Nick Hexum
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521 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Nick Hexum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then I would go and, you know, try and jam with people.
And it was just a lot of hair metal.
It was still the tail end of, you know, Motley Crue and all those kind of- Def Leppard and all that stuff.
Yes, it was that kind of thing.
And I was like, that's not my jam.
So that's what led to me realizing like,
my boys from Omaha would be my best collaborators.
Yeah, I have a song about my youngest brother dying of an overdose.
And that's something that I didn't want to talk about because it was too painful.
But I know that there's so many families that have gone through similar things.
Just other things like family stuff.
My own...
There's a song called Work of Fiction where I'm talking about my own desire for validation and approval and just cleaning out the closet because that's what really good art can do is to be cathartic and help you process things.
Well, I think the reason why, what I was saying earlier, especially some solo artists, you know,
lose control is because they're so focused on the outside validation that learning to
live in a way that you approve of yourself is ultimately so much more important, and that comes from the self-esteem of doing esteemable acts, of having an attitude of service, of being helpful, of being kind, of being generous, that I need to approve of myself because outside validation does not fix you the way self...
Yeah, well, I've heard other... I think I've heard Bono talk about this, that if he's doing a concert and he can tell...
That there's one person that's just kind of sitting there, like it's very hard not to focus on that one person.
So you really, just in the same attitude of gratitude, you need to focus on what's working rather than looking for that one possible, you know, failure.
Oh, bad.
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