In this episode of Voice Seeker, your host Dandelion Lakewood conducts two interviews on the road with friends Mikee Strongmen (of Twenty Thousand Strongmen) and Ozosou (a recent Kurdish immigrant to the USA).
Mikee Strongman:
00:00:00 Wackadoo
00:02:08 How we met
00:03:10 Song evolution
00:06:19 Indecent proposals and agressive roosters
00:08:46 Eating rats in Albania
00:10:17 Gut health
00:11:39 Grounding
00:13:04 Heavy bedding
00:14:53 Brand-exclusive speech
00:16:58 Bardic seed saving
00:18:19 Gingers
00:19:21 Dyeing and shaving
00:19:51 Hobbit bros
00:20:28 About the homestead
00:23:30 Trail work
00:27:22 Communities and trauma
00:28:01 Relationship candles
00:28:59 Distance and time
00:32:24 Heartbreaking distance
00:33:48 Intimacy and compersion
00:36:50 Polyamory challenges
00:41:17 Relationship anarchy
00:45:53 It takes a village
00:52:40 Musical interlude (Mikee and Dandy)
Ozosou:
00:55:58 Chorba
00:58:07 Musical interlude (Ozosou and Dandy)
00:59:52 Kitchen counter
01:01:06 Turkey, Turkiye, Hindi
01:02:56 Friends from Rainbow
01:05:58 Being Kurdish in the USA
01:10:13 The example of a lost earbud
01:12:19 The comfort of materialism
01:13:40 Property ownership: USA vs. Balkans
01:14:42 Family support
01:17:27 Plus and minus
01:22:39 Musical interlude (Ozosou and Dandy)
01:25:56 Cursing on the Silk Road
01:27:54 Musical interlude (Ozosou and Dandy)
01:28:34 More curses
01:30:11 Musical outro (Ozosou and Dandy)