You're gonna do, you know, you, th- this is what's next." Like, what was that like?

Yeah.

Well, I, I think it was just sort of the next logical step, you know? Like, I didn't really want to...

It's just, it's just tough to get out there and tour, right? 'Cause you lose a lot of money.

And so I've, I'm, I'm just very much a business owner first, and so, which is also, like, kind of a superpower that I've ha- that I have as an artist is, like, I'm such a business owner, and if I wasn't singing, I'd be running some other business, you know? And so, but, like, so I'd been...

I, I put out my first song in 2020, um, during, during COVID, Au- August of 2020.

My second song in October of 2020 went, like, viral on TikTok.

Yeah

But it's just, sometimes I feel like people feel awkward to ask the questions, but similar to what your publicist was saying, like, is this not the perfect opportunity to grow? and learn and it's all right here it's

good to talk with someone that understands it exactly which i don't i don't know anybody else in real life that has a child that has like autism you know which i don't and so it's it's like difficult because i feel like before i did which Side note, like, he's the best, first of all.

100%.

Like, the best.

And I was such a, I was a, like, single dad.

My, like, wife and I didn't live together until we were married.

And so, we've been living together now for two months.

my my like with not having cassie involved

Yeah.

Yeah.Yeah, it helps put things in perspective- Yeah [laughs] ... for sure.

But that's like the, like the, like goal, right? It's like- Yeah ...

that's what I f- when I first came to, came to town and we were like talk about, you know, earlier about how like, dude, I...

It, you know, now my like goal is not even to get a gold record, it's to get to 500 million streams, a half a billion streams and not, and not like have one.

Because I want to- 'Cause it's like so cool ... because, because I w- I would like wanna be able to do this for 30 years.

Yeah.

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