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Mindy Peterson: [00:00:00] I’m Mindy Peterson, and this is Enhance Life with Music, a holistic look at the power of music in our everyday lives. Joining me today from Sydney, Australia, through the wonders of technology is Eran Thomson. Eran is an author, creative director, fellow podcaster and entrepreneur. He’s with me today to talk about his roles as chief rocker and joy pusher. Welcome to Enhance Life with Music, Eran!
Eran Thomson: [00:00:27] Thanks, it’s great to be here with you.
Mindy Peterson: [00:00:28] Eran, you have a very varied background, so much so that your wife made you promise not to start any new businesses without her permission. That’s right. She did give you permission, though, to launch your latest venture or a recent venture, anyway, song saga. Tell us what Song Saga is and how it came to be and how it came to receive the golden seal of approval from your wife.
Eran Thomson: [00:00:53] Okay, sure. So Song Saga is a music and memory game that gets people sharing the stories and soundtracks of their lives. It sort of unlocks memories and helps us reconnect joyfully to the past experiences of our lives and also with the people that we play the game with. If you’ve ever played Cards Against Humanity, which is very popular, it’s similar to that and that it’s a box full of cards that are designed to spark moments and of music and memories that have meaning to you. But you play it with a music app handy, so you might have Tidal or Spotify or Amazon music or something that going while you play. And the origin story of Song Saga is and the reason I got the green light to try and put it out into the world was my wife Aimee was in part responsible for helping bring it into the world. And what happened was, you know, if you can remember, 20 years ago, Steve Jobs famously walked out on a stage, held up the first iPod and said, 20,000 songs in your pocket and everyone kind of lost their minds. Like, what? How do I even, you know, what am I even going to do with 20,000 songs? Right and right. And fast forward to now and we’ve all got like depending on which music app you have in your pocket, 60 to 80 million songs and we all have the same songs even if we don’t access them all or look at that library the same way.
Eran Thomson: [00:02:16] And to me this was really fascinating because it’s like we’re all walking around with all this incredible music in our pocket, but we just most of it we’re never going to listen to. And the stuff that has meaning for us is really special and important. But what about the stuff that’s special, important to other people? So this was sort of just percolating in the back of my mind. And then simultaneously my wife and I had sort of created sort of like these COVID lockdown dance parties for two. And we start to gamify those events by creating rules around who could play what music. And if you played a good song, you earned the right to play another song. But if you killed the buzz and the dance floor vibe disappeared, then I would take over and and then we just sort of we it sort of evolved into this massive Google doc full of rules that only she and I were ever going to understand. But what had what had triggered for me was the idea that you could potentially gamify the massive music libraries that we all own. Right? So now I have these two things kind of percolating in my brain, and then we went away for a long weekend with some friends, and after dinner we’re sitting around listening to some music, drinking some wine, talking shit.
Eran Thomson: [00:03:24] And my wife, it happened to be the anniversary of my father in law’s passing. And so my wife Amy said, Hey guys, do you mind if I play a song that reminds me of my dad in honor of him? And we’re all like, Of course, yeah, go for it. So she plays Here Comes The Son by the Beatles, dude. And do do write beautiful song. Yeah, we all listen. We appreciate we think about Robert, her dad and we have this moment. But then she sort of spontaneously shares this story about how as a young girl coming home from school after high school, she would run to his woodshop. He was a woodworker, and he kept his stereo and all his records in the woodshop because he wanted to play the music loud while he was working, and he didn’t want to disturb his wife back in the main house. So Amy would come running home from school and go into the woodshop with her dad and listen to records with him and dance in the sawdust and, you know, have these really special bonding moments over music with her father. And we’re all like, wow, that’s what a cool thing to learn about you and a great story. And we’re all kind of sitting around pondering that. And then my friend Tim was like, Well, you know, I have a song that reminds me of my dad and a story.
Eran Thomson: [00:04:35] And so he tells this hilarious story about sort of sad but hilarious story about his dad wasn’t around much and then eventually left. But the fondest memories he has of his father when he was a young child was bathtime. And there was this silly song like Bath Times, Fun Spaghetti in the tub, everybody rub, dub, dub, you know, whatever it was, you know. And so we’ve gone from like the Beatles to like, whatever that was, you know? And then. And then basically we went around the room and everybody, it turned out, had a story that reminded them of their father and a song. And we were like, That’s magical. And it was so much fun. And we learned so many new things about each other and heard music that we would never have heard before. And like all this stuff was happening and which is so great that we decided to pick another topic and go again. And, and so basically what happened was on the way home from that weekend, I was like, I got it. I know what the game is now. I know how to do it. And so it took me it took me a month from that night to prototype song saga, and then it took a year to get it to market.
Mindy Peterson: [00:05:37] And sometime during that time you explain the idea, the concept to Amy. And she gave you the green light.
Eran Thomson: [00:05:43] Yeah, she was on board with the idea always. But there was a moment in time where I was kind of like, I remember I was in the kitchen, I was holding up the prototype box and I was like, I think this might be a thing. Like, Is this a thing? And she’s like, I can see her face now. She’s reluctantly like, yes, you know, like, you know, I was just like, Damn that you’re doing something else now. And, you know, it’s it’s been a really interesting journey because, you know, my background and my career has all been kind of service based and creative service industry based. And now I’m in a product business and there’s a massive learning curve. It’s a completely different world.
Mindy Peterson: [00:06:16] Hmm. Well, is that why the box is green? Is because she gave it the green light.
Eran Thomson: [00:06:20] No little known secret. My. My game plan. My big idea was that a music app would be the perfect kind of brand or creative partner for this game, because obviously it’s the cornerstone of how you play the game is with the music app. And so my idea at the time was, man, I’m going to create this and I’m going to sell it to Spotify. And they’d be crazy not to jump on board and get involved. It’s going to increase usage of their platform, it’s going to increase discovery. All the things that they say they stand for this game delivers. So without that was as far as I got in terms of color palette, I just went, okay, it’s Spotify, green and black. And then when I show it to them, they’re going to be like, Duh, of course we have to acquire this. That hasn’t happened. So if anyone from Spotify is listening, you don’t miss your shot. But at the same time, you know, it really is platform agnostic. It doesn’t matter what music app you use.
Mindy Peterson: [00:07:11] Well, when I had the chance to play the game and one thing that it sort of reminded me a little bit of is like a gamified version of some type of conversation cards. I think there’s different brands of conversation cards like one is table topics, and I know that was one that we used as a family when we had kids, younger kids. And I think one of them is like a couple’s version of it. Those those conversation topics do lead to some really interesting revealing things about one another. The game song saga is sort of like that, like it brings out these stories that you never would have had any reason to otherwise know about your friends or even sometimes your spouse, and yet it’s gamified. So tell us a little bit more about the game side of it and how the game is played.
Eran Thomson: [00:08:01] Yeah, sure. I love that. By the way, that’s probably my one of my many favorite things about song. Song is how it unlocks those memories and gets people sharing things that otherwise would have never come out, just surfaces them sort of in a playful and organic way. There’s a woman who said something similar to me the other day. She said, I learned more about my husband and one night of playing Song Saga than in all the years we’ve been married. And wow, like, I’m like, man, first of all, I’m not sure what that says about your relationship, but but awesome. I love that.
Mindy Peterson: [00:08:30] Good endorsement for the game anyway.
Eran Thomson: [00:08:32] Yeah, I love that you now have a tool for connecting with each other better and that’s a win. But yeah, in terms of how it’s played and how it’s winning, I mean how people win. It was really interesting in the early days I mentioned it took me a year from prototype to get to market and part of that time was spent just playing with people, showing it to people, showing to people in the game industry and just trying to understand like if it had legitimacy and value as a product. And one of the really fascinating things to me from a cultural perspective was that in Australia when we showed people the game, they were like, Oh wow, that looks really cool, how do we play? And when I took it to America, everyone was like, Oh wow, that looks really cool. How do I win? And I was like, Wow, okay. Yeah. And the real win, as I think you discovered when you’re playing with your friends, is that joyful connection and recollection that comes through the sharing of authentic moments that have meaning to you. Right. And, you know, people sometimes say, well, I’m not really good at telling stories, but when you’re telling your own authentic story, you’re going to tell it as well as it can possibly be told. And because it’s genuine, because it’s real, because people are listening and connecting and everyone gets a turn, you do fine and you’re always going to be telling the best version of that story because it’s yours and yours alone.
Eran Thomson: [00:09:48] So the learnings from that experiment made me kind of go, Okay, I have to figure out a way to give people points, you know, like that they can actually win. Because a win for me is that experience of. Connecting and hearing, learning new things about your friends. And I think what most people discover is, yes, there’s a way to play the game and win, but very, very quickly, almost every time we’ve ever seen anybody play and I’d be curious to hear about your experience, it devolves from a who cares about the score. This is just great hearing your stuff. So yeah, I mean, like you can win and really quickly, the way that that works is there’s three kinds of cards in the box. There’s green cards which are designed to spark memories of the music and moments that have meaning to you. And basically, when someone pulls a card, that card inspires a song and a story. Everyone shares their song and story, what we call a set. And then there’s a vote. Whoever is set as deemed to be the best, the funniest, the weirdest, whatever by the group, they win a blue card and the blue card is just called you rock cards. And those cards are for helping keep score. But there’s a third card in the box also called the Gold Card Award.
Eran Thomson: [00:10:53] And the gold cards are based on things that we all know about famous celebrities and musicians or things that have actually happened at the MTV Music Awards or the Grammy Awards. Those are cards that people have in their hands from the beginning of play, and they can be given to any player at any time for any reason. So there’s sort of like a wild card opportunity for people to score points, even if they’re not telling a winning rounds with their own stories and songs, they can still win points for other things like the Beyonce Award, for example, is for the person who plays a song that gets people up and dancing. Right, because she did that amazing dance at the Grammys or the one that we just put out as a joke was the Will Smith Award for whoever plays a song that really slaps. Yeah, I know, I know. But anyway, anyway, yeah. So that’s that’s the basic gist of it. But ultimately, like it says, like you said, it devolves into more of a conversational evening or event. And, you know, we’ve seen some people will, you know, over the course of four or 5 hours, they might play three cards, right? Like everyone just really gets into it. And then there’s other groups that burn through 20, 50 cards in a night. They just speed rounding through it. So it’s very customizable and people can play how they want.
Mindy Peterson: [00:12:07] Yeah, I mean, depending on the group that you’re with, you really could customize the level of gamification anywhere from using it, really not as a game. And just like you said, conversation starters and icebreakers and just kind of guiding the conversation, getting to know each other more, or you can really pull in those blue cards and those gold cards and keep score and to make it more of a game. And the other thing that I like about the customization of it is there’s a real variety of topics on the question cards and the question cards. Just to clarify, it is an opportunity for you to share the song. So the question is kind of like on each one, what’s the song and what’s the story? So you come up with a song and and play it on your app and then also tell a story that kind of goes along with it. But just to give listeners an idea and a taste of the variety on the cards, I’m just going to read some of them here because there’s a real variety. One, your best friend in high school bedtime. Confusing lyrics. Best lyrics brings out the angel in you brings out the devil in you A significant change in your life. Your parents hate it. They were great live. They were terrible live it still have the T-shirt. Can’t believe you used to like it. Sounds better in a car tattoos and I could keep going. But some of them are more or less G-rated, which adds a little fun to it too, depending on what group you’re playing with. But there’s a whole variety and so there is a lot of customization and versatility in the game.
Eran Thomson: [00:13:47] Yeah, they’re intentionally vague as well, right? So to because how you interpret each card is uniquely your own perception of what that card means, right? Like and also like we say in the rules, I think like just because, you know, you might get card, the card might be, I don’t know, high school dance. Right. It doesn’t mean that you have to tell the story about your high school dance and remember a song from that night it might remind you of your parents met at a high school dance and it’s their story. Or it might remind you of, like, riding in limos. And it takes you to a time that wasn’t a school dance at all, but you had this crazy experience in a limo, so you can use it as a springboard to go anywhere. And and I love that. The other thing, too, that’s really interesting and I’m curious if you observed this many when you played, was that sometimes people will get a card and they’ll be like, oh, man, you know, I don’t know if I have a song or a story that goes with this. And then what we’ve seen over and over is people go, Well, it kind of makes me think of this band or this, and they pull up the band and their music app. They play the song that they kind of think they know. And then as soon as the notes come out of the speaker, they’re like, Oh, spring break, 1986. It reminds me of, you know, road trip into Florida, you know, like we got a flat tire, blah, blah, blah. Did you notice that that people that music kind of triggered the memories for people?
Mindy Peterson: [00:15:04] Yeah. You know, there are a lot of things that I noticed when I played this that were really fascinating to me. One was some people are really good at pulling out like right away. They’re like, they name a song title in a band, like, for example, the card weird instrument. And so somebody got that and immediately she like call out this band and the song and she pulled it up and I was like, I’ve heard that song before, but I never noticed the weird instrument. And I never would have immediately thought of that when I saw that card, I was just so impressed. And so she was like really good with that kind of stuff. And then other people like for me, when I saw the card, I would immediately think of more a story. And so for me it was more the songs that I would think of were really tied to the story and not so much even a song that I listened to a ton. Like, for example, one was a marriage proposal. And so what I thought of was the song that my husband and I had played at our wedding. It was a song from Phantom of the Opera, which was one of our early dates that we went to. And that’s a song I don’t listen to on Spotify, ever. But when I think of a song, when I think of our marriage like wedding and proposal and dating and like all that, that’s the song that comes to my mind. So for me, the song, the story is much more what comes to my head. Whereas with other people, sometimes it’s that song and the band and the song title right away.
Eran Thomson: [00:16:39] Yeah, interesting.
Mindy Peterson: [00:16:40] The other thing that was. Oh, go ahead.
Eran Thomson: [00:16:42] Oh, I was going to say sometimes the the song like what we find is like sometimes the song can appear three different ways. So it can be sort of like a soundtrack to your story. Like, Oh, I’m going to tell you the story of when my husband and I went to see Phantom of the Opera and this is the song. I’m going to play it in the background where I tell you the story. Other times it might be the setup. So you’re like, Check out this song. And then, you know, as the song’s playing or almost done, you go Now let me tell you why that song is has meaning to me. And then other times it’s a punch line, right? Because you’re like, you tell your story and then you go, and this was the song, right? And sure. So like soundtrack set up or punch line and it can appear. Like I said, it’s really fun to see how music can play a role in the game and in three different ways like that.
Mindy Peterson: [00:17:24] Yeah, you’re right. I hadn’t thought about it like that, but one of the cards that somebody got was Grandma and he pulled out his app and started playing the song. That was like a punch line, basically, like something that would not be scrambled at all. And the other thing that I was thinking of, too, that I noticed from the game is when we were done playing the game, we we kept bringing in all these song references into our conversation afterward, like somebody passed something and the only, the only somebody was shaking the guy on a different game and somebody was like, Start playing that song, shake that shit. And so, you know, like people. Just kept the references coming even when we had moved on to a different game. So it just gets you in that mindset where you’re thinking of songs and song titles and all that. So that was fun.
Eran Thomson: [00:18:20] One of the things I like that I didn’t expect was I knew we would discover new music and people would discover new music and that would be exciting. But I didn’t realize that I would attach new memories to music that I don’t like and what the example there is. We play with some friends who have a teenage daughter and every time it was her turn, she would play music that I hated, you know, like Auto-Tune that just like I’m like, I hate this song. But now when I hear this song on the radio, I think of my friend’s daughter and her amazing weekend, right? And so, like, it was really weird thing. We’re like, I don’t like the song, but it brings back this pleasant memory.
Mindy Peterson: [00:18:54] Sure, it’s fun because some of those songs, like you said, we we’ve all heard and yet we have different associations with them. So it is really fun to hear other people’s associations with them. And then there are other songs that I had never heard before that people were bringing up, and so you get exposed to new songs. Another thing that was interesting is, like I said, the one friend was really good at coming up with artist or bands and song title. Some of the other players were the other friends we were we were playing with were really good at other stuff. Like this one guy who was playing it with it just was so great at coming up with these really interesting stories from his childhood. Like he shared the story about, he always listened to his parent’s music until he got to be a certain age and got a mailing about the Columbia Tape Cassette Club. And so he signed up for this club, and so he’s telling the story and he was really getting into it and he was like, I got 11 tapes in that first shipment that were all new music. It wasn’t my parents music, it was new music I had never heard before, and it just blew my mind. And you could just tell how excited he was when he had gotten it because of how excited he was reliving this memory.
Mindy Peterson: [00:20:06] And so I kid you not, he could remember like every one of those 11 albums that were in that shipment, and it just blew my mind. So it was so fun to hear about this. And I bet his wife had never heard that story before. So it was really fun to see how everyone had a different response. I like the YouTube series that you did where it was like 30 cards and 30 days, because you really explain a lot in that series about some of the things that you’ve been alluding to already in our conversation. Different ways that you can interpret the cards or use the cards. It could be a punch line or it could be something more literal. And you do a good job of explaining that in the in the video series. So I’ll definitely put a link in the show notes to that. One thing that I definitely want to make sure we have time to talk about is you talk a lot about the power of music as a tool to unlock memory. And I heard you say that you’re getting these games into senior living centers to allow a way for families to connect when they’re visiting their loved ones. It’s a great way to connect the younger generation with the older generation. Tell us more about that, because I was really intrigued with that concept.
Eran Thomson: [00:21:18] Yeah, thanks for asking. So this is a passion project of mine. We haven’t done it in a meaningful way yet, but we are working on it. And there’s a couple of videos on YouTube with millions of views of older people who seemingly are not all together there or present, and someone puts headphones on them and they immediately come to life.
Mindy Peterson: [00:21:39] To.
Eran Thomson: [00:21:39] Regain their physicality, regain their composure and awareness. They regain some of them regain their speech. There’s one that I can never forget of a woman who used to be a ballerina and she starts kind of dancing in her wheelchair. Yeah, she’s just like, whoa. So, you know, there’s no disputing the power of music as a mnemonic device to unlock memory and trigger atomic response. And so obviously, we want to be able to create that beautiful opportunity for as many people as we can. And so I think the idea with putting song Saga into aged care facilities was that one of the observations that a friend of mine who works in one of these facilities told me was the families come, you know, the grandparents are in there. The children their children come because they’re obligated to or they want to, and the grandchildren come because they were dragged along and they have to. And there’s this very uncomfortable, awkward experience for everyone where the kids are distracted and don’t really understand. The young kids don’t really understand what’s going on. The parents are trying to manage those two different groups of people and it can create a less than ideal kind of visiting experience. Right. Right. So the idea was that, you know, if we can get music into the equation and get people, you know, like what? How much do you know about your grandparents? Like, I’m sure there was a ton of things.
Eran Thomson: [00:22:58] I don’t know. You know, I never heard about them or didn’t know about them or stories about them that I heard secondhand that I would have loved to have heard from them. So to be able to create an opportunity where the grandchildren can. Hear these amazing stories from their grandparents about their lives and their parents as well, and vice versa. Like if we could create a dynamic where that could happen, I think that would be pretty special. So the one of the things that we’ve been trying to do is collaborate with aged care facilities and also a Bluetooth speaker company. And ideally, again, Spotify, if you’re listening, you know, a music app to go into these aged care facilities and set up a program where this can happen. One of my term goals is to make this happen and film it and kind of just show people what kind of experience can be had and how they can change this whole relationship with what it means to go visit people you care about who are in aged care facilities.
Mindy Peterson: [00:23:50] Yeah, I just love that idea. I love I love grandparents. And my grandparents all died pretty young, but I had a step grandfather. I had a great aunt who was more like a grandma to me. And so I was able to keep in touch with those people. And when my kids were young, whenever we would go back to Michigan, where I grew up, we would visit this great aunt of mine. And I always loved seeing her. She was just an amazing woman. She’s since passed away, but just very strong woman, very positive, just always looking at the bright side of things. And I always wanted to go back and visit her when I was there. My kids didn’t have really any memory of her because we lived hundreds of miles away. And so they only saw her once a year when we went back to visit. And they’re kind of like, Oh, it smells funny in that nursing home when we go visit, you know? And so one way that we were able to sort of connect when we would visit her is my kids took piano lessons for me. And so we would my kids and I would play songs on the piano and we would go visit her.
Mindy Peterson: [00:24:57] And she loved that. The other residents loved it. It was nice for my kids because it was something they were familiar with and they could do rather than sitting there feeling awkward about trying to carry on a conversation. So in a way, music helped kind of facilitate connection in those times when they were young. But man, if we had this game, they would have loved that because every generation loves music and every generation can tell stories about their music. And it’s fun to have that common ground with people of a different generation. My kids didn’t really have much in common with my great aunt, but if she started talking about the songs that she remembers from her high school dance, then it would really be like, Oh wow, they had high school dances back in the age of dinosaurs, you know, interesting, you know, and suddenly that distance isn’t so great between them. And so I think that’s just a fantastic idea. And I’d love for you to keep me posted on what comes of that.
Eran Thomson: [00:26:00] Thank you. Yeah, I will. Yeah, for.
Mindy Peterson: [00:26:02] Sure. Erin, this has been fantastic. Where can people find the game?
Eran Thomson: [00:26:06] Sure. I mean, the easiest and best place to buy it is off our website. We ship globally. It’s song saga dot com. If you just Google songs, it’ll come up, but it is available online at Amazon. Of course, we just found out the other day it’s in Toys R US, Walmart. So, I mean, if you if you really want to get a hold of song saga, you’ll be able to find it wherever is convenient for you.
Mindy Peterson: [00:26:27] Fantastic. Well, I’ll definitely include those links in the show notes. And like I said, the link also to your YouTube series where you play 30 cards and 30 days and give a little bit of narrative along the way. In terms of some tips and hacks with playing the game, I ask all my guests to close out our conversation with a musical, ending a coda by sharing a song or story about a moment that music enhanced your life. Is there a song or story that you can share with us in closing today?
Eran Thomson: [00:26:55] Yeah. So as we were recording this, it’s the 5th of May here in Sydney, Australia, and 5th of May. Cinco de Mayo has always been a very special holiday for me, in part because I lived in Mexico for a year when I was nine years old, and that experience really formed a lot of my personality and character and, you know, and I just have a I’ve always had an affinity for Mexico and Mexican culture. And so because of that, I always threw a Cinco de Mayo party every year, like since basically since I started in college. And it became sort of a tradition and I would always have this party and many great things have happened on Cinco de Mayo in my life. Cinco de Mayo was the day that I met the woman who became my wife. It was the day I married her. So today is our wedding anniversary and congratulations.
Mindy Peterson: [00:27:42] How many years?
Eran Thomson: [00:27:44] We were just trying to figure that out because we didn’t get to spend that long. No, it hasn’t. It’s embarrassing. We’ve been we’ve been together for 13, and I think we’ve worked out. We’ve been married for seven. But there was some debate whether it was so. But yes, and so the so. Yeah. So Cinco de Mayo is a special day for me on many levels. But the story that I wanted to share with you for this show was back. When I was living in the U.S., I was racing mountain bikes and kind of working in advertising, and I was really good. It was a really good mountain biker and I was winning a lot of races and training all the time. And then suddenly I started losing races and the guys I used to ride with, who I was usually faster, then started beating me regularly and I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Nothing had changed as far as I knew. And then one day my boss grabbed me in the hallway and he just said, Hey, man, are you okay? And I was like, What do you mean? He’s like, Well, you’ve lost a lot of weight really fast. You should go to the doctor. So I went to the doctor and he asked me all the usual questions, you know, he said, You’re probably fine, you’re young, you’re healthy, you probably just need to lay off the booze, get more rest, you know, don’t train so hard. If there’s anything weird, I’ll I’ll give you a I’ll give you a call and we’ll do a full blood screen. So testing for HIV and everything else. Right? So this is on a Thursday and then he calls me on a Friday and he’s like, Hey, I got your blood test back and I need to talk to you about the results. Can you come in on Monday? And so so I have this whole weekend to try and, like, freak out and panic about.
Mindy Peterson: [00:29:21] Right.
Eran Thomson: [00:29:22] What the hell is wrong with me that he can’t tell me over the phone and I become convinced that I have HIV and I’m going to die. And so Monday comes around and I go to the doctor and he’s like, okay, so I’m not 100% sure what’s going on, but I want to do some more tests. I’m going to refer you to the specialist, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I’m like, Hey, man, I’ve been struggling with this all weekend. I need you to just tell me what you think. And he’s like, Well, I think it might be leukemia. And I’m like, Oh, thank God. And he’s like, Okay, my whole career, I’ve never had that response. And I was like, Well, you’re kind of a jerk, man. You see, the last thing he said to me as I walked out the door was, Do you want me to test for HIV? And I was like, Yes. And then I spent all weekend convinced that was what my prognosis was going to be. So that was Cinco de Mayo. It was the 5th of May when I found out I had leukemia and I had already purchased tickets to go see glove and special sauce at a place called the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, North Carolina, was at the time I was living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, you know.
Eran Thomson: [00:30:26] So I came home from the doctor. And I tell all my friends, like, you know, you’re not going to believe what happened to me. I just found out I have leukemia. And they’re like, Oh, no, this is terrible. Like, you know, we’ll come over, we’ll hang out. We don’t have to go to the concert. It’s no big deal. It’s totally okay. And I’m like, No, no, no, we are. We’re going to that show and we’re going to rage. We’re going to have a we’re going to go hard. I literally had found out three or 4 hours earlier that I had this what potentially felt like a death sentence at the time. And it was just like no way that I wasn’t going to, you know, go out with a bang. And so we went to G Love and we sat in the front row or we stood in the front row and danced and sang and just had the best time. And the song that goes with that story for me is My Baby’s Got Sauce, which, you know, G love, but my baby’s got sauce. Your baby ain’t sweet like mine. She got sauce, you know? That’s long.
Mindy Peterson: [00:31:20] I don’t know. Keep saying.
Eran Thomson: [00:31:21] It’s terrible. Like you’re into it, though. Yeah. All right. Well, yeah, check it out, G. Love and special sauce and. Yeah, it’s. It’s. He’s great. Yeah, he’s really good, so. Yeah, that’s my coda.
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