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Speaker 1: How catchy is that? Wow? That is I didn't hear

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what you said. The project is Audio Guest and let's see.

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We have Chris Evans from Audio Guests here with us

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via Microsoft Team.

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Speaker 2: Hello Chris, Hello, how are you doing? Good?

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Speaker 1: Good? Welcome to the show. I love that song. I

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love the whole album of course, that is from Falling

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from Down, and it's just so like, you know, it's

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the kind of song you tell people, at least I

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tell people, you know, if that didn't make you move,

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you know, to check your pulse, you might be dead.

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It's just really really catchy. And I love the vocals,

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the layered vocals, everything about that. It's just it's just

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really good. I love that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that. That is a fun song.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. And you are in Seattle, is that correct?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Just outside of Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Just outside of Seattle. Wow, quite a music scene there. Yeah,

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absolutely absolutely. What can you tell us about the album

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Falling from Down? I did listen to the whole thing.

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I really really like it. Like I said, I love

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what you're doing sonically, and there's nothing that I've heard

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recently that sounds quite like it. But what can you

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tell us about it.

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Speaker 3: This is my third album, that one this year, and yeah,

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it's sort of it's it's it's sort of a song

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about the times these days, basically, like with all sort

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of angst and and and sort of sort of angst

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about communication, about what's going on in the world and

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things like that, and then how people are pretty stressed

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about this. And it starts off, you know, with just

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sort of a set of a darker set of songs

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and than all my previous albums, I think, songs like

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Isotope and Falling from Down, and then it hits a

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song called Easier, which is sort of it's sort of

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a reflection of the whole album, which sort of asked

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the question, man, it seems like it would be easier

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if I didn't know what was going on, like if

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you weren't paying attention to the news and things like that.

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can't avoid it because it sort of keeps coming back

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to you. But then its whole sort of shift in

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that song where it goes from being this sort of

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introspective thing to the sort of pop punk banger of

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a of a of a Ridge, and then it comes

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then the whole album sort of shifts at that point

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where it sort of goes into hey things a little

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bit more. You know, it's as if you weren't paying

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attention to all of that, and we could just sort

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and about the way you feel. And that's sort of

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where you know, I didn't hear what you say comes

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in sort of in that middle part of the album, right,

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and then it sort of slides back towards the end

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of the album. So it's you know that the whole

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, well we'll play that one at the

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end of our conversation because that's another great track. Like

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it's interesting too, how you know you're able to take

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these themes of of angst and and all of it

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that that people feel and but but do something that's

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actually fun and interesting to listen to, you know, because

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it's it. It's if you can take something that's dark

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but make something positive out of it. You know, that's

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relate to people and and say here, here, here's what

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I'm saying, but I'm putting it in a package that

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that you're going to enjoy listening to and maybe we

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so I think it's great. You know, it's yea melodic

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and like a lot of these tracks are really fun.

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you said. I'm curious to know more about that. It

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seems to address, as is evidenced by the title, you know,

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miscommunication and misunderstanding. And was there something specific that that

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sort of pushed you to write that or maybe just

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Speaker 3: Thing, like like many people, I'm a bit on the

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my head, you know, sort of my mind wandered in

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to be talking right now. They don't know this yet,

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and sort of daydreaming and thinking about her and looking

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at the you know, the necklace that she's wearing.

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Speaker 3: And then she's saying something and you're realizing I'm not

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hearing this, and in the song, she realizes that she's

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not being listened to, and yet she's looking right at

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her right. She gets a little bit upset about it,

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which is understandable, and he feels bad about this. I

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feel bad about this, but it's it's not a it's

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Speaker 1: Purpose, right, right exactly.

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Speaker 2: And then the second verse is the same thing happens

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Speaker 3: Right. You're in a meeting somewhere and you're just sort

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of daydreaming. You didn't expect anybody talking to you in

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the first place, and so you're just sort of in

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some meeting and then they ask you a question.

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Speaker 2: You're like, oh, wait, what what he was talking about?

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Speaker 3: And you're sort of, you know, sort of embarrassing to

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get caught in one of those moments there of you

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were supposed to be paying attention and you weren't.

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Speaker 2: Totally everybody knows this now and what are you gonna do? Right?

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Speaker 1: And it's and it's universal. Everyone's been in situations like that,

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it had been you know, it's all stuff that happens

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to everybody. Absolutely, But yeah, in the moment though, it

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feels it's such a terrible feeling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious too about your history. So you you were

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you played guitar and bass in some eighties bands, Is

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that correct?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I was in a few bands back in the eighties

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actually a little bit in the end of the nineties

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as well. Okay, and nothing big though, I mean, you know,

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just we were all sort of learning and getting better

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and playing things and playing clubs and and uh this

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is like back in Ohio and Michigan and places like that.

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Speaker 3: And then and then it sort of you know, once

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Speaker 2: I wanted I wanted to do a recording thing.

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Speaker 3: We started a company doing podcasts, but it was a

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little bit early for podcasts because it was the late eighties. Wow.

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early for that. So I sort of shifted into writing software.

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Massachusetts actually this is in Boston and Cambridge area. Oh

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and uh yeah, So I worked you know for a

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company doing you know, router tech support and then writing

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uh and said I want, I really want to do

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the music thing again. Uh and so yeah, I sort

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of left uh Microsoft and software at that point and

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Speaker 1: Oh, excellent, excellent. Now, was that always kind of in

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the back of your mind that that you would end

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moment of epiphany where you realized you had to get

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back to it, or how did you, like just kind

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musician will know this, that you play it the same

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the space, it was like, okay, wait, I could do

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the software business, and which has an ironic twist on

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twenty to thirty years and software will do for at least,

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let's set up we can you can.

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Speaker 2: Dedicate time with this. Yeah, I'm very appreciative of that.

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so I just love that. It's just so satisfying to

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be able to come in here each day and just

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work on it and write some new songs. And and

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Speaker 1: Right right, no doubt are you? Are you doing everything yourself?

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listened to it. So there's a few songs where I

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of the songs we collaborate on, But most of the

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songs there are just me. I. I wrote to myselves

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Speaker 1: Okay wow. I mean that must be incredibly liberating. I

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mean it sounds like you enjoy collaboration. But at the

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same time, I would imagine to be able to do

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so much of it yourself, aside from you know, guest

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vocalists as you mentioned. I mean, that's got to be

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pretty pretty satisfying, I would guess, and it is.

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Speaker 3: I think it comes from a you know, I don't

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maybe not the best place of I don't like getting

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stuck or I'm blocked on waiting for someone else to.

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need them to do this, but they're busy, or that

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you know, I can't get back, they won't get back

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in touch with me, or those kinds of things, and

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blocked on it, and so by being able to do

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any of the parts, I'm never blocked, right, So I

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can always finish songs and release them and those kinds

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of things, and I'm not stuck behind someone else. But

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at the same time, you know, a having there are

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songs that I write sometimes that we write that are

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songs to be sung by a woman. I can't do that,

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and so that's you know, it's it's having having a

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group of people that I can write with or or

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call on say hey, I think the song would be

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amazing with your voice, and having to be able to

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jump in is is just wonderful.

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you probably could. Uh.

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Speaker 3: I've played around with that a little bit, but I

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don't like. I don't like the results. I mean, they're

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getting better, but it's there's something that's that definitely feels more, uh,

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you know, connecting, Yeah, an actual person singing it with

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the A. I mean sometimes the A voices are a

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little bit too perfect. Sometimes they're you know, they don't

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they don't breathe because they don't have to breathe the

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way that they sing something, you know, it starts to

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feel something just a little bit off in it, and

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so yeah, it's it's you know, so I've tried it

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and and for you know, when if I'm writing something

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for a film or a TV show or something like that,

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then you know, something for for a sync opportunity. It

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doesn't quite matter as much if you use some of

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those things sometimes. But yeah, but if but if I

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can get it, you know, actual person seeing it, it's

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always going to feel a bit more connected.

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Speaker 1: Right right. Have you been surprised by by the reception

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I saw Let's see I saw something here from Spill

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magazine said it's infectious, feel good rock, introspection and hope

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A Sonics Morgas Sport. That's pretty cool. That's that's that's

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definitely I praise.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it always been great.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been just a little over months since the

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album came out, uh, and yeah, it's been really just

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wonderful to see you know, the the reviews of it

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have been great. The people I've heard from who've listened

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to it, I've really enjoyed it. It's it's a there's

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a lot of different sort of it's a little bit

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more stylistically diverse in my second album, which is a

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little bit more sort of power pop pop, you know,

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uh pop punk type stuff. Yeah, and this album has

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some of that certainly, but you know, with with songs

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like you know, Isotope and Falling from Down, which are

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definitely harder rock kind of songs, which and I come from,

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we've played a lot of you know, hard rock metal

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songs like Black Sabbath and yeah, you know whatever, and

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so I love a good crunchy guitar part. Yeah, uh,

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and so I was really I loved doing those tunes.

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Leleana Tani singing on it, is you know, a more

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sort of traditional piano ballad song but with a bit

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of a shift in it, twist in the story, and

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that's you know, that was sort of a different thing.

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But I just loved that song so much that that

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parton was like, I just want to have it on

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the album. And then when I and I got her

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to singing it was great. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm curious too. I have to ask you, and

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you probably got this question a lot, but being where

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you are geographic, I mean, has that influenced your sound

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at all? Or I mean being in Seattle or Seattle.

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Are you actually in Seattle or even one of those suburbs.

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Speaker 3: I was in Seattle. I lived in Seattle. You know,

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we lived in Seattle until so we brought this place

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up here and and uh so, and I you know,

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I've been in the area for since the nineties, so

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it's yeah, we've been all over the airplace in the

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area basically. But yeah, we were in in in Seattle

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proper for a while, which was great.

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Speaker 2: Uh until the pandemic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yep, less so, I mean it was still fine,

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but it was you know, you couldn't go do a

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lot of the things that that were great about being

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in the city, right uh and uh yeah, so I

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mean I I you know, I love the Seattle bands,

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particular from the nineties to Pearl Jam and and and

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Nirvana and Sound Garden and you know, all of that

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sound is just you know, was huge, and there's a

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lot of nineties sound in what I do. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,

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so yeah, absolutely, you know, it was it's a huge influence.

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I wasn't actually here for most of the nineties, so

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I wasn't here during the early nineties when all the

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stuff was happening because I was in Massachusetts then, but

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it was uh, yeah, it's it's it's still part of

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the feel here. Going to go to the airport and

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there's all sorts of you know, pictures in the airport

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of of Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I can imagine, yeah,

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Hendrix and and all these you know things, because it's

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just a big part of what Seattle is and uh

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and the feel is still there.

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Speaker 1: For that, yeah, yeah, no doubt. Well, by the way,

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where does the name audio guests come from? What's the

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meaning behind audio gusts?

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Speaker 3: So I guess there's two parts of it. One, I

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can't use my regular name, Chris Evans, because there's an

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awful lot of them out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, common common name, one of them being very famous,

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some of them.

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Speaker 3: Are very well known. Yeah, depending on where you are.

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There's another one in England who's very well known.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And so I needed to have an artist name that

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was something else. So audio gust is a it was

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something that I could that I could get that was

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you know available.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, there weren't a lot of other

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people doing it.

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Speaker 3: But you could think of like singing as just sort

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of a combination of wind, air and sound. Yeah, and

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all sound really is sort of waves and it's just

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sort of vibrations through the air.

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Speaker 2: So it's you know, it's moving air. It is is

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sort of a sound, it is motion, it is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just sort of a cross of of of sound

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and motion.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense, makes sense. I like it. It's

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a cool name. Definitely a cool name. We're almost out

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of time, Chris, it goes quickly. What's the ironic twist

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about your software career?

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Speaker 3: So, as I was writing all of these songs and

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and when you write a song, there's a whole bunch

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of information you need to track along it, like for

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of course, what are the lyrics and what key is

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it in? But also like what what do I need

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to do still on this recording of it? And you

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know where if I registered it with the different all

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the different places you register songs with, and what's the

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link to it on Spotify versus Apple Music versus whatever else?

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And so I did what a software guy does, is

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I wrote an app I used to track all of

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my songs and all of my recordings and all the

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people that I write with and and the current state

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of all of them. And I've recently realized after you know,

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showing a bunch of people and letting them sort of

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play around with it that I need to release this

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app because it's a really really useful tool for songwriters

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and music producers and such to do this. So sometime

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in the next month or two, I'm going to be

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releasing this app called studio Notes, which is exactly that.

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It's an app for organizing all of your songs. And

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and it's not you know, we don't I don't store

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the music on there. They's playing a place where can

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actually stow the files. But it's yeah, it's all of

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the information about all of the songs you write, and

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the recordings of them, the current state of them, and

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collaborations and who's signed what agreements and all of those

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kinds of things.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that is extremely cool and very useful, and I'm

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sure a lot of our listeners will enjoy hearing about

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that because you know, a lot of a lot of

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musicians and you know people who make up our audience.

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There's a lot of musicians, a lot of industry people.

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So that's that's very cool. So it's called studio Notes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and and the website is up right now.

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Speaker 3: You can't actually the store app is not in the

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story yet, Okay, studio is studio notes dot app. Okay,

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probably shouldn't have said that, but I did because the

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website's up there. The link to go to the store,

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of course doesn't work yet because yep, it's not in

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the store. But if you know, if anybody's curious, you

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can go see what it's about, and you know, send

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me a comment or whatever if you're interested, and I'll

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make sure to let everybody who.

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Speaker 2: Does know when it's actually a up in life of

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the store. But I'm sort of finishing it up now.

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Speaker 1: Oh, extremely cool, very good, very good, Chris. This is

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I wish we had more time. I could definitely talk

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to you longer. You're you're an interesting guy, and I'm

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very I love your love your music. But but yes, yes,

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we are approaching the top the hour, so we'll start

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to wind down. I'm going to close the segment with

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this track Easier that we were talking about. This is

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another another great song from the album. But where's the

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best place for people to go to learn more and

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keep up with everything that that you're doing, as audio gusts.

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Speaker 3: Audio gust dot com is the website perfect sort of

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the center of everything. You can follow me of course

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on Audio guest Music, on on Instagram or you know,

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I'm in Threads and a bunch of those places. But yeah,

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the core of that would be allio guests dot Com

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is where I usually try keep everything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, ups dte Yeah, absolutely, absolutely well, Chris, thank you

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so much. We're going to play this track in a

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moment easier. Love love the love the song, and I

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love the album, and congratulations on on everything that you're doing.

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And we look forward to having you back when you've

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got new music or jeez, we might even have you

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back on sooner to talk about the app when it

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when it comes out, because like I said, I think

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a lot of our listeners would be very interested in that.

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But I love the album Falling from Down. Everyone should

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listen to the whole thing. It's it's really really good.

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Uh So we'll hit that track and we'll let you

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go for now. But Chris Evans Audio Gust, thank you

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so much and we'll talk to you soon.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that much.

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Speaker 1: All right, absolutely, take care, bye bye. All right, what

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an interesting guy. Chris Evans. Is project is Audio Gust.

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We're gonna play this track easier, and we are rapidly

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approaching the end of the show, so that'll probably be

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it for this week. Thank you to everybody who joined

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us today. Of course the guys from Down Boys, they

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were in studio with us. That was wonderful. We talked

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to Jesse Killgus and Dots and Moon and a nice

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busy show. And uh, let's see if you want to

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keep up with everything I'm doing. Sometimes I forget to

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plug my own website Matt connorton dot com. If you

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miss any part of today's show, it will be up

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in just a little bit Wmnhradio dot org and at

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my website Matt Connorton dot com. And that's gonna do

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it for us for now. We're gonna talk to you

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a little bit later by everybody. And here it is.

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This is easier and the project is Audio Gust