Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed: Matt Litzinger
Speaker 1: Poets say love is gonna save us. Most of the time, I.
Speaker 2: Don't feel like I'm worse saveding, just a dum screwed
Speaker 2: up kid.
Speaker 3: But you gave me home. You spoken to my darkness,
Speaker 3: and you showed me the light.
Speaker 2: In your glow, I'm seeing for the first time.
Speaker 3: There's still food on the fire.
Speaker 2: There's a fire burning in my ches, helping me to
Speaker 2: see the truth.
Speaker 3: In spite of all my anxious feeds.
Speaker 2: This love has made me rizled.
Speaker 1: Keep it burning, war to keep it burning.
Speaker 3: More.
Speaker 2: I am alive and nothing's.
Speaker 3: Gonna change that.
Speaker 2: A living fear of showing who I really am and fall.
Speaker 3: In apart like a spy. You slip past my defense
Speaker 3: is and you found me out. Piece by piece. You're
Speaker 3: taking off this army. I don't need it now.
Speaker 2: There's a fire burning the matches, and.
Speaker 3: You're the one that put it there.
Speaker 2: It wasn't lit by anyone. No one has loved me
Speaker 2: with that, butch Cave.
Speaker 1: You keep it burning, war, keeping burning, world.
Speaker 3: There's a fire burning in.
Speaker 2: My chest, helping me to see the truth in spite
Speaker 2: of all my anxious fees.
Speaker 3: Just love has made me.
Speaker 1: Rezled, keeping burning, Oh.
Speaker 3: You keep it burning.
Speaker 4: Matt Litzinger here with us live in studio. So I
Speaker 4: love by the way, thank you for bringing us, and
Speaker 4: I'm gonna for people watching online. I'm gonna hold up
Speaker 4: the CD. There we go, this CD you brought us,
Speaker 4: Keep it Burning? And that was the title track, of course,
Speaker 4: that we opened the show with. Where did you record this?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 5: Yeah, one of the cool things about this project I
Speaker 5: recorded it at my home studio. I really enjoy the
Speaker 5: process of, like watching the songs evolve. Sometimes studio time
Speaker 5: doesn't really like work well with that because you're kind
Speaker 5: of locked in. You know, you've got these hours of
Speaker 5: these days, right, and so these songs have kind of
Speaker 5: evolved over the past six nine months as I've worked
Speaker 5: on different demos for them leading up to it, and
Speaker 5: working at home just helps to make that a little easier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's cool to have that freedom and flexibility to
Speaker 4: do it that way. Have you always recorded that way
Speaker 4: or have you ever have? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Mostly just had a necessity with this project. I did
Speaker 5: raise money on Kickstarter to help fund it. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: so I thought about, like, do I want to get
Speaker 5: studio time involved with that? And I really like the
Speaker 5: process of, you know, wearing the different hats all the
Speaker 5: way down the process. So yeah, writing the songs, engineering it,
Speaker 5: mixing it all the way through.
Speaker 4: So that's an advantage too, that you enjoy doing all
Speaker 4: that part, because a lot of musicians don't like doing
Speaker 4: that part, right. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my brain like, I like, you have to kind
Speaker 5: of turn off the right side, left side thing, but
Speaker 5: I like to eventually turn that off and move into
Speaker 5: more of the engineering, you know, make it sound good
Speaker 5: side of things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Is this the first full length album
Speaker 4: that you've released is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So that's that's a big one for me. It's
Speaker 5: been like EPs and singles up until this point.
Speaker 4: What made you decide to do a full length? Did
Speaker 4: it just seem like time.
Speaker 5: Or yeah, time would be the easiest way to say it.
Speaker 5: So I had I'd had two kids over the past
Speaker 5: like six eight years, and so it's been just bandwidth
Speaker 5: has been Okay, we can do a single, we can
Speaker 5: do a little project here or there, but some of
Speaker 5: those songs are stacked up and I'm happy with a
Speaker 5: lot of those. So I sat down in February wrote
Speaker 5: a couple more songs that I was happy with, and
Speaker 5: then I had a collection of them and I was like,
Speaker 5: it just makes sense. Sure I can carve out time
Speaker 5: this year to work on a whole project.
Speaker 4: And who else is on the album with you? Or
Speaker 4: is it all you?
Speaker 5: So this is all me except for on Gather Me Up.
Speaker 5: My wife plays violin, Oh a big thing because she's
Speaker 5: really great violinist, but hardly played, so it takes a
Speaker 5: lot of convincing. So it's great to get hurt on
Speaker 5: that track.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, excellent. Do you play out a lot? Do
Speaker 4: you do a lot off too? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so not anything like ticketed, but I play bars
Speaker 5: and stuff around town quite a bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. The great thing about you know what you do,
Speaker 4: you know, just you and a guitar is obviously that
Speaker 4: opens up a lot of opportunities for where you can play.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, you know, so someone in your position,
Speaker 4: you've always got options as far as venues and so forth,
Speaker 4: whereas you know, like in the third hour today we
Speaker 4: have vigil coming in. I don't know if you know them,
Speaker 4: but they're loud and they're heavy, and you know, so
Speaker 4: of course for someone in their position, you know, they've
Speaker 4: only got so many options as far as venues, but
Speaker 4: you can probably play anywhere, and I bet You've played
Speaker 4: some interesting place for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean in town, Like I'm thinking small rooms
Speaker 5: where it's just like, you know, you're kind of in
Speaker 5: a corner or a bigger, bigger venues. But yeah, I
Speaker 5: played everything from like kind of college level arena areas
Speaker 5: now all the way down to like small bar gigs.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. If you do, you stick to New England
Speaker 4: or have you gotten out of Yeah, and.
Speaker 5: Just mostly southern New Hampshire right now. So originally from Pennsylvania,
Speaker 5: went to school in Indiana and then have lived here
Speaker 5: for the past like ten years. Oh okay, and so yeah,
Speaker 5: southern New Hampshire mostly Manchester. I play some out towards
Speaker 5: the Sea coast a little bit like when Sawbelly was
Speaker 5: out there. I'd go out and play out that way.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, yeah, what brought you to New Hampshire?
Speaker 5: My wife? Yeah, so she's from Chester. We met in
Speaker 5: uh in school.
Speaker 4: Oh, in Indiana, came back here here. Oh cool, cool, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 4: Well I'm doning here you play live? You want to
Speaker 4: play something for sure?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, So I'll start out. This first song is
Speaker 5: called Restless Wings. There's a song about I tend to
Speaker 5: be kind of a homebody, and so this song is
Speaker 5: about watching somebody who you love need to go off
Speaker 5: and like travel a world, you know, so I really
Speaker 5: enjoy that, and trying to come to grips with the
Speaker 5: fact that, like they still love you when they're out there,
Speaker 5: even though like you don't hear from them as often.
Speaker 5: And so this song just kind of reflects some of
Speaker 5: those ideas.
Speaker 4: All right, very good, Matt Litzinger, live in studio with us.
Speaker 2: Here we are again saying ah goodbyes. And then and
Speaker 2: how you will be far above the clouds. I'll be
Speaker 2: looking u at the stars de night, wondering how long
Speaker 2: to come back around. It's a mystery to a man
Speaker 2: like me, how you set your sights on distant shores.
Speaker 2: Each time you return, I see your fires burned, and
Speaker 2: it's not long before you're calling.
Speaker 3: Out for more.
Speaker 2: Your restless ways get lighter. Look in that the sky.
Speaker 2: It's when you roll home. That's when you're most love.
Speaker 2: My grounded hard it wishes you could stay. I wondered, dude,
Speaker 2: you miss me when you fly, and as I wait
Speaker 2: for you to return to me, I wonder if you
Speaker 2: feel pull of my heart on yours. That's a line
Speaker 2: bed thoughts are a mess, dream you walking back through
Speaker 2: my door. My bristless weeks get lighter looking that the
Speaker 2: sky's when you mess when you're most allahah, my grounded
Speaker 2: hard it wishes you could stay. I wondered, dude, you
Speaker 2: miss me when you fly.
Speaker 3: Away.
Speaker 2: I'm not asking you to stay with me here, I
Speaker 2: just want to know this love story. When you're out there,
Speaker 2: you're restless weeks, get lighter.
Speaker 6: Look in that the sky because.
Speaker 2: When you row mess, when you're most alive, grounded hardy
Speaker 2: wishes you could stay. I wandered, dude, you miss me when.
Speaker 6: You fly away?
Speaker 4: Beautiful?
Speaker 5: That was Guardians I think so much.
Speaker 7: Oh that was gorgeous.
Speaker 4: If you are, you're.
Speaker 7: Getting love in the chat room already loving this song.
Speaker 7: Can't wait to hear more.
Speaker 4: Says Jay. Excellent, excellent, Yes, if you are just joining us,
Speaker 4: We have a Matt Litzinger with us alive in studio
Speaker 4: this morning. Oh yeah, Jay Bellow of course from the
Speaker 4: band Chasing the Devil and U. But they're doing some
Speaker 4: big things, so very very proud of them. We've played
Speaker 4: a bunch of their music on the show absolutely and
Speaker 4: Jay has always been very supportive of the show. Too,
Speaker 4: so we appreciate that. But yes, Matt Litzinger is here
Speaker 4: with us in studio, and is that I assume that
Speaker 4: song is on the album or on there? Yeah it is, yeah, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 4: Do you play when you play out? Do you do
Speaker 4: long shows? You probably know a lot of songs. I
Speaker 4: assume you can do like three hour shows.
Speaker 5: Yeah, three hours is kind of my well, four hours
Speaker 5: is now my max. But so yeah, I played a
Speaker 5: couple of farmers market gigs that were four hours.
Speaker 4: Oh no kidding.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of like like so I run too,
Speaker 5: and so it's kind of like that where you start
Speaker 5: out and you're like, I don't know if I could
Speaker 5: ever do three miles, and like you do that and
Speaker 5: you're like, I don't know if I could ever do
Speaker 5: six That sounds crazy, And I feel like playing gigs
Speaker 5: is kind of the same. You're like, the first three
Speaker 5: hour gigs sucks, and then like you play a bunch
Speaker 5: more and you're like, oh, this is this is doable,
Speaker 5: And then you play a four hour on you're like,
Speaker 5: that's not that much different than three interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, do you find that running helps you with your
Speaker 4: singing in terms of your breath?
Speaker 5: Then yeah, I've never really actually thought about that part
Speaker 5: of it, but I'm sure it does. Like just like that,
Speaker 5: the fitness element of it helps too, and like some
Speaker 5: level of physical fitness. I broke a rib a long
Speaker 5: time ago. Oh no, on capacity isn't what it used
Speaker 5: to be. Really, hopefully that helps keep that up a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The big thing with running is like it's just an
Speaker 5: idea generator because like, similar to being in the shower,
Speaker 5: like a lot of ideas hit me on a run
Speaker 5: for a song or for like a part that I'm
Speaker 5: just stuck on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know you get the blood pumping
Speaker 4: and you know, the ghost to your brain, Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: get those neurons fire, and yeah, absolutely absolutely do you
Speaker 4: play You must play some covers too, I would imagine,
Speaker 4: because you don't have enough music to fill.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's our hour kind of balance.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like you know, there's you gotta figure out what
Speaker 5: hat you're wearing. So like, if you're in a listening room,
Speaker 5: you want to play a lot of your stuff. People
Speaker 5: are there to sit and listen to you. Right if
Speaker 5: you're in a bar a restaurant, like people want to
Speaker 5: be entertained, and so some of the time. That's just like, oh,
Speaker 5: I want to hear a song that they're like, oh,
Speaker 5: that's a cool, interesting version of that song. I know,
Speaker 5: like I know this one, so yeah, try to mix
Speaker 5: it up.
Speaker 4: You've got a great voice, are you? Are you? Did
Speaker 4: you take any kind of lessons? Are you? Self taught?
Speaker 5: Mostly self taught? I took some voice lessons from this
Speaker 5: Ukrainian guy when I was in high school for about
Speaker 5: probably like six months or so.
Speaker 4: Oh no kidding, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: So very formal. I'm not even sure if I consciously
Speaker 5: do anything that I was trained to do.
Speaker 4: But right, right, well, but I'm sure subconc yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 4: And what about guitar.
Speaker 5: Guitar is all self taught. Okay, So my kind of
Speaker 5: music journey with instrumentation is I started playing piano for
Speaker 5: nine years. Yeah, hated it, but like my parents made
Speaker 5: me stick with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I picked up drums on my own, loved playing drums,
Speaker 5: started to learn to play by music, and then picked
Speaker 5: up guitar and bass on my own after that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And somehow in that transition from piano to drums,
Speaker 5: took it and made it my own. And I was
Speaker 5: just like I love this, like I loved playing, so, like,
Speaker 5: I want to figure how to play more stuff.
Speaker 4: Do you think learning the piano helped you to learn
Speaker 4: other instruments more quickly? Because something I hear a lot
Speaker 4: of people say, So, I'm a musician myself. I'm a
Speaker 4: bass player, but I never learned you know, I would, well,
Speaker 4: I would kind of noodle around a little bit on
Speaker 4: the keyboard when I was a kid, but I never
Speaker 4: really learned to play. But I've heard a lot of
Speaker 4: music instructors say that everybody should, no matter what instrument
Speaker 4: they play, everybody should start out on the keyboard, some
Speaker 4: sort of keyboard because that's such a great way to
Speaker 4: kind of kind of build your well a lot of
Speaker 4: things in terms of, you know, making sure you have
Speaker 4: a good ear, and also just you know, it's a
Speaker 4: good building block for whatever instrument you're going to play.
Speaker 4: So I'm curious in your case because you know, you
Speaker 4: didn't like it the piano, but you did it for
Speaker 4: nine years. So I assume I assume having done that,
Speaker 4: learning other instruments probably came pretty quickly to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think there's a couple of things wrapped
Speaker 5: up in that. For me, it's like the piano has
Speaker 5: a higher learning some instruments, like you can sit and
Speaker 5: figure out a chord shape on a guitar Souer right,
Speaker 5: But sometimes at the piano if you want something more
Speaker 5: than just one note melodies, learning from some you know book, uh,
Speaker 5: it can it can be difficult to feel like you're
Speaker 5: making momentum with that. But things like chord structure and
Speaker 5: even just visualizing the way the notes work on keyboards
Speaker 5: like the best way to conceptualize that. Yeah, so I
Speaker 5: think a lot of things that I now lean on
Speaker 5: with chord structure I learned from piano and now transferred
Speaker 5: to different instruments.
Speaker 4: That makes sense, Yeah, I wish that I had done that,
Speaker 4: you know, I always had a keyboard too, I just
Speaker 4: never Yeah, I just I don't know, I guest I
Speaker 4: was kind of a lazy kid though too. I was
Speaker 4: one of those kids there if I wasn't good at
Speaker 4: something right away, I would just kind of that was that.
Speaker 7: You sink I wanted to learn how to play piano
Speaker 7: so bad. Yeah, I put my kid in it and
Speaker 7: he hated it, and I, not being your parents, went Yeah.
Speaker 7: I always said I wasn't going to force him because
Speaker 7: I wanted him to do music because he wanted to, and.
Speaker 4: He's a self taught guitar.
Speaker 7: But I kind of wish I had made him do
Speaker 7: it because I know that he would have been able
Speaker 7: to read music and stuff if I had made him.
Speaker 4: So I don't know, kind of on the fence on
Speaker 4: that one, I.
Speaker 5: Wish there was a better way to like tell kids,
Speaker 5: you don't have to stick with piano, like, just stick
Speaker 5: with this for now, right, because they look at you know,
Speaker 5: people shredding on guitar, like killing the drum exactly, and
Speaker 5: I want to do that, right, Yeah, you can do that,
Speaker 5: but start here because like you'll be so much better
Speaker 5: at that thing when you get there.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, yeah, But I know what you mean too,
Speaker 4: Like it's like if you pick up a guitar and
Speaker 4: you just you know, if you learn power chords, you
Speaker 4: can go join a punk band pretty quickly.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it doesn't take much.
Speaker 4: In my case, the reason I ended up playing bass
Speaker 4: was so I started on guitar, and I took guitar
Speaker 4: lessons for a couple of years, but I wasn't But again,
Speaker 4: I you know, I would get frustrated, I would get
Speaker 4: impatient with myself, and then in high school, I picked
Speaker 4: up a bass, and I know other bass players hey
Speaker 4: when I say this, but it's just the truth. I
Speaker 4: picked up a bass and I was like, oh, two
Speaker 4: fewer strings and I don't have to know any chords.
Speaker 4: I can do this, And and then I ended up.
Speaker 4: You know, I went on to play in a bunch
Speaker 4: of bands playing bass because But but I do think
Speaker 4: in my case though learning some things on guitar to
Speaker 4: the limited extent that I did, helped make me a
Speaker 4: better bass player, even though the way that I got
Speaker 4: to play and bass was again my my own laziness
Speaker 4: kind of came into play.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And although like yeah, I think people like to
Speaker 5: crap on bass players a lot, But in my experience,
Speaker 5: the bass players I've played with sometimes their musical knowledge
Speaker 5: like blows me away. Oh yeah for being a simple instrument,
Speaker 5: so to speak with help me having four strings? Like yeah,
Speaker 5: their conceptualization of chords and like what changes and like
Speaker 5: what note they're playing in the root and stuff and
Speaker 5: just like dang, like they know more than I do
Speaker 5: about this stuff.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 4: We have Aaron Bilido coming in second hour. I don't
Speaker 4: know if you know Aaron, but but he's a bass player.
Speaker 4: And he's amazing. Like I watch his fingers and it's like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, what he can do at that bass,
Speaker 4: you know. But yeah, I never got that far with it.
Speaker 4: But so on your so, like you said, so on
Speaker 4: your album, so you play everything except you mentioned your
Speaker 4: wife plays violin, but you do everything else. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I kept it pretty simple, like I wanted
Speaker 5: to go for kind of an old country kind of
Speaker 5: like Zach Bryany kind of sounds. Yeah, And so it's guitar, bass, drums,
Speaker 5: a little bit of mandolin on a couple songs. Okay,
Speaker 5: outside of that, that's that's really it for instrumentation.
Speaker 4: Is the mandolin? Did you find that difficult.
Speaker 5: To learn or so I don't play it super well.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I play like just chords on it, so it's easy
Speaker 5: to figure out, like okay, what's the chord shape for
Speaker 5: this chord and then kind of do a little chunking
Speaker 5: us on it. I don't do a whole lot of
Speaker 5: melody work on the on the.
Speaker 4: Mandolin, Okay, Okay, Yeah, it is hard with.
Speaker 5: Big fingers, which is funny because you look at the
Speaker 5: best mandolin players, like these guys have giant, you know, fingers,
Speaker 5: and how do they play this.
Speaker 4: Thing that's well, that's the thing that's That's one of
Speaker 4: the things that makes me so curious about it because
Speaker 4: some of these instruments, like the mandolin, I just I've
Speaker 4: always wondered about that. It looks like it's difficult to
Speaker 4: you know, it's hard enough when you're learning to play guitar,
Speaker 4: you know, to make sure that your fingers are going
Speaker 4: in the right places, and then on something like the mandolin. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're right, like like if you have big fingers, you know,
Speaker 4: how do you do that able to really you know,
Speaker 4: not be not be sloppy with it? So it's very
Speaker 4: impressive to me. Do you want to you want to
Speaker 4: play another live one for us? Sure? Dying to hear more?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So the next one I have is uh so, it's
Speaker 5: one of the songs I mentioned. I wrote some songs
Speaker 5: in February. There's this thing called FOM, which is February
Speaker 5: Album Writing Month. It's like a challenge you try to
Speaker 5: write fourteen songs and all the February.
Speaker 4: It sounds like kind of like the RPM chant.
Speaker 5: Very much like that. Okay, yeah, except I think the
Speaker 5: end goal is not to have like a produced thing
Speaker 5: at the end of it. It's just like you have
Speaker 5: a collection of songs and you can do whatever with them.
Speaker 5: It's a cohesive album.
Speaker 4: Oh cool, but okay.
Speaker 5: One of the songs that came out of that, there
Speaker 5: was a news story right around that time, I think
Speaker 5: from the Washington Post about scientists and measure that the
Speaker 5: moon is starting to shrink, and so I was like, man,
Speaker 5: this is like the perfect jumping off point for a song. Yeah,
Speaker 5: So I tried to dream up this world of like, Okay,
Speaker 5: if the moon's shrinking, what's that mean for like our
Speaker 5: tide patterns on the earth, Like what's that look like?
Speaker 5: If I draw that out to this post apocalyptic picture.
Speaker 5: Then I tried to turn that into a love song
Speaker 5: of like what's it look like for love to sustained
Speaker 5: something as tragic and difficult as like the world coming
Speaker 5: to an end. So there's a song called Moonquakes that's
Speaker 5: about that stemmed from that story. Interesting, all right, totally fictitious.
Speaker 5: Matt Litzinger live in studio with us. I'm looking forward
Speaker 5: to this one. This one sounds pretty interesting. Although worry
Speaker 5: someone once so we have climate change storry about, now
Speaker 5: we gotta worry about the moon.
Speaker 4: Shrinking too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hopefully it's a it's a very slow process.
Speaker 4: I would assume. Matt litzing Er Live in studio.
Speaker 6: The moon is shrinking.
Speaker 2: That's what the experts say.
Speaker 8: It's getting smaller.
Speaker 2: Everything old day.
Speaker 8: Don't be alarm.
Speaker 2: That's what the man on TV says. It feels like
Speaker 2: everything is hanging by threads.
Speaker 6: Last night I.
Speaker 2: Was for above the ground and I could see four
Speaker 2: miles and miles of round. When the lights went out, I.
Speaker 8: Felt the darkness around.
Speaker 6: This might be the end.
Speaker 8: But I'm finding hoping your green eye.
Speaker 2: And if the ground beneath our feet should break, won't
Speaker 2: lead you astray.
Speaker 6: And if the seas.
Speaker 2: Shoot over won their bound, I'll hold back the way.
Speaker 3: It's the way of this luve.
Speaker 6: Spore.
Speaker 3: This world could bad way of this love.
Speaker 8: It's ball in this world code babe.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm wow. Oh let me get that mic on Jenny, Sorry,
Speaker 4: do that to meet every Saturday.
Speaker 3: He does.
Speaker 4: He turns me download I do I do? Uh No,
Speaker 4: that is great, that is great. Matt Listener here with
Speaker 4: us live in studio. H Ryan LeMay is in the
Speaker 4: I see in the chat room, says well done. Ryan
Speaker 4: is a very obviously I'm sure you know Ryan. He's
Speaker 4: a very very talented musician.
Speaker 9: I do not know.
Speaker 4: Oh you don't know Ryan, Okay, you'll probably uh you'll
Speaker 4: probably meet at some point. Also, Eric Manarone, if I'm
Speaker 4: saying that correctly, says I, all, hello Eric in the
Speaker 4: chat room. If you are just joining us. We do
Speaker 4: have Matt Litz singer with us live in studio. He's
Speaker 4: got this great album keep It Burning, really really good.
Speaker 4: Do you are you already working on the next one,
Speaker 4: so you know, whereas you record at home and you know,
Speaker 4: you can kind of take your time with it, I
Speaker 4: would imagine you're already working on new stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So it's kind of funny. I'm actually taking a
Speaker 5: little bit of a well not a break, but just
Speaker 5: scaling things back a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I had a lot of songs written for this project,
Speaker 5: and so I had the benefit of being able to
Speaker 5: pick just the ones I liked the best or that
Speaker 5: worked most cohesively for this theme. Yeah, and so I
Speaker 5: had some extra songs that I didn't do anything with yet,
Speaker 5: so those are kind of in the hopper. I played
Speaker 5: those live out just trying to like get feelers for
Speaker 5: how to fine tune them. I had a tendency the
Speaker 5: right really long songs, so I'm always on the mission
Speaker 5: of figure out how do I tighten this stuff up.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So like one of those songs is like seven minutes long,
Speaker 5: and so it's like, okay, that's too long for a
Speaker 5: singer songwriter ballad. Yeah, trying to figure how to tighten
Speaker 5: it up. But yeah, right now, it's just kind of
Speaker 5: scaling back a little bit. Like I said, I have
Speaker 5: a young family, so and this isn't my full time
Speaker 5: gig too, so just trying to figure out how do
Speaker 5: I keep this in his right place right right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of time management skills that can
Speaker 4: go into that. Do you remember the first song you
Speaker 4: ever wrote?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, So I started writing songs in high school
Speaker 5: just as kind of a cathartic thing, and it was
Speaker 5: a just really bubblegum poppy love song.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like you and me? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Did it survive?
Speaker 5: Do you ever play not survive? I don't know that
Speaker 5: I could even play it if I had to, really.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't even think it got recorded. I think it
Speaker 5: just got played to the girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I don't remember who it was, but We
Speaker 4: had a guest on who really surprised me. They could
Speaker 4: remember like the first song they wrote when they were
Speaker 4: like ten years old and they still play it. It
Speaker 4: might it might have been Kenny Troon and Kenny, if
Speaker 4: you're listening and I'm wrong, I apologize, but I feel
Speaker 4: like it was Kenny Truon. He said, yeah, I still
Speaker 4: play it. My first song is like wow, man, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I always jealous of those guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you can go back to your back catalog
Speaker 5: and will have just the muscle memory to pull back
Speaker 5: out right right.
Speaker 4: Who can you tell me about influences, Like in terms
Speaker 4: of songwriting, who who influences you? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So I like a lot of singer songwriter stuff. It
Speaker 5: has more of a Maricana kind of rock background to it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Like modern influences will probably be like Jason Isbel is
Speaker 5: a big one. Storgel Simpson is probably a big one.
Speaker 5: Going back further, I love John Denver, like I just
Speaker 5: keep coming back. He's just such a great songwriter.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: My grandparents, my grandma in particularly on my mom's side,
Speaker 5: really loved him. And so like playing country roads is
Speaker 5: always a big favorite for me, or like leaving on
Speaker 5: a jet Plane.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, his stuff's great. I love coming back to his
Speaker 5: his music.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, what about in terms of your approach vocally?
Speaker 4: Is there anyone you Is there anyone you've ever really
Speaker 4: you have a unique voice. I can't think of anyone
Speaker 4: off the top of my head who I feel like
Speaker 4: you sound like? Yeah, exactly, But I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 4: is there anyone who's influenced you as far as your vocals?
Speaker 5: I mean, I think a lot of people over time,
Speaker 5: and I get compared to some people, so like Evan
Speaker 5: Stevens Hall from Pine Grove, They're like an indie rock band.
Speaker 5: The guy from the Decembris, who I'm blanking on his
Speaker 5: name right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't remember either, but I know what you mean.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I think I pull from
Speaker 5: different things. I hear in vocal performances and I'm like,
Speaker 5: I like that. I try to emulate that a little bit,
Speaker 5: and then it's just still trying to figure out, like
Speaker 5: how do I do that and not make it sound
Speaker 5: like I'm trying to sound like like, you know, I
Speaker 5: have a certain signature to my voice and I want
Speaker 5: to keep that right. But it is interesting, like listening
Speaker 5: back to material from like ten years ago to now.
Speaker 5: It's crazy how your voice changes over time. And I
Speaker 5: even listen to other artists like that happens so much too.
Speaker 5: H But it's it's really interesting to see, and it's
Speaker 5: very much a subconscious thing because yeah, I didn't decide
Speaker 5: I'm gonna sit down and record this song so that
Speaker 5: it sounds like this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've always been kind of fascinated by that with
Speaker 4: vocal how some some people's voices do change over time
Speaker 4: as they get older, their voice gets deeper. But some
Speaker 4: people it seems like it you know, you hear something
Speaker 4: they record very uh you know, like they might be
Speaker 4: a sixty year old guy who sounds just like he
Speaker 4: did when he was twenty, and it's like or at
Speaker 4: least on at least in the studio. Yeah, maybe maybe
Speaker 4: not live. But you know, it's interesting how how some
Speaker 4: people their voice really changes and some doesn't. I imagine too.
Speaker 4: Part of that comes from, you know, a lot of musicians,
Speaker 4: you know, drink and smoke and that you know that'll
Speaker 4: change your voice certainly, But but I think for a
Speaker 4: lot of people to you know, their voices just kind
Speaker 4: of get deeper naturally as they get older. But yeah,
Speaker 4: some people just sound sound the same. It's it's weird,
Speaker 4: I think. I think Billy Joel is an example of that.
Speaker 5: Like it's true.
Speaker 4: Like if you if you go on YouTube and you
Speaker 4: pull up a Billy Joel video of him performing live
Speaker 4: in recent years, he kind of sounds the same as
Speaker 4: he did when you know, when that first album came out.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's weird. But all the time goes so fast.
Speaker 4: You want to play another one for us? Sure? I
Speaker 4: want to. I want to get at least one more
Speaker 4: live one and before we run out of time. If
Speaker 4: you are just joining us. Matt Litzinger is here with us,
Speaker 4: alive in studio, and I did confirm with him. I
Speaker 4: am saying his name right because I wasn't sure if
Speaker 4: it was everybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's always short eyes.
Speaker 4: Anybody ever get it wrong like on a poster or something,
Speaker 4: not on.
Speaker 5: A poster, but not saying it out loud, Yeah, quite
Speaker 5: a bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, Matt Litzinger is here with us in studio.
Speaker 3: What are you?
Speaker 4: What are you gonna play for us?
Speaker 5: Yeah? So this next one's called I don't know much.
Speaker 5: It's on the record as well. It's it's a song
Speaker 5: I have two young kids and they ask a ton
Speaker 5: of questions. Yeah, and I've gone through this phase of
Speaker 5: like in my twenties, I felt like I had to
Speaker 5: have the answered everything all the time, And in my thirties,
Speaker 5: I'm really kind of okay with it. It's okay to
Speaker 5: just say I don't know, right, I'm more and more
Speaker 5: aware of the sense like when people try to tell
Speaker 5: you they do have all the answers everything, to be
Speaker 5: highly skeptical of that. Yes, and so this song is
Speaker 5: about just being able to go through life and being
Speaker 5: okay with not having answered everything.
Speaker 4: Oh, I like it all right.
Speaker 3: It seems like this life face.
Speaker 6: Getting rd about the day, people trying to figure.
Speaker 3: Out how.
Speaker 2: It got to be this way, because in the sage
Speaker 2: of information, the facts.
Speaker 3: Seems so passive.
Speaker 2: I'm standing with my mouth a gape, can't find those
Speaker 2: words to say. So I don't know much, and that's okay.
Speaker 2: I'm just hoping it's enough to give me through the day.
Speaker 2: Some pass lead back where they begin going in circles.
Speaker 2: It can drive you mad. There's a few things I
Speaker 2: know for sure. The rest I'm still searching for the sun.
Speaker 2: It's gonna rise each day and your love for me
Speaker 2: will never face. You love for me will never face.
Speaker 2: And I've got a few friends who have carried me
Speaker 2: on this road and they couldn't give a rip about
Speaker 2: the stuff I think I know, because we're all just
Speaker 2: grown up kids trying to figure this life out and
Speaker 2: being honest about them madness of Clara our Dows.
Speaker 6: I don't know much and that's okay. I'm just hoping
Speaker 6: it's enough to give me through the day.
Speaker 2: Some pass lead back where they be again.
Speaker 6: When circles, it can drive you mad. There's a few
Speaker 6: things I know for sure. The rest I'm still searching for.
Speaker 8: The sun is gonna rise each day, and you love
Speaker 8: for me will never face. You laugh for me will
Speaker 8: never face.
Speaker 6: I don't know much, and that's okay. I'm just hoping
Speaker 6: it enough to give it through today.
Speaker 2: Some paz lead back where they begain go in circles.
Speaker 6: It can drive you men.
Speaker 2: There's a few things I know for sure, And the
Speaker 2: rest I'm still searching for.
Speaker 8: The sun is gonnariz each day, and you love for
Speaker 8: me will never faced. You love for me will never fade.
Speaker 4: Oh I love that. I love that. What a great song.
Speaker 4: If you're just joining us Matt Litzinger is here with us,
Speaker 4: live in studio. What's that one called a gun?
Speaker 5: I don't know much.
Speaker 4: I don't know much. Great great song, great song. You're
Speaker 4: getting some love. In the chat room to Tom Russo,
Speaker 4: who's been on the show a few times, very very
Speaker 4: talented musician, says sounds great, nice lyrics, great voice and song.
Speaker 4: Thanks absolutely, and by the way, I owe you an
Speaker 4: email and I will get back to you, I promise.
Speaker 4: Dj Steve, also in the chat room, says, good morning
Speaker 4: Matt and Jenny. I am really enjoying this. Thank you sir,
Speaker 4: Thank you Dj Steve. Let's see, Yes, we do have
Speaker 4: Matt Litzinger live and studio with us, and we've been
Speaker 4: he's been playing some songs from that one's on the
Speaker 4: album too, I assume, right.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: For those watching online the video component of the show,
Speaker 4: let me hold this up again for everybody. This is
Speaker 4: the album Keep It Burning, full length album from Matt Litzinger.
Speaker 3: This is all.
Speaker 4: This is all online too, right. People can get this.
Speaker 5: Online all the streaming services.
Speaker 4: Excellent, excellent, And what went into the decision to make
Speaker 4: physical copies too? Because not everyone does, although it seems
Speaker 4: like lately most of the guests that we have are
Speaker 4: are doing CDs. There was a period of time where
Speaker 4: it seemed like no one was doing CDs, and then
Speaker 4: now everyone is, which is great, great to see if
Speaker 4: some people are even releasing vinyl. But what went into
Speaker 4: the decision to release a physical copy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so part of it was that I did a
Speaker 5: Kickstarter campaign and so just having some type of physical
Speaker 5: reward for it felt important. Yeah, And people took me
Speaker 5: up on that quite a bit too. Just kind of
Speaker 5: have like assigned even if it's just memorabilia and you
Speaker 5: never like open the cellophane to it, right, Just having
Speaker 5: that people really like that. And at live shows too,
Speaker 5: like being able to go away, like I like this
Speaker 5: experience and I want to take something home with me
Speaker 5: from it.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: I don't even know how many people really have CD players.
Speaker 5: Like my vehicle doesn't have a CD player in it, Yeah,
Speaker 5: truck does. My old it's like a two thousand and six,
Speaker 5: but like my newer card doesn't have a CD player.
Speaker 4: Right. Right, way back when people were predicting the total
Speaker 4: death of CDs, I think what kind of kept CDs
Speaker 4: going was to a large degree, just you know, people
Speaker 4: still having CD players in their cars, and of course
Speaker 4: new cars now don't have them. But I think you're
Speaker 4: right too. People like having a physical copy, you know,
Speaker 4: especially if you're a big fan of somebody, and yeah,
Speaker 4: most of them probably, you know, they may not ever
Speaker 4: open it. They just want to have it to support
Speaker 4: you and to support your work. And that's my theory
Speaker 4: with vinyl too, because I think even fewer people have
Speaker 4: record players, but vinyl is well, I think I think
Speaker 4: twenty twenty, it was either twenty two or twenty three,
Speaker 4: was the first year that that vinyl it actually outsold
Speaker 4: CDs A chart for that, yeah, yeah, And I'm convinced
Speaker 4: that most people who purchase vinyl never open it, you know,
Speaker 4: they just if you're really a fan of an artist,
Speaker 4: you know, because you know who has a I mean
Speaker 4: some people have record players obviously, but but I think
Speaker 4: most people, yeah, they purchase it and they don't open it.
Speaker 4: They just want to have it. And if you're really
Speaker 4: a big fan of somebody, it makes sense to do that.
Speaker 4: Certainly for a part of.
Speaker 5: It might be self serving too, because I've always liked
Speaker 5: listening to full records. Yeah, and like I think that
Speaker 5: just goes back to like, was your only way to
Speaker 5: listen to things before before Spotify would recommend things after
Speaker 5: you listen to a track. So I like sitting especially
Speaker 5: from a songwriter perspective, how'd you sequence this? Like how
Speaker 5: do these songs tell a story together?
Speaker 4: I love that?
Speaker 5: And then being able to look at the liner notes,
Speaker 5: especially yes, like we all miss out on that now.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, especially when Yeah, when I was a kid,
Speaker 4: I used to love listening to I've been looking at
Speaker 4: liner notes when I'd get a new CD. Yeah, just
Speaker 4: you know, seeing what inf you know, pre internet, just
Speaker 4: seeing what information I could glean from just from the
Speaker 4: liner notes, you know, which usually wasn't much. But if
Speaker 4: I was a really big fan of somebody, just anybody,
Speaker 4: I could you know, oh who was the uh engineer
Speaker 4: on on this? You know, you know, just any little
Speaker 4: bit of information, you know. But I'm a very curious
Speaker 4: person anyway, So anything I could learn from liner notes
Speaker 4: was great. Yeah, so that's excellent. Is this your first?
Speaker 4: Is this your first physical release this disc? Yes?
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, yeah, so this would be the first. I
Speaker 5: made some like, you know, very homemade copies of early stuff,
Speaker 5: but this would be the first like professional release.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, no, that's excellent. You know, it's funny. Back
Speaker 4: when I first so there was a span of time
Speaker 4: when I first started interviewing musicians on radio shows and podcasts.
Speaker 4: There was a span of time where, like I said,
Speaker 4: nobody was really releasing CDs, but people would still give me.
Speaker 4: People would actually give me music on their CD instead
Speaker 4: of doing it like now where you just email your
Speaker 4: music to somebody. People would actually give me music for
Speaker 4: the show on a CD that wouldn't be that would
Speaker 4: not be professionally produced, and it would I couldn't even
Speaker 4: count the number of times someone would hand me a
Speaker 4: CD on their finger, you know what I mean, like
Speaker 4: like no case, no case. That would happen a lot,
Speaker 4: and it was always like, really, this is how you're
Speaker 4: giving this to me?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: They'd write on it with the sharpie what it was
Speaker 4: and then hand you know, here's the CD for the
Speaker 4: you know you need this for the show, right, It's like, yeah, thanks.
Speaker 4: We actually have a CD player here. I think Rob
Speaker 4: is uh yeah, Rob has a veto from Grandit state
Speaker 4: of mind. I think he's the only one who actually
Speaker 4: uses it. I've never used it, but we do have
Speaker 4: a functioning CD player here. But no it's I think
Speaker 4: it's cool that you're doing that, and I like, now
Speaker 4: you mentioned too, I think this was off air you
Speaker 4: mentioned this. Your wife is a graphic artist.
Speaker 5: She is, Yeah, does she do all the artwork? So yeah,
Speaker 5: I had a my friend who's a photographer, Rebecca Scatting,
Speaker 5: did all the photography inside and out, and then my
Speaker 5: wife did the layout and all the design work.
Speaker 4: Okay, excellent, Yeah, yeah, no, that's great. That's great. And
Speaker 4: you brought us a couple of stickers too, which is good.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you mentioned your wife made those. Jenny loves stickers,
Speaker 4: as you can see from the back of her computer.
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 6: We have time.
Speaker 4: You want to play one more, I'd love to. Okay,
Speaker 4: awesome if you're just joining us, we have Matt listeninger
Speaker 4: here with us live in studio. What are you gonna play? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So this is an older one. It's not on the album.
Speaker 5: It's called time Turner. So there's an old family story
Speaker 5: of playing board games and somebody asking someone to turn
Speaker 5: that little sand timer. It started this song idea in
Speaker 5: my head of like man, time slips away, and we've
Speaker 5: got a lot of songs about that. But how do
Speaker 5: I write it from this like appealing to a higher
Speaker 5: power to say, like, hey, can I just get a
Speaker 5: little bit more time? Can you slow this down a
Speaker 5: little bit? So it's a song about that, all right.
Speaker 2: Time turning on? She turned the time a little more slowly.
Speaker 2: I've been wasting my time today.
Speaker 6: Oh please, won't you have just a little pity because
Speaker 6: I could? There was a little time my way.
Speaker 11: And and time turner, won't you lend me your ear
Speaker 11: for a moment?
Speaker 6: That's why I can plead my case to you.
Speaker 2: Seems like I'm always running in circles a bird, and
Speaker 2: it's heavy in my.
Speaker 6: Moments a few.
Speaker 11: Time turner, won't you.
Speaker 6: Tell me when my time is over?
Speaker 8: Maybe I can still leave my mark.
Speaker 2: Greatest fear is waste all my time for my life
Speaker 2: fades in.
Speaker 5: To dark.
Speaker 2: And time turn on? Won't you turn the time a
Speaker 2: little more slowly? I've been wasting my time today.
Speaker 4: I think that one's my favorite.
Speaker 5: Oh thank you?
Speaker 4: Very relatable, too, very relatable. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4: Matt Listener here with us alive in studio. That's uh,
Speaker 4: when when did you write that that? You said that
Speaker 4: one an early one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that one's from probably back in two thousand twelve.
Speaker 4: Okay, oh wow, wow, yeah, very good, very good. Have
Speaker 4: you ever recorded that one?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's on an EP called Up in the Woods EP?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, outstanding. What do you have this weekend? Do
Speaker 4: you have any shows this weekend?
Speaker 5: Nope? Next one I have is in December and Planet
Speaker 5: two share.
Speaker 4: Oh, very good.
Speaker 5: End of the month. I think it's a twenty seventh okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: so it's I'm taking a.
Speaker 4: Little break during the winter. Do you kind of hibernate
Speaker 4: a little bit too and focus on writing and recording
Speaker 4: or do you still play.
Speaker 5: Especially I try to do that February project where I
Speaker 5: do a songwriting project. Oh Yeahbruary, because it's just the darkest,
Speaker 5: like depressing part of the year. It's like you might
Speaker 5: as well produce something out of it, you.
Speaker 4: Know, yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah, I notice a lot of
Speaker 4: people kind of plus, you know, going and playing shows
Speaker 4: in the winter is hard because you never know what
Speaker 4: the weather's gonna do, and a lot of things experience here.
Speaker 4: It's cold and flu season, all of it, all of it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: is summer kind of your busiest time as far as playing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And it's just seeing people seem to have fun. Yeah,
Speaker 5: the summer too, you know they enjoy live music more. Yeah,
Speaker 5: like it seems like it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, absolutely, absolutely so we while speaking the time,
Speaker 4: I'm thinking about closing the segment with this year another
Speaker 4: one of your great studio tracks that you sent us.
Speaker 4: So it seems appropriate since you just seems like it
Speaker 4: might relate in some way to the song you just played. So,
Speaker 4: but what should people know about? Where to find you online?
Speaker 4: How to keep up with everything that you're doing? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Sure, so I get a profile on Spotify just mattlet Singer,
Speaker 5: and then my website mattlet Singer music dot Com is
Speaker 5: where I usually try to put everything. Yeah, redesigning it.
Speaker 5: So it should be redesigned in the next week or so.
Speaker 5: It's very very close to being done.
Speaker 3: Oh cool.
Speaker 5: I think the last time it was redone was twenty ten.
Speaker 4: Oh really? Yeah? Oh wow? Do you do all at yourself?
Speaker 5: I do yes, as my day job. I'm a web developer.
Speaker 4: Oh no kidding? Yeah, oh very good, yeah, excellent, excellent,
Speaker 4: So we will will close out. Oh you should spell
Speaker 4: your last name too, sure?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so last name l I t z I n
Speaker 5: G e er.
Speaker 4: It's actually well, you know, it's funny. It's it's obviously
Speaker 4: not a common last name, but it is spelled pretty
Speaker 4: much the way you would expect it today, which is
Speaker 4: I think so people struggle with my last name all
Speaker 4: the time. Connorton is very unusual and uh people people
Speaker 4: misspell it.
Speaker 5: But a lot of Matts though, a lot of mats
Speaker 5: never a minister in area where there's not another match?
Speaker 4: Are there a lot of Litzingers?
Speaker 5: You know, I've met hardly any? Yeah, which is funny
Speaker 5: because online I compete with two other Mattlets singers. One's
Speaker 5: a real litor and one's in like creative ad buying.
Speaker 5: Oh no kidding, Yeah, so like its se o value.
Speaker 5: There's some out there, but I've never met a lot
Speaker 5: in real life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, definitely. Uh, definitely a rare name, but that's good.
Speaker 4: A rare name, you have less chance of somebody popping
Speaker 4: up and saying, hey, I'm also a musician with this
Speaker 4: name and I was doing it before you and you
Speaker 4: know and everything that goes with that. So so that's
Speaker 4: that's definitely an advantage. But we will close out with
Speaker 4: this great track. This is called This Year from Matt
Speaker 4: Litz Singer and Matt thank you again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 4: You got it.
Speaker 3: I'm looking up.
Speaker 10: It.
Speaker 3: Swip the monsters out from under my bed. I'm moving
Speaker 3: on from what might have been.
Speaker 9: I'm getting ready to shift this skin.
Speaker 3: All this time that I've wasted, it's.
Speaker 2: Given me a reason to say, this year, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do things different.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna see the hard things to my gaze has said,
Speaker 3: and I'm not gonnaway. I'll be standing here.
Speaker 6: It's true.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to do it better this year. Just
Speaker 3: wait and see.
Speaker 2: I'll take you by surprise. This new me is more
Speaker 2: than just theop. Guys, it's all me. Once, give yourself
Speaker 2: some graties, if not for some of your mistakes. Each
Speaker 2: year's a brand new start. It's given me a reason
Speaker 2: to say, this year, I'm gonna do things different, gonna
Speaker 2: see the hard things go what Jesus said, and I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna waver.
Speaker 3: I'll be stand and hear it's true. This year. I'm
Speaker 3: done with the excuses.
Speaker 6: But ket me shackle for too long.
Speaker 2: I'll reached a point where I was down for the count,
Speaker 2: but I'll live to see a new day.
Speaker 3: Darn.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna try to do it better this year. This
Speaker 2: cold weather in store for the Northeast, I might.
Speaker 3: Not see the sun for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 10: Maybe I won't do all the things I set out
Speaker 10: to do, but I'll take a few steps.
Speaker 3: And I'll go a little too, Because.
Speaker 2: This year I'm gonna do things different. I'm gonna see
Speaker 2: the hard things through. My caze is said, and I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna wait.
Speaker 3: I'll be standing here. It's true.
Speaker 2: This year round done with the excuses they ken me
Speaker 2: shackle for to law. I reached a point where I
Speaker 2: was down for the counber. I lived to see a
Speaker 2: new day dawn.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna try to do it better. Lord, I hope
Speaker 9: I do better this year.
Speaker 6: This year,
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