Brews, Beards, & Shipwrecks

Ah yeah!! Back like we never left! On this episode we have an in depth discussion with Ohio mainstays J. Rawls and Cas Metah. We'd be lyin' to say we weren't geeked to talk to these dudes. I believe they set the bar when it comes to hustle and work ethic. So when we found they did an EP together ("Criminal Blinded" out on Fat Beats) we had to get them on to talk about it. On the first half of the show we discuss the recording process and the inspiration behind the concept of the EP, as well as other projects from both J. and Cas. We all know J. Rawls as an producer and MC, but many don't know he is an educator as well and he shares with us how he uses music to relate to and teach his students. Edutainment at it's finest!  

The second half of the show Cas Metah talks about how he stays so productive as well as his thoughts on the different scenes within hip-hop. He shares his experience on trying to break free of being typecast as a certain type of emcee.

We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed making it!!

Cop "Criminal Blinded" by J.Rawls and Cas Metah:

Digital  https://polarentllc.bandcamp.com/album/criminal-blinded

        https://killacasmetah.bandcamp.com/album/criminal-blinded

Vinyl https://www.fatbeats.com/products/j-rawls-cas-metah-criminally-blinded-ep

Also be sure to sure to check out other music by Cas Metah at his bandcamp: https://killacasmetah.bandcamp.com

And to get other projects by J. Rawls check his bandcamp: https://polarentllc.bandcamp.com

We are truly appreciative of theses dudes for taking time to chop it up with us.

And of course be sure to check us out on Instagram 

@brewsbeards

@royalruckusofficial

@nomadikvagabond

and to keep up with Cas Metah and J. Rawls you can peep their IG's:

@real_cas_metah

@jrawls82

Peace!!

Nomadik

Greetings beautiful people of planet earth! Ya boys are back at it with a heater of an episode! We were blessed to have the opportunity to chop it up with the multidisciplined homie Omega Watts. Many know of him as a producer, MC, and DJ. In addition to these talents he is also and independent art-director, graphic designer, photographer and of course avid record collector. Ohmega and Nomadik crossed paths in the early 2000's when they both lived in Portland, Oregon. Well as you'd suspect things have changed since then and we get to discuss what's going on with him and what he's up to these days. He takes us on his journey through music, graphic design,the loss of his father, marriage, fatherhood, friendship, and life! This dude is seriously oner of the most genuine human beings! We hope you are as blessed by the conversation as we were.

IG:

@brewsbeards

@royalruckusofficial

@justjamey

@nomadikvagabond

and

you can find Ohmega on IG @brokinnglish(music) and @brokin_nglish (design)

Also be sure to hit up ohmegawatts.bandcamp.com for music as well as mix cloud.com/ohmegawatts for music. Last but not least ohmegawatts.com for all things Ohmega Watts related.

Remember to share and subscribe and hit up brews beards.com and royalruckus.com and royal ruckus.bandcamp.com for all the fresh tunes!

Nomadik Vagabond

This is an interview I did with my mother's mother, Grandma Colleen Pitts (O'Farrell) in 6 or 7 years ago. She died on February 14, 2024, and so now I'm releasing this episode in her honor.

We discuss a variety of things—losing her husband to cancer, difficulties in families, depression, losing my dad in a car wreck, and even the blackouts of World War II.

She was a gem of a woman, and I'm excited to share a little bit of her perspective with you.

I love you, Grandma.

Jamey Bennett

BrewsBeards.com

Whassup good people Happy new Year!!

We're back like we never left! Hopefully y'all remember a few episodes back the we had on Jeremiah Dirt and Illustrate, well you can consider this part 2 where we chop it up with Illustrate solo and get to hear more of his story and why he does what he does. We have the convo about being a rapper who's a christian vs. a Christian rapper and if there is a difference. he shares with us insights into the Colorado hip hop scene as well as what it was like linking up with Fros'T and Ahmad of 4th Ave Jones. As many of you may (or may not) know Illustrate is a member of the hip-hop collective Shadow Of The Locust (see September 2023 episode for that convo), he shares with us how he met Jeremiah Dirt and Calmplex of SOTL. This spurs Illustrate and Jamey to both share some Jeremiah Dirt stories which are worth the listen alone! Wrapping it up Illustrate lets us know what he's up to know as far as crew and solo projects. 

We hope you enjoyed listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed making it!

Wanna hit us up?

Peep us on Instagram:

@brewsbeards

@royalruckusofficial

@nomadikvagabond

@justjamey

and you can get at Illustrate on Instagram:

@illustrate1

and be sure to peep the @shadowofthelocust IG page as well

Wanna hear or purchase Illustrates music? Hit up illustrate.bandcamp.com as well as locustfist.com

Peace and a Blessed New Year to all!

Nomadik Vagabond 

By Joshua Gibbs and Jamey Bennett

The average man knows little of cicadas, thinks rarely of cicadas. And yet on the rare occasion he hears the word “cicada,” his mind invariably drifts off into those few truths about the insects which he was taught in grade school: the cicada lives underground for seventeen years, emerges briefly, dies. A certain kind of man cannot recall such claims without immediately thinking of himself, staring into the distance, and wondering if he is truly a man, or if he is, in fact, a cicada.

The life cycle of a cicada appeals to a man.

When I was a child, I was taught that cicadas slept for all those seventeen years. Sadly, not every naturalist is still convinced of this, though poets yet carry a torch for the truth. To sleep for seventeen years, to wake briefly, soon to die…how sweet would life seem if it had been anticipated in dreams for so long?

The poet is neither convinced that nature has commanded the cicada to spend so long underground. The poet knows the cicada has chosen to stay underground all these years, and that he might emerge from the earth when he pleases. The cicada has said, “It is better this way,” though his residency with the dead, in Hades, is not obligatory and not tenured. The cicada is free and stays underground by choice. It is purely coincidental that seventeen years is the given term of these cicadas.

Someday, these cicadas will have their Che Guevara, their Óscar Romero, their Picasso…and he will sleep for thirty-six years, or fifty-nine, or ninety-one years. We suspect the creature who makes company with Hades himself for seventeen years might be capable of doing so interminably. Have we numbered every cicada emerging from the ground? Have we truly kept track of their departures, their arrivals? Have we only said they sleep “seventeen years” because we tired of putting hash marks on the cell walls? “No one will count longer than this.” Who can say? The death and lust rattle you hear this summer’s eve might be a millennium in the making.

The life cycle of a cicada appeals to a man.

The man wants to believe that he, too, might only have been sleeping up until now, and that the emergence from the death of sleep this very morning might be the inauguration of a brief, golden age. “Will I now truly live? Has it always been a slumber and am I only now waking?” The man wants to believe this is true. He has long been underground, and no matter his activity, he recasts all his labor as nothing more than a patient biding of time. A man interprets patience into the long haul of his already-lived life. “I was always waiting.” A man longs to see the light of day as though he were a cicada, fingers emerging from the dirt, and then hoisting himself out. A man longs to see the world as a kind of egg from which he hatches after a beginning-less gestation period.

“It will all end soon,” says the cicada man, although the cicada man is forever caught between the contradiction of a thing beginning and a thing ending. Is this the seventeen year slumber or the two months of waking? The question cannot be answered, and every bottle of wine might be the last before death; and every bottle of wine might be opened, poured, and break on the tongue as a revelation— not the end, but the beginning of the end. After a thousand years of sleep, what kind of death is possible for the cicada? The cicada is the resurrection creature. The chasm between life and death narrows to crossing points suddenly, unpredictably.

While science has said the cicada wakes only to procreate, the poet knows the cicada wakes simply to live. Is a life of sixty days less meaningful than a life of sixty years? Meaning is not discerned in quantity; a moment in the soul is without end. The man who imagines the cicada emerging only to procreate falsely intuits sudden verve, anxiety and desperation in the cicada. How could such be true of a creature with the patience to wait forever? The sixty days of a cicada’s life are the sixty years of a man’s life. The creature which spends so long in preparation for life accomplishes much living once he has begun. A man needs sixty years to accomplish so little because he prepares for nothing. He is thrown into life and he does not know what it is about. The man longs to live a year as thoroughly as the cicada lives a single day.

The cicada reviews its life many times as it begins to die. Death comes as a surprise to the cicada, just as it comes as a surprise to a man. The cicada has not counted on going to sleep again, so soon, but his eyelids are heavy and the day is late. From the cool shade of the branches of a tree, Thanatos comes to the cicada in the same solemnity with which he approaches a man. The weightless, spiritual scythe of Thanatos passes through the cicada’s legs and then his arms and then his head, and then the cicada body enters his eternal stillness as the dry machine-like fruit which clusters about the limbs of a summer tree. His soul returns to the earth, and he knows sleep again. He will emerge again when it suits the Spirit. Like the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, like the Shulamite, the cicada will rise and go about the city and present himself to the King. And the King will be overwhelmed.

Whaddup y'all?

We hope everybody is doing just great! On this episode we had the pleasure of sitting down with Major Chisholm of Creative Liberty podcast. Major came on Jamey's radar through Whiskerino (which was a beard growing group, look it up if you don't know), and they further developed their relationship the last couple years through taking time together to explore life without alcohol.

To kick the episode off we get into the beard talk, which was a rather robust conversation on facial hair. Next we move into the beverage portion of the episode-shoutout to Rambler and Spindrift sparkling waters, as well as Athletic Brewing and Sober Carpenter brewing to help us get some flavor without the alcohol.

Lastly we get into chopping it up about Jamey and Major's journey into living alcohol free. They share how they encouraged each other and what it took to maintain sticking to their commitment.

We hope you dig it!

Socials:

@creativeliberty (Majors IG)

@royalruckusofficial

@justjamey

@brewsbeards

@nomadikvagabond 

Check out Major on YouTube

Check out our "Unvarnished" episodes on YouTube where you get to see our beautiful faces and get to hear all the stuff that gets edited out.

Outro song: Royal Ruckus- "The Great Beard Rebellion"

Peace y'all!

Nomadik Vagabond

What's up good people!

We got a treat for y'all on this episode. This one's been a long time comin', but without further delay we present the multitalented Sivion of the legendary Deepspace 5 crew! As you'll be able to hear, we really enjoyed this conversation!

We kicked this one off with what we were drinking, and then move into the beard care section of the episode. After we dissect the finer things of creams and combs we chop it up about parenting and career paths before discussing Siv's history in music and how dual love for the sax and the mic. He's got a few projects in the works that we're excited about, which leads us to discuss the labels he's been on how those connections were made.

After the music talk we get into the deep waters (see what I did there?) of the music industry and its effect on the youth and society, as well as the evolution of the "Christian" hip-hop scene.

Lastly we get into the shipwreck of the show where Sivion shares with us some health issues he's been dealing with for the past few years, how it's been affecting his life, how he's coping with it, and how he was able to take something negative and turning it into something beautiful. This truly was a blessing to have this conversation. We hope you're as encouraged listening to this episode as we were having it.

Check us out on Instagram:

@brewsbeards

@royalruckusofficial

@justjamey

@nomadikvagabond

@sivionds5

Be sure to hit up illect.com or illect.bandcamp.com to pick up music by Sivion (including his latest album Str8 Shot) as well as plenty other quality releases. 

Song at the end was "What It Is" by Sivion produced by Malex off the latest LP "Str8 Shot" on Illect Recordings

Apologies for the technical difficulties!

Be sure to like, share and subscribe!!!

Peace!

Nomadik Vagabond 

What up family?! 

We hope y'all have been enjoying your summer! Over here we've been soaking it up! On this episode we have a dope conversation with Illustrate and Jeremiah Dirt of Shadow Of The Locust. We get to talk about Illustrate coming into SOTL and his history in hip-hop. Jeremiah drops some jewels for the up and coming artists as well as the "old heads".

Shadow Of The Locust dropped a new album on July 4th, so we talk about that and some of the behind the scenes recording processes for that and how some of the songs came about. This was really a family reunion minus the barbecue!!

Hit up Royal Ruckus Bandcamp and Shadow Of The Locust Bandcamp to support the artists!!

Y'all will love this one!

Please support the music!

royalruckus.bandcamp.com (Come On And Wakeup LP with bonus bandcamp only joints!)

shadowofthelocust.bandcamp.com(where you can cop the A Mighty Army Cometh 2 album(

jeremiahdirt.bandcamp.com

illustrate.bandcamp.com

and of course brewsbeards.com 

Y'all can hit us up on IG:

@brewsbeards

@justjamey

@royalruckus

@nomadikvagabond

@shadowofthelocust

@illustrate1

@jeremiahdirt

Peace ya'll

Nomadik Vagabond

Welcome back people! Forgive the hiatus! We know it's been a hot minute since you've heard from us, but the wait is worth it! We got some heat to make the summer just a little bit hotter! We're kicking off this episode with the longest intro we've ever had wit Jamey and Nomadik chopping it up about parenthood and hip-hop. We're then joined by our guest spoken word artist Johnny Anomaly host of the podcasts Creative Coping and the Johnny Anomaly show. Before we get into the meat and potatoes of the show we discuss what we're drinking (shout out to Athletic Brewing, Pono Brewing, and Jack Daniels) and probably have the longest discussion we've had on non-alcoholic beers. 

We gotta cover beard care! So the three of us chop it up about what we're doing for the health and beauty of our facial hair.

Finally Johnny shares with us how the loss of his son inspired him to start the Creative Coping podcast and writing and performing spoken word pieces. He shares how being creative helped him process the stages of grief and how he was able to translate that into teaching school kids about spoken word and poetry. helping them unlock the creativity within them.

Thank you all for tuning in and we hope you enjoy the episode!

peace,

Nomadik

You can find Johnny Anomaly on Instagram;

@johhny_anomaly @creativecopingpod 

and you can check his spoken word pieces at johnnyanomaly.bandcamp.com. Also be sure to check out his podcasts wherever you get your podcasts at.

As always you can find us on instagram at:

@brewsbeards

@nomadikvagabond

@royalruckusofficial

@justjamey

also be sure to hit up www.mrrogersoftherapgame.com to peep the new Royal Ruckus EP as well as royal ruckus.bandcamp.com to download music and cop merchandise.

Lastly hit up locustfist.com to peep the new Shadow Of The Locust album "a Mighty Army Cometh" (also streaming on all major DSP's) as well as custom ink.com/fundraising/amac2 to cop a shirt to help support the new album as well.

Greetings beautiful people!

On this episode we're playing an interview Jamey did on the Creative Coping podcast with Johnny Anomaly in September 2019. Jamey shares how he got into hip-hop, the current state of the genre and his thoughts on it, as well as the art of storytelling in hip-hop and the importance of saying something. He shares some of the creative processes behind creating music, specifically the Royalty Check & Unexpected Joy EP's.

Johnny and Jamey then talk about Jamey's involvement in the Samson Society, which is a community of men who are serious about authenticity, humility, and recovery.

Lastly he talks about his experience with grief and depression, and how the songwriting process on Unexpected Joy became like survival for him. Tune in and be sure to share this episode with anybody who you think could benefit from it.

Peace and infinite blessings!

Nomadik Vagabond

Be sure to check out the Creative Coping podcast and follow 

@johnny_anomaly on IG

@creativecopingpod also on instagram

as always be sure to check us out at brewsbeards.com

and of course give us a follow on the socials:

@brewsbeards

@royalruckusofficial

@nomadikvagabond

@justjamey

The original episode can be found here: https://creativecopingpod.wordpress.com/2019/09/05/faithfulness-in-the-struggle/

The show has since been renamed The Johnny Anomaly Show, and can be heard here: https://open.spotify.com/show/47jMDe46LCREmcGs9cvyzY?si=45a76c4838c243e6