Cognition | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: There it is.

0:00 Speaker 2: That is the Washed the band is a cognition and

0:04 Speaker 2: I believe we have gen X with us via Microsoft teams.

0:07 Speaker 2: Jan are you there? Good morning, Good morning, welcome back

0:11 Speaker 2: to the show. You have been on, of course once

0:14 Speaker 2: before with your other band, and I remember we went

0:17 Speaker 2: through this and you'll have to refresh my memory.

0:19 Speaker 1: Is it?

0:19 Speaker 2: Is it Generations or Generation z yess Generations? So that's

0:25 Speaker 2: the other band that we had you on with. But

0:27 Speaker 2: this project, I really like this a lot.

0:29 Speaker 1: Cognition. I love the sound.

0:31 Speaker 2: We're going to play at the end of our conversation today,

0:33 Speaker 2: we're going to play the other single that you sent us,

0:35 Speaker 2: the game, which is also a really great track. But

0:39 Speaker 2: and where are you geographically? Are you in Missouri? Yeah,

0:42 Speaker 2: we're in Springfield, Springfield, Missouri.

0:44 Speaker 1: How is that close to Saint Louis.

0:47 Speaker 3: Three and a half hours?

0:49 Speaker 1: Oh? Not close at all. Okay, what are you close to?

0:53 Speaker 4: You?

0:53 Speaker 2: We might have talked about this last time too, But

0:55 Speaker 2: is there what, like, what's the big big city that

0:58 Speaker 2: you're close to or is there one one?

1:01 Speaker 3: Well, so we're so we are close.

1:03 Speaker 1: To Branson, Branson.

1:04 Speaker 3: Okay, I'm I actually live in Branson.

1:08 Speaker 1: Oh, you live in Branson. Okay, gotcha, gotcha?

1:11 Speaker 2: And what I do want to talk about the song,

1:13 Speaker 2: But before we do that, what's the difference between because

1:16 Speaker 2: of some of the same members right in both.

1:18 Speaker 3: Bands for a four out of five?

1:21 Speaker 1: Four out of five?

1:22 Speaker 2: Okay, Now that's interesting because I mean, with with that

1:25 Speaker 2: that ratio, what can you describe the difference between the

1:28 Speaker 2: two projects in terms of I mean, if it's only

1:31 Speaker 2: one member different, like, tell us about that.

1:34 Speaker 1: I'm really curious about this.

1:36 Speaker 2: How do you like, you know, because obviously you know

1:39 Speaker 2: they're both rock, they're both metal. But what what is

1:41 Speaker 2: the difference between the two bands Cognition and Generations?

1:45 Speaker 4: Well, so both so the members all play different instruments too.

1:50 Speaker 4: So for like Generations, Daniel is the drummer for Generations,

1:54 Speaker 4: but he's the guitar player for Cognition. Oh interesting, Michael, Yeah,

1:58 Speaker 4: Michael plays the bay for Generations, but he plays the

2:02 Speaker 4: guitar for Cognition.

2:04 Speaker 1: Oh wow.

2:05 Speaker 3: And Anthony plays.

2:07 Speaker 4: The guitar for Generations, but he plays the bass for Cognition.

2:13 Speaker 2: Oh that's interesting. Okay, that's cool. I've never I've never

2:17 Speaker 2: seen anything quite like that where you have you know,

2:21 Speaker 2: basically it's most of the same people with two different

2:23 Speaker 2: bands because they just play different instruments in the different projects.

2:27 Speaker 2: That's really interesting, that's cool. Yeah, how so how did

2:32 Speaker 2: I assume Generations was first?

2:34 Speaker 1: Right?

2:37 Speaker 4: Yeah?

2:37 Speaker 3: So well I believe so. Well. No, actually they were playing.

2:42 Speaker 4: Cognition first, okay, and then started Generations. But I came

2:47 Speaker 4: into Generations first.

2:48 Speaker 1: Okay.

2:50 Speaker 2: Now do any of these songs cross over? Do you

2:55 Speaker 2: and end up getting played by both both bands?

3:00 Speaker 1: Because I was not yet, not yet, not yet.

3:03 Speaker 4: No, It's it's funny because well, we recently unfortunately lost

3:09 Speaker 4: our drummer that you hear on both of our tracks,

3:12 Speaker 4: and uh so we we have a new drummer, and

3:18 Speaker 4: it's amazing how just one member can completely change the

3:22 Speaker 4: sound and the vibe of a band. Yeah, it's also

3:27 Speaker 4: interesting to me. I I was like, being the lead singer, you.

3:34 Speaker 3: Know, for both bands. My voice doesn't really change, so I.

3:38 Speaker 4: Wasn't quite sure if it was just gonna wind up

3:40 Speaker 4: sounding like the same band. But it really doesn't. Both

3:44 Speaker 4: bands are still completely different, even though you know I'm.

3:47 Speaker 2: The same right right, Yeah, that that dynamic is very

3:51 Speaker 2: interesting to me. Well, let's talk about the song the Washed,

3:55 Speaker 2: because this is heavy stuff. And you know when you

3:58 Speaker 2: listen to it. Obviously, songs, you know, lyrics can can

4:03 Speaker 2: mean different things to different people, And of course there's

4:05 Speaker 2: no right or wrong answer, because art is up to

4:08 Speaker 2: the individual to interpret it however it means whatever it's

4:11 Speaker 2: going to end up meaning to them as as in

4:13 Speaker 2: this case as a listener. But but the song does

4:16 Speaker 2: have a very specific meeting from the meaning, from the

4:18 Speaker 2: point of view of what you wrote about and tell

4:21 Speaker 2: us about that, what is the washed about.

4:24 Speaker 4: So it's almost like a like a war cry for

4:29 Speaker 4: anthem for trying to raise awareness and trying to come

4:36 Speaker 4: together to help battle this fit and al epidemic, because

4:41 Speaker 4: I mean, that's exactly what it is. I think it's

4:44 Speaker 4: reached the point where you're probably not going to find

4:47 Speaker 4: a person who's not been affected in some way, whether

4:51 Speaker 4: it's a family member, or whether it's a coworker, or

4:54 Speaker 4: whether it's just somebody you know or you know, whether

4:57 Speaker 4: it's just someone very close to you. But it's it's

5:00 Speaker 4: astating and everybody, every one of us in the band

5:04 Speaker 4: has been touched by it. I've lost several friends, Daniel

5:07 Speaker 4: lost his cousin, and that's who the song is actually

5:09 Speaker 4: wrote for okay, So, yeah, we got to do something.

5:16 Speaker 2: What was it like recording it? Because again, uh, it's

5:21 Speaker 2: heavy stuff the subject.

5:24 Speaker 1: I mean, was was that challenging at all? Or was it?

5:27 Speaker 2: Was it kind of just like recording any other song?

5:30 Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, what was that like to to

5:33 Speaker 2: work on this? Because obviously, when you're talking about a

5:35 Speaker 2: subject like that, you wanted to really come across. You know,

5:40 Speaker 2: you want it to come across to the listener as

5:42 Speaker 2: being about something important. You know, even if they don't

5:44 Speaker 2: necessarily connect. You know, you don't hear the word fentanyl

5:47 Speaker 2: and the lyrics necessarily right, but but but you want it.

5:50 Speaker 2: You do want it to connect to the listener in

5:52 Speaker 2: a way that they know they're listening to something important

5:55 Speaker 2: and that you're talking about something serious. So was that

5:58 Speaker 2: a challenge in terms of recording this?

6:02 Speaker 4: So the studio is probably our favorite place. You know,

6:07 Speaker 4: music is a coping mechanism. Uh, the best coping mechanism,

6:11 Speaker 4: I feel like. So, so I would say no, just

6:15 Speaker 4: for that aspect, because that is our space that we

6:18 Speaker 4: can get in there and have all the emotions and uh,

6:22 Speaker 4: but you know, use it positively.

6:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense. That makes sense. And

6:29 Speaker 2: what's the reception been like? You know, I assume you've

6:32 Speaker 2: been you know, people probably ask you, you know, what's

6:35 Speaker 2: the song about, or maybe.

6:38 Speaker 1: Maybe as you're as you've released.

6:40 Speaker 2: This because it is available right this is this is

6:42 Speaker 2: already out on all the platforms, I assume, I mean,

6:45 Speaker 2: what what what's the reception been like to the song

6:47 Speaker 2: so far?

6:49 Speaker 4: Uh? You know, it's it's it's been great. We you

6:54 Speaker 4: never know when you release something what the response is

6:58 Speaker 4: gonna be. And I and I'm nervous every time. It

7:01 Speaker 4: doesn't matter. I'm nervous every time I go on stage, right,

7:06 Speaker 4: And but the response has been great, you know, since

7:09 Speaker 4: I've started both of these projects. It's I was not expecting.

7:14 Speaker 4: I really went into it not expecting anything. M hm.

7:17 Speaker 4: And uh, I was just living my best life, I guess.

7:21 Speaker 4: And uh, but this response has just been really great.

7:24 Speaker 4: It's everybody's been overwhelmingly supportive.

7:27 Speaker 3: And uh.

7:27 Speaker 4: And we are planning on putting a music video to

7:29 Speaker 4: this one. We're going to get community involved. I reached

7:35 Speaker 4: out to some some people in the community and they

7:38 Speaker 4: have graciously provided us with some photos of their family

7:43 Speaker 4: members that have been impacted. And uh, you know, we're

7:46 Speaker 4: gonna we're going to honor them in the videos.

7:48 Speaker 3: So I'm I'm really excited about this one for sure.

7:51 Speaker 1: Oh that's that's excellent.

7:53 Speaker 2: Do you feel like, you know, because when you mentioned

7:55 Speaker 2: the community, do you mean when you say community in

7:58 Speaker 2: this context, you mean just just the area that you

8:01 Speaker 2: live in or are you referring to and I suspect

8:04 Speaker 2: it's this, but are you referring more to just the

8:07 Speaker 2: music community? Because it seems like people who are artistic,

8:12 Speaker 2: particularly in music, musicians we've all known. I mean, you know,

8:15 Speaker 2: I've been around a while, we all know a lot

8:17 Speaker 2: of For whatever reason, musicians tend to very often be

8:21 Speaker 2: people who fall prone to addiction, whether it's fentanyl or

8:26 Speaker 2: anything else, any number of things. I mean, is that

8:29 Speaker 2: kind of what you're referring to, like in the music community,

8:31 Speaker 2: or do you mean geographically or or what do you

8:33 Speaker 2: mean exactly just a.

8:35 Speaker 4: Mixture of both. I also, you know, joined some fitanel

8:39 Speaker 4: support groups. Oh wow, have some really great support groups

8:42 Speaker 4: on Facebook for anybody that is looking for some support.

8:45 Speaker 3: And I highly encourage that.

8:47 Speaker 4: Yeah, and so you know we've reached out to those

8:49 Speaker 4: groups too as well.

8:51 Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, no, that's good.

8:54 Speaker 2: And why why the washed? What is what is the

8:58 Speaker 2: meaning of that term in the context of the song?

9:04 Speaker 3: I think you know that Again that's left up to

9:08 Speaker 3: the interpreter.

9:09 Speaker 4: Yeah, for me, it's you know, we're washing clean and

9:14 Speaker 4: starting over. Yeah, we all have mistakes, we all go

9:20 Speaker 4: through hard times. It's part of the learning process, it's

9:23 Speaker 4: part of the growth process.

9:25 Speaker 3: Shame.

9:26 Speaker 4: When people carry shame, it leads to a lot of

9:29 Speaker 4: you know, a lot of negative coping, I think, And

9:32 Speaker 4: so for me, it's washing that shame.

9:34 Speaker 1: Away right right now?

9:37 Speaker 2: Have you have you had a chance to perform this live?

9:42 Speaker 4: Yes?

9:43 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, good?

9:47 Speaker 2: And tell us about two you know, because again we

9:50 Speaker 2: talked about generations last time we were on the show.

9:52 Speaker 2: We don't know a lot about cognition. But so you've

9:54 Speaker 2: got this, and you've got the single of the game,

9:56 Speaker 2: And have you released other music under Cognition or are

9:58 Speaker 2: those the only two track so far?

10:00 Speaker 4: Not yet, that's the only two, but we definitely have

10:04 Speaker 4: more coming. We're working on a full album.

10:06 Speaker 1: Excellent, excellent.

10:08 Speaker 2: And then are you the other track the game, which

10:10 Speaker 2: we're gonna play at the end of our conversation, which

10:12 Speaker 2: also really love. Did you record those in the same place,

10:14 Speaker 2: the same studio.

10:16 Speaker 1: Yes, okay? And where do you record these?

10:19 Speaker 2: Because we should give some shine to I don't know

10:21 Speaker 2: if you there's so many different ways to record now,

10:23 Speaker 2: you know you can at a lot of musicians have

10:26 Speaker 2: home studios. A lot of musicians will still go to

10:28 Speaker 2: a studio work with a engineer and producer and everything.

10:31 Speaker 2: But I really like sonically, I think both these songs

10:34 Speaker 2: sound absolutely fantastic.

10:36 Speaker 1: So I'm curious where you record well?

10:39 Speaker 4: That is kudos to Jeff Smith over at Studio twenty

10:44 Speaker 4: one in Springfield.

10:45 Speaker 1: Okay, okay? And how did you come to work with him?

10:51 Speaker 4: So I believe Daniel has worked with him on projects previously.

10:56 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, because he does Like I said, I mean,

10:59 Speaker 2: the sound uh is is great?

11:02 Speaker 1: Does he? I know?

11:03 Speaker 2: Very often in these situations sometimes an engineer will become

11:08 Speaker 2: more a producer will become almost like a like an

11:10 Speaker 2: additional member of the band. Is he someone who makes

11:12 Speaker 2: a lot of suggestions or does he just obviously he

11:16 Speaker 2: gets a great sound out of you.

11:17 Speaker 1: Uh.

11:18 Speaker 2: Does he offer a lot of input or does does

11:20 Speaker 2: he just just record?

11:23 Speaker 4: Yes? So specifically, in generations, we're gonna be using a

11:26 Speaker 4: lot of different just backing tracks.

11:28 Speaker 3: Yeah, and he we've kind of given.

11:32 Speaker 4: Him the creative space to to see what he hears

11:37 Speaker 4: and so he's really been helping us on those backing tracks.

11:40 Speaker 2: So okay, so what yeah, So in terms of recording

11:43 Speaker 2: with him, because you mentioned generations on the backing tracks,

11:46 Speaker 2: what's kind of the and again, because the dynamic of

11:50 Speaker 2: this is so interesting to me. It's basically two bands

11:52 Speaker 2: in one but just with with everybody playing different instruments

11:56 Speaker 2: or almost everybody, So.

11:58 Speaker 1: What what's kind of the priority?

12:00 Speaker 2: Is there a hierarchy in terms of what your priorities

12:03 Speaker 2: are with with each band because you're working, so you're

12:06 Speaker 2: both bands are recording at the same place, right, So

12:11 Speaker 2: is there a hierarchy in terms of what you're trying

12:13 Speaker 2: to do first?

12:14 Speaker 4: In terms of recording, we just we kind of rotate,

12:18 Speaker 4: you know, we go in this can get things accomplished

12:22 Speaker 4: for generation, and then we go in this week for

12:25 Speaker 4: cognition and people ask me all the time, like which

12:27 Speaker 4: one do you like better? And it's hard because I

12:32 Speaker 4: love them both for different reasons.

12:34 Speaker 2: Right right, Well tell us so what now I'm curious

12:38 Speaker 2: now that you said that, So what are the what

12:39 Speaker 2: are the things that you love? What are the different

12:41 Speaker 2: things that you love about each project?

12:45 Speaker 4: So Cognition I feel like kind of is more connected

12:49 Speaker 4: to my roots, and uh, you know, I relate.

12:56 Speaker 3: I relate to all the music, but some of the

12:59 Speaker 3: songs in cogn Nition definitely hint more on my past,

13:05 Speaker 3: I guess.

13:06 Speaker 4: And and then Generations I have.

13:10 Speaker 3: I feel like it opens up more of a creative

13:12 Speaker 3: side of me, and and a lot.

13:16 Speaker 4: Of it kind of hits just into who I am now,

13:22 Speaker 4: and and they have different feels in different vibes. Generation

13:26 Speaker 4: is definitely heavier, so it's kind of more I don't know,

13:33 Speaker 4: Gothic princess with.

13:38 Speaker 3: Some Wichi vibes a little bit too. I love it.

13:40 Speaker 3: But and like I said, Cognition is more.

13:45 Speaker 4: I almost feel like it had I don't want to

13:48 Speaker 4: turn it into that, but again, I kind of feel

13:50 Speaker 4: like it speaks kind of to my roots.

13:52 Speaker 3: So it has a little bit more of a country

13:54 Speaker 3: vibe to me.

13:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, we might.

13:57 Speaker 2: Actually, I'm probably gonna have time. I might sneak in.

14:01 Speaker 2: Like I said, we're gonna play in just a couple

14:03 Speaker 2: of minutes. We're gonna play the game. The other single

14:05 Speaker 2: that you sent us for cognition, but I think after

14:07 Speaker 2: that I might also sneak in that Generations track that

14:10 Speaker 2: we played before Seance, because I really liked that one

14:13 Speaker 2: a lot too, And for listeners who didn't get to

14:15 Speaker 2: hear that before when we featured that on the show,

14:19 Speaker 2: it'll be kind of a chance for them to sort

14:21 Speaker 2: of maybe compare and contrast.

14:24 Speaker 1: Yeah, and tell us again.

14:27 Speaker 2: Too about your roots. You know, you mentioned cognition kind

14:30 Speaker 2: of plays to your roots a little bit, and we

14:32 Speaker 2: did talk about that before when you were on the show.

14:34 Speaker 2: But again for newer listeners who might not know, tell

14:37 Speaker 2: us a little bit about your background.

14:39 Speaker 4: So being raised in Branson, Missouri, which back in the

14:43 Speaker 4: nineties specifically was the country music capital of the world,

14:47 Speaker 4: and my parents were entertainers there. I grew up a

14:50 Speaker 4: child performer performing in the shows around here, and I

14:56 Speaker 4: you know, I mostly I guess you could say classically

14:59 Speaker 4: trained in country So mostly what I grew up doing

15:02 Speaker 4: was country music, Okay, But Rocks has always been the core.

15:09 Speaker 3: Of my being.

15:11 Speaker 1: Absolutely.

15:11 Speaker 3: I'm so excited to be able to do it, you know.

15:14 Speaker 4: Again, coming into this, I was nervous how my tone

15:18 Speaker 4: was going to translate and see where it was going

15:21 Speaker 4: to go. But my voice has changed tremendously since I've

15:25 Speaker 4: started this project, so.

15:26 Speaker 1: Oh has it?

15:28 Speaker 4: Yeah?

15:29 Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot.

15:30 Speaker 4: It's grown a lot, it's deepened, it's my range has

15:33 Speaker 4: definitely changed, the tone has changed.

15:35 Speaker 3: It's it's been cool.

15:38 Speaker 1: Is that is.

15:40 Speaker 2: That something you've tried to do intentionally or did that

15:42 Speaker 2: just happen organically over time?

15:44 Speaker 1: I know some people.

15:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes our voices do change as we get older,

15:50 Speaker 2: they get deeper, or even like doing this, like if

15:53 Speaker 2: I listen to a podcast I did twenty years ago,

15:55 Speaker 2: it's like almost sound like almost sound like a kid. Absolutely,

16:01 Speaker 2: does your approach to vocals consciously change when you're you know,

16:06 Speaker 2: when you started in these these bands?

16:10 Speaker 1: Obviously, I don't know.

16:12 Speaker 2: I mean, do you sing kind of the same way

16:14 Speaker 2: that you did when you were singing country all the time,

16:16 Speaker 2: or or or did your approach intentionally change?

16:20 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's all it's all changed.

16:23 Speaker 4: And even when I go back to trying to sing

16:26 Speaker 4: other things, it sounds differently too, And I think some

16:29 Speaker 4: of that also just comes with, you know, the confidence

16:32 Speaker 4: growth as well.

16:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting to me because a lot of the

16:36 Speaker 2: new country I'm talking about, like really new stuff that

16:40 Speaker 2: that is kind of you know, it almost has an eighties.

16:44 Speaker 1: Rock vibe to it.

16:45 Speaker 2: And the one thing in the New Country that you'll

16:48 Speaker 2: hear that's that's still that makes it country because some

16:53 Speaker 2: of the some of the stuff, you know, like like

16:56 Speaker 2: my adopted son, Christian, he works at at ninety six

16:58 Speaker 2: point five, the big country station here in our area,

17:01 Speaker 2: and you know, so sometimes I'll tune in and it's

17:05 Speaker 2: a lot of it is it sounds like eighties rock.

17:08 Speaker 2: But the only thing that makes it country is the

17:11 Speaker 2: way that the vocal is just singing. There's like it's

17:14 Speaker 2: like they'll be just enough. It's subtle, they'll be just

17:17 Speaker 2: enough twang in the vocals where where you know, if

17:22 Speaker 2: somebody who's a rock singer who would never sung country,

17:26 Speaker 2: we're singing that exact same song, it would just sound

17:28 Speaker 2: like a rock song. It's really interesting to me. That's

17:31 Speaker 2: why I was curious about how your vocal approach might

17:33 Speaker 2: be different in these projects versus when you were singing

17:37 Speaker 2: country on a regular basis.

17:40 Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I you know, I'm I think we've all

17:43 Speaker 4: made it a point and I don't know, maybe that

17:44 Speaker 4: comes with age two, but we've definitely all made it

17:47 Speaker 4: a point to just be ourselves, like fully authentically and

17:52 Speaker 4: have a good time and whatever comes out comes.

17:55 Speaker 3: Out, you know.

17:56 Speaker 4: Yeah, so and we're experimenting, you know, that's part of

18:01 Speaker 4: it too, And music nowadays has.

18:07 Speaker 3: There there are pros and.

18:08 Speaker 4: Cons to how music has changed and blending the genres,

18:14 Speaker 4: because the genres are definitely getting blended and it's creating

18:17 Speaker 4: some really awesome stuff. So that's kind of what I

18:21 Speaker 4: feel like work we're doing as well. So we've got

18:24 Speaker 4: a couple of new songs coming out with Generations that

18:26 Speaker 4: are featuring some rap artists, so oh interesting.

18:30 Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're mixing metal with rap artists.

18:33 Speaker 1: So very cool.

18:34 Speaker 4: Fun.

18:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, that is that's that's awesome.

18:37 Speaker 2: Well, Jen, like I said in a moment, we're gonna

18:39 Speaker 2: play the game another great track that I love from Cognition.

18:42 Speaker 2: So we'll we'll let you go in a second, but

18:45 Speaker 2: please let our listeners know where's the best place to

18:48 Speaker 2: go online for people who want to keep up with

18:50 Speaker 2: everything that Cognition is doing and you know Generations as well,

18:54 Speaker 2: Like where should people go online to keep up with

18:56 Speaker 2: these bands?

18:58 Speaker 3: So we're on every you.

18:59 Speaker 4: Know, so media platform. You can find us on Facebook,

19:03 Speaker 4: and Instagram. I have a personal Facebook because I also

19:07 Speaker 4: do some projects even just outside of that.

19:09 Speaker 3: I did a nineties acoustic cover set last night.

19:12 Speaker 4: I've got a national Anthem performance in a couple of

19:16 Speaker 4: weeks for like a professional wrestling event, and I've never

19:20 Speaker 4: been to a professional wrestling event, so I'm really excited

19:22 Speaker 4: about that.

19:23 Speaker 3: That's going to be so much fun.

19:24 Speaker 4: And that's the cool thing about about doing all these projects,

19:28 Speaker 4: and because you get to just experience so many new places,

19:32 Speaker 4: so many different people, so many great bands. Because there's

19:34 Speaker 4: so many great bands out there. Live music is not dead,

19:38 Speaker 4: and yeah, it's just been a journey and it's great.

19:42 Speaker 4: But you can find us on I have a TikTok,

19:45 Speaker 4: so we're just everywhere.

19:47 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, excellent.

19:48 Speaker 2: I do have to keep you a moment longer because

19:50 Speaker 2: you mentioned you're going to be seeing the national Anthem

19:51 Speaker 2: at a professional wrestling event. So I'm a big wrestling fan.

19:54 Speaker 2: I even do a podcast with a couple guys called

19:56 Speaker 2: Tough Bumps, So I just have to ask you, like,

20:00 Speaker 2: what is what is this wrestling event that you're gonna

20:02 Speaker 2: be singing the anthem at?

20:05 Speaker 4: So it's show It's show me State Wrestling, which is

20:08 Speaker 4: like the Missouri Wrestling Organization I believe is uh doing

20:13 Speaker 4: an event in Fulton, Missouri. Okay, I can't can't remember

20:17 Speaker 4: the name of what the event is specifically, Oh, the

20:19 Speaker 4: Wyatt Wyatt International.

20:21 Speaker 1: I think really Okay, yeah.

20:24 Speaker 4: So yeah, they've had they've been promoting the crap out

20:27 Speaker 4: of it, and it looks like they have so many

20:29 Speaker 4: wrestlers coming.

20:30 Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm excited. It's gonna be awesome.

20:32 Speaker 1: Oh, very cool. I'm gonna have to look that up online.

20:35 Speaker 2: I'm curious now, and are you are you only performing

20:38 Speaker 2: or the national anthem or do they have you involved

20:41 Speaker 2: in anything? I hope no one's going to hit you

20:43 Speaker 2: with a chair or anything like that, but do they

20:45 Speaker 2: do they have you doing anything else at the event

20:47 Speaker 2: or just singing or maybe it's a surprise that you

20:49 Speaker 2: can't tell us.

20:50 Speaker 1: I don't know.

20:52 Speaker 3: Well how we.

20:53 Speaker 4: Got involved is they actually decided to use something wicked

20:57 Speaker 4: as their theme song for the event?

21:01 Speaker 1: Oh the Generations track?

21:05 Speaker 3: Yeah? Oh wow, Oh.

21:06 Speaker 1: That's so cool. Okay, okay, yeah, very cool.

21:09 Speaker 3: So I was excited about that.

21:10 Speaker 4: And then we actually had Reaper Wrestling out of Canada

21:13 Speaker 4: pick up seance as their theme song for their next

21:16 Speaker 4: upcoming event.

21:17 Speaker 1: Well that's a cool niche.

21:21 Speaker 3: That was not expecting it. Yeah, I know, it's it's

21:24 Speaker 3: so cool. I'm just I'm honored and I love it.

21:27 Speaker 4: And there was a festival in New York called the

21:31 Speaker 4: Something Wicked Festival and they picked up our song also

21:35 Speaker 4: for to be their theme song.

21:36 Speaker 3: For the festival.

21:37 Speaker 4: So I've I know, I guess I feel kind of

21:40 Speaker 4: dumb now for not realizing that that existed or that's

21:42 Speaker 4: the thing, but I didn't cool.

21:47 Speaker 2: That is very cool. Well, congratulations on that. So we

21:50 Speaker 2: might have to I might have to sneak in Something

21:52 Speaker 2: Wicked too from Generations at some point in the show today.

21:55 Speaker 1: That's awesome.

21:56 Speaker 2: Congratulations on that. That's very very cool. Well, well, gen X,

22:00 Speaker 2: thank you again so much. It is wonderful to speak

22:03 Speaker 2: with you today. We'll let you go in a second.

22:04 Speaker 2: We're going to hit this track of the game, which

22:06 Speaker 2: I absolutely love Cognition. But as you're I'm glad you know,

22:10 Speaker 2: sounds like you got new music on the way. So

22:11 Speaker 2: as you're releasing new music, we'd love to play it

22:14 Speaker 2: here and we'd love to have you back soon. You

22:16 Speaker 2: got a lot of great stuff going on. Very positive

22:19 Speaker 2: and congratulations again on the Washed. That's a great song,

22:22 Speaker 2: very very powerful. Love that a lot so so again,

22:26 Speaker 2: we wish you continued success and we look forward to

22:28 Speaker 2: having you on again soon.

22:30 Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you so much for having me.

22:32 Speaker 2: It's always a blast, absolutely, jen all right, thank you,

22:35 Speaker 2: take care, have a good day.

22:36 Speaker 1: We'll talk again soon. I'm sure, take care. B all right,

22:39 Speaker 1: bye bye, all right.

22:40 Speaker 2: That is jen X from the band Cognition and of

22:43 Speaker 2: course Generations as well. Might sneak in a couple of

22:46 Speaker 2: those songs, but right now we're going to play this.

22:48 Speaker 2: This is another great song from Cognition. This is called

22:51 Speaker 2: The Game. I really like the sound of this one.

22:53 Speaker 2: Check this out.