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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.
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CTP (S2EMarSpeical13) Mar 2025 Music Weeks Wk 3 Ep 2: Music w/ Ben Barnes (what Ian Anderson did for Rock Flute, Ben does for Rock Violin)
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CTP (S2EMarSpeical13) Mar 2025 Music Weeks Wk 3 Ep 2: The Musician's Journey: From Injury to Recovery
Benjamin Barnes, violinist and educator, shares his journey from childhood busking to professional musicianship through trauma and recovery. His remarkable story illustrates music's power to heal and connect people across all walks of life.
• Began playing music at age 5, busking with his family who lived in a blue school bus
• Studied with a protégé of violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz before attending San Francisco Conservatory
• Survived a traumatic brain injury that required approximately 15 surgeries to reconstruct his skull
• Pivoted to education during recovery, teaching from kindergarten through junior high
• Currently performs as "The Strolling Violinist" at BART stations and events throughout San Francisco
• Recently published "Lucent Associations," a memoir chronicling his musical journey and personal struggles
• Leads "Music for Mental Health" initiative, bringing music to mental illness clinics and rest homes
• Opened for Joan Jett and the Blackhearts while playing with Les Claypool
• Plays diverse musical styles including classical, jazz, bluegrass, and rock
• Describes music as a "universal language" that helps people process emotions and combat loneliness
Find Benjamin Barnes at thestrollingviolinist.com and catch him performing weekday mornings at Montgomery or Embarcadero BART stations, or weekends at the Palace of Fine Arts.
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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 is 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 going to start out as into multiple weeks. Now 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. Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of constitutionalist politics podcast. Although this is music weeks, not necessarily anything to do with faith or politics and for those behind the scenes video viewers, you could see I'm wearing a Joan Jett and the Black Hearts concert shirt. For music weeks I'm trying to dig up old concert shirts to wear a different one each episode. And today just happens to be Joan Jett and the Black Hearts. And we were talking in the green room by guest Benjamin Barnes who I'm welcoming to the show now. Has a story about opening up for Joan Jett in
BEN BARNES: the Black Hearts. Yeah I was playing with Les Claypool at the time and we got a gig at the San Francisco Black and White Ball and we opened up for Joan Jett at this theater that was made outside City Hall. Interesting. So I want to back
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): up to the where were you born, where were you raised? You're already hinted at the where are you now San Francisco, California. So but yeah where were you
BEN BARNES: were you born and raised in California? I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and then Oh, Oregon. I moved to Oregon. I left Kalamazoo when I was six months old and we moved to LA for a couple years and then up to Ashland, Oregon. And then I went to high school in Corvallis, Oregon. And then I came down here to San Francisco after
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): after high school to go to college. Yeah so you were too young that your time in Kalamazoo has the joke goes to potentially gone to the Burger King to meet Elvis and and Morrison where they were working right? Yeah. Yeah. Do you, like I said, I don't script show so already we're going down off the beaten path idiocy. Do you buy into the Elvis is really still a live thing?
BEN BARNES: Well, I know he's he's still singing and having but I don't think he comes to earth very often. Maybe maybe as ghost goes back to Graceland and haunts Graceland.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah, haunts the visitors that show up. Okay, so indeed that's a way way off the beaten path kind of question. So at any rate indeed, what you're doing these days in San Francisco, California, you label yourself as musician and educator. So let's explore that a little bit.
BEN BARNES: Yeah, I I had an accident and I couldn't play music for a couple years. I had to relearn out of play and during that time I went back to school and I got my multiple subjects teaching credential and I'd been teaching violin and violin guitar since like 1987. And I went I taught grade school and and third kindergarten third and fifth grade and junior i seventh and eighth grade history and then in 2017 I was asked to do some consulting for the US department education. We were grading prosody exams, prosody tests for fourth graders and that was an experience a lot of listening to a lot of fourth graders stumble through poetry and stories on recordings that that we had to rate and give five there were five points and so we had to give anywhere between one and five the one being the the uh not competent to read and and then five
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): being an excellent reader. So yeah, that's interesting. I had a conversation with Franklin saying uh who's a Bowie impersonator and he had a similar well not exactly the same but an injury he was a hockey player. God injured couldn't play hockey that kind of pivoted him to music. You were in music had an injury pivoted you a little bit to education for a while and still ongoing. So he was a Bowie impersonator? Oh he is a Bowie impersonator. Yeah but he yeah former hockey player now turned Bowie impersonator. Who do you plan for? Uh actually oh you said Kalamazoo. I'm thinking Kalamazoo but it might have been Marquette uh something something rangers I'm forgetting right now I'm drawing a blank but yeah he played semi-pro hockey for a while till he got injured. So yeah but what was the injury? Uh he didn't say I didn't ask you. Wasn't necessarily completely relevant to the conversation just that it happened. Oh yeah. I did. How if you care to share you don't have to. How indeed did you get injured? Was it during a gig or completely unrelated or? Uh it was
BEN BARNES: completely unrelated. I I was in an impact and it shattered my school and my school had to be rebuilt and over about maybe 15 surgeries to put my head back together. Oh boy. And I had a broken collarbone and broken scapula which had pins and screws them now so I had to do a lot of physical therapy and mental recovery to be able to do things in my arm. I didn't have any range of motion so I couldn't play guitar or violin and so that took a few years to get all that back and now I can play. I can't play as well as I used to but I can play on a professional level and I make my living playing music, bossking in BART stations and on street corners and playing gigs
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): and teaching. Oh so can't count like in New York there's the naked cowboy with the guitar? Yeah.
BEN BARNES: Well I'm not naked. I have my violin and some backing tracks. I've been busking ever since I was five. My dad and mom were hippies and we lived in a blue bus, a blue school bus and we would go out to just places outside restaurants and stuff and my dad would have a sing with him and we'd make some money. People would give money because we were too, me and my brother were too too kids singing along with our dad. I say a lot about it in my new book. The uh loosened, loosened association of jazz, out of memoryography of music, mischief and madness that I just published this year and it's available on Amazon so I'm just doing a little plug. Oh hey, hey, nope.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Fully expected. Yeah. Now as for your music, can people still hire you for a gig?
BEN BARNES: Yeah, yeah. I play weddings and funerals and I play concerts. I won a $20,000 grant last and 2023 to put it on a concert from the San Francisco Arts Commission and I spent $23,000 on the concert but I did get the grant money. So it was a losing money ordeal there but yeah, a good exposure I would imagine. Yeah, yeah. I got to, I get to put supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission on all my YouTube videos and it's a nice thing to say to get some and I charge a little bit more too for playing weddings and funerals and corporate gigs and I've got a business called the Strolling Violinist and we have all the social media, Instagram and Facebook and TikTok and also Google Business Page and a website, things like that.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah, I would wait till the end of where can people reach out? What is your website? But since you already mentioned it, what indeed is the website? Yeah, yeah.
BEN BARNES: Are you thinking about playing some music?
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Today, no, I wasn't planning on it but just a discussion with you how you are, what you do, and all things related to music and entertainment this week but not necessarily expecting anyone to perform. But what is that website? It's the strollingviolinist.com the strolling violinist.com and of course that will appear in the Buzzsprout
BEN BARNES: transcript extended show notes that link. That's in construction right now, it'll be done in a
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): week. Oh, well, okay, so by the time this airs, it'll be there. That's how it's going to happen. So, pivot a little bit too funny to talk about websites because I had to reach out to you. You did provide a link to something and it's returning an error which you are looking into. Let's talk about your the coaches corner and I tried to look at it but
BEN BARNES: oops, can't find them. Well, the coaches corner, we don't have a website for that. It's a podcast that we are a segment of with the price of business. They asked me to do a podcast for our artist, Prunuurs, giving business tips for them and we have social media for it, a YouTube channel and Instagram and Facebook. And then the podcast was aired every day. My segment hasn't been aired every day but the price of business is national coaster coach, broadcast of a business man named Kevin Price. He's got a nice show.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah, I'm going to pivot back to the injury because I forgot to mention and ask the question during that segment that we were discussing it. My dad was also a musician, Ted's an engineer in the polka kings. They have three hours out. Yeah. And there's a tear strikes down info slash the polka kings attribute to him on my book page. But anyway, I mentioned that to say he fell down the stairs one time. You know, things are out of way. Thank God didn't completely fracture and crack the skull and need reconstruction like you had to go through. But he had to have that halo thing on for a while to prevent them from moving his head. So my question is I take it, you probably had to have a long time with your head in that metal halo thing to prevent you
BEN BARNES: from moving your head. Yes. Yeah, there was a hole in my head. So I had to wear a helmet 24 7 helmet and a big neck brace. So that was that was kind of a pain in the butt. Yeah, not a lot of fun. I would imagine. Yeah. Yeah, I broke two vertebrae to. So that all my neck. Yeah. How are you feeling these days? I feel I feel good. I've made a good recovery from traumatic brain injury. And I can I've got full range of motion in my arm again. I have a skin graft on my head and there's there's a muscle from my back and skin graft on my head that I'm always worried it's going to deteriorate. So I've got a little bit of trauma from that. Yeah. Then the original originally they froze what was left of the bone and they put that back in my skull and then it opened up. It started weeping. So then they had to do a microsurgery where they took the lateralis muscle from my back and and skin graft from my leg and put it over the spot that wouldn't heal and and got some tissue under there. So so finally stopped bleeding. And that was that was a big long ordeal. I was just going to say clearly you had a long ordeal of
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): not a lot of fun time and for the benefit of audio or the transcript for anyone who's reading and probably why you're wearing the hat today because if people saw it they might freak out.
BEN BARNES: Yeah. Yeah. People it's it's a scars. I when I when I was teaching kindergarten I would go in there with bandages on my head because I would still having like lots of surgeries and the kids were at first scared me it was when my head was swollen and and they thought I looked like a monster. I did look like a monster. You could have started to remake a beauty in the beast huh? Yeah. Then I then I would show them my head and then all they want to do is just see my head the scars and the bandages and the stitches and the staples and
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): yeah kind of turned into a oh cool look at that kind of thing huh? Yeah. Well let's pivot again back to the book because you have a word in the email I have here that generally is an associated with a book you call that an auto
BEN BARNES: memoirography. Yeah. Yeah it's put autobiography and memoirs together and done.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): And memoir is normally autobiographical but yeah obviously this show name is a word I invented. So you could obvious yeah. Christitutionalist politics podcast. Christitutionalist yeah Christian based US Constitution are Judeo Christian foundations. But anyway not here to talk about faith we're here to talk about music today. But so yeah you could see I love word play and the intention word. So when I saw auto memoirography that alone was enough to say okay I want to talk to this guy. Hold the book up again for those the benefit and the behind the screens and for audio and the transcript it has loosened associations jazz auto memoirography of music mischief and madness.
BEN BARNES: Yeah that just I play lots of different kinds of music I play classical and jazz and blue gas and rock and I've done a lot of different projects. I learned how to play basketball music from a classical violin from a woman who was Yasha Heifetz's protege. She taught me how to do a lot of things. She introduced me to the Paganini Caprices when I was like 17 and I struggled with those. I can only play the four Paganini Caprices that mortal men can play.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): I do those. There are music gods that can play the other ones you're saying.
BEN BARNES: And then I went to the San Francisco Conservatory and studied violin and viola there and then I went and I went off campus to study jazz with a vital player named David Balacrishnan and he was a jazz teacher.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): I can't wait for the trans I can't wait for the AI that does the transcription to screw up that name.
BEN BARNES: Oh yeah. Yeah David was a violinist in the Turtle Island Street Quartet, the jazz string quartet that was around. They're still around. Then I learned how to play bluegrass playing with my dad when I was growing up and listening to Kenny Baker records. I'm a disciple of Kenny Baker. He's the best fiddle player of the 20th century and he didn't make it to the bluegrass hall of fame until he was 73 years old. But he played with Bill Monroe and lots of different characters in the bluegrass scene back when bluegrass was really being made. It was turning from old-time music to bluegrass. And then I played rock. I wrote rock songs when I was in college.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): I think I know where this is going because it's where I was going to lead next. You said you've had various projects so you kind of done violin metal with Jonah belly of the whale. You told me it's kind of a metal. So you did the all the metal.
BEN BARNES: Violin, yeah. I had a five-string violin. I had a cello player that I played in a string quartet with for a few years named Sam and he and I started jamming together and writing songs. And then I went out to, I got asked to play on a fusion record with Jason Neustin of Metallica. And from there I went, I wrote these songs and I broke them on a little eight track and brought them to him and he said, you know you want to re-record these. You like one of the songs. And so that he produced our first demo which was cool.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah. Now for the benefit of the younger, well both younger and older audience that don't know the ins and outs of music I wrote and recorded on eight track also. When we're talking eight track we're not talking like my dad's band an eight track tape that you put in your eight track player in your car or your home stereo. We're talking about a real-to-real player that has eight tracks on the tape. There's eight, there's 12, 16, 24, 48. God knows how many tracks are. Well actually I was going to say probably there nobody records on reels anymore. Do they? It's all
BEN BARNES: digital now. I've recorded the last two records. Well all the records I've done I've done analog but the eight track was a task amp eight track that took a little cassette tape.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): And then I blayered on to a standard two track cassette huh? Yeah well it was.
BEN BARNES: Yeah that was they cut they made little grooves for for all eight tracks. Interesting. I again
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): assume they can ask out of you and they I made the assumption you were talking the standard real the real that had eight tracks. A standard real the real normally has four but for musicians they have eight 12 16 24 48 blah blah blah blah blah blah. Probably two in the weeds even for music weeks for most of the audience to go there. But let's pivot. I don't know anything about this but you mentioned a song that you were really proud of called Epiphany. So what about that?
BEN BARNES: Tiffany was written about the death of my I went to the funeral of my favorite aunt and my favorite aunt used to be was born a man and had a was transsexual but one of the first transgender operations back in the 1960s and then she became a fashion model and supermodel in the 70s and 80s which which was pretty she was always really generous with with her money with her with her nieces and nephews and she was my favorite aunt and she died she committed suicide and at the funeral I this the song came to me as I was sitting in the pews and it's called Epiphany and she was a devout follower of Jesus which I really brought into the song that one of the one of the lines is find someone that some called Jesus if you're feeling sad just call his name and so that that all the lyrics to that came to me in the melody when I was in the funeral so it's a it's a it's got a lot of I can't remember the name of the word right now a lot of memories when I play that song so oh I can imagine yeah so it has
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): there is a deep reminiscent there we go yeah now I got little river band reminiscing in my head but that's another whole story right there but and normally I wouldn't dig into this but I'm a suicide attempt survivor myself so I understand times of struggle and issues and so obviously your favorite aunt was struggling and indeed took own life then normally I wouldn't go here but since you kind of brought it up I just want to clarify or deal in fact here was she born an actual the rare cases of the permathadite where she had both sex organs and opted them for elimination to keep just the female organs or indeed was born a male with male chromosomes and decided to transition yeah she was born a male and
BEN BARNES: it's she has a really interesting story becoming a supermodel and then uh then uh you know I don't know if a community suicide I'm actually I heard my head by jumping in front of a train so so that's that's all that's in the in the mammography what was going through my head
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): and things like that interesting very interesting so just it'll be met yeah uh well I dropped my pen we've mentioned it a few times but I'm going to mention it again just so you know they say try to mention things three four five times to get things to sink into people's heads so indeed the auto mammography is loosened associations jazz auto mammography I can barely say that word of music mischief and madness and so the book obviously goes into a whole lot
BEN BARNES: beyond just the music yeah yeah there um my there's a lot of mental illness stories my mother and father my mother is schizophrenia my dad bipolar disorder and they they had some problems with with substances and uh so growing up with them was really traumatic and uh it was a it was challenging and my brother and I went through a lot of a lot of abuse and and uh I just uh a really hard growing up uh yeah well this is this is kind of deep and dark stuff
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): not necessarily again I don't script show so I mean the rabbit holes just kind of open themselves up to go there but I certainly don't want to drag you down and dwell on this so let's go back to the more fun stuff the music stuff yeah have you done a gig recently uh yeah the uh I was just
BEN BARNES: playing at a barch station this morning I I played a funeral uh I played a corporate party uh last Saturday and in a funeral uh last month uh where I was uh playing I played a lot of rock songs on on violin uh so I'm doing this project where I'm recording uh a lot of uh songs just solo violin like I've done a couple tated Bowie songs and queen uh yeah take turn out the now this
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): ties to the other episode yeah with the Bowie impersonator yeah so that's cool now are you do you regularly play a particular station that we could give a shout out to that people who might be hearing in the San Francisco arrow arrow I can't talk area might decide hey let's go check out Benjamin at what bark station uh the monday's through Fridays I'm at either
BEN BARNES: Embarcadero or or uh Montgomery and then Saturdays and Sundays I'm at the Palace of Fine Arts from like 11 to 11 30 to 2 uh playing if it's sunny uh if it's not raining so Mondays through Fridays
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): are usually a time frame you're there uh between seven and nine nine 30 am or pm
BEN BARNES: and okay I play in the in the pms I play in the afternoons uh maybe two or three days a week when I'm not teaching uh uh ad Montgomery so I live a block away from Montgomery station so
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): ah okay yeah well don't don't dox yourself we don't anybody showing up at your door now they're going to be wandering around outside the Montgomery station trying to find you knocking on doors there's Benjamin Barncliffe here we gotta keep us sent to humor these days right or we'll go understand
BEN BARNES: yeah yeah it's uh it's it's a lot of healing is uh you know music and humor and my non-profit is doing uh initiative called music for mental health and we're going to uh it would working on the the loneliness epidemic and we're taking concerts and and concerts and and classes arts classes to mental illness clinics in in San Francisco and and uh breast homes for there's a lot of a lot of the mentally ill and and elderly experience a lot of a lot of loneliness and it's it leads to poor health and uh you know like a lot of suicide attempts and
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): things like that yeah this is another one of those uh almost divine intervention happy happy well not necessarily happy but I I mean uh circumstantial side relations I just got done in February the last two weeks of February with health week's guests oh yeah five different episodes in the last two weeks of February dealing with health weeks so now in a way you're an extension of health weeks also yeah this is a strange coincidence yeah well I've got another guest too that I've not recorded yet kristi jock or jock has I'm not sure how to pronounce it people screw up my last name it looks like lonard but it's not french it's london without a no hers is christy jac qes so yeah generally would think that's french and not sure how that's pronounced yet since I haven't talked to her yet but she also music and health issue so there's a common extra unreal unexpected sub thread happening here with health right yeah yeah oh it's just like you were all meant to be on music weeks to coincidentally also relate to health week's extension
BEN BARNES: yeah and interesting the the the french thing my my mom her last name was fayette and she claimed to be descended from varki lefayette who came from from france in the revolutionary war and interesting i got i got some of that and and loosened associations she has just i i don't know if it's true or not it's it's just she she she uh she used to tell us about it when we were growing up and she got a book called the little general and she read that to us and that was an interesting
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): little thing yeah well yet another classic example of how and why i don't really want to know a whole lot about my guests and for i don't script my shows never knowing what rabbit holes will open up and that's a nice history rabbit hole that kind of broke it up yeah there's some
BEN BARNES: the relations with the the native americans and the black vid indian indian state they were general washington told or he put he put uh law fayette in charge of the the um indian in the indian said we're fighting on on the uh on the revolutionary side and so and that's a whole
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): lot of history people don't know because it's not taught in schools and in another weird connection my now ex-wife was part descendant from black feet heritage yeah these are all weird wonderful
BEN BARNES: coincidence we're talking yeah but my mom's uh she she was philippino and french and chinese and and black feet indian then so um why they blend they are huh yeah yeah she was a beautiful woman uh a lot of a lot of mixed uh mixed features which gave her probably a very own and very unique
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): look herself then yeah yeah i i i nothing to do with music and what that but and i've not done a show on this or an episode on this yet but i've been on other shows where the question of beauty comes up but right as the saying goes beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder and i absolutely agree i think because i find a whole lot of different people attractive for different reasons i created what is called the beauty categories there is drop dead gorgeous that most people you know oh that person's dropped big there's cute what i call terminally cute i call them the the tail of the two emmas emma watson who i put in the terminally cute category and emma stone who i put in the intriguing category because she too has a very different kind of look and indeed a lot of people think she's beautiful i'm one of them but yeah they're strapped at gorgeous there's intriguing there's a terminal cuteness there's you know all these different really categories of beauty that indeed make up for the beauty is in the eye of the beholder proof in a way yeah yeah new reaction to that even though that's way off topic for this
BEN BARNES: destruction then the beautiful it's it's a it's a malleable word to think about it and put it into
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): categories it's kind of genius well thank you my my ex-wife was certainly never associate genius with me but you know that's a whole other story too she also thought i was funny at one time too so i do because i'm a.k.a. jokester joe i'm savaged and filtered and you know again whole other territory not to go down but yeah beauty and humor too but that's another where there's really kind of different categories and not everybody's is going to be the same i like to say i'm the king of the lame puns i will never pass on a lame pun so lame puns what's a good lame pun oh well a joe original it exists in my terror strikes coming soon to sit in near you book obviously very serious topic but there's a comic relief chapter i like to say you know even as a suicide attempt survivor look things are way too serious and we get caught up in the seriousness too much at times we gotta keep a sense of humor so a joe original joke is to be or not to be is truly the question because if it's to be i gotta bingo exacto mondo yeah yeah an example of a jokester joe lame pun joe original joke there a shakespeare joke but again you know whether somebody laughs at that or not isn't necessarily the important point even if they cringe giving a response from them and a way of getting out of the seriousness of what's going on their head can be a valuable thing and to bring it back to music while you're here music is indeed the same thing it can be an escape from the serious reality of whatever's
BEN BARNES: going on at our time yeah it can it can focus you on on different aspects of your life than not then then the hard times that you may be having it's um it's a and there there are a lot of therapeutic things for music that that bring original or unique qualities to people's recovery and also it's great for memory care for for the elderly and loneliness it creates a well music is like a universal language and everybody has some sort of reaction to music and they understand music and their own way and you can um and most music has its own characters like you know they're sad music they're happy music there's there's um uh angry music there's uh so that and all kind of have a place
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): to two distractions or or an outlet for what mood you're in so that indeed we're not running around breaking things yeah yeah yeah it's uh okay well I think we've kind of come full circle and before my OCD ADHD brain takes us down some other weird rabbit hole let's wrap it up because we've indeed music health weeks music weeks and health weeks again together and it was like almost divine intervention that I just I almost grabbed a kiss shirt but I decided Joan Jett in the black hearts and it's like a divine intervention because that brought a story out of you out of opening for them oh yeah it's like that it's like that can't be coincidental to me
BEN BARNES: yeah god god has uh has a way of putting putting things in order of of of priorities when when we're doing things like putting on shirts and stuff and just subliminally uh guide this yep
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): okay so to find you the best place is these strolling violinists.com and again this show is heard on 20 plus audio platforms by video platforms but and transcripts can exist at any of those sites but the best transcript is the bus route where my show is housed and uploaded to the episodes the transcript there is a far more extended than just what you and I have said during the episode in that bus route transcript they'll be able to find the extended show notes including related links which will of course include a link uh display of the strolling violinist.com and since we kind of link related to health weeks I'll put links to all the health week shows I spoke with a rapper as part of health weeks because D.P.B. has got a song out about peer pressure that's a mental health issue so it is just amazing how like you said god works in mysterious waves these can't be coincidences they're all kind of just confluences coming together with some help from above I think yeah yeah all right well thank you Benjamin Barnes I haven't said your name enough during the episode for joining us today

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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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