Call them God given, natural or rights of man, they exist and they all stem from self ownership.

Includes talk of Voltairine de Cleyre, anarchism, agorism, right to self and right of self defense.

Some neuroscientists say that people are adverse to new music because with new music the brain releases too much dopamine and we aren't equipped to handle the overload (https://pitchfork.com/features/article/listen-to-music/). But people have changed the way they listen and many are digging the new music experience.

Also, a little about the song business, streaming and new school publishing like the Hipgnosis Songs Fund.

A conversation that was, in part, inspired by the great comedian, Bill Burr, talking about the great drummer, Tony Williams.

Along the way I discuss the fallacy of rock drummers commonly called "greatest of all time", I mention Charlotte Iserbyt, John Taylor Gatto and I point out that along with the "glut of crap" we also have a glut of quality that's easily accessible.

I talk about art transcending history, the evolution of the high tech busker and reminisce about spending much of my youth at Snake’s Pool Hall.

Edward Bernays, Propaganda, Waynewood, PR, Publicists...COVID numbers...and some silly music business stuff.

I view the current events through the filter of my oddball self education.

A Willie Nelson story, early Eagles, fanaticism, the endorphin rush of playing live and the future of composition.

Reflecting at the halfway point during the strangest year I've seen.

We are creatures of habit and crave routine. But the daily routine is fragile in the COVID era. The corporate media pushes the binary thought agenda and society is dysfunctional but at least we have pop-country acts to lead the way to the right side of history.

We are going through hard times. Is it fair to compare them to the "Great Depression"? How do hard times effect entertainment and art?

Plus new album release details.