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Celebrating 40: A Musical Journey of Reflection, Growth, and New Beginnings
Turning 40 is more than just a number—it's a celebration of the journey so far and the promise of what's to come. As Sam embraces this milestone birthday, he shares with Matt and the listeners a specially curated music mix that captures the essence of this new chapter. He begins with Logic's "Hallelujah," which echoes the importance of keeping an open mind. This episode is filled with reflective insights and a touch of laughter. You'll find yourself drawn into Sam's world as he navigates the complexities of aging with inspiration and humor.
What's the secret to living in the moment and letting go of past regrets? Sam explores this question through songs that remind us of the beauty of presence and self-forgiveness. With tracks like The All-American Rejects' "Move Along," Fountains of Wayne's "All Kinds of Time," and Pearl Jam's "Present Tense," you'll uncover powerful messages about savoring the present and embracing life's pace. These songs serve as an anthem for anyone who seeks to balance life's fleeting moments with thoughtful reflection.
As the episode unfolds, Sam delves into the duality of life, highlighting growth and the balance between light and dark. "Let Go" by Frou Frou and Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten" inspire us to view life as an open canvas, full of potential and new beginnings. The exploration continues with Moby's "Run On" and Pink Floyd's masterpieces "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse," celebrating the artistry that captures both the light and shadow of the human experience. Join us for a musical journey that honors personal growth, self-reflection, and the joyous celebration of Sam's 40th birthday.
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1. Hallelujah – Logic
2. What's My Age Again? – Blink-182
3. Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl – Broken Social Scene
4. Move Along – The All-American Rejects
5. All Kinds of Time – Fountains of Wayne
6. Present Tense – Pearl Jam
7. Let Go – Frou Frou
8. Unwritten – Natasha Bedingfield
9. 2085 – AJR
10. Run On – Moby
11. Brain Damage – Pink Floyd
12. Eclipse – Pink Floyd
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welcome back to another super awesome mix. My name is matt, set home alongside my co-host and co-founder and the birthday boy, sam abusalby.
Speaker 2:Sam, happy birthday thank you so much. Yes, one of our listeners pieced together when I was talking about the track 2085 that I would be 100 years old then and just a little simple math trick equates to this being my 40th birthday. So the cat's out of the bag. I'm entering into my fourth decade here on this planet Incredible.
Speaker 1:That is incredible. Well, actually doesn't that mean four decades are behind you, Aren't you entering your fifth?
Speaker 2:decade. Right, yes, I'm entering my fifth one. Yeah, math again. It just keeps sneaking up on you, it does keep sneaking up on us, but it's there.
Speaker 1:It's there. Well, congratulations, Sam. I mean, talk about the theme here. This is your 40th birthday. This is your birthday mix. We do a birthday mix every year, but this one's got to be a little more special, right.
Speaker 2:I agree. Yeah, there's something about entering and having a new number. Start your new digit, start your year. So now I'm in my 40s, I've exited my 30s officially. So I really struggled with what theme to put together for this. You know I went with. I thought about like songs from the 80s. I'm like, no, that would be the worst mix I could put together for myself. And then I thought about maybe picking a handful of songs like from every 10 years of my life. But like, that is such an exercise because there's. How do you pick three songs from like the first 10 years of your life, like there's so many more than that, right, um.
Speaker 2:So then I thought, well, you know what, like I think this is often, whenever I enter into a new, like let's call it era, I am, you know, a little bit more reflective than normal. And so I thought, why not pick songs where the lyrics kind of have a meaning to me and what am I thinking about these days, and kind of build this as a snapshot of who am I entering into year 41? And so that is kind of the theme. It's very heavy on the lyrics and the feel of a lot of these songs.
Speaker 1:So that is what I pieced together, so we'll talk about that throughout and the feel of a lot of these songs, so that is what I pieced together, so we'll talk about that throughout Nice, okay, okay. And I really enjoyed this mix. Just as a precursor, this was a good mix of songs. Since it's your birthday mix, I will introduce every song. Obviously, they're not all from the same artist, so I will introduce the artist as well. So we will start with track one it is Hallelujah by Logic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, with track one it is Hallelujah by Logic. Yeah, this is one that I just kind of knew. The second I picked my theme, I knew I wanted to start it off with this track. You know I mentioned recently that I've been listening to Logic again. This song is one that I didn't hear before before recently, but I love it. I love it for a lot of reasons. Number one, you know it just has this really nice like open, joyful feel. You know. I mean it just kind of gets you in a good mood. I've been listening to it a lot to start my days recently.
Speaker 2:I love the chorus of Open your Mind over and over. You know he's singing from the point of view of someone who is biracial. He's half black, half white and just doesn't ever feel like he belongs in either camp, and what I think he's really singing here is, like you know, open your mind, be be open to people that don't fall into a category, whatever that is. In this case, for him, it's his race, but I think you can apply this universally, right, and so, you know, I think that that's something that is super important for me to keep in mind too.
Speaker 2:It's easy as we get older, to kind of, you know, be stuck in our ways, close our mind to things like have experiences ruin certain things for us, and I think it's important to kind of let go of that as much as we can, keep an open mind, um, and, and you know, just be open to whatever is going to happen in life, because we never know. So really like it for that. I also think the ending skit is hilarious. Like I, I have only listened to it one way through the entire way. Usually I'll just skip skits after you listen to it the first time.
Speaker 2:So that's what I've been doing, but it's worth listening to the whole way because I think it's pretty great, and it features Neil deGrasse Tyson as God, which is also great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is a. This is a great song. I wasn't sure just looking at the title if it was going to be some sort of takeoff of the like Jeff Buckley classic Hallelujah. Right, it's nothing like that. It does have gospel-ish feel to it. You talked about kind of the peppiness to it. I feel like it's a little takes a little bit from the gospel genre. Loved it like musically loved it. I mean. Obviously the lyrics are great too and I'm with you the vignette at the end. It kind of reminded me I don't know if ever seen the albert brooks movie defending your life, where no I haven't, dies and and kind of is trying to get to heaven anyway.
Speaker 1:Um, that's a great movie. If you're turning 40, I feel like, because it's a, it's a great like. Look at the afterlife and albert brooks is hilarious and uh, yeah, I think you'd really enjoy it.
Speaker 2:It's from like 1990, so okay, it's probably going to be some stuff that offends you Samer, but just fight your way through it.
Speaker 1:Okay, there's a larger theme here going on, it was a different time, all right.
Speaker 2:I'll try to open my mind to the offensive stuff of the 90s.
Speaker 1:I don't think there's anything offensive, but I say that all the time.
Speaker 2:And then you'll be like, what about the part with the?
Speaker 1:and I'm like oh right, I guess that is probably offensive. Yeah, I'm in a permanent state of being offended. Now, all right, track two you've got what's my age again by blink 182.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So of course I had to have this track because it's a question that I literally ask myself all the time, and I think this is also pretty normal. As you get older, you do lose track of how old you are. So people might ask you like you know how old are you and you're like wait, what's my age again? So that is, I felt, very appropriate here, especially like working. I work pretty much primarily in startups, and startups tend to attract a lot of young people and now I realize I'm part of like the older, you know like the older thing of startups. I'm like when did that happen?
Speaker 2:You know, like I used to be the 20 something joining a startup and now people look to me like I'm an elder and I'm like I don't have any answers. And I think that again is captured in this song right Like I feel stuck in my 20s and I think that's also pretty normal. But this is definitely why I wanted to include it lyrically of just like I really sometimes question what my age is and am I actually a 40 year old person. I thought I'd have way more answers by now than I do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is a great. This is a great one. I kind of wasn't surprised it was on here, because I feel like we've talked about this song again, either on the show or just offline. But here's what I loved about it the end of hallelujah, by logic, and the beginning of this song just pair really well and I wanted to kind of point that out. That, like that, was a really good transition between songs, two songs that you wouldn't think would transition together, and that's just a really important feature of a mixtape. So if you're out there making a playlist or a mixtape, think about the transitions and how it's going to sound to someone listening to it. But yeah, 100% agree.
Speaker 1:I had to testify in a trial recently and at one point they asked me and you know, see, you know you swear that you're going to tell the truth, that whole thing right. But one of the last questions they asked me is how old are you? And that was the one question I kind of paused at. I was like because it would have been so unfortunate to perjure yourself with a question about your age, right.
Speaker 2:Your age, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's awesome.
Speaker 2:Well, it probably made it more authentic that you waited. I imagine lawyers are used to that right and judges where it's like if you immediately know your age, it's like, oh, that's suspicious. Right, right, knew this question. Yeah, exactly, yeah all right.
Speaker 1:Well, this next track features, uh, an age number in it.
Speaker 2:It is anthems for a 17 year old girl by broken social scene yeah, I'm pretty sure we've had this on somewhere in our five years of recording um, because I vaguely remember talking about it. But yeah, this is another one where again it's. The theme here is just truly, you know, thinking back to your youth. Um, this song is really just tackling that idea of like you almost don't recognize your young self anymore. You know, like this person, um, like she's singing, like used to be one of the rotten ones, you know, but I liked you for that. I tell my wife all the time that, like, if she met me in high school, she probably would have hated me because I was like a brash, like bratty, um, self-absorbed kid and now I'm just mostly bratty and self-absorbed I was gonna say what's changed, which part has changed?
Speaker 1:just point for the listeners, point that out for the listeners. I mean, obviously I know, but just I'm slightly less self-absorbed.
Speaker 2:I do let in a little bit of other people and a little bit of okay, carry on, carry on, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2:But no, I, I just liked the song Cause. Again, it's just that examination of looking back and realizing that you know you are not that person, but at the same time you are that person, right I think that that person, but at the same time you are that person, right. I think that that's what's so unique about kind of getting older is like you are all of these people mushed into this one version of self and how that changes over the years. So just another kind of reflective song and one that I just have always loved. The feel of this song Like I don't know, it's just got this like airy kind of feel you can lose yourself to.
Speaker 1:that's why this is track number three um, I I heard some banjo in here made me think of banjo sommelier, okay, and how we need to. Still, someone needs to take that instagram handle and run with it, please. Um, but no, this is really good. I think that the music kind of swells up a little bit, like it's really kind of emotional and there's like a redundancy to the lyrics which I think adds sort of a powerfulness to it. Um, yeah, yeah, I don't know, it was a really really good one and I think, especially like, if you're thinking if this really was written for a 17 year old girl, I think that is a uh, it's really well done for that genre. It's good for anybody at any age, because it kind of I don't know encourages you to sort of push past your faults a little bit, because that's kind of what bogs you down a lot of times. So, no, great pick and great pick for any age, not just 17. Track four you've got Move Along by the All-American Rejects.
Speaker 2:Yeah, All-American Rejects is definitely a band in the category of, like I forget about them. I listen to a song of theirs and then I end up listening to all their albums because I'm like they were a great band. I absolutely love their sound. It still holds up today, you know bonus points, because it's like nostalgic, and I think I even saw them in concert at some point, which was really good. So, yeah, for me, like the lyrics are just super clear here. Very positive song.
Speaker 2:You know, when all you got to keep is strong, move along, move along, like I know you do. Even when your hope is gone, move along, move along just to make it through. And I think you know, as we get older and we face trials and tribulations in our life, both personal and external, you know, you, it is sometimes very easy, unfortunately, to just feel like you want to quit and just want to stop, but the best thing you can do is just keep moving on. Like you'll find your way through anything if you just find the strength to keep moving. So this is an important message for me to keep remembering, because there's definitely moments where you're just like, oh, you know, and really all you can do is choose to move on and find your way through, and you know most of the time you do so. That's great. So, yeah, I just love this song because of the nostalgic element, but really just enjoy the uplifting lyrics as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this was a big hit. It still gets radio play now, but I mean just such a great message, right, when everything seems wrong, just move along. I mean that's perfect and it's going to help you at any point in your life. I also love hearing this song from beginning to end, without a DJ at the beginning or it fading out too early was also really good. I appreciate the intro to this song so much more, but so often if you catch it on the radio, it's getting eaten up by like hey, we're going to be down at the Paramus Mall this weekend. Okay, come check us out, like all that kind of stuff. I know exactly what you're talking about. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:All right. Track five You've got All Kinds of Time. By Fountains of Wayne. Yeah, fountains of Wayne, it's such an underrated group, so so good. And this song is one of my favorites of theirs.
Speaker 2:It was featured, actually, in a scrubs episode.
Speaker 2:Like many of my songs, I learned through them because of zach braff's uh, choice of music, um, whether it was this or garden state.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, this one I really like it because you know it's like telling the story of this, like quarterback who's dropping back for a pass, um, you know he said that he wrote it because he would hear commentators just talk about, you know, quarterbacks that have all kinds of time back there in the pocket because like their o-line's doing their job, and you know he like stretched us out to what if that really felt like an eternity.
Speaker 2:And I think you know the message here is like just, um, realize sometimes, like take that breath and realize you've got some time to make a decision and make a choice and that it doesn't have to be so rushed, because that's often when you make mistakes, and so it's funny. I think there's these two kind of forces at play where you know you do feel like you've got a lot of time, but then also you feel like you don't want to waste your time, and so I think that these two things kind of play together, and I'd like to believe that I have a lot of time and that I can, you know, slow down, enjoy myself and kind of just like make the choices that matter to me, rather than just rushing through everything, which is very easy to do these days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this song, it's really well done, really well written. It reminded me of so many moments in sports movies where you do have like kind of the pinnacle moment, like the big shot, the big throw, whatever it is, and then they do do that kind of flashback thing where they'll like show the person either practicing or or thinking about something else in their life before they actually execute on it. And so they did such a great job here of putting that into words and putting that into a song and sort of stretching out what is a three second moment, right, like that that's, you know, quarterback, drops back, gets rid of the ball, like all that takes three, four seconds, and so to stretch it out into like a three minute song, I thought it was so well done and you know, like you said, credit the fountains of Wayne, like they're really, they're really a talented band, stacy's mom, which is such a kind of silly song, um, but there's so many songs like this out there that are just great, so great. Pick um, all right.
Speaker 2:Track six you've got present tense by pearl jam yeah, I think this one is my all-time favorite pearl jam song um, I and there it's. It's a tight race. There are a lot of really, really good ones. You know you did an intro to pearl jam mix. I still listen to and really enjoy um.
Speaker 2:But I like this one a lot because, again, you know, on the theme of time, and it's very similar to all kinds of time right before it. It's just that reminder to be in the present, to live in a moment. You know, I love the line of him, like looking at this tree and just realizing, like doesn't it inspire? Right Like trees don't have a sense of time, they just kind of exist and go through every season and change throughout the seasons and they've persisted for millions of years. You know, like they're very successful at doing that, which is incredible, and I also really have.
Speaker 2:You know, just keep playing back those lyrics of you can spend your time alone re-digesting past regrets or come to terms and realize you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself, and so it makes much more sense to live in the present tense. And I mean, what an important message, right Like you can just come back to that over and over again that living in the past does not serve you, and projecting out way too far in the future also doesn't really serve you. And so just to be present and be where you are. So I think these two songs together really kind of help, that reminder are. So I think these two songs together really kind of help, that reminder, that challenge of slowing down, you know, taking a breath, taking a moment and really enjoying where you are in life to the best that you can.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's interesting because on a recent episode of what Are you Listening To, which is also on the Super Awesome Mix podcast network, jen Tully highlighted the song Heart of the Matter by Don Henley and that song is all about forgiveness and kind of moving forward, and so it was interesting because I had recently heard that and then you put this song on. Of course that is the same. The line you just read was the same lyric. I kind of called out because of that idea of forgiving yourself and moving forward, because that stuff is so important. But yeah, I mean this was. I mean I love Pearl Jam and no, this is a great song and just a really good theme for a birthday, because I'm sure we all live with things that we just haven't let go of and this is a good reminder to do that.
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Speaker 2:You want to cut out the things that make you not feel good. It sounds really dumb to say out loud, but it's difficult in practice. Sometimes we do hold on to things that we shouldn't be, and so, you know, letting go has become a very important theme for me and just kind of figuring out, like you know, what to focus on, what I can control and let go of the rest. But I've always loved this song. You know I mentioned Zach Braff.
Speaker 2:This was featured in the movie Garden State. So yet again he's introing me to music my entire life and I just love her voice here. You know, fru Fru was like a temporary band. I think it only had one album with Imogen Heap as the lead singer here and she just I love the song, she does such a great job with it and it just feels like again that kind of airy feel to a song that kind of matches the lyrics, you know, and her singing, like there's beauty in the breakdown, like there's beauty in our emotions and our ability to feel and be where we are. And so, you know, allow yourself to feel those things, let go of what you can and and just enjoy life as best, as best as you can.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and one of the lines I called out here is we've no time for later, now you can't await your own arrival, you have 20 seconds to comply. And what I loved about that was just the sense of urgency added there with the 20 seconds to like let go like go now, right now, right like, like if you've ever listened to like mel robbins, like mel robbins, motivational speaker, is very much into that three, two, one, go, act. Let go of that thought, like whatever, like kind of making that decision quickly. And so obviously I love the theme of the song, but also just that line to call out sort of the urgency behind it and just that it really can't happen that quickly in your mind, if you will let your mind do that.
Speaker 2:So yeah, good stuff. No, I I love that and I especially love it because I think it's um, whether it was intentional or not, but it's like the, the scene in robocop, where the the other robocop, like the one that failed, I think he is like you have 20 seconds to comply um, and so I love the, the sense of like this mixing in this really violent moment from that movie, uh, into this really nice song about letting go robocop, by the way, came out, I think, when you were born.
Speaker 1:I think around, just right around there, so that's perfect amazing, that's perfect.
Speaker 2:That movie holds up that one's great, uh, all right, track eight. It is unwritten by natasha beddingfield yeah, this song is, I feel like, has made a resurgence lately. Um, I imagine that the movie, um, anyone but you had something to do with that. It was featured, uh, very prominently in that film with sydney sweeney and, um, oh my god, I'm blanking on his name, but he's in every movie now anyway.
Speaker 2:So, yes, so I absolutely love, love, love the song. I've loved it for a long time again. The lyrics are super great, so simple, very, very clear, you know, but just a great positive message of you know, your, your story's, unwritten, right, you can make it whatever you want to be, and so just be here in the moment. You know, like the feel, the rain on your skin to me is just like that sense of like be present, like allow these things to kind of happen in your life and and um, the rest is still unwritten. So just love the song. This one, I feel like is would be a great karaoke song.
Speaker 2:Like you can get everyone singing along with you. And again, the lyrics are easy and it's not that long. You know you're not going to be there for seven and a half minutes, right, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a good one. She doesn't linger on the chorus, right? She just kind of?
Speaker 1:moves it forward, which is good. Shout out to the Hills, any Hills fans out there. Okay, obviously this was the opening theme from that show, but yeah, no, I think it's a great birthday song, great message, just because it's like don't let your present situation kind of say, well, this is my life now, like this is what the rest of it's going to be, and just kind of this emphasis that it is unwritten. There's still a lot ahead of you, even at age 40, sam. Okay, even at your age.
Speaker 2:By the way, glenn powell, that's it. Yes, I was trying to pull it. I was like god, what is that?
Speaker 1:guy's name? Yeah, glenn powell, he isn't everything. Uh, all, right track. Nine, you referenced this song earlier. It's when you will turn the ripe old age of 100.
Speaker 2:It is 2085 by ajr yeah, I know we just spoke about this, but I just had to include it again because because of the 100, you know, being in 2085, like I think that's it sticks with me. But you know, I also really love the focus on a different set of lyrics in this discussion, the opening lines. Right, if somebody told me I died at 40, I wouldn't have spent my time in bed with my dumb songs and my growing up songs. I should have just grown up instead, and I think that that's also like you know.
Speaker 2:Again, this is a reflective moment of it's very easy to think back and wonder, like, what if I'd done this differently? What if I'd spent my time a little differently? Um, and just wishing you might have done things a little different. But unfortunately, you know to go back to the song, present tense, it's all come, you know it all ties together you, you could spend a lifetime wishing you'd done things differently, but you can start now and do things differently, you know. So, like this song and unwritten and present tense and all that is that reminder of like, don't spend too much time looking back, um, and maybe, if you do, use it to only inform how you're going to change, looking forward, you know, and how you're going to change yourself, looking forward and and spend the time that you do have left. So I really like this song and and again. It just makes me very reflective as I think about it and I can't imagine turning 100 one day, but you know it's. I'm 40% of the way there, so we'll see.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is a good, good placement right after Unwritten, because you know 2085, I mean the song is kind of about like, yeah, reflecting, but but yeah, also sort of looking ahead, what is that year going to look like for you? What do you want to look back on all of that? And we love AJR. I mean obviously they also have a cool sound and a really really good lyrics, really good way to put things. So, yeah, great choice here. And really really good lyrics, really good way to put things. So, yeah, great choice here. All right.
Speaker 2:Track 10 it is run on by moby yeah, I recently talked about this song with um, with jen actually on her show as well. What are you listening to? And I I'd mentioned in the context of it being one of the songs I I played on marathon day um, for me, you know, back in november, and one that I continue to play, um since then, and it's like a mix. Me, you know, back in November, and one that I continue to play since then, and it's like a mix of. Obviously you know the sense of like running. I'm obviously super into running, but it's really more just this.
Speaker 2:I come back to the lines you know this is a cover song, of course, but I come back to the lines of basically that eventually God's going to come. You know, cut you down right. Like death comes for us all, like it's one thing that is not escapable, and so it's that reminder you know this is like maybe the darker version of it, it doesn't have to be dark of just that, yeah, our time is limited. Um, and eventually, you know, death comes for all of us, and so it's just that reminder of like um, you know you can run on and do a bunch of things, but eventually, like it's gonna stop, and so I I want to make sure I'm spending my time properly. I I don't want to, you know, spend my time running away from anything. I'd rather be running towards things that I like and all of that. So, um, just really really love this version of it.
Speaker 2:Moby said that apparently he did this one um entirely manual, like this was not recorded using a computer, because now it's like super easy to sample things using computers, but he was like manually piecing this together. He said it was. He was exhausted afterwards and I can. I can hear that in the song. It's very complex actually. So, um, I just really like how it sounds, but I like that reminder in the lyrics as well yeah, I was.
Speaker 1:I was really impressed by this song, also really funny music video if you go and check out the music video to it. But, um, yeah, I mean it's definitely got a moby sound to it, but there is something very different, um, from from what you normally get from him. Again, almost a little bit of gospel feel to it. Like, if I'm gonna kind of bring that in along with hallelujah and this one, which you know part of two genres that you wouldn't necessarily associate with that genre. So so that was really cool. But, yeah, you could tell the complexity here. So it is interesting to hear that he kind of did this a little differently than he normally does songs, but because you could tell it was different but the output was different. So a nice one here. All right, our last two tracks are by the same artist. I don't know if you want to introduce these together, because they kind of run into each other.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the last two tracks, it is Brain Damage and Eclipse by first time. Coming to the mix, this little band called Pink Floyd.
Speaker 2:I know we were texting about this before this, recording that we'd not featured Pink Floyd yet in five years of talking about music, which is wild. So here, obviously, on this mix, you know, dark Side of the Moon, incredible album, one of my no-skip albums still to date. It's so, so good. But it's funny, when I did arrive at the, you know, at this theme I mentioned, I wanted Hallelujah to open it and I knew immediately I wanted these two songs to close it.
Speaker 2:Um, and I think for me the reason is, uh, twofold one I just love how these two songs and the album and it just goes out in this really interesting way after this whole exploration of of sound, um, I love how they run into each other. I just I love a good pairing. Maybe that needs to be a mix one day where we just pick like songs that that bleed into each, so it's like two songs that are really one, because I have a handful in mind that I think do really well. So, musically, I love it for that, but lyrically, what I really like about this is just that line. I come back to that line of there's someone in my head but it's not me and I think you know we all kind of have that feeling, sometimes in one of two ways. The dark way of, like you know, we have a thought that we don't like, like an intrusive thought, and it can be very like alarming to hear it and you're like, oh my god, like who is that?
Speaker 2:in me or a very light way of again, you hear a thought and you see a version of yourself that you really like and you want to be that version, and you're not quite there yet, and so I think you know what this whole album kind of explores is that we share both light and darkness in our, in the same brain space.
Speaker 2:Right, we have these like versions of ourselves and they intermix with each other and you can't have one without the other. And I think you know, to borrow a quote from Harry Potter, it's like we all have the light and the dark, and it's like what you choose to focus on is like who you are. And so I think you know, getting older, turning 40, really at any point in your life, it's a nice exploration moment to just kind of think, like who am I focusing on? You know, am I chasing the voice that makes me feel better and makes me want to be a better person, or am I chasing that voice that kind of drags me down and makes me feel crummy and maybe, you know, a little bit more negative?
Speaker 1:So that's why I really again, lyrically, loved these songs, but in general, I just have, I love, love, love this album. I'll never get tired of it. Yeah, this was great and really cool. I mean, they, they, they blend into each other just seamlessly, so you don't even realize that the track is shifting. So I'm glad we're kind of talking about them together. But yeah, I love that idea of kind of light and dark and what do you choose to? You know? You know, amplify if you will, that's. That's a big thing in like pro wrestling. If you've ever listened to pro wrestlers talk, it's like they all say they're just sort of being a part of themselves and sort of amplifying that part of themselves.
Speaker 1:That's why, like in pro, wrestling they could be a bad guy, you could be a good guy at different times, because they're just sort of amplifying that part of themselves and kind of having fun within the process. But, um, no, this this is great and I do think, uh, kind of a really cool way to end the mix, I think because one this sounds really cool. I love in eclipse how it kind of goes into this litany of of things, like just the way it kind of lays itself out. It reminds me of the U2 track Stuck in a Moment. You Can't Leave Behind. That kind of ends that way too, and it almost kind of has a trance-like nature to it and so really cool way to end the mix, as you're kind of listening to it and sort of reflecting. So, no, great job, great construction of this mix. I was really impressed with that.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. Yeah, no, I appreciate that. I agree with you. I think Eclipse is like it gives me. You can allow yourself to have chills listening to it, because they are just listening, all the things, and life is all of these things. It's both the good the bad, everything in between. It's fun and it's scary. At times it's happy and it's sad and that's, yeah, that's our lives. So I appreciate you listening to it and happy you enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:All right? Well, there you have it. Another super awesome mix for your collection. This time it is Sam's 40th birthday mix, so enjoy that one. He's got a lot of years ahead of him and plenty of mixes ahead of him, so we're going to get to work on that. So, for Sam, this is Matt. We'll see you next time.
