Bones Unfiltered Podcast : Music Edition Episode #6, featuring Kate Sparks

Bones Unfiltered Podcast, host Bones sits down with the talented and charismatic Kate Sparks.  Known for her unique blend of country music, Kate shares insights into her musical journey, creative process, and the inspirations behind her latest projects.  Tune in of an engaging conversation that delves into the heart of her artistry, family life and the stories that fuel her passion for music.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:11

Welcome, welcome, welcome, ladies and gentlemen to Bones Unfiltered Podcast. I'm your host, Bones. This is a spur-of-the-moment podcast, so I didn't have time to really do this. My plans that I had planned today got canceled. And luckily for me, the lovely Kate Sparks has children, so that means she's generally living at a wee early morning hours. So I asked her, hey, would you like to just quickly jump on? Because, as all of you all know, my podcast yesterday got canceled just because of uh you know scheduling uh issues with the band that we're gonna do um Outlaw Whiskey, and we're gonna have them on now instead next Thursday, if all goes well, uh due to their uh scheduling conflict that we had between myself and them. So today let's welcome the wonderful Kate Sparks, aka Kate Fitch, for some of y'all that may know, but she is now happily married with some chitlins, as you'll hear them in the background. So this podcast is gonna be very raw and unfiltered because if the kids need something or whatever, we're just gonna life is going to progress and we're gonna just ride right along with it. So again, let's put our hands together, let's welcome Miss Kate Sparks as she puts on her face.

SPEAKER_04 1:29

Why thank you?

SPEAKER_03 1:33

But yeah, this is in the background, so this is real and as raw as it's gonna get, and that's why it's on the unfiltered podcast because we just here we just don't give a shit. We don't follow the rules, we don't follow the etiquette, it is what it is. So, um, so Kate, uh, for the people out there that do not know who you are, tell them a little bit about you.

SPEAKER_04 1:57

Okay, so um my name is Kate Sparks slash Kate Fitch. Um, and I'm 26 years old. I'm originally from Paintsville, Kentucky, and I moved to Moorhead in October of 2023 with my now husband and my bonus son Bentley, who is six. And I've been singing since I was three years old. Um, I started up in church singing with my grandfather. He plays a piano at my childhood church, so that's where I got started. My first ever song that I sang was I'll fly away. So I'll fly away is very close and dear to my heart. And I have been writing songs since I was 12. And I back in 2018, I traveled to seven different countries in Europe to sing as a Kentucky ambassador of music.

SPEAKER_03 3:15

Oh, I didn't know that. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_04 3:17

Yeah, through the University of Louisville. So I was one out of a hundred students in Kentucky that went that got to go. And I obviously I had an audition for that, so that was a huge thing, and then um uh graduated high school 2019, and I went to University of the Cumberland on a full ride for a music scholarship, and then COVID broke out, but I was still in school. I was majoring in music, minoring in psychology to go into music therapy, and you know, to pursue to still pursue music as a job because obviously music is a huge part of my life, and then in my junior year, so 2022, uh my nanny, my mom's mom unexpectedly passed away, and my aunt and my aunt suffers from cerebral palsy. Now, mentally she's all there, and buddy, let me tell you, she is mentally all there. She went to college, had a psych went to college for psychology. Um, and you know, she went all throughout high school physically. She it's that's where her challenges are. Like she can't take her medicine, she can't feed herself, she um can't like do simple things, like she can't walk, she has never walked on her own a day in her life. I mean, she'll like as long as she has somebody to hold on to, she's okay. And um, so I was her caretaker and had to drop out of school to be able to care for her around the clock 24-7 because trying to go to school plus take care of her 24-7, it was just really hard. So I left school and then she decided about six months into me caring for her that she wanted to live on her own, which that's a huge step for her.

SPEAKER_03 5:57

You know, she's it sounds like it, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:00

Yeah, she's 50 now. So I mean, she's kicking it, she's she's doing good, she's living at an assisted living facility. Um, and you know, that's what she wanted to do. You know, we weren't gonna keep her from it. Um so that's when I started like I wasn't necessarily ready to go back to school, so I started doing the gigs. I started putting my music out there, I started writing more songs, um, I started really to just push myself to be out there. Um, and I hadn't I never my first gig out in public, I was 22 years old. Like my first, like, you know, gig setting, I guess. Um and then um sang with a band in Lexington called Marshall, which Jared, the lead singer, is now on the voice. Um and just I really deep dove myself into the music scene. Like I really wanted to just invest in myself. Um and then I met my now husband um in 2023 because I was doing gigs. I was in Lexton singing at Stagger Inn, bars like that. Um and once, you know, I was with Dakota, we were freshly dating. I was still doing the gigs, I was still doing all the things. Um and then we got married, uh, wrote our first, I wrote, um I was still writing and then still doing the gigs. I was we got the news that either I had kids now or I never will back in October of 2024. So we obviously tried and I got pregnant very quickly, thankfully. And now I have a son who's seven months old, he'll be eight months old on the 17th of April. And I haven't sang I haven't had a gig since December or like an actual gig in December, and then I sang at a benefit concert in May of last year, and that's the last public music thing that I have done, but yeah, music has always been a part of my life. Um, I'm I exclusively breastfeed my son, so it's really like difficult for me to be able to be on the stage and do the music scene.

SPEAKER_03 9:24

Oh yeah. Um, but you're doing the right thing. Um, you know, we did the same thing. It's it's you're passing on your immune system to your kids, so it's so much better to breastfeed than it is to use the artificial stuff, anyhow. So that's that's good that you're doing that. And if you got to take a break to take care of the little ones, well, that's obviously way more important.

SPEAKER_04 9:44

Oh, yeah. And I know I know music will always be there because I try to run for it. I feel like as an artist, everybody has a point in their life where they try to run for music, like music isn't working out for them, so they're just gonna up and quit. But I tried, I tried to run away from music, and somehow, some way it always finds its way back to me. So I know that music is always gonna be there. Um, and I know that it's waiting on me to come back for sure.

SPEAKER_03 10:17

Oh, and you have an immense amount of talent. I'm just gonna take a second to pause and uh give a shout out to our fake sponsor, uh Mary Kay. As you can see, she's applying her shit uh liberally. And if for those of y'all that are wondering why is she putting makeup on on a podcast? Well, here's the reason I was supposed to work at my uncle's today doing some pressure washing, and Mother Nature decided to drop a bunch of water from the sky, so that kind of ruined it. And I called her up, and at the last minute, she's like, Yeah, I'll get on a podcast with you because I wanted to get something. So um, I at least wanted to do one, and she was up early. However, the sacrifice is she has an interview here in a little bit, and she has to get ready for that too. So I was like, Well, you know what? The good thing about this podcast, it's uh it's raw and unfiltered. So if you're putting on your makeup and doing your hair while we're doing it, I don't give two shits.

SPEAKER_01 11:15

Yeah, so be it.

SPEAKER_03 11:16

So that's why we're here. So for those of y'all that want to know, like, why is she putting makeup on? That's why she's doing me a solid getting me a show in this week since the ones that we had had to unfortunately be canceled. Uh, we do got a lot of good stuff coming on, and occasionally you'll see her, she'll have to step away and stuff because there's the little one. Yes, gotta take care of number one. He's just as cute. He looks just like his daddy, though. I mean spitting image of daddy for sure. Welcome, Pamela. Our booking agents in here, Miss Pamela Little and Miss Mary Ash, who is she's one of my regulars, so she's in here. Miss Mary, if you've never seen uh Kate Sparks, aka Kate Fitch, um you definitely need to check her out because even though she's on the mother hiatus raising the little in right now and not really doing the music, it doesn't mean that she's not gonna get back to it, as she just said, because she will. But on a different note, too, one thing that you uh you're you're kind of doing a side project business-wise. Uh, do you want to talk a little bit about that?

SPEAKER_04 12:25

Sure. So while I'm still a mom, I'm still in you know, a singer-songwriter, even though I'm on a hiatus at the moment. Um, I'm also a travel advisor, so I help people um book and plan their trips just about anywhere. Uh, I do Disney, I do um all inclusives, I do even if you want to go to Tennessee and just book a cabin, I do that also.

SPEAKER_03 13:00

No doubt.

SPEAKER_04 13:01

It's for me to be able to just allow people to just pack their bags and I do the rest. That's my business motto. Um is you pack your bags, I'll plan the rest. And I'm also working on my master's degree, so I'll pet going for myself. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:20

Oh, yeah. What are you doing that in?

SPEAKER_04 13:22

So I just graduated in February with my bachelor's degree in psychology, and then I'm now doing my bachelor's in business administration. I'm getting my MBA.

SPEAKER_03 13:37

Were you doing that at Moorhead University?

SPEAKER_04 13:40

No, at Cumberland's.

SPEAKER_03 13:42

Oh, Cumberland.

SPEAKER_04 13:43

Nice. Yeah, I just figured they already have all of my information and it's just easier to go through them because I can be all online with them and still have rigs.

SPEAKER_03 13:54

Oh, well, that's come that's very handy. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 13:59

And then my interview today is for a registered behavior technician position for um it's called the Commonwealth ABA here in Moorhead. Um, so I'm gonna be working with children one-on-one who have autism. Nice. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:27

Well, that's fantastic. I didn't know you were doing that either. So you're all you're doing all sorts of things, you're a very go-getter.

SPEAKER_04 14:34

Yeah, if any, if my life is so hectic and so busy all the time, I'm always doing something, always getting into something. Um, so I mean, if anybody can do it, I mean, I'm living proof. And you know, my heart has always been for helping people, like taking care of my aunt. Like I was four years old, and I told the woman that I was gonna magically build her a wheelchair that can make her walk at four years old. Like my heart has just always went out to people and to help others. And I feel like, you know, even through music, like music helps me so much. That's why I wanted to go into music therapy, just to study what types of music, what types of beats, what rhythm like actually triggers your brain. Like when we're sad, we listen to sad music. That's music therapy because if the serotonin from the sad music connects with your body and your brain, that's literally music therapy, and nobody knows.

SPEAKER_03 15:38

Oh, that's pretty cool that you're you're kind of delving into that, you know.

SPEAKER_04 15:43

Yeah, so that's why I wanted to do music therapy because like my all-time dream job is to work at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and that's actually where I wanted to be a music therapy front or at a music therapist, um, which you know, they just have people like whenever they're like there's a center there where I could like have all the kids come down and like we sing like nursery rhymes or do dances or anything like that.

SPEAKER_03 16:25

So I mean, like I said, that's really cool.

SPEAKER_04 16:29

Yeah, but I mean, like I said, you know, my I'm doing anything and everything, always now.

SPEAKER_03 16:37

Are they making you do clinical hours through Cumberland at at like like different hospitals, like say uh the children's hospital in Cincinnati?

SPEAKER_04 16:46

So I would have had to if I did do music therapy, but where I'm just doing my business administration, I don't have to.

SPEAKER_03 16:56

Oh, gotcha, gotcha. Well, that's kind of nice because that makes it easier having the little one right now.

SPEAKER_04 17:02

Yeah, for sure. You know, I can just be all online and be able to take care of him, plus my bonus son, so I'm volunteering at his school, reading books to the class. They love Brig, so they let me bring him with me. Um, and it, you know, I don't have to miss anything when it comes to my boys. You know, I got to experience Brig's first word. Um really strong.

SPEAKER_03 17:36

That's yeah, and that's awesome.

SPEAKER_04 17:38

Dada.

SPEAKER_03 17:40

Well, you know, that's the easier one to say. You know, it's always daddy first, but we all they all know who who they really want to be around, and that's mama.

SPEAKER_04 17:51

Especially when they're uh really especially when they are a uh attached to the hip like mine is.

SPEAKER_03 17:59

Oh yeah, and I feed him so you can enjoy it while you got it because eventually they become teens and then they they go through that spell where they don't want to mom and dad aren't cool, so they don't want to be around them. Yeah, that's family does come first before everything, Scott. You're damn right about that, brother. Okay, damn right about that.

SPEAKER_04 18:20

And you know, my my ever since I was little, I've always dreamed about being a mom. You know, all I wanted to be was a mom because you know I have PCOS, I have endometriosis, so like me being a mom was slim to none. Um whenever they told me. And just so happened.

SPEAKER_03 18:47

Well, and I'm glad it worked out because he's he's absolutely adorable.

SPEAKER_04 18:52

Well, thank you.

SPEAKER_03 18:53

That's for sure. Y'all are very blessed.

SPEAKER_04 18:56

Everybody tells me I gave birth to baby jackjack from The Incredibles.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

I guarantee you, once he starts moving around, you're it that's gonna become even more true because you're gonna be all over the place chasing his ass.

SPEAKER_04 19:12

Yeah, for real.

SPEAKER_03 19:14

Now, what is uh what does dad do? I don't think I've ever asked what does Dakota do?

SPEAKER_04 19:21

Well Dakota, my sound man, whenever I'm at when I am singing, um he works for Kinetic slash windstream, whichever one. Um but they have recently they were a lot of people know them by windstream, so he works telecommunications, and um he has been there for six or seven years, I think.

SPEAKER_03 19:58

Oh nice, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:00

Nice, and he lives in or he lives in works in Maysfield.

SPEAKER_03 20:07

How far is that? Is that far from y'all? It's about 30 minutes in it, 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_04 20:12

Yeah, so it's not too far.

SPEAKER_03 20:15

Well, the the uh the girl I do I do podcasts with sometimes, and sometimes I'm on hers, Wolf. She just recently moved to Moorhead. Oh, really? Yeah, so she's not far from you now. I don't know exactly where, but she just recently moved to Moorhead from uh the Cleveland, Ohio area.

SPEAKER_04 20:32

Oh, okay, gotcha. Yeah, Moorhead is right. Happen in place, let me tell you.

SPEAKER_03 20:38

Now, for those of y'all that don't know, the young lady sitting right here next to me, she was also a contestant on the voice and uh had made it fairly far into the process um at one point in time. And uh you wanna you want to kind of tell them a little bit about that experience, since a lot of people may not know what you would actually go through when you on a TV show like that, unless they've experienced it. You want to share a uh what you can share anyway, um with the with the fans out there to kind of give them an idea of what it would be like if they were to apply and do the same thing.

SPEAKER_04 21:18

Sure. So I auditioned for the voice twice, actually. Um and the second time, oh sorry, the second time I went, so obviously you sign up for like a date and time, you get on the computer at that time, and it's a black screen, and it counts down from like 60 or like an hour, I guess, is what they give you beforehand. And the timer starts at like 15 minutes, and if you get on There earlier, so then it'll count down three, two, one, and you have to be ready because as soon as that camera comes on, it's recording you, and that is your audition.

SPEAKER_03 22:09

Oh, really? Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_04 22:14

Yeah, so the screen is completely black. Um, and you have a minute and 30 seconds. So what I did, my audition song was um what is that Johnny Cash song?

SPEAKER_03 22:35

No, the Ring of Fire?

SPEAKER_04 22:37

Nope.

SPEAKER_03 22:38

Does it have to do with um is it one of them like he sang with uh June Carter?

SPEAKER_04 22:44

Nope.

SPEAKER_03 22:46

Um I'm trying to think what you might have sang. Of course, I'm just guessing. Because I wasn't there.

SPEAKER_04 22:52

Oh, Falsen Prison Blues.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

That's what I oh there you go. Oh, nice, nice choice.

SPEAKER_04 22:57

So I done like my own rendition of that.

SPEAKER_03 23:01

And so what made you choose a Johnny Cash song versus uh maybe a female vocalist song?

SPEAKER_04 23:10

Um I like, you know, I like Trisha Yearwood, I like Carrie Underwood, I like Reba, I like Shania Twain, you know, I like all the OGs, but like songs coming from like Wayland Jennings, Johnny Cash, George Jones, like they are more my style because you know, I'm a twangy little thing, but I also love out outlaw country, you know, like Gretchen Wilson, or I've always been told like for my set list or for my how I sing and like my type of style outfits, all the things, makeup, hair. I'm in between a Gretchen Wilson and a Miranda Lambert, and I'm in between sounding like Miranda Lambert and Ella Langley. That's kind of that's what I hear all the time. Do I believe it? No, I don't.

SPEAKER_03 24:18

You do have an you do have an amazing voice. It it's very good.

SPEAKER_04 24:21

Well, thank you.

SPEAKER_03 24:22

So you should be very definitely be proud of yourself. So, you know, so back to back to the voice. You do the black screen, it all of a sudden, boom, it comes on. You know, now now's your time to rise and shine. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 24:36

So you can't have any nerves. The nerves had to be out the door by the time that camera comes on.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

So once that camera came on and you rocked out Folsom Prison Blues, and then then what happened after you were done?

SPEAKER_04 24:49

So you sit and wait, there's a like three-minute timer, it puts on there, and you're put in a zoom room and with like the rest of the contestants, if you make it through the first part, and then they will do the second part immediately after.

SPEAKER_03 25:22

So now what's the what's the second part consist of?

SPEAKER_04 25:26

You have to have three songs, three full songs.

SPEAKER_03 25:28

Oh, no shit.

SPEAKER_04 25:30

Yeah, so you go from a minute and 30 seconds to three full songs in like two hours.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 25:37

And then they wait for to give you the decision like a week or so. So you're waiting a week, and then they'll give you like a time and date for your third interview. Now that's whenever you're actually asked questions, they send you over like a 10-page documents that you have to sign, like all the rules, like you can't share anything about it. Obviously, you can't even like tell your family if you do get flown out. Um, which I mean, obviously, if I take my family with me, like I have to tell them.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

Yeah, yeah, what are you just doing? We're going somewhere where I'm not gonna tell you, it'll just go.

SPEAKER_04 26:26

Yeah, but they're just afraid of like news outlets and stuff getting it up, getting a hold of it before the show actually airs. And then you I had to get professional headshots done. I had to um and you have to record three full songs of you and submit them with your headshots. So you have to choose three different songs, and you can't like be in front of a mic, you can't have, you know, if you decide to do a um acoustic or you want to have an instrument, they will let you, but they want you to have at least one song where you play with or you sing with a track, so um, and that process took like three months.

SPEAKER_03 27:22

No shit.

SPEAKER_04 27:23

Just waiting on that interview, yeah. Because I mean I had to get headshots done, I had to record myself, three different songs, and in the paperwork they ask you, and like you can't do like any gigs while you're waiting or anything, which that that kind of makes it rough, especially if you're trying to if that's all you do for a living.

SPEAKER_03 27:40

Well then you kind of you kind of hill hook yourself, you're at the mercy of them, you know.

SPEAKER_04 27:46

Right. So then, like in the paperwork, they ask you like 20 different songs for you to list 20 songs of what you would like to cover if you were on the show, and then 10 songs that you would not want to cover. So, like they already have kind of in their mind like what kind of music you sing, um, where your what chord progression you lie in. Um and you know, if you write originals, what's your story? Like, where are you from? And I mean, obviously with reality TV, they always want a sad story.

SPEAKER_03 28:30

Oh, well, of course.

SPEAKER_04 28:32

Yeah, to get the viewers, yeah. But I mean, no, uh went through the interview, I waited another three months, so like this was for the third part for the interview part, it was a six-month process.

SPEAKER_03 28:50

Golly, yeah. Now, how far did you make it into the process?

SPEAKER_04 28:57

So, after the interview, I made it up until the point where they told me whether I was gonna be flown out for the live show or not. And like I the guy who actually done my interview left the voice before there was even a decision made if I was gonna go there or not. So he done my interview two weeks later. I got the email that he had left, the guy that actually done my interview, and then two and a half months later, they sent me the email and they told me no. Wow, so they didn't even have the guy anymore that I talked to.

SPEAKER_03 29:41

Oh, that kind of sucks.

SPEAKER_04 29:43

Yeah, and like I had to.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

It makes you wonder did that did that keep you from getting further, potentially, who knows?

SPEAKER_04 29:49

Right, right. That was a question that yeah, that was a question that my husband asked, obviously. And like I so like they tell you for the interview to dress like you would on stage, you know, you want to look the part whenever they want you to wear and look like what you would whenever you go to the live shows, if you do go to the live shows, right? But and did you know that the live auditions are pre-recorded?

SPEAKER_03 30:28

Oh, I didn't know that. Yes, no, I did not know that at all.

SPEAKER_01 30:32

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 30:34

Then why the fuck do they say they're live? Why not just say pre-recorded? I mean, what what's what's with the the whole you know secrecy?

SPEAKER_01 30:42

I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 30:43

99% of their stuff, besides like the championship battles and stuff like that on the voice are um pre-recorded.

SPEAKER_03 30:55

I didn't I did not know that. That's interesting.

SPEAKER_04 31:00

So Jared, the guy that I sang with, the lead singer for Marshall, that's out of Richmond in Lexington. He was on the third show, the third live audition show where they turn their chairs at the very end. Um, and like he was home watching it with his family, watching the live audition.

SPEAKER_03 31:27

Oh, no true. Yeah, wow, that's crazy. Now, since they won't let you, obviously, you can't you can't go when you're in this process for those who missed it or maybe just have tuned in a couple things with this. Um, and then Scott, I haven't forgot about your question. Um, but for those that just tuned in, um, just to let y'all know, when you when you put in for the voice, you you can't you can't go do gigs at a bar near you or somewhere else. Like it's they don't want you. Pretty much that time limit, you're pretty much theirs, you're stuck.

SPEAKER_04 32:02

Yeah, they don't want your face out in public at all.

SPEAKER_03 32:07

Wow. Now do they they want to be able to, I guess they want to know every social media platform you possibly have so they can monitor.

SPEAKER_04 32:15

Oh yeah. I had to give my Snapchat, I had to give my Instagram, I had to give if I had a YouTube account, I had to give that, I had to give my TikTok, if I had a LinkedIn, I had to give that. Like they watched everything every single day to see like yeah, to see it multiple times a day, just to see like if I got on there and actually put myself out there. Wow, yeah, they monitor it hard, they do not play around when it comes to social media.

SPEAKER_03 32:47

And I guarantee if you screwed up and you said something, if you did anything to jeopardize that, I guarantee they would hit you with some legal action that would make your head swim.

SPEAKER_04 32:56

Oh, yeah, that's why they send you the 10 or 11 page documents that you have to sign. That you're not gonna do this, you're not gonna do that. A full page of it was nothing but social media accounts that you have, and you have to give every single username for it.

SPEAKER_01 33:12

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 33:13

Even if you have like I have a Facebook music page, so if I had a Facebook music page, I had to put that on there as well.

SPEAKER_03 33:21

Oh no, yeah, that way they can monitor that. And speaking of music pages, we'll we'll take a pause just for a second during this conversation about the voice to um answer Scott Brayley's question. Scott Scott wants to know where can he and others that are interested in finding you, where can they find you musically? Where and and you can also, if you want to throw uh your business, how you're doing the uh booking agencies as well for uh travel, travel agencies, go ahead and throw where people can find you if they want any of those services.

SPEAKER_04 33:56

Yeah, so I haven't actually been in the studio yet, um, obviously, because I'm on a hiatus for music.

SPEAKER_01 34:05

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:06

Um, but I plan to. Um, my son will be eight months old, so I plan on stopping breastfeeding him when he's a year old, and then I plan on getting back into music. Um, so for me to be able to actually like put my originals out there, um it's probably gonna be a little bit, but there are some on my personal Facebook, which is Kate Sparks, and then my music page, which is also Kate Sparks Music, and then I have TikTok, which is underscore KateFitch1. And I've been, you know, posting there's videos of me singing on there, and then obviously of me and my family. Um, but there's a new video that I just posted recently of me holding Briggs singing. Um, so that one's one of my faves.

SPEAKER_03 35:05

Yeah, that was a good video, by the way.

SPEAKER_04 35:07

Thanks. But um, see, I have a music page. Um, I'm getting ready to start up like a YouTube channel so that way I can get my music out that way. Um just have to wait on like because I've decided that I mean, yes, while I'm still breastfeeding him, I can still do stuff online. Like I can still sit here and do a podcast while he's sitting here.

SPEAKER_03 35:32

Right. Yeah. Or I can attend to him, you tend to him.

SPEAKER_04 35:35

Yeah, or I can still like video myself singing and then post it online. But actually, like being out in public, that'll probably be closer to like this time next year, whenever I start doing gigs. But yeah, that's where you can find me. Underscore Kate Fitch1 on TikTok. Um, and then I also have a travel booking TikTok as well. Um, and I also am a travel advisor. I have a business that's called Bibity Booked Travel. And because I specialize in Disney, but I also do everything else. Like I booked a client for a carnival cruise for next year. So that's where you can find me.

SPEAKER_03 36:33

Miss Mary asks she's got to run, but to be safe, and she said, good luck, Kate. She sent you hugs. So thank you, Miss Mary.

SPEAKER_01 36:40

I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_03 36:41

Miss Mary's awesome. She her and Val are in here. They I tell you what, I don't think either one of them have missed a damn episode that I've done, which is they are they are the absolute rock of patrons that have supported me since from the very beginning.

SPEAKER_04 36:58

So well, that's good. It's good to have it. It's good to have people that have been there from the very beginning.

SPEAKER_03 37:05

Yeah, they're they are definitely very, very, very important to me, but you know, people. I hope to meet them someday in real life. Now, at Well, I mean, look at us.

SPEAKER_04 37:16

Speaking of meeting in real life, who would have thought that we would have met in real life?

SPEAKER_03 37:20

Well, that's true, yeah. I mean, I met I met you in what was what was it, Morgantown? Was that it? Morgantown, Kentucky. Um at that mud park.

SPEAKER_04 37:30

Uh green up.

SPEAKER_03 37:31

Yeah, I couldn't remember the name of it. So, yeah, and what's funny is it's it's it's hard to believe that we met one time in um Grayson.

SPEAKER_04 37:40

It's in Grayson.

SPEAKER_03 37:41

It's in Grayson, yeah. Yeah, so it's hard to believe that we met that one time, and then after that, we have uh we've remained friends and and speak on the phone quite a bit and whatnot.

SPEAKER_04 37:52

And uh, how long was that like 2024?

SPEAKER_03 37:57

Uh let's see.

SPEAKER_04 37:59

It would have been.

SPEAKER_03 38:00

I guess it was, yeah. I guess it was, yeah, about 2024 sometime, I guess. So and that's pretty amazing, you know. I've I I've got to watch you, you know, doing the music, but then you know, then uh stepping out for a minute to do you know the more important thing, which is you know, raising the youngin', right, and um and well, both youngins actually, you know. Yeah, doing it all. What's up, D.

SPEAKER_04 38:27

My husband don't even know I'm on this podcast right now. I haven't I didn't even get the chance to tell him.

SPEAKER_03 38:32

Oh, he don't even know. Well, he's probably at work right now, eh?

SPEAKER_01 38:36

Yes, he's working.

SPEAKER_03 38:38

Now he probably doesn't get to work remote, but whereas you're you're booking uh for the Disney stuff, the what'd you call it again? Bibity Bobbity book.

SPEAKER_04 38:47

Bibity booked travel.

SPEAKER_03 38:50

Oh bibity booked. I thought it was it was bibity bobbity booked.

SPEAKER_04 38:54

Yeah, if I called it bibity bobbity booked, I would be copyrighted for sure.

SPEAKER_03 38:59

Oh no, oh yeah, I didn't think about that. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:03

So I'm not trying to get copyrighted.

SPEAKER_03 39:05

No, I think they would frown down upon that, probably pretty much.

SPEAKER_04 39:10

I've actually before I got laid off, I actually worked remote for two years.

SPEAKER_03 39:18

Oh, did you really? Now, what were you doing when you worked remotely for two years?

SPEAKER_04 39:22

Or for the government.

SPEAKER_03 39:24

Now, what were you doing?

SPEAKER_04 39:26

FEMA.

SPEAKER_03 39:28

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_04 39:29

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 39:29

Huh. That's interesting. So like I was made you kind of x-nay that.

SPEAKER_04 39:35

So whenever I met Dakota, I was a I was working at tractor supply. And you know, my twinky self, that's a perfect job for me.

SPEAKER_03 39:48

Oh fuck, yeah. I would expect nothing less. Unless you were on the farm, you know, run riding a tractor or some shit. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_04 39:57

So I um it's a place called Centure LLC. They are based out of London, Kentucky, and I was gonna be making like almost ten dollars more an hour working for them remotely than I was at Tractor Supply.

SPEAKER_03 40:17

Yeah, you can't pass that up.

SPEAKER_04 40:18

Yeah, so I started working there and I was I wasn't I was on the phones because I done the FMCSA contract first, and then I moved over to FEMA, and you know, I was talking to like the big semis that you see on the road every single day. That's who I would talk to, or I would talk to company officials, which are CEOs of the company and things like that. Um, and then I moved over to FEMA and I wasn't on the phones when I worked on the FEMA contract because I was listening to the calls, but I was also grading them to make sure that they were giving the right information. So I was a quality analyst for FEMA, and um, you know, I got to work with Briggs, I worked all the way up until the day I went to the hospital. I worked after my maternity leave was over, I worked with Briggs in the room with me, so it was I was so thankful to have that job. But last year, Briggs was two months old whenever I got laid off. So I've been a stay-at-home mom for five months.

SPEAKER_03 41:39

Well, that's uh that'll work out better anyway. And by the way, Dakota knows you're in here because he's in here now. I was like, what's up? I don't think she could see your comments, Dakota. But uh, but we were had literally just were talking. She goes, you know what? I didn't even get a chance to tell him this was this happened so dang fast. We just we threw this shit together. It was so unorthodox. But you know what? That's what I love about my podcast. You know, I I did a thing yesterday and I said was saying what I was gonna do, and that shit was canceled, and then here all of a sudden out of the blue, I just think of her and I'm like, you know what, she's got a kid, she's probably awake. Let's do a morning podcast, let's squeeze one in. You know, we had some cancellations, which happens with the other bands, because you know, it's hard getting, especially bands, it's hard getting everybody together. So things change. So we're definitely looking forward to doing doing those podcasts next week. But I wanted some filler and and I knew that Miss Kate would step up to the plate because she always does, she's outstanding. Um, as you all know, those who've been listening or just came in, definitely look for her under Kate Sparks, Kate Sparks music on Facebook. She's got some weird underscore Kate Sparks shit on TikTok. But uh definitely check her out because she, even though she's you know taking care of the baby right now and doing the the mom thing, which is the most important thing to do, the music has not died with her. And uh she still puts out stuff. She did one recently with uh with the baby. Um and she she did a little singing thing, and it was it was a very, very cute video. If you haven't seen it, definitely look for that. That one was on TikTok, right, Kate? Or was that on Facebook? I can't remember where I saw it.

SPEAKER_04 43:23

It's on both.

SPEAKER_03 43:24

It's on both, yeah. So definitely check it out. Um, how she's interacting and singing to the baby. It was very cute. Uh let's see, Miss Victoria Kate, I got you. Oh, he's in it. Oh, Miss Victoria must have been the one to make sure that Dakota knew. So, hey Dakota, what's up, brother? We were already asking about you, so we know now where you work too. So we've got we got eyes on you, man. We're watching you.

SPEAKER_04 43:48

Yeah, when Bones takes to me, I was I literally just got out of the shower and I was like, Well, I mean, it's gonna this is as raw and as real as it gets, I reckon. Straight out of the shower.

SPEAKER_03 44:02

I saw I I gave a shout out to our fake sponsor, Mary Kay, because she was putting her makeup on. Because I was like, people are probably going, why is this chick putting makeup on during her podcast? But we're not gonna we're gonna make sure she's ready and not late for her interview later. So that's more important than any podcast. So but I'm glad you I'm glad you came in, Dakota. We've it's definitely good to see you, brother.

SPEAKER_04 44:26

So how is your how is your new artist going?

SPEAKER_03 44:30

Hey, he's going good. I tell you what, the the kid is um I should call him a kid, but I mean he's a grown man, but still he's a kid to me. I'm 52 and he's 23, I think. You know, it's been a rough start, obviously. I started with him in what January, I think. And when I started with him, James Lucer was just a solo artist, so he had no band. And we originally were gonna do some stuff with Lonesome Carolina, and and things kind of changed with the whole uh death, you know, unfortunate, tragic early death of of uh the drummer Chris's mom, which was I think probably unexpected, uh very sad, very sad situation. And um, I don't really know what happened. I really don't. I think it's just things changed. They were gonna end up probably potentially losing Chris and and maybe uh Greg eventually hanging the bass up, you know. So they I don't know what happened. I really don't. Um we just things just kind of got stagnant, and then finally I told him, I said, look, if with him leaving, there's not much of a band. I yeah, I it's probably best advice. There's no reason for me to keep doing stuff. So I just stepped away. And uh I'm staying with James now. James, I told him, I said, man, we we we need a band. And I tell you what, the kid eager got right on it. Now he got some band members, and there and there were some there were some scheduling conflicts with with the first ones that we had. Um, not that they anything was wrong with any of them because they were all very good, but but there was just some of them were just a little hesitant, maybe, yeah. Or you know, because obviously when you're getting started, you you gotta be making money somehow, right?

SPEAKER_04 46:13

And if you do music solo, it's a little that are just ready, you know, that are okay with the grind. Yeah, yeah, just starting out, like you're like trying to find somebody, and you know, that's what I struggle with finding a band. Like I wanted people to have the same motivation, like you have to be self-motivated when you're first starting out as a band, yeah, and you have to have people that want the same things and value, the same values that you do, right? Because otherwise, you're not gonna have a band come three months down the road, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:56

And that's kind of what happened, you know. Like some of the guys that we originally had, then it's just it just wasn't in the cards for them, you know, like they needed something different. What's up, buddy? You say say hi to your daddy's watching. Yeah, dad has on here, dad has mini mini there. Yeah, I mean he looks dead up like his daddy. There is no no way around that. What's up, buddy? He is cute.

SPEAKER_04 47:23

He is would you like to know his favorite toy?

SPEAKER_03 47:26

Oh, yeah. Yeah, what's his favorite toy? Yeah, is that a is that a oh and he loves that.

SPEAKER_04 47:37

Oh, look at he knows exactly what to do with it, too.

SPEAKER_03 47:48

I'm gonna eat it and shake it. He is too cute, man. You you're definitely blessed. You got a great husband. He's a killer dude, man. He's he's such a nice guy. And uh the the oldest, the oldest boy is he is too cute, too, man.

SPEAKER_04 48:03

Yeah, yeah. Another one of Dakota's mini mace.

SPEAKER_03 48:06

Yeah, yeah, he looks dead up like daddy too. Yeah, dad, dad can't get around that shit. There is no denying it.

SPEAKER_04 48:14

There he goes, shaking it.

SPEAKER_03 48:16

You're gonna play me, you're gonna play me a little ditty, you're gonna shake it, play me a little ditty.

SPEAKER_01 48:21

Shake it, shake it.

SPEAKER_04 48:26

Egg shakers. He is too cute, and he loves music. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 48:31

Oh, that video he was watching you sing was cute. I mean, because he was like enamored. It was very, it was a really good video. Well, yeah, definitely, definitely everybody that's in here now, they're definitely they'll definitely check it out for sure.

SPEAKER_04 48:45

Yeah, this is my baby. This is John Briggs, he's even named after his daddy.

SPEAKER_03 48:52

Uh now are you gonna nickname him or are you gonna leave it as John? We call him Briggs or Briggs, so you just yeah, call him Briggs.

SPEAKER_04 49:00

Yeah, because we wanted to share the B names with Bentley, and obviously I wanted him to have Dakota's first name, so now you know Dakota's first name is John.

SPEAKER_03 49:11

I do. I do. So what's the story with Dakota? Why did why did uh why'd they end up calling him Dakota versus John?

SPEAKER_04 49:19

Um, so his uncle is JD. So his first name is John, and so he's got the same initials, but like his mom calls him Jonathan when he's in trouble, still to this day.

SPEAKER_03 49:36

Now, do you do you do that too? No.

SPEAKER_04 49:41

It's when he's in trouble, Dakota. I don't call him John.

SPEAKER_03 49:48

That's funny. That's funny.

SPEAKER_04 49:51

He'd probably let me have it if I call him John.

SPEAKER_03 49:55

So what so is is Kate Kate or is it short for Caitlin or like what what's your what's your actual first name?

SPEAKER_04 50:02

Caitlin. Adora.

SPEAKER_03 50:06

Adora? Oh, that's an interesting middle name. Adora. I don't think I've ever heard that. That's kind of original.

SPEAKER_04 50:14

Named after my nanny that passed away. Oh, so that's cool. Adora. So um Caitlyn, Adora. But my mom named me Kate Lynn, so it's K-A-T-E-L-Y-N. So if I wanted to take the L-Y-N off, like the Lynn off, I could whenever I grew up, it'd just be easier. Because whenever, you know, growing up all my life, everybody has always called me Kate. Only who the only people who call me Caitlin are my friend Haley, and my mom calls me Caitlin sometimes. And my mammy and my poppy, they'll say Caitlin, or my poppy says Caitlin Adora still to this day. Um but yeah, I've just always went by Kate my whole life.

SPEAKER_03 51:10

Hell yeah. That's good.

SPEAKER_04 51:14

Yep, Caitlin Adora.

SPEAKER_03 51:16

I am Caitlin. I like that middle name. That's a really interesting. Like what where is that from? Is that like you know, like is that German or what, you know, like where what region is Adora from? Because that's very that's very unusual, but I like it. It's very you original.

SPEAKER_04 51:35

It was a ship.

SPEAKER_03 51:37

Oh no shit. Huh. That's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_04 51:40

Because I I wanted to know myself because I asked my mom whenever I was like 15 or 16. I was like, why where does Adora come from? I've never seen anybody with the middle name Adora or the name Adora. Like you can't find it in baby books, you can't find it online. Like hardly anybody has Adora as a middle name or anywhere in their name whatsoever. So my mom told me the it was an actual ship that sunk, but it was one of the first ships ever built.

SPEAKER_03 52:19

No shit. That's very interesting. Wow, that's kind of cool. Yeah, because I've never heard of anybody. Now I'm not saying you're the only one, but I've never met anybody with a middle name of Adora. So that's that's kind of cool that you got you got something that's completely original. Yeah, you know, that's why I like my nickname, but my nickname's not that original. I mean, there's I've met other people that are nicknamed bones.

SPEAKER_04 52:46

Okay, but you're the only bones I know.

SPEAKER_03 52:48

Well, well, hopefully it'll stay that way too. I'm the coolest bones. All right, at least that's what I say. And then the other people will say the same thing.

SPEAKER_04 52:57

They're like, I can't wait for Briggs to grow up, and I can be like, This is Uncle Bones.

SPEAKER_03 53:03

Heck yeah, yeah. I'll be like, Let's let's party. Uh Wolf from Wolf Fair Records, the one that I do the podcast with, she uh she said hi. Hi, and that's okay, Wolf. I know that you didn't know about the live because believe it or not, I didn't either because I yeah, me either. She because Wolf knew I had to go work today at my uncle's, and so I was really gonna do nothing today, but Mother Nature decided she wanted to uh change her mind, and when that happened, I called Miss Kate here because I knew she would probably be the only human awake because of having children, and I wanted to get squeeze in something ASAP while the getting was good, um, because I couldn't do anything tonight. That way I at least had some podcast for this week. So I thank Miss Kate very much for sacrificing. As y'all saw, she's been getting ready, she's been putting on her face with her makeup. We've been hanging out with the little one. It's been very organic, very raw, very unfiltered, and that's why it's very pot perfect for this podcast. So I'm very glad to have her. So glad. And I'm glad that we we remain pretty tight ever since we met, and we only met that one time, but um, yeah, but uh you're a very you and your family are very special to me, and and um thank you. I'm I'm definitely glad to have you on here, and I know I've been saying it. Even even Devin Moore, I keep telling him, and I need to have him on, and he's on my list. I finally had to make a list because I'm getting enough people wanting to do this that uh uh and I did hit up uh Scott Tumblr. I'm gonna do uh have Tumblr on next week, probably Tuesday. I had an hour and a half long conversation with Tumblr, so that's that should be coming. I think, like I say, I think it's gonna be Tuesday of next week, maybe. Uh more to come. I'll give you a heads up as soon as I know more, but uh he is definitely a go to do that. So thank you, Scott, for that. Scott Brayle, um, Kate, for you may not know, but this this gentleman is uh he's a cool ass dude. I don't know how he found me. I'm glad he did. Um, he's a really cool guy out of Maine, and uh he used to do what I do, and uh his his smile is so stinking cute. I mean, you know what's what's crazy to me, and and I'll have to show you a picture. Um I'll have to show you a picture, Kate, but he reminds me of my nephew.

SPEAKER_00 55:34

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_03 55:35

My nephew's a grown man, though, but he definitely looks very he looks resembles your husband. My nephew does, so it's funny. I see him and I'm like, damn, I could see my nephew Trevor in him. So, you know, like if Trevor had a kid, he would probably resemble Briggs pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 55:54

Oh, Mr.

SPEAKER_03 55:55

Briggs, but anyway, Mr. Scott, Scott Braille used to do uh management like I do for bands, but now he does more of um, I think it's promotion, is what he said. But I tell you what, he gets in these podcasts and he's been he's been helping me out and you know helping me gain traction for for just no apparent reason. He just started doing this, and I just met him. He showed up one day in a show, and he he'll fire out at whoever, you know, all these different artists and getting people to want to be on my show and uh and also Wolf Bear show. So it's uh so thank you, Scott. You're and he definitely said he was the one that said, Hey, I want to I want to check you out. So he'll he and he definitely will. He this guy is this guy is uh very big in the music stuff, and uh he just he's really eager to he likes to help people out. He's a good dude. What he's talking to you about. What are you saying, man? You gonna sing me? You wanna sing me a little ditty? You're gonna sing me a song? Yeah, are you gonna sing one?

SPEAKER_01 57:04

Say so cute.

SPEAKER_03 57:15

So how's your house coming? Have y'all started yet on the house?

SPEAKER_04 57:18

We haven't yet because they have to build the rest of the houses first to be able to get the land paid off so that way we're not building a house on a land that's on a lane.

SPEAKER_03 57:30

Oh, gosh. Yeah, so when do you anticipate breaking ground or or have you even got that far yet?

SPEAKER_04 57:38

Hopefully by the time like next summer.

SPEAKER_03 57:46

Oh, that'll be well, that's not bad. That'll be nice. Yep. What's up, buddy? Hey, how you? I love that smile. You're the first kid I've had on my podcast. You're number one. Oh baby Biggs, you are the very first one to have had on this podcast.

SPEAKER_04 58:10

He's the sweetest boy ever. He's just happy, go lucky until he's hungry or he's pooped, or then he'll let you know. Oh, yeah, he will definitely let you know.

SPEAKER_03 58:22

He'll do that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde switch on your ass. Oh, yes, yay. Other than that, though, he's been good. You just hear him cooing and smiling, and he's been good so far, which I was expecting honestly. I figured with with the baby, which I knew it would be coming, so I didn't care, but I thought for sure there'd be a lot of whiny interruptions during this. But he's been pretty dang content. No, but if you do get angry, that's all right, we'll fix it. It's all good. Who's he got on his damn thing? Is that deputy dog, or oh no, what is that? Oh, is that Paul Patrol? Paul Patrol.

SPEAKER_04 59:02

Yeah, he matched with Big Brother last night whenever they got out of the shower.

SPEAKER_03 59:07

Was that by design, or was that just happenstance?

SPEAKER_04 59:11

Yeah, it was by design.

SPEAKER_03 59:17

So this interview, this interview you got now, you gotta go to it, or do you do it, or do you do it from like Zoom meeting?

SPEAKER_04 59:24

No, so my on-the-phone interview was yesterday, and then they told me or they asked me like what my availability was. Because see, I applied to this job back in December, and they've been waiting on me to get my bachelor's degree to be able to get the position.

SPEAKER_03 59:47

Wow, I'm surprised they even waited. That I mean, that's I know, right?

SPEAKER_04 59:51

That's what she told me on the phone yesterday. I was like, You've been waiting on me?

SPEAKER_03 59:56

That's really cool. I mean, I'm surprised, but kudos to them.

SPEAKER_04 59:59

And like, either that or they know what they're doing. Like, there's so many things that like have happened after since I've applied to this job. Like, I thought I wanted to get my master's in teaching because I loved being in Bentley's classroom and I love being with kids and I love helping kids. And then I was like, well, I ain't spending all this. I mean, no, I'm not knocking teachers at all if if that's what your heart desires, that's what your heart desires. But for me, I could not go through all that school and be in that much debt just to be a teacher. Sorry.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:37

Yeah. Well, I I don't think they pay teachers. Well, they don't pay them what they're worth.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:42

No, they don't.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:42

You know, they they need to pay that needs to be a higher paying profession for simple fact is they're they're molding the people, the kids that are going to run this country when I'm decrepit.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:53

Oh, believe me, my my grandmother was my teacher in elementary school. Trust me, I know.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:58

Heck yeah, I know. So it's very pivotal that we have good teachers that make because you know, I hate to say it, but America is not very stellar with their data numbers in comparison to a lot of other countries in regards to education, and that's pretty sad. I mean, you know, some of the stuff that we do in this country is I I don't necessarily agree with, you know, with the way they do that with the educational aspect because I don't think that they're necessarily always doing kids like the whole no child left behind thing. I I don't think you're doing kids justice when you pass them on to the next grade, regardless if they pass or fail. You know, uh I I was one of them that when I was a kid, I was in a private school though when I first started out, and on the third grade, I wasn't even making failing grades. But they told my parents, they said, Look, he's got some lower grades like like some C's and stuff like that. And they said, if we don't hold him back, then down the road your son is going to fail.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:04

Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:05

And so my parents, I mean, I got held back in the third grade just to give me that extra time to catch up, um just to make sure that I that I went on and succeeded. But if but now the way they're doing it, at least here, I don't know about other states, but in Kentucky, the whole no child left behind. Well, to me, if you're just passing a kid forward just to get him out of the damn classroom to the next grade level, regardless if they're getting the material or not, to me, you're not doing that kid any justice. You're setting to me, you're setting him up for failure, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:38

You're not doing right by the child for sure.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:40

So I I can I can understand, I can, I can understand your frustrations, and and I don't know, there may be some teachers out there that'd be like, Hey, Mr. Bones, you don't know what you're talking about. And they're right, I'm just guessing. I just based off what I've seen. I mean, I know that when my son came home with common core math, it was so funny. He was this was years and years ago, but my youngest boy Logan, he came home and he was all upset. He'd come home crying, and he's like, You're gonna be so mad at me. And I'm like, Well, what did you do with what did you do that's so bad at school today? And he's like, I got the report card, and I got or got he got a no, it wasn't a report card, it was uh it was his paper. But he goes, I I got an F in math today. And I went, and I go, You're good at math. I'm not. I could see me getting an F in math because I I suck. Like I'd have to take my shoes off if you wanted me to add some shit up for you right now, just to have the extra fingers and toes down there to help me tally shit. But you know, but my son, so my son shows me this math paper, and I'm looking at it, and I'm like, all the answers that are all everything the whole paper was full of red ink of just wrong, wrong, wrong. And he got a big fat F. So I'm looking at this paperwork and I'm like, every question that he got right, so I'm like, why the hell did she mark this wrong when the answer is clearly correct? Like, I even I even double checked myself by using cheating and using a calculator to make sure I was doing it right. And I'm like, the kid got every question right. Why did he get an F? So I sent him back this letter, and I said, I don't understand why you gave the kid an F. Every answer is correct. Well, it's be and then they sent it back because you didn't follow directions. And I'm like, directions on what? Well, this is common core math. You can't just put the answer, you have so so instead of having an entire sheet of paper and all the answers fit on one piece of paper, common core math wants to kill about 3,000 trees because they want you to take one question and it takes you the entire paper because you gotta not only solve the question like we can do and like like that, but then you have to draw, you know, you gotta add draw 13 pennies plus 23 pennies equals, and it's just like, what the hell? Yeah, what is this? And especially when you have a you know, when you have a a dad like he did that was an old turd like me that didn't that had no clue what common core math was. So I mean, shit, I was even struggling with that. So I can I can feel what you're saying with the whole it my hat's off to those who do want to teach and are teachers because not only do you got to go through a lot of crap for pay that you don't you deserve more to get, but also you know, I couldn't imagine the way that these kids are out of control these days. I couldn't imagine trying to be a teacher and having to be responsible for 30 kids.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:44

Yeah, I couldn't either.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:45

I I couldn't do it. I'm not that cool. I'm just not so but at least, but you know, like what you're doing though, the whole doing the stuff with the with the autistic kids. I I love to hear that. I didn't know you were doing. Up at that hit me in the heart because, as you know, you know, my son, oldest boy's handicapped, yeah, and um, and and we're definitely gonna be starting that podcast. I've got I've got a young lady I just got permission from, she's actually my neighbor's uh granddaughter, but um but Andrea Hurley is I'm gonna have her on the show sometime, and she she is has Down syndrome, but this girl, I can't wait to have her on the show because she even though she hasn't done special Olympics, right? She has got she goes to every CMA fest and CMA stuff, and she has met so many celebrities, so she's really excited about doing a podcast with me and my son Brandon to talk about her experience meeting all these famous people. Yeah, so that'll be so cute to watch, and I'll tell you what, this was been a great podcast because I like this one too, because it's been very real. I mean, yeah, like say you jumped on here doing me a solid, but you're like, hey bones, I got an interview I gotta go to, so I'm gonna be doing my hair, my makeup while we're doing this. If the baby gets, you know, I may have to black out the screen for a minute if he gets fussy, you know. It's like, and I'm like, oh, I don't give a shit. And so it's been very awesome to have him on first little one that small that's been on the podcast. And it's just been I mean, people love people love it. People love the real. That's you know, I still want to learn how to edit, but on the same token, I really like the live, I really like it being organic, uh, where there's no take backsies. You say what you say, it's there, it's out there.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:45

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:46

And I don't know, some people may say, well, you're just being lazy because you don't want to have to learn how to edit shit, and that takes time. Well, it that may be true too. I I'm old and it takes me a while, but uh but I just love I love I love how this is going, and so is everybody else. There's been a lot of good comments that I don't think you can see. Maybe you can, I don't know if you can see them or not, but there's been a lot of good comments that have come through. Everybody definitely thinks that baby's just adorable, which that's facts. Facts for sure. Um let's see. I'll see if making sure there was no questions. So um now I know that you haven't recorded, you said you haven't done actual recordings yet in study, like a professional studio setting. Yeah, but how many original songs and kind of kind of give people maybe some titles of some of the ones that are your more favorite that you have written? How many songs have you really written that are original to you?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:46

Oh gosh. Well, I think me and my husband Dakota actually sat down and counted like how many songs that I have, and then there's like a bunch that I've obviously as a songwriter, you have a bunch that you start and you're they're just unfinished.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:10

So I'll have like a verse and a chorus of something random, or like I'll be driving down the road, or something will hit me, and then I'll have to put them in my notes, or um, but we actually sat down and counted how many songs in my notebooks, in my notes on my phone, um, just random pieces of paper. Um, and it was 144 songs.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:38

Damn, that's impressive. I didn't know you had that many. You know, now granted they may not all be done, but still that's that's impressive. That's a lot. Yeah, so that's really good.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:50

My number one song, let me tell you the story behind this song. Oh, yeah, please do, and it's probably one of the very first ones that if I do get in the studio, like that one's the first to be put out. It's called You'll Get What's Coming. And me and Dakota met at a rodeo back in February of 2023, and we quit talking. It was kind of just like a meetup, and then we didn't talk after that until around April, May-ish. And then in May, one random afternoon, he asked me, he said, Do you want to go? Because at the time he had a razor and uh Polaris razor. And he said, Do you want to go riding in Tennessee? I said, sure. He said, Okay, like I'm gonna pick you up. Like, you need to pack a bag. I said, Okay, I gotta go pack a bag. Like, what do you want me to do? Like, I'll be waiting on you, I guess. Here's my address. Like, come get me. So while I was waiting, I started writing this song, and I got halfway through it by the time he came and picked me up. And I brought my guitar with me, I brought my notebook with me, and I told him, I said, don't judge me. Like we're going like 85 miles an hour down I-75 at this point. And I told him, I said, Don't judge me, but I had to finish this song. So here he was driving in the front seat, me in the passenger seat, just with my guitar. I busted up my guitar up wide open while he was down I-75, just finishing the song like this, just guitar up to my chin, trying to fit it in this truck. So I finished the song literally while we were driving down I-75 on our way to Tennessee. And I played it for I played it for him, and I was like, Do you think I'm insane? He was like, No. He said, but I don't, I can't believe you just did that. And I was like, Yeah, I know. I this is just a part of my life. Like, I can't help. Like, I could be driving down the road, or I could be in Walmart, or I could be like this, sitting in the front seat of your truck and just randomly pop off a song. I don't know. It just hits me randomly. I can't, I can't explain it. And um he it's like we met a bunch of people while we were there in Tennessee, and like I played it all for them, and they all loved it. And you know, it's got pieces of it's got pieces that everybody can relate to, you know. It's talking about how you wasted so much time on someone, and you know, I'll pray for you, for you like I'll keep doing my thing, but you're also gonna get what's coming to you and what exactly what you deserve. So yeah, that's what the song's about, and for sure that's gonna be like the very first song that I'm gonna put out whenever I do get to the studio, for sure, without a doubt.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:38

Yeah, that's cool. Now, are all your songs pretty much do they come to you? Is it generally stuff that revolves around your actual life happenings, or do sometimes you just come up with songs that have absolutely nothing to do with your personal life? It's just something that you're like it almost like a story, like you're like you came up with something that would be like a TV show, you know, you know how you know, like that that kind of premise where it's not real, but it's something that just came to your mind and you're like, damn, I gotta put this out.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:07

Yeah. So sometimes it's you know, obviously, when you break up, like you have a breakup, you're gonna write a song about it as a songwriter, or a friend goes through a breakup, you're gonna write a song about it. Like that's just you want to like there's so many real world, real world stuff that goes into songwriting, like the stories you can tell and things like that. Now, 99% of what I write about, like I have never experienced in my life, but like it just randomly comes to me. Like, there's one about me apparently like bumming a cigarette off a guy and me absolutely making him chase me around like Tom and Jerry. Have I ever had that happen to me? No, I've ever done that, no, but I wrote a song about it.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:02

Yeah, Dakota says, he goes, I don't know how she does it, she just writes songs in the blink of an eye. Yeah, and it is amazing to have that kind of a talent. It really is.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:12

And we timed me one day, which it took me 42 seconds to write a song from the beginning to the end.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:21

Holy crap.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:23

Because I told him I was like, okay, I've got a song that's coming to me. I mean, once I start the pen on the paper, it's like the snap of a finger. I never stop until it's done. That's amazing. And for me, like words will come 99% of the time, words come first, but already have like what key I want to have it in when I'm singing it, so that way I know once I touch my guitar exactly where it's at. So I already know like what the music is gonna sound like before I even push my guitar.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:02

I can't wrap my head around, and it's probably because I'm not musically challenged, but I can't wrap my head around how you can write a song, and then how the hell do you know what how do you hear the music for that song while you're writing? Like that's you sound like my husband. I mean, it's it it is amazing, though. Like, I don't know how you all do it, so like it just blows me away.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:27

If I sang like four, so I hear the music in my voice. So, like if I did roll me, I'm gonna go to my guitar and find like what capo it's on and just play the chords.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:48

So you do it based off your voice, yeah. So based on the way you start a cappella, then you're like, okay, I go to the guitar and I find okay, that this sounds like that note when I hit that, when I say this word. Wow, that's amazing, though. That's still like like uh Uncle D said, it's just it's truly a gift. Oh no, Dakota said that it well, even Uncle D says that you have a gift. And you're and you do, you definitely have a gift. I mean, for those of you all that haven't checked out Kate Sparks, aka some of you may know her as uh the old school Kate Fitch, uh, back before she got married to Dakota. Um, if you haven't heard her, you definitely got to check her out because she's definitely she's got a really nice voice, it's not your traditional uh sounded voice, like she's very original, she's got her own sound, and she does it's kind of the country genre. Do you do you uh diverge into other genres or do you try to stick near the country root?

SPEAKER_04 1:17:51

I'm a twangy thank, so I ain't nothing but the country root, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:56

So you could so you couldn't rock out some green day and just twang it, get it.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:01

They singing like disturbed or something crazy.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:04

Oh, dude, that'd be funny as hell. Do you you do the whole, you know, do the holler out, but do you twang it out? I don't even that would be hilarious. That'd be awesome as shit. You never know though. That could be the brand new. I mean, hell, they do country rap, so why not do like you know, twangy rock? I mean, who knows, man?

SPEAKER_04 1:18:25

Country, country head banging.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:27

I mean, that's so hard to meet yeah, country death metal. Yeah, that would be a weird job.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:33

Could you imagine at a country concert, country mosh pits? Could you imagine?

SPEAKER_02 1:18:38

They'd all be two-stepping and shit, fucking blocking arms, spinning around and shit, instead of slamming into each other, they're just all collecting arms and spinning and dancing.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:49

Yes, that would be ridiculous, but I'd watch it. I would definitely watch it.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:56

You would probably be one of like uh that I bet people watch it just for entertainment.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:06

Well, you got that banky in your mouth for. Oh, I think they would watch it for entertainment too, absolutely 100%. Yeah, I think they would. Could you just that would be hilarious, though, to just some scream metal, and all of a sudden you see these guys walk out in cowboy boots and a cowboy hat with these big belt buckles, and then all of a sudden they're just like people would be like, What the hell are we listening to?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:29

Is the world gone mad? What's going on? Yeah, I would be like, Yeah, let's do this.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:37

Because I love it all. I love punk, rock, ska, country. Definitely the old school country, man. I I have to agree with you though. I do love the Merles and the Johnny, and I love all the Whalens, all the old school stuff, man. Those guys had that shit on lockdown. You know, you know, your whole Keith Whitley's. I mean, those those guys were like true pioneers.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:00

Don't get me started on Keith Whitley. You can even ask my husband, don't get me started. Because that right there, he is my four out of every artist ever put on this planet, Keith Whitley is my favorite. You can't put like Kentucky Bluebird is my favorite song to everyone.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:20

Oh, that song is such a good jam, dude.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:23

You can't put you can't put his music beside somebody else's and play it at the same time and it sound the same.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:30

No, I agree.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:31

And you can't put Kentucky Bluebird, especially like the chord progression and the melodies and the harmonies and everything that he has built into that song, and even the words that he writes, you can't put it up to some other song and it'd be any like any part of the same, not the music, not the chord progression, nothing. Yeah, that's why I love that song so much.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:57

Now that song is so good, and and I don't know, I could be wrong, but I think a lot of people, if especially if they don't know him, now if they know him, they know it. But if it but if you didn't know, which it's I would say it's hard to find somebody who really doesn't know who Keith Whitley is because he's like the one of the biggest legends ever. Yeah, and and will always be that. That'll never change, in my opinion. At least not while I'm alive, and of course I'm halfway there, so you know who knows, but it it'll never change. He he's too awesome.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:28

And I can't wait to instill that into Briggs. Like, I can't wait to like introduce him and be able to have that relationship that I have with music. I can't wait to share that with my son.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:45

Oh, yeah, and it's coming. I mean, you could tell just by sitting there watching him do use the little baby Moracca egg. I mean, he was already shaking it and smiling.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:54

That's an actual like egg shaker, like an adult egg shaker.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:58

That's so cool. I got it and he already. So can you imagine when he gets older what you two are gonna do together? Yeah, I'm super excited. It'll be so, it'll be so cool. Now, how did your husband get into doing the sound engineering? Did he have to just did he have to pick it up to help you, or or did he already kind of know that shit before he got into he had no idea? He just tip my hat to him too, then because that's uh I bet that was a learning curve.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:27

I carry my guitar and I take care of my set list, and he does everything else. My mics, my mic stands, my speakers, how I sound, my in-ears, all the things. He does it all.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:38

He's a good dude. He's a good dude. I'd like to learn how to eventually do that shit too, you know. I think it'd be good to know.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:46

Well, I mean, he learned, so it can't be too hard.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:49

Uh well, you know, that's true. You know. I'm I'm old, but I get I get there. It just takes me a little longer than some. Yes, yes, Donald. Shout out to Jesse Keith Whitley, yeah, because his dad is and Jesse's got his own unique sound, and uh, and I love it, you know. And uh, you know, I know that you know, sometimes I'm sure people are probably like, you know, hey, sing something of your dad's, but I'm sure he's like, no, I want to be, yeah, I want it. We're here for me, you know, it's it's his show. Yeah, you know, it's like listen to his sound, you know. But uh shout out to Jesse for sure. Uh and his dad, yeah, his dad was one of the definitely one of the one of the greatest ones, and that that ain't gonna ever change. Miss Val says, good podcast day, thank you. And then uh Lori Morgan, Keith Whitley, uh Jesse Keith still performing. Yes, they are Donald. At least uh last I talked to them, they were all doing it. And Lori Morgan still she looks just as good as she always has. So it's like that lady doesn't age, she knows the serum of life.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:55

Um I feel like women back then, none of them have aged very much.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:59

Yeah, it's like how's that? But I'm glad. I'm glad, you know, for all the people out there that you don't want to see age, I'm glad it's the women that don't because I know to them it's you're all are under so much more scrutiny than us, dudes. But no, I just get this gray just gets grayer and grayer, so I look older and older by the day. What's he looking at now?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:30

His little aquarium.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:33

Dude, they have the coolest damn toys, man. When I was a kid, they didn't have they didn't have cool shit when I was a kid, except big wheels. We had some cool ass big wheels, but we had big wheels, you actually had to use your body to move them. We didn't have big wheels like the kids have now where they just push a button and it moves for them. Our food wasn't processed back then either. You know what, Takoda? That's a good point, man. I I'm a firm believer that I think a lot of women are are uh these younger girls develop so much more. I think the reason it's so hard to tell their age anymore is because all that processed crap that's in foods now. I think that uh all those hormones and stuff are making for early development, but I could be wrong.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:21

I'm still here, I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:22

I love Legos. Oh, I figured you were still there. I figured that's what you were doing. Yeah, so gotta take care of the little one. That's all good. So she's still here, everybody. She hasn't left. But definitely, uh I'm definitely glad to thanks again for getting on. I know it was such short notice. I I hate when I give people no notice, but I'm a very impatient person. So, like if I get in my mind that I want to do something, then I want to, I just if it happens, I just want to do it.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:55

No, I know.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:55

I have decided to I don't procrastinate too much. I I like to, you know, and I knew I needed I needed to at least do one show this week, and I didn't want it to be a bust. And uh I'm glad that I'm glad I had a lot of doctor's appointments, which he'll hook me this week. But when you get old, you got there's certain shit you gotta go do, so you know, gotta take care of business. But yeah, Wolf Legos, Lego. I still got a lot of Legos in the basement. I love Legos, Legos were so cool. I don't know though, when we were kids, they just we just didn't have they they got so much cool shit now. Like that thing that that Briggs was playing with, I mean, hell, it it it just it it even looked real, you know, looked like a little aquarium. Just neat how they come up with some of the shit they come up with.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:47

Uh yesterday everyone bailed. Uh, I'm sorry to hear that too. For Wolf. She had a podcast apparently at bail. Well, you know what? That's part of it. I mean, it's gonna happen, but early on, that's why I'm grateful for Miss Kate here and and everybody, she's still here, she's just taking care of the baby right now, so we're giving her a little bit of privacy while we do it. But uh, I'm very grateful for her to have on the show, and I'm very grateful to have her in my life along with her husband. They're they're very, they're very good people. Definitely, definitely. It's getting about 11:30, so we're gonna be wrapping up because Miss Kate has a uh important interview uh to go to here. Uh, in about 30 minutes, she'll have to leave. So we're gonna end up wrapping up here before long for her anyway. But uh, I want everybody to please take the time to go check her out. Um, like I say all the time, and I know it sounds redundant as hell, but this podcast is definitely starting off, is formulated around a lot of up and coming artists. And I definitely really enjoyed the up and coming artists because those are the people, in my opinion, that really need to be seen. And you know, yeah, it would be cool to interview. Interview a celebrity and uh and it'll happen someday, but somebody but you know, like a Jason Aldean don't need uh he don't need Bones podcast, he's already Jason Aldean, but everybody else that we're uh interviewing are people that are that are still in that groundbreaking stage or that up and coming rise, and it's really good to show. I think it's good to have people on, even if there's not a whole whole lot of people, eventually this podcast will grow if we keep at it.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:28

They were small people too, once bones.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:30

That's right. Everybody was small at one time. So the glorious thing about this podcast is somebody like Miss Kate Fitch here, or aka now Kate Sparks, now that she's married, you'll know her from either way. There'll be some people that'll know her from both sides. Definitely go and search for her and look her up because, like I've said before, and I'll say it again, um, a lot of these people that we're having on these shows and that are going to continue to have on these shows in weeks to come, um, you may not know who they are, but if you give them a listen, you may find your next favorite person and you may get in finding your next favorite person at their ground level. And a lot of times I think the whole ground level aspect of things with artists is also a very unique thing because a lot of times, you know, like like this situation here, you know, you you find your next favorite person is Kate Sparks, my new favorite artist. Well, now you can you can join into a podcast, and there's not so many people to where if you leave a comment, that comment's probably gonna be seen and said to Kate, and you'll get a response. Whereas if you're in a podcast that gets millions and millions of people watching, you're gonna have so many comments that ticker's gonna move so fast you're not gonna be able to keep up with it. So the likelihood that you would get your question answered is very minimal. So I kind of like I like the early stages. I think there's some there's some cool things, cool aspects about it. So uh definitely check out Kate. She again she is on Kate Sparks on Facebook. She is has Kate Sparks Music on Facebook, which is her business page. She also has some weird underscore, which don't ask me, Kate, you may want to say it again, where they can find you on TikTok. She does do lives on TikTok and does some singing, does reels and good stuff like that. What's your TikTok handle again?

SPEAKER_04 1:30:26

Underscore Kate Fitch One.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:30

Underscore Kate or Kate Sparks One, sorry. Kate Sparks One. Well, I've been throwing Fitch in there because I know some people may not know that you got married, so I try to still do both. She obviously prefers Sparks now, which I don't blame her. I would too.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:43

Yes, I'm very happily married.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:45

Yeah, she's very happily married. So she's not she's glad to have the name Sparks, but I keep throwing Fitch in there for now because some people may not have realized that she got married and changed names. So I want to make sure that you can find this young lady because she's got immense talent. She also uh, I mean, apparently she's like a Tinkerbell too, because she does some uh Disney booking shit. Um, except we can't call her Tinkerbell, that'd be copyright. So we'll call her Caterbell, I guess. Uh Caterbell, you know, she she she'll book you a nice vacation. She'll book you a vacation. I mean, you want to go to Disney? She's got you. Oh, did he really? You didn't you didn't fan it? You're supposed to you know better. You're supposed to fan the you gotta you gotta give the diaper a little whiff. Let that air run across that uh the little soldier, and then then you quickly put it back down. That way, if he decides to fire, you don't get in the direct line of fire. But apparently you you are you must have slept through that class, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:47

You think I've been I've been doing this for how long? She's seven months old.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:55

Now you now we're gonna have to end the podcast. She's gonna have to shower again. Lovely. Well, you know what? I can't. I laugh and make fun because my son did this. I got I got tagged the same way.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:09

I'm gonna I'm gonna miss these days. These are the days I'm gonna miss, so I'm just gonna laugh.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:15

Yeah, yeah, it is fun, it's good shit, it's good times. Is Kate available for booking? Donald, are you talking gigs or are you talking booking as then the other job she does where she books the uh vacation travel? If you're talking gigs, as of right now, the answer is still no because she's still uh taking care of the uh the little one. And and and I think you what'd you say again, Kate? It'll probably be probably be another, let's see, he's eight months now, so that means it'll probably be probably another six months or so before she's looking to probably try to get back into gigs. Is that does that sound accurate or or what do you say?

SPEAKER_04 1:32:56

Yeah, because um he is you know, I plan to breastfeed him until he's a year old. Um that's my plan anyway, if the Lord allows it to happen. But um I plan on breastfeeding him until he's a year old, which he turns a year old in August, and then um from there I would like to not I would like to get in back into gigs, yes, after I'm done breastfeeding, and once I you know get myself took care of to where all my milk is dried up and stuff, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:33:39

So you're so you're you know, it's probably safe to say everybody that you know you can start looking for potential updates from Miss Kate uh Sparks in regards to continuing her musical journey with gigs somewhere probably say April or excuse me, September or October of this year. Potentially you may start seeing some life come back and say, hey, looking for gigs or gonna be playing here at the local dive or whatever. Where do you uh when you when you were doing stuff, especially around the Moorhead area, was there certain areas that you tend to get a lot of love to where you were doing quite a few shows per year at the same location that kind of kept you close to home?

SPEAKER_04 1:34:19

Yeah, so there's a place called Elliot's Pizzeria, and I have sang there a bunch. Um there's also a bar called Frankie's here. And um what's up, buddy? And um, I haven't sang there yet. Um but I hope you can shouldn't sing there one day.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:48

Now what's the where's the furthest you've traveled? Oh well, obviously you went overseas, so yeah I guess I guess I guess Europe is the furthest, obviously, but you kind of didn't you didn't really do that under Kate, like under you, you were kind of doing that for a reason, right? Part of a part of a program, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:35:07

So I was a ambassador of music whenever I was traveling to Europe to sing.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:19

Oh, Miss Victoria said she's gotta hop off, love watching you, and that she loves you. Thanks, Victoria, for being in. I really appreciate you, Miss Victoria. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:31

That's my best friend Tori.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:33

Is it well? That's I'm glad that they were a part of the process here. So now, in regards to gigs that you did that were specifically a Kate's Kate Sparks gig, where's the furthest that you've gone just based under your name?

SPEAKER_04 1:35:59

I mean, I've basically only went, I've only been like local. Um I mean I would travel like two hours up to three hours away in some um gigs, but um like before I got pregnant, that was whenever I planned on getting out there and traveling a lot more and then I got pregnant, so of course that can't happen right, but I chose not to sing when I was pregnant because I knew in my heart that it was gonna be my one and only pregnancy that I really wanted. Um, so I wanted to be able to enjoy being pregnant, enjoy because I mean I don't want to be six months and on a stage in a bar.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:56

I just don't want, you know, no, that would be that would be miserable, I would think. I mean, I've obviously never been pregnant, but but I could only fathom, you know. I don't I don't know in this day and age, I could I could say I did, you know, but I've never obviously so I could only fathom what that'd be like because I'd imagine that would be it, you're hot and miserable anyway. Right then you add then you add them them damn lights that'll just cook you. I could only imagine it would be it would be miserable. So I don't blame you at all.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:30

And like for like festival season, like I was big pregnant, I was seven, eight months pregnant whenever like June and July of last year, and because I mean I had him in August, so I mean I was pregnant the hottest months of the year. No, and then I actually went in to the hospital to be induced on my due date, and I didn't have him, and I was two days late with him having him.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:58

So yours was late too. Yeah, we at my youngest, he was late, and they ended up taking him because they were worried that he was gonna get hung in the birth canal because um my youngest boy Logan was actually bigger than Brandon was, and and and I'm not a big dude, but it I have I I I produce the biggest damn kids, like they came out walking like with a cane and a top hat. I was like, what the fuck? I matter of fact, we were at the hospital, we had Logan. I was at the hospital, and this dude walked up. You know how you you know the dads go up to the window and they see all the babies, and you were pointing heads. I want to see my kid, blah blah blah. Well, they wheel my kid up in front of me, and this dude walks up next to me, and he looked like he looked like the size of Jack Reacher, like he looked like a jacked, gigantic man, like he could squish me just by just looking at me, not even so much even touching me. He's so big, so he points for his kid and they wheel his kid up. So I'm looking over at his kid in this in this nursery thing. Well, this kid was like a preemy, it was super little, and then he's like looking at my kid who looks like a god dang toddler laying there, and then he looks at me like, How the fuck did you produce a kid that's that big? And then I'm sitting there thinking the same thing. I'm like, this dude is like the incredible Hulk, and he produced this tiny little bitty baby. I'm just like, I don't know. I'm just like, how does that even happen? It just does it just didn't even make sense, but it was it was kind of comical to me at the time because I'm like, wow, yeah, Bruce was 7-1 whenever he was born. 7-1? Golly, yeah, mine were almost uh almost nine, or uh Logan might have been almost almost 10 pounds. He was huge. Yeah, they were they were ginormous, but they took Logan this the uh second the second child. They took Logan because when we had Brandon, that's part of the reason why he stroked at birth and why he's disabled, is he got hung in the birth canal, even with an epesiotomy, he got hung up and yeah, they uh he became um he definitely uh became uh hypoxic. And once they got him out, uh I mean he had stroked and we didn't even know it. Um you know, but his apgar was a little bit off, obviously, but uh, but it uh but you know, you when they're that little you can't you can't really see unless it's drastic. You can't tell they're not using extremities because they they're babies, they they don't they gotta learn about all that stuff, you know. It's like, oh, what's this, you know, and then they realize next thing you know, they're fixated on one hand and they don't realize well, I actually got two. You know, it's a whole learning curve. So it took a while before we realized it. But when we had Logan, they wanted to make sure that uh with him being even bigger, they're like, Yeah, we better take him C-section because we don't want the same fate to happen to him that happened to Brandon.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:02

Yeah, I had to have a C-section with Briggs, it was a failed induction.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:09

Yeah, Dakota said he was over nine pounds. Yeah, you come you come out smoking a cigar, didn't you, bud? He's all like, hey mom, what's up? Here's my cigar, and I got a fifth. That's a big, big, big kids, big, big, big. Uh Donald D said he's gonna send you and Dakota both uh friend requests. Okay, Miss Val, you have a great day too. Thanks again for always being a major supporter because you are uh definitely one of the ride and dyers that uh have been through all of my shows, and I am really grateful to be able to say that I've got a couple people, her and like Miss Kate, who uh or uh Mary um Ash, that literally I have as far as I know, I don't think they have missed not one episode, which is absolutely amazing to me. So, but but I guess we should be wrapping up. It's getting quarter till. I know you're gonna be uh getting ready to head out to your other interview. I hope that interview goes stellar.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:15

Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:16

Do you get to take the baby or you got somebody to watch him?

SPEAKER_04 1:42:18

I'm gonna have uh Dakota's sister sit in the vehicle.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:22

Oh, that'll be nice.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:23

Wow, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:25

So well, say hi to hubby for me. Well, he'll hear me. So what's up, Dakota? Uh sorry we snuck in there behind your back there. We went that was not the intent, but it happened very fast, and I'm just grateful that she was uh I always point this way because you're you're right here to me, but to them, I'm pointing the opposite direction. So you're really right here, yeah. You're this even though you're not, so you're that way, yeah. Which to me, I'm looking at you, and I should be that way. Yeah, that's where I'm at. It's I it's it's weird how it's backwards, you know. So I've been doing shows and I've been like, I've been like this young lady right here, and then and then later I watch the episode and I'm like, who the fuck was I pointing at? It was pointing over here. So I'm learning, I'm getting there. But thank you so much for being on the show.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:19

Oh, thanks for having me on.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:20

It's not the only time. We'll we'll we'll do it again. You you have updates you want to talk about. It updates whether it be with your with your uh career you're currently doing too, where you're booking people for vacations and stuff. Again, if you need a booking agent, you want somebody to take care of you and make that that vacation experience a little bit easier to wear, pretty much like she said, like she said earlier. Uh you you just got a pack, you let me do the rest. You know, look her up on Facebook, reach out, send her an instant message and say, Hey, I'm you know, I'd like to plan a vacation, you know, can we have a chat? She'll hook you up with that again come about September, October of this year. Start paying attention to her page because it's very possible that uh once she gets a little bit further along with the baby, get him settled where he's in a good spot. She's gonna definitely pick that guitar back up again on a gig wise. But until then, check her out on YouTube, check her out on Facebook, um, check her out on uh uh what's the TikTok. Definitely check her out. Um, go search for her, listen to her. She's got a lot of different videos. The most recent is the one with Briggs, the baby that you just saw. Um, she's singing a song to him, and it's him kind of watching his mom sing. It's it's very, very sweet. Very good, very well done. Uh, definitely a must see. So uh definitely check her out. Um, thanks again, Kate. I appreciate you so much, honey. You're you're just amazing. Your whole family are amazing, but um thank you for giving me the time to to at least get some content as well because of the way everything happened. And I'm sorry I sprung it on you so fast. I'll try to give you more notice next time. No, you're fine, uh, but I greatly appreciate it. And I I wish you the very best on your interview today. So I hope it goes well.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:09

Thank you. I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:10

All right, well, there you have it, folks. Miss Kate Sparks, aka some of you all might know her as Fitch before she got married, but now she is officially Kate Sparks, so we're gonna try to hammer that home to where everybody can find this young lady. Check her out. She's very, very, very talented, has definitely been doing a lot in the music industry, and as you heard, can write songs quick and has a lot, so she definitely has a lot of originals, but she also does, you know, I've heard her do some songs of some you know different uh cover materials too that are just absolutely great. So check her out for sure. Uh he said Donald D said, Great to see you, Kate Sparks on the podcast with Bones Warren. Says uh I've seen Kate Sparks' voices interview. Yeah, she was definitely definitely dabbled with the voice there for a while and made it made it into the process fairly far. Um and and congratulations for doing it. I mean, I know that it's that's probably hard, you know, definitely a lot of sacrifice when you do that. So, you know, to me, whether or not it would be worth it is questionable, but I also can't carry a tune in a bucket. So I I won't be I won't be sending them. I I'd be one of those ones that uh you know that like what was it? What was the first one? American Idol.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:30

Idol, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:31

Remember how they had some of the people on there that I and you like the first week or so you were like, holy Jesus. That'd be me. I'd be that I'd be one of those assholes that uh was on there singing, and people were like, Oh, I I think I'll just go get a drink. Let this guy get done. But uh thanks again for being on here, y'all. Check her out. And uh I hope you get I hope you get your gig, hon. I hope you do. I hope you do well in your interview. So thank you.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:58

I wish you the best.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:59

Wish you and and hubby the very best. Can't wait till we talk again soon. But until then, everybody, thanks for tuning in to the Bones Unfiltered Podcast. I'm your host, Bones. This was brought to you by Bones Enterprises LLC. Definitely check me out as well. Um, I am uh very new at this, so I could use all the love that I can get. So go to my page, go to Miss Kate's pages. Uh anything that you find on Facebook, I'm on Bones Enterprises LLC as well as Bones Warren. Um definitely find me, follow me, give me a like. It don't cost anything to give likes and to follow somebody. So uh you know, hook a brother up and help me help me uh gain some traction to get this podcast rolling down the the rails a little faster. Also, check me out sometimes from time to time. I'm definitely gonna be doing stuff with Wolfvare at Wolfvare Records on her podcast, Wolf Talk. Um, so definitely check her out as well. And uh I guess that's really it. Well, and of course, we talked earlier a little bit about my solo artist James Lucre. Definitely check him out. We're still trying to grow his page, so those people that can go to James Lucre Music, find that on Facebook. That's the business page. Please give that a like and a follow because that's one of them that I help run. Um, but we want to start gaining some more traction on the James Lucre music. So please, please, please check him out as well. He's an up and comer that has a lot of potential. And we now are an official three-piece band. So eventually I am gonna do a podcast where I have him and our two new new guys on so you all can kind of get to know who the the new band members are. Uh, because we finally, you know, we finally found some peeps that uh that are willing to that kind of want to do this. So it's uh this is gonna work out nicely, I think. So until next time, peace, everybody. You be careful today, Kate. It's great seeing you. Talk to you soon.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:08

Bye y'all.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:09

See ya.