away this week so we have flown in a very special other dog and his name is david to joseph he has joined us for today's show it is a gentleman steve a dose of welcome thank you they are not even welcome to the show and you are a famous musician i hear i don't really know this because i've seen you perform and i know you are famous yes thank you have done films and you have played all over the place and you you have you do all sorts of different styles and i in welcome back this is tom the dog show and we are talking to stephen to joseph here on the show stephen how long have you been playing music a long time yes yeah since since like two weeks ago neurologist in france of course and he discovered these unusual movements and conditions in which people were making these physical tics and grunts and blurting which you'll hear me do throughout this session and that was the beginning well the recognized beginning you know i have a feeling that it was around before his discovery of course but those people were kind of burned at the stake you know over emphasizes certain parts you know you know because you have the variety of tics and movements that people have can be as unique as the people you know no two ticks are alike it's a new campaign we're starting and you were you born with this or yes it's hereditary really yes it is so you had relatives that had it too and yes i do well they wouldn't say so really but i say so oh so you suspect i suspect you know because i watched them over i drive and everything so it's but it's definitely the clearly there and you know i used to ignore it actually when i first was as a musician performing and then people would ask me what are you doing you know so it's it you well i would just like ok yeah i have whatever that thing you know but i'm a musician right you know and so over time it became things were like well this is actually giving a certain kind of energy to your what you do and it would be great if you incorporated it even in stories or talked about it so when i started to do that people really connected with that you know emotionally you know he's like so you start writing about it to yes they're writing about it songs about it in a movie and then yeah pieces of music and yeah and your film is called synoptic ventura and it showed several specials yes well the rest of it is tourette's and beyond beyond synoptic adventure tourette's and beyond and the reason i did that was because everyone has this in apnic adventure you know so it became a phrase that i started to use and now use officially with my projects and the tourette's and beyond is in braces the part that has that talks about tourette's and the co morbid conditions underneath which are like o c d and eighty and just how many people in the creative realm have this stuff is astounding well yeah like who well a specific mostly o c d i've noticed you have edison tesla howard hughes really in washington they did you know over the years they've been able to do more and more d n a testing in and examination closer personal relationships in these people's lives and a lot of them exhibit these conditions  their behaviors in their styles ways of doing things you know that so it's a very interesting thing to have discovered this huge lists of all of these groundbreaking inventors of various sorts you know and so i think because it was something i always felt i felt like it was it was it started for me you know with without a name you know i started doing these things and making these noises and  also at the same time wanted to become a musician and it was inspired at that moment by the beatles they were like so this is like when you were a teenager i was six years old wow and it was all kind of starting at the same time and i just thought it was like part and then i'm just getting you know like it's a girl who would sit next to me and she'd be like yeah i have to really watch you know when i'm where i go and now because i and it's funny that it's such a it's such a  that and she's like i really have to read soon blurt that out really so to me that was like it you know it's a creative way of dealing with something that is really outside the box i mean it's just you know there's more acceptance today and there's more talk of it like when you go on you tube you can find tons of stuff about it you know cool well let's hear another song and welcome back this is we're talking to stephen  everybody we're back this is dhamma dog show dogs away and we're talking to stephen d joseph famous musician stephen did joe's who is here now you have to read syndrome as we were talking about earlier yes and you've kind of worked it into your music somehow very much yeah you know yes whether it's through stories prior to a song or the songs about an aspect of it is that it's that affected at all or does it help or not help or do you repeat that question that does the does does music make the synoptic things happen more pronounced or less pronounced or in my experience it kind of is anything that is a i don't want to use the word distraction but draws the energy you know requires concentration and focus is a great thing so really could be anything in my life it's definitely music right where you know that any activity that i get into intensely right does you know tend to drive all of that extra neural activity into now it's got to be hard right because if you're in a place where you dances with the phrase well you know say by this was obviously a saint who danced so but this guy would you know see if i just dance was was a way of describing this he probably had he probably had tourette's in my  right now he also doesn't have to be singular like you can have asperger too and you can also have some mental illness too it's like you know it's really you know when it comes to these types of disorders and it's a very wide berth right all kinds of situations and you know you're like getting pulled over for speeding do you have to give the guy a card or something right off the bat what happens occurs that i'm really not i have i have cursed and bad but it was ask them if they have an office or if they ever heard of it and there have been a few that haven't or weren't familiar and i had to tell them what i said well you know it doesn't you know i can drive i have a license you know fine but  whether it's students or adults or people in the workforce or officers you know to educate them on this you know the condition because it's like they need to know you know because you can't go around shooting a kid because he's autistic like somebody did yeah which was you know it's just i'm sure there's a lot of extenuating circumstances but that's not a very good that's not a very good headline you know right right so  was your first music video that you did that was my first music video yes really fly and that was pretty good thank you as well so it was you know it wasn't always shot that on tape didn't you i shot it on a high handycam yeah and it came as nice i mean with the right lighting that camera has captured some beautiful vision for sure so many videos did you shoot like that i've got about ten ten i did and i did all those before i did the film right so i kind of knew about that in part and understood you know and so the film was a real for a and to so much what made you want to do the film it was six breaks per minute film in the idea was to give a p o v experience of tourettes a new cd right and so that's what i did and so i worked with con kennedy who pretty was the producer and of it and she kind of helped me keep it you know in a story line and i had these very scenarios and bits of songs to convey there is a piece of music the piano that demonstrates the idea of having the all these various components going into creating a piece and how you're distracted you know you stop and you know so i do that on stage so all these elements got put into the movie you know in a certain sequence along with a narrative that was like how it really starts out i'm six years old i don't understand you know have i had these urges i have this music i have i want to do this i want to do that you know and then it's like a six year old kind of cool now the film is available on the internet you know yes you can actually go into my website and see it in the website is thank you very much for joining us on the tom doug show today and we will see you guys next week here on the show and i hope you have all have a very nice week we'll talk to you later don't hug for me you betcha ok i'll wear a baggie first when i