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Welcome to Sunday Brunch.

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Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, you fearless foragers of fascinating facts.

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Welcome to the eighth serving of Sunday Brunch.

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And today is, you guessed it, Sunday.

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It is the 1st of March and very much brunch time on the East Coast of the United States,

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which can only mean one thing.

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Your favorite music on the lightning-laced airwaves.

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Now, settle in. This is not your regular podcast.

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I don't have any questions prepared.

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I don't have a sermon.

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and I won't be asking our guest about demonetizing the military industrial complex.

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There's just a table, some coffee and a record player.

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The guest is the DJ here.

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And because there is no corporate sponsor in the booth,

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you are the ones keeping the coffee pot full.

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This is a Valley for Valley production.

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We don't run on ads.

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If you enjoy the selection today, you can throw some sats in the digital tip jar by boosting on fountain or zapping on Noster.

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Here is the house rule.

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When the needle drops, the sats follow.

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90% of everything you stream during a song goes directly to the artist.

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You are tipping the band.

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And when the music fades and we're just chatting, you're buying a round for the guest and me.

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And my guest today is a singer, songwriter and all-round creative.

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Ivy Lumi is here and she's brought her own playlist with her.

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We're going to spin some tracks.

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We're going to talk about whatever topics bubble up in the silences between the music

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and give everyone listening a chance to enter this decompression chamber after a long week.

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So, shake off those Saturday night cobwebs.

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Ivy, welcome to Sunday Brunch.

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Thank you so much for having me, Ivy.

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So Ivy, we met once, I believe, a couple of years back.

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It was in Prague. It was Prague 2024 for the conference.

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It was in the summer that year.

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And I think, yeah, there were a couple of group events and we never really got a chance to chat.

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And now here you are with a published Valley for Value album or upcoming album.

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So what have you been up to since, I guess, Prague 2024?

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Yes, yes.

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Thank you so much for having me.

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And I'm really looking forward to delve into some of these stories.

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that have shaped the music and shaped my life in the past few years.

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I started writing songs end of 2023.

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So when you met me in Prague, I was already writing songs for about seven, eight months.

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And after Prague, I actually wrote my last song that went into the Cure EP that we'll be tuning into a little bit.

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And ever since that, I've been, because I was a new singer-songwriter, I have been doing this for the very first time.

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It took me a year and a half to properly get these five initial songs produced with a friend.

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And then 2025, in May, that was the first time that I started releasing music under the name of Ivy Loomy.

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Love it. So a year and a half, your first time singer-songwriter.

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Were you trained musically or is it something that you've self-taught in that period?

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I would say yes or no. I grew up, I started playing a keyboard when I was like four or five years old because my cousin at the time, she was playing keyboard and then she was moving on to piano. So they have this extra keyboard that they can give away.

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And then my parents was asking me like four years old, I think they were like, do you you have a you can now choose one hobby.

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You can either pick up the keyboard from your cousin and then we'll send you to keyboard lessons or you can do join lessons.

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You can pick and I picked music.

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So from then I started doing keyboard lessons for like eight, nine years.

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And then I started to play piano just by myself.

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And over the decades, I have been a crappy instrument player.

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Like I'm not any good.

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I've listened.

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I've studied for many, many years, but I can, I'm, I'm good with a few songs, but that's

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And for a long time, I thought to myself, oh, I really love music and I love to sing and

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I do it as a hobby, but it's, it's, I probably don't have any, not, not that much music talent.

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And my, my parents would agree with me and they would thought so too.

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So they were a little bit iffy when I started telling them, oh, I'm writing songs, I'm producing

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songs and I am becoming an artist. But yeah, it was yes and no until I stumbled upon songwriting

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end of 2023. It was a special occasion. I was at Bigfoot Amsterdam and at this party,

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there was someone was talking to me and then we had a conversation and he was like,

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you should start writing things down. Forget about the format. The format will come to you.

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But just start writing things down and perhaps your stories will help people.

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So that's the starting point of me just starting to write again.

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I used to write a lot as a teenager and then started to draw down thoughts.

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And then around the same time, I saw an Instagram ad just randomly.

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and I was just downloading it to play around because I was curious.

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it was highly intuitive and it's for someone who actually knows music.

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But at the end, they actually give you a pretty good mix.

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So I started writing songs on the phone

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and then the demos become something else later on.

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got it what is this app because you know there are like there's logic pro which is a very advanced

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app for music there's you can also use something like a garage band if you're a mac user right but

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you i mean typically well not typically but what a lot of people end up doing is they play their

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instrument whatever it is they record that as a track they're called the other instruments and

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then they can sort of mix the tracks in GarageBand or if they're advanced they can use Logic.

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where you have to construct the tracks already. But the way I write songs is that I hear a melody,

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I hear something in my brain and rather to create the sound is really more like a download and I have

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to write it down before I forget it so I hear the melody and sometimes they they come line after line

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and this this app is called demo I believe the time I had them it was a iOS only app they may

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have Android version now too the essence of the app is that they gave you several compartments

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You can build chord progression using chords, proper chords, and it's not sound based, it's chord based.

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And then you have four instruments you can play with, keyboard, drums, bass, and guitar.

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And you can choose the vibe of how that bar is produced.

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And then you can write lyrics, you can change orders, and you can add a voice demo on top of it.

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You can record your voice and then you can export a rough mix, which give you a rough demo of beginning to the end.

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And you can produce to a certain degree with on the phone to convey the vibe, at least.

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And then I started learning to properly produce like in one of the dolls you said, like the Logic Pro starting January last year, really.

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And started to develop my own ideas a bit more with co-producers.

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But the app itself is a really intuitive way of writing songs for those who hear melodies and not necessarily musically, instrumentally.

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My brother, in fact, is a musician as well and a few others.

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and typically their process is either to sit at the piano

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and they're inspired by some kind of chord progression

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and they start playing the chords.

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They start strumming the chords

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and then the melody sort of forms on top of the chord progression.

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as you get the inspiration for the melody,

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you sing into the app.

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Is that how it works?

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Yeah, I'm just curious how this works.

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Yeah, for sure. Love to share my creative process. Each of the songs come a little bit differently. Sometimes I do have the lyrics first and I love to write kind of lyrics that talk to each other. So they oftentimes have callbacks and have similar formats.

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So sometimes the lyrics would come first and then I will just sit down with the lyrics and come up with some sort of melody and then really to find what chord is that.

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Because I hear melody and I don't know the key.

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I don't know the chords.

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And it's really about me singing that note until I poke around in the app and find the chord.

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and so that's why for the longest time i wasn't sure if this is something sustainable because

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this is just like you said that your way other people's way of writing songs starting with a

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instrument starting with a chord that's the usual way of writing it and i wasn't sure if

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i could do this way sustainably um but i guess um the more practice the better and then you

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gain a guru of your own.

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Yeah, that's great.

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Look, I mean, it's a creative process, right?

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There is no fixed way.

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Inspiration can come from any place.

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So that's great that there's an app

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that's out there that helps people

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who think differently, right?

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About these things or inspired differently.

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So you started this a year and a half ago.

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what were you doing before that, Ivy?

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And what exactly was the catalyst to say,

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you know what, I'm going to...

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but you're certainly focusing a lot on the music, right?

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And typically that takes a kind of mental shift.

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It needs some kind of trigger to say,

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you know what, this is my focus now.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Yeah, there's a whole story how I ended up in music.

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I came from the Bitcoin industry and I'm still very, very much involved in the Bitcoin industry.

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And a lot of people know my other identity operating Bitcoin is BTCVIF.

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I'm operating with both and I have a slightly different focus.

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My work around Bitcoin.

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So I entered Bitcoin, started working in Bitcoin early 2021.

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And I believe it's important to share my story before Ivy Lumi so people understand why I'm here and what's next.

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The conviction came naturally after I realized Bitcoin made freedom possible and is really a freedom tech.

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As a freedom maximalist, it didn't take much time after to gain the conviction.

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Once I delve into the human side of Bitcoin, I come from the marketing and PR background.

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And a lot of my my job back then was pitching my clients on podcasts, on Bitcoin podcasts and on Bitcoin conferences.

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And I quickly realized one thing is that everybody is talking about technology or finance and or economics.

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And this is this is this makes sense, because even right now, the majority of cohort of Bitcoiners are still into finance or economics.

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But I came to Bitcoin from a very different story I wasn a Bitcoiner when I got a Bitcoin job It was back in early 2021 where you still could do that back then I was very transparent that I don have any Bitcoin experience I don

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really know what it is, but I was doing freelance online at the time, doing marketing and PR projects

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and they really liked my track record. So I started working in Bitcoin. I started working

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with a lot of Bitcoin maxis almost right away. And this learning curve was really steep. And for a

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long time, I thought to myself, okay, I'm learning about this. I'm seeming to understand each day

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a bit more what this does. But for a long time, I still didn't feel like our world could collide

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outside of the professional landscape. And then I listened to a book club conversation.

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It was Richard James, Gigi, Robert Breedlove. And there were a few of them trying to orange

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Jordan Peterson on his own book club podcast. And then because of Jordan Peterson being who he is,

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and they were trying to approach it from a philosophical angle. And this was the real

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starting point of me realizing what Bitcoin was. And then I started to realize, oh, okay,

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I'm not into numbers or money. And I'm lucky that I'm into Bitcoin now because of the job.

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But I bet there's so many people just like me who are not yet into numbers, who don't

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like thinking about money, and they need Bitcoin perhaps even more.

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And I thought to myself, wow, it's really, how can we orange pill the next generation?

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And it's about life.

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Because I started to go to a Bitcoin conference and realized that Bitcoiners, when they come

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together, we talk about everything else but Bitcoin.

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We talk about life.

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We talk about food.

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We talk about what are we working on professionally or individually.

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We talk about health, but not Bitcoin itself, because that's the common ground that we now

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build on, we can connect with.

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So that's the starting point of my podcast, Live with Bitcoin, that launched June 2023.

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As part of my way of giving back to the community, because I was welcomed into the community

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without much context.

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And there was so much information that was already available to me back then.

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So I wanted to host something to talk about Bitcoin without talking about Bitcoin.

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The thesis is if we as a group of Bitcoiners show up collectively and say, this is what

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it's like to live as a Bitcoiner.

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And if people see this group of people called Bitcoiners who are more connected, freer, they're

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healthier, they're more loved, then they are going to wonder themselves, how can I be that?

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And if these people called Bitcoiners and whatever that means, if these people got there

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through Bitcoin, I'm going to look into it. And it's not because I care about Bitcoin. It's because

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I want to be that person. I want to be a better self. So I want to create content that introduced

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Bitcoin subtly on those spectrums because the podcast is about personal story. So I kept all

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of these going before a few years. And then the music project kind of was born in the middle of

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that. I was traveling to Bitcoin conference and being the age that I am, I'm looking constantly

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thinking about my future, wanting to build a future for myself, wanting to start a family.

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And naturally I was looking for love and, um, and just like people go back and forth and in,

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in relationships and in self exploration, I was really taking music as a way to help myself in

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that process, heal myself from the heartbreaks that I encounter, um, over time. And then to,

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to question and challenge myself to learn in love how the most in the most honest way that I can.

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And music and the creative process has been a great way for me to reflect honestly without

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judgment for myself too and for others. And I believe I'm not the only one who's going through

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these questions. And I hope by asking these questions for someone who's listening,

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it can hopefully heal them too in the future.

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Yeah, for sure, Ivy. So let's talk about the Cure EP. And you have the playlist here for the live

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audience, they can see it, I'm doing the screen share. But for the people listening to the podcast,

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the first song that's listed here is called wow wow wow and that i'm guessing is from the ep correct

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uh no let me share a little bit about um ivy loomy's collection so far so ivy loomy to date i

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have released seven tracks um and then they come in different bracket um in may 2025 i released my

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first EP and that's the EP is called The Cure and it was an EP has five original tracks produced

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by the same producer Stefan City and we worked together for a year and a half together to create

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this EP and then after that I started to release singles and Wow Wow Wow was this my latest single

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that was released in December 2025. Got it so let's listen to it first Ivy and then we can

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talk about what

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went into making the song.

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For sure.

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This is Wow, Wow, Wow

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by Ivy Lumi.

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When I look at you

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I say

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Wow, wow, wow

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You see the dawn

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All years ago

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Have I ever been

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My tongue pretending

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I didn't feel the same

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I bet you have

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To play the game

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When I talk to you

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I feel wow, wow, wow

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Is it love?

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Oh yes, it's a kind

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Have I died a hundred times

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On my way to find my first best friend?

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I bet you can

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Live through the flood

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Oh why

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Cause I'm one who takes the flood

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Please say now I wonder how

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for a while

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Somehow the truth's allowed to break a heart to keep

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You cast a spell, dreaming wild

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Nothing to lose, nothing to tell

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Have you ever rained a bell

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Feeling strange and feeling lost

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To pray for help

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I don't know how to say my name now

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I can't have night and day somehow

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Faith allows you to have me patch up

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Everything I've ever let go

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If I'm a thing at all

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For soul to soul

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You gotta know that I'm in awe

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Oh wow

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For someone who twists the plot

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Freestyle now I wonder how

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Oh wow

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Somehow the truth's allowed

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To keep her heart to break her vow

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That was Wow, Wow, Wow by Ivy Lumi.

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Beautiful song, Ivy.

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Thank you.

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And I have to confess,

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when I heard the first few notes of the bass line

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at the very beginning,

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bum bum bum bum i thought oh this is going to be like a porter's head song it evoked that vibe

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but of course you took it in a very different direction a beautiful direction

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but what how did you go about uh i guess what what was the thought process

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behind the song what was the motivation yeah this one uh this one was really a fun one um it was

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written around this time last year like february last year precisely and it was written at a moment

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where i was trying to stop writing from fresh heartbreaks and started writing from presence

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and previous to that i have spent years chasing intensity but this song come from came from

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observation um observing love as it unfolds um there's this quiet shift between uh there's this

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quite shift between the admiration into real intimacy um and it's a song about choosing openness

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when there's when nothing is guaranteed and discovering that love lives the most fully in

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the present moment and the in terms of creative process um the melody struck me when i was having

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a conversation it was kind of hidden in the back now in the final track it was the

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I was just hearing that melody nonstop in the conversation about someone.

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And I write it down.

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I was like, oh, there's something there because this is really catchy.

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And then I just record.

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And then I looped it.

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And then on top of that, I started to write more.

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The melody and then the words just kind of flew to me.

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So I actually wrote this one pretty fast, pretty fast.

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And the initial bass line, do you see what I'm saying about the Porter's Head type thing?

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I'm talking about just like the first five or six seconds of the song.

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because the song does take a different direction from that initial baseline

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i guess the process was um i wrote the song and then i took my demo to the producer

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and then we thought about okay how can we make the the intro more interesting and then we did

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something and then this is the the final version we really reduced to the bow and then thought okay

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So let's just I like how the hold this suspense and it's like you're quietly observing someone.

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So there's a lot of visual when I when I see the intro.

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And I guess I'm taking it from a more mystical sense that you're looking at someone and this quiet reminder in your head that, oh, like, I think something's there.

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this suspense in the beginning.

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That's great.

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So Ivy, you've chosen to post all of your songs, right?

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The five from the Cure EP and then the two singles

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on the Valley for Valley sort of open music ecosystem.

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What was the thinking there in going down that route

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as opposed to, well, let me just stick with Apple Music or Spotify

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or whatever other options.

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I think DistroKid, right?

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A lot of people go to DistroKid to get their music distributed.

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I think there are two ways of thinking about it.

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One way of thinking about it is that I'm a native Bitcoin artist.

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I came from the Bitcoin industry.

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I live and breathe Bitcoin culture and I work in this industry.

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So there's a lot of context and there's a lot of artists that I've seen in the Bitcoin space that highly, highly inspired me and taught me a lot.

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And I will be listening to a lot of their work too even in this episode There are two ways to think about it one way is that I a Bitcoin native artist so it natural to me to go through platforms like

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value for value or do it more in more of a value for value open source way on top of what I'm doing

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as an artist trying to get more reach and have more people hear about my music and the the

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realization that everybody needs healing and everybody needs love come from bitcoin industry

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so while i wish these songs my reflections can help everybody really um i would love to to get

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those in front of Bitcoiners first, because I feel like this is my way of giving back to the

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community to to the Bitcoin community and to have all of us start healing so we can do something

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with our Bitcoins, with our lives. And then the other aspect is that although I'm a Bitcoin native

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artist, I'm not I'm and I'm choosing to do the value for value and more open source way. I'm not

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giving up on pushing it in other directions, in other platforms, because I do recognize

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we want to help as many people as possible. And if we get on to their radius, if they don't have

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any Bitcoin contacts, then that's perfectly fine. Because if any one of us, every one of us

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can start heal ourselves, work on ourselves, do the shadow work to the point that we are honest

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to ourselves, we want peace and we want happiness and freedom, then they will find Bitcoin themselves.

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So I'm trying to act like this bridge between the Bitcoin community and everybody else,

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the Fiat Society, so that we can all come together and get a reminder that love is the cure, which is

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at the very core of my artistry practice and my work, it's the thesis of love is the cure.

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Well, love is indeed the cure. If anyone hasn't figured that out yet,

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it just means they haven't been cured yet. It means that they're in need of curing.

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So, Ivy, how are you getting it up into the open music ecosystem?

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Which app or client are you using?

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Do you just directly publish your RSS feed or does someone else do that for you?

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Right.

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I have some support, but it's a very hands-on process.

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Right now, there's a lot of open source effort happening on Noster.

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And this is where I'm finding myself spend the most time.

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And I'm slowly drifting away from X, from Twitter, and it's not updating too much anymore.

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So I'm really leaning towards all of the decentralized platforms like Noster Fountain and the power of building on the Bitcoin network, Wave Lake and all these great platforms, decentralized platforms.

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I'm also hosting a campaign on Gazer called Love is the Cure.

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If you're interested, go check it out.

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I have some merchandise.

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I made some special pins and special CD that have all of my release songs.

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And there's a great way to support with some music that you can huddle.

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Okay, so I do want to talk about that because I have seen some posts about the Geyser campaign for your album.

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But before we do that, let's listen to the next song that you have on your playlist.

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It's called Side Quest.

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Yes, let's go.

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okay well why don't you tell us a little bit about the song ivy yeah for sure um the side

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quest i wrote side quest right after in right after big win amsterdam 2024 and this is um a

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reflection of the story happened in amsterdam in my two-week trip there um and there's every time

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i write a song there's a few elements that goes into the song um there's and if it's a song about

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traveling or is it something that I wrote after I traveled to somewhere there's always this vibe of

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this space this place so that I'm hoping to get across to to bring a time capsule for people who

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have been there so that it reminds them the vibe of that space and then there's also the another

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element in my songs is the element of the the puzzles that I was struggling at the time were

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my observations. So all of these sounds are highly personal with a twist that I'm trying to

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ask these questions to myself and to my listeners. And this sound is very much about embracing the

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nature of side quests. Sometimes you think you're going on main quests and you're getting distracted

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by whatever, but it's a song about leaning into those side quests and finding meanings and finding

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beauties of these side quests until maybe someday you realize you went on a side quest of love but

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realize that love is the main quest all right well this is side quest by ivy loomy

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Shall we live our life as if it's probably deterministic?

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The pain is a drug

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I'm yet to break free from another addiction

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If I'm destined to be the path you didn't take

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Aren't we both do?

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I'm a rebellious child going on the sidequires

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I shouldn't have the best moments remain

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And all you can do

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Am I just one of them worthy one among them

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And now you love me

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But my heart's the way

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Does fear ever end?

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I'm yet to figure out another situation

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Shall we endlessly walk this ghostly town

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Till we're too tired to exist?

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The peace is a drug you're yet to microdose a mild addiction

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If you're destined to crave for the path you didn't take

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Are we all doomed?

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I'm a confused child

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Loving for the side quest

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I should've had the worst moments

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Your name undocumented

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When you are among them

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But you belong to no one

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Now I love you

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Yeah, I break your heart too

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To apologize to her

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What to accept the love that you don't feel deserved

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Are we best friends forever?

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We're going down in front of the river

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Burn out the cost of the room

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Like a beautiful thing

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We love you, so you could love you too

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You are my side quest

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Love is my side quest

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Love is the side quest

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Love is the quest

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That was SideQuest by Ivy Lume

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Ivy, what was one side quest, the most notable side quest for you in recent years that you realized was a main quest?

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Love. Love is the ultimate main quest.

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I'm always, I've always been, okay, so there's three things that really identify me as a person

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and explain a lot of my choices in life and my directions.

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First one is Freedom Maximalist,

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which contribute to me becoming a Bitcoiner and working in the space.

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And the second one is I'm very spontaneous

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and that contributes to having different projects

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and wanting to work on different initiatives.

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And then the third one is I'm a hopeless romantic.

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I've always been a hopeless romantic.

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I'm not I have no shame about it.

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I'm very I'm embracing this side of me a lot, being an emotional person, being want being an expressive person, wanting to approach the world through the lens of love.

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And obviously that approach has given me a lot of suffering and heartbreaks in the past because I've learned that not everybody approach world and live this way and not everybody prioritize love.

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But I've always been someone who does that.

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And this is writing songs is a little bit like my way of coping, coping the discrepancy between me and the world of me being love centric and the rest of the world, perhaps not.

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And this is my creative practice.

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And the songs are basically also my manifesto saying that I'm not going to change being a hopeless romantic.

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And that through this journey that I've realized love is not a side quest.

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It's really the main quest.

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And then once we go on this quest, we're on our way to find the cure, which is love.

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You know, when people refer to themselves as hopeless romantics, I've only heard them do it ironically.

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But it sounds like you're being unironic as you say that.

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Why do you say that, Ivy?

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What is the hopelessness?

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The hopelessness is the prioritized love, I guess, in that aspect.

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Because we are in a world where a lot of the things have become very calculative and transactional.

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And sadly, even love can seem a bit transactional nowadays, especially in our fiat society and the way human beings function these days.

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And all of us are traumatized and all of us are hurt.

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And it's more difficult to love in that sense.

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So a lot of people become more reserved and avoidant.

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I think being hopeless romantic in that sense is still choosing to love, choosing to embrace it, knowing that you may get hurt.

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But understand that it's OK because it's OK to be hurt in love.

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and is more important to love anyways.

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Sounds hopeful to me, Ivy.

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I don't hear the hopelessness there.

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The hopeless aspect is that you do get

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a lot of heartbreaks in that process,

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but I'm actually becoming a more hopeful romantic for sure.

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Now, you talked about fiat traumas.

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Do you believe that majority of the Bitcoiners

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have transcended or cured themselves of those fiat traumas?

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Absolutely not.

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Thank God you said that.

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It's quite the opposite.

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And this is where I feel for a lot of Bitcoiners I feel like the real challenge for Bitcoiners will happen once Bitcoin moon Why Because from the history in time we never had this opportunity to operate with a sound

452
00:41:49,370 --> 00:41:56,470
money that we can actually build upon to be the best version of ourselves.

453
00:41:56,470 --> 00:42:01,070
And now with Bitcoin, we finally have the opportunity to build upon sound money.

454
00:42:01,070 --> 00:42:07,130
but a lot of bitcoiners get it wrong in the sense that they there's a lot of frustration there's a

455
00:42:07,130 --> 00:42:13,310
lot of anger from where they came from and this is how they found bitcoin but at the same time

456
00:42:13,310 --> 00:42:18,190
like the fiat trauma you were talking about but at the same time they were they thought they found

457
00:42:18,190 --> 00:42:27,390
the answer because bitcoin fixes this and this what is this is is to be determined i guess to be

458
00:42:27,390 --> 00:42:32,850
to be defined and sometimes bitcoiners overestimate how much bitcoin actually fix

459
00:42:32,850 --> 00:42:38,590
um so when bitcoin booms for the for there's a lot of bitcoiners are going to become financially

460
00:42:38,590 --> 00:42:45,790
free but and then what once you're financially free like what what happens now have you worked

461
00:42:45,790 --> 00:42:52,290
on yourself what is your relationship with your food with your sleep um what is your relationship

462
00:42:52,290 --> 00:42:57,390
with your parents? Have you healed your own trauma growing up as a kid? Because at this point,

463
00:42:57,470 --> 00:43:02,830
everybody in the society, Bitcoin or not, we are very traumatized from historical reason,

464
00:43:03,290 --> 00:43:09,850
society reasons, from generational trauma trickled down through our immediate families,

465
00:43:09,850 --> 00:43:18,270
which everybody has more or less. And these are the real work to work on, like the shadow work

466
00:43:18,270 --> 00:43:25,490
for ourselves because life with or without bitcoin is real and it's difficult and now

467
00:43:25,490 --> 00:43:33,510
we're in the position to really do something with bitcoin with our lives and i i hate to see when

468
00:43:33,510 --> 00:43:42,150
bitcoiners just stop there at stacking set yeah i think i think you nailed it there ivy uh a lot

469
00:43:42,150 --> 00:43:48,570
of Bitcoiners have taken a very important first step, which is unshackling their minds from fiat

470
00:43:48,570 --> 00:43:55,850
thinking. But I mean, let's not kid ourselves. It is only a first step. And if all they're thinking

471
00:43:55,850 --> 00:44:02,630
is, well, let Bitcoin moon and then my life is fixed, then I'm afraid they're going to be in for

472
00:44:02,630 --> 00:44:07,310
a rude awakening when Bitcoin does moon because they'll find themselves equally unhappy at some

473
00:44:07,310 --> 00:44:14,670
world. And I mean, I think the sooner Bitcoiners realize that inner work is the real proof of work

474
00:44:14,670 --> 00:44:21,110
and start working on themselves, I think it's just going to be an easier landing

475
00:44:21,110 --> 00:44:26,050
from them when the world inevitably and eventually moves onto a Bitcoin standard.

476
00:44:26,270 --> 00:44:33,730
For sure. And Bitcoin really, Bitcoiners are already doing that. Like we're taking care of

477
00:44:33,730 --> 00:44:40,250
our house we're having these like healthy debates um to to see which one is best we're thinking about

478
00:44:40,250 --> 00:44:45,150
health we're thinking about being low time preference it's just the emotional side of it

479
00:44:45,150 --> 00:44:53,310
um intimidating as it is i feel like we should be tuning into that side a bit more because because

480
00:44:53,310 --> 00:44:58,830
i get why that's scary but through that there's this whole new world of emotional abundantness

481
00:44:58,830 --> 00:45:03,530
through Bitcoin, through healed trauma, through love

482
00:45:03,530 --> 00:45:08,210
that I'm looking forward to witness myself

483
00:45:08,210 --> 00:45:09,910
along with more Bitcoiners.

484
00:45:12,190 --> 00:45:12,750
Indeed.

485
00:45:13,090 --> 00:45:15,970
So, Avia, I know I said I wanted to talk about the geyser,

486
00:45:16,130 --> 00:45:20,170
but let's listen to one more song of yours.

487
00:45:20,530 --> 00:45:20,770
Yes.

488
00:45:21,730 --> 00:45:26,070
And it is the self-named, or it's the name of the EP.

489
00:45:26,350 --> 00:45:28,430
It's a song that's also the name of the EP, right?

490
00:45:28,430 --> 00:45:33,750
the cure why don't you talk a little bit about this yeah for sure um this sound is actually was

491
00:45:33,750 --> 00:45:40,750
actually the first song that i wrote so this song was part of the my first ep and it was the very

492
00:45:40,750 --> 00:45:49,050
first song that i wrote um that captures captures the essence of the ep um i was asking a lot of

493
00:45:49,050 --> 00:45:56,290
questions in love i was asking a lot of questions about myself and trying to understand who i was

494
00:45:56,290 --> 00:46:00,750
and who I want to be in that process in relation to others in the world.

495
00:46:01,530 --> 00:46:05,130
And there's a lot of reflections and you will be able to see that in my songs.

496
00:46:05,230 --> 00:46:07,650
I ask a lot of questions.

497
00:46:08,250 --> 00:46:12,110
There's a lot of question marks for me and my listeners.

498
00:46:12,110 --> 00:46:20,510
And this later on contributes to my thesis as an artist being love is the cure.

499
00:46:20,910 --> 00:46:23,170
So really looking forward to dive into this one.

500
00:46:23,170 --> 00:46:28,130
This is The Cure by Ivy Lume.

501
00:46:53,170 --> 00:46:57,810
I've come to realize

502
00:46:57,810 --> 00:47:04,150
What do I have to lose

503
00:47:04,150 --> 00:47:08,050
My heart and my truth

504
00:47:08,050 --> 00:47:14,870
No one deserves to be heartbroken

505
00:47:14,870 --> 00:47:17,590
For nothing

506
00:47:17,590 --> 00:47:26,630
It wasn't you that hurt me

507
00:47:26,630 --> 00:47:30,710
It was love

508
00:47:47,590 --> 00:47:54,930
Walk with my eyes closed

509
00:47:54,930 --> 00:47:59,750
Run like a fireball

510
00:47:59,750 --> 00:48:04,530
Am I being honest?

511
00:48:04,530 --> 00:48:08,530
Or manipulative?

512
00:48:10,650 --> 00:48:13,690
No one says you're special

513
00:48:13,690 --> 00:48:19,470
Bears me I'm special

514
00:48:19,470 --> 00:48:23,790
Getting wrecked completely

515
00:48:23,790 --> 00:48:30,410
Entirely and sweetly

516
00:48:30,410 --> 00:48:36,650
Maybe we're meant to be heartbroken

517
00:48:36,650 --> 00:48:39,350
For something

518
00:48:39,350 --> 00:48:48,290
It wasn't you that cursed me

519
00:48:48,290 --> 00:48:53,350
It was love

520
00:49:09,350 --> 00:49:20,470
Maybe we're meant to be heartbroken for something

521
00:49:20,470 --> 00:49:29,070
It wasn't you that could mean

522
00:49:29,070 --> 00:49:33,850
It was love

523
00:49:33,850 --> 00:49:40,850
It was like

524
00:49:40,850 --> 00:49:48,090
May without your feet heartbroken

525
00:50:03,850 --> 00:50:13,310
That was The Cure by Ivy Lume.

526
00:50:14,230 --> 00:50:17,270
So Ivy, you said this was your first song, the first song you wrote.

527
00:50:17,410 --> 00:50:20,130
So that takes us back almost two years at this point, right?

528
00:50:20,150 --> 00:50:20,730
Maybe more.

529
00:50:21,310 --> 00:50:21,410
Yeah.

530
00:50:21,970 --> 00:50:29,690
How do you feel your songwriting has evolved in the two years since you wrote The Cure?

531
00:50:30,250 --> 00:50:32,170
I would say it's still evolving.

532
00:50:32,170 --> 00:50:39,530
but there's a lot more there's a lot more going on these days with the new songs and definitely

533
00:50:39,530 --> 00:50:45,150
the the songwriting style has more matured and you can tell in this one there's a lot more repetition

534
00:50:45,150 --> 00:50:54,550
um and the the production was a lot um less complicated was more straight to the point

535
00:50:54,550 --> 00:51:02,790
um yeah and and there's a lot of um nuances that have changed production quality have changed

536
00:51:02,790 --> 00:51:08,750
because i really i recorded the ep in my own living room with a mic that wasn't really suitable

537
00:51:08,750 --> 00:51:15,890
but i really found out about it uh recently that was a powerful i recorded the ep on a powerful

538
00:51:15,890 --> 00:51:24,130
stage mic instead of a dynamic um studio mic so there's a lot of the the um essence were lost but

539
00:51:24,130 --> 00:51:31,590
it gives us this rusty 80s vibe but which i also like so um it's gonna be vintage compared to a lot

540
00:51:31,590 --> 00:51:37,690
of the new stuff i come up with well let's chalk that down to a beautiful oops moment because you

541
00:51:37,690 --> 00:51:44,330
never know right you go yeah you're right you're looking for that clean voice isolation uh but and

542
00:51:44,330 --> 00:51:51,810
but instead you get a little bit of of uh of warmth and scuff from that you you would get in

543
00:51:51,810 --> 00:51:59,370
a stage mic and suddenly that converts it into an 80s style production beautiful loops thank you

544
00:51:59,370 --> 00:52:07,970
thank you but yeah it's a song about um it's a sound about the awareness of the intention in love

545
00:52:07,970 --> 00:52:16,030
because um like gamers the lyrics goes gamers finds gamer dreamers finds streamer are you being

546
00:52:16,030 --> 00:52:23,030
honest or manipulative. After all these years, I've come to realize what do I have to lose my

547
00:52:23,030 --> 00:52:29,970
heart and my truth. So it's questioning about like intention in love. Are you being transactional?

548
00:52:30,090 --> 00:52:34,770
Are you being manipulative? And then in the second half of the song, I was asking myself

549
00:52:34,770 --> 00:52:40,230
in the same question because it goes both ways, right? So there's a lot of reflection in love.

550
00:52:40,230 --> 00:52:49,070
And it also talks about the awareness of the separation between the difference between

551
00:52:49,070 --> 00:52:51,850
you love love and you love this particular person.

552
00:52:52,210 --> 00:52:56,990
Like oftentimes when people suffer in love or they go through a terrible heartbreak or

553
00:52:56,990 --> 00:53:03,030
breakup and they think, oh, it's that person I love and I can't live without that person.

554
00:53:03,270 --> 00:53:04,610
But it's not about that.

555
00:53:04,610 --> 00:53:09,850
It's more about how we as humans, we love love and we need love.

556
00:53:09,850 --> 00:53:18,170
We thrive on love. And when we say that we love someone is not really about us loving that

557
00:53:18,170 --> 00:53:26,690
particular person is love us loving love. And the person is the projection of our ideation of love

558
00:53:26,690 --> 00:53:34,670
on a flesh of on a particular soul. So I was making that awareness of separating the tool

559
00:53:34,670 --> 00:53:37,710
and saying that it's not you that hurt me.

560
00:53:37,970 --> 00:53:40,610
So I don't have to be mad at you.

561
00:53:41,150 --> 00:53:41,990
And it was love.

562
00:53:42,230 --> 00:53:45,350
And I need to hold on to the longing of love

563
00:53:45,350 --> 00:53:49,210
so that I can be cured in the end

564
00:53:49,210 --> 00:53:51,110
because it's not you that cured me.

565
00:53:51,270 --> 00:53:51,870
It was love.

566
00:53:52,050 --> 00:53:54,050
And it was not you that cursed me.

567
00:53:54,130 --> 00:53:54,570
It was love.

568
00:53:54,710 --> 00:53:56,410
So it's always been love.

569
00:53:57,090 --> 00:53:59,750
And so that if you go through a hard breakup,

570
00:54:00,230 --> 00:54:01,270
don't worry.

571
00:54:01,670 --> 00:54:03,870
It's not that you will never find love anymore

572
00:54:03,870 --> 00:54:05,810
because you lost that person, you will.

573
00:54:05,950 --> 00:54:09,790
You just need to keep loving love and believe in that.

574
00:54:12,210 --> 00:54:16,930
You know, it is, when I hear you say that, Ivy,

575
00:54:16,990 --> 00:54:20,590
and I can see that happening in the case of romantic relationships,

576
00:54:21,110 --> 00:54:25,290
where it really was, in some sense, a conditional form of love

577
00:54:25,290 --> 00:54:27,170
because you were in love with being in love

578
00:54:27,170 --> 00:54:32,110
as opposed to that individual, that person unconditionally.

579
00:54:32,110 --> 00:54:44,070
But if you think about, and I don't know if you've experienced this, but for those of us who have a parent's love for a child, this being who's just come into this planet.

580
00:54:45,090 --> 00:54:45,950
Oh, yeah.

581
00:54:46,670 --> 00:54:47,590
I can sense that.

582
00:54:48,110 --> 00:54:53,330
I think it's a little different because that is truly unconditional.

583
00:54:53,470 --> 00:54:56,930
That is not you being in love with the idea of being in love with a child.

584
00:54:56,930 --> 00:55:03,710
that is you truly unconditionally loving this this beautiful being that you've created

585
00:55:03,710 --> 00:55:12,130
yes and i can i can also see when parents don't do that enough because in that process of of

586
00:55:12,130 --> 00:55:18,170
kind of experiencing love and looking for love i was really going down the rabbit hole of love

587
00:55:18,170 --> 00:55:24,290
like of all kind and i trickled down to this one question that i always ask myself when i'm lost

588
00:55:24,290 --> 00:55:31,370
in love and feeling iffy about the whole thing is that do you love me for me or do you love me for you?

589
00:55:32,470 --> 00:55:33,190
Because that's the...

590
00:55:33,240 --> 00:55:38,840
unconditional aspect you were talking about. Do you, do you love me for me or do you love me for

591
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:43,920
you? And what is the difference is, is the, is the transactional aspect you were talking about

592
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:51,480
too, is when, when I'm, if I'm loving you for myself, then there's this expectation going on.

593
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:57,940
There's some judgment going on. There's this, I want you, I love you because I need you,

594
00:55:57,940 --> 00:56:06,420
but it's not unconditional and when we love someone for them is whatever's best for them

595
00:56:06,420 --> 00:56:13,020
and sometimes that means letting them go but you know it's good for them but you go there anyway

596
00:56:13,020 --> 00:56:18,220
but if you're loving them for yourself then you may not be able to let them go because you may

597
00:56:18,220 --> 00:56:24,680
lose them and in the case of parents if they they they love you and then they gave you advice in the

598
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:31,320
sense of there's a secret agenda behind, because sometimes I can identify that in my own conversation

599
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:35,740
with my parents or other people's conversation with their parents. And sometimes there's a secret

600
00:56:35,740 --> 00:56:42,180
agenda, uh, hitting behind that. And you can tell if they're making a suggestion based on

601
00:56:42,180 --> 00:56:51,280
who they know about you, um, for you, or, or if a decision is convenient for, for them. And sometimes

602
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:57,260
we need to separate the roles, right? Like, do you love me because I'm your daughter?

603
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:06,180
And I am, this is my role. And if I'm not myself, I'm another person. And they're your daughter,

604
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:11,920
you will love them the same. Or you love me because I'm me, regardless of if I'm your daughter

605
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:18,900
or not as a person. I think there's a difference there. And the line is subtle. But do you love me

606
00:57:18,900 --> 00:57:25,620
for me do you love me for you question i guess probably applies to many more cases than romantic

607
00:57:25,620 --> 00:57:35,000
or parental yeah for sure so let's bring this back to more mundane real world things

608
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:41,800
ivy and let's talk about the geyser campaign what was the idea behind that um

609
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:49,280
and how is that going for sure um right now i have the gazer campaign going on called love is

610
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:58,920
the cure and it's uh it's a support slash um kind of uh awareness campaign where i'm sharing this

611
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:05,620
very concept of love is the cure and sharing the concept of music you can huddle um i want to create

612
00:58:05,620 --> 00:58:14,120
this world where where um there's we i want to create this world where we believe in magic we

613
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:24,600
believe in the love uh the the magic and love um all of the initiatives that reminds us love is the

614
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:32,120
cure and i want to create these little pieces that we can we can huddle we can physical

615
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:36,900
both artifacts that we can cherish dear to our hearts.

616
00:58:37,740 --> 00:58:43,540
So because I'm doing Ivy Lumi from a more open source community based approach, I want

617
00:58:43,540 --> 00:58:49,260
to, Gazer is really the perfect platform for sharing the news, sharing the journey.

618
00:58:49,260 --> 00:58:59,460
And I want everybody to partake, participate as a journey while I mature as an artist and

619
00:58:59,460 --> 00:59:04,860
produce more songs in love and we can all participate in the quest that love is the

620
00:59:04,860 --> 00:59:11,460
cure and have it heal us in that process so there's a few products on gazer you can

621
00:59:11,460 --> 00:59:21,120
purchase as a support for me there's the late the the early supporter nostor badge that you can

622
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:27,400
you can purchase on gazer to support me and there's also the pink collectibles there's a

623
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:35,800
six pin collections and we also have the signed cd going on as well as the whole package this is a

624
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:41,540
great way if you wanted to support an independent artist and want to have some physical things to

625
00:59:41,540 --> 00:59:48,320
hold on and play with and an intimate way to get close to ivy lumi story and music then that's a

626
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:57,900
great place to be. Love it. So I will include the link to that in the show notes for folks listening

627
00:59:57,900 --> 01:00:05,500
who are curious to check it out. I'll include your NPUB linked as well, Ivy, so that, you know,

628
01:00:05,820 --> 01:00:11,600
people have all the information they need. Thank you so much. Let's move, continue through your

629
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:18,240
playlist. And I think we've done with your songs, Ivy, you've very generously given some of the

630
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:25,440
space to two other artists of course the next one i see on on the list is it's the only way through

631
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:33,440
and it's by uh zaza wow wow which sounds yes a little a little too close to the first song we

632
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:41,040
played wow wow i'm sure no relation but uh talk a little bit i'm unfamiliar with this artist and

633
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:46,900
the song um so tell me why you chose this and a little a little bit about this yeah for sure there's

634
01:00:46,900 --> 01:00:51,960
Actually, there's actually connections between Zaza Wawa and Wawa Wawa.

635
01:00:52,500 --> 01:00:58,960
So Zaza Wawa, he's one of the creative producers of my single Wawa Wawa.

636
01:00:59,700 --> 01:01:02,660
And Zaza is a visualist.

637
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:04,180
Well, Zaza does everything.

638
01:01:04,180 --> 01:01:11,980
And some of the key aspect, what he does is he's a really, really amazing visualist

639
01:01:11,980 --> 01:01:29,820
Using different AI tools combined with his own imagination and knowledge and context, he creates these really, really impressive visuals that take us to a dream world and cypherpunk world.

640
01:01:30,220 --> 01:01:34,040
On top of that, Zaza is also a really talented artist.

641
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:37,180
We'll be listening to this song very soon.

642
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:38,640
It's called It's the Only Way Through.

643
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,140
Zaza is a Bitcoin native artist.

644
01:01:41,140 --> 01:01:51,860
So all of his songs directly speak to Bitcoin, speak to us Bitcoiners, speak to the Fiat Society.

645
01:01:53,020 --> 01:02:07,420
There's, unlike me being hopeless, romantic and soft about a lot of the issues, Zaza is very vocal and very brave in terms of going to address these issues head on.

646
01:02:07,420 --> 01:02:22,580
And we need both. We need Ivy Lumi being the nurturing energy to help people, to heal people, and then to kind of hold their hands to more light and more hope.

647
01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:30,700
And then we also need artists like Zaza who talk directly to these issues and basically talk some common sense back in our minds.

648
01:02:31,100 --> 01:02:32,700
So let's dive in.

649
01:02:32,700 --> 01:02:36,240
Indeed, this is the yin and the yang

650
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:39,600
The divine masculine and the divine feminine

651
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:40,820
Whatever it is, right?

652
01:02:40,860 --> 01:02:42,700
The rebellious union of opposites

653
01:02:42,700 --> 01:02:44,140
Absolutely

654
01:02:44,140 --> 01:02:49,480
This is It's the Only Way Through by Zaza Wawa

655
01:02:49,480 --> 01:03:02,800
Bitcoin, my friend

656
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:04,760
It's the only way through

657
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:06,800
Bitcoin, my friend

658
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:09,180
It's the only way for you

659
01:03:09,180 --> 01:03:12,980
Addresses accumulate, air sets, audition, applause

660
01:03:12,980 --> 01:03:15,600
Anonymous transfers, toss shadows over totals

661
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:17,360
Accounts pile acres, his ambition

662
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:21,080
Architects ascent, avenues open, avalanches of appetite, not accident

663
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:23,680
Blocks boast bravado on Bitcoin's boulevard

664
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,640
Bro, grammars brag while bears brood in backyard bars

665
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:29,140
Beneath the banners, blockchain's backbone hums

666
01:03:29,140 --> 01:03:31,800
Buyers bite and burst, bullish runs outpace the drums

667
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:34,500
Chains chatter, consensus clicks like clockwork

668
01:03:34,500 --> 01:03:37,060
Cryptocordia's craft code while markets lurk

669
01:03:37,060 --> 01:03:39,480
Coins circulate, fuel and festival-like flows

670
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:42,160
Careful coders patch corners where chaos grows

671
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:44,700
Decentralized dreams, spar with developer doctrine

672
01:03:44,700 --> 01:03:47,340
Daring teams debate design while users head for the dock

673
01:03:47,340 --> 01:03:50,020
Data disperse as decisions fall into the crowd

674
01:03:50,020 --> 01:03:52,860
Diplomacy holds the seams when protocol gets loud

675
01:03:52,860 --> 01:03:57,260
Bitcoin, my friend, it's the only way through

676
01:03:57,260 --> 01:04:03,280
Bitcoin, my friend, it's the only way for you

677
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:06,080
Encryption locks entries, ledgers keep their truth

678
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:08,640
Exchanges evolve, posturers regulate a sleuth

679
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:11,600
Ecosystems swell, explorers map new scopes

680
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:14,120
Engineers tweak the rails to match collective hopes

681
01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:16,980
Forks cleave futures, choices chart fresh courses

682
01:04:16,980 --> 01:04:19,580
Feast flex with demand as mempools run their forces

683
01:04:19,580 --> 01:04:22,040
Freedom's pursued, though friction frames the fight

684
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:24,840
Forums flare with theory while builders chase the right

685
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:27,520
Gold measures growth as transactions hustle through

686
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:30,160
Governance grinds slowly elected and ad hoc too

687
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:32,840
Guru's guide with charts, grassroots graph the gears

688
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:35,520
Growth takes grit, sober eyes adjust for year

689
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:37,840
Block stacks, sparks fly, ledger lights to night

690
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:40,640
Nodes hum, hearts thump, decentralized, heartbeat tight

691
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:43,120
Trust in math, liberty stitched into every block

692
01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:44,840
And pour, razor blocks, take a claim

693
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:56,798
Bitcoin polls roars more Hash rate hum steady Machines stake their claim Hobbyists and farms keep verifying the game Height feeds the cycle honest work secures the chain Helving deadlines temper dreams with measured strain

694
01:04:56,798 --> 01:04:59,398
Immutable rules anchor trust in shared code

695
01:04:59,398 --> 01:05:01,958
Innovators iterate, investors test the road

696
01:05:01,958 --> 01:05:04,618
Ideas scaling the products, markets wait a claim

697
01:05:04,618 --> 01:05:07,518
Index funds watch quietly as startups stake their name

698
01:05:07,518 --> 01:05:10,278
Jargon fills chat rooms, developers swap shorthand

699
01:05:10,278 --> 01:05:12,678
Journalists chase stories trying to understand

700
01:05:12,678 --> 01:05:15,118
Joyful spikes in liquidity, answer the call

701
01:05:15,118 --> 01:05:17,958
Judicious checks keep frenzies from swallowing ore

702
01:05:17,958 --> 01:05:22,438
Bitcoin, my friend, it's the only way through

703
01:05:22,438 --> 01:05:28,258
Bitcoin, my friend, it ain't gonna wait for you

704
01:05:28,258 --> 01:05:31,278
Block stacks, sparks climb, watch the mempool light

705
01:05:31,278 --> 01:05:33,738
Nodes sing, minus swing, keep the ledger tight

706
01:05:33,738 --> 01:05:36,358
Map verifies, permissionless freedom at the core

707
01:05:36,358 --> 01:05:39,238
Mind the truth, guard the chain, we build it more

708
01:05:39,238 --> 01:05:41,898
Nodes propagate blocks, relays forge the mesh

709
01:05:41,898 --> 01:05:44,618
New ideas seed features, norms evolve afresh

710
01:05:44,618 --> 01:05:46,618
Network health depends on participation

711
01:05:46,618 --> 01:05:49,618
Why? Nurture the nodes and resilience will abide

712
01:05:49,618 --> 01:05:52,878
OP return stores, bits, inscriptions, proofs, small notes

713
01:05:52,878 --> 01:05:56,418
Operators weigh usefulness against blocks, pays votes, options expand

714
01:05:56,418 --> 01:06:00,898
Utility art or clever tools, open debate decides what strengthens versus fools

715
01:06:00,898 --> 01:06:03,538
Passages accumulate, small units power exchange

716
01:06:03,538 --> 01:06:06,338
Security models evolve to close every gap and range

717
01:06:06,338 --> 01:06:09,018
Spam filters, trim waste, sound design keeps fees fair

718
01:06:09,018 --> 01:06:11,258
Skeptics question, scare while builders reply

719
01:06:11,258 --> 01:06:13,798
Plot stack, sparks scatter, every node's in sight

720
01:06:13,798 --> 01:06:16,318
Nodes pulse, wallets strum, keep the future bright

721
01:06:16,318 --> 01:06:19,058
Trust by code, freedom through rules we can explore

722
01:06:19,058 --> 01:06:22,218
Lock your keys, mine the fees, the network asks for more

723
01:06:22,218 --> 01:06:26,238
Bitcoin, it's the only way through

724
01:06:26,238 --> 01:06:31,798
It's the only way for you

725
01:06:32,378 --> 01:06:37,558
Yo, yo, yo, don't miss this train too

726
01:06:37,558 --> 01:06:42,858
Yo, yo, yo, yo, don't miss this train too

727
01:06:43,798 --> 01:06:46,098
Yo, yo, yo

728
01:06:46,098 --> 01:06:46,618
Yo, yo, yo

729
01:06:46,618 --> 01:06:47,238
Yo, yo, yo

730
01:06:47,238 --> 01:06:47,458
Yo, yo, yo

731
01:06:47,458 --> 01:06:48,178
Don't miss this train too

732
01:06:48,178 --> 01:06:50,838
Bitcoin my friend

733
01:06:50,838 --> 01:06:53,438
It's the only way through

734
01:06:53,438 --> 01:06:58,258
That was

735
01:06:58,258 --> 01:06:59,798
It's the only way through

736
01:06:59,798 --> 01:07:01,238
by Zaza Wawa

737
01:07:01,238 --> 01:07:02,698
A great song

738
01:07:02,698 --> 01:07:03,718
Wow

739
01:07:03,718 --> 01:07:04,138
Indeed

740
01:07:04,138 --> 01:07:06,478
If I may say so myself

741
01:07:06,478 --> 01:07:08,438
No, I love the energy there

742
01:07:08,438 --> 01:07:10,558
I especially appreciated Ivy

743
01:07:10,558 --> 01:07:13,038
The cascading alliterations

744
01:07:13,038 --> 01:07:14,418
from A almost through Z.

745
01:07:14,478 --> 01:07:15,398
I think he stopped at S.

746
01:07:16,598 --> 01:07:17,818
It's interesting because

747
01:07:17,818 --> 01:07:20,838
for those who pay close attention

748
01:07:20,838 --> 01:07:21,778
to this episode,

749
01:07:21,978 --> 01:07:23,818
there is very much

750
01:07:23,818 --> 01:07:27,058
the cascading alliteration

751
01:07:27,058 --> 01:07:28,178
happening somewhere

752
01:07:28,178 --> 01:07:30,318
over multiple episodes.

753
01:07:30,898 --> 01:07:31,978
So no, great song.

754
01:07:32,418 --> 01:07:32,838
Great pitch.

755
01:07:33,298 --> 01:07:34,718
And you can tell that

756
01:07:34,718 --> 01:07:36,078
I probably wouldn't be able

757
01:07:36,078 --> 01:07:37,118
to write something like this

758
01:07:37,118 --> 01:07:38,078
for a very long time.

759
01:07:40,298 --> 01:07:42,798
No, it's great raw energy.

760
01:07:43,038 --> 01:07:50,578
um adrenaline rush kind of song for sure for sure yeah zaza um is one of the creative

761
01:07:50,578 --> 01:07:59,658
director for wow wow wow and helped me with the uh my first music video ever shot in hong kong

762
01:07:59,658 --> 01:08:05,298
and the other creative director behind this is f-zero so both of them work together to create

763
01:08:05,298 --> 01:08:11,098
this world and because they are coming they have a more analytical mind and have a lot more

764
01:08:11,098 --> 01:08:18,038
knowledge and context in Bitcoin and in art. So they gave me a lot of new perspectives and

765
01:08:18,038 --> 01:08:26,578
the clash of energy in eventually have something new being born in that process.

766
01:08:29,398 --> 01:08:36,638
How big is your collaboration circle? So you mentioned Zaza, you mentioned F0. I think you

767
01:08:36,638 --> 01:08:42,418
mentioned another name i was just slipping my mind oh that was stefan city uh that was the

768
01:08:42,418 --> 01:08:51,298
producer who helped me produce my ep so i started um i started the songwriting process and for a

769
01:08:51,298 --> 01:08:57,158
while i kept it to myself um and after a couple months i started writing songs i share i first

770
01:08:57,158 --> 01:09:03,118
shared it with stefan uh back then and he's a dear friend of mine who's a guitar teacher

771
01:09:03,118 --> 01:09:09,038
and bass teacher and drum teacher so musician like professional musician and have gone through kind of

772
01:09:09,038 --> 01:09:15,538
10-15 years of touring um when he was younger in europe and i showed him the demo and he was like

773
01:09:15,538 --> 01:09:20,858
wow this is i love this and and do you want to do something with this maybe we can work on this

774
01:09:20,858 --> 01:09:27,478
together so that they they're finished products and because he came from an industrial uh band

775
01:09:27,478 --> 01:09:32,538
type of environment so we got together and produced the five songs and then after that i started

776
01:09:32,538 --> 01:09:35,698
wanting to put more effort into music.

777
01:09:35,698 --> 01:09:39,598
So I was looking into ways to produce professionally,

778
01:09:39,798 --> 01:09:41,018
not in my living room.

779
01:09:41,298 --> 01:09:45,118
And then I started working with local producers,

780
01:09:45,438 --> 01:09:49,098
local mixing engineers, mastering engineers,

781
01:09:49,098 --> 01:09:51,758
and learning to produce myself in that process.

782
01:09:52,158 --> 01:09:55,538
And in Bitcoin, I would say F-Zero and Zazawawa

783
01:09:55,538 --> 01:09:58,278
are two artists that I collaborate the most

784
01:09:58,278 --> 01:10:00,558
on creative directions and visual

785
01:10:00,558 --> 01:10:04,838
because these two have really endless ideas

786
01:10:04,838 --> 01:10:09,338
and they can put together unbelievable visuals.

787
01:10:10,898 --> 01:10:14,118
Great. Sounds like a great partnership.

788
01:10:15,218 --> 01:10:17,918
Ivy, so let's move on to the last song on your list.

789
01:10:18,218 --> 01:10:21,618
This one is called Greatness and it's by an artist called Helene.

790
01:10:22,098 --> 01:10:23,478
Talk a little bit about this.

791
01:10:23,978 --> 01:10:28,578
Yeah, so Helene is a music project I discovered on Noster, actually.

792
01:10:28,578 --> 01:10:31,678
I have not met them. I have not worked with them.

793
01:10:31,798 --> 01:10:35,238
But it's something I discovered on Noster that I really love.

794
01:10:35,638 --> 01:10:42,258
Halene is, if I'm not mistaken, is a music project funded by a husband and the wife.

795
01:10:42,438 --> 01:10:44,478
So it's a duo by a couple.

796
01:10:44,678 --> 01:10:47,398
And then they write songs and produce them together.

797
01:10:47,958 --> 01:10:53,518
And they also recorded some of the live sessions at home and is available on Noster.

798
01:10:53,518 --> 01:10:59,918
they're also trying to do it in the value for value way and had their is having their own

799
01:10:59,918 --> 01:11:04,898
gazer campaign going on so i highly recommend you check out their story which is really really

800
01:11:04,898 --> 01:11:12,118
beautiful and they have a huge archive of music that they've created in the past years the both

801
01:11:12,118 --> 01:11:17,638
of them and you will be able to see the energy from this song we're about to play but it's gonna

802
01:11:17,638 --> 01:11:28,778
to be almost the opposite of Zazawawa again, to have some peace, have some love and heal

803
01:11:28,778 --> 01:11:30,218
in a different direction.

804
01:11:31,918 --> 01:11:39,298
You've got to love this, Ivy, that you discovered we're at the point in Nostra where, you know,

805
01:11:39,398 --> 01:11:45,478
it can feel at times, especially now there's so much AI slop because people are deploying

806
01:11:45,478 --> 01:11:51,218
their agents and it's mostly agents talking to agents but every now and then you hear the story

807
01:11:51,218 --> 01:11:56,518
uh stories like this which is you found a brand new artist that you loved because of Noster how

808
01:11:56,518 --> 01:12:04,778
cool is that absolutely yeah so this is greatness by Helene

809
01:12:15,478 --> 01:12:32,278
Looking back how blinded

810
01:12:32,278 --> 01:12:37,298
And the seed we were

811
01:12:37,298 --> 01:12:43,718
Just in time we saw the fall

812
01:12:43,718 --> 01:12:48,838
Coming back on earth

813
01:12:48,838 --> 01:12:56,098
How to heal

814
01:12:56,098 --> 01:13:00,898
How to be real

815
01:13:00,898 --> 01:13:05,318
How to be real

816
01:13:05,318 --> 01:13:08,758
Hum gi sha

817
01:13:08,758 --> 01:13:16,798
Show me your greatness

818
01:13:16,798 --> 01:13:22,198
Your greatness

819
01:13:22,198 --> 01:13:43,158
Calling back the spirits

820
01:13:43,158 --> 01:13:45,898
The wizards

821
01:13:45,898 --> 01:13:48,718
The healers

822
01:13:48,718 --> 01:13:53,718
Ancient wisdom

823
01:13:53,718 --> 01:13:59,718
Coming back on earth

824
01:14:03,718 --> 01:14:14,396
How to heal How to be healed How to believe How to believe

825
01:14:14,396 --> 01:14:20,396
Don't be shy

826
01:14:20,396 --> 01:14:24,396
Show me

827
01:14:25,516 --> 01:14:27,396
Your greatness

828
01:14:27,396 --> 01:14:33,396
Your greatness

829
01:14:34,396 --> 01:15:04,376
Thank you.

830
01:15:04,396 --> 01:15:34,376
Thank you.

831
01:15:34,396 --> 01:15:39,256
That was Greatness by Helene.

832
01:15:39,696 --> 01:15:44,756
And really, Ivy, that was one of those quiet meditation,

833
01:15:45,176 --> 01:15:47,996
sort of spiritual, devotional type songs.

834
01:15:49,516 --> 01:15:53,056
And that is becoming a genre, isn't it?

835
01:15:53,176 --> 01:15:57,016
That sort of meditative kind of music.

836
01:15:57,696 --> 01:16:00,216
I mean, I'm sure it's been a genre for a while now,

837
01:16:00,316 --> 01:16:02,616
but I'm seeing more and more of it come up.

838
01:16:03,236 --> 01:16:03,896
Yeah, for sure.

839
01:16:03,896 --> 01:16:08,656
And I like to consider, I like to think about this playlist like this.

840
01:16:08,736 --> 01:16:15,156
If you think about the society we're in, the fiatness of it and the chaoticness of it,

841
01:16:15,216 --> 01:16:21,756
and there's a lot of anger and trauma, and Bitcoin is the only way through in a sense.

842
01:16:22,196 --> 01:16:28,256
We need to kind of come through a lot of our anger and trauma and this understanding of

843
01:16:28,256 --> 01:16:31,776
what's actually going on to realize that Bitcoin is the only way through.

844
01:16:31,776 --> 01:16:39,696
And as you go down the rabbit hole of Bitcoin, you realize, oh, I need to heal myself to really live a great life for myself.

845
01:16:40,016 --> 01:16:44,776
And then you stumble onto Ivy Loomy, which I talk a lot about duality.

846
01:16:44,916 --> 01:16:47,096
Like, are you this or are you this? Are you that?

847
01:16:47,216 --> 01:16:49,356
And there's a lot of duality going on.

848
01:16:49,456 --> 01:16:55,796
And in that duality, if we then come through the duality, we reach oneness.

849
01:16:55,796 --> 01:17:07,456
And I believe the music of Helene is the type of music we will listen to on the hyper-Bitcoinization standard because we will be living in abundance.

850
01:17:07,956 --> 01:17:12,976
And there's in the hyper, like best scenario, right?

851
01:17:12,996 --> 01:17:16,216
Everybody is a Bitcoiner and we embody these Bitcoin ethos.

852
01:17:16,356 --> 01:17:18,156
And then we really live in love and light.

853
01:17:18,156 --> 01:17:25,016
I believe if that's the society we we land ourselves upon there's no no there's not going

854
01:17:25,016 --> 01:17:30,236
to be music of Ivy Lumi or it's going to be drastically different because now it's not going

855
01:17:30,236 --> 01:17:35,776
to be about learn from suffering learn from heartbreaks because we can learn from abundance

856
01:17:35,776 --> 01:17:42,276
you can have both you can have wisdom and love you can have both of them and you don't have to

857
01:17:42,276 --> 01:17:50,056
necessarily give up one to gain another and that level of abundance that level of peace and hope

858
01:17:50,056 --> 01:17:57,296
um and basically just like the song was saying like how to be real show me your greatness don't

859
01:17:57,296 --> 01:18:04,136
be shy like it's very straightforward and kind and love based so i think really looking forward

860
01:18:04,136 --> 01:18:11,976
to having more of this music this really goes to show that um human beings bitcoiners and our our

861
01:18:11,976 --> 01:18:15,736
community have been leveling up in consciousness

862
01:18:15,736 --> 01:18:27,956
indeed have you been in contact at all with uh with this band uh yes yes um interestingly i found

863
01:18:27,956 --> 01:18:35,876
them because the uh the the project was um uh at first interacting with my music so i think in

864
01:18:35,876 --> 01:18:43,036
In essence, they discovered me first and then started to have interactions here and there on Noster.

865
01:18:43,036 --> 01:18:52,056
We comment on each other's post and then we purchase the digital download of what they're doing.

866
01:18:52,276 --> 01:18:54,576
And then there's a little bit of conversation going on.

867
01:18:54,616 --> 01:18:58,476
But here is really for a shout out for great artists that I discovered on Noster.

868
01:18:58,616 --> 01:18:59,036
I'm a fan.

869
01:19:01,536 --> 01:19:02,396
For sure.

870
01:19:02,396 --> 01:19:04,796
so thank you Halin

871
01:19:04,796 --> 01:19:06,996
if you are listening to this episode

872
01:19:06,996 --> 01:19:09,316
so Ivy

873
01:19:09,316 --> 01:19:10,536
we talked about

874
01:19:10,536 --> 01:19:13,576
or I talked about the rebellious union of opposites

875
01:19:13,576 --> 01:19:14,516
and one of the things

876
01:19:14,516 --> 01:19:16,896
I typically do on this show is

877
01:19:16,896 --> 01:19:19,516
I try not to listen to the whole playlist

878
01:19:19,516 --> 01:19:21,236
because I want to listen to it the first time

879
01:19:21,236 --> 01:19:22,396
but I get a sense of it

880
01:19:22,396 --> 01:19:25,296
I end up listening for a few seconds of it

881
01:19:25,296 --> 01:19:26,676
because I need to download the songs

882
01:19:26,676 --> 01:19:29,236
and load them up into the media board

883
01:19:29,236 --> 01:19:33,236
and it's a good experience for me

884
01:19:33,236 --> 01:19:34,936
especially if it's a song I haven't heard

885
01:19:34,936 --> 01:19:37,516
to listen fresh on the podcast

886
01:19:37,516 --> 01:19:39,256
but like I said

887
01:19:39,256 --> 01:19:40,576
I do get a sense

888
01:19:40,576 --> 01:19:42,936
of what the playlist is like

889
01:19:42,936 --> 01:19:45,416
and then I pick one song

890
01:19:45,416 --> 01:19:46,516
that's how the show goes

891
01:19:46,516 --> 01:19:48,576
five songs by the guest

892
01:19:48,576 --> 01:19:49,696
and one by me

893
01:19:49,696 --> 01:19:51,416
and I pick one that is

894
01:19:51,416 --> 01:19:53,956
very different from the ones

895
01:19:53,956 --> 01:19:57,056
that the guest picks

896
01:19:57,056 --> 01:19:58,656
now typically I've gone down

897
01:19:58,656 --> 01:20:04,056
sort of dissonant progressive rock, symphonic metal, that kind of thing.

898
01:20:04,136 --> 01:20:05,956
So I don't want to keep overdoing that.

899
01:20:06,716 --> 01:20:12,736
So what I'm going to play today is I'm going to welcome back a familiar character

900
01:20:12,736 --> 01:20:18,736
to the Sunday brunch table, and that is Garage T.

901
01:20:19,316 --> 01:20:23,256
Rushington III, and I'm not just bringing this person, this band back,

902
01:20:23,256 --> 01:20:28,836
because I think it's the most brilliant name in the open music ecosystem.

903
01:20:29,616 --> 01:20:34,676
But Garage T. Rushington III is returning with a new track called

904
01:20:34,676 --> 01:20:37,636
Break, Slam, Reverse.

905
01:20:38,276 --> 01:20:41,976
And sometimes you're moving entirely too fast through the week

906
01:20:41,976 --> 01:20:45,036
and you suddenly realize you're heading down the wrong road.

907
01:20:45,736 --> 01:20:49,476
And that's exactly when you need to hit the brakes and change your momentum.

908
01:20:49,476 --> 01:21:01,736
So this song, I think, captures that specific feeling with the signature swagger and storytelling that we expect from the Honorable Mr. Rashington.

909
01:21:02,216 --> 01:21:07,536
So folks, pour yourself another cup of coffee and let the rhythm take you over.

910
01:21:08,056 --> 01:21:10,856
This is Break Slam Reverse.

911
01:21:19,476 --> 01:21:49,456
guitar solo

912
01:21:49,476 --> 01:21:53,916
In disguise

913
01:21:53,916 --> 01:21:56,976
Came for comfort

914
01:21:56,976 --> 01:22:00,716
Got weird instead

915
01:22:00,716 --> 01:22:03,956
Like my own room

916
01:22:03,956 --> 01:22:07,836
Without a bed

917
01:22:07,836 --> 01:22:11,216
Home has been remodeled

918
01:22:11,216 --> 01:22:14,316
To the point of no return

919
01:22:14,316 --> 01:22:18,496
Despite the look on my face

920
01:22:18,496 --> 01:22:22,196
No one else appears concerned

921
01:22:22,196 --> 01:22:25,616
Where to go from here

922
01:22:25,616 --> 01:22:27,256
Which way to go

923
01:22:27,256 --> 01:22:29,076
Which way to steer

924
01:22:29,076 --> 01:22:30,996
Where do I go

925
01:22:30,996 --> 01:22:34,616
Break, slam, reverse

926
01:22:34,616 --> 01:22:50,816
I wanted the rhythm

927
01:22:50,816 --> 01:22:54,636
Of the band

928
01:22:54,636 --> 01:22:57,836
I could control

929
01:22:57,836 --> 01:23:01,996
With my hands

930
01:23:01,996 --> 01:23:05,336
Ain't timpos there

931
01:23:05,336 --> 01:23:09,496
But way too fast

932
01:23:09,496 --> 01:23:12,316
Guess my kind of beat

933
01:23:12,316 --> 01:23:16,236
Ain't meant to last

934
01:23:16,236 --> 01:23:19,576
Break, slam, reverse

935
01:23:19,576 --> 01:23:35,314
Break slam reverse Break slam reverse Home has been remodeled to the point of no return

936
01:23:35,314 --> 01:23:43,194
Despite the look on my face, no one else appears concerned

937
01:23:43,194 --> 01:23:51,474
Where to go from here, which way to go, which way to steer, where do I go?

938
01:23:52,474 --> 01:23:55,374
Break, slam, reverse

939
01:23:55,374 --> 01:24:06,414
Break, slam, reverse

940
01:24:06,414 --> 01:24:09,994
Break, slam, reverse

941
01:24:09,994 --> 01:24:13,574
Break, slam, reverse

942
01:24:13,574 --> 01:24:16,794
Break, slam

943
01:24:16,814 --> 01:24:20,214
Break, slam

944
01:24:20,214 --> 01:24:27,554
Home has been remodeled to the point of no return

945
01:24:27,554 --> 01:24:31,694
Despite the look on my face

946
01:24:31,694 --> 01:24:35,414
No one else appears concerned

947
01:24:35,414 --> 01:24:38,814
Where to go from here

948
01:24:38,814 --> 01:24:40,494
Which way to go

949
01:24:40,494 --> 01:24:42,274
Which way to steer

950
01:24:42,274 --> 01:24:44,174
Where do I go

951
01:24:44,174 --> 01:24:47,814
Break, slam, reverse

952
01:24:47,814 --> 01:25:17,494
That was

953
01:25:17,494 --> 01:25:27,574
break slam reverse by garage t russianton the third i really enjoyed the this unique energy

954
01:25:27,574 --> 01:25:33,874
this brand this band brings to the music there's that hypnotic arpeggio during the main verse that

955
01:25:33,874 --> 01:25:39,514
sits on the edge of dissonance without fully tipping over and then there's the groove of the

956
01:25:39,514 --> 01:25:46,294
chorus and that vocal delivery they all come together perfectly to move the narrative forward

957
01:25:46,294 --> 01:25:51,194
and honestly making a hard pivot takes a lot of effort

958
01:25:51,194 --> 01:25:54,194
and this song provides a great soundtrack

959
01:25:54,194 --> 01:25:58,374
for that moment of realization and reversal

960
01:25:58,374 --> 01:26:02,554
the 90% splits are active for this chapter

961
01:26:02,554 --> 01:26:06,074
and indeed all other song chapters in this episode

962
01:26:06,074 --> 01:26:11,214
so do send a boost over to GTR the third

963
01:26:11,214 --> 01:26:16,674
and Ivy and Helene and Zaza Wawa,

964
01:26:17,314 --> 01:26:20,234
all the artists featured in this episode,

965
01:26:20,234 --> 01:26:24,894
if you enjoyed the sonic landscapes that they all weaved.

966
01:26:25,634 --> 01:26:28,874
So Ivy, we covered a lot of ground today.

967
01:26:28,874 --> 01:26:31,174
We talked about how you got into music,

968
01:26:31,254 --> 01:26:32,734
what you were doing before then,

969
01:26:33,234 --> 01:26:36,934
in some sense, the two parallel lives that you're leading

970
01:26:36,934 --> 01:26:40,274
and how they're intertwined so nicely.

971
01:26:40,274 --> 01:26:48,134
anything else that you feel we didn't discuss that you'd like to talk about

972
01:26:48,134 --> 01:26:54,674
no i think we covered everything and i really love your choice of music by the way and i love the

973
01:26:54,674 --> 01:27:01,994
how how there's this an instant live going on in this song and you can combine with the topic of

974
01:27:01,994 --> 01:27:07,674
the song you can really sense the conviction that goes into the the track and how there's really no

975
01:27:07,674 --> 01:27:18,134
return right awesome well ivy i appreciate you taking the time uh and entertaining us

976
01:27:18,134 --> 01:27:28,354
and educating us with uh your wonderful music and and being generous enough to add two new artists

977
01:27:28,354 --> 01:27:34,654
to the mix that was that was really nice uh so i've i found some new artists today and i hope

978
01:27:34,654 --> 01:27:40,034
the audience feels the same way. Definitely, definitely. And I'm sure they're both great

979
01:27:40,034 --> 01:27:45,534
guests to have on Sunday brunch because they both have amazing archive going on. But yeah,

980
01:27:45,634 --> 01:27:51,834
I'm really lucky to have stumbled on Bitcoin and Noster over the past five years. And it has

981
01:27:51,834 --> 01:27:57,234
completely changed my life. And I'm sure a lot of Bitcoiners would agree to that. And I guess how

982
01:27:57,234 --> 01:28:03,874
I'm doing it a little bit differently or try to push myself is I've always tried to find

983
01:28:03,874 --> 01:28:11,034
what else I can do in Bitcoin and try to do it in a creative way. Because over the past years,

984
01:28:11,094 --> 01:28:17,534
what I've realized is that everybody, there's too much going on. And sometimes it can be very

985
01:28:17,534 --> 01:28:24,494
overwhelming if we try to process everything by ourselves through our rational mind. And a way to

986
01:28:24,494 --> 01:28:30,734
for me to deal with that is to write it down and channel that into a creative act.

987
01:28:30,734 --> 01:28:37,774
Um, it started as something that I do did for myself for documentation and for clarity.

988
01:28:38,114 --> 01:28:43,194
Um, but over time, I believe if we all do the same thing, write things down, organize

989
01:28:43,194 --> 01:28:50,254
our thoughts, do the shadow work in a creative way, then I believe we will all realize sooner

990
01:28:50,254 --> 01:28:51,174
rather than later.

991
01:28:51,374 --> 01:28:57,974
There's something in there, um, that's moving, um, in nature because it's true.

992
01:28:57,974 --> 01:29:17,094
And I like to think that everybody is like a gemstone and the traumas, the failures or the upsetness or the suffering that we went through are create cuts, creates different surfaces on the raw stone.

993
01:29:17,094 --> 01:29:21,814
And sometimes it creates crystallization.

994
01:29:22,234 --> 01:29:28,954
And through this crystallization of pain, trauma, reflection, heartbreaks, anger,

995
01:29:29,254 --> 01:29:36,534
if we calm them through in the right way, just like cutting a stone many, many times,

996
01:29:36,714 --> 01:29:43,614
but nowhere to cut, then we're going to get something very, very shiny and very unique and rare in the end.

997
01:29:43,614 --> 01:29:55,014
So if you want to take away of something from this episode, I would say I would like to inspire you to start your creative act.

998
01:29:55,334 --> 01:29:57,794
And it doesn't have to be overwhelming.

999
01:29:58,014 --> 01:30:03,094
It doesn't have to be investing thousands of dollars to gear up yourself.

1000
01:30:03,094 --> 01:30:06,094
But it's about write a line down.

1001
01:30:06,234 --> 01:30:07,874
What are you grateful for today?

1002
01:30:07,874 --> 01:30:10,114
What are you sad about today?

1003
01:30:10,114 --> 01:30:13,914
and draw on these raw energies from our daily life

1004
01:30:13,914 --> 01:30:18,394
to crystallize them into something beautiful.

1005
01:30:20,934 --> 01:30:25,394
Sage advice, Ivy, a real gem, I dare say.

1006
01:30:26,014 --> 01:30:27,434
Thank you very much.

1007
01:30:28,214 --> 01:30:29,534
And thank you, Ivy.

1008
01:30:29,674 --> 01:30:33,374
And thank you to our live stream audience for listening and for the zaps.

1009
01:30:33,634 --> 01:30:36,354
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1010
01:30:36,354 --> 01:30:39,514
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1011
01:30:39,514 --> 01:30:46,594
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1012
01:30:47,354 --> 01:30:49,874
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1013
01:30:50,354 --> 01:30:54,834
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1014
01:30:55,334 --> 01:31:01,854
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1015
01:31:02,594 --> 01:31:05,274
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1016
01:31:05,274 --> 01:31:07,494
and speaking of producers

1017
01:31:07,494 --> 01:31:11,374
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1018
01:31:11,374 --> 01:31:12,594
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1019
01:31:12,594 --> 01:31:15,594
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1020
01:31:15,594 --> 01:31:18,494
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1021
01:31:18,494 --> 01:31:21,534
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1022
01:31:21,534 --> 01:31:22,774
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1023
01:31:22,774 --> 01:31:24,734
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1024
01:31:24,734 --> 01:31:28,614
this week the EP chair belongs to Sylvie

1025
01:31:28,614 --> 01:31:32,614
coming in with a very thoughtful quadruple 7

1026
01:31:32,614 --> 01:31:37,214
for the episode with Aaron of Essex and Longhi.

1027
01:31:37,594 --> 01:31:38,534
She says,

1028
01:31:38,994 --> 01:31:43,634
I remember hearing the underclass on Booster Graham Ball a few years back

1029
01:31:43,634 --> 01:31:46,894
and thinking to myself, who is this Longhi chap?

1030
01:31:48,174 --> 01:31:51,994
Current day and beyond, more will come to know and appreciate Longhi

1031
01:31:51,994 --> 01:31:57,134
and the music he creates and shares with us in the Valleyverse and beyond.

1032
01:31:57,574 --> 01:31:59,614
Great conversation. Well done.

1033
01:31:59,614 --> 01:32:02,494
thank you and god bless

1034
01:32:02,494 --> 01:32:05,334
two raised hands emoji

1035
01:32:05,334 --> 01:32:08,454
well said sylvie and thank you for your support

1036
01:32:08,454 --> 01:32:09,554
and your generosity

1037
01:32:09,554 --> 01:32:12,914
longi songs are certainly something to cherish

1038
01:32:12,914 --> 01:32:15,094
in our open music world

1039
01:32:15,094 --> 01:32:17,594
and until next sunday folks

1040
01:32:17,594 --> 01:32:20,554
it's happy monday through saturday

1041
01:32:20,554 --> 01:32:21,554
farewell

1042
01:32:29,614 --> 01:32:59,594
Thank you.