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Songs & Stories Podcast

#429 Ryan Rado, Tourette’s, Weed, and Authenticity

Songs & Stories Podcast

Emeryland

Music

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Rado has been a big part of the Christian punk/hardcore scene for the last two decades through managing and getting several Tooth and Nail bands signed. He is also a visual and musical artist himself. Ryan also has Tourette's Syndrome and one of the most fun personalities out there. He came by Toby's house the other day with Aaron Lunsford, and we discussed all this, weed, his new album called "Make It Perfect" and possibly got drunk.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, if you hear my voice, you know you're listening to a podcast and I have been doing podcasts for over 10 years, I think it's crazy.

0:07.0

But one of the things that I am jealous of is that Spotify now makes making your own podcasts so simple. I mean, it's crazy. Spotify's got to apply a platform that lets you make a podcast super easily.

0:21.0

Then distribute it everywhere and guess what? Even earn money all in one place for free by the way. It's called Spotify for podcasters and here's how it works. Spotify for podcasters lets you record and edit podcasts right from your phone or computer.

0:35.0

So no matter what your setup is like, you can start creating today. Then you can distribute it distribute your podcast to Spotify and everywhere else podcasts are heard.

0:44.0

Video podcasts are also available on Spotify. I mean, this is insane. With Spotify for podcasters, you can earn money in a variety of ways, including ads, podcasts and podcast subscriptions. I mean, they set it all up for you. Invested all seriously, totally free with no catch. Ever since I have discovered Spotify for podcasters, seriously, I feel like I'm on top of the world.

1:05.0

I'm going to be starting some new podcasts by the way. In the future, if you haven't listened to some of our other podcasts besides songs and stories, you should be listening in. But Spotify for podcasters just makes it so easy. I highly recommend it. You give it a try. Download the Spotify for podcasters at or go to www.spodify.com board slash podcasters to get started now.

1:36.0

Welcome back creeps to the bad Christian podcast. We are in full swing with the remainder of the events that we're going to be doing before I have a baby and go off the grid and start working on a new Emory album for a couple of months. Emory is in Greenville, South Carolina with O Sleeper. We're going to be in Jacksonville, Tampa the next day, West Palm Beach the next day in Orlando the next day.

1:57.0

And then something I think is huge news is that the labeled podcast is sponsoring a tooth and nail and bad Christian showcase at the bad Christian conference. So on February the 16th Saturday in Dallas, Texas is the show of the year. May Emory, the classic crime acoustic and a new tooth and nail band that you're going to love called empty Isles.

2:20.0

You have to be at this show go to Emory music.com to get tickets for both of those. And also anybody that's heading to the bad Christian conference just to go to that show for free. Of course tickets are available there at bad Christian con.com. I'm going to run down the lineup with you one more time for we move on. The conference is going to have propaganda airing the lesbian Derek Web, Brandon Robertson, Autumn miles and Dave Jacob and Zach from May.

2:45.0

And a lot of these people are going through their deconstruction experience and their stories and things they've changed their mind on and where they're at today. I think it's going to be incredible again Dallas, Texas February 15 16 and 17 special event come meet the people in the community that you listen to this podcast with all the time. Make the trip. It'll be worth it. A promise today shows sponsored by Beachbody on demand getting shaped with me and Toby this year by texting bad Christian to 30 30 30.

3:14.0

You'll get full access to the entire Beachbody on demand platform, including the 14 day results plan just text bad Christian to 30 30 30 again. That's bad Christian to 3 0 3 0 3 0. And today shows also sponsored by our new sponsor Joy Bird. See how joy bird is revolutionizing online furniture shopping get 25% off your first order at joy bird.com slash bad Christian and enter the code bad Christian at checkout. Let's do it.

3:44.0

Yeah, yeah, God showed up. I don't give a shit when I put in my body. You don't ever call me that. So if you've never done all your extra virgin. No, girl, it's my plan. I showed my dad my penis when I was 25 years old. You don't get more honest.

4:04.0

3 2 1 got my Miller life. I don't need you this time, Joey.

4:17.0

Okay. God, yeah, Joey, you're actually unnecessary on the beatbox and let me tell everyone why because we're joined in virtual studio by some friends today. This should be a great one.

4:28.0

We've got Aaron Lunsford. Everybody knows who he is. He's from As City's burn. He's the he's they know him from the Nashville comedy scene beyond. And then also we've got another.

4:39.0

He started troll university. No. I want to make you guys take the beatbox in the second when I intro you and then we'll get the talking.

4:48.0

Oh, and then we also have Ryan Raydo. So Ryan Raydo is if you're unfamiliar with him, maybe there's a description in the show notes that you've already read, but I'll just tell you the way I think about Ryan Raydo. I've been working on the label podcast a ton lately.

5:02.0

And then I'm always talking in the Facebook groups about tooth and nail stories and all this stuff in the Christian music. And tons of sharing story sharing and Ryan Raydo comes up a lot.

5:14.0

He's got a ton of stories and legends. He's working with a ton of bands. He's been a manager. He's been and he's been on stage at cornerstone. A time or two for a thing or two.

5:24.0

And almost everybody that's been around the music scene knows who Ryan Raydo is. And now he has his own album coming out. And that's one of the reasons he's here to talk today.

5:32.0

So I thought it'd be really fun to have these both these dudes on Lunsford was just in in Franklin.

5:38.0

You know how the whole mix is better than I was like, this come on over. That is like, this come on over to a bucket.

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