CTP (S2EMarSpecial4) Mar. 2025 Music Weeks: Wk 1 Ep 3: From Church Pews to Disney Parks: Marcus Manderson's Musical Journey

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CTP MUSIC WEEKS multiple days spanning a couple weeks of Music/Entertainment related Guests episodes that will be a lot of Fun and break mainly from Faith and/or Politics (unless the Guest goes there) focusing on “Entertainment” fare starting March 10th of 2025 including Benjamin Barnes, Lady Redneck, John Vento and his Nieds Hotel Band, Adam Blaylock (Heart Songs podcast), Jam Your Gram (Singing Telegrams, yes they are still a thing), Michael William (US Veteran and former Police Officer), Marcus Manderson (BarryManilow-esque, writes Jingles too), Kristi Jacques, "The Music God" CJPlain (relax folks, "Music" God as many Artists joke they are ROCK GOD's), HeIsTheArtist, Franklin Sane (for those that will get the Bowie reference), also focus on Music Censorship episode (including talk of “Professor Of Rock” Taboo Tunes YouTube shows), more.
CTP MUSIC WEEKS started Mon March 10th...
WEEK ONE OF MUSIC WEEKS (Mar M-F 10-28) EPISODES...
1-1: Monday March 10: John Vento "Nied's Hotel Band" 
1-2: Tuesday March 11: Adam Blaylok (Heart Songs)  
1-3: Wednesday March 12: Marcus Manderson 
1-4: Thursday March 13: Michael William 
1-5: Friday March 14: Jam Your Gram Singing Telegrams  
CTP (S2EMarSpeical4) Mar 2025 Music Weeks Wk 1 Ep 3: Marcus Maderson (Barry Manilowesque)     
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CTP (S2EMarSpecial4) Mar. 2025 Music Weeks: Wk 1 Ep 3: From Church Pews to Disney Parks: Marcus Manderson's Musical Journey 
Marcus Manderson shares his fascinating journey from 30-year church Hammond organist to creating music for Disney parks, film productions, and museum exhibits. We explore how his faith background continues to influence his compositions even in secular entertainment projects.
• Born in Virginia with a military mother stationed in Germany and a Jamaican father
• Played Hammond organ and piano in church for nearly 30 years
• Pandemic revealed how church music commitments had limited family time
• Transitioned to sync licensing, creating music for TV shows and films
• Produces music for Disney attractions, Smithsonian exhibits, and streaming platforms
• Artists have noted his music "makes me want to use less profanity"
• Balances creating music for secular projects while maintaining his faith identity
• Works with both gospel artists and those producing explicit content
• Believes "you can take the musician out the church, but you can't take the church out the musician"
Find Marcus Manderson and his music production services at Dafingaz.com (D-A-F-I-N-G-A-Z.com) for custom music, sync licensing, film scoring, and corporate videos.

Chapters

• 0:38 Music Weeks Introduction
• 1:55 Marcus Manderson's Background
• 10:07 Finding Balance During Pandemic
• 13:51 Sync Licensing and Museum Music
• 21:54 Faith in Secular Music World
• 27:34 Cancel Culture and Music
• 34:11 Communication and Final Thoughts

Transcript

CTP S2EMarSpecial4 37m 10s before audio editing   
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CTP MUSIC WEEKS multiple days spanning a couple weeks of Music/Entertainment related Guests episodes that will be a lot of Fun and break mainly from Faith and/or Politics (unless the Guest goes there) focusing on “Entertainment” fare starting March 10th of 2025 including Benjamin Barnes, Lady Redneck, John Vento and his Nieds Hotel Band, Adam Blaylock (Heart Songs podcast), Jam Your Gram (Singing Telegrams, yes they are still a thing), Michael William (US Veteran and former Police Officer), Marcus Manderson (BarryManilow-esque, writes Jingles too), Kristi Jacques, "The Music God" CJPlain (relax folks, "Music" God as many Artists joke they are ROCK GOD's), HeIsTheArtist, Franklin Sane (for those that will get the Bowie reference), also focus on Music Censorship episode (including talk of “Professor Of Rock” Taboo Tunes YouTube shows), more.
CTP MUSIC WEEKS started Mon March 10th...
WEEK ONE OF MUSIC WEEKS (Mar M-F 10-28) EPISODES...
1-1: Monday March 10: John Vento "Nied's Hotel Band" 
1-2: Tuesday March 11: Adam Blaylok (Heart Songs)  
1-3: Wednesday March 12: Marcus Manderson 
1-4: Thursday March 13: Michael William 
1-5: Friday March 14: Jam Your Gram Singing Telegrams  
CTP (S2EMarSpeical4) Mar 2025 Music Weeks Wk 1 Ep 3: Marcus Maderson (Barry Manilowesque)     
See buzzsprout Transcript for fuller/extended Show Notes (inc. related links) and Transcript Bonus 
Transcript Bonus: "Music, Tv, Politics" TheLibertyBeacon piece    
CTP (S2EMarSpecial4) Mar. 2025 Music Weeks: Wk 1 Ep 3: From Church Pews to Disney Parks: Marcus Manderson's Musical Journey 
Marcus Manderson shares his fascinating journey from 30-year church Hammond organist to creating music for Disney parks, film productions, and museum exhibits. We explore how his faith background continues to influence his compositions even in secular entertainment projects.
• Born in Virginia with a military mother stationed in Germany and a Jamaican father
• Played Hammond organ and piano in church for nearly 30 years
• Pandemic revealed how church music commitments had limited family time
• Transitioned to sync licensing, creating music for TV shows and films
• Produces music for Disney attractions, Smithsonian exhibits, and streaming platforms
• Artists have noted his music "makes me want to use less profanity"
• Balances creating music for secular projects while maintaining his faith identity
• Works with both gospel artists and those producing explicit content
• Believes "you can take the musician out the church, but you can't take the church out the musician"
Find Marcus Manderson and his music production services at Dafingaz.com (D-A-F-I-N-G-A-Z.com) for custom music, sync licensing, film scoring, and corporate videos.
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Welcome to ChristiTutionalist Politics podcast aka CTP in association with TheLibertyBeacon.com and I am your host Joseph M Lenard and that's L E N A R D   CTP is your no muss no fuss just me you And occasional guest type podcast as Graham Norton would say let's get on with the show 

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JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Hey gang, just a brief intro into music weeks. Here they are now. I was also considering going down the list of all the people that you see over the music weeks to be part of each episode. Let you know who's coming or who may have been or whatnot. The list has grown. Too big to really go into here. I don't want to take that much time. Music weeks, thankfully, is grown into a pretty big deal. So it's grown a lot more than just the one music week. Originally, it was going to start out as into multiple weeks now. So at any rate, rather than ramble more, let's go ahead and get into this particular days music weeks episodes. And I'm trying to drop them Monday through Friday each week of music weeks. Thank you all for tuning in. Take care. God bless. As Graham Norton would say, let's get some guests on. Welcome to institutionalist politics podcast, AKA CTP. I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard and that L-E-N-A-R-D. CTP is your Nomus. No fuss. Just me, you, and occasional guest type podcast. Really appreciate you tuning in. Graham Norton would say, let's get out of the show. Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of Christitutionalist Politics podcast. What's happening to me today is Marcus Manderson. How are you today, Marcus?
MARCUS MANDERSON:  I'm good. Thank you for having me on this podcast.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Before we get into the why you're here kind of thing, I like to joke. You know, Mathsinger does it too, right? Cue the who song. Who are you right? Where were you born? Where were you raised? Where are you now? Those kind of fun things.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah, quick spiel. Born in Virginia, live in Virginia, north of Virginia, close to DC. But my mom was in the military, so we were stationed in Germany for a while and came back to Virginia and my mom retired here. So my dad's Jamaican, so we would travel to Jamaica to visit his family often growing up. So we were always traveling. Okay.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Got to do the obligatory. My audience knows I can't pass on the lane punt. Jamaican me crazy mom. Jamaican me crazy.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah, my dad, he's probably been in this country for 20, 30 years and it still sounds like the accent is strong as ever. So yeah, and then pretty much settled in Virginia. Big 90s and spent the rest of life growing up in Virginia. And went to school, started studying music. I played piano in church. I'm a Hammond organ artist. I played Hammond piano in church for almost 30 years, leading up into the pandemic. And then went to school, got music, degrees, have a wife and kids, two teenage kids, one visit college. So yeah, started life early. Because of our conviction, we got married. I was 19 when we got married and we'll be celebrating 21 years next in two weeks from the time of the recording of this. So yeah, life is life. Our daughter is in college. Our son is a junior in high school.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  So just your daughters in college where they're trying to overturn everything you ever taught her.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah, that's a whole different that's a different podcast. But yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  I will say not at the college.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  She's at because she's at Spelman College, which is the number one HBCU in the country in Georgia. A little bit different level of experience. Yeah. But just just enjoying that heritage that she's becoming a part of.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Yeah. My favorite college and not just because it's basically a stone's throw for me a few counties over is Hillsdale College, who still to this day don't take any of government money. So they have complete autonomy. I really liked that about them. But again, as you said, whole over podcast. It's a German Italian Polish heritage. So you said you're deployed with them there.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah, we were in Stu Carda, Bermavin.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Did you pick up any German?
MARCUS MANDERSON:  When I was younger, Specacy Deutsch, but a lot of it, I was, I don't know, seven. So this was forever ago. So a lot of it I have forgotten. And because we were on military base, so it was like American base.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Right. Exactly. Immigrant parents, great grandparents, escaped Poland and Germany during World War I and in Italy. And they were of the immigrant melting pot mindset. This is America. You become American. You blend. You speak English here. So unfortunately, I didn't have the benefit of them teaching me all those other languages. I wish I knew now today. I did try to learn German for a while, but indeed, I didn't really have anybody to speak it with. So I remember Zupa for soup and you know, a few things. But that's about it. And again, anyway, we are already way off the beaten path. But but yeah, that was what I like about organic people on. I, as I was saying in the green room, my style is I bring people on and I don't want to know a whole lot about you before I bring you on just enough to know that you'll be an interesting guest and we'll talk about this and that. But then we go down whatever rabbit holes open and I discover you just as the audience will for the first time when they hear the episode. But indeed, you're here regarding your musical background. And when I read about you, there was saw about the played piano and organ for 25 plus years, gospel and those sorts of things. But the other part of your background, what immediately came to my mind was Barry Manolo. You remember, right? Yeah. Because he wrote traditional music and we'll get into it. He wrote jingles too. A lot of people don't know that about him. A lot of the TV ad jingles in the 70s, 80s and 90s. He wrote them. So you dabble. Well, we may as well go there now that I started that. Aside from your regular traditional music, I see that and I underlined because I thought it interesting. Some of your credits are Disney stars, Fox National Geographic. Smithsonian was one that stood out to me. Amazon Prime Video, Google Play was another one that stood out to me and to be like Smithsonian and Google Play. I'm like, what in the world would you be doing for them?
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah. Yeah. We could talk, but just really quick on the Barry Manolo. Yeah. A lot of people don't know. You know, he'd done jingles for. That's probably one. Yeah. KFC Strydex, but his most famous is probably, which a lot of people don't know. You probably know. You know, his most famous jingle?
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  I probably did it one time, but I'm trying to like like a good neighbor. Oh, no, I didn't know that one. I didn't know that one.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah, the state state farm jingle. But yeah, so doing and now, I mean, there used to be a lot of with major artists, a lot of negativity towards doing music for like brands and that sort of flipped. I don't know. Sell out. You're selling out your, you know, your artistry. And now it's like you think about it. A lot of some of these deals, you know, you get paid, you know, six, seven figures to do a custom jingle or ad for a company or campaign. It's like, you know, I wouldn't scoff at that. So yeah, I started focusing on when the pandemic hit the church went virtual and it was, uh, might not be a great take for your audience, but for me being a musician in church, I didn't realize until the pandemic how much time it was taken away from my family. So it wasn't until the pandemic where it was like in the church, I had three, four hour rehearsals, two, three days a week and then out all day Sunday services. So it wasn't until the pandemic hit that I was able to spend all of Mother's Day and all of Father's Day at home with my wife and kids. Um, and you know, we were able to take vacation vacations that didn't have to be between Sunday and Sunday, um, because we would leave Sunday after church and then we'd have to be back before, you know, the next Sunday service because I played every Sunday, basically. So it wasn't until the pandemic hit that we took a two week vacation and I was like, what is this? I'm not used to this.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Like, uh, so, um, where did you get to go during the pandemic? And virtually everything was locked down.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  My wife's a travel agent and we booked things, uh, sometimes, you know, two years a year in advance. So we had things booked. Uh, I believe it was December of 2020 and we didn't know if it was going to be canceled, but luckily we had to wear masks and everything, but it was a, I think it was a two week, like Disney vacation to Florida. It was like, I would spend a couple of days at the parks and then we did a Disney cruise and it ended up being like two weeks total across. So, um, yeah, so we had things already planned before the pandemic. Uh, and actually we went to Vegas a couple of times during the pandemic. Vegas didn't seem like they shut down at all. Um, we don't gamble or anything, but we went to a couple of concerts out there and took the family and did a couple shows, started to so late. Um, but back to your question. Um, when the pandemic hit, I started getting into what's called a sync licensing, which is getting music into TV and films, uh, sort of like jingles, but it's creating music for, uh, scenes and TV shows and things like that, where there are companies that all send you what's called briefs and you'll say, Hey, we need music for this scene where the character is getting in the car or whatever and they need this type of song playing on the radio. Um, along the way, I would post music online and that's where I got opportunities to work on. Uh, there's an independent film called hemisphere that, um, is the film that got streamed, got landed on to be cool play and Amazon Prime Video, director. Uh, I'm also working on his second film right now doing a score for that. And then along the way, uh, even before the pandemic, I was doing music for museum exhibits. That's where national TV comes in. Yeah. Being in the DC area had about a seven year span of doing museum music for museums that exhibit
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  that are traveling the world, but, um, so you weren't doing elevate her music. You were doing museum music museum music.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  It's hard because with things like that. So with, with music on a TV show or movie, there's evidence, you know, I, you can load the clip up. I can record the clip with museums. Um, and also did music for Disney theme parks. There is no evidence other than what I do is I go to the thing. Once it's out into the world and I, on my phone, I'm recording this experience. Like, Hey, this is my music playing. We went to have music at Disney theme parks and we were in LA at Disneyland. And my wife was like, Hey, I got tickets to the park because yeah, I could get tickets as far the deal, but I did get paid. Um, so, uh, we went to the park and we're going into the where my music's playing, the area where my music's playing for this attraction and my wife's telling everyone. She's like, that's my husband's music playing. And then, and I'm recording on my phone because I'm like, this is the evidence that because otherwise I won't have, um, I do have like the video, but I can't post it, but I won't have the evidence of this is my music as opposed to TV and film and video games where you can get a clip of it and post that online. So, um, getting all of that and, uh, yeah, there's more to the story of the journey, but I'll, I'll stop there. But that's how some of those projects came about to be a few years.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Yeah, that's interesting. My now ex wife and I did the land see. Disney thing as our honeymoon because growing up, she never had a chance to go to Disney. So we did the whole princess theme wedding and all that stuff. You know, I even had the cake special made into a castle with a moat in a drawbridge around it and all that stuff. Well, yeah, that was in 99. Oh, that was long before you wrote anything for them. So we didn't hear your stuff.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Yeah. Okay. So let's then go to the more traditional music. Then I guess we've talked about the church and the gospel, but you also have recorded gospel music and what not also, right?
MARCUS MANDERSON:  So actually what's interesting is going into the sync space. Occasionally I get briefs where they want new versions of gospel hymns. So just recently there was a song that was part of a brief. I don't remember the song, but it was, but they wanted a cover of the song. So I reached out to one of the artists who I know would nail the cover. It's almost like a quintet quartet style vocal. So I did, I was able to tap into those gospel roots. I was like, you know, I can make a version of this. And I did the piano organ based thing, you know, virtual instruments and send it to them. And like he killed it. And hopefully we learned that that opportunity. I want to say it might have been for a scene in the TV show, but it's interesting how those elements from the, the past, from the church can be brought into this other side of things. And then I'll share another angle to it that, again, might be hit or miss with your audience, but I do have music with artists that do, you know, use profanity or they may talk about things that are not religious. So I was working with one artist and I was sending him instrumentals, like beats for my catalog. And he told me he said, your, your music makes me want to use less profanity. And I was like, I don't, I don't know. You know, I'm just making music. And he's like, I was like, I don't know what that means. But, you know, when I started thinking about it, I was like, okay, I guess you can take, you know, the musician out of the church, but you can't take the church out of the musician. And somehow those elements come across. So yeah, there might be times where I'll have music on like a horror film that might seem, you know, against the religious values, but I do know, you know, who I am and who's I am and where I, you know, my upbringing. So it's me getting my music out into the world.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  We are in the world. We have to deal with the reality of the world. And yeah, there's no sense in passing up opportunities to deal in like, like, when I think horror films, I think these days, Blumhouse. Right. Yeah.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  What are the best? Yeah.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Yeah. But at the same time, though, too, those inroads can rub off your influence can get in there, too. Because I think I mentioned Blumhouse with dual intent, because one of my favorite Christian movies of all time is the resurrection of Gavin Stone, which, of course, you use the word resurrection with a Christian crowd. And they go, Oh my God, you can't say that about a human. It's a figurative spiritual resurrection, not a literal one. People can we calm down, please? But it was interesting that Blumhouse approached the Christian studio about we want to be involved in this project and distribute that for you.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah. I think you just never know where some of these, these things will combine in your journey. So it does help to have those experiences and to be able to draw from those experiences. And it's like, it might be something that you experienced, you know, five years ago. And all of a sudden it comes around full circle. He's like, Oh, this is related to that thing I did five years ago. And now it's like, Oh, that's why that happened then. So I could have what I need to do this now, if that makes sense.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Right. The whole concept. If you're doing jingles, you're just a money grubber sellout. You'll fill your soul to anybody for a few. No, like you said, those things can lead to other bigger important things that have more value and meaning that had you passed up on those things. This then wouldn't be presented and available.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  So yeah, so yeah, there's ways of tie in elements and being, you know, a Christian in the music space in general, because we hear stories of all the corruption in music. But I know a lot of music creators who obviously hear stories of who grew up in the church and they have that background and not everyone loses that. So yeah. Yeah.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Or like being from the Detroit area, of course, Madonna, immediately right comes to mind. And her early music was still fairly Catholic. It was her upbringing, but Christian influenced right. Papa don't preach. I'm keeping my baby. I doubt she does that song in her sets anymore, even though it was a major hit. But because that's all gone. And like Katie Perry started off in gospel. And immediately became less just skimpily and sing about sex to sell records. Unfortunately, are those out? But then there are examples like Elvis, who people may talk about the gyration and whatnot. Oh my God, that's not very Christian. But he never really lost his gospel and positive roots through his journey.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah, because there are artists who you're in Detroit. So Eminem, one of the biggest artists from Detroit, who I would have never thought would have done a gospel record and he did a gospel record, no cussing at all. And it was on one of the Kanye gospel albums. And it was pretty good. You know, Snoop Dogg did a gospel record where he brought in a lot of the major contemporary gospel artists and he released a religious album and it was really good. So there are a lot of this. And I don't think obviously if a pop artist puts out a gospel record, they're not going to it's not a money thing. They're not going to make a lot of money on a gospel record. But I think there are some convictions with these artists who maybe grew up in the church or they have a realization and they.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Well, I would question and be suspicious of Eminem's motives.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  I think you would like it. I got to find the song to you.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  But here's an attempt to collaborate. I think that opportunity presented. So he took it. I'm a fan of a lot of this music. I'm not a fan of him personally. I'm worried. Kid rock Detroit kind of or a tanguient Detroit kind of guy or an Alice Cooper. Vincent kind of guy. I really like how Vincent, a.k.a. of Alice Cooper, has come around now to his roots again and said, yeah, he went through that sex drugs rock and roll alcoholism period. But you look at the Alice Cooper catalog. It's always been Christian underlying tone. His shows always good versus evil and the evil gets beheaded in the end. He's returned to the faith now, but recognizes without Jesus. None of that would have been possible. And obviously it was working through him even when he realized it was.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah. And I mean, the legacy of just Detroit music in general, even there's a lot of great gospel artists from that area. But even when you look at Motown, like a lot of that was a lot of that was gospel. But it was gospel influenced.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Yes. Yes. Yes. And I think of like Bob Sager. I frankly don't think he's all that. He's got some talent. Yes. And he's got some good songs, but just not a fan. Just like I'm not a fan of Bruce Springsteen either. I never was a Bob Dylan. I, yes, there's some talent there and yes, they've got some good stuff. But I just never quite got the like Lady Gaga to not to make a sex. I was talking about males. So let me, I call her Lady Gagme. Hoker face. Absolutely. Brilliant song. Brilliant. You take a phrase that's been in the kl-nomikleature for ages and turn it into that sheer brilliance. But not really a fan of hers, but I can separate the personality, the person from the artistry.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  That's the thing that I think some people do struggle with, is separating the music of the person from the artistry. And it's sometimes it is hard with some, if the person does something, you know, that's just hard to overlook and you have to basically shut all their stuff down. But again, the legacy of artists who have sort of told, not told the line, but they have spiritual elements and they bring it over to the pop side. A lot of these artists we see on these reality shows, or we used to see on these reality shows, you could tell they grew up in the church or a lot of artists I reach out to for projects. It's like, oh, I need something that might be R&B, but I need an artist that I know has that sort of those religious undertones in their delivery and their writing to really bring it to that level that needs to be brought to fit through this opportunity.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  I wrote a piece on Substack the other day about cancel culture and whatnot. And unfortunately, you know, the poethical corruptness that I call PC, prevents discussions from being had that we should. I watched a video the other day from a professor of rock on YouTube and he was talking about taboo songs, right? Like, share. I can't say the name of the tune or this video will not be allowed to appear on YouTube, but she's song about her Cherokee and Caucasian mixed blend. Let's say that upbringing. And it was a very positive MLK junior content of character, not my cover, positive suit tune, but she refuses to perform it today because it's become taboo because of the title and people leaping to conclusions rather than what the song is really about. And another one is Gary Puckett in the union gap. The song is young girl about young girl get out of my mind. My love for you is way out of line. You better run girl. You're much too young girl because she lied about her age and started a relationship with somebody older. And technically, there indeed is that the statutory rape issues of laws and younger and older people. Unlike that was talking about the positivity of protecting children and letting kids be kids and they grow up soon enough, we don't need to rush them. But people hear the young girl thing and their mind immediately goes to the bad places. Unlike I mentioned Ted Nugent before, little misdangerous, such a dangerous body with a little girl's face. Well, I don't want to read his mind here and say what he may have been indeed saying that it's about that, but he didn't engage in it. But there was that potential, right, that risk and dealing in that subject, but sex with a minor certainly implied there. And therefore, these songs vary taboo. But again, just canceling them means you don't have the discussion about
MARCUS MANDERSON:  the important topics. Again, it's that difficult to separate the art from the artist. And sometimes it's hard to do that. Sometimes you do have to separate, you do have to cancel everything related. And I know each person has their own, and these platform has their own rules against regarding that, depending on a number of factors, but definitely something to consider.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  My shirona for the knack was a massive hit. And it still gets airplay today. And it literally, my shirona, a 20 year old writing a song about his 16 year old girlfriend. So, I mean, there's no implication or in the window there is right there in your face doesn't deny that's what it is. But that's accepted. Whereas other tunes get a bad connotation, a bad rep. I doubt I'm going to ask anyway, but is there anything in your repertoire or catalog where you've run into someone coming at you? Well, dare you? Like you said, you've written some beats and they're on some foul. Do have you had somebody come at you like, how dare you? And they don't really understand the overall bigger picture and who you really are. When you say people don't understand who I am
MARCUS MANDERSON:  right now or the journey or the music, from what perspective?
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Yeah, kind of all of it. Right. They only see the limited thing that they've seen. They don't know any background and they leap to negative conclusions automatically.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah. So that's that's sorry. That's a unique, it's a hard thing when people, because we are people sometimes we make assumptions based on our experiences and our past about other people and other things. So when people do that to me, I try to help them understand, you know, why or who I am or share a post or a video or a link or something or just send a quick message to them like, Hey, here's who I am. So it just depends on, you know, what exactly they how they approach that or if they even verbalize or communicate their assumptions or what they believe is happening, whether it's in a public post or a private message. I haven't experienced that a lot, but when it does happen, it's just addressing it and trying to get to, you know, what is the reasoning behind this assumption or how can I help you get a better picture of exactly who I am or where that assumption
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  might be off. And we are all human, we're all frail. Lord can make mistakes, can jump to conclusions at times when we know deep inside, we shouldn't, but we do because again, we're imperfect. And we're all entitled to bad days on occasion and forget the whole Martin Luther King, Jr. content of character look below the surface, not just what you see up here. There's a whole lot more can be going on down below there that the context matters. Yeah.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah, yeah, context. I mean, there's a lot of factors that go into play. It might just be a schedule thing or a time, you know, thing or what's happening. For example, I went to a conference earlier this year and it was a big music conference in LA. I do a panel there, I've done a panel there every year for the last three years, at least one panel, I did a couple panels there. But towards the end of the conference, we found out that our grandfather passed away. And I just musically, I didn't make music literally for one almost two weeks because of that and because I like, I got sick at the conference. So when I came home, I was just trying to get over this sickness and I was going to sleep at like 7pm, 8pm every night, which I never do. I'm usually up to one or two a.m. making music. So I was just my things were just all for a while. So musically, I didn't do anything. So if I got messages that week, that might have been urgent or, you know, that might have been important to someone else. It's like health is important, you know, family is important. There are things that other things will have to wait for. And I might have missed a couple deadlines or something. And I explained that after, but not during. So some people just don't have the patience and I get it because there's some things that, you know, things have to be done. They've got deadlines. Yeah, so communicating, you know, you know, saying loss in the family, then people understand that. But yeah, so communication, that's really where it all boils down to.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  What it all boils down to. Yeah, amen. Right. Exactly. I have a show with Roger and Puck. They do a show that called Zoomers to Boomers. And the whole point of that show is indeed, we got to stop making assumptions. Like don't assume do this crazy thing called asking, right? Communication actually talking things through rather than being angry at somebody for some perceived slight that isn't really there.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah, you're right. Like if don't assume, just ask it, even myself, I've done some of that where it's like, I might assume someone did something for something, but then you start asking, it's like, oh, they thought this thing. So communication definitely is where it all boils down to.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Okay, well, I try to target my shows to be around 30 minutes. So they're not too long. People can potentially listen over lunch hour while they're at the diner or whatever, and eating their food on their lunch hour. So let's start to wrap things up. And I have your website, but for the sake of those listening on the 20 plus audio platforms, please inform us where people can reach out. What is your website?
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Yeah, defingas.com, D-A-F-I-N-G-A-Z.com. As a music producer and composer, I work with a team that does custom music, some might have used to call them jingles, but custom music for brands and corporations. I also do sick licensing, movie trailers, composing for films and projects and corporate videos and corporations and things like that. So almost anything music related,
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  audio editing, yeah, feel free to reach out. And like I said, my audience knows I can never pass on the word play in the lane puns, but at the same time, name association works. And associating a joke with something can help people's remember. So it's defingas as opposed to Big Bang Theory
MARCUS MANDERSON:  and Bazinga. Bazinga, defingas. I like that. Yeah, my wife became a huge fan of Big Bang Theory. We went to France a while ago, but we were there. And the only English show that was on TV was Big Bang Theory. And because our timeline was off, we'd be up like one or two AM watching Big Bang Theory, because that was only an English language show. And that got hooked on it. So Bazinga.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Yeah. Well, thank you, my new friend Marcus for coming on. I appreciate you taking time out of
MARCUS MANDERSON:  your day to join us. You're welcome. Yeah, thank you for having me, Joseph. Very biblical name.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Podcasts. Yeah, yeah, well, be right. But for St. Joseph. And in fact, my grandparents on my mother's side helped build the St. Joseph's Church here in Wyandotte. But my grandmother on my mother's side was Josephine. So there were many reasons to put that name on me. I'm glad. I'm glad. So thank you again. Take care and God bless.
MARCUS MANDERSON:  Thank you too. Appreciate the opportunity. God bless.



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BONUS MATERIAL BELOW from: TheLibertyBeacon "Music, Tv, Politics; and yes some more on Movies too" [See original piece at: https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/music-tv-politics/ , for referenced links, images, and embedded videos.]




Music, TV, & Politics…

A few weeks back I had a “Lets go to the Lobby for Snacks and Politics” piece and its follow-up “Movies, Snacks, Politics, part 2” so makes sense – lets talk briefly about Music and TV…

But first a brief reprise about Movies – I hope you all caught “They Live” 35th Anniversary this year (while showing in many Theaters September 2023) and if not at Theaters please rent or stream it after you read this. Reminder: “They Live” an early John Carpenter (Writer/Director) piece where he dared to go down ChristiTutionalist Politics line before I coined the term and “Aliens” (the E.T. variety) as stand-in for the #DeepState always moving and manipulating behind scenes. Human-nature of those willing to go-along-to-get-along to Cash in for themselves. The 15-minute (minor exaggeration) I hinted at in the Movies pieces is great metaphorical outline for the verbal back-and-forth we often have with DUMBocrats to get them to see Reality!


VIDEO (3m 08s): Jason Aldean - Try That In A Small Town (Official Music Video):
https://youtu.be/b1_RKu-ESCY    
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Music:


#IStandWithJasonAldean (and, yes, too Oliver Anthony)
CMT (Country Music Television) crumbles to Cancel Culture, pulls “Try that in a Small Town” Video. And what my book (Terror Strikes: Coming Soon to a City Near You) about, not just Foreign Terrorists but USA Leftist Terrorism within & destruction of Western-Culture (as whole, not just US). #JasonAldean #BoycottCMT

I tack this on here, as Patriots in good Independent Studios or Patriotic Producers/Directors need to assure this Song gets on the Soundtrack of their PRO-AMERICA Movies as many times/places as possible!! 

Lastly, I know this is OLD NEWS to a degree and you are well aware and likely heard this story for several weeks already via FOXNEWS, NEWSMAX, OAN, and other outlets (including the ridiculous attempts by Left #ENEMEdia to make this somehow a Racist song calling for violence when the Writers (no, not Jason) and he (Jason) indeed all on the same page as to why they wrote it and why he wanted to Record it. AN ANTI-CRIME and ANTI-VIOLENCE piece, but if/when push comes to shove that we do have a Right to Defend ourselves from it. To protect and prevent our Communities being Arsoned to the ground by ANTIFA and #BlackLyingMarxist Hitlerian Brown-Shirt thugs.

Only the Left and their constant Race-baiting have the gall to say scenes (that show people of ALL RACES) is somehow Racist as an indictment of Black people? Who are the Racists? They are, if they say crime automatically equals Black people! Meanwhile scuttling #BidenCrimeFamily investigations and still creating major reach (stretching beyond all credulity of those Laws intent) on Statutes to try to charge POTUS45/Trump! Spare us the “What about the Lynching that took place at that Courthouse a hundred years ago” manure that no-one knew about until the Leftists #ENEMEdia desperate for a Talking-Point managed to dig up that History. I guess the Hannah Montana and the Christmas Movie filmed there are now also Racist (just like they tried to deem Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” as somehow Racist). When are Black Americans going to wake up to this pathetic and desperate Race-baiting?!?! Whom, in Poll after Poll show they want more police protection from the runaway and rampant Crime happening due to FASCICRATS weak-on-Crime and other failing policies!!!

Thank you to all that emailed or called CMT or Cable Companies that carry CMT and let them know they would like CMT pulled from their line-up as money will be the only thing they understand. As discussed in the BIDENomics pieces they chase the Woke ESG pennies, we must make then suffer huge dollar loses until they learn to stop pandering to the Cancel Culture manure.

A friend of mine posted a Breitbart article titled “Woke Maren Morris Announces She’s Leaving Country Music: ‘Misogynistic & Racist & Homophobic & Transphobic’” (no, not gonna link it) that I would talk about but all our “kind” reactions (here are those) were “WHO?”  And some “less than polite” responses too (including a few snide ones from yours truly). LOL




VIDEO (2m 24s): Adam-12 and Emergency! Crossovers:
https://youtu.be/HIJHcgS7R7g     
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Television:

That’s now Movies, Music, but what about TV? May as well take a pot-shot at that too?!?!  I had for decades hoped we’d get a reboot of “The Streets of San Francisco;” like Hawaii Five-O was, and Magnum P.I. was; and while I liked those originals (I did not tune-in for those reboots) but that was long before Newsome, Piglosi, others, have completely destroyed it over these last couple of decades. So, maybe best we can hope for is reboot of Adam-12; though that was set in L.A. which has equally degraded into one of Dante’s layers of Hell, but maybe could be reset into a different City; as a method of bringing traditional values and BACK THE BLUE back; as opposed to all the Trash we’re getting these days (like, sadly, the reboot of Quantum Leap went all WOKE)?!?!?


Some final thoughts:

Now after three-parts total of/for “Movies and Politics (Music and TV tacked on in part 3)” I could go on forever, and probably no surprise to anyone that is a regular reader of mine that at some time in near future I would have a part three (more on Movies, and to pivot to Music and TV) as I now have! 


Follow-up to the piece a few weeks back discussion of one of my all-time favorite Directors/Producers Roland Emmerich (and the part 2 “Movies, Snacks, Politics” piece): Many know Toby and/or Noah Emmerich, two of the people involved in/with the great Movie CELLULAR (with Noah Emmerich*, Chris Evans, Jason Statham, William H. Macy, Kim Bassinger, more) I just rented (via my DISHnetwork OnDemand feature (sign-up with my VCD0026116345 referral code for discounts)) to watch again as it is an A+ (remember, when that film came out was just at the time of proliferation of Cell phones with advanced features and therefore absolute genius script at that time). A good “temporary escape from Politics film.” From GOOGLE (about Noah): On television, the native New Yorker was a series regular on BACKWASH and played the despondent Dr. Edwin Jenner in the two-part Season 1 finale of THE WALKING DEAD. Emmerich's brother is film producer Toby Emmerich, but they are not, Emmerich explains, related to Director/Producer Roland Emmerich. 

The Emmerich lines via DuckDuckGo (here).

Gasp, can you believe it? YES, you’ve reached the end of this article already! LOL Hey, gotta poke fun at ourselves if we are to be able to laugh at others. I am indeed trying to SCALE BACK the length of my pieces! 😊 



VIDEO (33m 32s): ChristiTutionalist (S1E5) SNEAK PEEK @ Sat 7/22 "Let's go to the Lobby, for Snacks & Politics" (the corresponding part 1 of this series) Show:
https://youtu.be/rOeNv_ZT9bg?si=nXLXMB_FMpQInTaE      
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[Part 2 Behind-The-Scenes Sneak-peek Video]

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BONUS MATERIAL ABOVE from: TheLibertyBeacon "Music, Tv, Politics; and yes some more on Movies too" [See original piece at: https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/music-tv-politics/ , for referenced links, images, and embedded videos.]