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For the Season One Finale of Hye Jams: Between the Notes, Paisan Kapitan sits down with one of his most anticipated guests yet — Prophet Lovy Elias — for a conversation that goes places few interviews dare to go. Some will watch as believers. Some will come curious. Some may come skeptical. This episode is for all of them. Prophet Lovy takes us back to Kenya and the extraordinary encounter he says changed his life forever: meeting Jesus at just six years old. From there, Paisan goes straight into the questions people want answered. What exactly is the prophetic? How does a prophet hear from God? Can the prophetic reveal things no one else could possibly know? And in a world filled with people claiming to speak for God, how do you know what’s real? But this conversation goes far beyond the pulpit. Lovy opens up about betrayal and personal attacks — including some that came from people he loved, trusted and personally helped — and explains why he believes the pain and opposition that accompany a calling can actually become part of the journey. The conversation gets even heavier as Paisan and Lovy discuss the growing attacks on Christianity around the world, persecution, fear, speaking boldly about faith and what Lovy believes Christians are facing in the years ahead. Then there’s a side of Prophet Lovy you may not know. He shares his deep love for the Armenian people, the community that helped embrace him as his ministry was beginning in Los Angeles, and why today he proudly considers himself an HONORARY ARMENIAN — “Lovy Jan.” We also leave the pulpit behind and find out what normal life with the Prophet actually looks like — marriage, kids, traveling, sushi, martial arts, getting corrected by God and whether having a prophetic gift makes it nearly impossible for your family to get anything past you. And then… JON JONES. Lovy tells the remarkable story of his relationship with UFC Champion Jon Jones, becoming his spiritual advisor, praying with one of the greatest fighters in MMA history, and the prophetic story behind the spinning back kick that helped Jones finish his championship fight at UFC 309. Paisan even has a surprise waiting for Lovy that leaves the Prophet nearly speechless. And because this is Between the Notes, somehow we eventually arrive at one of mankind’s most important theological questions: DO ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN? Yes. Paisan actually asked him. 😂 Faith. Miracles. Prophecy. Betrayal. Christianity under fire. Armenia. Family. Jon Jones. Dogs in heaven. And plenty of laughs in between. Paisan delivers what may be his most personal, powerful and entertaining interview yet, ending Season One exactly the way it should end — with an unforgettable conversation, a heartfelt prayer, and a reminder of what Between the Notes has become. This isn’t just another episode. This is the Season Finale you don’t want to miss. PROPHET LOVY ELIAS x PAISAN KAPITAN MIRACLES AND THE PROPHETIC… IS THIS FOR REAL? Hye Jams: Between the Notes — Season One Finale ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👍 LIKE & SUBSCRIBE If you enjoy the show, hit LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and turn on notifications. Every click helps us continue growing and bringing Armenian stories, artists, entrepreneurs and personalities to audiences around the world. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 PROPHET LOVY ELIAS ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Founder & Senior Pastor — Revelation Church LA REVELATION CHURCH LA 580 E. Easy Street Simi Valley, CA 93065 SERVICE TIMES Thursday — 7:30 PM Sunday — 10:00 AM 📖 THE POSTURE Prophet Lovy Elias’ book The Posture is available at: ProphetLovy.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 REVELATION NIGHTS — NEW YORK CITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━ October 20, 2026 Barclays Center Brooklyn, New York Experience Revelation Nights live in New York City with Prophet Lovy Elias. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: RevelationChurch.org Ticketmaster.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ PAISAN KAPITAN ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Host & Creator — Hye Jams: Between the Notes Instagram: @paisankapitan www.PaisanKapitan.com 🎤 Available for Hosting and Voice Over Contact: [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📻 HYE JAMS RADIO ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Listen to Hye Jams Radio 24/7 and watch Between the Notes through the Hye Jams app. Available on iHeartRadio and your favorite streaming platforms. www.HyeJams.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━━ The views, opinions, statements, allegations, and personal experiences expressed by guests appearing on Between the Notes are solely those of the individual guest and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions, or beliefs of Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, Between the Notes, its hosts, producers, sponsors, affiliates, employees, contractors, or representatives. Guests are responsible for their own statements and characterizations of events. Any references to individuals, organizations, companies, productions, events, or public figures are presented as the guest's personal recollections, opinions, or experiences. Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, and Between the Notes make no independent representations regarding the accuracy or completeness of such statements. This program is intended for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 PRODUCTION NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Featured music and video content used in this production was provided by, approved by, or used with permission from the applicable writers, producers, performers, and/or rights holders. Background Music: Morning Light Music License #: 2510-71789 ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 PRODUCED BY ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Wayne Lewis Chummy Inc. © 2026 All Rights Reserved. #ProphetLovy #LovyElias #PaisanKapitan #BetweenTheNotes #HyeJams #RevelationChurch #RevelationNights #TheProphetic #ArmenianCommunity #Jesus

This week on **Hye Jams: Between the Notes**, Paisan Kapitan sits down with two Armenians whose lives prove that the road you're supposed to take isn't always the one that gets you where you're meant to go. International recording artist **SASH** is back — but this isn't another “how did you get started?” interview. He's married, building a career in the world of McLaren and high-end luxury automobiles, thinking about fatherhood, and looking at his music — and the man who created it — through a very different lens. What happens when the chaos that once fueled the music gives way to stability? Would he want his future children hearing everything he recorded? And after spending his days around extraordinary wealth, does the materialism celebrated in hip-hop start looking different? Sash also gets candid about the Armenian music industry, why the business side needs to be handled more professionally, and his desire to see the next generation of Armenian-American hip-hop artists step forward. Then **ARMEN KARAOGHLANIAN**, founder of the **Armenian Film Society**, joins the conversation with one hell of a story of his own. He was kicked out of middle school, high school AND city college — then went to USC film school, became a college professor, and eventually returned to the same high school that once let him go… **as principal for the day.** Armen opens up about the wife who helped change the direction of his life, his battle with Familial Mediterranean Fever, his emotional first trip to Armenia, and how he and his wife built Armenian Film Society from screenings projected onto a bookstore wall into an organization connecting Armenian filmmakers and audiences around the world. We also look ahead to the **Armenian Film Festival 2026, September 16–20 in Glendale**, and talk about the future of Armenian cinema. How do we preserve our history without allowing Armenian storytelling to become trapped by it? Where are the Armenian comedies? The horror movies? The love stories? The completely unexpected stories that have nothing to do with genocide or trauma? And what will the next generation of Armenian filmmakers bring to the screen? Then, because this is **Between the Notes**, things eventually go completely off the rails with the **Rapid Fire Bonus Round** — including McLarens, pregnancy tests, Armenian family arguments and an attempt by Sash and Armen to create the worst Armenian movie ever made. **Music. Movies. Marriage. Culture. Failure. Success.** And figuring out who you're becoming while you're still becoming them. **This is BETWEEN THE NOTES.** 👍 **LIKE & SUBSCRIBE** and turn on notifications. Every click helps us continue growing and bringing Armenian stories, artists, entrepreneurs and personalities to audiences around the world. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎤 GUESTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━ **SASH** International Recording Artist Instagram:  ⁨@SashVerniss⁩  Y ouTube:  ⁨@SashVerniss⁩    **ARMEN KARAOGHLANIAN** Founder — Armenian Film Society Instagram:  ⁨@armenianfilmsociety⁩  🎬 **ARMENIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2026** September 16–20, 2026 Glendale, California ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ PAISAN KAPITAN ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Instagram: @paisankapitan www.PaisanKapitan.com *Available for Hosting and Voice Over: [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📻 HYE JAMS RADIO ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Listen to **Hye Jams Radio 24/7** and watch **Between the Notes** through the Hye Jams app. Available on **iHeartRadio** and your favorite streaming platforms. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━━ The views, opinions, statements, allegations, and personal experiences expressed by guests appearing on **Between the Notes** are solely those of the individual guest and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions, or beliefs of Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, Between the Notes, its hosts, producers, sponsors, affiliates, employees, contractors, or representatives. Guests are responsible for their own statements and characterizations of events. Any references to individuals, organizations, companies, productions, events, or public figures are presented as the guest's personal recollections, opinions, or experiences. Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, and Between the Notes make no independent representations regarding the accuracy or completeness of such statements. This program is intended for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 PRODUCTION NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Featured music videos used in this production were provided by, approved by, and used with permission from the writers, producers, and performers of the featured songs, who also appeared as guests in this episode. Background Music: Morning Light Music License #: 2510-71789 ━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 PRODUCED BY ━━━━━━━━━━━ Wayne Lewis Chummy Inc. © 2026 All Rights Reserved.

What happens when the hardest moments of your life become the very things that give you strength? On this episode of Between the Notes, Paisan Kapitan sits down with international recording artist R-MEAN and entrepreneur Gary Harutyunyan for a conversation about pain, perseverance, fatherhood, faith, purpose — and what happens when you refuse to quit. 🎤 R-MEAN returns to Between the Notes with new music and a new perspective on life. He opens up about balancing his career as an artist and pharmacist, his journey through Armenian hip-hop, working with legendary artists, and his upcoming album PAIN IS POWER. But the conversation goes much deeper than music. R-MEAN shares the incredible story of his daughter Olivia, born at just 28 weeks after an extremely difficult pregnancy. After doctors warned his family about what could happen, Olivia spent five months in the NICU fighting her way home. Today, R-MEAN and his family call her their miracle baby. He also talks about how becoming a father changed the man — and the artist — he is today. Then we meet Gary Harutyunyan, whose story sounds like it belongs in a movie. Gary opens up about a difficult childhood, the grandmother who helped shape the man he became, surviving a terrifying shooting as a teenager, and the moment during that experience when he says he saw Jesus. Years later, another struggle changed his life. After spending sleepless nights trying to comfort his colicky newborn son, Gary realized parents needed something that didn't exist. That frustration became Sleepy Baby — an invention that eventually took him all the way to Shark Tank, where he received and accepted an offer from Kendra Scott. Two Armenian men. Two completely different journeys. One powerful reminder: The things meant to destroy you can become the very things God uses to strengthen you. PAIN IS POWER. 👍 Like the video 💬 Leave a comment and tell us which guest inspired you the most. 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications for new episodes of Between the Notes every week! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ SUPPORT OUR GUESTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎤 RMEAN Instagram: @rmean YouTube: @rmean 💨 Gary & Sleepy Baby Instagram: @sleepybabytech www.SleepyBaby.com 🎙️ PAISAN KAPITAN Instagram: @paisankapitan www.PaisanKapitan.com Available for Hosting, Improv and Voiceovers Email: [email protected] 📻 HYE JAMS RADIO Instagram: @hyejams www.HyeJams.com 📱 Download the Hye Jams App in the App Store. 🎵 Listen 24/7 to today's hottest Armenian music on the Hye Jams iHeartRadio Channel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 PRODUCTION NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Featured music videos used in this production were provided by, approved by, and used with permission from the writers, producers, and performers of the featured songs, who also appeared as guests in this episode. Background Music: Morning Light Music License #: 2510-71789 ━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 PRODUCED BY ━━━━━━━━━━━ Wayne Lewis Chummy Inc. © 2026 All Rights Reserved. ━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━ The views, opinions, statements, allegations, and personal experiences expressed by guests appearing on Between the Notes are solely those of the individual guest and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions, or beliefs of Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, Between the Notes, its hosts, producers, sponsors, affiliates, employees, contractors, or representatives. Guests are responsible for their own statements and characterizations of events. Any references to individuals, organizations, companies, productions, events, or public figures are presented as the guest's personal recollections, opinions, or experiences. Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, and Between the Notes make no independent representations regarding the accuracy, completeness, or accuracy of such statements. This program is intended for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only.

What happens when a dream is placed on hold—but never truly dies? On this episode of Between the Notes, Paisan Kapitan welcomes Edmond and Armond Stepanyan, better known as The Armenian Twins, for the remarkable story of their return to music after 25 years. Their journey began in 1994 with a small Yamaha keyboard, a cassette recorder and a dream. After Armenian record stores initially rejected their music, the twins and their father produced and distributed 1,000 copies themselves—and sold out within two days. Their groundbreaking work helped introduce rap to the Armenian music community. Edmond and Armond open up about their father’s faith in them, stepping away from music to raise their families and why they finally decided to make their comeback. They also discuss blending Armenian culture with pop, rap and melody, connecting with listeners through meaningful lyrics and their emotional new song, “Du Es Im.” Also joining the show is professional Middle Eastern percussionist Gokor Simityan, whose musical journey began at just two years old with a pair of spoons and an empty water bottle. Gokor shares how he discovered the darbuka, developed his signature finger-split technique and turned a childhood passion into a career bringing energy and joy to weddings, concerts and cultural celebrations. Plus, don’t miss Gokor’s live in-studio performance and a hilarious rapid-fire bonus round featuring aliens, famous twins, casino disasters, Nutella—and one million-dollar offer the Armenian Twins immediately reject! Like, comment and subscribe for more Armenian music, culture and unforgettable conversations from Between the Notes, presented by Hye Jams Radio. FEATURED GUESTS The Armenian Twins — Edmond & Armond Stepanyan Instagram:  @ArmenianTwins  YouTube:  @ArmenianTwins  Gokor Simityan — Professional Percussionist Instagram: @gokorsimityan Facebook: @gokorsimityan HOST Paisan Kapitan Instagram: @paisankapitan PaisanKapitan.com ***Available for Hosting and Voice Over: [email protected] HYE JAMS RADIO Instagram: @hyejams HyeJams.com Download the Hye Jams app and listen to contemporary Armenian hits 24/7. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 PRODUCTION NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Featured music videos used in this production were provided by, approved by, and used with permission from the writers, producers, and performers of the featured songs, who also appeared as guests in this episode. Background Music: Morning Light Music License #: 2510-71789 ━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 PRODUCED BY ━━━━━━━━ Wayne Lewis Chummy Inc. © 2026 All Rights Reserved. ━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━ The views, opinions, statements, allegations, and personal experiences expressed by guests appearing on Between the Notes are solely those of the individual guest and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions, or beliefs of Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, Between the Notes, its hosts, producers, sponsors, affiliates, employees, contractors, or representatives. Guests are responsible for their own statements and characterizations of events. Any references to individuals, organizations, companies, productions, events, or public figures are presented as the guest's personal recollections, opinions, or experiences. Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, and Between the Notes make no independent representations regarding the accuracy, completeness, or accuracy of such statements. This program is intended for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. #BetweenTheNotes #HyeJamsRadio #ArmenianTwins #ArmenianMusic #ArmenianRap #ArmenianCulture #Darbuka #GokorSimityan #PaisanKapitan

This week on BETWEEN THE NOTES, Paisan Kapitan brings together two fascinating Armenian men from completely different worlds: acclaimed writer, artist, playwright and performer VAHE BERBERIAN and successful entrepreneur GEVORK “GEORGE” SUKUNYAN. Vahe opens up about growing up in Beirut, discovering that humor could be his greatest defense, his life as a storyteller, and the health crisis that changed everything. After battling cancer and undergoing 14 surgeries in five years, Vahe found an escape through writing — including the story that would eventually become LETTERS FROM ZAATAR. Then the conversation takes a very unexpected turn. Vahe is a self-proclaimed atheist who was actually raised in a deeply Christian home and, as a child, was expected to become a priest. He explains the experiences that eventually caused him to question the existence of God. Paisan, a man of strong Christian faith, respectfully challenges his perspective and shares why his own journey led him to believe exactly the opposite. It’s honest. At times uncomfortable. But never disrespectful. Then Gevork “George” Sukunyan joins the conversation with an entirely different story. George came to America from Armenia at just 12 years old, left high school early and eventually turned a business that started with a single truck into a major exotic automobile transportation company moving thousands of vehicles every year. George also talks about family, entrepreneurship, The Reserve LA, his passion for giving back to the Armenian community — and why, despite all his success in business, one of his happiest places is still behind a grill cooking for the people he loves. Two completely different men. Two remarkable lives. And one conversation that goes places none of them expected. There are laughs, serious moments, disagreements, great stories and, in true BETWEEN THE NOTES fashion, Paisan closes the show by praying over both of his guests — including the atheist. This is BETWEEN THE NOTES. LIKE • SUBSCRIBE • SHARE and help us continue shining a spotlight on the artists, entrepreneurs, entertainers and everyday people doing incredible things in the Armenian community. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ SUPPORT OUR GUESTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎤 VAHE BERBERIAN Instagram: @vaheberberian YouTube:  ⁨@VaheBerberian⁩  💨 GEORGE SUKUNYAN Instagram: @reserve_lounge @cuban_cigar_collector JP Logistics (Exotic Car Shipping): www.jplogistics.net The Reserve LA: 1411 Railroad St. Glendale, CA 91204 (213) 889-8888 🎙️ PAISAN KAPITAN Instagram: @paisankapitan www.PaisanKapitan.com ***Available for Hosting, Improv and Voiceovers Email: [email protected] 📻 HYE JAMS RADIO Instagram: @hyejams www.HyeJams.com 📱 Download the Hye Jams App in the App Store. 🎵 Listen 24/7 to today's hottest Armenian music on the Hye Jams iHeartRadio Channel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 PRODUCTION NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Featured music videos used in this production were provided by, approved by, and used with permission from the writers, producers, and performers of the featured songs, who also appeared as guests in this episode. Background Music: Morning Light Music License #: 2510-71789 ━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 PRODUCED BY ━━━━━━━━━━━ Wayne Lewis Chummy Inc. © 2026 All Rights Reserved. ━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━ The views, opinions, statements, allegations, and personal experiences expressed by guests appearing on Between the Notes are solely those of the individual guest and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions, or beliefs of Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, Between the Notes, its hosts, producers, sponsors, affiliates, employees, contractors, or representatives. Guests are responsible for their own statements and characterizations of events. Any references to individuals, organizations, companies, productions, events, or public figures are presented as the guest's personal recollections, opinions, or experiences. Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, and Between the Notes make no independent representations regarding the accuracy, completeness, or accuracy of such statements. This program is intended for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. #ArmenianBusiness #HyeJams #VaheBerberian #GeorgeSukunyan #ArmenianCommunity

Sevan Waited Years to Chase Her Dream | Evelina Found Her Voice Through Music Author Sevan Minaskanian and rising Armenian artist Evelina join Paisan Kapitan for an inspiring conversation about purpose, perseverance, creativity, and never giving up on the dream God placed in your heart. Sevan shares her remarkable journey from putting her dream on hold to raise a family, to becoming the author of the acclaimed Winter Series. She opens up about overcoming rejection, surviving bullying, and transforming life's challenges into stories that have touched readers around the world. Joining us from Armenia via Jams Cam, Evelina discusses growing up between Armenia and New York, blending Armenian and English in her music, recording vocals from her own bedroom, and how her background in psychology shapes her songwriting and creative process. In this episode: • Sevan Minaskanian's inspiring publishing journey • Why rejection shouldn't stop your dream • Evelina's unique songwriting process • Balancing Armenian heritage with modern creativity • The Rapid Fire Bonus Round • A heartfelt prayer to close the show If you've ever wondered whether it's too late to pursue your passion, this episode will remind you that dreams don't expire—they simply wait for the right moment. 👍 Like the video 💬 Leave a comment and tell us which guest inspired you the most. 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications for new episodes of Between the Notes every week! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ SUPPORT OUR GUESTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎤 SEVAN MANISKANIAN Instagram: @sevantime www.sevantime.com   💨 EVELINA Instagram: @evelinaxyan YouTube: @evelinaofficialmusic Paisan's Outfit Provided by: www.LostAngelsClub.com 🎙️ PAISAN KAPITAN Instagram: @paisankapitan www.PaisanKapitan.com Available for Hosting, Improv and Voiceovers Email: [email protected] 📻 HYE JAMS RADIO Instagram: @hyejams www.HyeJams.com 📱 Download the Hye Jams App in the App Store. 🎵 Listen 24/7 to today's hottest Armenian music on the Hye Jams iHeartRadio Channel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 PRODUCTION NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Featured music videos used in this production were provided by, approved by, and used with permission from the writers, producers, and performers of the featured songs, who also appeared as guests in this episode. Background Music: Morning Light Music License #: 2510-71789 ━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 PRODUCED BY ━━━━━━━━━━━ Wayne Lewis Chummy Inc. © 2026 All Rights Reserved. ━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━ The views, opinions, statements, allegations, and personal experiences expressed by guests appearing on Between the Notes are solely those of the individual guest and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions, or beliefs of Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, Between the Notes, its hosts, producers, sponsors, affiliates, employees, contractors, or representatives. Guests are responsible for their own statements and characterizations of events. Any references to individuals, organizations, companies, productions, events, or public figures are presented as the guest's personal recollections, opinions, or experiences. Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, and Between the Notes make no independent representations regarding the accuracy, completeness, or accuracy of such statements. This program is intended for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. #BetweenTheNotes #HyeJams #PaisanKapitan #SevanMinaskanian #Evelina #ArmenianMusic #AuthorInterview #Songwriter #CreativeJourney #NeverGiveUp

What does it take to turn heartbreak into music... and a pandemic hobby into a thriving business? On this episode of Between the Notes, Paisan Kapitan sits down with rising Armenian hip-hop artist Franco Drew, who opens up about depression, purpose, the inspiration behind his upcoming album Jolly Kid, and why making an impact matters more than chasing fame. Then meet Suzy, founder of Shishaya Premium Hookah Catering, who transformed a simple passion into one of Southern California's premier hookah catering companies while balancing a successful career in finance. It's a conversation about faith, perseverance, entrepreneurship, music, and discovering the purpose God has for your life. 👍 Like, Subscribe & Share ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ SUPPORT OUR GUESTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎤 FRANCO DREW Instagram: @francodrew Music & Videos: Search Franco Drew Merch: JollyKidCrew.com   💨 SUZY – SHISHAYA PREMIUM HOOKAH CATERING Instagram: @SHISHAYA_A   🎙️ PAISAN KAPITAN Instagram: @paisankapitan www.PaisanKapitan.com Available for Hosting, Improv and Voiceovers Email: [email protected]   📻 HYE JAMS RADIO Instagram: @hyejams www.HyeJams.com 📱 Download the Hye Jams App in the App Store. 🎵 Listen 24/7 to today's hottest Armenian music on the Hye Jams iHeartRadio Channel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 PRODUCTION NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Featured music videos used in this production were provided by, approved by, and used with permission from the writers, producers, and performers of the featured songs, who also appeared as guests in this episode. Background Music: Morning Light Music License #: 2510-71789 ━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 PRODUCED BY ━━━━━━━━━━━ Wayne Lewis Chummy Inc. © 2026 All Rights Reserved. ━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━ The views, opinions, statements, allegations, and personal experiences expressed by guests appearing on Between the Notes are solely those of the individual guest and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions, or beliefs of Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, Between the Notes, its hosts, producers, sponsors, affiliates, employees, contractors, or representatives. Guests are responsible for their own statements and characterizations of events. Any references to individuals, organizations, companies, productions, events, or public figures are presented as the guest's personal recollections, opinions, or experiences. Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, and Between the Notes make no independent representations regarding the accuracy, completeness, or accuracy of such statements. This program is intended for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. #BetweenTheNotes #FrancoDrew #Shishaya #Suzy #JollyKid #ArmenianMusic #HipHop #Entrepreneur #Podcast #Armenian #Faith #Purpose #SuccessStory #Business #Music #MentalHealth #Inspiration #HyeJams #PaisanKapitan #Glendale

| Two Incredible Armenian Success Stories | What does it take to build a legacy? In this powerful episode of **Between the Notes**, Paisan Kapitan sits down with two men whose journeys couldn't be more different—but whose determination led them to extraordinary success. 🎧 **DJ Apo** shares the untold story behind his rise from violin player to one of the well known entertainment names in the Armenian culture. From remixing legendary Armenian classics and producing club anthems to reading a crowd of thousands, he opens up about the career, the pressure, the mistakes, and the passion that built his name. 🥖 **Arsen Vardanyan**, founder of **K'arsi Bakery & Lavash**, tells one of the most inspiring immigrant stories you'll hear. Growing up in extreme poverty, living with his family inside a converted train wagon, serving in the military, sleeping on restaurant tables while chasing opportunity, winning the Green Card lottery, risking everything to open his first bakery with almost nothing... and ultimately building one of Southern California's fastest-growing Armenian bakeries. Along the way you'll hear conversations about: • Growing up with nothing—and refusing to stay there • Preserving Armenian music for a new generation • The mindset behind entrepreneurship and financial freedom • Building businesses through faith, sacrifice, and perseverance  Wedding DJ secrets and unforgettable moments • Why "Be Different" may be the best business advice you'll ever hear • The importance of family, purpose, and never giving up   Whether you're chasing a dream, building a business, creating music, or simply looking for inspiration, this episode is packed with practical wisdom, honest stories, and plenty of laughs. As always, Paisan wraps up the show with an encouraging prayer for health, success, and everyone watching at home. 👍 Like, Subscribe & Share ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ SUPPORT OUR GUESTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎤 DJ APO Instagram: @DJ.APO YouTube:  @DJAPO    🎵 ARSEN VARDANYAN / K'ARSI LAVASH & BAKERY Instagram:  @KARSILAVASH  Locations: GLENDALE: 222 N VERDUGO RD. (818)805-2002 BURBANK: 336 S GLENOAKS BLVD (818)805-2004   🎙️ PAISAN KAPITAN Instagram: @paisankapitan www.PaisanKapitan.com Available for Hosting, Improv and Voiceovers* Email: [email protected]   📻 HYE JAMS RADIO Instagram: @hyejams www.HyeJams.com 📱 Download the Hye Jams App in the App Store 🎵 Listen 24/7 to your favorite Armenian hits on the Hye Jams iHeartRadio channel ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 PRODUCTION NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Featured music videos used in this production were provided by, approved by, and used with permission from the writers, producers, and performers of the featured songs, who also appeared as guests in this episode. Background Music: Morning Light Music License #: 2510-71789 ━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 PRODUCED BY ━━━━━━━━━━━ Wayne Lewis Chummy Inc. © 2026 All Rights Reserved.   — DISCLAIMER -- The views, opinions, statements, allegations, and personal experiences expressed by guests appearing on Between the Notes are solely those of the individual guest and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions, or beliefs of Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, Between the Notes, its hosts, producers, sponsors, affiliates, employees, contractors, or representatives. Guests are responsible for their own statements and characterizations of events. Any references to individuals, organizations, companies, productions, events, or public figures are presented as the guest's personal recollections, opinions, or experiences. Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, and Between the Notes make no independent representations regarding the accuracy, completeness, or veracity of such statements. This program is intended for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. #BetweenTheNotes #DJApo #ArsenVardanyan #KArsiBakery #Entrepreneur #ImmigrantStory #SuccessStory #Armenian #ArmenianMusic #Podcast #Business #Faith #Purpose #Inspiration #HyeJams #MusicProducer #SmallBusiness #AmericanDream #Leadership #Motivation

What happens when an Italian from New York falls in love with an Armenian girl... and ends up falling in love with an entire culture? In this special episode of Between the Notes, host Paisan Kapitan sits down with the woman behind it all—his wife, Mrs. Paisan—for one of the most personal conversations ever featured on the show. Together they share the incredible story of how they met, how God brought them together, the challenges of a cross-cultural marriage, miracles they've witnessed, practical advice for couples, and the faith that continues to hold their family together. The episode also features an exclusive Jams Cam interview from Dubai with award-winning Armenian actor Armen Greyg. From Hollywood and Bollywood to Netflix's Extraction 2, Armen shares his remarkable journey through the entertainment industry, the challenges he's overcome, and what's next in his international career. In this episode: • The real story behind Paisan & Mrs. Paisan • Marriage advice rooted in faith and experience • Miracles that strengthened their walk with God • A rapid-fire bonus round with Mrs. Paisan • A heartfelt prayer for marriages, families, and everyone watching • Exclusive Jams Cam interview with award-winning Armenian actor Armen Greyg If this episode encouraged you, made you laugh, or strengthened your faith, please hit the Like button, subscribe to the channel, and share it with someone who could use a little hope today. 👍 Like, Subscribe & Share ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ SUPPORT OUR GUESTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎭 ARMEN GREYG Instagram: @armengreyg 🎙️ PAISAN KAPITAN Instagram: @paisankapitan www.PaisanKapitan.com Available for Hosting, Improv and Voiceovers Email: www.HyeJams.com 📱 Download the Hye Jams App in the App Store 🎵 Listen 24/7 to your favorite Armenian hits on the Hye Jams iHeartRadio channel ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 PRODUCTION NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Featured music videos used in this production were provided by, approved by, and used with permission from the writers, producers, and performers of the featured songs, who also appeared as guests in this episode. Background Music: Morning Light Music License #: 2510-71789 ━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 PRODUCED BY ━━━━━━━━━━━ Wayne Lewis Chummy Inc. © 2026 All Rights Reserved. — DISCLAIMER The views, opinions, statements, allegations, and personal experiences expressed by guests appearing on Between the Notes are solely those of the individual guest and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions, or beliefs of Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, Between the Notes, its hosts, producers, sponsors, affiliates, employees, contractors, or representatives. Guests are responsible for their own statements and characterizations of events. Any references to individuals, organizations, companies, productions, events, or public figures are presented as the guest's personal recollections, opinions, or experiences. Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, and Between the Notes make no independent representations regarding the accuracy, completeness, or veracity of such statements. This program is intended for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. #BehindEveryPaisan #PaisanKapitan #MrsPaisan #ArmenGreyg #BetweenTheNotes #HyeJams #Marriage #Faith #Family #ChristianMarriage #LoveStory #Armenian #ArmenianCulture #Podcast #Hollywood #Bollywood #Dubai #JamsCam #Jesus #Miracles #iHeartRadio #ChristianPodcast #AwardWinningActor #CrossCulturalMarriage #Inspiration #Storytelling #FamilyValues #Hope #ChristianLife

Some of the most unforgettable people don't just build careers. They build conversations. They build classics. In this special episode of Between the Notes, Paisan Kapitan welcomes beloved media personality Louisa Sharamatyan and legendary Armenian recording artist Joseph Krikorian for two inspiring conversations about purpose, perseverance, legacy, and staying authentic in an ever-changing world. Louisa opens up about life on the other side of the microphone after years interviewing celebrities across Fox 11, Entertainment Tonight, AfterBuzz TV, and her own hit show, Louisa Live. She shares the mindset that keeps her positive, why authenticity wins on social media, what truly builds a successful personal brand, and why ordinary people often have the most extraordinary stories. Joseph Krikorian reflects on nearly four decades in music, from growing up during war in Lebanon to becoming one of Armenian music's most recognizable voices around the world. He shares never-before-heard stories about sacrificing everything to record his first album, working alongside the legendary Paul Baghdadlian, surviving difficult seasons in his career, reinventing himself through entrepreneurship, and how his Christian faith has carried him through every chapter. Together, these two remarkable guests remind us that true success isn't measured by fame... It's measured by the lives you impact. In this episode you'll hear: • Louisa Sharamatyan's journey from entertainment reporter to respected media personality • Why authenticity matters more than perfection in today's social media world • The biggest mistakes people make when building a personal brand • Joseph Krikorian's incredible 40-year journey through Armenian music • Behind-the-scenes stories about the legendary Paul Baghdadlian • Growing up during war in Lebanon and overcoming impossible odds • Reinventing yourself when life forces you to change directions • Faith, family, resilience, and leaving a meaningful legacy • A heartfelt prayer to close another unforgettable episode of Between the Notes This is more than an interview. It's a conversation about purpose, legacy, and what it really means to leave your mark on the world. 👍 Like, Subscribe & Share ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ SUPPORT OUR GUESTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎤 LOUISA SHARAMATYAN Instagram: @louisasharamatyan 🎵 JOSEPH KRIKORIAN Instagram: @josephkrikorian 🎙️ PAISAN KAPITAN Instagram: @paisankapitan www.PaisanKapitan.com Available for Hosting, Improv and Voiceovers Email: [email protected] 📻 HYE JAMS RADIO Instagram: @hyejams www.HyeJams.com 📱 Download the Hye Jams App in the App Store 🎵 Listen 24/7 to your favorite Armenian hits on the Hye Jams iHeartRadio channel ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 PRODUCTION NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Featured music videos used in this production were provided by, approved by, and used with permission from the writers, producers, and performers of the featured songs, who also appeared as guests in this episode. Background Music: Morning Light Music License #: 2510-71789 ━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 PRODUCED BY ━━━━━━━━━━━ Wayne Lewis Chummy Inc. © 2026 All Rights Reserved. — DISCLAIMER The views, opinions, statements, allegations, and personal experiences expressed by guests appearing on Between the Notes are solely those of the individual guest and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions, or beliefs of Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, Between the Notes, its hosts, producers, sponsors, affiliates, employees, contractors, or representatives. Guests are responsible for their own statements and characterizations of events. Any references to individuals, organizations, companies, productions, events, or public figures are presented as the guest's personal recollections, opinions, or experiences. Chummy Inc., Hye Jams Radio, and Between the Notes make no independent representations regarding the accuracy, completeness, or veracity of such statements. This program is intended for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. #BetweenTheNotes #LouisaSharamatyan #JosephKrikorian #HyeJams #Armenian #Podcast #Media #Music #Faith #Legacy #Purpose #Inspiration #Entertainment #Singer #Storytelling #Christian #Leadership #Authenticity #Conversation #ArmenianMusic