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Aug. 3, 2026

The Sound of Gold with guest Scott Opeila

The Sound of Gold with guest Scott Opeila

Music is Medicine for this rockstar! What is it like to recover from a motorcycle accident. Life before the accident was all about music, teaching music, leadsinger in a band. Playing bass guitar and more. After the accident. How do you get back who...

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Season 2

Music is Medicine for this rockstar! What is it like to recover from a motorcycle accident.
Life before the accident was all about music, teaching music, leadsinger in a band. Playing bass guitar and more.
After the accident.
How do you get back who you were? The questions we ask ourselves; who am I? Who was I?How do I recover? How do I return to the life I lead?

Tune in too learn how this talented Rockstar, Scott Opeila is rockin the road to recovery!

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Hi, and welcome to the Sound of Gold.

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It is so great to be back here, and well,

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it's great to do this every week for you.

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If you've been here, you know, if you're new, welcome.

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My show is focused on music, musicians, music schools, music teachers,

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music venues, composers.

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Anything to do with music.

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I am a piano player and a piano teacher as

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well as a radio show host. And I have a

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passion for being on the air with you, for you

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and shining the light on all the talent that is

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in our communities. And each week I get to bring

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a special guest in and I'm so excited to share

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with you who I have today. But before I get

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to that, right now, if you're watching this live, it

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is Monday afternoon, Monday evening the end of a long Monday,

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and I always like to just start off with a

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little introduction of playing a little something to just kind

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of ease in the evening.

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As we settle in.

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And if you knew me in my area, they call

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me the instant composer because I just compose in the moment.

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For many of you that knew me, you know.

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That I had the opportunity to perform for several years

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and I loved doing live online performances and I don't

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get to do that as much as I used to,

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so I miss that and I miss playing for many

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of you. But today in every show, this is not

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about me. You know, well you don't know in the

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music world, for those musicians out there. When we are

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in this world, we are all connected. And a lot

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of us have met each other through gigs, or through

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introductions or through opportunities. And then there are some of

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us that have not met personally, but we have similar

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friends and connections and we just we stay in touch

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and we connect maybe not on a one on one level,

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but through energy and through through this word of mouth.

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And there's so much I have to share with you today,

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And before I start talking too much, I would love

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to introduce my guests today, which is Scott Ophelia and

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if you know him, you know how talented and.

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Gifted he is.

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Scott, I know you're sitting behind stage. Please join me.

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How you doing good? How are you good? Thank you

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so much? Thank you for having me.

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Yeah, absolutely, absolutely that Scott. There's so much. We have

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a lot of similar friends. We have a lot of

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similar connections. As I mentioned, we and Mindy and you

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and I we follow each other on Facebook, and Facebook

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is like the world renowned stay connected to each other,

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and and it's such a blessing because you know, we

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all have our ups and downs, we all have our

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highs and lows, and we all have our.

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Talent that we get to share.

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And you bring so much to this stage, and you've

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done so much. And then, as we briefly mentioned, and

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as I've known because I've kept in touch with Mindy,

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you know, stuff happens, and you had been in an accident,

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you were performing, you were you were in film.

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You you know, you have this gift that you share

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with the world.

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And then in a sense, and I'm not picking on

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you because myself as well, we've all been through something,

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we've all had that set back. So tell us, Scott,

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tell us how far back can we go to say,

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like how you started on your musical path and just

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kind of detour us into the here and now.

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Yeah, that's interesting if you look at it that way,

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because I don't usually like to tell that story because

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I don't like to get long winded, which is easy

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for me to do easy, and I'll try to keep

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it brief. But I found out that I was gifted

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to do this at a young age, meaning that I

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it's crazy. My dad took me to go see a movie.

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I don't know if I can say the name, but

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it was a long time ago, in the seventies, and

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I thought that the saxophone was all about that movie,

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and I just wanted to play the saxophone. I was

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only eleven, and so parents went to the whul thing

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like really, so they rented the saxophone. However, it turned

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out it was an Alto sax and I was eleven

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and there were a couple of guys in my group

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that also wanted to play that instrument. So there was

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a guy that was, you know, teaching us how to

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play it, and he would get kind of like exacerbated

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with this whole thing, because he would look at the

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other kids and he'd look at me, and he finally

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would just say, you see what he's doing. Just do

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what he's doing. It's like really like I just I'm

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just calling orders like sorry, And and then that lasted.

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I played in the in the band anyway, went to drums.

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that I started playing drums and I didn't have drums

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at home, so I just you know, played what I saw,

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and that moved into base because oh my god, it

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was nineteen seventy seven, seventy eight, so I was a

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big Kiss fan, and I thought that, you know, the

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bass player was awesome because I was like, what thirteen twelve,

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you know, and probably not even that old. And so

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we went to go see nineteen seventy nine, my first

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concert Kiss in lot and I was out of the way.

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Yeah. Anyway, but the.

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Bass that my dad got me was one of the

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short scale basses at a pawn shop. And after a

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while I didn't know about strings, so I didn't know, oh, figures,

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what happens when the strings go out, And because it

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was a short scale bass and the strings went out.

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All I had was the prep board and I would

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try to do that. Then I will I was like, well,

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what is the guitar player doing? So I started doing

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the guitar thing, and then that turned into guitar and

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then ever since then, well, actually there.

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I went back to summer camp and I was a

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big like I loved few bands and back then, because

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you know, you're a little kid, and it's like eighty

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two or something like that, eighty one, and I this guy,

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believe it or not, from Hollywood, Florida, and I wasn't

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from Florida, like I'm not from Florida, but he was

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there and he was playing with Les Paul and he

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was playing ac DC and I was like, oh my god,

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you can do that, Like that's possibility I could. So

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I went back to my friend and he showed me

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how I could play guitar, and and oh my god,

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it hurt my so bad that I was determined and

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I would just play power courts like all these courts.

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I got an acoustic when I got back home, and

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then from there on it was about I was like

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thirteen fourteen, and from then on I just would play

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guitar and Honestly, my grades went down because I was

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doing nothing.

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But playing guitar.

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But it turned out I was and I really didn't

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know what I wanted to do. So I ended up

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going to community college and whatever. And the guy there

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was a it was.

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Actually very good.

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He was actually the first chair saxophone player, one above

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David Samborn, which when he told us that, I was like, what,

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I love David Sambor?

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Are you kidding? Because now I'm like Dan, you know.

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Anyway, So I'm getting ready because you know it's community college, Like, well,

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where do I go from here?

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Well?

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I went to my counselor and I'm sorry with the

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details and boring you, but yeah, and he told me, well,

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there's three universities basically you could go to, like okay,

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so yeah, there's there's a in Boston you can go

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to you know, uh uh you know, yeah, yeah, Berkeley, Yeah.

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Go to Berkeley because you know so, and so I

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went there and go to Berkeley.

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You know, because nowadays the guys who are teaching, or

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the guys who were the students of the students of

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the student kind of thing, so you're not getting the teacher.

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Because my jazz teacher got uh, he went there, but

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his instructor, his instructor, his teacher was Oliver Nelson, who

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was yeah, a fabulous jazz saxophone.

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Anyway, that was ridiculous. That was way went. So now

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I'm going, well, I don't want to go I know the.

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Guys who Journey went to Berkeley, but things like well

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go to North Texas State, like really, like, oh yeah,

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North Texas State.

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They got a great jazz program over there.

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I was like, Okay, who came out of that? Like

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what's that all about?

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It's like, well, you know that it's.

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The drummer for davidly Rock. Now like oh yeah, Greg

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this and that. He's like yo, yeah, yeah he was

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a drummer there. I'm like, really, Greg, okay, okay, cool.

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But honestly, I didn't really want to go to Texas. Like, well,

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there's just one other places you might want to go to.

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It's called University of Miami. I was like really like

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I was there. It's like Pat Metheny was there. I'm

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like wait, Pat Metheenie, seriously yeah, tac of a story

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is what? And he gave off all these guys. I'm like, yeah,

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sign me up. Because my parents moved down to Florida.

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I'm definitely my believe it or not, my first semester

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there that comes to the area to tour. Like in

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his tour he comes to the a yeah, and he

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does a gig down there, and of course everybody in

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the music school is going, we gotta go see Pat.

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So we all jumped in cars went to go see Pat.

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The next thing I know, he's at the school. The

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next day, I'm standing right next to Matt and Beanie.

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And he had like these little running shorts on. He

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just looked like a right a.

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Guy, you know.

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Yeah, And I'm like going, oh my god, it's Pat

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me and and like what do I do?

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Like I don't know anyway, but yeah, it was. It

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got pretty crazy. So the reason and the reason why

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I mentioned it, it's a good reason why I mentioned it.

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Actually it came to me.

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I didn't realize the connection of these schools and the

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upper artists or in other words, the artist that like

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everybody knows their name, you know that kind of.

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Thing, you know, you mentioned Bruce Horns. Bruce Horns me

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he went to my school.

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Oh yeah, he's also like one of those guys, is

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oh Gloria Stepan, Yeah, I know Gloria Stephan, you know,

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she was a psychology I know everybody knows, and and

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so it's things like that, and so I was like, yeah, okay,

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so everybody's like going to go do something, you know,

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and that's fantastic. Anyway, I wasn't excited about the whole

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LA thing. I mean, I wanted to go after graduation,

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but I heard and honestly, anyway, there's other things I

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don't really want to mention, you know, I don't think

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I have to mention. But there's a guy who actually

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wrote a book from his experience. He didn't go to UM,

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but it's one of the guys who was in the

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band Corn and his name is Brian Welch by the

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nickname Head as they all went by nicknames. And he

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found himself caught up in this thing out in LA

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and then finally just said I got to get out

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of here. He wrote a book and it was a

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fabulous book. Anyway, don't mean to be labor that. So yeah,

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I had another friend of mine who Eric Bradley, and

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he we and we had classes together and because of

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that accident, like I knew who his teacher was.

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like he just took one on one lessons. Yeah, and

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I found out who his teacher was, and I was like,

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are you kidding me? See Bye is your teacher? Seriously

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that's I'm a big David Gilmour Eddie van Halen fan,

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but holy cows, the guy is amazing, you know. And

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he's like yeah, yeah, yeah, And I'm like, okay, cool.

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Well here's like I'm sorry, I don't mean to jump around.

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No, no, this is great.

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Yeah. Years later, Eric, I run into I'm running into

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all these.

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I was years later, meaning like twenty eleven, and they're

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shooting a movie down here and I got, uh invited.

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I was asked in a movie and uh, I got

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in the movie and they're like, oh yeah, there's a

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girl that's going to come down and do one of

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the songs and you can be in the band. I'm like, okay, great,

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and I was. Unfortunately they cut that. But if you

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get the external version of the sorry whatever that version is.

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Called, you'll seem or be in there.

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No not, I'm in the trailer, but it's there's another

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version of the movie, like they put together a short

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movie like the regular version that went out to the

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screen in the like a revision.

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Yeah, so I'm in the revised version anyway, and she

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was telling me this this lady that porcelain black and uh, anyway,

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that's another story, but I'm her guitarist. And Eric ended

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up coming down and he walked out the door, and

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I hadn't seen him in forever. I'm like, holy hell,

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Eric Bradley. Yeah, like it's Scott Opel. We had the

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classic we you know. He's like, oh my god, I

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haven't seen you forever. I'm like, I know, right, how

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much have we changed?

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So we have? Yeah, we had lunch together, you.

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Know, because they had a lunch area for us, and

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we're talking and he said, yeah, there was another guy

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who was originally scheduled to teach Tom Cruise how to

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play guitar on this but failed. I know that guy anyway,

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a good guy by the so they asked me to

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come in, so I did. I was like, all right,

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that's good. Well because of that when I got in

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that motorcycle accent here right, one of the other guys

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that I helped out, who was actually English but he

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lives in Germany, and I did some guitar work for

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him and he went to go Steve at concert and

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then he's He's like, hey, that guy, Scott, he's was

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just in this motorcycle accent.

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Would you do me a favorite and send it, you know,

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do a video for me.

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He's like sure, So I have a video of Steve

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Baier actually talking straight to me, and I'm like, holy cow,

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what an amazing crazy hears And he's just one of them.

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There are a couple of guys.

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I'm going to interrupt you for a second for my

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audience is out there and for what we're you know,

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having conversations about right now, for people out there that

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are are interested in taking lessons or in becoming a musician,

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or connecting with the right people. It's almost like you

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were placed. You just like from the beginning, you just

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like we're connected with people one after the other. It

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was almost like it sounds like you were always in

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the right place at the right time. Or was it

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that you had to step out and make other connections,

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because that's what it really takes.

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It takes.

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It takes about building relationships and making connections. But you

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seem to always be in the right place.

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It's there's a lot of truth to that. I don't

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try to do that. I mean, it's not you know,

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it's not like I'm some some girl at the party

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who's like, okay, tells her friends put that drink over there,

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and when you think that, like oh who made this,

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and I'll raise my hand and then he'll say, hey,

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come on over something like that. It's just it is

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crazy because, like I said, taking up that saxophone was

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because I went to go see the movie. Well, I

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can say that increase. And yet when I listened to

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the soundtrack versus saxophone, so I didn't really And then

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when I started playing guitar, I actually started playing guitar

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because I listened to Pink Floyd a lot, so I

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love David Gilmour's approach. And then a friend of mine

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helped me out with like he said, you've never heard

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of Edie Van Allen.

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I'm like, oh should? I Like, it's like, are you

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kidding me?

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And I went back home and I found out that

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I actually did buy the album Diver Down because it

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was on nineteen eighty two, the album and stuff like that,

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like oh yeah, I do I do have it, and

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you know, I'm like, wow, okay, but it's getting back

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to what you were saying.

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I don't know.

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How to tell people do this at that time, yea,

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or it's just one of the kind of yeah.

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Well let me ask you and we're going to go

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back to this. Do you read music or do you

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play by ear?

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Or you do both?

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Both? Actually both?

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Yeah, it's crazy and to help your listener because I

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do this to mysel I also teach. By the way, I'm.

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Kind of I don't know how to explain it, but

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I'm just naturally.

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How do people get in touch with you? Because we

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have people that are watching us right now, but then

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we have people that are listening to us. So for

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our listeners that can't see us, and because we have

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a scroll on the bottom, how do people reach you? Yeah,

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I mean Facebook is the easiest.

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Maybe probably, Yeah, Facebook, for sure.

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I'm on that OP O P I E l A right, Yes,

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And that's to teas because I had a I had

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a I sent you an email say s C O

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T T O P I.

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E l A number right, number one number one at

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gmail dot com.

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Yeah, that's my email ager right on there. Oh, by

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the way, I'm very easy to find. Yeah, if you

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go on Facebook, my number is there.

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Okay, that's easy.

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I'm not the only one.

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Like I thought that was kind of crazy after a

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while and I realized, oh no, those are the guys

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who would never think like.

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Okay, it's safe. It's safe. So I want to get

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back to where we were. But I want to share

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with our audience and in our conversation. I truly believe

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when we're tapped into our passion and we don't let

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the worlds around us dictate like who we are and

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how we should show up in the world. To me,

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it sounds like you from a very young age were

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tapped into your passion to want to learn. You were

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driven by you know, the music instruments you're wanting to learn,

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and you just watched and you learned, and it really

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sounds like you had a supportive family that you know,

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supported you and what you did. And it's so important

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because then like you've you've shown up and places and

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people just all in alignment because you're just following your own.

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Path and you know it.

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It's not everybody can do that, and not everybody, you know,

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as we move forward in this life, In this day

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and age, it's becoming more easier, I think because we're

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becoming more awakened.

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To who we are and where we are.

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But years ago, it wasn't that easy to just follow

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your passion and just listen to that inner voice, because

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a lot of us will puld differently.

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Yeah, Wow, there's so much there that because you it's

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you know, the thing. I think the thing is is

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it's actually easier than we make it.

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Uh. I can use my injury as an example, believe

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it or not. Again.

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It was one of those things that, in other words,

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that laid up led up to it, one of those

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things I didn't plan on, but I ended up taking

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a teaching role at a place that was not too

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far away.

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Okay, But but the lady.

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That that that started it, you know, and opened up

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the school, she had this she really did it for

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this one guy. And he was a guitar teacher and

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he was very good, but he wanted to move on.

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And I'm sorry, I don't know his name, but anyway,

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I don't.

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Recall it, but he wanted to move on, and he

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wanted to go out west, and he wanted to marry

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his girlfriend. And that was cool, so I just happened

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to find them on some sort of it was like

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Indeed or some Instagram. Yeah, indeed, it was like a.

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Work like a Yes. So I just like, well, I

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teach guitars, so I'll do that.

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And I needed a job at the time, which is

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really crazy that this happened together.

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Because I needed a job.

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He needed to move, but he needed somebody that could

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take over his role, not just somebody could guitar. So

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she was looking for a substantial guitar teacher.

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Yeah.

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So I came in and I was like yeah, and

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I did all this stuff and she told me this,

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she said yeah afterwards after me, like he left and

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she goes, yeah, afterwards he told me he's like, oh

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this guy, yeah, he knows.

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Everything I know, like like you're in good you're in

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good ants. And I was like okay, And it's true.

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Because I was teaching guitar and then I would teach

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other students piano, and I would teach other students like

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they wanted me to teach drums. I'm like, I'm not

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teaching to read from music, but I'm not a drummer necessarily.

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But I was also a band teacher, so I had

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two bands. Okay, good, I can do that. So I

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had all that going on, and I told her that

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the owner because she loved she told me privately told

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me was like, oh my god, I love this and

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uh anyway, she said, and.

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I told her.

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I was like, yeah, well, when you're ready to leave,

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you know, uh, just let me know and I'll buy

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the place.

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Room.

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Well, things moved faster, a little quicker than she wanted

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to do. Sorry anyway, but so she ended up selling

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the place and she said, I'm sorry I had to

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sell it. So I was like, that's fine. I wasn't

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ready to buy it any only like two years later.

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Like yeah, I'm not in position to do then.

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Well, anyway, that was a whole other monstrosity that turned

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into a nightmare. And that's accident because I was supposed

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to purchase that place and this other guy decided to

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study things and you.

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Know what, it's crazy.

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He only owned it for like a year and then

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he sold it again to somebody else.

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Because that doesn't make sense. There's something yeah, not right.

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Oh, trust me, I can tell you the story because

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it wasn't even me. It was my wife saw yeh,

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she saw she was doing in the parking lot. They

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were like, there's no way he's seeing a business, and like, yeah,

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I'm never mind.

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I'm just like, really, you guys, you guys did own

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the studio for a year?

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No, never did.

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Yeah that was crazy because I got the job and

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so I started working as like a very full time

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I mean, you could only work there for so long,

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you know, you know, and we were only open.

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Do we want to share the name of the school

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or we don't.

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Want to hold on something happened?

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We can you hear me? Okay, we have a storm,

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Like we're both in Florida, so there's storms happening.

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For who are listening? You're okay, I'm back.

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So do we want to share the name of the

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school or do we want to just just keep moving forward?

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Okay, So there's better there's a better stories of that.

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The story is really easy. It's it's after the accident.

466
00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:58.200
I'm healing, right, and there's another school that's much closer

467
00:24:58.680 --> 00:25:01.279
because I can't, you know, because I'm still healing. So

468
00:25:01.799 --> 00:25:04.960
my wife has to drive until I'm ready to, you know,

469
00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:06.599
until the doctor says, well you can drive it in.

470
00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:09.640
But the good thing is that it's only fifteen minutes away,

471
00:25:09.720 --> 00:25:13.279
so it's much closer. Sorry, not even fifteen, it's it's

472
00:25:13.319 --> 00:25:17.039
only like five minutes away anyway. But the lady who

473
00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:21.160
hired me is a concert pianist number one, number two.

474
00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:23.640
She wants to create this place or another word, she

475
00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:26.200
wants to make this place started created. She wants to

476
00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:31.000
make this place a precursor to going to very good.

477
00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:32.240
Schools like Julliard.

478
00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:37.079
Yeah, and and she said, you know, having you as

479
00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:39.559
one of my teachers is fabulous. I've heard you, you know,

480
00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:42.680
like not to sorry, I want to like sneak in

481
00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:45.559
on you, but I listened to teachings and I thought

482
00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:46.240
it was fabulous.

483
00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:47.160
Said, oh, thank you.

484
00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:50.920
And so I would love to, you know, get this

485
00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:54.279
operating to a point where it becomes a like you said,

486
00:25:54.319 --> 00:25:57.799
you know, precursor to Jilliard or another people like that.

487
00:25:58.039 --> 00:25:58.799
Right.

488
00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:02.640
Yeah, So that's what's happened now. That other thing, though,

489
00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:07.799
my wife is crazy how the things just turn around.

490
00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:10.839
Because when I met my wife, she was working for

491
00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:13.359
this company that was amazing, and they were doing all

492
00:26:13.400 --> 00:26:16.599
these great things, and they had was she was the

493
00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:20.559
leader of an entire like all of South Florida. Okay,

494
00:26:20.839 --> 00:26:24.079
and then suddenly one day, like we get together and

495
00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:26.400
we're like, okay, well let's get married. When do you

496
00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:27.920
want to get married? Well, let's get married. And I

497
00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:30.920
don't know, we'll get married in February, like we chose.

498
00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:34.000
She chause't her because of her reason. I can't remember

499
00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:36.200
the reason right now. But the truth is is that,

500
00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:38.519
you know, we had other things in common. So I

501
00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:40.480
was like, well, my birthday is like June tenth. When's

502
00:26:40.519 --> 00:26:43.680
your birthday? Oh, June thirtieth, the same year. Yeah, we're

503
00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:49.039
like exactly twenty days apart. Yeah, so now we're thinking, okay,

504
00:26:49.319 --> 00:26:50.720
let's do the wedding in February.

505
00:26:50.759 --> 00:26:52.599
Okay, great, And then she gets this.

506
00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:55.279
She's on a computer one day and she's got a

507
00:26:55.319 --> 00:26:59.599
great job, she's doing wonderful and suddenly they let go

508
00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:03.000
of over four thousand people. She's one of them, right,

509
00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:05.480
and she's like, what do I do now? I'm like,

510
00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:08.920
I don't even and what we went through at the wedding.

511
00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:12.240
So we got married and then like right after that.

512
00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:17.240
It's crazy how things work because right after that, her son,

513
00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:19.559
so I became the stepfathers her son was.

514
00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:22.400
They had to put some of those hours.

515
00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:26.480
I forget what they are like parent child kind of hours.

516
00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:27.000
Yeah.

517
00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:29.559
Yeah, And this time it was at the school. So

518
00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:31.319
she was like, Hey, we're going to go down to school.

519
00:27:31.319 --> 00:27:33.680
And I said, hey, we're a family. Now, let's you know,

520
00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:34.799
let's do this as a family.

521
00:27:35.079 --> 00:27:35.559
Yeah.

522
00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:38.039
So I said, well let's let's go. Okay, well let's

523
00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:40.039
all go. So we all went down there. Good thing

524
00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:43.000
I did that. I said that because while I'm helping out,

525
00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:45.400
we take a break for lunch and we're sitting there

526
00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:47.640
and I'm standing there next to this guy and I

527
00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:50.039
don't know who he is, and we're talking. He turns

528
00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:52.000
out to be the principal and he says, what do

529
00:27:52.039 --> 00:27:53.839
you do? And I'm like, well, actually, I'm a musician

530
00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:56.799
and I used to teach. But you know, things aren't

531
00:27:57.039 --> 00:27:58.200
this is before pro music.

532
00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:00.200
And he said is.

533
00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:02.359
Uh said, well, you know what, we're going to open

534
00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:04.960
up uh seventh grade, and then we're going to open

535
00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:05.720
up eighth grade.

536
00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:06.240
Uh.

537
00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:08.599
So we're gonna have a middle school and we're gonna

538
00:28:08.640 --> 00:28:10.640
need a middle school music teacher. I'm like, I can

539
00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:15.119
do that interview with you. Long story short, I got

540
00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:20.960
the job, thank you. However, the next day the next year,

541
00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:22.920
he was so good at what he did that the

542
00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:26.000
company wanted to take him and open up another school.

543
00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:31.519
So his yeah, his his second in command, principal. He

544
00:28:31.559 --> 00:28:35.200
became the principal. So many teachers didn't like her. They

545
00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:37.000
honestly they just left.

546
00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:38.640
Oh yeah that happened.

547
00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:42.200
And I mean literally I'm out there in the car

548
00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:50.319
line with the coach's yeah, well, we're here to help out,

549
00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:53.039
you know, people come and kids and going, you know,

550
00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:56.200
kind of thing, a big deal whatever. But he comes

551
00:28:56.200 --> 00:28:58.039
out and tells me, He's like, we just lost forty

552
00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:00.920
teachers today. I'm like, what the oh yeah, big down

553
00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:04.000
that just now the teacher or the principal didn't want

554
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:07.000
anything to do with her. I'm like, holy counter. And

555
00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:10.279
yet we were losing like teachers left and right. And

556
00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:14.640
then finally in the following march, he had me come

557
00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:18.839
down to her office, her co principal whatever they call it,

558
00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:23.400
vice principal, and she said, hey, uh, mister Pilly, we're

559
00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:26.359
gonna get rid of the music program in middle school.

560
00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:28.240
Like what?

561
00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:29.519
What makes no sense?

562
00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:32.440
Yeah, But basically what she's telling me is that I'm

563
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:34.720
out of a job. And the truth is she did

564
00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:36.920
get rid of the mede that.

565
00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:40.119
I'm like are you kidding? Like, what are you doing? Lady?

566
00:29:40.440 --> 00:29:45.759
Anyway, there were so many teachers that left and.

567
00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:47.480
I don't mean to go down, but let me I

568
00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:52.799
may interrupt you go ahead, what so so now you're

569
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:55.039
teaching privately or are you teaching?

570
00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:58.720
You're teaching five ten minutes away? And then again for

571
00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:01.599
our listeners out there and that are watching Scott Opel

572
00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:05.000
yet easy to find on Facebook op I E L

573
00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:08.519
A and your information contact information is on there and

574
00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:10.319
where are you located in Florida?

575
00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:11.599
Just for our listeners to know?

576
00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:17.319
Oh right, I am in pember Pines, Florida. Okay, closest

577
00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:21.920
thing is like Pines and Flamingo. Okay, major major road

578
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:23.960
those are the big major roads I'm near.

579
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:29.039
So yeah, yes, so so it'll be easy to find you.

580
00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:33.200
Sorry, I talked fast sometimes and my my brain thinks fast,

581
00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:34.640
and I got to keep up with it.

582
00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:38.000
And so before I forget to ask.

583
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:41.599
Questions or uh, I want to ask you, I want

584
00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:44.960
to go back, Scott, because you offer so much, and

585
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:47.640
you have such great energy, and you're so talented, and

586
00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:50.279
you you make such a great impression and I love

587
00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:51.000
that you're a teacher.

588
00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:51.599
I don't know.

589
00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:54.799
Again, we haven't met personally, but I think you know

590
00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:57.119
I'm a teacher because years ago we spoke because I

591
00:30:57.119 --> 00:30:59.279
think I was it was too far for me to

592
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:01.480
go and teach a school. And this is I don't

593
00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:05.359
even know how many years ago. Yeah, yeah, but I

594
00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:07.920
do teach piano, so I do understand that position of

595
00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:10.880
being a teacher. I want to ask you and if

596
00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:13.359
you don't want to talk about it, I completely understand.

597
00:31:13.799 --> 00:31:18.000
You were in a motorcycle accident about almost a year ago.

598
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:21.599
And for our listeners out there, like you know, a

599
00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:24.799
lot of us, especially musicians or actors, we show up,

600
00:31:24.839 --> 00:31:27.599
we like we're like on our platform, we show all

601
00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:30.519
that we've got to give, but we don't talk about

602
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:32.880
the stuff that we go through. Because even me, like

603
00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:35.960
I said before, I have my own stories of like

604
00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:40.559
tragedy that I've gone through that I've overcome, and really

605
00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:44.559
it's about like how we inspire others to overcome. Please

606
00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:46.599
share with us if you, if you're open to it,

607
00:31:46.920 --> 00:31:49.599
a little bit about like what you went through and

608
00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:52.279
how you got to where you are now. And I

609
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:55.599
will mention your wife, Mindy, And you know I don't

610
00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:59.720
again not meeting you personally, but knowing a little bit

611
00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:02.759
of about how Mindy's been there for you, and I

612
00:32:02.839 --> 00:32:06.200
just I just adored the both of you because I

613
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:08.039
just want to give you both a hug because I

614
00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:11.279
just know the love that she she pours into you

615
00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:12.799
and shares our.

616
00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.480
Audience a little bit about maybe about what you've been

617
00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:18.759
through and how you've come to where you are, because

618
00:32:18.799 --> 00:32:21.079
it's just you're such an inspiration.

619
00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:23.319
Sure, and thank you.

620
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:29.880
And honestly, yes, she has been amazing because she takes

621
00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:37.160
on a lot. And anyway, I'll get to that, but gosh,

622
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:39.039
where to start.

623
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:41.880
Okay, So you were that you had the accident, you

624
00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:43.720
were coming home from teaching.

625
00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:47.480
And I had been So this isn't like overnight r in.

626
00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:51.039
In other words, I've been writing like two thousand and four. Okay,

627
00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:56.039
so I've been writing at least twenty years, and but

628
00:32:56.400 --> 00:32:57.839
this is just one of those things. I mean, I

629
00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:00.200
actually got a chance to see the video cam from

630
00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:03.319
one of the other yeah that was.

631
00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:05.039
The lawyer.

632
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:08.319
Asked for that, so they were able to see that.

633
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:10.480
So I actually was able to see what happened, why

634
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:13.920
it happened, And honestly, it was just one of those things,

635
00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:15.799
you know. I mean, I was trying to grow around

636
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:20.160
this this person, and you know he wasn't from down here.

637
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:22.559
She had a new jersey plate on her car and

638
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:25.720
she looked at she saw the Walmart, and I tried

639
00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:28.079
to go around and was trying to go, you know,

640
00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:32.559
and she suddenly started coming over left and for some

641
00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:34.440
reason didn't hear my motorcycle, which is kind of.

642
00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:35.839
Weird because I have loud pipes.

643
00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:40.200
Yeah, and had nothing to do except I had to

644
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:42.599
try and get out of that and the bike went

645
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:47.000
out from under me and I went down. But fortunately

646
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:50.920
it was Yes, fortunately it was February because it was

647
00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:53.000
cold and I was wearing everything.

648
00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:58.960
I didn't break anything. It's a lucky I know.

649
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:03.000
It's crazy, as I trust me, I've seen enough out there,

650
00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:06.440
uh motorcycle because I've been riding for so long. But

651
00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:11.039
no torn ligaments, no fractures, no breaks, damage. I mean,

652
00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:15.519
this is actually yeah, this is just a spasm.

653
00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:16.039
Uh.

654
00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:19.639
It's funny because the muscles are coming back, and I

655
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:22.679
know it looks like squinting too much, but the truth

656
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:27.519
is this odd. It used to stay open. I used

657
00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:30.119
to have to like help it stay open. So now

658
00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:32.119
it looks more more natural.

659
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:35.800
You know. Let's say anyway. But yeah, so there's that.

660
00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:39.320
Well you look great, thank you, thank you very much.

661
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:44.440
And uh all right, let me sorry, let me stay focus,

662
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:47.519
me help me stay uh no, you know, you're good,

663
00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:47.960
You're good.

664
00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:50.719
I'm just I just it's easy for me to get job.

665
00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:55.760
So you were saying you went around her, the motorcycle

666
00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:58.599
went from underneath you. You were fully like you were

667
00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:01.559
because it was called you were no broken bones, you

668
00:35:01.679 --> 00:35:02.079
just had.

669
00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:05.800
A little bit, right, yeah, And that was it, and

670
00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:06.800
the motorcycle went.

671
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:09.079
And of course my wife is like, well, you know,

672
00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:11.920
there's no more motorcycles, right, I don't know no motorcycles.

673
00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:14.199
And then the next thing she did was she had

674
00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:16.000
me sell my car because you're out of your car.

675
00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:19.239
You're not gonna need that. Okay, fine, we already had Honestly,

676
00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:21.639
we already had two vehicles. We didn't need a third,

677
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:24.440
and we didn't need a motorcycle on time four, right.

678
00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:25.599
So I'm like, no, that's fine.

679
00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:28.280
So yeah, the motorcycle thing, it was a lot of fun,

680
00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:32.440
and I do love them, but honestly, you know, especially now,

681
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:37.800
I'm like, yeah, that's that's good. But moving on, I'll

682
00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:41.480
be doing other things. And that's the crazy thing because

683
00:35:41.679 --> 00:35:44.039
when you do these things, and for those of you

684
00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:47.960
who are watching this listening to whatever our musicians playing

685
00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:51.239
at a very young age, the one thing is is

686
00:35:51.280 --> 00:35:55.800
that I found that if you are in a very

687
00:35:55.880 --> 00:36:00.840
terrible accident, don't think that's the end. Even though I was,

688
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:03.960
I mean literally coming out of this thing. They had

689
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:05.599
to take me to the hospital and it took like

690
00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:09.000
a month come back to just talking on my own.

691
00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:13.039
But it was a funny story because well there is

692
00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:16.000
a funny story because one night I go to sit

693
00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:19.320
there on the couch to watch television with my wife

694
00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:22.400
and dog, and she looks over me and she goes,

695
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:27.320
what are you doing. I'm watching television. She's like, go

696
00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:30.320
play like I don't. I don't think it's.

697
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:32.440
Going to turn out good. I don't. She's like, yeah,

698
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:35.960
go play like, well, okay if you want me to.

699
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:36.880
But okay.

700
00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:40.039
So I come over here in the office set up

701
00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:42.800
and I pull out my Vanhaling guitar because I'm a

702
00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:46.079
huge dream and I go back to what I know,

703
00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:50.800
which is Dan Hailing one, and I started playing Run

704
00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:53.400
with the Devil, okay where we go Run with And

705
00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:55.559
of course I know the album front and back, and

706
00:36:56.199 --> 00:36:59.519
I know Eruptions on next, and I didn't dissuade myself.

707
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:01.599
I didn't go, nah, you're not ready for that. I

708
00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:04.480
just like, hey, let's just mind what happens. Yeah, and

709
00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:08.039
Eruption came on. I started with Eruption. I'm playing Eruption

710
00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:11.440
and I stopped and then suddenly the door opens. I

711
00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:14.519
stop all the music and my wife is there. She

712
00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:17.639
has her care, she has her phone. Now he goes

713
00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:22.440
do that again, like really, like, yeah, play Eruption like.

714
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:25.719
Okay, was it? It wasn't good, And That's what I'm thinking.

715
00:37:26.440 --> 00:37:29.880
So she goes, Okay, thanks and she puts it on Facebook,

716
00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:32.840
and then she goes, my husband's healing. Thank you so

717
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:35.400
much for everybody for coming out and helping out. Because

718
00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:38.000
we had fantastic friends. And I don't know if I

719
00:37:38.039 --> 00:37:41.360
can say their name, but they're they're fantastic. They're they're

720
00:37:41.400 --> 00:37:45.280
in the large groups, you know, but they now you know,

721
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:47.199
like literally.

722
00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:52.079
Sorry, that was my Oh.

723
00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:53.880
I thought that was time.

724
00:37:56.119 --> 00:37:58.599
And I know we have similar friends, so.

725
00:37:58.599 --> 00:38:02.079
I know I know we have good Yeah.

726
00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:05.599
And I remember her posting something, but she didn't she

727
00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:06.400
didn't show you.

728
00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:09.440
She had us listen to your performance.

729
00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:14.079
Yeah, so so I do remember that, and I do

730
00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:16.800
remember her telling me recently she said, I just make

731
00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:21.159
him go play guitar. Right, yeah, it's amazing, amazing, and

732
00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:23.239
I don't want to this is the show is not

733
00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:28.000
about me, but I can relate to a similar tragedy personally.

734
00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:30.119
The brain is so.

735
00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:33.679
Amazing the way it heals and what it does.

736
00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:37.679
It's almost like when you overcome these things, it's like

737
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:42.199
your brain takes a whole another step that you never

738
00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:43.559
even knew was there.

739
00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:48.320
Right, Yeah, I mean it's it's kind of weird because like, uh,

740
00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:49.760
how did I know that?

741
00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:52.280
Like, I mean, you don't even really.

742
00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:55.760
Think about that, Like no, you're just like wow, I

743
00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:59.400
really it was good, Like it was good like you.

744
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:02.559
Could Okay, that's you know how to do.

745
00:39:03.239 --> 00:39:06.800
Yeah, so it is crazy, but you know, to help

746
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:10.039
those watching or listening. Look, if you've been doing this

747
00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:13.719
for at a young age, that just kicks in. I

748
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:16.239
wish I could tell you there's a secret of Blactually

749
00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:18.519
I'm glad there's not a secret. It just kicks in.

750
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:21.079
You'll just do.

751
00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:25.519
So you'll and you'll know things like you'll just know

752
00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:29.039
like things things came to my memory that just were

753
00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:31.519
like Yeah, six strings. I know all the names of

754
00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:33.119
the strings. I know where all these threads are. I

755
00:39:33.119 --> 00:39:35.199
know threads are, I know what everything happens. I know

756
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:36.760
how the thing all this works.

757
00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:39.480
I know. And you're like, why do I know this?

758
00:39:39.800 --> 00:39:41.559
Like I know this more than I know the name

759
00:39:41.679 --> 00:39:47.000
of the people that are friends, Funny, Scott.

760
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:48.880
I want to I want to ask you.

761
00:39:48.920 --> 00:39:51.239
I don't know if it's a it's a right question

762
00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:54.400
to ask, but you and and I'm making a point.

763
00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:57.159
I'm getting to the point. You were in the accident,

764
00:39:57.519 --> 00:40:01.920
you were h uh, gosh, how do I ask it?

765
00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:04.920
No, no bones were broken.

766
00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:07.320
But what can.

767
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:10.119
You share with us that that happened that was so

768
00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:15.440
difficult for you to overcome? Was it a brain like injury?

769
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:18.639
Was it? Was it just coma?

770
00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:20.599
Or yeah? Do you mean physically?

771
00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:21.840
Yes?

772
00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:26.199
Like what what did you What was the biggest setback?

773
00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:29.679
And what is your greatest like your.

774
00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:30.719
Greatest lessons on it?

775
00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:31.760
Yeah?

776
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:36.039
The two questions if you can if it's too hard?

777
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.480
Yeah, No, you're making me think, which is good. I

778
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:43.920
think it's setback. Honestly, the biggest setback was something I

779
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:46.880
didn't think about. It's it's just it's just like It's

780
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:49.519
kind of one of those like why are you trying.

781
00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:50.480
To fight to get this?

782
00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:54.280
Just relax and let it come to you the same

783
00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:56.840
way you job in the first place. So why are

784
00:40:56.880 --> 00:41:02.639
you all you know? Yeah, that was one and then

785
00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:04.280
what was the second question?

786
00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:06.920
So that what was your greatest setback? But what was

787
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:08.599
your greatest takeaway? What have you?

788
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:12.199
I mean, we're always learning, we're always evolving, but like today,

789
00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:14.360
right now, what can you say, like it's been your

790
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:17.400
biggest like aha, like wow.

791
00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:20.480
Yeah, honestly, the biggest ah huh is for me to

792
00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:23.320
just sit back and go, okay, your thing.

793
00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:25.599
When you're done. Oh no, you know.

794
00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:28.199
And I know it's crazy because I used to be

795
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:30.159
one of those people who are like going, hey, listen

796
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:32.800
when it comes to like, you know, to do do.

797
00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:35.320
But I've seen.

798
00:41:35.079 --> 00:41:40.159
It not work very well and I have experienced it

799
00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:44.119
not work very well. And okay, case in point, and

800
00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:46.639
I'm sorry, great.

801
00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:49.000
This is great. We have a couple of so we

802
00:41:49.079 --> 00:41:49.920
have to make it short.

803
00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:53.360
Yeah, I know, it's it's it's actually part of my family.

804
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:56.559
It's in my family. Okay, that one of my because

805
00:41:56.599 --> 00:41:58.519
I don't have brothers and sisters, but I do have cousins.

806
00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:00.559
I have a cousin know what to do?

807
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:01.599
Like he was kind of like me.

808
00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:04.400
He's like, I don't know, I just but he's he's better.

809
00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:07.199
I mean, when you go take it, get a hundred,

810
00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:10.199
he get a hundred. He'd get hundreds on everything. After while,

811
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:12.360
he's like, I don't know what to do. So the

812
00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:14.760
next thing he did, he's like, well, I guess i'd

813
00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:18.599
go into the military, like my uncle, did you know whatever?

814
00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:20.800
So you into the Air Force or something.

815
00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:24.719
Anyway, Then suddenly, as he's going through basic training, the

816
00:42:24.760 --> 00:42:27.599
guys who are looking at him are going, we like him,

817
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:30.679
We're gonna bring him, invite him into Special Forces.

818
00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:33.599
He ends up in Special Forces. I know right. It's

819
00:42:33.639 --> 00:42:35.559
just like like I'm just doing what I'm too.

820
00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:39.599
Well, you're in Special Forces down, Okay, Well what's and

821
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:42.679
there's another there's the next thing, which is just mind

822
00:42:42.719 --> 00:42:45.719
blowing because the next thing is that he's so good

823
00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:48.519
at it. When nine to eleven happened, he goes they

824
00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:51.880
tell him his superiors, we're gonna put you in with

825
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:54.199
four of the guys. We're gonna send you to Afghanistan.

826
00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:56.039
You're going to take them out. You're gonna come back

827
00:42:56.239 --> 00:42:58.880
two weeks after nine to eleven, they send them out.

828
00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:03.000
All he does is his job. He just since their laptop.

829
00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:04.480
It needs to go.

830
00:43:04.559 --> 00:43:07.800
Okay, I'm going to tell the commands. Then missiles and

831
00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:13.119
bombs there and we're done. And they completely annihilated baf

832
00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:15.719
anny uh of bureaucracy.

833
00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:19.840
They and them back out. That was it?

834
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:23.639
So so what you're getting at and and I I

835
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:28.519
can relate because I I've been blessed in my own way.

836
00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:32.360
There are certain people that come into our life just

837
00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:35.639
by showing up, but just by us showing up, and

838
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:38.519
they have a belief in you, a belief in your cousin,

839
00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:41.000
a belief in me, and they take you to the

840
00:43:41.000 --> 00:43:44.480
next higher ground because they just have a belief because

841
00:43:44.519 --> 00:43:49.840
they see your potential. Yeah yeah, And so you know what,

842
00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:53.679
thank you Scott for what you do and thank you

843
00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:59.119
for your inspiration. And we have like another minute left

844
00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:01.599
is there? And you think else you'd like to share

845
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:04.599
before we say thank you?

846
00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:09.719
Well, the truth is that I think I've covered everything.

847
00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:14.079
But you know the truth is because I just was

848
00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:19.079
myself and didn't allow the negativity to overshadow me.

849
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:21.280
Like I got fired from a job. It was just

850
00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:22.800
it was a job. It wasn't a music job or

851
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:24.400
anything like that. But I got fired from the job.

852
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:26.119
Oh my god, seriously.

853
00:44:26.679 --> 00:44:29.800
But it turned out that I'm like, well, let me

854
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:31.719
go sign up with this company. So I signed up

855
00:44:31.719 --> 00:44:33.639
with the company. It was a it was a they

856
00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:36.000
call this kind of company right now. But anyway, Uh,

857
00:44:36.199 --> 00:44:38.079
I'm on a commercial and then I go into a.

858
00:44:38.039 --> 00:44:40.719
TV show and that's awesome.

859
00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:44.679
Yeah, And so I did move, you know, And then

860
00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:48.079
I did the teaching and then I went to m

861
00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:50.760
I had the interury uh uh. And then I wrote

862
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:52.599
a song from my wife because I don't I'm not

863
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:55.039
really into songwriting, so I told her, you know, not

864
00:44:55.119 --> 00:44:55.920
really in the songwriting.

865
00:44:55.920 --> 00:44:57.039
Sorry, so I wrote.

866
00:44:56.960 --> 00:44:59.159
On your Facebook page. I just listened to it. It's

867
00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:02.000
a beautiful song. It is a beautiful song. So we're

868
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:03.239
just about out of time.

869
00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:05.599
I'm sorry, Scott. We could probably talk for another hour

870
00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:05.960
or two.

871
00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:07.199
Of course.

872
00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:09.599
I so appreciate you.

873
00:45:09.639 --> 00:45:11.639
Being here today, and there's so much more I want

874
00:45:11.679 --> 00:45:14.400
to ask you, but we're out of time. For my

875
00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:17.039
listeners out there, thank you so much for tuning in today,

876
00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:20.320
whether you're watching this live or recorded. May you have

877
00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:24.360
a beautiful day. May be blessed, and let's keep the

878
00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:27.320
music alive. We want to keep it original, keep it real,

879
00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:31.079
and stay safe out there, and Scott, you and I

880
00:45:31.159 --> 00:45:33.400
will talk and stay in touch