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Hey there, thank you for joining me for another episode of YQG In Bloom.

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My name is Tracy Martens and today I am at Wolf and Rebel with Sam Bielanski.

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How are you doing?

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I'm good.

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How are you?

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I'm good.

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Now we have some downtime in between podcasts because this is a pop-up today and we needed

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to get her in because Sam is a singer.

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Yeah.

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So, tell me.

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Okay, well, yeah, I sing.

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I'm in a band called Pony.

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We moved here to Windsor from Toronto during the pandemic, so we're still kind of like

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getting our roots here in Windsor, but my husband is originally from Belle River, so

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that's why we moved to Windsor and yeah, so.

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So how's it going?

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It's good.

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We are trying to tour as much as possible.

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We just put our second record out in May.

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It's called Velveteen and you can find that on all the streaming services and we also

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sell vinyl through our band camp, but yeah, we're just trying to like tour around as much

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as possible, get the word out about the band and yeah, we're still writing new music and

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we're going back into the studio in February.

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I just caught you do vinyl.

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It's actually starting to become really popular again, which is really cool and my husband

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actually works at Dr. Disks, so they're selling vinyl every day.

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Oh, that's great.

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I'm really happy about that because I inherited my grandfather's.

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It's one of those record players that has the eight track and the cassette, but nothing

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sounds as good as vinyl.

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It's true.

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It feels very real.

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Like when you make music and you put it out on a record, it feels like very tangible and

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real and it's like so special to have like the songs that you write like in this like

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beautiful little package sort of.

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It's true.

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Now, do you find it is harder?

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Were you in Pony when you were in Toronto?

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Do you find it's harder being in Windsor to get together, to record, to play than it was

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in Toronto?

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I actually think it's easier here because when we were living in Toronto, we both had

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to have like multiple jobs.

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We had to rent a practice space and our rent was obviously really, really expensive.

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It's hard to coordinate schedules, but here we practice at our house.

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We work less hours because it's more affordable to live here.

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Detroit is just a hop, skip and a jump away.

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So basically any like networking or shows that would go to Toronto where you would want

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to go and see and support your friends, they go to Detroit too.

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So it's like just, it's almost even closer because the traffic in Toronto is crazy.

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So it takes so long to get places, but here you just go hop on over to Detroit and see

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your friends.

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That's true.

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And the venues there are popping.

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Totally.

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Really nice venues and everybody goes there and the people there are also very supportive

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and lovely.

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I'm hoping like we can get more of a music scene here in Windsor because it's like night

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and day between Detroit and Windsor, but there's so many talented people here.

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So it'd be cool to have like a music scene that's also thriving here.

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It's true.

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And what we have right now is really eclectic.

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So what type of music is Pony?

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Pony, I would say is like power pop, like pop music with guitars, distortion and yeah.

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Yeah, it's cool.

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I'm going to have to listen.

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I honestly have not, because I didn't know the name of the band until now.

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So now I'm going to get on there, get on Spotify and download you guys.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Do you guys play in Windsor at all or Detroit?

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We play Detroit a little bit more than we play Windsor just because half of the band

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is from New York.

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So it's hard to play locally because they live so far away.

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So usually we'll play Detroit at like either the tail end or the start of a tour.

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Okay.

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But it would be really nice to be able to play Windsor more because obviously this is

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our home, but we played here once and it was really cool.

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Oh, that's nice.

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It's nice.

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You guys like to go play in New York?

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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Now what's that like?

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It's cool.

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Yeah.

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It's just really cool and really like really special.

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And you also do work here at Wolfram Rubble.

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That's true.

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You've worked here for how long now?

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Two years.

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Yeah.

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It's been a while and she is the master at the Macha Bar.

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I'm the Macha master.

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That's what they call me.

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Now where can they find your music?

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So you can find it on all the streaming platforms.

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You can support us directly through our bandcamp page.

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You can find all that good stuff on our socials, Instagram, Pony the Band.

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And you can also find us at Dr. Disq.

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So if you were local and you want to pick up a record, we have them for sale at Dr.

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Disq.

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That's great.

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I was just informed that you are the voice for My Little Pony.

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I do have a voice of one of the characters on the new generation My Little Pony.

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Oh my goodness.

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Now where is that aired?

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So that is on Netflix and on YouTube.

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So there's two different shows.

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Make Your Mark is on Netflix and Tell Your Tale is on YouTube.

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That is so cool.

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It's very interesting because it fits very well with the brand, even though it was not

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intentional whatsoever.

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But yeah, my character is called Jazz Hooves and she is a pony, an earth pony, and she

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works at a nail salon.

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So she loves to just do hoofacures and she loves to sing as well.

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Hoofacures.

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I like that.

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That is so cute.

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Yeah, she's really cool.

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Okay, so we are going to have to check that on Netflix for sure.

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Okay, now I know what I'm doing tonight.

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Well, thank you so much for giving me five minutes out of your time, Sam.

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Oh, of course.

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Thank you for having me.

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And again, my name is Tracy.

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I want to thank you so much for joining me for another episode of YQG In Bloom.

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Make sure you get out and listen to Pony.

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Yeah.

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Have a good one.