In this podcast, Bryce talks to Dave Blunts about his career, health, and where he stands with Christanity.
Chapter 1: Who is Dave Blunts and what is his background?
What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today I got a very special guest going on. My friends from back at home, they were telling me, like, Bryce, you gotta get this guy on the podcast. Gotta have a conversation with him. It's Mr. Dave Blunt. Dave, how are you doing today?
I'm feeling good, man. I'm feeling great.
Let's go, bro. Thanks for coming on, man. I really appreciate you. I'm super stoked to just dive into your story. I know you make rap music. Yes, sir. I'm from a small country town, so I never really grew up on rap, so I'm excited to dive into your story, how you got into it, and learn more about you as a human. You said you were from Iowa, right? Yes, sir.
Born and raised, and you said you just moved out here in June?
I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, but I was raised in Iowa.
What was it like growing up in Iowa?
Um, uh, I mean, there's not really a whole lot going on out there, you know, but I, I was, I grew up, you know, very impoverished, you know? Yeah. Uh, yeah.
Okay. And you went to high school. After high school, what did it look like going after high school? What was your decision making? When did you start making music? Was that before you graduated or after you graduated?
Well, actually, I didn't graduate. I dropped out of my senior year.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Dave face growing up without a father?
Chapter 3: How did music become a part of Dave's life?
Yeah.
So yeah, I guess it is kind of like a escape.
Yeah. I, cause I, when I, before I moved to LA, I, I, the reason I asked before I moved to LA, I worked in Florida on boats and I had a coworker and his name was Mitch and he was like 36 years old and I was like 18 at the time and every day he was doing every drug in the book. Like coming to work, doing it at work, drinking all the time. And he was just numbing his pain.
And even though there was a double the age difference between me and him, I'm 18, he's 36. We were like best friends. We got along so well. And he would call me all the time. And even when I moved out here, he would call me all the time and just...
he would talk to me about how he was just going through, how he was just always going through something, but he was using, you know, whether it was cocaine or alcohol or something like that, some sort of drugs to numb the pain.
Well, in early in 2024, I was going back to Florida to visit my friend Mitch and I was calling him and he wasn't answering the phone and he struggled to pay his phone bill sometimes. So I just thought that he forgot to pay his phone bill. So I was calling his friends and stuff like that. And I found out that he had gotten a bad bag of cocaine and he had overdosed and passed away.
And me personally, like I've never drank alcohol before. I've never done drugs. I was always like really scared. And because of experiences I grew up with, I chose to stay away from that personally. So I don't know what it feels like to even be high or drink alcohol. I don't know that at all.
But for having a close friend like Mitch and watching him try to escape his problems and things like that, it gave me a really big heart for people that try to find an escape and stuff like that. And so... And I think I, I think I read something earlier that you like, or at the end of 2024, you were throwing away your purple track suit and you were gonna like give up.
What, what was all that about? Like it had, it had a correlation with lean, like giving up lean or something. Is that right?
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