Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Dr. Sarah: Good.
[00:00:01] DJ Sam Reedy: All right.
[00:00:02] Dr. Sarah: Perfect.
All right. Hello and welcome to the Dr. Random podcast.
I'm Dr. Sarah, and today I'm excited because our topic is something on. It's on music. And I have with me guest Sam Reedy, who is a dj, and I love that genre music. That's what I listen to a lot myself, even when I'm working out, keeps me pumped. So.
And what's interesting about Sam is he has also been a missionary and he classifies himself as a Christian dj. And so, Sam, I'm gonna go ahead and let you introduce yourself to the audience.
[00:00:43] DJ Sam Reedy: Okay, perfect. Yeah. So thank you for having me. First of all, again, my name is Samuel Reedy.
My DJ monikers Midway, and I'm a local D. DJ producer in Dallas, Texas.
And yeah, I used to be a missionary. I like to think I still am just a little different avenue. I like to incorporate, if I can, God into my work as. As a producer slash dj. And, you know, might not be in people's faces, but, you know, when I can talk about God with people at shows, I. I try to. If it opens up itself to people. So, yeah, I was a missionary in India for four months and, you know, was going to we the team back to India when Covid hit and ended up finding myself in Dallas and kind of stumbling into the underground music scene here.
So, yeah, happy to kind of get into the nitty gritty of all that with you.
[00:01:45] Dr. Sarah: Yeah, it's awesome.
And, you know, the fact that you're in Texas now, the geography of itself. How far is Austin from Dallas?
[00:01:57] DJ Sam Reedy: Just a few hours.
[00:01:59] Dr. Sarah: A few hours. Okay. I have family in Austin, and I've been to Austin a couple times, but not Dallas.
[00:02:06] DJ Sam Reedy: So not Dallas.
You gotta come through. You gotta come to one of our shows.
[00:02:11] Dr. Sarah: Yeah. Be awesome.
So can you kind of walk us through how you got started as a DJ and producer in Dallas and maybe what, you know, the early scene was like for you?
[00:02:26] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah, yeah, totally.
Well, I got really into music really young.
It was kind of a way for me to escape, you know, you know, as young kids like to do in their bedroom, just put on some headphones and kind of block out the noise.
And I'll never forget when I first heard electronic music for the first time. I was visiting my brother, who was.
He was in college in Colorado, and he introduced me to an artist called Mimosa. And also he showed me a popular artist that the audience might know called Dead Mouse.
Being from West Virginia, all we were exposed to what was on the radio locally there. You know, rock and Roll and country music. So this kind of new world, yeah, was really intriguing to me.
So I kind of brought it home with me and showed all my friends and I was in middle school at the time. We, I convinced my friends to build the dead mouse heads for hat day at school. I don't know if you're familiar with dead mouse, but he wears this, he wears this big mouse head like a Mickey Mouse head.
[00:03:42] Dr. Sarah: Yes.
[00:03:43] DJ Sam Reedy: We paper mached these.
[00:03:46] Dr. Sarah: Okay.
[00:03:47] DJ Sam Reedy: These hats and word. That happen. Anyway, yeah, I just got obsessed with discovering new music and I guess fast
[00:03:56] Dr. Sarah: forward,
[00:03:59] DJ Sam Reedy: you know, we moved to. I ended up moving to Los Angeles when I was 15 and my sister knew a producer DJ and I got to talk with him, like, hey, how do you, how do you even do this? How do you even make music?
He's like, oh, I use this program called Ableton. So I got that for Christmas or my birthday or something. And that was, you know, 15 years ago. So I started producing before I started DJing.
[00:04:25] Dr. Sarah: Okay.
[00:04:25] DJ Sam Reedy: And then funny enough for my, for my senior spectacular, I got booked, actually. My, my friend Brad Boorstein, he was in class and the teacher was talking about how they needed the new DJ for the, for the party. He's like, oh, just book Sam. Book Sam. He knows what he's doing. So she comes up to me in between classes like, hey, do you want a DJ? I've never, I never DJed once before that. I said, yeah, sure, no problem. And so anyway, I, I get some, I get these giant speakers from my wrestling coach who's also a comedian. He gives me these speakers. I have a little DJ board and I basically like pre, Pre did my, my mix in Ableton and just pretended to DJ the whole time. And so that's how I got exposed to DJ and was like fake DJ'd through Ableton.
Yada, yada, yada. Fast forward again, Covet happened. I moved back to Dallas and I was serving at a restaurant and I had a co worker basically invite me to one of these parties. And I didn't really know that there was any kind of house music going on around Dallas at the time. So I was really, really excited to get exposed to it.
And so I went and ended up making some really good friends and I started producing with this guy, his name is Drake.
And we hit it off. We're making music. And shortly after that, he passed away.
And so I ended up contacting another friend that I met at that same party where I met Drake.
And we, we went and got a beer and I told him like, Hey, I was thinking about moving out of Dallas, but I think since Drake's passing, I kind of want to commit to the music thing. I feel. I've always felt a call into music, but this. This really hit me hard. Where I kind of wanted to step into his is the kind of the void that he left because I thought he offered a really kind of like, uplifting vibe with his music. And I just wanted to kind of fill that void in Dallas.
So I stayed. I got my first residency, and that friend I was talking to kind of helped me network in. In the community and kind of get me my first gigs and stuff like that. He lent me equipment for that first residency and has been a mentor, but even a better friend than me.
I kind of. We're both going through a hard time and, you know, we were reading the Bible together. I kind of, you know, sparked a curiosity and into God and to him, I think, you know, I'm not gonna take all the credit for it. But anyway, we got really close. We're both from the mid Atlantic in the country and kind of found ourselves in this. In this DJ world, in the city.
[00:07:20] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
[00:07:21] DJ Sam Reedy: And anyway, I just officiated his wedding a year ago, and he has a kid and he's happily married with a beautiful son and they moved out to Tower. So he's.
He's like two hours away from me now. But anyway, that's how it kind of started and so just kind of snowballed from there. Meeting people, meeting people, going out, shaking hands and just getting my. Getting my feet in the door, you know?
[00:07:49] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
[00:07:49] DJ Sam Reedy: Showing people what I. What I can do. So.
[00:07:52] Dr. Sarah: That's awesome.
And sorry about your friend.
[00:07:57] DJ Sam Reedy: No, it's okay.
[00:07:59] Dr. Sarah: And, you know, I guess I would say something that came up when I researched about you is back to the Underground network.
[00:08:12] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
[00:08:14] Dr. Sarah: Or tech. I'm gonna say this wrong. Techno.
[00:08:18] DJ Sam Reedy: Techno Rotica.
[00:08:19] Dr. Sarah: Techno Rotica.
[00:08:21] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah, Go ahead.
[00:08:22] Dr. Sarah: You want to go into that at all?
[00:08:25] DJ Sam Reedy: Techno Rotica is a DJ collective. I'm also part of Balam's Den in Dallas here. So I'm part of two DJ collectives.
So just a group of DJs that share gigs together and try to make events happen. That's all. That means the Back to the Underground Network thing was something that me and my cousin and close friend kind of started just doing little private parties and with the philosophy of to have like a little bit of a history lesson when it comes to electronic music, it really started picking up in, like 2000, you know, you started seeing your first DJ superstars wheel their head. And it became like, like a real career.
There was a lot of money being invested into it.
And so if you watch these old documentaries, you see these artists always talking about, hey, it's becoming mainstream, but eventually it's going to have to go back to the undergr order to evolve. So my whole philosophy is like, pushing the boundaries of what's possible and not playing it safe, taking risks and evolving the, the art form because it's kind of been stuck in these, in these recent years. Just, you know, there's not a lot of experimentation going on, at least in the, in the mainstream, you know, which is. It's popular for a reason, because people like to get what they expect, you know, so it's hard to be able to offer somebody a product that is unfamiliar. You always have to package it around the familiar in order to give it to them in a way that they'd accept. So that's all that means. It's just underground music trying to evolve the, the music in, in this small setting and then hopefully it evolves from there.
[00:10:12] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
Do you mind me asking, how old was your friend Drake?
[00:10:21] DJ Sam Reedy: 20.
Think 27.
[00:10:23] Dr. Sarah: Oh, wow.
[00:10:24] DJ Sam Reedy: Or 28.
Yeah. So pretty young.
[00:10:30] Dr. Sarah: Yeah, that is young.
And that's admirable of you to kind of have that drive, like you said, to fill his shoes and having a purpose behind it, you know, that's.
[00:10:39] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
[00:10:40] Dr. Sarah: And that I feel like kind of falls into asking you, like, was there a moment or experience that you would say where being a Christian DJ became central to your identity?
Or do you think it's just kind of just always.
[00:10:58] DJ Sam Reedy: It's always been there. I mean, I would say, like, I'm a missionary first and foremost, always, you know, so I can't do anything meaningful with my own hands. I can only hope that by aligning with God and his purpose that I can make something that is everlasting. Right. So all his always vanity underneath the sun.
Right. But if you, if you align with Jesus, the sun, you know, it's above everything. It's above everything of the world. So, you know, I try to put God first in everything I do. I don't always succeed in that. You know, I'm. I'm only human. So I think a lot of times I've. I've put myself first. You know, it's just part of the ego and. But through that, like moving away from the church and kind of stepping into a secular sphere like this, you know, I haven't been as consecrated as I was when I was a missionary in India, for example.
But the sanctification has been amazing. And that. That might be hard for people to kind of grasp, but what I mean is, like, consecration, that's like, what you have control of, too.
[00:12:15] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
[00:12:15] DJ Sam Reedy: To.
Sanctify yourself. Right. So, you know, that could be like, I'm gonna consecrate myself by fasting every week or, you know, reading my Bible or, you know, there's a million ways to, you know, giving to the poor or whatever, you know, but all of that can be vanity, too. The only thing that really matters is the work that God's doing on your heart. Right. That sanctification comes from him. So, you know, consecration's all well and good, but there's pride in that also. And you saw that in the Gospels when Jesus was talking to the Pharisees, you know, like, they made it a point to.
To uplift. Uplift themselves in that consecration.
So I think me dying to myself a little bit and kind of being thrown into the trenches where I'm not in, like, a.
A bubble of Christians, you know?
You know, so being around BE sir, being surrounded by temptation in the party scene and everything like that, and, you know, seeing my limitations, seeing how I fall short of the glory of God, has really actually brought me closer to God because I've just been humbled, you know, and I just rely more on God than ever, you know, so. Yeah, that's interesting. I don't know if I answered your question. I kind of gone a little bit.
[00:13:32] Dr. Sarah: No. Yeah, I. I like that because I feel like even me just doing this podcast, I've kind of looked at it as possibly, you know, like a platform for God or a message, and I found that a lot of my guests have that resonating.
[00:13:48] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
[00:13:49] Dr. Sarah: Kind of voice. So it's kind of cool. You know, I like that. That just kind of seems to flow and happen naturally. So I like to think that, you know, maybe this is his plan. He's using me.
[00:14:01] DJ Sam Reedy: Praise God. Let's make it happen. Or, you know, all glory to God. I don't know. Yeah, you know, I prayed before I got on here. I was like, God, have. Have your way with this podcast. Hopefully, you know, it.
[00:14:11] Dr. Sarah: It.
[00:14:12] DJ Sam Reedy: It's meaningful to somebody out there who's, you know, an artist, perhaps.
And it's very difficult. You know, being a Christian and being an artist is very similar. You have to die to yourself, because the best art comes from outside yourself.
[00:14:31] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
[00:14:32] DJ Sam Reedy: So that. That's kind of my whole stick is, you know, like those happy accidents that happen that you couldn't have planned. That's just God working through the art. And, you know, you gotta do that as a Christian, too. You know, like, you might. You might have an idea of what God wants you to do, but sometimes you could be totally wrong, you know?
[00:14:52] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
[00:14:52] DJ Sam Reedy: Like, I don't. I don't go preaching to everybody I see. Like, I just, I. I talk when I feel like God's led me to that. And as a. As a, Like a trained missionary, that can be kind of counterintuitive. You know, they want you to go, like, push. Push the gospel, like, you know.
[00:15:08] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
[00:15:09] DJ Sam Reedy: And like, it's like a hustle culture around Jesus. But, you know, Jesus wasn't really like that. As soon as he. He would see, like, a movement taking place somewhere and they want him to stay longer, but he's like, no, we're going to the next place, you know, like, yeah, he knew exactly what the Father wanted him to do. And sometimes that's counterintuitive to, like, what we think is best. So,
[00:15:33] Dr. Sarah: yeah, I.
I feel with you on the creative aspect, like, because me being an artist, like a painter and digital photography, I feel like even kind of the culture that we're supposed to kind of submerge ourselves in or be.
Be fit into, a lot of times can be very dark.
[00:15:51] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
[00:15:53] Dr. Sarah: And so, you know, that's why I have, like, my coffee table book coming out here soon. It's called Let There Be Light.
And it's going to be a coffee table book of my paintings and my photography from my stained glass series, which has, you know, a surrounding theme around it. Stained glass. You know why I fell in love with it? Because you see it in church, you know, in the churches of Florence and France and.
[00:16:19] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
[00:16:19] Dr. Sarah: Beautiful in the U.S.
so, yeah, it's like, you know, and I call it Let There Be Light, but there's.
I think that it's like you kind of just have to get to a point where just like.
It's like. It's like a fine line between. Because you do want to care, but yet you don't. You can't care what people think.
[00:16:44] DJ Sam Reedy: Exactly.
[00:16:45] Dr. Sarah: It's almost like you're like, I don't care what anybody thinks, but yet you still want to be a message and be that light for somebody else. And so it's hard because there's kind of like this. You know what I mean?
[00:16:58] DJ Sam Reedy: Exactly. Yeah. You know.
Yeah. As an artist, if you care about what the audience thinks, that's almost like suicide. Like, you have to, in order to be unique and create great art. You have to not care about the audience as much and you have to just kind of channel whatever it is that you're channeling at the same time. You got to package it, right?
[00:17:21] Dr. Sarah: Yeah,
[00:17:23] DJ Sam Reedy: yeah, that's good.
[00:17:25] Dr. Sarah: Yeah. And so kind of tell us, the audience, everybody, about Dallas and the music culture, the music scene, like, are there clubs, events or nights and different things, like how this city possibly has maybe influenced or shaped your sound and your approach to being a dj.
[00:17:44] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah, I mean, Dallas is tough. It's. It's very conservative.
Even though it's like a blue city, it's still very conservative. So there's not many clubs.
[00:17:52] Dr. Sarah: There's.
[00:17:53] DJ Sam Reedy: It'll do. There's. There's stuff popping up, but not too much. Most of the stuff, like the really fun stuff is kind of just like pop up, pop up stuff that like. So I told you, I'm part of two DJ collectives. So, like, we'll do parties that aren't at a club. You know, that's like, you know, we'll. We'll rent out a venue and we'll do our own things. So that kind of goes into the underground thing where it's not like we're not trying to please a venue and what they're trying to do, trying to, like, create our own thing.
Most, Most of the big artists that come out of Dallas, they leave Dallas, go to New York, Chicago, Detroit, mostly, New York, Los Angeles, you know, the big. The big cities.
So there's really not.
There's a great underground music scene here, but it's. It's just that it's underground. It's not really.
You kind of gotta. You gotta look for it to find it, you know. But there's amazing artists in Dallas.
Yeah. So I think there's more influence from Dallas than people would expect.
Like my. One of my favorite artists, Maceoplex, I didn't know this until I became friends with that guy I was telling you about. He just got married.
He. He was friends with maceyo Bucks. I don't know his real name, but yeah, he. He knew Macy Bucks before he was famous. He's from Dallas, you know, but.
Yeah, so.
[00:19:30] Dr. Sarah: So you do DJs sometimes? Well, I guess they do, like, have like, names they use, but it's not their real name. It sounds like that kind of.
[00:19:38] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah, there's different, like monikers or names. So sometimes an artist will have multiple monikers that they'll release things under.
[00:19:48] Dr. Sarah: Okay.
[00:19:49] DJ Sam Reedy: So then that goes into the whole, like, you know, discovery process, the underground thing. Sometimes they don't Want to. Want to release things on their, like, main.
Under their main identity or, you know, name, so.
[00:20:06] Dr. Sarah: Okay.
[00:20:06] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah, that's kind of the fun part, too. Like, you can get as weird as you want. You know, you can release things to different labels under different names and have fun that way, which I think is a good outlet for artists, because, you know, sometimes you'll get funneled into a specific sound underneath that. That brand, that identity. So sometimes you want to. You want to have fun with your. With your craft, obviously. So sometimes they just, you know, we'll put something out. Not trying to, like, get in front of. Get in front of as many eyes as possible. Sometimes they just want to make art for themselves, you know?
[00:20:41] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
And would. Would you say, do you think you have faced any pushback or tension for being openly Christian and nightlife or club or electronic scenes, or do you feel like it's.
I wouldn't. I mean, word. Am I looking for, like.
It's more common now to, I feel, like, be open about being a Christian? I feel like recently.
[00:21:08] DJ Sam Reedy: I think so, too. I think so, too.
I haven't got any pushback. Honestly. I've had nothing but great conversations with people.
[00:21:20] Dr. Sarah: That's good.
[00:21:21] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah, I've. I've prayed with people at. At the clubs. Like, I remember when my mom was in the hospital kind of unexpectedly. Well, very unexpectedly.
And I was, like, with a stranger. I just. I'm going through this thing right now, and, you know, we. We prayed for my mom. The next day she was healed and walked out the hospital. No surgery needed.
[00:21:45] Dr. Sarah: Was this the recent scare?
Yeah. Yeah. That. That's an amazing story. Yeah. So the audience knows I know Sam's mom. That's how we connected, and her and I have become good friends, and we met here in Charleston. So.
[00:22:00] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah, Shout out. Charleston.
It's probably my favorite city. God, I. I would move there in a heartbeat. I have too much fun there, though.
[00:22:09] Dr. Sarah: Oh, it is. Yeah. It can be.
Yeah. I cannot believe how much you can spend eating out here.
It's like, oh, my gosh.
So.
Yeah, because it's really good food here and.
But it's not, you know, not cheap. I mean, I came from California, but I live in Napa and San Diego, so I'm kind of used to the high, higher price, you know, California prices.
[00:22:38] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
[00:22:40] Dr. Sarah: But, yeah, so, yeah, that's awesome. I love, you know, your testimony with prayer and all that. And, like, would you say, I don't know. Do you think?
I guess I pictured, like, is there, like, worship going on when you're playing Christian music, is it like a worship type DJ music? Like, does that happen or has that happened yet, but before or. I'm just curious.
[00:23:09] DJ Sam Reedy: I. I have produced stuff on my own that I just have for myself basically, where I'll. I'll sample, like, you know, typical worship music and overlay it with stuff.
But I'm, like, way more subtle when I'm DJing. I have, like, for example, Gregorian chants, like Christian monk chanting that. That I will play underneath the mix so people.
They're listening to it.
[00:23:39] Dr. Sarah: I like that about.
[00:23:41] DJ Sam Reedy: I'll use it as effect. So I'll bring it in. There'll be, like, a moment where, you know, it's like this beautiful, like, Christian monk chanting, but then I'll turn it back down, you know, so that's kind of the. The art form, you know, where you're just black, you're constantly blending things. Or have this, like, old sermon about conquering the devil that I'll put that in. And, you know, there's a lot of.
There's a lot of music out there, like, a lot of underground dance music that has stuff like that. There's a. There's a huge influence of gospel music, actually.
You know, so. Yeah, especially.
[00:24:19] Dr. Sarah: That's awesome. I love. Okay, so the fact that you brought up the monk music. Okay, you're gonna. Yeah, I have to talk about this now, so people are gonna think I'm weird. So I actually listen to St. Benedictine monks. Sometimes if I get in the mood, I'll just listen to them, like, chanting in their music. Because I don't know people if this is true or not. I'm just stating it, so don't quote me on this. But when you listen to that music, it's supposed to have a vibration to your body. Like, kind of like how they say the bells used to have vibrations.
[00:24:54] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
[00:24:54] Dr. Sarah: That, like, you're healing.
So the monk music is supposed to have a higher vibration to it that actually does something to our body and mind and soul. And I actually used to listen to it a lot while completing my dissertation for my doctoral study.
And.
And just so you're aware, the audience is aware. So I did my doctoral. My dissertation study on the images of Jesus and paintings. So if you can imagine, I'm spending hours and hours, like, finishing this study, and I'm basically dissecting each piece for symbolics, like semiotics and symbolism. And then listening to that, it was very, like, powerful. But I think there's something to that music. I swear. Like, so if everybody's out there and you've never listened to the Saint Benetine monks or the monks chanting.
Just give it a chance, like listen to it for a little bit. Because I think there's something to it and I feel kind of at peace or almost like re. Energized when I listen to it.
[00:25:56] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah, I mean, I think it's.
I don't have like, all the studies, you know, pulled up. I think it's pretty well documented, you know, so basically they sing at multiple octaves at the same time and.
Oh yeah, it's supposed to be good for you. I mean, yeah, everything's. Everything's vibrating, you know, so all you're doing is just kind of like aligning yourself with that. That vibration. It sounds like wonky or whatever, but yeah. Woo, woo. That's what I'm thinking of.
But yeah, I mean, I was just reading this book the other day, which I've had forever. I finally opened up. It's called like how to heal your brain.
And I just flipped to a random chapter and it was talking about these Gregorian monk chants, the same ones I have on vinyl that I play, and how it's. It's good for you.
Yeah, it's. It's a way of healing your brain. It realigns your neurons, your neural pathways in some sort of.
Some sort of way. So I really do believe that in that kind of thing. And that's why I'll play it and I'll mix it in my. My DJ sets because I think it does have like a healing effect on.
On your body, your mind, your soul.
Yeah, yeah.
[00:27:10] Dr. Sarah: Do you have any specific, like, track songs or mixes you could share with the audience, like a title for them to refer to?
[00:27:17] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah. So check out this guy, Moody man. Moody man is a Detroit legend, been around forever. And he has a track called the thief that stole my sad days.
And it's, you know, definitely has a huge gospel influence on it. You know, it says the name Jesus in it and it's beautiful.
Okay, check that out.
[00:27:40] Dr. Sarah: Awesome class.
[00:27:40] DJ Sam Reedy: Classic album.
[00:27:42] Dr. Sarah: Okay.
And so I guess getting into like your craft and your career and your creative process, can you, if you don't mind sharing with audience, like your production process and the DJ style, like gear, software, workflow, like if.
How it's evolved over time or do you like. I mean, is there something called stuff that maybe old, like is considered old school that DJs do, or is it consistent or it evolves? I'm just curious for the audience.
[00:28:13] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah, we could jump into a bit of that.
I think a good Place to start with that would be talking about the, the modern day recording studios.
You know, if you were to, if you were to travel Back to the 80s, it was about $3,000 to rent one of those studios for the day. And then I wanted to ask you what, what do you think the price is today for one day at a recording studio?
Typical for a dj, for anybody, anybody that's willing to spend the money.
If it was $3,000 in the 80s, how much do you think it is?
[00:28:52] Dr. Sarah: Oh, geez. Oh my gosh.
[00:28:54] DJ Sam Reedy: Oh my gosh. You won't even know what they guess.
You think it's less or more?
[00:29:00] Dr. Sarah: More.
[00:29:01] DJ Sam Reedy: It's actually the same. It's $3,000 today.
Oh, and it's because they're completely irrelevant now. Nobody uses those recording studios unless you're like Beyonce or, you know, Rihanna. And they'll rent out all those studios at one time. So they have multiple teams working in all those studios. So that the point is the technology has become so accessible, you know, you can learn everything on the Internet and everything here.
[00:29:28] Dr. Sarah: I'll pause it.
[00:29:30] DJ Sam Reedy: So basically recording studios are, you know, irrelevant for the most part. Besides major recording artists that you would all know, you know, Rihanna, whatever.
So anybody can make a hit record tomorrow on a laptop for free. So. Okay, um, that being said, people still love the hardware, like the, the vinyl turntables that people use. The standard still is the Technics 1200 that's been around for like what, 50 years or something crazy like that. And it's still the number one record player.
But yeah, so basically what I do is I work what's called in the box. Everything I use is basically digital, virtual, virtual instruments, virtual effects, and it's, it's just as good. So.
And then my workflow is very chaotic. Like I said. I kind of like to have those happy accidents to allow God to work through.
[00:30:40] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
[00:30:41] DJ Sam Reedy: But it's mostly, mostly drums.
Not as much instrumentation. A lot of the stuff is kind of more rhythmic with a lot of processing on top.
But yeah, very sample based. So I'll take, I'll take my records. I have a bunch here and I'll, I'll try to sample them that way.
[00:31:04] Dr. Sarah: Cool.
Yeah, I always wonder because I feel like we always see the equipment, you know, but not sure if it's like standard for every dj, but it sounds like it's more about like preference, I guess or something.
[00:31:18] DJ Sam Reedy: Oh yeah. So like the, when it comes to DJing, this, the industry standard is Pioneer.
That's the hardware. It's called Pioneer. So that's. You have what are called CDJs that run the music and all that is fed into a mixer and that's where you adjust the volume levels of everything.
[00:31:39] Dr. Sarah: Okay.
[00:31:40] DJ Sam Reedy: So, yeah, pioneer through the, the record box software is what they use.
I just got a new mixer called Allen and Heath, which is an analog mixer. So it adds to the kind of warmth and the overall sound, which is really nice.
[00:31:55] Dr. Sarah: Okay, that's awesome.
So who is your like, favorite teacher?
[00:32:04] DJ Sam Reedy: Me.
It's me. I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't me. Like, it's, it's so much work. It's so hard.
Yeah, I. I really just believe in my sound. I don't really see people doing what I'm doing and that adds to the, the drive for me. I'm going to be able to offer something different and a lot of people, a lot of DJs just kind of play it safe, you know. So. Yeah, yeah, I've always been my, my favorite dj.
Egotistical, but it's true.
[00:32:37] Dr. Sarah: Well, it's like I heard a quote by, by Matthew McConaughey and he said something like.
They said, oh, well, that's like, who?
I don't know. They asked him some question and he was like, well, me. And they're like, that's awfully. He's like, well, nobody's. If I'm not gonna believe in myself, who else is gonna believe in me?
[00:32:57] DJ Sam Reedy: You know, you gotta be your own biggest fan, you know.
[00:33:00] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
[00:33:01] DJ Sam Reedy: It's not worth it. Don't get into this industry if you don't really believe in yourself. It's not because you just got to have. You got to have that intrinsic drive and love.
[00:33:09] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
[00:33:10] DJ Sam Reedy: And that's something I want to talk about. I talk about this with every artist, which is something called the Saw, your effect.
And the Sawyer effect is something that psychologists deemed where like they can. They proved what is psychologically work and what's play.
And I can go into the studies if you want, but basically the gist is whatever you're obligated to do is work and whatever you're not obligated to do is play.
So whenever you're an artist and you're, you know, you start to make it your.
Maybe not even your full time thing, maybe just you're getting paid for the first time. There's a switch that happens in your brain where you have to kind of let go of. It's. It's not as much work or. Sorry, it's not as much play anymore. It's. It's work. And so you have to kind of force yourself to realign with like what is intrinsically driving you.
[00:34:05] Dr. Sarah: Okay. Yeah.
[00:34:07] DJ Sam Reedy: So that's kind of a hard thing to balance for people. It's, everyone's got to kind of walk through that journey alone.
But you just gotta, you just gotta make sure that, you know, you get the money so you can keep doing what you're, what you're passionate about.
But it's a slippery slope with all artists. You know, when the money comes and it becomes the focal point of what you do, it's, you know, you start to lose yourself in that. So.
[00:34:33] Dr. Sarah: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see that as an artist, painter.
[00:34:41] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
[00:34:41] Dr. Sarah: I just recently got a commission work and it's a good one. It's, it's, it's paying me very well. But like it's, it's kind of nerve wracking too because it's like I had to keep reminding the client, the customer, I was like, okay, so you know, I paint abstract and contemporary work. I'm not a realist.
[00:35:00] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
[00:35:00] Dr. Sarah: And I felt like she kept kind of sending me pictures. I'm like, well, it's not going to be exactly looking like this. It's going to be my own take on it as an abstraction and contemporary style of work, you know, so, yeah, yeah, it's interesting, but so you have
[00:35:14] DJ Sam Reedy: those extrinsic rewards and expectations kind of influencing your art and that's a slippery slope. You know, obviously you want to get paid for what you love.
[00:35:26] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
[00:35:27] DJ Sam Reedy: You know, but every, every DJ has, has to. Like, if you ever watch a documentary about a DJ talking about their life, it's always the same story.
They get super big and then they get booked for all the big shows for the money, and then they stop playing the music that they want to play and they start being, start catering to these larger and larger crowds, you know, these big rooms and you know, it takes away from their soul. So eventually they kind of come back to the underground, those smaller, more intimate rooms where they can be who they want to be and play what they want to play.
[00:36:02] Dr. Sarah: Yeah. Okay.
And would you say that when you're playing for a crowd or a mixed crowd and there's like the energy, would you say you kind of like, do you have a set prepared or do you kind of read the room and employ according to like the vibe you're feeling?
[00:36:24] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah. So I mean, it's as a, as a local dj, you know, I'm no superstar, so people aren't really too familiar with what I have to offer. I don't really have like, you know, people don't come to my, my, my show, my party, hear me play, knowing like what to expect, you know. So basically DJs are there to read the crowd and you know, play the best music possible. You know, you want to educate them, but not too much. You want to give them something familiar, you know, with, with the unfamiliar. You know, you want to, you want to play something, you want to give them something that they don't even know they want. But in order to do that, you have to give them what they expect first. So yeah, yeah, you got to read the crowd. What I do is I'll, I'll, you know, scout out the venue. If I haven't been there before, kind of feel what the vibe is for that space. I'll pick out, you know, 100 tracks into a playlist and then I'll take that to, I'll take that to the event and then from there really it's just, it's just gut feeling. I, I literally like pray about as I'm DJing, I'll be praying to God like, hey, is this the right one? You know, is this the right one? And kind of, God will kind of guide me with the Holy Spirit. He'll give me peace around certain tracks to play. And sometimes it's nerve wracking because I want to pick, I don't think necessarily think that's gonna like a good idea like to pick this certain track, but God will give me peace around it and I'll try. And that there comes that expectation or, sorry, that experimentation, it's really important and taking risks.
So yeah, you come prepared to, to give, you know, what people expect, what they don't expect and everything in between.
So.
[00:38:07] Dr. Sarah: Okay, that sounds like, I just think it sounds like so much fun and you know, and would you say there's any like, I don't know, events or venues or anything coming up that you're excited about or that you're going to be doing that maybe you want to share with the audience or other events that support other DJs? I don't know. Anything you want to share?
[00:38:29] DJ Sam Reedy: Well, if you're in Dallas, there's a great place called Boogies that my friends helped open and that's a great place to hear some, some house music. There's, It'll do. Which is kind of the main, I would say discotheque of Dallas, kind of like a underground nightclub. There's Silo, which is the, the kind of the new biggest venue of massive space. Hosting massive, you know, international artist.
But really, if you want to keep up to date with what I'm doing, just, you know, the best way to do that's Instagram. We're always posting our parties there and. Okay, yeah, so that's cool.
[00:39:07] Dr. Sarah: And what works with, basically, would you say, I don't know, connecting with your listeners. How do you feel like you do that mostly as a dj?
[00:39:30] DJ Sam Reedy: That's a good question.
[00:39:55] Dr. Sarah: Oh, we had a little glitch in our recording, so if anybody caught that, sorry about that, but that happens with technology.
[00:40:01] DJ Sam Reedy: Oopsie.
Oh, I remember where we left off. So we're talking about how to connect with the audience.
[00:40:11] Dr. Sarah: Mm.
[00:40:12] DJ Sam Reedy: The best thing is the dj, you really just gotta make eye contact and just show that you're having fun up there. You know, if you. If you have your head down, you're not looking up, which I can. I'm trying to break the habit of that all the time. You know, interacting with people and the audience is huge. You know, just making sure that you see them and you're there enjoying that moment with them. That's really good, you know, because you're. You're elating them. You know, they're. They're looking at. They're trusting in you to lead the night. And so, yeah, big smiles, you know, and just enjoy yourself. So that's the best way to connect.
[00:40:49] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
And I guess I was gonna ask you.
I don't know, what would you say?
What does. I don't know. This is getting, like, a little more on the deep side, you could say. But how has.
What does purpose mean to you in this season?
[00:41:17] DJ Sam Reedy: Purpose to me? It's. It's. What I was talking about earlier is it's like less of me and more of God. Like, everything in my control is vanity, you know? So, like, as much as I'm gonna sit here and say that, you know, my. My hopes, my dreams, my desires are equal to God's. They're just not, you know, God's ways are higher.
And so, you know, instead of, like, asking God to partner with me in my life, I'm trying to partner with him and his, you know, what his dreams are for him, for me, you know, and that's tough. That's really tough, you know, because we want it our way, you know? Yeah, but life isn't subway, you know, you can't have everything the way you want it. So I think. I think in the past, I would, like, I. I took.
I just thought my life was so. So important, you know, but in the grand scheme of things, our lives really aren't that important.
Everything under the sun's vanity and when tested by the fire, like, won't remain so. The everlasting fruit. The true purpose is that everything with that is aligned with God.
And, you know, that's the most beautiful and scary thing you could hear. You know, it's very. It's very freeing. Like, I'm so contrarian if I. If somebody tells me my life is super, super important, I'm just gonna be like, ah, whatever. Don't really care much. But knowing the fact that, you know, most people's lives aren't that important in the grand scheme of things, that makes me want to partner with God. That makes me want to have a purposeful, meaningful life. Because it's just, it's. It's rare. It's rare that your, your works can test. Can be tested by the fire and remain so. I don't know. It's kind of a mystery to me. It's hard. It's. You can't see that with, with, you know, the, the flesh, with your eyes.
That's just. It takes like a spiritual discernment,
[00:43:23] Dr. Sarah: you
[00:43:24] DJ Sam Reedy: know, where you, your works. I think sometimes, you know, they can be on the outside, they look really good.
But if it, if it comes from like a selfish desire to like, look good, then that's not.
Yeah, that's not actually selflessness. So I think purpose, purposefulness comes from just waking up every day desiring to die to yourself and align yourself with God and what he's saying, you know?
[00:43:56] Dr. Sarah: Yeah, yeah.
[00:43:59] DJ Sam Reedy: So I just do the best I can. I do think that he's put me in this position to do music. So I know I pray about it all the time and I feel very called in the music space. So, you know, if it's just. If it's just one, one soul I can reach, then that's enough for me, you know?
[00:44:20] Dr. Sarah: But yeah, awesome.
[00:44:23] DJ Sam Reedy: I think that true, true purposefulness and true usefulness comes to the kingdom of heaven is pretty rare, you know?
I don't know, maybe that is not too, like, pessimistic. I don't know.
[00:44:35] Dr. Sarah: No, no, like that.
And, you know, for those listening to you or any aspiring DJs or producers who want to integrate faith into their work without compromising either, like, what some advice you would give.
[00:44:56] DJ Sam Reedy: It's tough because, like, in the business sphere of music, especially, like, it's a dark world, you know, everyone's trying to make money and monetize everything.
I would say.
Just, just do something that you Love. Just put that first and foremost, that intrinsic drive.
Do something special. That's, that's gotta be first. As soon as you start playing other people's desires and other people's wishes above, above God on your own and that's, that's not, that's not going to amount to anything special and it's very difficult. I'm still working out on my, on my own, but it helps to find other like minded people.
I just became really good friends with this guy. He's from India and he's an amazing producer and he's Christian and so I've been partnering with him because we're very like minded. You know, we both want to honor God with our music. So, you know, try to find people in, in your sphere. You know, whether that, that's painting, if that's, you know, music or whatever it is, you know, just try to find like minded people.
That's the best thing I can can say. Partner with people. Collaborate and pray.
[00:46:20] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
Pray over this podcast.
[00:46:26] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
[00:46:27] Dr. Sarah: Yeah. I think that's so important who you surround yourself with, who you're listening to.
[00:46:32] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
[00:46:33] Dr. Sarah: We have to be so careful nowadays with everything like what we're subjecting ourselves to.
Can't stress that enough. I think that if we get, we can sometimes turn like a blind eye or get lazy to what we're subjecting ourselves to. So.
Key point.
[00:46:51] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
You know, I think Jesus dying with the sinners, you know, he went to where the cities are and that's kind of like what I want to do as well. But in like your personal space. Yeah, definitely be careful who you invite around.
You know, you want to be, you want to influence your environment, not the other way around. So, and that's, that's just, it's tricky. It's tricky. So yeah, just pray before you go out to those spaces. Pray that God will go before you and you know, have his way in those conversations in that place.
[00:47:23] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
I almost picture you like being used in D.C. or something as a DJ. I don't know, like D.C. well, yeah.
[00:47:35] DJ Sam Reedy: All the way to the Oval Office.
[00:47:37] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
White House.
[00:47:40] DJ Sam Reedy: Let's do it.
[00:47:41] Dr. Sarah: Inaugural event, something like that.
[00:47:44] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah. On the front lawn.
[00:47:46] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
I think it'd be kind of awesome.
So would, I don't know. I was gonna ask you, I don't know, if listeners were to take one thing away from your story, what would you hope it is?
[00:48:05] DJ Sam Reedy: That God's in control.
God's in control.
You know, know I shouldn't be here.
The way I stumbled upon this, this music scene was by far out of my control. You know, it was always my desire to do that, but it just, like God's in control, like, and it's going to happen in his will or not.
And so really just, I think that, like, I want people to pray about things, not just for things, pray about what God is doing in their life. And there's. There's, like, there's so much help in that. You know, I think I really believe that God speaks to people through the Holy Spirit and that you can learn God's voice over time. It's kind of like a muscle.
And so pray about everything you do. God. God loves his children. He wants to be integrated in all parts of their lives.
[00:49:01] Dr. Sarah: Their.
[00:49:01] DJ Sam Reedy: Their work, their play.
You know, there are.
He cares.
Don't be afraid to, you know, be honest with God and tell him what you're struggling with and your frustrations. He'd rather his children argue with him than run away.
So don't, you know, there's a lot of reverence we have for God, you know, but don't be too afraid of him. He's a good father.
And just be.
Just be open to his. His hand working in. In your life and in your art as well, because the more space you open up for. For him to work, then the greater your work's going to be.
So.
[00:49:57] Dr. Sarah: Yeah, cool.
Is there. It's interesting you're talking about fear. I'm gonna see if I can find it. I just posted something the other day about fear with God. How, you know, it's. It's like we're supposed to fear God, but not in a scary way. Like in the way of, like a response way.
Because.
[00:50:22] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah, deep, deep reverence.
[00:50:24] Dr. Sarah: Yeah. The way they worded it, though, was like, so perfect. I was gonna see if I could bring it up, but would you say there's a favorite Bible verse or anything that you kind of go by that you want to share or like a saying or a verse?
[00:50:42] DJ Sam Reedy: I think that it's powerful, like in our weakness, like, God strengthens us or. I would actually recommend Hebrews 6:19, where hope is that the. The soul's anchored to. To heaven, to God's throne room.
So whenever you're in prayer, I would recommend starting from a place of hope, you know, knowing everything is going to be okay.
And present yourself like that before his feet with hope. Like, that's the best.
That's the best fragrance you could give God. That's the best worship you could give God is just putting all your hope in him and trust in Him?
[00:51:29] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
Yeah.
And what's a dream collaboration for you? Like a go to track for a package floor and Dallas recommendation for visitors kind of thing. Like, what's a dream?
[00:51:43] DJ Sam Reedy: A dream collaboration. Kanye West. Kanye West, I think he made Christianity cool again, you know, when he, when he dropped Jesus is King the album, like, no, like, that was the biggest, like, push for Christ and like pop culture, like, ever.
And so I've always dreamed of making like, really cool, you know, Christian music with him. And I just love, like, you know, he makes clothes too. So I'm really influenced in just, you know, bringing your artistic eye, taste to all forms of creativity. Right. So.
And I like how he builds venues, his set design, everything. So that'd be a dream collaboration there for sure.
Spreading the gospel through awesome, you know, music that's relatable to young people nowadays.
[00:52:39] Dr. Sarah: Awesome. Okay.
Yeah, I, I have a playlist on Spotify. It's called like, I call it Sweat. It's like my gym thing I listen to and it's all like house music from. Yeah, some of it is like, I think probably 17 years old, but that's the best.
[00:52:58] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah, the older the better. Oh, my gosh.
[00:53:04] Dr. Sarah: And exploring authenticity in secular spaces, like opportunities for influence and community among Christian creatives and electronic underground scenes.
Do you see possibly yourself as being a leader to help open the door for other DJs? Like, would you take on that role? Or do you feel like, yeah, that's happening now or if that's opened up
[00:53:33] DJ Sam Reedy: in regards, like injecting Jesus into it or just in general?
[00:53:39] Dr. Sarah: Yeah, yeah.
[00:53:41] DJ Sam Reedy: I mean, again, I always, I'm always trying, if I can, if the opportunity presents itself to talk about God and my testimony with, with other artists. So, yeah, I mean, all the time that's kind of my dream is to like, slowly inspire people in that regard.
And that just takes with time. Like one of the things that I wish the, the missionary community did better was community, like building relationships with people. You know, it's. It's so hard in America, in Western society. Like in India, it's super easy. You tell people the gospel and they're like, sign me up, you know, but we've been, we've been so hurt by the church here in America, where we're just very numb to, to Jesus. So it takes a lot of time to garner relationships with people before you can even mention Jesus. You know, you got really, got to earn people's trust to talk about that thing. And if you're a street preacher, you better have tattoos, you know, I mean, Otherwise, people aren't going to want to listen to you. So you got to connect with people in some way before you. You got to break the familiar before you bring the unfamiliar.
[00:54:50] Dr. Sarah: Okay.
[00:54:50] DJ Sam Reedy: And it's just a sensitive topic, you know, so, you know, I'll teach people if they want to learn how to dj, if they want to learn how to produce, like, I'm. I'm there to help people do that. It's fun for me.
And in that process, you know, I can kind of plant seeds about, you know, like, hey, like, yeah.
Where. This is a very. It's a very sacred process. Right. Being an artist. So you have to kind of let God work through you. And I'll just kind of segue into that.
[00:55:19] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
And, you know, it's interesting you're saying, because, like, I listen to my big fair share of Christian music. Of course, I'm like monk music.
[00:55:28] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
[00:55:29] Dr. Sarah: But.
And, you know, I listen to some classical, but, like, you know, I just also feel like this thing, I mean, this is me, but like, I. I listen to, I guess some of the house or DG music I listen to are artists such as, like, I guess David Guetta. Am I saying his last name wrong? Like, Diplo. And like, I think they're called Motorcycle something.
[00:55:55] DJ Sam Reedy: I don't know Motorcycle something.
[00:55:57] Dr. Sarah: But the, like, if I was just look down my playlist.
Let's see. Benny Bonassi, Eric Pride, Cascade Love, Cascade.
[00:56:08] DJ Sam Reedy: Saw them live.
[00:56:09] Dr. Sarah: This is Creo K R E O. Are you familiar?
[00:56:14] DJ Sam Reedy: No, I'm terrible. Like, I'm the worst DJ ever. I don't know anybody.
Yeah, terrible names. I mean.
[00:56:23] Dr. Sarah: And then Dead Mouse, of course, like we mentioned before, Fisher Casket, atv. I'm just naming off some of the ones that.
Inner Circle, Jack Rush. But yeah, I.
I love it because I think there already is such a cool, to me, like, a happy vibe to listening to it. It's like, you want to dance, you want to get up. It's like when you want to be energized. And so I love the fact that you're incorporating Christian music into that, because I feel like that's even better. Because then you're like, you know, because I think there's a lot of undertones of sexuality and drugs with that kind of music too, in that genre.
[00:57:05] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah, for sure.
So for me, I like to incorporate the Darkness as well into my sets if I can. Like, because I want to give people, like, a realistic experience. And that's what life is. It has ups and downs.
So to me, if I listen to like a Happy disco set for two hours. You know, not only am I going to be bored because there's no like real journey happening, but it's just unrealistic. That's not what life is. So injecting a little bit of darkness into your sets and then like bringing people out of that darkness into the light is super powerful and profound.
[00:57:50] Dr. Sarah: I can see that.
[00:57:51] DJ Sam Reedy: Okay, so that's kind of like, that goes into my style of dj. It's very open format, so I don't, I don't play one type or another. I try to explore how these different things, these contrasting ideas can be connected and relate to one another.
And so that, that to me is the most profound things. Like when it's, when it's relatable to our daily lives and it's not like as much about escapism or something like that. It's like really like accepting your reality.
[00:58:21] Dr. Sarah: Yeah.
[00:58:21] DJ Sam Reedy: Like being able to say in that uncomfortability and then yeah, always will bring out you. Jesus will always bring you out of it, you know, in the end.
[00:58:32] Dr. Sarah: Yeah, yeah.
And you know, Jesus didn't hang out with everybody in church either. Like when he was here on earth. He, he. I mean we are, we're here to prepare, preach, and be an example to those who don't know the light or Jesus, as you say. So. Yeah, but yeah, and I also was thinking about how, I don't know, I just think this is cool. I hope you blow up and just go viral and I guess basically booking strategy, building a brand and handling the mixed non Christian audiences with your creativity, which is like what you're doing now.
What would you say is the main platform you would want to share with listeners to find you? Is it like, Was it more YouTube or Spotify or Instagram? What would you say is the main one?
[00:59:36] DJ Sam Reedy: That's a good question. I mean I have hundreds of uploads on SoundCloud. That's like SoundCloud, okay. The. So you're gonna get the most content out of there, but it can be overwhelming because there's just so many things to look at. I'm getting more into putting visuals with my, with my music. So if you want to check out like a visual complementation to my, my work musically, you know, that'd be YouTube. So I mean definitely be putting out more content on there by editing visuals to my music. So that's, that's really fun for me. That's like my new, my new passion is, you know, combining audio with visual.
[01:00:15] Dr. Sarah: Okay, neat.
I mean, Lola technology now it's like,
[01:00:21] DJ Sam Reedy: yeah, it's never ending well. Yeah.
[01:00:27] Dr. Sarah: And I guess I'm just wondering, like, what's your most. I don't know, what's a memorable experience you have that you want to share, like a favorite?
Do you have anything you want to
[01:00:39] DJ Sam Reedy: share in regards to just in general
[01:00:45] Dr. Sarah: with you, you know, DJing a set or something?
Like, was it outside, was it in a club, or was it at a church?
[01:00:53] DJ Sam Reedy: I don't know.
[01:00:55] Dr. Sarah: Do churches utilize you, by the way? Just curious. Do they have you come in on Sunday morning?
[01:00:59] DJ Sam Reedy: And I was, I was working as an audio engineer for a church. That was super fun.
[01:01:05] Dr. Sarah: Okay.
[01:01:08] DJ Sam Reedy: I don't know. I think the most memorable experiences, honestly, would be just like my, my friendship with Aaron Murders, who is my mentor, bringing me onto the scene and then like, him training me in the music as I'm like, training him to be equipped with the spirit and just that relationship of like, iron, sharp sharpens iron.
And so, you know, to see him, like, officiating his wedding would be the highlight, honestly.
[01:01:44] Dr. Sarah: Cool. Fun.
Yeah. That's another thing. Like, have you played weddings? Have you done weddings before?
[01:01:50] DJ Sam Reedy: No, I, I, I kind of want to do it as like a challenge, you know, like as an exercise. It's, it's good for DJs to do that, but no, that's a different kind of DJing. Yeah, yeah, I know good money should probably do it, but
[01:02:07] Dr. Sarah: yeah, because you're more of, yeah, you're more of like the artist, creative, like the, yeah. At a. More. Yeah, I gotcha.
And is there anything you want to share with everybody about, you know, anything else before we up anything else on DJ that you can think of that you feel like we didn't talk about?
[01:02:37] DJ Sam Reedy: I don't know, just a word of encouragement. You know, Jesus said that we will do greater things than him. So if you raise people from the dead, you know, what does that say about you? You know, you're capable of great things.
You might not be able to see it, but your life is very valuable. You have a lot to offer.
You have potential that's unrealized probably for forever. You know, I think that we're capable of so much. So, so just a word of encouragement.
Your life is valuable, you know, and never take that for, for granted. You know, the, all the talents God's instilled in you that he wants to awaken.
So read your Bibles, develop a personal relationship with God and use that in your work, especially creative work, because we need that.
[01:03:32] Dr. Sarah: Yes, yes.
Amazing.
So I hope everybody is listening and takes what he's saying to heart and jot it down, write it down, apply it.
And I guess I was just gonna say, you know, what is the actual name of your soundcloud or whatever so people can find it? Is there a name to it?
[01:03:57] DJ Sam Reedy: Midway.
Yeah, I. It's in the link I. I sent you.
[01:04:01] Dr. Sarah: So, yeah, and I'm gonna share.
The audience knows I'm gonna have the links. I'll be sharing everything on the Instagram page for Dr. Random and also on the YouTube. I'm gonna put in links for that.
So.
Yeah, and I hope everybody will just go and follow and support Sam Reed and check out his, you know, his music, his vibes, and, I don't know, be moved by the spirit.
[01:04:31] DJ Sam Reedy: Amen. Couldn't have said it better.
[01:04:34] Dr. Sarah: Yeah. And.
And shout out to your mom, Pamela Thrasher, for Reunion, the Christian dj. Awesome.
[01:04:42] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah.
[01:04:42] Dr. Sarah: She's an amazing woman.
[01:04:43] DJ Sam Reedy: Hi, Mom.
[01:04:46] Dr. Sarah: And.
Yeah, but, Sam, I appreciate you coming on the Dr. Random podcast and everybody watching and listening.
We had some little technical glitches, but that happens. They've happened before, so excuse that. Nothing is perfect that makes it authentic and real here. So.
Yeah. All right, so if you're in Dallas.
[01:05:09] DJ Sam Reedy: Yeah. Thank you so much.
[01:05:11] Dr. Sarah: Yeah. All right. And as always on the Dr. Random podcast, I say ciao.
[01:05:16] DJ Sam Reedy: Ciao.
Much love.
[01:05:25] Dr. Sarah: Okay.
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