Hey there everybody, it's Ben Moote with hack out funnel radio. Today we're going to talk about why I sang in the bathroom when I was three years old and I still do. So today Now - a funny story. When I was a kid like um, my mom would take me to the bathroom like at Walmart or Kmart or whatever, not Walmart at the time. One, I don't think Walmart existed, checked me like Kmart or do you know that at the grocery store target. And she would wait outside the bathroom. And once I got old enough and uh, she always knew I was fine cause I would sing at the top of my lungs, I would sing cause there was this, I don't know what it is about a bathroom, but there is something I would have asked for med. It just makes your voice sound great and I would just sing and let it out. I don't remember any of this. I was out as too young, but apparently I did it a lot. Uh, because I was, there were women who would walk by and my mom would say, yeah, yeah, that's my son. Yup. And I do it to this day and it's not something that I talk about in period, but I, uh, there was a period of my life where I didn't sing at all. Um, when I was about, uh, 11 years old, we just moved. Um, I didn't have anything that I liked that there was nothing I liked. We'd moved. I felt really insecure. I felt really awkward. I didn't really know where I fit in. And a school got out really late. I missed all of my afternoon cartoons and my whole routine was thrown off and my mother came to my dad and said, Dale, your son is really lost and you need to help him like you need you man demand kind of a thing. I mean, my dad, we got along all right. It wasn't that, it wasn't an issue. We'd done some things together. He was awkward around me. I was awkward around him. It was just kind of strange. I came home from school one day and uh, he, he was home. He'd come home early and he was going through the cds and he pulled out three dog night. He goes, have you ever heard of these guys? I'm like, no. He went over to the stereo that he bought when I was a baby. I mean, this thing has got speakers, like tall, tall freaking speakers, right. Snotting the summer. It's like two big speakers he puts in the back. They still watch TV with it this day and uh, and he turns it on as high as it could go. It was three dog night and he turned on Jeremiah was a bull frog and we listen to Jeremiah was a bullfrog. Um, one is the loneliest number that you'll ever do. Uh, we listened to Mama. Oh, why does that go? Ah, that ain't the way to have fun son. If you have, you know, three dog night, you'll know Kay and I would sing. I in my, I felt really awkward at the time. I does like playing this music. He's singing along, I guess this music's fun. Okay. Add music. And uh, I felt kind of awkward and he had a good time with it and he just turned to me and said, if you ever get home and you have nothing to do, you can put in any CD and sing as loud as you want. And Sunday, new years, except in like church. And so there was one day I came home and I plugged it in and I, of course I went to his CD cause I knew his CD. I plugged it in. And what did I sing? Three dog night, I Sang Jeremiah was a bull frog ma, I can't remember that song. One of the loneliest number. I sing three dog night all the time. Okay. The halls of Shambhala. I sang it to death. Nobody knew it, but I sang it and it became my thing and I held onto it. It was, it was like this breath of fresh air. And there came a point where, um, there was a choir or there was a play that was going to be on in the community. And they asked if anybody knew how to do it or wanted to be in it. And I said, I don't know why I was interested, but I've been seeing it at home. I said, hmm, might be fun. And so I went to my music teacher and I asked if she had a three dog nights, a joy to the world. And she goes, I do. She even changed the words that way. It was good for a grade school kid and she took it out and she started playing and I rocked out to she's, yes. A