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[00:00:00] Marv: [00:00:00] Hello, fellow earthlings. Welcome to deep dive from the hive where we discuss modern day musician, life, answering the call to create and what it takes to actually produce what you believe in. I'm your host, Mark Ellis, the captain of this submarine. It's a pleasure to be here with you today. So let's Batten down the hatches and get to it.
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[00:01:39] Uh, she is a five tool artists not only has her own critically acclaimed project, fortunes folly, but it's also the front woman and a singer with this week's Epic last string guests, the sugar beets on Friday, they did gentlemen, Calista, Cheyenne, how are you doing? I'm doing very well. I'm aboard the submarine.
[00:02:00] [00:01:59] Yes. Okay. Hello. I just want to push the button. How are you doing today? I'm very well, thank you. You got your 
[00:02:07] Calysta: [00:02:07] coffee. Got my coffee. Got my water. Ready to have 
[00:02:10] Marv: [00:02:10] some fun. Get up and go to work. Yeah, this is the way. This is the way. Yes. Um, let's get into it, uh, by the way. Happy belated birthday. Birthday was last 
[00:02:22] Calysta: [00:02:22] month.
[00:02:23] It was February 4th. 
[00:02:25] Marv: [00:02:25] Okay, awesome. Um, what does that make you, I'm not an astrological wizard. I'm an Aquarius. 
[00:02:30] Calysta: [00:02:30] What does that mean? It means I'm very special. 
[00:02:35] Marv: [00:02:35] Love it. Um, so Calista, when I I'll just be real, the guy I try to be. So when I think of you, I, I literally think of like superhumans. Ooh, does that make sense?
[00:02:48] I love that. I don't know how you did it, but you did it. Um, like an artist with an extra special, with extra special abilities. Does that make sense? Sometimes you see performance like, Oh, they're, they're great. [00:03:00] They have great voice, but you don't just have that. It's just like explosion on stage. And, um, so when I think of superheroes, I need to know the origin story.
[00:03:08] I need to know the Genesis, right? Yes. So what I want to know, what I want to start off is where does that Genesis begin? Meaning where were you born? How did you know what I mean? Like, can you tell me about that? 
[00:03:21] Calysta: [00:03:21] Absolutely. Um, well, it starts with my mom, my mom and my dad, but, um, I get a lot of my creative energy, I think from my mother, because she is a very creative spirit and a very kind, joyful sharing creative person.
[00:03:39] Um, but we were in Hawaii when I was born. I was born on a wahoo in Hawaii, Kai at my grandma's house. Okay. Um, And I lived in Hawaii for a few years until I was about seven. I moved to Oregon in 1998. So I spent, [00:04:00] uh, every summer going back and being with my dad in Hawaii and then coming back and doing the school year and Ashlyn went to Asheville high school.
[00:04:08] So 
[00:04:08] Marv: [00:04:08] she's or you, you had fathers in Hawaii on a while? 
[00:04:13] Calysta: [00:04:13] Uh, no. Yeah, he's from Oahu, but now he lives on Maui with my brothers and my stepmom. And, um, most, a lot of my biological family still lives in 
[00:04:23] Marv: [00:04:23] Hawaii. How many siblings do 
[00:04:25] Calysta: [00:04:25] you have? I have four siblings, so I went in three years. I got four siblings. My sister Sienna was born when I was 10 and then my twin brothers Cola and Cola.
[00:04:35] You were born and then Nico, my 
[00:04:37] Marv: [00:04:37] youngest brother. So you spent your formative years, like, you know, your one to seven, like running around and Island swimming.  
[00:04:46] Calysta: [00:04:46] almost drowning few times. Yeah. 
[00:04:48] Marv: [00:04:48] Did you pick up any special skills? Did you try surfing or did you select to scuba? 
[00:04:53] Calysta: [00:04:53] I snorkeled a lot. I've been surfing more now.
[00:04:56] Actually I went surfing a few times, just this 20, 20 and [00:05:00] 2021 in Hawaii in Hawaii and Crescent city. Okay. Yeah. I've served since some beautiful places, but I'm not great at it. I'm still, I'm learning. It's a, it's an exercise in overcoming fear. That's 
[00:05:13] Marv: [00:05:13] amazing. It is really a sharps and things. 
[00:05:16] Calysta: [00:05:16] I'm more just like the wave, like the current, the ocean itself, like power of the ocean.
[00:05:23] Marv: [00:05:23] right. Yeah. Centrifugal forces love that word anyway. Um, so on the Island, you're on, you're on Oahu. Um, you know, when you were growing up music, how did you, how did cause let's see, I don't think Napster was really going on and file-sharing, wasn't really happening like that heavy at that moment in time in the nineties.
[00:05:44] Yeah. Yeah. 
[00:05:46] Calysta: [00:05:46] I remember my first experience with music like that was with my friend, Sophie when I was about eight and she had Limewire Limewire was the thing that we were using. Yeah. 
[00:05:56] Marv: [00:05:56] About 2000. Yeah, 
[00:05:59] Calysta: [00:05:59] yeah, [00:06:00] yeah. Yeah. I guess we were a little older at that point. Actually. You 
[00:06:03] Marv: [00:06:03] were still in Hawaii when you're eight.
[00:06:05] Calysta: [00:06:05] No, no, I was here 
[00:06:07] Marv: [00:06:07] and then that just proceeded into the Ashton school program. Do you know why? Why did they? 
[00:06:12] Calysta: [00:06:12] Uh, my grandmother, my grandmother was here. She picked here. She's a scouter of places. She really finds beautiful places and what's around her. Name's Nicole. 
[00:06:24] Marv: [00:06:24] Nicole, you want to say hi to your grandmother and your mom?
[00:06:27] Calysta: [00:06:27] Hi mom. Hi family. Hello everyone. 
[00:06:31] Marv: [00:06:31] No. See, I was playing a show about five years ago and your mom came up and said it was awesome. Show. And she told me. Yeah. And she told me that she was your mother and she's a dancer. Yes. Quite the dancer. Yes. Can you to 
[00:06:47] Calysta: [00:06:47] touch on that a little bit as a professional dancer and danced in New York and LA and Hawaii, she was, uh, worked for a Vegas show that is in Waikiki called legends in concert.
[00:06:58] She was a Janet Jackson [00:07:00] impersonator. Wow. Yeah. So, and I grew up in a house of impersonators. Yeah. In Hawaii. We lived, um, sorry. I know, uh, uh, our friends, Jonathan and I lean we're married. Uh, Eileen was a Madonna impersonator. Jonathan was an Elvis impersonator and then our friend, um, I can't remember her name.
[00:07:26] She was a Marilyn Monroe impersonator and yes. So always a lot of creativity, music, singing, dance, 
[00:07:34] Marv: [00:07:34] not just that. It's, it's like flamboyant. In person, either in person and people are super flamboyant performers. Yeah. Do you think that you picked up anything when you're a little, like, I'll take a little of that.
[00:07:50] Calysta: [00:07:50] Yeah, because I'd go to work with my mom. Like I, I watched the rehearsals and I was in the theater. There was a big, like they would do before the show started. It was [00:08:00] like, you were in a fake volcano and the volcano would start a rafting. And I remember it being very scary for me. And my mom was like one of the dancers and thriller.
[00:08:10] Cause there was also a Michael Jackson impersonator who like had the surgeries like look like Michael Jackson. Yeah. And, uh, 
[00:08:19] Marv: [00:08:19] then the volcano thing already is scary living in Hawaii. Right. So what's the biggest fear we can think of. Let's build a volcano. So everybody feels like they're going to die.
[00:08:28] That's a good way to touch fear. And then you, so you saw people. You saw your mom dancing away the fear of the volcano. So you saw as a young child, some of you, someone you love and respected dancing and other people too, that you lived with dancing to calm the fear, the most, the most looking at it, that's just a slight perspective.
[00:08:51] Sideways shift. We can go there for a second, but you came to Ashland? Yes. And then you were 10. Yeah, about then 
[00:09:00] [00:08:59] Calysta: [00:08:59] I started going to elementary school. So I was in like second grade, second grade, third grade here then went to Ashland middle school, Ashland high school. And about when I was in middle school or high school, my mom started her dance school here.
[00:09:15] So she has Ashland dance 
[00:09:16] Marv: [00:09:16] works. There with 
[00:09:18] Calysta: [00:09:18] her. Yeah. I took Dan, I have had the privilege of getting free dance lessons. So that's 
[00:09:24] Marv: [00:09:24] the money, you know,  in the flamenco Chico I have in Eugene, Makita Santiago. She does the flamenco school. They all, they all grew up free dance lessons. They all can, you know? Oh, they were in your video.
[00:09:39] They're in so many things. Yeah. They do the country fair at the spirit tower. They always just bring tears. She comes up there. She's like 70 years old doing full flamenco. She grew up in Harlem. Wow. Um, but the dance, so you're a part of that kind of upbringing 
[00:09:54] Calysta: [00:09:54] has been a big part of my life. 
[00:09:56] Marv: [00:09:56] Yeah. Was any of that rock music, any of the stuff that [00:10:00] was prevalent at that time?
[00:10:01] Um, like I looked up what was the most popular music when you were wanting to eight? Um, and it it's Nirvana. Alison chains. Radiohead, uh, green day sound garden, Pearl jam REM. It was the grunge movement. I remember it. Yeah. Did that affect you in Ireland? Were you hearing that at 
[00:10:19] Calysta: [00:10:19] all? I'll tell you exactly what I was hearing.
[00:10:21] I just, I mean, like a few years ago I started listening to Alison Chainz. I love, I love Alice in chains. Um, but I, I didn't really get into the grunge music until really. I started with fortune Swalley and like my band mates introduced me to a lot of that music. But my mom played a lot of like seal and shot a Erica Badu, Alanis, Morissette, um, lots of jazz, like Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie holiday.
[00:10:46] Um, not a lot of Sharon Jones. Um, but, uh, Sinead O'Connor yeah, a lot of 
[00:10:54] Marv: [00:10:54] Sinead post SNL or Prius. 
[00:10:57] Calysta: [00:10:57] I don't know. I don't really know when that happened. I just, I got to see her [00:11:00] on my birthday a couple of years ago when I was working at the crystal and I brought my mom and it was, ah, it was amazing. She's just has a voice.
[00:11:06] That's like super human to me. Right. See 
[00:11:10] Marv: [00:11:10] people have these things. Okay. I'm not crazy. Nope. All right. So all that. What about, cause I mean, I don't know how to say this, but when I first saw you play, um, and Eugene, um, immediately in my head, I was like, I turned to my friend and I was like, well, here's the next.
[00:11:32] Gwen Stefani. I hope her band can keep up with her. That's literally what I said. I'm being totally honest, you know, so, but that, you know, she was popular in the nineties that, you know, 
[00:11:45] Calysta: [00:11:45] a lot of, no doubt too, 
[00:11:46] Marv: [00:11:46] right? Yeah. Okay. Just checking on that. Yeah. Cause you know, so you moved here and then just like all the genres they started changing, like all of a sudden outcast, M and M you know, Kanye, Western top bands from that [00:12:00] era.
[00:12:00] Yeah. And the genre did the genre started getting sprinkled and shared because we had Limewire, Napster and everything. And so you're hitting high school in the middle of being able to have an iPod and build a playlist. How did that affect you? 
[00:12:14] Calysta: [00:12:14] Well, I listened. Yeah. I listened to a lot of Kanye West, um, outcast of course.
[00:12:20] I remember. Yeah, I think I was in high school and econ came out. I don't know why econ religious like shook me. 
[00:12:29] Marv: [00:12:29] He brought that Auto-Tune slamming killing 
[00:12:34] Calysta: [00:12:34] it. Um, and, uh, yeah, I don't know. My, my song writing. I think it was really most influenced by, by the artists that I listened to when I was, you know, about in second grade, third grade, like, uh, have real Levine and who else?
[00:12:53] I just had a thought of somebody that really influenced me that I hadn't thought of before, [00:13:00] but people that I listened to a lot, like on repeat. Um, and, and like I said, playlist, that my mom made, Oh, Tracy Chapman. Yes. A lot of Tracy Chapman. 
[00:13:11] Marv: [00:13:11] And I kinda was super hearing a lot of that when I was a kid 
[00:13:14] Calysta: [00:13:14] too.
[00:13:15] I just love, I think she's like one of the best songwriters 
[00:13:18] Marv: [00:13:18] ever. I was kind of bummed that it didn't keep going with what she was doing, you know? Does that make sense? Like I D I felt like that first album, fast car, all those songs. And then I never really saw that. It didn't seem like the sophomore, junior albums kind of, I think they're all excellent.
[00:13:35] I love them all. Maybe I was just a teenage boy at the time. I was like, whatever we can agree to disagree. That's beautiful. So you're in high school. Um, tell me what it's like to go to high school and Ashland, Oregon. You're a, you're raised in a dance school. You're in a theater, art performing town. 
[00:13:57] Calysta: [00:13:57] Yes, move to an Elizabeth and theme park.
[00:14:00] [00:13:59] Wow. I love Shakespeare. I took Shakespearian lit twice in high school. Um, I love theater. I T I I'd never was in any of the plays in high school. Um, I mostly focused in high school on just like my dance with my mom. And then, um, I took voice lessons from my teacher can also okay. Shout out to Ken. Yeah. Hi, Ken.
[00:14:23] Um, and, and, uh, I spend a lot of time with my family and I didn't do any sports. I didn't really do any extra curricular activities. I think, 
[00:14:34] Marv: [00:14:34] I think dancing is a sport sort of. Yeah. Yeah, sure. I mean, it can be the competitive 
[00:14:38] Calysta: [00:14:38] it's athletic. Yeah. I just, I, I never liked anything competitive. It was way too much pressure.
[00:14:43] It freaked me 
[00:14:44] Marv: [00:14:44] out. It gets weird sometimes. Yeah. A solo adventure sort of, you're not really in the team sport 
[00:14:49] Calysta: [00:14:49] building things. Yeah. Yeah. I've, I've always kinda been like weirdly antique comradery and, and I'm trying, you know, kind of changed. 
[00:14:56] Marv: [00:14:56] It's kind of ironic too, because to be a band leader, like you [00:15:00] are, you have to have that skill.
[00:15:01] Oh yeah, totally. And so you've been learning that later on. Yeah. Now high school is cool. You want to stay there? We can keep going forward. There's so much 
[00:15:10] Calysta: [00:15:10] high school was great. I love, I'm really grateful. Like that's part of why we moved from Hawaii because the school system, um, at the time, at least wasn't really great.
[00:15:18] And um, my mom wanted to give me the best education I could and move to a place that was safe and cool. And, and so, yeah. Thanks, mom. Your 
[00:15:28] Marv: [00:15:28] mom is cool. Yeah, she is. Thank him a forward-thinking woman. Yeah. Right. Um, so after high school, I mean, you went to Berkeley college of music. I did that for a year, so that's a very prestigious school.
[00:15:43] For music for musicians and music. What I have a couple of questions. One is, did you pick that out? Cause I remember being a senior in high school, I was like, where am I going to go for college and had all these pamphlets? And I was like taking the tours, but you went to Berkeley. You knew then [00:16:00] what kind of, what you wanted to do, sort of, what did, what did you study at?
[00:16:03] What, what were, what was your, 
[00:16:05] Calysta: [00:16:05] um, my, my focus was songwriting in jazz studies 
[00:16:10] Marv: [00:16:10] for a year. For you. Who, who brought that into your awareness? That, that even existed, that you could go do that? 
[00:16:16] Calysta: [00:16:16] Um, I think it was, well, I was getting, you know, advertise it a lot of college things. I was like, well, if I'm going to go to college, I wasn't.
[00:16:25] Yeah. I never really like had a strong desire to go to college in high school. Um, and so I felt, but you know, there's a lot of pressure in high school to go to college from a lot of different angles. And I was like, okay, well, I should, you know, try to go somewhere in Berkeley. It was like the best music school in the country.
[00:16:46] Which one did you go to? Um, so it's in Boston and Boston. Yeah. So, so what's, it's confusing because there's Berkeley like Cal Berkeley, but Berkeley college of music is totally unrelated and it's, it's [00:17:00] named after Lee Burke. So L E E is his first name, but then they just made it Berkeley. Um, so it's in Boston.
[00:17:09] Yeah. And now it's kind of, that's a 
[00:17:11] Marv: [00:17:11] deep dive fact, right. There is, that is isn't that that's super serious. Okay. 
[00:17:17] Calysta: [00:17:17] So, and now they're kind of like, um, married with the Boston conservatory and 
[00:17:24] Marv: [00:17:24] I hear we have, yes. So I've, I've heard the myth and lore of graduates of this program and people who have been to this program.
[00:17:32] I've always been in. Awe. I was wondering maybe what if they had a rap course there. If I could go into with American poetry, that'd be so cool to go to the Berkeley school of music, but how did you, how was your time then? Did you enjoy it? I did, 
[00:17:43] Calysta: [00:17:43] yeah. I spent a year there. I really enjoyed it. It was beautiful.
[00:17:48] I learned a lot. Was 
[00:17:49] Marv: [00:17:49] it slightly intimidating? 
[00:17:52] Calysta: [00:17:52] Uh, I wasn't intimidated really, but I, and what was cool is two of my classmates from Ashland also went [00:18:00] there. So I was with, as living with Rafferty Swink and, uh, Sophie Fister was also there, like Sophia and I left about the same time Rafferty went on graduated.
[00:18:08] Okay. And, um, yeah, and, and I remember like they had some people come up to Ashlynn cause they're like, wow, this is crazy. We have three people from national high school in the same class, all, all coming out 
[00:18:18] Marv: [00:18:18] here. So you were sort of a diplomat to Berkeley school of music about how dope Ashlyn that's what happened?
[00:18:24] Calysta: [00:18:24] Yeah. Three of us. 
[00:18:26] Marv: [00:18:26] Yeah. I'm going home. Cause it's actually cooler there than here more sun. I need my vitamin D. Why'd you leave? Um, 
[00:18:34] Calysta: [00:18:34] I left for a few different reasons, you know, I love learning and school, but I think when you're in the arts as an artist, sometimes you have to look at the cost benefit analysis of, uh, what you can do with your career, the kind of money, you know, or are gambling to think that you'll be bringing in versus the expense of being 18, living in one of the most expensive cities [00:19:00] to live in and, um, and going to a school, I didn't have any, um, financial aid or anything I got in, and I was stoked about that, but I didn't get any scholarships or anything like that.
[00:19:09] Well, you 
[00:19:09] Marv: [00:19:09] should have gotten one. I can't imagine how, I mean, you know, thank, thank God and thank whatever you believe in for what brought us here today and we're doing great, but I can't even imagine if you had gone a full. 
[00:19:25] Calysta: [00:19:25] Yeah, I don't know. My life would be different. I know there's so many different paths to take and walk, but I did.
[00:19:31] I think I moved back to Ashland for a little bit. This whole area of my life is kind of, I don't have the most perfect memory, but then I did. I moved to LA after that and I was like, I'm going to, I think I was always looking for a band as I was like, I'm going to go to Boston and go to school. I'm going to meet people.
[00:19:49] I'm going to start a band. And I was really shy and real clues in college and just kind of stayed at my apartment. And then I was like, I'm going to move to LA and meets people, started band. And, [00:20:00] um, I was part of a couple little projects there and I sang with this guy, Toledo diamond at the petite in West Hollywood, a little bit, 
[00:20:10] Marv: [00:20:10] Tito diamond, Toledo diamond.
[00:20:12] If his name was Tito diamond, I was going to go Scott's player. 
[00:20:17] Calysta: [00:20:17] He's incredible. Incredible performer. What did he play? Uh, he a singer like a poet and, and, um, yeah, I had great times. I lived in Venice beach, but I was only there for about a year. And then I came back to Ashland again, you just 
[00:20:33] Marv: [00:20:33] felt the call 
[00:20:34] Calysta: [00:20:34] thing.
[00:20:34] And then I, from Ashland, I went to, um, Eugene. 
[00:20:39] Marv: [00:20:39] Yeah. University of Oregon to be a fighting duck, but you didn't just go to any part of Eugene. You went to a, uh, program that is very difficult to get into academically. So one thing that we do need to touch on is that you're not just like, Oh, I want to be a singer.
[00:20:57] You're actually not only you can dance, you can sing [00:21:00] you're following what you want to do, but then it's almost to me, like you went into. You have a, you have to have a high GPA to get in there at the, what is it that Robert D. Clark honors college for psychology. Come on now. I know that's real that you're not, you, you know, you say you can't remember things, but you got into that 
[00:21:18] Calysta: [00:21:18] school.
[00:21:19] Sometimes. I think this is kind of a theme. Now looking with you at my life is I love options. I like giving myself options. I always did really well in school because I had not necessarily that I knew where I wanted to go, but I wanted to have the highest GPA I could, so that I'd have options of where I could go.
[00:21:39] And then I've just kind of like on a whim. Like I didn't the only college I applied to was Berkeley. And I was like, if I get in, then I guess I'll go to college. It wasn't like I had all this. I wasn't. Yeah. It's like my poker night last week. And then when I decided I was going to leave there and [00:22:00] like just moved to LA on a whim with my friend, then I was.
[00:22:03] Thinking about, Oh, you know, Kay, Roman, I'm a very romantic person too. So like there's always been people in my life that have made my decisions unclear because I have my love, my career, different things have swayed me in different directions. And I was thinking about going back to Oregon and I was like, well, maybe I'll go to school.
[00:22:25] You know, maybe I'll like try to get a real career and stop being an 
[00:22:29] Marv: [00:22:29] artist, you know, but let's not, let's not, I mean, at least that we know what psychology is because you know, for me in my genre of hip hop, um, they say that the best MCs are psychologists. Hmm. Okay. So cause we write, we analyze, we look at what you say, what they say and we like sort of folklore it out.
[00:22:48] Yeah. So in the school of psychology, the, the honors school of psychology that you went to, they teach you how to synthesize and to find your voice and to debate. 
[00:22:59] Calysta: [00:22:59] Right. [00:23:00] I wish I had taken debate. That is a regret I have about high school. I should 
[00:23:03] Marv: [00:23:03] have taken, but it's, it's basically like, it's sort of like a polished your art, your S your gemstone that you already have going on your pursuit, everything.
[00:23:11] But that seems like the thing that you were missing at Berkeley, you sort of worked on it. I mean, you studied it and you studied how to use your voice and write even better. 
[00:23:21] Calysta: [00:23:21] I I've Al it's something that I'm interested in. Like I've always wanted to do what interests me. And in my time in college, and I was a research assistant briefly for one of my professors, and I had the opportunity to be in her lab and see her passion and see how excited she was about what she was working on and see what the work was really like and what it would be like if I were to follow in those footsteps and really it showed me like, wow, she is as excited about this as I am about music, right?
[00:23:52] Marv: [00:23:52] When you see people that are like that, look at Trevor set up. 
[00:23:57] Calysta: [00:23:57] Cool. I was excited 
[00:23:59] Marv: [00:23:59] about this. 
[00:24:00] [00:24:00] Calysta: [00:24:00] I'm all in. I realize I'm not as excited about this as she is, you know, and I would rather be making music. So then I, uh, at this point also I had found fortune Swalley right. And I was like, well, I'm going to drop out again.
[00:24:18] Marv: [00:24:18] That's the creative and critical thinking you learn studying psychology has to apply. I'm sorry, but it has to apply to your songwriting. Right. 
[00:24:26] Calysta: [00:24:26] And I still, I still do my own research, you know, because that's the beautiful thing about being alive and having the internet for real. Um, you can find whatever you're looking for.
[00:24:39] Marv: [00:24:39] I can find out the GPA entry-level for the Clark honors college is what I'm S you're. Right. Um, so you're sort of honing and polishing your style. You know that you want to be in a band, you go to Berkeley, you study songwriting, you learn even harness even more. You realize that, no, I really do want to do this music thing.
[00:25:00] [00:25:00] And then you start fortunate folly. 
[00:25:02] Calysta: [00:25:02] Yeah. Well, I joined, well, fortunes folly was first. Um, so I just added this work. I was an Ashland. I knew I was going to be going to Eugene and I was like, I need to be doing something musical. Cause in Ashland, I always, um, had my jazz band. So I played music with Polish mailing.
[00:25:20] Hi Paul, uh, the Polish mailing trio. I have different guitars that I play with Tim church and Dan Feldman and playing with Dan Feldman on Saturday, March 13th. 
[00:25:32] Marv: [00:25:32] Yes. 
[00:25:33] Calysta: [00:25:33] We'll talk about that. Okay. Um, But I realized, you know, if I'm in Eugene, I want to be doing something musical. So I went on Craigslist as one does.
[00:25:45] Marv: [00:25:45] Yeah, honestly, honestly, maybe. Yeah. Organic. 
[00:25:53] Calysta: [00:25:53] I like it. It been organically. I found my friends and [00:26:00] uh, yeah, I met them at their studio on West 11th and I, you know, they played some of their, their music for me. They'd been together jamming as an instrumental group for a year, West 11th, like next to bagel sphere.
[00:26:14] Marv: [00:26:14] Whoa. Like way out West 11th, like the archery storage sheds where people practice in the storage sheds. 
[00:26:21] Calysta: [00:26:21] I don't know where that is, but pass the space, Eugene. Okay. 
[00:26:25] Marv: [00:26:25] Gotcha. That's still, there's so many weird rehearsal spaces in Eugene. There's so many bands there and it's kind of remarkable that you started with them.
[00:26:33] What 2015. Right about then, and then in three years you were voted Eugene's best band in three years, Calista three years. I grew up in the music scene there. It's not easy to do that, but you have a team and you're a good team leader. I'm not the team 
[00:26:53] Calysta: [00:26:53] leader. Who is 
[00:26:54] Marv: [00:26:54] Alex Kolber, the drummer. Yes. Shout out to Alex.
[00:26:59] You've done it, [00:27:00] Alex. You've done it. My friend. 
[00:27:03] Calysta: [00:27:03] I mean, we all like our leaders in our own. Right. But like Alex made the Craigslist snap, you know, you know what I mean? 
[00:27:10] Marv: [00:27:10] So when you, when people describe the band, like I already said it, I w I was to me because of your super powers, I was strongly feeling the Gwen Stefani vibe.
[00:27:20] Not saying that by no means, am I saying you're biting her style at all? That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying like, Holy shit, she's. Getting it like going for it, like there's 50,000 people here and she really is feeling what she's doing. You could see the performance skill, the level of the explosion, your special.
[00:27:39] Thank you. So, um, when I watched you guys, I thought of that, and then I read your bio and said the brain, the love child of red, hot chili peppers, and no doubt. And I was like, okay. And then I thought, who's the red, hot chili peppers in the band? Who is that? Is that the whole band or is it cause I, I get that vibe from the guitarist.
[00:27:58] Right. Is IRA [00:28:00] sort of like that red hot chili pepper flavor 
[00:28:02] Calysta: [00:28:02] because, uh, I mean I'll all three of them like grew up on the chili peppers and yeah, it's just, uh, those are two bands that are known that I think kind of people 
[00:28:15] Marv: [00:28:15] can hear those. Yeah. I think it was well, well done. I do. I do like how you bring up Sharon Jones too, because I'm personally was a fan of Sharon Jones.
[00:28:25] Well, the late great Sharon Jones. Is one of the most dynamic live performance I've ever seen. Very sh shorter lady doing backflips and high heels. You ain't a child. No more. I have a couple of remixes of her music that I love Sharon Jones now stoked. And that sort of you're right. Sharon Jones is in the mix with the flavor that you bring, but it's like a rock it's really cool.
[00:28:49] So these are all compliments, but the, the, you know, you have that explosive performance style when you play, um, the circuit that it takes [00:29:00] for the yellow brick road of success in Oregon is interesting. Right. You sort of traveled that with the band Fortune's father over the years bend, um, Jean Southern, Oregon.
[00:29:13] There's Beth and then Portland. Yeah. Yeah. Portland. Yeah. Dante's Inferno. 
[00:29:20] Calysta: [00:29:20] Uh, we never played Dante. I sang with karaoke from hell at Dante's once. Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah. That's a great place. I love 
[00:29:29] Marv: [00:29:29] Portland. How much did you guys get up there? 
[00:29:32] Calysta: [00:29:32] Uh, we got up there a bit. We played at the white Eagle a few times.
[00:29:39] I'm blanking on anywhere else we played in Portland. Oh, Oh yeah. Oh man. There's a couple places I can see them in my mind, but the names aren't coming to my brain, 
[00:29:48] Marv: [00:29:48] that's totally fine. It's Trevor's fault. The cough is not strong enough. No, 
[00:29:52] Calysta: [00:29:52] that's okay. Maybe I've had too much, 
[00:29:54] Marv: [00:29:54] um, that you, but you guys didn't just win best band that [00:30:00] year.
[00:30:00] You also won best, um, female singer songwriter at some point, I think I did. Same year. You guys won best band. Okay. 
[00:30:08] Calysta: [00:30:08] Well thank you. That's amazing. Yeah. Very, I'm very fortunate to have the support and group of people that we have in Eugene and, and all across Oregon and everywhere, anywhere that there's people that.
[00:30:26] Appreciate our music and care about what we do. It's it's beyond, you know, 
[00:30:32] Marv: [00:30:32] like, and you called them the folly fan father fan and follow fam. There's something going on right now where you actually doing a crowd funding for your new album with Fortune's 
[00:30:43] Calysta: [00:30:43] fall. It hasn't actually started yet. We haven't even like, this is like the announcement that it's going to happen right now.
[00:30:49] Yeah. Right now we're doing 
[00:30:50] Marv: [00:30:50] cool. Cool. I don't, I need a cool button. You heard it here. First folks, fortunes folly, crowdfunding album [00:31:00] coming out. Why don't you say something 
[00:31:01] Calysta: [00:31:01] I'll shut up. So yeah, we have a lot of songs that we haven't recorded yet, and we are taking this summer and IRA and the guys they've already started mixing and, um, we're just doing it at our own home studios.
[00:31:17] So it's going to be a very special, like. All of us, just the four of us making this album together. The 
[00:31:24] Marv: [00:31:24] quantity and error. Yes. 
[00:31:26] Calysta: [00:31:26] Yeah, this is it. There they are 
[00:31:30] Marv: [00:31:30] too bad. You would say who's who, because then they see that on screen. Okay. So people can see this. Once you explain who is, who is who and what's going on.
[00:31:38] Calysta: [00:31:38] I'm the one in the middle. Alex is on top of my heads. Okay. And he's like the business of the band, as you can see, uh, we got IRA over there with his hands on his face and he, he has his, the studio set up right now. He's been working on his home studio. He plays guitar. [00:32:00] Um, and then there's Jesse, Jesse Sanchez in the green over there.
[00:32:03] And he's our bass player and yeah, that's the four of us. We've been making music for the last six, almost seven years. Seven, eight years. 
[00:32:14] Marv: [00:32:14] It's great. 
[00:32:15] Calysta: [00:32:15] Yeah. And we're, we're great friends and, um, Yeah. So we have about 10 to 12 songs. I think that we're we have planned to put on this 
[00:32:23] Marv: [00:32:23] album. Yeah. Do you have, could have been talking to artists over the last few weeks?
[00:32:28] I've been talking to artists and they, we all have this kind of thing. Where, how do you release music these days? It seems, it seems really it's, it's changed so much and so fast. What do you, do you have any advice for other bands out there? Yeah. I'm going to be taking notes on what you say honestly. Cause I I'm, I'm honestly giving it up respect.
[00:32:49] You really know how to push your band and I don't know what to do these days. I have so much music bottleneck. I don't know how to get rid of it. What do I, honestly, 
[00:32:57] Calysta: [00:32:57] we just like find the [00:33:00] resources we can to learn. Cause we don't know, you know, we've spent hours and hours. We spent. So much time reading books, we had a spreadsheet of all these music business books that we all were required to read.
[00:33:11] And we'd have to go into the Excel document and check off which ones we had read. This took like a year. Wow. Um, yeah. So do your research. I recommend like I have it's I'm not going to fully endorse this person, but there is a book called, um, how to make it in the new music business by Ari Hurston. Yep. I think it's great.
[00:33:36] It's a really good read. It's a really easy read and it has a lot of pertinent information, but as far as releasing music, you know, we go through CD baby for distribution. I think it's simple. And I, I trust them. 
[00:33:48] Marv: [00:33:48] It feels like they're, they're just sending me checks. Yeah. It's kind of weird to see the print outs where you get like point fraction, fraction of a penny for a play, but it's still cool.
[00:33:57] Yeah. But it's not a business. It's, I mean, [00:34:00] it's not, couldn't live off it. Right. 
[00:34:01] Calysta: [00:34:01] So I think where the live off comes from is like, uh, hone your mailing list and make relationships with people, real people, and real face to face fans that you have a personal connection with that will support you by buying merch and, and things that are important to that find out what's important to them, what they want from you and how you can be of service to people that are, you know, feel that, feel what you're doing.
[00:34:30] So, 
[00:34:31] Marv: [00:34:31] no, and honestly, if you're listening right now, I'm from Eugene. It's a college town, 90,000 kids come and go every four years. It's like running uphill in sand. If you're trying to promote your band is very difficult. It's also an incubator town, which means that it's a coup it's very rainy, um, off the beaten path, but still relevant city where you can make.
[00:34:51] Where a lot of bands are creating all the time, trying to do their thing. And when she tells you that, that's what they did. And in three years they got voted best band. You [00:35:00] should listen. That's all I'm saying. So that band, I saw it kind of trickle into this thing that I didn't understand what was going on as I watched from afar, but the acoustic folly, and I know that's not really happening anymore, but it did.
[00:35:16] Yeah. And two things came to my mind, watching it. I was like, that's cool. A variation also as a Ninja and a superhero with your skill of singing and performing, it felt like to me, that you were using that moment in those shows to refine your vocal, you're vocalizing, you know, just singing. Totally. And am I wrong?
[00:35:40] Did that feel that? And then also you have to shut off that lever. Of explosiveness that you have and just purely energize them and just focusing on that, on the singing, right? What's that like? 
[00:35:53] Calysta: [00:35:53] Well, legit, like in all areas of life, there's a balanced everything and, and performance. Um, [00:36:00] there's the flow state of enjoying yourself.
[00:36:06] There's the focusing on singing on key and singing well focused on performance, having fun, engaging with the crowd. And sometimes there is, uh, one, one can take from the other. Yeah. Um, and the goal for me is to elevate both sides of that, so that you have perfect vocals and. Perfect backflips, right. Same time.
[00:36:32] Um, but I don't know if that's possible yet. Uh, but yeah, the acoustic folly. I also, like I said, I grew up singing jazz, and so, and I get, I get bored. He's not bored, but just like, I like changing what I'm doing a lot. I like exploring a lot of different things and I was doing jazz for a long time and I really had this like desire to jump up and down and scream at people.
[00:36:56] And, um, awesome. Amazing thing about singing and [00:37:00] rapping, you know, was performance. Like people will pay to have you yell in their face and it is amazing. It it's the best feeling in the world. I don't know why everyone does it. Do it. 
[00:37:11] Marv: [00:37:11] I remember my first show was with Papa soul food kitchen. It was a funk band in 2002 one.
[00:37:17] And I did my first show with galactic, you know, the funk band galactic. We opened for them at a venue. That's no longer in Eugene and I did the whole show like this. And then after the show, he goes, look, man, these people are paying to see you. You're the performer. You're the one they're paying to see, jump around, look them in the eyes and be clear and do something on stage.
[00:37:40] Cause they're paying to see you. So that's that logic. And I bring up the, the F the acoustic folly because I saw, and I waited and watched. And then at the end, I'm looking at the outcome of that skill level wise. And it feels like, Oh my God, your, your, your [00:38:00] Katana blade is sharp right now with your vocals.
[00:38:02] Like, you're really, like when you saying it's all on key. It's not auto tuned at all. It's claim. Thanks so much respect. Thank you. It's really good. Thanks. Um, so when, when there's a band, it feels like they're an energy pool. You know, there's a solo artists. It feels like their energy pool, their world energy pools give enough energy.
[00:38:22] The fortunes fam relates to it, you know, and if you're in a band you're, you're. Everyone in the band is about a cause. If you're, it's just you it's, you are the cause, you know, there's a difference in at all. And it seems like you're a link between a few really powerful energy sources, not only the fortunes folly, but the acoustic thing that you do, which you're doing at Bella fury on Saturday the 13th at five 30.
[00:38:49] Yeah. And that's, 
[00:38:50] Calysta: [00:38:50] that's just strictly jazz. There's a lot of different, different elements, each thing. Um, Dan Feldman, Dan [00:39:00] Feldman is a jazz guitarist here, here in the Ashland, 
[00:39:03] Marv: [00:39:03] Oregon. Okay. Forgive me, Dan. I would love to meet you someday. It's just cool. I get to meet. I get to hear about people like that through this thing.
[00:39:11] Um, have you seen these, have you done a lot more of these shows since quarantine became up? Cause I know that, uh, I know that this is one of the only games you could get in core team. How has that been for you? Good winery, 
[00:39:23] Calysta: [00:39:23] gigs, winery, gigs are great. I love any gig. As long as there's one person there, that's enjoying it.
[00:39:29] I'm happy. But, um, this quarantine has given me the opportunity to actually hone in my vocal skills more. I've been doing a lot more exercise. So there's some years where I just like stopped, you know? And, and I became kind of stagnant in, Oh, I'm doing fine. Like people like my voice, it's fine. But there is just so much more I can do with my voice.
[00:39:55] And right now I'm pushing myself to actually have [00:40:00] discipline and study and practice and get better. Cause I can always get better. That's 
[00:40:07] Marv: [00:40:07] true. Yeah. For all the women watching young and old, what message would you give them here about pursuing what you love right now? Oh, This is international women's day.
[00:40:20] You're a powerful woman pursuing what she loves, refining 
[00:40:23] Calysta: [00:40:23] her skill. Yeah. I mean, if you can do it, if you're scared, do 
[00:40:28] Marv: [00:40:28] it anyway. Yeah. That's the move. Um, this other energy pull your link with is the sugar beets. These are your boys. 
[00:40:38] Calysta: [00:40:38] Yeah. I grew up with, uh, Luke Estis and Ananda Goldsmith. Okay. 
[00:40:42] Marv: [00:40:42] How did you meet these guys for the first time?
[00:40:45] What was it like when you first met these guys? You remember that? 
[00:40:48] Calysta: [00:40:48] Uh, I met Luke because he, uh, is my, my ex-boyfriend's brother, but yeah, he's, uh, he's like family. [00:41:00] Yeah. He's like my brother. Um, and, uh, Nanda. I've just, I haven't met him like in sixth grade. I don't know. He had a crush on my friend, I think.
[00:41:10] Oh, 
[00:41:11] Marv: [00:41:11] Nanda. What's up. We're talking about you guys and your band. It's, it's very different. It's a very different thing than fortunes falling in acoustic folly or your solo stuff. Yeah. 
[00:41:24] Calysta: [00:41:24] And I mean, I, I was working with them actually, before I even started with fortunes folly. 
[00:41:29] Marv: [00:41:29] So you've always been, you know, working with them on the side.
[00:41:35] Calysta: [00:41:35] Yeah. They're a DJ there duo and they would always feature different singers, friends with there's different artists. And now, um, we're doing more of a live band feel. Okay. And we were doing some shows with a live band where we were playing the tracks and now we're doing some shows without tracks. Like, you'll see at the hive, it's just like full on this Friday, [00:42:00] this 
[00:42:00] Marv: [00:42:00] Friday, fully on, fully on.
[00:42:03] Calysta: [00:42:03] And it's great. It's a really fantastic group of 
[00:42:05] Marv: [00:42:05] people. It's different. It's different than within the rock. It's diff it's not. It's is it, is it more cha, is it part of what you're saying? You just get bored sometimes and you don't even want the challenge. You want to try new things with your voice. Do you get to sing ways that you don't we'll get to sing with them?
[00:42:22] Yeah. Okay. Yeah. More beat driven funk for the floor. Hip hop flavors. Yes. No samples and Nanda. I know you don't sample anything and you get to play with rabbit. He's been brought up three of the last four pockets. 
[00:42:36] Calysta: [00:42:36] Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. What's that like? 
[00:42:39] Marv: [00:42:39] It's good. Yeah, but in here, Trevor, he's a tastemaker 
[00:42:44] Calysta: [00:42:44] he's very talented musician.
[00:42:46] Good 
[00:42:46] Marv: [00:42:46] person. Yeah. I love that guy. Um, how do you balance the work between two pretty, pretty relevant groups like that? Where you're literally in front of [00:43:00] them. One is your personal project, passion project with your band. And then the other one is it's like your boys that you're, I'm with it guys. What's up.
[00:43:07] Like, how do you balance that? It's hard to different 
[00:43:10] Calysta: [00:43:10] cities. Yeah, it's challenging. It's been, I don't have a strategy, honestly, 
[00:43:17] Marv: [00:43:17] no strategy. It is flow flow, flow state, and that, yeah. Okay. Got it. Yeah. Um, do you ever, do you ever talk to, cause are you, are you living here now doing the national? Did the corn team sort of push you down here?
[00:43:36] Calysta: [00:43:36] Uh, the timing worked out that I was, I was kinda heading towards Ashland. I was gonna just kind of cocoon for a little bit and feeling like I needed a little kind of break and reprieve. I was feeling all this pressure and then I got the break of my life. Man. Do 
[00:43:58] Marv: [00:43:58] you wanna talk about 
[00:43:59] Calysta: [00:43:59] the [00:44:00] quarantine happened?
[00:44:02] It was like, it was like a, you know, it was good timing. For me to move to Ashland 
[00:44:13] Marv: [00:44:13] and the fires yeah. Fires affected your family. Yes, they did talk about that. 
[00:44:19] Calysta: [00:44:19] Sure. Yeah. Um, my mom was living in Phoenix and her house burned down and she didn't really get anything out. Um, but the bets and the, and the people, all the pets and the people are nice too.
[00:44:34] Yeah. Are out. Yes. Yeah. I'm sorry. But that was a moment that I was very grateful to be in Ashland for, um, because now she, we lived together cause I was, I was looking for a place I was about to move in with a friend and then she was offered this home that we could share [00:45:00] rent on. And so now since, uh, October, we've been living together.
[00:45:05] Marv: [00:45:05] That's amazing. Yeah. You live with your moms. That's really cool. That's great. Moms, your mom, my mom sees your moms 
[00:45:13] Calysta: [00:45:13] and my sister and brother are there too. So really? 
[00:45:17] Marv: [00:45:17] Okay. Yeah. This is good. It is good. It feels right. It's like a battery charger sometimes for your soul. Especially from my perspective, when I was out questing, my musical quest city, different cities and things.
[00:45:32] I always came home now. I saw my mom and I felt recharged. Totally. It's good for the soul so that you don't know if it's good or bad bill Murray style, but you found out the good, you found the good in quarantine. What is the good that you found in quarantine besides being closer to family? What else did you find that?
[00:45:54] What else did you figure out that you could do with your time? When, [00:46:00] uh, 
[00:46:01] Calysta: [00:46:01] yeah, I started meditating. Really? Yeah. I, I started going to therapy. I started having conversations with my family that I've been putting on the back burner and dealing with things that I've just always been too busy to really take a look at.
[00:46:25] So I've been doing a lot of like inner searching. 
[00:46:31] Marv: [00:46:31] It seems like that's what happens in quarantine. When it seems there's this worldwide pandemic, we also have, I'm going to die. What have I done with my life? Sort of feeling comes about. I saw a lot of people putting out, you know, working on their own stuff.
[00:46:45] I also saw a lot of people saying, Oh, it's going to be great for musicians such creative time. I'm like, yo. We're trying to figure out how to survive, make money. Like, what are you talking about some time ago, make, write a song and be creative. Right? I got to find my, I got to supplement this thing. I just 
[00:46:59] Calysta: [00:46:59] had [00:47:00] an interview last week that I was completely unprepared for somewhere to this.
[00:47:05] No, no, no. I'm actually more prepared for this one. It was a, it was like a, it's probably going to air next week. Is it like a local Eugene news thing, KZ something. Um, and one of the questions he asked me was, Oh, like you and your band, you've probably taken such a financial hit. You know, are you have you lost money?
[00:47:24] And I'm like, Oh man, we're all probably making a lot more money now because we're not taking off work to do shows. We're like all working, uh, grinding in our other jobs. And like focusing on these things that are probably more lucrative than, than the music was because it just puts so much into. I mean, yeah, we, we were sustaining ourselves.
[00:47:50] We had a, we had a solid business plan, but it was, um, it was definitely not the kind of like money that you can make [00:48:00] it a different job. Yes. 
[00:48:01] Marv: [00:48:01] Yeah. You get paid like a doctor for an hour. Right. And then you walk away and you're broke. No, I'm serious. Like I get onstage, I've had a couple shows where I've made ridiculous money, like rent for two months and wrapping one hour and then the rest of the month is save that money, stack that cheddar.
[00:48:22] Um, we, what do you do to supplement your income during these times when you can't really perform to 
[00:48:30] Calysta: [00:48:30] make money? Yeah, I perform, I perform in the restaurants and the bars. I'm a, um, been in the service industry for over a decade now. Yes. And it's a big part of my life and I really enjoy it. 
[00:48:44] Marv: [00:48:44] But you never got into the weed scene?
[00:48:46] No, 
[00:48:48] Calysta: [00:48:48] I never did because of a lot of reasons, but, um, there's too much. Yeah. I don't know. I think I just, I thrive in the service [00:49:00] industry. I do. 
[00:49:01] Marv: [00:49:01] Are you, uh, what restaurant do you work at or do you not want to say? Oh, I don't. 
[00:49:08] Calysta: [00:49:08] Oh, I'm super proud. Um, I work at Martinez 
[00:49:11] Marv: [00:49:11] nationals. Yeah. I've eaten there once. Cool.
[00:49:13] That's a very, very nice establishment. Oh, very nice. Thank you. Yes. I need to get to Ashland where I don't get to eat out very much. I live in the Applegate, so it's like a two hour round trip for dinner, which is, 
[00:49:27] Calysta: [00:49:27] makes it a 
[00:49:27] Marv: [00:49:27] little more expensive. I want to take the lady out, be romantic, but it's like damn two hour drive.
[00:49:33] Yeah. 
[00:49:34] Calysta: [00:49:34] Just if you're passing through. 
[00:49:35] Marv: [00:49:35] Yeah. I would like to see that, but what if, what if you didn't do music? I know I've had a character. What would a person like you. With what you love to do, what would you do if with your free time, if music wasn't a reality for you, where do you think you'd be doing? Oh God, 
[00:49:52] Calysta: [00:49:52] I have no idea.
[00:49:53] Can you guess? No, 
[00:49:57] Marv: [00:49:57] you're studious. [00:50:00] You're studious. You're 
[00:50:00] Calysta: [00:50:00] personable. I might, I don't know. I might be a clown teacher. Um,  I love kids, but it's to the, yeah, I teach. Well, I, I that's another thing I do is I teach dance. I teach fitness and dance classes. Okay. That's a 
[00:50:14] Marv: [00:50:14] giant thing 
[00:50:16] Calysta: [00:50:16] to bring up, 
[00:50:18] Marv: [00:50:18] but you know what?
[00:50:20] I like it. That's organic. It's cool. No, it's fun. I could play other buttons are not good, but, um, so you teach kids dance. 
[00:50:32] Calysta: [00:50:32] I'm working with a group of five and six year old. Oh my God. Seven and eight year olds. Why is this not an Instagram? It just, we just reopened the street 
[00:50:41] Marv: [00:50:41] kids. That's a win. That's a win.
[00:50:44] I know. Let's talk about your Instagram Calista. Cause I have you, you, first of all, what is your deal? I mean, I want to know, I've been asking people first of all, is anybody in your band? Left-handed [00:51:00] Oh, 
[00:51:00] Calysta: [00:51:00] um, rabbits left-handed. Oh, and Alex, Alex has left-handed Alex and 
[00:51:06] Marv: [00:51:06] rabbit. Yeah. Okay. 
[00:51:08] Calysta: [00:51:08] And why what's happening?
[00:51:11] Marv: [00:51:11] Just a personal, uh, experiment I'm conducting. Um, 
[00:51:15] Calysta: [00:51:15] and those are the two. Yeah. Alex and fortune Swalley rabbit and sugar beets. And I'm right-handed I am right handed lady. I don't know what that means.
[00:51:30] Marv: [00:51:30] Yeah. Awesome. Awesome. Super 
[00:51:32] Calysta: [00:51:32] RHL over here. 
[00:51:35] Marv: [00:51:35] Um, I forgot where we were and what we were talking about this coffee is serious. 
[00:51:39] Calysta: [00:51:39] Um, you're conducting an experiment. You're asking me about left hands and 
[00:51:43] Marv: [00:51:43] now we're looking at my Instagram. Let's talk about, let's talk about color real quick. Okay. You love colors.
[00:51:48] I do. What's your color scheme? What's palette. Oh 
[00:51:52] Calysta: [00:51:52] God. I love like love colors. I 
[00:51:54] Marv: [00:51:54] do. First time I met your hair was rainbow colored and that was before that, that Takashi 69 [00:52:00] was coloring his hair all rainbowy. I know. Yeah. That shit. 
[00:52:05] Calysta: [00:52:05] Thank you. I, I wouldn't say I'm the O G but I, I, yeah, that's bringing up the together.
[00:52:13] Marv: [00:52:13] I'm just saying I'm sorry, but let's go back to color. Okay. Sorry. What colors come to your mind when you're just happy? Comfortable place probably bathtub.
[00:52:29] Calysta: [00:52:29] My favorite holiday is Easter. Okay. Because I love baby animals and pastel colors. You like pastels. I love pesto, 
[00:52:40] Marv: [00:52:40] which I have learned from the Daniel Laurian that those are colors that are classic are nostalgic colors. They represent history. Am I wrong? I'm on. Right. Okay. So I'm learning about colors too.
[00:52:55] They'll have a resonance and a vibration and annoy, they make [00:53:00] noise. So do you have synesthesia? I don't even know what that is. It's 
[00:53:04] Calysta: [00:53:04] uh it's so like I ever, well, not everyone has it, but people that do experience it, there's different ways that you experience it. It's like a crossing of certain. Neurons in your brain so that, um, like you've heard people that like, when they hear a certain note, they see colors.
[00:53:25] Marv: [00:53:25] Yes. I see like Phil Lesh from the dead. He saw colors too when he was high on acid, but still he 
[00:53:32] Calysta: [00:53:32] saw colors. So like for me, the letters, every letter and every number has a color. Really. Yeah. 
[00:53:41] Marv: [00:53:41] And so if I said a color, a letter and a letter, you would think of a color, can we try this game? Right? 
[00:53:49] Calysta: [00:53:49] Like there is a, there's a color for it, 
[00:53:51] Marv: [00:53:51] Danielle to get us.
[00:53:57] Amber, wait, [00:54:00] no, this is wrong. You gotta reverse a letter. R 
[00:54:04] Calysta: [00:54:04] ours is definitely like a deep purple seriously. Okay. G G is a brownish orange, 
[00:54:12] Marv: [00:54:12] yellow.
[00:54:17] Calysta: [00:54:17] L is like, uh, um, a pastel blue. 
[00:54:20] Marv: [00:54:20] I got caught in L and yellow altogether. So I said, yeah, 
[00:54:25] Calysta: [00:54:25] let's see. There's those crossings of the 
[00:54:27] Marv: [00:54:27] neurons. So my, my brain skip is I'm dyslexic. Okay. Uh, when I get tired, so say I'm a country fair, late night running around. I start talking backwards. Like I did it last podcast.
[00:54:42] He's like, Oh, I worked at red lobster. I was like, you worked at led Robster with a better chess gets like, I go backwards with it. That's my brain. Skippity Duda have a song I've written all in dyslexia. It's I'm going to be putting out soon. You know what I mean? The colors. So the [00:55:00] reason I bring up colors is because I'm looking at your Instagram and you go deep.
[00:55:03] I don't what I want to know. You, you like for fun. Do these crazy amazing photo shoots. And I know you're helping other people sometimes, but let, let's just look at the screen right now. For example, what we have here is not a cheetah, but a zebra. Correct. Now what's going on here in this, in this, uh, I know I could read the side, but I'd rather get the 
[00:55:27] Calysta: [00:55:27] that's okay.
[00:55:28] Yeah. I, I found that costume and, well, I was just thinking like zebras have naturally like a Mohawk and I thought it'd be really fun to do like a punk rock, like zebra. 
[00:55:47] Marv: [00:55:47] It's amazing. 
[00:55:48] Calysta: [00:55:48] And this is for Halloween. 
[00:55:51] Marv: [00:55:51] This is your 
[00:55:52] Calysta: [00:55:52] Halloween costume. Yeah. I love Halloween. That's my maybe second favorite holiday to Easter, but I dress up on [00:56:00] Easter.
[00:56:00] Anyway. I take every holiday as an opportunity to dress up. So, yeah, I borrowed my sister's docks. 
[00:56:06] Marv: [00:56:06] I mean your leg, your leg. That's the gangster zebra. Yeah, the 
[00:56:10] Calysta: [00:56:10] sideways lane. Yeah. It's just kind of 
[00:56:14] Marv: [00:56:14] that's the, that's the, yeah, that's the health goth. Zebra is vibing on the broken, dried up Lake bed. You know where that is?
[00:56:22] I wish I did. It's arrogant Lake that's immigrant Lake. I only went there once. No, listen, listen. I went there once and it was freezing cold. We never know 
[00:56:33] Calysta: [00:56:33] that's why I'm wearing gloves. Oh my God. It was, it was like six in the morning. We went for sunrise, um, photographer as a 
[00:56:40] Marv: [00:56:40] senior. But if this is what you would do, if she didn't do music, I mean, cause it seems like this is what you do.
[00:56:45] You would be a creative photographer working in the costume design and things. Cause you love this shit. You love color. 
[00:56:50] Calysta: [00:56:50] I do. I love costumes. I love dressing up. I like embodying different characters. What are your favorite 
[00:56:56] Marv: [00:56:56] animals? 
[00:56:57] Calysta: [00:56:57] Oh, I love mountain lions. [00:57:00] Like cougars, 
[00:57:02] Marv: [00:57:02] skunks. It looks skunks. You'd hate the two 38 where I live, man.
[00:57:07] It's like dead skunks all day. It's so sad because you drive by them and you're like, I guess it's good. They're dead. But they sure do smell. And they would kill my chickens, but God, there's so many dead skunks. It's so weird. 
[00:57:20] Calysta: [00:57:20] I just found out today that skunks kill chickens. I didn't know there was murder.
[00:57:24] Marv: [00:57:24] I didn't know. Savage Savage dangerous. Let's let's talk about a fun question. Okay. I want to know right now. Okay, so I'll give you a geo Metro car. Oh. I 
[00:57:39] Calysta: [00:57:39] used to drive a geo prison. 
[00:57:41] Marv: [00:57:41] So this is a magical time machine geometric. And what the thing is, is you have to drive from here, Oregon, and you have to drive nonstop to Florida.
[00:57:51] The tip of Florida. Okay. You can bring one person. Oh, and that's not the question. Oh, Actually, you can bring [00:58:00] whoever you want. So it's not even a decision. Okay. So we're going to go on a magical timesheet and then time she is going to take you back in time or forward, wherever you want to go. And then when you get to Florida, you get to see a show and it's in a small mid-size venue and you get to pick the opener, this main support in the headliner, anybody ever, that ever played.
[00:58:19] So you could have Louis Arndt or Ella Fitzgerald open up for Beethoven. Right. But you get to pick, but the way you get to see the shows, you have to drive nonstop for four days in a geo Metro, like a little car. Yeah. So it's kinda, you gotta work for it. I 
[00:58:31] Calysta: [00:58:31] don't know. That sounds really fun. Um, but yeah.
[00:58:36] Okay. Well obviously I'm not going to think about this for very long and it's just going to be my natural like flow gut reaction. Well, I've already seen Fiona Apple, but I'd always want to see her again. I love Fiona. I do. I do. Um, sure. Yeah. She's going to build your ultimate. She's good. Cause, cause I was, you know, she'll build the energy, [00:59:00] so yeah, let's put her at the top, uh, top of the lineup.
[00:59:02] Okay. Oh man. Who do I want to see? Oh man,
[00:59:12] Marv: [00:59:12] you can. 
[00:59:14] Calysta: [00:59:14] Hmm. Hmm. I keep thinking of people have already seen I'm like, no, you should just branch out and see somebody 
[00:59:24] Marv: [00:59:24] expand your horizon. It can be somebody you've. I mean, this is like the, this is mega show. This is the ticket that you would trade one of your siblings for. Cause it's its own never, ever will ever happen again.
[00:59:37] And anybody that's passed away, everybody's in their prime. You know what I'm saying? I took the timer thing off. It's not taken as you're good. 
[00:59:46] Calysta: [00:59:46] Um Hmm. I guess jazz artists. Yeah. I mean, as far as jazz artists go, obviously Ella I'd want to see Ella. 
[00:59:56] Marv: [00:59:56] Yeah. I'd love to see Ella, Ella warms up [01:00:00] the evening. One of those old SM 
[01:00:02] Calysta: [01:00:02] warm it up, then, then maybe ELA with a bigger band.
[01:00:07] And then, yeah. And then who would, I want to see last 
[01:00:17] Marv: [01:00:17] of, want to dance a little bit, right. 
[01:00:19] Calysta: [01:00:19] Probably or jump up and down. Yeah. And I don't know, you pick the wrong person to make decisions. I am the worst decider. 
[01:00:32] Marv: [01:00:32] I don't think so. Because you decided to hone your craft and everything. You went all in your whole life that you know it so far, 
[01:00:39] Calysta: [01:00:39] but I'm so mad.
[01:00:40] You don't, I've tried to quit so many times. I, Oh yeah, I have. I've been out just in the last year. No, I will go through periods of time where I'm like, I am not doing this anymore. 
[01:00:53] Marv: [01:00:53] Are you slightly bipolar? Sort of when it comes to music, probably like this sucks. I don't ever want 
[01:00:58] Calysta: [01:00:58] to hear it again. I mean, I [01:01:00] just, I don't know.
[01:01:00] I changed my mind a lot, but you know, somehow I keep staying on that kind of similar trajectory. Um, last person in the show that I want to see, who's a gun, a B I think it would have to be, 
[01:01:21] Marv: [01:01:21] you can keep stalling. There you go. No, you so much, you know, that'd be cool. 
[01:01:28] Calysta: [01:01:28] That'd be cool. Yeah. I have this problem though.
[01:01:30] Whenever I see live music is that I just, I think it's what keeps me doing it is I can't like I was working in production at the crystal ballroom and, um, I was working for a monkey and I was like, what if I just went into production and like started working on. Being like, kind of behind the scenes. But my problem is that I just have this deep dark desire to be on stage.
[01:01:54] I just want to do it so badly. I can't watch an artist without having this like, kind of like [01:02:00] weird envy feeling of like, I want to be up there. I want to be on the stage. And like, my friend's mom was brings up the story of when I would come over to her house, um, to play with her daughter, I would just get on the table, stand on the table and be like, Hey everybody, look at me, I'm going to sing a song.
[01:02:16] She'd like, you'd start singing some weird song about Jesus. And it was really awkward, but you just wanted everybody to look at you. I don't know. It's just part of who I am and have to embrace. 
[01:02:29] Marv: [01:02:29] I mean, we just talked about how, you know, 53 minutes ago, we talked about how it actually was higher, brought up, like you were shown how to project your social identity through performance.
[01:02:44] Your, your ed was carved at a young age with, with performance. So it's completely makes sense. It's not weird. Yeah. And I totally understand what you're saying. When you walk, when you see, I hate going to live shows, I'm like, I just want to add, I just want to get [01:03:00] up there. 
[01:03:00] Calysta: [01:03:00] I mean, I don't love it, but it just 
[01:03:03] Marv: [01:03:03] owner's, this crowd would feel us too, man.
[01:03:07] Like I can't. And it's, I'm so obsessed with that. Sometimes it ruins the live show. I'm like all that, that, that, that guitar is way too low, man. This, this sound, man. I need to go look at the sound and I need to go tell that sound, man. I know that I've like watched if I was watching you and you weren't, they couldn't hear you.
[01:03:23] I be behind the sound man like that and be like, yo, man, I've heard them a few times. You need to, you need to get her voice up. Like, come on, man. Those symbols don't need to be that high. Right, right. Yeah. It's just like people who study film or anything. They study it. And once they learn the tricks and how things are made, when you know how they make the sausage, it's kind of like a different perspective, like damn like movies, film, he's ruining film for me.
[01:03:53] Cause he's like showing me how each shot is lit and everything like that. Yeah. 
[01:03:56] Calysta: [01:03:56] I was just watching this show, the Shannara [01:04:00] Chronicles and it's great. I love Ella fantasy safe, but like medieval, I like scifi, but I also like, like medieval, like magic stuff and 
[01:04:09] medieval. 
[01:04:10] Marv: [01:04:10] Yeah, no I'm with 
[01:04:11] Calysta: [01:04:11] that. Um, but I was watching and there's the shot where you see the shadow of like someone in production, like you see their shadow.
[01:04:19] I was like, dang. It took me out of it. 
[01:04:22] Marv: [01:04:22] You know, like the coffee cup and game of Thrones. Oh, I never 
[01:04:25] Calysta: [01:04:25] saw that. I never saw a water bottle. What was it? 
[01:04:29] Marv: [01:04:29] So start with, so they took it, they took game of Thrones to the last season, the final episodes. And you're like, what is good? Now? It was the final episodes.
[01:04:37] The second to last episode. There's wow. Starbucks cup in the shot. Damn. And they're having like a celebratory, just one. This ma I don't wanna ruin 
[01:04:46] Calysta: [01:04:46] it for you because I stopped after like season four. I couldn't why. Well, like I said, I like medieval and fantasy like that, but it was too, there wasn't enough magic for me.
[01:04:57] I need like full blown, like really [01:05:00] cheesy, like more that was so 
[01:05:02] Marv: [01:05:02] political, like magical surrealism. You're you're about that. You don't like, you're not like a, you're not more of a star Trekkies. No, I 
[01:05:10] Calysta: [01:05:10] got that. Oh yeah. 
[01:05:13] Marv: [01:05:13] I love star currently engrossed in deep space. Nine. Like I haven't seen deep space nine.
[01:05:18] Yeah. One of the craziest thing about that, not to make it all about me and this podcast, but my entire life. I've never heard one person on any TV show or movie ever say Garrick, which is my name. Oh, on this show is a car DASSI and Nim Garrick. And so they always say, it's like, I've heard my name said, and not only did they say that, but they say it all the time.
[01:05:40] What if they're like Garrick, you want some coffee? How's your coffee, Derek. It's like constantly. And I just found this. That's awesome. So that's my reality of my Saifai where I'm at right now, but I kind of dig the Saifai. I understand the thespian and the, and the medieval flavors that you like, [01:06:00] what books did you grow up?
[01:06:01] Reading? 
[01:06:01] Calysta: [01:06:01] I read all the Lord of the rings books and the Hobbit and all that. Uh, yeah, I just, I never, like, I didn't get into the movies. I love the Lord of the rings movies, but yeah. Yeah. I grew up, yeah. I read a lot of books. I used to read a lot more than I do now. I just kind of started again. Did you read for fun?
[01:06:20] Yeah. Yeah, I do the last like fun series I read was this series about LIS which woman was really good. The first book is called the bear in the Nightingale. 
[01:06:30] Marv: [01:06:30] Do you know author's name by name? Catherine Arden is here's a good one. I got to go in for you, which Saifai magical. Surrealist art, uh, author. Would you like to, colaborate writing a song with, Oh, dropping the mic.
[01:06:46] Calysta: [01:06:46] Co-write writing a solo 
[01:06:48] Marv: [01:06:48] song with one of your favorite Spotify. You know what I'm saying? Like, no. Who would you like to write the story treatment for your video? Short film about a song. So they get a, [01:07:00] you know what I mean? Like you CoLab with them, you, you fuse music with scifi literature. Who would that be?
[01:07:07] Calysta: [01:07:07] Well, first person that comes to mind is a Russian author. You have Guinea some Yat-sen.
[01:07:16] Marv: [01:07:16] Yeah, totally. Okay. Suggestions. 
[01:07:21] Calysta: [01:07:21] It's one of the first language dystopian sci-fi novels yet. 
[01:07:27] Marv: [01:07:27] This is the cool new, 
[01:07:28] Calysta: [01:07:28] I hope he's Russian. I think it was 
[01:07:30] Marv: [01:07:30] fashion. The fact that you recall his name perfectly. 
[01:07:35] Calysta: [01:07:35] Oh yeah. Have you seen, um, the movie with Christian bale? 
[01:07:39] Marv: [01:07:39] I've seen all the Christian bale movies equilibrium for the light there's darkness.
[01:07:43] There's always darkest before the light. I 
[01:07:45] Calysta: [01:07:45] love it. Equilibrium. Nope. Kind of equilibrium, I think was like a mashup of 1984 and we really bought lines in a way. Yeah. 
[01:07:57] Marv: [01:07:57] So I've got some watching to do here. I got a [01:08:00] little short list of homework. I have to look up. 
[01:08:04] Calysta: [01:08:04] The collaborating on songwriting is such a, it's an interesting thing.
[01:08:07] That's I haven't done it very much, but I do. I've done it a couple of times with, um, sugar beets. So Lucan and Rhonda, right. Um, I think the majority of their lyrics, they have sometimes other people. Right. But like on 1873. Yeah. I wrote some little bit of the lyrics. Mostly the lyrics were Luke. Yeah. Um, but that's something that's interesting for me, like, and challenging about singing with sugar beets is it's different.
[01:08:38] Cause with folly, like I've written all the lyrics and they're really like in my head because I've written them and there's just a difference of like covering someone else's material or like having a collaborative part in someone's material or doing the stand, like the jazz standards, um, which are, have been done so 
[01:08:58] Marv: [01:08:58] many times because there's [01:09:00] sort of innately in your brain, the jazz standards.
[01:09:02] And then the stuff you wrote is muscle memory. Right. And your soul and heart. And I always, and then when you do the CoLab stuff, it's like this thing you had. But it's not innately or, you know, in your, your passion project, but it's like this thing you can do. Yeah. I always have problems with that when I do collaborations with other rappers, like cute on stage and plus your verse, bro.
[01:09:24] And I'm like, okay. And I literally will be like this, you know, listening to my verse, trying to make sure I don't fuck it up. It's really different. It's a different mind. 
[01:09:33] Calysta: [01:09:33] It is. And covering like, uh, sugar beets has a lot of different artists that they feature. And I sing a lot of those songs. So listening to these other voices and styles and putting my own, spin on them and covering them is really fun and different and sometimes really hard.
[01:09:50] Marv: [01:09:50] Yeah. The challenge though, the challenge awaits you, you're sort of on a, sort of a Saifai modern day Saifai musical quest [01:10:00] as a, as a, a warrior of spirit. I like that. That could be the co-lab with  if you want. Yeah. I know, like I I'm, I'm just, I wish people at home get a chance. People at home get a chance to see you perform live.
[01:10:17] And I hope that they tune in on Friday because to me early in the show, I said, you're a five, two artists. You know what that is kid. I played baseball. And in baseball, you Scouts come and watch you. And it's very nerve-wracking and they, they analyze you on like a five tool thing is, do you, can you hit for power?
[01:10:39] Can you hit for average? Can you, do you have speed? Do you have a throwing arm and how's your defensive glove? So over the time I kind of relate that to my friends and the musicians. I know, and it's kind of relative to their success. Musically has how many tools they have and to me, so I flipped that baseball ish sports analogy into a [01:11:00] musical artistic thing.
[01:11:00] And to me, you're a five cool player. You have the style. The looks, the voice, the writing, able to perform what you're writing and you have the spark, those are all the tools you have all those tools. And so when you apply it to whatever you choose, it seems like there's been awesome success for you. And as a woman, it's so cool to see that.
[01:11:23] And Eugene, you know, like just my experience watching, and I was like, damn, she's killing it. Like almost like, God, I want to be up there too. Like, but she's killing it. You know? It's awesome. And, um, you're you're if, so, I've seen this transition modern day transition of, of, of females getting their voice and being heard.
[01:11:44] And I think it's awesome. And I want to know what it's like for you, um, to stand on stage and have a bunch of dudes just like creatively forcefully backing you and you create a voice and you not only do it here, you do it in two different. What's that like? It's [01:12:00] great. 
[01:12:00] Calysta: [01:12:00] I've always. Like, I dunno. I love people and I've always gotten along well with men.
[01:12:05] And, um, I don't know, like I never really thought about like the being a woman aspect of me being on stage until, you know, people have like brought it up and I've always kind of like blown it off, like, Oh, whatever, it doesn't matter. And then I was playing in Salem a couple of years ago at, um, mentees and I was just doing my thing, you know, it wasn't really a big show and this like woman probably in her, like late fifties walked by me and just like looked at me in such an intense way and was like, you, you make me proud to be a woman.
[01:12:49] And like, it really like hit me in a way that I didn't, you know, I didn't know that I could like. Bring up that feeling in [01:13:00] somebody or that they could like bring that out in me. And yeah, it was just like an emotional moment where I was like, Oh, like the way I present myself is impacting other people. And I think, especially for like a woman who was maybe older and just like, maybe she was like finding herself or like going through some kind of transition in life.
[01:13:22] And she really like resonated with the, my expression. And it made me feel like what I was doing, like mattered to other females out there. 
[01:13:34] Marv: [01:13:34] Sure. I mean, when she was, when she was a little girl that could never have happened for her, I don't think. Right. I don't know. I think it's cool. You're a sign of the progression.
[01:13:44] You're the tip of the iceberg of the progression, you know, it's awesome. You have power, you can empower kids. Young ladies, older women are proud of you. It's just, it's just a really great place to be. There's other women too, in the scene, right. [01:14:00] It's allies like Baroque, Betty, for example, she just popped into my head.
[01:14:03] She's got her like, come on. You guys are friends, right? Yeah. Okay, good. That was a question. I was like how? Yeah. She's onstage with high steps. 
[01:14:10] Calysta: [01:14:10] She's who I always vote for in the Eugene weekly.  
[01:14:15] Marv: [01:14:15] she said, man, she is awesome. And she does the Baroque, right. The burlesque. And then she does that when she's singing with that string quartet.
[01:14:24] And then she gets on stage with high step. Yeah. There's sort of a similar path thing going on for passing project, a side project, and then the keepers thing refined. And then the thing with the dudes totally evicted the diverse, Oh, that's the plan they're coming out on the 26th. We got high step and I requested Ethan and Baroque be the.
[01:14:45] Ambassadors of the band, because we clearly can't do that. Everybody, 
[01:14:48] Calysta: [01:14:48] you know, I love, um, poom and Alex Horn players. So they've played on my, the FA fortunes folly project. And they've also played with sugar [01:15:00] beets. And I just love like, you know, 
[01:15:03] Marv: [01:15:03] yeah. They're Oregon's horn section, they're the underground horn section.
[01:15:08] And so we will have high step there. See broke Betty. And they also got Anthony now, you know, set be a tonic and March fourths, bone players. Now in the crew, 
[01:15:18] Calysta: [01:15:18] I love sippy a tonic. Their slaves played with both of 
[01:15:22] Marv: [01:15:22] them. They're no longer performing at the moment. Shout out to eat them though. Love you, bro.
[01:15:27] But, um, Anthony is now working with them. I'm getting Anthony down here, just solo along with, uh, Rudy. Cause they, I just want to talk to him about, what's it like to tour the country with March 4th and a big bus? You know, that's 
[01:15:41] Calysta: [01:15:41] crazy. So funny about March 4th is like, I think about them every March 4th, right?
[01:15:47] Like what a band name? 
[01:15:48] Marv: [01:15:48] This March for like two days. When was it? It was four days ago was their holiday. Yeah. And this is the first time in 20 something years that they haven't, maybe they all got [01:16:00] together on a low key jam. 
[01:16:01] Calysta: [01:16:01] You never know, take a pee break. Can we take a commercial break? Is that allowed?
[01:16:05] Marv: [01:16:05] Yeah. Why don't we play? Uh, why don't we play 1873,
[01:16:14] if you want, we could, we could play it or we could do, we could play some of her stuff. We're almost done. Okay. What level are you at? Um, 
[01:16:22] Calysta: [01:16:22] one at a time 
[01:16:23] Marv: [01:16:23] distracted level seven. So let's wrap it. Let's wrap this up. Let's wrap this up. We've got a nice, we got a nice interview. I really appreciate you coming in, especially on international women's day.
[01:16:34] So I 
[01:16:34] Calysta: [01:16:34] got my coffee and my water. I'm sitting here. You know, it's a 
[01:16:38] Marv: [01:16:38] lot for me. No, you have an hour and 17 minute bladder. That's what's up. Um, so, uh, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's been a pleasure to have you. Thank you. Thank you for coming in. I hope that everybody out there learned a little bit more about this amazing woman on international woman's day.
[01:16:58] Thank you. That's awesome. [01:17:00] And this Friday is a special show here at the hybrid going live. It's not prerecorded. No, it's not. No. And all these cameras are going to be in there and it's gonna 
[01:17:10] awesome. 
[01:17:10] Calysta: [01:17:10] It's going to be great. You know, nothing like performing for a room full, 
[01:17:16] Marv: [01:17:16] but guess what? I 
[01:17:17] Calysta: [01:17:17] love it. I'm happy.
[01:17:19] Marv: [01:17:19] I am. I feel like it's a little bit, it's a little bit more. On point of which, what, you know, then what we've been forced to do over the last year as performers that I think you'll get a different vibe. I think it's going to be no, it's going 
[01:17:30] Calysta: [01:17:30] to be great. I'm really excited. And I would love to take a moment to express gratitude to everyone here.
[01:17:36] That's, that's made this possible. Everyone that's behind the scenes, running, running things here and to you, of course, for interviewing me and to everybody that is taking the time to listen and tune in and see what's going on with artists lives. Cause I really, like I said, I can't stress enough. Like how grateful I am for the people.
[01:17:57] I wouldn't be able at all to do [01:18:00] music or art without the people that have supported me and, um, and my bands and, and this whole scene in Oregon. Um, so yeah, I know sometimes I can seem a little. A little cynical, you know, through the interview, I think a little bit, you know, sometimes, sometimes it can come across, but I really like, I feel so, so happy that I can do this 
[01:18:23] Marv: [01:18:23] with my life.
[01:18:24] Yeah. This Friday 7:00 PM, sugar beets featuring the one and only Calista Cheyenne. Right. Hey, and that's her and tune in and check it out. It's going to be amazing. I'm going to be here. I'm going to be rude, informed. I will be clapping and sharing and doing some small interviews in between not to disrupt the flow, but we want to get you guys a good recording.
[01:18:47] Uh, and just so you know that there will be download links or excuse me. Uh, can contribution donation links and you can tune in and donate, uh, during the show and after the show. [01:19:00] So these people can keep getting your support. Um, Calista, is there anything you want to say about this song we're going to leave him with, because this is the song, this is your elevator speech song.
[01:19:09] This is the jam for sugar beets, right? 
[01:19:11] Calysta: [01:19:11] Yeah. It's called 1873. It is on our latest release that was released on August 20th of 2020. And, um, it features a few different artists on it and, uh, and I really think it has a lot of power. It's it's fun. I like it. 
[01:19:29] Marv: [01:19:29] Yeah. Organic. So here it is. 1873 sugar Bates. We're out.
[01:19:35] Khalisa. Thank you so much. Thanks for listening to deep dive at the hive. We'll be back next week. And it's going to be amazing. And Friday nights, the show is let's check it out. Let's tune in spread, share and spread the love. Sorry, this massive screen here, but make sure you share it and let's promote this one.
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