Music Junkies Podcast

"BLUE BALLS" with Sadia

November 13, 2023 Annette Smith / Sadia Season 3 Episode 16
Music Junkies Podcast
"BLUE BALLS" with Sadia
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Prepare to be entertained by our vibrant guest who not only speaks five languages but also composes hilarious songs centered on male anatomy. This episode takes you on a rollercoaster ride as Sadia unveils how music has crafted the story of her life, from her Ohio roots to the eclectic music culture that is Los Angeles. We look back on the profound impact of classics like Dolly Parton’s Jolene and explore the nostalgic summer tunes that shaped her youthful memories.

Fasten your seatbelts for an exciting exploration of dating in the bright lights of Las Vegas. Listen to a captivating story about a Princeton graduate and how their encounter amplified the meaning of the song 'Walking on Sunshine'. Our guest offers a comparison between the iconic 1980s TV show 'Friday Night Videos' and today's MTV, serving a cocktail of nostalgia and modernity.

Lastly, get ready to laugh as we track our guest's comedic journey. The world of stand-up comedy is not for the faint-hearted but Sadia shares her path, the science behind comedy, and the invaluable role of mentorship in this industry. Expect a candid conversation about the challenges of being a woman in comedy, her advice for newcomers, and a sneak peek into her upcoming projects. We also dive into the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in music and applaud the songwriting prowess of Squeeze. This episode is a treasure trove of stories, experiences, and insights that will leave you inspired and entertained.

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Speaker 1:

Welcome everyone to Music Junkies, a podcast about people sharing extraordinary stories about how music has impacted their lives. Welcome everyone to Music Junkies. Our guest today grew up in Ohio with a determination. I love that. You said that determination. To be interesting, she speaks five languages. She lives and works in three continents. You will know her as a girl that sings comedy songs about dicks. Please welcome, say to the show. I love it. Dick songs, my favorite right. I love it. I'm so excited to see you All the way from Las Vegas. I wish I was there. I was just there in May. So I love Vegas. I've been there a million times. Now we get to. Maybe next time we'll be able to do it live which?

Speaker 1:

would be really cool.

Speaker 2:

Well, we are Canada's backyard. I've worked in the tourism industry and so many Canadians come down here. We love our Canadians. So, yes, hit me up. I've got all kinds of insider tips and tricks on like cool places. There's even a Canadian bar downtown in the D hotel with your fancy Canadian moulson beer thing going on.

Speaker 1:

I love it. Before we get started I always liked my, like my uh blah. Before we get started, I always like to ask my guests what was your experience putting your playlist for me today, Like, how did you come up with the songs? Did you go down some rabbit holes?

Speaker 2:

It was so cool, like I just love this format because you know there's a song by the stray cats, you know, put me Sammy and you'll understand. In my veins the music ran and that's literally me, like songs have saved my life, have shaped my life, and it was so powerful to me to realize that the way to thank the singer, songwriters and the singers was to write my own stuff. And maybe one day someone will be like, wow, this song you know, by Saudi, a Corona. It was amazing, like what a great opportunity, what a beautiful service you provide for both the people that you interview and for your listeners, because music is food for the soul. It's so personal and at the same time, so universal because we all listen to it.

Speaker 1:

So it was fantastic.

Speaker 2:

It was a lot of fun. I can't wait. I can't wait.

Speaker 1:

Good, all right, we're going to open up with your first song, which is a great song you ready.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, let's do this. So, dolly Parton, jolene, credible yeah.

Speaker 1:

I wanted to give the listeners a chance.

Speaker 2:

I knew instantly so the story of this song, the ground in Ohio. I say we are literally the middle of nowhere because I was across the river from Kentucky, which is south Kentucky, bourbon, kentucky Derby, kentucky Fried Chicken, and we are close to Indiana. But the other side of my state is Pennsylvania and to the north, believe it or not, is Canada, lake Erie and then Canada. So no one thinks of us as Canada adjacent East things were west, the west things were east, the north things were south Michigan. It's just a mess. So I did not have a lot of country music growing up and I was in a record store, in a Meebo Records on Sunset in LA, and this song came over, you know, just, it was what they were playing and I literally stopped in my tracks and I was like what in the hell is this? Like it just stabbed me in the heart, you know, and I just stopped and I just listened and I was like, oh my God. And then I probably Googled it, because she says Jolene like a thousand times, and I looked into the story of it and a couple months later I was briefly in a band we were called the Starfish, these two old guys and me and they said you should do, jolene. I was like Jolene, so so we did it with my band. We performed it a few open mics in LA and the story of the song is so amazing. So Dolly Parton dropped it gorgeous, right.

Speaker 2:

She married, I guess like her first boyfriend, you know. She dated a little bit and then this guy locked her in and she's madly in love with this guy. Like he literally suddenly had to go to the bank every day. He was like, oh, we need change or oh, I'm gonna change this one, you're all. Oh, I'm gonna do this. And he was talking about this girl, jolene, in his dreams.

Speaker 2:

So Dolly Parton took her fine little self down to the bank and had to talk to this girl. Like there was a real domain that she thought was a threat to her marriage. And that's why, when you hear her sing it for me it's like the tears of Dolly's soul are in this song. She was not like, oh, let me write a song, blah, blah, blah. She was like you could have your choice of men, but I can never love again the only one for me, jolene. I had to have this talk with you. My happiness depends on you. Whatever you decide to do, jolene. So Dolly Parton dropped it. Gorgeous millionaire, just the thought of begging this bank teller. Please take anybody, but not him. I cannot live without this one. I think a lot of us have loved that way. Perhaps not as successful as the successful is Dolly, because I'm still single, but it really hit a nerve with me.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I love it. So what kind of music did you listen up when your parents played when you were growing up?

Speaker 2:

My mom was a really into the 50s. Okay, not a whole lot of Elvis, but I remember we had some mixtape with the whole bunch of songs from the 50s and there was this one song called Summertime, summertime, summertime, summertime, summertime, summertime, summertime, summertime, summertime, summertime, summertime.

Speaker 1:

Summertime, yeah, I got it.

Speaker 2:

All these weird one hit wonders there was a lot of. I think the first record I ever bought was Lafrique Stay chic. Those guys all love Lafrique. We kind of missed the Beatles. My mom's younger sisters were really into the Beatles, so it was just a lot of the top 40 that was on at the time Classic rock, I guess and then, moving into the 80s, we got all that awesome stuff. So, yeah, not a lot of country, though, strangely enough, you would think.

Speaker 1:

That's okay. I don't think it was really collective. Anyways, with the music that we grew up with, I love it All right, next song yeah р Billy, don't be a hero.

Speaker 2:

Yes, oh, my God, like I'm literally crying as you play that song. It's so important to me. So my mom was the oldest girl in her family of like seven or nine big Catholic family from northern Ohio and my dad was from southern Ohio. That's where I grew up and so one of my uncles made it to Vietnam and came back a mess. I wasn't very close with that part of the family, but it was my mom's like favorite little sister and one of my aunts gave me this 45 and I didn't understand the song, but kind of like Jolene, you know, years later it just grabbed me and I would listen to this thing a hundred times a day and I didn't really quite understand all the words but I could sing along to it and the story.

Speaker 2:

For those of you that don't know the song, it's a little obscure. It's in the Vietnam era and Billy gets drafted, which sucks. He didn't go to Canada, so he gets his draft notice and he's going off to the army and his girlfriend's like whatever, can I swear or not supposed to swear? Okay, whatever the fuck you do, billy, just come back and marry me. Don't be a hero, just, you know, be a. What do they call it a quiet quitter Just do the bare minimum. Like Vietnam sucks, like just come back in one piece and marry me. Well, of course, billy is very patriotic and such a great guy His army boss, whatever they call it he's like I need one guy to go behind enemy lines and do all this crazy shit. Billy does it, of course, and tragically gets killed. So the story is how his girlfriend gets a letter knock on the door and a letter from the army saying hey, I'm going to survive, but he died. A hero, I'm sorry, I didn't think it would hit me this hard. And the reason why that song is so important to me is because I I mean, I listened to it millions of times, as I said, so my very first big love.

Speaker 2:

I was 15 years old. My family was on vacation in North Carolina, which is like a two day drive, like eight hour, eight hour days drive, and I would get up really early and just walk on the beach. We didn't have a beach where I grew up, so I loved the beach. And it's like six in the morning and I met a guy on this empty beach and he was driving on his way to Princeton University. I was 15 and Princeton University I mean that's like one of our top universities and there was no one for him to talk to and I was pretty cute, I guess, and we started talking and you know it's a little weird. He's 19. I'm 15. Like what else going on? At one point in our conversation he mentioned this song oh wow, and I've, and we talked about all kinds of stuff. He was an econ major, really interesting guy, great football for Princeton, and I remember he said you know that song, billy, don't be a hero. And I stopped in my tracks and it was like a sign from heaven. I'm like you can trust this guy. This is a good guy and I fell in love with him.

Speaker 2:

Obviously, I don't know what your laws are in Canada, but 19 and 15 is not going to work in the United States. My dad's a lawyer. He could have gone to jail and I was really innocent for 15. But when I was 18, I flew out to Colorado where he lived. He helped me get an apartment. He was like you know, you need to kind of get used to living on your own before college. So he was a huge part of my life and that song is what you know convinced me that I was like okay, this is, this is sent from heaven.

Speaker 2:

It might sound stupid when I say it, but of all the songs he could have mentioned, and he had listened to that song a million times too, like it got stuck in his head, so that's why that song is so important to me.

Speaker 1:

So did you guys ever end up like getting serious?

Speaker 2:

Yes, we did by the time I was 18, but then he would have been 22. And we were serious. I don't want to get too sad in this, but some bad stuff happened to me as a kid and it impacted my ability to be a good girlfriend. So really, really bad stuff. So that was his own adventure. I did talk to the guy a couple of years ago back in LA and explained to him hey man, stuff never really worked out between us because this mess happened to me, and he was like, oh my God, thank you so much for telling me. He went off and married someone else and I guess he's happy. But you know, I was 15 and I was like I'm going to marry this guy, I'm going to marry this guy, I'm going to marry this guy. And no one believed me. But he really thought we would get married too. So if the childhood tragedy hadn't happened, we probably would be married today.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, crazy, do you still stay in touch with him?

Speaker 2:

Kind of. You know, his wife is someone that he went to high school with for three years and never dated.

Speaker 1:

Oh, wow.

Speaker 2:

So I'm a little salty that. You know I met him for six hours and you know we both kind of knew that there was something. So she's not too happy about him talking to me. We're not regularly in touch, you know. I just want them to be happy. He has a kid. I'm not here to cause any problems. You know it was a long, long time ago and if he's happy I'm happy for him.

Speaker 1:

I love it. So you kind of grew up a little bit in the 80s. What was your favorite thing to wear in the 80s?

Speaker 2:

Oh my God, the paisley was really big. We lived in the suburbs so it was really hard to get to the mall. You know, now I live in a city, I can go wherever I want. But I had these, these like camouflage, just like the olive green colored pants. They were called the magic of organic. I think they were organic cotton. So I was way ahead of the curve and they had these four pockets with snaps on them.

Speaker 2:

And so you could snap them up or unsnap them to make a little like a bell action going on. And a sweatshirt I think that was the thing I had this blue shirt with like a red and blue stripe on it.

Speaker 1:

I just thought it was the shit. Did you wear lots of belts back in those days?

Speaker 2:

I don't think so I was really into the plastic. The plastic angles that make noise all the time and annoy the crap and everybody. That was my jam Crazy earrings.

Speaker 1:

What was on your wall? What was on your wall when you were growing up as a teenager?

Speaker 2:

A who poster. I was all about the who, loved, loved, loved the who, the police. That was one of my favorites. I wrote Sting a Fan Letter and then, of course, sting went when he went solo later on and I've always been into art. I took an art history class in high school so I probably either had like nature stuff like trees and waterfalls and stuff, or some like art art. You know your basic white bitch art. You know some one day or something like that.

Speaker 1:

I love it. I love it. All right. Next song Dancing in the moonlight.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, my King Harvest. I think back in the MySpace days they were my MySpace friends.

Speaker 1:

Oh.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, like that's a big deal and it's such a great song. If any of your listeners are unfamiliar with it, just go listen to it. It's got like the perfect, like free love, 60s, 70s vibe. And the reason why I love that one so much is I think I first heard it when I lived in Paris. There's some kind of Paris connection and they may have recorded it in Paris, but that's like how we became MySpace friends and it's just this beautiful song about you know, we get it almost every night.

Speaker 2:

You can't dance and stay uptight. Super natural, it's probably some massive orgy every night, right, but I'm like so innocent, I'm like always dancing with his girlfriend in the moonlight. It's so romantic and it is really beautiful. But to make it more current, a friend of mine here in Vegas is a DJ and he hosts a 70s and 80s night at one of the parks here and he's my crush and so I went to go support him and they played this song and he was like, oh, I want to wait until the moon comes up. So we were kind of dancing with the moon. I'm like, oh, my God.

Speaker 2:

Now you're part of this song. I mean, it wasn't like midnight on a lonesome balcony, no, it's in a brewery with like all these people and stuff. It's just such a great song. You know, the music is like the soundtrack to my life and we may have sung part of it together. He plays bass. He's got a great voice. We performed together a few times and yeah, so now he's a big part of that song. But I remember being in my apartment in Paris when I heard it, possibly for the first time, and I was like wow, like the song just perfectly captures the vibe. You know, you just get it that they're probably all smoking tons of weed, which I don't personally do. But just yeah, you know, life on the commune, we've got the brown rice and the beans and we just live in this easy bath. You know, bra, like the moon comes out, we all dance and then we all just hook up all night. Like wife is awesome.

Speaker 1:

Do you remember the first concert you ever went to?

Speaker 2:

Yes, and it's embarrassing, that's OK. I love it. It's so chastity, no way.

Speaker 1:

Yes, it's amazing. That's amazing. Do you know my very first record, like my parents bought me like this wooden, you know, remember the wooden record players where you could put your albums in there and they went and bought, went to like probably, the Good Wheel store and bought a whole bunch of albums to put in there and Michael Jackson Thriller, that was the one that they actually the other ones they probably got for free or whatever but I remember going through there and I remember opening up Sean Cassidy's album and he was like sprilled up, like in the bath. He was like you know, hot. Yes, that is awesome, I love that. So tell me about the concert.

Speaker 2:

David. Well, we have to backtrack. First, david Cassidy was on the Partridge family, which I saw in reruns, and, like every child, I was convinced that us they had the crazy painted us was going to drive by my house and I had to. You know, I was going to marry David Cassidy. I'm like I don't know four or five, six years old, and so the Partridge family is this crazy TV show from the 70s where this mom just packs up their kids from like Minnesota, drives them to LA and they get a record contract, just like and so kind of.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so you know how, like, britney Spears has a sister, jamie Lynn, who was kind of co-tailing it, and Jessica Simpson had a sister. So Sean was like co-tailing it. You're very talented in his own right. But I got to go to the concert with my very, very best friend and her dad took us, or dad had to sit through the music. I mean the music was decent, like he's got talent, and I'm so dumb and innocent. Right At one point he turns around to shake his ass to the audience, but I thought he was saying hi to the people that couldn't see him. I was like, oh, that's so nice, he's saying hi to the people that have just stared his butt on like no. He was shaking his ass like to be sexy and at the concert I went to he tried to climb up on a speaker and he fell.

Speaker 1:

Oh whoa.

Speaker 2:

It's not going to be all cool and like Van Halen and shit or whatever, and he like trapped and he's like hanging off and I was like I don't know what's going on. I thought it was just part of the show but I was so excited because my parents were really stingy. He let me and his daughter get like this, this, like pennings, like a giant triangle. It said. I love Sean with his picture on.

Speaker 1:

Wow.

Speaker 2:

So that was like the ultimate luxury.

Speaker 1:

Not so good.

Speaker 2:

And I took it home and my dad was like you wasted your money. I was like I love him. I love him, dad. Next song. You know I don't understand what he does to me. I'm like here, Not a cryer, if I could save time in a bottle.

Speaker 1:

Time in a bottle.

Speaker 2:

Jim Croci, another, another tearjerker of one. I remember the first time I heard this song. Like it's just crazy. These songs it's like a snapshot, like I remember exactly where I was because it just stopped and my heart stopped and I was like what the fuck? When I was a kid I've been like what the fuck. So, jim Croci, I think this is the most beautiful love song ever written and I've gotten deep into my Jim Croci as an adult.

Speaker 2:

He majored in medieval studies and he is a pick-ass guitar player. He can play like all this crazy stuff really, really, really well. And so he makes this joke that he was perfectly qualified to get a job in the 15th century. He studied all the old stuff and he went to Philly and he might be from there, but he was judging a singing contest and that's where he met his wife. Like he fell in love with this girl and he had some success before a plane crashed to come out. But I remember being a young, like four, five, six years old, and I heard this song and my parents didn't have a really great marriage, but somehow I heard this song and I was like I believe in a love like that. Like he sings this so convincingly and I understand the words enough.

Speaker 2:

If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing I'd like to do is to save every day till eternity passes so I could spend them with you. But a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true. The box would be empty, except for the memory that they'd all been filled by you. How does this guy not have a Nobel Prize? Like I'm sorry Bob Dylan, like really. So I've always been a lover of words and the music kind of came later. But when I hear that song, like it's just to me the most beautiful love song If I ever get married, this is definitely part of my wedding or the reception or like the first dance or something, because the guitar is really beautiful, like I've been playing guitar for three years. I don't think I could even do that Now. He had a guy playing with him, of course, but it's like intense. It's not three chords and we're done.

Speaker 1:

It's like I love it. Do you have a favorite go to karaoke song.

Speaker 2:

That would be definitely down to Georgia Nice.

Speaker 1:

That's a tough karaoke.

Speaker 2:

Really. Yeah, I think the hardest one is Blue is Traveler. Run around, that one kicks my ass because it's so fast, but I can do it. But everyone down to Georgia that that just always that song just pops up at the right time and case. Your listeners don't know it. That went down to Georgia. He was looking for a soul to steal, he was in a bind so he was getting behind, something like that. It comes up on this kid named Johnny playing fiddle who challenges the devil, and Johnny wins. And at the end of the song he's like if you ever want to try again, you, son of a bitch? You know I told you I was the best motherfucker. And so Johnny wins a golden fiddle and gets to keep his soul. I do not recommend betting your soul, you know, but it worked out well for Johnny.

Speaker 1:

Right, is there any crazy karaoke bars in Las Vegas?

Speaker 2:

Oh my God, it was a karaoke DJ out here for a year and a half so the best one by far is Ellis Island.

Speaker 2:

It's just a block off the strip, because they do karaoke seven nights a week, wow. Now. Their rule, though, is no swearing, because, for reasons beyond my control, the karaoke is the soundtrack for the restaurant and because we're a 24 hour city, it might be, you know, 2am in Vegas, but it could be 2pm wherever the kid is from. So they don't want kids hearing the bad words, which gets a little tough to enforce it totally is. But we get people who sing professionally on the strip.

Speaker 1:

That's what I would think. I would think, I think it would be full of that for sure.

Speaker 2:

In a year and a half I only had one person who made my ears bleed or two, but I think it was the same girl who came flight. Some people should not sing Whitney and Mariah and it's not my place to tell them. So it's always like oh, you're so brave, oh, you know, you know, wow, that was so courageous and you know you've got so much spirit that you get people and I have a pretty good, good eye. You know I can spot the professionals. That that's I'd be like. You've done this before and a karaoke tip for you. People out there. A true pro will try to match the vibe. So you don't want to go from like time in a bottle to whap. You know like. You want to stick to the vibe. So what? The people I would admire the most would be like hey, I know who's going to do the screen in the waves. They just did a sad song, so I'd like to do a slower song. Do you mind if I change to this one?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, for sure, and some of the people sang so beautifully that, like I, would cry. So whether you're good or not, just try to match the vibe and please know your range.

Speaker 1:

That's right.

Speaker 2:

Don't, jet had no range. You can always sing. I love rock and roll or sweet Caroline, everyone will love you or uptown funk around you out. But if you can't sing, for the love of God, like just you know, stay in your lane Right Next song, you can get on stage and sing an easy song. My God, save Mariah and Whitney for the price.

Speaker 1:

That's right, all right. It's probably one of the most sexiest songs I've heard ever, really.

Speaker 2:

Yes, oh my God. I looked up what the words mean and it's like the lyrics are. So that is a despacito and my funny story about it. First I'll tell the long version, then I'll tell the short version. So when I look in New York City I learned how to salsa dance. I wanted to get my hands on some looking at, and I sure did. And so I took dance classes, first at like the white collar, uptight kind of place. And then I went to a club one night and I saw this couple just like dancing like fire. The girl went to the bathroom and I walked up to the guy and I said I'm hitting on you. I want to dance like you. What do I do? And he said, oh, I'm one of Eddie Torres's dancers. And I was like what is that? He's like you need to study here. So then I went there and then I learned how to, you know, got my groove on and I learned some Spanish along the way. So I kind of understood the song. Like it is super sexy.

Speaker 2:

And what is so special for me about the song a couple of years ago was before the pandemic, it was trying to reach one billion views. It was the race to one billion views and I loved the song. So I'm listening to it, you know, eight times on the way to work, twice at my lunch hour, telling everybody we're trying to get to one billion, trying to get to one billion. So one day at lunch I'm, of course, listening to the song and it was, like you know, a hundred plays away from a billion. Wow, as I'm listening to the song, I see in the comments hey guys, we did it, we hit a billion views. So I was like listening to it as it hit that benchmark, so like one of the odds of that, you know, and I was so happy because it's just such a fun, sexy song and the girl in the video was Miss Universe or Miss Puerto Rico. She's an absolute beauty queen.

Speaker 1:

Interesting. So tell me the difference between a Caucasian lover and a Latin lover.

Speaker 2:

Um, well, from what I've heard, no, so, um, a Spanish guy will be like you're hot, like I want to take your own and do stuff to you. And sometimes the white guys are a little more like cautious. You know, they say how you dance is how you do other things, and so the beauty of dancing with probably thousands of people is that I can tell just by how big I take my hand if we're going to dance. Well, and you know, there's a whole science to it. Like sometimes you make mistakes, like you're trying all this complicated stuff and you might screw up, so I would always take the blame. I'm like, oh my God, I'm so sorry, that was my fault. A true gentleman will be like Saudi. Come on, that was me. So you can literally get through the first six months of dating by dancing two songs with the guy.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, is he a jerk.

Speaker 2:

Does he have moves? Do I like him? Um yeah, the Spanish guys are a lot of fun. They can be a little crazy. They can be a little crazy, but no regrets, Absolutely no regrets. So you're single now?

Speaker 1:

Yes, and how long have you been single for?

Speaker 2:

Um, I was engaged a couple of years ago and he was not an old guy. When I say he had heart trouble, people always think he's like 91 years old.

Speaker 1:

No, he's fine.

Speaker 2:

No, no, no, Um, he was in his twenties but when he was a teenager he witnessed a really bad car accident and his, his high school girlfriend, died in the accident. So there's a real thing called broken heart syndrome. I talked to a nurse about it. So his heart, like was really messed up, you know, because of that and he went in for an operation and he didn't make it. So that was seven years ago, yeah, yeah. But he's up in heaven. You know he's helping me. I'm sure he is from up there.

Speaker 1:

How's the dating life been since you've been single?

Speaker 2:

Well, for a long time I was just like never again. I mean, I told I told him, you know, if it's not going to be like I can't risk having my heart broken again. It's too hard. So I'm only very recently, you know, I mentioned my DJ crush. Like that, that's pretty new. Um, dating in LA, dating in Vegas. You know I tell people boyfriends, don't grow here. You know you got to find an import, you got to find somebody from somewhere else.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, um, what is that? Is it too flashy too, too much ego? What is it?

Speaker 2:

Um, well, there's a lot of tool greatness here. You know the population in Vegas up to 30% of it changes every five days. Yeah, because people are coming and going and coming and going. So you might be an amazing guy, but he lives on the other side of the country, so what good is that? You know he's here for a convention or something, um, but this town is is insane. Um, I do love it. It's constantly changing. They've torn down and built up more hotels and the hotel's changed names. You know, in the nine years I've been here, uh, but so here here's some fun facts.

Speaker 2:

So I grew up in Cincinnati, ohio. It's pretty conservative. Out here they have a strip club for girls that are 18 years old Like, you can be 18 years old and be a stripper and they advertise that the high school is out here, oh, wow, like literally now hiring class of 2023. Uh, nevada has either the very worst or the second to worst schools in the entire country. So you know it's a little different on the East coast, where you can find a guy who wants to go see shakes beer, go to the symphony, or who was actually read a book. Um, they're very interesting people out here.

Speaker 2:

You know, I found my, my, my crew in a sense, but overall, uh, it's, it's a little different. Shall we say, uh, yeah, I mean, there are people that get married out here. There are people that live far away from the strip and have their normal lives. We have accountants and lawyers and stuff out here. Um, it's just different. You know I hang out with a lot of comics. Yeah, I met the DJ doing comedy, so not all of them are insane, but yeah, if you want to not be attracted to a guy, you know, listen to his comedy for the most I love it. Next, song.

Speaker 1:

I love this song. How can you not listen to that song and have fun walking on sunshine? Exactly.

Speaker 2:

The ultimate 80s anthem and so we're going to do a callback here.

Speaker 2:

When we played Billy don't be a hero I talked about, that guy met when I was 15. There's a line in that Katrina and the wave songs, um, something about. She goes to the mailbox and, and you know, you write me that you're coming to town and, uh, don't want you back for a weekend, whatever. Well, um, that same guy, uh, we didn't have email back. Then he wrote me a letter and said hey, I'm on my way to Princeton again, I'm going to come through your town. You know, can I crash at your place, your parents in the separate bedrooms, whatever? And I was so excited.

Speaker 2:

And then I think, like I got the letter and I heard the song, or I heard the song, and then I got the letter, um, he was just like this, this, oh God. You know, he was like the coolest person I had ever met in my life and he thought I was cool. I mean, I felt like Cinderella, I'm just this, like super smart or in the Midwest. Um, you know, I didn't really have crushes on any of the guys my age because they were boring and just play football and Princeton and Colorado, and he was like you're amazing, like if you were anywhere near Princeton, we'd be going out all the time. I was like, um, so that weekend he came and my parents, it was okay for him to crash at our place. You know we're all very respectful and everything. Nothing much really happened. Um, we're watching Friday night videos. Did you have that in Canada before MTV?

Speaker 1:

Um, I think so. Yeah, I don't know. I can't remember what they were called, though. Maybe it was called Okay, that was literally the name of it.

Speaker 2:

It would come on at like 1130 or midnight on Friday. So we're watching some video and his ex-girlfriend is in the video. His ex-girlfriend was Joe Biddy, who was one of the first Victoria's Secret bottles. So we're just kind of cuddling watching TV and this video comes on and he's like I dated her in high school and I'm like, fuck, like I will never, never, be as cool as you, except now I am. No, I'm like cool Like you know, I was 15, 16, maybe 17 and in the Midwest, and just like how, like what?

Speaker 2:

You know, I was devastated. Yeah, I was so devastated. New York was like a different planet and it just like how could he get any cooler? You know he dated a girl who became a Victoria's Secret model. I should have seen it as. But he's hanging out with me now. That's right. That must mean you know I have the capacity. But at the time I was just like, you know, fuck my life. We didn't say that back then, but I was just like, but it does not compute. And then a tampon commercial came on and I was like I started talking. He's like yeah, girls always talk when those commercials come on. I'm like why don't you ask him any questions? How?

Speaker 1:

would your friends describe you?

Speaker 2:

Oh my gosh, funny. Oh, I've gotten Phoebe from friends. Oh, wow, I've gotten Goldie Hawn, like that's kind of an older one. So I try to always be me like wherever I go, but I also try to be appropriate to the situation. So I've taught English to two executives and then, you know, I have to be a little bit more on the corporate side. I'm kind of a save the whale tree hugger, but I don't bring that up all the time. I eat organic. We have a grocery store here called Sprouts, which I love, and Trader Joe's and Whole Foods I don't know what you guys have up there for like the, the Fru, fru people to go get their organic stuff. But yeah, that's me mostly, but okay, so it's really important. I'm reliable, I'm honest, I'm sweet, I'm friendly and I guess I'm surprising, because you would not expect me to be singing songs about Dick's, that's right.

Speaker 1:

So we just put out your like tinker profile on music junkies. Maybe you'll get some hints. I love it. I love it. All right, bye, to stop the world.

Speaker 2:

Melt with you Very yeah, from the Valley girl, it's right. And what's her face? So, yeah, another, another like ultimate love song. I mean, it's only different from five times in a bottle. But you know it doesn't have to make sense, it just has to be good music. So this song is from the movie Valley girl, which I saw and I loved.

Speaker 2:

It was about California, long before I'd ever been to California, and it's kind of a Romeo and Juliet thing. And so Nick Cage is like from the not cool part of town and he like wears another jacket and falls in love with a girl from the Valley whose hippie parents own a pizza place and he really likes her but she's really popular, and so it's like this whole adventure. But when you're that age, it just hits, you know, and I heard that song. No, I'll stop the world and meld with you. I'll stop the world. You've seen the difference and it's getting better all the time.

Speaker 2:

And then there's something about the human race and they get really tricky with the words. Ever understanding the race had long gone by. I was like you know, they took human race to be until like a marathon race. So major props for the lyrics, awesome song, and when you're young and like in love it really does feel like time stops. You know, like forget the whole world. It's like the most important thing to me and I'm not with you. It was just like so. It was like so perversely in the 80s, and cool and romantic at the same time.

Speaker 1:

I love that. So how did this whole comedy world come into place for you?

Speaker 2:

Well, okay. So here's how I explain it. If you want to be a doctor, you go to med school.

Speaker 2:

You want to be a lawyer you go to law school, you want to be an accountant, you get your CPA. How do you become a comedian? I grew up kind of white collar, suburban, kind of sheltered, but people have been telling me for ever that I'm funny and I just, you know, I love comedy. I love Carol Burnett. I don't know if you saw her. You know, up in Canada she had a variety show and you know. So, sketch comedy, snl, huge fan.

Speaker 2:

You guys have kids in the hall which you have to be on after SNL, I think. So I'm big kind of kids in the hall. I'm just sketch comedy. And you know again, not trying to get too dark, but when you've been through as much shit as I've been like you either laugh or you cry, and I choose to laugh.

Speaker 2:

So I wasn't allowed to do art. I studied art. I took piano lessons as a kid and ballet lessons as a kid, but we don't do art. That's not acceptable in this family. So I quit the family to go do art and everyone's telling me how funny I am and I'm like well, how the fuck do you do comedy? And they had to find me when I finish school and I told them that they heard to me to call a comedy club and ask if they had an open mic. This was just too far out of my world.

Speaker 2:

When I was in college, I went to college in Philadelphia. I got free tickets to a comedy club. They were just handing them out on campus and I went to my English class and said hey guys, everyone wants to come see comedy. And I went to school with a lot of kids from New York and so one of the New Yorkers kind of smelled the Midwestern innocence on me taking but you're gonna still have to buy two drinks. Comedy club, it's not like a free movie taking, it's just free entry. So I went and I saw stand-up comedy for the first time. I was like like it was so cool but I still couldn't figure it out, you know.

Speaker 2:

So one day, a couple years later, I'm in New York at a temp job and I was at some convention or something. It was really slow. It was me and this guy and he was cool, we were talking and I was just being, you know, like adorable for detail and I kept making him laugh and finally he turns to me, says you should do stand-up comedy. And that was my fucking tipping point and I went hate shit on this guy. I was like God, fucking damn it.

Speaker 2:

If one more person tells me I should do stand-up, you start there. Do you go? I'm funny? Okay, I get it. God, I'm funny. Where'd I go? Tell me what to do? I just can't. He's like okay, calm down. I actually do stand-up and I was like you know, like when the song hits you in the heart, like the universe kind of calms you on the head. I was like what he's like? Yes, I do stand-up and I'm going to confute to my show tonight.

Speaker 2:

He said I'm going to send you to this place called Gotham. Now, sadiah, you're going to be performing for 100 or 200 comics. They never laugh, so I want you to know. So he helped me like write down some of the stories I've been telling him. He's like they never laugh, so don't be disappointed. Well, the never laughing was not the issue, it's 150 guys went up ahead of me that's what it felt like and they're all talking about their dicks and they're all just like locker room and I was like, oh my God, but I finally get up and as I'm on the stage, it's like an apple tree is the fucking state.

Speaker 2:

As I'm on stage, my friend, justin walks in the comic, and so I'm like, oh shit, now Justin's here, I better be funny. And I nearly fell off the stage and the whole room started laughing and I don't remember anything other than that. But he came up to me and I was like three minutes. He was like, oh my God, you made a room of comics laugh. I was on the stage. He was like I don't give a shit what you did, you have the gift and you really need to pursue this. So I did for like I don't know a month or two, and at a certain point, at two in the morning, when I've heard my 80,000 unfunny dick joke, I was like God, I don't want this badly enough. You answered my prayer.

Speaker 2:

Now I know how to do stand up, but it's just hurting my soul listening to all these turds and because I'm like one of three girls, I'm getting hit on by guys that would not give the time of day to know. I'm like I can't go. There has to be a better way. So then I leave New York, go to Brazil, come back to New York. Now I'm going to like, and I am somehow I start doing this job where I'm helping a real comedian book people for the comedy store. His brother owns the comedy store and I'm helping him. I don't even know how I met this guy a specialist or something and so I'm helping him book people and he's like Saudi, you're really funny. I'm going to give you stage time, I think.

Speaker 2:

Okay, cool, and his name is Matt Taylor and he helped me learn how to structure a joke, because, no matter how funny you are, there is a science to comedy and the big thing of it is there's no comedy school. You have to figure it out or get invited in by a real comic, which I hope to change. So, um, sorry, I meant to cancel this call, sorry. And so he. He was like yourself is funny, but no one knows when to laugh. So you got to rearrange how you're telling it. Like you know, you are a comedian because you tell stories, comics, tell jokes, but just set it up so that the funny part is loud and clear and then you shut up and then they left, okay. So, um, I did comedy with him for a while.

Speaker 2:

It was great, and then I came out to Agnes and I started going to a place called Wise Guys, which is amazing. It's owned by this guy named Keith Stubbs, who is a comic himself, or was no cover. If you perform, you don't have to bring 10 people, they don't have to buy two drinks Five bucks if you're not performing, absolutely free to get on stage. And that's where the Dick Songs came from. I came home one night after more up in Victor's and aren't even funny, and I said you know what God people think of Q? What can I say in my three minutes? What do I wish men knew from the female perspective? And I don't know if that's one of my songs or not. So I made my playlist and then I just sent it off to you. But my song is Dick Sticks. Lots of different dicks, some are short, some are thick, blah, blah, blah. And then it ends with no matter what dick I gave to you, man, you have hands in the mouth, just use them too.

Speaker 1:

That's right, I agree.

Speaker 2:

That's what I want all of the men to hear. And my joke is you know, I love a guy with a foreign accent, but I don't always hate foreigners. I've dated some Americans. So yeah, Jai cock, huge bank account, whatever. I guess it's a bonus, but it's not always a hard no, If you don't have it, you know, just make up for it.

Speaker 1:

That's right, I agree. Put in the time, put in the work.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, just get us there. God damn it. We don't care how you do it.

Speaker 1:

Right, you have two REMs, so losing my religion REM.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I love the video, I love this band, I love the song. Let me get some water, okay. So I remember when this song came out, I was at a challenging point in my life where I was getting ready to divulge some some really dark shit about my past and I'm not going to, you know, we're not going to talk about that now because it's music and fun and this video came out and it just like encouraged me, even though I believe Michael Stipe was talking about, you know, being gay, and I was not like hey, but just the that's me in the corner, that's me in the spot, like losing my religion and something about like I'm trying to tell you, but I can't. Just the words like really hit me and encouraged me and listen to it all the time. The video is amazing and there's a point where he looks at the camera and I was like he gets me, like he gets me.

Speaker 2:

I forget the exact lyric, but it's like I want to tell you, but I can't. You know some shit like that, like I'm trying, I'm trying, but I can't. And even though we're talking about very different things, that song was just like medicine for my soul and it's so beautiful with the mandolin, and so that was important to me. You know, I hope one day to write a song. Okay, I have the Dick songs and I have serious songs to people. All right, I have 150 beautiful Jim Crow, these styles of songs and the Dick songs got me famous. But you know the way, the way to thank the musicians and singer songwriters and singers that came before me is to put my truth out there, and if my truth is your boners, not my problem, which is on the Dick album, or if my truth is something a little bit more poetic, you know whatever, but it's 2023. Like we need to talk about this stuff.

Speaker 1:

Yeah. So where can we like find you on social media? What do you have kind of coming up in the next call it three months? What are your albums called? Where can we stalk you find you? Sure, All about your different kinds of Dicks.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so Saudi music S-A-D, like David I A, sadiya Space M-U-S-I-C, insta, spotify, u2. My Dick album is called the Total Dick Experience and full disclosure. Okay, my producer won a Grammy in the early 2000s for sound engineering and he's also a respected visual artist. So I come to a studio one day he's like hey, I made your cover and it's a bunch of dicks. You know, we're American, so the American Dick is the one in the middle and you know, I want the Canadian release to have. You know, the Maple Leaf Dick in the middle and for the European countries, like we would adapt it.

Speaker 2:

But I have a song called Blue Balls and it's a blues song. Now I don't even understand what makes a song a blue song, but I was like the writing song is called Blue Balls, it has to be a blue song, and so we did that. And so the Chinese Dick has blue balls because of China. That's what he said. And then the American Dick is perfect. It could very easily be a Canadian Dick or Mexican Dick. You know, like I'm not the America War number one, like America War number something. But you know, other people are great too. And then the gay dick is curvy and then people are like well, where's the black dick? Saudi, a, dei, diversity, equity and Inclusion and this is what I say Do not have to be a fucking CD cover is it's for goddamn inches. When I get a billboard then I'll put the black dick on it. It wouldn't fit.

Speaker 1:

That's right, I love it. I love it. So a lot of people coming up to you wanting you to like tell them a joke or sing them this song, you know how you say, hey, what do you do for a living? And you're like I'm a comedian, like, oh, tell me, go tell me something funny, that's it I will sing at the drop of a hat.

Speaker 2:

I paid money for this voice. I took voice lessons, so one of the songs that's my go to is toilet bowl and it's kind of like Eliza Minnelli, broadway, kind of Don't be a clown, put the seat down. It's a gentlemanly thing to do. Don't be a clown, put the seat down. All the ladies will appreciate you. It's really funny and it always makes people laugh. The first song, though Dix, dix, lots of different Dix with six chords. Okay, not three, I'm not basic, I'm not three chords. I can start a band. I put the six chords that I know in my song. I fit the song to the chords. It's a minor, a minor D, d7, c and D6. So when that was my only comedy song, I would literally show up at places. Are you going to do Dix? Are you going to do Dix? I love that song. I love that song. You have to do Dix. I was like sure. You know, no problem, give the people what they want.

Speaker 1:

That's right. Give them Dix. That's what they want.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I do have one serious song. I have one serious song out. It's called left with my tears. I wanted to call it to his wife. I was seeing this guy in Brazil. He forgot to tell me he was married and that became an issue. So I dumped him, that's. But I wrote a song to his wife. But you know the suits. They were like no, we can't call it that. We don't care, whatever you know. So I'm not just all mixed all the time.

Speaker 2:

So Wednesday, which is two days from now, I'm debuting a song about the female stuff. Oh, cool, I thought I'm going to say it's very tasteful. I promised a friend I would debut it at his open mic. So as soon as I have that tape I'm going to send it to you. Okay, good, bad ass, I love it. Bad ass, because after I get up and I do comedy and I sing my song, you know, I bring the house down and then these guys come up after me. They're like cool. I'm like bro, that's not funny, that's not cool. Like that's not even funny. Like, have you ever seen one? Like what? Come on, man, I've been told I need to give the female side and it's a beautiful little song and I can't tell anymore because I promised it to debut on Wednesday.

Speaker 2:

I just got booked yesterday for a comedy show out here. It's going to be at Saddles and Spurs. We're going to go for a couple weeks, starting, I think, the 27th of next month. So I'll add a radio DJ hit me up this morning. He does parody song. I have to send you his, his instant. He does 10 minute parody songs and they're not like mine. I took a famous song but they get like goofy oh yeah, I love that, that'd be awesome.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, he's really good. So they give him 10 minutes so he took like Miley Cyrus party in the USA and he made it like secretly farting, like he's like I got this girl run and I got a fart, like it was really funny and he did Kobe Kobe, keith red solo cup and a couple of songs like that were kind of new to me, but he's amazing.

Speaker 1:

I'm definitely going to yeah, I love you Awesome.

Speaker 2:

And his chair.

Speaker 1:

All right yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, he'd be a great guy.

Speaker 1:

You got another REM song here, but you never Get to leave 11 girls, perfect circle. Yeah, is that from Burma, I think on your sleep.

Speaker 2:

I sang that song 800,000 million times. It's so beautiful and I have no idea what it means. But it was earlier came before using my religion, and so part of my story is my French teacher in high school had some friends, had a new, a family in France, and he would sometimes send his best students over there for a summer. And I was the one that got sent my year. So I spent I guess it was six weeks or two months or I didn't know staying with one family and then they ship me off to another family that had a house in the south of France. Absolutely amazing, these wonderful people. It was me. They're two adopted Portuguese kids and then these two German kids that they somehow knew and we just played in the pool and we went and visited all the towns in Saint-Tropez and Pantanal. It was just amazing. But you know, I was the only American. You get kind of homesick, so I would sing all the time and I would always sing this song.

Speaker 2:

And the Portuguese girl she said to me she was like you're going to be a singer and I was like, what are you talking about? She said give a really beautiful voice. Well, part of it was because I sang constantly. So it was a very warmed up voice. But there was a popular French song at the time called Tudus-a-mole, which means like all, slowly, softly, sweetly, tudus-a-mole off to look it up. She's like you're not going to be a rock and roll singer, you're going to be a singer like that. Your voice matches, and so that's one of the reasons why the song is so important to me.

Speaker 2:

Because they didn't speak any English, only the mom knew English, and so we were kind of like German French hybrid mess. But kids can always make stuff work out Somehow. That song just reminded me of home and I probably sang it like four times a day. You know, I would just sing without even realizing it. And I was singing that one when this girl told me you're going to be a singer Like she's. Like you have such a beautiful voice, you're definitely going to be a singer. And she and I did not get along that well because we both had a crush on the German guy. So that was one of the few nice things that she said to me.

Speaker 1:

So you speak five different languages. Could you say dicks in five different languages?

Speaker 2:

So in English, french, spanish and Portuguese, yes, and my fifth language is kind of like 20% of five different languages. So in Italian it's cat, so in Portuguese there's like a hundred different ways, but cat value is the most famous in Spanish. I'd have to think of it, I don't know. Off the top of my head. I haven't spoken Spanish for a while. In French, as you know, it's beat, is it really that's?

Speaker 1:

hilarious.

Speaker 2:

Oh, you're the non French speaking Canadian. Okay, yeah, I am. It's B I T E, it's B I T E, and they pronounce it beat, not bite. So when they hit English class, they always start talking up.

Speaker 1:

I'm going to have to write this stuff down, for I have some ammo.

Speaker 2:

Well, portuguese is probably the most fun because they have like seven different ways. Americans often mispronounce the word for bread. It's how nasal. But if you don't nasalize it, you're saying the word for stick. And of course, stick to them also means stick. They're the horniest people.

Speaker 1:

I love it. Thank God, we're on your last song. You ready.

Speaker 2:

Okay, let's do this.

Speaker 1:

All right.

Speaker 2:

I never thought it would happen with me, the girl from Clapham, but I totally listen to squeeze. This morning the whole 45 is an under album. Nice, I'm not too great. Great, it's called up the junction. And if you can watch the video, try to get the one with all the people in the kitchen, like where the guys just looking at the camera and playing the guitar. I don't even know where they're from. Where they're from, are they English, are they Canadian? I don't know. They're fucking amazing.

Speaker 2:

Squeeze this guy wrote the song when he was like 24, 5, 6, 7. He tells his entire life story. Like the lyrics are just off the hook. He's so good and it's just such a catchy song. But again, it's not like Buh-da-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh, like a forgettable song. It's like you just hear like, oh, this dude's whole life.

Speaker 2:

There's some really amazing lines in that. He says I beg for some forgiveness, but begging's not my business, and you can just see the guy. And then he says something about, you know, from bar to street to bookie, like how his life is just going downhill after the birth of his daughter and now she's two years older, her mother's with a soul. You're like, oh shit, he got remarried in the sassles. Wow, like so much. Just major props to this guy. Um, I don't know enough about guitar to talk about the cool chords and all that kind of stuff. Like, I will always be a lyric girl at heart because that's what I've learned on to, but just such a brilliantly written song. The whole band's amazing. They have so many good ones. The whole album 45s and under. You just listen on repeat. You know it's not. I don't want to say it's background music, but it becomes the background of your life.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, when you listen to it, I love it. Your stories, your playlist unreal. But before I let you go, I want to hear some words of wisdom that you could leave to all these junkie fans today.

Speaker 2:

Oh my gosh. Um, here's my wisdom. Life is short, you know. Find a balance between trying new stuff and respecting what you hate and what you love. For the longest time I hated Ossanova Because tall and tan and young and lovely, the groove and the ebony I hated that fucking song.

Speaker 2:

What I actually hated was the translation, because it's a piece of shit. In Portuguese it's um, they chopped up the rhythm and they made it all stupid. When you hear the Portuguese it's a lot better. But, um, you know, some music just grabs me. Like, keep looking for the songs that just grab your heart. Not every Dolly Parton song is my favorite. Not every REM song is my favorite.

Speaker 2:

Like you know, spend some time listening to new stuff. There's a great record company called Puta Milo and they put out compilations and I'm surprised that I didn't choose any of their songs. I could have given you 100. But, you know, just trust your heart. You know, sometimes we got to try new things, sort of like the way I go clothes shopping. Like I'll go look at stores and if I don't see anything that I love, I don't buy anything, you know. But sometimes I walk in and I'm like so look for the.

Speaker 2:

Yes, for the longest time I wanted to play guitar. It just seemed, you know, trying to buy the guitar and learn the guitar. We got really good stimulus money in this country during the pandemic and guess who bought a guitar? This girl, guess who can play her classical guitar. Of course I go classical because I'm so extra. You know, I do have a little travel electric guitar to be chords and stuff, and just there's room for everybody.

Speaker 2:

Figure out what you're good at. You know, I always hear the lyrics in a song. I dated this one salsa guy. He always heard the bass. I was like how could you ignore these great lyrics? He's like how can you ignore this great bass line? So just just understand that you're unique and special and what's obvious to you isn't obvious to everybody else and your greatest gift is what comes so naturally to you that you probably overlooking.

Speaker 2:

When I was in Brazil, everyone kept saying what a great butt I have and it's like if someone started saying I have great elbows. I'm like what the fuck is that? Like, just just roll with it. You know, trust people when they say you're good at something. Trust them and invest time, invest money, put it out there, but do the best that you can. People told me I was funny forever and I finally learned how to tap into that there's room for everybody, like everybody, everybody, everybody. And I can't wait to hear your songs or your playlists, or if my songs have helped you in any way. Again, saudi music. And if you're not crazy and you're coming to Vegas, I'd love to get pizza with you.

Speaker 1:

I want to. We'll be coming there in October, actually, again.

Speaker 2:

I know it's not going to be cold here. It's not going to be cold. It might be sweatshirt cold at night, but it's not going to be anywhere near as cold as you guys. And when is your Thanksgiving?

Speaker 1:

It's like you do it before us right, november, I think I don't even know. I think it's November, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2:

I have friends with well, mike and Toria. They're this Vegas couple. She's Canadian from Alberta. That's not where you are right. You're in a different one.

Speaker 1:

I'm in November.

Speaker 2:

Oh shit, Okay. So yeah, we have to hang out with them. She's really cool. She went to a monster truck rally out here. That's awesome, Well.

Speaker 1:

So thank you so much for joining us today on Music Junkies. What?

Speaker 2:

a blast. I love your energy.

Speaker 1:

I love your just full of light, hilarious. I appreciate you Like subscribe. You know, stalk her, go download her Dix album. She's got a you know, a girl's album coming out in the next couple days which we'll be able to release as well, which I'm excited, thank you so much, girl.

Speaker 2:

I have a hundred more songs for you.

Speaker 1:

I love it. I love it.

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