Welcome to episode one hundred and sixty seven of Beer in Front. I'm your
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all the time. So I'm gonna put this interview show out right now.
This is a good one. This is with Ryan over at Soundtrack Your Life.
That was a lot of fun. We talked music, soundtracks, beer
and everything else. So I'm gonna have this one out and in a couple
of days, i'm gonna put out a regular fifteen minute one where I'll have
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I get to the interview with Ryan. If you're a listener of the show,
you've noticed in the past a couple of weeks I added some new music.
It's kind of an interlude and also I've included it with the can open
that I use as a little segue between the two segments. This is music
that I did myself. I made it on Garage Band over on Apple,
so it's all royalty free. Well, I've been putting out episodes on YouTube
because I've been getting people that listen to podcasts. They just have YouTube running
at work or what have you. So I've been getting a lot of listens
there. I get a copyright thing over on YouTube saying that the music is
something from Hamilton and it's called The Room Where It Happens. Now I listen
to this song, it sounds nothing like the music that I created. And
this was all done with loops. I have no musical skill whatsoever, but
I just took the loops that I liked and made his music out of it.
So it's nothing like Hamilton. But for whatever reason, Hamilton does not
like my music. So I'm fighting that, but I'm going to keep it
going because this has nothing to do with Hamilton. All Right, that's enough
bullshit. Let's get onto the interview with Ryan over its soundtrack Your Life Once
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trending pot. Welcome back to the show. I'm happy to have on my
friend Ryan. He's one of the co hosts of Soundtrack Your Life along with
Brandison Nicole. That podcast has been around since July of twenty twenty one of
my favorite shows. Ryan, Thanks for coming on. Thank you for having
me. I love your show. I want to hear from you what makes
a good soundtrack? You know, it's kind of like a black magic sort
of thing where you know, the songs work in the film, but they
also are like a really cool mix of songs that you can listen to on
their own. Is like I grew up. I'm assuming I'm older than you.
I grew up in the late seventies early eighties. You had, especially
in the mid eighties with the John Hughes soundtracks that had track after track of
new song. In twenty twenty three, I mean, you've had the last
generation of like between Napster and being able to download something on iTunes to the
you know, the compilation CDs now that's what I call music, and even
now with streaming is the soundtrack that we grew up with? Is it dead
or is it still alive? I think it is still alive. I think
it's not as rampant that was as it was in like the nineties. Like
I think the nineties was the peak of soundtracks where you know, they were
just stuffing you know, all what seventy or eighty minutes of a CD with
music, even if they weren't actually in the film. And there was definitely
I think a quiet time after, you know, I think streaming kind of
kicked in. But I think, you know, with that first Guardians of
the Galaxy movie, I think they showed that you can still do kind of
one of those soundtracks with a bunch of you know, jukebox songs that people
love and if they're placed in the right spots in a film that you know,
you can still still a bunch of copies even though people don't really buy
music anymore. What to you, in your opinion, makes a good soundtrack.
So first of all, like the songs have to fit in the movie.
Yeah, So when I watched the film, like the songs have to
you know, make sense within the film, and you know, in a
way, like the film and the soundtrack kind of elevate each other. And
that's how you know it's a good soundtrack, where you know you might have
liked the song, but then you see it how it's used in a movie,
and then you end up liking it more because it was just such an
awesome I don't want to call it synergy because that's such a you know,
corporate sort of term, but you know, that's why it's like the special
magic where they become better because of each other. Yeah, Like when I
was on your show at the beginning of the year, we talked about music
in the TV series The Sopranos, and even though all of these songs were
older, for whatever reason, they all fit with that particular scene or that
episode in general, and I just can't Then you're the expert on this.
What are outside of Guardians? Would you mentioned what are some of the more
recent soundtracks that you really think should get more appreciation for how they blend the
music in the film or TV series for that matter. I don't know if
people, well, I mean it was it's a pretty popular show. I
don't know how many of your listeners watched Ted Lasso, but I thought they
did a great job of using music. I really liked how they use me
music in that show, The Last of Us on HBO. I know a
lot of people are a really big fan of how they use music in that
and our podcast Friends and the in Sync podcast. They just did an episode
on the Netflix show Wednesday, and how well they used music in that show
as well. Like, I haven't watched it yet, but Ruby, my
wife is watching The Bear and I'm always like pricking my ear up, like,
oh wow, that's a really good song, you know, So I
think I have to watch the series now to appreciate the music that goes along
with that series. Yeah, I mean, I think TV is getting a
lot better with you know, kind of the needle drops. M what's the
difference between a soundtrack and a score? So a soundtrack typically is a bunch
of you know, what we know as songs, you know, pop songs
with vocals, sometimes written for the film, sometimes not, and then with
a scots you know, a composer who is creating instrumental tracks to kind of
you know, go alongside the film. There are very few exceptions where it's
not original score. Like I think he'll Bill, it's a bunch of scores
from other movies. But yeah, for the most part, you know,
you hire a composer and they watch the movie and they're trying to score different
beats of the film. So I mean most movies have a little bit of
both, or or they just have a score. Rarely is there a movie
where it's just soundtrack. But that's kind of the difference. Do you have
a preference of the two. I probably prefer soundtracks just because, like when
I was growing up in like my teen years, like it was a cool
way to find new bands or to get extra tracks from my favorite bands.
So I kind of always have like that nostalgic connection to soundtracks. But I
like both. You know, I'm a big film person, so it would
be kind of difficult to not like scores at all since I watched so many
movies. But you know, if I'm just on a random day, if
I'm going to listen to music, it's most likely going to be a soundtrack
versus a score. But I do like both. Now I have my favorites
in both categories. What is your favorite score and what is your favorite soundtrack?
Oh favorite score is probably I think Punch Drunk Love, The Adam Sandler
film, and that was done by John Bryan, and he's one of my
favorite just musicians in general, so I love all of his stuff. As
far as soundtracks go, I have to go with Purple Rain. It's,
you know, such an obvious choice. Sometimes I forget it's a soundtrack because
it's just so good. And as we're recording this, if I remember correctly,
today is the anniversary that that film came out, So for a lot
of people that was the first time they heard from start to finish Purple Rain,
right, yeah, And I wish I could have experienced that. Like
I was as a kid when that movie came out, so I caught most
of the songs on the radio, and like when I finally saw the movie,
I was like, oh, all of these songs are from this movie.
Yeah, yeah, like my favorites. And I'm a little bit older,
so I would have to say my favorite score. And it was tough
because I love Ennio Morricone. His work with the Clint Eastwood, you know
trio of movies was all great than their songs from each of those scores that
I love, But I would still have to go with probably The Good,
the Bad, the Ugly for my favorite score. I know for my wedding
with Ruby, she walked down the aisle to ecstasy of Gold. So I
have to include the good, the bad, the ugly, and as far
as like soundtrack from start to finish, I think i'd have to go with
Pretty and Pink that all of those songs kind of fit. They were outside
of the title track, which was an older song but the Psychedelic Furs re
recorded it for the soundtrack. They were all newer songs that you didn't know,
some of the artists you didn't know. So that was one that I
really loved and I played the hell out of it as a kid. Yeah,
that's a great soundtrack and a great score. Yeah. For you,
Is there that you know of or that you could think of off the top
of your head? Is there a great soundtrack for a lousy movie and vice
versa? Was there just, you know, a horrible soundtrack but the movie
was great? Well, that's a good question. I don't know if you
can have a great movie with a horrible soundtrack. I think you can have
a horrible movie with a great soundtrack, and I think the nineties was full
of those. But it's kind of hard to say now because I think a
lot of these movies up were kind of deemed horrible when they came out have
become like cult classics. So like a movie like Empire Records has a great
soundtrack, and that movie tanks so bad at the box office, but now
it's kind of caught this like Second Life. Yeah, so that would kind
of I don't want to call it a terrible movie, but like it was
panned when it came out, and it almost seemed like the like the soundtrack
was outselling the movie. Like we've known each other on like social media for
a while now, and I remember, I don't know, maybe it was
a year or so. We're ago. I think I mentioned on one of
my podcasts about cisterone and I wasn't sure if I wanted to like start the
process, and you sent me an email and I remember this, like,
I can't believe you're not and you are. Why are you a ciscone?
So a little background on me, I guess is that I work in an
it but I was kind of burning out on it a few years ago,
and my wife had suggested, you know, like you're meeting a lot of
friends through you know, going to different breweries and through basically being on like
these different forums and discords talking about beer, like it seems to be a
passion of yours, So why don't you kind of explore what it might look
like to work at a brewery or you know, maybe you'd enjoy that if
you want to change careers. So I took like a cisterone class and I
end up taking the level one course and it was a lot of fun.
Like I learned some stuff, some stuff I already knew, but I did
learn a lot of things. But it felt like everyone in my class I
was already working out like some restaurant or some bar, and they were basically
being forced there and I was like the only person there there because they just
wanted to just wanted to learn more about beer. But it ended up not
working out. But I think in the grand scheme of things, that worked
out because like a year later, like COVID hit and I probably would have
been out of a job if I had switched. Is at that point,
Yeah, you know, I think I'm just like you. I like to
talk about beer, I like to learn about beer, and you know,
it just seemed like something that made sense to do. Yeah, So the
episode like this is going to come out in a couple of weeks. But
the episode that's coming out in a couple of days is I talk to people
with the Sisters Own program, And since I spoke to him, I figure
I'm going to jump in and I'm going to take the level one, the
Certified Beer Server course. And so yeah, some of it, like,
yeah, it's common knowledge, like we knew. I think your casual beer
drinker might not have known, but somebody that's like an enthusiast knew. But
there were certain things with different styles, like a Belgian Golden as opposed to
a Belgian Double. Things like that. Really like, oh wow, I
really need to hit up on these. As I was going through the test
questions and the flash cards, how do you think that benefited you as just
a beer drinker? Yeah, I think, you know, I think it
covers most of like the more classic styles, and I think, you know,
I remember learning about kind of the origins of the porter and how it
isn't just a different sort of stout. Yeah, I think now, like
it's hard to tell what's a porter and a stout, but you know it
originated as like a three and a half percent beer, and like that's something
I didn't know, and you know, no one makes it in that style
anymore, so like you would find that. So it was a cool learn
some history like that. Yeah, I thought that was really cool learning the
history of that. And I'd love to try a three and a half percent
porter just to see what that taste like. There's very few, Like maybe
you could find an English mild every now and then that hits that ABV mark,
but yeah, it's very hard to find something even that low alcohol.
Yeah. And then one myth that was kind of busted for me when in
the class was that you know, when you're pouring a bottle that you're supposed
to leave like a decent amount of head when you do the poor because it
actually that's how it releases the carbon dioxide. So then you won't be as
gassy later, Yeah, you won't be as bloated. Yes, So we're
talking about beer. I see you sipping on one. I'm having one.
What are you drinking tonight? I am drinking. It's a red plum saison
from Side Project out of Saint Louis. Okay, very good and it's six
percent beer, so it's good for like a night before work. Yeah,
yeah, Side project's really good. I love side project. I'm having one
from Ale Smith and Beechwood. It's a collaboration they had. I think I
talked about it on YouTube a few weeks ago. Tower of Flour it's an
IPA and they use Galaxy, Cashmere and Nelson Hops. I think this is
really good. Two great breweries out there. Yeah, there are two of
my favorites. And Beach was Beachwood is actually just a few miles from my
house. Oh really? All right? Cool? Yeah? I love everything
they put out. And I don't know the font they use, but the
font that they they use and their artwork is almost as good as their beer.
Yeah, they're really cool cans that they release. So you mentioned like
you're out there in California. What part of California are you in? Um?
So, I'm in Orange County, but I'm like right outside Long Beach,
Like I go like half a mile I'm and I'm in LA technically all
right? Are there is there like a brewery or a spot near you that
you feel should get more love? Like, I mean, we all know
the breweries that are out there, but what's a brewery that if somebody were
to come to town that they might not be familiar with, but you think
this is a spot you really need to go to. So I'm part of
the Highland Park Beer membership. They're in LA. They started in an area
called Highland Park obviously, but they have a spot that's right over by Dodgers
Stadium. UM. I think all their beers are great. They do.
You know, their barrel age program is good, Their um sours are great,
and they also make really good hoppy beers. Their flagship UM beers kind
of is the Timbo Pills. It's a hoppy pills and near it's like five.
I could drink that every day for the rest of my life. It's
like a desert island beer. Um. I don't think they have like the
the I don't think they've grown nationally to be like this uh you know,
hot brewery. But I think they do everything well and um, I think
that they're gonna They're on the rise for sure. Yeah, how's uh three
weavers out there? I remember when they started. I don't know how they
came about it, but this was probably ten years ago social media and I
was like one of their original kickstarter backers. But I think they're still around.
How are they doing I think they're doing Okay, I haven't had a
Three Weavers beer in quite a while, but I think I still see them
at restaurants and stuff, like. They have a pretty good they have a
pretty good footprint in like the southern California area. Okay, yeah, I
just at the time I was interested, you know, like, all right,
it's Kickstarter. This was like the start of Kickstarter and supporting like new
breweries that wanted to start, and I thought it was pretty cool that it
was like a woman owned brewery. So I'm like, oh, okay,
I'll throw some money into this, so at least they're still around. I
think somewhere I have a hat somewhere for donating money done Kickstarter to Three Weavers.
That's cool. Well, Ryan, I appreciate you coming on talking about
in your show. Tell everyone once again where they could find your show soundtrack
Your Life. The floor is yours. You can find soundtrack your Life on
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that's how you can get a hold of us. And you know, we
have new episodes coming out every couple of weeks, but we're going to take
the month of July off to charge. I absolutely got to recharge those batteries.
Are there any soundtracks coming out that you're like really stoked about? Like,
I know, the movie just came out, and I'm really looking forward
to seeing like Asteroid City. Are there any movies or soundtracks that you're really
want to hear and watch the movie? Yeah, I'm definitely excited about Asteroid
City. Love Wes Anderson, Alexander deplau always does a made does amazing work
on the scores, and I believe they have a song from a is it
Jarvis Cochrane so so George, So I'm looking forward to that. You know.
So George did all those awesome Bowie covers from the Life Aquatic, so
I'm excited to hear what he's done for us this time around. Um,
the Guardians of the Galaxy three soundtrack just came out, and I'm just excited
that they put the replacements in that movie. Oh yeah, I love the
replacements. So I'm just happy. I mean, I have I Will Dare
like on vinyl on like three different you know things. But I'm just I'm
just happy that, you know, they're getting some Marvel money. And that
space Hog song in the Meantime is in the movie too, and I love
that song as well. So, um, that's a soundtrack that just dropped
that I'm excited about listening to. And um, I think Asteroid City is
the big one. Like I think I'm gonna go with my co host to
watch it as like a team. Yeah, I'll have to catch that in
the next week or so. You just mentioned the replacements, and I loved
the replacements from day one, but that would have to be probably the worst
show I've ever seen. They are notorious for that. Yeah, they opened
for Tom Petty. This was probably full moon fever, I'm thinking. And
Paul was just hammered drunk and it was like bad, Like they didn't play
any like hits, they just like he was drunk and incoherent and he walked
out for the encore and just couldn't even whistle straight. But he tried to
whistle the Andy Griffith song and that was the encore. But then I saw
them a couple of years later when they reformed to do Riot Fast Stand.
I saw them at Right two. Yeah, it made up for it.
But as much as I love the replacement, that still had to be the
worst show I've ever seen. I saw them at Riot Fest Denver, and
they were able to keep it together until the encore, And when they walked
up for the encore, they all switched instruments. Yeah, and you know,
it wasn't very good, but it was kind of like, well,
I guess you were going to get something on this at some point from them.
Yeah. You had to expect that from the replacements. Yeah. At
least they held it together for the regular set, you know. Yeah.
All right, well, Ryan, thanks so much again for coming on.
I appreciate it. You could find their show soundtrack your life. You could
find them wherever you listen to podcasts. If you're listening to this, you
could find soundtrack your life. Ryan. Thank you again, sir. I'll
talk to you down the road. Yeah, thank you, and congrats on
your level once this room. All right, thank you, sir. We'll
see you later. All right, bye, all right bye, all right.
That's going to wrap things up for this edition of Beer in Front.
I thank you very much for listening. Once again, I want to thank
Ryan over at the Great Soundtrack your Life podcast. You could listen everywhere.
If you're listening to this show, you can listen to Ryan. So when
you're done listening, head over to Soundtrack your Life. Check their show out.
It's a really good one, and stay tuned. In a couple of
days you're going to have a quick fifteen minute episode of Beer in Front.
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best one yet. All right, I'll see in a few days