00:00It's very frustrating. I mean, it's just, it's, it's like you're kind of just riding the roller coaster of it. And I, and I, I love, I love every aspect of it. I love, like, I love the 10 hour drive to Iowa to play for 20 people. And that's kind of, I'm like kind of a sicko for that, I feel like, but like, I, it feels very romantic to me. And it's fresh, the financial side can definitely be frustrating. The, the social media side can be frustrating.
00:27Um, there's, it's just, it's so easy to compare yourself to your peers, um, and, uh, and like be your own worst critic. And that can be good sometimes. And that can also get you in a, in a hole emotionally. It's, that's, uh, not healthy, but ultimately I, I love the journey. And I think the journey is part of what makes a career, um, flourish.
00:54And like, well, like watching a guy like Tyler Childers and he just released like his seventh album or so. And I just like, was almost in tears listening to it. Cause I was just like, you can't make this record without making like the six records before it. And I was just like, how cool is it going to be? Like, like, I have no idea what my seventh record is going to look like. Cause I have to go through so much more life and experience to even like get to what that's going to be.
01:24Um, but at the same time, it's extremely frustrating. Um, but at the same time, it's extremely frustrating to have no money.
01:29I don't think Idle ever advertises that they are going to, that you're going to leave with a career. I think they, they advertise that you're going to leave with more opportunity than you walked in with. And I think that, that is very true. Um, uh, and like you and true for me.
01:52And, and I think, I think true for however far you get on the show, it's more than what you walked in with most likely. If you get any airtime, sometimes you don't get airtime and you just leave with the experience of like going to Hollywood week and meeting other like artists that are in the same stage as you. Um, but I, I never expected Idle or really wanted Idle to, to make my career necessarily.
02:18I, I, um, fully expected to, to have to do that, um, on my own. And, and, and that's kind of, that's kind of what, I mean, it's, it is like there, it's tough sometimes to like, to come from the show and then you go to play for 20 people in Iowa.
02:35And like the, those are, those are, those are different, uh, those are different feelings. Like the, um, the amount of people that are, uh, just, just the magnitude of it is, is kind of like, it's so stark. Um, but if, if the music is like, is the goal, then, um, then all of that is just kind of, kind of part of it. I have no, like, I don't think Idle doesn't like hold up their end of the deal at all.
03:00I think they, they do exactly what they advertise and they're, they're really awesome at it. Um, and, and they're so kind, like afterwards and like, they, they want to help out artists, but at the end of the day, an artist has to, has to do their job.
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