WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.919 And welcome to Cindy Stumpo Toughest Nails on WBZ. And 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:07.280 I'm here tonight with Samy, of course, and our guest 3 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:09.359 is who want to introduce yourself? And you want me 4 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:11.679 to introduce you because you have a beautiful voice. 5 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:13.439 My name is Darnelle Alexander. 6 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:15.400 And like I said, he's got the beautiful voice, you 7 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:15.960 have a yellow Nay. 8 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:22.559 No, well it's happened. But I'm very stoic in that 9 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:24.640 sense where I don't do a lot of yelling and screaming. 10 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:28.879 Darryl, tell my listeners who you are, Darnell, I said, Darnelle, 11 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:31.079 I said, Darryl oh Donald. 12 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:32.240 She changes everyone's name. 13 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:35.119 Michelle get used that that's called that's called metopause. Brain. 14 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:35.560 Go ahead. 15 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:38.679 So my name is Darnelle Alexander and I'm an R 16 00:00:38.679 --> 00:00:41.600 and B singer, but more so a K crooner. So 17 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:46.520 I love to sing ballads, love ballads specifically. Was spotted 18 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:50.320 on TikTok last year in May for singing in a 19 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:54.880 garage singing Luther Vangels covers acapella, and that kind of 20 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:58.920 started this whole trajectory of me being kind of like 21 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.759 a rebirth for an artist to come back out and 22 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:04.760 show the world what I really do. 23 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:08.159 And then I found you and I said, I need 24 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:10.920 you on my radio show. We're in thirty eight states, right, 25 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:12.799 And I love when people say, oh, you're a podcast. 26 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:15.879 No no, no, no no, I'm still a national radio show. Okay, 27 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:19.079 you got the podcast that you're building, right bye. 28 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:22.000 I'll tell you something, Cindy, what honey. So I'm looking 29 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:23.920 at the stickers in the back that say jam in 30 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:26.439 ninety four five, and you know, I have a history 31 00:01:26.439 --> 00:01:28.719 of doing jingles, and I don't know if you guys 32 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:32.959 remember that jingle more Music in the morning, jamm in 33 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:34.159 ninety four five. 34 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:36.519 Yes, why do I remember that? 35 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:37.799 Because I do those? 36 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.640 You do those? So you do those germ in ninety 37 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:42.840 four to five out of what state? 38 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:47.680 So the company that does all the jingles for worldwide 39 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:49.560 it is called Real World are ee L. 40 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:51.680 So you're doing them for Boston Gym in ninety four 41 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:52.200 point five. 42 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:54.719 So these have all been done years ago, but they 43 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:56.519 repeat them, you know, they play them over a certain 44 00:01:56.519 --> 00:02:00.239 period of time for syndicated radio shows. But I just 45 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:01.640 looked at that and I was like, yeah, that I 46 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:04.400 remember the jingle I did for them, more Music in 47 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:04.840 the morning. 48 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:07.239 Yeah, the Germ in ninety four or five. We've been 49 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:11.120 here for god how many thirty years. Germ in ninety four, 50 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:14.120 Richie balls Will owned your gam and so we got 51 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:15.599 to go back at least that far. 52 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:19.240 Well, at least in the late nineties when I started 53 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:23.280 doing yeah, yeah, that's cool stuff. Goodn to see you. 54 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:27.439 Instagram. I don't know how. I don't know how. Let 55 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:30.360 me tell you what else you tell her? I don't know. Good. 56 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.520 So, after I had this whole craziness on TikTok, I 57 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:37.960 went I think I got three point whatever million views, 58 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:41.439 three million views on the so amazing Acapella. Then it 59 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:44.840 somehow migrated over to Instagram, and then Dion Cole the 60 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:46.919 comedian posted it on his page, and then all help 61 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:49.159 broke loose and all kinds of celebrities and people started 62 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:53.080 seeing it, like Julie ol white Ercle. I was like, bro, 63 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.599 you posted me on your story. This is this is 64 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:58.080 real life. Now let me get ready for what else, 65 00:02:58.159 --> 00:02:59.159 whatever else is coming. 66 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.319 So you think that's how I saw it through that. 67 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:05.879 I think I think that. So basically with social media, 68 00:03:05.879 --> 00:03:08.000 it's really cool, right. So it's like you remember the 69 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:10.120 old commercial and I know you fill me on this one. 70 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:14.159 You know that it's that parrel or whatever, that shampoo, 71 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:16.840 and you know and so on and so on and 72 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:19.439 so on and so on, and she told her friends 73 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:24.479 and so on. Yes, yes, herbal essence is more of 74 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:26.800 like a romantic, sexy sentual. 75 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:31.280 Go ahead, you're right, hair product and so on. 76 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:33.360 I do have quite a I do have quite a 77 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:35.639 bit of knowledge on commercials and stuff, so I pay 78 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:36.800 attention to all these things. 79 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:41.319 So random, and then I reached out to you, obviously, 80 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:44.439 and I said, yeah, I need you on my show, right, 81 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.439 And that's how it starts, right, like anything else, which 82 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:49.560 I'm stamp my producer do, right, but I don't I 83 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:52.080 just go out and say and I screenshot it and 84 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:55.919 I say, ross chase this man. I need them. I 85 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:58.919 want them on, right, because if I can help give 86 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:03.360 somebody that I think me personally has something to offer 87 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:07.800 out there and give them free advertising, I'm gonna do that, right. 88 00:04:07.879 --> 00:04:10.800 So you just blew me away on that that song, 89 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:12.800 and then I went I started. Then I started to 90 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:14.479 follow you, and I started listening to one after the 91 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:16.079 other after the other, and I said, Wow, this guy 92 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:21.360 is so talented. What a voice, right, And I don't know. 93 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:23.759 I was like literally, you know, it was one after 94 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:25.439 the other stament. You know how you get addicted to 95 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:27.480 something and you're like, okay. 96 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:28.399 Going down the rabbit hole. 97 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:32.720 Yeah, It's like when I watched somebody look at my 98 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:35.680 stuff on Instagram. There are people that go absolutely postal, right, 99 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:38.439 and you can see that they've looked at twenty two wheels, 100 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:40.720 right or whatever, because it shows. 101 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:43.600 Up, Cindy. Know, when we're looking at the reels that 102 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:46.560 you make, we're just you know, they're either dreaming or 103 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.439 they're saying this will be a reality, and. 104 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:52.480 They look at my reels, right, So that's right, that's right. 105 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:56.040 It's like I call my you know my mine's kind 106 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:59.639 of like pornography for houses, right, like right, yeah, you 107 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:03.319 know house porn. Can this be you know, my life 108 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:03.800 one day? 109 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:04.120 Right? 110 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:08.040 So I'm hoping to give something. Absolutely it can be 111 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:09.839 anybody's life, right, you just gotta. 112 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:11.519 Go now, our algorithm is going to be porn. 113 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:14.480 Now our phones try to say point, I'll have point 114 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:16.920 on my phone now, right. We didn't really, we didn't 115 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:19.560 really just say porn Apple, like we sent house. We 116 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:25.160 said houses, show me houses, lots of houses. But it's 117 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:27.399 look If you can make a difference in people's lives, 118 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:30.160 that's great. If you can't, you can't, that's also what 119 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.839 it is. But I mean, there's not too many women 120 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:34.639 doing what I've been doing for thirty seven years out there. 121 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.240 Let's just call that what it is. Right, So I 122 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:39.759 get all the I get all the terrible young guys 123 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:42.839 like that are in their thirties that go, oh that's 124 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:46.399 a terrible buddy. What kid? Shut up before I come 125 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:48.959 to this phone. I break your face as you have 126 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:51.399 a vanity that doesn't look like it came out of 127 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:53.160 home depot. I don't even know where it came from, right, 128 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:54.759 Like it came from some I don't know. 129 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:57.000 But arts and crafts. 130 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:00.920 It's just glow with right. And I'm like, but you 131 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:03.399 really take a shot at me, like really, like come on, 132 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:07.279 don't play, don't play. And the funny part about my 133 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:11.839 social media is the white boys come after me hard, 134 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:15.399 but the black guys protect me. They're like, oh, I 135 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:17.560 see we've got some mummy issues going on here, right. 136 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.439 And it's so funny because they'll send me messages and say, 137 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:23.959 don't listen to these things. You know, they don't they 138 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:27.199 don't see your tenacity. Don't see your fire in your eyes. 139 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:30.160 I don't know why because they'll say, oh, she's an influencer, 140 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:32.639 Oh she she her daddy built the business. No daddy 141 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:36.839 built this business. No husband build this business. But there's 142 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:40.839 a difference. And we see it completely on my social media, 143 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:44.360 completely on my social media. And they're young guys. They're like, 144 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.399 miss Stumble. Don't listen to those boys like they don't 145 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:49.319 know what a hard day's day or whatever. 146 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:51.360 It's just because you know, when you see, you know, 147 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:54.240 real recognizes real. So when you got these little boys, 148 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:56.240 they just have so much more to learn before they 149 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:57.279 can get to that real point. 150 00:06:57.399 --> 00:06:58.959 Well, can we slap them in the back of the head. 151 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:00.680 Maybe, Yeah, I think you could. 152 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:03.639 Because I'll always say, look, kid, listen, I'm going to 153 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:06.279 give you one more opportunity to back it down and 154 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:08.319 then I'm going to masculate you. Right. And then one 155 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:12.519 guy writes, do you always read your your comments? I go, yes, buddy, 156 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:14.839 this is a sport for me. So when I go back, 157 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:16.759 it's a sport like I'm bored. It's eleven o'clock. And 158 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:18.199 then I'm like, I let me go fight with some 159 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:20.560 guys on here, right, Let me put them in their place. 160 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:21.879 I don't know why I still do that, but it's 161 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:25.000 actually it is fun to me. So tell us what 162 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:27.079 else is going on? Well, tell us your story. Who 163 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:27.360 you are? 164 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:29.519 Yes, Oh my gosh. So my story goes back into 165 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:34.160 the the early nineties. You know, I've been doing well. 166 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:36.519 I've been singing since I was in middle school, but 167 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:39.000 then I started getting into the real stuff, producing my 168 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:42.519 own material in the early nineties when Teddy Riley and 169 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:45.240 New Jack Swing came out, and you know, Johnny Gill 170 00:07:45.279 --> 00:07:48.839 and all those cool artists like that, and ever since then, 171 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:51.720 I've been going at it. But yeah, I'm from Seattle, 172 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:55.439 Washington originally such a beautiful city. Don't know how I 173 00:07:55.439 --> 00:08:00.480 made it here to Minnesota, but I did. Probably It's 174 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:02.480 a lot less rainy and a lot more sun, so 175 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:04.120 I'm not going to complain. And you always try to 176 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:05.720 find the brightness in everything. 177 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:07.959 I have a ton of friends from Minnesota and they 178 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:10.879 are all like the nicest, most polite people you've ever met. 179 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.800 And they all work hard, all of them. 180 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:16.839 They all work hard. Everyone hears about their business. 181 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:24.519 So yeah, we ut been to Boston. People too much chowder, 182 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:26.680 maybe too much legal. 183 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:28.800 Childa so my friends that are from the Midwest, they 184 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:30.720 say that they like wave to people here in the street, 185 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:32.120 people because I'm like, what are you looking at me for? 186 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:33.639 What are you waving to me? Why are you staring 187 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:33.879 at me? 188 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:34.240 Yeah? 189 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:36.279 Yeah, wait wait no, it's probably like this. They go, 190 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:38.559 what are you looking at? It is Boston? What are 191 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:40.639 you looking at? What are you looking at? 192 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:42.200 That's hilarious. What are you looking at? 193 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:44.759 What are you looking at? Darn all? That I thought 194 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:46.200 was going to go with a break. We'll be right back. 195 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:48.159 I'm Sin Stumpo, and you listen to Toughest Nails in 196 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:50.759 WBZ and We'll be right back. And welcome back to 197 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:53.879 Toughest Nails. I'm Cindy Stumpo and you listen to WBZ 198 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.679 News Radio ten thirty. Sammy Darnell, that's a beautiful song. 199 00:08:58.799 --> 00:08:59.320 What is that? 200 00:08:59.600 --> 00:08:59.960 What if? 201 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:02.080 What is what is that? 202 00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:05.159 What if? What if? What if? What if? 203 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:06.399 What did you write that? 204 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:09.519 No? So there's a kid he's like twenty six years old, 205 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:11.840 twenty five years old from here Minneapolis, and his dad 206 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:14.600 used to be signed to Flight Time Records, Bob Johnston, 207 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:18.159 and so they linked up with me through Instagram and 208 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:19.399 we're making music together. 209 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:23.080 Amazing what social media can do when it's you, isn't it? 210 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:24.600 It really is? You know, really, if you want to 211 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:28.039 manifest something, just you know, instead of scroll that word, 212 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:31.879 but listen, but listen to this. Look, we're creating reality, right. 213 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.120 So you know, when I scroll through Instagram, I'm looking 214 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.360 for bits of inspiration, bits of uh, you know, information 215 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:43.399 that I can use to create something new, versus just 216 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:46.279 versus the scroll because I'm bored. I want to try 217 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:48.720 to use my time as wisely as possible. And so 218 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:50.200 then I ran into him and I was like, let 219 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:52.360 me messg this guy and say, you know, you're cool, 220 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:56.799 your music is unique, what's what's what's cracking? You know? 221 00:09:57.559 --> 00:09:59.960 So he does the same thing I do. So he's 222 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.759 looking to move his creative juices, right and when I haven't, 223 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:06.919 you know, just some of those days and nights that 224 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:09.720 I just can't bring the designs together, Like my brain 225 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.480 is looking at just like a white wall and nothing's 226 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:16.159 coming to it. Because all these houses that we build, 227 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:20.120 I don't have an architect that designs them. I'm down 228 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:23.000 to the door, not buddy like. So is that times 229 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:26.000 that you just need those inspirational photos? It might not 230 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:28.200 be something that I like, but there might be something 231 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:31.519 in there that then we creates my brain to go. 232 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:31.720 Right. 233 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:34.519 You're always trying to make the next best album. Absolutely, 234 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:36.000 That's what I'm always trying to do, right. 235 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:37.440 I'm always trying to best my best. 236 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:40.879 That's just a personality. What's your birthday sign? 237 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:41.960 I'm a libra. 238 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:45.200 Oh okay, I'm a cancer so and she's an aries. 239 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:47.919 See it's all good. It mashes really good. 240 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:53.200 Here it matches. So now you're making music together November October. 241 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:55.879 I'm in September twenty seventh. 242 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:59.240 Why they're different, they. 243 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:01.480 Are, they say, you know, depending on how earlier or late. 244 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:06.559 He's put a light of virgo all day. He's partly crazy. 245 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.080 All my virginal friends are crazy. See he knows he's crazy, 246 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:12.639 so keep going. 247 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:17.240 Yeah. So, but you know, gosh, I mean, you know. So, 248 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:18.320 I used to be in an R and B group 249 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:23.039 back in the nineties called Second Nature right and we 250 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:24.960 did Acapella AR and B. So we were touring and 251 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:27.399 doing little stuff with Boys to Men and groups like 252 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:31.759 that Patty LaBelle and did the BT stage, which was 253 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:33.840 scary as heck because you know you're on TV, but 254 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:36.799 you don't know who's watching, but you know everybody's watching. 255 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:40.279 Bet right absolutely back in the day, yeah, back. 256 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:42.200 In the day, right, And it was midnight Love, so 257 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:44.519 you know, they kind of featured our song and we 258 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:45.639 did a live performance. 259 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:48.120 What it sound like? 260 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:49.759 It sounded amazing. 261 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:51.200 Let me let's see. 262 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:52.480 Oh you mean like, can you show me? 263 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:54.240 No, yeah, you can show me, and. 264 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:59.519 You showe me? Will you show me the way to 265 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:04.600 a hot show? 266 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:06.440 Baby? 267 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:14.639 Can you show me? Will you show me the way 268 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:19.279 to your hot I'm singing really soft. 269 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:21.320 I know with that Wake the baby, but but he's 270 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:24.000 got nothing playing behind him right now. He's just sitting 271 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:27.320 here and singing, just singing, just singing. 272 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:29.200 But we so that was like our little theme song, 273 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:31.399 you know, a slow love song ballad. 274 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:34.840 And where are we going from here? Like what what 275 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:36.559 you have conscience coming up? 276 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:39.000 Oh? This is crazy. So as a result of the 277 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:41.240 whole TikTok thing, right, this is like, you know, I've 278 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:42.879 kind of been out of the loop for many years. 279 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:44.440 And then I said no, I'm just going to go 280 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:46.240 in the garage and sing a little bit of a 281 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:50.120 cappella posted on TikTok, and then from there people were like, yeah, 282 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:52.120 we want to book you. Like, come out here, come 283 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.279 and sing. I'm like, you guys haven't even seen my 284 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:55.840 stage show. You guys just want me to come out. 285 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:59.080 I'm like, I'll be happy too. So from there, you know, 286 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:00.840 it hasn't even been a yet, and I've done a 287 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:05.600 few performances in Redondo Beach, Long Island, Vegas, and the 288 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:09.519 Apollo Theater in New York and The Grateful. I'm just 289 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:12.039 grateful to write the Apollo Theater. I'm like, what is 290 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.759 this life? This is great. Let me just believe in 291 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:16.480 everything that is possible. 292 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:22.559 And then if people want to hire you, obviously, Let's 293 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:26.159 say somebody's I'm having a wedding for Samantha and I 294 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:27.840 can afford to bring you in, and you want to 295 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:30.039 come in? Will you do those type of acts? 296 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:30.720 Or you? 297 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:33.360 Am I manifest Yeah? Am I manifesting that you're going 298 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:34.159 to get married soon? 299 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:34.440 Yeah? 300 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:36.080 Got it? 301 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:37.759 But yeah, I mean I'm. 302 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:40.080 Also manifesting them twenty three and I'm five to eleven 303 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:42.360 and I'm just like a supermodel. But that's not happening. 304 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:44.320 Hold on, maybe it's gonna happen. I don't know. I 305 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:47.759 don't really understand that word. I can faceto that, Yeah, 306 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:49.240 I can AI can make it for me? 307 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:49.519 Right? 308 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:52.559 I mean, I'm watching Michael Jackson. All these actors get 309 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:54.440 older and old and older, and they're all dead. Like 310 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:56.360 this is the greatest thing. Like you take a picture, 311 00:13:57.080 --> 00:14:00.080 you take a picture of your great great grandfather and 312 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:04.679 in war clothes and make them alive. Like it's spooky, 313 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:08.320 it's scary, it's weird, it's awesome. Though, it's pretty awesome. 314 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:10.759 Well, you know, the thing is with all the greats 315 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:13.039 like you mentioned, like Michael Jackson and all these great 316 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.600 legends that are disappearing, that's really my whole goal and 317 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:19.720 drive right now is to kind of insert myself back 318 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:22.240 in so you can still have a few left before 319 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:25.320 there's no greats and nobody's singing you know, really good 320 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:27.840 love ballads and music that really means something to people's 321 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:29.039 hearts and souls. 322 00:14:29.399 --> 00:14:33.159 But do you see, Darnell that these young kids they 323 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.879 are dancing to seventies and early eighties music. Yeah, they 324 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:39.480 just got their own dance to it. But me and 325 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:42.639 I'm watching these two kids right and they like act 326 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:45.279 like it's the first time they heard Journey or Aerosmith, right, 327 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:49.480 like right, whoa, whoa, And they listen to the beats, 328 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:53.480 and they're like, we had the best music, and I 329 00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:54.759 think you might be younger. 330 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.399 Than me in the eighties and nineties were the best. 331 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:00.600 See I didn't like nineties. I'd like, is more like 332 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:04.960 dance a lot of So there must be there must 333 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:08.399 be ten years. How old are you? So we're five 334 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:12.080 years apart? But nineties to me was like the worst 335 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:14.759 music because I came out of that as a young 336 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:19.080 teenager seventies and then graduating high school in eighty two. Right, 337 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:22.399 and then the world changed around eighty four music, right, 338 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:25.000 and you have the big herebeans. But when you well, 339 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:26.799 you got hip hop came out, and then hip hop 340 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:29.279 that's what and then you know then all that you know, 341 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:35.360 but every we had soft rock. Think about this. We 342 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:39.120 had rock and roll, we had heavy metal, right, we 343 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:43.480 had disco, We had from Carol King, James Taylor to 344 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:47.720 you know, Ozzy Osbourne, Aeros. I mean, what didn't we have? 345 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:49.759 You want to cry? You put this song on, you 346 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:51.679 want to get ready to get pumped out? You listen 347 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:53.960 to chic freak Out, you know what I mean? Like 348 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:56.080 we're going out, it's a same night. Let's play the 349 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:58.600 disco if you want to just listen to you know, 350 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:01.960 rock and roll, whatever, Smith, Rolling Stones, whatever it was. 351 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:06.440 We had a great variety of lyrics and music. Then 352 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:09.919 we went down a avenue that the music got to me. 353 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:15.200 Music I wasn't really wanted to listen to my kids 354 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.120 obviously did I'm like, okay, your mother does your dad 355 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:20.039 and yeah, this is not for me. 356 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:20.360 Right. 357 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:22.639 And a good friend of mine you might know the 358 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:27.759 name Charlie Walk. He was the president of our republican epic. Okay, 359 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:31.919 he was right, So he was was Tomy Mattola, Donnie 360 00:16:31.919 --> 00:16:34.200 Iron or the show that it was Charlie Walk. Then 361 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:37.200 Tommy got fired, Then Donnie Isy wentz that position and 362 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:39.840 Charlie went that position. Charlie was just in the studio 363 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:44.639 last week and he said that music is going underground 364 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:49.200 and we'll resurface again. But if you notice, you know, 365 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:53.480 the kids playing guitars in garages, that's coming back too, 366 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:56.399 and you want to see that come back. I want 367 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:59.639 to see that come back. Social media. 368 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:02.279 It's the beautif social media, and they want the reality 369 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:05.279 to come back. They want to see people bringing it 370 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:06.720 literally into their homes. 371 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:09.880 But Donald, you watch these kids And I picked this 372 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:13.880 up through COVID. The roller skating never came out of 373 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:17.079 the urban communities, right, But I grew up roller skating 374 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:20.079 right and round, around and around and around and dancing 375 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:24.559 and spinning and trill and everything. And now you see 376 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:27.960 these kids doing it again and it's not it's great. 377 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:31.640 And then you see them collaborating out there, you know, 378 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:34.680 on the on the boardwalks down on the west coasts. 379 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:38.759 It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable to watch that again. So of 380 00:17:38.799 --> 00:17:40.680 course I had to order pereer roller skates. 381 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:40.920 Right. 382 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:43.000 So I'm in the lower level. That's a good idea. 383 00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:44.839 I'm in the lower part of my office. I'm like, 384 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:46.279 let me try this all right, Now, that was a 385 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:48.680 really good roller skater, right, Like, okay, this is not 386 00:17:48.839 --> 00:17:51.279 so good anymore. And I'm like on the rug and 387 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:54.119 I'm like, maybe I should try this outside? The rays 388 00:17:54.200 --> 00:17:56.759 going maybe you should, and I'm like, no, maybe I should. 389 00:17:56.799 --> 00:17:58.599 Then I went outside. I'm like, okay, I need to 390 00:17:58.599 --> 00:18:00.759 buy better roller skates. That's the But it's not really me. 391 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:03.079 It's the roll skates. I'm going to spot send a 392 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:04.039 lot of money on roll skates. 393 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:06.319 Now, you know, there's houses that you can roller skate, 394 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:07.599 and I'm sure you've been in for you. 395 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:09.440 Yes, I can roll scan everyone in my house is 396 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:11.680 it'd beautiful. And I can roll skate in the hockey 397 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:14.000 rings that I build in my houses right and I'm 398 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:15.759 gonna do that right now because we're building one right 399 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:17.559 now for a client, and I'm gonna take my roll skates. 400 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:21.160 I'm gonna rolls skate around. But I mean, your your 401 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:25.480