Joining us this week is one of Ben's former teachers: Ricardo Flores.

Ricardo regularly plays various styles of music and was gracious enough to chat with us about So Percussion's new A Gun Show and its director, Ain Gordon, as well as the topic of mindful self-motivation, an ever-present issue in the minds of today's teachers and mentors.

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0:00 Intro and hello

0:58 PASIC recap and highlights

4:41 Ricardo’s current projects

8:28 Megan: So Percussion's "A Gun Show"

13:17 Director Ain Gordon / music as a response to politics

17:57 Playing “Yellow After the Rain” for Keiko Abe at a young age

20:09 Ricardo’s circus gig

29:27 Laurel: Finding motivation / personal stories / incentivizing

51:19 Improvising from a young age

54:04 Ben’s giant duck call

55:25 The “Distraction Effect” and the “What the Hell Effect”

1:00:38 Wrap