Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast - EP 204: Rachael Price (Lake Street Dive) & Vilray

Episode Date: January 31, 2023

*Call/text us and leave a message: [phone] No topic is out of bounds* Discussions on mind altering substances and Buffalo Bills conspiracy theories. Which ones are good and which ones will mess up those guts! You have questions and we got answers (sometimes). But most importantly, we're catching up with Rachael Price from Lake Street Dive as she introduces us to a new collaboration with NYC guitarist, Vilray! Rachael & Vilray have a new album of outstanding jazz tunes. Oh, and they're wonderful people with quality insight on the human experience. What's not to love?! Stay tuned till the end of the episode to hear some of our listeners' voicemails...  Catch Rachael & Vilray for some darn good tunes: rachaelandvilray.com And don't forget to catch the band in a town near you andyfrasco.com/tour Follow us on Instagram @worldsavingpodcast For more information on Andy Frasco, the band and/or the blog, go to: AndyFrasco.com Check out Andy Frasco & The U.N. (Feat Little Stranger)'s new song, "Oh, What A Life" on iTunes, Spotify  Produced by Andy Frasco, Joe Angelhow, & Chris Lorentz Audio mix by Chris Lorentz Featuring: Brian Schwartz Arno Bakker YOU!

Hey, it's Schwartz. Listen, you know what? We five seasons did six seasons. I don't even know anymore. It's this podcast thing. And I still wake up at night having kind of like mini heart attacks around around you and the guests. And look, as a reminder, we have Rachel price coming on, um, for her new project. She's the Swedish, her manager is the sweetest, most awesome person. And I need to remind you to keep it, you know, PG 13, maybe at worst,

like nobody needs to hear about your masturbation, you know, in the morning or whatever the hell you, you love talking about. So please have a little respect, try know, in the morning or whatever the hell you love talking about. So please have a little respect. Try to try to evolve. Bye. I've tried porn and I've tried going gay Can't stop now, I've waited so long To bust this load of mine I wanna know what come is

I want you to blow me I want to feel what come is I know you can show me I want to know what come is I want you to blow me I wanna feel what come is I know you can show me Alright. Oh, come on. All right.

Oh, come on. Woo! Bucky's gear is in right now. Everyone loves Bucky's gas station. I do, too. Andy Frasco's World Safe Podcast. I'm Andy Frasco. How we doing?

Feeling good? I'm feeling good today. I feel fucking great this week hearts and minds bro how's your heart how's your mind i don't want to hear it shout out to mama frasco for um when are you guys going to see bruce me aren't you didn't you say you're going to see bruce springsteen with her oh yeah they're flying in uh march 2nd oh you're not on tour with uh it's the night before the west coast tour so i'm flying into utah i'll be like her i'm a blue collar man making 700 million a year yeah born in america die in america america i had a handkerchief in my back pocket cover that one album used because i like to feel dirty i love

he's like i'm a blue collar boy from the heart of northern new jersey and then he's like which is kind of blue collar but then like one of his album covers is just his butt with a handkerchief in it oh really yeah oh yeah yeah born in america or whatever it is born in the usa Speaker 2 and a half. Speaker 0 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5,

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I don't think so. Mushrooms? Yeah. I mean in the seventies, all those guys, Grateful Dead, Little Feet, they're just doing pounds of cocaine. I think the cocaine might've been different then too though. Like it's not meth you mean? Yeah. It was actually cocaine.

And there wasn't like a three in eight chance there was fentanyl in it. Make sure you guys test your stuff. Have your Narcan on hand man i feel so sad we have to say that now but we do yeah isn't it crazy like just to get high you have to take a you have to bring like a narcan yeah it's almost like we should just stop doing those drugs i think so it's like what the by we i mean other people it's like we're gonna get high but we might die yeah it's like, what the fuck? By we, I mean other people. It's like, we're going to get high, but we might die. Yeah. It's like, what the fuck? Just go play roulette. You are.

I mean, but just go play actual roulette. That way you just lose like 60 bucks instead of your life. Why does cocaine make you gassy? I don't know. I think it's just maybe because it's a speed thing. I don't know, actually. No, I think they're crushing it with shit. Because real cocaine doesn't make you gassy.

Oh, yeah. Probably baby laxative or something. I don't know what they cut it with is baby laxative like make it feel numb or something maybe because it's like the same color and consistency it's like powdered something maybe i don't know i wonder what people's consistency is if you're doing coke all the time do you think it's just like slurpy yeah probably i don't know what a podcast jesus. We got Rachel price and bill Ray on the podcast. They're sweet. Rachel price is sweet. She's getting married or she's getting, she has a marriage. She has a kid. She's about to have a pregnant pregnant right now on tour. And we normally like, ah, let's keep it mellow for the opening for racial price. We're already

talking about cocaine and diarrhea. People like that. They like that about us. Speaking of diarrhea. Dial in government. Repsy.com. Speaking of diarrhea, is your music industry career giving you diarrhea?

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was going to get rented and we had to clean it. We didn't clean it. And I looked in Bo's eyes. I'm like, Bo, we got to clean this thing in two hours. You just saw the dead in his eyes. Like, fuck another thing i have to do for this fucking dance i'm gonna clap it up for bow way to go buddy all right our show pony he's from buffalo they work hard up there i told him we're just firemen at this point we're just firemen have you been following this conspiracy buffalo conspiracy theory thing no it's so annoying it's all these people saying that DeMar Hamlin wasn't really at the game. Well, first of all, okay, let me, let me go. Let me, let me prove them wrong before we get to the bar. Hamlin is people

who don't know. Oh yeah. If you're not a sports fan, he is that Buffalo bills player who suffered a cardiac arrest on the field after being hit and had to be revived and went to the hospital. Yeah. So he's been out gone for a couple of weeks. He's come and visit the team. There's videos of it. Right. And then he went to the game. Right. And he was up in the luxury box, but it was very cold and snowy. So he had like his face covered. Also, he just had a heart attack two weeks ago. So he's probably not like, you know, he has to, you can't get super cold. Probably. I don't know all the stuff

about it and they show him and it's like snowing anyways. They don't show them that well. They just do the heart. Yeah. so people are thinking number one there's people saying he did an illuminati sign which is like can we shut up about the illuminati what's the deal why is everyone dude it's like boring people with no life that have never done anything it's literally almost all that that are like trying to think like they think the whole world's against them nah you're just lazy okay so they're saying that and here's why they're saying they did it and here's why their whole thing is crumbling apart to me the whole reason that not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say

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that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say back the whole emotional story everything you know well first of all the bills got absolutely worked by the bengals so there goes there goes your first argument with them doing that and then it's like so why would they even do that why even bring a also his eight-year-old brother was there with him you think an eight-year-old can keep that secret i'm just kind of over conspiracy theorist oh hi i mean there's good conspiracies jfk there's some what's the best conspiracy theory jfk what do you what's that one because it's the one I think is most, I mean, just that he wasn't really killed by one guy up in a, you know what I mean? One of my friends I was just talking to this weekend,

her mom just retired from the CIA, and she's like, ask me anything. And the only thing she wanted to ask was, are there aliens? I'd be asking about the Illuminati, lizard people. There's definitely aliens. Not definitely, but I would guess that there's aliens.

That's all you want to ask me? Is it about the aliens? Man, there'd be some better stuff to ask than that. Yeah. Anyway, speaking of aliens. Do you think there's aliens, though? I do. Me too. Did you see that cloud that was like around Venezuela that looked like a vagina? Oh, yeah, yeah. Was that in Venezuela? Or something.

I remember I shared it on my Instagram. I said, Pete Shapiro is going to do this at the final. Let's go. Remember when you did the rainbows? Remember that? Yeah. Those rainbows happened. Everybody thought he was.

Shout out to Pete Shapiro. Everybody thought he made the rainbows. Yeah. Thank you, Pete, for letting me have the dance party. You know, 350,000 people watched. Hit me up if you ever need a trivia game think, do you think trivia would work? Yes. Yes. I think I can make trivia working at numbers. Kidding. A tree work work was a story. I don't like your trivia because you're too smart. You didn't do very good this time.

You've won before though. So maybe it just wasn't topics, you know, about, Oh, you know what I wanted to bring up too. You said, well, you said this week's was hard, but a lot of people had pretty high scores. I mean, everyone was smart. I was with a guy who was an engineer at a music studio. So we weren't that. We weren't the best team. What were you going to say though? I watched your show at Denver Comes Alive or at Cervantes.

It was fun, right? It was good. I was thinking. I was listening to you and stuff. I think you need to practice. I thought it sounded good. You're good. But I think you need to practice. Okay, I'll start practicing more.

I think you need to practice. I didn't get to solo very much either. I know. I think you need to practice. Okay. I was piping though. I don't know. Damn. I thought you were going to fight me about saying like, oh, I need to practice. You need to practice. I don't do that. Getting defensive is very...

No, that was actually just a joke. I think you did great. I know. I didn't want to fall for it. Basically, you tried to psychologically... I tried to mindfuck you. Yeah, yeah. You can't do that. Here's the problem, Andy. I appreciate that you tried to mindfuck you. Yeah, yeah. You can't do that. God damn it. Here's the problem, Andy. And I appreciate that you tried to mindfuck me

because I do like that kind of thing. And I don't mind it being done to me. It's just you can't... You're not going to ever do it to me. I'll never break you. I'm just not as weak as you psychologically. So I don't think you can break me. Like, I knew exactly what to do.

Right? I mean, there was no hesitation. I thought you were going to go... You need to practice. No, because everyone... I need to practice. For sure. No, you don't. No, I do. Everyone podcast. Darn. Oh,

I know I am. Let's go. Number 36, number 36 in the country right now. Paul McCartney, Paul who? Um, yeah, I thought you played great. I thought it was a fun. I love playing with Eddie. It's always good. I'm actually doing a record. You and Gabe are so good together. I think me and Gabe, you know, there are some actually Denver right now has some of the best trumpet players in the country. Really? It's weird. How many good Trump, no Orleans and Denver. I got to fuck with him. I love Trump. I need more Trump in my life. It's crazy. How many good Trump players moved here or live here? You got Paris season, Harry Styles band. Yeah. Gabe who's like a jazz legend, you know, used to be a motel kind of quit the touring thing to just kind of be a little more local, but is the man. Yeah.

Benny Benny blue, arguably the best funk Trump player in the country. There's this new, some new younger kids coming up there real good. Who's the hottest trumpet player. Oh man. I like think Gabe's pretty hot. Actually. Yeah. He's pretty hot. He's got like, he works out every day. He's a very confident man. He's like hot for baldening owns it. Yeah, he wears Yeah, but like that's good, right? Like Yeah, like bow. I was hot both they have a similar thing going on. They got they do they got like chest hair in shape. Yeah. He and gave like has his own you know, owns a home lives alone. Like you know, those like a very adult life. He's like barely on social media really, you know, you know, like those really strong gay men who have like back hair and they're just like aggressive.

That's bow and Gabe. You're wearing a Fu Manchu mustache right now, Bo. If you're shirtless with a tank top, people will call you daddy in 10 seconds. Speaker 2 and Speaker 3, Dominic Lally. Oh, Dom. Plus he's the richest. It's like, what do you do? I mean, he's in big G he's in big G he's also just hot. Like, you know, Stephanie Parsley took some photos of his family and I saw those. I think he's just like a hot dad. It's just like that guy could have $30 in his checking account. He'd still be doing fine. Oh yeah. Yeah. You think he has a dog on him? I don't know. It doesn't matter. I don't think, I think he has a normal

dog. I think that you think about other guys' penises way more than I do. Not in a sexual way even. You know what I've been doing lately? I'll see a couple like at the mall or something and I'll just imagine how they have sex. Oh, that's fun actually. How often do you go in the mall these days? I've been to the mall a couple times. Okay. Just the idea of you walking around the mall. I do. I walk by myself. The people watch. I hope somebody, I hope nobody notices me. No, I go at like 9am. I go at 9am or 10am. Yeah. They open at 10. So no, they're open at six cherry Creek. Yeah. Cause all the old people walk the stores open at 10. I forgot about the old people. Why we should start become mall walkers together. Let's go cherry Creek.

Let's get a mall walking club every morning at seven. Oh my God. Okay. Every Tuesday or something. If you want to join the world saving mall walking club, if we get enough people to do this, I'll be at cherry Creek at 7 00 AM. What's the, what's the tech? What's the text number? Double check that to make sure if you really want, we are going to do this. We're going to take them. It's a bunch of cougars. Normally at the cherry Creek mall or old people doing their walks. We will start a world saving mall walking club. 7 2 0 9 9 6 2 4 0 3 7 2 0 9 9 6 2 4 0 3. Also, I found out you can send us a voicemail. I

found out today. I didn't know you could do this. You can send us a little videos from your phone and text message, like a text message too if you want. Oh, nice. Yeah, I got a couple of those. I didn't even know that was a thing. I didn't even look into it. So if you guys want to send us a little video, anything. Yeah. It's a phone number.

Let's do it. How hilarious is that? Can we wear like joggers? We have to like wear like we have to get like old people walking shoes. World saving mom walking. World saving mom walking. I'll see mall walking. I love it. Cause I always, I always, I love overhearing all the, what the moms are talking about. I also, you mean, no, it's like a bunch of like divorcee mills or like,

I just walk in. I don't know if I'm creepy. Just walk in there. Why was I like, I bring my own cup too. Like I'm here to stay. Hi, I've been watching you. I've come every Thursday. Hello, beaches.

Why are we clapping? I'm a creep, everyone. I don't know if it's a creep. I like to look at couples. It's always fun because they're never hardly ever equally attractive unless they're super ugly. Unless they're both ugly. I love walking around and looking at couples

to see how... Imagine how they have sex. Yeah. But I think that's because I'm watching too much porn. Are you watching a lot of porn? No, I stopped ever since we talked, I might be back next week, but masturbating. Yeah. Oh, I got my own room. Oh yeah. They should have had us on the boat actually to do something. Yeah, but we'll do it somewhere else. We'll do it somewhere else. Wink, wink, giant way. Speaking of talking to yourself, I'm dialed in gummies. Have you ever taken so many doubting last night? I took a message from a guy that took some dialed in gummies.

Yeah. We're going to go to the voicemails here pretty soon. We're going to show a couple of voicemails today. I mean, the interview with Rachel was a little shorter, so we're just going to go a little longer. They love us. Yeah. I got a few messages like, why aren't your segments with Nick longer? I like that. That makes me feel good about myself. I like to feel valuable. Me too. Because it so rarely happens to me. So why should people buy dialed in gummies, Nick? Well, number one... Oh, look, I found a vaporizer. Yeah, maybe hit it right off the ground. Who knows whose it was?

All kinds of normal people come through here. Dialed-in gummies, number one. Are you a taste guy? I am. They're delicious. No matter what flavor. I haven't had one flavor I don't like. I also love candy. Take that with what you will. What kind of candy? I love fruity candies like Skittles and Starbucks.

Oh, yeah. What kind of candy? I love like fruity candies like Skittles and Starbucks. Oh yeah. What about, Ooh, like a candies. I like, what about those belts straws or like those sour belts? Those are cool, but I like more like little chewy little gummy little candy. Oh, well, yum. Yums. That's probably my addiction more than like anything. If I had like a beer and like a bag of Skittles, I would go for the Skittles every time. They're the best container in gummies. Yes. I like them because you just twist it off. It's wide enough. I don't like that.

Some other ones are small, like a tube and you have to put your fat saxophone fingers in there and get one out like this. And it's like dialed in there, laid out for you like a beautiful platter of delicious morsels. Yeah. And then they're homogenous, which means it's spread equally.

The THC, tetrahydrocannabinoids, and they're all strain-specific, so you can get one of your favorite strain. Dialed-in gummies, get them at a local dispensary. In Colorado only. In Colorado. I want to be a business partner with them.

I've been pitching them on making mushroom gummies. Can they do that? Well, they're in the opening phases of legalization in Colorado. I don't really know the rules with that. But I am in the business. If Dalton doesn't want to do it, I'm in the mushroom business. And?

You could call me the drug dealer, but it's legal now, so I'm like weed. I want to get in the mushroom game. I'm not. That's cool. Even though I don't take as many mushrooms anymore yeah i haven't you haven't really been doing it huh why i don't know because i'm bored of them fair enough i've done them every day for fucking years that's why you started kissing men last year

yeah you're just bored with women yeah i think i'm bored with women no you're not you're just no because i'm just i'm super horny You just need to read more, like I said. Maybe you should start reading more books. You engage your mind. I did read a book about attachment. No, just read something that's not about how can I make myself better or people. Like, just step outside of yourself. Okay.

Get a frequency from something else, man. Like what, bro? What kind of frequency should I get, man? I don't know. Read a book about World War I or something. Or, like, a fiction book. I don't know. Read a book about World War I or something. Or like a fiction book. I don't know. I've been watching so much Netflix. Put some tape or fire too. Yeah, I should do that.

Just get off Instagram for an hour. Go for a walk. Listen to a book. I haven't been on Instagram that much. Oh, okay. I got too much work to do. Sure you do. I don't actually. I know. But I don't want to look at Instagram. It gets old after all. Because if you're bored and you look at Instagram, then you get sad. If I'm bored, I try to do something else.

It isn't part of my routine when I'm on the road. Because when I'm on the road driving, I'm on Instagram seven hours straight. That's different. But you're like doing, you know, there's nothing else to do. No, it's the same thing about boredom. You got to change your ways of what you're doing when you're bored. Audiobooks really help me with that actually. Okay.

Europe, I listened to a couple, listened to Colin Glemm book on Europe. I was like, oh, I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that.

I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. It's the same thing about boredom. You got to change your ways of what you're doing when you're bored. Audiobooks really helped me with that, actually. Okay. Europe, I listened to a couple. Listened to Colin Glim book on Europe. That was good.

What a beautiful day. It's a beautiful morning. I hope you had fun with us. We have Rachel Price and Bill Ray. She's from Lakeshore Drive. Lakeshore? Or what is it? Lakeshore Drive. Lakeshore Drive is an actual.

I just pulled an Andy there. Yeah, you did. That was hot. God, I'm rubbing off on you. And then she did a duo album with this guy. Yeah, the guitarist. Yeah. So, we're going to have a great interview. Guys, have a great week. I am off. I am out. Bye! I'm leaving

Jam Cruise. To Jam Cruise. I'm going to be getting injections in my spine. Oh, really? So, I think you're having a better week than I am, huh? I'm not leaving a Jam Cruise yet. I Cruise. I'm going to be getting injections in my spine. Oh, really? So I think you're having a better week than I am, huh? I'm not leaving a Jam Cruise yet. I still have a week. I'm going to Greensboro, North Carolina to meet up with Nick McDaniels. Right.

And we're going to make a music video. I sang on one of his songs on his new record. On one of their songs. Yeah, so we're making a music video. And then we're going to do some West Coast tour promo because we are going on tour with big something in the west coast so go out there yeah they're going on tour with you i think no together don't do that no i'll do that you can't separate us before the before we even get together i can do that there isn't i can psychologically do to you whatever i please this is socialism what's mine

i can do do you think i should start kissing them i can manipulate your entire band with one word if i feel like it oh it's so power i have over you psychologically oh yeah what do you think you should do what god that's so hot really what were you asking me i don't know but that sounded really hot when you said that you liked that i can dominate you psychologically yeah yeah me too that. You liked that I can dominate you psychologically. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. That was pretty funny when you tried to get me earlier. I know. I know you thought of that like during the show on Saturday. You've been holding that. I'm going to finally get him. And you've been waiting for four days. You're like, I'm going to finally get this. And you're like, you need to practice more. I'm like, yeah. Yep. All right, guys. Have a great week. Practice more. Practice more. Get your instruments. Get your injections.

Get your Botox. So what day is the first day of Jam Crews? What date? Next on the 7th. Okay. Okay. So we got a week. Yep. I love you. Be safe out there. Be who you want to be every day. Try not to fall for everything you read online.

Yeah. I mean,-wise. People exist. People exist. Give them a fucking second chance. If you are not giving people a second chance to try to do better, then shame on you. But don't give them a third chance. If they fuck up twice, they're out. Only three times. It's like in Kentucky.

Four times you can marry someone, and that's illegal. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Repsy. Thank you, Dialed In Gummies. And enjoy Rachel and Vilray. Okay. Bye. Bye.

All right. Next up on the interview hour, we have Rachel Price from Lake Street Dive and her writing partner for this jazz concept record, Vilray. This was a great conversation. I loved every second of it. She's having a baby. She's expecting soon. She's on tour. She's doing this project with Vilray,

which is awesome because I know she's really into jazz. Hey, Chris, play some of this record while you can. Just a great record. I love it. And I know you will too So ladies and gentlemen Welcome back to the show Rachel Price and Phil Ray

All my one is gone Sleep tight, it'll be alright In all the world No boy and girl Rachel Price, this project you're doing with Phil Reed is fucking awesome. I started listening to it and I got both you guys on the show today. So thanks for being part of this. Thank you for having us. It's going to be great. Okay. So my first question is how do you guys not fall in love with each other singing these songs to each other? It's like such beautiful music. I watch

all the videos and you guys are like doing theet where you look into each other's eyes and stuff. Where did this project come from? How did you guys meet? Give me the whole 411 before we get into this. school at the New England Conservatory and we we weren't immediate Friends, but I think we think we knew we would we would like you to respect I Think we were both in sort of awkward places as far as being in jazz school and had a lot of insecurities and So the friendship definitely took the tortoise approach um and uh by the time we were both living in new york um we were we were much better friends

and i'd say what how how many years after that like 10 years oh oh i thought you were saying that we started playing music together yeah oh no yeah no we're we're friends yeah yeah it was like 10 10 maybe even more like 12 years later yeah um that we started playing music together and it was because i well villery can tell you this part but i went and saw villery play play a show in a small bar in Williamsburg, and it was very transcendent. And I had not been singing jazz for many, many years after studying it in school and sort of trying to have a jazz career for a brief period of time. And I was transported by the songs and shortly after that asked him if he would uh let me do the gigs with him basically just at that one bar like

inviting yourself on stage yeah basically i was like can i join you in this and in this just you know monthly gig that you're doing and he said yes um did you say yes uh were you contemplating it the way before uh before did you mean always knew that no i mean only to the extent that rachel and i had tried to play that was like i was like 30 years old um and rachel was around the same age and then um but we had tried when i was like 25 or 26 and i hadn't been playing any music at that point for you know four or five years um so but rachel and i were very close friends and she knew that i was a dork for this old 30s and 40s stuff so she said well let's be dorks together and sing some of this stuff together but i was so rusty and we had gotten together and and tried playing and it

was sort of a disaster so when she asked me again when we were both 30 and i was kind of sticking my toe in to playing again um it was you know i think just the memory of us being sort of rusty together was the only thing that made me resist it at all. But, you know, I slapped myself in the face and said, Rachel Price is asking you to be her friend on stage. And so you got to say yes. And I did. Do you do you are you normally a lone wolf when it comes to making music? Is this the first collaboration? Do you like collaborating with people? I like collaborating with people. I think I try to figure out how I can do it alone,

just because that sort of makes good business sense, and I'm a shy person. So it's hard for me to reach out and say, oh, you're great. Would you like to play my songs? But certainly in college, I was friends with the male members of Lake Street Dive first, and they were my musical collaborators when I first got started at school. So I was writing music for us to play play and I love playing music with people.

And with Rachel, it's incredible to just write stuff and have it, you know, reach a sublime level with her singing it. Make that money, Big Daddy. Going solo. I like that. You got to keep those royalty checks to yourself, Big Daddy. Yeah, exactly. royalty checks to yourself big daddy yeah exactly how important is keeping jazz and this old-time music into 2023 in the younger generation to you guys well i'm a little self-conscious about it because you know i mean it's such a uh

It's such a, it's a beautiful American art form. And, you know, it's just got so much technique behind it and so much brilliance and so much brains and so much passion and so much feeling. And there's just this history of just incredible, incredible musicians who are just, you know, reaching the levels as as Mozart and stuff like that just incredible music so it's it's it's a Pantheon uh that I'm a little shy a little reticent to to uh put my hands to but on another level it's just kind of they're just beautiful songs and if you can kind of just relax back into the idea that it's it's a folk form and um it's kind of expressing these like human emotional things of love and of humor and um I I think that's the area I'm more comfortable with just kind of like it as like uh an extension of sort of a blues folk form um and uh so i i think to the extent that people relate to it who don't know jazz that well i think they're relating to it because it's kind

of expressing this like human emotional stuff yeah what do you think rachel i yeah, I agree with everything Vilry said and I think it's, I've had a journey with singing jazz myself just as yeah, being sort of an authentic mode of expression. And what Vilry was saying is really apt because I think that's kind of what I didn't understand along the way when I was much younger and studying jazz. I was sort of caught up in some of the more academic elements of it and trying to learn how to, you know, improvise and understand the harmony in like a super, super deep way. And which is all to say that's an excellent pursuit. But I kind of forgot about the lyrics and I forgot about just singing a song. And that's sort of what I've re-found, honestly, in singing overall with learning Vilry songs

and singing them is like understanding that it's really just about communicating human emotion and it's actually sort of changed the way I sing with Lake Street Dive because I have this other project yeah and you know it's kind of in a sense intimidating because you see all these jazz snobs

out there who are hyper critical about new jazz these days and to have a full expression of like bringing it back to how it was and why they did jazz in the first place expression you got to like kind of like shoo away all the all the concrete you know baloney of oh so and so thinks that this is how jazz should be and how are you transitioning into like a new age jazz because you said it's 2023 and you guys have these different inspirations through lake street and uh vilray's projects how do you approach it to make it feel modern or do you

like just go completely traditional on it well i think when you're making music okay i'm sorry no no you go ahead well i was gonna say that there's something uh well it's not it's not modern but the villery's writing in a style that's that's very much rooted in songs from the 30s and the 40s lyrically quarterly in every way. But there isn't any tradition of just a guitar player and a singer being a duo except in folk music. That aspect of it, I think, is what has made us sound and feel a little bit different or maybe more modern.

It's not that much of a thing. There's a couple records where Ella made a record with bass and guitar. It wasn't that common. Yeah. I think paring it down like that and just also the way Villory plays guitar, no one plays guitar like that anymore. Yeah, you're a monster. I know there are people out there that can do it,

but it's very rare to hear that style of guitar playing with no other instrument. Yeah. So there's certain elements and it was just a matter of the function of what we were doing, which is just two people finding that they wanted to make music together. Yeah. Isn't it crazy? two people finding that they wanted to make music together. Yeah, isn't it crazy? We forgot the idea that music is supposed to be fun, playing with our friends and stuff.

We overthink it. Because when you start having a big business, Lake Street does big business. And we forget that, oh, yeah, we also want to do music because it's fun. How hard was it to take the business side out of it? Like you were going from Radio City Music Hall to City Wineries, because you love the music so much.

How was that transition of playing small rooms again? Did you like getting back in those small rooms and playing the music for an intimate crowd? Yeah, I love it so much. And yeah, as I said, said, it reconnected me back to a type of singing that I'd forgotten about. I think I've become a much better singer because I have been able to learn Vilry songs and have to rise to the occasion of performing them.

Vilry, how easy or hard was it to start collaboration with another person since you always been a you know one-man band I mean it's it's easy Rachel's wonderful to work with but also just you know she's quick to learn stuff and to put her own stamp on it. And, uh, uh, you know, you write a song and then you put it in front of somebody else. And then it's a process of learning the song.

You know what I mean? Like these songs are all new to me too, when I write them. Um, so Rachel and I are sort of figuring out what they're like, what they need, you know, is it something that we're harmonizing together?

Is it something that, you know, we're kind of doing a call and response thing with? Is it something that Rachel's going to take? And so it's just it's an incredible experience to to kind of take these songs away from my solo set or the little room that I write them in and have them come to life with another person's perspective. What are you singing about right now, Rachel? What's going on through your head as you're talking through this new record? What do you think about? What do you want to talk about in the next, you know, this year, last year?

What were you talking about? As far as the songs? Yeah, the songs you're writing, what's in your brain right now about what's going on, how you want to write, what do you want to write about? Oh, wow. Oh, Rachel just pitched me on a song. Yeah. Tell me, tell me.

I did. I just pitched Bill Rihanna's song that I think should be titled, I Like the Lighting at My Place. And it's an older woman trying to seduce a younger person. And they've sort of curated the lighting at their place to make sure they're very vain, to make sure that they look the best. lighting at their place to make sure they're very vain to make sure that they look the best um so they don't want to meet them out anywhere else because they like the lighting at their apartment and they want to seduce them i like that and honestly i think i was thinking about it because uh i i'm 37 so i'm not aging but we do live in a world where people are thinking about aging at, like, I think, sort of a remarkably young age right now. Like, I'm seeing the things that I was. Yeah, I think I was just like looking at Instagrams and TikToks and people talking about like Guasha-ing. And I was just like, oh, God, do I have to think about Guasha now?

Exactly. Am I supposed to am I supposed to be doing like face yoga? Like, I feel like I fucked up, like i should have started like five years ago and uh then i thought about this song basically and then i pitched it to bill ray yeah you know how hard is growing getting older in the music industry when you see all these like 23 year old kids doing these things on social media and stuff, does it make you insecure or are you powered by it? Yeah. I think in essence, I feel great about aging. And then I feel like it's more like you feel great and then there's just something on your back and you're like, could you get this off my back, please? I didn't ask for this to be there yeah yeah i feel that too it's like also i think whenever you're like self-loathing about it you just like listen to the most recent record we made like i think both of us are like singing at

our prime you know what i mean like this is like there's there's nothing about the music that is suffering from aging so yeah once you realize that you're just like okay like who cares about anything else yeah like musicians yeah once you want a musician to age because that means they they've had more years in their craft i don't understand this whole but also the voice is just like really good in like your mid-30s, you, you, you think about like a lot of great singers, especially of the style. And it's like, Ella sounds great at 17 years old, but she sounds really good at 36. Yeah. Yeah. It's beautiful. So when you're making this record, how long did it take? And, um, was it a quick process? Cause I know Rachel, you're so busy. Like,

did you guys like, we're going to make this record in four days because I got to go out? Or was it like, did you guys take your time throughout the year to make it? Go ahead, Valerie. It took two seconds. I mean, we didn't have any time. We thought about it a lot. We've been thinking about it for two years. I've been thinking about it for two years since our last record.

it for two years i've been thinking about it for two years uh since our last record but uh you know you've got to pay for a huge room and you have to pay seven other guys to sit in it and somebody to engineer it dan nobler did an amazing job engineering and producing and mixing it and then we had this insane band just legends and um and we were playing in this enormous room in Hollywood. And so somebody's got to pay for that. So you've got about three and a half days in which you can afford to make a record in those conditions. And, you know, the music is all written and the arrangements are all done by our friend Jacob Zimmerob zimmerman who did the arrangements on the first record too and so when it's all written and you've got all these legends you know to record i think we recorded like a total of like 18 tracks you know different songs and different uh configurations and stuff and we ended up with 12 that you hear on the record. And, you know, in three and a half days,

18 tracks, that's a lot of work. But it's made easier by the fact that it's all kind of like ready to go. Do you like the process more like shit or get off the pot or overthinking? I've never had the chance to overthink. What about you, Rachel? Well, with Lake Street Dive,

we've spent on average for our last few records about a month making them. Oh, that's not bad. If I was laying down a vocal, I would be laying down eight or nine full takes sitting down and comping them. down and comping them. This record, we set out to maybe record the vocals live in the room, and that was way too much pressure. I was like, I can't get full takes. Yeah.

Perfect with the band. So I was like, put me in the booth, I'll sing my takes live. Obviously, we can look at them and then let me go after the fact when the band's done. That actually made it so that I recorded almost every vocal in two days for the record. Right. Oh my God. It was pretty quick. I'd been singing the songs for a while.

I definitely knew how I wanted them to be sung. I had the choices already in my head, so a lot of it was about execution and it was thrilling. And there were, you know, I think my voice was even a little bit burnt out, a little bit tired, especially by the end of the day, the first or the second day. And we just leaned into it.

You know, there was like, I was singing a song called Join Me in a Dream and my voice was sort of husky and Vilry was like, you're about to go to bed in the song. So it sounds completely appropriate to me that you sound a little husky. And I was like, you're right, you're right. And then I thought about all the jazz singers that I'm trying to sort of be inspired by. And maybe you know better, Vilry, but I think they recorded a lot of their records in a day or two.

Yeah. They were definitely not comps. There was no comping going on. It was halfway in the spirit of the music that we were doing with the joys of modern technology. Yeah. Yeah, it's hard to get that vibe from cigarettes and coffee in the old school days of just recording all day together on this new age style recording. Vilroy, did you produce the record?

No, no. Dan Nobler produced the record. Oh, Dan Nobler. Nobler, yeah. And he and I, I mean, we talked about it a lot for months before. I was sending him a lot of examples of

jazz vocal records from the 50s that have a very distinctive sound that doesn't sound like records as they're made today, which is essentially, I call it party in the back. The whole band sounds like it's over there somewhere on the bandstand, and the vocalist sounds like she's sitting at your table. So it's very live, immediate, minimal reverb on the voice,

and then the band sounds like the space that it's in. And there's something about that that kind of makes the song sing you know like the song is sort of the the star how'd you emulate that in the studio for this record how'd you uh do the recording process like that we recorded it um very minimally uh nothing was soundproofed basically. Oh, sick. And so we were just like in the room, all eight of us, like the band and myself playing guitar. And so, you know, there's just tons of bleed, as they say, like the signal from the drums is just like basically coming from the bass players' mics for the most part.

Right. And, you know, the piano, likewise, it's just like right there. Everybody's bleeding into each other's mics, so you can't... If something goes wrong, that's it. You just kind of have to pick a different take, because it's going to be in everybody's mics. But these guys are incredible.

There weren't very many ruined takes. And yeah, it's risky, but if you've got the right people doing stuff that's sort of written, very written, then it's an incredibly organic way to sort of experience the humanity in the room. How did you pick from 18 to what made the record? I mean, it was kind of like we did, like there's a song on the record called Any Little Time, and we did that as sort of a small band thing for a day.

And then when we brought in the full band, we recorded it again because we had an arrangement for it, and we kind of pitted them against each other. And it was no competition, but it was things like that where we kind of do different versions of different things. And there was like a standard that we were thinking about putting on, but you know, just everything was great, but it was just kind of like, you have to pick as many as can fit on,

you know, an LP. Right. And so, yeah, it was, it was a thrilling race to record all that stuff

how many shows did it take on this tour have you guys toured this album yet no so let's talk about the first tour I remember that first tour when you guys first came out and it was awesome I was like so stoked for you Rachel because I really love this type of music and I knew

how passionate you were about this type of music. And I knew how passionate you were about this type of music because I had you on the show a couple years ago and we were talking a little bit about this. How many shows did it take until you guys finally were in a rhythm together? It's ongoing. I think we knew pretty quickly that we had some sort of rhythm with each other. And then we've had shows where we've gotten off stage and felt completely not in sync with each other. And that's a really cool and bizarre thing about the duo. It's like the most intimate thing I've ever experienced because you, when, when I get off stage with Lake street dive, we all say like, Oh,

I had a good show. I had a bad show. And you're like, Oh, well, you know, like everyone kind of, it kind of all evens out. Yeah. You know, even if somebody has like had a hard night with their, with their monitors or they were distracted or whatever, like, I don't know, five people on stage, you kind of were just like, it was a good show. And like, Vilry and I would get off stage sometimes and we would be like, that was horrible.

I feel horrible. Like, I need to go cleanse myself. I had such, you know, it was the extremes of it. But then when we get off and it's like a great show, we're just like, wow, great job. And we can also really tell when the other person's having a fun time, which I can't really tell in the band setting with Lake Street Dive. A, I'm not facing them,

I'm facing the audience. So I hear the music behind me, I'm like, I think things are going well, but I can see when Billree's spinning out and he can see when I'm spinning out. Right. We're facing each other and sometimes I think we're like, oh God, you know, it's... Right. That doesn't happen that often anymore. I would say the past year or two of shows,

we've reached sort of a level of consistency where we're like, we're having a good time. We know the show's going well uh we can recover if something gets a little bit off so uh but it is it is very thrilling to to do the duo thing yeah i mean that's what i was saying about the intimacy thing it's so intimate how do you i mean i know you're married and stuff but how do you not just like like cry on stage and like with these intimate moments, it's like, it's like being naked on stage. You guys are just two people up there. It's gotta be, it's gotta be intense sometimes.

Like what was the most intimate show you felt? I just, I, I don't think I could watch the show. I don't think I could ever watch that show or even like if there was anybody else who did something like it, I think I would ever watch that show. Or even if there was anybody else who did something like it, I think I would be really uncomfortable. Yeah. But I can play it. That's okay.

Yeah. God, it's so intimate. I don't think it would be my kind of show. Right. You wouldn't like our show. Yeah. I mean, the truth is, Vilry and I are not not in love with each

other we we have we have profound respect for each other we love each other's musicality and we're very very good friends right so you know there's a ton of there's a lot of friendship but you know where you guys close you intimate it's too intimate for Vilry apparently yeah i can tell he's sweating right now he's getting flustered um what were you guys close friends at the conservatory we weren't close took a while took a little while yeah um what you got any stories of uh maybe overseeing one of the one another had like you know the lunch table or at the park? Any moments where you're like... I don't have a memory like that. I can't remember last week.

Are you overstimulated? Do you have just music in your head all the time? I wish I was like that. No, I'm not that that kind of person and sometimes i worry about it but um yeah i i definitely need to be like sitting down focused in order to be writing yeah i don't i don't know what's going on in my brain when i'm still you know it's like i feel like other people i don't know i think a lot about how people imagine things. I was talking to somebody about how some people see very clear pictures in their brain when they imagine things. And I have to kind of work at that to see something clearly. Do you suffer with anxiety or

depression? Definitely depression. Anxiety, probably, but I don't know. I'll ask my doctor about that. Yeah, it's like, yeah, because I suffer with depression, anxiety, and sometimes I just have this fog. It might not even be overstimulation. It's just getting yourself out of your own head.

Is it hard to get yourself out of your own head is it hard to get yourself out of your own head yeah um i i don't think so sometimes it's hard for me to like get out of a conversation like i'll just kind of talk and talk and sometimes i'll be like oh i think i may be being a little too honest here a little too like uh you know i don't know dark or something yeah and somebody else is just trying to like have a normal conversation yeah like i don't um i don't think i just don't think like when i'm sitting alone that i'm like having a lot of anxiety i think i know people who do who are like worrying all the time about you you know, global shit or even or or just like professional shit or personal stuff or whatever.

But I just I don't I don't spiral out that way. Are you a warrior, Rachel? Sort of. Yeah. Yeah. Not in not in grand ways. But yeah, I don't know if I'm a warrior. I definitely have anxiety.

Yeah. Yeah. Comes and goes. I just got one Lake Street question. What's it been like this last year without Mike in the band? The transition was, it was, guess somewhat remarkable in its uh in its ease in the sense that we we all knew and understood that it that it was a natural time for him to yeah step away from touring and uh it's you know there's there's's the musical hole that it leaves,

which has been a transition. And in a lot of ways, we are all re-examining our dynamic now as creators without having his voice come in and say, what about this? What about this? Especially with the arranging and the songwriting side of things um but it's there's also like the friendship aspect where your friend came to you and said like i don't i don't think i can be on tour anymore it doesn't work for me it's not it's not good for my health and uh actually just feeling glad that the person is living a happy and exuberant life.

And, you know, it's also beautiful because we play his songs every night, you know? Right, right. There's still so many of his songs are just like key moments in our show and always will be. So it's been, yeah, it's been surprisingly okay yeah well and we miss him but yeah well and you you filled you filled the band with badass musicians those two dudes like the keyboard player and then the guitar player you just added holy that dude yeah rocks yeah but yeah i do think aki aki is you know now a full creative member of the band and he's the keys player.

And had we not had Aki sort of already in that position, I think we would have felt a little unmoored. But he's been sort of an amazing pillar for us. Right. And yeah, it is bittersweet because he is, he's been in, he's, you know, he's been the OG. So that's awesome that it's, it was a smooth transition because, you know, sometimes you hear, you know, it breaks your heart when you look right and you don't see your boy anymore, you know? So I'm glad it's, I'm glad it's working. All right. That was the only Lake Street dive question, I promise. Okay. like okay one last one radio city music hall how was that give me give me the details i mean that's like a dream you should have villery was there all right give it give me the deets what was it like for rachel out there

it was amazing she was having a great time uh you could tell um yeah i mean look i i am the oldest lake street dive fan ever um and uh you know it's an incredible band and it's been incredible to see it develop and and i you know them playing radio city which they've done before is this this is this is old hat for them now yeah yeah um you know it's uh it's it's incredible and it fills me with pride and Yeah. You know, it's, it's, it's incredible. And it fills me with pride and joy. And, you know,

it's so nice to see everybody singing along and grooving with it. And, you know, the, the amazing diversity in ages and, and race and, and, you know,

it's just like such a great fan base. So, yeah, it's wonderful to be there. I'm gonna clap to that. Let's go, Rachel. Way to go. Killing it, girl. Thank you. Fucking killing it. Let's go. These are huge highlights.

Yeah, you know, it's like all your... Yeah, it's amazing. And you live in New York, so it's like your hometown show now is radio musical. Like no big fucking deal. No big deal. So how do you shave time? Like, is it important to shave time for this project? Because I know how much these songs mean to you. How hard is it to tell the management and this big machine that is Lake Street that I want to tour with this project at least for X amount of time a year? Do you guys dedicate a little bit of time at least every year to make sure you guys tour these songs and to promote these songs. Yeah, we've been playing shows every year. And since we've started playing music together and in the last two years have managed to do pretty short tours,

which has been great. And Lake Street Dive is not touring as much as we were five or six years ago. We were sort of a six, seven month out of the year band right and um we are moving out of that into sort of half half that amount of time so it actually is it leaves a lot of time uh for us to do to do more stuff. And I have to say that it's very exciting to me to have this project with Villery sort of solidified and kind of, you know, I think it gets better and better every time we perform. So just to know that if at any point Lake Street Dive

was like we were taking a longer break or anything, I think Villery and I would just start to work as as much as we wanted to this is exciting I mean Rachel's also just an incredible like so much energy you know what I mean like there's so much like planning for oh I'm getting off the road and and you know so let's do this let's let's let's rent a house on Cape Cod and play three gigs around it you know I let's do this let's let's let's rent a house on cape cove and play three gigs around it you know i love it thing like it's you know yeah rachel and um her husband and my partner molly um you know we love spending time together and we we play cards and we you know get airbnbs and and it's it's you know it's great to be friends and then some evenings go and play a gig and then come back and everybody's hanging out.

It's kind of a dream. I hadn't thought about that. I've sort of figured out how to combine at least the last few summers, vacation and gigs with Vilry so I can get both. Last year we went to Italy and there were no gigs. and gigs with Vilry so I can get both. And it's like, he just- Last year we went to Italy and there were no gigs. Well, maybe this year- We tried. We tried to get a gig in Italy, but-

Yeah, it's like, oh, we're going to book some shows in the Hamptons. No big deal. We're going to Nantucket. That's what you should do. You should just do all the dope spots. That'd be amazing how do your husband and partner feets when they watch this show i gotta this is crazy dude they probably watch that right next to each other and see how intimate it is they probably look at each other

like oh my god this is real this is wild do they love the project or Molly hates it. No, I'm kidding. Yeah, no, I mean, you know, we're like, Rachel and I are not making out on stage. I feel like we're painting a picture.

I am. I'm like, I'm so romanticizing this. Yeah, I'm romanticizing this. It's really not a dirty show. Like, yeah, we look at each other and we're having a great time.

Yeah. And so I guess, you know, that can come across as, as you said, a certain intimacy. Yeah. But, you know, Molly and Taylor know that Rachel and I are extremely close friends and they're extremely close friends with us. And, you know, we all have a great time. So I don't think there's any weirdness. I think they enjoy the show. I love it.

To the extent that they haven't seen it last night you know yeah well i think i think taylor's probably one of our our biggest fans that's great yeah taylor's a musician right he said he's a musician yes yeah cool cool oh yeah great great musician well guys um i'm just i'm just pumped i love that you're doing this project rachel villaray you seem like a badass motherfucker, dude. You just seem like a dude who just is just fucking shredding it up, doing the whole nine. Yeah, that's me. What other projects do you do, Villaray, besides this project that keep you busy?

Well, I write a lot of commissions for people's wedding days or just sort of anniversaries and things like that, which sounds like really corny and sort of like a musical greeting card, but it's not really like that. People send me nice long emails describing their love and I try to find the thing in it that's a song. And sometimes it ends up being a song. There's a song on this record called

Hate is the Basis of Love, which was actually a commission that I wrote for a couple and on the last record it was two friends fall in love um so that's one thing that kind of keeps me busy through here through the year um but then there's another um project that i've got it's called man of milan that i don't i don't gig with enough but sort of i'm always writing about and always thinking about. And it's music that's inspired by Italian film music of the 50s. So it's kind of songs built around the world, which is a cool world because it's kind of got surf rock in it. And I got a sort of in like italian like kind of folk traditions and it's

it's a really cool little soup that was made in the italian i love that yeah do you guys think you'll ever put out a french record uh you see a lot of those friends spanish more likely yeah i can't sing in french but but we can sing in Spanish. I remember last time we talked a couple years ago, you said you were learning Spanish. That's right. Yeah, I started learning Spanish.

How are you doing now with it? You know, I got to, like, a beginner's level, and then I went on tour and sort of forgot about it. It was a pandemic pursuit. I haven't forgotten, really, my Spanish. That's good.

Well, guys, I'll let you go. Thanks so much for being on the show. I know you guys are busy. Go kill it up out there in New York. Maroon for both of you. I got one last question, and we'll let it go. When it's all said and done, what do you want this project to be remembered by? Wow. Sorry, I might be too deep for 11 a.m just leaving us just leaving us with a very yeah there you go i'll get a question

i think the beautiful thing about music is that people bring their own connections to it and they dig what they dig yeah i'm not gonna boss anybody on that i want to be remembered as something that you enjoyed and whatever your reasons for it are your own hell yeah i think that's such a cool even if they don't understand it. Yeah, I think when you are playing an older tradition of music, that's what you want to leave people with is the feeling of depth, even though they may never have listened to jazz music, but I think you can hear history when it's there.

I just want to make sure we're honoring the history, but also putting a fresh take on it. Well, keep doing it, keep rocking. And I'm so happy that you guys found happiness outside of the other projects. So thanks for being on the show, guys. Thanks, Andy. Have a good one, Rachel. Have a good one. Phil Ray, you're the man. Keep it up, buddy. Let's go. Thank you guys. Bye. Should we listen to a couple of voicemails? Yeah. Let's listen to some voice. So watch your males. People have been sending us voicemails and dude, it's going great. We've gotten way more than so many, 50, 60 of them. Now we can't like a way more so many 50 60 of them now we can't use

them all on the show some of them are but we'll just get a taste of first off speaking of dialed in gummies we should do this some guys sent us a voicemail the dialed in gummies let me know what you think this hey nick and andy andy nick um how you? Funny story. I just got off the phone with dialed in customer service. I didn't know they had customer service. A little bit of a problem here. He's lying. He directed me to you. He directed me to you.

I ingested an entire bottle of liquid gummies. Not much of an accident. I kind of poured all of it into my drink. It's like 100 milligrams. So let me know if you guys can help me out at all. That into my drink. It's like 100 milligrams. So, let me know if you guys can help me out at all. That would be great. I'm kind of freaking the fuck out.

Oh, man. Been there. I've been trying to find out things. Yeah. First of all, pull over and call an Uber. First off, get out of the fucking car. Yeah, I've done that once. 100 milligrams is no joke. Not a lot of people could do that.

No, I think I could do it. I mean, I'd be high as hell. You're a psychopath though. Thank you. I love being called a psychopath. First thing you want to do is go lay down, get some chips, get some water and just accept it and let it wash like in Buffalo. Like I'm a Buffalo. When you accidentally get too high, don't the first thing you do is acknowledge it. The second thing you do is do not fight it. Let it wash over you. Accept it. It'll go away faster. Yeah. If you fight it, it becomes stronger. So just surrender to the flow, surrender to the flow. That's pretty hippie of me to say. Yeah. But it's also very true. Just there's nothing you can do about it. You can't turn it off.

So you're already on the roller coaster. Just take the ride and try to enjoy it the best you can. Oh, yeah. Nice advice. You're already on the roller coaster. All right, let's hear another one. Wow, this is really cool. Hey, Andy, this is Aerial Attack, your

soon-to-be drag mother pun intended the sole contributor to your wiki feet page so I guess my question Andy is I'm broke so when are you going to fly your ass out to Windsor Ontario so I can put you up in full geish mama I see a beautiful bearded comedy queen in you drag absolutely I'd love to put him up in case too. I would look so beautiful. My question for you is, how would you get so adorable? And that's my compliment.

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I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. fucking Denver. Yeah, but they want to, they want to be your drag mother. What's that mean? I don't, I'm not an expert on that, but I believe it's like the person that sort of

like teaches you how to get started, you know, like a, like sort of a tour. Oh, but I got Brody Brody teach me that. Yeah. But they're all going to Canada. Windsor. Have you been to Windsor Canada? You know what she said about the Wiki feet? Yeah. Do you know what that is? We can be, yeah. It's like Wiki feet. I mean, it's like, well, yeah, it's like WikiFeet. I mean, it's like a page of feet. She put 1700 photos of my feet up on this page. I'm now number four in the, in the country for top feet. Cool. I'm going to clap. I hope that 300 years from now, that's the only thing people remember you about. I fucking love it. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate Ontario. Canada is like the place that I grew up in Fort Wayne,

Indiana for you people out there. It's like two hours away and that's where everybody goes when they're like 19 because you can drink there when you're 19. Yeah, I'll come to Canada. I have casinos. I went to it and that sound cold though. Windsor. It's not that you just fly to Detroit and go right across the bridge. You're in Windsor cold as fuck. I don't go in May. Okay. Yeah. They have seasons. Oh. Yeah. You would look beautiful as a geisha. Let's do one more. Hi. Oh, shit.

I have a question, I think. I think? My question is, is Andy single? Ooh. Ooh. I can't answer that. Sorry. Oh.

We didn't answer how I got... Cold calling the ballsy women out here. Just calling the voicemail to see if I'm single. Yes, I am single. It could be one of the kakuzas using a voice changing app. That girl sounded hot. Yeah. Yes, I'm single. I am damaged though

supposedly. Send all nudes to the voicemail line. I'll screen them first. Stop. Just kidding. Don't send me any of that. Don't send nudes. I can't handle nudes right now. But if you do, send them to the voicemail line so I can stream them first. I'm just kidding. What a beautiful day. You tuned in to the World's Health Podcast with Andy Fresco.

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