Welcome to Big Blend Radio where we celebrate variety and how it adds spice to quality of life. Welcome everybody. It is our fourth Sunday Big Daily Blend show with Joey Stucky. You know, Joey rocks. He is the music ambassador of Macon, Georgia, and he's getting ready to celebrate his annual "Alive Days" going to tell you a little bit about it today. But because of "Alive Day" coming up, which is September 29th, we're going to be dedicating that day to Joey on Big Blend Radio. We're going to have musicians calling in with their special songs. We're going to have panel discussions, playlists, all kinds of good things to celebrate Joey. But today we're going to kick it all off this celebration talking about music that is inspirational. And so I want to kind of look at the difference between inspirational, motivational. Hmm. What makes you tick with music? What makes you say, okay, I'm going to turn this day around. Turn the frown upside down. Joey, welcome back. How are you? I'm well, my friend. I hope you are. Doing good, doing good. And just thinking about talking about "Alive Day" makes me excited. Right before we're recording and talking about the plans for this day, I'm like, you're like creating unity through this "Alive Day." So everyone, if you go to joeystucky.com, there's a whole section on the website about "Alive Day" and you can learn about more over the years, but he's always done some kind of celebration even during COVID. There's been things going on, but also live performances. But this year, we're going around the world. We want everyone to be part of it. So we're doing it in a kind of a podcast format so people can listen in from anywhere in the world. So that is unity right there, Joey. I think that's pretty cool. We need global unity right now. We do. I mean, we really need to realize. I mean, it's easy to say, but it sounds simple. But it's really profound when you think that we're all just travelers on Spaceship Earth. And this is sure there are differences, but there are a lot of things that unite us. And those things sometimes get minimized or lost in the rat race. And so a lot of they really is about that. I mean, part of what I wanted to do with the "Alive Day" music festival was to provide free entertainment so that anyone on any budget, I mean, they didn't have to have it, didn't have to pay us anything. There was no reason not to come out and enjoy a day of inspirational music. And it was really a chance for neighbors to get together and reconnect and people that just have reconnect with their community. So we started the "Alive Day" concert series in 2017. We've kept it going in some form or fashion every single year since then. We've done four concert series, which was a whole day of music. And from like two to ten, something like that to an 11th. So we've done a whole, and then we've done during the COVID era, which was a couple of years, really. We did it just like Facebook Live. And of course, as you mentioned, this year we're doing it internationally. It was a podcast where we're playing music. We're talking to people. We're celebrating with people from around the world. So it's had some form of celebration ever since 2017. But of course, the original "Alive Day" concept came from my parents. And I was, for those of you that don't know, I'm a blind brain tumor survivor. I had a number of health challenges and still do. I almost died a number times as a child and was just very, very sick. And what my parents did was the surgeons, the doctors told my parents that I probably would not survive the brain tumor. Or if I did, that I would never walk or talk. And I do both of those things. And so, I'm not blaming the doctors for a bad prognosis. They were telling her in their medical opinion what they thought was going to happen. They were doing their best to prepare the family for that. So they did the right things, not that they said something wrong. But what my parents did was it was a very stressful time. From the brain tumor surgery, I spent 45 days at ICU, really fighting for survival. But what my parents did was instead of the brain tumor day where I had the tumor, instead of that being a day of anxiety or fear or depression or trauma, what they did was they turned it around, made it kind of like a second birthday and said no, this isn't the day that you almost died, this is the day that you survived. And so that's a very profound shift in attitude. And so every, from the time I was two years old, until this very day, still, we celebrate a live day very quietly with a family dinner or something like that. But we do take a moment out of our life to say, "I am grateful." And so then the brain tumor did leave me blind, left me with a number of other health challenges. And it also took my sight, but also my sense of smell. So I'm down two senses. So I protect the ones I have quite vigorously. But the important thing was in 2017, I started realizing that a live day could be so much more and could be a real day of gratitude. Everybody would come together and think about what they're grateful for and to just celebrate through the most powerful force for positive change that I don't know of, which is music. And that's what I do. That's what I know how to do for people. So the festival cost is about 10 grand to put on. About 60% of that, I raise through sponsors, and then bankroll the rest of myself. And we don't make any profit from it. And the people that perform are very carefully selected. Their music is not all like, it can be, the music they sing can be about anything they want to talk about. We don't control that. But they have to have the right, as an artist and as a person, they have to have the right spirit. They have to really understand what the day is about. And so I have been very fortunate to find so many community-minded people. And we do pay the bands to perform, but it ain't much. It's just a little something to let them know we value their time. There's something not being paid as much as they should. But anyway, yeah, so it's exciting. We've been doing it. And the mayor of my hometown actually proclaimed September 29th officially, as Joey said, in a live day, and encouraged the town to get together and celebrate and lift up their own lives on that day. So anyway, that's the whole thing. I love it because even during COVID, I think it's a huge thing. When you think about so much going on, there's wars, there's political drama, there's just a lot going on in the world. And we've been through a lot too lately, Nancy. We've been through a lot, and we go like, "There's hurricanes. There's all these disasters." And we go, "Well, we missed that one." We sit there and go, "All right, here we go. We get excited." Because there's a lot going on, there's wildfires, there's a lot going on like areas that we cover right now. We're recording those friends getting ready to evacuate. There's a lot of stress. And I was like, "Oh, I'm so excited to talk to Joey today because we're talking about music that inspires." But it's really to me, it's like, it's Dr. Feel Good, man. That's what music is. That is what Dr. Feel Good is. I mean, there's Dr. Feel Good, but then there's Dr. Feel Good. And if you could have two Dr. Feel Good's all at the same time, well, now, we're happy. I feel like George from Seinfeld. Anyway, can I have a sandwich at the same time as well? I don't know. Absolutely. I think, you know, in the live day is really, you know, Johnny Shafer, you know, him on the shows, too. He's on the fourth Sunday. You're on the fourth Sunday. And, you know, he created a gratitude group on Facebook and people post every, and I'm terrible at it. And then I go, you know, and actually, when you're feeling the lowest is when you should be doing that. Like Willie Nelson always says, you know, the day he started counting his blessings is when his whole life turned around. Yeah. And, you know, he's gone through all kinds and he's still alive. I mean, sure, he did a lot of alcohol, a lot of other things. And, you know, but I mean, he's definitely one of our most iconic musicians in American songwriters very well. He's one of the greatest songwriters. I mean, he's an incredible songwriter. I think as a songwriter, he's him and Bob Dylan, and even Jim Morrison. Thank you very much. He's at the top of the list there. And especially words and Lucas Nelson is not far behind him at all. Lucas, his son and Micah, I love Micah too. Particle kid. But honestly, the music thing really makes its unity. And that's what I was excited about this podcast because I'm like, Oh, I can call in all my buddies overseas and see what, you know, who's going to come on, you know? So who knows yet everybody? We're going to make it work. That's all I can say. We're going to make it work and be awesome. But I love that because it's spontaneous. You know, it's like, Oh, let's get together and feel good and celebrate being alive. And yeah, everybody's dealing with something somewhere. And if you're not dealing with something at that time, that means you got more to give. Well, it's true. I mean, we have a friend of mine and I who this friend will be on the live day shows by Buddy Tom Rule. And he and I have been making music out of his and we've been making music out of it for a long time and have have a great and feel great joy by being in each other's company. And we did a convocation for Wesley and college here. And it was a it was a music and conversation that we that we did. And we called it, we're all broken, get over it. And love that. And so, you know, everybody's got something. Everybody has some. Except for me and my monkey. Except for me and my monkey. Yes, get the Beatles involved. But everybody's everybody's got something that they have that that is that is that is a challenge. And, you know, and so, and actually, you know, I don't like the bad times, but but that being said, as long as I can grow and learn and become come out of the bad times of a wiser, better person, then I see their value. And what's interesting about, you know, we talked about a live day is affirmational, certainly. But but interestingly, you know, even the sad songs can make you feel better. So I'm glad you said that because I was going to ask you that because yeah, sometimes you you have to go. It's it's um. So okay, there's a lot of things you can do to numb yourself through a situation, right? Yeah. And you can allow yourself that amount, but you don't want to go. Don't don't take that on as a pattern. And it can. Correct. But it's easy to form and hard to bring. Yeah. So when you go, if you're feeling bad and you might as well just, you need to face it, you have to deal with emotion. That's the point and not numb it with other things. And maybe you need that along the way, who knows, but let it be temporary. So when when you go low with music, that's what the blues is about. I mean, to me, that's the thing I've got, like, when we talk about inspirational music, mine is not all come by y'all, man. Not at all. I mean, you know, no, it isn't. And some of it is like, all right, you're going to face it, you're going to get it out of your system. So you can move over it quicker, you know, you have to hug the monster, you know, they say, just ride right through it, you go through it, you know, just get through it. And to me, it's quicker to face it, feel it, and then go, all right, now let's party. Well, I mean, you've got, you've got sort of three different kinds of things that in my mind that are actually affirmational in the sense that they're, in the sense that they're therapeutic. I mean, you've got songs about being happy and joyful. That's, those are great. And songs that are celebratory, okay, those are fantastic. Then you've got songs that make you feel determined to overcome. So that's another sort of affirmation. And then you've got songs that are expressing the pain and that are sad. And that's very cathartic and affirmation in its own way. And interestingly, I've talked to a lot of, you know, I've been in the media business since I was in my 20s. I've been, I've been done podcast, radio shows, TV shows, print, media. You know, I've been a journalist in this realm of music for a long, long time. And I've always, my goal has always been to support artists. And I've spoken to a lot of artists from beginners to, to seasoned professionals. And it's interesting that the real positive music, you know, that's very uplifting, you know, kind of so is actually harder to write. It's harder to define joy in a way that's not trite. And it actually takes more skill and more talent in my mind to write a happy song that's not, you know, like bubblegum preschool kind of stuff. So it's interesting, it seems that we, as human beings, need to tap into some of those more painful memories and express those that that is more, more powerful for us at times than the happy, you know, everything is great kind of stuff. And I'm a very aspirational positive person. I mean, I, I did just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about. I mean, I haven't gone to the eye doctor for, you know, 40 years, because I'm blind, you know, my eyesight can't get worse, you know, kind of thing. So what's the point of going to the doctor? Can you see this? No, can you see this? No. Can you see this? No. Like, what's the point? And my medical team, and I have medical team that helps me manage my sort of chronic issues from brain tumor, we're all like, they all said, yeah, that makes total sense. I don't know what point you go to the eye doctor. Anyway, started having headaches. I know like, oh, you should go to the eye doctor. And turns out blind people can get glaucoma. Who knew? So, yeah, so I have glaucoma, which isn't going to affect my eyesight. But glaucoma is something that I never understood. And basically, it's blood pressure. It's like blood pressure, but it's for your eyes. And, you know, it can result in headaches, and it can result in like having to actually in extreme, extreme cases, you can have have your eyes removed because they're so painful, blah, blah. And when I found that out, I was like, Oh, dear God, I don't, you know, I've got, I've got enough problems. I don't have to have my eyes certainly removed. But I, my sense of humor is such that I've told everybody about it. And so look, if I if that ever has to happen to me, my doctor says that it's not. But if it did, I would get two eye patches, a stuffed carrot, and a fake wooden leg and make people just deal with me. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Hey, listen, there's a song about this legalized marijuana, Peter Tosh. Here's, we come. So, I mean, yeah, absolutely. Yes. That's our drug PSA for the podcast. My point is that I have a bit of the gallows since you because it's a wonderful coping mechanism. It's like, it's part of the Swiss Army knife of coping. Now, you don't want to rely only on that. So you have that kind of, like, dark humor that can kind of stick. And then you have the great joy I feel every day to wake up and be able to hear the burns hurting outside. I cannot tell you what joy that breaks my heart here, those little guys tweet and the great joy of my cat kissing me in the face of the morning. And, you know, all these little things. So there's so many different types of joy and different types of affirmation. And we should not think that it's that there's, it's just one size, so it's all affirmation. Affirmation can take so many different forms because what it really means is that things can be wonderful or things can be very difficult, but you are joyfully alive and part of the human experience. Yeah. And it's how you deal with it. I mean, Nancy, our terrible at funerals, we get the giggles, you know, and that's a form of... Well, that's because you're a sick, sick woman, but you know... Yeah, I know, but it's because we're dealing with stress in a way that's our output. You know, that's our way of doing it, but I do want to say that one of my songs for the music playlists that we've got, everyone look at the link in the episode notes, we've always put music lists together, playlists, and Joey's got songs. And I'm adding in there three little birds from Bob Marley. Yeah. I'm apparently making three little birds. Three. Three. Come on now. That's how he says it. Three little birds. Three little birds. That's three hard times. I know. I'm just like, you know, but it's all right. But that's the thing. It's humor goes a long way. I mean, don't you think Weird Al is part of it? Like, he was the one who started making fun of everybody. Oh, yeah. You got to laugh. I mean, laughter and music are like the two bombs. I mean, they are just so powerful when it comes to healing. Speaking of that, speaking of that, okay. So Jimmy Fallon is actually quite an accomplished musician. He is. Yeah. He is. Do you know, I just saw this real and I am still giggling, but it's absolutely they're good. Miley Cyrus dressed up as Dolly Parton. And he was dressed up as Kenny Rogers. Oh my gosh. And they sang Island in the stream. Island. Is it is it islands or island in the stream? I don't know. Island. Island. Yeah. Island. Okay. I could be three with three trees. Who knows? Yeah. They dressed up. I mean, we never see late night shows or anything like our world is so different. But, you know, we just, it's rare that we actually see real TV. Yeah. But, I mean, it was so hysterical, but so good. You know, and so when you see things like that, it's like, there's, if we need to lift ourselves up, like Nancy, like in humor side, we have two songs that we go to automatically just to go, okay, well, you know, this stuff isn't going well right now. And you know that I have some times, at times, some interesting words that I use. And there's two songs that I can't even say on the show, but they're, they're really good songs. They're just really good. Look up the particle kid. And he, all I know is he talks about a bull. So you can type, just type in particle kid bull. And then Dennis, get you on some kind of list. If you type that in. No, no, it's fine. But it's, it's all about, you know, it's like, he's venting for you. Okay. Okay. And then Dennis Larry, it's kind of a political kind of thing, I think more politically charged than what we were, you know, it's like if someone really bugs you, he's venting for you. Dennis Larry has a fantastic song. Oh, that's very fantastic. Oh, I didn't know he did a song. But yeah, I love the play. Oh, he's a great musician. Oh, yes. He's, he's, I love Dennis Larry. I think it's great too. Yeah, he's a lot of fun. Well, you know, one of my songs that made it on to the list, I did give you the more standard, like on my list, the more standard affirmational songs that you might expect, but I also put Eminem on there. And that's affirmational in a sense of being determined to make it against the odds. But, and then there's Born This Way by Lady Gaga, because I think that we all should be proud of who we are, even if other people can't understand us, that's okay. They don't have to. You're the one that gives yourself joy. You're the one that is important. If you are happy with you, then the rest, it doesn't really matter. That's hard. It's hard to accept that sometimes, but being comfortable in your own skin is really important. But one of the songs that I really treasure, and that that's a lot of fun to sing, especially when things are a little bleak, is always look on the bright side of life, Monty Python and your title. So that's on my list. You always put Monty Python and if you can on my list. I'm with you. I was exposed to Monty Python early as a child. And my parents really, you know, basically said, we're going to raise him right. And we don't have to worry about monitoring what he watches because we have stilled him values and concepts that will guide him well. So they never really had any restrictions on TV as to what I could watch or not watch. And so I discovered Python at a pretty early age and was twisted front by it and gladly so. But yeah, my other thing besides music is a stand-up comedy or funny shows. I mean, those are my things that I love to I love to see and love to go to. I've seen Jim Jeffree's Lewis Black. You want to see Lewis Black? Yeah, Nancy, you see, let them do the ranting. We need to let people also, the comedians be able to have freedom of speech. It's the same name of speech. Freedom of speech is also included in music in my way. And if you don't like the song, then don't. Well, it's real simple. If you don't like it, don't listen. It's that simple. I think what I would say is if you want to put a label on the record to say this record contains explicit lyrics, then I don't have a problem with that. Or trigger warnings for people too, because it's something about suicide or something like that. So I think that's fine. But let the marketplace decide what gets, you know, have freedom of speech. And if it's too extreme or too crazy or whatever, then the marketplace is going to decide that. I mean, yeah, I mean, it's simple. If you don't like hip hop, don't listen to it. If you don't like dad, don't listen to it. I always give things at least two chances. The first chance I give it to shatter whatever preconceived notions I had going in. And then the second time, once those are once that that sort of bubble has been burst, then I go and listen a second time. Now that I've got all my preconceived notions of what the music is or isn't or what the comedy is or isn't, then I go back and see if I enjoy it the second time. If I don't enjoy it the second time, I usually go, okay, this is not for me. I'll move on. But I can say that when you two, you grow up listening to you two with like the war album, "Unsuck of a Fire" with Joshua Tree, those three records were very similar. And then all of a sudden, here comes and even "Rattle and Hum," but then here comes "Octum Baby," which is a radical departure for them with all these new sounds. And when I first heard it, I was like, this is a sound like you two. And then I listened to it again, I said, oh, it's genius. It's not, it doesn't sound like you two because they've evolved. And so, yeah, I always try to give whatever I'm listening to, at least two chances. Sometimes I'll even give it a third guess. I finally, I've always felt like because of all the acclaim, I've always, I've always like felt like I was like missing something with Lou Reed, like I never liked Lou Reed. I never liked felt underground or like Lou Reed. I listened to it and go, oh God, these guys can't sing. They can't play. You know, like the, you know, and I've always been just like so turned off by it, but I felt like, and this is peer pressure, I felt like I should like it because it's like, oh, you know, they're so seminal in the music business. And finally, after I'd gotten all my, my sort of preconceived notions about what Lou Reed was and what he wasn't, I realized he's a terrible musician that can't really sing. But once I got past that and said, okay, Lou Reed's not a musician's musician, you know, I was able to at least, well, I still don't enjoy listening to it. I get like, I understand now what the appeal is, and I understand who he is, and, you know, I can see the value in it while it's still not my cup of tea. I will say that if you haven't given Lou Reed a chance in a while, the album that has take a walk on the wild side and stuff like that was produced by David Bowie is probably his best work. And, but there's a live album. And I think it's just called, I'm pretty sure it's called Live in Italy. And his backup band is fantastic. And it, and it, you know, he's just whatever. But the energy between the crowd and the band, and there's just something magical there. So if you haven't given Lou Reed a chance in a while, you might want to check that out. It was the same thing with Leonard Cohen. I mean, Leonard Cohen's a brilliant songwriter, but a singer he ain't. And I gave that a second chance when Bono, who, Bono's a great human being, and I really liked him. I think he's a good man. I think he tries to be a good man. But a humble man, he's not. He realizes he's one of the biggest rock stars in the world in one of the biggest bands in the world. And he said in an interview that Leonard Cohen was the best live show he'd ever seen. And so I thought, okay, I obviously I'm missing something. Let me give this a second chance. And so what I did was a set of listening to the studio records. I went and got a Leonard Cohen album, which is fantastic called Live in London. And it's incredible. And then I realized like, okay, I was expecting, you know, singing in the sense that I like to hear it like a very technically precise emotive tool. That's not what he does. And it's totally fine that he doesn't do that because, you know, what he does has such a sense of gravitas. It is so interesting, but it's not really singing. So anyway, yeah, my point is like there's so many amazing things out there that once we, my overriding point is there's so much amazing things out there that once we get rid of our preconceived notions as to what something should be or shouldn't be, there's a lot more amazing stuff to discover. And affirmation is one of those things where it's not just happy, feel good party music. It's lots of other things. It's the blues. It's, it's, you know, all these other things that can be affirmational too. Yeah, you know, it's when I look at music in, you know, inspirational music, it is about where it's like it is, I go to songs according to mood. We had a happy hour show last month. Was it airing this month? Well, anyway, we did a recently a happy hour show. Yeah. And yeah, yeah, you've been on those and have had fun on them. He'll get back on one soon, I know. Yeah, yeah. And one of the guess was Cheryl Luchin, and she wrote a book Love Earth Now, and she's all about climate change and how to handle the stress of it. If you are, you know, scared of it and paranoid about every little thing you do, you know, and because it is scary what we're doing. Very scary, very scary. And she's got kids, you know, and she was an environmental lawyer and geologist, so she understands, you know, when you see too much sometimes, I'm just saying, and Nancy and I've done that with things like, you know, the Dakota Access pipeline, we started getting involved in that in the middle before even the big people got involved. It was, I think, Amy from Democracy Now, and us at one point, that was it. Nobody was covering it. She got arrested and the guy we interviewed while it was happening. We interviewed him because the women, pregnant Native American women, were chaining themselves to these bulldozers because they were bulldozing their ancestral lands, burial grounds, their burial sites of their ancestors, their indigenous ancestors, which is insanely wrong. Yeah, absolutely. And I rarely get political but when it's something like that, or something for the environment land that doesn't have a voice, I will use my voice, period. And so, you know, it was a Labor Day weekend and this gentleman, Cody Hall, he was part of the Red Warrior camp, calls, he says, please, will someone do this? You've done so many Native American shows and especially on music and, you know, we've had some amazing, amazing talk about some inspirational music right there because that goes deep. That's yeah, Native American music. We have to do a whole show on that, Joey. I think we need to do that in November. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, I got some guests we can bring on too. Anyway, you called in, nobody was covering this and it said, you know, you know how things go down over holiday weekends, a lot of bills get, you know, snuck in politically, just saying, anyway, so we're like, oh, we'll do a show right now, absolutely, because this is happening now, it was a live broadcast, he got arrested. And I just, at that point, realized how you pick, you know, we got so incensed with this. So, emotionally, to cover stuff like that, you see too much. We started getting involved in trying to look up who owned the oil that was under there. Really, it was Native American land and they're going, you know, there's water on top, so you own the water, not the land underneath. And so, we started going, who's drilling, then we found out every single major bank that we have in this country, we're the ones doing it, all with different shell corporations and shell names and whatever, all these, and shell oil too, by the way. Anyway, so they all had these different labels and it was all stuff that, when you start digging in and you see too much, it's depressing. And so, she feels that, Cheryl, you know, because she's seen so much and then it's like, how do you balance your, how do you live a life, right? And still, and so she's on the happy hour show and she's been on a couple shows doing great. Happy hour show, we're talking about music and she goes, "I have playlists according to how I'm feeling." And I thought this was really profound, but she did actually sound a little sad when we were talking. And, but she said she has playlists according to her emotion and I really agree with this. There's, there's songs that, like, in excess, you know, you know, I love the blues, right? And I know they ain't the blues, but there's a couple songs that I think Michael Hutchinson is one of the best singers out there, I mean, that's the way it is. And there's a couple songs that they do that, man, I go through, I'll go and listen and it will let me just, you know, get it out, move on, you know, and it goes all the way to, "Yeah, I'm going to listen to Soul Spray Hill, that's got nothing to do with inspiration." You know, Leonard Cohen, you were talking about him in Hallelujah, that's an inspirational song, but it's deep and it makes you really think, right? Yeah. There's, there's just, it's a weird thing to think of. Bill Withers, if you're going to talk about inspirational, I think he's one of the, I think we should go to soul and funk, you know? Yeah. Just like the temptations, come on. What's the song, "World in Chaos?" Ah, world in, world in, there's a song that the temptations did that is just, it, songs that actually deal with the subject matter, sometimes too. Yeah, absolutely. That's exactly right. It has a beat, but sometimes it could be really just a really super sad song to let you down so you can get it out so you can move on up. You have to go down to go up and the blues does that in so many ways because the blues are, is also levitation music. Man, the blues to me is everything. And I hear the blues and everything and I even listened to when I was growing up, like simply red was big, in excess was big, you know, death leopard and all of that pink Floyd and, you know, dire straights. Now dire straights is, I'll listen to some of their music because it gives you contemplation time. So like you could play playlists according to this. So our playlist between Joey and I is all over. It makes no sense, Joey. You did some of those, but I think like Bill Withers, of course he did lean on me and everything, but he did lovely day. And sweet Winona, to me, sweet Winona is one of my favorite, favorite songs on the planet. And it's got nothing to do with anything to do with inspiration. But if I listen to that, I chill out, man. I'm calm. Yeah. So what is that? Well, there's lots of interesting things unpacking what you said. You know, so I mean, one of the things is there's therapy in music. And I do believe, and part of therapy is acknowledging how you feel. So if you feel sad, you listen to a sad song, it actually has a positive effect on you because you acknowledge that you feel sad. And that's the best way to deal with that. So you get all the sad out and then you're able to move through it. And you know, but there's, there's some, there's just, I do believe that in our society, the low level, there's been the increase of just this sort of low level of anxiety since COVID and everything that makes life just a little tougher. And so we need to turn these coping mechanisms that are so powerful and so positive. And by and large, you're basically free. I mean, you know, accessing music now is easier than it's ever been. You've got radio stations, terrestrial radio station, meaning AMSM, you've got satellite radio, you've got internet radio, and you've got a lot of freemium, even like Pandora and different stuff like that. You've got a lot of these freemium services where you can listen for free, but you get, you have to listen to ads. And then for very little money, compared to what you, you know, what you get out of it, you can have to, you know, add free streaming or music on demand. And so I think that's pretty powerful. And then most of these services also have comedy albums on demand. You know, recently, one of my great heroes in comedy Bob Newhart passed away. And boy, some of his, some of his comedy albums are absolutely fantastic. So they're out there for people to listen to. But yeah, there's, there's, there's George Carlin and everybody right now we need some straight up. Oh my gosh, George Carlin. Straight up wisdom. You know, I mean, George Carlin, I have often thought in the last, you know, 10 years or so, well, where is George Carlin? He would be so, so, so welcome and so needed and so helpful at this time. But you know, yeah, the climate crisis is real. It's, it's, it's something that is pretty easy to see in evidence. It's not something that, you know, it's, it's, it's easy to see that it's there and it's real. And that, that level of anxiety with the, with the crisis and with our political leaders not really, you know, doing a whole lot about it. So there's that, there's the whole thing with COVID, we have seen what a real pandemic is. And we, we, we, you know, we know that it can happen. It's not just a fanciful story. So there's lots of, there's lots of, and then there's, of course, there's financial crisis. There's helped crisis. There's all these different things. They're all, and the immigration thing. Everyone's, yeah, yeah, absolutely. The immigration thing I'm going, if we don't fix climate change, you're going to really see immigration happening. Oh, I know. And so that, that low level. Let's not do politics. No, no, we're not, we're not going to politics. We're going to leave that to other people, but, but there's a low, but there's music for that and starts stealing musician songs for political campaigns. Well, yeah, but there's a low, there's a constant low level of anxiety and music and comedy is like the two best ways I know to combat that. I mean, seriously, it really, it really helps. And everyone should sing in the shower, sing in the card. Absolutely. I don't know what it sounds like here. I, I'm terribly, like, I know, like, there's a level of playing too loud that you can't actually hear what you're playing. But, um, I remember talking, you remember, right? Well, he's, he's kicking, but everywhere. Ryan Bingham, um, it was an amazing kind of Americana artist. He's on a Yellowstone and all of that. And, um, he, he plays slide, like, it's like Derek Truckson, the Dadeshi band. Now, if you watch that band, there's, they have a little bit of everything, the big family band. And it feels good. Like Michael Fronti, I wanted to tell you, you were talking about, born this way. Michael Fronti has one of my favorite songs that all the freaky people make the beauty of the world. And, and the, and I'll play that stuff and just got a little rap and everything. And Nancy's all like, yeah, all right. Let's go. And he's also got, um, a song that I wanted to, I wanted to add to the list, which, um, because Michael Fronti, he, he was angry with everything, right, politics and, and, and how, you know, uh, people of different colors have been treated in our country and so many things. And then he realized he wasn't winning with anger. Right. So he turned it to love. And I mean, now yet he hosts yoga retreats and Bali and, you know, he was married. I know let's go. Let's, we could do a podcast in Bali. I always, I always, I always worry about, like, getting too far from, like, the West, because with my, no, I would be with my, well, I mean, but like, you know, like air condition, medically, and medic, like having a good hospital nearby, because if I get sick, um, I don't get more sick than, because of the conditions I have, like, I don't get more sick than you do. But if I do get sick, it's just a lot harder on me. You could go to South Africa, you could go to South Africa because they have excellent, excellent. I'm in fact, they're the ones who performed, performed the very first heart surgery. So they are really good. And there's certain hospitals that are really good. And so you can go to South Africa and do that. But I wanted to tell you this song name, and we're all over the map on today's show, but it's cool. It's exciting. Um, but you've got Michael Fronti is the dude, but I found a song just for you. It's called I'm Alive. Michael Fronti, I'm alive, but I also really wanted to put in, because some artists, I mean, I just almost want to say, listen to these artists, you know, not just the song, individual, right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. You know, because some of them make you really feel good. And I think it's, I encourage people to put a playlist together. What would you put on a playlist? You know what I mean? So I think on our Facebook group, we'll put it on like, we'll ask people to submit a song, but, um, Carole King, I feel the earth move, right? Well, I have the effects on everyone that I come in contact with. Yeah, I make the earth move. Yeah. And then smash mouth, walking on the sun. No. Oh, you don't forget Joey also drives. You know, I just want people to know that, um, why am I driving? It's, uh, I have. That's inspiring. Well, yeah, you know, it is interesting you mentioned that because the, the hook of the song is loving you like a blind man driving, which we all know, which means it's a terrible idea called backlessness. But yeah, it's, it's, it's a bad idea. But, um, interestingly, the video for it is, it's, it's, it's a pretty silly concept. So the video concept is, um, you know, that I can't make it like my transportation for a gig has fallen through. And I have to get to the gig because the show must go on. So I decide to go ahead and car jack a lady, take her car and drive to the gig. And in the meantime, the police are chasing me all through town. And so, um, you know, that's pretty affirmational in the, in the, in the, because it's going, yeah, but it's, it's like, oh, well, you know, whatever it takes to, to live the life that I want to live to do what I said I was going to do. Do I want to do it? What do you mean you're not coming? I love the beginning. What do you mean? I'm like, what do you mean? What are you talking like that, Joey? Yeah, that was all improvised. We just, uh, we just, we just had fun. We just had fun. My favorite part is the fact that I was running around, you know, not being able to see where I was going. And I was running down streets and, and stuff like that. And, and I thought, I thought I'm going to bust my face, but I didn't. And, uh, I was very proud of, I was more proud of that than anything else. But that's the thing. That's the thing is to push yourself through that limit. And I think music sometimes gives you that extra oomph. I have a question about like, there's a lot of lyrics and then there's the rhythm and the movement, right? Of songs of how it influences your, your physiology, actually, your soul physiology. So there's the song Baker Street, Jerry Rafferty, right? And when Baker Street opens up, you know, boom, boom, like that opening, like, there's certain opening lines on something where you know something's happening. But that song to me is almost like you opened a door and something news coming in. And because it's in the, you know, it's a, it's just the, the pitch of it even is more in a uplifting like, here we're coming. And then it comes down, like you're like, well, I thought something more is coming, right? And, but that kind of sound, when you're writing, do you write with that going, this is the sound, the, the, um, the pitch and then the certain instrumentation, if it's a horn, a sax, that kind of thing. And how, you know, those certain notes, and I don't know what it is, like, I am so like addicted literally to really good slide guitar. Like, I, there's something about that because it will take you from the low to the high and back again and all around. It's like, um, it's, it's, and really, I mean, you, they're really good players are not all over the place with it. You know what I mean? They can go on up. Yeah. I mean, you, you know, and you can play it and I can't, but I just am always like, there's something about that sound that it's like food, right? I love a bit sweet and spicy something. Like, I want the opposites to attract in my mouth, right? That doesn't makes me happy. Yeah, certain pitches and sounds do that too. So it's not the attraction always to the lyrics or it's a certain sound that does something and I believe it does something with your chakras. I've got to do the, it's interesting. I've got some lyrics that are absolute rubbish if you read them. But when you combine them with the melody and the rhythm, they work really well to create a certain feeling. And there are certainly, there are certainly keys of songs. I mean, you should choose the key of a song based on what it allows you to do with the melody or the instruments. And so, you know, some, sometimes you get a little bit of a brighter sound. Like, for example, one time I was producing a band and they were using a capo on their guitar to change keys, which is, yeah, that's all fine and well. I mean, you know, sometimes that's the only choice you have because you want a certain chord voicing, a chord voicing by that, what I mean is the notes of the chord, a chord being two or more notes played simultaneously, the notes of the chord in a particular order. And if you're on the guitar, there are certain orders that, you know, if you, maybe you can't get without a capo. Most people use capos to change keys because they don't know how to play the chords and other keys and they just know a few shapes. So, so that's what happens most of the time. But on occasion, you have to use a capo because you can't get the chord voicing you want without it. So, but I was producing a band and I said, look, you know, this is a very energetic song. And you need to move, you need to raise the E by a half step because that will force you to sing higher. And by using higher, you're going to, because that's not your comfort zone, that's going to give you more energy and more push and give the song a little bit of extra something something. And that's what we need to do. So, there are all kinds of devices, I mean, that you can use. And we certainly have plenty of science to show how music affects the brain, how by processing rhythms, you actually grow more like brain matter. There's a lot of science to show that even just tapping, you know, your fingers can increase synapses to control, find muscle memory and muscle controls. And there's lots of things that you react to physically, that you don't react to emotionally. So, like a good beat, like the beat of the song can be really important, like whether you can dance to it or whether. And what's interesting about that is, if you think about it, you know, we talk about these tribal rhythms and these primitive bands, like early forays in the music, which was an attempt to explain the unexplainable. We believe, you know, based on history and science and research, you know, that man's early forays in music was primarily the attempt to communicate with some form of God, whether that's nature or a divine being or whatever. This is where the levitation comes in. This is, this is, I mean, most our early forays in the music, we're typically trying to explain the universe as best we could and to communicate. So most, most of early are, we believe that most early music was sacred music. And by that, I just mean something that tries to describe the divine or the unknown. But my point is that there are physical responses. There's a mental response to music. There's an emotional response to music. There's a physical response to music. And everything in our world is cycling. You know, we understand that there are patterns, there are sleep patterns, there are all kinds of hibernation patterns. There's all these things, there are migratory patterns. And all these things have to do with cycles and the rhythm of our universe and how the planets move and all these things. And so, I mean, it's no surprise to me that music has that kind of sort of primal power to get right down to the core of who we are as the beings of matter. It is about levitation. You're lifting up. So inspiring, you know, some, like we said, sometimes you have to go down to go up. You know, it's true. And, but the levitation is what Willie, the drummer, Willie Kellogg, rest in peace, my good friend. He taught me so much. He was, he was a drummer for the Flying Breeder Brothers and Moby Grape and toured with Johnny Hooker and was one of the first musicians to see the Rolling Stones go to San Diego and wrote a review and say, "There are a bunch of pasty white ugly boys who can't play shit." He did. He's my language, everyone. But that's what he did in the reader, which is like the local rag out in San Diego. Like, it's all the musicians read. It's like all the classifies. It's like the paper, right? Every week. And boy, was he unpopular for that, you know? And then he's, he's, you know, he, but he's all, and he's one of, we'd sit down and he would play hand drums and Sufi music. And he was like, "It's levitation." Then he'd go listen to the Sufi music, right? And the rhythms. And we'd listen to a lot of African music. And of course, that's, you know, part of my life, you know? And so, and it was all levitation. And if you listen to soul and blues, you still have to have that levitation. Now, the blues also gets down and dirty and sweaty and sexy and soul and funk. And that's also part of the release, right? Absolutely. You know, sorry, but sex is a release, right? Of course. Absolutely. Sex is natural. Sex is fun. Thank you. Thank you, George Michael. Yes. Thank you, George Michael. My hero. By the way, what are the greatest singers ever to walk there? I need to. He is an amazing, you know what? And he really, I mean, as a kid, I was listening to him. And I thought, wam, and everything he did was fantastic. I mean, come on, even listen, some of the 80s, I mean, I don't know what was going on, but like, some of it was crazy. And then like the 90s, there's some just, but I think some of it's got to be fun. Like, come on, the safety dance. Come on, don't you start giggling when you hear the safety dance? Oh, yeah. Come on. And whip it. Come on. We need that. Yeah. Got to listen to some of them, like, come on, Irene and the werewolf of London. Come on. Yeah. We need, we need all that crazy stuff, but we need those downs. But the rhythm, going back to that, I think it is the levitation. It's that soul. And if it makes you move, if it makes you tap your toes, you're starting to come out of whatever funk it is. It's inspiring you to be forward. It's what gospel music, I adore gospel music. And I don't care. I don't care. And when I say gospel, it's music that I don't care if it's in India, I don't care where, you know, if it's music that's trying to get you closer to God, you're again, it's the epitome of levitation, right? Yeah. And soul. And everybody's like, I'm going, you know, and it's like, oh, man, I mean, that that like, if I'm gonna have a big funeral man, I want like the temptations there or something, like we're gonna, you know, we're gonna, we're gonna go, we're gonna have a good time. I want like seven days there or something. I want to party, dude. It's the music. Oh, I don't want any, nobody needs to look at me, man. Oh, no. No, if I'm dead, I'm dead. You don't need to look at the worms can have it, but let's party and they have some music to levitate to. We got to go up, you know, we don't want to go down. I mean, maybe we get put it. Isn't that funny that we put ourselves in the ground to go up? Isn't that funny? Yeah. Like, what are we doing? Maybe we should like shoot us up to space. Go on, but I'm not, I'm not. Would you do it? I probably would be. Would you do one of the space things, the space walkies? Would you do it? I would, I think. The one astronaut was playing her violin. I think it was up in space. She was playing the theme to Star Wars or something. Like, I don't know, some something up there. That would be appropriate. Her hair was way up. It was super cool. You know, I was like, man, that's, I think George Clinton, everybody needs to hear like music, man, the atomic dog. And we want the atomic dog, man. Yeah. Bow, wow, wow. Okay. But then there's Snoop Dogg, right? So I'm sorry, I went there. I like Snoop Dogg, too. I love Snoop Dogg. You know, it was great. It's the Olympics. It really did a good job. You know, I'm sorry, but the Olympic torch does look like a big joint. Are we back to drugs again? You are. Music is a good drug. That's the best drug. And the news, I want a new drug. I want to know, he doesn't, he get you like, I'm sad that he's not singing anymore, but we're losing a lot of our amazing grades and later on. Oh, man, I know, man, I didn't realize about Parkinson's, you know, but I wanted to, I wanted to ask you about River Deep Mountain High. That song, to me, is probably, I don't think it can, I don't know if you can redo that. I don't know if anyone can, like, I know Melissa Etheridge and Josh, Josh, it is Josh. Yeah, Josh Stone have been able to do a little bit of Janice Joplin, but I don't know, man. It's, um, yeah, you know, it's interesting about that. Taking, taking songs. Yeah. I had a, I had a student, one of my voice students, sings in Patsy Klein, and I'm like, Oh, don't do that. Like, it's like, it's so hard to compete with Patsy Klein. I mean, there's just certain people like that are so iconic and so good that you're going to be compared to them if you do their music and you're going to lose every time because they were once in a generation type of, you know, artist. So if you try to sing a song like Patsy Klein, you're going to, that's going to be an epic fail for you. Now, if you take a Patsy Klein song and twist it and make it your own, so it sounds nothing like her version, then you've got something interesting that happens. But when you try to just sort of redo the song, but with your voice on it, the kind of the same style, I feel like that rarely works. So yeah, it's some songs. I mean, they're just certain songs that like I, there was very, I mean, people, we know how to rock my band and we're very aggressive. We're very, you know, we're very tight. We're, we can, and we're, we're, we're what a good rock blues band should be. We're in your space and, and it's, it's, and I'm, you know, as an entertainer, when it comes to the live show, I'm a sprinter, not a marathon runner. In other words, what I'm saying is, I ain't going to play for four hours. I'm going to play for an hour and a half and I'm going to leave my guts on the stage. And then I'm exhausted. And so my point is that, you know, a lot of people want to hear us do Led Zeppelin stuff. And, and, and it's really, you know, most of the songs that they do is like, we could play them, but Led Zeppelin is so iconic and is full of so many musicians that were, that were unique and, and just a, a once in a generation kind of thing that I only want to touch in that stuff. They have, Led Zeppelin has two blues songs since I've been loving you and days to confuse. And we can take those and blues them up enough in our own way that those work for us. But outside of that, like I would never do black dog or stairway to heaven or I would just, no, I just wouldn't do it because I'm going to lose. But that's how I feel about Shebert. And what's that? Well, yeah, yeah. Unless I took stairway to heaven and put it in like seven, eight and then started doing some weird stuff to it. You know, maybe one day I'll twist it and make it where you can't, I do a Wham song and it's so twisted that you can't recognize it. Like, you're like, I know I know this song, but who is it? And then finally at the end, like, oh, it's Wham, but you, but it takes you the whole song to figure it out because I've twisted it so much from the original. Yeah, I see this. It's, but that's the way it should be to me. Covers are there like, they're good warmups, you know, for a band. And you know, our band was, I would say three quarters covers because it was just a, that's a whole other world and whole other. Well, but you've got art and you've got entertainment and they're two different things. They are. And I think I like to hear like, Carrie Underwood sings Guns and Roses. So I'm like, I want to hear that man. Oh, yeah. Um, that's what you know. That's exactly what you want to hear. Yeah, but I want to go check it out. I want to check it out, right? But then some, I think that would be interesting. I think she does. And she, I think she holds her own, but like, Miley Cyrus can sing about anybody's stuff and does it well and her thing. But, um, yeah, I mean, she's got that versatile voice that's very much her own. And she knows. I really like her last record that came out. Um, you know, uh, this was a "Send Myself Flowers" or whatever. That's a pretty good record. But that, but that's interesting because Bruno Mars has a song just the same, right? And talk about an inspirational song. That's a actually, that is a self-motivating song. I love 24 carat gold, like that, that, uh, that Bruno Mars tune. Wow. Yeah. That's a party song. But, but that's kind of the same as what she, you know, so I'm just, it's interesting to me about that. But when, when you look at, um, covers, like she did "Man of Constant Sorrow" like for George Clooney at some event, I can't remember what it was, what event it was, but I was like, dang, she did a good job. Like, she's got Roy Orbison. Like to me, like, you want to talk about inspirational music, just give me Roy Orbison all day long all night. I am such a weirdo fan about Roy Orbison. And like, there's just like, I think I could never really make a playlist of inspiring music because it would just be like, do you would like my whole collection? It would be, yeah, it would be infinite. Yeah, I gotcha. Yeah, it's kind of weird doing this because of that, because it's- Well, we're just giving this tone as it were. Yeah, because there's so many songs that motivate, there's motivation, inspiration to me is a little bit different than motivation. Motivation, inspiration is to edge you out of whatever and give you hope. Motivation is where you take hope and make reality, right? Does that make sense? Yeah, and then you need to go into cruise control and really kick some butt. Yeah. And then you have those songs. So I think we're really time. Yeah, you know, so, you know, when you go to church, I don't care where you go to a church, man. You're- I just listen because it's- it- that is more so even with people can't sing it proper or whatever. But man, gospel music, you know, that's why Tina Turner is just, I think, in a wreath at Franklin. I mean, their voices come on with that. I mean, it came from gospel roots and you'll hear, like, a lot of good singers. Well, so the elders- so the elders came from the church. Yeah. Hey, listen, did he have an affair with Anne Margaret? I have no idea. I keep seeing all these things about him and Anne Margaret going, what's going on? I do not know the answer to that question. I never heard that. See, well, that's just me. It's just- But I will say that he seemed to be fairly active, shall we say? Yeah, I think he was. But he did- well, okay, so when he sang "Walk On" and, you know, that is moving. Okay, it's moving music that moves you. Yeah. That would be inspiring, right? It's just another shade of the inspirational rainbow. There's lots of different flavors of inspiration or affirmation. Yeah, I think soundtracks for movies do it really well. They- they make you feel like a movie without a soundtrack? Huh. The soundtrack. I mean, Nancy and I are always like, okay, listen to the music here. They're doing this. They're doing that. And we actually ruin movies by doing that. That's horrible. But what we do, we listen to like a TV show. We're like, oh, listen to that. That's why we love British stuff. We watched British comedy last night. Well, it's not supposed to be Father Brown. Have you watched Father Brown? That's what it is? I have. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not comedy. It's funny. It's funny. It's Father Brown mystery you're talking about, then. Yeah, that was our first time seeing that. Yeah, it's good. Anything British. And Benny Hill, can we talk about Benny Hill? Yeah. Listen, Benny Hill, then it's funny. It's funny. And it's just- we need that. So we need this silly, should be part of the moving thing, like you're saying. But a lot of comedians do play instruments. They've got that brain for it, you know? And Adam Sandler, come on. Yeah. You know, so I think- whoo. Joey, I think we did good. We've got a huge list that- I don't know what to do about it, but it's a big playlist. And we'll add some things in there, but yeah, you got Rise Up from the end of the day. That's a huge one that is- you know, we were doing a show about girls empowerment. Yeah. And everyone picked that song for a playlist. That was like one of the top. Nice. You know? So am I allowed to add the Rolling Stones even though Willie doesn't like him? I think the Rolling Stones- you know, again, it comes back to what I was talking about earlier. He was listening to what the Rolling Stones were with a preconceived notion, and he wasn't cherishing for what they are. So- I love the songs. If you want to talk about Mick Jagger being the greatest vocalist all time, he's not going to win that award. If you want to talk about him being one of the greatest front men of all time, he's going to win. And Mick Jagger doesn't have a pleasing voice, but he's got a wonderful, captivating presence. And I think he's a great singer. I love it. I mean, I love the Stones. I mean, they're not musicians musicians in the sense that they're technically perfect, and they are very- you know, oh, we're going to use a 6'9" chord here. You know, it's not that, but it's- but what it is, and my buddy, Chappelle, is their sort of music director and keyboard player. But they really have a lot of heart and a lot of soul, and they're really fantastic. And they draw a lot of their influences from American blues and roots music and- Muddy Waters. Like when they went and played with them, you know, their face is beaming. There's this- everyone Google it, man. On YouTube, you can watch the Rolling Stones go and play with Muddy Waters, and their faces are like licked up. They're so excited to be there. Like, you know, and Muddy- you know, Muddy Waters is like, oh man, he's like the king, dude. I love the Rolling Stones. I mean, they've got some incredible songs. Loving Cup is my- that's my thing. Loving Cup is- I love- yeah, I love- I love like Tumblin DICE and, you know, I love- I love only rock and roll, and you know, there's- I mean, start me up, and there's so many- I'm, you know, and- and Little Red Rooster- Sympathy for the Devil. That's a great tune. I love that song. That's one of my best. That's good. I mean, there's- We used to do- can't always get what you want. That's a great tune. If you try some time, you may get what you need. Sometimes you just- my fine, you get what you need. That's right. Exactly, and that- there's a- That's affirmational. I mean, you know, that's- But Loving Cup? Yeah. There's a version with Jack White, of Loving Cup. Interesting. Well, and I love it with him and there more because he gets the giggles in it, and- because he's also like starry-eyed, you know, and with the stones, you know. Yeah, how pretty was that? It was when he was first starting, and there's- you know, you want to talk inspiration? Oh my gosh. Right, so Eddie Vetter, I think, has an incredible voice. Yeah. But of like, not necessarily Pearl Jam on the- on the flip side of it, right? And he has some of his own solo work, and I like that from- Yeah, I think he's got two solo artists. Big heart son and all that. He's got- Yeah. He does a ukulele and all that stuff, but he played- he did a duet with Yusef, Cat Stevens, right? For me, and those Cat Stevens. Yeah, yeah. And Cat Stevens, to me, when you're talking about inspirational, like, what- that voice is insane, man. Cat Stevens has- there is no other Cat Stevens other than our friend Paul, but he- may he rest in peace. That is a voice that- and he was so positive, and he still is. He's still loud. And to listen to his music just kind of- it makes you feel good, and I think John Denver does that for a lot of people. Oh yeah, John Divers, a great example of feel good, I mean, music. He just has such an uplifting sound to his voice. Mm. Well, anyway, have we left anybody else? Yes. Sure, we have, but yes, we've covered quite a lot of- The Beatles. You put in a lot of Beatles. I put two Beatles songs, yeah. Yes, and you also- you have Elton John and I do. You have- I'm still standing, and I put in Tiny Dancer. Yeah. Because it was such a big deal, like, I don't know, it's just the- it's the movement of it, the movement of the song. Yeah. How it builds, and then if you can actually sing those notes, power to y'all, you know. [Laughter] And Joe Cocker to me, just watching him- I mean, Joe Cocker is a singer. Yeah, I think we lost a really good one. No one can cover him. No one can do Joe Cocker, you know? Yeah, yeah. So there's just- play music, y'all, that's the thing. It is, play music. Joey, we're excited for a live day. We're going to have some awesome musicians on the show. We're doing a whole bunch of things. So everyone stay tuned. I'm going to put a link in the episode notes for Joey's YouTube playlist, okay? So watch that, and that you'll be able to hear the live day podcast through there, also on bigblendradio.com. But from there too, we're going to have some extras that we're working on. So follow that playlist. We put that together the other day, and that way you can hear whenever Joey's on the show, and follow what he's doing with us. Yeah, what are you doing with us, Joey? [Laughter] But- Hi, I have no- whatever you tell me. Yeah, whatever you tell me to, this could be dangerous. But we're going to have a really special, alive day, and everyone that's all be happy that we're alive, right? Absolutely. Thank you, Joey. Everyone, JoeyStucky.com as well is the place to go to. Thanks, Joey. Thank you, friend. Thank you for listening to Big Blend Radio. Keep up with our shows at bigblendradio.com.
Musician Joey Stuckey celebrates music that inspires, motivates, and makes us all feel good!
