Strength Level: Elastic

Man o man, do we have another good guest for you this week?!?!

The answer: YES

This week, Ryan invites the wonderful and talented NOOR CHE’REE to the show!!

Noor is a multi-skilled instrumentalist, composer, engineer, and so much dang more, and you are going to love listening to him and Ryan sit down together and get to know each other better.

RUN to social media to follow Noor (@jazznoor), and check out the amazing project, Symphonic Planet (http://www.symphonicplanet.com/), ASAP.

And as usual, please take a minute to go rate and review the show!!!

OUR PERSONAL THOUGHTS FOR YOU TODAY:

Don’t let yourself get TOOOO chilly during these brrrrrrr months!!!

Keep your skins and bones warm!

Strength Level: Wishbone

This week, past guest and friend of the show, Matthew Grant (@iammatthewgrant) guest hosts a very special holiday/friendship episode of the pod!

Not only do Ryan and Matthew goof around about…everything; but they also share a NEW TUNE FROM MATTHEW’S CHRISTMAS ALBUM!

AND, Ryan did 3 short interviews with bad ass musicians who you are going to LOVE.

Conner Cherland (@connercherland) shares about his love of ice cream, and a tune from his new album, IMAGINE (@that_imagine) breaks down blessings and silliness right before HE shows a new tune off, and then the multi-talent Hoosier brother Matthew Judson (@mathjudson) shows up to not only hype gratefulness for life and all its beauty, BUT THEN ALSO SHOW A DANG TUNE FROM HIS ALBUM!!

This episode is insanely jam packed with wonders and goodies, so get settled in, get yourself a snack (or a leftover thanksgiving treat if you’re listening to this in the future), and get ready to have a delightful time with these wonderful gentlemen!

OUR PERSONAL THOUGHTS FOR YOU TODAY:

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

I truly hope you’re surrounded with people and things that you’re thankful during this holiday.

I for one, am thankful for you.

Strength Level: Literature

This week, Super Strong Ryan invites his first aspiring author onto the podcast, CODY MCCLAIN!!


Cody is the boyfriend of one of the lovely Lori Pasqualino’s friends from college, and because of that, Cody and Ryan have found themselves at many a social event together, where a bond….a true gentlemen’s bond, has formed.

Cody is a great guy, with a calming nature and aura, and truly comes at life with such a rich background and story. It’s no mystery why someone like Cody is a magnet to people, and I’m really excited for you to listen in on our convo, and feel the exact same way!!

Check out Cody wherever/however you can ASAP!!!

He’s the kinda guy, you wanna know!!

OUR PERSONAL THOUGHTS FOR YOU TODAY:

Man it feels good to have abnuncha bad ass women in congress now!!!

Also, GET PUMPED for next week’s THANKSGIVING EPISODE!!!!! YES!!!!

Strength Level: Bravery

This week, Super Strong Ryan invited his dear friend Juliane Gralle to the show to goof around!


Juliane is one bad mama jama from Germany who has played horns with artists like Lady Gaga, Michael Bolton, Lady Antebellum, and the list just goes on and on and on!

Ryan & Juliane met playing with the Los Alamitos show choir band, have traveled around the country for several years with them, and now, you get to peak into what hangin and havin a drink with them is like!

You can check out Juliane and her bad assery online, on MANY albums, on tour with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, etc etc…. JUST GO DANG GOOGLE HER MAN!!!!

(Sidebar - the music intertwined into this episode features JG, and is from Kurt Elling and the Dirty Projectors….they are v cool…V v cool)

OUR PERSONAL THOUGHTS FOR YOU TODAY:

GO VOTE BAYBEEEE!

It’s November!!!

Strength Level: Walkin Around Skeleton

Well….”Happy” Halloween everyone…if you can even remember what happiness feels like after this horrible, spooky, creepy, freak month.

Incase you can’t (and even if you CAN), Super Strong Ryan has invited an amazing human to the show who you will love, and then immediately feel a faint memory of what happiness used to feel like.

This week, to warm up the spookiest month of the year, please welcome and enjoy the amazing super talent: BRAXTON MOLINARO!!!!


Braxton and Ryan met in an EXTREMELY serendipitous way, have a ton of great mutual friends, and you’re going to love this opportunity to meet another great human this week on RISS!!

Check out “GUNS the album” immediately, follow Braxton on social medias (Braxton Molinaro on FB, @instabraxfacts on IG, etc), and jump on the BM band wagon today!!!!!!!!!!

OUR PERSONAL THOUGHTS FOR YOU TODAY:

“Trunk” or treat is also not good

Strength Level: BONES

This week, before you even start listening, just go follow our guest on social media IMMEDIATELY!!!!

Francis Corby (@francislloydcorby) is here this week to bring you a feeling of warmth, joy, hope, and most of all, strength.

A true gentleman, this LA based southern boy is an actor who will be gracing screens large and small all over the planet one day soon, and you are going to want to be on the band wagon when he smashes into the entertainment universe!!!!

Watch out for Francis starting now, and it will be an investment you will never regret!

I mean just listen to him!

The guy’s an inspiration to the men of this globe!!!

OUR PERSONAL THOUGHTS FOR YOU TODAY:

One week til Halloween….I know it feels scary…but we’re so close to being done with it…..just be brave with me….let us be brave together.

Strength Level: The Spooky Werewolf

Megan Shung is here! O, Megan Shung is here!

Don’t be afraid of ghosts, cuz Megan Shung is here!

(Sing that last bit and you’ll feel more brave during this spooky month)

But besides singing about it, I MUST tell you how excited I am about this week’s guest!

Megan Shung is a multi-talent, LA based violinist/composer/performer, and you’ll wanna know all about her.

Another founding member of Iridas (the group she is in with past guests, Mikala Schmitz and Matt Smith), Megan has so much going on in LA, and is not only someone you should seek out immediately, but also someone who is here this week to help my listener’s realize that October can be fun too.

Not JUST scary.

After you’ve listened to this episode, and immediately gone and written a review for the podcast, GO FOLLOW Megan (@meganshungviolin) and Iridas (@iridasmusic) on all the Social Medias immediately!!!!!!!

OUR PERSONAL THOUGHTS FOR YOU TODAY:

I get it! I get it ok?!

Halloween is coming up QUICK, and no one is feeling safe.

You’re not alone in feeling so spooked that your skin fell off.

NONE of us have skin at this point.

Strength Level: Van Gogh & Mozart (Zombies?)

I am CRAYZEEEE excited for this week’s episode you guys.

An episode I’ve been excited to create since this podcast started, I finally got visual artist, Chad Coleman, and audio artist, Chris Hackman in my studio at the same time to meet for the first time and talk about how amazing these two men have made this podcast.


I talk about them EVERY week, but now you get to hear them become friends, and I think you’re going to really enjoy it.

We talk spooky Halloween, we do a Candy Challenge, and so much dang more.

Tune in today, and then go follow Chad and Chris in ANY WAY POSSIBLE!!!!

THEY KICK ALL ASSSS!!!!!

OUR PERSONAL THOUGHTS FOR YOU TODAY:

When you’re scared, think of your friends.

It may help you; but if it doesn’t, at least you’ll have a nice thought of your friend in your brain.

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Strength Level: Dracula

This week, Ryan has the delightful KRISTIN OLSON in the room!!!!!

Kristin is an insanely talented percussionist/drummer/musician/super talent from Minnesota who is newly based in LA, and is an absolute joy to hang with.

Kristin sits down to chat with Ryan about drums, Minnesota vs Wisconsin, our mutual friendship with MANY past guests from RISS, and many more things…….but the whole time, the whole ENTIRE time, there is an insidious and harsh truth lying in the darkness underneath the entire interview…..

It's officially the spookiest month of the year.

The month so spooky even saying it gives you chills.

Octoburrrrrrrr

As I do every year, I really try to encourage you all to TRY and not be so spooky scared out of your mind that you can’t even function anymore, and this week, the first week of October, Kristin is here to break down some Halloween themed truths, take the candy challenge, and hopefully just help you quell your fears during this VERY spooky scary frightening time.

I hope you fall in love with Kristin and go check her out on social media (@kolsonperc & @cluboro.mp3) and interweb NOW, and that this episode brings you great joy during this spooky spooky month.

OUR PERSONAL THOUGHTS FOR YOU TODAY:

Monsters ARE NOT real. We don’t have to be scared of them any more, and that’s just gotta be something we tell ourselves until we believe.

Please try and believe it.

I know it’s hard.

Just please….for me

Strength Level: The Honey Badger

Our first guest EVER to come back for a 2nd full length feature is here today.

This week, on episode 106....SOTIRIS ELIOPOULOS!!!!!

In the past 2 years, Sotiris (AKA: Sam) has been drumming all over the damn place, and making all kindsa big bad ass moves!

You can listen to him drum LIVE with Mt. Joy as they tour to YOUR town!!!!

Check out their tour dates here:

http://www.mtjoyband.com/tour/

You can hit him up for drum lessons or questions of any kind at: [email protected]

And check him out on Instagram NOW @sotiriselio

A true gentleman, and one of the best friends of the RISS show you could ever ask for, jump on the Sotiris Eliopoulos band wagon TODAY!!

OUR PERSONAL THOUGHTS FOR YOU TODAY:

Some people come into your lives for a reason, some for a season.

Either way, friendship sure can be pleasin.

(If you don’t wear a coat your arms’ll be freezin)