00:00Cool things. When we were in Zimbalas, what was that? We had a table full of food and we, what
00:05was that called?
00:05Yeah. Where we ate with our hands. Oh, Buddha fight. Yeah, that was cool.
00:11I like that. There was just, yeah, a lot of, we've had a lot of great experiences.
00:16It's hard to remember all the top of our heads, but amazing stuff.
00:21We've known your band from before and then you transitioned into music travel love for the two of you, Bob
00:27and Clint.
00:28And what was the concept behind it?
00:30The story goes, we were driving in our beat up Chevy, what was it? Malibu, 92 Malibu, beat up Chevy
00:41Malibu.
00:42And we were just kind of wondering, you know, what we wanted to do.
00:46You know, he had just had a son. I think his son was only like three or four months old
00:50at the time.
00:52And, you know, we were just chatting about what was important to us in our lives.
00:56You know, we had done a lot of things. You know, the Moffitts brought us a lot of joy, a
00:59lot of success in our lives.
01:01And we, you know, we were trying to build other things out.
01:05And at some point we just kind of asked ourselves what's important to us.
01:08And the biggest things were music, travel, and love.
01:12You know, family spending, making sure that whatever we decided we wanted to do, we were going to spend a
01:16lot of time with our family.
01:17We didn't want to be on a tour bus, you know, 300 days a year and not see our kids
01:20grow up.
01:23And so music, travel, love was something that really felt good.
01:26And, you know, just at that time when we were deciding to do this, there were some things kind of
01:33becoming popular on social media.
01:36One of them was there was a guy out in Bali that was taking photos at amazing locations, waterfalls, just
01:42beautiful backgrounds.
01:43And he was placing himself in these beautiful places.
01:46And we just thought it was a cool idea to pair that with music.
01:49We hadn't really seen that before.
01:51But we thought it would kind of enhance the music.
01:54I don't think we realized that it was, we were creating a brand at the time.
01:58But I think we just wanted to create interesting content for YouTube.
02:02And over the course of time, I think it's, with the consistency, our fans have kind of come to know
02:08us as people who kind of show them beautiful places.
02:12And it kind of lets people escape into these great places that they didn't even know existed in the music,
02:17you know.
02:18And then how do you choose the songs that you'd cover?
02:22Or like, have you ever thought of creating an original one?
02:25We've done quite a few originals.
02:27We've probably done five or six, maybe a little bit more original music, Christmas songs.
02:32We typically write a Christmas song for at the end of every year.
02:36We have a lot of fun doing that.
02:37But as far as the songs go, you know, there's just so many great songs.
02:41And typically we just pick a song that is something that we've loved for a long time and something that
02:46comes to us really naturally.
02:50There's just so many songs that we grew up listening to.
02:52And sometimes when we pick up an acoustic guitar and we feel like, oh, this is going to be great,
02:57and we hash it out, it turns out that it doesn't actually always sound great.
03:02And we should probably just spend a little, you know, not do it yet, you know.
03:05Songs take time.
03:07Even though we do a lot of our stuff, it sounds like it's similar, you know, because it's just on
03:10the acoustic guitar and vocal majority of the time.
03:12And it does take a long time to kind of understand a song well enough that when you sit down
03:18and you sing it, it sounds like it's your song.
03:20And so, you know.
03:22Not beyond the songs.
03:24Yeah.
03:25But it just takes a minute to kind of understand how you want to sing it.
03:29The key that works well for you, the tempo that works well for you, the feel, the groove.
03:33Because that's the thing that makes artists unique and different, right?
03:36I mean, I think the formula of songwriting has, people have figured it out.
03:40The great songwriters have figured out the formulas, you know, from Ed Sheeran to Brian Adams to Elton John, and
03:47the list goes on.
03:48You know, most of the time when you start to strip these songs back to just a acoustic guitar, you
03:52realize that they're very similar, but different.
03:56And the things that make them different is, you know, the interpretation of the artist, the rhythm and the groove
04:02and the feel in how they sing, you know.
04:04You know, a song performed by Michael Jackson, performed by Barry Gibbs is going to sound like a very different
04:10record, or Brian Adams.
04:13And that's just the perspective of being a great artist and having your own, I don't know, vision on how
04:21you hear it.
04:21And so for us, we try to do the same thing, and it takes a long time.
04:25Sometimes it comes a little more natural than others, certain songs, but there's certain songs that push us and make
04:31us work, you know, to really understand it.
04:34How do you choose the people that you would work with?
04:37That's easier.
04:38I mean, you know, when you work with talented people, it makes your entire world around you better.
04:44You know, I mean, if you can find people that can complement what you do, it just enhances.
04:50So we're always looking for amazing talent, and our brothers, you know, just so happens to be one of them.
04:57And so we've been able to collaborate with him and do some great stuff together, and I hope we can
05:02do some more in the future.
05:04With collaborations, it just comes down to the voice, number one, and then the person.
05:09You know, the person's really important.
05:12Luckily, here in the Philippines, there's so many amazing people as well on top of it that are kind.
05:18And, I mean, you can have a great voice, but if you're not kind, you know, it's a little harder
05:24to work with you.
05:25So for us, this country has given us an immense amount of talent to dive into and work with.
05:32And I think Bob and I also, one of the things we love more than anything is helping other artists,
05:38you know, find their sound and achieve their best.
05:45How did that work out for you, that plan that you can have a work-life balance, like pursue your
05:52passion at the same time, have time for your families?
05:56What do you think, Dave?
05:58How do you balance your life, man?
06:01Well, I don't balance my life.
06:04My life is just work.
06:05That's all I do.
06:07But you guys have families, so this question is definitely weird.
06:10That is true.
06:10We have families, and I think it's really important, if you do have families, you know, to make time, you
06:18know, because life is short, and it really is.
06:21You know, the older that you get, the more you realize how quickly it goes by.
06:27And I think you have to also, you know, it's a challenge.
06:31You know, in life, there's lots of things.
06:34There's lots of moving parts, and there's responsibilities.
06:36But at the end of the day, sometimes people forget that they make their own decisions.
06:43You know, for us to be able to have time and spend time with our family, you have to make
06:46those decisions.
06:47You have to sometimes be willing to say no to things.
06:50You have to sometimes be willing to say yes to things, you know.
06:53And so, at the end of the day, you just have to take ownership of the fact that, hey, you
06:58know what, this can wait.
07:01This is what's important to me.
07:03Prioritize the things in your life that matter.
07:06And once you start doing that, living like that, it gets a little bit easier to prioritize things.
07:11Okay.
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