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What up, Clint?

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Clint Dang.

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So for 2024, I wanted to start something new for Top Shelf

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hijinks.

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I wanted to include guest spots for the podcast.

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So to start the new year off right,

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and for my very first guest, none other than Nicole Carmody.

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She is my graphic designer.

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She is my painter.

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She is a creator.

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She is brilliant.

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And she recently changed her business name to Evil Eye Design.

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She is on Instagram and Threads.

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Her handles and URLs are in the show now,

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so you can check out her work.

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And without further ado, let's do this bitch.

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Nicole!

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Hello, how are you?

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I am good.

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How about you?

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I'm good, feeling a lot better.

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You sound better.

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Not that we talked when we were both sick,

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but I know you were at strep throat,

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so I can imagine you weren't able to talk at all.

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Yeah, barely.

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It was just, oh man.

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Anyways, I'm glad we're both feeling better.

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Oh my goodness.

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And I'm glad you didn't give it to your son, so that's very good.

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I know.

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OK, so let's get started.

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You are my graphic artist.

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You did my logo, and I fucking love it.

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Thank you.

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Yes, I found you on Instagram.

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You just kept showing up on my feed, so that's how I DM do.

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But tell everybody about yourself.

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Like, what got you into art?

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I guess let's start there.

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What got you into drawing and what artists, I guess,

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what artists?

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Or what inspired you to follow this as your passion?

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I feel like at the age of four, art just naturally came to me.

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And ever since then, I've been creating art,

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and my inspirations are usually modern art, abstract art.

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Like, the artists such as Picasso and Salvador Dali,

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sorry, those are my two favorites by far.

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I also love Van Gogh.

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I mean, there are so many genres of art that I love,

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and I just try and combine every genre that I

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love into one piece or separate pieces.

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And overall, I'm very diverse with my art.

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I would agree to that.

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And when I went to your, I guess, your exhibit,

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is it called exhibit, I guess?

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Yeah, or it was just.

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It was called a showcase.

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A showcase.

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it was a couple of months ago.

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The two pieces I bought, that totally

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describes what you said, how you like to combine

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different type of arts into one.

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Yeah, so that's what I liked about those two pieces.

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And it's funny you mentioned Picasso because he's the only one.

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Well, I like other artists as well, or painters as well.

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But I like his colors and just the way his stuff was not

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I guess not like the other artists.

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So he's my favorite painter of all time as well.

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Yeah, his lines are very bold.

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And that's what grabbed my attention.

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And I like to add bold lines into my own art.

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But also, it's just nice to be inspired by artists

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from the past, even though, what's it called?

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a trend anymore compared to back then.

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But sometimes I do sell paintings.

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It just depends, you know, who wants them.

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So that's the last one you did then, or is there one

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that I guess you can speak on that you've done recently?

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Or the one I finished recently was like the Van Gogh

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inspired sunflower.

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And I added like a resin coat on top of it

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after the painting was dry.

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And it has like a glossy look.

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So resin has like a glossy look.

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You have to wait for it to dry for about a day or two,

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and then bam.

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So I put a video up on my Instagram about that.

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on your Instagram, or it was just that little story?

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It was just the real, the video.

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Oh, the real.

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So I'll look at that again.

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That way we can have the listeners look at your stuff

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as well.

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So my next question, I have a couple questions.

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So and also thank you for being my first guest.

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My podcast.

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Of course.

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So yes, we're both fellow Capricorns.

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Just so everybody's aware.

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So what type of mood are setting do you

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prefer to be in when you're looking for inspiration,

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I guess, for your type of work?

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I guess if you're just drawing for yourself.

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you're looking for, I guess, if you have a commission piece.

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So when I have a commission piece,

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I prefer to be alone in my room, blasting my music.

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I just don't want any interruptions.

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I don't want anyone trying to, like,

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you know, not let me focus on my concentration.

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You know what I mean?

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I totally understand that.

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I'm like, no, please don't bother me.

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I'm busy.

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blast my music, let go of my thoughts,

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and put it all down on paper, canvas, procreate app, whatever.

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I usually just like to use procreate.

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It's so much easier.

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and it's way cheaper.

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You can get them printed out as a print,

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or put it on a canvas tote bag or a t-shirt.

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it would probably take more steps to get it to where you need.

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I guess if you wanted to print it on canvas, or not canvas,

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I'm sorry, like on a bag, et cetera.

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I guess a hoodie, I don't know.

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And then also just the quality of a digital illustration is

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a billion times better.

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Yes, a billion times better.

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That's yes.

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Oh my gosh.

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So yeah, that's why I like to do the digital illustrations,

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too, when it comes to tote bags and stuff like that.

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And I still, I fucking rocked the, so Nicole did,

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I guess, a special for, I think it was, was it Christmas,

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or I think it was for Christmas, or maybe it was for Halloween,

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but you can get two for 20.

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So I got the Bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein

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for my grocery bags, and I got that for my co-worker as well.

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And she fucking loved them, by the way.

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Oh, thank you so much.

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Yes.

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I am going to have another special coming up soon.

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Oh, cool.

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Just stay tuned.

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And also, there's going to be a new business name

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and logo.

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Oh, OK.

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So I'm not going to be considered Nicole Carmody,

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does that art and design anymore?

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It's going to be Evil Eye Designs Incorporated

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by Nicole Carmody.

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OK, well, what better way to announce that than on a podcast?

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If you're one of the first to know, so.

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Well, congratulations.

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What's for this on?

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Because of the new year?

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Yeah, you know what?

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I just need to change.

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I need to really get on it with my art stuff.

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I have to simplify my stuff.

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OK, well, that does it.

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So are you there?

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Yeah, yeah, I'm here.

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OK, so you're going to still, well,

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you'll give me all your social media handles at the end,

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so I can put it in the show notes.

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But is your Instagram going to remain the same, I guess?

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It's just going to have the name update problem.

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Yeah, I just changed the name like maybe 10 minutes ago.

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Oh, OK, well, look at you.

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Congratulations.

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I'm just going to make some steps

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and of changing some things around.

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OK, so speaking of things on, and it's

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a brand new year, what do you have?

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Is there anything specifically planned or goal-wise for Evil Eye?

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You said Evil Eye by Nicole Carmody.

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OK, do you have any other, I guess, now

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that you rebranded, relaunched, what

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are your goals, I guess, for 2024 for Evil Eye?

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I definitely want to get some shirts printed.

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And sell them.

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And sometime down the line in the near future,

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maybe open up a business.

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I like it.

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Yeah, hopefully they'll happen.

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I just got to, because obviously,

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opening up a business doesn't happen overnight.

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It's baby steps that create the progress.

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And then to get you where you need to be,

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as far as your vision goes.

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So I feel like one of my inspirations

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is my dad, because he is a business owner of his own car

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consulting company.

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And he was working for Nissan for many years.

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And he retired.

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And so now he's got his own business.

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He actually also is a partial owner of a few dealerships.

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So he's really worked his way to the top.

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But it took a good while for him to do that.

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Like I said, businesses, they don't happen overnight.

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Well, at least you have good inspiration,

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and you can get wisdom from him.

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Oh, yeah, definitely.

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So I feel like my dad is one of my inspirations.

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My mom is one of my inspirations, too.

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She's a very hard worker.

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Well, good.

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She's a teacher.

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And I mean, I don't know how she does it every day.

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Teaching all those kids.

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I don't know how she does it.

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What grade does she teach?

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She teaches fourth and fifth grade combo.

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Oh, wow.

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OK.

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Well, yeah, that takes a lot of frame.

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I know.

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I don't know how she does it.

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Lord.

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Good for your mom.

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Yeah.

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And then she'll be retiring this year.

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Woo-hoo.

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Oh, even better for her.

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Yeah, good for her.

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OK.

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But yeah, I mean, I feel like my parents

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are very supportive of my art, so that's very nice.

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Good.

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I'm glad to hear that.

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That's always a definite plus.

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Yes.

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It's a plus.

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The other question I had, I don't have many more,

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but I know you had mentioned music.

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Music plays a big part for me as well when I create or when

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I write.

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Yeah.

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So when it comes to you and music,

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is there a certain genre that you need to listen to,

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or I guess it's depending on the piece or the commissioned

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art or your project that you, I guess,

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you need to start from scratch?

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I feel like it's all of the above.

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Like it just depends on the mood, the setting, the piece.

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Depending what the piece is, I'll

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change it to like some Travis Scott or Metallica

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or sometimes Frank Sinatra.

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Like my music taste is also very diverse, just like my art.

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Yeah.

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Because not only that, like liking diverse genres of music

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and art and every other type of art,

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it makes life way more interesting and less boring.

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Right.

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And it shows a little piece of you, I guess,

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when you're creating it.

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It adds that depth or dimension to where you can reveal a little

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bit about yourself.

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Right.

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But not really keep the person guessing.

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Exactly.

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Yep.

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So true.

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OK.

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Well, I want to thank you for joining and being my first guest

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for Top Shelf Hi Jinks.

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Woo-hoo.

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Let's do this.

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I know you said it's Evil Eye by Nicole Carmody.

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What are all your social media handles?

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I know you have Instagram.

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That's where I met you.

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Do you have any other social media handles?

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I do have TikTok, but I never go on TikTok.

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I also have a Facebook page, but I

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think I'm going to just discontinue the Facebook page.

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So Instagram and threads would be the way to go.

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Oh, OK.

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You know what?

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I need to start posting on there, I guess.

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I don't know.

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Yeah, I feel like I do too.

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I was just going to ask how active you are on there,

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because I'm more of a Twitter girl.

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I'm old, and I've been on Twitter forever,

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so that's what I'm doing.

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But I don't know about you, but I've not

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been active on threads at all.

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Yeah, I sometimes go on it, but not too often.

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Instagram is my main source of.

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Oh, OK.

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Oh, yeah.

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So I have that.

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I will put that in the show notes for everybody

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so they can check out and they can check out your work

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and friend you.

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And then Nicola's open for commissions, guys.

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So if you have specific, I guess, pieces

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that you would like her to create for you,

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she's more than welcome to take on the project for you.

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Yes.

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And you can hit her up on Instagram.

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You can message her, and you guys can go back and forth,

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because that's how we started.

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And now we're in contact all the time.

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Oh, I know.

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Yes, I'm always open.

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I always, I can make it happen.

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I can make your piece happen.

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You just got to let me know.

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There you go.

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OK, Nicole, thank you for joining.

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And yeah, thank you for your time today.

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All right, thank you.

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Have a good day.

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All right, bye.

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You too.

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Bye.

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Bye.