1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,880 Hey, I want to welcome you all to Why Make Music. 2 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:15,640 My name is ThinkTimm and I will be your host. 3 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:20,000 I came up with the idea of a podcast, by the way. 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,360 This is episode one. 5 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:26,760 My first time doing this, so I hope that you enjoy. 6 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:32,040 I hope that you give us a listen. 7 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,000 I hope you subscribe and I hope that you follow. 8 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,480 I never said those words out loud before. 9 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:40,080 But here we go. 10 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:49,240 Why Make Music is going to be a podcast about the creative process behind why I make music. 11 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:55,640 It's going to talk about the love I have for songs and the love I have for the influences 12 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:09,360 that have crafted me to basically want to be creative, feel the need to be creative. 13 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,080 A little about myself before we really get into it. 14 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:21,040 I'm a hobbyist musician, a new independent artist. 15 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:28,240 I have a collaboration for distribution through United Masters. 16 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:32,760 So basically you pay a fee, you upload your music. 17 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,280 It needs to be mastered. 18 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,280 They mastered it, but you can master it prior to it. 19 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:44,440 They allow you to put it out and distribute it to all major streaming platforms. 20 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:49,600 Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Tidal, YouTube. 21 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,920 They have a connection with SoundCloud. 22 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:57,320 You can talk to their customer service and have your stuff submitted on SoundCloud. 23 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:02,400 Now I know you can put stuff on SoundCloud by yourself, but this is all to monetize and 24 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,280 they keep track of your publishing. 25 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:14,360 Of course you do have to sign up for publishing ASCAP or BMI more or less to make sure you 26 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,200 get your money right. 27 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:22,440 So I am trying my best to be creative and trying to crack into this whole digital music 28 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,640 phase and social platforms. 29 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:31,400 And it's not something that I am really fluid at. 30 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,400 I am learning as I go along. 31 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:41,840 So in 2024, it seems as though there are no more record companies really majorly. 32 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:47,800 You can get more exposure by basically marketing yourself and trying your best to get out there 33 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,520 and connect to the people. 34 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,880 So this is my way of doing so. 35 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,000 Once again, about me. 36 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:05,720 I have been doing music since the days of the 808 and the Tascam 424 4-track recorders 37 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:14,160 where you had to actually really play tracks over top of tracks as far as traditional instruments. 38 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:19,640 I mess around with bass guitar and play a little bit of guitar, regular guitar. 39 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:27,080 Keyboards workstations have been a good situation to fill up all the other things, all the other 40 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,040 sounds that you need because you can do anything. 41 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:36,680 Back then, if you were good, you could layer tracks, you could program your keyboard. 42 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:46,280 My favorite keyboard from back in the day was the Roland XP-50. 43 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,920 Little brother to the XP-80, I think it is. 44 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:49,920 But that was cool. 45 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:59,560 It allowed you to program to a 3.5-disc card and save a few songs and everything. 46 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:03,440 So I had a history of performing. 47 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:09,000 I had a little band at one point, this is years ago, probably long before some young 48 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,200 folks that are listening to this podcast were born. 49 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,160 And we did a few things, nothing major. 50 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,400 You know, like I said, I am a hobbyist musician. 51 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:22,120 I am someone who does music because I enjoyed it. 52 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,760 I've always enjoyed it. 53 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,280 My love for music has always been there. 54 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:31,720 My love for art and all things creative. 55 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:37,760 It's a shame that I wasn't born in a different time, but if I was born at a different time, 56 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:39,240 I wouldn't have the life I have now. 57 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:42,320 But I love it and I love my life, so it's all good. 58 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:50,040 But technology that is available for everyone to utilize now, and I think a lot of people 59 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,040 take for granted, didn't exist. 60 00:04:53,040 --> 00:05:01,160 So there was no way that without really going out and attempting to meet and interact and 61 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:07,640 really meet people and talk to people, there was no way that you were going to reach a 62 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,160 large mass of people. 63 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:15,640 I'm talking back in the late or early, maybe the early 90s. 64 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:16,640 Let's go back that far. 65 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,000 I'm going to date myself a little bit. 66 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:29,040 So if you think about this, if I'm back in, say, 1992, 93, and I'm attempting to get a 67 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:35,400 band together locally, other than going to spots in my area that musicians were playing 68 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:40,800 and knowing people who knew somebody or you always have your group of people that are 69 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:42,400 creative musicians. 70 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:49,080 Back then, people just like today, everybody was making music, so it was like everybody 71 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:53,640 either had a home studio or you were paying for studio time for the hour. 72 00:05:53,640 --> 00:06:02,760 If you were lucky enough to know someone who had a computer, desktop, laptops for week 73 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:12,080 at the time frame, and they were running program Cakewalk, something, you know, and studios 74 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:17,800 were charging outrageous prices to record you and you had a handful of people who were 75 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:23,040 basically in an area that were monopolizing off of all the young talent that wanted to 76 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:24,040 get things done. 77 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:36,600 Growing up on a block, I grew up on, there was always a crew of rappers, singers, musicians, 78 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:45,760 people who were doing things, legendary people that if you know me and you can sit back and 79 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,880 smile and laugh because I'm not putting names out there like that, but yeah, there were 80 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:56,920 some cool folks out there that did their thing and rapped and none of them are famous. 81 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:01,960 I'm like, there were a few that tried to have record deals and shoot, they got airplay and 82 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:02,960 it was good. 83 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:07,960 There were people who at that time frame, I didn't look up to them, I looked up to them, 84 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:09,560 but I admire what they were doing. 85 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:14,960 Me and myself, my household was a musical household. 86 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,640 My father was a musician, not a full time hobbyist. 87 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,520 He had bands, you know how it was. 88 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:30,320 He was put up in the 70s, so therefore, of course, you know, bands were there, cover 89 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:35,160 bands doing whatever, go do little gigs here and there, but my house was a rehearsal house, 90 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:41,000 so therefore me and my brother were direct offshoots of that type of experience. 91 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:46,080 You know, like the instruments are there, my brother's awesome on drums, he's a good 92 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,760 dude, but we had equipment in the household. 93 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:56,960 We had giant sun speakers, bass amps, guitar amps, full set of drums, keyboards, everything. 94 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:04,760 A couple blocks over, a friend of his had a record recording studio and I'm talking 95 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:10,440 like yeah, they had like real wax records and they did stuff and I was always impressed 96 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:15,200 to go over there because his house didn't look like a house, his house looked like a 97 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:19,720 big room and then the dining room, there were keyboards and then downstairs there was the 98 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:25,360 recording room and so forth and so on, but that's where I come from, so therefore it 99 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:32,800 was a situation when Pops had rehearsal and somebody stepped off the instrument, you might 100 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:37,480 be fortunate enough to have to go sit there and fill in a little bit, you know, so it 101 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:44,440 seemed natural, but long story short, you were playing, you were having fun, then all 102 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:54,960 of a sudden everybody wanted to be a musician, a star, a rap star, hip hop star, I'm not 103 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,960 going to lie to you, lip syncing was the thing back in the day, you know, that was really 104 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:05,320 big, that's the one thing that really got me to plug the instruments in because you 105 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:10,400 were basically singing to someone else's song holding real instruments and you weren't 106 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:15,080 plugged in and then me and my friends were like hey, let's plug these things in and see 107 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:23,520 what happens, you know, so but that's where it all began and once I started doing it, 108 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:29,440 I couldn't stop doing it, so here it is years and years later, many iterations of myself 109 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:41,160 later, tons and tons and tons of tracks recorded, for example, there's tons of things that I 110 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:47,720 will probably never ever ever play for you guys and I don't know if that's because I 111 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:52,680 will never play them or if it's, I don't know, right now I'm trying to navigate this whole 112 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:58,160 publishing copyright thing so I guess you can put indistinct music in the background 113 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:04,160 of your podcast, I don't know how it goes if you want to put all original material, 114 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:09,400 I'm like I'm sure there's still copyright publishing issues that I'm going to have to 115 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,880 incur as life goes on, I'm going to have to figure this out as we go, but I hope that 116 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,280 you're enjoying it so far. 117 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:21,000 Second of all, let me tell you how I feel about speaking. 118 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,760 I tend to speak a little quick. 119 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:33,840 I am trying my best, I am using a method of tapping my finger as I talk, I've learned 120 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:42,160 this from a speech therapist to keep pace of what you're saying and you know sometimes 121 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:48,520 when you watch the news or you watch media and you realize that folks talk at a very 122 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:54,960 steady pace, they're very intent on everything they say so I am trying my best to do that 123 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,760 impersonation of a journalist. 124 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:05,520 So tune in to ThinkTimm, why make music? 125 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:14,040 Anywho, what we're going to do here, we're going to talk about the creative process, 126 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:21,720 where do the ideas come from, why can some people just slow and other people have to 127 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:31,920 toil, we're going to talk about lyrical content, how serious is lyric writing? 128 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:37,120 Think about it, some of the greatest songs you've ever heard, are they really about what 129 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:40,120 you think they're about? 130 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,720 What's the process of writing a song? 131 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,360 Do you really want to know the process behind writing a song? 132 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:55,840 Your favorite song that you like, do you know why the person wrote that song? 133 00:11:55,840 --> 00:12:03,160 I don't know, but those are the questions you have to ask yourself when you think about 134 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,520 why make music. 135 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:13,640 Music is everywhere, music is in commercials, music is in the background of TV shows, music 136 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,680 is the closing credits of a movie, the opening credits of a movie. 137 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:23,200 When you're going to the, when you're watching a movie, you see a trailer or something and 138 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:28,240 they put a song in the trailer that's not even in the movie. 139 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:36,520 It gives you a feeling, it pulls you in, it makes you feel a certain way. 140 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:42,760 Now I don't have a degree in sociology, I don't have a degree in musicology, ha ha ha 141 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,920 shot, but anywho. 142 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,120 These are questions I ask myself. 143 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,320 Sometimes when you ask yourself questions, you sit back and you think like, oh, maybe 144 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:55,320 I'll get an answer. 145 00:12:55,320 --> 00:13:00,480 Most of the time you don't, you think about it and you do whatever. 146 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:05,880 But yeah, point three. 147 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:19,240 I want to figure out a way to integrate this podcast and perhaps as it evolves, it will 148 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:30,640 be able to visually, I'll do some screen recording of drum tracks on a laptop computer, whatever. 149 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:41,760 Oh, the DAWs I use, I use April Logic Pro and I use FL Studios, I like them both. 150 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:47,640 I flip-flop back and forth between them depending on what I'm doing. 151 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:52,760 I want to show everyone that the creative process, if you just let it flow, it's kind 152 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:53,760 of easy. 153 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:57,240 And like I said, I'm not the greatest musician in the world. 154 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:02,520 I get it done. 155 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:09,800 If you have any questions at one point, I guess I'll do the podcast thing and say, oh, 156 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,840 you can reach me at such and such. 157 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:17,920 Like I said, I'm ThinkTimm , T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M. 158 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:24,600 Normally I tend to say that T-H-I-N-K-T-I-2-M's. 159 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:33,640 This moniker that I came up with years ago, eons ago. 160 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:41,520 All my social media accounts, I can be reached on by that Twitter. 161 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,480 I'm not really heavy on any social media accounts. 162 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:52,520 I do have a graphic arts, Star Wars, Marvel, anything that interests me. 163 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:56,400 My account is called WDMNation. 164 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:00,640 So that's WDMNation on Instagram. 165 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:08,360 And it's some artwork, digital artwork I've done of trying to become proficient at it. 166 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:12,160 They say that anything you do for 10,000 hours, you'll become great at it. 167 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,880 And I'm getting my hours in more or less. 168 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,720 So yeah, you should check us out. 169 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:19,720 But anyway, back to the music. 170 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,500 So this is what we're going to do here. 171 00:15:22,500 --> 00:15:24,520 This is episode one. 172 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:26,880 And this is the introduction. 173 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,880 This is just me trying to figure out flow. 174 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:34,320 No, I did not do an outline. 175 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:36,840 I recorded this. 176 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:41,480 This is my second time putting this down. 177 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:46,160 The reason why it's the second time is because yesterday when I did it, I got distracted, 178 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:49,160 had to leave, had to come back. 179 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:54,720 I reapproached it this morning and I felt as though I didn't even want to listen to 180 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:55,720 what I did yesterday. 181 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:57,680 I didn't even want to revisit it. 182 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,920 I said, let's just start fresh, start right now. 183 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,960 So today is Friday. 184 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:04,960 It's August 23rd. 185 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:10,480 Once I'm done doing this, I will actually try to post this and put this up. 186 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:11,480 I might do a little tweaking. 187 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:15,800 I'm going to try to keep it as raw as possible. 188 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:20,720 Two nights ago, I had my first listening party on Bandcamp. 189 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:25,880 It started around 9 p.m. 190 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:32,120 It ran until about 11 because like I said, I put out 26 songs and they were all instrumental. 191 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:33,120 They were funky. 192 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:40,360 They covered a wide range of sounds more or less. 193 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:41,440 I think it was a good response. 194 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:42,440 I was happy with that. 195 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:46,600 Prior to that, I put out this other EP called Demotional. 196 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:55,600 It had nine tracks on, which the nine tracks are included on the Demotional… Caught Feelings larger 197 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:56,600 project. 198 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:03,280 The reason why it's called Demotional is because all the titles of all the songs are basically 199 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,840 based upon emotions. 200 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:09,520 We have like bewildered, angst, giddy. 201 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:13,840 I'm like very trivial names and I am learning them. 202 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:18,080 The reason why I say I'm learning them is because basically I'm going to be honest with 203 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:23,960 you and tell the story that I passed on to a friend of mine during a listening party. 204 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:34,400 That basically when I record music, since I record such a high volume of tracks, the 205 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:40,560 date I start the track is the date I label the track and I save it in the hard drive 206 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,520 as such. 207 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:48,800 To me, a lot of songs are dated by 0823 2024. 208 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:56,480 I might have a few notes after and at the end of it so this way I can remember what 209 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:00,240 I was doing more or less, but that is the basic process. 210 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:08,440 So therefore, unless the song really manifests into a song with lyrical content. 211 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:14,280 Now mind you, all the songs I do record, they are recorded in a format that will be, that 212 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:22,360 is very friendly and transferable over to a song thing, you know, intro, verse, chorus, 213 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:24,680 bridge, so forth and so on. 214 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:31,400 But when you record a lot, I'm not going to lie to you that creating a name for something 215 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:36,880 and calling it something when there's no idea where the thought is going, I can never do. 216 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,960 So it's easier for me to keep track of things. 217 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:44,120 So I am still currently with this project that is out. 218 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:53,000 I am learning the names of the songs currently because to me, some songs are just basic numerical 219 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:57,640 dates and numbers and they've been with me for a long time. 220 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:04,120 So that's the system I use and don't get me wrong, the songs sometimes manifest and they 221 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:06,320 become some cool, cool songs. 222 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:14,960 But anywho, so like I was saying, I would like to put up videos so this way you can 223 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,360 see that, oh, it's a fun thing. 224 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:19,320 It doesn't have to be a stressful thing. 225 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:23,280 I'm like, you can like music and you can create music. 226 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:32,800 Music is such a thing that the funnier view I have of music is that if you can play music 227 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:40,880 and no one reacts to what you're doing and no one cringes or blinks an eye when it comes 228 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:45,600 on, I think you did it. 229 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:50,480 You have to realize that there are only so many notes that can be played. 230 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:51,880 There are so many chords. 231 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,160 There's only so many chords that you can play. 232 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,960 Sometimes you'll come across something, a change or progression that's very familiar. 233 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:03,640 Like don't get me wrong, I know a little bit of music theory. 234 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,160 I don't know a lot. 235 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:14,240 I'm not a trained musician, but there is such a familiar sound that you hear that you can 236 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,480 relate it back to something. 237 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:24,120 Sometimes the things that are more natural are the things that go unnoticed. 238 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:29,280 It creates a feeling. 239 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,680 It makes you remember things. 240 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,800 It takes you off to a place. 241 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:46,000 Now, with that being said, I want to give a shout out to all the very creative people 242 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:50,560 that are out there in the music industry right now, currently independent artists, major 243 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:55,600 artists that are doing their thing because right now is a great time to be alive. 244 00:20:55,600 --> 00:21:03,680 I'm not going to lie to you because I'm not a really good conduit for saying what's going 245 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:08,560 on currently or whatever, but certain things do come to my attention. 246 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:13,200 I don't really necessarily listen to the radio. 247 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:19,600 If something comes across, I'll do a deep dive into someone's catalog and I listen to 248 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:24,720 things and I take what I take and I take it in. 249 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:33,200 I have no hate or no type of ill, nothing to say about anyone who's making music because 250 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,840 music should be made. 251 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:47,280 But it's a great time because as a musician, as a music maker, as a hobbyist, I can, you 252 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:56,240 can, we all can record our thoughts, get them out there, upload them, have them played, 253 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,880 platform play, SoundCloud, Bandcamp. 254 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,440 There's tons that you can just interact. 255 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,600 You can build your own audience. 256 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:06,720 You can build your own sound. 257 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,920 You can create your own world. 258 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,140 This was unheard of when I was younger. 259 00:22:11,140 --> 00:22:16,680 This was something that, oh, you had to naturally go to a certain area and realize like, oh, 260 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,480 this area had a certain sound. 261 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,240 Oh, let's go over here. 262 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,160 They do this over this side or whatever. 263 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:27,720 Back in the day, like when I was in high school, college, like, oh, people did music, but it's 264 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:33,120 like, oh, it was only relative to the areas that they were in to find someone else. 265 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:38,320 You had to leave that area like, oh, punk might have been popping over here. 266 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:43,800 Then you have people who wanted to do rock music, rappers, R&B singers, the boy, paying 267 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,680 group thing, the R&B groups. 268 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:54,560 It's a great time, but right now it's like a situation because of technology. 269 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:59,880 You can find that anywhere and everywhere and you don't necessarily even know where 270 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:01,240 these people are coming from. 271 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:02,800 You know, like locations are disclosed. 272 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:04,800 We're all on planet Earth. 273 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:06,520 That's more or less it. 274 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:10,920 We are part of the world wide web of information. 275 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:11,920 Crazy. 276 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:17,480 But it's a good thing, more or less. 277 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:25,040 So like I said, this is episode one and this is me just basically brainstorming and trying 278 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:30,240 to feel my way through this. 279 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:38,320 I'm sure I'm going to put up all the basic bells and whistles that go along with the 280 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,760 social media connecting to fans. 281 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,580 I don't want to call you fans. 282 00:23:43,580 --> 00:23:45,840 People who listen, whatever. 283 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:50,240 Folks who listen to music, folks who listen to me, folks who want to stream the stuff 284 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:54,280 I do, folks who depends on what you are, what your finances are. 285 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:55,280 If you want to buy it, buy it. 286 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:56,800 If you don't want to buy it, don't buy it. 287 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,200 If you want to stream it, stream it. 288 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:00,360 You don't want to listen to it, don't listen to it. 289 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:04,520 But I hope that you take something from this. 290 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:14,520 I am trying my best to find a way to make some type of financial scenario. 291 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:23,080 I think nowadays call it passive finance, passive revenue, I guess more or less because 292 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:24,080 you put things out there. 293 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,880 If I put this on the internet right now, this will live on the internet forever. 294 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:36,400 So I try my best to be mindful, be respectful and not to say anything crazy. 295 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,680 I'm only going to talk about the projects that I'm in. 296 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,840 I will critique those things heavily. 297 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:51,280 I will make reference to things I find to be cool influences. 298 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,520 So you figure I'm not going to lie to you. 299 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,480 Let's play a guessing game here. 300 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:01,280 I grew up in the 80s. 301 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:09,440 I came to my fullest musical awareness in the 80s. 302 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:16,960 Some of my greatest influences were hot and popping in the 80s. 303 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:26,160 The longevity of an artist is based upon their creativity or was based upon their creativity. 304 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:33,800 This was before people had to branch away from music and have other scenarios going 305 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:34,800 on. 306 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:41,960 In the day, there were musicians that were great musicians and great writers of music 307 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:50,040 that never ever, ever reached the level of stardom or the level of success that some 308 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:56,840 independent artists have reached in 2024. 309 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:02,720 Some of the greatest songs you might have ever heard might have been One Hit Wonders. 310 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:10,360 You never know, a lot of great musicians now are producers. 311 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:14,520 They're still doing music, but they're no longer the front man for their scenario. 312 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:19,840 Man, let me tell you, music is forever. 313 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,240 Music is everywhere. 314 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:32,520 It's cool to have a genuine, a genuine, genuine respect for something. 315 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:37,600 When you do that, and then the thing that you like is everywhere. 316 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:44,440 Now, my question to you is, is it everywhere or is it everywhere just to you because you're 317 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,440 paying attention to it? 318 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:57,520 For example, if you are into, let's say, you're a cosplayer. 319 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:02,440 I'm going to get all nerdy on you right now. 320 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:11,880 There is a world that you can live in where people make and create and recreate things 321 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:20,520 they see in movies, TV shows, comic books, all sorts of visual media, and they make it. 322 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:25,480 They go to the Comic Con, they go to the comic fair as they post on Instagram. 323 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:30,280 These people are so talented, they don't get their proper due. 324 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:35,360 They are the lower level of costume designers that when you're watching your favorite movie 325 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:41,920 or your favorite TV show and you see something cool, you see something created. 326 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,120 This is where that idea brews from. 327 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:45,120 It starts. 328 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:51,240 It starts at a base level of you being in your home, you doing something that you love, 329 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:57,100 you've created, and you don't know who to share it with. 330 00:27:57,100 --> 00:28:02,560 Visual media, oddly enough, which I think is going to be, it's the gift and the curse 331 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:03,560 of the world. 332 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,040 It allows us to share so much. 333 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:13,320 It allows us to create and hate. 334 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:14,320 It's crazy. 335 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:15,320 I don't get it. 336 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:22,080 But anywho, what I'm saying is that we all have to find a platform. 337 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:23,080 I am right now. 338 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:28,960 And so what you're going to do with me is that you're going to go on a journey. 339 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:35,440 If you go to any of the websites or social media, things that I post, you realize that 340 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:40,360 there are a few key things that I am trying to establish. 341 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:48,880 Nothing comes immediately and we are all on a journey of trying to figure things out. 342 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:57,560 The fact that it's taken me this long to get to the point that I am trying to embrace all 343 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:03,520 forms of media and trying to reach out to all forms of folks. 344 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:08,400 Don't get me wrong, I listen to tons of podcasts. 345 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:15,000 Some of them are comedies, some of them are self-help, some of them are music-based, some 346 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,000 of them are fandom-based based upon the things that you like. 347 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,440 And I can engulf myself. 348 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:25,000 I can just dive into them and listen to them forever and ever and ever. 349 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Maybe, just maybe, I might be this for someone else. 350 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,120 I don't know. 351 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,800 Maybe somebody somewhere. 352 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:37,000 Hopefully I can grow an audience base. 353 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:42,680 And you guys could write in the comments, yo, Tim, think about this. 354 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,440 Yo, you could tell me why you make music. 355 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,640 You know, just like why make music? 356 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:55,680 That's why when I was thinking about doing this and I was thinking about how to title 357 00:29:55,680 --> 00:30:04,320 and what to call this show, I said, hmm, what will catch my attention? 358 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:05,320 Creative. 359 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,040 You gotta be creative. 360 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:16,480 Why make music is a question that I think that if you were to meet any person that you 361 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:26,000 like that's in the music industry that's creative and you ask them why they do it, I think you 362 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,960 might really start a conversation. 363 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:35,800 Now, I'm not saying that I will ever interview somebody because I don't know anyone to interview. 364 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:40,880 And the people that I would probably interview, you probably wouldn't know them, so it would 365 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,320 be no sense in me interviewing them. 366 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:51,000 But if ever I get to that point and I could interact with folks and somehow I figure out 367 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,280 how to play this media game. 368 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:58,680 And that's a grand question to ask. 369 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,320 Why make music? 370 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:02,320 It's hard. 371 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:03,760 You gotta think. 372 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,240 Music art. 373 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:14,840 Music and art are things that are mediums that are based on people liking or not liking 374 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,440 what you do. 375 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:28,600 There's nothing odder than to ask someone to openly criticize. 376 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,080 Give me your approval. 377 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:31,080 Tell me. 378 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,800 Tell me you like what I do. 379 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:41,040 Could you imagine if you went on a job interview and that's basically what it is. 380 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:46,080 You go to a job interview, you are qualified with a certain amount of skills, obviously 381 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:50,040 just to get you into the door, your resume, so forth and so on. 382 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:54,000 And the person says, so tell me about yourself. 383 00:31:54,000 --> 00:32:04,720 And you have to put it out there and then the HR department, the hiring committee, the 384 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:11,680 main hiring guy, hiring girl, whoever the person may be, makes a decision based upon 385 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,520 what you say at that moment. 386 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:23,400 So as a musician, as a creative, we put out a product. 387 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:31,160 There was a line in a song a while ago, a long time ago, I don't know. 388 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:35,800 It's a young woman, she's older now, but she has an independent record label and always 389 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:36,800 been independent. 390 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:45,640 And in one of her songs, she mentions the fact that records are recordings. 391 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:54,280 At one point, a record was a recording to basically just capture what was done. 392 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:59,040 So you would record it at one time. 393 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:04,920 You will record it as though it was only going to be done one time and that became the record. 394 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:13,360 The record was the best representation of that moment encapsulated in time. 395 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:19,520 You know, so therefore people gave their best, people gave their all for that one perfect 396 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:20,520 take. 397 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,880 Now, don't get me wrong. 398 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,200 Nothing's done perfect in one take. 399 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:35,720 There's plenty of practice that goes into that one take, but what we say record and 400 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,240 record, you don't understand. 401 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:44,200 It's like if someone says, oh, that's going to be on your permanent record, oh, you'll 402 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:45,200 get offended. 403 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:49,000 We've all seen an episode at TV show where it's like, oh, we're going to write this on 404 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,360 your permanent record. 405 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,720 And then each day you get freaked out. 406 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:58,680 You're thinking like, oh my God, this is going to be committed to my record of all time. 407 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:03,120 As a creator, when you create art, that's your permanent record. 408 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:09,720 When you create music, if we weren't creating so much music, that could be your permanent 409 00:34:09,720 --> 00:34:10,720 record. 410 00:34:10,720 --> 00:34:17,160 But right now, in the world that we're living in right now, you have an opportunity to put 411 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:22,320 out something, stand by what you put out. 412 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,800 You know what the opposite of the permanent record is? 413 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,360 It's the remix. 414 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,560 Think about it. 415 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,160 So you put out an idea and it's good. 416 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,880 And someone else likes it a little better than you like it, or they have a different 417 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:41,280 idea of what they do. 418 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,360 They take your permanent record and they remix it. 419 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:45,720 They change it up a little bit. 420 00:34:45,720 --> 00:34:47,800 It might reach a few more people. 421 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,480 I don't know. 422 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,280 This is just me being me. 423 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:57,120 So once again, let's talk about what we're going to do. 424 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:04,200 So I promise you, the next episode, I'm going to try to do this once a week. 425 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:12,760 And episode two, I'm going to try to have more of a agenda and outline and maybe we 426 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:14,760 can touch on certain things. 427 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:19,960 I'll put this up and hopefully, I guess, I don't know. 428 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:24,040 I haven't even tried to test to see how the system goes because right now, currently, 429 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,040 this should not be on. 430 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,160 This is not going to make it to Spotify. 431 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:31,600 This is not going to make it to any major streaming platform. 432 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,080 Apple podcasts or whatever scenario. 433 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:41,520 I have to submit this to the RSS podcasting scenario and it's going to be like a little 434 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:42,520 wavelength. 435 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:43,920 So I don't know. 436 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:45,880 Maybe one person, two people might hear this. 437 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:46,880 I don't know. 438 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,520 Maybe my family and friends might hear this and say, oh, Tim, I don't know why you're 439 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:51,520 doing this. 440 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:52,520 You're crazy. 441 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:53,520 You're wasting your time. 442 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:58,600 You have obviously too much time on your hands of doing things. 443 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:03,480 And shockingly, I've been doing this for like 35 minutes so far. 444 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:11,400 So if I can do 35 minutes to 40 minutes a day, a week on this and this is something 445 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:15,720 that you guys want to listen to and you want to tune into, it can grow. 446 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:22,960 But this right here, you're watching me plant the first seed of a podcast future of me talking 447 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:23,960 and me explaining. 448 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:29,400 It's like therapy, you know, because I'm not going to lie. 449 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,960 I don't really talk a lot like this. 450 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,440 I talk a lot to my family. 451 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,160 I talk a lot to my few friends. 452 00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:39,000 I keep my circle really tight. 453 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,600 But this is a way that we can get to know each other. 454 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:53,080 So what I'm going to ask you to do is like this podcast, subscribe to this podcast, follow 455 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,800 this podcast. 456 00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:06,480 On social media, I'm think Tim, T-H-I-M-M. No, I said it wrong. 457 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:07,480 T-H-I-N-K. 458 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:08,480 T-I-M-M. 459 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:09,480 That's it. 460 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:10,480 T-H-I-N-K. 461 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:11,480 T-I-M-M. 462 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,880 That's it. 463 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:14,880 T-H-I-N-K. 464 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:15,880 T-I-M-M. 465 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:16,880 Funny story. 466 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,280 I got some tracks from back in the day. 467 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,280 I'm doing it. 468 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:23,280 T-H-I-N-K. 469 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:24,280 T-I-M-M. 470 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:25,280 It was fly. 471 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:26,280 It was good. 472 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,280 It was killing it. 473 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:33,240 So social media, check me out. 474 00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:37,840 Instagram, SoundCloud, Twitter. 475 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:46,640 You may not get anything good because in all honesty, in all honesty, guess what? 476 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,960 I really don't do too much on social media. 477 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:49,960 I'm learning. 478 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:54,520 I've been more active in the last three months on social media as far as trying to talk about 479 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:58,080 music and talk about things I'm doing than I've ever been. 480 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:05,040 If you go to my Instagram account for the WDMN Nation, I got years worth of pictures 481 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:06,040 and things or whatever. 482 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,720 I'm a huge Star Wars fan, a huge Marvel fan. 483 00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:13,240 I always say I think my family should be sponsored by Disney. 484 00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:16,920 You know, I could live off of that stuff. 485 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:22,360 But that's a podcast for a different time unless you want to go that route. 486 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:28,760 So what you do is you hit me up, leave some comments, leave some questions because guess 487 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:29,760 what? 488 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:30,760 There's music at Marvel. 489 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,760 There's music at Star Wars. 490 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,800 You got that dude, that old guy, who I'm talking about. 491 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,880 I promise I'm not going to say any names. 492 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:40,880 I want to talk about people. 493 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,560 I'm going to talk about them not in a bad way, but I'm going to talk about them in a good 494 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:45,920 way. 495 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,840 And I am not going to say their names because I'm not going to do that. 496 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,680 I am not that person. 497 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,600 So I'm not here to plug anything. 498 00:38:54,600 --> 00:39:01,480 I'm here to talk about me, talk about how I feel about music, and we will see how it 499 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,840 goes. 500 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,960 So that's it. 501 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:07,960 There's music everywhere. 502 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:09,400 You got to ask a question. 503 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:10,400 I make music. 504 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,840 It's something that can cover everything. 505 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:21,480 If ever this becomes a show that I can interview people, perhaps I can talk to these people, 506 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,480 talk to these other creators, find out why they do it. 507 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,560 It's a very lax situation. 508 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:35,760 I bet you a lot of the answer is going to be because I don't know how not to make music. 509 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:42,040 I think that we should take a poll, make a graph, a chart. 510 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,800 So we'll start talking to people. 511 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:52,880 If you're a musician and you're listening to this, in the comments or in the thing, 512 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:53,880 make a hashtag. 513 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:54,880 That's what they call it. 514 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:55,880 Hashtag. 515 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:56,880 You know, I'm old. 516 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,400 I have a sign, a hashtag. 517 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:00,640 Why make music? 518 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:01,760 And tell your story. 519 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,440 Tell me why you make music. 520 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:05,440 Tell me what is it? 521 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:06,440 What is it that drives you? 522 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:07,440 What is it? 523 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:13,760 I'm like, I don't care if you hum on tape, if you whistle while you work, if you write 524 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:18,680 lyrics in the back of your copy book, your notebook, on your notes, on your phone, if 525 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:19,680 you... 526 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:24,560 How many people have a section in their memos that are songs that you would never, ever, 527 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:25,560 ever hear? 528 00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,800 The lyrics that you know are cool. 529 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,320 The cool, best lyrics. 530 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:34,040 And like I said, you don't have to explain why you wrote the lyrics. 531 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:35,320 Let us interpret why. 532 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:41,800 Let the listener, let the other person other than you figure out why. 533 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,620 All we want to know is what made you do it? 534 00:40:44,620 --> 00:40:53,280 Do you know how crazy it is to want to create something and put it out there for other people 535 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:57,960 to listen to without you being present? 536 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,760 That's insanity. 537 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,160 That is something I am learning to live with. 538 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,560 Like, oh, you put your material out there. 539 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:10,400 That means that, oh, I'm not there to play it for you. 540 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,100 That means that you can play it whenever you want to play it. 541 00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:19,200 You can listen to it whenever you want to listen to it, when it's convenient for you. 542 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:26,000 You can dissect what I'm saying and think what I'm saying is important. 543 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:31,160 You can dissect what I'm saying and think what I'm saying isn't important. 544 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:32,880 I'm not there to defend it. 545 00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:34,680 I'm not there to sell it. 546 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:35,680 I'm going to record it. 547 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,680 I'm going to put it up there. 548 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:41,000 And then my job is going to be done. 549 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,360 And I'm going to move on to the next thing. 550 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:53,640 And hopefully we can build a nice little foundation of crazy information that you will sit back 551 00:41:53,640 --> 00:42:00,200 one day and say, oh, man, you know what I heard this dude think Timm said? 552 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,320 He said da da da. 553 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:03,320 And that made sense. 554 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,320 You understand that? 555 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:13,320 This is how you exchange information. 556 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:17,080 You know, I'm not trying to be a storyteller. 557 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,000 I don't think I have a story to tell. 558 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:36,160 I just think that I like to share and I'm not regularly a people person, but sometimes 559 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:44,040 all these things that are in your head are just your thoughts and these are the things 560 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,640 that you're saying to yourself. 561 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:55,040 And when you record them, I don't even think I'm going to play this back. 562 00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,120 This is going out just like this. 563 00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:02,080 And we're going to see how it goes. 564 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:12,000 You record them and you think, wow, this is okay. 565 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:13,680 Think about everything you do. 566 00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,640 Maybe that's why they call me think Tim. 567 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,640 I think too much. 568 00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:27,680 I think I have a story about why I call myself think Tim. 569 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:31,120 And I realized this a while ago, but I'm not going to go into this later. 570 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:37,080 I'm not going to give away everything in episode one, but we're going to work this out. 571 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:49,360 So once again, I want you to like, follow, subscribe, look at my bio and there is all 572 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:53,560 the links for all the social media things there. 573 00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,960 I'm not going to lie to you. 574 00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,360 I started a Patreon. 575 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:03,480 I don't have any subscribers. 576 00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:04,480 There's tiers on there. 577 00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,480 I looked up how to do it and how to mark how to put the thing together. 578 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:15,520 So I put it together and I promise you, if you were to subscribe to those things, the 579 00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:19,960 more people I have to interact with me, the more I'll do. 580 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:21,080 I'm not going to lie to you. 581 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:26,960 So if you want to have a good time, you want to have a fun experience or if you need a 582 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:31,960 friend, if you need a friend, just come up here. 583 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:32,960 It's like, let me stop. 584 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:34,280 Let me stop. 585 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:38,560 If you need an experience and you're creative and you want to share and you want to share 586 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:43,600 with me or you want to share my stuff or you have an idea for something, let me know. 587 00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,160 I'm not going to lie to you. 588 00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:46,160 I am shocked. 589 00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:47,160 I am at 44 minutes. 590 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:54,760 And if I say I'm at 44 minutes, 44 seconds, you know what I'm talking about, man. 591 00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:55,760 You got me. 592 00:44:55,760 --> 00:45:02,800 So once again, why make music episode one? 593 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:03,800 I'm your host. 594 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:04,800 ThinkTimm. 595 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:09,440 I don't know when I'm hosting because a lot of times when you have to have hosts, when 596 00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,440 you're a host, you have to have other people. 597 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,800 I don't have nobody but me here. 598 00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:20,960 So ThinkTimm , if nothing else. 599 00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:50,400 Peace out.