody get out of a funk and and and get them onto a better place. amen yes and Not only that, but you know you said you're a dad. I'm a dad as well. yeah sir um I got i got three three of them almost grown. I'm counting down the days.
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I got seven years left on my on my sentence before I get paroled for good behavior.
Personal Growth and Evolving Relationships
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But you know you're also an inspiration to your kids. You know they yeah might not realize it, they might not realize it, but they see dad not giving up on his dream. Yeah, yeah that's that's the big thing, bro. that you mean You hit it on right on the head for me.
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before Before my kids came into the picture, I have an eight-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter. um But before they came into the picture, it was ah drugs rock and roll. And I had a good run with that. I had a good run with that. But when my kids came into the picture, things changed for me and decided to get sober. I got on the sober journey. I quit drinking alcohol, quit partying, doing cocaine, methamphetamines. i was i was hook I was hooked on that stuff since I was 13 years old.
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Story goes deep, man, but you know, once my kids came into into the into the picture, I decided like, man, I got to change. I got to break the cycle. And my son, he's eight years old. He's my biggest fan, you know, he's my biggest fan. So I don't curse in my music. know None of my music is vulgar or I try not to, I try not to have to put that parental on it. And that's something that I have strived for though, before my kids though, with the music and the message. But the thing, the thing about it though, it was very hypocritical because I would talk about overcoming and all this on stage. And we got to a point where we were gigging every week, you know, two or three shows a week, ah you know, in the early 2012, 2013, we were,
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Opening up for big acts here in Houston House of Blues warehouse live all the local venues. I mean we were just killing it and I'm over here preaching. Oh you can Get through whatever and blah blah blah, you know and after the show I'm going backstage and you know hitting lines. Yeah um and that caught up to me man because I not Not only did I lose a lot of opportunities, create opportunities, I lost a lot of great people in my life because of that. But, you know, it was one of those things where kids will change you. And I said, you know what, I'm going to make music for my kids that my that my kids can listen to. And if they can't vibe it and really, really like me feel feel comfortable letting them listen to it, then it's not the right. It's not the right. It's not the right message, you know. Yeah. No, exactly. It's funny how that
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of that light switch kind of goes on when you have kids. I know when my kids are my oldest, when she's 19 and I got a 15 year old daughter and my boy's 11, but yeah, before my oldest one was born, man, I was, oh I never got into the drug scene. You know, it was one thing that I did stay away from, but I was a raging alcoholic and I had a mean streak a mile long, man. I was ah pretty, you know, I was, ah I was a, I was a loose cannon.
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Ah, but as soon as I found out that, uh, my ex-wife was born or pregnant with her, I was just like that light switch went on. Like, bro, now you got this little life coming in. You know, you got to, it's time to grow up and I never quit drinking, but I i did, I did slow down a lot. Uh, it wasn't actually until in the last, and I was, you know, I, I beat the alcoholism stuff, but.
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I still like to drink. I never was. Yeah. As long as you have to control, that's the main thing. It's like about control. And I tell that to people like I have people who are hanging around me. Well, you know, I'm almost four years off the ship. So in the beginning, you know, I had friends, I'll do, we don't want to drink around you, but the blessed dude, do what you got to do, do what you want to do. It's not affecting me. I'm living my life. I'm doing what I got to do. I'm not here to preach to y'all, you know,
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Uh, uh, y'all have fun, but it was one of those things where I would see them taking it too far. And it's like, when do you become the good friend? Yeah. To be like, Hey homie, listen, I ain't trying to tell you how to live your life, but Hey man, slow it down. yes Just, just, just, just, you know what I mean? Uh, you know, but when, when I've learned through this journey of mine, like i I have zero friends, I'll tell you that right now. Uh, uh,
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But when I was partying and life of the party, oh you know my phone never stopped ringing. And the thing is is's that once you start to try to help somebody, you know they get offensive. And then it's like, all right, bro, i can't I can't help you or even try to give you any kind of advice. But you know what? I wish you well. I love you. Step away. Focus on yourself. And and that's the thing. I just tell people around me, man, just couldn just control it.
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Just control it. Don't want to wake up and the next morning with a big regret, man. Yep. I think that's the biggest thing. And I've said that a million times is I didn't have control over that quote unquote demon alcohol. Now I got control of it. Now I can drink. I can have a good time. You know, I used to drink when we first started the shows, I would drink every, every show. Now, now I drink on Saturdays.
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And I do for four or five shows a week, you know, I got four or five different shows a week that I do. And I just drink every once in a while during the week. I might be like, you know, I want to have a couple. That's fine. let even You could drink every day. You could have three or four a day. yeah And, you know, I wouldn't consider that as an alcoholic. ah If you drink a 12 pack a night, then or 16 pack every night, then.
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Okay. howman you know Yeah. Yeah. And that's, and that's where I was when we first started the show. I was, I would kill a 12 pack or more on a night that we were doing the show and it was just like, yeah, man, this is easy. didn't wake up the mouth like that I'm good. I'll drink my water. I'll drink my pop during the show. Whatever the case may be. Yeah. Some milk, you know, pretty low. It's an angle.
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Waking up with that headache. yeah I'm 42 years old. I'm hangovers. They suck when you get older. Yeah, yeah, you got IV and everything. You got to hook up everything. Gatorade, everything you used to add. No, you down. Yeah, yeah. Definitely get him over, but no man. I mean, that's that's part of that. You know part of that journey of healing. Like you said, you're on you're on that journey. Well, I think I think a lot of us are.
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and you You know, you said you you have zero friends. I feel that man, because when you start to heal and you start to get better, that circle, you know, that circle used to be real big, big smaller and smaller and smaller. But not only does that circle get smaller, I've also noticed and I've realized this and I've i've talked to people about it. There's snakes in the yard get fewer and fewer because you don't have as many Hangar honors or leeches or you know people who encourage the craziness and and stuff like that You know yeah the real ones stick around but hey, you know, my circle is real small these days, but um I'm a much happier person ah mu yeah I'm a much better person to be around too. I feel oh, yeah no deaf Dude nah, everything you're saying bro. no It's 100 like for
Approach to Music Creation and Industry Feedback
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real.
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Because once once that circle starts to get smaller, and you start to realize like who's there, who's real, who's fake, you know you see it real quick. you know you know and And the thing is, for me, it was kind of like sad in the beginning, because I was like, man, this is depressing about myself. I don't have no one to hang out with. But then you look at those people, and they're living that same same cycle. And it's like,
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now that you cannot you can have that if you can have that i'm waking up feeling fine feeling good on my sundays uh... doing what i got to do and i read very religious but you know i pray and uh... give praise and you know and and all along as i can give myself that positivity not have these people around me i'm gonna do just that i'm gonna do just that cuz i've lived a life of chaos since i was ah very young kid and ah got tired of it dude i got tired of it just exhausted man it's ah one of those and excuse me goes back to just evolution man just just we evolve as humans um yeah man so you can you can evolve or you can continue to d evolve whichever whichever way you want to go the choice is you yeah choice is yours man choice is yours but you bringing me down with you you know to mean like and finish and that goes for friends family dude one of the But it's necessary. It's necessary for your health. And that's something that I preach to my followers and people ah data that want to listen to what I have to say on my platform. it's And it could be your own mama. It could be your own dad. If they don't have your best interests at heart and they're not pushing you in a positive way, I'm sorry. You might love them, but you got to love them from afar, baby, because they ain't going to do nothing but bring you down.
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Yep. Almost two years ago, my pops and I had a huge falling out. Love the man to death. But I had to tell him, look, you got to go. I can't, I can't do this. Like you see what I'm doing. You see what I'm going through. And I don't need this negativity in my life. um you know I hated doing it, but yeah like I said, love the man to death. He's my dad, but it was the best thing I could do for me and my mental health was to to walk away and I'm a hell man. I'm right there with you. I preached that, uh, to people a million times over. Like it's you, you, it's, it's okay to be selfish and put yourself first when it comes to yourself and it comes to your wellbeing, you know? Yes. And that for me, that was the hard part cause I never did that. You know, I was always the person everybody relied on. Everybody wanted to hit up and everybody
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I'm grateful that got them be in a position to be a leader i'm grateful for that for you that you are not forty two anymore you are andac forty three pretty sure. Oh man. You got you got a check. I'm the one who bought your birthday candles. You're forty ish. No, honey. You're forty-three. I'm barely a forty-three. Look, hey, you know what? It's been a rough day. First COVID first covid was three years ago. and Now, you're forty-two. What?
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but birthday yeah go you're forty three I can still put you up for adoption. I'll sell you to the circus. probably love me wendy Apparently I'm 43.
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i don't fiyon say i I get this yeah yeah every once in a while. I think it might be related to to like my anxiety or my stress. but Every once in a while, I, and I don't really know what it's from, but my stomach will just become a wreck. And and I'll spare all the gross details, obviously that comes along with your stomach being a wreck. yeah I picked her up from work and we had to go into the store and I said, I'm just, I'm just not bringing today. Like my brain is just, I left work early. I came home. I slept for a couple hours. I took a nice long, hot shower, slept for a couple hours. I um i said, I'm just a fog today. Like I don't know.
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What's what? Where I'm going? It happens, bro. It happens, man. It happens, dude. It happens, bro. OK, did you say so? I'm not believing that. I'll do that later.
00:32:14
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He's like, man, I know my age man. Yeah. I was born in 81. Do the math. That's 42. Wait a minute. There's 43. Hold up. Yeah. Nah. Yeah, man. Yeah, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Life, bro. You got to evolve. And that's, and that's where I'm at, man. That's where I'm at in my life. Just trying to evolve.
00:32:34
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and make good music like anti-social. Anti-social was a very, well my first punk rock kind of song, produced it, wrote it, and I really did that song because
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I kind of seen what my son was listening to and I kind of seen what was was playing like on the Fortnite and like the games he plays and stuff. And I was like, man, you know, I can make music like that, you know, I can make universal music. I want to be able to make that kind of music because I know I'm capable of making it. um And that's when I just started stepping outside the box. You know, I was like, you have to. I'm like, because if I just stay
Authenticity in Music Styles and Artistic Expression
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in New Metal,
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You you box yourself into this and that's why I changed the genre because before on the Instagram it said new metal yeah and And at one point and you know back it back years back it said new metal Kings nice but so So, you know, that's why I was just like man, whatever the hell you want to call it cuz man I Got some country rock shit. I'm working on I got some straight-up country ballot. I'm working on I got some straight-up death tone shit. I got some corn shit. I got some new metal rock shit, but I mean we vi I mean we just We just I'm just doing it. You know and somebody told me I spoke, you know I spoke on one of my engineers and he said man listen I'm not trying to come at you negative and I said all right, you know, what's up? What's up? Talk to me? He's like but I just feel like I
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Maybe it might be an issue with you making all these different kinds of sounds. And I said, well, why do you think that? It's like, well, you did anti-social. It's your own punk rock song that you have on the catalog. You're pushing ads. You did a video. you're You're drawing in people with that. But the the song that we dropped after anti-social was like a slow acoustic song.
00:34:37
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It wasn't a punk rock song, you know, it was something completely far left that this punk rock audience is probably not going to like. And i got I understood what you I got what he was saying. Yeah, I did. But my my answer to him was like, listen, man. Nothing has hit for me yet. It might be a country song that hits for me. Yeah, you never know.
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Never know but I'm not gonna box myself in and limit myself nor am I just trying to hop on ah Trends cuz that's not what I do. I'm a Texas boy. I'm from the country um We h-town we we got the southern s swing. I mean we we doing it. We've been doing it for a long time So now I'm trying to incorporate all that into into this now. Yeah um the The last two releases last three releases for throttle was some like I gave me like a country rock vibe Deja vu and poison they were just slow acoustic records um You know and I had it made that kind of stuff But I had fun making it and I told my producer at the time we were chatting and
00:35:54
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I said, man, that's some really good feedback. I understand where you're coming from. But at this point in my life, I'm 35 years old. I want to make what I want to make. Yeah. that's I don't care if it hits, if it doesn't. When I was in a band with seven guys and, you know, you got this group. You. you It was hard to just be like, hey guys, let's make a country rock song. Because I had a drummer that was from Colombia and he was the death metal and didn't listen to anything else but that. And it's like, you know, you couldn't do that, you know? yeah he He wouldn't even know, you know, guitarist is a metalhead to the core. It's like, all right, we know we're just going to strictly make metal and new metal.
00:36:45
Speaker
So for the longest, I didn't want to just step outside the box, but just just couldn't do it. Just couldn't do it until now. Yeah, you step out, do your own thing. You do what sounds good to you. You do it. Got a very good friend of mine, former guest of this show, now a co-host on my football show that I do on Sundays. Derek Wayne Douglas started out as a rapper, still does kind of the rap thing, but he's also starting to get more into the country or country rap. And he's he's he's venturing out, you know, it's like,
00:37:14
Speaker
yeah man If there if there if people are a fan of you for your band, whatever the case may be Yes fan and they're gonna be interested and intrigued like wait a minute. He just put out this punk rock song Yes with like an acoustic Slow song and then a country like all right. We got a nice little yeah it's like going to a buffet man you you never know what you're gonna find but I Yes, sir. You're going to find something you like at the end of the day. Yes, sir. And that's it, bro. That's 100% right. That was my reply to him. I said, if they're a fan of me and they love me,
00:37:55
Speaker
They might not like that song, but they're not it's not gonna make them unfollow me. They're gonna still jam what they like of me. Keep wanting to see me on my platform. ah I literally had somebody hit me up today. like I guess they got hacked on their Instagram and they were out of social media for a while and they hit me up like, dude, man, I miss seeing your post and it's good to be back on you know social media and to see you.
Parallels Between Podcasting and Music Production
00:38:22
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and So I had a conversation with that individual for for a little bit. and But I was like, man, it's what it's all about, man. It's what it's all about. Because there's times where I'm sitting right here in my studio and I'm down. I feel like I'm not going to make it. I just want to give up hope on music. um I'm successful in what I do as far as outside of music with my business. Music has never been my number one source of income. Never I spent so much money on music, you know yeah ah So so it's one of those things Where man, it's not about music no more. It's just about making I mean money anymore. It's just about the music and and creating those relationships along the way and yeah doing what i love I mean, I mean, ultimately it would it would be nice to I'm sure it's just kind of like us here, you know We don't make any money doing these podcasts. I just, I love doing it. This is, this is, this is me. And, and, and, and I love being able to talk to people and hang out with people and, and, and doing the different shows. People get to see different sides of me, you know, much like you with your music, your, your, your variety, you know, Tuesday nights, you see me doing this. Wednesday nights, you see us having fun doing crazy ass news stories. Saturday night, you just see balls to the wall, complete anarchy.
00:39:42
Speaker
a bunch of guys having fun hanging out. And then, you know, Sunday I tone it down a little bit and we do football. My son and I do a wrestling podcast together. I've been a big wrestling fan my whole life in the last couple of years. He's come around to it and has become a diehard wrestling fan. And we were talking on the couch one day and I was like, you know, we could do a podcast together. And it was like, his eyes got real big. He's like, really?
00:40:09
Speaker
I said, we're already talking wrestling, why don't we do it live? I said, there's bound to be people out there that and enjoy wrestling too and would like to show. And so now him and I do a wrestling show together. So, you know, you get to see a little, it's not always wild and crazy. g You know, you get to see me toned out a little bit throughout the week and do different things. And I like that variety, but I love ultimately being behind a microphone, you know, talking to chat and whatnot. So, you know, one day yeah I would love I would love for us to make money. Uh, I mean, it's not the end all be all goal, but, uh, you know, uh, it'll, it'll, I truly believe it'll happen down the road. Yeah. Yeah. You got to believe in it, man. You got to believe in it. That's the number one thing, believing in it, staying consistent. You're not going to know if it's going to work out if you don't do it. Yeah. Yeah. yeah i That's your plain and simple. Yeah.
00:41:05
Speaker
I spent a lot of years talking about it. I also was in a ah very toxic marriage, but I spent many years talking about it. And and finally, and and the guys will tell you on the show, I'm a really big proponent. i'll yeah I'll tell somebody, don't talk about it. Be about it. Whatever it is. don't don't talk about it Just be about it. If you want to come and throw hands because you don't like me, don't talk about it. Be about it. If you want to, if you want to become a professional skateboarder, well, you've been talking about it for 10 years. You're only getting older, bro.
00:41:35
Speaker
You know, yeah be about it, you know, talking about it and be about it. Yeah. That's, that's where I'm like. Yeah. I had to take my own advice one day and finally, you know, just randomly talking to my, um, reconnecting with, uh, with my co-host Jeff and co-creator of this network with me. I was like, bro, you want to do a podcast? And without hesitation, he was like, let's do it. I don't know anything about it, but let's do it. I said, neither do I. I'm going to go buy a laptop today. So we'll learn as we go.
00:42:05
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. That's what it's about, man. It's about having fun. It's the same thing with the music when I decided that I was going to write and produce my own stuff. Like I had to learn the equipment, learn these programs. I was working on a song today and just kind of sitting here thinking to myself like, man, I remember when I first started, it was all about who's nice studio are you gonna go to to record right and then you get there and they're like all right it's gonna be $1,500 a song and you're so stoked you're so stoked and you're on your new band you're you know all your bandmates so everybody pitches in and you're you know you get your recorder you're in the studio but you get this shitty quality yeah and it's like nah bro
00:43:00
Speaker
We can do this shit in our own studio. We can do this in our own way. We just got bamboozled by some of these industry producers. like It was a learning thing for me. Of course, I met some great producers. I worked with some horrible ones. I mean, I worked with some horrible ones. Yeah, a horror stories.
Journey from Houston Hip-Hop to Diverse Music Styles
00:43:25
Speaker
But um the ones I got now are the ones that I've had for the past I've been working with my producer FM for since I was 18 years old. I've been knowing him and He's one of the hottest producers in Houston producing a lot of the big names rap artists Hip-hop's big out here i gonna say Yeah, Houston's got a big rap scene. Yeah, Houston the the the Houston rap scene is way more explosive and huge than the rock metal scene will ever be
00:44:00
Speaker
and Yeah, the Houston scene is just crazy with that. I mean, like I said, we got a lot of swag out here, man. There's a lot of swag, a lot of style, a lot of cultures out here from whites, blacks, Mexicans, Asians. You got Asians in the hood. You got white boys in the hood. I mean, it's just just yeah it's a mixture of everything.
00:44:26
Speaker
Yeah, even even in the bridge side of towns, it's not just a Caucasian area. No, man. It's it's a freaking mixture of people at all times, you know what I mean? But that's what it that's what it is over here That's what it is down in our area. Um Yeah, but the hip-hop scene just thrives off that and a lot of people are mimic you know that hip-hop style and all that but man it's huge out here and uh and that's what i started out in the houston hip-hop scene that's before i did new metal before i was doing this man i was a rapper bro i was
00:45:10
Speaker
president you i had I had the braids I had the braids the gold grill the cat of the Cadillac ah sitting on fucking Shoo we used to ride leather seat bro, don't get me started back in the day at the 99 Lacteville I still got it in the garage yeah But but i you know, I don't I don't I don't have it all decked out like I used to you know, I mean Yeah. I mean, you know, would you grow for us? and And there's been, I mean, there's been some big names that have come out of Houston. Like, so I mean, there's an absolute legend in the rap industry, Scarface.
00:45:47
Speaker
Oh yeah, Scarface, Slimdug, Paul Wall, Mike Jones, Zero, i mean it goes Travis Scott, you got acts like Megan Thee Stallion, Beyonce of course is probably the biggest one out of Houston, a Destiny's Child, you know that was they're out of Houston. yeah but ah Yeah man, and a lot of those a lot of those rappers are still doing their thing. you know Scarface, he's still doing his thing. Scarface got the podcast now. I watch it from time to time. um And it's cool to just hear those old school stories that you never knew. It's it's cool because they were talking about, um on Scarface podcast,
00:46:32
Speaker
A lot of the ghetto boys' records, ah my mind's playing tricks on me, like you start hearing them tell the story, how they like they recorded it, and then who was in the studio at the time, and it's like, dang.
00:46:46
Speaker
you would have never known you would have never known that story if they didn't run on a podcast yeah right yeah it's it's wild you know it it it doesn't matter you know the genre or anything like that when you hear some of the behind the scenes stories from artists and like you know like like you know zeppelin or something like that they're recording you know an album and it's just like you know you never knew that they had so-and-so come in the studio and play a guitar riff for a song or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, like, you know, like rappers and whatnot, like, oh shit, I didn't know that, you know, so and so laid this beat down or or whatever. Like we would never know that until you hear these stories. You know, if you're fortunate enough to yeah they start a podcast or they're in an interview and, you know, the interviewer asks the right questions and they don't do the same.
00:47:43
Speaker
boring, run-of-the-mill, five-minute interview and push them out the door, you know? Yeah, right. What what inspires you? yeah Where were you were are you born and raised? and but Okay, bye. When I started to do this show, I was like, you know what? I want to ask the questions because people are curious.
00:48:06
Speaker
Yeah, and I also want to make it like a chill hangout where we're just shooting the shit and where the conversation goes, the conversation goes. I i have a man down in Miami, AJG. He's a rapper. Him and I did. this He was on the show and we went so far left off the fucking tracks from music. We were just hanging out having a good time. You know, we got about a good 45 minutes of of ah conversation to interview. And then we were just hanging out the rest of the time, having a good time shooting this shit. you did You never know. There's a band that I've become very close to. They're basically family at this point, the Southern Outlaws. ah you This shows normally about two hours. I can go so shorter or a little bit longer if need be. um we We went six hours.
00:48:56
Speaker
and we were ready on the yeah we we were drinking the whole time, we were having a fall, next thing I know I'm like, oh shit, we've been going six hours. I used to do this show on Friday night, so it wasn't that good of a deal. I learned real quick, hey stupid, you can't do a music show on Friday night because that's that's prime gig night for a lot of artists. Yeah, everybody's gigging, people are going to shows.
00:49:19
Speaker
Yeah. but We did six hours. We were all drinking. we We had a, we had an absolute ball and I was like, that's, this is what I want to show to be. I can, I can spotlight and get a little bit of attention to the up and coming local artists. Doesn't matter where they're from, hang out, get to know them, maybe make some friendships, maybe never talk again after the show's over. I've developed, what's up, Steven? I've developed some friendships with some artists. Like I said, one guy, uh, he's now co-host my football show with me. he's Yeah, man. It's all about just chatting. And I think that's what a lot of people want to see from artists they follow or people that they just see on social media. They they want us to see a different side of them. And I think that's why I become a fan of podcasts. I used to watch the Mike Tyson podcast religiously. You don't do it anymore, but hot boxing with Mike Tyson.
Staying Creative and Relevant in the Music Industry
00:50:14
Speaker
I mean, i every episode came out. I mean, I was on it just because
00:50:18
Speaker
the guests he was bringing, in they were telling them stories that I wanted to hear. Because I grew up on old school hip hop. I grew up on the old school classic movies, Scarface, Friday. and know I grew up on the Tupac, the Biggie, the Bone Thugs in Harmony. I mean, that that's my that was my era. So um especially growing up, my brothers, they were street dudes and they were always jamming that kind of stuff around us ah growing up.
00:50:46
Speaker
It's like one of those things that's like, man, I really enjoy hearing these stories because it's motivating to me it's motivat to see, because sometimes I feel like there's a clock. I feel like I'm on a timeframe like, dude, you can't be 40 making music. Like I get that in my head sometimes. It's like, yeah, you can, but you start to think like, well, it's going to be whack, you know, like you need to figure out something different. It's just one of those things that's just a mind game. But when I see,
00:51:17
Speaker
people still in the game, for instance, a jelly roll. Yeah. Been a, been a big fan of jelly roll since way back in the day. And, uh, to see where he's at now at the age of his success, it's like, yeah, don't get it. Yeah. Sometimes it's, uh, sometimes it's a long row. Uh, it is. You know, some people, some people will.
00:51:43
Speaker
will pop off real quick. You know, they dropped that one song and the next thing you know, they're skyrocketing. But that flame burns out real quick. And you got others who, you know, like you said, Jelly Roll, you know, he's been around for, you know, you look back at um man even even like Kid Rock. He was in the music scene for a long time. Eminem was around for a long time. i And to, you know, and, and, and they changed, you know, they changed it up a little bit, especially kid rock. Cause he was doing the wrapping and whatnot. And he just went like complete 180 and started doing rock country rock, whatever you want to call it. And then, you know, he he kind of blew up. Um, you know, a jelly roll was, was, was with ICP back in the day. Yeah, he was, he was with ICP three, six mafia, a little white, like he was, you know, and then it's like,
00:52:31
Speaker
to To see that, like it was it was crazy. It it really was, because it was like like... I'm a die-hard Southern rap music fan. like that's That's what I listen to a lot. UGK, 36 Mafia, all that stuff, man. It's still on my playlist. And that's my roots, dude. And I think that's something that I'm trying to bring out now, man.
00:52:57
Speaker
Because I see the industry, I see things like i see artists like Jelly Roll, and I'm like, yo, we're in a different era now, dude. and and it's And it's time to just be free and have fun and not be so serious, man. This whole time in my music career, I've been so serious. I had an ego.
00:53:21
Speaker
this fucking huge and people people who used to be in my band they they they ah they they they could say so much about me and i say as I could say about them but um and I'll admit it was this big but at the end of the day it's like nah man you grow you learn
Mental Health and Therapeutic Power of Music
00:53:46
Speaker
Have fun. Grow with the times. Stop gatekeeping bullshit. Love people. Love yourself. Try to just live the best life you can live. ah athetic It's hard to preach that to the young youngsters, because it's like, man, they're going to do what they want. But it's for me, it's like, man, if if I see somebody, especially a fan or somebody,
00:54:14
Speaker
You know, in their midst, like my age and I see them kind of on that path. I hate to say anything to anybody, but I will be like, Hey man, and I'm here for you if you need me. yeah Cause I see them struggling, you know, but I, and that's my approach to people. Hey man, if you need to talk, I'm here.
00:54:35
Speaker
Uh, I don't, I don't, Hey man, you need to change. You need to do that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm here. I'm here. I'm gonna listen to you. I'm a real person and and it's crazy. Cause I've had people, I'm not, of I don't, I'm not, I'm no, ah to me, I'm, I'm nobody. I got 3000 followers on there. Uh, uh, but when I, when people, when you interact with somebody, they, they, you're like a star to them. Yeah.
00:55:02
Speaker
It's like, and it makes me feel good. But at the same time, it's like, Hey man, I'm just, I'm just a human being like you bro. I'm just, I'm just a guy, you know, I'm just a guy. but I'm just, I'm just a dude going through the same shit dog. And if you want to know how I did it, I'll let you know, but I'm not going to sit here and try to preach to you or nothing, but yo, I offered, I offered a year. You want to tell me your story? I'll freaking listen to you and then we can chat about it and see what you want to do. You know what I mean?
00:55:33
Speaker
And how we can relate and see what's up, but that's that's my approach man. I don't I Don't try to know dude. It's like man. How can we help you dude? How can I help you like I didn't even? Did you know? People around them are probably like get your shit together dude quit fucking up because I have people in my ear like that all the time and this is like I You don't want to hear that shit because you just want to hear someone say, Hey man, what's going on? Yeah, exactly. You know, it's that, that, that unsolicited advice, you know, like, look, I don't, don't, yeah you know, we, we, I started a men's mental health show and I told the guys when we started, it I said, look, if we can help one guy, awesome. I said, but we're not here. We're not experts. Well, none of us went to college for this stuff. None of us are doing, you know, we're just sharing our life experiences.
00:56:25
Speaker
yeah sharing what what we've been through and where we've gone and letting that door be open for other men. They're like, Hey, you know, it's all right. You know, there's a stigma on our mental health, but it's all right. We're here if you need to talk or if you want to talk rather than you need to do this, you need to do that. You need to change this. Like that man, thats shit that shit, that shit's like, uh, it's like fueled and it's like gasoline to fire. You know, I know when I was going through my shit and I was dealing with shit and I still, I'm not perfect by no means, but When I was going through my, I hated when somebody just was like, yo, you need to do that. No, no, like, like get the fuck on. Like I'm already, I'm already starting to push you away because I don't need you to tell me how to live my life. You know, yeah but I'll tell you what the the people who, the people who hit the most and hit the hardest were the ones were like, Hey, you're never going through some stuff. If you ever need anything, you know where I'm at. You know, just like,
00:57:17
Speaker
She still did that dance, but do you know, you're going through some shit like should I reach out or should I should I not reach out? But you know, but you know, so those are the people who really who really helped and that was what was the most beneficial was knowing that they're just knowing that there was at least one person out there that I could talk to that wasn't in my ear telling me how to live my life, you know, they were just That's important to just It's important, like somebody told me once, it's like, just shut up and listen to somebody, man. and You know, quit trying to tell them what to do. Just just shut just shut up and listen and and and you' and you'll really be able to tap into that person. You'll you'll really be able to create a relation and a connection with somebody, you know, instead of
00:58:08
Speaker
cutting somebody off and telling them what they need to do. It's like, all right, you know, once you let somebody vent and talk to you, then you become a cool motherfucker. You know what I mean? Like, I mean, you're pretty cool, bro. Thanks for letting me talk, bro. Thanks for letting me. I'm saying that's what we're doing here. You know, like I got you 100 percent. And like you said, dude, I ain't perfect, man. I struggle on a daily depression, anxiety. I got I got a lot of that, man. And that's something that I express to people that I talk to on a daily and through messenger like Uh, I talk to talk to quite a bit of people and they keep me going and i'm very grateful for them Um, it's about a good 15 people that I keep in rotation. Uh And they let me know what's going on in their life. I let them know and That's what it's about man. I'm like man. I got at least these people I might not be a hundred a thousand i'm not selling out arenas but man I got these people in my life
00:59:08
Speaker
And I'm somebody to them. and And that's all that matters. And to my son, I'm a rock and rock star. Yeah, right. thinks I'm the biggest thing on the planet, bro. And I got merch and all this stuff. He sees it and he likes to wear it. So, you know, I make him his own little custom merch. And it's like, and this this this is it for me right here. And and this this is what I feel like is going to help me get to where I need to get because I'm being real, going back to being that hypocrite I used to be. Nah, I can actually give somebody some truthful, meaning words because I'm living it now. I'm living it now. I'm walking it now, bro. I'm walking it now. So I know what it is to be clean for several years. I know what it's like to not drink alcohol for years and not do drugs. I know it. I know the feeling of waking up just
01:00:07
Speaker
being able to breathe and feeling good.
Role of Music in Healing and Addiction Stories
01:00:10
Speaker
And it's like, Hey homie, do you want that same feeling? Cause it's one hell of a feeling bro. yeah good and It's it's a, it's a much better feeling than waking up with, uh, you know, the hangovers and, uh, you know, like you, you, you know, you, you have a wild night and you and you wake up with the first thought that comes to your head is what I do last night. Yeah.
01:00:37
Speaker
you know, you got the instant regret. It's like, what did I do last night? What did I say? Who did I talk to? Like, you know, I'm going to the phone looking at the text, the calls, like, oh, yup. Yup. Yup. I don't want to, I don't ever want to live that.
01:00:58
Speaker
It's nice to just kind of wake up and go about your your normal morning routine or whatever. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And I'm the most focused I am now. I feel like I'm the best artist now. I feel like I'm the best. I struggle in some departments in my personal life, but I'm working on a lot of that. Rome wasn't built in a day. and And I feel like I'm just trying to be transparent with my followers and Like I said, man, I built this thing from from ground up. The Instagram is only ah three years old. um The first Instagram had like 10,000 followers, but one of the members, one of the original members at the time, ah yeah, he had control of that. And, you know, when I decided to kind of take reins of over everything, I just started to, you know, do it all myself and all of them.
01:01:56
Speaker
And honestly, I had zero Instagram presence. Three years three years ago, I had zero Instagram presence. It was barely on Facebook. I just posted. I wasn't really posting like my music content. I wasn't into that. Now I'm making reels. I make content, short content. Because I can do that here at home now. and it's I ah but bought the camera. I got the Sony.
01:02:25
Speaker
fucking for that. But you know, $1,000 camera invested into that. I got my own studio, you know, drops, you know, dropped a couple grand in that. And it's enough, it's enough to be able to do everything right here, right here. yeah know This is my spot. And it's it's It's a good thing because the game has changed the music industry It's like that's what it's about now like being able to do the shit from your house not a thousand dollars for a fucking music video like bro we're gonna stick Okay anti-social I shot anti-social With my camera had I've had somebody edit it they charged me like 300 bucks so that whole video was only $300 because I shot it and
01:03:10
Speaker
uh it was we did it at the homies rehearsal studio and uh yeah i just paid for the editing and that and that was it but the the previous three videos one was two two grand one was 1800 uh the all over one was like 900 it was that i found somebody to come in at a low price but uh yeah dude is it gets so expensive so it's like to be able to just do shit like that now short real short content you can release more music you can release whatever you want. You don't even have to release it with the video. You just have, you can release it with three or four solid reels. Yeah. And there's a release. You don't have to go spend all this money on a video and blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, so game has changed, man. It's it's crazy. I love it though. Cause I don't gotta look in my house.
01:04:02
Speaker
right I don't gotta to leave my house, dude. Matlock Fabrication over here in the chat. So, what up, homie? Cool to see you on a podcast. What's up, homie? So, yeah, we shot Matt. Matt is the guitarist and in in anti-social and we shot that video at his spot. Hey, let me go get my charger. I gotta put my my phone on charge real quick. You're good. Actually, you do that and I'll play a real quick song. Alright.
01:04:33
Speaker
Let's do a, I'm really digging this. So let's do this.
01:08:30
Speaker
Hell yeah. Reckless high with the brawl. Yeah. Great wrestling theme. Speaking about being a wrestling fan. We'll go back to Glick's house of music. We got solo in the house and from reckless high tonight. Got his batteries charging. Go ahead and give us a follow everywhere at the nonsensical network. So let them know where, let them know real quick where everybody can find you guys at. Where can they find your music and your social media and whatnot? Uh, mainly on Instagram, reckless high music.
01:09:00
Speaker
um' I'm on Facebook as well, Rick was high, but I'm not very active on on the page. The IG is where I'm mainly at, is where you can get ahold of me, contact me, talk to me, I'll answer right away. You can find us on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon Music, wherever you stream music except Pandora, not on Pandora yet. But I've been working on that, so I'm trying to get us a station.
01:09:29
Speaker
gotta build your catalog up ah before you can get that but you know we have uh we have like 19 songs something like that 18 19 songs on uh that you can listen to the album the bra is on there you're gonna get um a lot of new metal new metal core is what they were calling it at the time seven string drop a for for those new metal core hands out there um And then everything else after that is singles. But there's just a variety of stuff that you can listen to. And and yeah, man. Yeah. Yeah. I'm still I'm still thumbing my way through the through the catalog of music. Yeah. I like the brawl. That was a cool video. ah Yeah. bra That was cool.
01:10:18
Speaker
ah Like I said, as ah as a wrestling fan, my mind instantly goes, this should be a kick-ass, if I was a wrestler, this would be a kick-ass entrance song. You know? Yeah. yeah And one i one of my friends is a wrestler. She's on the, she's on the independent circuit. She, uh, she's, she's used that song as her entrance song. And the, the, the guy's gym that we use, uh, it's, uh, oh man, it's jiu jitsu, jiu jitsu.
01:10:49
Speaker
uh martial arts um that's what that is but uh you know he's used it several times for his entrance um nice he's he's done big tournaments and stuff so that was pretty cool but no you know the brawl was one of those songs where man i was going through so much i was fighting my demons and that's what it's about you know the brawl with your own demons the brawl with the devil uh trying to overcome you know trying to win that fight that's That was my best way that I knew how I could represent it without being so dark. like we We really wanted to take that video next level with some dark stuff. And then and you know we started to think about it and it was like, well it would it have done better? I think it would have. Because a lot of people want to see that dark, um off the wall, unhinged kind of stuff. People like that, man. But at the end of the day,
01:11:46
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That's not what the message we were trying to you know portray. That's not the message that that you know we wanted to put out, but especially with the guys I had on the team at the time. And so we kind of came with that concept. And man, it was a fun day. It took about 13, 14 hours. But man, it came out sick. And you know it it it it really didn't get the ah attention that I thought it was going to get.
01:12:16
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But you know what, man, it's definitely helped some people along the way. And that's all that matters. You know, it's it's a kick ass song
Enriching Music and Podcasting with Personal Stories
01:12:23
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and it's a cool video. I mean, I totally get where you, uh, uh, a brother from another mother, uh, very good friend of mine that I actually, we met through Tik TOK, uh, years ago. He's a musician and he's working on his debut album and he's got a song on there that just really hit hard for me.
01:12:44
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And we've, I won't, I won't, go I'm not allowed to talk too much about the video, but we've already we've talked some ideas for the video. It's going to be a little darker, a little, a little edgier. And he said that he's excited to do that kind of thing, you know, because it will be.
01:13:02
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He doesn't want to make every video like dark and whatnot, but he's this this particular song. You just never know what's going to what's going to hit right. You know, when when you're doing that kind of stuff. But I thought the video was cool, you know, with the with the in in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu studio with the fighters and whatnot. Definitely, definitely a cool concept, a cool idea. And and like I said, as I'm thumbing through the ah the catalog of music, I kind of grabbed ah few that I really enjoy for tonight. Uh, ones that, that have kind of become favorites so far. Uh, I love poison. The one you did with David Matlock. Okay. Well, yeah, David, David was the guy who was popped up. I was going to ask you if that was him. Yeah, that was David. Yeah. Yeah. Poison, man. Poison poison was probably like that first song where I talked about my addiction.
01:13:59
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You know, I mean, off that, you know, I've been drinking all night, got to do another line, like, you know, and that was one of those things where I'm like, my son's going to have to hear this. You know, you I think and it's one of those things where he's going to have to know that story eventually. And I'm going to have to let him know who I was. He's going to know and and when he because every every release, he wants to hear it. So It was one of those things where it was kind of like, uh, uh, yeah, yeah. and eye open We, we, we all have, I'm a comic book nerd, so you'll have to excuse me. We all have an origin story and not all origin stories are all.
01:14:51
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happy, you know, cheerful, bright and rainbows. Matt said, that's but that's me in the chat. Oh, yes sot yeah. Yeah. But, you know, I, one thing I've learned, and especially since my my kids are a little bit older, they, they don't know my full background, but they know, they, they know ah quite a bit about my past. and and And when I first started quote unquote healing,
01:15:21
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Um, there was a part of me and there's still a little part of me that's kind of a shame, but it's also like, this is, this is what made me who I am today. I had to go through these trials and tribulations to become who I am today. It's not really something that I'm going to brag about, you know, I'm not out here going, yeah, i was but it's also something that I had to learn to not let the past have control of me and dictate who I am today. And and to let go of that shame, you know, it happened.
01:15:45
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But, but look at me, look at me now. Look where I am now. Amen. thisces what it's about about about man And I hope that as far as my kids go, maybe that'll be some kind of a cautionary tale, maybe a little bit of inspiration, maybe, you know, something, I don't know how it'll affect them or how they'll react to it, but you know, hell, maybe, maybe they'll, but i'll maybe the one of them will become a little hell raising monster. I don't know. We, we tease my middle daughter that she's going to be a serial killer. So you can know I mean, I mean, you know, the parents used to catch those vibes first, man. The parents are the the parents are the first ones to catch the vibe, man. yeah so you never know
01:16:30
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When it, when it comes, I do, it you know, obviously there are the boring questions, but when it comes to writing for you specifically, when you, when you sit down to write a song. is Is it, is it, ah do you try to write from, from a personal experience or is there times where it's like you're just driving down the road and something just pops into your head or is it like a combination of both? It is a combination of both for sure. Um, most, most of my writing though comes from just my, my life experiences. Uh, and a lot of the times when I write,
01:17:08
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I do get in a kind of a depressed state a little bit. um It's one of those things that I was telling you, like the musician goes through a lot to to yeah to to create a song that's healing for somebody. um We have to channel our pain. you know We have to relive that stuff, put it on paper, sing it. And if it does become very popular or hit, you have to sing that song every night.
01:17:35
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um yeah or you know every week or whatever. um But most most of my writing is by myself in my room, in my studio here. I put on a song. And whatever comes to my mind, usually it's something from my past always, because it's something I dwell on a lot, my past mistakes, and and which is which is something I'm trying to to to get past. and But you know they say those skeletons in the closets never go away, and it's something I kind of believe you know But there's there's I believe there's a way we can deal with it and cope with it to where they're always gonna be there certain skeletons, but you know we we we grow and we learn how to to cope and a lot of my writing managers to to To let people know how to heal from that that hey
01:18:32
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you know, you're not alone. And that's something that's kind of so cliche when, you know, when people are like, for an artist to be like, you're not alone. You know, you know, you hear that a lot, right? Oh, yeah. yet You're not alone, you're not alone, you know. But when you actually hear that from somebody, like somebody's story, e and it's like, man, you really hits you something different, because it's like, you know what, I'm over here feeling all alone.
01:19:02
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Nobody knows I'm feeling alone. But here comes somebody ah along who's heard poison. poison had Poison had a good impact on a lot of... um Man, you know what? Poison, I probably had like two or three moms message me ah about their kids dying on Fentanyl. Wow. At a young age. One was 19 years old. um ah She lost her 19-year-old son.
01:19:31
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and Man, it like things like that, like that. Oh, dude. I mean, it took me so long to respond. Cause it was so powerful, man. Every single one of those messages. And I'm just like, what do I say? Yeah. You struggled to find that, to find the right words, you know, like it's, it's so hard. How do you, like, what, you know, and all I can.
01:20:03
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Sometimes like I'm old school. I hate to text. I hate I'm rather just call you i rather Just call you man, you know, like yeah, like you know what we're gonna you know, we're gonna talk this shit out right now you know I like that too. Sometimes I'll be messaging It's happy what I'm setting up an interview and I hate to text and I'll just send a voicemail. I'm like, oh crap I don't know that Yeah, that's what I just ended up doing like You know what, I suck at typing this stuff up, but you know what, I'm going to just, you know what, Hey, you know, I'm so sorry. Thank you. Thanks for listening. I'm glad, you know, I feel like I could say that better coming from my heart really than sitting here trying to type up a message. yeah Um, but you know, it was so hard cause I never got that. And it was the first, you know, I'm, I'm 35 years old. I've been in this thing for 15 years. That was the first. And then it was like another one.
01:21:02
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And then another one. And I'm like, oh, this this is really doing something here. ah And that was my first story of my ah my journey with yeah alone substance abuse, not knowing I was going to get those messages. And it's crazy because those people came off of ads from the real.
01:21:26
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yeah Me and David did a reel. He's on the guitar. We're sitting on steps. We did that at a car car parking lot down the street. but put you know I put together the reel. I boosted it. And I got those people. you know and And it works. I boost a lot of the reels. I boost a lot of the content.
01:21:52
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And it truly works. If you can dial it in, dial it in to where it gets into the right people, it works, man. At first, I didn't really believe in it. But then I'm like, all right, let me do my research on this kind of stuff. So the past two years, I've been heavy into that, like marketing and all that. For that reason, though, if you get it down right, and you're really marketing, and you really got something to to to tell, you're going to get that response.
01:22:21
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who And you know what? It started off by just being an authentic, man. it yeah Just real. Yeah, just just be genuine, be real. I mean, yeah, that you you say that. You know, like we ah we started the men's mental health show and we get guys in the chat and we get we do an open panel so that we always have the link in the chat. And, you know, we always say to be in the show the links in the chat. It's an open invitation for any any guys out there who want to come up on the show you can either take part in a conversation or Or if you got something on your chest that you just want to get on You know and it always blows my mind when people hit that link and they come in and it's like We don't know them from Adam and they're like, hey, what's going on guys? Don't mean to interrupt your show, but I got this that and the other thing going on But the craziest response from that show has been from the women the amount of women who watch the show and have you know sent messages or whatever and it's just like
01:23:22
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Shit like we're doing them Specifically a men's show and women are really relating to it and we did a show we we talked about unaliving oneself and Whatnot and and we shared some personal stories.
Sharing Leadership Experiences and Supporting Others
01:23:38
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I shared some personal stories and I had a couple um People couple ladies that reached out to me one lost her husband one lost her brother I didn't want to say I had no idea what this and it took me a little and I felt like such a scumbag because it took me a little while to respond back because I didn't know what to say or what to do. And it's wild. And also at the same time ah and in my head, I'm going, this is wild. I don't know them. Why are they reaching out to me? Like, why are they, you know, like, and and sometimes when you text stuff, yeah it comes across differently. Like, like I said, I hate texting because I might say something in a ah genuine manner or a joking manner, but then I send it and I look at it and I'm like, ooh,
01:24:19
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yeah it it be taken Multiple ways. Yeah, and if the person don't know you that they might take it wrong, you know Yes, sometimes I find myself just hitting that microphone and just like hey sorry i hate typing so you get to hear man But you know I've gotten I've gotten one way better at it, you know, it's been a lowing learning growing experience for me and like I said, I'm not perfect I got a lot of Downfalls in my life, but I can say this the biggest ones I've worked I've worked on and I'm conquering them, you know, yeah, and and that's the most important, you know, I got a lot of vices For sure I do, you know for sure we're human, you know, um, yeah but as far as
01:25:13
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putting myself in situations that I'm just on out of control. It's like, no, man. ah We're not going to get back to that to that state. um
01:25:26
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And you know through that whole journey, when I do get those messages, I'm like, God, thank you. i know Thank you. Thank you for putting me in a position. I always felt I was a leader since I was a kid.
01:25:40
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ah have you know Just with my friends, I was always that guy. I was always that guy. Always, always. I would feed my homies. I'd close my homies. I would loan money to the homies who needed it. um you know I grew up in the street lifestyle, ah just just drugs and all kinds of crazy shit. And I was involved in all that at one point in my life.
01:26:08
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and um I hate to reflect on it, but it it it's crazy to say this, but it made me who I am today with my drive, um just much hustler, trying to a go-getter. But you know, man, it's one of those things where I'm grateful, I'm grateful to be in that position. I ain't the most religious person, but man,
01:26:36
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I love that man upstairs, man. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Shoot. i and i And I ain't even scared to say it.
Unique Performances and Audience Impact
01:26:46
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I had, you know, about about three years back, we did a ah little, you know, we got hit up to play at a church and ah in galveston texas in Galveston, Texas. And it was kind of those things where I didn't we didn't know if we wanted to do it or not at the time. But then we ended up doing it.
01:27:06
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And through the whole quick story, ah long story short, ah we ended up ah on these shows with Brian Head Welch from Korn when he was doing like a speaking tour. And it was him and Sonny Sandoval, POD. And it was kind of a crazy weird experience, but
01:27:33
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It was just weird because like playing a show where you have like these Christian folk. Yeah. And here we are, like these knucklehead dudes just trying to get life, right? and yeah You know, and it's like, what are you doing here, bro? Like, what? Like, I'm just questioning this, like every second.
Broadening Music's Appeal for Greater Success
01:27:54
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And it's like, man, it's showtime and we're literally like playing in a freaking church, like,
01:28:00
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It's like a modern church, though, you know, not like an old church house, you know, like they were legit. They were legit with the sound and in-ear monitors and like, dude, they made us feel like, yeah, I'm going to say Christians has some hospitality. But it was so weird to me, though, it was so weird to me being on that stage. But this is the thing where I got from that, even though I decided that I would never do that kind of stuff again. ah But what I took from that was like, dude,
01:28:30
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You moved that room. We have that whole show on video and we go back and watch it. I do. And it's like, man, we had them folk moving. Hell yeah. We played like nine songs that day. We played our whole album from start to finish. And it was kind of crazy cause I said, man, if I can move that room of these Christian church folk, I can move any room. Yeah, exactly. Straight up.
01:29:00
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Straight up and that's kind of the projectory that I've been on. It's like yo and Something that a very successful rock star homie told me years ago He said man, you've got talent You need to quit this crazy shit that because before it was fuck this fuck that fuck this in the music That music's not online anymore. I took that down a long time ago, but he said If a soccer mom doesn't feel comfortable letting her 13 year old son Listen to your music. You're never going to hit that level that you want to hit. Yeah. Point blank. Because yeah, you might be able to make some success in the underground shit with the dark stuff. Yeah. But you will never be able to break those barriers. Never. You will never be able to be a jelly roll. You'll never be able to be a um Michael Jackson or you know what I'm saying? ah
01:29:59
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Chris Brown or artists on that level, because you're over here on some freaking crazy shit. You know what I mean? Like, nah, bro. We're trying to do, we're trying to impact as many people with a positive message. That's what it is. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. You know, there's there there ain't nothing wrong with that at the end of the day. You know, when you want to,
01:30:28
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you You want to help people. You want to, you want to be a voice for people, you know, voice for the voiceless. So to say, I mean, that's, that's one of those goals and you want to be able to, like you said, man, you got to hit different crowds. You got to have that, you know, we say here all the time, you might not like every show, but you might find one that you're going to really like, yeah yeah you know, I understand we're not for the faint of heart on Saturday night.
Pursuing Dreams at Any Age
01:30:54
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We'll get a little crazy. We'll get a little out there.
01:30:56
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It gets a little rambunctious on Saturday nights, ah you know, but the rest of the week, it's, it's, it's pretty chill, low key, you know, we like to hang out, uh, on the different shows. So you might find, and that's all it takes is, you know, and and I, and I tell this to every artist, it only takes that one song. That one song to get into the right ears at the right time at the right moment. And then boom, next thing you know, it's get ready. Cause this rocket ship's going to take off. You better hold on. Yeah.
01:31:27
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yeah And that's very true. And that's very true. And that and and that we've had those moments. and i've had I've had probably three of those moments, bro. And I wasn't ready. And I crashed and burned. yeah and And I lost opportunities that could have probably took me very, very far. And for the longest, but for the longest, I used to kick myself in the ass like, damn, dude.
01:31:53
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know You could have probably been where you needed to if you didn't just do, you know, if you didn't, but dude, I was 21 years old that, you know, I was playing shows around everywhere. I was drinking, we were partying, doing drugs. I mean, dude, yeah imagine if um I tell myself, dude, if you would have got that big break at that time, you would have been dead by now, bro. Right. Did something stupid or be a fucking crackhead on the streets or a bum.
01:32:24
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alcoholic somewhere like dude nah nah that's why i feel like man um'm i'm truly on my path i'm truly on my destiny i'm on my journey to healing being a being a good father being a good role model to people who look up to me uh and i think that's what's keep been keeping me afloat um definitely what's been keeping me afloat because as you said in the beginning man My son, i want him just I want him to see dad and be like, man, he went for his dreams. He didn't give up. He didn't give up, man. And and if he did give up, he did it to the lab. He pushed it to as much as he could. yeah He you gave it hell. yeah Right. and it it don't matter how old And it don't matter how old you are, because I was almost 40 when I started doing this. And I had that radio i got bit by that radio bug.
01:33:19
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When I was like 16, 15, 16, the first time I heard talk radio show and it was like, we got a local morning zoo here and they've been on the air. Jesus. Since I was, I think I've been listening to them since I was like 12 or 13. And, and, and there, there are local station out of Columbus or local morning show and they play music, but they talk and do the news and stuff like that.
01:33:44
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but they have kicked everybody's ass from Howard Stern, Opie and Anthony, uh, you know, any big name syndicated, uh, morning talk show or show that, that comes through, that they get syndicated in our market. They kick their asses, man. Like when they beat Howard Stern out on the ratings, I mean, they massacred Howard Stern and he's the biggest thing in radio since, but since you know, and and I grew up and I was growing up listening to them and I was like, man, I i would love to do that one day.
01:34:14
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It had a couple opportunities, but I listened to the wrong people in my life. And basically they, they told me I was a fool for wanting to do that. And I was dumb. And and then I can't remember the first time I heard of podcasting. And I was like, what is this podcasting thing? and And I went and I found a couple podcasts and I was like, Oh man, this is what I want to do. And, and I kicked that can around for probably 12, 13 years.
01:34:43
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And it was like, again, toxic marriage. My wife was like, why are you going to waste your time? Blah, blah, blah. But when I finally started, it was like, you know, I'm almost 40 years old and my kids are here. i'm um'm I'm like restarting my whole life over again, but I'm showing them that it's never too late to chase your dreams. So hopefully that's a, a lesson that they will, that will stick with them and maybe learn if there's something they want to do, they might not be able to do it right away.
Overview of Nonsensical Network Shows
01:35:08
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And maybe 15 years ago, the time wasn't right for me to start doing podcasts.
01:35:13
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And maybe I had to wait until, you know. Yeah, for sure, man. Hey, everything happens for a reason. Hey, give me a sec, man. I got to say goodnight to my daughter real quick. No worries. Hold on real quick. Yep. Go do his daddy duties. well Well, princess got to go to bed, but real quick, shout out to Reckless High. Y'all, you can find them Reckless High music. Go give them a follow. Go give them some love.
01:35:42
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Uh, shout out to my man solo, say what's up to him. I bet you he'll say what's up back. Uh, speaking of that, give us a follow as well. The nonsensical network. We are everywhere. Shows are live Monday through Sunday, uh, on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch. We got the chatters box always open. Don't be shy. If you're watching, feel free to say hi in the chatters box. We like to chat with you guys. We like to hang out with you guys. Uh, we also.
01:36:09
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have the shows on all the podcasting platforms as well. as Spotify, Apple, Google, everywhere.
Football Fandom and Shared Experiences
01:36:15
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Mondays is Men Caring for Men. Also on Mondays is Speedway Story. What is it? Speedway Conversations. Oh God, I'm sorry, Wally. I'll learn the name of your show eventually. Speedway Stories and Cold-Blooded Conversations kick off Monday at six, followed by Men Caring for Men Men's Mental Health. Tuesdays is Glick's House of Music, doing what I'm doing just now, hanging out with ah local and up and coming musicians having a good time chitchat getting to know them. Wednesdays is what the fuck news. That's Jeff and I. We're talking about news that'll make you say what the fuck and we're having a good time doing it. Uh Jeff's garage will be on Thursdays. It's on a little bit of a hiatus. It's more of a hobby show. It's in the garage. They're going to talk about it. Fridays is nonsense and chill. That's my boy. That's my little um my guy Blaze and Jeff. They're watching movies and hanging out and talking about the movies.
01:37:05
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Saturday nights, unhinged, unapologetic, nonsensical nonsense, the flagship, the show that started it all. We do the open door challenge. We drop the link in the chat. If you're brave enough to join us, you hit that link and come on in and join the craziness. And then Sunday we wrap everything up with unnecessary roughness with myself, Derek Lane Douglas.
01:37:24
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and big Rick. We're talking NFL. We're talking a little college. We're making picks. We're talking shit. It's all football. I don't know what we're going to do. We've only got a couple of weeks of football left, but give us a bottle off the nonsensical network. Bio dot link slash nonsensical network. Get all them links. Give us a follow. Give us like, give us a share. man and don't be like it should who Who's your team? Oh man.
01:37:49
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I am a, lifelong Cleveland Browns fan. Okay. I was, I was, I was waiting for it. I figured I was like, I figured, Hey, that's all right. Don't feel bad. Don't feel bad. I'm a Cowboys.
01:38:03
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i was go to say i grew up with cowboy here i grew up in Cowboys fan, even though I rock with the Texans, but man, you know, Cowboys been like the family teams and yeah growing up, dude, you know, uh,
01:38:21
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I grew up, I'm a lifelong Cleveland Browns fan. My fiance is a lifelong Pittsburgh Steelers fan. Her family are all Steelers fans. She grew up about an hour, about an hour northish of Pittsburgh. We were actually at the yeah we were actually at the game Sunday. ah Her parents have had, her dad her mom and dad have had season tickets for about 35, 40 years, something like that. And they oh their tickets, their seats are front row right behind the Steelers bench.
01:38:49
Speaker
Oh shoot, so they're saying a good pretty penny for that. Yeah, so it's it's really probably on that payment that one payment plan. You know, I think at this point they've they've had their tickets for so long. They're just they're just in like they're just in man. Oh yeah, you're right. You're right. Yeah, they're in there isn't like skinware. Yeah, you right. They've been having them that long like yeah. Yeah, we we we went to the game Sunday. You know, didn't Didn't pan out too well for my brownies, but nonetheless, we still have fun. We have fun when we go together. This is our second year going to the Cleveland Pittsburgh game in Pittsburgh. Highlight, highlighted the game though. After the game, I got to meet Miles Garrett, which is my guy, a huge Miles Garrett fan. He came for whatever reason. He came over to the Steelers side and was high fiving fans. And I was like, Miles.
01:39:41
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And he looked up. I'm just in a sea of black and gold and I'm in my brown. ja He's like, yo, hey, you hit hit me with the high five. Yeah. With the high five. He's like, what up, bro? Heck yeah. No, that's cool. That's cool. so I've always wanted to attend to an NFL game, man. it's been That's been so that's that's on my bucket list for sure, dude.
01:40:07
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Uh, it doesn't even have to be my team. I just want to go, you know what I mean? Like, I just want to go watch one. Yeah. I've only, I've only, I've only been to four games. I've been to, uh, the, I've been to two games in Cleveland, uh, seen them play Cincinnati. Uh, this has been years ago. Um, they, they won that game. That was cool. I think the highlight of that game and that's a memory I'll never forget was Josh cribs are our kick returner had more kick return yards.
01:40:34
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at the, at halftime than the entire Cincinnati offense had. And he had more points than Cincinnati. And he's just a kick return, punt return. That's one hell of a stat. And then the second game I've been to in Cleveland was Panthers. My, my nephew, man, I don't know how, but he is a diehard Carolina Panthers fan. Born and raised in Ohio. he he He loves his Panthers. um We went to to Cleveland. They were playing Cleveland up in Cleveland and My sister and my two nephews and I, we all went and we had a great game. That was one that I was really hoping Cleveland was going to lose because he was like nine, 10 or whatever. When we went, I thought that'd be cool if he could see his team win. But it came down to a field goal at the end of the game. Cleveland won, but we still had so much fun at the game together. So that's awesome, dude. That's pretty last two years. My fiance and I have gone to the Pittsburgh Cleveland game in Pittsburgh and.
01:41:32
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that we, you know, win or lose, we're together, we're having a good time, we're having fun. yeah and it's it's It's one of those things that i enjoy I've ah've become to really enjoy doing. I'm looking forward to, I'm already looking forward to next season. you know Yeah, yeah. No doubt. I mean, being a football fan, I'm the same way, even though the season kind of went to shit. It's like, you know, it's all right.
Fantasy Football and Sports Betting
01:41:58
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I mean, yeah next season,
01:42:01
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It is what it is. I mean, i'm um i I'm not a diehard fan, but I'm one of those fans where it's like, you know, all right, man, it wasn't our year. yeah Next year, it is what it is, but I'm not going to like be mad over it or let it like, you know what I'm saying?
01:42:20
Speaker
Let it, let it, let it just ruin my whole freaking, you know, day. Like, no, yeah i get I get frustrated with them from time to time. And I'm like, I'm done with this team. I say it every season. I'm done with this team. I'm a free agent. Well, next year rolls around, kick out, you know, first game of the season. I've been all my Browns gear. Let's go. Let's go. That's how it goes though, dude. I told my boy, I told my boy, he was a bills fan. I'm like, bro, how about getting bills?
01:42:47
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He's like, brother, there's room over here. I've been telling you. I was like, um I'm talking. He's like, nah, I was like, nah. He's like, nah, bro, I'm telling you, come on. He was like, I'm not even tripping, bro. Come on. My guy, Rick, who hosts Sunday with me, he's ah he's from Buffalo. He's a big Buffalo guy. Years ago, he's another guy that that our friendship started over on Tiki Taki.
01:43:15
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Um, and he, he tells me all the time, I'm a honorary member of the, the bills mafia. And, you know, I, I love it. I said, yeah, you're an honorary member of the dog. palace So we root for, we root for each other's teams. And, you know, we get to go build, let's go Browns, get the dogs market and stuff like that together. Uh,
01:43:34
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But yeah, man, you just gotta to sometimes you just gotta find those bright spots in a bad season. And I'm loving i'm loving watching Jamis Winston play. I'm loving watching. yeah yeah the The guy is, you can't help but like the guy. Even if he's always been like that though, he's always, he's just been a goofball, bro. He's cool, he's cool, he's humbling. now yeah is He's cool. He's, he's just, guy he's just a country boy. That's it, man. You know, that's how a lot of folk are around here, man. Yeah. Couple of weeks ago, they, they played Pittsburgh and Cleveland and it was like a freaking blizzard. He had never played in the snow before.
01:44:20
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he He was like a kid, man. After the game, he was making snow angels. He got into a snowball fight with the commentators. Uh, you know, just, he just having a ball. So you know, you you find those bright spots in a bad season and still try to, you know, no matter how frustrating they can be on a Sunday, you still gotta buy those bright spots and cheer your team on because you know, they are who they are. cowy oh cowboys We the boys. Coach, go team. America's team, yeah. Yeah, America's team. The America's team, losing season, yeah. No Super Bowls since the 90s, yeah. Every year, every year. This is our season. this is We're going to win it all this year.
01:45:08
Speaker
Six weeks said into the season and there's always next year when when when I saw a when I saw Jerry Jones when when when they muck that punt last night and and they showed Jerry Jones and in the in the in the in his little boots up there Look at his hand, bro. He's this motherfucking. He's like i bra I'm like Is it just just gone ahead Jerry? Yeah. Is it time? Is it that time? like
01:45:39
Speaker
but but know forgive me Like God just like man, Jerry just died. had a good run is for real dude I was just like, you know what, though? You know, but then, nah, nah, last night, I was sick. I ain't gonna lie. Yeah. Last night, last night, I was sick. When that happened, I was just like. Like, oh, yeah. Yeah, that was sickening. Like, I could take a loss, but a loss like that. Mm-hmm.
01:46:18
Speaker
And then to see, then to see Micah is like just throwing a fit. It's like, I get it, homie. Yeah. Like, like somebody do it. You know what I'm saying? Somebody. Yeah. Somebody freaking shows the emotion on that sideline. Somebody do something. Like, I'd be, I'd be.
01:46:38
Speaker
fucking li it godam because the whole fuck um fire me bit I'll be signed by next week. Yeah, right. I'll be somewhere else. Yeah, I'll be somewhere else. Like, nah, bro, I'm about to go off on this motherfucker. That's where I find enjoyment in like fantasy football and You know, I've discovered a sports book betting this season. and So it's just like, all right, I can find, you know, the Browns are not that great. At least I can kick everybody's ass in fantasy football. yeah You gotta find your lane, man. You got gotta find what you're good at. It's like, well, my teammate, my teammate doing nothing, but, uh, I know the game.
01:47:28
Speaker
I can get me a good fantasy league going. I used to do it all the time, man. I used to do that fantasy league stuff. And i man, I passed three years, three, four. I just think I don't even fool with it. I used to watch basketball a lot, Dallas Mavericks fans. But ever since that 2011 season, yeah you know, we've been in the playoffs almost every year, but, you know,
01:47:56
Speaker
it I have a I love the NBA. I love basketball, but I have like a weird toxic on again off again relationship with the and NBA like like sometimes. Yeah, sometimes I'll be watching it like religiously and and I'm a Cleveland. There's many games. There's too many games like they there's too many games and and and when they started building these quote unquote super
Balanced Approach to Sports Fandom
01:48:25
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teams,
01:48:26
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It's just like, man, it's not even enjoyable to watch because, you know, you got three teams with all the best players in the league. Of course, and so I'm really loving the Cavaliers the last couple of years because they just went old school. We're going to build this squad from the ground up. You got a couple of big names, but outside of that, man, they just, they just started drafting. And now the Cavs are just the last couple of seasons have been kicking ass, taking names. It's just.
01:48:52
Speaker
But even still, it's it's just too many games to watch. I can't watch them all. You know, I got that kind of time. Well, yeah, I mean, it's it's it's that the thing. It's yeah, it's just too much games. I watch it until like the finals. Yeah. Yeah, I'll come in. I'll come in late. I'll start tuning in. I'm like, oh, if we're in there, I'll tune in, you know. Yeah.
01:49:16
Speaker
I come in late after the all-star break. I do that with baseball too. I start really paying attention after the all-star break and it's like, all right, let's, I'm not watching the games, but I'm at least paying attention to what's happening in baseball. thats But yeah, save they with with with the NBA, it's like, all right, I know what the Cavs are doing. I know they're winning. That's cool.
01:49:37
Speaker
Then they all start breaking after that. It's like, all right, now it's time to really start paying attention and see who's doing what, who's going where, what's happening, you know, the playoffs are right around the corner. And then it's Columbus. So you say you're in Columbus. um in the I'm about 45 minutes east of Columbus. Okay. So how how far is that from Cleveland? How far are you from Cleveland?
01:50:01
Speaker
I'm about two, two, two and a half hours, depending upon traffic and whatnot. So Columbus is kind of like right smack in the middle of Ohio. Cleveland is about two hours, two, two and a half hours away. And then Cincinnati is about two, two and a half hours away as well. So we're like, are you in a small town? Yeah. I'm in like, I'm like, I don't know if this makes sense or not. I'm like in a small big town. Okay. How many? I don't know. What's the pot? What's the pot? Oh, Jesus. I couldn't even tell you.
01:50:32
Speaker
Um, it's it's it's uh, it's Where I live at was always I can tell you real quick. I can Google that shit If I can spell Hey, does this is this like live on my Facebook page It's on ah It's it's live on our Facebook page on our YouTube channel and our Twitter. Okay. Um, I always i didn't know if it was like I didn't know if it was like I logged in with my Facebook. I didn't know if it like sent out of. ah Yeah, I don't. I don't think so. I always forget to tell people we do have the option that if you wanted to put it live onto your socials, you are. You are welcome to. As of 2023, the population here is just a smidge over 51,000 people. OK, no, yeah, yeah, I see what you're saying. Small big town.
01:51:31
Speaker
Yeah. So it's like, it's, it's like, it's always been, uh, small town, but it's grown over the years. Um, and more people have moved here, but it's, it's kept it small town by, by, you know what I mean? So, you know, like where we live at, we're kind of tu tucked. We're tucked in the back where we, you know, we're like, I got the woods and everything right across from me and a big old field here and whatnot and a little quick and whatnot.
01:51:59
Speaker
but ah I'm also only like two minutes away from Walmart, but we're tucked back where we don't hear all the noise from where all the shopping and restaurants and everything are. um So it's nice. We get that little bit of kind of, cause I'm from the country. I was born and raised out in the middle of nowhere, Poe Dunk ass Ohio. But I get that little bit of cook. Like if I go sit down on my patio on a nice nice night, I can hear the crickets chirp. You know, we can hear the critters. Dude. Yeah. That's what it's about, bro.
01:52:28
Speaker
I left the concrete jungle a long time ago. I'm out in the country now what we consider the country higher I'm about hour and a half from downtown Houston But it's you have I mean, I'm about 25 minutes from the main highway. I mean I 45 interstate You hop on that you're in downtown. It seems like a blink of a night, you know, I mean, yeah 75 miles an hour now, you know what I mean? But dude no man As I've gone older, I don't want to be around none of that. I don't want to be around any of it, dude. no yeah I've never never been a fan of the big city, never liked a big city.
Transition to Country Life and Inner Peace
01:53:12
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yeah I was engulfed in that and that lifestyle for a long time.
01:53:17
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ah i enjoyed it I enjoyed it for a long time. We had a rehearsal studio that was literally 15 minutes from downtown Houston for o like six years we were in that location. oh wow And um shout out to Magic Studio, shout out to Kareem, the owner of Magic Studios. ah he had like um ah He had a recording studio in the front of this big warehouse that he built out.
01:53:46
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And then he had like four rehearsal rooms in the back. And we were like one of the bands that was in there before he like tore it down. And he's a full film studio now, but it's crazy because like, man, it was so close to the city. We were there at the time we would rehearse like three times out the week. And you got every,
01:54:16
Speaker
like aspects of life in that area we were at. I mean, we were in the hood, but at the same time it was like borderline to where like the nice neighborhoods were at. Yeah. So it was like both worlds. And it was kind of like, it was weird cause like you would see a Lambo and then you would see a, you know, a freaking crackhead.
01:54:43
Speaker
Yeah. talking about like like And that's how it is over here, though, seriously. Like, yeah it's it's it's so mixed up, but I guess that's what makes makes it what it is, you know, like the culture. um But man, you know, I was so engulfed in that lifestyle, dude, that. Now that I'm out here in the country and I'm i'm the same like, I can walk outside, I hear the crickets now.
01:55:11
Speaker
And it's like, oh man, it's so peaceful. I'm like, yeah, I could do this for the rest of my life. a Matter of fact, I want to move further away. yeah that That's what I told my fiance. I said, you know, the goal is if I ever hit the lottery or if if we, we got we become yeah if i be if I become rich and famous, you know, doing this podcast and thing.
01:55:37
Speaker
I said, we're moving somewhere. I'm buying like five, 600 acres of land out in the middle of nowhere. I said, you know, I've got my three kids. She's got two boys that are older. I said, you know, I'll give each kid like 10, 20 acres and let them build a house. We'll build a house for your mom and dad on the property. So, you know, I said, we'll just put us all out there, but we're going to be ah we're gonna be so far out in the country like yeah ain't nobody gonna be able to find us yeah yeah it's like nah i i say the same thing it's like we go into town like every once so every two weeks type shit yeah you know what i'm saying you know get our stop we're gonna go stock up are we coming back
01:56:20
Speaker
And we ain't gonna see society for the next couple of weeks that we got to come back and stocked up I'm talking about like that's a this is type of situation i'm trying to put myself in like I don't I don't even really want like I want to have horrible wi-fi Yeah, like
Aligning Personal Growth with Career Aspirations
01:56:35
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you know what i'm saying? I want to be enjoying the damn nature being out with you know, like that's where i'm at in life now, dude i'm trying to Like I said, man, if music happens for me Great. I I mean I'm ready for it. you know I feel like I'm ready for it. I feel like I'm ready to take on the world. And I tell God, you know if music is for me in that dynamic, I'm ready. But if it's not for me, I know I'm going to succeed in other places in my life. I'm already succeeding. Yeah. um And the mentality has changed. It's not about I used to have this freaking wild
Importance of Collaboration in Music
01:57:16
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dreams. Man, I'm going to buy a fucking mansion. I'm going to beat all.
01:57:19
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I'm gonna have the Lambo and the G-Wagon. I'm gonna have the fucking grills and chains and I'm gonna be a rockstar. I look back at it, I'm like, you really thought that shit, bro? Now I just wanna farm somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
01:57:36
Speaker
now i just want to farm on the middle nowhere Just leave me alone. yeah like you know But at the same time though, I just say, man, if if that's in the cards for me too,
01:57:48
Speaker
to be on that level as far as the musician goes. Man, i'm ready I'm ready to kill it. I'm ready to give it my all. I'm ready to find, like right now I don't have a band. It's just me. yeah um it's been It's just been me for the past. Like, you know, i've have I have musicians I can go to because I've built relationships over the years and hell, they're chasing the same dream too. So if they can come look badass in a video, rock out,
01:58:18
Speaker
and post on their socials, you know, that's content for them. Um, and so a lot of, that's the mentality of a lot of musicians like, Hey man, before it'd be like, man, I'm not going to go, I'm a, I'm already in a band. Yeah, bro. Now I, you know, the drummer that I, you know, uh, the drummer that I always hit up, like he's in like five bands. That seems like the mentality is, you know, build a community, uh, you know, have a support system.
01:58:48
Speaker
You know, it's, it's kind of, it's kind of like that in podcasting out, you know, unfortunately I've been burned more times than I can count. Uh, you know, I, I, you know, I have a great group of guys around me that do this network with me. Um, we're a small group of guys, but, but you know, we, we have fun with it. We enjoy what we're doing. We support each other. And you know, I could message one of the guys now and say, Hey, uh, man, I've gotten a little bit behind getting episodes posted. Can you help me out? And I got you which episodes you need posted.
01:59:18
Speaker
Or hey, can you guys cut me some reels? oh Yeah, we got you. Which shows, you know where? You know, but it's ah it's all about building that community, because we're all striving for the same thing. You know, we all want the same. either The end game is the same for everybody. We want to have some level of success, and I think it's cool thing too about getting older is.
Handling Setbacks in Podcasting
01:59:39
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We we take our our our dubs with a little bit more humility and a little bit more grace.
01:59:45
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And we, and we also learned to handle the L's a lot better, you know, yeah ah even even just three years ago, three and a half years ago, I know that if, if someone went bad doing this podcast, and oh man, I was a fucking grumpy bear. I was, I was like, God damn it, man. I'm putting all this work into it. It is just, just to fall flat on the face where now it's just like, yeah,
02:00:12
Speaker
This this episode didn't go you know, or this this show or whatever didn't go as well as I thought it was gonna go Yeah, well yeah on the next on the next week, you know what? I mean or holy shit this this this show was awesome man guys Hey guys, we killed her. I get a really kick-ass guess like man. I got a really killer guess now I've been fortunate I've been very fortunate all my guests on this show have been awesome. I have not had a bad guess yet I keep saying that and I know I'm gonna I I'm going to I'm going to fuck myself and get some terrible guests at some point, some weirdo. Yeah. But na man no, no, no weirdo here. Yeah. Yeah. and And it's cool because the other thing is, is you can almost kind of get a read for somebody just in the little bit of messaging that I do before, you know, trying to introduce to myself and
02:01:02
Speaker
Getting see if the interest i mean is from the show just from people's pages bro. I'll be listen. I'm a judgmental motherfucker I'm cautious who I work. I hate to say it. Yeah, yeah but i'm i'm umm I'm Cautious who I work with I'm cautious who I even mess with I mean hell you hit me up. I looked all up and down on your page Just to be honest. I was like hmm. Looks like it's something that's starting up. Okay, cool You know, I mean, let's do it I'm not, I ain't nobody, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah we just trying to come up in this world. But if it was me, five or six years ago, and my ego was big, I'd have been like, man, nah, bro, but you're not gonna do nothing for us, you know? You know, and like, nah, bro. No, like, yeah, that that was my train of thought. It was like, it's go big or go home, what you gonna bring us if you're not. But see, in that mentality,
02:01:59
Speaker
is when I try to tell these youngsters, I'm like, y'all need to stop back. I'm like, oh, this shit. Mm hmm. Yeah, you can get hold real quick, real quick. When when when. And I've been humbled when you go to a a city and you're got booked for an opening act that, you know, you're not from there. You you got an opportunity and you show up and act and ask and and and you get banned and then you're like,
02:02:28
Speaker
fuck how come we can't play over there no more now that you're not all fucked up or whatever and you're like well why don't you think about the time yeah and you did play now look back and now you can't even go to those venues dude that was me yeah yeah think that was john yeah people talk man like You know people talk especially venues, especially if you a youngster and you're like, man, I want to be a roster I'm gonna destroy this or act an ass back here and dude Bro, don't don't blacklist your ass so quick from other venues because they all know each other owners know each other they talk they they're in this community of like musicians they're just you know, there's a community of these owners and it goes around especially
02:03:19
Speaker
If you're a local band and you're doing some bullshit within the local scene, oh, you know about it. Well, you know about it. Yeah, the the entertainment industry, whether you're doing music, whether you're doing stand up comedy, whether you're doing podcasts, it's very insidious. You know, people roll at the same groups and they talk and they intermingle and it's just like,
02:03:42
Speaker
You know, I know we we, you know, in our, in our early stages, we were wild. I mean, and especially me, I know I've said and done some things that it's like, man, I wish I could go back and, and get rid of that, but it's on the internet. it's It's forever now. I know I've lost my cool a few times and gone after people, whether they deserved it or not. I still look like an asshole, you know? Yeah, and imagine happens yeah you got to have a little bit of an ego.
02:04:09
Speaker
because sometimes, you know, that's what kind of keeps you but like the guys tease me all the time because I call myself the champ. I have a custom made championship belt, you know, that that that I bought and I call myself the champ. I sound the greatest podcaster to walk this fucking earth better than Joe Rogan. I know damn well I don't know. I need it in Joe Rogan's atmosphere. But I'm like,
02:04:33
Speaker
I'll take Joe Rogan and host off. I'll host the hell out of Joe Rogan. I don't want to fight the guy. You got to believe in yourself, you know what I'm saying? I want to fight the guy, but I'll go host for host. And yeah, he'll he'll do a much better job than I will. However, that's going to put me on a stage that I did. ah I did a show with Joe Rogan that's going to elevate my podcast. yeah i mean I'll be honest with you, like, I mean, I tune into Joe Rogan.
02:05:03
Speaker
Um, but it's not really my thing. You know, I'm not the biggest fan of Joe Rogan. Uh, you know, every once in a great while I'll catch a clip or an interview and I'm like, Oh, let me go. Let me go listen to this full interview, but I'm not the biggest Joe Rogan fan. I love him in the UFC. I think he's one of the top tier best sports commentators on the planet.
02:05:24
Speaker
Uh, but I just, I'm not a big fan of his podcast. That's why I, I pick on Joe Rogan a lot. Not that he's ever going to hear it, but who knows? Maybe one day. you cover no shit what he they be hey And this is the crazy thing. Those kinds of guys, they started right here where we're at right now. so Yeah, maybe he'll be lesstaining like, yeah maybe maybe Joe will be like, hey, that kid's got some moxie. the and get thats Let me get at it real quick. yeah let Let me hit him up real quick. I'll be real quick with that Mr. Rogan. Yes, sir. How are you doing, sir? For sure, right? sure
02:06:08
Speaker
yeah right get Yeah. dirt all yeah Would you like to? Yeah, man. You know what though, man? It's that's one thing where it's like, it's just about believing in yourself and just keep on going for
Passion for Live Performances
02:06:30
Speaker
staying consistent. You know what I mean? And even if it don't take off like, Hey man, we did it. We had fun with it. And and you know, and that's, and that's where I am with it. Now with breakfast high, it's like,
02:06:41
Speaker
You know, it's just been me. I've been writing records. I've been kind of finding my way, having fun. But one thing about it is I'm a performer. on Being on the stage is where I feel alive, is where I release all my anger. I mean, I've performed since I was the age of 13.
02:07:00
Speaker
I haven't been on a stage in three years. now and it's been a three eight It's been a hiatus, but it hasn't been a hiatus because I've still been releasing music. yeah yeah I just haven't been you know doing shows or traveling or booking festivals and stuff like that, you know national festivals, you know the ones we can get on. um But still really great shows and stuff. I've always have promoters sitting up, yo,
02:07:29
Speaker
When you guys coming back, like we're ready to get you on some stuff. I can get on show so fast, so quick if I want to right now, but I, you know, just, just these past probably a few weeks, I've been just praying on stuff and I say, you know what, man, if it's meant to be the right people are going to come. And by next year I have put it in my mind that I believe that I will have a band by next year. I will have the right people. I will be able to lead this thing further. um I'm a different person. I'm ready, like I was saying, I'm ready to take this thing on to the next level. But I do pray that, you know, I say, god just just bring me the right ones because I have been burned. I've had a lot of people come and go. I've probably had
02:08:25
Speaker
wow off top 15 drummers coming on out this band. i ah But I've had two solid ones that been had a five-year run. and I mean, like I said, I started this thing when I was 20 years old and 35. Yeah, we've been doing it for for for a hot minute, you know?
02:08:49
Speaker
but you know and we And people would be like, hey, when you're still doing that, you ain't gave up. It's been 15 years, bro. I'll do another 20 years. Yeah, I'll do another 20 years if I got that. It's like, hell yeah, I'm still doing this shit, bro. I mean, you can't give up. Like, why? You ain't made it by now. And bro, I've had plenty of success along the way. It might not be what people would call, but you know what, man? They don't know. But that's just the thing. Outsiders looking at it. And when I told when I was when i was ah
02:09:21
Speaker
like 16 years old I remember my dad my dad passed away when I was 19 years old but I remember I was about 16 and my dad was like you know well you know my dad my dad was a street dude so he sold drugs he was one of the biggest drug dealers in the area like was no he was known for that shit for I mean just for years and years um anyways so you know i was always in that lifestyle but anyway you know i remember one time late night my dad came home drunk all fucked up and i'm watching tv and he's like you know what do you want to do with your life uh if you don't have a plan in your life you know you can do what i do you know talking about selling drugs like you make good money blah blah blah and here i am like thinking it was all cool you know like yeah you know i want to do that you know but
02:10:16
Speaker
he He asked me, he was like, well, what do you really want to do? And I thought about it. And I remember telling him, it was nighttime. TV was lighting up the living room. He was sitting on the couch, all messed up from the bar. And I was like, man, I want to be a musician. And he started laughing at me. I never forget. He was drunk, laid back on the recliner. And he just,
02:10:40
Speaker
just drunk. Yeah. Just like him. He's like a musician. like you don't even know how to play nothing. I'm like, and I'm gonna learn, you know, I'm gonna learn. He's like, okay, you know, you can or whatever, you know. He's like, but the thing about musicians is like, they're always broke. He's like, you're gonna be a broke musician. And I was like, no, I know the fuck I ain't, you know, but I kind of, I kind of like, in my head, that's when I kind of turned the villain, you know,
02:11:13
Speaker
because I motherfucker, I'm gonna prove, no, I'm not gonna prove you wrong, but I'm gonna do this shit, you know? And one thing that I never let like let myself get was broke. I always worked, I had my businesses, I always, but I always did what I didn't like to do so I could fund what I love to do.
02:11:39
Speaker
and that's just and that's something that most people don't don't want to do. Man, I know so many musicians right now, bro, they have 50,000, 80,000, 100,000 followers. I was just talking to one the other day. I'm not even gonna name drop, but this dude has mad followers and he's telling me how but broke he was. yeah and and and and if And if I could give him a job, if he moved to the area, cause I got landscape company and stuff. yeah And I was just like,
02:12:09
Speaker
I mean, I had to double check, you know, I had to go to his paperwork. It's just a dude with a couple hundred K. But it's the thing, it's all the front. Yeah, it's all the front. But these days people want to go by these followers and by the light and all that, put this glamour on. But then, but it was like, wow, bro, this happened just about a week ago. But it hit me how fake shit is.
02:12:38
Speaker
And I remember telling him, I remember telling him, I was like, bro, but you know, you're flashing all the packs and you're flashing. None of it's real. I was like, I was like, oh, bro, like I had it like really like, dog, you need to quit that. You need you need to quit that. I thought I'm over here thinking you killing it. Yeah. I'm thinking you're over here in your bag.
02:13:07
Speaker
and you're telling me you broke, right? um Yeah, man. It's like, nah, bro. So what happened is you faked yourself into being rich. You live in a false world. Yeah. On social media. That is fucking miserable and weird to me, dude. I'm like, no way, dog. But hey, to the outsider, he's living. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's.
02:13:34
Speaker
It's it's that's the thing with social media man. You could you you can Put it on social media that you live whatever life you want to live and and they make it so easy to buy the followers and buy the Comments and the likes and stuff like that. It's just like You know what? We might be sitting here with our 1,000 followers, but I know Those are real homegrown fire you know yeah
Overcoming Stage Fright and Audience Connection
02:13:56
Speaker
yeah we we We might get you know some up in some shows we might get a 50, 60 people in the live. Some shows we might only get one or two, but we get the replay views and I know them are real viewers. Yeah. You know, it's not, you know, I'm not out here buying them. I'd much rather, you know, once you get it, what you see is what you get from, from, from, from us here at the nonsensical network is, you know, we, we've had a couple really cool opportunities. Um, yeah, I said Southern outlaws earlier, um, you know, I had an opportunity to MC a show for them.
02:14:30
Speaker
I'd never emceeed a show before. I ain't never been on the stage. I actually have a huge fear of speaking in public. But i it was it was it was something that I was very grateful for the experience. It was a fun experience. I hope that I get to do it again i' at it with anybody. It was such a fun experience to get up on stage and you know to be a fan of not only that the music and the band, but to be friends with them. but to get up there on stage and talk to people. It was really cool, even even though I was scared to death. We've done the shows ah live at a couple you know a couple different times at a location here in town. They invited us up for an anniversary party, a Halloween party for us to do our Saturday night show live there. And it was cool. And there was a few people that actually came out because they knew we were going to be there. ah yeah know They came out to support us and support the show and support the business that we were at. and
02:15:24
Speaker
I like that. I would much rather be looked at. you And sometimes, sometimes, you know, I've had a couple artists that I've reached out to that have quote unquote big time.
Social Media Success vs. Reality
02:15:33
Speaker
And they're like, oh, you only have X amount of followers or X amount of views. And I'm like, you know what? I'm good. I'm going to go ahead. I know I reached out to you, but I'm going to go ahead and pull that back. You know, like I don't want to sound like a dick, but you know, I've had it happen to me twice with my podcast.
02:15:52
Speaker
and and these dudes I thought were like industry for homies you know what I'm saying and and I hit them up like hey man let me get that interview from you you know and then they're like you started a podcast I'm like yeah here's my page oh you only got 200 followers bro I was like, help me out, though. I need that interview. I need that Cat Williams interview, dog. I'm like, bro. I was trying to hit you up. They're like, no, bro. I can't do it. I'm like, nah, I feel you. you know You're trying to make your label and shit, whatever, whatever. OK. But knowing damn well they could do it if they really wanted to. yeah but you know that's That's what it is, though. you know People look at that. They look at numbers. Numbers don't mean shit.
02:16:39
Speaker
yeah but Numbers don't mean shit to me and that's that's something I try to tell people man. Don't look at the numbers Look at your look at the people who you're actually bringing in Because if you look at another artist and just because they're doing millions of plays and this and that Dude, a lot of that stuff is paid a lot of that stuff is bought through the labels and stuff That you're never gonna be able to afford until you hit those levels Until you hit those levels, you need to build a community, a one-on-one.
Authentic Audience Interactions
02:17:07
Speaker
Anytime I get a new follow, I message back. That's how we yeah we start talking. any time at Anytime um anybody hits me up, I respond. Anytime I follow, I follow back. If they don't follow if they don't like respond to me, like, i'll like thanks for following, like I check that shit. If they don't respond or see it, I wouldn't follow them. You're not vibing with me. like
02:17:33
Speaker
right You can you can follow me cool, but you didn't want the interaction. Well, I'm not going to follow you, you know. Yeah, exactly. what It is because I want people who I can talk to. I want people who um they're going to get to know. Dude, um I went by solo since I was the age of 16. It was a nickname that, you know, you get in the streets, you know, your games and shit. Everybody had a fucking nickname. You know what I mean?
02:18:02
Speaker
It wasn't up until last year, I started introducing people, introducing myself as, Hey, my name's Alex. My name's Alex. How are you doing? Nice to meet you. But everybody calls me solo. And I just, oh Oh, Hey solo, you know, or I have some, way Oh, Hey you know, nice to meet you. Whatever you want to call me. I'm just, Hey, I'm just being real.
02:18:29
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not gonna be like, hey, my name's, it's like, cause a lot of people are like, is your real name really Solo? No, that's just a nickname I got from the hood. yeah just like Yeah, everybody calls me, you know, everybody calls me Glick.
02:18:45
Speaker
It's my last name. Everybody, I mean, like growing up, teachers, coaches, friends. And and I know a Glit over here. I know a Glit over here. It's so crazy. probably go to and he owns that he owned a ah it so He owns a screen printing company and they do something on that. But it's called Glit Graphics. It's That's just what everybody, I mean,
02:19:12
Speaker
people, my my first, you know, my real name's Chris, but not very many people call me Chris. Everybody, everybody in life has always called me Glick. Uh, you know, I graduated, like I graduated with 10 other Christas, you know? And so it was like, you got to set us apart. So everybody's always just called me Glick. That's how I introduce myself to everybody. Yeah. Well, see, like my real name is Alejandro. So it's like, it's, you know, I'm Hispanic. So it's like, how about people? Oh, my name is, I always have to go Alejandro, you know, like,
02:19:42
Speaker
yeah ah They're like most people always say like, you know, not being trying to be racist and I'm like all the Caucasian folk. Oh, like lady the lady song. Yeah, like the lady. Oh, yeah. say it like that. You know what I'm saying? Like that. Yeah, yeah you got to roll the R and shit. Yeah. But that's one reason why I'm like, I just never, you know, and when ah like I said, growing up, you know, when everybody in the clique had a name like you had a creeper you had a sleepy you had and yeah you know you know what i'm saying you had joker and and and these are legit people i'm talking about i i fucking know you know like they're my family uh and uh and i remember like one night we're all partying and drinking out with the youngster and you know the elders elders
02:20:41
Speaker
man, you know, we got to give you a nickname. And I was like, well what what can y'all nickname me? And I just, they're just, I don't know. We were all drinking and shit. I remember I threw it out. I was like, how about solo? And they all looked at me and shit. And they're like, no, that sounds cool. You know, and you're always by yourself anyway. You know, you're always doing your own thing anyway. And I was different. I was the rocker and they were like these rapper dudes and shit. yeah But I was like the low key rocker dude, but I still was kind of like, you know, vibing with them on that shit. But I really wasn't. I was just trying to fit in. Yeah, exactly. and Just because, you know, they were like, I looked up to my older cousins and all them, you know, and they were doing that. So it was just like, ah, but it really wasn't what I wanted to do. It wasn't up until I was like 18 when I graduated and and went to college for a little bit. And I started to be like, man, you know what?
02:21:38
Speaker
I'm hanging out with the frat boys, man. Fuck these gangster thug ass mom. You know what I'm saying? I'm fucking chilling with the frat homies, man. And I don't know that. I can vibe with these dudes. You know what I'm saying? And we rocking some fucking bullet from my Valentine's. Greetings, Grace. You know what I'm saying? Like, with some cedar, nigga, throw that Creed on. You know what I'm saying? Like, we jamming. You know what I mean? And it was like, it was like, that's That's when that divide happened, man. As soon as I got out of that yeah high school and all that game bullshit, I was just like full blown into music. Thought I could have a rap career up until I started reckless high at the age of 20 years old.
02:22:25
Speaker
yeah I was rapping. I had a few mixtapes and shit out here in Houston. I was doing shows. I opened up the Paul Wall, Little Kiki. I mean, big ass name rappers. out oh yeah I was on the circuit, bro, ah now at one point. But I remember my last show was in Austin, my last rap show. And I had a promoter who would always bring me out there every year for Stock by Southwest. And I just remember I was on stage and the DJ, man, I had a crowd and people were there to see me.
02:22:54
Speaker
And there was a gang clip there, some rap crew, and they weren't getting the love. And I was just one dude with like two homies and ah and a merch person, you know what I'm saying? And and there was these dudes with like 15, 20 people. um And I was still the show. And I remember like halfway through my set, the DJ started speeding up my my music and started making it real faster. And I had to just like, you know,
02:23:23
Speaker
and somebody who another artist that was there like fucking like it turned out like he'd like check the dj like hey man what are you doing and it's all on camera because i had a full-time camera guy at the time and uh i remember um when i was on stage bro looking at the crowd i could see the hate in those dudes eyes oh yeah i could i could see it bro and it was piercing me and i'm like and i felt uncomfortable on there One, because I had, you know, all the chicks going crazy and yeah they weren't like in the ads. There was their girlfriends, you know what I'm saying? So that he is boiling and boiling and boiling. And I'm like, at that moment, I said, dude, you need to get the fuck up out of this because this, it. And it was so crazy because I remember telling like one of my road dogs at the time, it was always with me.
02:24:18
Speaker
I was like, man, bro, like, let's bounce. Like, I can't do this shit no more. He's like, hell, yeah, let's get out of here before something happens. So, you know, we end up leaving before everything went down because it wasn't going to go down because I was a hothead too. And I was ready to just look at me like motherfucker touching me or something. It's on, right? But I was told like, man, let's get out of here. So we did. And we got back to the hotel and I just remember looking at him and I said, man, I'm done with this shit. Yeah. What do you mean? He's like, what do you mean? I'm like, man, I ain't doing this no more.
02:24:47
Speaker
He's like, what do you mean, rapping? I said, yeah, man, I ain't doing this, man. You see that? you I said, man, you see the hate in those people's eyes, man? He's like, hell yeah, they wanted us. I was like, yeah, dude. I tonight could end a different, totally different. Yeah, over over over nothing.
Transition from Rap to Metal Band
02:25:03
Speaker
Over jealousy, right? Jealousy, exactly. So kind of just, I'm going to kind of just go to the story of how I started to reconcile it.
02:25:12
Speaker
so We were in Austin. That happened. We ended up leaving. I had that conversation with my boy, like I'm done. We get back to Houston the following day. um And my birthday was like two days after that. And I ended up going to Upper Fest here in Houston. And Papa Roach, Shine Down, POD, all the things that I grew up listening to.
02:25:45
Speaker
And, uh, you know, been a big POD fan since I was probably 15 years old. Like that was like, you know, I listened to them because they were like, you know, the Chicano dudes, the Mexican dudes in the rough game, you know, and I was like, hell yeah, I can get, I can get down with this. And, and, uh, so I always listened to them growing up and Kid Rock was like a big influence on me too. Like the, the Devil Without a Cause album was like the first album that I had and then a significant other from Limp Bizkit. Um, but like.
02:26:14
Speaker
That Kid Rock, that one without a cause, significant other from Limp, that was the start for me, like into New Metal. And you know I went to that show and I'm in the pit. And I've been to the shows before in Mosh pits and shit. But after that experience I had in Austin, I'm at this show, I'm in the pit But bro, you know how it is. Everybody's just having a good time. Everybody's having everybody having fun. There ain't no, you know, and my, my road dog, Rodrigo, at the his name was Jiggo.
02:26:54
Speaker
Uh, he was with me. I took him everywhere, bro. He was like, he was like, Cholo to the core. You know He just went You know what I'm saying? He just spit out. He just spit out. yeah So I had him in there, bro. Having fun and shit. I just remember like, dude, I tell him, I was like, bro, this is what I want to do. He's like, for real? I'm like, man, watch one day.
02:27:23
Speaker
I'm going to have a mosh pit like this. I'm going to be on stage. He's like, oh, hell yeah. I believe you. I believe you. I believe it. So the next day after that, I couldn't sleep. I had this idea. I was like, I'm going to do this shit. I'm going to do this shit. And I was like, like, POD, I could do that. I could do that sound, you know? So the next day I went on Craigslist, musician ads. I need a new metal, starting new metal band.
02:27:52
Speaker
No music yet. you know I'm just trying to build this. nobody Nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody crickets, crickets for weeks, weeks, no reply. So my producer, who I have now, who I knew since I was 18, I hit him up. I said, hey, bro, I need a song. I need a rock song. I know you're a hip hop producer, but is there any way we can make something happen?
Forming Reckless High through Online Ads
02:28:15
Speaker
He's like, man, I don't know, but come to the studio, we'll try. So we ended up...
02:28:20
Speaker
pulling like samples of guitars onto a keyboard. And the first record with high song was played on the keyboard. The guitars, like the bass, this was in 2011. So everything like doing live instruments and MIDI was like weird. you Now it's all MIDI and it's all, you know, you don't even need them. You know what I'm saying? <unk> It's crazy how it's so advanced now. Anyway, so we're pulling all these samples and shit and It took us probably like 10 hours. We come up with the first song. It was called Above Water. And so I had a song. I had a song. I did vocals my first time screaming and shit. And I remember my boy looking at me. He's like, bro, this shit's tight.
02:29:09
Speaker
This shit's tight, bro. I was like, hell yeah. And it was kind of funny because I got all the years I knew him. He really never like looked at me. He was like, bro, you killed that rap. Yeah. You know, but he was like, bro, that shit was tight, you know. So I ended up getting on Texas again and I was like, I got this song, send me your emails and I'll send you the song. I'll send you the demo. So once I did that, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, drummers, guitars, basses hit me up. So I started just sending this song out. I mean, this is Houston, you know, on Houston Craigslist.
02:29:43
Speaker
uh so dude that's when i just i had probably like 10 drummers hitting me up six bars i mean so i was like damn i got a whole auditions now so i so i did the whole fucking audition in my living room in my old crib uh had musicians coming and going as they were leaving but she One drummer leaving the house and then one pulling up you know but but kid with his kit. But I didn't have a kit. I was like, bring your own kit, because I don't got one. You know what I mean? Yeah, right. So there was like times where we were like, damn, dog, I would hear them conversing outside. ah Did you just audition? Yeah, man. Yeah, OK, man.
02:30:30
Speaker
So it was shit like that. But man, you know, finally got people together. Finally got the dream going. Shit, all these years, still here, still kicking ass. But yeah, that's kind of like, that's kind of like 15 years summarized real quick. You know what I'm saying? But you know, at the end of the day, still here rocking, man man. And I got some cool music. I got some cool music coming, kind of getting him back on the new metal stuff. That's where I feel like my heart is.
02:30:57
Speaker
after kind of doing these fun records like Poison, Kijabu, All Over with G.T. Garza, the Houston rapper one that you posted on your story. Just kind of doing different stuff like that, but I'm like, you know what? I'm ready to get it back to my roots. New Metal it is. About to start banging out some New Metal bangers, shooting a video here in a couple weeks. And it's like, it's go time, you know, start to, and I'm kind of doing what I did at that time in the beginning, you know, it's like,
02:31:27
Speaker
I got like six songs ready to go. I'm gonna shoot videos with this you know these this these homies that I know. But then I'm gonna use that as, hey, you know as my you know ah my advertisement and and everything. like yeah I need musicians to come and be part of this. and you know But it's not gonna keep me from waiting till I find the drummer to go shoot a video. No, I'm not. you know like I got a drummer right now ready to be in any video I need. So unless I get lucky that tomorrow or before the video and I find that the right one, but I got it, you know, like, yeah, but I mean, you never know. You could, you could be never know stopping at the gas station to fill up the truck and you see some cat outside the gas station on some empty buckets. It's like, yeah, hold on a second.
Organic Recruitment of Future Band Members
02:32:19
Speaker
I told my, I told i told my, uh, I told my Pat, well, he's my ex past because he don't, he's not a preacher no more, but.
02:32:25
Speaker
yeah my childhood pastry. Anyway, I talked to him all the time. I said, man, bro, I feel like I feel like um just what you said, I feel like I'm going to meet these people outside of a store, in a grocery store. I'm going to see somebody with a band tee. I'm on my favorite band or something. and I'm like, oh, hell yeah. Every time I see somebody with a slit, nah, I always go, fine, fine, fine, fine. You know, they always come around. fix You know what I'm saying?
02:32:52
Speaker
I always do it. It never fails, you know, like, and it never fails. They turn around and they finish the lyric, you know. And I told them, I told them, I'm going to find my next people. He's like, you know what, man, you're right. That's the way it's going to go down. Yeah, you just let it happen. Yeah, I'm going to just let it happen organically. I thought about putting ads out and all that. I said, no, man. I'm going to just let my community, the people I know,
02:33:22
Speaker
Like, Hey, I'm going to start building this thing. And, uh, I'm levy and a home depot. Matt lock says, Matt, Matt, you still on. I just looked at the time. It's two hours and 30 minutes. dan shit I just looked at that too. Uh, but, uh, you just kind of let things organically happen. Uh, you know, like.
02:33:43
Speaker
For the longest time, it was just Jeff and I on here doing shows together. And we've had a couple of people come through. They didn't work out, didn't ruin friendships or anything like that. It was just not the right fit. But then I had a friend of mine who now, I just recently stepped away from the Monday night show and let him take over. We used to work together and he would randomly pop up and kind of fill in. He was like, dude, you're actually pretty good at this.
02:34:10
Speaker
podcasting thing. And then him and I started the Monday night show together. And then our boy Blaze, he just, we kind of knew of each other from another platform. We was on, he started out in the chat and then just popped in on a Saturday night and started hanging out with us. And me just things just clicked, man. And Blaze is awesome. It's been a, Blaze has been an awesome, um, addition to the, to the network. He does his own show on Friday night. He fills in where we need people to fill in if I'm off or one of the other guys.
02:34:40
Speaker
Like, you know, you just, you just never know. It just, things just sometimes happen kind of organically. You just kind of let shit flow, man. that's That's how it is, man. You better let shit flow. Showing them some love. And I appreciate it. Hey, the homie literally lives right behind me. he lives to he is He lives on the street behind me like two hours down.
02:35:08
Speaker
That's funny, man. Fuck yeah. Nah, but yeah, man, David, he's the one on he's one on ah Poison. He's the one on Deja Vu. But, you know, man, you know, I always feel like, you know you know, that's why I said, man, the right folk are gonna happen. I'm um i'm grateful for the community and the musicians that can reach out to and a to make shit happen, you feel me? But I'm not gonna let shit stop me, you feel me? Like, I'm gonna continue to just continue to do me and write and and release.
02:35:38
Speaker
uh music whether you know whether the people are there or not you feel me like yeah you gotta you gotta keep doing what you like you know do what you enjoy but i'm definitely i'm definitely stoked for these next new um this this next wave of music that i'm about to be dropping just been working on these new metal bangers uh man i've met some dope ass producers that i've had you know just great conversations with. One's from Ukraine, one's from freaking Germany, the other one's from Slovakia, Slovakia, I think. Oh, wow. And man, we've been just chatting, you know, through IG and they've been sending me records and like, dude, it's like, and it's so crazy because
02:36:33
Speaker
so these guys are like some of the best producers like some of the best musicians i've come across like but dude that's what the best thing about overseas people they're passionate they're they're they're more just they're not spoiled like us americans you know me yeah exactly they just have a whole other drive dude and and uh so it's been cool working with those guys because i've always worked with the same one or two producers here in houston Because those are the only ones I know who are going to do me right. But to be able to find new new sound new sound, new guys. um and they're and And it's dope because I did a song today and I sent it to one of the producers just through like the video like, hey, check this out.
Networking and Collaboration in Music Production
02:37:19
Speaker
And i he was like, dude, that shit sounds so sick. It makes me so happy just to hear an artist on my shit like that. you know the And at the same time, you know,
02:37:31
Speaker
keys networking, we're networking. And I told him, I was like, man, if we can still, if we can continue to cook shit up like this and you can give me affordable rates, but I got to pay him, you know what I mean? Nothing's for free. But I tell him, man, if you can keep shit within in this bracket, he received bro, I could keep the ball rolling. You know what I'm saying? If you want, nah bro, I'm just going to stick to my own shit that I've been doing.
02:38:00
Speaker
But if if you if you try to do something here where we can work as a team and we could try to make some records that are going to go somewhere, then let's do it. And it's hard to find people that are going to do that. So to be in a position to where I have these guys saying, hey, man, we're down to work, bro, I feel like I'm going to take this shit to new heights are already, because the songs that I've gotten back already from two of these guys, bro, have been next freaking level sound, bro. Damn, this motherfuckers are banging ass new metal songs.
02:38:30
Speaker
I'm like, and honestly, intimidating. I was like, Oh, I got to come so hard on this pause. um clip i acknowledge that
02:38:53
Speaker
come on on them not for real written but You know, I'm like damn I gotta kill it, you know, I gotta kill this I gotta to bring my men i was already looking at the but I was like I gotta make a note of that because I'm clipping that for real ah are funny balls are real that'll be plenty For a real and i had to hit the pause because every podcast and i've been watching they're always when every time they say some sketch pause <unk> it's like becomes a new thing now man you better say pause or ah you gay
02:39:35
Speaker
you ask You're on some ditty shit if you don't say Bob. and No ditty here, no ditty here, ditty free zone. It was great conversation man, real and for real. i Definitely enjoyed the conversation.
Podcasting Culture and Trend Humor
02:39:55
Speaker
Matlock, I got to have my boy get at you. I was looking at your your Instagram page. Thank you for the follow, by the way.
02:40:02
Speaker
You're doing some cool shit, and I think you'd be a cool guest for for Jeff on Jeff's garage with your fabrication and stuff like that um If you're still out there with your ears on um but no's been david David does quality work and i so I've seen his work hands-on like I'm like damn I it's some of that some of that stitch working shit. He does man. It's amazing I'm like, I don't know how people do it, but damn, you know, it's a craft, you know, it's a craft, you know doing that kind of stuff But, um, but yeah, bro, it's, I'm glad we were able to conversate and not honestly going into this, I thought it was going to be the, the generic, uh, uh, music questions and get, get into the depression and sad of the stories. and
Balancing Music with Day Job Realities
02:40:49
Speaker
Yeah. ah to everybody I'm not your, I'm not your typical, uh, I'm not, I will never be the typical interview and more than likely.
02:40:58
Speaker
You'll probably never do an interview like hanging out on Glitch House and music again. And you know what, I'm like, I was fully prepared to do, you know, to do it. I'm always fully prepared to do those generic, you know, interviews type stuff because I've done them before.
02:41:11
Speaker
um And, you know, I have that shit implanted in my brain, what I'm going to say, you know, like when you hear that typical question, you know, uh, but I feel like this is what people really want to see. I feel like people, this is, this is the vulnerable side, the, the, just, just the realness of of people, you know? And, yeah and it's kind of a trip because some people think, oh, you're a musician. You must be rich. this is like Yeah.
02:41:37
Speaker
Bro, what? Let me tell you the struggle. Yeah, let me tell you the struggle with this shit. Yeah, y'all see me making music and shit on on Facebook and what I mean, on Instagram and shit. But Monday through Friday, bro, I dig ditches, homie. And I do sprinklers. And I'm out there with the fuck that I saw, bro. I'm out there with the Mexicans, homie. I'm getting tacos from the taco truck now. Like, we out here.
02:42:05
Speaker
Well, say if you if you want to, if if anybody listens to the replay or listens on one of the podcasting platforms
Expanding Business in North Houston
02:42:13
Speaker
and they're out in the area, you want to shout out your business so people can call you and and and get some stuff taken care of if they need to. You know, yeah, for sure, man. Yeah, man. New but new color landscape, new color irrigation. We do sprinkler system landscape design, custom sprinkler systems, whatever you need.
02:42:32
Speaker
Uh, we get it done. You know what I'm saying? So we service mainly North Houston areas, uh, further North of Houston. Now that I moved way out to the country, I'm trying to ah get more established out here, but, uh, man, I'm pretty much over the money is that, you know, if it's within the hour drive.
02:42:53
Speaker
like if you that's how And that's how the city is anyway. If you can't, everything's an hour away. Yeah, sounds like Florida. But it doesn't feel like an hour. So once you hop on the highway, you're gone. You know, it feels like 35 minutes, except if there's traffic or whatever, you know? So yeah, you know, anything within an hour, if it's worth it, and it's something, you know, we can do. I'll make it happen, you know what I mean? But I've been trying to move work, just like I take pride in my music. so Yeah, man. But you know, in the winter time, things are slowing down. So I'm focusing on, you know, just myself.
Growth, Sobriety, and Music Ambitions
02:43:31
Speaker
I'm working now, trying to get right for these upcoming videos. I told myself, I got to give myself a chance in this thing. I'm going to give myself a chance. I'm sober. I'm clean. I'm going to get healthy. I'm going to stand on business. And if I get that opportunity that I've always been waiting for, working hard all my life,
02:43:50
Speaker
I'm gonna, I'm gonna kill that shit. You know what I'm saying? I think, I think the big change is you have that same fire and that same drive and ambition that you had when you were 20. The only difference is now being 15 years older, you got a different mindset, and a little bit more prepared, you're a little bit more, you know, in the right frame of mind to to really take that next step, get over that hump. But I'll tell you what, man, as a new fan, you know, somebody who's just starting listening and and coming across your music, i'm I'm eager. I'm excited to hear the new music. um I can't wait for the new stuff to come out.
Eagerness for Music Promotion and Collaboration
02:44:26
Speaker
oh One thing I at first
02:44:28
Speaker
You heard it first. One thing I always ask my guests because I'm a firm believer in making sure I have the right permissions and whatnot like that. Moving forward, as as I said, we have shows seven nights a week. I would love to put your music. We usually take breaks and stuff like that. I'd love to add your music into the into the catalog for break music. Anything, you know, if you got new music coming out, don't be a stranger, man. Hit me up any time.
02:44:57
Speaker
Hell, I'm half tempted to tell Connor to hit you up and see if you're available on a Monday evening and come up on the the Men's Mental Health Show after having the conversation with the you. The only thing I ask is if we can make some you know clips and highlights and reels so that the people know we can really get the message out of what we're talking about. um ah And to my audience, you know do collaborating reels and stuff like that.
02:45:25
Speaker
i really yeah I've been a little busy lately. That's on me. I did start kind of unloading my plate because I did have a lot on my plate. Probably after the holidays, I'm going to get back into the full swing of thing. Start making clips and reels. One thing I always try to do, especially from this show, is tag my guests.
02:45:47
Speaker
Uh, and also send it, send the invite for a collaboration. Sometimes they they get accepted. Sometimes they don't, but I think the collaboration on Instagram um yeah is, uh, is a hell of a feature. Um, yeah, not it is but tell yeah amongst the community. Um, yeah. Cause your audience taps in with my audience and each audience is able to view this post and it's on our page. So it goes to each, you know, each, so I'm always down for that. Uh, uh, like I said, man.
02:46:17
Speaker
Create some rules. I know we have some great topics and tonight, but you know main thing is getting the message out. And you know I'm always down to to chat, hit you up on new releases and stuff. I mean, at the end of the day, bro, just trying to build this thing up, brick by brick. Yeah, don't. Don't. hesitate to At this point, anybody who wants to talk, anybody who wants to hop on pot, dude, shh.
02:46:41
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yeah I don't hesitate. Yeah, like I said, don't hesitate to hit us up for anything. If you see us live, I'm gonna tell you right now, you got an open door here on the network. If you see us live and you pop in, like, yo, let me get that link. I'll make sure somebody gets the link over to you one way or another. You can come up and hang out with us. But the music definitely keep me in the loop so we can promote it, share it out as well. And if you want to kind of do more of a, for you know, more of a generic interview. I don't believe in generic interviews, man. Like I said, as a fan,
02:47:12
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as a fan of music and as a fan of of like the quote unquote terrestrial radio talk radio. i I love what I do here because I still get the information I want to get obviously you know we we yeah but it's also about a lot and we talk a lot we we get to cover a lot of things and and you never know where the conversation is going to go at the end of the day. um But I still get I still get to slide those generic convert sometimes those generic questions leads down a whole path of Craziness or just a random conversation.
Deeper Conversations and Personal Stories
02:47:43
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Yeah That's that's my problem and I tend I tend to ramble especially when I'm high but you know It's not really a problem I guess a lot of people say that to me and I have a gift of gab that I'm that I have a really good personality where people will talk to me and not afraid to talk to me and sometimes purely organically and and purely by accident, ah you know, I have one
02:48:09
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one thing in mind how I want an interview to go and then next thing I know shit starts to get real deep and it gets real heavy. I had a guy that's on a very successful radio station down in Tampa ah come on the show last year sometime and we were we were both like hey we were going to cut it up we're going to have fun we're going to tell some dick jokes and fart jokes like you know and 10 minutes into the interview, it got real deep and it got real serious and he was sharing things. yeah He was like, yo, man, we were talking after and he's like, I haven't even shared this stuff on the radio. like That's his job. He works for ah for a big radio station. He's like, I haven't even shared this stuff on the radio. Yeah. And he's like, I don't know how you got that out of me. And I'm like, I didn't plan on it. I thought we was going to cut it up. This is just therapy, man. It just help allows people to open up and
02:49:01
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Even if there's not an audience out there, you know, listening. Hey, it doesn't matter, you know, like you're talking, you're getting shut up. At the end of the day, that's what it's about. So, you know, I mean, yeah allowing people to just to to get on the platform. And even though he might be on the radio station, he might not he might not be able to express all that on that station. So, you know, to be able to just sit here and talk about some shit and get deep.
Gratitude and Future Music Collaborations
02:49:27
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Hey, man, you know, this is what it is, you know, and and that's what it That's what a lot of people like these days. But man, you know what, bro? My phone is like hanging on. I got like 6%. Go ahead. I'll let you go, man. Huge thank you again. Don't be a stranger. You're always welcome on the shows. You're always welcome to hear anything we can do for you. We're going to keep playing. I'm going to keep playing the hell out of your music. Like I do everybody else that comes on here. It really does mean a lot to me that that you came on. I'll let you drop down. I'll do my spiel. I'm going to play one more song. I'm actually going to play poison.
02:49:58
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I teach him David Matlock. You guys seen him in the comments tonight. And then I'm going to say thank you to everybody, anybody who watched, to your followers, anybody who follows, anybody who watches it, watches this thing through. Thank you. Love you. And God bless you. Yeah, man. Much love to you, brother. Have a good one. My brother. Best of luck. Looking forward to the future. See you later, bro.
02:50:23
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Our guy, Solo from Reckless High.
Promoting Reckless High and Upcoming Events
02:50:27
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ah Man, I knew he was going to be good. I didn't know he was going to be that good. That was awesome. Uh, definitely huge shout outs, huge, huge shout outs. Uh, make sure y'all are following him on them socials at reckless high. You're going to see.
02:50:45
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Matt, he's been in the comments or Dave. He's been in the comments and I want to call you Matt because of Matt lock. You see Matt lock down there. um I'm going to play one more song and I'm going to come back and do my whole spiel. This is a poison featuring Dave Matt lock. And who knows you guys might see him up here on the network at some point in time, whether it be here.
02:51:07
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or maybe on Jeff's garage because he does some kick-ass fucking fabrications. I was checking out his Instagram page, and you guys can do the same at Matt, and M-A-T underscore fab underscore T-X, Matt Fab Texas. Go check him out, show him some love. He's doing some cool fucking shit, man. that's That's awesome. Everybody does it. Yeah, right? It's just, I just go by names on the screen.
02:51:38
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dave David Matlock, man. Go show him some love. And then we're gonna go ahead and play this song. And this is him on this song as
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Saturday
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I'm going to say this.
Recap of Interview with Mr. Solo
02:55:08
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Reckless High featuring David Matlock with Poise. Powerful **** song there. Especially if anybody's ever been down that road before. Anywho, appreciate y'all. Good listening. Appreciate y'all hanging out. Hopefully, enjoyed the interview tonight. Huge shout out again to Solo Reckless High. Y'all check him out. Show him some love. Tune in tomorrow night. We got a brand new episode of What the **** News.
02:55:33
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it's the news that'll make you go what fuck is wrong with people in the world. Sadly, we can't make this shit up. And also, as always, on Wednesday nights, that the mandatory penis report. I don't know what we're doing, but I'll figure it out. Make sure you tune into the rest of the shows. Monday, we kick off 6 p.m. hosted by my boy, Chris, AKA Wally, Speedway stories and cold blooded conversations. Everything and anything to do with motorsports and reptiles.
02:56:05
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right after Wally at seven o'clock on Mondays has been camper minutes hosted by Connor it is an open panel where they talk about men's mental health in the panel. So the door is open for any and all guys who wants to come in, take part in the conversation and or just get stuff off of their chest. They are more than welcome to Tuesday nights is Glick's house of music. I'll be back next week with a brand new guest and Glick's house of music continues to expand their reach worldwide with Oh holy oath coming to us from Canada Ah, they're gonna be fun. That'll be a good interview a good time Wednesdays as I said, what the fuck news Thursdays when Jeff has guests and when he's ready to do it is just garage Friday is blazing Jeff Hanging out watching movies Uh
02:57:02
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on nonsense and chill.
Weekly Show Schedule of Nonsensical Network
02:57:04
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Saturdays is the main event. The show that started it all here on the network, nonsensical nonsense. We're kicking back. We're having a good time. The inmates take over the asylum. It is an open door challenge. We always drop that link in the chat and anybody and everybody is able to come up here and take part of the show and hang out with us. All we ask is turn your camera on and please Keep your penis and butthole to yourself. I hate that we have to say that, but unfortunately we do. And then we wrap up the week on Sundays with Unnecessary Roughness. It's myself. One more guest of this show and now co-host of Unnecessary Roughness, Derek Wayne Douglas and my boy, Big Rick. We're talking football, NFL, college, making picks, talking predictions, and just talking shit in general every Sunday at noon.
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So we've got a lot of stuff going on. You guys are probably wondering, where can we find everything? Well, Facebook, Instagram X, Tiki talking shows are live Monday through Sunday on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch. And you can listen anytime, any place, wherever you listen to podcasts at all at the nonsensical network or go to bio.link slash nonsensical network. It's been scrolling at the bottom of the screen all night long. All them links are there. You know, the drill gives a follow. Give us a like.
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Give us a share if you'd be so kind and open to check out our merch store. We got some pretty shit in there. Um, so you might find something you like, whether it be in the merch store or on the network, you're bound to find something. I do appreciate y'all listening. Appreciate everybody for being here. Shout out again to solo reckless high. And as soon as I figured out how to make my buttons work, I'm going to hit this button and get the flock out of here. And as always be good, be good at it, baby.
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