Meet Riley Day

SPEAKER_01 1:48

Welcome to the next episode of Little Tap World Podcast. Today, uh, we're having the next generation of Carolina Fraves. And my guest is Riley Day, a 12-year-old artist in Young Frader, based on Charles South Carolina, as a daughter of a long-time Little Top World collaborator fine, Holly X. Riley has grown up surrounded by music, podcast, and creativity. And she's already beginning a greater voice of her own. Today we're gonna get to know Riley, her interest, her creativity, and what inspires her. Hi, Riley, welcome to the Host Top World Podcast. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 2:26

I'm doing awesome.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Good, good, good. So is this kind of you have a podcast of your own that you do, correct?

SPEAKER_00 2:34

No, it was like a thing that me and my sons did, but it kind of complained.

SPEAKER_01 2:40

You can't do it anymore.

unknown 2:41

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 2:42

So, what we'll do is so we're gonna go ahead and get started.

Growing Up In A Creative Home

SPEAKER_01 2:45

So, growing up, um, you grew up, obviously, around music because of your dad, right? What is your favorite thing about growing up in a creative family?

SPEAKER_00 2:56

We'll be pulling out our driveway or coming inside our neighborhood, and my dad's blasting his music out to the whole neighborhood, like everybody can hear it. And all my siblings and my mom's like, turn it down, turn it down, and all my siblings are just covering up their heads and stuff, like, oh my god, my friends are gonna see me. And it's me and my little brother and my little sister. We're just seeing we don't care, and that was just a good experience for me.

SPEAKER_01 3:33

Okay, okay. I got a question for you. So, what's your earliest memory of music?

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Um I was like taller for short, and they put on what's it called? Whip nane.

SPEAKER_03 3:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:51

Um, and they have a video on me actually, and I just started doing the whipping and nane, and every time I whip, I fell. And then I get back up and I just do it again, and I was sort of bouncing around with whipping and then I fall back. And then back then I was like, oh, I'm so cool doing this. And I look at myself now and I'm just like, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 4:17

And your friends have your friends seen her?

SPEAKER_00 4:21

My very, very close friends and my family, yeah. Okay, cool, cool.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

Because I never like because I don't know starting to realize that now just with with my daughter. Like there's certain things that when she was little, she liked people to say, but now she's starting to be embarrassed by a little bit of stuff now. Or she especially written her friends, so I'm trying to leave on mind for that. Because I don't want to try to make it look bad, right? But uh with that said, I know you've been doing music for a

Recording A First Song Young

SPEAKER_01 4:45

while. Because when did you record your first song? How old were you?

SPEAKER_00 4:53

Eight.

SPEAKER_01 4:54

Okay, so yeah, so you recorded the first one, uh song at eight.

SPEAKER_00 4:57

Well, that's where uh what came out.

unknown 5:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:02

When I started making it, I was like seven in the third grade and I moved, so we were more focused in the movement, so it took a longer process, but either way, the process was gonna be long because originally one of my sisters was supposed to be in it. Unfortunately, she decided to live with her parents, so with her other parents, so that discontinued, and so it was just me on it, so it changed a lot of things. It was a very long process, well, definitely impatient, but I had to do it, I can't do it.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

Okay, cool, cool. So uh with that said, so what made you want to start um making music in the first place? Your dad. So did you want to do it or did your dad want you to do it?

SPEAKER_00 5:54

I wanted to do it because I saw my dad on YouTube rapping on stages and I saw his music videos and him doing remixes and him in the studio, just freestyle and stuff. And then I hear all these other people on the radio, and I'm like, is that my dad? Is that my dad?

SPEAKER_03 6:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:17

And so I was just like, I want to be like my dad, I want to be on the radio too, even though he wasn't on the radio. I was just like, I want to be on the radio too. So then that's when I try to learn from him, and I I would say it came a very long way. And it was just on overall, it was like a hobby to me. And I told myself, if I ever gonna do if I'm ever going to be in the music industry, that's gonna be my main job. And my main job isn't gonna feel like a job, it's gonna feel like something I want, like a hobby day something. Okay, just go there and do my thing easy longer.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

Yeah. Okay, okay, easy. Wait, okay, cool, cool.

Writing Rap Like A Storyteller

SPEAKER_01 7:05

So, um, with that said, what do you what is your favorite thing to write about as far as um being all this concern?

SPEAKER_00 7:19

I definitely like to tell stories. Okay. Yeah. But lately, I wanted to make a song about me. Because not really about me. That's about telling y'all who I can be. I will be if I have to be. But I wanted to make a song about me. But I really like telling stories. Because I get that from listening to all music. Like, I like just listening to Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown. I like listening to a lot of all rappers, like Tupac for DMX and all that stuff, even though my body absolutely despise my dad showing me that topic music. I feel like I feel like that is it helps me because I get to see how you actually went.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

And I get to see how future rappers now they talk about crazy stuff nowadays. It's not even the story being made, they're just rap. They're just they're just saying stuff. And nowadays they're just singing. It's not even rap. So I feel like if I'm very different when I'm rapping compared to the rappers nowadays, and I feel like if I just keep on telling stories when I'm rapping, people will understand my music more, and that naturally hooks people. So I could bring that back. And it's not all trashy music anymore. Even though something I'm trying to kind of do about.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

So who do you like? So who do you like this new or scar?

SPEAKER_00 9:16

Um I like I like summon on the chapter song.

SPEAKER_03 9:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

I like Riding Rich. I like the baby. And he's not even bad. Um I like No, I don't like me on the I I love Cardi B. I love Nicki Minaj. I like a lot of women rappers. I like Trim. I like Let's only Mustang like a trim show.

SPEAKER_03 9:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

But I like a lot of Glover, definitely. My mom she doesn't like rappers like that, but when it comes to Gloverella, she will accept it.

SPEAKER_01 10:05

Okay. So what do you so what does your mom listen to?

SPEAKER_00 10:10

So I know she listens to an ugly childfriend being a young boy on that street music, but I'm not around. Because I hear her car bumping when she gets inside the house. But then when we get in the car, she likes to act on anything and stuff with when we're room five. Like that's cool.

SPEAKER_01 10:31

That's overrun. That's very interesting. So I do have a question for you. And you have brought us up, and I noticed that you had said something about stories out. Why is it important for you to be able to tell your own story?

SPEAKER_00 10:47

Because I'm I mean, I could rap about something that's true. I'm not trying to make up stuff to try to make myself look career. I could rap more about what's true than trying to make something up real quick, try to put it in the song. Cause it feels rushed. If you know what you're talking about, because it's a real real situation, or you have first hand, second hand, third hand experience, something that's really going on, you could really use that more. Yeah. I feel like it's just easier to write that way. And then more people that tell stories, this is why like Foop is a really great rapper because people like to listen to stuff that they can relate to, and it could get them in a certain type of mood. That's why people listen to that stuff like that. That's why all that stuff is topic people learn. Like Michael Jackson, he he tells stories if you can't tell. But he his type of stories is like he'll just tell a story that he knows happening to like his brothers or something, and then he'll just put a random name on it. Change up a little bit of the story to make it fit in. And that's it, or he'll like take a joke and then put it in. That's why people still love Michael Jackson from this day because he's on top of artists, and he makes it enjoyable to listen to like smooth coming. The video, especially on the video. Billy Jean, I love the video. It also has a very meaningful, and it's actually spoken in the video. Thriller. Although all bells, bad, basically means beat it. That's about people coming together with dance and to stop blood and crib, all that stuff.

SPEAKER_03 13:04

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

That's cool. That's cool. That's that's awesome. I read your props. Like I'm I'm impressed for those answers because I did not think I was gonna get those answers from you. Obviously, you you know your music and you know like the enfull spot, and obviously you know it imports and being able to tell your whole story. So I give your props, and that's pretty dope. Because I've known you for a while now, and I've actually I'm very, very impressed. Very impressed. So definitely your props for that. But I do have a question for you. Um, of course, like I said, I know you like I said, you pretty much go just about everywhere with your dad, right? That's a you know, you should your shadow. Yeah, I know. And I know a lot of and I know you guys have a lot of like somewhat interests, even when it comes carefully. But what do you think makes you different from your dad?

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Literally, the fact that I'm too young to express myself the way that he likes to express himself in the songs. We're the same person, literally. There's nothing really different in our rap styles or anything, it's just he's older, he can cuss. I can't cuss. Yeah, there's really a difference in our music.

SPEAKER_03 14:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

Outside though, he's very he has what's it called? Um he has the limits.

SPEAKER_03 14:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

I don't set those limits for myself.

SPEAKER_03 14:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

If you're my friend or something, he you can violate rules. Um unless it's very interesting. I'm gonna play like that. I'm gonna get mad, I don't get issues. But if it's like I wanna save my money and I'm with a friend, and she's sure. I'm gonna give her that. I'm gonna give her that money. I'm gonna I'm gonna be good to my friends and even to wait. My dad, you don't got the money, you don't have to put that back. And I can respect that. I can see where that's coming from. It's just me. That's my friend. I can't do that. I can't do that. I can't just muck away with something with something that they didn't really want, and I just feel so bad about it. I may have anger issues, but I got a very soft spot.

SPEAKER_01 15:26

Well, the thing is, a lot of that, like I said, a lot when it comes to like limitations about like like setting those boundaries. You're gonna learn that as you get older. Right? So it's not that I don't expect that to be something that you're gonna be doing like right now.

SPEAKER_00 15:39

As you get older, is what it's called.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

That's it, yeah, boundaries. And like I said, you'll get once once you get experience and you live, you'll understand. Yeah, you can help people out, but you gotta, you know, you gotta have your guards up. That's that comes a weather, and you'll get

Sports And Life Outside Music

SPEAKER_01 15:54

there. But uh with that said, um when you are uh making music, what are your favorite things that you like to do just for fun?

SPEAKER_00 16:04

When I when I'm not making music?

SPEAKER_01 16:06

Yeah, when you're not making music, what do you like to do for fun?

SPEAKER_00 16:09

It's a whole risk. I like to play basketball, I like to play volleyball, any sport really except for baseball. I'm not baseball. I just don't get it.

SPEAKER_03 16:21

Where's my baseball? Where's pro school?

SPEAKER_00 16:24

I mean, I like hitting stuff with bats. It's like I don't want to be. It's just not fun for me. Like I don't even I wanna play tackle football.

SPEAKER_03 16:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:41

I'm not allowed to, so I gotta play flag football. And flag football football is just like what the boys say is for girls and stuff, and I don't really like flag football because they're the boys are now saying, oh that's just girls' football. And then they don't wanna accept it and stuff. So I don't like that. I wanna I wanna play in the NFL or just tackle football anyways, just to prove that girls can do that.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

Okay, I can't force that.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

I like to dance in the martial band too. I like doing my martian band stuff. And I was very disappointed when I found out that they don't classify it as a sport. You don't understand it's a sport until you didn't, trust me. Because at first I was like, Portugal is no sport. Like I was with them too, like Portugal is not a sport, right? And then I walk in and watch away home the first day. Afterwards, I'm chugging my water, it's a sport. It's a sport. Um I like to I like doing grilly things too though. I'm just I just like all the sports and stuff. I like to shop, I like to go to my friend's house and chill out. But I'm always on the busy schedule that and it's full of stuff I like to do. It's not a whole bunch of stuff that my parents are making me do and stuff. I don't come home about that stuff. I actually like going to school, like doing that stuff. So I like to go over to church any chance I get.

Faith, Spirituality, And Big Questions

SPEAKER_00 18:25

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_01 18:27

I'm not gonna lie to you. When I was little, I cannot stand going to church. I'm gonna tell you why I can't stand going to church. It wasn't not the fact that, you know, of course I love God and everything. It was the fact church took so long. Gosh, we used to be in church all day. So church we used to go to with my mom back in the day, like we'd be in church at like nine o'clock, and we'd be in church till like three o'clock. Like, that's not all church, like like two to three o'clock. At least it felt like man. But when I went to church, my grandma, I loved going to church with my grandma. My grandma's church was started, they started early, they started late before they got out early. And we went to church for like two hours. Other than that, that was that's the only reason I didn't like church for a while, just being friends all day, getting bored.

SPEAKER_00 19:05

Man, why tell you when I was old enough to go to church, and I remember this like it was yesterday. My goddaddy used to take me to church with my godmother, and they used to take me to church, and we used to go to church, and I love singing and clapping my hands in front of me. And there's I used to be this gonna sound disrespectful, but like there used to be like this old lady. Yeah, and she used to have like this little barn or something that her grandson absolutely hates. But she has like a livestops, right? She used to give me like three, four, five. And then so I'm just snapping on them and I'm listening to them praying, and I used to take my four quarters and put it in the pastor's hand when he goes around. My God, my god name and side name. That's what I would do. Just like but then afterwards he used to get pink waffles from his caffeine, pork cream, some charbons on top. It used to be so warm and good, and that used to be one of my favorite parts.

SPEAKER_01 20:21

That's dope. You know what's really local out there? And so you're not gonna get it now, but you'll see what's up years from now. When I was a little kid, like with like those memories that you had, you're gonna remember those things, like you get like our age, like your dad, like that my age, and your dad's age, you're gonna remember that. You go, man, I remember back in the day. Let's go to church when I have my fours, when I put my quarters in there that I leave church, then we go get the paint waffles and the waffles like a little whipped cream on the stuff. You remember all that? That's dope. That's dope memory. So you still go to church?

SPEAKER_00 20:50

Um, see my dad, he believes in God and all that stuff. But it's like also he's a scientist, so he doesn't believe in a watch about like most people think of it. Yeah, he thinks it's like a spirit. Kind of it's not like an actual like human goddess. He thinks it's a goddess, but like a spirit. Everything else, he has like six babons everywhere in his car, like humanity does believe in God, so I don't think he'll go with it.

SPEAKER_03 21:23

Yeah, my mom, she believes in God too.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

It's just she doesn't think going to church. She thinks that if you don't go to church, you can still learn ahead.

SPEAKER_03 21:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:35

It's not bandwidth. And I think I take kind of buff of it up. I I take kind of buff of it because I think depending on what gods you're talking about, because I think we're all gods. So when people pass away and stuff, to me they're still gods, but they're spiritual.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:01

And I believe in reincarnation too.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

So you think you were somebody else at one time? See, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Well, you know, like I said, that's that's pretty for you to be the age that you are, you definitely have a deep spiritual sense. Because there are large, there's a lot, there's a lot of people older than you who don't think that deep about religion or faith or spirituality. So that's that's pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

I just think the more that you get older, like me thinking to myself six years from now, 18, I don't really think I will believe in the same thing I'm leaving now, but at least I'm learning.

SPEAKER_01 22:43

Yep. That's for me, for me.

Building A Safer Music Discovery App

SPEAKER_01 22:49

So with that, um said, if you can create anything in the world right now, a song, a podcast, a video, a business, or something nobody has ever seen before, what would you create and why?

SPEAKER_00 23:01

I kind of forgot my answer to this, so I'm just gonna say from the art. I think I will make a website kind of and it's like you look up your artist, you click on the artist and name as PG13 other songs, and then um E, which stands for explicit version of the song. Yeah, and depending on your age, it will automatically just sign Patriot PG 13 or something. Oh if you're over 16, you can pick the songs that she would like to. And for K2, click on DJ 13 or exposed version. It's all sorted out. We have their sad songs, we have their songs that kind of make you mad, or just get you hype up, and then we have their songs that was like Calm Down, and we have the songs that are just like the normal everyday songs come back. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:13

That's a good idea. And that would be good. And that's cool.

SPEAKER_00 24:16

I never really thought of that. So it was kind of like something that I thought about before, but I didn't want to sneak up. It's like maybe in the future some interview out in the world kind of asking me the same question and then have a whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 24:35

Yeah. School is cool. Because that's really good, especially for younger kids who want to listen to different music when they're exploring. Because they can listen to music with them, they don't gotta be worried about hearing things that might that might be appropriate for them.

unknown 24:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:49

But that's one of the things I'm kind of disappointed in me about because people already know what they want to do when they grow up. I don't like I already know where I want to be, but I don't know where to pick from because I'm a very good actor. I was signed to Disney on four. COVID messed up my trainings. Being on resume Jesse or Ray Resolve. And then I could be a singer. I'd the voice to be a singer. I think I would be a very good singer. I just sing like Billy Irish right now. Please, please don't believe I sound like being listening right now because I'll be sound like a cat falling in front of three feet. So serious. Um I could be a rapper. I mean I am a rapper, actually I'm professional by the way. I could be sports. Anything that can get me famous or do whatever can do, I will literally.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Okay. So that seems like you want to be if anything, you want to be singing or recognized. Okay. Okay. Well, you know, there's lots of different ways of being single recognized. They don't necessarily have to do with entertainment. But if you like entertainment.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

Cause you know, you could be an influencer and stuff.

Why She Avoids Influencer Culture

SPEAKER_00 26:15

I just don't want to be an influencer because I'm well aware that most influencers are insecure.

SPEAKER_03 26:22

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 26:22

I don't want to be insecure.

SPEAKER_03 26:23

How do you think that conclusion?

SPEAKER_00 26:27

Because most influencers are like get ready with me people, and then they do the get ready with me or put a pound of makeup work. And then it was like, I absolutely need this foundation because without it. Y'all don't want to see what I look like without makeup and stuff. That's insecure. I'm gonna be insecure. Not all of them are like that though. There's some of them that just do skincare. And I understand our skincare. But it's like you don't need to be famous and do all this stuff.

SPEAKER_03 27:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:03

It's like I feel like that they're using all these products and stuff because they're fancy no projects and make the get ready with me, interesting or my face is still clear to this day. Well, right not right now, because I put a certain type of lotion that you're not supposed to put on your face. And I put it on my face. Well, not intentionally, I just started rubbing my face. I'm like, okay. But I wash my face after I brush my teeth. I moisturize it. You don't need essential oils, a pound of makeup, alcohol and all that stuff. Oh, lots of that on your face, just to wash it off and redo all this stuff. No, that don't make sense. But like I said, not everybody's like that. They do it for another. I understand. I'm pretty sure if I was like that, I'd be doing the same thing too. So I can't really be hating for real, but because I'm not hating, I'm just telling my side of the story.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

You know what I like about that? Um, is the fact, like I said, your views are very absorbing. Right? Because there are a lot of times, like I said, there's people that I like I can't speak for everybody, but I know even with me when I was younger, there were certain things that I might have seen growing up. I just because I was young, I didn't think about it. I was just it's a living. I just wanted to just kind of pass it by and really talk much of it. But you could tell you're the type of kid that or young lady that is who thinks about those things. And that's that's really cool.

SPEAKER_00 28:46

I literally be I'll literally be on YouTube shorts and like a story time pops up and stuff, and they're telling yourself a story, and they make it sound like they're in the right. Listen to it like three or four times. Trust some of the stuff when it really makes sense. And it's kind of like it's not just their fault either. You got a part in it too. And I just that's why I take a very long time just on watch it because I'll just I just watch it over and over again into my understanding. Because if something will catch me off guard, I would just pass it by. I'm gonna find out. Okay.

Two Cards And A Surprising Truth

SPEAKER_01 29:32

So as we wrap up, we got a second, we have a new second we have this season. This called Two Cars. So you pick two cars and based off of the cars pick. All right, so why don't you go ahead and pick two cars? Go ahead and pick your first one.

SPEAKER_00 29:49

This one's looking at me.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

Alright, and flip it over, and you're gonna show the screen. The audience, you're gonna show them the car. And so, what does that one say?

SPEAKER_00 29:58

He says the plot toys. Tell us something about yourself that would surprise most people. Something not to surprise most people in the room. I am very and my parents don't mean they probably wouldn't even believe me when I said this. When I want something really bad, I'm going to work for it. And it will be behind the scenes. I'm not going to show y'all the progress. I'm going to be in my room. I'm going to be in my room practicing all my dances. I go out and it's like, oh, you can practice for this, that, and this. I'm not gonna tell you I practice for it. I'm going to just go out there and show you. I did practice for it. I just not gonna do that. I don't like being around people and I do stuff because I like to be in my zone. I like to be by myself. I like to blast my music. Well, not blast, but like have it on. And I'll practice my dancings. I will listen to most songs and I wouldn't take their lyrics, but like I'll take I'll like consume the meaning of it and then try to make something up for that if it matches the type of song I want. Like my dad, he thinks I'm gonna work for my music. I have a full notebook that unfortunately I was dumb in third grade. Well, I wasn't dumb in third grade, but like I didn't have any common sense. So I ripped out all my random delivering the trash notebook to my space attraction. And so all the over lost and I can give it to him for proof, but I'll be up to like three o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_01 31:58

Just random songs? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:01

I'll start a song in the shower, right? Get stuck in my head. I'm at dinner time opening on the lunaries. Um, time for me to go to bed. I have a night light by my bed. And they used to think I'm scared of the dark, but I'm just not scared of my dark. I get that. So I could write wrong both bed. I'm just up all night humming and stuff, and I make a whole song. And like I made this song Rose Gold in the bathtub and it's spoofy. And it was like, and it was like rose gold, I like to even my hair or it was just a whole bunch of stuff. I thought what I like to borrow in Gold. I was good, it was catchy. I could probably like remember some if you give me five minutes to remember some lyrics. I probably remember some lyrics. But unfortunately.

SPEAKER_01 32:55

Do you have a book now that you write? I don't know. You have some book now?

SPEAKER_00 32:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:00

Okay, cool. So is it like a big book? Was it like a little book?

SPEAKER_00 33:03

It's a regular notebook. It was supposed to be for school, but if they told me to keep for extra. But you know, when they say keep it for extra, you never really use the notebook and then just save it for the next grade. So I didn't tell them I had an extra notebook because they're just gonna save it for the next grade. And they had already established that we have the right amount of notebooks, we don't need any extra ones. So don't fight. I was like, Well, not giving you my notebook, I can use this. I spent my money on there.

SPEAKER_01 33:32

Alright, so got the next question. Next call partners, go ahead and show.

Disney Dreams, Failure, And Childhood

SPEAKER_02 33:44

A failure card.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

Yeah, failure card. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 33:50

A failure card. Tell us about a time something didn't work out and why you're glad it happened. I'm mentioning that I got assigned to Disney, and I'm kind of glad now because I can understand now. Cuz we're messing with my chance and stuff, I can mistake. I'm kinda glad that I'm not a movie spawn something, because I could have definitely been like that. Trust me. But um I'm kinda glad that didn't happen. Cause a lot of people that started off um acting as a child, or just yeah, acting as a child, which don't keep it like that. Um they formed depressed room in the future because all they did when they were younger was work, work, work, then everything to have fun. So I'm kinda glad I have a childhood and I'm just I'm still working for something that I want, but I get to be me, I get to have fun as a child. I'm not just working one day because Michael Jackson, he worked, work, works and team, okay, and he didn't get to experience um childhood, which formed his insecurities, which makes him want to do all these face survey ways and hide some of his life and all that. Um it was the home alone came called College Hulk. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:31

His childhood got messed up because the parents kept stealing his money, using drugs and stuff, you know, stuff that they shouldn't do, and he was just broke from all the mini street on it. And that messed him up like this. Like he went through a lot of trauma, like it was hard for him. And I I think I read a book about it. I think yeah, and sorry, and he ended up getting himself right. And that is something that a lot of them can't do because a lot of actors in Hollywood now they're told drugs and they don't like to face reality. So they end up just wealthy, depressed, and died. And I'm kind of glad that didn't happen to me because obviously not here as a child just poor, wealthy, poor and depressed, and that's why being wealthy isn't always something that you want to happen. Because if you're gonna be wealthy, put that money to the side and focus on all the good stuff. Don't focus on oh, I got all this money, I'm gonna find way to double this money out, you know that because it's more things than money, but I would love to just get anything whenever I want, because I got all this money and stuff. I love to go to Miami, I don't love to go to all these islands and stuff to go to Guam. But I'm not focused about how much I can spend there. Because that's what a lot of people do. Like they go there for fun, but they want to spend a lot of money there. That's just not no, I'm trying to I'm trying to go to the beach and I'm trying to find and back also have farmers here where I demand to spend on it. Like save it for later on. And that's what I'm trying to learn now because it's I had like $120 on my birthday. I'm I'm full, I got like $10 now.

SPEAKER_01 37:56

Yeah, you gotta save your money. When's your birthday?

SPEAKER_00 38:01

July 27th. Oh, so yeah, I got I spent $100 $110 $11 in a boat.

SPEAKER_03 38:12

So what were you buying?

SPEAKER_00 38:16

A lot of snacks. Yeah. A lot of snacks for sleepovers and my friends and me after practice. Um I got Oh, this is not a problem for me. Snacks is the I'm really thinking.

SPEAKER_01 38:43

That's all you thought with your brother. That's nothing wrong with that. You just got a rifle. You start with your dad, nobody snacks. You start to get a violent. So you give him a ground, then you don't gotta smack everybody.

SPEAKER_00 38:53

Wait. I spent most of my dinner though, cause it was out late and my dad was not stopping to get McDonald's. And I was just hungry and I couldn't survive. So I bought sushi.

SPEAKER_01 39:05

So you bought sushi?

SPEAKER_00 39:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:06

Right? Okay, I guess a little sushi, but at the McDonald's, I guess. But it's still costly.

SPEAKER_00 39:12

Yeah. The little plate of sushi that could just for dinner, like no like snack sushi that you get.

SPEAKER_01 39:21

Yeah, that's not the kind of grocery store.

SPEAKER_00 39:23

I got the middle.

SPEAKER_01 39:25

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 39:26

Which was like 20 plus tat is 25.

SPEAKER_01 39:33

What are your means, your budget?

SPEAKER_00 39:35

Yeah, so I have to say that I'm saying a lot of stuff now about not spending a whole bunch of money on stuff, and I'm gonna keep it real with y'all. I spend my money. I try to control it, but like when it gets in my hand, it's hard to resist. So I can't really say it's so easy. No, it's not easy. I get it. I get it. But it's a good thing that my dad is teaching me now how to manage my money.

SPEAKER_03 40:06

That's good. That's good.

SPEAKER_00 40:07

Because some people don't know until they get out in the real world.

SPEAKER_03 40:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:11

I lose some getting now. And I may not listen to my dad, but someday some other person coming and tell me the same exact sentence that my dad is telling me now, and I'm going to listen to Dad.

SPEAKER_01 40:23

I'm glad you know that. That's good. I'm glad you know that's how it works.

SPEAKER_00 40:27

But I try. He tells me to keep 90% of my money away, save it in a fund or whatever, and then key 10% of it to you spin it.

SPEAKER_03 40:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 40:42

If you really want to spend it. But I'm my age, I shouldn't be wanting to spend a whole bunch of money anyway. But I'm spoiled. I want something. Like I can't get a squishy, I can't get talkies, I can't get Cheetos, I can't get Kingdom. Some people ain't got the money, so that's the way it is.

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SPEAKER_01 41:07

So with that said, uh we're gonna write, I just want to thank Riley Day for being our youngest guest on the Hilltop Web. Yeah, because I think clearly, and you're clearly the youngest. Oh, here. So I want to thank you for that. And I want you to share with our audience if you want. I don't know. Do you have social media? Do you do any of that stuff?

SPEAKER_00 41:26

I haven't comment right now.

SPEAKER_01 41:28

You do. If you want, feel free to share it with us. They can go check out your music.

SPEAKER_00 41:32

Okay. It's just one song, y'all.

SPEAKER_01 41:35

That's fine.

SPEAKER_00 41:36

But it's www.distraction network slash rally day.

SPEAKER_01 41:45

That would work.

SPEAKER_00 41:46

A theme other.

SPEAKER_01 41:49

Yep. And you know my daughter, she loves the song too. She likes to beat it. When she heard the song, she was like, does that know what fake that is? I was like, Yeah, where's the song? I want to hear that song. Where's my song? And then the song y'all recorded, she wanted to go back and listen to that song, so she heard your song. So yeah, but so now she walked around, she watched Michael Jackson uh for the Michael Jackson movie a couple weeks ago. Now she wants to be a singer. So that's what she was around doing.

SPEAKER_00 42:16

Like, your daughter definitely has a voice to be a because sometimes you can hear little kids' feet, and you can tell like they'll work on it and the purpose of her. They could sing. So I feel like your daughter can sing really she couldn't she if she keeps on doing what she's doing now, she's still hoping attraction was still like when she got really excited and want to make a song just on the spot and she just picked that up. She could be in the industry like that when she gets older.

SPEAKER_01 42:47

Well, mostly what she wants to know. We'll say what she wants. Well, everyone's also paying.

SPEAKER_00 42:57

She could see all this stuff happening, you know, when she gets older, she's more attractive to like sports, maybe a business or something. So you never really know, but like if she's very passionate about swimming, definitely we would do better than I am now because I would love to be in a choir right now. But unfortunately, I can't really see me but we have like a you don't have the wire school? We don't have a choir out one. For real? Yeah. Well in middle school, it's it it was newly built. So they're now starting to get a lot of clubs and stuff. So I feel like maybe in the future, I guess it all depends.

SPEAKER_01 43:44

Or you just help start the club. Who say you can't start it yourself?

SPEAKER_00 43:49

Um, we can't like start clubs and stuff and send up to our starting clubs until eighth grade.

SPEAKER_01 43:54

Oh, okay. Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:58

Yeah, like I'm waiting for a whole time of the princess. So if you got to my school, please vote.

SPEAKER_01 44:05

Well, with that said, I just want to thank you everyone for being a

Where To Find Riley’s Music

SPEAKER_01 44:08

guest. And for everyone who's um for tuning in, um, well, thank you all for this episode of the Hill Top Well Podcast. Of course, um, you know, um Pete Wee Church. I don't know how episodes, but he has his ass on the side. But of course, uh whoever you're wrong with, uh tell them um tell that person at your level. And this is it, so I'm off the little top world podcast. Peace.