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Speaker 5: You can of course continue to post on social media.
We'll try to keep an eye on that as we
are live on this Saturday morning. Jenny is here as well,
our guest that we're supposed to have in the second hours.
M I A, but that's okay. We've got plenty of
other things we can do. By the way, I had
to play that I hadn't played it in a while.
Dead By Wednesday their cover of No Easy Way Out.
I love that, love that. I went.
Speaker 15: Such a great band and it was so cool to
get to see them live as well.
Speaker 5: Oh they were fantastic. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. I remember when
they when they started playing that song. You know, because
that's their current single. And I remember I look at
you and I said, oh, here we go, and I
went running up to the front because I had to.
I had to be up close for that. But yeah, yeah,
coming up in the third hour today, we have a Volley.
I learned how to say it correctly. I actually I
had emailed Sean and I said, by the way, how
do I fanatically how do I say this? Because I
was saying vowley and it's actually volley Volley, And so
they're gonna be a great punk rock band. They're going
to be with us in the third hour today. And
of course in the first hour we had our friend
Gracie Gatto, who is doing very positive things and very
excited for her with her the animated series that I
can't wait.
Speaker 15: I think that's such a great idea. I do too,
and I do think that I'm looking forward to seeing.
Speaker 13: I like it.
Speaker 5: I like tunes.
Speaker 15: I mean, I grew up well, I mean, I'm a
typical jen Xer. I grew up with Saturday morning cartoons.
Speaker 5: So I love the idea. Yeah, No, I think I
think it's going to be very successful. I think she'll
have a lot of success with it in the new year.
So well, so when we're in this situation and we
need something to talk about, you know, obviously a lot
of people in the industry, whether they be in bands
or other parts of the music industry, listening the show.
So we like to talk about music industry related things,
and there are always things going on in the music industry.
By the way, I didn't mention it last night on
Paul's show, but somehow the subject on Retrospectrum Radio with
poly c, which of course you can hear every Friday
night from a to eleven PM here at WM and H,
and I'm Paul's one of Paul's co hosts on that show,
the subject of Don Henley came up, and oh yeah,
I heard that last night. And when we months and
months ago, when we did that first segment about Don Henley,
because he's very litigious, he sues a lot of people
that segment, I'd posted it on YouTube, just that segment,
and to this date is the most listened to segment
that we have on YouTube of any show that we've
ever done. Thousands and thousands and thousands of people have
listened to that specific segment and seem to enjoy it.
Speaker 15: Do you want to talk to somebody?
Speaker 5: Two? Isaac actually, oh our guest.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I got to type the phone number.
Speaker 5: And okay, very good. So well, okay, so if he's
uh now though three. Well, so now that now that
we know that he is going to be joining us,
I'll go ahead. You know what I'll do, Uh while
we wait for him to call, I'll go ahead and
play the track his newest single, which is called.
Speaker 2: Where Did It Go?
Speaker 5: Oh? Bar none. I made a radio edit, of course, yeah,
I had to do that. But yeah, we'll we'll play that.
Uh yeah, since we uh, you've reached him and he's
going to be calling and uh and then when by
the time the track is over, we'll have him on
the line with us. All right, So Isaac Sierra aka
True Rhymes aka Truth, Uh, he is calling in right now,
I'm gonna go ahead and hit this track and then
we'll bring him in. Oh my godd.
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Speaker 5: Okay, that is bar none. That is our friend Isaac Sierra,
who should be on the line with us, Isaac, are
you there.
Speaker 2: Yet?
Speaker 11: I'm here? How you doing good?
Speaker 2: How are you? Man?
Speaker 5: Good? Welcome, welcome back. It's been a long time.
Speaker 11: Yeah, man, I'm happy to be back on the show.
Speaker 5: Is that your now? That's your newest right? Is that
your your newest track? Bar none?
Speaker 11: That's the newest music video that we have just released.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, okay. Has that been out for a while.
Speaker 11: The song has been out for a couple of years,
and we just released the music video for it. We've
been developing a media company and that's the first full
production as far as music videos that we've done.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, that makes sense. Yeah, it's very well. So, yeah,
so tell us about that, tell us about the media company.
This is a new development.
Speaker 11: Yeah. Absolutely. The media company is called Manifest Media. So
we are aiming to do music, television, film, even developing
video games, and eventually we will be wanting to rep talent.
So some of the newer music that I've been doing,
as far as the vocalists, we've been exploring other genres
outside of hip hop music, a lot of different rock genres,
new metal, punk rock. We've been doing a little bit
of more traditional metal as well. Which has been exciting.
Speaker 5: Oh interesting. Now, has this always kind of been the
goal long term or is this something you you decided
on recently, because you know, in the past when we've talked,
you know, you're pretty focused on your hip hop career
and the music that you were making. But it sounds
like you've you've really taken a big step into expanding
what you do. Have you always wanted to kind of
branch out like that?
Speaker 11: Yeah, Actually, it's it's very interesting that I ended up
becoming a rap artist. When I was younger, I always
felt like I would be in bands, and I tried
to put those projects together. It was just a lot
harder to maintain all of those moving parts. It's like
being in a big marriage with like five different people.
And so I ended up becoming a rap artist because
not only did I develop the passion for like hip
hop music as far as the culture and am seeing,
but it was just easier to manage myself as a
solo artist that way. And nowadays you have producers that
are putting out fully constructed rock music the same way
that you might find like a rap instrumental sure, and
so I just kind of got inspired to expand my
songwriting capabilities, and if you were gonna you were gonna
ask me when I was a kid what I really
wanted to do, I would have told I would have
told you I wanted to be like a movie producer.
And that's what's kind of developed this this release. As
far as like visually, we really went for it and
said cinematically, what can we do? And I had a
lot of help from my team. I want to give
a big shout out to UH to UH Rocky, which
was the cinematographer for the video. You can find the
video on YouTube, the song of bar None. We're still
using the hashtag m KOT, but we do have a
new channel for the company, which is Manifest Media. Oh okay,
releasing all of the other rock music on all the
major string platforms soon. But you can find us on
SoundCloud under Manifest Media as well.
Speaker 5: Okay, oh excellent, excellent. Yeah, So this is a big
this is a big change for you. This is a
big switch now. And it's interesting too what you said
about the way that you became a rapper, because somebody
else on the show. I wish I could remember who
it was, but somebody else on the show had said
something about being in a band is like like if
you're in a band with four other people, it's like
being in a relationship with four other people who are
also in a relationship with four other people. And what
you said reminds me of that, and that happens with
a lot of For example, some of the singer songwriters
that we've had on the show over the years sort
of a similar trajectory and that, you know, they were
in a band and then it got to be too
much and they said, you know, I want to do
something on my own because I just think it will
be you know, kind of tamlined and easier to manage
and schedule around and everything if I'm just doing my
own thing. So it's interesting that you took that path,
but of course you're now you're taking a whole bunch
of stuff on it once.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's funny because when you were working in a
big production in general, it takes teamwork, and so I
guess as far as that's the thing that interests me
the most about I've never been part of a film crew,
but I do have people that have been in the
film industry and worked alongside, you know, numbers of different productions,
and it does take a village to get those things
taken care of. And so yeah, it's it's like being
in a band, but in this situation, not everybody plays
an instrument. You know, some folks are doing a little
bit more administrative work or you know, handling different things
as far as you know. I also edited the video myself,
which is something that I've grew a passion for recently.
You know, we vlog everything as far as when we're traveling,
and I try to document like all the making of
the music and everything that we're doing now. And so,
you know, I could only afford so much through the
music production as far as like the beats and publishing
and all these different things, and so I started to
like take a crack at editing myself. And so this
was a challenge as far as like editing, trying to
figure out how to get the mining and the performance
shots to match the lyrics in the song. And it
was a fun, fun process. We got to partner up
with the Breaking Bad Store, which is like a novelty
gift shop here that's all themed around the Breaking Bad
television and show, and they allowed us to come and
film in their museum. They have a bunch of different
memorabilia and things from the like the filming of the
TV show and some photo opportunities, and so if you
get a chance to watch the video, you'll see like
some backdrop from the Armanos like restaurant from the TV show,
And that was really exciting for us to be able
to partner with them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, that's that's huge, right, I mean, that's that's
that's fantastic. So do you have are are there specific
artists on the roster that you're that you're working with
now or is that still sort of developing.
Speaker 11: That's definitely developing. We don't have anybody signed with our
company yet, but I am I have my eye on
a few different artists. I've been in the Midwest a
lot this year, and there's a few artists out there
that I've had my eye on on one in particular,
his name is Rocky. I've been working with another artist
that's really solid. His name is The Revel. And then
another friend of mine that I've made in the last year,
his name is Bags. He's an incredible artist. We have
a single that will be coming out later this year,
and so I've been just kind of keeping my ear
out We also did host some showcases, some unofficial showcases
in Austin, Texas earlier this year during the south By
Southwest Festival, and we discovered some incredible bands. One is
like a pop punk band by the name of calmer
Seas and they really kind of d of have the
same message as far as like, uh speaking about the
mental health and different things like that. They stood out
to me a lot. There was another band that my
sister's really good friend is in called the ETCeteras Okay,
and there made me as well. So many different artists, what.
Speaker 5: Do you what do you look for in terms of
who you're interested in working with? What do they have
to have? Because, as you know, there's so much talent
out there, you know, like like people ask us, people
ask Jenny because she does the booking on the show,
how do you find these how do you find all
these great artists? And it's like, well, there's so much
talent there everywhere, Like, so what do you look for? Like, like,
you must have somewhat of a criteria in mind, because
not everyone you encounter is necessarily someone that you can
work with, right.
Speaker 11: Right, So the things that I work that I look
for first off, is I guess. You know, I have
a very eclectic taste, and so I want to like
the music first off. And then as far as wanting
to do business with folks, you know, I'm not really
I don't really have a preference and genre per se.
But when you start to do business with folks, I
the way that we're trying to approach things is eventually,
we would love to be able to provide the same
opportunities that a major label would be able to provide bands,
but also without changing people. And so like we would
like to have like the type of company that's providing
the vacuum that a major label would provide to you,
to any type of artists or if they want to
go DIY and they just need a little help and
assistance in some areas, we allow you to do that.
And so what I do is I usually sit down
and say, you know, what is your end goal? Where
is the the top for you? You know, And so
if we sit there and we decide, you know, let's
play with these different strategies as far as marketing or promotion.
And they're not filling some of the suggestions. They are
merely a suggestion because I think that where some companies
fail is they see something work for somebody and then
they they automatically want it to be the blueprint. And
I don't want to take away from an artist or
a band's artistry. I want them to develop naturally. And
so that's like basically the purpose of Manifest Media is
because we're not only doing like music, We're also we
have like a division that does like marketing and advertisement.
And I take on a client, I'm saying, you know,
what do you want? What is your vision? And how
do we help materialize that?
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, no, that makes sense. Yeah, do you ever
have anyone approach you who you have to kind of say, hey,
I'm sorry, but I don't I don't think you're ready yet,
like you've got you know, because we all know with
major labels, for example, and it's been this way for
a couple of decades at least, right there's there really
is no There really is no A and R anymore.
There's no development major labels want, right, they want people
who are already all ready to go, who've already done
all the work, which which people criticize major labels for.
But I actually think it kind of makes sense. But
from a business standpoint, and then of course independent labels,
you know there are generally a lot more interested in,
you know, kind of putting in the work of the
development of the artists and whatnot. But but but do
you ever have anyone come to you who you have
to say you need to do a little more on
your own before we can help you to get to
where you want to go because you're not ready yet
to take that step to try to get to where
you want to go? Does that ever happen?
Speaker 11: Yeah, Actually, that's a great question I have, in a
short answer, found myself in that situation where I've kind
of just tried to give advice to a developing artist.
But artists development is very important, and I don't feel
like all artists should be left on their own to
learn it, because it can be very discouraging to just
be told no. And so I was actually just recently
on a podcast that a friend of mine in Supeaka, Kansas,
puts on with a they have like a recording facility
out there called sound Peak Studios, and so they have
a podcast called sound Peak after Dark and you can
find their channel on YouTube. While it was just on
an episode on the twenty first of December, and so
what they do is they allow artists to perform and
they give them feedback from a few different perspectives. And
what I'm trying to do personally, and I'm trying to
develop programs to educate an artists where they can learn
not only artists development, but business development as well, because
I feel like it's one thing for an artist to
be able to present themselves as far as their craft,
but it's another thing to navigate through the business world
of music or other platforms. And so that's what we're
also trying to do, which is kind of going into
what we've spoken about before, which is my kind of
therapy community is I'm not sure if we're going to
name it my kind of therapy. I think we're trying
to develop the programs and name them Stroke of Genius,
which was also coined by Rockel, our cinematographer, Okay, and
those programs would be available to anybody, not just folks
that are within our company or signed to our our label,
but the general public would be able to come and
be involved in those programs and developed not only they're
musical crafts, but visual art crafts because I also do
visual art acrylic on canvas in different multimedia types of
art forms like that, and so we're trying to do
that from like the nonprofit perspective of things, and so yeah,
you know, I I as far as a short answer,
I haven't encountered artists like that. And I do agree
with you that the major labels aren't really put in
a lot of time. I don't know if that the
indie labels are either, but it can be from a
business standpoint, time consuming, and it can take a lot
of money to develop an artist, yes, And so that's
why we've said, you know, how could we approach this
from a standpoint of business where it makes sense and
we're not necessarily trying to line our pockets. But you know,
we're still trying to decide whether we're going to accept
grants to these programs or if we're going to be
independently funded, right right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think I think too it's more important
than ever too. Well, let me put it this way.
I think there's there's now more than ever a need to,
you know, to have resources where people can kind of learn.
You know, it's not like I mean, I'm old enough
to remember when you know, we didn't mind I'm gen X,
so my generation was really the last generation to grow
up without the Internet, so you know, I can I
still remember when you you put out, you know, you
try to get signed. You're in a band, or you're
doing a solo thing, whatever it is, and you're you're
trying to get signed to a label, and then you
get signed, and then the label releases your album and
hopefully they're able to get you on the radio and
hopefully they're able to sell some records for you. But
today there's so much more to do, which is good
in the sense that with social media and everything, there's
so many ways to get your music out there and
to really market yourself, not just market your music, but
really market yourself as a brand.
Speaker 11: And yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 5: So there's so much more opportunity there. But it's also
because there's so much more opportunity that's a double edged sword,
because there's also so much more that you have to learn,
and some people don't like to do that part. I'm
I'm unusual in that I'm someone who, right from the
beginning of my career in the music industry, I've always
been fascinated by all of it. You know, I've played
in a bunch of bands. But I also the business
of music has always been really interesting to me. But
most musicians don't want to have to deal with that,
or they don't, you know. I hear people complain about, well,
I don't want to have to try to become a
TikTok star. I just want to make my music. And
it's like, okay, the music is the main thing, sure,
but these are just things that you need to do
to market yourself, you know, unless you have the luxury
of having a major label do it all for you.
So so I think that for what you're doing, or
other organizations that we know, like you're in New Hampshire,
there's a in Nashua. Our friends Eleanor and Andre, they
run something called New Hampshire Underground, which you know provides
education for artists and help for artists. But but I
think that's I think that's more important than it's ever been.
Speaker 11: I agree. I will admit that I was not focused
on the business portion when I was a young artist myself,
and even I was actually very stubborn as far as
you know, my uncle was already a very experienced musician
and was trying to give me a lot of perspective
when I was just becoming an artist and he saw
talent in me, and he tried to give me some
advice that I did not want to hear because I
was like, I've got a message, like you know, he
would he would try to give me tips on like,
you know, develop your appearance or you know, how you
want to present yourself, and I did not want to
hear it. When I was younger, it wasn't intel. I
had basically turned down all the majors and indie label
offers that I had on the table and kind of
felt like I had nowhere else to go. And a
friend of mine basically was like, what are you going
to do? You know, become a manager in a fast
food chain. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Anybody
that does that, I respect anybody who you know, does
anything in in any workforce. But what I said to
myself was, well, if I go take on a different
type of career path, I'm going to have to learn
skills anyway, and so why not learn the skills that
it takes me to be involved in the business that
I want to be in, which then has developed all
of these different new avenues for us to now have
founded not only manifest Media, but these other to land Tropic,
you know, things that we're trying to do through the
nonprofits and stuff.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you should talk a little bit more about that too,
especially for people who have not heard our previous conversations
on the show about about what you've done and what
you've been doing in terms of mental health and awareness.
I know that you know, you had had a friend
who had committed suicide and you did a song about
that and whatnot, but yeah, can you talk a little
bit more about that, about about what you've been doing
in that zone and how that relates to the to
your music.
Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, so, yeah, I do remember that is how
we met is. I had put out a song about
five years ago called how could You about a two
different friends of mine that had passed away. One of
them was confirmed a suicide and the other we we
assume that it was a self inflicted overdose, but it
was never confirmed, and that had began the expansion of
I Guess what is now our mental health advocacy brand
and community, the hashtag MKOT and this last year in
twenty twenty three, I Guess I just said advocating isn't enough,
not that I have any issue with anybody that purely advocates,
but I said, you know, let's see how much we
can do or how much more we can do. And
so I didn't really know where we were fitting into
the nonprofit world at that moment in time, and my
first idea was, well, I have a lot of background
an event organization. Let's see if we can create an
annual mental health awareness events.
Speaker 6: And so we do.
Speaker 11: A mental health awareness festival every May, and we've been
doing that for two years now. It's called the Mcott Bash.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 11: So what we usually do is we'll pick an already
existing nonprofit and we'll raise money for them. And we've
been very successful in being able to put on these
productions in the last couple of years, and we hope
to continue to shed light on even centralized topics. Folks
have asked us if we would be willing to do
events that were more focused around particular brain functionality that
folks are dealing with, like schizophrenia or you know, any
other different particular I don't like to use the word
mental illness or disorder. I particularly like to use the
phrase brain function I feel like everybody has brain functionality,
and we particularly are trying to develop programs to help
folks that are dealing with traumatic brain injury as well.
I know that it's very hard to continue with employment
after you sustain the brain injury, and so we're trying
to develop programs to help folks with employment and protect
like employment protection as well. But for right now, we
just said, can we help some other programs that already exist,
and so we raised money for a couple of different
local nonprofits. And as these events developed, we are hoping
to not only just spread awareness through the music, but
we would, you know, hope to have seminars where folks
are giving testimony and we have professionals coming and talking about,
you know, how they might be able to you know,
give some insight on just different forms of brain function
and where they might be able to find an outlet
to help, you know, find services and aid if they're
dealing with certain things. And so that's all a developing process.
But we're just happy to be able to have done
what little we could do in the last couple of years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I think that's uh. I think that's great,
very very positive stuff. And and what about as far
as your own uh material. As far as your your
hip hop have you been Have you been touring at
all in the past couple of years.
Speaker 11: I think a lot. Actually, we have a tour it's
going to be coming up this next year in probably
the middle of February till about the end of March
and April. We're hoping to get out to your neck
of the woods, and if we do, I would love
to come and visit you in person on the show.
But we're going to be continuing to push the bar
Nun song and music video and also promoting some new
hip hop records that we have out. We uh, we
are always producing rap music. That's so funny actually, is
that I started doing so much rock music, people are like,
do you rap anymore? And so we are trying to
create a balance as far as putting out more hip
hop and rap records as well as uh, you know,
developing developing these other genres. As far as myself as
a vocalists. I have a lot more in the vault
that we'll be releasing this year.
Speaker 5: Oh excellent, excellent. Where do you record? Do you do everything?
Do you do everything yourself or do you have a
studio that you work out of.
Speaker 11: I have a couple of different facilities. One facility that
I use in Albuquerque is called On the Moon Studios.
Nick Johnson is the founder of On the Moon Studios
and the engineer that I work with over there, and
he's an incredible, incredible individual and I've been working with
him for probably about four years now. As far as
being on the road, I do use sound peak as
far as when I'm in Topeka, Kansas, or you know,
if somebody has a studio and we can just hop
in there. Because I try to stay as productive as
possible when I'm on the road. I don't really party
like I used to. I used to be kind of
a you know, a party animal, but now I just
try to make sure that if we're going to be
away from home, we're working right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And.
Speaker 11: So to say that is also I said all that
to say the reason why I started doing the rock
music is because I did have a home studio available
to me at that moment in time, which was something new.
I never really wanted to do that. I liked a
little bit of a creative exchange.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 11: People will always ask me like do you make your
own beats or do you record yourself, and those were
things that I kind of wanted to leave up to
folks that specialized in those areas. Yeah, but when I
had the availability to record myself, I would just knock
out two or three songs in a night, and my
roommate was like always pretty surprised because he would be
just like, Wow, you can just do any genre, because
I'd be like, look look at this song that I did,
or look at that, and he would be just kind
of excited that there was just like always something creative
happening around. Because he was making records with me, rap records.
He had been in like different hardcore bands as a
vocalist and dabbled in rap music himself. He was the
one with the recording setup, and since it was around,
I was like, let's let's see how this works. And
so I started to get a little bit more experienced
and like mixed, mixing and mastering and different things like
that and editing, and which gave me an even more
deeper respect for folks that have to do all of
the recording and the post production, because it's not easy
to do any of these things and to create a
final product. So that was very exciting for me. To
be able to get my feet wet in that area.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, no, that's great. That's great. Well, Isaac, You've you've
got a lot going on. So let's before we before
we close out the segment, and I'm gonna I think
I'm gonna end with light work. The track that you
did with Jewel Santana. The collab from this is this
is from a few years ago, right, I think we
had we had played this on the show before and
I was like, really pretty blown away by it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that is a really cool collaboration that I was
able to do a few years ago. I think that
is the last time that I was on the show.
I don't want to uh have that large of a
gap uh for the next one. So oh, I agree
out to you and I should have actually probably sent
you one of the rock records. I don't think that
you even knew that we were doing that. But even
just for your listening pleasure, I'll send you some stuff.
Oh yeah, you can check out the other thing we're doing.
Speaker 5: Send us. Yeah, send us anything you want and and
uh and if it if it's something that hasn't been
played on the radio before, make sure make sure you
let us know that because we can do. We like
to do world radio premieres where we're the first radio
station in the US to play something. That's a thing
that we do. So if you've got if you've got
anything like that, I mean, send us anything. But if
you've got anything like that too that hasn't been played anywhere,
let us know. Or if it's been played on a
podcast or something, fine, but if it hasn't been played
on the radio yet, let us know.
Speaker 11: And actually one of I love premiering the records on
your show, and I really appreciate and I'm very honored
that you had allowed me to do that for a
few of these releases.
Speaker 5: Yeah, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 15: Jenny, did you have you know you're you're you're one
of my personal favorites.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I just remember it. I almost forgot.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the hoodies, so Isaac, we still wear those hoodies
that you sent us.
Speaker 15: And yeah, and you see the picture I tagged you in.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I did get that picture.
Speaker 3: Was that was a news story?
Speaker 15: That a surprise, Yeah that I did not know they
were going to pull that photo either, And I'm really
glad that they did.
Speaker 5: I love that photo.
Speaker 15: It's you and I are are brother and sister when
it comes to that issue and trying to help people
and you now, as you know, I have CRPS, So
it's a real important part of my heart. You do
that work and I really appreciate it, and I am
honored to wear that short I love.
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, very.
Speaker 11: Honored to have you. You know, it's it's a big
issue that always needs to be addressed. Yeah, and so
I'm very honored that you've supported over the years and
still have the the hoodies. We're trying to produce more
and we're trying to at some point give a portion
of the proceeds from the sales of that merchandise to
different programs for suicide prevention as well.
Speaker 5: Excellent, excellent, Yeah, that's outstanding, very good, very good, Isaac.
So before we let you go, like I said, we're
gonna play light work, But what should people know about
where to find you online, how to find Manifest Media,
anything that you want our listeners to make sure that
they know so they can keep up on everything that
you're doing or you know, and there might be somebody
listening who wants to work with you too.
Speaker 11: Yeah. So right now, Manifest Media does have an Instagram page,
Manifest medi and we also have a Facebook page which
is Manifest Media. The YouTube and uh SoundCloud if you
want to hear some of the music right now is
also under Manifest Media. And you can also contact me
personally if anybody ever wanted to reach out through any
of the Instagram. We also have an Instagram for my
kind of Therapy now which is m kot underscore dot org.
And you know, I manage all of those accounts, so
if anybody ever wanted to find me, uh, that's that's
how they would be able to get a hold of me.
Also through Isaac Sierra is my personal page on Facebook
that's attached to also the The Truth Facebook page and
True to the Rhymes c r U E the number
two d A R H y M yes all one word.
Speaker 5: On Instagram outstanding, outstanding. All right, Isaac, So we'll let
you go so we can hit this track, but yes,
let's do this again soon. You've got a lot going on.
Send us any music you want to send us. We
love it, we love premiering new music. And uh, we'll
let you go for now, and and I'm sure we'll
talk to you soon. But thank you so much for
calling us today.
Speaker 11: Thanks for having me on the show again.
Speaker 5: You got it all right, all right, you got to
take care.
Speaker 11: Good morning, bye bye, bye.
Speaker 5: Bye, all right, Isaac Sierra and we will close out
this segment with this track light Work. This is his
collab with Jewels Santana and then Uh and then coming
up in the third hour, we have the band of Volley.
We got some punk rock coming in, so here we go.
This is called light work, Yeah.
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