And Sometimes ... Why? with Rob Szabo

In this final episode, I give some insight into why this is the final episode and thank listeners, supporters, guests and our fearless editor Todd Donald for a great 65 episode, nearly 2 year ride.---AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?:ANDSOMETIMESWHY.COMEMAILIGFBTWEET

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREMako Funasaka is passionate about interviewing musicians. He hosts the Talkin' Blues Podcast & hosted the TV show and has been documenting music since 2001. He explains his goal of reaching 300 episodes with Talkin' Blues and extolls the virtues of self imposed deadlines. We talk about his reticence to include himself as part of his video interviews and he describes the experience of initially hearing himself speaking on his podcast as “torturous”. He shares the “life-changing” experience of his first time interviewing a musician and explains how connecting with people through long form podcast conversations is what drives him.“This is the thing that I love to do. There's no doubt about it. The fact that I could talk to somebody new every week and get to know them a little bit, the fact that I can do that is amazing. Everybody has a story. I just recently got the chance to talk to a zookeeper. And this was his dream since he was four years old. And you think: ‘how lucky are you to do this?' That you become who you wanted to be when you were four years old? I just think people like that, if you can tap into that and get their stories and talk about their passion and what makes them happy, it enriches my life.”---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE---MAKO FUNASAKAWEBLINKEDIN---AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?:ANDSOMETIMESWHY.COMEMAILIGFBTWEET

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREBob Barlen is the writer of PAW Patrol: The Movie, Bigfoot Family and Escape From Planet Earth among many others. We dig into his life writing movies and talk about the huge success of PAW Patrol. We also talk about his time working on the George Stroumboulopoulos show and his love of magic. He shares insights about the benefits of having a writing partner and the importance of working without ego. “The best idea wins. It doesn't matter who's suggesting it. It's not like only certain people on the team are allowed to have thoughts on the movie or thoughts on the process. I mean, we really are open to hearing from everybody because I think we are confident enough in our vision that if something makes it better, we're the first to admit, ‘Hey, great. Let's jump on that.' And it doesn't need to be a radical rewrite, it can be just a small suggestion. Throughout the entire production, every artist on our team is someone who we respect their opinion as an artist. We want to make the best movie possible. When it comes to notes that we disagree with, it's a conversation. A lot of times when someone is making a note, maybe they just didn't understand. If it's like what you'd call a bad note, maybe we weren't clear enough. So it's actually just exposing something that we need to clarify, because I do think that, especially for family films, but I mean, in all storytelling, clarity Is really important. And if you are being unclear, a note that comes in that you think is strange, it might actually expose, ‘Oh, wait a minute, someone is interpreting this differently', because you haven't done a good enough job of communicating what you wanted to say.”---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE---BOB BARLENLINKEDINTWITTER---AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?:ANDSOMETIMESWHY.COMEMAILIGFBTWEET

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREChristine Bird is the Community Engagement Coordinator at the University Of Waterloo School Of Pharmacy. She describes her role helping students think about better serving vulnerable populations and shares  challenges working from home over the lock-downs. She talks about how she became known as “the bully lady” when she was speaking to grade-school kids in her work for John Howard Society and we touch on her work with people who'd been convicted of DUI and strategies around alcohol. She shares the challenge of her experience of being a college professor with a 2 year old at home and how her roles have organically evolved from working to improve kid's lives directly to more of a systems level. She reminisces about playing music with the late Matt Osborne and talks about losing her husband and how having a young son at home at that time was an incredible gift.“How do you get through losing your husband? You have a five-year-old who needs you to get out of bed, make breakfast, and sort of keeps you going. I don't know how you do that when you don't have a little one kind of pulling you out of it. He pulls you out of your head and back into the stuff that has to get done right now. It doesn't matter how upset or depressed or sad you are, you still gotta make pancakes. It's kind of the 'fake it till you make it'. It's like he pulls you out and makes you live your life and go through the motions of just the stuff you have to do to carry on. And that act alone helps you to carry on. Kids are good that way: They bring you into the moment, whether you want to or not.”---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE---CHRISTINE BIRDLINKEDINFACEBOOK---AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?:ANDSOMETIMESWHY.COMEMAILIGFBTWEET

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERETimothy Abraham is a Juno winning producer, engineer, mixer and composer. We dig into his creative process and the meditation-like alpha wave brain state he gets into when working on a mix. He stresses the importance of setting up plugin chain templates and workflows that allow him to work fast and stay in this purely creative zone and how, as a mixer, one of your most valuable tools is the mute button. We talk about the confidence it takes to stay open to other people's ideas, listening to your inner voice and the importance of communication between artist and mixer. He details how the process of having to rebuild his studio 3 times within a five year span has been resilience building and he also shares insights he's gained through self reflection in the past few years.“There's a mindfulness and a self-awareness that I think I'm learning in my mid forties that I wished I learned when I was in my mid twenties. Just learning how to be a better man and a better communicator and a better listener. Paying attention to your body, paying attention to your mind, and being able to kind of step back from that and understand that, and also being less judgmental of yourself. And that goes with learning how to step back in a relationship and not be judgmental and drawing boundaries. And to do that, you have to understand what you want and figure out why you feel things and how to have a good conversation with another person or how to fight clean. All of that work turns around to yourself as well. And so your conversations with yourself, you can employ a lot of those same kinds of things.”---THE INTRO MEDLEY FEATURES:Liar (Mike Todd)Make It (30 Frames)Ok Ok (Beth Moore)What I Believe (Steve Strongman)Charity Case (Sean Pinchin)First Of The Last To Know (Peter Katz)---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE---TIMOTHY ABRAHAMWEBSITEINSTAGRAMSPOTIFY PLAYLIST OF TRACKS THAT TIM + ROB HAVE WORKED ON---AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?:ANDSOMETIMESWHY.COMEMAILIGFBTWEET

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERECaroline Marie Brooks is a singer songwriter and 1/3 of the Juno-winning band Good Lovelies. We dig into her life in music and her fantastic new solo album Everything At The Same Time. She describes how she's been wanting to make a record of very personal music for a long time and that making this album was in a way an act of self-care. We talk about her life with Good Lovelies and how she sees her doing a solo album as being “lifted by”, as opposed to “stepping out from”. She also looks back on her experience touring as a new mother and describes how touring with a young baby can be extremely taxing but also gratifying. We nerd out about guitar playing and alternate tunings which she explains was her father's influence. She reflects on insights she's gained in her 40th year and how they've informed her new album."Mortality plays a big role in the songs I've been writing and thinking about a lot in relation to my own parents and my children and that continuum. My grandmother is 92. On my 40th birthday, we had this big party and it was my family and my grandmother was there and my daughter and we took this family photo with four generations. And I just thought about that line and where I am in it and my mother and thinking of my mother at my age. And then thinking about my grandmother at my age. And then what my daughter will be like at my age. And all those things feeding into each other. So, yeah, 40 feels like a milestone in that it marks a very specific time of my life. And now that I made this record, I specifically will always feel like I've captured that time."---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE---CAROLINE MARIE BROOKSWEBSITEBANDCAMPINSTAGRAM---AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?:ANDSOMETIMESWHY.COMEMAILIGFBTWEET

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREMike T. Kerr is a world-class guitar player going through a creative renaissance. We track the evolution of his creative spike from early lock-down inability to finish any project, to releasing an album per month in 2021. He shares some ups and downs as a gigging musician, the “aha moment” he had around being able to optimize creative input and output simultaneously and he schools us on some of the history of guitar playing as he plays on his newly beloved tenor guitar.  We nerd out about how we both thrive on relationships that are hyper-focused on specific areas of life but ultimately illuminate what matters most, the importance of the book “The War of Art” and the idea of overcoming artistic resistance. Mike also explains the inevitability of the path he's currently following."All my life. I've taken a step in this direction and been like, ‘Ooh, should I have done that? Couldn't I have maybe gone this way instead? But okay, I guess I'm on this path now. I guess I'll take another step in this direction just to see.' And then it's like, ‘Oh, I took another step. The forest is getting a little thicker. Maybe I should have gone down that way instead, but I guess I'll just keep going.'  And it's been like this for a long time. And I realized that that path has been getting more and more paved as I've been going along, you know what I mean? I only get stronger as I go. It's been a long time since anyone has ever said to me: ‘Get a real job.' Of course I've had that and I think I've realized why another path wouldn't work:  Every time in my life that I have gone down the path of, 'Okay. Here's something that offers a different kind of stability and security and a paycheck at the same time every two weeks.' That lifestyle, which tons of people are able to just do, and compartmentalize, and then free themselves after to be the awesome person that they are,  for me, if I ever say, ‘Okay. You know what? I have to do this to make this part of my life square. So I'm going to put this thing, I don't know what to call it: my love, my art and my passion and stuff. If I say, ‘Okay. You know what? I'm going to sort of put it over here, for this number of hours a day, because I need to get serious and “get a real job”.' This little pen that I put it in will never be large enough, no matter how much I try and compartmentalize it. For me, it will always grow and overtake whatever part-time or full-time job I got 'til the point where I have to quit that job anyways. This is what I've seen in my life over the years."---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE---MIKE T. KERRWEBSITEBANDCAMPINSTAGRAM---AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?:ANDSOMETIMESWHY.COMEMAILIGFBTWEET

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREAlicia Comer is an executive assistant supporting C-suite executives, and has been for over 10 years. We dig into her work life as an EA and she emphasizes the importance of multitasking and staying flexible amidst the constant changes and interruptions. She shares tips on getting things done, dealing with difficult personalities, and explains the importance of building morale and keeping teams happy. We also dig into the evolution of her work life: from working 40 hr weeks at 2 jobs while still in high-school, to leaving her tiny hometown of Westville, NS at 19 years old to forge out on her own in Edmonton and later Toronto. She also talks about her thinking around college or university diplomas not being the be all and end all.“At the beginning, I definitely missed my family. All of them were still in Nova Scotia. It was just really cool to have the independence. ‘Cause a lot of the people that I went to high school with, they were all in university and they were wondering why. ‘Why are you not going to university? What are you going to do with your life?' Because you're taught all through high school that you need to go to college or get some sort of diploma. I'm like: ‘I'm going to prove everybody wrong and I'm going to make it.'”---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE--- ALICIA COMERLINKEDININSTAGRAM--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?:ANDSOMETIMESWHY.COMEMAILIGFBTWEET 

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREChrista Couture is an award-winning performing and recording artist, non-fiction writer, and broadcaster. We dig into her new book How To Lose Everything a self-described "grief bio" which she describes in point-form as "cancer, amputation, death, death, divorce and more cancer".  She shares her life's losses from having her leg amputated as a cure for her cancer as a teen to losing 2 sons as babies to her divorce to her 2nd episode of cancer.  We discuss the need for our culture to normalize differences among people in terms of disability & neurodivergence. We also talk about coming to terms with the idea that sometimes finding meaning in suffering and loss can be elusive and she explains her thinking around shaping her life experience into a book that could be shared.“I used to sit at my piano and just banging on the piano, saying all kinds of things. Just sobbing. And it's moving through you. And those aren't moments that anyone should witness. They're cathartic. And I think how I know when it's something that I can craft or it's something that I believe won't be too much, won't be too raw is kind of by feeling: it's beyond catharsis. It's now more expression or storytelling. I don't know who said it, but there's this idea of writing from the scar, not the wound. And so I think it's also the timing. If I'd written this book sooner, it probably would have been a bit raw, a bit too messy, maybe a bit burdensome, you know. I didn't want to tell these hard things in a way that left the reader kind of stuck with them. I always had this idea that I was sort of holding my hands up saying like, 'Look, but you don't have to touch it and I'm not going to drop it on your lap. It's mine. And I will take care of it, but you can see.' And I think that just kind of came with time.”---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE--- CHRISTA COUTURE WEB http://www.christacouture.com BUY THE BOOK "How To Lose Everything" http://christacouture.com/everything/#buy IG https://www.instagram.com/christacouture--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREAndrew Katz is an English and creative writing teacher at Dawson College and the author of several children's book including: How To Catch A Bear Who Loves To Read, I Just Want To Be Super! and the upcoming A Starlit Trip to the Library. He shares the joy he experiences in the process of finding just the right word and muses about humans' metaphorical minds. We discuss how his experience of remote teaching during COVID lifted a curtain for him on the inequality among his students and explains how he tweaked his teaching approach to take into account his students' needs.“When people are in the middle of a pandemic, you cannot just launch into the subject of the day as if everything is normal. That would be like if you're in some kind of disaster situation and you just pretend it's not happening. You have to acknowledge the situation that we're all in. The way I structured my class is the first half hour was optional. It was like hanging out. So people would just come in if they felt like it, half an hour of hanging out and another 15 minutes of small groups just to get the pulse of everyone and just to kind of ease into being together in this online space. And I think once they feel like you're aware that we're in a storm, that there's water sloshing over the side of the boat, that they feel very alone and scared, once they're like, 'oh, he's aware that I'm in this situation, now I'm okay to learn about English and creative writing.'”---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE--- Andrew Katz WEB http://andrewkatzbooks.ca LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-katz-2922b63a--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREI'm off.I'm camping.I'll be back next Wednesday Aug. 4th with another great guest.Check the links below for other stuff to listen to as I mentioned ...Thanks for giving a shit!Rob--- OTHER STUFF TO LISTEN TO: Todd Donald Show Finale Episode w Rob Szabo CLICK HERE TO LISTEN Todd Donald's New Show Prime Time Flies CLICK HERE TO LISTEN Audio Drama "Lights Over Darlington" (incl Aliens!) w/ YesYesMatt CLICK HERE TO LISTEN--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERESATE is an internationally acclaimed recording artist and songwriter. We dig into her musical history and bond over our shared love of Black Sabbath, Fishbone & Living Colour. We re-live our first meeting and the song that came out of it and she talks about her role in the COVID-postponed Scott Joplin opera Treemonisha featuring a predominantly black female team and ensemble. We also dig into her family roots: both her parents made enormous contributions to black culture in Toronto. She shares her need to balance her intense pride and loyalty to her parents accomplishments with the need to assert herself as an individual. We talk about the journey to make her new album “The Fool”, feeling and making music through her body, and coming to a place of self-acceptance. “I was starting to feel like I was making music for people to accept me. When I wasn't accepted, it felt like shit. And I realized that it had nothing to do with anybody else but myself. Self-acceptance is the word that I'll probably tattoo somewhere on my body, definitely somewhere where I can see it. It doesn't really matter whether anybody else likes it or not, as long as I do, as long as I feel it in my body, as long as it moves me. That's all that matters. And that's hard. That's hard to come to because we make art to give to people for acceptance, for belonging.”---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE--- SATE WEB http://stateofsate.com What Did I Do (Live Video) https://youtu.be/ZT8Ny2Vmcgk?t=152 Scott Joplin's Treemonisha https://www.volcano.ca/treemonisha--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREBrad Freiheit is a luthier who builds the most exquisite stringed instruments. We talk about how his humble beginnings ripping apart his first Kent guitar in grade nine led to the genesis of Freiheit guitars and he explains how the skills he refined working as a pattern maker in a foundry brought his guitar building to a new level. We dig into his musical history and he tells stories from playing the circuit in Southern Ontario and he shares how his fanatical devotion to perfection in his guitar building is an extension of his take on life. “Everything I do is based on trying to get as much quality of life out of this particular activity or event. Because let's face it, life can be tough and we gotta field some bullshit. And so if you gotta field the bullshit, try and counteract it with as much good stuff as possible. This is an exclusive thing: I am going to pour three months of my personal self, all in, emotionally invested. I'm a kook with the perfection. Making a difference for somebody by crafting an instrument that changes and takes their playing to a new level. It advances them because problems have been solved and things have been resolved for them. That's all right for me, I'm pretty happy with that. To me, I call that success.”---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE--- BRAD FREIHEIT Freiheit Määkjäädä  Bass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADg6gJpWz24 IG https://www.instagram.com/freiheitguitars--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREStacey Cooper is the Town Clerk and Deputy CAO for the Town of Penetanguishene. We dig into her role in local government and her commitment to roots level democracy. She shares her excitement for the first Climate Solutions Park in Canada, to be built in the Ecology Garden in Penetanguishene and she details the Community Well Being Committee initiative which brings together representatives from previously siloed councils. She also emphasizes the importance of relationship building, listening, and making people feel heard and authentically represented. “I've had members of Council say: ‘Oh, I can't believe that other member of Council showed up wearing XYZ', and it's not something they would have worn to a really important meeting. I'd say: ‘I hear you. You're right. I wouldn't necessarily have worn that. Keep in mind, this person is a representation of our community, and they should feel comfortable coming in whatever way they want.' We don't want a group of people around this table that all wear the business suits and are very well spoken and well educated. That's not democracy. We want this room to reflect the people that live here. And if the people that live here would wear socks and sandals and shorts to a very important provincial meeting, that's us. That's exactly us. And we are true to ourselves. People need to feel like the person that they entrusted with their community are like them.”---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE--- STACEY COOPER FB https://www.facebook.com/stacey.m.cooper.9 LINKEDIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacey-cooper-she-her-7147909a--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREPat Lackenbauer is a man of many passions: podcast host, visual artist, lifelong salesman, zine publisher & indie music label head. We talk about his “Movin’ Air” podcast and Rob fesses up to freaking out and bailing as a guest. We dig into his life as a salesman, positivity & confidence, and hash out our differing views on the law of attraction. We also chat about sharing inspiration through our friendship, his visual art,  his zine “The Wandering Artoholic” and his “Breeding Ground” compilation that played a pivotal role in nurturing the early 90s KW music scene.  “I guess I do just have to express myself. I don't want to think: 'I gotta get up in the morning. I gotta punch a clock, punch it out, and then my life begins'. I've never wanted that life. So even though a lot of it has been sales or whatever, I want to enjoy that aspect of it, and I do enjoy it. But I've always been searching for a way to live my life. I can make a comfortable living, still enjoy what I'm doing during the day, bring that energy and that approach to things and then still have those creative endeavors. I've always said I don't want to know what day it is. I don't want to know what time it is. I want to get up when I get up. I want to go to bed when I go to bed. I don't always have that luxury but I have had times in my life that I have had those things. And they're always 'cause of something I chased. I was working from home before anyone was doing that. I went looking for those things. I negotiated with people to create that life.“---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE--- PAT LACKENBAUER POD http://movinairpod.com IG https://www.instagram.com/the_wandering_artoholic IG https://www.instagram.com/rocknbauer---SCOTT COOPER SINGS ROB SZABO: https://scottcoopermusic.bandcamp.com--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERENicole Palmquist (a.k.a. booleep) is a visual artist who works in many mediums: she does murals, she draws on paper, she paints people’s bodies and she is the studio manager at JSA Studios. She shares the roots of her fascination with anatomy (working with the REAL body parts of cadavers!) and describes the process of using other people’s bodies as a canvas in her body painting work. She also shares the magic of living in L.A., taking part in the art scene, getting to work with pioneers in comic art and TV and film including attending halloween parties with a crowd of film SFX people. She shares insights about her “fear of words” and perfectionist tendencies that slowed her down at points and emphasizes the importance of staying open to opportunities.  “How would I describe my work? I like thinking that it simplifies the expression of human behaviour. I think just using the language of anatomy, it talks about human beings. I've always found meaning in the actual anatomical parts and how they work together and how similar those relationships are to real relationships. When people try to talk about religion, I'm like: ‘anatomy is my religion’. The concept of thinking of the human body and all the cells within it … who knows?“(Illustration by Jason Shawn Alexander)---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE--- NICOLE PALMQUIST (booleep) WEB https://www.booleep.com IG https://www.instagram.com/booleep Here is an illustration she did of me ... me=honoured to be her subject: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNZDcZDJIVT--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREBrad Marshall is a true iconoclast. He’s a mainstay behind the scenes in the KW music scene and he is a tech pioneer and newly minted ice-road trucker. We dig into his history in music including time with reggae band Crucial Vibes and our time together in KW music in the early 90s. Brad shares regrets over being very early to the streaming game but not capitalizing on opportunities and also shares his recent victories in his weight loss journey: losing over 100 lbs in the past year. I praise Brad for being one of the only true rebels I’ve ever met as he breaks the 4th wall with the audience and marvels that anyone would listen to our private conversation for entertainment. He details his experience driving 18 wheelers on ice roads delivering supplies to the Northwest Territories’ Gahcho Kue Mine and articulates why he continually chooses to live his life outside of his comfort zone. “I wanted to do something that's way out of my comfort zone and change my perspective. Nothing is stable … I’m living in a truck right now. I'm in a yard. I don't live in a hotel room. I live in a truck. All my food’s there, my water … everything. It’s just a different perspective. Doing the same thing, the routine, every day of your life ... kills your life. Time flies by. Before you know it, it's over. The only way to stop it is to step out of your comfort zone. We're human beings and we're here for a short period of time, right? It's not like we're here forever.“---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE---BRAD MARSHALL WEB https://cyclingforsalvation.com YOUTUBE https://bit.ly/2QEeJVw--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREJen Ochej is a tour manager for touring music artists including Lights, Jessie Reyez and The Good Lovelies. She gives us a behind the scenes peek at her tour experience from van tours in clubs to festivals & amphitheaters. We talk about how she got her start tour managing, the power of persistence and  how she deals with unforeseens by planning meticulously knowing that nothing will go according to plan. She tells tales of waking up on a broken down tour bus stranded in the Rocky Mountains half an hour before soundcheck hours away, finding fill-in musicians with less than 24 hrs notice and flagging down the headlining act's tour bus to escape a California wildfire on a day off. She also shares tour hacks like day-off lone Target trips and the importance of green room snacks. "Live music, touring, tour management: It's what makes my heart sing. It makes my eyes light up. It's the thing. Maybe you loaded in at nine in the morning and your band doesn't go on stage until nine o'clock at night. You've already worked 12 hours. And that moment when they walk out and the lights come up, the whole room, just roars. I'm getting goosebumps now, remembering those moments ... like that feeling. We made that happen. We pulled it off again and we get to do it again tomorrow. And again the next day. And again the day after that. (And then hopefully a day off) But then again the day after that. You're creating those moments for all of those people in the crowd. But it's also a moment for you. I guess I do it for that moment. That one moment when the band walks out and the room just explodes."---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE---JEN OCHEJ WEB https://www.jenochej.com IG https://www.instagram.com/jenochej--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HEREJeff Bryant is a musician, actor and standup comic. He is formerly one half of the folk-pop duo the Human Statues and is now forging out on his own as a solo singer-songwriter. We chat about gaining wisdom around achievement as we get older and letting go of externally imposed ideas of success. He shares experiences of heartbreak and a health crisis that added up to a “now or never” moment in his life. We also dig into ideas around letting go of certainty of outcomes and how that plays into stage fright and how some musicians look down their nose at playing covers. (Jeff reminds us The Beatles started as a cover band.) He also gives us a behind-the-shades view of his experience being an actual human statue and shares his daily journaling practice that focuses on hope.“Like any other human being, I very much struggle with despair versus hope. Up until this point in my life, I think I frequently imagined (that) how I feel is just something that happens to me. And now, at this stage of my life, I understand hope is a muscle. Every single day in the morning I journal. And one of the first things I do is rate my hopeful mood. And that’s just an example of me being attuned to why I’m hopeful or not and for what reason. I notice the impact it has because what I do is I review my journal entries every week or two. One of the most interesting things I find is that there’s times where the despair can seriously kick my ass. And when it happens, it feels like my world. And what you realize when you look at the data is, no no, that was something that was going on that day, and it was temporary. The more your awareness evolves around that, the more you appreciate that there’s a fluid experience of optimism, pessimism, hopefulness, despair. And your job, just like how you eat, exercise, all these things, is to try to orient yourself around being a good shape.“---SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: CLICK HERE---JEFF BRYANT WEB https://www.therealjeffbryant.com IG https://www.instagram.com/therealjeffbryant SPOT http://spoti.fi/3vAXd4f--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Samantha Martin is a Juno-nominated songwriter and singer with a voice of unmistakable texture and power. We talk about her new album with her band Delta Sugar "The Reckless One" and the trials and tribulations that informed the songs including a grueling few years of touring that put an immense amount of stress on her and caused her to “almost mentally breakdown”. She gives advice on making tours work financially, the upsides of European touring including trying local cuisine like Swedish horse sausage and how chasing the live music high is like an addiction."It’s not the other 23 hours in the day, it’s that one hour on stage. It’s powerful, it’s moving, it fills my soul. Connecting with an audience is magical. Live music is magical. I think it’s also an addiction if I’m gonna be completely honest. Because it’s a high. You just chase it ’til you either get that high again or you surpass it. The first time I played a festival we were the ‘tweener. It was so exciting and my Dad’s right down in front of me and he’s crying tears of proud joy. He’s like “Sam, you did it, you made it”. Because of that then I pushed myself ‘I need to do that again’, but instead of being a ‘tweener, I want to be the band. So then I get that. So the next thing I wanna do is I want to tour. Then you do the tour. It just keeps snowballing. I’ve done a lot in the last 15 years but you know what I haven’t done? I haven’t played on a stadium stage. I’d like to do that one day. I’ve never played Letterman or SNL or whatever. I’d love to do that. I’ve never done the Super Bowl … “--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- SAMANTHA MARTIN WEB https://samanthamartinmusic.com IG https://www.instagram.com/rootsnroll SPOT http://spoti.fi/2NWQz7p--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

David McPherson is an author & freelance writer. His writing has appeared in countless publications including: the Globe & Mail, No Depression & Paste. His 2017 book is The Legendary Horseshoe Tavern: A Complete History and the follow-up, scheduled for 2021 release, is Massey Hall: An Enduring Legacy. We talk about high points in his life as a music fan and writer, the magic of the legendary dive bar The 'Shoe, and why he quit drinking 5 years ago.  He also explains why he's grateful to have writing as a creative outlet.“For me writing is something I need for my own mental health. It’s very therapeutic for me. But it is precarious in terms of a career. It’s not something that’s stable, especially these days as a journalist. More and more publications are going under. There’s not as many opportunities or places where you can get your writing out there. But it is a labour of love, that’s why I’m writing another book. I’m very lucky that I have a supportive wife who has always been there and supported my career as a writer. It’s what I know, what I’m good at and … at this point you just have to have faith and keep writing. Things will kinda fall into place. At least that’s what I’ve found. And that’s something this pandemic had shown us. The cliche I live by is “One Day At A Time” ‘cause, especially now, we don’t know what tomorrow’s gonna bring. So I might as well spend my time writing and doing something I’m passionate about. I spent enough years in corporate jobs where I was unhappy and it took its toll on my mental health so, I’m in a good place right now. I don’t know what else I’d do if I wasn’t a writer.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- DAVID MCPHERSON WEB https://davidmcpherson.ca IG https://www.instagram.com/mcphersoncomm MORE LINKS STOMPIN' TOM LIVE AT THE HORSESHOE 1974: https://bit.ly/2Nc7K4G--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Cara Luft is a folk warrior who’s been living and breathing music for over 25 years. She’s a solo artist, founding member of the Wailin’ Jennys and one-half of The Small Glories. We reminisce about meeting 20+ years ago, nerd out about guitar playing and discuss why Winnipeg is such an arts hub. I gush about how much I love The Small Glories and badger Cara about their version of her song “No Friend Of Mine”. We talk about her various musical incarnations, how she was burning out as a solo touring artist - essentially living on the road for the last 8 years, and how she has found a renewed sense of artistic purpose, presence and connection with The Small Glories. (Oh yeah … and we also talk about her mystical purple tiny home on wheels.)“We have a job that really isn’t about us. It’s about the moment in time that we have with people. How do you create something that’s gonna last and that’s also going to offer some solace, some respite, some hope, all the things that we as humans need, but particularly now. This moment with them is really what it’s all about. It’s about something that goes deeper than ourselves, whether you are a spiritual person or not. But there’s something that’s divine about it, something that’s sacred, something that hits the deepest core of our beings when we forget about ourselves on stage and we’re just in this with these other people.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- CARA LUFT WEB: https://caraluft.com THE SMALL GLORIES: https://thesmallglories.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/caraluft MORE LINKS THE SMALL GLORIES “NO FRIEND OF MINE”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DypwYfymyuM TINY HOUSE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaVr5_e5QaE--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Mike Miller is the songwriter and leader of Endless Mike & The Beagle Club. He’s a social worker, husband & father of 2 boys. We discuss his outlook on American politics at this pivotal time in history. Mike explains how he doesn’t see his music as activism(even though Rob kinda does) and he laments the increased political polarization in America. Mike & Rob also deconstruct Rob’s song “The Johnstown Kids” 15 years after the fact and Mike fondly remember the heyday of the Johnstown, PA D.I.Y. music scene of the early 2000s.“The Johnstown scene was just kids man. There were no grown ups … at all. We didn’t play at bars. We just rented out fire-halls and community buildings. And we’d rent one until, y’know, a couple times in a row somebody kicking holes in the wall or breaking the sink in the bathroom or whatever. We’d get kicked out or they would up the price. ‘Cause like 300-400 kids would come to these shows. It was so awesome. So it was like “Ok, alright, it’s just money.” The promoters never kept money. They never pocketed the money, ever … a penny of it. And if you found out that they were, you’d never go to one of their shows again. They’d get dragged for it man. ‘Cause it was just like militantly ethics when it came to that D.I.Y. punk rock thing. There weren’t that many straight down the middle punk rock bands. All the bands sounded a little different. But there was like a feel and a sound that everybody kinda sounded like, or at least the same kinda feeling and all the bands were like best friends and knew the words to all of each other’s songs.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- MIKE MILLER A.K.A. ENDLESS MIKE WEB: https://endlessmikeandthebeagleclub.bandcamp.com/music FLOW: https://www.flowcode.com/page/endlessmike--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Deanna Knight is a singer, songwriter and fronts The Hot Club Of Mars. We chat about her evolution from her roots in choir and musical theatre through Grateful Dead influenced jam band the Fat Cats into Django styled hot jazz. We talk about her experience doing singing telegrams & the serendipitous events that moved her life from her native Ontario to running a B & B on BC’s Sunshine Coast.“If you have gifts as a young person, it’s important to listen to that. And as hard as it is to be in an industry where you’re a product. It’s not like a painter right? Oh I’m gonna paint something and it’s gonna go away to somebody’s house. I’m gonna be something for people. And I’m gonna get onstage and I’m gonna be that over and over for them. And I’ve really struggled with that. Now I’ve come to a place where I feel safe. I feel safe and I feel settled.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI---DEANNA KNIGHT WEB: http://deannaknight.ca FB: https://www.facebook.com/deannajknight B&B: https://www.secretbeachbandb.com Blessed To Witness: https://youtu.be/NFJF7vHMowg--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

This 2020 Holiday Show features 2 guests(!): Steve Strongman is a Juno-winning blues guitar wizard and  my 30-year musical brother. We chat about his life over the past year now that touring is off the table. We also give the low down on our upcoming Virtual Acoustic Holiday Show.Emma  Julien is the #1 most-listened to guest thus far on ASW. We talk about how that is a recognition of Emma and her magnetism and charisma as a person and conversationalist and also for the original concept of ASW which was having meaningful conversations with "regular" people. Emma & Rob also pay tribute to their mutual friend and inspiration Donna Delorme.--- SZABO/STRONGMAN HOLIDAY SHOW TIX:  https://bit.ly/SzaboStrongmanTIX2020 SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- STEVE STRONGMAN WEB: https://stevestrongman.com INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/stevestrongmanmusic EMMA JULIEN IG: https://www.instagram.com/emmerlouj--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Sabina McAllister is a writer, social scientist and creatrix of the School Of Bitchcraft. She helps her clients “who are trapped in weight loss hell” achieve a healthy relationship with their bodies & food. We talk about the word “bitch”, Feminism & The Patriarchy. She describes her disillusionment with academia after getting her PHD in Political Science and shares insights on disordered eating, meaning-making & choosing new narratives for one’s body.  She also relates how she took her husband’s surname 14 years after getting married despite what her twenty-something self may have thought. “I could not conceive of any logic for why a woman would change her name when she got married. Fourteen years later … (I took my husband’s last name).  For me, what it was about ultimately: I had an extremely chaotic childhood. When I quit trying to manipulate my body and I was able to learn how to deeply trust my body, I found this deep well of self-trust. And when I connected so deeply with that self trust, I realized all the shit that I went through in my childhood didn’t leave me a broken person. I am a deeply whole (and deeply flawed) person, but there is nothing wrong with me. And when I realized that, and I absolutely never would have gotten there if I hadn’t also given up chronic dieting, I wanted a symbol of how much I had divested myself from beliefs I had about myself as a result of my childhood. And because of the loving family that I had made with my husband and my daughter, the love that we have really also contributed to my transformation, that’s when I decided that I was also gonna take the same last name as my husband and my daughter because I got so much more love from the family unit that we created than I had ever experienced in my birth family.”--- SZABO/STRONGMAN HOLIDAY SHOW TIX: https://bit.ly/SzaboStrongmanTIX2020 SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI---SABINA MCALLISTER WEB: https://schoolofbitchcraft.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/sabinamca--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Dave Bidini is a founding member of The Rheostatics, an author of 12 books, and Editor in Chief of Toronto’s community newspaper The West End Phoenix. He is the only person to have been nominated for a Gemini, Genie and Juno as well CBC's Canada Reads. We talk about his brainchild The West End Phoenix and he highlights the importance of having an analogue hard copy paper that has a local focus in the 21st-century. We discuss documenting Toronto as a changing city and how people are leaving the city as priorities change & prices rise. We also dig into his music and songwriting with The Rheostatics and touch on how the notion of “selling out” has all but evaporated in the modern artistic landscape. “Anytime you give anybody a voice, whether you’re making records, or whether you’re publishing books, or whether you’re staging a play, if your voice is being amplified, that’s a political act. ‘Cause I think we live in a time now where, if people had their druthers, they’d want those voices suppressed. And as Canadians too, we’re not always that comfortable raising our voices to be heard, but it’s getting a lot better and The (West End) Phoenix is an expression of that I think.” --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI---DAVE BIDINI WEB: https://www.westendphoenix.com WEB: https://www.rheostatics.ca TWEET: https://twitter.com/hockeyesque--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Roger Travassos is a real estate agent who started his career after over 20 years as a session drummer. We talk about his experience as a drummer for hire with international touring acts and how he overcame adversity and imposter syndrome on the “Chitlin’ Circuit” with Motown artist Remy Shand. He describes how his life changed when he adopted his daughter, his early days in real estate and how he learned that “you get what you bring to the door” while knocking on over 100 doors/day. He also shares personal growth work that allowed him to see the suffering of the person who killed his mother when he was 18 and gave him the willingness to forgive. “One of the things in my past most listeners wouldn’t know is: when I was 18 years old I lost my mother to some really unfortunate circumstances. Someone walked into her workplace and took 3 lives, one of them being my mother’s. My experience of life after that was always that I was irritated. I had a chip on my shoulder. Really in a lot of ways I was kind of playing a victim. One thing that really changed my life is I did the Landmark Forum and I learned how to make my mother present in my life again. And I also started to understand that it’s possible for me to have a willingness to forgive someone for something that they did. And I found that people don’t do things in life just because they want to be mean. That’s how life occurs to them in the moment. I had a feeling like someone was out to really intentionally hurt me or my mother. But I actually started to see that someone was actually suffering. That’s why they did what they did. And that in itself has like a tragedy that allowed me to have a willingness to forgive.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI---ROGER TRAVASSOS WEB: https://www.rogertravassos.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/rogertravassos--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Alysha Brilla is a 3X Juno Award nominated artist & music producer who’s been singing since she was 3 years old. She describes how music has been therapy & comfort for her throughout her life, her experience as a young teen with the sometimes predatory & exploitative nature of the music business, and how she cares less whether people “get her” as she gets older. She also shares her profound conviction that music does have the capacity to change the world and explains how she encourages students at her workshops to notice the interconnectedness of seemingly disparate things in our world. “Even though we give courses certain titles and we segment fields of study … everything truly is connected. If they’re studying audio engineering, it’s gonna relate back to childhood. Things DO connect. You can find highways between them. The way my brain works and when I was a kid and when I’m learning something … let’s say I’m learning something about audio engineering, I’ll think, ‘Oh, that’s just like an ocean wave.’ And as a kid, y’know, kids always say that all the time: ‘Is that like this?’ I love when people acknowledge and affirm the connections that their brains are making between things. So it’s not just me teaching the software or the techniques that I am able to share information on, it’s [that] I want to encourage them to just keep learning, be curious, and enjoy the process of learning.” --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI---ALYSHA BRILLA WEB: https://www.alyshabrilla.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/alyshabrilla “LOVE": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmHexuN1-S4 “CENTRE”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=694nz3Ogkuw MUSIC - SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: https://spoti.fi/34fecxE--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Shea Stewart is a partner at Toronto-based tech consulting firm Arctiq. He describes his delight at watching team members flourish and champion the company culture he and his partners fostered through distributed authority and accountability. We talk about what makes a good mentor, Arctiq’s new Dive Bar DevOps Podcast & how improv classes helped him overcome a moment of crisis when presenting at Google Next. He also shares his life-changing experiences at both a Buddhist silent meditation retreat in Thailand and an EvryMan retreat in Montana. “I can describe one of the experiences I had on the Montana trip: somebody else in my group after spending 5 days with me, describing me to me. This is what they see and this is what they want for you after meeting you for the 5 days you’ve spent together and, I’m not gonna say the first time in my life but for the first time in a long time, I felt SEEN. This is like the depth of seen that you get with your best friend that takes years of development and this person met you for 5 days and you know that they know you and they respect the things that you respect about yourself. And that was quite an emotional and interesting experience.--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI---SHEA STEWART WEB: https://www.arctiq.ca IG: https://www.instagram.com/stewartshea--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Lady Hayes is a multi-faceted artist: She’s a social media influencer, she makes flowers crowns, she created a perfume, she’s a photographer and she’s a singer-songwriter. We talk about how she integrates her artistic approach into her life as a mother of two young daughters and how she’s been expressing herself through clothing since she was a child. She also  shares simple wisdom for taking photographs and some fascinating behind-the-scenes insight into the ingredients in her perfume. “I have always loved smell. I think I have an insane sense of smell. I can smell things from really far away and I can identify it. So, developing the perfume was a riot. I’d done a lot of research about how it affects your body and I wanted it to be a very sensual perfume, almost like a love spell. Like if you were gonna wear this perfume, people would just be attracted to you naturally and they wouldn’t necessarily know why. But it would be the smell. One of the main ingredients in a love spell in witchcraft is cardamom. Apparently when you smell cardamom, blood flows to your genitals. So … that’s one of the notes in my perfume! ”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI---LADY HAYES WEB: http://www.ladyhayes.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/ladyhayes CBC DIY: https://www.cbc.ca/life/home/lady-hayes-1.4510672 MUSIC - SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: https://spoti.fi/2IEbCsq--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Ryan Hennessey is Environmental Support Lead on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project and has worked in environmental compliance in the oil & gas industry for over 20 years. He shares his firsthand experience of oil spill clean up and life in the oil patch. We also talk about his alter ego as a musician, his compulsion to build community through music and how being recognized as a pillar of the Fort St. John, BC musical community is deeply satisfying. (We also talk about his love of the hard rock band Iron Maiden.) “Recognize your relevance to other people and cherish the relevance you have with them and cherish the relevance that they have on you.  I love knowing people and if there's something that they do, if there's some fabric of their being, some little bit of themselves that I can somehow work into myself to make me a better person or help me get through my day, that's when I say: We are the sum of the parts of all the people we know and those relationships we learn to cherish.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- RYAN HENNESSEY FB: https://www.facebook.com/ryan.hennessey.37--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

I'm off.I'm camping.I'll be back next Wednesday with another great guest.Thanks for giving a shit.Rob--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Matthew De Zoete is an internationally touring singer-songwriter. We talk about his masterful lyrics, his writing process, growing up in a strict dutch community and his life living and working on his family farm. “I grew up in like a pop-culture vacuum, like there was no … it was only either CBC Radio 1 or 2 or it was some other classical or choral or organ music that my parents were listening to. There are certainly lots of those time where I feel like I should write a song, or I have this musical idea … What do I wanna say? What’s worth saying? And how can I say it in a way that’s worth doing?”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- MATTHEW DE ZOETE WEB: http://colourfilm.ca FB: https://www.facebook.com/ColourFilmMusic SPOTIFY MUSIC PLAYLIST: https://spoti.fi/30OoVNA--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Jacob King does incredible custom wood work. We chat about his history as a musician, web + e-learning designer, recording studio owner and yoga instructor. We hear about his evolution from doing home renos to custom woodwork & furniture. He schools us on the term for the absurd urge we’ve all had to hurl ourselves off a balcony, and how that urge translates to a woodworking shop with deadly machines (“The Call Of The Void”). He also tells us why he hates sanding and uses a hand plane instead to save time. He explains how his wife helped him overcome perfectionism and reveals that he doesn’t consider his pieces finished until they’re actually being used in a person’s home and begin to get dings, dents & scratches. “I will sit down with the client and I will build something that suits their taste. I need to have some lengthy discussions about what's your aesthetic? What do you like? Okay, so now we know what you like. What kind of functionality do you need in it? And then how can I take what you like visually, what you need functionally and incorporate that into something that I can make for you that you're gonna be happy with and love looking at for the rest of your life and maybe I'll just take that and let it go. There's a big part of building something and then just letting it go and this is gonna go back to Mike Pekovich again. He's the last person I heard say it: When you get the final coat of finish on it and you drop it off with a client or hang it on the wall or set it in your living room, the piece of furniture isn't finished yet. It's not until it starts getting the dings and the scrapes and the scratches and the dents and developing the patina. That is when the piece of furniture starts to get finished because it's getting used and loved.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI---JACOB KING WEB: https://jacobking.ca IG: https://www.instagram.com/aplannedescape LINKS TO PIECES POPLAR CROTCH TABLE: https://www.instagram.com/p/CASn1d7D9Od/*for sale* contact: mailto:jacob@jacobking.ca GUITAR: https://www.instagram.com/p/Btn4I62AA-v PEN: https://www.instagram.com/p/CABgJLoDne6 PURPLE BOX: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7vtQYpgZkD SMALL BRASS & WOOD HAMMER: https://www.instagram.com/p/B6qNzsBASzP--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Milo Axelrod is a user experience designer, artist, creator & podcaster. They explain how so much of our technology does not respect us as users and how talking to strangers about sensitive topics can teach us a lot, especially if we focus on listening. We talk about their (incredible) podcast Describing A Rock and their propensity for precision and excruciating detail. We discuss both of us identifying as "on the spectrum" and how they were baffled by neurotypical people as a kid. We also dig into the impulse to be understood and the importance of being self-critical and really questioning one's assumptions. “For me it was really questioning myself. That’s the key: is really questioning yourself all the time. Question your assumptions. There are so many things that we think are fact, about ourselves, about the world, and they mainly aren’t. Most of the things that you think are like a core part of who you are are actually habits that you can change without being untrue to yourself. You have to just keep questioning stuff and keep learning and being open to hearing that you are wrong. That’s probably the most important thing. If you are dissatisfied with where you are, ask yourself if you have been open to the idea that you’re wrong … about anything.”   --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- MILO AXELROD WEB: http://www.miloaxelrod.com DESCRIBING A ROCK: https://anchor.fm/miloaxelrod IG: https://www.instagram.com/millennial_cyborg EMPATHY IN TECH DESIGN: https://dispatch.moonfarmer.com/my-tech-inept-grandma-isnt-the-problem-36d64ad97c0d   MILO ON THE TODD DONALD SHOW: https://bit.ly/3gvjV62--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Beverly Kreller is owner of Speak Music Publicity, Artistic Director of the Speak Music Be Kind Festival and one half of the dustbowl duo Hotcha! We reminisce about her experience as an actor and wig maker at the Stratford & Shaw festivals and talk about her many roles in music: songwriter, musician, publicist and festival director. She also shares her thoughts on the healing power of music. “Many people say this, but it’s very true to me: The fact that it’s a healing thing. Whether it’s the toe-tapping music that we do or something that’s more of a ballad or softer gentler music, it’s all healing. It’s healing for the audience but it’s in fact healing for the artist. And especially singing, I find that’s one of the most beautiful things that people can do. I don’t care if you’re in tune or whatever. I think people should always sing. Sing out loud! [laughs] Where would we be without music in the world? The world IS music. The world is frequency. What would we do without it?” --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- BEVERLY KRELLER WEB: http://www.speak-music.com FESTIVAL: https://www.speakmusicbekindfest.com WEB: http://www.hotcha.ca MUSIC - SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: https://spoti.fi/30OeY1m--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Cal Brunker is the director & co-writer of Escape From Planet Earth and the upcoming Paw Patrol: The Movie among several others. We talk about his life making animated films, not mythologizing the creative process or waiting on inspiration, focusing on individual strengths in a co-writing team and two very different opening weekends he’s lived. “Being able to not mythologize the creative process is really helpful for younger people to be able to hear. It’s not that it’s a bolt from the blue and you get this amazing inspiration that this guy has and you don’t have that and if you just had the bolt then you could do it too but … and you’re like ‘It’s all bullshit. It’s not that at all. Here’s the real process.’ That would have been so helpful to me when I was young. I think it’s probably more available, that information now. Even when you listen to people talk about art, if you think about ‘high art’, you hear people talk about a painting, you’re like ‘This is mostly a con for the intelligentsia.’ The people making the art don’t talk about the art like that. It’s for a level of criticism and the circles of intelligentsia will discuss art in a certain way that’s very different than the people putting paint on the canvas.“--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- CAL BRUNKER  WEB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Brunker TWEET: https://twitter.com/calbrunker--- Breaking Even Animated Video (2006): https://bit.ly/2WJefNN--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

The tables get turned as And Sometime Why host Rob Szabo takes the guest seat in this conversation from The Todd Donald Show. We delve into Rob’s motivation to get involved in podcasting and how podcast conversations subvert social conventions around intimacy. Todd also asks Rob if he’s happy about his life.(!) “Why I do the podcast is because in regular life there are certain social conventions that prevent you from really continually digging deeper and asking certain kinds of questions without it being awkward. That is THE reason why I do this … is so I can have those conversations with people in my life and people that I don’t know hopefully. So you can get the deeper truth about being alive that you kinda never get to in regular life.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- ROB SZABO  WEB: http://www.robszabo.com MUSIC - SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: https://spoti.fi/3h2QDeH--- This conversation was first published on The Todd Donald Show: https://apple.co/2Oo9iWb--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

And Sometimes Why celebrates its first half-year Podiversary by playing clips of every guest since episode #1.--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Charlena Russell is founder of Russell Music School, vocalist, multi instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and artist. She shares her experience of teaching and learning life lessons from her students. We talk about her travels and how she infuses parts of her cultural backgrounds into her art including her sound activated light suit. She also shares her perspective on Black Lives Matter and her realization that she’s got more work and unlearning to do around systemic racism even as a self described mixed race person. “There’s an artist Janice Lee who’s a dear friend of mine. A shout-out to her and a thank you to her. She did a lot of work in KW to raise awareness that racism needs to be addressed. And there were Black Lives Matter protests happening 5 years ago that she was part of and I remember not understanding it fully and not feeling comfortable enough to go because I myself, as a mixed person, had more work to do to unlearn what I’ve been taught, and what I’ve been raised to, y’know, think I’m weird and hate myself and I’m ugly and my hair is ugly and all those things. I mean it’s the truth of what we’ve all grown up in. And I’m so thankful for artists like her who have taken the time to like speak. And if anything, the reason why I was posting so much on Facebook has a lot to do with the fact that she helped give me my voice.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- CHARLENA RUSSELL TEACHING: https://russell-music-school.com WEB: https://charlena-russell.com  IG: https://www.instagram.com/charlenarussell SOUND ACTIVATED LIGHT SUIT: https://bit.ly/3ihvTBn MUSIC - SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: https://spoti.fi/2YQfgoZ--- ROB SZABO guests on the Todd Donald Show: https://apple.co/3eNO0wV--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Howard Druckman is a music writer, editor of the SOCAN Words + Music magazine and one half of the dustbowl duo Hotcha! We talk about his history writing about music, his experience as Polaris Prize juror, how championing music he cares about energizes him and the time Madonna called him out onstage because of a piece he’d written about her. “I’ve been very, very lucky that I get to earn a living by listening to music and by talking to people who make it because that keeps me invested and excited. The difference I think, for me anyway, is that when I was younger, I would listen to music and it would be about my life. When I listened to The Who’s Quadrophenia it was so close to the bone of my own fairly dysfunctional family, that it was like “oh my god”. I couldn’t believe it. Or when I first heard Dylan and just went completely nuts, that spoke right to my heart. Now, there’s stuff that still speaks to me but it’s still a matter of the heart and it’s still emotional but it’s more like huge respect and admiration for what people are doing and how people are passionate and intense and strong about what they’re doing. I mean, I’m not experiencing what Snotty Nose Rez Kids are experiencing. I’m not experiencing what Haviah Mighty is experiencing. But the art they’re making is just so strong that I care about it and it moves me. It doesn’t move me the same way ‘cause it’s not about my life, but it still moves me.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- HOWARD DRUCKMAN FB: https://www.facebook.com/druckmanh WEB: http://www.hotcha.ca MUSIC - SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: https://spoti.fi/319npq9--- THIS EPISODE SPONSORED BY: Eddie Orso's Album “Foreign Flowers” Get 20% off with discount code: szabo HERE: https://bit.ly/eddieorso--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Kerri Ough is a musician, writer, photographer, artist & self proclaimed archivist. She is 1/3 of the Juno-winning band The Good Lovelies. We talk about her life in music, how she’s been writing morning pages every day for over 20 years (to “get the goo out”) and how she’s been connecting with people through her group colouring project over the lockdown. We bond over mutual love of Derek Sivers’ ideas & discuss how journaling helps her discover meaningful change she wants in her life. “I like that exercise of writing down why I’m doing it, what’s hard about it, what’s hard about the other path I’m not taking. I also don’t think it has to be either or. I think The Good Lovelies right now, I think we could make a really good decision to do a certain amount of touring and then still; Caroline can put out a solo project, Sue, she wants to do a podcast too and I think we can do it and make room. We’ve made room for kids, we’ve made room for when I moved to Newfoundland for 6 years. We make room for the things that  each of us want. So, my dream was to be a rockstar and/or a folk musician (in Canada and beyond…) and I also like to draw and I like to write and there’s more. I don’t think it has to be that I’m going to be a touring musician or I’m going to be something else. I think I can be a touring musician and I can also be a great aunt. Just checking in that it still is in line with my values. I don’t need us to be super famous. I like the people we reached on the weekend. I like the people we reach when we go to Australia and Alaska and Germany and everywhere in Canada and the US … and that’s enough. That’s enough for me.“ --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- KERRI OUGH WEB: http://www.kerriough.com WEB: https://goodlovelies.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/kerriough MUSIC - SPOTIFY PLAYLIST:  https://spoti.fi/3dahQtR--- THIS EPISODE SPONSORED BY: Eddie Orso's Album “Foreign Flowers” Get 20% off with discount code: szabo HERE: https://bit.ly/eddieorso--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

This week And Sometimes … Why? is observing the Podcast Blackout in support of The Black Lives Matter Movement. We’d like to direct you to the Scene On Radio Podcast Series “Seeing White” that explores what it means to be white.LINK: https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white

Glodeane Brown writes the Culture Fancier blog and is programming & operations coordinator at CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area). We chat about her life being “arts adjacent” as she calls it, she extols the virtues of seeing art solo and shares insights about the power of art to change the way people see the world. “One of my favourite stories: I was at a panel and the director of the Aga Khan museum was there and she told a story about a firefighter that was there on a public tour and he approached her after the tour and he said that he had held a grudge against muslims since 9/11. But after going through the tour of the Aga Khan and listening to her speak about the art, it kind of changed his mind. That’s really powerful. Someone can hold a belief for that long and then having someone speak about art can help change their mind or shift a view that maybe wasn’t correct or just they weren’t informed enough. So I think art can show us the world in a different way that maybe we didn’t consider before. Also, seeing other people’s experiences, I mean a lot of us live in our bubbles or echo chambers: you like what you like, you see what’s around you. But when you venture out into different spaces and you see different things, it opens your mind to different possibilities and how other people are experiencing things in the world.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- GLODEANE BROWN WEB: http://www.culturefancier.com INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/culturefancier--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Lobelia Lawson is a singer-songwriter, advocate of sustainable touring, curator of the positive songs project & head of programme implementation at the Better Points app. We talk about her life in music, grassroots touring as a new mother, how her husband helped her make & promote their breakup(which never happened) album, and how the lockdown has helped her write positive songs. “That’s the thing of art. We’re reaching for something. I have a compulsion to create. I never understand why do we do this to ourselves. Really, I’m not a natural performer, I really struggle but I love it in some kind of weird way and I do always think ‘Why the hell am I putting myself through this?’ I’ll get really nervous and anxious before a gig and I think ‘I don’t understand the compulsion within me to make myself do these things’. Y’know, why am I doing it?”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- LOBELIA LAWSON WEB: https://www.lobelia.net POSITIVE SONGS PROJECT: https://www.positivesongsproject.org FB: https://www.facebook.com/lobeliamusic--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Rebecca Black is founder and chief communicator at Black Current Marketing and co-founder of Women In Renewable Energy(WIRE). We talk about gender, feminism and sustainability. She explains how her values have evolved since her punk-rock roots and how the silver linings she sees in the COVID-19 experience make her feel hopeful. “I’m trying to use this time to reflect on what might be next. From a climate change perspective, there are silver linings in this really terrible scenario and one of them is that we’re looking at alternative ways of being that may offer new insights into what the values are. Every night at 7:30 on the street that I live on in the west end of Toronto, people come outside their homes and bang on pots to show their appreciation for front line workers. So that in itself is lovely, but what is also really fortifying to me is that people are looking at their neighbours and banging their pots and smiling at each other and falling into rhythm and someone’s playing a tambourine and somebody’s got a trumpet. This is a neighbourhood that’s actually engaging in a way, every day, that it didn’t before. What are the possible implications of that? And so that gives me hope because I think a lot of the systems that we work within and we sort of mindlessly go about because that’s the way things are, are being reconsidered, and that makes me really hopeful because I think being busy all the time - it’s kind of a badge of honour, but slowing down and reflecting … these are little glimmers of opportunity that I see. And then there is the whole people aren’t driving as much. In some cities the air is cleaner than it’s been in generations.” --- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI---REBECCA BLACK WEB: https://www.blackcurrentmarketing.com TWEET: https://twitter.com/reblackatweet--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Peter Katz is an internationally renowned singer-songwriter and an in-demand public speaker. We talk about our shared history touring & making records, his compulsive focus and heroic work ethic. We also relive key moments in his last few years - including falling 100 feet off the edge of a cliff after which he was told he might never be able to walk again - and other adversity which he has funneled into inspiration. He also shares some great insights on public speaking, mindfulness and holding oneself accountable. "I realized that my mind was silent. It was so silent it was deafening. And it was the first time in my adult life that my mind was silent. And I realized that it was silent because I wasn't thinking about myself. I was thinking about these kids. And that caused this moment for me of actually feeling at peace."--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI---PETER KATZ WEB: https://www.peterkatz.com WEB: https://www.facebook.com/peterkatzmusic MUSIC - SPOTIFY PLAYLIST:  https://spoti.fi/2yRmw9O--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Greg Oliver is a sports writer and pro wrestling aficionado. We talk about his evolution from distributing a homemade wrestling newsletter in high school to co-founding & producing the influential SLAM! Wrestling website to writing over a dozen books on wrestling & hockey. He also shares some great tips on interviewing & insights on being a stay at home Dad. “If I’m interviewing somebody, my goal is to have it done in 20 minutes. If I can’t get what I need out of somebody in 20 minutes, then I’m not doing my job right, I’m wasting my time in a way. Let’s get to the point.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- GREG OLIVER WEB: http://www.oliverbooks.ca WEB: http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/home.html TWITTER: https://twitter.com/gregmep--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Kyle Bassett works on the bleeding edge as a partner in tech firm Arctiq. We talk about how he was an early adopter of the information superhighway as a teen in the mid 90s, Arctiq’s partnering with Google on Anthos, his PEI roots and how getting over our initial fear of talking to new people is such a big step. “When I learned how to walk up to people and go, ‘Hey, I’m Kyle! What’s your name? What are you doing here?’ It’s like a superpower, right? Because the person you’re talking to just wants someone to do that, or they wish they would do that.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- KYLE BASSETT WEB: https://www.arctiq.ca TWITTER: https://twitter.com/kylebassett--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod

Eddie Orso is a sales manager for DeeBee’s organics & songwriter/recording artist. We discuss his struggles with seasonal affective disorder and subsequent move from Toronto to Los Angeles that cured him, his life in music, and his prolific output. “When I’m super inspired like that and writing a lot, I get into this space where I kinda … it’s almost like I black out. After it’s done, I look back and I forget it. I don’t even remember doing it. It’s almost like I get into this space in my head that is uncontrollable. It’s hard to put it in words.”--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI--- EDDIE ORSO WEB: https://eddieorso.bandcamp.com MUSIC - SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: https://spoti.fi/3eKUcG7--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod