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David Broyles (Dr. Pants) is back and we continue the interview where we talk about spirituality and religion. We also discussed a little of politics and composition, as well as performance. You can find everything Dr. Pants on his Bandcamp: https://drpants.bandcamp.com/

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David Broyles, also known as Dr. Pants, was finally on the podcast after much badgering, and I am happy to have had the three corner officemates of ACM@UCO (Sephra Scheuber, Dustin Ragland, David Broyles) on the podcast! Dr. Pants is a composer, songwriter, performer, teacher, father, and husband.David and I talked about music, how he got started, and why it's important. Normally, the interview podcast has spirituality talk, but we got so carried away on music that we put the spirituality stuff on the next one. You can find everything Dr. Pants on his Bandcamp: https://drpants.bandcamp.com/

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Ted Tamayo is a badass guitarist that is fully devoted to playing his instrument as best as he possibly can. We discuss music, his journey in improvement, morality, and fitness. Get to know Ted! You can find his Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/Tedshredz/

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Rozlyn and I got to talk about creativity, like how we lead in a creative environment, how artists fit into genres or move into other genres, and how we create what we create. You can find Rozlyn on Instagram @rozlynzoramusic and her company @meltonmedia! Enjoy!

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Rozlyn has been a classmate with me at ACM@UCO, so it was only a matter of time before I got her on the podcast. Rozlyn is a songwriter, producer, audio engineer, photographer, and lots of other roles that really add up to a creator. It was great having her on and getting to know her a bit better. Stick around to the end of the podcast to hear an acoustic performance of "Home" she did just for this podcast! You can find her and her music on Spotify and Apple Music as Rozlyn Zora, and on Instagram @rozlynzoramusic or her media page on Instagram, @meltonmedia

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After almost two years, I finally got Metroyd Myk back on the podcast. We talked about the music he's been working on, the stories associated with them, and trying to break through the noise with our content. You can find Metroyd Myk on Twitter @TheNerdViking or on Bandcamp at https://metroydmyk.bandcamp.com/
The track at the end of the podcast is "Heart of the Juggernaut" from his album, Heart of the Juggernaut

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You are the most important person in the world. You are! You may feel as though everything in the world around you is telling you how worthless you are. That you won’t be beautiful unless you have this product. Or that you won’t be successful until you make this amount of money. That you’ll never be as good as this person or that person. Maybe you’ve been made to feel like you should have been born somewhere else, or sometime else. Or that you’re not valuable because of the body that you possess. The world can be pretty overwhelming at times, and it’s hard to feel like you have a place within it. But you are the most important person in the world.

In the second dimension, there are two sets of directions - up-down, and left-right. Like on a graph or a drawing. There is a horizontal axis and a vertical axis. The second dimension can still exist within the third dimension, but at one point of depth at a time. For example, if you were to imagine a sphere moving through the second dimension, you would see a dot appear and grow into a circle, then shrink back into a dot and disappear, like how MRI scans are shown to be animated and moving through a person’s body at one point at a time, only seeing a sliver cut out at a time. You are currently in the third dimension. That means that there are three sets of directions that this space has: up and down, left to right, forward and backward. Now try to imagine the fourth dimension. The next axis above the third dimension is time. You only experience time from a single point, ever. There is no way to behold the past, or witness the future. This present moment is what is available to you. Your senses are absorbing only a single moment. Sounds can only be heard over time, not in an instant. In the fourth dimension, time is a direction, like all other directions. There is length, width, depth, and duration - ever present as forwards in time, and backwards in time. In the same way that you can see in front of you and behold your environment as a constant, duration is a constant in the fourth dimension. Your first day of elementary school, your first kiss, your first car wreck that definitely wasn’t your fault, your retirement checks, your home fully paid off, et cetera., all omnipresent. Each moment a fixture in time, contributing to every other moment. But not just your timeline, but everyone else’s timelines. You’d see how that nice gesture for a coworker made their day better, or how a friendship grows over time, or the ripple of suffering from a cruel person’s effect on people. If you could see how your actions and behavior affects the future, would you change anything?

When involving time travel in science fiction, travelers often refer to the “butterfly effect”, which states that a single, insignificant change in the past can cause a cascade of effects that greatly change the future. The example used is if you kill a butterfly in the past, it could cause a great deal of changes for the future. Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called “A Sound of Thunder” that explored this idea. Starting in the future, a man by the name of Eckels goes on an expedition to hunt a T-Rex from sixty million years before, through a company that does time travel services. This is taking place just after an important election where the winner was not a militaristic, domineering man. The guide for the expedition goes through a litany of explanations stressing the importance of following the rules, since the effects of violating the past could be incredibly vast. The reason they’re able to hunt a T-Rex at all is because a team went back there in the first place to see when it would die, so they only hunt animals who were about to die anyways. In this case, the gigantic dinosaur was going to be crushed by an even more gigantic tree. The company goes so far as to lay out a path that floats above the ground so that not a single blade of grass is disturbed. Unfortunately, Eckels changes his mind at the sight of the terrifying T-Rex and runs away - accidentally off the path. When they return to their present, they came to find that Eckels had stepped on a butterfly in prehistory, and to their horror, the winning president in the future was the militaristic, domineering candidate. The lesson here is that every single thing in the past contributes to the future. In the story, the safari guide spoke at length about how killing a single mouse could cause millions of future generations of mice to not happen, causing other generations of predators to not feast on those mice, which could upset an entire ecosystem. Everything in your life has unfolded in this way because of everything that came before that, and everything in the future will unfold in that way because of everything right now. Everything is exactly where it needs to be.

In the great vastness of the universe, you are here now. Billions, trillions of stars have lived and died in the vast network of the universe to create the extremely complex organism that is you. Every atom that makes you up, every nucleotide that determines who you are, is the result of a universe that so intricately developed over time to make your being.

You are a ripple in time, affecting everything. You’ve made your family’s life brighter. Your friends are better people because of you. Rich, fun, memorable experiences have happened with you and through you, and the impact of your life is of immeasurable magnitude. Every decision you make can make the world a better place in the future. Making someone smile will make someone else smile, and soon enough, millions of people will have smiled from the chain reaction of your existence. Your timeline is forever intertwined in the timelines of others. You make the world a better place. You are a butterfly of the universe. You are the most important person in the world.

Love never fails.

It’s going to be ok.

I might be wrong.

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This podcast had quite the range: Free will, time travel, plot holes in Harry Potter, movies, hiveminds, and so many other things. It was a blast to get really nerdy and really philosophical with Griff Stafford. You can support Griff by supporting his band, Packing for Pluto!

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Griff Stafford is a guitarist, producer, and film buff. He plays guitar in Packing For Pluto, the band you've been hearing from on the podcast for the past few weeks. We got super in-depth about guitar stuff, but then we also dug into spirituality quite a bit. Get to know Griff!

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Alex and I discuss religion, music, food, movies, and many more things! Alex plays drums with Packing for Pluto, and you can find him on Twitter @whoshenryalex

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Alex Henry is a drummer and producer. He plays with Packing for Pluto, the rock band that was on last week's episode. I intend on having the rest of the band individually. Alex and I talked about drums, piano, music, religion, and spirituality. You can find him on Twitter @whoshenryalex

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Packing for Pluto is a rock band that I went to ACM with most of their members. Three of the band members were on this podcast: Griff Stafford, Daniel Reinking, and Alex Henry. It was a really fun time talking to them and hanging out. Check out their music on Spotify or on their website, https://www.packingforplutomusic.com/

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Dr. Linda Owen is a piano teacher at UCO that I've had the pleasure of being instructed by her. In our lessons, we often talk beyond just piano, and so I asked her to be on the podcast. I have a great admiration for Dr. Owen, and I hope you enjoy this conversation!

Personal note: I will be playing at Metro Music Fest at the Sonic Water Stage (the amphitheatre behind the Sonic Corporate Office) at 6:00 PM on April 6th!

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Rob Hollis Jr. and I discuss love, the good of humanity, and what is valued in culture. You can find Rob on Twitter @RobHollisII
https://twitter.com/RobHollisII

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Rob Hollis Jr. is a gamer, musician, radio host, and former athlete. He's the kind of dude that I can have a forever-long conversation about anything with. Get to know him!
You can find him on Twitter @RobHollisII
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Tyler shares emotional and interesting stories from the past, mostly involving band. You can follow Tyler on Instagram @tyganza
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Tyler Johnston is an old friend from high school who writes and composes. Tyler has been listening to the podcast since the start, and I'm very grateful to have a devoted listener on the podcast. It was fun to catch up!
You can follow Tyler on Instagram @tyganza

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Jackson and I discussed what it's like to mess with a different range of sounds available to us. This episode is a little bit shorter since we were short on time. We still had an interesting conversation, so here it is as a full episode!
You can find him on Twitter @Jackson Fritts
Or you can listen to stuff he's done in Druggernaut!

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Jackson is a bassist that goes to ACM@UCO. He's got an interesting perspective on music; it seems like he wasn't born in the right time. It was a lot of fun to talk to him and redo the episode.
You can find music he's done with Druggernaut at https://druggernautok.bandcamp.com/
or you can be victim to his shitposting barrages on Twitter https://twitter.com/JacksonFritts

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Jeff plays clarinet really, really well. And that doesn't have to do much with the fact that he and I play lots of video games. We discuss games that we're into, games that we're not into, and why. Sorry if you're not an avid gamer, this podcast is a little more specific, and I don't expect everyone to be into this one as much. But it was a lot of fun to catch up with Jeff and discuss things we love.