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00:00Her name is Julianne. Hello, Miss Julianne. Nice to meet you. Does she work? She does work.
00:04You want me to play it, don't you? Okay. Wait, I need you to play it. I need it.
00:10Hey, everyone, and welcome to Real Talk, where it gets hot, spicy, and to the drama.
00:14Today, we have Luke Charles-Strafford, the star of Accidental Surrogate for Alpha.
00:19Luke, thank you so much for coming back. I'm so excited for this episode, especially because
00:25I've been stalking your music a little bit, and it's so good. I cry. I get emotional. I can't
00:30wait to hear about it. Thank you so much. I'm very humbled to be here in any capacity,
00:35and I'm grateful you listened to my music. Yeah. That's huge. Oh, my gosh. Yeah,
00:39I stalked a little bit. I know the fans do, too. So tell me a little bit about your background.
00:45How long have you been doing music slash what were your influences growing up?
00:49Sure. Well, I started in music before. It was always acting and music, but music is where I
00:55very, very first started. I started on the saxophone in middle school. Before the saxophone
01:04creeped in, I was so moved by film scores, which was a big inspiration, and the way that
01:12an artist could make a group of people feel in a room. I have a list of artists I can tell
01:17you, but just that on a bass level hit me. I think I said this in our last episode, but
01:24to call it back real quick, music struck me early on. I was in band. I was in choir.
01:31I was in those things, and the fact that something about music could steal someone's attention,
01:36and it was this language that we all spoke. Even when we all speak different dialects and
01:43tongues and languages, we're all so different. But music is this thing that we all speak.
01:48And feel. You know? Exactly. It's fun. It's like, oh, we feeling it. Exactly. Or you
01:54get goosebumps on your arm because it's like, you know? So, yeah. Anyway, that's where it
01:59started for me. What made you choose wind instruments?
02:05Yeah. So, I think also, like I said in the last podcast, I had a rough start. Really wanted
02:11to act. Really wanted to sing and song write. I saw myself doing both.
02:15Yeah. And I had a really bad first audition. As we do.
02:20Middle school. I was so scared. I just yelled the notes. I share a little bit more about
02:25that in the last episode. So, go watch that out. My brother was in high school. He's five
02:30years older. He was in the marching band. He was playing saxophone. And I was told I was
02:35tone deaf right after that hilarious moment or horrible moment. And so, what I probably would
02:41have, this is kind of interesting, what would have been the next probably 10 years of singing
02:47and, you know, the stuff I'm doing now, got instead diverted and poured into the saxophone.
02:54Okay.
02:55The saxophone became my voice.
02:56Okay. And was this inspired from your brother because he was playing?
03:00Mm-hmm. Yeah. Seeing him in the marching band was very competitive. It was like a-
03:05Oh.
03:05Is it?
03:06Marching band?
03:07Yeah. Marching band.
03:08What's marching? Okay. So, I'm from New York.
03:10Okay.
03:11And I never, we never had that.
03:14Yeah.
03:14And I always see it in movies. And I'm like, that's so fun. Like the outfits and everything.
03:18Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:19I just, I don't have that. So, what was marching band like? If you could clip note that for me.
03:25It's like a huge sport, especially if you were good.
03:28Okay.
03:28You were competing, always competitive for state. We were one of the best, right? So, it was taken
03:33very seriously. The same way that you see like really highly competitive sports, there was that
03:37element to it.
03:38Okay.
03:39Right? But it was also so epic in that you're with this group of people for just a few months,
03:45putting together a show to try to win a title across your state. And it was always very,
03:52we were lucky. We had a very strong music program. And just, it was so formative for me because
03:58it was also one of my first ways as a teenager that I began to express myself musically. And it
04:05was, again, it's instrumental. So, it's all emotion, no words. And so, that was, those were some very
04:10formative years. But the saxophone was what I chose in place of really pursuing singing and
04:18songwriting.
04:19Okay. So, what else was your musical inspiration growing up to make you, outside of just doing
04:25saxophone land, what made you kind of get into, I actually kind of want to be the singer and I want
04:32to actually produce and make the whole thing happen.
04:34There's so much to it. Early years being in bands. Let me go a little further back.
04:39Oh, so you were in bands. You've done so much. Yeah. So, you were in band, band, like school
04:45band. And then you had like your own band, like a little like. Well, I would join different bands
04:49of groups and they'd want a saxophonist. Oh, so you would be the traveling soldier.
04:53Yeah. And they're like, this group, this band needs a saxophonist. Okay. And then as I started
04:58developing my singing voice, then they would say, and you can sing back up to blah, blah, blah.
05:02See, so it was always yanking me out of my shell, but in my heart, I always knew it was like, man,
05:06I feel like I'm supposed to be out there, you know? Anyway, and so, but just to go back a little
05:15bit, artists like Elvis stuck out to me the way he would, just his charisma stuck out to me the way
05:25he was able to hold a certain level of musical excellence, but also like yank people in. I mentioned
05:30film scores. Film scores always stuck out to me because you can move someone. I still,
05:37if I'm working on something and need like background music, I'll put on John Williams or.
05:41What's your favorite score? Well, I know everyone knows I'm a Superman fan. I really
05:46love John Williams' Superman score. Very hopeful. And then I loved Hans Zimmer's take on Superman
05:51with Man of Steel. I just loved it. It made me feel hope and like purpose and those are great.
05:58And then the Interstellar score for Hans Zimmer as well, just always takes me to a place of
06:04introspection. Those really all stick out to me. But then the Gladiator score, bro.
06:09New or old?
06:11The original.
06:11Okay. Yeah.
06:13We Are Free, the track We Are Free from.
06:17Yeah. It's like, yeah.
06:18That's it.
06:19Yeah. Game over.
06:20Game over. Like stuff like that. So those all stuck out to me. And then being in bands
06:27and choirs and things like that, I was so deeply affected by how music is, again, this language
06:32that can cause us to just the power of it. I think if anyone has experienced music or loves
06:37music or found the music you love, you know what I'm talking about. Like it's this language
06:41that drives us and moves us. It's not a mathematic. We use math to end music to better become skillful,
06:48to execute. But the whole point of something musical is to emote. It's to cause and disrupt
06:55with emotion or to bring in motion, whether it's sweet or strong or angry or soft. It's
07:01amazing how you can encompass every human emotion in a sound. And then you apply, even
07:08if I did a cover, why do I sound different?
07:12Right.
07:13Even if I'm singing it exactly how someone else did it. So the fact that even singers, the
07:17tone and the timbre, there's just all these unique combinations. Why does when Carrie Underwood
07:21sings it, it feels like this. But when Andre Bocelli or Shawn Mendes or sings the same thing
07:28or Justin Bieber does, pick your genre, pick category, pick whatever. Music is this, it's
07:35not an algorithm. It's an emotion. And every time we try to capture how to harness the power
07:40of it, we're surprised by something we didn't expect. It's this elusive muse I feel like we're
07:46always chasing musically. Just the power of music in general.
07:49Right.
07:50Being highly philosophical. But it's just that that always caught me, that part.
07:54Mm-hmm.
07:54And then I love to watch different, there's different, you know, when you're doing anything
08:00in acting or music, you're stealing from people. Like, I love the way Shawn Mendes does a show.
08:06Mm-hmm.
08:07It's the energy he brings. So I take the film score world of that raw emotion that's unspoken,
08:14the voice of, I love David Phelps, I love his voice. He's a kind of unknown guy who has
08:19this the most brilliant voice. The energy of Elvis, the pop charisma of doing a show
08:25like Shawn. And you take the things you love, and you start to find yourself. You start to
08:29find your sound.
08:30Yeah. They're inspiring you.
08:32They're inspiring me. And so I light up, like, my music is very cinematic. It's pop music
08:41with an overtone of cinematic sounds, like strings and orchestra mixed into, like, the pop rock
08:48star type band setting, led by big lots of voices. Even if it's stripped down to just
08:56a piano and a voice, or it's huge and magical. If I strip back the layers, I see all those
09:02influences somewhere.
09:03Mm-hmm.
09:04I see the film scores that has influenced me as a kid.
09:07Yeah.
09:07I see Elvis's charisma that has made me want to hold on to using real instruments at times.
09:12I've seen, you know, Shawn Mendes' The Way He Does Stuff. You know, that all has, and many
09:20countless other artists, too, or songs I could keep going, but that's, I think, how you kind
09:25of figure out your sound. And then also not putting a period. You want to put a comma.
09:30You never want to feel like you have sung your best note. You have delivered your best monologue.
09:35You have performed your best song or written your best opus. You want to always put a comma.
09:39Yeah. Because you always, there's a, there's a better song out there.
09:43Yeah. And there's always more to you.
09:45Yeah. Like something I had just learned at this stage of life is how vision-based most
09:52of my stuff is. Like, um, uh, my first single I released is called Still Missing You. It's
09:58pop, but the music video is all narrative. Like it's acting heavy. And there's a story and I,
10:06the story erupted out of me where, anyway, I can keep going. I can tell you how it happened,
10:12but it's very narrative. Well, that's another question I have,
10:14actually, is if you could go into a little bit about your personal sound and your personal
10:18story and, and just how, what made you get this story out? Like, what was it for you?
10:25Uh, man, we can just nerd out forever. I feel like I'm going to sit here and just-
10:29Yeah, that's, that's what we're doing.
10:30We'll be here until tomorrow. Uh, so if you're hanging with us, thank you so much for being
10:34here. Um, I have, a lot of my answers are the same as I said, when you asked me about
10:40acting, they're really the same. Okay.
10:42Think about it. Human issue, human stuff that I know I've been through, but then I know it's
10:49like, that's a message in my soul that I got to share because it's personal. I also believe
10:55in trying, I did this when I started and it didn't work. Here's what I think people will
10:59like. That's the wrong way to go.
11:00Right, right. Of course.
11:01Rick Rubin talks about it. There's a great book by Rick Rubin, uh, who's produced the best
11:05of the best, uh, called The Creative Act. And this is something he says in his book.
11:08It's a great read. I highly encourage you. Any person who has any creativity, uh, we all
11:14actually have creativity, you know, take a lot of creativity to raise some kids, figure
11:18out how to do that. Um, but in creativity, one of the things he says that stuck out to
11:23me was you, you need to love it. Yeah. You need to make it first and foremost because
11:29it resonates with you. It's, you follow what's interesting as you're writing or making something.
11:34You don't like it hits your soul before you start chasing the rabbit of, I have a people
11:40I think would like that or this or like what's popular, what's trending.
11:43You gotta follow the, that's where it feels like it kind of drips down from heaven. I remember
11:49when I wrote Still Missing You, is that okay if I share about that?
11:52Yeah, that's where we're at.
11:54Sick. Okay. I remember I'm at my piano and for me, you know, every songwriter is a little
11:59different and I had to, when you figure out yourself and I'm still doing that, you try
12:05stuff and you start learning about yourself and it's important that you pay attention.
12:09Like I noticed a lot of, you know, when I finally leaned into, I'm going to act, I'm
12:13going to sing and song write. I'm going to, you know, I set the horn down and really pursued
12:17it. I noticed a lot of other songwriters that they would write their words or their lyrics
12:21and I definitely had a affinity for poetry. So a lot of my lyrics tend to be more poetic
12:26than they are. Okay. Uh, that's just my natural flavor.
12:30Like wordy? Yeah. Yeah. More like emotional.
12:32Yeah. Like it's painting a picture using narrative and all that. That's honest. It has to be honest.
12:39Yeah. Versus like just some lyrics can be, and this is great too. It's just a sentence
12:44that is not like you take one of the sentences I just said and you make a lyric.
12:47Or that like sounds poppy or, you know, sometimes when you listen to a song and you're like,
12:52oh, I feel like I love this song. And then you look up the lyrics and you're like, really?
12:57That's, that's what you're saying. Okay.
12:58Like the, the, the chorus for still missing you is intertwined heart and mind. I'm still
13:03missing you. Peace of mind lost in time. I'm still missing you. Right. Like there's a message
13:10there. There's a little poetic, poeticism for me. I found as much as I tried the, the lyrics
13:17don't come first. Oh, the emotion, the raw emotion for me. And then, so you find that out
13:22and you lean in. Right. So is that then like the raw emotion of like a story, like for
13:27you miss what you're talking about? Was that maybe like, you felt like you wanted to get
13:31this story out and all this emotion about missing this human?
13:34You're going to love this. I hope you love this. So I'm sitting at my piano.
13:37Oh gosh. And I'm just sitting there feeling the feeling of loss itself. I'm reflecting a bit
13:47on specific. And this is what's specific. So this is literally the substratum of still
13:52missing you. For example, a particular kind of loss where it's not coming back. If you're
14:00fired from your job, it can be painful, but you'll get another job. Right. But if you lose
14:04a father, you see how it's different. Yeah. They're not. And, and specifically the void
14:09of it's not returning that kind of like it's gone. It's gone. There's no hope left for
14:15Al that hurt. I'm missing that. Let me go do this in replace of no, no, no, no. The type
14:21of loss that we've all felt where like when a mother loses a child, heaven forbid, or you
14:27have a parent die and it's, you have the funeral, you do all this stuff, but then there's the
14:34weeks and months to follow. And it's just, they're really, they're actually gone. That
14:38loss. I'm sitting at my piano, sitting in that. You were just feeling that. For a million
14:45reasons. Cause I was in the middle of, um, my aunt was about to pass. And then I was
14:56reflecting on some really horrible breaks up breakups I've had in my life. I was reflecting
15:01on my childhood just being gone. I know it's stuff like that. Yeah. Reflecting on things
15:06that are not coming back. And I was just sitting there in that pocket, exiting the present moment
15:12and sitting in that pocket of, of loss and knowing I'm about to say goodbye to my aunt
15:17just a myriad of things. And I take my right hand and I hit a minor six. And then I go, the perfect
15:30fifth is a sign of hope. It's, it's the feeling of hope. And a lot of musicians would kind of
15:35say like bum, bum, bum, one, five. I went bum, bum, bum. D major bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
15:52And I just remember sitting there and I immediately felt what I was feeling. So it's a sound first
15:56for me. I'm like, I need a happy chord. A major bum, bum, bum, E bum, bum, bum, bum. And that
16:08was the chorus. Intertwined heart and mind. I'm still missing you. It was. Oh shit. Boom.
16:19Peace of mind. Lost in time. Hey, I'm still missing E. Oh, we got it. So that's right.
16:29Oh my gosh. So cool. Right. And so, cause then the lyrics are then reflective of that feeling
16:35for me. So it is like intertwined heart and mind. When you lose a loved one, they're gone
16:39forever, but they live in you. My childhood is gone, but that Lucas, little blonde head Lucas
16:45is still in there somewhere. Yeah. It's that thing. And that's where I think I really
16:49geeking out. That's what music does. It's like, I, there is hope in it somewhere. Whatever
16:57you've lost that is not returning. When my dad passes, when my mom passes, when this time
17:02of us working a real short passes one day, no time soon, no time soon. Knocking. But you
17:09know, we'll reflect on it. Right. And a bit of it stays with us. Yeah. That's the beauty
17:15of humanity. And so still missing you. I chose those chords as a result, minor chords,
17:19chord sad, D7, A major, a quick happy thing with a perfect fifth. So it made it maintain
17:27a feel. There's a little smidge of hope in there. And you're intertwining the different
17:31feelings of the sounds too. Yeah. It's like all of it's like knitted. And I love the word
17:37intertwined because it means like, I'm still intertwined with my childhood. I'm still intertwined
17:42with my, the beast. I'm sitting on this chair is about to break. Cause as I'm sitting here,
17:48you're hearing my dad out of my mouth. You're hearing my aunt out of my mouth. You're hearing
17:51my mom out of my mouth. Every now and again, my uncle or my, some of my best friends I've
17:56had that you'll hear them come out of my mouth. We are a conglomerate of the experiences we've
18:00had. So still missing you was harnessing that feeling. So for me, even though the song is
18:05about heartbreaking loss, it's sitting in the void of that loss, feeling the pain of that loss,
18:10but there's still this smidgen of hope. And that's where it erupted from. And then I wrote
18:15the verses. And then I wrote the bridge. And then I applied all the musical juice of all
18:20the influences I just said. I love stacked vocals. I love a big fat ad lib. I think it's great
18:28that when artists who can't sing super well make songs, I love that. Cause they're really
18:33catchy songs, but for me and my stuff, I'm like, I want the vocals to be so great. I want it to be
18:38led with a good voice. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I want there to be a pre voice and whatever is in me to
18:44use, you know? And so that's a big part. I want the music to be lush. Can we keep that raw musical
18:50power and put it in the world of pop, apply cinema to it. Right. Um, anyway. Yeah. So that's where
18:59still missing you came from. Okay. It's got this narrative that I actually, so I directed the
19:04music video. I wrote this story for the music video based on that little moment, the piano I
19:09told you about. And it turned into this whole film. And anyway, you should watch this sometime.
19:16Well, I think we actually are going to watch it right now.
19:24Ooh, it's a drone. Oh, and that sign is not. Where is this? Is this? It's in the middle of the
19:30desert going to Vegas. Oh man. Oh, of course the bike had to make an appearance. So he's revisiting
19:40all the old spots. Yeah. It's sad. Oh, Lukey. We've, God, we've all been there. Go get her.
19:52Oh yeah. Oh, you're having the moment. The moment's coming. Come on, get her. There. Yeah.
20:02Oh, is that really you writing? It's me. Oh my gosh. Of course it is. Oh wait. And there's
20:12water seeds. Oh my gosh. She better be there. Oh damn. He has the last text he ever got from
20:23her. Oh my God. My knees are shaking. I was very, I wanted this whole long drunk.
20:32Oh my gosh. Great job. Thank you. Artique, man. He does it all. Actor, director, musician
20:45of all sorts. Like, okay. You do everything. Well, uh, so just little, the song that just
20:53came out. Um, so I did direct that music video. I did, I did write the music video shot for
20:58shot. Um, and, uh, I could tell you, there's a lot I could tell you about how this was shot.
21:03It was genuinely a miracle because I was nearly broke. Uh, it was just, this was in the middle
21:08of the desert. I almost passed out because it was so hot and we found a green sign that
21:13said a campground. And that green sign is actually a buddy of mine who does CGI. Okay.
21:18Ode me a favor. Yeah. Yeah. Lots of owed favors in Hollywood.
21:22So I rented a drone and the drone was about to die. And so the very first shot I ever saw
21:28on my noggin before I even knew the story, I just kept seeing this image in my head of
21:33zooming through desert with a mountain in the background, which is ironic that that happened
21:38past a sign that says LA 143, 143 meaning I love you. And, and I kept seeing that in my
21:46head. And that was the first thing I ever saw about the music video. And then I don't know
21:50why this happened this way, but I kept just the music video kept coming to me in pieces.
21:55Yeah. And I would, it was always when I was riding my motorcycle around. So we wrote it
22:00riding Roxanne and just kind of, and then I would think flashback he's gone. Oh, and she
22:06fades away. And why is she gone? They had an argument. That's the bridge. I do ring. They
22:14were engaged. Like it kept coming to me that he was going to propose and she's gone. And
22:18immediately I was riding my bike and I was passing a gas station and I needed the finale.
22:23I need to figure out how it ended and like, okay, she's gone. And then I knew I wanted the
22:28close eye key change, go get her. I kept saying, I wanted him to jet it. I wanted him to run after
22:34her. And then the whole classic motorcycle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then I was riding and I was on
22:41my way home and I pass a gas station and I think I need to get gas. And for some reason I thought
22:48love really is about the little things in it. It's about the little moments. The big moments are
22:53great, but it's really like the little stuff, the little handshake they had, the dancing in the
23:00living room, right? The whatever. And then it struck me. She's dead. It just hit me. Yeah.
23:07She died. And then I got flooded with the rest of it. And then I called Adam, my DP, and
23:13we just did, it was just him and I, we did the whole thing. Yeah. Pulled a favor in to
23:18use someone's apartment. I had to, I had a Nat Gonzalez who was a student at the time
23:25helped me for free doing all the extra pickup shots I needed and we put it together and that's
23:31what we got. I rented a studio to do the underwater stuff. I had so much chlorine in my eyes. It
23:37was ridiculous. Anyway. So just a little that just came out. Uh, the song is a, is a sequel.
23:44Okay. So I have a whole music video that's already written. Oh, that are you planning on
23:48shooting it soon? And so I can't say what happens, but it is a sequel to that. Oh, everybody
23:53get excited. So the story goes on. Okay. It will be a direct sequel from this moment. Oh my gosh.
24:00I'm so excited. I'm so excited about what we're going to do. And I, I think it will further
24:06the story. I don't think it will be like a forced sequel. I think it, I feel moved by
24:11the story. So I hope, I hope y'all are. Well, when can we, do you have any dates set? When
24:17can we expect to see some of that? Um, I would rather it be done well and excellently than
24:22married to a date. Sure. Fair enough. So I'm trying to get it out in March. Uh, we also have
24:27another real short coming up to shoot and, you know, there's just a lot going on. So
24:31I'm attempting to, to film this month. Okay. Oh, February before the next, before the next
24:37real short starts. Oh, oh gosh. Good luck. And then if they, I know that's the goal for
24:42you. It is. When do you start your next real short? February 21st. Oh, so this, oh, oh.
24:49Yeah. So I've got a couple of weeks. We have everything organized. February goes quick. It does
24:52go quick. So anyway, that's the goal. But in the, the goal was to try to release it in
24:59March. If it's not ready, I will bump it back. Sure. It's just, but the goal is March, but
25:04if it needs to be April to be April, but already we have the shots, we have the locations, we
25:09have our whole team in place. Good. Very excited about it. Well, just for the fans and people
25:15who are watching who might feel like, oh my gosh, I have no money or I don't have A-list
25:21power. Like I can't make anything like that. He just explained that he had a shoestring
25:25budget and made a gorgeous music video. And you can do that type of stuff too. Use this
25:31human as inspiration. You can do it too. It's very, it's very, there is a way. There's
25:36absolutely a way, even if you have to work a little extra harder for it. Well, I've been
25:41noticing this gorgeous musical piece right here. This piece of decoration. Yeah. What is
25:47this? Tell me a little bit about her. Sure. So like I said, I got started on saxophone
25:52and it's still with me. Okay. But all of my musical energy went into this first before
25:57I ever went into singing like I was wanting to. And this is a summer Mark VI. This is very
26:04well renowned in the saxophone world that I remember I bought it in college when I was
26:09studying music. Her name is Julianne. Julianne. Hello, Miss Julianne. Nice to meet you. Does
26:14she work? She does work. You want me to play it, don't you? Okay. Wait, I need you to
26:19play it. I need it. I need it. I'm so unprepared. Oh my gosh. He knew. I'm scared. Oh, what's
26:27that? Is it her clip? This is an extra. So that way if I. Oh, you don't see. Stop it. Because
26:31she can be a little heavy. Right. Oh yeah. I bet. Okay. Oh.
26:37Oh, wow.
27:07My, I, I truly was not expecting that.
27:12I feel like, oh my God, I'm like in a private jazz show right now.
27:17I've never been that close to like a show like that.
27:21I'm glad you love it.
27:22You're incredible.
27:23Thank you so much.
27:25Thank you so much.
27:27Oh my God.
27:28Okay.
27:28So much blood in my face right now.
27:30Okay.
27:30Well, that was great.
27:33That was crazy.
27:34In the best way.
27:35I do see what you mean though, where it, you are like singing.
27:39Like I saw it.
27:41Yeah.
27:41Go in.
27:42So like, wow.
27:44Like if I'm going to sing a note, also fun fact, that growly, that growly sound is okay
27:48if I demonstrate.
27:50Yeah.
27:50That growly sound.
27:52So if I.
27:52That gristle.
27:59Yeah.
27:59I'm humming while I play.
28:01Oh, you are.
28:02Okay.
28:02Singing a pitch.
28:03So as I'm singing a pitch or humming a pitch, it's adding that, we call it an overtone.
28:08And it, it's just, it's what adds a second tone that when it hits the read, right?
28:15But when you first try it, it sounds like absolute shit.
28:18Yeah.
28:18Like when you're a kid or whenever, whenever you're learning saxophone, once you start trying
28:22that, it tends to, it's just like anything, any sport, any skill.
28:25You suck.
28:26You gotta suck.
28:26Right.
28:27So then you learn how to use, and the voice is the same way.
28:29Wow.
28:30Like if I was singing like, all I'm doing is putting it in my, this guy.
28:38Uh-huh.
28:38Right.
28:39But I'm keeping it in my chest.
28:40So the note, you know, whatever it is, saxophone is the exact same way.
28:47Okay.
28:47I'm making a pitch and then I'm flavoring it.
28:50I'm coloring it depending on what's happening here, here and here.
28:54And then this is all just the math of knowing the notes.
28:59Uh-huh.
29:00Holy crap.
29:02Yeah.
29:02Wow.
29:03So yeah, that was where I started with saxophone.
29:07You're such a beautiful surprise to me of all your fun little talents.
29:12That's very humbly.
29:13Like that's so exciting.
29:14Thank you so much.
29:15I have a random request.
29:17I would love to hear you sing.
29:19Do you think you could give us a little, little sneak peek of something?
29:23Sure.
29:23Or, uh, yeah, I'll sing something just real simple and pretty.
29:27Is that okay?
29:27Okay.
29:27I love that.
29:28I think our fans will also really appreciate that.
29:31So, yeah.
29:32Yeah.
29:32I've waited way too long to say everything you mean to me.
29:50In case you don't live forever, let me tell you now.
30:01I love you more than you'll ever wrap your head around.
30:08In case you don't live forever, let me tell you the truth.
30:17I'm everything.
30:18I'm everything that I am.
30:20I'm everything that I am.
30:24I'm everything that I am.
30:27Because of you, I've waited way too long to say everything you mean to me.
30:53Oh my god.
31:00I have to leave.
31:02I'm just kidding.
31:03Oh my god.
31:04I love you.
31:05I love you too.
31:06Oh my god.
31:07Okay, how are people not supposed to fall in love with you?
31:16Oh my god, she's so cute.
31:18Okay.
31:19I'm such a girl.
31:20I'm like, oh my god, I'm blushing.
31:22Real short fam, what do I do?
31:25Do you have anything else you want to say to the fans or to me?
31:29Oh, well, you are so good with people.
31:31Oh.
31:32You do such a good job at making people feel really welcome and important.
31:37And you also do it in a way too where I just remember some of the corporate events we've
31:43done and just the times I've seen you, the way you loop people in and you make them feel
31:48special is really, really cool.
31:49So when I found out that you were leading this, I got very excited.
31:52And I've also been very surprised at you delivering on that and so much more.
31:57So thank you.
31:58Seriously, you're so great.
31:59And I really appreciate it.
32:00You've made me feel very, this might not seem like it's very new to me.
32:05Yeah.
32:06And talking about myself or things like that is not my general inclination.
32:10Sure.
32:11I don't like to walk around going, well, here's why I'm great.
32:13No.
32:14I like to serve.
32:15I like to pour into humanity.
32:17And whatever I can, even if it's just one fellow next to me, that's my heart.
32:21So to sit here, I was a little nervous to like share about only me for a long time.
32:26Yeah.
32:27And you made me feel like it was really meaningful.
32:31And you made me feel special.
32:32And you made me feel seen and heard.
32:34And I just feel so grateful.
32:36So thank you so much.
32:38You are amazing.
32:40And I could sit here too and just go gush about you so much.
32:44And you are such a delight.
32:45And I'm honored to interview you.
32:47I'm honored to work at the same company as you.
32:49I can't wait for the writers to put us together and maybe make me the love interest.
32:54Cause like, I would love to be in love with him on screen.
32:56Just saying.
32:57What?
32:58Did I say that?
32:59I think so.
33:00I think you did.
33:01Yeah.
33:02I think I did.
33:03But real short fam.
33:04Thank you so much for always tuning in.
33:06I can't wait to see some of the comments.
33:08Obviously give him a follow.
33:09I mean, he does everything you can think of.
33:11So where can they find you?
33:13Yeah.
33:14I'm on all the stuff.
33:15Yeah.
33:16Instagram is Luke Charles Stafford.
33:18TikTok is Luke Charles Stafford.
33:20And YouTube, of course.
33:22Spotify.
33:23Apple Music.
33:24All of it.
33:25You'll find me.
33:26Get him on all of it.
33:27Because he does everything.
33:30Okay.
33:31So before you go, we have a real talk tradition where we want you to take a little selfie with
33:35this.
33:36Okay.
33:37Right now.
33:38We want to see it.
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