The Dave Blunts Interview (EP 80)
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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. Okay. I went to every year except my senior because I didn't have enough credits to graduate.
Oh, wow.
And so after I dropped out of high school, I just started hanging around the wrong people, doing the wrong things out of, I guess I was looking for guidance. You know, I didn't really grow up with a dad or even a father figure. So I looked up to, you know, some of my older friends in guidance and fortunately they were leading me down the wrong path. Um, so yeah, after that, I just realized that that's not what I wanted for my life. And I started, you know, I got a job and I started working. Uh, where'd you work? Oh man, I had, I was working at like a call center, uh, I hated that job. A call center? Yeah. Like you were taking calls on the phone? Like what kind of calls? So I worked for like a pharmaceutical company. Okay. And I needed, like old people will call me to refill their prescriptions. Gotcha, gotcha. Now, you can do it on the website. So if they're calling me, it's because they have a problem. Gotcha. So, yeah, oftentimes I'll have to break, you know, break the news to elderly people that they couldn't afford their medication.
So that was like really stressful, weighing down on me. For sure. For sure. So, yeah. And then I quit that job and started focusing on music full time. OK. I was 18 when that happened. Okay. I want to take a step back really quick. She said something really interesting. I want to kind of dive into you say you grew up without a father figure in your life. How long? How long did you? When was your father absent? When did that start? And what was how hard was that growing up? So my dad passed away when I was about eight years old. And just that whole thing was a really traumatic experience because at the time I was living in a shelter and it was around Christmas time when he died. So, you know, I know Christmas isn't about presents as an adult. You know, when you're a little kid, you know, you're eight years old. It's like.
no Christmas presents and my dad died dang what's going on here dang you know and so and just the funeral was really like traumatizing to me you know it was like my first realization of what death really was you know yeah and yeah So what was that like? I mean, I feel like eight years old and like you lose your dad at Christmas time. And then as you're going on a life, I mean, from eight years old until now, especially let's even forget now, just like the crucial teenage years, like your body's changing, you're growing, you get middle school, high school, people start gossiping, opinions matter, things like that. How was that weighing on your shoulders trying to navigate life and not having like that father figure to like, pour wisdom into you and encourage you and love you. Well, how did that affect your perception of love or maybe even your perception of yourself? How did you see yourself when you were growing up in middle school and high school?
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