CTP (S2EMarSpeical6) Mar 2025 Music Weeks Wk 1 Ep 5: Jam Your Gram: Telegrams aren't dead—they just got a rock and roll makeover

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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 (S2EMarSpeical6) Mar 2025 Music Weeks Wk 1 Ep 5: Jam Your Gram     
See buzzsprout Transcript for fuller/extended Show Notes (inc. related links) and Transcript Bonus 
Transcript Bonus: "Music, Tv, Politics" TheLibertyBeacon piece    
CTP (S2EMarSpeical6) Mar 2025 Music Weeks Wk 1 Ep 5: Jam Your Gram: Telegrams aren't dead—they just got a rock and roll makeover  
Josh McNeely of Jam Your Gram Singing Telegrams joins us to explore the vibrant world of musical surprise deliveries and how they create unforgettable memories for special occasions. Singing telegrams have evolved beyond barbershop quartets into personalized performances that deliver heartfelt connections in our increasingly digital world.
• Singing telegrams remain popular but many people don't know they still exist
• Josh created his business to combine his musical talents with more family time 
• Standard telegrams typically include 1-2 songs, a balloon, and chocolate
• Performances can be customized with personalized lyrics and different musical styles
• Virtual telegrams and video options are available for long-distance celebrations
• The service creates emotional, memorable experiences that last beyond the moment
• Josh incorporates audience participation to create a celebratory atmosphere
• Performing telegrams requires reconnaissance to ensure the surprise works seamlessly
• Josh donates $5 from each telegram to Phoenix Children's Chorus and provides free performances to children's hospitals

Chapters

• 0:38 Music Weeks Introduction
• 1:25 Josh McNeely and Singing Telegrams
• 6:16 How Singing Telegrams Work
• 11:19 Family-Friendly Business Model
• 14:57 Customized Performances and Song Selection
• 18:43 Creating Memorable Experiences
• 24:55 Josh's Background and Journey
• 31:42 Belated Birthday Video Surprise

Transcript

CTP S2EMarSpecial6 42m 05s 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 (S2EMarSpeical6) Mar 2025 Music Weeks Wk 1 Ep 5: Jam Your Gram     
See buzzsprout Transcript for fuller/extended Show Notes (inc. related links) and Transcript Bonus 
Transcript Bonus: "Music, Tv, Politics" TheLibertyBeacon piece    
CTP (S2EMarSpeical6) Mar 2025 Music Weeks Wk 1 Ep 5: Jam Your Gram: Telegrams aren't dead—they just got a rock and roll makeover  
Josh McNeely of Jam Your Gram Singing Telegrams joins us to explore the vibrant world of musical surprise deliveries and how they create unforgettable memories for special occasions. Singing telegrams have evolved beyond barbershop quartets into personalized performances that deliver heartfelt connections in our increasingly digital world.
• Singing telegrams remain popular but many people don't know they still exist
• Josh created his business to combine his musical talents with more family time 
• Standard telegrams typically include 1-2 songs, a balloon, and chocolate
• Performances can be customized with personalized lyrics and different musical styles
• Virtual telegrams and video options are available for long-distance celebrations
• The service creates emotional, memorable experiences that last beyond the moment
• Josh incorporates audience participation to create a celebratory atmosphere
• Performing telegrams requires reconnaissance to ensure the surprise works seamlessly
• Josh donates $5 from each telegram to Phoenix Children's Chorus and provides free performances to children's hospitals
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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 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 what not 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 it originally was gonna start out as into multiple weeks now let's go ahead and get into this particular days music weeks episode and I'm trying to drop them Monday through Friday each week of music weeks 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 death type podcast really appreciate you tuning in to Grand Norton will say let's get out with the show Hello everyone welcome to another episode of Christotutulist politics podcast another music weeks episode I'm gonna start off a little weird today a little bit of background and information I am likely I'm going to my heart doctor tomorrow I am expecting to go right into the hospital for the rest of this week or potentially next week for heart valve replacement surgery after which I'm not gonna be in any kind of shape to record any zooms I expect to have enough energy to be able to hit upload on the episodes so I'm rushing to get the music weeks episodes pre-recorded before I go into the hospital so with that being said I've reached out to four different singing telegram operations it isn't that one was my favorite and the other my force choice it's not the case I reached out to four online basically all the same time scrambling to find someone who could fit in my window of time here on Monday March the third as we're recording this so Laurie Hurley of goofy grams out of St. Paul Minnesota was supposed to come on but something came up last minute she couldn't make it I also reached out to a local firm Farmington Michigan near me one in Akron Ohio and luckily though Josh McNeely of jam your gram singing telegrams was able last minute to be able to join us today so I can't begin to tell you how appreciative I am Josh for you being able to squeeze us in today knowing that you're all bigger than a one-legged man and I ask kick and contest is the same welcome to the show Josh thank you Joe I appreciate you all right now with all that my regular moral setup out of the way but again you are jam your gram singing telegrams normally I'd wait to the end of the show before saying where do people reach out to you but your website is jam your gram calm people could reach you by email at info at jam your gram calm or 48078 or 495 my phone so and that will be in the bus route transcript extended show notes episode related links and information for people to be able to find there my obvious first question is more of a comment than to get your reaction because I didn't know singing telegrams were still a thing
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  that's so funny you say that that's literally kind of what I tell that I said you know the oh my biggest problem is people just don't know it's a thing when they do they realize like oh my gosh that's amazing I would love to do that so my biggest hurdle is always just getting it out there that there's still
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  a thing and absolutely why when I saw singing telegrams was indeed still a thing I reached out to four of you saying oh my god I've got to get one of you on for music weeks and get that word out that singing telegrams were indeed still a thing and will certainly be on my list of something to do probably sometime in the remainder of this year 2025 so the next obvious thing then is why singing telegrams how the heck did you land up and singing telegrams
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  well man it's it's a long story really on my end you know I'm a give us a close note and I'm big into performing you know and I was actually just a single dad looking for a way to be there a little bit closer to my family a little bit more and so came across this and this kind of fit that and kind of took off from there over 400 later and I'm you know I'm still kicking
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  yeah I mean it's great and when I started researching this to see that indeed the urine Phoenix Arizona but there like I said there's one near me in Farmington Michigan Akron Ohio where he's early a goofy grams there in St. Paul, Minnesota there's a bunch more all over the place so it's obviously doing pretty good that it's sustaining big markets absolutely you know and I'd
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  like to I like to shout out one of the company that actually got my start before I started my own business I'm still working for this company and not really working for him but you know contracted out by them it's rock star singing telegrams pretty amazing company this guy Jeff is just remarkable he started by himself 20 years ago and now the guy has performers in every city throughout the United States and even in Canada if you wanted to send a telegram there and he does rock star style and classy style more formal but very very cool yes
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  definitely a thing yeah well and for music weeks I've been digging up old concert shirts so today for the benefit of the audio only and or the transcript I'm wearing kiss you know back when in their makeup the up Paul Stanley is star child I dressed up as star child for a Halloween costume party one time you can't dress up as star child there would be trademark issues right your characters you do do I do instead of like an actual character it's
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  more like a generic 80s rock star costume and almost some people say it's a mix between what I'm doing is make a mix between you know a few different legends you know I mean and yeah I did see you a picture of you in the get-up
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  just to repeat this is Josh McVee Lee of jam your gram.com he also mentioned rock star singing telegrams he also works with but your outfit is jam your gram.com you you thought it was lucrative enough and convenient enough like you said to be able to have more family time to to start your own absolutely you know
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  this is for me this is kind of a big deal for me family's a big part of my life and I really just want to be there for my girls I got divorced and really wanted to spend more time with them and singing telegrams really made that a possibility you know like I said these kind of telegrams too I think the rock star kind is kind of a fun twist on the classic you know singing telegrams I think every other singing telegram company out there is pretty much just doing you know they dress up and they'll come and sing to you dressed up nicely or they will you know they have somebody dressed up like a you know like a costume and it's and it's a specific person which I think this is a little bit more fun because we get to you know take it into really what we're providing is kind of like the celebrity experience you I get up all gaudy and you know and I come make it you know a big experience they're like I like a real rock stars come into to sing to you at your job I mean that's uh uh your job or your birthday party your
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  anniversary that's got lingly yeah no we didn't know I hardly know where to go next down this because I'm like again I know this is a thing I'm so glad it still is so I guess the next direction to go grab and hold the go down is I asked you in the green room you are in Phoenix Arizona where you usually go but you will travel a little bit with like a gas surcharge or whatever depending on the
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  time the event you know I think I've traveled up to almost 200 miles for a telegram and you know they paid a little extra for a fee but you know is it's worth it sometimes just I mean for me it's a special thing for me because I get to kind of do something special for people when I when you deliver him a singing telegram all the sudden there's a connection there I mean that I'm almost feel like I'm part of about 400 different families right now yeah I can imagine
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  that's great yeah you you you lined up becoming part of whatever group or family it is you're you're like not weird out but you're like a weird uncle
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  job yeah absolutely I mean these these events that I'm doing are like for anything and everything between I've done birthdays anniversaries proposals retirement parties I've done corporate events matter of fact businesses love using us to surprise their employees or their family or even just to bring you know long distance love to someone that they can't visit and that's probably a
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  big one right there yeah that's great you had mentioned you go went up to like 200 miles obviously you're not gonna fly to one other state it's not worth a six-hour trip for a six minute show right no matter how well you're paid
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  and that's a good point it's about five to seven minutes so it's not like a not a half an hour hour thing you know but I have been asked quite a few times steak around a little extra and play a few extra songs and I will I will do that
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  okay and then the other thing the next logical thing is we discussed in the green room I wasn't sure made sense to me that you would and you agree that you could like skip into somebody's zoom you could do it virtually yes absolutely
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  and a little bit a little bit cheaper for that I even do video telegrams well people will send me pictures of their loved ones and I will you know play a couple songs with my guitar personalizing them to the clients and they maybe say some funny things if they give me some details about their people and then they can send that video to them themselves on their own time
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  the wonders of modern technology taking the singing telegram to new levels that would have never ever been conceived of before absolutely it's like a birthday card on crack it's really what it is I like that I mentioned the Paul Stanley star child thing again you can't do that you mainly do rock star and classy but your website does say potentially for additional fee if it's viable you could
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  do a custom character absolutely I've done some I have done a few where I've impersonating someone not as many though mostly most people pretty happy with my regular telegrams also do you know like maybe like a country rock star here and there and you know things like that crooner look I'll do more crooner oh
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  okay there you go yeah somebody wants more like a Frank Sinatra I need to do the move right yeah all their couples anniversary I could really envision that so absolutely next I will pivot to I saw normally normally I introduce gas and say I don't know anybody anything about this person because not because I'm lazy I don't want to do any research but because when I have somebody on it's just kind of my style I want to discover you the same time as the audience will discover further but with this since I didn't know it was still a thing I kind of had to do some research I did see at your site your usual event again everything's open to negotiation and whether it's viable or not but the usual thing is one to two songs a balloon and a chocolate I saw absolutely yep it
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  will come with the you know late mylar balloon you know happy birthday or whatever that is and then add on so you could add on you know a dozen roses or a box of chocolates or more balloons or somebody just recently paid me an extra hundred dollars just to customize make a custom song for an early Valentine's day gift so I came into this guy's work and I sang a custom song she gave me a bunch of information about him said he like blink when a two and all time low and said she's been pranking him and I put all that right into a song and went and sang it for them and then edit the video and give them that for to share
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  and keep forever that's cool yeah I was gonna get into that next that you did custom tunes and since you mentioned tunes I did print out I don't want to go into the different well for very personal reasons of it we'll get into the different categories of tunes you did but for very personal reasons behind the scenes people could see I'm holding up a just wrote all Chris to the nave album and I'm taking out the liner notes so I can zoom in here you're probably not gonna see it but my name is on the sleeve there so for very personal selfish regions I'm curious do you know any just wrote all I do not right now
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  but you know what I'm a very long list of songs that I want to add or at least I said I might not know people play them right off the bat you know I mean a lot of my songs these are songs that I have played most of them I played many many times and some of them I can play you know without lyrics and but a lot of them I would need the lyrics there with me because I just don't play them that often
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  sometime requests yeah now again I'm holding up a list of some of the different songs but I just want to talk about the categories rock pop energetic upbeat telegrams classic rock timeless hits telegrams country heartfelt emotional telegrams reggae I thought was rather interesting feel good relax telegrams classics easy listening romantic anniversary telegrams me being based other Detroit area I'm very happy to see Motown soul feel good classic love telegrams I just I happen to see a Risa Franklin's R.E.S.P.E.C.T. on there so you have a wide variety and again for a nominal extra fee you're open to custom songs as you already said or to learn a song like if I want to pull a joke on a old childhood friend because first concert I ever went to was just so tall bursting out at Cobo Arena in Detroit the arena is now torn down been torn down a long time but so I could I well I couldn't send you because he's here in Michigan but you could do a virtual just rotal grant for him absolutely
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  price were right and usually it's about next to 25 bucks and I'll learn you I'll learn a song for you and then you know but absolutely a lot of songs that's to a lot of songs that I've learned right now are just songs that people have requested it over time and I'm like oh that's maybe I didn't notice that song but now that I have like I really like that song you know yeah it makes sense
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  well not to go into them but indeed a lot of them that I'm looking down here I now I could definitely see just to pull one out like at a corporate event a pet kind of rally thing I of the tiger survivor would make sense for like the corporate
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  rally type event well even some that you wouldn't even imagine let's say you know you know my girl we changed that by my guy or my mom or my you know we a lot of these are customizable just make them a little bit more personal to that person a spot where I can throw in their name or you know throwing their loved ones name you know brown eyed girl when when Dan used to sing
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  as I said fully it's full admission no idea this was a thing so frankly I don't know what they had to ask you next what what what a fun story from one of the events let's do that is there a memorable time there was like wow that went way different than you expected well there's some pretty good ones I think
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  one of my very favorite ones was where a wife sent me into to meet her husband sing for her husband and her his favorite restaurant he goes there five days a week to loopy tortilla right and he's in the bar in there at five days a week so I know everybody and all people know him and I went in there dressed up as rock star and she you know actually this is my first one she didn't even tell me she I just said you know give me a little bit information on him I wasn't even gonna ask for anything I just was new to this and still wanted to I was ambitious and wanted to make it really special so she gave me a bunch of information on him and I turned into a little ditty with it I think I was doing you are so beautiful and his name is Jeremy Jeremy so you are so
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  beautiful Jeremy rather than to me all perfect like that yes and I was a very perfect example of how something can be so simply customized to be infinitely more memorable than just someone showing up in a tux and doing you know to proverbial like 1920 style yeah yeah you know straight lace thing that's what we're
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  trying to get over to we're trying to get past the idea that people think it's just you know barbershop quartet at your door kind of thing I hadn't really
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  thought of that that's a good example yeah people's minds might think that yeah you get to like your Christmas carolers in vision as your exactly exactly
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  yeah so it's hard to get to that through the idea that no this is literally a rock star showing up your door I usually make a really big deal like for this guy I'd loopy tortilla now I played a little bit of song and I threw in the thing you know you are so beautiful at least to your wife you know I mean and then throw in a whole bunch stuff she said stuff like you know he's uh his friends and family make fun of his big head and you know he's a CEO and happy movies make him cry and I put all this stuff into like a really fun little song and then I got the whole restaurant the whole bar singing happy birthday to them and that's what kind of do you know I get in there and I'm a hype man I go in there and I grab all these whole rooms attention I say check it out this
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  person special help me celebrate them yeah all that that reminds me like if you go to a TGI Friday's if it's somebody's birthday yeah the round up the staff to try to hire a restaurant yeah you you plan on doing that going in wherever you are to make it more of just you stand and they're doing something with people watching you you want involvement right my participation like
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  what is a world is a don't stop believing that's probably one of my best participation songs at one point I drop it out this the guitar and I get everybody clapping I mean everybody sings along of course because everybody knows that song even the kids are knowing that one yeah yeah it's pretty
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  old now it should be on the classic rocker old these channel mountains but yeah I'm 62 so that grew up with that yeah another thing that you probably not
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  thinking of two is nowadays in this world where you know loneliness epidemic is a thing and where everybody is just you know become separate and you know what is the whole pandemic mid everybody's kind of more of home bodies at this point I think you know a people crave real human interaction I mean especially in a world where everything is so digital I mean a rock star singing telegram or jam your gram singing telegram creates a memory that lasts forever I mean it's spontaneous it's fun it's heartfelt and since there's no better way to express emotions through music and then we're seeing more and more people choosing live telegrams over traditional gifts mm-hmm yeah that's
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  because again every virtually anywhere you go everybody's got one of these I'm holding up my smartphone right they've all got cameras people could click on snapshots or video and video the event it's something that isn't just the for
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  that moment it will last absolutely and that's the thing to you know you we encourage people nowadays what does it we pay for experiences instead of things you know I mean that's what I'm offering is an experience most people that most women if they're not completely embarrassed which they almost always are they are they're they're crying because it's it's such a heartfelt thing they really understand that the person who sent this is really meaning something it's a big thing and they this literally like the the guys the girls they that sent me the senders say oh my gosh thank you so much this is amazing and there's nothing like this and you know this is things that they're gonna remember for the rest of your life I make sure I can tell most people that this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience most people don't get a singing telegram in
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  their entire life it's not just the same old plain old yeah it's around Valentine's Day I guess all sent flowers or you know the same old tired stuff it takes some thought it takes some energy it takes some real emotion to care enough to do something different like this even some reconnaissance I
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  think you know that's one thing that my my people have to do is when they're trying to book they have to find out when where they're gonna be when they're gonna be there and then not spoil the surprise and so there's something kind of in in that I'm trying to do that's a little bit innovative I'm trying to do something special I want to make surprise digital gift cards so what they would do is the sender maybe they don't want to do all the reconnaissance or maybe the person is just you know they don't know want to be surprised out in front of everybody embarrassed that much maybe they're just a little bit shy so what they can do is they reach out to me they get the tell me all the information I need we send them a digital gift card they fill out when they would like to receive it it doesn't say what it is it just says you know pick your time and it's limited to your home since you don't know exactly what it is so they would just pick the time they've proven on my end and then I would go and celebrate them and then this and it doesn't have to worry about it yeah it's
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  like putting together a surprise party yeah how do you make sure that person's where they're supposed to be when you need them to be there for this actually coming together yeah there's a lot of logistics involved not just with you but with those trying to have you pull it off yeah absolutely that's a big
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  deal for everybody one thing I'm actually doing right now too is I'm trying to I want to give back to the community a little bit more with my business so one thing I'm doing right now is I'm teaming up with the Phoenix children's chorus children's choir and for every telegram I get I'll be donating five dollars to them and then for every 10 telegrams I'll be donating a free performance to the
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Banner Children's Hospital I have my first international book is a book on terrorism but I like to tell but it's not about death and destruction it's about life and living right and charity is a big part of that too so on my website I have a charity in fact I'm making myself a note so I remember to put that in the extended show notes because a lot of these charities are rip off so you gotta make sure you find legit ones to be working with indeed and people to seek out so I have a list of charities that I work with on my site now for those not on audio they can't see I could see you have a pick a guitar pick around your neck as a necklace is that a savor guitarist pick or it's kind of a backup
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  man so if I drop a pick I just pop one out and keep going oh okay well I ruined
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  that I would have made my shirts here yeah for those who could see on the background he's wearing his jam your Graham dot com shirt again the number is 480-78-4495 you could Google them be well come right up not a big deal I'm like my stuff that Google suppresses that you find you good for me I'm sorry about you know well it is what it is so goes life right at any rate indeed now starting to wrap things up then is there another is again not knowing what to ask let me just ask is there something I should have asked that didn't what's that question and what's your answer let me see here I kind of put you on the
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  spot now with that yeah thank you here you well up not that can think of I say I had some pretty fun ones though I say I don't know if anybody watches the show Silicon Valley it's a it's some some show on on TV anyways one of the characters he actually hired me called me up hired me to go to sing to his dad who lived in Houston so that was pretty cool experience right there so that
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  was one of your longest distance ones then well I used to live in and and you okay about to end June okay well I didn't do the proverbial at the beginning opening that I usually do so let's indeed do that who are you right where were you born where were you raised we know where you are now in Phoenix Arizona but yeah where were you born where you raised where all of you been that sort of stuff
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  okay well yeah I am actually from the Midwest I'm from Michigan Indiana board an L card the home of RV trailer capital of the United States and I've been through there yeah really I realize there's a place that doesn't snow I I held it down to Texas and then started my life there my mom and my brother my sister were there and I got married and started family and they all moved away and then I got divorced and I was all alone so I said you know what I'm gonna move to Phoenix to be closer to my mom and my brother and I got here and I said you know what I'm gonna go full in and I'm gonna start my own business and I'm gonna really make sure this is something like I said you know working for rock stars is amazing I love them to death but they're just not enough telegrams there so I got to spread out you know and put my tentacles out
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  there yeah I'm glad that you have an initiative spirit and that to be able to then create your own business and and make a goal of things in Texas for about
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  five years I was a children's ministry worship leader so I did all the VBS's and all the Sunday schools and all the you know youth groups and things like that and I also was a gymnast for 14 years and I taught gymnastics for five six years so from teaching to leading audiences and you know and then I got my my tail in there I think even with the church I was the leads and plays and stuff so acting being the center stage and and providing musical talent and and joy that worked for Jeff a rock star you know I was his executive assistant for a while and so I kind of have ends with all the people I've got to say out of out of everybody I'm offering something I noticed that most people aren't it's it's energy it's a busy I'm a I'm a great hype man yes I can play the songs and I can sing it really good but I think there's a lot of people to
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  do that what I do is I bring the energy and at the end of the day that is the most important part the bringing joy to and you bring enjoy to other people helps bring joy to yourself absolutely spreading joy everywhere we can is a very positive thing whatever the reasoning or motivation just just to be good humans or also hey you gotta make a buck at it too I love being in service
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  to mine to my brothers in humanity and that's where you know I think that's where I to look recently I've decided you know I really want more I want to do more that's where I think I've come up with wanting to really reach out to do
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  more donations charity and things like that yeah I you mentioned gymnastics that would not have been something I guess but I'm everything that you said you did before clearly let you to the what you're doing and how you're doing it now the gymnastics I could see is being part of the routine right right absolutely I
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  mean what was my my job there was you know besides doing the gymnastics and you and being athletic and a ajillic and things teaching really was the part where I had to I had to grow as in being able to command a whole group or a room at a time you know I mean that was really just exactly right I really believe that when I found this it felt like wow all the things that I love kind of fit right together neatly in this little package and I get to help people and I get to feel like a superhero and I get to give back to the community and
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  I just it's a great thing yeah for wrapping things up again I can't thank you enough for being able to squeeze me in on the compressed short notice time frame that I was needing Josh McNeally I'll jam your grams singing telegrams jam your gram calm info at jam your gram calm or 480-78-4495 thank you so much for taking the time to be with us today absolutely Joe thank you so much
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  for having me I super appreciate you
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST):  Danny very special bonus add-on to this music week one episode five Friday all me look down on my camera again it's supposed to drop Friday March the 14th so hopefully this is dropping March the 14th but I mentioned during the discussion with Josh that I was gonna hire him and jam your gram at some point throughout the remainder 2025 well I decided to do a video gram for my sister as a belated birthday we normally don't do anything for each other's birthday there's an ongoing running gag about cheesecake at Frank's Pizza I told that to Josh and I don't know if he's gonna work that into the vision or not but yeah her birthday she's a Valentine baby so not far past Valentine's day her birthday so I figured how about I do a video gram for her so hopefully we're gonna attack that on here for you to see you'll get a sample of Josh's work hope you enjoy it
None:  hey hey hey welcome to your very own sing and tell a gram today you're getting a rockstar treatment a special musical tribute from
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  your brother Joe that celebrates your birthday even though it's passed better late than never right handpicked a couple of his favorite songs just to show you how much he loves you so sit back and enjoy the show
I was sad I was sad yeah I was so I could feel such again that was all my love I hope you caught every heartfelt note now let's crank it up and get to a rate of shake rattle and roll okay back
None:  money uh not Let's take a sweet detour to Michelle's wonderful world.
Let's take a little tour of sing tonight on Directed by roots to they Indian our body below we fold our body low WeON2D2D1 and road withoutapping Our mind is the wind we want to hear at the spots But we will probably reach the Lane
None:  And one wonderful sister asked you And you could call you Katie's sister of mine That's when the girls come a shining time And the big, de-smoky, sick, chick, is you She's big at breaks, let me share it with you You're Sapper's Valley, you're a shining state Curb-hopping driver, we love you anyway Why don't one of these sisters meet? Yeah, let me say it, yeah Don't these first days ain't you, baby A broken heart can be underestimated What a one of these sisters meet Yeah, I'm a special show I'm a special show, I'm a special show Yeah, and before we wrap it up, a little encore
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  A happy birthday to the star of the show
None:  Yeah, a happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Thank you so much for joining us on this music roller coaster.
JOSH MCNEELY (JAM YOUR GRAM):  Mr. Love, Laughter, and a birthday as fabulous as you.





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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.]