This is synchronicity.

This is synchronicity.

This is synchronicity.

This is synchronicity.

This is synchronicity.

This is synchronicity. This is synchronicity. This is synchronicity.

No guest this week, just me, but I got a lot of stuff going on, cool stuff, promise stuff being delivered, other things being announced.

So first things first, it's in the name of the episode EP release, my first EP.

The first thing I am publicly releasing up to date, the only people who have heard my music would be friends, classmates at college, people who stumbled upon hard to find sound cloud pages, or people who listen to this podcast. So you probably are in that group.

We've heard some of the music.

But other than that is a very small group of people because I've never publicly released anything.

I just haven't done it for a lot of reasons.

And I want to talk about, at least in the first part of this episode, kind of the process, not the logistical

or technical process of releasing an album or an EP or a single or any creative endeavor,

but kind of the internal difficulties, struggles, obstacles, resistance, whatever you want to

call it, to getting something out in the world.

And luckily, I have this podcast that kind of greased the wheels in terms of me being able to

actually say, all right, here's stuff that I've finished. It may not be my definition of

perfect. It may not. I probably could endlessly tweak and change things, but I've made the decision, all right, this is a thing. I am releasing it into the world. So that's it. That seems like a very simple process. And I imagine for some people, it is. They're just like, all right, I have this thing. I'm going to record these songs, going to make these songs, going to do it, and now it's out. That's awesome. I am not one of

those people, but I also know I'm not someone who's just, you know, terrible at this stuff. So I want

to get my music out there. I want to get my art out there. So why so why did it take basically 20 plus years, uh, really 15 plus years

since I've been making music? Uh, no, we'll say 20. We'll go 17 and a half. We'll split the

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