WEBVTT 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:13.759 Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:16.960 takes the classic mixtape approach to building 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:19.879 a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn. 00:00:20.140 --> 00:00:23.160 And while on paper, it seems like it's only been 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:26.660 about six weeks since I last posted an episode, 00:00:26.739 --> 00:00:30.440 in reality, in my life, it's been several months. 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:35.399 As I explained on episode 150 earlier this year, 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:38.719 my father passed away from pancreatic cancer. 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:43.060 When he was sick and going through his battle, 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.420 I was recording a ton of episodes to try to get 00:00:48.420 --> 00:00:52.380 me through when the time actually came. When 00:00:52.380 --> 00:00:56.719 it did come, I realized I needed to take a longer 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:00.380 break to be there for my family and adjust to 00:01:00.380 --> 00:01:04.319 what that new normal was. As time has passed, 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:07.349 I've realized that I need to start. bringing 00:01:07.349 --> 00:01:10.750 back to life the things that bring me joy. And 00:01:10.750 --> 00:01:15.450 one of those is this podcast, talking music with 00:01:15.450 --> 00:01:20.370 all of you and having a moment each week to share 00:01:20.370 --> 00:01:23.250 my love of music and the songs that bring me 00:01:23.250 --> 00:01:26.450 joy and hopefully bring you joy as well. And 00:01:26.450 --> 00:01:28.849 maybe introduce you to songs that you haven't 00:01:28.849 --> 00:01:32.829 heard before or haven't heard in a long, long 00:01:32.829 --> 00:01:35.579 time. That's kind of what the premise of this 00:01:35.579 --> 00:01:37.500 show has always been about. There's obviously 00:01:37.500 --> 00:01:40.439 that touch of nostalgia, but it's also going 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:43.140 to bring in some of the newer music because I'm 00:01:43.140 --> 00:01:46.480 always digging for new music. I'm always scouring 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:51.140 the different apps and YouTube and news sites 00:01:51.140 --> 00:01:54.019 to try to find new bands and new stuff to check 00:01:54.019 --> 00:01:56.540 out. And hopefully some of that has come across 00:01:56.540 --> 00:02:00.599 over the last 150 episodes. Now, the reason I'm 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:02.859 doing this little piece here is kind of a transition. 00:02:03.549 --> 00:02:06.989 When I ended episode 150, I explained that I 00:02:06.989 --> 00:02:09.590 didn't know when and if I would get the itch 00:02:09.590 --> 00:02:13.150 to come back to podcasting as I was still heavily 00:02:13.150 --> 00:02:15.909 grieving the loss of my father. And I will admit 00:02:15.909 --> 00:02:19.250 I still am now, but it's getting to a point where 00:02:19.250 --> 00:02:22.930 I'm starting to realize that he would have wanted 00:02:22.930 --> 00:02:26.030 me to continue doing the things that I love, 00:02:26.110 --> 00:02:28.849 the things that bring me joy. And I need to get 00:02:28.849 --> 00:02:33.080 back to that. So with that being said. I am looking 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:37.259 to start a season two of my weekly mixtape with 00:02:37.259 --> 00:02:41.379 a little bit of a twist. The effort that I put 00:02:41.379 --> 00:02:43.400 into recording season one, and I'm going to kind 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:46.979 of break the fourth wall here. I spent hours 00:02:46.979 --> 00:02:51.360 and hours of free time, my evenings, my weekends, 00:02:51.379 --> 00:02:55.139 putting together these episodes, countless hours 00:02:55.139 --> 00:03:00.189 going back and forth with other podcasters. booking 00:03:00.189 --> 00:03:03.830 agents and artists to get things scheduled. I 00:03:03.830 --> 00:03:06.210 would sit down for a recording and an artist 00:03:06.210 --> 00:03:08.530 would have another commitment come up and then 00:03:08.530 --> 00:03:11.210 the podcast would get delayed for a couple hours 00:03:11.210 --> 00:03:13.689 and I'd have to come back and start again. And 00:03:13.689 --> 00:03:16.009 I started missing out on a lot of things that 00:03:16.009 --> 00:03:19.949 are in hindsight, extremely important to me. 00:03:20.030 --> 00:03:23.030 And that's my family because after losing my 00:03:23.030 --> 00:03:26.830 father, I don't get that back. So what I've thought 00:03:26.830 --> 00:03:30.860 about is how can I continue To do the thing that 00:03:30.860 --> 00:03:34.300 I love, which is My Weekly Mixtape, but also 00:03:34.300 --> 00:03:38.979 continue to be present and be there for my family 00:03:38.979 --> 00:03:44.180 whenever and however I can. And in order to do 00:03:44.180 --> 00:03:48.080 that, I've come up with this concept. I am going 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:52.699 to, for the time being, run a series of solo 00:03:52.699 --> 00:03:57.000 My Weekly Mixtape episodes. That's right. Unfortunately, 00:03:57.159 --> 00:03:59.740 folks, you're just going to have to listen to 00:03:59.740 --> 00:04:04.479 me for the time being, meaning when the inspiration 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:08.680 hits, I sit down, I hit record, and I record 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:11.639 an episode of my weekly mixtape. That gives me 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:14.740 the flexibility to work around my family's needs 00:04:14.740 --> 00:04:17.800 because without my father, there are some needs 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:20.959 that I need to do additionally to help my mother 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:25.050 out that I didn't when my father was here. So 00:04:25.050 --> 00:04:28.930 with that being said, scheduling episodes with 00:04:28.930 --> 00:04:32.589 guests is a much tougher thing to do than it 00:04:32.589 --> 00:04:36.990 was a year or two or three years ago. So I'm 00:04:36.990 --> 00:04:39.889 going to continue, but I want the listeners, 00:04:40.029 --> 00:04:42.670 you people, the supporters of this show to be 00:04:42.670 --> 00:04:46.629 involved as much as you always have. So what 00:04:46.629 --> 00:04:49.290 I've come up with is this new concept of an episode. 00:04:49.850 --> 00:04:52.149 Now, anyone that listened to Howard Stern might 00:04:52.149 --> 00:04:55.089 be familiar with Jackie the Joke Man Martling. 00:04:55.110 --> 00:04:57.529 I have a lot of his comedy CDs. I was a big fan 00:04:57.529 --> 00:04:59.990 of his stuff. And he did a skit at the end of 00:04:59.990 --> 00:05:01.889 some of his shows. And he also did this back 00:05:01.889 --> 00:05:04.810 on Howard Stern called Stump the Joke Man, where 00:05:04.810 --> 00:05:07.750 people would call in and kind of drop a joke, 00:05:07.810 --> 00:05:11.110 but not the punchline. And Jackie would kind 00:05:11.110 --> 00:05:13.470 of chime in with the punchline. So this is kind 00:05:13.470 --> 00:05:41.759 of a spin and a hat tip to that. And send in 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:47.300 any. topic, any genre, any idea that you want 00:05:47.300 --> 00:05:51.939 to hear mixtaped or playlisted by yours truly. 00:05:52.220 --> 00:05:54.920 And then what I'm going to do is load them into 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:59.060 one of these online wheel random generators. 00:05:59.259 --> 00:06:03.160 And because I don't want to use their proprietary 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:08.220 sound effects, I am going to essentially spin 00:06:08.220 --> 00:06:14.209 that wheel. and randomly have one of your topics 00:06:14.209 --> 00:06:19.269 get selected, and I will then come up with a 00:06:19.269 --> 00:06:23.569 10 -song playlist that fits your topic off the 00:06:23.569 --> 00:06:28.050 top of my head. Completely spontaneous. It could 00:06:28.050 --> 00:06:33.029 be a complete train wreck, or I might be onto 00:06:33.029 --> 00:06:35.550 something, and it's challenging, and I'm excited 00:06:35.550 --> 00:06:39.050 to see what I can come up with. Now, there are 00:06:39.050 --> 00:06:41.029 kind of a few rules that I'm going to do with 00:06:41.029 --> 00:06:44.350 this. I ask that we keep politics and religion 00:06:44.350 --> 00:06:47.569 out of this conversation. This show has always 00:06:47.569 --> 00:06:50.910 been about a break from what you are constantly 00:06:50.910 --> 00:06:54.889 being fed on the news and on social media, the 00:06:54.889 --> 00:06:57.810 doom scrolling. This is meant to be a break from 00:06:57.810 --> 00:07:00.509 that. So I want things that are fun. I want things 00:07:00.509 --> 00:07:02.949 that are lighthearted. Obviously, if you want 00:07:02.949 --> 00:07:05.250 to do a serious topic, by all means, I'm all 00:07:05.250 --> 00:07:09.129 ears. Love songs, power ballads, breakup songs, 00:07:09.269 --> 00:07:12.569 stuff like that. Totally on par. Just keep the 00:07:12.569 --> 00:07:15.069 politics and religion aside for that. I'm sure 00:07:15.069 --> 00:07:17.810 there are plenty of other political and religious 00:07:17.810 --> 00:07:20.250 podcasts you could check out for your source 00:07:20.250 --> 00:07:23.269 of that kind of content. I just kind of want 00:07:23.269 --> 00:07:25.850 to keep that away from what I'm doing here at 00:07:25.850 --> 00:07:29.449 my weekly mixtape. But. Be serious, be funny, 00:07:29.529 --> 00:07:33.790 be asinine. I am all for it. Send me those topics. 00:07:33.930 --> 00:07:37.629 And then I'm going to allow this online randomizer 00:07:37.629 --> 00:07:40.970 to choose one of these topics. And we are going 00:07:40.970 --> 00:07:43.670 to have a little bit of fun here. So now that 00:07:43.670 --> 00:07:46.829 you've got the general gist of that format, there's 00:07:46.829 --> 00:07:50.209 actually more to this than just these randomized 00:07:50.209 --> 00:07:54.110 episodes. Because... There are some episodes 00:07:54.110 --> 00:07:56.930 that I recorded for season one that I never got 00:07:56.930 --> 00:07:59.509 around to editing, that I never got around to 00:07:59.509 --> 00:08:02.350 posting. And some of those I'm also going to 00:08:02.350 --> 00:08:05.329 include in season two. So it's going to be a 00:08:05.329 --> 00:08:07.589 little bit of a mix and match. Some solo episodes, 00:08:07.930 --> 00:08:11.810 some ones with guests, some ones with old interviews 00:08:11.810 --> 00:08:14.529 I did back on the Toon Styles days that have 00:08:14.529 --> 00:08:17.350 unfortunately fallen off the ethos when that 00:08:17.350 --> 00:08:21.889 show. disappeared from the internet when we canceled 00:08:21.889 --> 00:08:24.790 our plan way back when not knowing that when 00:08:24.790 --> 00:08:27.089 you canceled your plan with the podcast provider 00:08:27.089 --> 00:08:31.329 your podcast went away so there's a lot of ideas 00:08:31.329 --> 00:08:34.149 spiraling through this crazy head of mine and 00:08:34.149 --> 00:08:37.330 i'm excited to see where they go with everybody 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:41.779 But again, you are all a part of this conversation 00:08:41.779 --> 00:08:44.759 with me. So I need to hear from you in order 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:47.460 to make this work. So what I'm doing now is dropping 00:08:47.460 --> 00:08:51.539 this bonus episode as a call to action to all 00:08:51.539 --> 00:08:54.600 of you mixtapers out there. Start sending in 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:57.059 your ideas. You can send in one. You can send 00:08:57.059 --> 00:09:00.940 in 50. I will load this wheel up with as many 00:09:00.940 --> 00:09:06.500 ideas and topics as you send me. And this probably 00:09:06.500 --> 00:09:09.379 goes without saying, but if your topic comes 00:09:09.379 --> 00:09:11.419 up, I'll be sure to give you a shout out on the 00:09:11.419 --> 00:09:13.799 episode. And then I want to hear from you. How 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:17.860 did I do? You can be honest. I might bomb on 00:09:17.860 --> 00:09:20.580 some of these and that's okay because there is 00:09:20.580 --> 00:09:22.940 no right or wrong answers when it comes to music. 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:26.059 I am looking forward to this challenge and I 00:09:26.059 --> 00:09:29.159 hope you are looking forward to joining me on 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:33.600 this new era of my weekly mixtape. Now, interviews. 00:09:34.429 --> 00:09:38.129 I am going to do my best as life slowly starts 00:09:38.129 --> 00:09:41.649 to get back to normal in this new normal for 00:09:41.649 --> 00:09:44.649 me and my family to start bringing back guests, 00:09:44.870 --> 00:09:47.929 bringing back friends of the show, bringing back 00:09:47.929 --> 00:09:50.710 the interviews and the album dives. It's just 00:09:50.710 --> 00:09:54.990 not going to be every single week. I simply don't 00:09:54.990 --> 00:09:59.370 have the time to be able to devote 8, 10, 12 00:09:59.370 --> 00:10:03.809 hours a week. in producing an episode of that 00:10:03.809 --> 00:10:07.090 caliber. However, I still want to do them and 00:10:07.090 --> 00:10:09.690 I'm still going to do them. They just won't be 00:10:09.690 --> 00:10:13.350 every single week. So by me doing this sort of 00:10:13.350 --> 00:10:15.789 pivot and sitting down to be able to produce 00:10:15.789 --> 00:10:18.730 episodes that are a little bit more off the cuff, 00:10:18.929 --> 00:10:21.950 I can still continue to quote unquote meet the 00:10:21.950 --> 00:10:26.960 my weekly mixtape expectation. However, as Aaron 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:29.559 from The Itch mentioned over on the My Weekly 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:32.779 Mixtape Discord, I'm not rebranding the show, 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:36.240 but it's my random mixtape because I have no 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:38.159 idea what's going to pop up on the wheel. It 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:40.700 could be favorite power ballads. It could be, 00:10:40.700 --> 00:10:44.360 as somebody put on Instagram, the 10 greatest 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:47.220 songs from Taco, with one of them being Putting 00:10:47.220 --> 00:10:50.690 on the Ritz. I could totally spin that. That 00:10:50.690 --> 00:10:52.830 was Dave Zalatouris over at the Beer in Front 00:10:52.830 --> 00:10:55.610 podcast that sent that one in. I could totally 00:10:55.610 --> 00:10:59.529 spin that one because maybe I want to do an episode 00:10:59.529 --> 00:11:01.570 on tacos. Who the hell knows? I mean, you got 00:11:01.570 --> 00:11:05.009 Taco Grande by Weird Al Yankovic. I might be 00:11:05.009 --> 00:11:09.389 able to pull that off. Taco songs? That's a tough 00:11:09.389 --> 00:11:12.169 one. I also had someone over on Threads, Hutch, 00:11:12.250 --> 00:11:16.360 chime in saying Australian pub songs. I needed 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:19.740 to ask him for clarification on that one because 00:11:19.740 --> 00:11:23.399 I don't want to embarrass myself to an entire 00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:28.879 country. That would suck. So anyway, I am excited 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:32.899 to be back on the mic again. I have missed this 00:11:32.899 --> 00:11:37.399 so much. I know my father was telling me when 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.200 things were getting bad to not put the mic down, 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:45.110 but I needed that time. over the last several 00:11:45.110 --> 00:11:48.090 months to be there for my family, to get things 00:11:48.090 --> 00:11:50.509 situated. I don't want to get deep into my personal 00:11:50.509 --> 00:11:53.070 life because a lot of it's still pretty new. 00:11:53.149 --> 00:11:55.970 The wounds are still healing, but I needed to 00:11:55.970 --> 00:12:00.210 be there for my family. And I appreciate and 00:12:00.210 --> 00:12:04.850 thank you all for understanding and simply being 00:12:04.850 --> 00:12:07.889 there for me as a human being, whether it's some 00:12:07.889 --> 00:12:09.809 of the listeners who have kept in touch with 00:12:09.809 --> 00:12:13.720 me on Discord. fellow podcasters who've not only 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:16.320 kept in touch with me online some of them who 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:19.700 actually came to my father's services which there 00:12:19.700 --> 00:12:24.139 are no words to say simply how much that meant 00:12:24.139 --> 00:12:28.259 to me because a lot of podcasters meet virtually 00:12:28.259 --> 00:12:31.940 and to have someone kind of cross that threshold 00:12:31.940 --> 00:12:35.259 into the quote -unquote human world is just so 00:12:35.259 --> 00:12:39.779 unbelievably powerful and strong that I'm honestly 00:12:39.779 --> 00:12:44.480 at a loss for words for it. And, you know, music 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:47.480 is always going to be a part of who I am. It's 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:52.799 in my DNA. It's in my blood. I immediately, after 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:55.500 my father passed, started creating playlists 00:12:55.500 --> 00:12:57.620 that him and I would enjoy listening to. And 00:12:57.620 --> 00:13:00.440 I've really been enjoying those playlists over 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:02.759 the last few months because I feel like when 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:04.779 I'm listening to those songs, he's listening 00:13:04.779 --> 00:13:08.179 with me. And it was that that really started 00:13:08.179 --> 00:13:10.639 making me think like, how can I do this again? 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:13.639 How can I find the time to make this happen again? 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:17.600 If anything, I dedicated the first 150 episodes 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:22.019 to him at the end of episode 150. But I want 00:13:22.019 --> 00:13:24.279 to be able to continue to celebrate all those 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:27.600 musical memories that he brought to me through 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:30.679 my childhood, through my adulthood, as well as 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:34.360 all the. amazing music memories I have with friends, 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:37.139 I have with you listeners, I have with everybody 00:13:37.139 --> 00:13:40.120 out there, all these amazing bands that I've 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:43.039 gotten to discover through this show, all the 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:45.580 amazing musicians that have come on this show 00:13:45.580 --> 00:13:47.860 that I've even become friends with some of them 00:13:47.860 --> 00:13:50.620 that keep in contact with me. I am grateful, 00:13:50.740 --> 00:13:55.139 I am thankful, and I am pumped if you haven't 00:13:55.139 --> 00:13:59.009 heard it in my voice yet. So yes, my weekly mixtape 00:13:59.009 --> 00:14:02.730 is coming back in a few short weeks. I hope you're 00:14:02.730 --> 00:14:05.649 going to be there for it. The Patreon is going 00:14:05.649 --> 00:14:09.529 to relaunch officially on November 1st. It is 00:14:09.529 --> 00:14:13.149 open right now at patreon .com forward slash 00:14:13.149 --> 00:14:16.250 my weekly mixtape. There you can sign up. It's 00:14:16.250 --> 00:14:19.330 free and there are tiers available, but none 00:14:19.330 --> 00:14:22.409 of them are required. Each tier offers different 00:14:22.409 --> 00:14:24.470 benefits and I'm changing some of those benefits 00:14:24.470 --> 00:14:27.320 up. They're going to include. priority chime 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:32.059 in on upcoming topics, as well as being the guest 00:14:32.059 --> 00:14:36.220 mixtaper for an episode where I spin the random 00:14:36.220 --> 00:14:40.220 wheel and you get to choose the 10 songs in any 00:14:40.220 --> 00:14:42.399 order. And I'm going to tell you, this might 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:45.919 not be as easy as it sounds. So think carefully 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:48.399 for all the people that have been part of the 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:51.799 Patreon community since the beginning. I can't 00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:54.500 thank you enough for continuing to support the 00:14:54.500 --> 00:14:57.519 show. through this entire time. It really means 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:00.360 the world to me. So like I said, as of November 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:03.059 1st, the Patreon will be back up and running 00:15:03.059 --> 00:15:06.139 full force again. If you feel that you need to 00:15:06.139 --> 00:15:09.740 leave and go down to a free tier, I am not insulted 00:15:09.740 --> 00:15:12.480 in any way, shape, or form. I appreciate the 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:15.980 support in any way, shape, or form that you provide 00:15:15.980 --> 00:15:18.889 to the show. So with that being said, I know 00:15:18.889 --> 00:15:21.690 this is a short little bonus episode, but I just 00:15:21.690 --> 00:15:24.690 didn't want new random episodes appearing and 00:15:24.690 --> 00:15:27.250 having everybody go, what the hell is happening 00:15:27.250 --> 00:15:29.730 here? What is this? This sounds different than 00:15:29.730 --> 00:15:32.730 what he was doing before. Hopefully this explains 00:15:32.730 --> 00:15:35.429 everything. I've missed all of you. I've missed 00:15:35.429 --> 00:15:38.710 our back and forth about music, and I'm excited. 00:15:38.929 --> 00:15:41.330 I've probably said the word excited way too many 00:15:41.330 --> 00:15:44.590 times in this last 15 minutes here, but I truly 00:15:44.590 --> 00:15:50.029 am. stoked let's go with stoked instead of excited 00:15:50.029 --> 00:15:53.590 to be able to talk music with you all once again 00:15:53.590 --> 00:15:57.370 in any way shape or form that i can make it happen 00:15:57.370 --> 00:16:01.090 as always be sure to follow my weekly mixtape 00:16:01.090 --> 00:16:05.090 on all the social media haunts at my weekly mixtape 00:16:05.090 --> 00:16:09.070 and you can email me at my weekly mixtape at 00:16:09.070 --> 00:16:12.289 gmail .com with any suggestions that you have 00:16:12.889 --> 00:16:16.750 for this wheel spin style episode. I can't wait 00:16:16.750 --> 00:16:20.529 to hear some of the crazy topics that you mixtapers 00:16:20.529 --> 00:16:22.389 are going to come up with. I am sure you're not 00:16:22.389 --> 00:16:24.549 going to let me down and I am going to do my 00:16:24.549 --> 00:16:27.889 best not to let you down as we move forward. 00:16:28.149 --> 00:16:30.590 Thank you again for listening. And until the 00:16:30.590 --> 00:16:33.149 shows appear in the next few weeks, there are 00:16:33.149 --> 00:16:37.340 150 other episodes that you can go back. in the 00:16:37.340 --> 00:16:40.460 back catalog and give a listen to make sure you're 00:16:40.460 --> 00:16:43.480 caught up to date on all the, my weekly mixtape 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:45.960 lingo, because I'm going to be bringing it in 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:49.159 full force in just a few short weeks here. Thank 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:52.159 you for listening. And until next time, enjoy 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:52.679 the tunes.