Spice To Meet You

Noble prairie animals, creation in coding and music, the future of humanity, griping about TikTok. This and nothing more in this episode with Las Vegas trombonist, composer and software engineer Nate Kimball!

Check out natekmusic.com to find Nate’s sheet music for purchase, as well as his soundcloud page to hear his huge portfolio of big band and orchestral compositions!

Creative burnout. The nature of God. A broken Oculus. LOTS of cursing. This and more in my conversation with filmmaker and podcaster Mat Hayes.

Mat is the creator and host of the Fagnostic podcast, a show about faith and sexuality that features thought provoking conversations with people of all faiths and walks of life. Mat also wrote, directed, and starred in the film Cognitive, based on his own life growing up gay in Alabama.

Learn more about Mat at hist website, or connect to him on the “Millennial” socials @hayesonit … Sorry, Gen Z.

Video games and why we play them. NFTs, dystopian pontifications and much more in this episode in with Steve Meim and Byron Beasley, the hosts of EmpowerUp, a video game industry podcast. 

Byron is a software engineer at Encore, an interactive live music app that brings together artists and fans through new mobile experiences, and Steve is a professional video game recruiter at Onward Play that loves helping people start their careers in the video game industry. Connect to both on LinkedIn by clicking their names above.

It's like Part 1, but after.

It’s the butter. It’s always been the butter. Do you feel better? 

Hi there, I finished editing this one faster than I thought I would, believe it or not. And if you don’t? Yes.

Bryan Canonigo joins me and talks about being a woodwind doubler, improvement vs. plateauing, finding motivation, the reasons we teach music, the sacrifices we make to be full time musicians, and a clarinet with butter on it. 

Also the internet said my episode file was too big, so I had to split it into two parts...

See Bryan’s music, photography and graphic design on Instagram: @bryancanonigo

If you got a house, you gotta keep it. I don't have a house, but I housekeep nonetheless in this pre-Episode 2 bonus. Although nothing really happens, I just go over the following:

-I'll release episodes whenever I can. Thanks for your patience!

-Leave me feedback! Rate and review and comment and message etc

-If you think of any modes of transportation I could sound design to go from one episode to the next (i.e. a jet pack), let me know and I'll try to work them in!

-Thanks to Yoni Kessler for his sound... advice. You feeling that pun? I feel it.

See you in Episode 2 :D

Parkades. Working on a cruise ship. Beard Beads. A dog named Einarr... Guitarist and composer Eric Lundgren talks about all these and more on the debut episode of Spice To Meet You.

Michael and Eric reminisce like the ol' buddies they are, and speak honestly about creative burnout, composing music, and creative life amid a pandemic.

Learn more about The Gilded Leash, Eric and his wife Amanda's dog walking service based in Stratford, Ontario. Visit their Instagram page here.

Also Eric's musical collaboration on Robert Ball's "I Need A Man" on Spotify here.

Thank you for listening!

Michael Spicer introduces himself!