Should Be Famous

Restoring an old episode that I took down earlier over copyright concerns. Alice was so tickled that I had her music on the show, had to bring it back. What great music!

This lady is what the Should Be Famous Podcast was born for. Chances are you’ve never heard of her, but, to me at least, she’s amazing. Enjoy! For your reference this music is on a CD entitled Farewell to Nauvoo, by Fiddlesticks! with Lisa Arrington.

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You don’t know how big this is. Folks, after years of study, I can finally tell you exactly why gravity and acceleration are one and the same thing, a hunch I’ve had this whole time but haven’t been able to quite explain, until now. Well, this was recorded in 2015, but anyway… The thing is, … Continue reading "Episode 38: GRAVITY IS CRACKED"

Tune in for the secret to evoking angel behavior from your children, really! I know you don’t believe me but you’ll see. Also a little banjo and tummy thumping. Enjoy!

No, this is not really about the cute graphic I put on the blog, it’s about correcting an unfortunate misguided explanation for how airplanes fly that seems to have been repeated over and over through the years. That explanation is that it all comes down to Bernoulli’s principle, where if a fluid (like air) travels … Continue reading "Episode 36: How Airplanes REALLY Fly"

Get the full story of how this really fun song came to be, and discover some surprising origins. Be sure to watch the video below too (on shouldbefamous.com).

I’m a little afraid I’m crossing borders here–talking about mens and womens roles and things that aren’t politically correct. Nothing bad, just potentially controversial. Feel free to tell me if I just lost you. Hopefully not, though. Plus some nice Christmas music.

That song I played last time backwards and forwards sped up–did I successfully create a desire for you to hear it regular? Well if so then you are triple-lucky, because you get to hear it THREE TIMES! Forward at regular speed! One produced up, one just guitar and vocals, and one guitar and piano! Tell … Continue reading "Episode 30: Go Girl!, Go Girl!, and Go Girl!"

I tell you, if you listen, that they have nothing to do with each other!  I know. But they’re both worthy of the podcast and they both should be famous.  The song because it’s just good and Joseph Smith because, prophet or fraud, he has influenced history greatly and as I like to go to … Continue reading "Episode 29: Go Girl! and Joseph Smith"

Well folks I just turned 40 and my only rumination about that is that it’s nothing. More important are a few thoughts I had about being an Elders Quorum President, some thoughts from Terry Warner from the preface of his book Bonds that Make Us Free, and how we might falsely consider that we’re either … Continue reading "Episode 28: 40th Birthday, Elder, Bonds and Equality"

Come on my jog with me! More on Terry Warner, a little about a remarkable writer named Flannery O’Connor, and some on another book I read about the American auto industry’s history, called Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout-and Beyond. Mostly dysfunctional story, like anything else I guess, with some … Continue reading "Episode 27: Terry, Flannery O’Connor, and Crash Course on a Jog"

The Long awaited time has come to introduce you to the thoughts of a phenomenon of a remarkable man and thinker, Terry Warner (aka C Terry Warner), who has pioneered thought into the causes of what I’ll call maladaptive behavior, namely self-deception, which happens as an effect of, or really is an integral part of, … Continue reading "Episode 26: Terry Warner and Neat Kid Music"

I found my actual notes from the dinner with Joseph Moody, so here’s some more on that, plus additional thoughts on spinning discs and gravity/acceleration. And of course some neat music–first one of my favorite things to play on the piano, and at the end a fun song we did which you should really see … Continue reading "Episode 25: Joseph Moody Pt.2 and Some Neat Music"

Folks! I actually got to talk to a physics professor about the gravity/acceleration thing and you’ll see what I found out! Plus some good music as always. Ends with a recording of “Down to the River to Pray” with myself, Aubrey Nielsen and my daughter Owa. Hope you enjoy. This is a video podcast as … Continue reading "Episode 24: Joseph Moody went Down to the River to Pray"

Hear some music made up on the fly. . .and dialogue made up on the fly as well. Learn about truss rods in guitars and b-strings (B-strings)–all right here on the Should Be Famous Podcast!

Courtney came up with a lovely acoustic guitar cover of Lindy Cauper’s song Time After Time–great song and Courtney of course does awesome. There’s video for this as well.

Courtney started doing this thing on the guitar and I started playing along, sounded something like this. This is during my recent stay at Portland, OR for the International Barbershop Competition. LOVE getting together with family and doing great music. This might not be great, just fun. But more to come. Hope you can see … Continue reading "Episode 21: Double Guitars with Courtney"

For this episode, I take Luna on a walk. Oh, and I play a couple of piano ditties I wrote, and a recording of “Love At Home” sung by my daughter, and we talk about Forces. Like gravity and strong and weak nuclear forces and magnetic and electromagnetic forces, and how while we know pretty … Continue reading "Episode 19: E Minor Piano Ditties, Love at Home, and Forces We Don’t Understand"

Today a ditty I like to play on the piano, thoughts on force, and an a cappella arrangement of “Make Our Garden Grow”, written by Richard Wilbur (text) and Leonard Bernstein (music). This arrangement is by Jay Giallombardo, and the recording (for my chorus to learn the song from) is by Ben McDaniel. I cannot … Continue reading "Episode 18: The Force that Makes Your Garden Grow"

The first of what I hope to be several simpler episodes put out on a weekly basis. I recorded this version of Yankee Doodle for a potential film placement and it needed a gloomy or haunting version of a patriotic folk song. Hope you enjoy. Also similar recording of O Suzanna! Susan Easton Black is … Continue reading "Episode 16: Yankee Doodle and Susan Easton Black"

I guess you’d say this podcast was recorded in the spirit of the Sabbath.