{ "schemaVersion": "v1", "slug": "jesse-mcginty", "title": "Getting at \"That Thing\" with saxophonist Jesse McGinty (Camila Cabello, Meghan Trainor, Scoobert Doobert)", "kind": "interview", "listenUrl": "https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lovemusicmore/episodes/Getting-at-That-Thing-with-saxophonist-Jesse-McGinty-Camila-Cabello--Meghan-Trainor--Scoobert-Doobert-e2knidr", "contentStartSec": 173.908, "publishedAt": "2026-10-14", "source": { "provider": "openai", "model": "gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize", "normalizedSchema": "v1", "transcribedAt": "2026-06-09T22:36:19.798Z" }, "paragraphs": [ { "startSec": 173.908, "endSec": 195.25799999999998, "text": "What's good, everybody? This is Scoobert Doobert, and I'm joined with Jesse McGinty. We are going to be talking about life as a pro musician, experience recording horns and horn arrangements, of which you did one of my tunes, Michael Booth plays My Santa Buddy. So welcome to the podcast. I am excited to have this chat. Okay,", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 195.25799999999998, "endSec": 195.70799999999997, "text": "Oh, thanks", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 195.70799999999997, "endSec": 195.808, "text": "Jesse.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 195.808, "endSec": 197.10799999999998, "text": "for having me.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 197.308, "endSec": 215.298, "text": "Yeah, no, it's great. So I'd love to just kind of start off with... You know, it's a new year. What are what are you working on now kind of like to jump off this new year? I'm sure that all the different you know people are hitting you up or like thinking of new records or what's kind of floating out there in the air? What are you working on right now?", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 215.798, "endSec": 220.498, "text": "Yeah. I mean, my studio is a new space the", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 220.498, "endSec": 220.898, "text": "Cool.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 220.898, "endSec": 221.048, "text": "few", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 221.048, "endSec": 222.248, "text": "Awesome. I'd love to talk about that", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 222.248, "endSec": 241.19, "text": "months in. So I'm trying to spend. spend time there be creative there rather than um you know uh at the end of last year it's like you know around the holidays you're doing a lot of stuff that isn't necessarily uh creative not", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 241.19, "endSec": 241.74, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 241.74, "endSec": 249.89000000000001, "text": "not like your your song you know but especially as a horn player you know we're doing a bunch of christmas remakes and", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 249.89000000000001, "endSec": 250.24, "text": "For sure.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 250.24, "endSec": 251.39000000000001, "text": "yeah you know", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 251.39000000000001, "endSec": 251.54, "text": "Totally.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 251.54, "endSec": 256.894, "text": "you so at the end of at the end of the holiday season feeling a little burnt i", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 256.894, "endSec": 257.094, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 257.094, "endSec": 257.494, "text": "guess uh", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 257.494, "endSec": 257.744, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 257.744, "endSec": 259.694, "text": "being seen in the recording", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 259.694, "endSec": 259.744, "text": "Uh", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 259.744, "endSec": 260.194, "text": "uh", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 260.194, "endSec": 260.394, "text": "-huh.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 260.394, "endSec": 266.894, "text": "jobs and so at the beginning of this year i would say trying to be creative a little bit you", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 266.894, "endSec": 267.244, "text": "Cool.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 267.244, "endSec": 281.978, "text": "know trying to bring that energy back into the uh into my daily life you know um and uh so i would say you know there's some things coming up that that i that i have to do or", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 281.978, "endSec": 282.428, "text": "yeah for", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 282.428, "endSec": 282.878, "text": "whatever um", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 282.878, "endSec": 283.078, "text": "sure", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 283.078, "endSec": 293.628, "text": "but uh more focusing more on creative projects and mine particularly so i'm uh i'm excited about that you know yeah", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 293.628, "endSec": 299.52799999999996, "text": "yeah totally i feel like january's got a unique kind of energy to it especially like yeah with music like making", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 300.436, "endSec": 316.58599999999996, "text": "finishing up a bunch of the last year's gigs and people have got deadlines and mental deadlines of like i want to get this done before i go on holiday or whatever christmas music all that kind of stuff and then you get to january and you kind of go like okay like what do i actually want to do like how can i zoom out and like look at this thing on a broad sense", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 316.88599999999997, "endSec": 321.818, "text": "There's a lot of people that are. like oh i don't have things to do like let's", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 321.818, "endSec": 322.26800000000003, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 322.26800000000003, "endSec": 326.76800000000003, "text": "four things start getting crazy let's get together and do nothing or like", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 326.76800000000003, "endSec": 326.918, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 326.918, "endSec": 328.618, "text": "anything you know like", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 328.618, "endSec": 328.818, "text": "Right.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 328.818, "endSec": 333.068, "text": "let's like turn on the press record just play um", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 333.068, "endSec": 333.51800000000003, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 333.51800000000003, "endSec": 336.818, "text": "which uh has been happening which i'm really", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 336.818, "endSec": 336.868, "text": "Good.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 336.868, "endSec": 344.884, "text": "happy about you know um but yeah yeah it's uh it's a it's gonna be a good year Getting", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 344.884, "endSec": 345.284, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 345.284, "endSec": 360.284, "text": "a lot of a lot of new new energy happening in my house, in my life at the studio, you know, all that. So I'm real, real happy about that. It's important to keep that alive, you", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 360.284, "endSec": 360.634, "text": "Cool.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 360.634, "endSec": 360.834, "text": "know,", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 360.834, "endSec": 360.884, "text": "Okay.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 360.884, "endSec": 367.73400000000004, "text": "anytime you have the chance to bring that energy through.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 367.73400000000004, "endSec": 368.82, "text": "Okay. Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 368.82, "endSec": 394.178, "text": "uh you need to you need to push you need to take advantage of that you know uh we get bogged down so easily with uh with everything with life with you know the family with work with all of it you know that uh you really got to push push through those moments um so i yeah right now it feels it feels good Yeah, yeah.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 394.178, "endSec": 416.528, "text": "I think that's a really important point too is like the not taking creativity for granted or moments and inspiration for granted and using it to its fullest and setting time aside for it when it does strike. It's a really hard balance that I don't know if anybody's really figured it out, but I know that our creative artists and stuff have to kind of deal with that their entire lives.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 417.14, "endSec": 420.03999999999996, "text": "Oh, yeah. Well, I would say it's work to", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 420.03999999999996, "endSec": 420.59, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 420.59, "endSec": 420.84, "text": "make", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 420.84, "endSec": 421.19, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 421.19, "endSec": 432.582, "text": "it to that creative place takes work of, I guess the work is making that choice to stay there. you", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 432.582, "endSec": 432.832, "text": "Yep.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 432.832, "endSec": 460.272, "text": "know uh to make that choice rather than to you know whatever sit on your phone or go you know waste time um because okay so let's say you want to be you want to go to the studio and and a day of well what do you have to do to accomplish that after you have to get out make that choice get ready drive there set up all your gear,", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 460.472, "endSec": 460.522, "text": "Mm", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 460.522, "endSec": 460.92199999999997, "text": "you", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 460.92199999999997, "endSec": 461.022, "text": "-hmm.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 461.022, "endSec": 465.372, "text": "know. like there's an hour of prep before", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 465.372, "endSec": 465.722, "text": "i don't", "speaker": "Luke F. 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Walton" }, { "startSec": 482.42199999999997, "endSec": 502.978, "text": "so so pushing through that time and those feelings of i don't want to or self-doubt or whatever hurts coming up because you you you also can get that feeling of you make it all the way there and you start to work and you're you're like well this wasn't worth all this trouble that's", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 502.978, "endSec": 503.878, "text": "Yeah, yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 503.878, "endSec": 516.976, "text": "another feeling that comes up that you have to push through and i'll say this it really helps to have uh other people to help help", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 516.976, "endSec": 517.426, "text": "I agree.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 517.426, "endSec": 518.776, "text": "through that you know", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 518.776, "endSec": 518.976, "text": "Yep.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 518.976, "endSec": 519.226, "text": "um", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 519.226, "endSec": 519.576, "text": "Yep.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 519.576, "endSec": 542.364, "text": "uh and so that's why i like to work with people i mean everybody does it's i think it's rare to find people that really work by themselves uh in music you know especially coming up in music i would say that um you know we all fell in love with it and started doing it as a group", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 542.614, "endSec": 543.3140000000001, "text": "Absolutely.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 543.414, "endSec": 553.764, "text": "ever you know and it's it's very rare to find somebody that just learned to do it and loved doing it on their own i mean it happens really rare really", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 553.764, "endSec": 554.0640000000001, "text": "Well,", "speaker": "Luke F. 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Walton" }, { "startSec": 569.694, "endSec": 569.8439999999999, "text": "know.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 569.8439999999999, "endSec": 588.244, "text": "i i had it took it took the village and the collaboration all that stuff to understand like i i couldn't have programmed drums without spending like a decade with incredible drummers and like touring with people like i couldn't do it i couldn't think like that without osmatically like learning", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 588.628, "endSec": 613.528, "text": "from all these different people and like based on the way that they all integrate is i'm just trying to you know in my head i've got like you know two of my friends nick campbell and logan shrewsbury like they their pocket i'm like i want to pull that and i just want to play both but without having those references like drill deep it'd be impossible to do you know it's just it wouldn't have the bag or the", "speaker": "Luke F. 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Walton" }, { "startSec": 647.332, "endSec": 655.932, "text": "you're actually there in that moment like so much more when you're when you're when you're there with the musicians right so", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 655.932, "endSec": 656.382, "text": "Agreed.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 656.382, "endSec": 666.8240000000001, "text": "i yeah i i know exactly what you're saying so back back to what you were saying um Yeah, I need people to", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 666.8240000000001, "endSec": 667.374, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 667.374, "endSec": 678.8240000000001, "text": "have that feeling in order to keep myself inspired to keep putting through and to keep working what I need to be working", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 678.8240000000001, "endSec": 698.228, "text": "It kind of reminds me, I don't know if you've had this feeling, I definitely have, where you like drive to the gym and you just kind of sit in your car for a while. Like, I don't know if this is just me. I see other people though in the gym parking lot doing this. of like i physically transported me to this space i do not want to work out it's cold outside of the car and", "speaker": "Luke F. 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Walton" }, { "startSec": 756.696, "endSec": 767.028, "text": "So the amount of time and you know not fun things that necessarily I mean you", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 767.028, "endSec": 767.228, "text": "Yeah,", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 767.228, "endSec": 767.528, "text": "know it's", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 767.528, "endSec": 767.628, "text": "yeah,", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 767.628, "endSec": 768.128, "text": "fun something", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 768.128, "endSec": 768.328, "text": "right,", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 768.328, "endSec": 768.628, "text": "to love", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 768.628, "endSec": 768.828, "text": "but...", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 768.828, "endSec": 786.424, "text": "but the the repetition and the work that you have to put in that isn't necessarily a payoff in the moment you really have to have a lot of foresight in order to see in order to realize that this is going somewhere and", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 786.424, "endSec": 786.924, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 786.924, "endSec": 803.7527671232876, "text": "same thing is in the recording process you know it's it's like you have to have this picture way way down the line to to have the energy to put in the work in order you know Exactly.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 803.7527671232876, "endSec": 825.0540000000001, "text": "and so yeah it's just something that is it takes a special type of person in order to put in that work because you know everybody loves music and i see people try to write and try to create and try to make music that don't have that picture", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 825.0540000000001, "endSec": 825.7040000000001, "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 825.7040000000001, "endSec": 828.9540000000001, "text": "at yet and they just don't have that energy", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 829.2040000000001, "endSec": 829.904, "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 830.9, "endSec": 860.822, "text": "to to to make it happen you know because it takes it takes so much it takes so much you know and um there's i don't know who said it but um there were you know it's kind of an idea that's been passed around i guess um but you have when you think something is actually possible when you believe in something you have endless energy to", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 860.822, "endSec": 861.422, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 861.422, "endSec": 862.272, "text": "do it", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 862.272, "endSec": 862.372, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 862.372, "endSec": 874.522, "text": "and the minute that you don't believe in it you lose all that energy you literally it's gone and i know as as musicians we've all experienced that um", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 874.522, "endSec": 874.872, "text": "Absolutely.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 874.872, "endSec": 875.622, "text": "like", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 875.622, "endSec": 875.922, "text": "Last night.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 875.922, "endSec": 892.674, "text": "in real today if you and you you really feel inspired about something and you really see that picture and believe that you can create it you can stay up as long as you need you", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 892.674, "endSec": 892.724, "text": "Right.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 892.724, "endSec": 918.868, "text": "can sit sit there and do it as long as you need but the minute that you have that that doubt that it's going to that you believe that that's going to be a creation that you you believe in um it's it's gone you can't do it anymore you have to leave and do something else that's it it's all gone and i don't know that's something that i keep in mind Yeah.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 918.868, "endSec": 920.168, "text": "you know yeah yeah", "speaker": "Luke F. 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So really excited for that would love it if you're able to pick up a copy of the vinyl.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 1415.16933325, "endSec": 1432.67933325, "text": "It's not quite out yet but you can check out the merch shop in anticipation of it and there's also cool podcast merch on there too. Just go to scoobertdoobert.pizza you'll find all my links and we'll also add a link there when the vinyl comes out. When the vinyl is ready to purchase and we will ship it out to you and it's going to be awesome.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 1432.67933325, "endSec": 1458.90333325, "text": "So definitely check out the merch store and listen to the album coming out this Friday, the 17th of June 2024. I, from my Mobius series of albums, this one is called I. Hope you enjoy it. And one of the things that was kind of a light bulb for me is I'm, you know, I'm reading some Beatles stuff and I listened to Obla Di Obla Da and", "speaker": "Luke F. 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Walton" }, { "startSec": 2105.2426665, "endSec": 2116.8046665, "text": "Yeah. I will also say that any type of learning is important. It's important to continue learning because I know, you know, in music, people", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2116.8046665, "endSec": 2117.3546665, "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2117.3546665, "endSec": 2122.0546665, "text": "that just stop the learning process, you", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2122.0546665, "endSec": 2122.4546665, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2122.4546665, "endSec": 2128.0046665, "text": "know, and that's, that just makes them become stagnant and,", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2128.0046665, "endSec": 2128.2046665, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2128.2046665, "endSec": 2138.1046665, "text": "and it, nothing pushes forward after that. You know, they kind of stay, it can keep you in the same place.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2138.7586665, "endSec": 2138.7586665, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2138.7586665, "endSec": 2143.6586665, "text": "or in the same kind of like world hemisphere whatever whatever", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2143.6586665, "endSec": 2143.8086665, "text": "Sure.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2143.8086665, "endSec": 2149.5586665, "text": "and that's not what we're trying to do it's this music is a lifelong journey", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2149.5586665, "endSec": 2150.0586665, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2150.0586665, "endSec": 2187.5446665, "text": "you know and process and and every situation every musical situation you're in and every day is an opportunity to learn something and to better yourself and have a better understanding and if you close yourself off to that then i don't think that you're truly embodying what it means to be a musician you know because the the people that i look up to that you that do music are never done learning they're just", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2187.5446665, "endSec": 2187.7446664999998, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2187.7446664999998, "endSec": 2203.1846665, "text": "always trying to be better at it and or just have more of an understanding of it you know i guess it's more like um um what what darwin what was darwinism what what's the word i'm looking for", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2203.2846664999997, "endSec": 2206.3846665, "text": "uh natural selection like negative oh", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2206.3846665, "endSec": 2210.3346665, "text": "no like uh you know the monkey turns into the man and they", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2210.3346665, "endSec": 2211.6346665, "text": "okay yeah evolution okay", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2211.6346665, "endSec": 2214.9346665, "text": "evolution yeah trying to evolve as a music you", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2214.9346665, "endSec": 2215.5846665, "text": "okay yeah", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2215.5846665, "endSec": 2220.8346665, "text": "know rather than it doesn't necessarily mean you could play more uh ideas", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2220.8346665, "endSec": 2221.7346665, "text": "right totally", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2221.7346665, "endSec": 2227.1106664999998, "text": "or you know it's it might even mean you play less and that's bad Exactly.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2227.1106664999998, "endSec": 2227.5606665, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2227.7606665, "endSec": 2229.6606665, "text": "You know, do something that's simpler.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2229.6606665, "endSec": 2233.6106664999998, "text": "Most people that I talk to are better shredders when they're younger.", "speaker": "Luke F. 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Walton" }, { "startSec": 2262.7126665, "endSec": 2265.7626665, "text": "things that people can understand or you", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2265.7626665, "endSec": 2266.0626665, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2266.0626665, "endSec": 2281.8646665, "text": "know and i think that's something that's lost a lot of times with young young people trying to especially in jazz you know that's what background is in and uh they're they're they're really trying to You know, be able to play everything and", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2281.8646665, "endSec": 2282.1646665, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2282.1646665, "endSec": 2297.8226665, "text": "they lose the idea that a listener can digest the music that they're hearing. And that's always the music that. even as you grow older that i i listen to is", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2297.8226665, "endSec": 2298.2226665, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2298.2226665, "endSec": 2301.1226665, "text": "things that i can i can digest and aren't", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2301.1226665, "endSec": 2301.5726665, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2301.5726665, "endSec": 2303.0726665, "text": "abrasive to", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2303.0726665, "endSec": 2303.1726665, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2303.1726665, "endSec": 2308.9226665, "text": "my surroundings and my ears and everything you know my being uh", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2308.9226665, "endSec": 2309.4226665, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2309.4226665, "endSec": 2316.5226665, "text": "so yeah i think that's a a very interesting you know art", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2317.1266665, "endSec": 2317.1266665, "text": "It", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2317.1266665, "endSec": 2317.3766665, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2317.3766665, "endSec": 2332.4866665, "text": "is it is and it might be necessary you like you might need to do the chop thing so then now you've got that bag or you've got technical facility like your neurons and stuff is all in sync so now I can like focus on speaking with it rather than just like outputting soup Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2332.4866665, "endSec": 2335.5866665, "text": "yeah i mean the problem is is jazz school you", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2335.5866665, "endSec": 2336.4366665, "text": "Yeah. Right.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2336.4366665, "endSec": 2358.2626665, "text": "know it's a big problem but without it you know we wouldn't we wouldn't be we wouldn't have the community to to work also you know and that's something that is invaluable because that was is what created this life for me at least um so yeah it's a catch-22 there", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2358.2626665, "endSec": 2376.9126665, "text": "yeah yeah it totally is and i also like the way that you're positing like music learning in its broadest possible sense like i like i really like talking with with drummers um especially drummers that have been in the studio a lot because the nuance of like", "speaker": "Luke F. 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It's like being as creative as you can within this very... specific box you", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2464.2466665, "endSec": 2464.5966665, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2464.5966665, "endSec": 2465.2466665, "text": "know like", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2465.2466665, "endSec": 2465.4966665, "text": "Right.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2465.4966665, "endSec": 2466.7466665, "text": "like being a drummer because", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2466.7466665, "endSec": 2467.1966665, "text": "Right.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2467.1966665, "endSec": 2470.5966665, "text": "you're playing a lot on a lot of music it's", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2470.5966665, "endSec": 2470.7966665, "text": "Yes.", "speaker": "Luke F. 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Walton" }, { "startSec": 2542.9466665, "endSec": 2549.9566665, "text": "uh and i think it's funny like that brings up this i've", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2549.9566665, "endSec": 2550.5066665, "text": "All right.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2550.5066665, "endSec": 2565.4066665, "text": "been in some sessions with different you know with people that don't necessarily know so much about music and there's there's kind of a um especially", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2566.9566665, "endSec": 2573.7066665, "text": "in the hip-hop world there's like this this uh this feeling that like if you know too much", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2574.4706665, "endSec": 2574.4706665, "text": "Mm", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2574.4706665, "endSec": 2574.7706665, "text": "about", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2574.7706665, "endSec": 2574.9206665, "text": "hmm.", "speaker": "Luke F. 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Walton" }, { "startSec": 2738.4986665, "endSec": 2741.8486665, "text": "know, difference there between", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2741.8486665, "endSec": 2742.0986665, "text": "I agree.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2742.0986665, "endSec": 2743.5986665, "text": "musicians, you know.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2743.5986665, "endSec": 2758.8486665, "text": "I agree. But I think that sometimes people use it as an excuse or as like a thing that ends up holding them back ultimately, where it's like, if you talk to somebody that was illiterate, but they could full on speak English at a great vocabulary.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2760.2946665, "endSec": 2768.6446665, "text": "you say and then you use a very literary word they're like I don't it's like hey man if you just learn how to read you know that word and", "speaker": "Luke F. 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That's a good example.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2861.5506665000003, "endSec": 2885.2286665, "text": "he just he's like i don't know i now he's like taking classes to learn music theory you know yeah yeah but uh but uh you know somebody made him feel bad about it point and uh i just i just think that um he doesn't need to do that there's", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2885.2286665, "endSec": 2885.6286665, "text": "no", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 2885.6286665, "endSec": 2885.7286665, "text": "that", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 2885.7286665, "endSec": 2885.8786665, "text": "clear", "speaker": "Luke F. 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I'm not saying you can't do it at", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3183.9139997499997, "endSec": 3184.1639997499997, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3184.1639997499997, "endSec": 3184.46399975, "text": "all.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3184.46399975, "endSec": 3184.6139997499995, "text": "Cool.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3184.6139997499995, "endSec": 3189.4139997499997, "text": "Not at all. I'm just saying that it's harder. You have to do", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3189.4139997499997, "endSec": 3189.71399975, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3189.71399975, "endSec": 3193.6139997499995, "text": "some work in order to get to that place to escape or", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3193.6139997499995, "endSec": 3194.21399975, "text": "Mm-hmm.", "speaker": "Luke F. 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I like that, that little symbol of magic water.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3364.92599975, "endSec": 3381.82599975, "text": "it doesn't have to sustain me for another record sorry to interrupt this very important broadcast but it's time for one more advertisement for myself for this podcast um what i what i'm asking for is for you to rate it five stars share it with your friends this is like the most important thing for this podcast to grow so if you want to do this", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3381.75599975, "endSec": 3407.75599975, "text": "this you go into the podcast screen right you click on the dot dot dot on spotify under there it says rate show and you go and you click it five stars if you could do that for me that's the best way for the algorithms all this stuff to share it out with the world i know that it's a lot to ask but if you could please please please just please just hit those three dots and a five star it would really help us out and helps us you know get the get the word out and spread the love of music so thank you if you're listening on youtube you know what to do", "speaker": "Luke F. 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Walton" }, { "startSec": 3640.6899997499995, "endSec": 3661.7439997499996, "text": "but in our case it's we both bring stuff to you know and so yeah it's just like you just have to make it work you have to you have to be like all right we're gonna do this we're gonna be a team and it's like okay how do we get work like i don't know you hit up your guys i'll hit up my guy Hi guys, let's", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3661.7439997499996, "endSec": 3662.1439997499997, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3662.1439997499997, "endSec": 3663.29399975, "text": "get to work, you know,", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3663.29399975, "endSec": 3663.34399975, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3663.34399975, "endSec": 3667.29399975, "text": "and yeah, I mean that's that's basically it I guess", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3667.29399975, "endSec": 3668.04399975, "text": "I love it.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3668.19399975, "endSec": 3668.2439997499996, "text": "Yeah", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3668.2439997499996, "endSec": 3689.98399975, "text": "I've got one final question for you. So this show is called Love Music More. The segment is called Love Music Why? And I'd love to just throw this your way, take this wherever you'd like. Why do you keep doing it? Why do you choose music? Why has this been such a foundational part of your life? What would you say to yourself in sixth grade or something like that? Now.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3689.98399975, "endSec": 3696.63399975, "text": "well sixth grade i knew i was going to be professionally session like there was no like in third grade i", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3696.63399975, "endSec": 3696.8339997499997, "text": "Hell yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3696.8339997499997, "endSec": 3697.23399975, "text": "knew like", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3697.23399975, "endSec": 3697.88399975, "text": "Hell yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3697.88399975, "endSec": 3713.7839997499996, "text": "my parents are musicians um uh and yeah my whole family's musicians and that's basically what i did my for my whole life since i was like a little little kid you know um but", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3714.7799997499997, "endSec": 3734.47999975, "text": "um why do i do it i mean music has given me everything you know i mean it's it's the guiding light for me and it's magic and i'm obsessed with it and it's um the truth you know", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3736.7639997499996, "endSec": 3767.73599975, "text": "it's making creating something out of nothing it's it's the moment it's it's it disappears it's just that moment and it's gone you know um and you can't see it you know uh it's it's something that everybody understands and it's the way that i express myself you know Um, but me as a, would you say a sixth grader,", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3767.73599975, "endSec": 3767.8359997499997, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3767.8359997499997, "endSec": 3768.48599975, "text": "what", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3768.48599975, "endSec": 3769.3359997499997, "text": "What would you say?", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3769.3359997499997, "endSec": 3813.07599975, "text": "I say to a sixth grader, um, I probably would say like. learn as many skills as you possibly can in music because that's what you need to do in order to work in music is be super diversified in what you can do and um i knew that at that time like i was already doing that but i had this teacher His name was Joel Siegel, and he was a saxophone player and a pastor, and he said to me, either you're going to be the very best,", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3813.17599975, "endSec": 3825.4759997499996, "text": "the very best at one thing, which in my case would be playing jazz tenor saxophone, right, or you...", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3825.4759997499996, "endSec": 3842.1059997499997, "text": "are gonna be really good at a lot of things and guess what you're not going to be the best so you better be good at a lot of things and uh that that always kind of stuck with me you know", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3842.3559997499997, "endSec": 3842.6059997499997, "text": "Yeah,", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3842.6059997499997, "endSec": 3846.75599975, "text": "and he told me that in high school but you know same difference yeah", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3846.75599975, "endSec": 3848.15599975, "text": "that's beautiful.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3849.00599975, "endSec": 3849.15599975, "text": "yeah", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3849.15599975, "endSec": 3857.8359997499997, "text": "And that's a really good one. That's a really good one. I really resonate with that because like I don't know. You could apply that to so many different things. Like", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3857.8359997499997, "endSec": 3858.03599975, "text": "Yeah.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3858.03599975, "endSec": 3870.28599975, "text": "what, you know, small odds pursuit do you want in your life? It's like apply that same mentality. Like are you going to be the best basketball player? It's like probably not.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3871.19599975, "endSec": 3872.3959997499996, "text": "You got to be the best.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3872.3959997499996, "endSec": 3874.2959997499997, "text": "you got to be the absolute best exactly", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3874.2959997499997, "endSec": 3876.3459997499995, "text": "You have to like be the best. Yeah.", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3876.3459997499995, "endSec": 3894.61999975, "text": "are you already seven foot six like you know victor wembe yama or like are you built that way it's like no sorry you're probably not going to be the best so what are you going to do with that like yeah you're going to you got to you're going to diversify your skills you're going to have a reason why other people want to work with you you got to win You", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3894.61999975, "endSec": 3894.8199997499996, "text": "Yeah,", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3894.8199997499996, "endSec": 3897.0699997499996, "text": "got to go take it out. So I love that. That was a really great answer.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3897.9199997499995, "endSec": 3898.0199997499994, "text": "yeah,", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3898.0199997499994, "endSec": 3901.0199997499994, "text": "Thank you so much for chatting with me, Jesse. This is super,", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3901.0199997499994, "endSec": 3901.36999975, "text": "totally yeah,", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3901.36999975, "endSec": 3907.1699997499995, "text": "super fun. I loved it. I'm feeling very inspired. And let's make some more music together.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3907.86999975, "endSec": 3908.2199997499997, "text": "totally", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3909.8199997499996, "endSec": 3911.0199997499994, "text": "All right. Have a great rest of your day.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" }, { "startSec": 3911.0199997499994, "endSec": 3912.0199997499994, "text": "Yeah, you too, man", "speaker": "Jesse McGinty" }, { "startSec": 3912.2199997499997, "endSec": 3912.7199997499997, "text": "Take it easy.", "speaker": "Luke F. Walton" } ], "correctionsApplied": [] }