Megan McDuffee

Award-winning composer, producer, and vocalist Megan McDuffee chats with Brian Prime for an in-depth conversation about her creative journey and evolution as an independent artist. Known for her lush, cinematic blend of dark synths and orchestral textures, Megan’s work spans film, television, and video games,including the hit River City Girls. She and Brian discuss her recent ventures into darker synthwave territory, the balance between authenticity and professionalism in social media, navigating multiple artistic identities, and what it takes to build a sustainable creative life. It’s a thoughtful, wide-ranging chat with one of modern synth music’s most versatile voices.

Featured Songs:
Megan McDuffee, ALEX - Cult Movie

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Transcript

Hello again, and welcome to Void Signal. I’m your host, Brian Prime. I hope things are well for you and that you’re surviving out there in our turbulent times. I’ve got a new episode for you today — this one is a conversation with the incredibly talented Megan McDuffee.

Megan is an award-winning producer, composer, and vocalist whose work spans a wide creative spectrum. In addition to her personal music project, a rich blend of dark synths, cinematic textures, and orchestral elements, she's also collaborated with notable electronic producer ALEX — Megan has scored for film, television, and video games, including the hit title River City Girls. Her sound is equal parts emotion, precision, and atmosphere.

We sat down recently to talk about her creative process, her journey through different corners of the music world, her recent explorations into new scenes, and what it means to carve out a path as an independent artist in today’s industry. It’s a fascinating conversation, and I think you’ll enjoy it.

But before we get into that, I just want to mention once again that Void Signal is made for people, not algorithms, not advertisers, and it’s always been ad-free and powered by listeners like you. You can help support the Void Signal project for as little as two dollars a month. Please consider visiting voidsignal.net or patreon.com/voidsignal to sign up, it really helps keep the lights on, and I’m deeply appreciative of everyone who contributes.

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Okay, our time is at an end. As always, thank you so much for listening. It’s a pleasure to do this for you. Stay safe, stay loud. Cheers.



2025-08-12 18-00-06
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Brian Prime: [00:00:00] Hello? 

Megan McDuffee: Hey there. 

Brian Prime: Can you hear me okay? 

Megan McDuffee: Yes. 

Brian Prime: Okay, cool. 

Megan McDuffee: How about

? Am I, am I present? Yes, you are present. I'm checking my levels and everything over here. Awesome, now. Awesome. Okay. You sound perfect. Okay, wonderful. Awesome. All right, let me close down some of this other stuff I was doing. Sure, for sure.

Brian Prime: Alright.

I am just getting over being sick, so I might sound a little more gruff than normal from all my extra coffee I've been having to do. Oh, fun. Yeah. No, good. Alright, we'll go ahead and get started. I don't wanna waste your time and so I'll just do a quick short little intro and yeah, we'll just have a chat, uh, about you.

Are you ready? Do you need like a pee or a drink or any, anything? 

Megan McDuffee: No, I'm good. I did all my prep already. 

Brian Prime: Okay. All right. So very [00:01:00] professional of you. Okay. Welcome to Void Signal. I am your host Brian Prime. My guest this week is Megan McDuffy. You are an award-winning composer a music producer, and you've done video games and trailers for film and you have tended to be leaning farther and farther into, uh, this sort of dark electronic scene and, uh, which is how I found you and, uh.

Yeah. Anyway, you seem like a fabulously talented person and I'm grateful for your time. Uh, so thank you so much. Um, my first question will just be to you just sort of, where did you come from? What made you end up down this path of success that you found? 

Megan McDuffee: First off, thanks for having me. Happy to be here.

Um, you know, it's one of those questions that doesn't have the most solid of [00:02:00] answers other than I was meant to do this, if that makes sense. Sure. I've always just been a musician. It's been. My focus since day one. Uh, I was singing as soon as I was talking. Yeah, it's just, it's been my whole life's journey.

There was never a question about doing anything else with my life. So I guess with that being my singular focus, that is how I ended up where I am today. And yeah, the, the specific trajectories that it's taken were. As a result of me trying various things until I found out where I best would thrive.

Thrive. 

Brian Prime: Gotcha. And do you feel like it's, uh, when you say a thing that you would thrive in did you have a moment, like early in your youth or in your passion for music that made you end up favoring sort of a darker color palette in your art taste? [00:03:00] 

Megan McDuffee: I've always just enjoyed listening to darker music watching darker things, you know, sci-fi, fantasy horror.

That's just kind of been something that I've been attracted to forever since I can remember, so Sure. I guess in that sense, it's just, yeah, it's where I enjoy to be and then I guess. Since I enjoy being there, it's uh, it created my influences. 

Brian Prime: Yeah, sure. That makes sense. So you've done soundtrack work and I know and quite successfully, and I know that you've recently been working on a synth wave cover album.

Um, can you tell me a little bit about that? 

Megan McDuffee: Yeah. What started as a social experiment that I had no real goals or plans for other than I was just kind of like, I'm gonna challenge myself and produce a little cover thing. I know my, [00:04:00] my video game soundtrack folks and a lot of the colleagues I have are very into dark synth wave, which is something I like to do anyway.

I just, I kind of just challenged myself. This would've been last July, so just over a year ago, I started posting these little snippets on Instagram and the very second one that I posted kind of blew up. And I was surprised and ecstatic. And from that moment on I was like, okay, there's clearly. A desire for this in my audience, so might as well run with it.

Mm-hmm. And people were asking about me putting together an album. So yeah, I just, I released most of the tracks as singles to kind of, you know, keep the momentum up. And I have a couple tracks that did really well as. Instagram reels that are included in the album that nobody has heard yet. So [00:05:00] those are the like tasty little extra treats that people will get with this album.

Yeah. And yeah, it's just been a little side project that I've been chipping away at for a while. And it's cool that it was just born out of fan excitement. It was never really something that I considered until. Those things exploded. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. And speaking of, um, a fantastic answer, um, but I was also, uh, I wanted to mention, uh, you mentioned fan excitement and that is a thing that I have to, praise you for, um, your social media is, thank you, very active and very well assembled, and you have definitely done a fantastic job of marketing yourself and your various talents and things that you do. Tell me about a, a little bit about kind of the background of what goes into that. I mean, it must be, I do it.

Uh, not nearly as well or as much as you seem to, uh, so I can [00:06:00] only imagine like the extra work that must go into that. 

Megan McDuffee: Yeah. You know, it, it's kind of one of those things that I. Was pretty much just trying a bunch of different techniques, different locations, different styles of content. And this iteration that I've been working in for the past year, since I started posting the covers it's just the one that stuck.

I don't know. Why previous things weren't as latched onto, but they weren't. So I just kind of kept trying and iterating until I found something that stuck with people. Um, I think I was overthinking it honestly at the beginning, trying to be a little too produced, if that makes sense. I kind of had it in my mind that.

Like something that looks like a really polished music video is gonna, enhance my brand and tell the story that I wanted to [00:07:00] tell. But it wasn't as relatable and I think that's where it fell short for me. So yeah, like once I found a format that seemed to work, uh, something that was clearly thought out but not super unapproachable for people 'cause like.

You can tell I am just sort of doing a fun thing in a small bedroom like anybody would have, and it's got some cool lights and that's about it. So it's very relatable and I think that's really what made it stand out for people is it looks polished and thoughtful but not unattainable. 

Brian Prime: Sure. 

Megan McDuffee: Yeah, and yeah, like I said, I just tried.

Over and over and over again, different things until I found what worked. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. 

Megan McDuffee: Now I sort of have a formula for it, and that makes it a lot easier. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. Kind of to your point, I've heard, um, uh, critics and thinkers say that [00:08:00] we are living in an age of authenticity, and I do find that to be true in that, now sort of everyone on your feed is potentially a.

Journalist, news source advertisement you know, someone marketing themselves mm-hmm. As myself and you are familiar with. So I do think that I do agree with you. I think that I, and I do mostly agree with that consensus, that this is an age of authenticity for that reason. But I feel sometimes that that is a very difficult line to walk at least in my own experience of like, how far do I go as my, who I am as a person versus this entity mm-hmm.

That I've made. I have the luxury of a, of a name change but you are Megan McDuffy from the day, from the moment you wake up in the morning. So yeah. How difficult is it to navigate in that respect? 

Megan McDuffee: It's really not. I feel like every [00:09:00] side of me, whether that's super casual or super polished and produced is all very much me.

It's just different facets of me so people can kind of see. I don't know. I, I've always just sort of wanted to brand me as the brand because I don't know that felt the most authentic. 

Brian Prime: Sure. Okay. Makes sense. You don't, um, do you find it, it like intrusive into your personal life, uh, at times or, uh, is that a problem you've ever faced?

Megan McDuffee: Luckily, that is not a problem that I've had to wrestle with. It's been, it's, yeah. It's still maintaining sort of surface level enough. 

Brian Prime: Sure. 

Megan McDuffee: Uh, there definitely was a time where I was wrestling with. The idea of basically splitting my brand into like. Megan, the video game composer, soundtrack producer, [00:10:00] trailer producer, and then the artist version of me as two separate things because I was worried that people that, like one of those things might not like the other because there are quite a few different styles that I produce or you know, a game project will have a completely different spec than one of my artist tracks, for instance.

Brian Prime: Sure. 

Megan McDuffee: So. I, yeah, I definitely wrestled with the fact that like, well, what if somebody comes for a game soundtrack, but here's my artist stuff and doesn't like it? Or what if somebody finds me on Spotify and the first thing they hear is like a nineties hip hop video game song that I collaborated on that's not really the, uh, most, I don't know, accessible version of myself.

I'm glad that I kind of stuck with. Just being me in all realms. I don't know. It seems to be working out. 

Brian Prime: Yeah, no, I [00:11:00] agree. And I can definitely understand your concern there because um, as you were talking it was, you know, sort of forefront of my mind of like, your styles are very different, but you know, I would hate to split up a thing, you know, sort of your body of work because then.

It's maybe not representative of your full skillset, whereas Right. You know, now you have the luxury of that sort of cross pollination. Can you, I, I, I know that you've probably had some good luck with cross pollination. Someone arrives for one thing and stays for another. Can you talk a little bit about how much success you found with that?

Yeah. 

Megan McDuffee: For that specifically the cross pollination. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. And is there and then just sort of an additional thought there, just, and is there anything in particular that you found to be really effective in sort of making that happen or facilitating it to happen? I, 

Megan McDuffee: yeah, that's a good question. Uh, there's definitely been [00:12:00] some synergy and cross pollination, as you say.

Absolutely. It's I'd say it's heavily skewed for the people that hear my work in games and then come, come along for the ride for the artist stuff. That's, I would say like 80, 80%. And my favorite though is the opposite, where somebody will hear something I've posted on Instagram, for instance, and then.

Say, wait a minute. I totally recognize your voice now. It's all coming together. I've totally played River City Girls, so that's kind of my favorite, where they like have a eureka moment that I've been in their life for longer than they realize. Uh, those are just so funny to me. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. 

Megan McDuffee: Um, what facilitates it?

I don't know. I, people kind of find me everywhere. Like I said, the, the video game stuff tends to be the most heavily trafficked, and then they sort of [00:13:00] find my ancillary projects from there. But with the rise of activity on my Instagram, people are definitely finding my music through there more and more often, so I wouldn't be surprised if they kind of evened out at some point where it was a 50 50 split between games and social.

Brian Prime: Nice. Excellent. I am glad to hear that that has been the case of that cross pollination happening as effectively as it seems to. Are there, will you ever perform live a set of your own original songs or covers or whatever? 

Megan McDuffee: I would like to, the caveat being that it would have to be. Worth it.

Uh, sure. And by that I mean that it is far more easy and financially makes more sense for me to be a studio artist and work on soundtracks, for example. Mm-hmm. Uh, [00:14:00] the, just the like physical overhead for. Prepping, schlepping, performing a live set, uh, booking my own gigs, you know, finding places to play.

Sure. Uh, determining if I even have a local audience. There's just so much that goes into that. And I would have to do it simply for the love of it. It would not be a financial thing for me, at least at the beginning. Mm-hmm. Um, but yeah it's something I do wanna explore eventually. But I think I'm not quite there yet.

I would want it to be a bigger production. I would want it to be me and at least two or three other people on stage as a band rather than just me by myself with a keyboard. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. 

Megan McDuffee: So at some point I would love to do that when it makes both financial and creative sense. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. Yeah, agree. And that does make sense given your position [00:15:00] and yeah, nobody really wants to see dude with laptop.

And if, and if that's the case, you know, a person with laptop up there doing their thing, like there better be a lot of production going into this thing, like a good backing video. Mm-hmm. Or interesting things. Show me you're pushing your buttons on, on time and you know, let me, yes. See that there's an actual performance happening instead of just like, ah, isn't this great?

Yeah, nobody wants, nobody wants that. Um, let me 

Megan McDuffee: just fist pump for the whole set. 

Brian Prime: Yeah, yeah. Ah, this fist bump really gets the crowd going. Um, Uhhuh. 

Megan McDuffee: Exactly. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. And it makes sense too because you, now that you do have this established brand for yourself that has a lot of polish, a lot of quality to it, I do feel like my expectation as a fan of your work, if I were going to see you live, my expectations would be a little elevated. I would be like, okay, this is gonna be just as slick as what she's [00:16:00] producing through her socials. So 

Megan McDuffee: yes, and that's what I would want it to be for people. I would want the expectation to be met.

I have high expectations for myself, so I don't see why other people wouldn't have those as well. 

Brian Prime: Sure. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Um, aside from possible playing a show at some point in the future what is next on your agenda for yourself? What's the next big project that you are gonna sink your teeth into?

Can you talk about it at all? 

Megan McDuffee: There are, hmm, let's see. There's one main project. That I'm kind of just getting started on. It's a game, but I can't say any more than that at this point. Should be an interesting challenge given the company and the ip, I guess it's a lofty one. Um, so that's exciting, but also a little [00:17:00] terrifying.

We'll see how it goes. I, I have. I have a feeling it's going to be a good challenge. Like perhaps I will in the moment be frustrated with revisions and, you know, people being very nitpicky, but in the end I'll probably come away with something I'm very, very proud of. That's just my gut sense on this one.

Uh, as far as personal projects, I, as you know, have just kind of wrapped up this cover album. It drops on August 22nd, which is very soon. Uh, after that I plan on doing an album sort of in a similar style, but originals and probably a little grittier and g Grier. So more along the lines of maybe Beder or.

Was another good example. Hmm. I don't know just a darker synth wave 

Brian Prime: You had me at birder. Yeah. Great, great choice. [00:18:00] Yeah. 

Megan McDuffee: Yeah. I really, really enjoy his stuff from his earlier works to his more like gothic and dark wave. Stuff nowadays. 

I really just, I love his sound, so I think that my audience would really like it too if I were to attempt something like that.

And I think you've heard Leviathan. Yes. Which is a single that I released fairly recently. That's kind of the direction I'm playing with, but even darker than that. 

Brian Prime: Gotcha. Excellent. And yeah, agree per toba is awesome. All of his production sounds like very crispy and like very clean. Mm-hmm.

And yeah. Big fan. I've, uh, have you ever seen Per Toba Live also, I don't mean to derail this, your interview into Let's talk about Good. Um, but have you seen Brita Beter Live.

Megan McDuffee: Don't think so. 

Brian Prime: I feel like if you would have, you would definitely remember. 'cause I, I caught him with health Yeah. In San Francisco some years back. And it was [00:19:00] amazing. Just, oh gosh I was kind of a fan before, but after the performance and the light show, I was like. Damn, this is so slick. Yeah. And it's exciting to hear that like you're going to and did, I did hear Leviathan.

It is excellent. Um, and I am excited. Thank you for this darker lean, um, because I feel like that's a space that I'd love to see more. Just more of and definitely from the angle of, um, being produced female produced we have things like Sierra and, uh, earth and, uh, all these other great artists that operating in that space.

Bar aari and things like that. But like we could just, there, we could always use more. There is, yeah, there 

Megan McDuffee: really aren't many are there? 

Brian Prime: Yeah, 

Megan McDuffee: Sierra is pretty much the only one I know who scratches the edge of that itch. 

Brian Prime: I have to also shout out Mary Kavin she's also sort of leaning that way and produces her, her own stuff and is, oh, it's so good.

It's so slick. And that was kind of a thing that I [00:20:00] wanted to I wanted to actually kind of pick your brain about a little bit. Is that, uh, your music, uh, leans towards the, you know, as we were just discussing the sort of darker edge, darker electronic kind of stuff. But you are really sort of, or you seem to be operating in this space sort of adjacent to a lot of, uh, your contemporaries, I guess I would say. Some of the names that we just mentioned, like a Mary Kaman or a Sierra or whatever. Why do you think that is? Do you think it's primarily just because you kind of came from a soundtrack world and this is sort of a newer sort of leaning for you?

Or what are your thoughts?

Megan McDuffee: I was so focused on video game soundtracks for so long, uh, all of which have very different requirements and different soundscapes that they're trying to [00:21:00] achieve, uh, that I've had to be, as you say, kind of flexible and, mm-hmm. 

Brian Prime: Mm. 

Megan McDuffee: I don't know, I guess. I don't really have a good answer for that.

I'm just gonna say that. 

Brian Prime: Okay, okay. No, that's totally fine. And I mean, it's just, you know, it's just happenstance really, right? Like you've just been pursuing your own thing and just it hasn't caught fire over here in this area. That, at least to me as an outside observer seems like. Ground that is fertile for a fire to catch of.

Like, I can see the allure of what you're making for that scene. So I'm, I guess I'm just mm-hmm. A little curious myself as to like, why hasn't this particular cross pollination happened as of yet? 

Megan McDuffee: Yeah. I, I think it is because, oh, so much of my career so far has been soundtracks and trailers and, uh.

I, I feel like if I had [00:22:00] started 13 years ago, which is when I you know, officially became a business that, uh, if I had 13 years of just that singular focus and that specific style, I feel like I would have. Perhaps gotten farther. I put farther in air quotes 'cause I'm doing great. Yeah, 

Brian Prime: exactly. I mean like, how are we measuring this shit?

So, right. 

Megan McDuffee: Exactly. It's all completely subjective. Uh, but yeah, I feel like if I was to have had one singular focus like that, a genre focus from the very beginning, it could be could be more recognizable in that space instead of having all of these. Crazy projects here and there over the years. 

Brian Prime: Sure. Uh, that makes perfect sense.

And and two, it's, you know, it's also never too late for things to change and, you know, for, you know, new avenues to open up. Um, and also I do think that probably your. Your soundtrack background [00:23:00] has its own advantages to it, right? Of like you learned a craft one that you, that has sustained you and, given you a lifestyle and not a lifestyle.

That's not the word I wanna use, but like, uh, you take my meaning like it's allowed you to pay your bills mm-hmm. For doing a thing. You're, you love and it, in return got. Better at. So coming into it now, I do feel that that has definitely given you an advantage. Would you agree? 

Megan McDuffee: I would agree. Yeah.

I feel like I am positioned now with such an extensive toolkit and basically years and years and years to perfect my style of mixing and production. And so at this point, it's really just about the time and figuring out how to best market it. 

Brian Prime: Yeah, and you are already good at that, so I have no doubt it is only a matter of time.

Megan McDuffee: I'm still figuring that out as I go, so thank you. 

Brian Prime: Thank you. So aside from music you, it [00:24:00] is very clearly the thing that gives you spark and animation from day to day, just hearing you talk about it. But aside from that, what else is Meghan McDuff, he's life filled with. 

Megan McDuffee: Well, right now it's filled with a crazy renovation slash construction project, but that's not something that sustains me or brings me joy yet.

It's just chaos. Yeah. Other than music, a very solid passion of mine is dance, specifically pole dancing. It's. A three in one. I get my exercise, I get my, just like shut everything else out of my brain except for choreography and I get my social interaction with people that I really love and a community that is so much fun.

So that's been a solid part of my life for, I think I've been doing it for six years now, about two to [00:25:00] three hours a week. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. And I think, I think you, I recall you telling me that you just tried it one day randomly, and it just stuck. Is that right? 

Megan McDuffee: More or less? I, I went into a dance studio with a purpose.

One collaboration I did actually about six or seven years ago now we were gonna shoot this sort of epic short film slash music video, and my character was going to distract the guards by doing this pole routine in. In a strip club. And I was like I don't know how to do that, so I better learn some verbs.

And I went into the, the closest dance studio, which is about five minutes from my house. Luckily. And yeah, from that very first class, I was absolutely hooked. I was like, oh my gosh. I was. How have I not found this before? And this is amazing. 

Brian Prime: Nice. Yeah. That's awesome. And [00:26:00] you, uh, do you do that a lot? Do you, um.

Plans to incorporate it into your own visuals. I, I also would hate to not mention that you also have a music video out that, or that came out not that long ago. Very slick production. Again, as usual, hats off. But, um, seeing your dance in the music video at some point? 

Megan McDuffee: Yes. Yeah, there is one. There's definitely one.

That's to my kind of grunge nineties inspired track called Forgive Me. Mm-hmm. That's a pole dance routine. Uh, the entire video that was just sort of like, well, I'm up here shooting this other thing, maybe we can 

Brian Prime: Yeah. 

Megan McDuffee: Uh, best utilize the week that I'm here and shoot this other one. So I hope to incorporate it more.

Even though. I have to be a little careful with going too much into that or showing that side of me too [00:27:00] much, just because I work with so many different companies and personalities that, there's still a stigma attached to it. 

Brian Prime: Sure. 

Megan McDuffee: I in certain communities, not all communities of course, but yeah, I don't want, for example, like some.

Maybe Nintendo decides to check out some of work or like a family racing game or something. They probably wouldn't necessarily hire me if they saw something like that. So it just depends. 

Brian Prime: Sure. No, that makes sense. I mean, and it's a whole other aspect of your. Brand that I guess you have to consider is the, again, there's that sort of issue of, not issue, but just the double-edged sword I guess, of keeping everything together is that you don't know where people are gonna come from and yeah, I've had some.

Interactions with people that I'm like, oh, do I really want this person to know that I'm void signal and that, you know, I sh hold these, I say [00:28:00] these things, or I hold these ideas. And I'm, I have the luxury of being able to just say, yes, I do. I don't care. But, for you it's, you know, it's tied to your your main job.

So yeah, it makes a lot of sense. 

Megan McDuffee: Yeah. Yeah. It fits with the artist side of me, but not necessarily the soundtrack producer side of me, so. 

Brian Prime: Sure. Gotcha. Yeah. Makes sense. 

Megan McDuffee: So far it hasn't been a problem. Yeah. Luckily. 

Brian Prime: Gotcha. Pursuits, passions, other than the music and the dance do you have other projects that you work on?

Artistically. 

Megan McDuffee: Yeah, I am a very big fan of the yarn arts. By that I mean crocheting and knitting. I've been knitting for a long time, but just kind of more recently in the past few years, really gotten into crochet and mm-hmm. I find it so just relaxing and centering. So [00:29:00] that's been a fun thing to work on.

Brian Prime: What's the most elaborate thing you've crocheted? 

Megan McDuffee: Ooh, I, I probably have to say a dress. I made a full like floor length dress with full long sleeves. Very boho, very like Stevie Nicks. Mm-hmm. Um, super proud of it. It's really cool. It probably took me. Oh heck, I don't know how many hours it took me, but it was many, many months.

Probably about eight months to finish it. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. Nice. That's so cool. Uh, what did you use it for or wear it to? 

Megan McDuffee: I'm still figuring that out. I actually just wore it for the first time a couple weekends ago to. A local, uh, witch is market, which was the perfect venue for that kind of thing. 

Brian Prime: Yeah, for sure.

How did it go, your test run of wearing this thing? [00:30:00] 

Megan McDuffee: Oh, it was great. Yeah, I got many compliments on it. It was comfortable. I wasn't too hot or too cold, so it was a success. 

Brian Prime: Nice. Excellent. That's very cool. What, uh, do you have other things that you would like to try in the future? I mean, you're, you've already kind of like dibbled, uh, dabbled your fingers in a couple of different things.

Like, like I said, your music video production is very slick, but would you ever want to try directing your own thing or acting, or what other avenues do you see yourself maybe exploring in the future? 

Megan McDuffee: Oh, for sure. I feel like this is often true with just creative people in general, and that is that they want to do lots of different creative things.

I've always wanted to get back into visual art. I used to draw and paint all the time as a kid. Uh, that was my happy place. [00:31:00] For a while. So I feel like doing some painting might be really fun one of these days. And it's funny you mention acting because again, that was one of my other passions when I was a youth and it's been so much fun to combine.

My music with acting in sort of these longer form or more narrative driven music videos that I've been lucky enough to do over the last few years as sort of a bucket list item for me. I would love to have the chance to kind of meld those two things together in like basically kind of appearing as myself in a movie.

Or as almost a cameo. So like characters are in a bar and there's a live band playing in whatever scene in a film. And I would love to be the one playing in that band. 

Brian Prime: I feel like [00:32:00] that is like a deep rooted artist fantasy of like, if you make music ah, I wanna be the cool band that's playing in the movie.

Megan McDuffee: Yep. That's what I would love. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. Good choice. Alright. Good answer. And uh, I will go, I don't want to keep you too long, so I will go ahead and hit you with the last question of the show, which is just what is something that you have been enjoying recently and your answer can be anything. Book, tv, show, movie, just what's something you're excited about when you wake up?

Megan McDuffee: I recently, like as in this past weekend, I finished a very epic novel sci-fi, and I've been thinking about it. It's one of those books where the, the last third and now that I'm finished has just made me think about it for days on end. So I've really been enjoying reading more lately and kind of.

Forcing myself a little bit to not turn on Netflix, to not just binge YouTube [00:33:00] and sit down with a book. And I'm so glad that I did because that sci-fi book was absolutely incredible. I've been working on it for a while, but it felt really good to finally finish it. 

Brian Prime: Nice. What, um, did I miss the name of the novel?

Megan McDuffee: No, I totally failed to mention it. Uh, it was called a Deepness in the Sky by Werner V. 

Brian Prime: Gotcha. And what just in short, what drew you to it? 

Megan McDuffee: It was a recommendation from my husband and also it is the second book, uh, loosely related to the first one, which I had read earlier this year, and quite enjoyed.

But my husband was like, okay, I know like you liked the first one, but the second one's even better. So finally took the plunge. 'cause they're quite meaty and there's a lot of very like, mind blowing concepts. I feel like. When I usually read a sci-fi novel, there's one really cool concept through the book, and it's like, oh, that's [00:34:00] interesting.

But I swear this author, he throws like eight to 10 crazy concepts in one novel. I've never read anything quite like it. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. Nice. Very cool. I haven't, I'm woefully under read. It's been ages since I've finished a book. The last thing that I was, and I used to love to read, especially like sci-fi stuff.

Yeah. And, uh, but yeah, I'm woefully behind on, on books and stuff. It's good that you can find time to read amongst all your other projects and things that you do, um, and all the work you put into your, both your jobs really. So. Yeah. Good job for reading a book. Thank you. Um, I, 

Megan McDuffee: I work it out somehow. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. Good, good on you for that. Uh, I always answer the question myself. I, the thing I've been enjoying recently is, uh, I haven't finished it yet, but I am, uh, about three episodes into the latest season of and, or, and. I do just have to say that like even [00:35:00] if someone is not into the Star Wars, that's fine.

This is the best Star War. Anything that you can put in your eyeballs, it's got all these Wonderful, have you seen it? 

Megan McDuffee: I feel, did we watch one episode? I can't remember. I think we've maybe watched one or two episodes. Um. A long time ago when it first came out, and then sort of got, you know, sidetracked by other things, but Sure, 

Brian Prime: sure the world happened.

But I've 

Megan McDuffee: heard, I've heard it's super good. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. I'm going to echo that sentiment. It is incredible. Just really, uh, wonderful themes of discusses radicalization and what can galvanize people. And, uh, it is wonderful. Uh, it is fantastic. I can't say enough good things about it. Cool. Yeah, for sure.

Okay. Well that is it. I don't want to keep you. Thank you so much for your time. Um, absolutely. I really appreciate, uh, [00:36:00] having a chat with you again. And, uh, I look forward to the release of your synth Wave album and all your other projects that end up coming in the future. Thank you again so much for your time and for the art you've made.

Megan McDuffee: For sure. Thanks again for inviting me and having me on. 

Brian Prime: All right. Terrific. Well, uh.