you know they say one is the loneliest number and to be honest with you when i'm doing the show sometimes i get a little lonely so if you want to be here while i'm doing by invitation go ahead and check out social media and find out how to be a part of my studio audience of you who don't know what that is this is when your outlook or mental state is so ingrained into your way of life that anything that doesn't coincide with that method of thought cannot be comprehended ok now you'll find this a lot with people who have been wealthy all their life they've never worked a job they've never paid rent things like that so when they encounter a hardship such as the loss of their home or not even receiving instant gratification they don't get what they want when they want it they're not able to function ok now those of you that do know what it is you do it every day ok now some of you are looking at me gone what do you mean i do this every day now social media i see this this post a lot it's an inspirational me a goes to the effect like this check on your strong friends right now a lot of you will posted a lot of you go you know you get the likes you get the loves all the all do live with my story this that and the other but when you step away from your phone when you look up when you step away from your computer dia call the people that you think i mean even think about who would be on that list of your quote unquote strong friends this is what i mean by cognitive dissonance now we we have been so i would say ingrained out seats conditioned by technology that we don't see the disconnect between our real lives like what i'm doing right here talking to somebody on the street scene your friends you know or the phone yeah everything is the phone everything is is facebook everything is is instagram you know we we now equate social media to our everyday life and i'm here to tell you that there's something fundamentally wrong with that ok because the difference between your strong friend who calls you up and says hey look you know i'm stressed i'm going through some and and what's our reaction when you can you call somebody else i'm busy or you know men of you know that you feel you know we we've got a lot of a lot of sayings that we don't necessarily want to talk about when we will get in front of a camera or when we get around those certain people but we say it every day you know this person is always calling me what a problem you know well if you just go get a job it's not always that easy so i encourage everybody put the phone down if you're going to post that inspirational mean if you're going to go there and say thoughts and prayers go the step further hey if you have a face get on your knees go further those visit that person go say go knock on the door say hey you know what i was thinking about you but you know let me let me wrap with you for a little bit you know let me let me find out what's really going on is there something i can do because a lot of times it's not the money you know it's not it's not the attention people need to know that somebody really cares that they're more than just a click that there are real human being with real human emotions and that is valid so all you do you and do i a favor let's get real let's get a human right so when i take a short break when we come back we will have stephen blaine right here on miti you love coffee i love coffee can there ever be enough coffee no there can never be enough coffee so check this website out drink never enough dot com and also check out social media that drink instagram you can get yourself a cup of exactly what i got right here you have a variety of flavors it's great it's from the motherland and you'll be supporting a great cause so be sure you check that out drink there are enough dot com and social media at shrink never enough well we appreciate you coming on the show and i guess we'll get right into it guess what everybody guess what i get to actually use this thing is not a proud today i'm actually using it i feel so professional so st of all i walk alone your newest album and it draws influence from americano old rock n roll well you know roger again thanks thanks for having me that's that's a great question up do you and then when i when i write a number of tunes i'll begin to cure rate them and i'll think well how does this how do these fit together and then i realized that i had written a number in this in this kind of ne and sixty five kind of genre thing and i thought wow would be really fun to do an album in that style and so then then before long i realized that i had i had enough songs to pull it off even them and i was hoping to bring in other musicians because that's that's always better to have either do it live which is my favorite way to do it which is or again i love organics that like just the way we did this but with the rhythm section and we're done  unfortunately that's a tough that's tough it is everybody's got to be at the top of their game at the same time so and i didn't have all the all the i was in florida and i didn't have all my people from new york that i was really comfortable ok so i what i started to do was i started getting into logic logic ten and i would have began to realize was i think i can i think i can do this on my own  so i spent about about an intense month of or of recording and and adding instruments and i was thinking of calling it a bass player and then i realized well gee i can i think it can do this i'm not an acoustic upright bass player but if i if i get all the notes right and i go it i can i can almost get there in logic i was able to synchronize the drum beat to my vocal guitar track because i was in a click tempo thing and it was almost really good and what you what i have no on that album is is is really it was an organic process and by the end i was mastering you know  yeah i just bought the plug ins and i was listening in listening to other mixes and so it was really satisfying to do that on my own it's always better to work with with with live people there's just no saying so so you you actually wrote the songs st and then you went back and then you orchestrated the songs to fit a certain genre yeah i read irene turp or did the ones that i thought were i mean they mostly were in that style but then i wanted to make sure that they were consistent across across the album you know and so yeah i worked i worked hard on that  was very fun and you know in florida in the winter in that was probably february i was doing it was pretty nice yeah whereas over here you guys are getting one of the one thing i can say though it does help your process to  be able to go out or i should say not be able to but to realize when you give us my snowshoes on and go to the store or i can sit here for another couple hours and mix and drink coffee yeah right i want to kind of point out everybody out there i mean that the technology is out there and i mean you can literally go from not understanding much about the process to being very much a professional in a very short amount of time and it's very rewarding so i encourage i always encourage artists musicians to to understand a craft and to do as much of it as you can on your own so i do want to get to one other thing you are not just a musician kind of at the top of the food chain right below the board of directors so the rabbi is at the top the cantor is also at the top they like to think but the rabbi is really runs the show the cantor is the musical leader of the service so the cantor is the what we typically can't or must have a lovely voice cantor must be trained in the melodies that are appropriate for synagogue worship and we call the melodies we call them but it's different new suck different melodies even if you're seeing the same text on festivals even if it's the same text the melodies change again and on the high holy days again the melodies change so you can't just like show up and say i'm a cantor you have to be trained right in the correct melodies so and those melodies are perpetuated i mean staying biding by those but yeah it's a lot of fun and i was trained for many years and so i am a rabbi and a cantor i have an online synagogue wow that meets with for ten years we've been meeting online and my  metrics are pretty consistent though now we've established it's almost like having a brick and mortar community except they're online and yeah yeah right and they and they are but prior to every friday service that i do for a half an hour i do my by the way watch young bastar t v for old favorites and new content from this show and all our productions here at young boss media well everybody thank you for watching thank you for watching the show appreciate all of you appreciate our sponsors coopt coin impact are for bringing ours through such as stephen wayne can you let us know where your social media again thank you guys that's the show thank you rush did you say the candidates