In this episode we had the pleasure of speaking with Ryan Shelkett of Liars Academy, Cross My Heart, and Dead Red Sea. We talk about his time in all of his bands, his early demo tapes with his first band Blank, the Baltimore, Maryland music scene, working with labels such as Deep Elm, Equal Vision, and Steve Aoki's Dim Mak records. We talk about Knoxville's own Superdrag, the "business" side of the music industry and the dynamics of the music industry over the years, songwriting, David Bowie and Leonard Cohen, new music discovery, Star Wars, comic books, toys, Donald Trump (of course) and SNL.