More Oftens Podcast

In this episode, we invite Wayne Nilsson, a long-time friend, to join us in our first ever face-to-face recording.  We discuss a couple e-mails at the top of the show, followed by Brady’s visit to the Sasquatch Music Festival, funny stories about Kyler (for more info on Kyler, see Episode #3), “The Tukes” (our band in High School), and trying to one-up each other on horrific traveling stories.  We later move onto the Oprah KFC Controversy, foreign airports, and close up with another story about Kyler.

Special thanks to Wayne, as well as OCRemix for our theme (Ain’t Yo’ Fool by Mythril Nazgul & LuIzA).

Contact information:
Email: moreoftens@zacko.org
Our Twitter: Zac’s Twitter, Brady’s Twitter
Our Blogs: www.zacko.org or www.bradycahoon.com.

 

 #9 - Gather 'Round the Microphone, Children [42:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

For this episode we were lucky enough to get an interview with Jack Conte, a phenomenal musician and all around great guy.  Jack has a solo music project as well as participating in the band Pomplamoose with Nataly Dawn.  Jack’s music is catching on fast with his solo music video “Yeah Yeah Yeah” having half a million views on youtube and his Pomplamoose video “Hail Mary” having a third of a million views.

From his bio on myspace:

“A child of the new music paradigm, Jack Conte has been jabbing at the acoustic world with electronic punches for years. With the release of the VideoSongs and the Sleep in Color EP, the buzz is starting to build for the third West Coast Tour this March.

The Bay Area native has influences that range from Danny Elfman to Bjork to Chopin, and as a child, whether he was listening to his father playing Bill Evans tunes on the piano or his mother singing old Cole Porter standards, Jack found himself immersed in sound. His live show springs from this diverse spectrum of styles, and it involves multiple keyboards, guitars, jerry-rigged drum pads, and an occasional accordion, all glued together with thumping beats and in-your-face electronics.

As a member of one of the first generations to grow up with computers on demand, Jack comments, “This is a music revolution, and it’s everyone that’s making it happen. It’s the fans, it’s the musicians, it’s the blogging sites, it’s the programmers who make the blogging sites, it’s everyone.””

Jack Conte – Yeah Yeah Yeah

Pomplamoose – Hail Mary

Jack Conte – Aphex Twin/Bright Eyes Mashup

Jack’s Links:

http://www.myspace.com/jackconte

http://twitter.com/jackconte

http://www.myspace.com/pomplamoosemusic

http://twitter.com/pomplamoose

Contact information:

Email: moreoftens@zacko.org

Our Twitter: Zac’s Twitter, Brady’s Twitter

Our Blogs: www.zacko.org or www.bradycahoon.com.

 

 #8 - Behind the Music of Jack Conte [30:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

As a part of our double dose here on the More Oftens Podcast, we present an interview with Larry Oji from OverClocked Remix, a community dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of video game music as an art form.  We personally use their music in the podcast, and strongly encourage you to check out their archive of over 1700 quality remixes of video game music over at www.ocremix.org. Music in this podcast is by Trenthian (Crystal Sermon (The Prelude)), from their FFVII Album Voices of the Lifestream) and the Gamer Symphony Orchestra (Live from [SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE]) and can be found on their site.

Contact information:
Email: moreoftens@zacko.org
Our Twitter: Zac’s Twitter, Brady’s Twitter
Our Blogs: www.zacko.org or www.bradycahoon.com.

 

 #7 - The Music of Video Games [38:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode #6!  In this episode we catch up on what’s been going on in our lives and how the podcast has been progressing.  Let us know what you think by sending us an email!

Contact information:
Email: moreoftens@zacko.org
Our Twitter: Zac’s Twitter, Brady’s Twitter
Our Blogs: www.zacko.org or www.bradycahoon.com.

Our theme (Ain’t Yo’ Fool) comes from Mythril Nazgul & LuIzA at OCRemix.

 

 #6 - Yakkin' It Up [16:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This podcast is especially relevant because it applies to absolutely everybody.  The power of our thoughts influences everything from the relationships we have in our lives to the habitual emotions we experience every day to the very shape of our life.  If you just take a moment to reflect on your own life, you will find that the common denominator in all your circumstances is yourself and the ancestor to every action is a thought.  If you’re interested in this topic and would like to do delve deeper, a good place to start would be these links to free information:

1.  As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

2. The Science of Miracles by Gregg Braden

3. Setting Your Primary Focus by Steve Pavlina

4. Goals into Habits by Steve Pavlina

5. Behind Every Thought is an Energy by Wayne Dyer

6. When You Change the Way You Look at Things the Things You Look at Change by Wayne Dyer

Love, peace and chicken grease,

Zac and Brady

Contact information:
Email: moreoftens@zacko.org
Our Twitter: Zac’s Twitter, Brady’s Twitter
Our Blogs: www.zacko.org or www.bradycahoon.com

 

 #5 - The Power of Thought [22:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

How many of you have felt a yearning to travel, but have felt helpless or powerless to make it happen?  If you do happen to travel often, would you like to tap into priceless tips and tricks and beliefs that would make it more enjoyable and economical for you?  You happen to be in luck, because this podcast happens to be an interview with our friend Benny who happens to be a consistent world traveler that can open your eyes to the possibilities for your own life.  Whether it’s learning how to travel cheaply or learn a language more easily, it’s in here.

He’s danced with the president of Ireland, had one of his videos featured on National Geographic, traveled much of the world, had a brief role in a movie with Dan Ackroyd, been interviewed on television and he speaks a multitude of languages to varying degrees.

We really enjoyed doing this interview and think you’ll really enjoy listening to it.  There is a lot of value here and all you have to do is listen to it and apply it.

Check out Benny’s website at: www.irishpolyglot.com

Contact information:
Email: moreoftens@zacko.org
Our Twitter: Zac’s Twitter, Brady’s Twitter
Our Blogs: www.zacko.org or www.bradycahoon.com.

Special thanks to OCRemix for our music.

 

 #4 - A Day in the Life of Benny [51:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In effort to bring our audience together in a cohesive community, we introduce the Zacko.org forums!  There, we invite you to discuss anything you like to your heart’s content, including the most recent episodes of the More Oftens Podcast. Click here for the forums!

In other news, we are not dead.  This week was busy, but we will be releasing a new episode some time this week (latter part of the week?).  It’s gonna be a doozy.

Interview:

We were pleased to interview our good friend Kyler for More Oftens #3 and it turned out great. The interview spans a wide berth of topics centering mainly around video game addiction in World of Warcraft and Kyler’s short study that he conducted concerning the topic. One day it will be Dr. Kyler, so you’d better listen up now so you can have the bragging rights that you knew about him before he was famous and changed the world as we know it.

Mailbag

Diana writes:

I’ve got to say, this is the first podcast I’ve ever listened to ever.  I never really thought they’d be something I’d enjoy.  But since you two are my friends, I’d thought I’d give it a chance.  You guys crack me up…and yesterday’s podcast really hit me.  I was talking with Brady the other day about what you discussed from Noah’s e-mail.   The advice from Brady, and from the podcast is really helping me with the issues I am going through right now.  This podcast is good for a laugh, and good for advice.

I think I should ask a question though…something clever.  Hmmm…if there was a movie made about your life…who would play you?

Can’t wait til the next podcast…love you guys!

Contact information:
Email: moreoftens@zacko.org
Our Twitter: Zac’s Twitter, Brady’s Twitter
Our Blogs: www.zacko.org or www.bradycahoon.com.

Special thanks to OCRemix for our theme.

 

 #3 Kyler Sheds Light on the Dark Basement [28:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here’s a couple things for our loyal listeners to get the word out!  First, a commercial made up using Xtranormal.

Also, we now have a Facebook page!  Check us out here.

Production Note: My microphone was making noise through-out the recording.  My apologies, and I’ll be trying to remedy it in the next episode.

News of the Week

• X-Men Origins: Wolverine is leaked all over the internet
• BradyCahoon.com will soon be offering the Song of the Week in iTunes

Mailbag

Mike writes:

My dearest Zady Cahoorickson,

I just finished listening to the first…um…episode?  Webisode?  Podcastisode?  Whatever.  My point is, you didn’t spend nearly enough time talking about me.  Also, what gives with Firefox’s spell checker?  Whenever I type in “didn’t” it underlies the “didn” and tells me that it’s not a word, completely ignoring the apostrophe t.  Seriously.  Look into it for me.  (When I right-click on it, suggestions are: din, did, dido, did n.)

Whore my blogs around.  All three of them.  Also, talk about how awesome and handsome I am.  And fat.  Don’t forget to talk about how fat I am.

Hey, did you see what I did up there in the salutation?  I amalgamated your names.  Amalgamated is a cool word; you should use it more often in your podcast.

Sasha writes:

Great job on the podcast

 

 #2 E-Mail Amalgamation [27:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download