And Sometimes ... Why? with Rob Szabo

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I'm off.

I'm camping.

I'll be back next Wednesday Aug. 4th with another great guest.

Check the links below for other stuff to listen to as I mentioned ...

Thanks for giving a shit!

Rob

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 OTHER STUFF TO LISTEN TO:
 Todd Donald Show Finale Episode w Rob Szabo CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
 Todd Donald's New Show Prime Time Flies CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
 Audio Drama "Lights Over Darlington" (incl Aliens!) w/ YesYesMatt CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

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 AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?:
 WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com
 EMAIL mailto:[email protected]
 INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod
 FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod
 TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

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SATE is an internationally acclaimed recording artist and songwriter. We dig into her musical history and bond over our shared love of Black Sabbath, Fishbone & Living Colour. We re-live our first meeting and the song that came out of it and she talks about her role in the COVID-postponed Scott Joplin opera Treemonisha featuring a predominantly black female team and ensemble. We also dig into her family roots: both her parents made enormous contributions to black culture in Toronto. She shares her need to balance her intense pride and loyalty to her parents accomplishments with the need to assert herself as an individual. We talk about the journey to make her new album “The Fool”, feeling and making music through her body, and coming to a place of self-acceptance.

“I was starting to feel like I was making music for people to accept me. When I wasn't accepted, it felt like shit. And I realized that it had nothing to do with anybody else but myself. Self-acceptance is the word that I'll probably tattoo somewhere on my body, definitely somewhere where I can see it. It doesn't really matter whether anybody else likes it or not, as long as I do, as long as I feel it in my body, as long as it moves me. That's all that matters. And that's hard. That's hard to come to because we make art to give to people for acceptance, for belonging.”

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 SATE
 WEB http://stateofsate.com
 What Did I Do (Live Video) https://youtu.be/ZT8Ny2Vmcgk?t=152
 Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha https://www.volcano.ca/treemonisha

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 WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com
 EMAIL mailto:[email protected]
 INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod
 FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod
 TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

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Brad Freiheit is a luthier who builds the most exquisite stringed instruments. We talk about how his humble beginnings ripping apart his first Kent guitar in grade nine led to the genesis of Freiheit guitars and he explains how the skills he refined working as a pattern maker in a foundry brought his guitar building to a new level. We dig into his musical history and he tells stories from playing the circuit in Southern Ontario and he shares how his fanatical devotion to perfection in his guitar building is an extension of his take on life.

“Everything I do is based on trying to get as much quality of life out of this particular activity or event. Because let's face it, life can be tough and we gotta field some bullshit. And so if you gotta field the bullshit, try and counteract it with as much good stuff as possible. This is an exclusive thing: I am going to pour three months of my personal self, all in, emotionally invested. I'm a kook with the perfection. Making a difference for somebody by crafting an instrument that changes and takes their playing to a new level. It advances them because problems have been solved and things have been resolved for them. That's all right for me, I'm pretty happy with that. To me, I call that success.”

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 BRAD FREIHEIT
 Freiheit Määkjäädä  Bass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADg6gJpWz24
 IG https://www.instagram.com/freiheitguitars

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 WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com
 EMAIL mailto:[email protected]
 INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod
 FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod
 TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

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Stacey Cooper is the Town Clerk and Deputy CAO for the Town of Penetanguishene. We dig into her role in local government and her commitment to roots level democracy. She shares her excitement for the first Climate Solutions Park in Canada, to be built in the Ecology Garden in Penetanguishene and she details the Community Well Being Committee initiative which brings together representatives from previously siloed councils. She also emphasizes the importance of relationship building, listening, and making people feel heard and authentically represented.

“I've had members of Council say: ‘Oh, I can't believe that other member of Council showed up wearing XYZ’, and it's not something they would have worn to a really important meeting. I'd say: ‘I hear you. You're right. I wouldn't necessarily have worn that. Keep in mind, this person is a representation of our community, and they should feel comfortable coming in whatever way they want.’ We don't want a group of people around this table that all wear the business suits and are very well spoken and well educated. That's not democracy. We want this room to reflect the people that live here. And if the people that live here would wear socks and sandals and shorts to a very important provincial meeting, that's us. That's exactly us. And we are true to ourselves. People need to feel like the person that they entrusted with their community are like them.”

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 STACEY COOPER
 FB https://www.facebook.com/stacey.m.cooper.9
 LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacey-cooper-she-her-7147909a

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 WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com
 EMAIL mailto:[email protected]
 INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod
 FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod
 TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

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Pat Lackenbauer is a man of many passions: podcast host, visual artist, lifelong salesman, zine publisher & indie music label head. We talk about his “Movin’ Air” podcast and Rob fesses up to freaking out and bailing as a guest. We dig into his life as a salesman, positivity & confidence, and hash out our differing views on the law of attraction. We also chat about sharing inspiration through our friendship, his visual art,  his zine “The Wandering Artoholic” and his “Breeding Ground” compilation that played a pivotal role in nurturing the early 90s KW music scene. 

“I guess I do just have to express myself. I don't want to think: 'I gotta get up in the morning. I gotta punch a clock, punch it out, and then my life begins'. I've never wanted that life. So even though a lot of it has been sales or whatever, I want to enjoy that aspect of it, and I do enjoy it. But I've always been searching for a way to live my life. I can make a comfortable living, still enjoy what I'm doing during the day, bring that energy and that approach to things and then still have those creative endeavors. I've always said I don't want to know what day it is. I don't want to know what time it is. I want to get up when I get up. I want to go to bed when I go to bed. I don't always have that luxury but I have had times in my life that I have had those things. And they're always 'cause of something I chased. I was working from home before anyone was doing that. I went looking for those things. I negotiated with people to create that life.“

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 PAT LACKENBAUER
 POD http://movinairpod.com
 IG https://www.instagram.com/the_wandering_artoholic
 IG https://www.instagram.com/rocknbauer

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SCOTT COOPER SINGS ROB SZABO: https://scottcoopermusic.bandcamp.com

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 WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com
 EMAIL mailto:[email protected]
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Nicole Palmquist (a.k.a. booleep) is a visual artist who works in many mediums: she does murals, she draws on paper, she paints people’s bodies and she is the studio manager at JSA Studios. She shares the roots of her fascination with anatomy (working with the REAL body parts of cadavers!) and describes the process of using other people’s bodies as a canvas in her body painting work. She also shares the magic of living in L.A., taking part in the art scene, getting to work with pioneers in comic art and TV and film including attending halloween parties with a crowd of film SFX people. She shares insights about her “fear of words” and perfectionist tendencies that slowed her down at points and emphasizes the importance of staying open to opportunities. 

“How would I describe my work? I like thinking that it simplifies the expression of human behaviour. I think just using the language of anatomy, it talks about human beings. I've always found meaning in the actual anatomical parts and how they work together and how similar those relationships are to real relationships. When people try to talk about religion, I'm like: ‘anatomy is my religion’. The concept of thinking of the human body and all the cells within it … who knows?“

(Illustration by Jason Shawn Alexander)

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 NICOLE PALMQUIST (booleep)
 WEB https://www.booleep.com
 IG https://www.instagram.com/booleep
 Here is an illustration she did of me ... me=honoured to be her subject:
 https://www.instagram.com/p/CNZDcZDJIVT

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 WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com
 EMAIL mailto:[email protected]
 INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod
 FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod
 TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

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Brad Marshall is a true iconoclast. He’s a mainstay behind the scenes in the KW music scene and he is a tech pioneer and newly minted ice-road trucker. We dig into his history in music including time with reggae band Crucial Vibes and our time together in KW music in the early 90s. Brad shares regrets over being very early to the streaming game but not capitalizing on opportunities and also shares his recent victories in his weight loss journey: losing over 100 lbs in the past year. I praise Brad for being one of the only true rebels I’ve ever met as he breaks the 4th wall with the audience and marvels that anyone would listen to our private conversation for entertainment. He details his experience driving 18 wheelers on ice roads delivering supplies to the Northwest Territories’ Gahcho Kue Mine and articulates why he continually chooses to live his life outside of his comfort zone.

“I wanted to do something that's way out of my comfort zone and change my perspective. Nothing is stable … I’m living in a truck right now. I'm in a yard. I don't live in a hotel room. I live in a truck. All my food’s there, my water … everything. It’s just a different perspective. Doing the same thing, the routine, every day of your life ... kills your life. Time flies by. Before you know it, it's over. The only way to stop it is to step out of your comfort zone. We're human beings and we're here for a short period of time, right? It's not like we're here forever.“

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BRAD MARSHALL
 WEB https://cyclingforsalvation.com
 YOUTUBE https://bit.ly/2QEeJVw

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 WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com
 EMAIL mailto:[email protected]
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 FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod
 TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

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Jen Ochej is a tour manager for touring music artists including Lights, Jessie Reyez and The Good Lovelies. She gives us a behind the scenes peek at her tour experience from van tours in clubs to festivals & amphitheaters. We talk about how she got her start tour managing, the power of persistence and  how she deals with unforeseens by planning meticulously knowing that nothing will go according to plan. She tells tales of waking up on a broken down tour bus stranded in the Rocky Mountains half an hour before soundcheck hours away, finding fill-in musicians with less than 24 hrs notice and flagging down the headlining act's tour bus to escape a California wildfire on a day off. She also shares tour hacks like day-off lone Target trips and the importance of green room snacks. 

"Live music, touring, tour management: It's what makes my heart sing. It makes my eyes light up. It's the thing. Maybe you loaded in at nine in the morning and your band doesn't go on stage until nine o'clock at night. You've already worked 12 hours. And that moment when they walk out and the lights come up, the whole room, just roars. I'm getting goosebumps now, remembering those moments ... like that feeling. We made that happen. We pulled it off again and we get to do it again tomorrow. And again the next day. And again the day after that. (And then hopefully a day off) But then again the day after that. You're creating those moments for all of those people in the crowd. But it's also a moment for you. I guess I do it for that moment. That one moment when the band walks out and the room just explodes."

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JEN OCHEJ
 WEB https://www.jenochej.com
 IG https://www.instagram.com/jenochej

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 WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com
 EMAIL mailto:[email protected]
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 FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod
 TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

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Jeff Bryant is a musician, actor and standup comic. He is formerly one half of the folk-pop duo the Human Statues and is now forging out on his own as a solo singer-songwriter. We chat about gaining wisdom around achievement as we get older and letting go of externally imposed ideas of success. He shares experiences of heartbreak and a health crisis that added up to a “now or never” moment in his life. We also dig into ideas around letting go of certainty of outcomes and how that plays into stage fright and how some musicians look down their nose at playing covers. (Jeff reminds us The Beatles started as a cover band.) He also gives us a behind-the-shades view of his experience being an actual human statue and shares his daily journaling practice that focuses on hope.

“Like any other human being, I very much struggle with despair versus hope. Up until this point in my life, I think I frequently imagined (that) how I feel is just something that happens to me. And now, at this stage of my life, I understand hope is a muscle. Every single day in the morning I journal. And one of the first things I do is rate my hopeful mood. And that’s just an example of me being attuned to why I’m hopeful or not and for what reason. I notice the impact it has because what I do is I review my journal entries every week or two. One of the most interesting things I find is that there’s times where the despair can seriously kick my ass. And when it happens, it feels like my world. And what you realize when you look at the data is, no no, that was something that was going on that day, and it was temporary. The more your awareness evolves around that, the more you appreciate that there’s a fluid experience of optimism, pessimism, hopefulness, despair. And your job, just like how you eat, exercise, all these things, is to try to orient yourself around being a good shape.“

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JEFF BRYANT
 WEB https://www.therealjeffbryant.com
 IG https://www.instagram.com/therealjeffbryant
 SPOT http://spoti.fi/3vAXd4f

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 WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com
 EMAIL mailto:[email protected]
 INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod
 FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod
 TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Samantha Martin is a Juno-nominated songwriter and singer with a voice of unmistakable texture and power. We talk about her new album with her band Delta Sugar "The Reckless One" and the trials and tribulations that informed the songs including a grueling few years of touring that put an immense amount of stress on her and caused her to “almost mentally breakdown”. She gives advice on making tours work financially, the upsides of European touring including trying local cuisine like Swedish horse sausage and how chasing the live music high is like an addiction.

"It’s not the other 23 hours in the day, it’s that one hour on stage. It’s powerful, it’s moving, it fills my soul. Connecting with an audience is magical. Live music is magical. I think it’s also an addiction if I’m gonna be completely honest. Because it’s a high. You just chase it ’til you either get that high again or you surpass it. The first time I played a festival we were the ‘tweener. It was so exciting and my Dad’s right down in front of me and he’s crying tears of proud joy. He’s like “Sam, you did it, you made it”. Because of that then I pushed myself ‘I need to do that again’, but instead of being a ‘tweener, I want to be the band. So then I get that. So the next thing I wanna do is I want to tour. Then you do the tour. It just keeps snowballing. I’ve done a lot in the last 15 years but you know what I haven’t done? I haven’t played on a stadium stage. I’d like to do that one day. I’ve never played Letterman or SNL or whatever. I’d love to do that. I’ve never done the Super Bowl … “

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 SAMANTHA MARTIN
 WEB https://samanthamartinmusic.com
 IG https://www.instagram.com/rootsnroll
 SPOT http://spoti.fi/2NWQz7p

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 WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com
 EMAIL mailto:[email protected]
 INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod
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