Building Confidence in Kids Through Music with Matt Baublitz

In this episode of "Conversations with Rich Bennett," Rich sits down with Matt Baublitz, founder of RhythmiKIDS Club, to explore how music, rhythm, and percussion can empower and inspire children. Matt shares his personal journey, starting from his early love for drumming at the age of two, to becoming a master drummer, and how this passion led to the creation of RhythmiKIDS Club. The discussion covers the unique ways Matt engages kids through rhythm, including DJing and dance breaks, as well as his focus on inclusivity for children of all abilities. Matt highlights how RhythmiKIDS Club not only helps develop musical skills but also builds confidence, social interaction, and mental well-being in young learners. The episode also touches on Matt’s vision for expanding the program through community collaborations and events.

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Transcript

Rich Bennett 0:00
And here today. 

Matt Baublitz 0:02
Young gentleman 

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A man who has an 

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and. 

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awesome business, which you're about to learn about. Here in Hartford County, his name is. Matt Bomblets. And he is 

Matt Baublitz 0:10
It's 

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pretty 

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pretty 

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interesting 

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interesting, 

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what the 

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the business. 

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business does and you're. More bad, it's called. Rhythmic kick. 

Matt Baublitz 0:16
Kids? 

Rich Bennett 0:17
Different 

Matt Baublitz 0:18
Yep. Rhythmic 

Rich Bennett 0:18
rhythmic kids. 

Matt Baublitz 0:19
kids. Rhythm. 

Rich Bennett 0:20
You know 

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Know 

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this. 

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this one? 

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Screw up because I can. 

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Rhythm 

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Are. 

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are each. 

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I k I.D.s. So not rhythm. Not rhythmic. 

Matt Baublitz 0:34
Kids. It's rhythm. Rhythm, kids 

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Rhythmic, 

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rhythm. The 

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rhythmic. 

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rhythm. Rhythm. 

Rich Bennett 0:40
I. 

Matt Baublitz 0:41
Rhythmic. I guess it'll be men, rhythmic kids. Either way. 

Rich Bennett 0:47
Yeah. Which website don't make it? 

Matt Baublitz 0:50
I saw the website as rhythmical as r h, y t h and my kids club like show with rhythmic kids. First of all, explained to everybody exactly what it is. Sure. So Rhythmic Kids is a all inclusive music entertainment as well as education. So I teach classes. Play areas in the area, the play room I've partnered with and I'm a music teacher there doing percussion classes, music classes, rhythm dancing, different things with the children there. And I also do private events, birthday parties, and I've been also getting together with schools in the area, you know, preschools as well as daycares and doing events there and camps. 

Rich Bennett 1:35
Wait a minute. You said dancing. The other was jazz music, 

Matt Baublitz 1:40
Well, I also do deejay for events. Yeah, so I do DJ for events as well. So I incorporate that into all my classes. I've realized that if you try to sit down a group of kids for an hour and just have them sit there and do what you ask them to, they're not going to do it. So incorporate dance breaks, deejaying and everything into our classes. So which 

Rich Bennett 1:58
which came 

Matt Baublitz 1:58
came 

Rich Bennett 1:58
from. 

Matt Baublitz 1:58
first? 

The drums. The percussion came first. Yeah. Okay. 

Rich Bennett 2:03
A health. 

Matt Baublitz 2:03
How so? 

Rich Bennett 2:05
Before. Rhythmic is, of course, you were playing drums. 

Matt Baublitz 2:07
Yes. Yep. 

Rich Bennett 2:08
I said, When? 

Matt Baublitz 2:08
When you start playing drums. I started playing drums, actually going to lessons and serious about drums when I was two. 

Rich Bennett 2:16
To. 

Matt Baublitz 2:17
When I was two years old. I actually got really into it when I was younger, and by the time I was two I was really serious about it and my mom took me up to Music Land to see the drum teacher there. Will DiGiorgio is a fantastic guy. He's no longer with us, but he was a great guy, great teacher, great drummer. And he said, I've never taught anybody that. Young. But if he's willing to be serious about it and do what I ask him to do and he seems to focus and practice, then yeah, I'll teach him. 

Rich Bennett 2:41
Two years old. 

Matt Baublitz 2:42
Two years on, I started taking lessons. Yeah. Holy cow. I thought I was young when I started. Ooh. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 2:48
Are you still? Well, course, 

Matt Baublitz 2:49
Course, you still support my kids and I still play bands or anything. I played in a couple of bands in high school. I was more into I did marching band, I did pit orchestra for for theater. I did attend Maryland Conservatory of Music when I was in high school. 

Rich Bennett 3:04
I. 

Matt Baublitz 3:05
Yeah. And there my sophomore year I got the certification of Master Drummer, which is the highest certification you can get as a drummer, and that's through the United States Marine Bugle Corps. Yep, Pretty cool drum corps. 

Rich Bennett 3:18
To seen them 

Matt Baublitz 3:19
I haven't. No, I haven't had the privilege. Yeah. Now I'm going to have 

Rich Bennett 3:22
to 

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to. 

Rich Bennett 3:22
hook you up 

Matt Baublitz 3:23
Yeah, definitely. 

Rich Bennett 3:25
for. 

Matt Baublitz 3:26
For those of you listening, if you. 

Rich Bennett 3:27
I have never 

Matt Baublitz 3:28
Ever 

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seen. 

Matt Baublitz 3:28
seen. 

Rich Bennett 3:29
The United Marine Corps. 

Matt Baublitz 3:31
You. Along with this. 

Rich Bennett 3:33
The Solyndra. 

Matt Baublitz 3:34
The tune. You have to go see. 

Rich Bennett 3:36
They perform. I think it's. 

Friday evenings. Would GMA 

and also at the Marine. 

Matt Baublitz 3:48
8 to 9 in DC. 

Rich Bennett 3:51
Washington, D.C.. So 

Matt Baublitz 3:53
I'll have to. I'll have the 

Rich Bennett 3:55
you're. 

Matt Baublitz 3:55
year off. Yeah. I'm sorry. Next time I get tickets, because I'll be getting yelled at for a while. Now that I know you get tickets again. 

Rich Bennett 4:01
Again because 

Matt Baublitz 4:01
Because everybody's always loved going 

Rich Bennett 4:03
going 

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into 

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to it. 

Matt Baublitz 4:04
it. Yeah, but it is just. 

Rich Bennett 4:06
To one 

Matt Baublitz 4:07
Watch them perform. 

Rich Bennett 4:07
form. 

Matt Baublitz 4:08
Not just the sound drop too, but the drum if you for. It's just. 

Rich Bennett 4:13
It's. 

Matt Baublitz 4:14
Breathtaking. It's amazing. And, you know, that's a high honor for you to get married. Yeah, that is awesome. That was one of the most nerve wracking things I ever had to do, even though I knew what I was doing at that point in my life. And it was funny because he was he he was a master drummer himself with the he was with the U.S. Marine Corps. And we had to do a little like recital in front of people. So we do this piece and it was very rudimental, very, you know, I knew what I was doing. He knew what I'm supposed to be doing. Everybody else sitting there in the audience just thought it sounded cool. All right. So they all they're all standing and clapping at the end of it. And I don't I don't care about what they think. I just look at him and he just gives me the thumbs up and I'm like, All right, So I did it. I got it. And that was my sophomore year of high school. Yeah. So I was probably 15, 14 or so. 

Rich Bennett 4:59
So how 

Matt Baublitz 4:59
How did 

Rich Bennett 4:59
did 

Matt Baublitz 4:59
that? 

Rich Bennett 4:59
that come about? 

Matt Baublitz 5:01
He just just so happened that my teacher at Marilyn Conservatory of Music was, like I said, a member. And he said, Hey, is this something you'd be interested in? I think you got the chops for it. So we started working on the piece and and I did the assessment for it and got it. 

Rich Bennett 5:15
I'll be honest. Did the Marine Corps try to recruit you afterwards? 

Matt Baublitz 5:18
They didn't know I was I was actually a little hurt and 

although I knew that's hard to do. 

Rich Bennett 5:27
Get into two. 

Matt Baublitz 5:28
Yeah. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 5:29
Join the Marines to get in into 

Matt Baublitz 5:31
To 

Rich Bennett 5:31
the 

Matt Baublitz 5:31
the band, 

Rich Bennett 5:31
bay and the president's iron ore even 

Matt Baublitz 5:33
even. 

Rich Bennett 5:34
to be stationed as well, to get in some natural positions and nothing and all that stuff is hard. 

Matt Baublitz 5:42
So what made you decide to. 

Rich Bennett 5:44
What I don't want. Yet. 

Matt Baublitz 5:48
So you were playing, 

Rich Bennett 5:49
mean, you 

Matt Baublitz 5:49
you 

Rich Bennett 5:49
said. 

Matt Baublitz 5:49
said. 

Rich Bennett 5:50
Orchestra. 

Matt Baublitz 5:51
And that was. 

Rich Bennett 5:51
A drum set or 

Matt Baublitz 5:53
Drumset. Usually in pit orchestra. Yeah. All right. So what was 

Rich Bennett 5:56
your 

Matt Baublitz 5:57
your first 

Rich Bennett 5:57
first. 

Matt Baublitz 5:57
professional? 

Rich Bennett 5:58
That you bought. 

Matt Baublitz 5:59
My first professional drum set, 

little black pearl set that I had. Yeah. Yeah. I just love the drumset 

Rich Bennett 6:11
Was that 

Matt Baublitz 6:11
because 

Rich Bennett 6:11
because you 

Matt Baublitz 6:12
it's always 

Rich Bennett 6:13
either. 

Matt Baublitz 6:13
either you either here or I don't. Is Ludwig still around? It is. They are still making new drums. They are there on the higher end of things. So yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of it. I think the classic love bugs are better than the new stuff. I think everybody everybody's trying to get into that manageable price point now. So drums are kind of changing unless you go like the pro side of offsets. But yeah, and I actually kept that set my entire life and I had it just added to it changed, had changed some pieces, added pieces, got new cymbals, and I finally ended up selling it about. Five years ago. I was about four or five years ago. Yeah. We moved into a new house and I was like, All right, I want to set up my drum set. I got a spot set up my drum set, my new house, one of my plans, we didn't have a room. We started getting the kids stuff in there. We got two kids, so we got all the kids stuff in there. And like, the only space would have been possibly in our bedroom. I'm like, I'm not going to do that to my family and set up an acoustic drum set in my bedroom. So I ended up selling my acoustic set and by an electronic set so I could still play, have my head set and not bother anybody. Right. Just tuck it away in the corner and have my head set and not bother anybody in the family. And but yeah, it was it was kind of a tough day. I was it was mixed emotions because it was going to a guy who was buying it for his future son in law and he had started playing drums and he's like, he's real good and I want to encourage him. He's never had his own set. So it was kind of, you know, passing it on to this to this younger guy. It was 13. Yeah. So it made me feel good about it wasn't just going to somebody who's going to beat it around and, you know, it was and he even sent me videos of the kid playing on it and I'm like, Oh, he's really good, you know? So was it it to adapt from, well, the I guess the acoustic drums to the electronic. 

The. 

The sound. You can get it pretty close. But as far as like the response to how hard you're hitting it, it's it's never going to be the same. You're pretty much the heads are. Yeah, you're getting the same sound out of it no matter what. Yeah. And the heads are smaller, they're closer together. So there was definitely a lot of, like, overlapping sticks. The first time was right around and, you know, I play classic grip, you know, cross cross arm with the high hat. And so that was really tough because things are a little tighter where I was basically playing, you know, with my arms kind of tucked into each other to get used to. And I kind of had to change the way I played. But it was kind of a nice challenge, you know, as far as, you know, you've been playing your whole life and nothing's a challenge anymore, it seems so it kind of became a little bit of a challenge to retrain myself on the electronic drums. So. Till I was sounding good on it. Probably about two weeks. Messing around with it? Yeah. And tweaking the sounds. Tweaking where I had heads set up and it was just constant moving things because I was bumping into my hands and wrists and. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 8:56
Or 

Matt Baublitz 8:57
Two years on this, this still baffles. 

Rich Bennett 8:59
tells me. I mean, 

Matt Baublitz 9:02
Had to be somebody you saw 

Rich Bennett 9:03
saw on 

Matt Baublitz 9:03
on TV 

Rich Bennett 9:04
TV or 

Matt Baublitz 9:04
or 

Rich Bennett 9:04
something 

Matt Baublitz 9:04
something that 

Rich Bennett 9:04
edgy. 

Matt Baublitz 9:05
just. I just took an interest and I've always had rhythm since, you know, as as young as I can remember, my parents. My mother has always had rhythm. Got a little Mickey Mouse drum set for Christmas one year and it was all downhill from there. 

She didn't want you to Mickey Mouse drums. 

Rich Bennett 9:23
said 

Matt Baublitz 9:23
That 

Rich Bennett 9:23
it 

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wasn't 

Rich Bennett 9:23
was. 

Matt Baublitz 9:24
your parents or. 

Rich Bennett 9:24
Or like one of the uncles. Ah, 

Matt Baublitz 9:26
Ah, 

Rich Bennett 9:26
as 

Matt Baublitz 9:26
as I 

Rich Bennett 9:26
I 

Matt Baublitz 9:26
said. 

Rich Bennett 9:26
said. Yeah. 

Matt Baublitz 9:27
Yeah, 

that's usually how it goes. My wife and I did that with our nephew. He took interest and we bought him a drum set. But no, it was actually my parents bought me the drum set, so they deserved what was coming here, I assure you. 

Rich Bennett 9:41
I 

Matt Baublitz 9:41
I 

Rich Bennett 9:41
mean. 

Matt Baublitz 9:41
mean, it's hard for you to figure out who. 

Rich Bennett 9:44
Like someone flew. 

Matt Baublitz 9:45
Launches were. 

Rich Bennett 9:46
But 

Matt Baublitz 9:47
As you started playing and got, you know, 

Rich Bennett 9:49
getting. 

Matt Baublitz 9:50
getting older. 

Rich Bennett 9:51
When you were 

Matt Baublitz 9:51
Younger. Who were 

Rich Bennett 9:52
some 

Matt Baublitz 9:52
some of 

Rich Bennett 9:52
of 

Matt Baublitz 9:52
your 

Rich Bennett 9:52
your. 

Matt Baublitz 9:52
favorite drummers and. 

Rich Bennett 9:54
Who are some of your. 

Matt Baublitz 9:54
Your favorite drummers now? When I was younger, I don't think it was necessarily about the music or about the bands. I was really into the rudiments, figuring out how to do it right, the style, figuring out how to do it right. And I wasn't even that big into other drummers in a lot of my band influences were oldies I grew up with, like Roy Orbison, Elvis Conway Twitty, you know. So I was on all the oldies but the nice, you know, nice, nice drum beats, nice, nice bass hits. So that was always I've always been a keep in time kind of drummer. I mean, I can do the floor stuff, but a lot of guys, the flourishes all they got. They don't have the rudiments, they don't have the keep in time, you know, they just have the flourish. So I've always been more into the the actual, you know, rudimentary keeping the beat and. Yeah. Jazz. I've always been real influenced by jazz drumming. I've always loved jazz. Jazz, Latin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, because I've always said 

Rich Bennett 10:49
Course, mine 

Matt Baublitz 10:50
mine 

Rich Bennett 10:51
growing 

Matt Baublitz 10:51
growing 

Rich Bennett 10:51
up 

Matt Baublitz 10:51
up 

Rich Bennett 10:51
was 

Matt Baublitz 10:51
was. 

Rich Bennett 10:52
Buddy Rich. 

Matt Baublitz 10:53
Okay? Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 10:56
And Gene Krupa 

Matt Baublitz 10:57
I mean, I'm not that old, but I remember my father was right. Right. But one of the ones that always amazed me was Ringo Starr, because 

Rich Bennett 11:06
as he 

Matt Baublitz 11:06
he 

Rich Bennett 11:06
was 

Matt Baublitz 11:06
was 

Rich Bennett 11:06
left. 

Matt Baublitz 11:06
left handed. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 11:09
Set. 

Matt Baublitz 11:09
Said Art, which a lot of people think that's not really that hard. 

Rich Bennett 11:13
What? 

Matt Baublitz 11:13
But if you watch him. 

Yeah. I mean. Oh, it blew me away. Yeah. So what made you decide to start Rhythmic Kids? How how long ago was that? I actually came up with the idea for rhythmic kids about a year and a half ago. It was about last January or February. I was just. The idea came to me. I was kind of starting to really mess around on my own with my drum set and everything. And I've always wanted to do something with kids. And like I said, it was kind of that challenging myself, rhythmic kids was the same thing. I think once I started to get really good on electronic drum set and I'm like right now into a new challenge, you know? So I was like, I've always wanted to take this, you know, two kids. And that's that's that can be a challenge, right? That's a definite challenge. Yeah. I got to on my own. But, you know, you get a roomful of 15 kids with drums, it's a totally different ballgame. So I was like, you know what? I want to I want to come up with this and figure out how to do this. And I came up with the whole idea of the name. Actually, even at that point, had the domain and I was ready to do it, but I had no way to get it out to the public, and I just couldn't figure out how to start. So I sat on the idea until March of this year, and our daughter was in the preschool at the playroom and it just one day dawned on me. I said, I'm gonna talk to carry the owner the playroom and say, Hey, I've had this idea, something I want to do. What do you think about trying it out here? And that was finally when I was able to get it out into the world. I sat on the idea for over a year. You just launched in March of this year. Yeah. For those of you listening, we're recording this. 

Rich Bennett 12:49
John. 

Matt Baublitz 12:50
High. 

Rich Bennett 12:50
I had a thing for 

Matt Baublitz 12:51
4 

Rich Bennett 12:51
a minute 

Matt Baublitz 12:51
minutes. Holy cow, man. Yeah. That's amazing that you still do it in the playroom. Or do you have your own brick and mortar? 

Rich Bennett 12:58
now. 

Matt Baublitz 12:58
I still do. At the playroom. And we are actually getting ready to launch our own brick and mortar as well. I'm not in a place where I necessarily want to have my own place. So what I'm doing, I've been putting a huge emphasis on collaboration. I've been working with a lot of local companies, businesses, individuals, and through that I've found spaces where people rent their event spaces 

Rich Bennett 13:20
Mm. 

Matt Baublitz 13:21
on a, you know, hourly or daily basis. So I'm going to be offering three days a week at an event space in Bel-Air. So that's going to be how I'm going to launch it if it takes off, you know, actual brick and mortar might be in the future. But I definitely want to have somewhere where, you know, kids can just come a few days a week or and then have classes, have free play, have just have instruments out for them to mess around with somewhere where it's just more hands on than you come into a class, you do what I tell you to do when you leave. You know, I want kids just to be able to get in there. And that's always been my idea for rhythm. The kids club was somewhere where kids could just get their hands on instruments because I think just being on a play music, just being able to experience rhythm, experience music, experience instruments is so important, whether you're listening to what I'm telling you to or not. And that's what I always tell parents. Even at the beginning of classes, your kids, some of them are going to do what they want. Some of them are going to be really interested in doing exactly what I'm telling them to do. That's fine. Everybody's going to do their own thing. Different ages, different ways of learning. So just, you know, let them do their own thing. The greatest thing about drumming is there's no such thing as a mistake. It's just creative flair. So 

you started to hit the play? Yes. Have you did you say you're all set? Do you go to daycares as well? I've through my collaborations with getting out there with other, you know, companies, I did a couple of grand openings with companies and met other people along the way. I've ended up doing daycares, preschools. People reached out to me to do different events and camps and things like that. Have you thought about 

Rich Bennett 14:50
Unless you've 

Matt Baublitz 14:50
You've 

Rich Bennett 14:50
already 

Matt Baublitz 14:51
already done 

Rich Bennett 14:51
done 

Matt Baublitz 14:51
it. 

Rich Bennett 14:51
it. If you don't, you're going to blow me away here. 

Matt Baublitz 14:54
Perhaps like. 

Rich Bennett 14:55
Rock the spectrum. 

Matt Baublitz 14:57
I am partnering with them for our upcoming events that we're doing. Yeah, they are a little different with how they structure their classes. They don't do ongoing classes. They only do four class series. 

Rich Bennett 15:10
Okay. 

Matt Baublitz 15:10
They don't want to maintain, you know, teachers, you know, full time. So, you know, with the playroom, I kind of have that where I can keep it going. But yeah, we Iraq is definitely open to, you know, doing a series which is great because now you're. 

Rich Bennett 15:23
You're. You're. 

Matt Baublitz 15:25
You're working with kids of different abilities. 

Rich Bennett 15:26
He's. 

Matt Baublitz 15:28
And 

Rich Bennett 15:28
It's 

Matt Baublitz 15:29
it's 

Rich Bennett 15:29
just. 

Matt Baublitz 15:29
just something about precaution 

Rich Bennett 15:31
When 

Matt Baublitz 15:31
when 

Rich Bennett 15:32
and 

Matt Baublitz 15:32
maybe. 

Rich Bennett 15:32
maybe it's something we learned back in pre-K. 

Matt Baublitz 15:36
Free school 

Rich Bennett 15:37
It 

Matt Baublitz 15:37
just 

Rich Bennett 15:37
just makes 

Matt Baublitz 15:37
makes you 

Rich Bennett 15:38
you feel 

Matt Baublitz 15:38
feel. 

Rich Bennett 15:38
good, 

Matt Baublitz 15:38
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 15:39
you 

Matt Baublitz 15:39
You 

Rich Bennett 15:39
know, 

Matt Baublitz 15:39
know, 

Rich Bennett 15:39
when 

Matt Baublitz 15:39
when 

Rich Bennett 15:39
you're 

Matt Baublitz 15:39
you're 

Rich Bennett 15:40
doing 

Matt Baublitz 15:40
doing 

Rich Bennett 15:40
it and you're. 

Matt Baublitz 15:42
You're right. Even if you miss. 

Rich Bennett 15:44
Q. 

Matt Baublitz 15:44
Q or whatever. It's it's still that you're still making music. Nobody knows. But you do your own hardest critic when it comes to drama. Nobody knows you mess up unless you mess up real bad. Nobody knows you messed up. 

But oh, yeah. Hey, 

sing where you're singing. Yeah, when you're singing a nationally known tune, it's a little different. 

I agree that it's. 

Rich Bennett 16:13
See that? I mean, God. 

Matt Baublitz 16:16
Guy. Kudos to her for. 

Rich Bennett 16:17
For coming 

Matt Baublitz 16:19
Coming 

Rich Bennett 16:20
out 

Matt Baublitz 16:20
out 

Rich Bennett 16:20
and. 

Matt Baublitz 16:20
and admitting that she 

Rich Bennett 16:20
He 

Matt Baublitz 16:21
was 

Rich Bennett 16:21
was drunk and 

Matt Baublitz 16:21
checking. 

Rich Bennett 16:21
checking into rehab. 

Matt Baublitz 16:22
Had No. 

Rich Bennett 16:24
But. 

Somebody actually beat Rosie and. 

Matt Baublitz 16:29
Right. 

Well, so what are your. Where would you like to see my kids go? Let's say five years. Well, you were speaking about the kids with a lot of different abilities, and I think that's real important. And I've always wanted that to be a focus. I actually kind of launched this series of classes at the playroom. I'm calling Mindful Music, and it's classes for kids that are more sensory sensitive 

Rich Bennett 16:55
Yeah. 

Matt Baublitz 16:55
because even kids who aren't necessarily on spectrum or don't necessarily have a diagnosis of any kind, a lot of them have sound sensitivities or even just startle sensitivities, you know, where they might not mind loud sounds as long as they're making them. But the kid next to them might write them. So that's always been really important for me. Our son kind of struggled with some sensitivities when he was younger and outgrew them, but I know it prevented us from doing a lot of things with him, like he'd love to do that, but he can't. Yeah, so I really want to get into offering more of that where, you know, I can expand it out to, you know, I always on my Facebook say I want all musicians to have access, all little musicians to have access to rhythm a kids club. I don't want it to be something that parents say that's too loud for my child. You know? So I definitely want to get into more of that. And I love doing the the community, you know, piece of it, the community collaboration. So even if it's heading up events other than percussion, you know, I'd love to have opportunities, you know, to be able to even host events, you know, say, a movie night for kids who are sensory sensitive or other things where these kids might be missing out. And we have to go into the movie theater because our son didn't like the sound. So just all these things of being a parent that I'm like, I want to make sure that this group of kids camp doesn't miss out, right? So I want that to be a big focus and I want to continue the community collaboration That's huge, especially in Hartford County. Everybody's fantastic. 

Rich Bennett 18:22
With the. 

Matt Baublitz 18:22
With the kids. You know, it's only been 

Rich Bennett 18:24
And 

Matt Baublitz 18:24
since 

Rich Bennett 18:24
since 

Matt Baublitz 18:24
March. 

Rich Bennett 18:24
March. But 

Matt Baublitz 18:26
Buy it with the kids that you've been teaching now 

Rich Bennett 18:29
want. 

Matt Baublitz 18:29
or you have taken part in this. How have you? Have you seen it? 

Rich Bennett 18:38
Phrases. 

Matt Baublitz 18:43
With their mental health because there are a lot of kids that are either. Social anxiety. 

Rich Bennett 18:48
Depression or whatever. 

Matt Baublitz 18:48
Whatever 

Rich Bennett 18:49
But 

Matt Baublitz 18:49
we had it. I don't know if you even know if any of the kids are going through this. Have that. Mhm. But I would personally I would think that this would help with that. Absolutely. And I have even in the course of an hour class seen kids where moms come in and they apologize. Sorry. You know, my son's just gonna sit there, take it into his own thing. But by the end of the class, they're playing along, they're dancing on. And you know, the parents come to me and say, they usually don't do that. And if something if it's something that is overwhelming for them, they usually do not get involved. So I've even seen in the course of a class a change in kids. And one of the, you know, fantastic folks that I've been able to meet through this was Phoenix Therapy's Place in Forest Hill, and they are actually real interested in how it might help a lot of their patients and clients. So I'm in talks with them about them referring people to me for kind of, you know, that additional support, additional way to I mean, it's not just motor skills, it's not just development. It's, you know, like you said, mental health. It's feeling good about yourself, it's confidence. It's it's social to be 

Rich Bennett 19:55
just 

Matt Baublitz 19:55
social. You know, they're 

Rich Bennett 19:57
playing 

Matt Baublitz 19:57
playing 

Rich Bennett 19:58
with 

Matt Baublitz 19:58
with 

Rich Bennett 19:58
other 

Matt Baublitz 19:58
other 

Rich Bennett 19:58
kids. 

Matt Baublitz 19:58
kids. Mhm. 

Rich Bennett 19:59
I 

Matt Baublitz 19:59
I 

Rich Bennett 19:59
mean. 

Matt Baublitz 19:59
mean how many times you've gone to a daycare you always. 

Rich Bennett 20:02
Not always, but 

Matt Baublitz 20:03
A lot of times you'll 

Rich Bennett 20:03
you'll 

Matt Baublitz 20:03
see 

Rich Bennett 20:03
see that. 

Matt Baublitz 20:03
that one kid sitting in the corner. Yeah. You know, or. Either he's sitting in the corner or she's in 

Rich Bennett 20:10
In in the corner because. 

Matt Baublitz 20:11
cause. Social anxiety. 

Rich Bennett 20:14
Where nobody 

Matt Baublitz 20:14
He just 

Rich Bennett 20:14
just 

Matt Baublitz 20:14
wants 

Rich Bennett 20:14
wants 

Matt Baublitz 20:15
to 

Rich Bennett 20:15
to 

Matt Baublitz 20:15
play 

Rich Bennett 20:15
play with 

Matt Baublitz 20:15
with them. 

Rich Bennett 20:15
them, 

Matt Baublitz 20:15
Right. 

Rich Bennett 20:16
you 

Matt Baublitz 20:16
You 

Rich Bennett 20:16
know? 

Matt Baublitz 20:16
know, or being bullied in this way. You're bringing them together, right? Oh, man. Yeah. Unfortunately, the kids that play a little bit different, you know, on the playground are often the ones that other kids avoid. And like you said, when you bring them all together to play music together, nobody's standing out as kids, playing the drum weird. You know, We're not going to talk to them. Everybody's just playing music. And I emphasize that, too. At the end of every class, I always end with the song. I go around, I talk about the importance of making new friends with music. I give all the kids a high five, you know, and let them know that they all made new friends. I made new friends today, and I really want it to be that inclusive, friendly environment for everybody. All right. So when you do this. The kids come in. Good Lord. How many different instruments? 

Rich Bennett 20:59
Instruments that you have to have for that. 

Matt Baublitz 21:02
The collection is growing. 

So usually every class I'll do anywhere from 3 to 4 different percussion instruments for every class. And so I do instruments individually. I do how you can. I work a lot on Amber's dexterity. That's something that really important for little younger kids, especially, and that's teaching them to do different things with each hand. So doing things different with each hand is not something generally younger kids have done. If you ask them to do something with two hands, you'll see they do both hands at the same time, even hitting a drum. So working on you have a shaker in one hand and a drumstick in the other, and now do every other. So now they're learning that they can do every other beat with every other hand instead of just hitting the drum at the same time with both hands. So that's something I focus on is dexterity. So I kind of have usually eight different ways I can approach the instruments. If I introduce four instruments, do able Dexterity work with both of them and, you know, throw in the DJ dance breaks. 

So you actually take a DJ system in there? I have a big pile speaker that's got the LED lights and everything. Yeah. So yeah, so I just turn the music up a little bit for the dance breaks and everybody's happy. So and this is like an actual business. 

Rich Bennett 22:23
A profit. 

Matt Baublitz 22:24
It's not nonprofit. I've had that confusion before. I'm not I'm not profiting. But it's not nonprofits. 

Rich Bennett 22:33
A nonprofit. 

Matt Baublitz 22:36
I mean. It's definitely an option. I don't know. I personally don't don't have the depth or knowledge. It's be something I have to look into for sure, but it's certainly something I've considered because that's kind of how I'm approaching it. I'm not I'm not looking to, you know, make millions on teaching kids music. I'm doing it for the kids. That's why I'm doing I mean, some of my events I'm losing money on, you know, I do events and I pay out of pocket for it. So 

no, because if you turn it into a 5 to 1, she's 

Rich Bennett 23:07
See 

Matt Baublitz 23:07
three. 

Rich Bennett 23:07
three. Yeah, of course. There's the. 

Matt Baublitz 23:09
Founder and 

Rich Bennett 23:10
Director 

Matt Baublitz 23:10
director. 

Rich Bennett 23:11
used 

Matt Baublitz 23:12
Still 

Rich Bennett 23:12
to. 

Matt Baublitz 23:12
get paid. You 

Rich Bennett 23:12
You have 

Matt Baublitz 23:13
have 

Rich Bennett 23:13
to, 

Matt Baublitz 23:13
to, but. 

Rich Bennett 23:13
but you can. 

One of the. 

Matt Baublitz 23:18
The things that. 

Rich Bennett 23:18
Businesses love is to help kids. 

Matt Baublitz 23:21
You can find 

Rich Bennett 23:21
And sponsors 

Matt Baublitz 23:21
sponsors. 

Rich Bennett 23:22
for that. 

Matt Baublitz 23:25
I'm sure there is. Is there a fee for the kids to take part in? The individual classes right now are $25 a child. Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 23:32
First 

Matt Baublitz 23:32
Child. 

Rich Bennett 23:32
child. 

Matt Baublitz 23:33
Okay. 

Rich Bennett 23:33
Okay. Because 

Matt Baublitz 23:33
Because I know even like 

Rich Bennett 23:34
with 

Matt Baublitz 23:34
before 

Rich Bennett 23:34
record 

Matt Baublitz 23:34
I canceled sports. 

Rich Bennett 23:35
sports, 

Matt Baublitz 23:36
Mm hmm. Yeah. There's 

Rich Bennett 23:37
there's a. 

Matt Baublitz 23:37
a fee. Yeah. I'd like to have my own space to do that. More membership based because I want kids to be parents to feel like they can try different classes and not feel like they're paying $25 for it. And then the kid walks out after 5 minutes cause he's not interested in that class and the parent feels like they lost $25. So I'm hoping if I do a membership basis for that, that my my goal really was to have it like a club. And that's why I named it Rhythmic Kids Club, the, you know, the other offshoots of it just kind of happened. I didn't expect it to take off like this, and it just kind of happened. So, yeah, that's. I'd really like it to be like a club where kids can go and play music. I mean, you. 

Rich Bennett 24:14
I mean, you 

Matt Baublitz 24:15
You 

Rich Bennett 24:15
have 

Matt Baublitz 24:15
have to you're 

Rich Bennett 24:16
you're buying 

Matt Baublitz 24:16
buying 

Rich Bennett 24:16
instruments. 

Matt Baublitz 24:16
instruments and the way it. 

Rich Bennett 24:18
I 

Matt Baublitz 24:18
I 

Rich Bennett 24:18
mean, 

Matt Baublitz 24:18
mean, 

Rich Bennett 24:18
just 

Matt Baublitz 24:18
just since March, it seems like 

Rich Bennett 24:20
it's 

Matt Baublitz 24:20
it's exploded. 

Rich Bennett 24:20
exploded. 

Matt Baublitz 24:21
Yeah. Which means your if it keeps growing the way it is, you're going to need more instruments. Another teacher. Yeah. I mean, you're looking at it brick and mortar. So, yeah, I mean, there's a 25, I mean, $25 a kid. For how long? An hour. Class for an hour class? Actually not. 

Rich Bennett 24:46
It's as 

Matt Baublitz 24:47
That's pretty good. And that's, you know, with wherever I'm hosting say the playroom at involves their fee as well to go play. So essentially $12 of that is the play playtime. And $13 additional is for them to go to class. So really, they're paying $13 for the class. Essentially, they pay $12 to go to the playroom anyway. All right. So for right now, the playroom, 

Rich Bennett 25:11
if 

Matt Baublitz 25:11
if somebody 

Rich Bennett 25:11
somebody was. 

Matt Baublitz 25:12
wants to take the class, they still have to go and sign up for the play. 

Rich Bennett 25:16
Right. 

Matt Baublitz 25:16
Correct? Yes. 

The gears are going in my 

Rich Bennett 25:23
Brain. 

Matt Baublitz 25:23
brain 

now because this I mean, this is. 

Rich Bennett 25:28
I want to say this. I want to see you succeed at this. I'm just trying to think of ways. 

Matt Baublitz 25:32
Where. 

Rich Bennett 25:34
You can read 

Matt Baublitz 25:34
Reach 

Rich Bennett 25:35
more. 

Matt Baublitz 25:35
more kids. 

Rich Bennett 25:37
But yet, yo, you're not. You 

Matt Baublitz 25:40
You 

Rich Bennett 25:40
get 

Matt Baublitz 25:40
got to make money. 

Rich Bennett 25:41
money. 

Matt Baublitz 25:41
Mm hmm. That's it. 

Rich Bennett 25:42
You definitely have to make money. I mean, you're. 

Matt Baublitz 25:45
Is this your only job now? It's not enough. Who, if it was, would be in trouble. But 

Rich Bennett 25:52
But you're 

Matt Baublitz 25:52
you're not 

Rich Bennett 25:52
not 

Matt Baublitz 25:53
a 

Rich Bennett 25:53
a music 

Matt Baublitz 25:53
music 

Rich Bennett 25:53
teacher. 

Matt Baublitz 25:53
teacher. No. All right. Let me ask 

Rich Bennett 25:55
So what 

Matt Baublitz 25:55
what 

Rich Bennett 25:55
do 

Matt Baublitz 25:55
do 

Rich Bennett 25:55
you. 

Matt Baublitz 25:55
you today? I'm in I.T. today. Nothing. No. Yeah, 

well, I am in I.T. is what I do full time. And, yeah, ironically, right now I am in between day jobs, unfortunately. So technically, right now, rhythmic kids is what I got. They usually two kids, right? Yes. Both of them play. They do. My son has no interest in listening to me about drumming. He is eight now. He just just turned eight. And he's always had incredible rhythm, always had a huge interest in it. And I got him him his own electronic drumset, and he'll be playing something. He's got real good natural rhythm and able dexterity. I haven't even showed him nothing and he's just got it. 

Rich Bennett 26:39
Oh, 

Matt Baublitz 26:40
So I'm like, You know, I was sitting there watching him like, You want daddy to show you something on that? He's like, No, I'm doing it my way. I'm like, All right, dude, you go ahead, do your thing. So he's just 

Rich Bennett 26:50
wow. 

Matt Baublitz 26:50
he's just my little natural. Now, my daughter, she loves taking my classes. She loves learning new things with it. How old is she? She just turned five. 

Rich Bennett 27:00
Wow. 

Matt Baublitz 27:00
Wow. Yeah. So she loves it. And she'll listen to me in my classes. She called me Mr. Matt. She refuses to call me daddy. She's like, All right, everybody's calling him. I introduced myself as Mr. Matt, so for the rest of that hour, Mr. Matt even walking out the door, she's like, Bye, Mr. Matt. See you later. And I'm. 

I'm like, All right, see you home, babe. 

You see, 

Rich Bennett 27:25
Mr. 

Matt Baublitz 27:25
Mr.. 

Rich Bennett 27:25
Matt, will you make me breath 

Matt Baublitz 27:27
Right. He's not here right. 

So 

Rich Bennett 27:31
in 

Matt Baublitz 27:31
in your 

Rich Bennett 27:32
your 

Matt Baublitz 27:32
honest 

Rich Bennett 27:32
own? 

Matt Baublitz 27:32
opinion. 

Rich Bennett 27:33
Because you know, 

Matt Baublitz 27:33
No, 

Rich Bennett 27:33
the. 

Matt Baublitz 27:33
the kids aren't going to 

Rich Bennett 27:34
And 

Matt Baublitz 27:34
be. 

Rich Bennett 27:34
be listening to this. 

Matt Baublitz 27:35
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 27:38
Who's the better drummer for now? 

Matt Baublitz 27:41
Uh, my son, I think, has the most natural talent. 

Rich Bennett 27:43
Okay. 

Matt Baublitz 27:44
I think he's got my rhythm for sure and my natural talent. My daughter's been surprising me. But yeah, he's definitely without me showing him a thing. He's got it. So if he'd start listening to somebody, he'd be. He'd be real good. And he'd be yourself. 

Rich Bennett 27:58
We're passing. 

Matt Baublitz 28:00
She might just. I think there's something to be right. As I say, there's something to be said for listening and that thirst for learning that she has with it, that she very well could if if she continues with it. You know, and I've I've tried, you know, from when they were born, I told my wife I'm like, I'm not going to push them on drums. And I didn't even have a drum kit in the house, you know, for my son's first three or four years of his life. So he didn't even really know what it was. I wasn't playing around him. But the minute I got that electronic kit in the house, he's like, Oh, what's this over here? You know? And so that was why I had to buy him his own, because he was in there banging on my expensive electronic kit. So I'm like, I will go buy you a little couple of hundred dollar kid kit, you know, and I got him a nice little kit. The little smaller fits in his room and keeps him off my expensive set, you know? 

Rich Bennett 28:46
Getting an electronic. 

Matt Baublitz 28:47
I've been. 

Rich Bennett 28:49
Between either 

Matt Baublitz 28:50
Either getting 

Rich Bennett 28:50
getting in 

Matt Baublitz 28:51
an 

Rich Bennett 28:51
or. 

Matt Baublitz 28:51
electronic because I don't have. I haven't. 

Rich Bennett 28:52
haven't had two drums. I didn't play the drums. God knows how long. 

Matt Baublitz 28:56
But 

Rich Bennett 28:56
But it's 

Matt Baublitz 28:56
it's still 

Rich Bennett 28:57
still fun. 

Matt Baublitz 28:57
fun. 

Rich Bennett 28:58
I would love to get 

Matt Baublitz 28:58
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 28:58
back into it. 

Matt Baublitz 29:00
Either the electronic kit or what's the thing? 

Rich Bennett 29:03
You sit on the wooden board. 

Matt Baublitz 29:05
The 

shoot I know you're talking about, but I know I'm blanking on the name of it. Yeah, 

Cajun. Cajun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I. 

Rich Bennett 29:17
I take it you don't have one of them? 

Matt Baublitz 29:18
I don't know. Have you 

Rich Bennett 29:19
Ever 

Matt Baublitz 29:19
ever 

Rich Bennett 29:19
played 

Matt Baublitz 29:19
played? 

Rich Bennett 29:19
one? 

Matt Baublitz 29:20
I haven't. There is something that interests me. I like watching people play it, and I've always, always been curious about it. Yeah, And it goes. 

Rich Bennett 29:25
Because I don't think there's anything electronic in there 

Matt Baublitz 29:27
Now it's just all through the echoes of the wood 

Rich Bennett 29:31
since. 

Matt Baublitz 29:31
and. Yeah. 

To me, it could 

Rich Bennett 29:35
Be 

Matt Baublitz 29:35
be harder. 

Rich Bennett 29:35
harder. 

Matt Baublitz 29:36
Yeah. Would you 

Rich Bennett 29:37
You 

Matt Baublitz 29:37
make 

Rich Bennett 29:37
make it 

Matt Baublitz 29:37
it more 

Rich Bennett 29:37
more of 

Matt Baublitz 29:37
of a 

Rich Bennett 29:37
a 

Matt Baublitz 29:37
challenge? 

Rich Bennett 29:37
challenge. Matt You love challenges. 

Matt Baublitz 29:39
I love challenges. I might need to take it up. Yeah, I'll have you ever for a low key, I'll need to learn how to say that I'm. I'm a music teacher. I need learn. I'll say that because John. 

Rich Bennett 29:51
I don't know. My son knows I can't control whatever. 

Matt Baublitz 29:55
Whatever. It's a wooden box. 

Rich Bennett 29:56
Would you sit on? It sounds 

Matt Baublitz 29:57
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 29:57
like a drum set, 

Matt Baublitz 29:58
yeah, yeah. 

Um, 

Rich Bennett 30:04
So. 

Matt Baublitz 30:04
so since you've only done it. Started in March. 

Rich Bennett 30:11
You're. 

Matt Baublitz 30:11
You don't have to play. 

Rich Bennett 30:12
Whom would you say? 

Matt Baublitz 30:14
So you wanted to do a lot of. 

Rich Bennett 30:15
Community events. 

Matt Baublitz 30:16
As well. Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 30:18
Explain that 

Matt Baublitz 30:19
because. 

Rich Bennett 30:19
because. 

Matt Baublitz 30:20
Well, I think 

Rich Bennett 30:21
You got. First 

Matt Baublitz 30:21
first. 

Rich Bennett 30:21
of all, I mean, you have so many different things. What type of 

Matt Baublitz 30:24
Community events. 

Rich Bennett 30:24
events? 

Matt Baublitz 30:26
I just like collaborating with other individuals, coming up with new ways to do things, you know? I mean, I have a set of events that's coming up that I ended up blowing out of the water, you know, with with people that were interested in participating in it. So that got that became more of like a festival. You know, we're we're calling that the Creekside Family Fest with Marco's best. It's all hard for county groups. And so that became more of a festival. But as far as like the ongoing collaborations, for example, I'm working with local author Stephanie Guzman, author of The Oliver The Clownfish. Yeah. And came up with the idea for reading Rhythm. And we're offering. Yeah. So we start, we had our first class and it was really neat and just I like collaborating with the community and coming up with different events to do with other people 

Rich Bennett 31:09
Right. 

Matt Baublitz 31:09
and not just being, you know, drum classes. I like the idea of, of a combining, you know, our audiences because, you know, people that are in the Oliver might not necessarily have ever thought about music. People that are into music might not have thought about Oliver. So combining your audiences, combining your talents and working with other creative individuals, I mean, we have so many in Harper County and it's. It's been incredible to work with. And at that. That to me is is almost as rewarding as working with kids. Yeah. And I think with those kids, I just want to get involved, get music to them. I mean, one of my as a as a as a person who's trying to profit a little bit on it, it's great that the market's not saturated. But one thing that has upset me the most is that there's not a lot of options out there for music. 

Rich Bennett 31:53
There's not. 

Matt Baublitz 31:54
And I've even had one parent doing a birthday party coming up. She her son wanted a music themed birthday party and she was almost in tears because she couldn't find anybody to do entertainment for this party, for a three hour party to do a music themed kid's party. Finally, through looking for like a deejay. Right. She wants the whole like, we're going to be doing deejay and instruments, the whole nine dance and everything he wanted to be. They couldn't find anybody. And I, you know, through getting involved in the community, I haven't come across anybody doing what I'm doing. I mean, there's people that will put on a music show for kids, but nobody that really gets them involved and does everything I'm doing. And I honestly rather have more competition and be able to say to somebody, Hey, if you don't like what I'm offering, here's this person's information. They're offering this because I think, you know, as a community, we should be offering this to our children. But for now, I'm not going to complain since everybody has to come my way. 

How's it? I says I work with the 

Rich Bennett 32:55
Of 

Matt Baublitz 32:55
festival. 

Rich Bennett 32:55
festivals due 

Matt Baublitz 32:56
Do 

Rich Bennett 32:57
to. 

Matt Baublitz 32:57
the kids have to 

Rich Bennett 32:57
To 

Matt Baublitz 32:57
come? 

Rich Bennett 32:57
come up. 

Matt Baublitz 32:58
Hey, you partake or or you're just there for them to take, and then they can always 

Rich Bennett 33:03
He's 

Matt Baublitz 33:03
come 

Rich Bennett 33:03
come 

Matt Baublitz 33:03
up 

Rich Bennett 33:03
up and 

Matt Baublitz 33:03
and 

Rich Bennett 33:03
sign 

Matt Baublitz 33:03
sign 

Rich Bennett 33:03
up 

Matt Baublitz 33:03
up 

Rich Bennett 33:04
for 

Matt Baublitz 33:04
for it. 

Rich Bennett 33:04
class. 

Matt Baublitz 33:05
Yeah, the family farms. What we have coming up are free for kids and free for all the vendors. So it's just free. Free for free for all the vendors. Everybody participating is there for free. Only thing I asked was that everybody have something that children can participate in for free. So some of them have expenses through that. But yeah, it's just come up, participate just for getting our names out. We'll have flyers for all of our, you know, events and classes and everything on each of our individual stations. But it's just free across the board. I'm sitting here thinking. 

Rich Bennett 33:37
I know of any events. We're. 

Matt Baublitz 33:41
Parents bring. 

Rich Bennett 33:43
And I do know especially December, I'm always busy because I've seen. But I. I wonder if they could do something like that and bring you in, because 

Matt Baublitz 33:56
Because 

Rich Bennett 33:56
that would just keep. 

Matt Baublitz 33:57
I know they have the one place I do a day of 

Rich Bennett 34:00
Children's 

Matt Baublitz 34:00
children's 

Rich Bennett 34:00
authors 

Matt Baublitz 34:00
all. 

Rich Bennett 34:00
will come and read to the kids. 

Matt Baublitz 34:02
Right. Maybe 

Rich Bennett 34:03
Maybe 

Matt Baublitz 34:03
you serve 

Rich Bennett 34:03
some of the 

Matt Baublitz 34:03
a children's 

Rich Bennett 34:03
children 

Matt Baublitz 34:04
author and 

Rich Bennett 34:04
have you 

Matt Baublitz 34:05
you 

Rich Bennett 34:05
there 

Matt Baublitz 34:05
play 

Rich Bennett 34:05
and. 

Matt Baublitz 34:05
Christmas music. Yeah. Yeah. That would be awesome. Our. Our Lions Club 

Rich Bennett 34:11
We're bringing 

Matt Baublitz 34:11
bring in 

Rich Bennett 34:11
back 

Matt Baublitz 34:11
bags. 

Rich Bennett 34:11
Sub10 in 2025. 

Matt Baublitz 34:14
Um, I think it'd 

Rich Bennett 34:14
It'd 

Matt Baublitz 34:14
be 

Rich Bennett 34:14
be 

Matt Baublitz 34:14
good 

Rich Bennett 34:14
good 

Matt Baublitz 34:15
for 

Rich Bennett 34:15
for 

Matt Baublitz 34:15
you 

Rich Bennett 34:15
you 

Matt Baublitz 34:15
to sit back, 

Rich Bennett 34:15
because 

Matt Baublitz 34:15
because there 

Rich Bennett 34:16
there will 

Matt Baublitz 34:16
will be 

Rich Bennett 34:16
be 

Matt Baublitz 34:16
a 

Rich Bennett 34:16
a lot 

Matt Baublitz 34:16
lot of 

Rich Bennett 34:16
of 

Matt Baublitz 34:16
kids. 

Rich Bennett 34:16
kids there. And that's a pet festival. 

Matt Baublitz 34:18
Oh, nice. 

Rich Bennett 34:19
I mean. 

Matt Baublitz 34:20
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. 

Pets, right? Animals are always a big hit. 

Right here. Nice. Yeah. I mean, absolutely. 

Rich Bennett 34:34
Do an inside out man. 

Matt Baublitz 34:37
Yeah, absolutely. And that's. That's what I'm looking to do, right? I'm hoping. I'm hoping. I mean, that's what I love. I've been kind of just, you know, trying to keep through the whole community and see where I can get involved. I just. I don't want to be just. And that's one reason, too, why I'm hesitant to have, like, a full time brick and mortar where I feel like I need to sit there all day, every day. So that's why I'm trying to do a few days a week, unless I get to the point where I can hire somebody to sit there, you know? But I'm not there yet. But if I get to that point, absolutely. But yeah. 

Rich Bennett 35:07
What Matt is trying to say. 

Matt Baublitz 35:08
Say you 

Rich Bennett 35:08
You would eventually love 

Matt Baublitz 35:09
love 

Rich Bennett 35:10
to 

Matt Baublitz 35:10
to 

Rich Bennett 35:10
retire from the I.T. 

Matt Baublitz 35:11
tea? 

Rich Bennett 35:12
field and just do this. Am. 

Matt Baublitz 35:17
I would not turn down the opportunity, that's for sure. Right. Oh, God. 

Rich Bennett 35:22
God, could you imagine now? 

Matt Baublitz 35:23
Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 35:23
Yeah, that 

Matt Baublitz 35:24
that 

Rich Bennett 35:24
would 

Matt Baublitz 35:24
would be. 

Rich Bennett 35:24
be fun. 

Matt Baublitz 35:25
I've ran the numbers for what I would need to do to be able to, and I'm definitely not there yet 

to 

Rich Bennett 35:33
Tell. 

Matt Baublitz 35:33
tell everybody the website again and 

Rich Bennett 35:35
And 

Matt Baublitz 35:35
how 

Rich Bennett 35:35
how 

Matt Baublitz 35:35
they. 

Rich Bennett 35:35
they can bring. Actually. 

Matt Baublitz 35:39
Kids are. 

Rich Bennett 35:39
Can adults take part in it, too? 

Matt Baublitz 35:42
We do have but debates classes which are adult and child, where we do different rhythm games with the adults and the children. Yeah, yeah. We're offering those at the playroom right now and that's something I'll continue probably wherever I end up, you know, having classes and at the playroom. It's definitely been a big hit with the Littles, you know, where parents can get involved. I've actually had adults ask me to do adult classes. I put some feelers out there like, well, I'm rhythm a kids club, so I advertise it as kids at heart to try to get a little interest in that and see. So that's something that might be on the horizon. Strictly adult classes. I've had adults ask me to do cardio drumming classes so that might be something on the horizon as well. You know what you know would be really good 

Rich Bennett 36:26
If 

Matt Baublitz 36:26
if. 

Rich Bennett 36:28
there's knock. 

Matt Baublitz 36:29
A nonprofit called. 

Rich Bennett 36:30
Uh. 

Matt Baublitz 36:32
Rally against. 

Rich Bennett 36:32
Parkinson's. 

Matt Baublitz 36:34
Working 

Rich Bennett 36:34
Working 

Matt Baublitz 36:34
with. 

Rich Bennett 36:34
with adults with Parkinson's. 

Matt Baublitz 36:36
Because, like boxing. 

Rich Bennett 36:37
And helps people with Parkinson's. 

Matt Baublitz 36:38
Parkinson's? Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 36:40
You're 

Matt Baublitz 36:40
You're 

Rich Bennett 36:40
moving 

Matt Baublitz 36:40
moving 

Rich Bennett 36:40
your 

Matt Baublitz 36:40
your 

Rich Bennett 36:40
hands. 

Matt Baublitz 36:40
hands. One 

Rich Bennett 36:42
Drumming. 

Matt Baublitz 36:42
moment. Yeah, absolutely. I think that we. 

Oh, 

Rich Bennett 36:47
Oh, 

Matt Baublitz 36:47
my. 

Rich Bennett 36:47
my God, man. There. 

Matt Baublitz 36:48
There are so many different people you 

Rich Bennett 36:50
You can 

Matt Baublitz 36:50
can help 

Rich Bennett 36:50
help 

Matt Baublitz 36:51
with. 

Rich Bennett 36:51
with this. 

Matt Baublitz 36:51
Yeah. And it's just it blows me away that there's really nothing out there like that. Yes, there is. 

Right. And I think some organizations, you know, try to do things on their own with teachers that know a little bit about it and they might try to do things on their own. And, you know, but it's a never becomes a full fledged idea. So, yeah, that's and that's what I'm really doing it for, is just to help as many people as I can. 

Rich Bennett 37:16
And so this 

Matt Baublitz 37:16
This is 

Rich Bennett 37:16
is 

Matt Baublitz 37:16
something 

Rich Bennett 37:16
something that 

Matt Baublitz 37:17
that hopefully they'll 

Rich Bennett 37:18
keep 

Matt Baublitz 37:18
keep 

Rich Bennett 37:18
coming 

Matt Baublitz 37:18
coming 

Rich Bennett 37:18
back. 

Matt Baublitz 37:18
back for. They should be. 

Rich Bennett 37:22
I mean, what? 

Matt Baublitz 37:24
Wow. So all you nonprofits 

Rich Bennett 37:26
It's 

Matt Baublitz 37:26
out 

Rich Bennett 37:26
out there 

Matt Baublitz 37:26
there that 

Rich Bennett 37:26
that our. 

Matt Baublitz 37:27
are. And businesses and. 

Rich Bennett 37:30
As well, because I. 

Matt Baublitz 37:30
I can't even see you. 

Rich Bennett 37:31
You. 

Matt Baublitz 37:34
Doing something like this. Yeah. Sometimes businesses will have a wellness 

Rich Bennett 37:39
This 

Matt Baublitz 37:39
day. 

Rich Bennett 37:39
day 

Matt Baublitz 37:39
Mm hmm. 

Rich Bennett 37:40
the. 

Matt Baublitz 37:40
This is wellness. This is just sitting there, beaten on something. Let's face it. It helps if your mental. 

Rich Bennett 37:48
Well, 

Matt Baublitz 37:48
Absolutely. 

Rich Bennett 37:52
you're 

Matt Baublitz 37:52
You're sitting on a goldmine here. In all honesty, I think you really are sitting on a gold mine. 

Rich Bennett 37:57
right. 

Matt Baublitz 37:57
Well, because there's just. I know your focus needs. 

And. 

Wow. I'm open. Like I said, helping everybody. As soon as somebody told me they want to do all classes, I put feelers out there for it and I got some interest. But I don't know. It's enough to launch something, you know, because, you know, you pick a date and then you're nine people that are interested. Now only two can make it, you know. So. So I don't want to go off of art. Well, I have enough people for a class and then when I start to date, they're like, Oh, I can't make it. I can't make it, I can't make it. Now you have a class, but nobody coming. So it's definitely something I'm open to. I love the idea of helping anybody that I can. And I think, like you said, music, especially percussion, is so, so beneficial in so many ways to adults and kids. 

Rich Bennett 38:42
I have the brainstorm. 

Matt Baublitz 38:43
Absolutely. Yeah, I'm open to all that. I like the way your brain works, right? My brain's the same way. I lay in bed, and I think in a new way is to get out there, get in the community. And I'm the same. It's funny because 

Rich Bennett 38:53
Because when if 

Matt Baublitz 38:56
after 

Rich Bennett 38:56
I 

Matt Baublitz 38:56
I 

Rich Bennett 38:56
read 

Matt Baublitz 38:56
read 

Rich Bennett 38:56
a certain book which helped with 

Matt Baublitz 38:58
my. 

Rich Bennett 38:58
my anxiety. 

Now. I'll be 

Matt Baublitz 39:01
obviously. 

Rich Bennett 39:01
sleeping at night and 

Matt Baublitz 39:02
And 

Rich Bennett 39:03
I'll 

Matt Baublitz 39:03
I'll be. 

Rich Bennett 39:03
be dreaming of good ideas. 

Matt Baublitz 39:04
What? I 

wake up, it's like. 

Rich Bennett 39:11
you. 

Matt Baublitz 39:12
All the negative stuff has got 

Rich Bennett 39:13
I just. 

Matt Baublitz 39:14
better things to do, what I can do better, how I can help people. Mm hmm. Absolutely. 

Rich Bennett 39:18
Good 

Matt Baublitz 39:19
What I do. I text message to myself when I wake up in the middle of the night with an idea. So there's if you if you keep your phone on your nightstand, text yourself that the idea when you wake up. Yeah, but I'm so fat, you know. Yeah, it would be. You wouldn't understand it in the morning. Right. With that? Yeah. What I understand in the morning. 

Is there anything you'd like to add before we wrap 

Rich Bennett 39:41
result. 

Matt Baublitz 39:41
this up? Um, I don't think so. I think we covered everything that Rhythmic kids club is about. And I know you said you want me to mention the website again. It's. Yeah, 

Rich Bennett 39:51
Take part. 

Matt Baublitz 39:52
Yeah, it's rhythmic kids dot club. Ah h y t h my kids dot club club. And on there we have all the upcoming events, all the public events that you can see us at as well as classes. You can register for ways to reach out for private events. And like I said, definitely open any collaboration or event ideas. You said that club. That club, did you? Did 

Rich Bennett 40:16
Did 

Matt Baublitz 40:16
you 

Rich Bennett 40:16
you think 

Matt Baublitz 40:16
think of 

Rich Bennett 40:16
of? 

Matt Baublitz 40:16
that originally or was XCOM taken? That club was cheaper. 

Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. It worked. So yeah, because I was looking at like Rhythmic Kids Club XCOM and then the DOT Club came up as an option for an available, you know, domain. And I was like, Oh, all right, I can just do rhythmic ins, that club. 

Rich Bennett 40:37
Well, as soon as you can get. 

Matt Baublitz 40:38
Get the com. 

Rich Bennett 40:39
As won't just have a point. 

Matt Baublitz 40:41
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 40:42
Club 

Matt Baublitz 40:42
Yeah. 

Rich Bennett 40:43
is for somebody snatches a. You know, 

Matt Baublitz 40:46
Right. 

Rich Bennett 40:47
or. 

Matt Baublitz 40:47
And it gets nefarious with it. 

Rich Bennett 40:51
Matt. Thanks a lot, man. 

Matt Baublitz 40:53
Best of luck to you. Those of you listening, if 

Rich Bennett 40:56
If you 

Matt Baublitz 40:56
you have kids or if you 

Rich Bennett 40:57
want 

Matt Baublitz 40:57
want 

Rich Bennett 40:57
to 

Matt Baublitz 40:57
to 

Rich Bennett 40:57
take 

Matt Baublitz 40:57
take 

Rich Bennett 40:58
part 

Matt Baublitz 40:58
part in this, can 

Rich Bennett 40:58
in 

Matt Baublitz 40:58
in touch 

Rich Bennett 40:59
something 

Matt Baublitz 40:59
with them. Rhythmic, rhythmic kids. 

Rich Bennett 41:02
that. 

Matt Baublitz 41:02
That club 

Rich Bennett 41:04
Guarantee you're going to you'll 

Matt Baublitz 41:06
you'll 

Rich Bennett 41:06
have 

Matt Baublitz 41:06
have a 

Rich Bennett 41:06
a 

Matt Baublitz 41:06
lot. 

Rich Bennett 41:06
lot of fun. You're going to be hearing from me 

Matt Baublitz 41:10
Because 

Rich Bennett 41:10
because 

Matt Baublitz 41:10
I 

Rich Bennett 41:10
I got. 

Matt Baublitz 41:10
got more ideas for the trip ahead. So I'm excited to see what we could do in the community. Oh yeah. Thanks for having me, Rich.