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Good morning, beautiful people. How
are you guys doing? You know,

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I can tell you guys sing just
by the way you said high arrow,

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because that was harmony. Oh my
god. Yeah, that's our default,

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you know, can't escape it.
Oh my god. I mean you know

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they always Randy from from the group
Alabama used to say that harmony only comes

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from family, and and everything that
I've read about you guys, you are

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family. You and you you really
bring family together for us out here.

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Oh cute. So to put this
book together only because I'm the author that

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usually writes, and while I'm putting
my stories together, I create music.

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You're you're going the other direction.
You you created music and now you're writing.

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Did you how are we supposed to
pick up on your song on a

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page? Well? Yeah? Like
it that. I mean, music is

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everywhere for us, and you know, we recently became dads, and so

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we've just been immersed in kids music
and kids books and all this stuff.

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And it it's just with such a
natural transition to creating something that put all

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of that music onto the page.
I guess I like that we have.

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What's so hard about what's so hard
about this is that I want to share

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my book that that was sent to
me with everybody. But I'm going no,

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that's not the business world of books. They have to go buy their

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own book right available everywhere. Books
are solved because it's filled with so much

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love. And we live in a
society and I love me some American idol,

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and America's got talent, but they
still judge. And that's why so

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many people do not sing, because
they don't want to be judged. That

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is absolutely the message of our of
our book that singing is for everyone.

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Singing is without any requirements. Everyone
has a follow And really the question of

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why do we sing? That the
book answers that there are so many reasons.

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Certainly entertaining is one of them,
but so is storytelling, so is

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preserving you know, parts of your
culture. So is you know, singing

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your children. So there are so
many reasons we sing, and we wanted

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to capture a few of them in
this book. Well, and you go

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well beyond where radio even touches,
because you talk about I mean, you

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talk about Bollywood, you talk about
Broadway even in our own backyard, which

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I do all the time inside this
forest in South Charlotte. Oh absolutely,

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yeah, wow, But yeah,
I mean, and so the book,

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you know, touches on those reasons
and then through the lens of all of

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these, like you said, global
vocal traditions. So it's also teaching kids

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that you know, all the reasons
you know you sing, there are people

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around the world singing for those exact
same reasons, even if the music sounds

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different. I'm so glad that you
bring that up, because this was the

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very first time in American music history
that there were more Latin songs on the

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charts than American songs. Yeah.
International music is so huge, and it's

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something that I think is so exciting
that we're more and more exposed to music

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from around the world, in different
languages, from different cultures. Yeah.

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And on the soundtrack album, we
collaborated with some great artists and artists in

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vidiovox for a Bollywood inspired track,
with Anthony Gonzalez, who is the voice

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of Miguel from Coco on a Mariachi
inspired track. So there's a little bit

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of that sort of international influence in
the soundtrack album as well as the book.

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Why do We say? Isn't it
inspiring in the way that that you

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take thoughts and you create a book, you create music. A lot of

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people don't understand that openness and that
journey, and I think a book like

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this hopefully will serve as an invitation
to It's okay to sing in your bedroom,

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but give it to the world.
Yes, I mean that is you,

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you encapsulated in a nutshell, and
I mean so much to us to

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hear you say that that's what you
got from it, because that's exactly It's

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an invitation. And you know,
for so many kids, singing as the

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first way we can make music.
And so this is a book saying go

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for it, do it. And
there are so many reasons why. Now

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I'm not going to lie to you, guys. I still have a cassette

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tape from my father in the nineteen
seventies where he literally walked into my bedroom

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and told me to shut up,
quit making so much noise, and that

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inspired me to even get louder.
That it's great that you took inspiration from

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that. We welcome the newise.
Yeah, I mean, because I can't

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imagine how many other kids or even
young adults before even teen years go through

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that where where the parents just don't
understand being out of tune is okay,

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oh yeah, oh for sure,
I sure, Oh yeah, I think

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you know if you're if you're learning
violin, you're it's not gonna sound like

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a concert violin for a while.
But the journey is part of the journey

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is part of it, and I
think some of the fodest memories that you

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carry as a musician are from childhood
and when you're a teen and when you're

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learning and practicing and nothing is perfect
yet, nothing is the final product.

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But it's one of the most beautiful
partner of the journey. Well, not

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to harp on my father, I
do have something very happy about him.

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He was a yodeler, and you
included in this book. I was like,

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oh my god, he was a
yodeler. Oh that's hard. Did

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he teach Are you a yodeler too? I can't go that way, I

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mean I but he would. He
would yodel in the kitchen on the weekends

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when he was making breakfast. And
that's probably the biggest memory I have of

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my father. Oh beautiful, yodeling
is hard and so cool. Yeah,

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well, it's only because when we
watched he Haw on Saturday nights that they

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would yodel a lot on that show. And I'm sure, that's why he

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did it. Yeah, yeah,
but you have to really master your flip

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between chest voice and head voice for
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about doing a yodeling inspired track and
we're like maybe for the next one.

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How much pressure was on you Sam
to do the illustrating. You know,

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I've always, since I was the
kid again, sort of finding the joy

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and the things we loved when we
were children. I've always loved drawing and

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painting, and this is really the
first project where I've been able to sort

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of put that on display. And
childhood Home is covered in his paintings from

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and your Mom saved every etchra scale. Yeah, so this really feels like

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the first time I've been able to
put everything that's important to me, you

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know, the music, the singing, my family, the illustration all into

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one sort of package. And it
feels so surreal to be able to hold

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that in my hands. So it's
really speciful. Well, that's how I

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got people to come to my writing
is that I'm also an artist on the

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canvas, but I would put poetry
on the canvas, and so they would

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go up there and look at the
art and then and then take note of

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the poetry. So, I mean, I totally understand that you bring things

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together when art, you know,
becomes all genres absolutely and it adds a

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new dimension to the art. Yeah, definitely cool. Yeah, what did

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you learn from this project? Because
once again it's you know, it seems

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so easy to get out there and
just sing on YouTube and things like that,

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but when you put a book together
that comes from your soul. Yeah,

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I think that's exactly it. Just
realizing how how easy it is when

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something is flowing from your passion and
genuine love, and that every every part

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of the process, even the stuff
where you're okay, how do we edit

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this, how do we cut that
out? It's also really fun to work

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on and now maybe comes even the
most fun part when we get to see

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kids reading it and families sharing it, is like so cool. Yeah.

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I mean I think it's challenging with
the project that's so close to you because

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you want it to be the perfect
encapsulation of how you feel about music and

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art. And I think just just
actually being confronted with making this full album

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and writing and illustrating this book was
a real release of Yeah, will you

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ever extend the reach and try to
get onto pop radio? Hey, you

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know, never say never. Yeah, and definitely you know with this album

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of kids music, we we're excited
about that as well and want to do

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more. So Yeah, we're going
to keep on singing. Speaking of music,

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they told me in the very beginning
that there's a guitarist with you.

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I would be robbing my listeners of
a beautiful journey if I didn't allow you

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guys to share your art. Absolutely. This is a little selection from the

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lead single of our official soundtrack album, Why Do We Sing? Yeah,

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you can sing at home, you
can sing on stage, a song to

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a trio. Why sing for fun? You can find for shading, to

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weather taine or to inspire. It's
a song for you and the song for

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me. When we sing there,
they can say, not for me.

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Why do you read novel? Oh
yeah? Why do we read? A

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song? Can do anything? That's
why read. Oh my god, you

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guys have got to make a movie. Oh my god. I mean,

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if that, dude, oh my
god, if that didn't feel like I'm

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sitting there watching a movie, Oh
my god, that was unbelievable. Thank

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you so much. And I'd love
that you put the La La laws and

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the Sha laws and things like that
because that's how most people sing. You

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don't have to put words in there. And Paul McCartney prove that true with

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with Scrambled Eggs, which came,
which became let it Be. Now,

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the question is where can we find
you? You can find us online Sam

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Shuey A, Sam T s u, I, Katy Brevis b R E

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V E s on all the socials
and you can find out what we're up

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to and not not sure yet,
but we're doing a few little fun book

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events for the release today and in
the coming week in LA New York and

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the Philly area. But h yeah, stay tuned, follow us on Socialists

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to know more. Oh, you're
going to those tiny little towns, oh,

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I understand. Start, start very
small, and then and then eventually

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you'll get to like a waxaw in
North Carolina. I get it. I

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get it. Yes, I love
you guys man. I can't thank you

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enough. Thank you for having me. Will you be brilliant today? Okay, thanks