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10:31 Speaker 17: That is such a cool vibe. I didn't even want

10:33 Speaker 17: to talk over it at the end. That is Silicon

10:35 Speaker 17: Kong broken Down, really really cool. This is Matt Connorton unleashed.

10:40 Speaker 17: Of course, we are live on this Saturday morning, August

10:43 Speaker 17: twenty four, twenty twenty four.

10:45 Speaker 13: Jenny is here as well at.

10:46 Speaker 17: The news table, present and account of our and we've

10:48 Speaker 17: actually played a few Silicon Kong tracks so far this morning,

10:52 Speaker 17: but we have is this the man himself joining us

10:56 Speaker 17: via Skype. Hello, Hello, welcome.

10:59 Speaker 6: Oh can you hear me?

11:00 Speaker 14: Yes?

11:01 Speaker 15: Yes?

11:01 Speaker 13: Can you hear us?

11:02 Speaker 12: Yes?

11:02 Speaker 6: I can?

11:03 Speaker 13: Very good, very good.

11:04 Speaker 15: Yeah.

11:05 Speaker 5: We played.

11:07 Speaker 17: Yes yes, uh so we played Broken Down, and we

11:10 Speaker 17: did play a little bit earlier before the break Cosmic

11:13 Speaker 17: Groove Pool, and I also played even though the let's

11:18 Speaker 17: see what was it computer? I'm trying to get back

11:22 Speaker 17: to it now. I played a couple of older things as.

11:25 Speaker 6: Well, because that do you compute?

11:28 Speaker 13: Oh, yes, do you compute?

11:30 Speaker 17: I was listening to that last night and I was like,

11:32 Speaker 17: I gotta play this one too, because that Associate Iris cover,

11:37 Speaker 17: is it?

11:37 Speaker 6: I didn't realize that Pittsburgh.

11:40 Speaker 13: Yes, I had no I I had no idea. I

11:43 Speaker 13: I really like that song.

11:45 Speaker 6: Thank Donnie Iris too.

11:47 Speaker 13: I'll have to check. I'll have to check out the

11:49 Speaker 13: Donnie Iris.

11:50 Speaker 6: Yeah.

11:50 Speaker 17: When I think of Donnie Iris, the only ah Leah,

11:55 Speaker 17: which is a personal favorite of mine, and what's the

11:57 Speaker 17: other one?

11:57 Speaker 13: Love is like a rock?

11:58 Speaker 3: Is that?

11:59 Speaker 6: Yeah?

11:59 Speaker 13: Yeah?

12:00 Speaker 6: Being that I'm a jer and I grew up on

12:03 Speaker 6: in Pittsburgh, you know, I'm just so used to I

12:05 Speaker 6: grew up listening to Donnie Arris. I loved him. I mean,

12:07 Speaker 6: he's awesome. He's he's king cool to us. He's like, uh,

12:11 Speaker 6: he's like an icon. So, I mean, so it was

12:14 Speaker 6: only fitting that I did a suitable cover that will

12:17 Speaker 6: fit him and hopefully he liked it.

12:18 Speaker 5: Yeah.

12:21 Speaker 13: Do you know if he's ever heard it? Like, have

12:22 Speaker 13: you ever met him or.

12:23 Speaker 6: Talk to him? You know, I can't say I have.

12:26 Speaker 3: You know.

12:26 Speaker 6: I actually just released that not too long ago, maybe

12:28 Speaker 6: a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, you know, because uh,

12:33 Speaker 6: I I do. Uh like my My covers are very

12:36 Speaker 6: as you can tell, they're very unique. I'm sure if

12:38 Speaker 6: you would go to my reverb Nation page or my

12:41 Speaker 6: Facebook page. I do covers, but they're different.

12:46 Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, no they are. I also listened to maybe

12:50 Speaker 17: I'll play later. I listen to your cover of Destroyer.

12:52 Speaker 17: Oh yeah, that's awesome.

12:55 Speaker 6: Thank you very much, thank you.

12:56 Speaker 13: It's really really cool. By the way, So what is

12:59 Speaker 13: a YenS yer.

13:01 Speaker 6: That's a pittsburgher. Okay, it's just you know that, it's

13:05 Speaker 6: a it's it's a form of identification for Pittsburgh, Okay,

13:09 Speaker 6: because you know, because we uh, you know uh and

13:12 Speaker 6: that and you know yuns and you know, we have

13:15 Speaker 6: our own little dialogue out here in Pittsburgh.

13:18 Speaker 13: Well, apparently I had no idea. I don't know what

13:20 Speaker 13: any of these things are.

13:22 Speaker 6: I work with. You know what, I've worked with a

13:23 Speaker 6: lady here and she's actually from New Hampshire and her

13:27 Speaker 6: accent is is you know, I can tell she's definitely

13:29 Speaker 6: from New Hampshire. I mean, you just have your own

13:31 Speaker 6: little dialogue accent thing going on up there.

13:34 Speaker 13: Right right.

13:38 Speaker 17: Well, we have the It's it's strange though, because in

13:41 Speaker 17: New Hampshire we have variations of it. For example, there's

13:44 Speaker 17: that classic well not just New Hampshire, there's that classic

13:48 Speaker 17: New England thing of which I think with every generation

13:52 Speaker 17: becomes less and less prevalent. Prevalent where people drop their rs,

13:56 Speaker 17: you know, like Instaid of park the car, they say

13:58 Speaker 17: pack the CA. But but there's also but but there's

14:03 Speaker 17: also variations where uh, you know, where you do pronounce

14:08 Speaker 17: your ours, but but there's something else weird going on

14:11 Speaker 17: where people can still tell that you're from here even

14:13 Speaker 17: though you do pronounce your ours. It's it's strange, there's different,

14:16 Speaker 17: there's there's levels.

14:17 Speaker 6: To it, you know what. A couple of years ago,

14:20 Speaker 6: I was traveling down south. This is just a cool story,

14:23 Speaker 6: and I stopped in this little mini mart. It was

14:26 Speaker 6: Bowling Green, Kentucky. Outside Bowling Green, Kentucky, there's two in

14:29 Speaker 6: the morning, and there's this nice little girl working the

14:31 Speaker 6: counter and I was looking around, say, hey, where do

14:33 Speaker 6: you put the cigarettes at? She said, you're from Pittsburgh,

14:36 Speaker 6: ain't you. Oh she could tell huh yeah because the yins.

14:40 Speaker 10: Oh so not not just so.

14:42 Speaker 13: That's that's not like a Pennsylvania thing. That's very specifically

14:45 Speaker 13: a Pittsburgh thing.

14:47 Speaker 6: It is definitely a Pittsburgh thing, a Steel City thing.

14:49 Speaker 17: Okay, okay, all right, very good and so Silicon Kong

14:53 Speaker 17: is from the Steel City, from Pittsburgh.

14:57 Speaker 6: Suburb of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. It's about about twenty minutes outside

15:01 Speaker 6: of Pittsburgh Southeast.

15:03 Speaker 17: Okay, okay, and tell us about now, there's a movie

15:06 Speaker 17: coming right, The Steel City Architect.

15:08 Speaker 18: Yes, there is.

15:09 Speaker 6: I'm glad you mentioned that. Yeah, it's a movie called

15:11 Speaker 6: it's called The Steell City Architect, a Pittsburgh rockumentary.

15:17 Speaker 8: What that is.

15:17 Speaker 6: That's a movie that will be released in January. It's

15:21 Speaker 6: with Drew Morland of Improv Chills Studios and uh Santo's

15:27 Speaker 6: or Tess Patrick of Downcast Park and what that is.

15:29 Speaker 6: It's kind of like years and years ago. I'll tell

15:31 Speaker 6: you what I guess I have time, I can tell

15:33 Speaker 6: you the story. Yeah. Yeah, a couple years ago, a

15:36 Speaker 6: couple of years ago, there was a producer writer, like

15:39 Speaker 6: I said, he names Drew Morland, and she was a filmmaker.

15:42 Speaker 6: She's she's won quite a few awards, and she's also

15:46 Speaker 6: an author of a couple books, which I'll post on

15:49 Speaker 6: my Facebook page. I wants to check it out. But anyway,

15:53 Speaker 6: what happened was she was looking for she was doing

15:55 Speaker 6: a zombie movie, and I was like, well, you know,

15:57 Speaker 6: somebody contacted me, one of her affiliates calling attacked me,

16:00 Speaker 6: and I was like, well, hey, you know, I wouldn't

16:01 Speaker 6: mind doing like a soundtrack. You know, I do some

16:03 Speaker 6: songs for all because I love horror movies. I grew

16:06 Speaker 6: up with horror movies. And I was like, wouldn't that

16:08 Speaker 6: be really cool? I said, well'll tell you what. How

16:09 Speaker 6: about you know I'm playing this show. It was a

16:11 Speaker 6: place called Casey's in Pittsburgh, and I said, come out,

16:14 Speaker 6: check out the show, and you know, if you like it,

16:17 Speaker 6: maybe we can arrange something. I can do some soundtrack work.

16:20 Speaker 6: So make a long story short. She came out with

16:22 Speaker 6: her constituent at the time, and she was like, I

16:26 Speaker 6: came out, and I had I come out. I'm a

16:28 Speaker 6: one man show, much like grim Rock. I know, you

16:31 Speaker 6: know grim Rock.

16:31 Speaker 13: Yes, and he's in the chat room by the way,

16:33 Speaker 13: and yes, we.

16:36 Speaker 6: Love Grimmy, we love me and grim got a lot

16:39 Speaker 6: of things going on, so people please stay tune. But anyway,

16:43 Speaker 6: back to the story, and she came out and she

16:46 Speaker 6: was like, well, hey, you know, I was like, well,

16:48 Speaker 6: come out, and I come out. I opened that particular

16:50 Speaker 6: set with the Ballad of Dwight Fry cover by Alice Cooper.

16:53 Speaker 6: Oh nice, yeah, and I come out in a straight

16:56 Speaker 6: jacket and the mask and she was she lost it.

16:58 Speaker 6: She was like, oh my god, get my camera and

17:00 Speaker 6: she said, do you mind if I filmed this. I

17:01 Speaker 6: was like, no, you go right ahead and you're cool.

17:03 Speaker 6: I like to have a little video thing anyway and

17:05 Speaker 6: make a long story short. After the set, after I

17:08 Speaker 6: was done playing, I was like, so, is there a

17:09 Speaker 6: chance of me getting in the soundtrack. She's like a soundtrack?

17:12 Speaker 6: She said, I want you in the movie. And I

17:14 Speaker 6: was like, wait a minute, Wait a minute. I'm just

17:16 Speaker 6: a musician. I'm not an actor. She said, you know

17:18 Speaker 6: what you was doing up on stage that was acting

17:21 Speaker 6: and you should look into it to make a long

17:23 Speaker 6: story short. We've had a long, good, long relationship with

17:29 Speaker 6: each other since then, and we was We've done a

17:31 Speaker 6: couple of movies Hidden Behind a Veil, which was like

17:34 Speaker 6: by Drew Moron and Santos Patrick's past k as well.

17:38 Speaker 6: We also did Pizza Musical. These things will be get

17:41 Speaker 6: released within due time, so people just want to stay

17:44 Speaker 6: tuned to my Facebook page. I will be releasing the

17:47 Speaker 6: links to the YouTube and anything anyway. So I was like, well,

17:51 Speaker 6: know what, I had this cool idea I wanted to

17:53 Speaker 6: do like kind of a spinal tap movie, you know,

17:56 Speaker 6: I want to do a song. It was basically Silicon

17:59 Speaker 6: Kong is a character, and what he is is he

18:02 Speaker 6: is a guy that has been in Yinzer, a still

18:06 Speaker 6: city guy who's been trying to pound the pavement in

18:08 Speaker 6: Pittsburgh and trying to get recognition for years to no avail.

18:12 Speaker 6: So people just kind of overlooked him.

18:14 Speaker 13: Yeah.

18:14 Speaker 6: Yeah, what it was was like, and I'd like to

18:17 Speaker 6: kind of do tie that in. I always had this

18:19 Speaker 6: cool idea of tying out into it like a movie,

18:21 Speaker 6: and I explained it to him. I told her about it,

18:24 Speaker 6: and she came back to me a couple of weeks

18:26 Speaker 6: later she said, let's do it. I was like, do

18:28 Speaker 6: what she said, Let's do this movie. I was like,

18:30 Speaker 6: whoa wait a minute. I wasn't expecting that. Yeah, but

18:33 Speaker 6: to make a one and now we started filming in

18:36 Speaker 6: twenty two. Okay. What she wanted was she wanted a

18:40 Speaker 6: nice timeline of a struggling musician in Pittsburgh. Okay, And

18:46 Speaker 6: we just finished Last Sing I think a couple of

18:49 Speaker 6: months ago, and that's due for release, and like I said,

18:52 Speaker 6: in the new year, it'll be due for release like Sai.

18:54 Speaker 6: If anybody wants to keep up on my Facebook page,

18:57 Speaker 6: I also have a Reverb Nation page, some music page,

19:01 Speaker 6: Silicon Kong. I always put the links to everything on

19:04 Speaker 6: that so uh yeah, like I said, so that's exciting

19:07 Speaker 6: for me. I mean it's it's uh, you know, that's

19:09 Speaker 6: it's it's just kind of kind of strange, a nooid

19:12 Speaker 6: because like I said, I was for years, I've just

19:14 Speaker 6: been a musician and I've all of a sudden, I

19:16 Speaker 6: see myself on camera and I see myself on and

19:19 Speaker 6: it's like whoa, yeah, but it's cool, it's cool.

19:22 Speaker 17: So so so Silicon Kong is the character you Ian,

19:25 Speaker 17: hemy are the are the You're the tray, the portrayer.

19:31 Speaker 17: But do you always are you always Silicon Kong on

19:33 Speaker 17: stage or are you okay?

19:36 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah on stage? I'm you know what I've been, Uh,

19:39 Speaker 6: I've been around and pitt Like I said, this is

19:40 Speaker 6: my home, this is my home area. Like I'm definitely

19:43 Speaker 6: ay Inser and from the Pittsburgh region. I've been in

19:45 Speaker 6: countless bands, Leaping the Bull, f six Aprils Full Still mana.

19:49 Speaker 6: You know, I've always been the singer and a bassis

19:51 Speaker 6: in a band of some kind of band. Yeah, but

19:54 Speaker 6: the Silicon Kong stuff. Actually, what happened there, uh, Pseudo

19:57 Speaker 6: Anam was another one I was in. What happened there

20:00 Speaker 6: there was I have I'm a multi instrumentalist, so everything

20:03 Speaker 6: that you're hearing, I play everything. Oh wow, Yeah, I

20:08 Speaker 6: play it all. I mean I play there's songs I'll

20:10 Speaker 6: play mandolin. There's songs I'll play harmonica. There are songs

20:13 Speaker 6: I'll play drum.

20:14 Speaker 3: You know.

20:14 Speaker 6: All the drums are me or were they are drum machines,

20:16 Speaker 6: but there's some kinds sometimes I use live drums as well. Yeah, yeah,

20:20 Speaker 6: all the influence I play them all. So yeah, that's

20:24 Speaker 6: and what happened was because I've always just had a

20:26 Speaker 6: love for music and I just enjoy it so much, right,

20:29 Speaker 6: So I taught myself everything, you know, And there's particular

20:33 Speaker 6: songs that I could couldn't really divulge with another band.

20:36 Speaker 6: You know, there's certain certain feelings with certain songs that

20:40 Speaker 6: I needed to get across in my own dialogue, in

20:42 Speaker 6: my own way. Yeah, and it just in a live band,

20:46 Speaker 6: it just wasn't working. So I credit. Like I said,

20:48 Speaker 6: the new wave movement in the industrial metal music is

20:52 Speaker 6: a huge influence to me. Yeah, so as well as

20:55 Speaker 6: the progressive rock. I mean, of course, let's go back

20:57 Speaker 6: to Pink Floyd, Yes, Crack the Sky, which actually West

21:02 Speaker 6: Virginia's guys, Cracked the Sky. Great band, if anyone has

21:05 Speaker 6: a chance to check them out. They were kind of overlooked,

21:08 Speaker 6: very very good progressive rock band. I actually covered one

21:11 Speaker 6: of their songs called from the Greenhouse. They could probably

21:14 Speaker 6: find out on my YouTube. So if yeah, family, almost

21:15 Speaker 6: go on my YouTube. I have a YouTube channel. Ian

21:18 Speaker 6: Hemy just pulled up and it'll pull everything up. I

21:20 Speaker 6: have I think eighty videos up. Okay, yeah, so and

21:25 Speaker 6: that is actually one of them. But anyway, and so

21:30 Speaker 6: I just started tinkering around. I built my own little

21:32 Speaker 6: home studio and you know, much to my, much to

21:36 Speaker 6: my how can I put it? And well, my wife's

21:39 Speaker 6: used to it, so I've been married thirty two years.

21:43 Speaker 6: She's used to it. She supports it. But anyway, and

21:46 Speaker 6: I would just sit around and just you know, I

21:49 Speaker 6: get ideas. Sometimes I start with the drum line. Sometimes

21:52 Speaker 6: it's a bass line, a piano line, or guitar line.

21:55 Speaker 6: Of lyrics and I would just sit down and tinker

21:57 Speaker 6: with them. Yeah, and they've become songs and they become

22:01 Speaker 6: the material that is now Silicon Kong.

22:04 Speaker 17: Well, it's it's got to be very sort of liberating

22:07 Speaker 17: to be able to do that. I mean, obviously I

22:11 Speaker 17: wonder what it would be like to do that.

22:13 Speaker 13: I've I've played in a lot of bands.

22:14 Speaker 17: I'm not currently active with that, but I've played in

22:16 Speaker 17: a lot of bands, but I've never done anything where

22:18 Speaker 17: it was just me creating. And I'm not although I'm

22:22 Speaker 17: not a multi instrumental, you know, I play bass. I

22:25 Speaker 17: can play a little bit.

22:25 Speaker 6: Of guitar, and the bass is my actually bass is

22:28 Speaker 6: my primary primary instrument. That's why I started playing.

22:31 Speaker 17: Okay, okay, And so in the bands that you fronted,

22:35 Speaker 17: you were the the bass player and lead singer.

22:37 Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I was the bassis and lead singer.

22:39 Speaker 13: Did you get I'm curious about this.

22:41 Speaker 17: Did you get a lot of people who would be like, WHOA,

22:43 Speaker 17: that's unusual, even though it's not that unusual. I mean,

22:46 Speaker 17: there are there are singing bass players like Geddy Lee

22:48 Speaker 17: and Tom Area, but yeah.

22:50 Speaker 13: Yeah, but what would people come up to you and

22:53 Speaker 13: be like whoa, I've never seen that.

22:56 Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what you do? That is because I

22:58 Speaker 6: only play six string bas Oh yeah, I'm a huge

23:02 Speaker 6: prim Is fan as well.

23:04 Speaker 13: Okay, that makes sense. Yep.

23:06 Speaker 6: So and you know Steve Harris, Getty Lee, of course,

23:11 Speaker 6: Les Claypool. Let me see who else there's there's Mark

23:15 Speaker 6: Antois the who I mean I've always uh. What happened

23:18 Speaker 6: was from how I started out as I was fifteen

23:21 Speaker 6: years old and a friend of mine who was in

23:22 Speaker 6: a neighborhood kid excellent guitarist. This was back when Metallica

23:25 Speaker 6: was huge. Just was during the one yeah e Metallica

23:29 Speaker 6: and he was like, dude, we're gonna do a band.

23:31 Speaker 6: Oh you? And I was like, dude, I could play

23:32 Speaker 6: a guitar because at that time I could play a

23:34 Speaker 6: little bit of guitar. And he's like, oh no, we

23:36 Speaker 6: already have enough guitarist. I was like, oh man, if

23:38 Speaker 6: you're not, if you can play bass, you can be in.

23:41 Speaker 6: So what happened there is my grandmother guard Russelsoul. She

23:45 Speaker 6: went to a flea market. Okay, remember keep in mind

23:49 Speaker 6: I'm only fourteen fifteen at the time. She went to

23:51 Speaker 6: the flea market and found this old Gibson p bass

23:55 Speaker 6: and she brought her up. I told her, you know,

23:56 Speaker 6: she said, you know, I was actually talking to her

23:58 Speaker 6: about and I was like, well, you know, I wanted

23:59 Speaker 6: to be in this band, but they need a bassis

24:01 Speaker 6: And she said, what's a basis? It's it's hard for strings,

24:04 Speaker 6: you know. Of course I had to explain it to her,

24:05 Speaker 6: and that woman came home the next week with one

24:08 Speaker 6: from the flea market and I learned to play it

24:11 Speaker 6: nice and and that's where it all started. And I

24:15 Speaker 6: played bass in that band for a while. And the

24:17 Speaker 6: thing about a bassis is we're as hard to find

24:19 Speaker 6: as drummers. Sometimes I think we're harder to fine than drummers.

24:24 Speaker 6: And so I just stuck to it. But what happened there, man,

24:26 Speaker 6: is like I perfected it within a year, and then

24:30 Speaker 6: I got bored. So that's when I started turning to

24:34 Speaker 6: Steve Harris, okay, Jeddy Lee, and I started to really

24:38 Speaker 6: really perfect the bass and in ways that played. I

24:41 Speaker 6: wanted to play it the way no one else did

24:43 Speaker 6: and with you know, locally, no one else play, and

24:46 Speaker 6: so I did.

24:48 Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, I can relate to what you're saying about

24:51 Speaker 17: bass players being in high demand. You know, when I was,

24:55 Speaker 17: when I used to be really active, I played, and

24:58 Speaker 17: at one point I was in three different bands that

24:59 Speaker 17: were all actively playing out and I was I was

25:02 Speaker 17: kind of sought after in the scene. But in my

25:06 Speaker 17: case it was never because you know, I would rate

25:09 Speaker 17: myself as a bass player as average, you know. But

25:12 Speaker 17: but I had a good reputation, you know, I know,

25:15 Speaker 17: no drugs or alcohol or anything. People knew they could

25:18 Speaker 17: depend on me to show up and that went a

25:20 Speaker 17: long way. I agree with you there, yeah, yeah, But

25:25 Speaker 17: but with drummers, it's interesting because you mentioned drummers being

25:28 Speaker 17: hard to find. A lot of the guests that we

25:32 Speaker 17: have on the show, and Jenny can attest to this too,

25:34 Speaker 17: it's like, you know, the drummer, if we have a

25:36 Speaker 17: band on the drummer will be the one member of

25:38 Speaker 17: the band who's in like multiple bands because drummers are

25:41 Speaker 17: so hard to find. And my theory about it is

25:44 Speaker 17: when you're first, when you're growing up and you start

25:47 Speaker 17: to get interested in playing an instrument, when you got

25:49 Speaker 17: to have the conversation with the parents about how I

25:51 Speaker 17: want to start playing something. If you say drums, that's

25:54 Speaker 17: like the one thing, and maybe the tuba. Maybe those

25:57 Speaker 17: are the two things that they're going to try to

25:59 Speaker 17: talk you out of, Like, oh, does it have to

26:01 Speaker 17: be that because nobody wants all that noise. So yeah,

26:05 Speaker 17: drummers are really hard to find. Like every drummer I

26:07 Speaker 17: know is in like ten bands. It's amazing.

26:10 Speaker 6: Yeah the drum I have a studio. Drummer's name is

26:12 Speaker 6: Kane Cross. People want to dig him up. He's on

26:15 Speaker 6: Facebook too. But in the last due actually Leaping the

26:18 Speaker 6: Bull was a duo.

26:19 Speaker 14: Or we was in.

26:19 Speaker 6: It was kind of like Royal Blood, but we as

26:21 Speaker 6: a more creepier, kind of gothy version of Royal Blood.

26:27 Speaker 6: We had a run since we started. What happened there

26:30 Speaker 6: was we started finished our first CD in November of

26:35 Speaker 6: twenty nineteen. Okay, now you know where this is going.

26:38 Speaker 6: I was like, oh yes, dude, let's get out there.

26:40 Speaker 6: We're going to get out there and nail it. You

26:41 Speaker 6: know how many months there boom, pandemic, no one's doing nothing, yep.

26:45 Speaker 6: So what we did is we continued. What we did

26:48 Speaker 6: is we continued to do some really cool videos. Like

26:50 Speaker 6: I said, I fayone goes on my YouTube, they can

26:52 Speaker 6: find them. They're Leaping the Bull videos. They're like many

26:55 Speaker 6: horror movies. Oh oh yeah, they're really really actually cool

26:58 Speaker 6: kind of both. They're cool to watch. It's like a

27:00 Speaker 6: mini horror movie. But anyway, so we continue doing that

27:04 Speaker 6: up until well, just recently he sustained an injury on

27:09 Speaker 6: a bike act on a motorcycle accident, so he's unable

27:12 Speaker 6: to play, so, you know, unfortunately. But anyway, so yeah,

27:16 Speaker 6: I mean, and you know, we was like, oh yeah,

27:19 Speaker 6: you know, but the pandemic came in. The pandemic, I mean,

27:22 Speaker 6: I'm sure effected everybody as far as being an artist,

27:25 Speaker 6: and we were all just knocked down one you know,

27:30 Speaker 6: and it was sad. It was really sad actually in

27:33 Speaker 6: this area. It's sad because I want to say, fifty

27:36 Speaker 6: percent of the bands that I used to play with

27:38 Speaker 6: and eighteen and nineteen yea never came back. Half of

27:43 Speaker 6: the venues never reopened, you know, because it was that

27:47 Speaker 6: was really hard on everybody.

27:48 Speaker 13: Oh absolutely, absolutely, yeah.

27:51 Speaker 6: So during that time period also whenever I was doing

27:54 Speaker 6: Leaping the Bulls, that's whenever I really started to focus

27:56 Speaker 6: on doing a you know, releasing more Silicon Kong things.

28:01 Speaker 6: You know, that I had lots of downtime because you know,

28:03 Speaker 6: I actually in twenty twenty, we actually Leap in the

28:06 Speaker 6: Bull was a schedule to play all year. I mean

28:09 Speaker 6: we had to cancel every show.

28:11 Speaker 1: Wow.

28:12 Speaker 13: Yeah, that's heartbreaking. That's heartbreaking.

28:14 Speaker 6: You know, you know, what can you do though, I

28:16 Speaker 6: mean pandemic. I'm you know, I work in health field myself.

28:19 Speaker 17: So I know that it was terrible, you know, yeah, yeah,

28:24 Speaker 17: and who knows, I mean you might not. You know,

28:26 Speaker 17: we have to find these silver linings where we can.

28:28 Speaker 13: And it did.

28:30 Speaker 17: It did kind of force a lot of people to

28:32 Speaker 17: be creative in ways that maybe that and considered. And

28:35 Speaker 17: you know, some of the projects you know that we

28:37 Speaker 17: talked about on the show, different guests that we've had,

28:40 Speaker 17: you know, some of them found themselves kind of in

28:42 Speaker 17: scenarios very similar to yours, where they started just creating

28:46 Speaker 17: their own music on their own, where they didn't necessarily

28:48 Speaker 17: have to be in a room with anybody, and and

28:52 Speaker 17: really doing something like Silicon Kong where you know, like

28:55 Speaker 17: you said, you know, you're doing it all yourself and

28:58 Speaker 17: you know which is which is pretty cool? Well is

29:01 Speaker 17: by the way, So when you play live, because you

29:03 Speaker 17: talked about playing live, when you play live.

29:05 Speaker 13: As Silicon Kong. Are you with a band or is

29:08 Speaker 13: it all you or does it vary?

29:10 Speaker 6: Or I'll tell you how I do that. I have

29:13 Speaker 6: a like I said, I have an home, a home studio.

29:15 Speaker 6: And what I do, like I said, I record. Like

29:17 Speaker 6: I said once again, I play everything. So what I'll

29:19 Speaker 6: do is I'll take my laptop when I have two

29:21 Speaker 6: or three of them, and what I have is I

29:23 Speaker 6: have those songs on a playlist. I use Sony products,

29:27 Speaker 6: recording products, studio, and what I'll do is take the

29:31 Speaker 6: you know, I'll take the lyrics out and I'll just

29:34 Speaker 6: get up and sing to them. Or sometimes I'll play

29:37 Speaker 6: I'll take a guitar line out and play guitar, or

29:39 Speaker 6: take a bass line out and I'll play bass. I mean,

29:41 Speaker 6: it varies, I mean, but usually on stage.

29:44 Speaker 13: Yes, it's just me, okay, okay.

29:46 Speaker 6: Some kind of outrageous outfit.

29:48 Speaker 13: Yeah.

29:51 Speaker 6: Like I'm also a very big Alice Cooper fan, so.

29:54 Speaker 13: Oh me too, me too.

29:55 Speaker 17: Absolutely, if you're just joining us, we're talking with Ian

29:59 Speaker 17: Hemy about Silicon Kong and uh Ian of course, is

30:04 Speaker 17: ayser Am I saying that correctly?

30:06 Speaker 6: Yes, Matt, I just want to point out I know

30:11 Speaker 6: you're New England. Hey, just we can still be friends.

30:14 Speaker 5: Man.

30:14 Speaker 17: Okay, oh, why is there some sort of sports rivalry

30:19 Speaker 17: I don't know about.

30:20 Speaker 6: Now we're just referring to the NFL.

30:23 Speaker 13: Okay, see, I don't know. See I'm not I'm not Bruins, Bruins, Bins.

30:29 Speaker 6: Jenny knows, I gotta I gotta, I gotta stay true Steelers, Steelers,

30:35 Speaker 6: and speaking time.

30:38 Speaker 13: I have no clue.

30:39 Speaker 17: Jenny knows more about sports ball than me. I I

30:42 Speaker 17: don't Uh, I know nothing. I don't even know. I

30:44 Speaker 17: don't know how many Innians are in a football game.

30:45 Speaker 17: I don't know anything. I'm just I'm completely lost.

30:50 Speaker 6: But uh, like, I work with one lady, she's from

30:52 Speaker 6: New England and we always discussed the football. You know,

30:55 Speaker 6: she's a huge Patriots and you know, me and her

30:57 Speaker 6: are always kind of going at it.

30:58 Speaker 17: So yeah, So I'm really curious to see this movie.

31:08 Speaker 17: I'm a huge by the way, this is spinal Tap.

31:10 Speaker 17: Happens to be my favorite film of all time.

31:12 Speaker 6: Wow, and you'll love it, You'll love you love it.

31:15 Speaker 17: So I'm sorry, I'm very curious to see it. And

31:17 Speaker 17: this is supposed to come out in January of twenty.

31:20 Speaker 13: Five, is that correct, right?

31:21 Speaker 6: Now it's on YouTube, and my producer, like I said,

31:24 Speaker 6: Drew Moreland is working on various streaming platforms. Yeah, she's

31:28 Speaker 6: working on those now. So by the time it happens,

31:31 Speaker 6: and by the time she's I mean right now, the

31:33 Speaker 6: movie is in post production, so by the time she's

31:36 Speaker 6: done with all of that. And I mean, the woman

31:38 Speaker 6: is awesome. I mean she does so much. Like I said,

31:41 Speaker 6: she's a producer or director, an actor, an author. Oh

31:45 Speaker 6: my god, like I said, I definitely, Like I said,

31:47 Speaker 6: I can't stress enough. But I'm going to put on

31:49 Speaker 6: my Facebook page after we're done, here a link to

31:52 Speaker 6: her book. It's called The Horrific This is Cool, The

31:55 Speaker 6: Horrific Tales of Artificial Intelligence, and her full name is

31:59 Speaker 6: Drew len Nay Moreland. And I will post that on

32:02 Speaker 6: my timeline on my Facebook, so if people want to

32:04 Speaker 6: go and check it out, it's an awesome read. Actually

32:07 Speaker 6: back to that real fast, and I'll get back to

32:09 Speaker 6: the movie. She actually started writing the book I want

32:13 Speaker 6: to say, eight months ago, okay, and we was talking

32:17 Speaker 6: about it, you know, me and her just kind of

32:19 Speaker 6: brainstorming about it. Because as Silicon Kong, as you can tell,

32:23 Speaker 6: has a AI thing going some kind of AI vibe going,

32:28 Speaker 6: and we was talking about it, and and she was like,

32:32 Speaker 6: you know, we were discussing how just mankind becomes a

32:36 Speaker 6: really dependent on AI and various and various reasons in

32:40 Speaker 6: many ways. I was like, well, you know what, when

32:44 Speaker 6: you write the book, I will write a song. So

32:47 Speaker 6: when your book is done, we'll let people know, Hey,

32:50 Speaker 6: here's the book, and this is a song inspired by

32:53 Speaker 6: that book. Actually, I'll have to send that to you.

32:56 Speaker 6: It's actually a song called Cyber Jesus. And I will

33:00 Speaker 6: be releasing here within the next week because her book,

33:02 Speaker 6: Like I said, you just finished her book and just

33:03 Speaker 6: put it up for sale last week. Oh so yeah, yeah,

33:07 Speaker 6: so I will be releasing that. It's a brand new

33:09 Speaker 6: tune and it's pretty it's pretty cool.

33:11 Speaker 17: Oh yeah, send it to us. You know something something

33:14 Speaker 17: that we love to do here on the show. We

33:16 Speaker 17: do world radio premieres. Okay, so we would love to

33:19 Speaker 17: be the first FM station to air it.

33:21 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I said, I have I have an internet

33:24 Speaker 6: an Internet station waiting forward to but of course FM.

33:28 Speaker 6: Yeah you can have the first FM. Yeah, you can

33:30 Speaker 6: have it.

33:30 Speaker 13: Awesome, awesome, we love it. Yeah, yeah, very cool and we'll.

33:34 Speaker 6: Back thee back to so what about the movie again?

33:38 Speaker 13: No, I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

33:41 Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, I like that she's working on a yeah,

33:43 Speaker 6: back to that, she's working on various streaming platforms. We like,

33:47 Speaker 6: I said, her ultimate release state she liked to do

33:50 Speaker 6: January twenty five. Yeah, and uh, like I said, I mean,

33:55 Speaker 6: as soon as that's up and as soon as the

33:57 Speaker 6: information is released to me, you know, putting it up

34:00 Speaker 6: on all my social media's. I have Instagram, I'm on

34:03 Speaker 6: x TikTok, I'm on Facebook, I have YouTube reverb Nation.

34:08 Speaker 6: Like I said, all you gotta do is typeing Ian

34:10 Speaker 6: Hemmy on your Google time. It'll pour up everything, Okay,

34:14 Speaker 6: and you can anyone and everyone can find me.

34:17 Speaker 13: Hey, where's the name come from? By the way, Silicon Kong.

34:20 Speaker 6: Ah, good story, I got time. I'll tell you.

34:23 Speaker 13: Oh we got time?

34:24 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, okay, cook uh on a see my general

34:29 Speaker 6: I grew up in the late late seventies and early eighties. Okay,

34:33 Speaker 6: so every year at I don't know if they did

34:36 Speaker 6: the same thing in New England, but here in Pittsburgh,

34:39 Speaker 6: uh Pittsburgh, and that with every year at Thanksgiving time,

34:45 Speaker 6: it was kind of like a tradition with my family.

34:48 Speaker 6: You know, of course, Thanksgiving the big big, a big bed,

34:51 Speaker 6: you know, big holiday for a lot of families. But anyway,

34:54 Speaker 6: every year they would play King Kong on on Thanksgiving

34:59 Speaker 6: Day would be uh, I'll never forget. It was always

35:03 Speaker 6: Wizard of Oz was first, and then they would play

35:05 Speaker 6: King Kong. That's back when we only had three or

35:06 Speaker 6: four channels to watch.

35:07 Speaker 13: Remember, yeah, I remember when they would play Wizard of Oz.

35:12 Speaker 13: They might even still do.

35:13 Speaker 6: That, yeah, I think they still do, but I remember

35:16 Speaker 6: back then and they would always play King Kong right

35:18 Speaker 6: up the original King Kong of course, and King Kong

35:21 Speaker 6: was always kind of like my favorite monster movie. I mean,

35:23 Speaker 6: I love Godzilla and Gammer and all that, King Kong

35:26 Speaker 6: was always the top. Anyway, back to the name. I

35:30 Speaker 6: was sitting around, like I said, you know, coming in

35:33 Speaker 6: and out of bands like I've done, like I was doing,

35:35 Speaker 6: and I was trying to think of a cool thing.

35:37 Speaker 6: I was just like, well, maybe I just released you

35:39 Speaker 6: know these songs under Ian Hemy and I was like, nah,

35:42 Speaker 6: that's not really that cool. Anyway, I was sitting down

35:44 Speaker 6: one day and I was talking to a friend of

35:46 Speaker 6: mine and I was just kind of kind of messing

35:48 Speaker 6: around and the newest King Kong with Jack Black? Do

35:52 Speaker 6: you ever see that movie?

35:53 Speaker 13: Oh, I'm aware of it. I've never actually watched it

35:56 Speaker 13: though it's.

35:56 Speaker 6: A newer movie. I mean, it was like the whole

35:58 Speaker 6: start of it all. But anyway, maybe was on and

36:01 Speaker 6: it was it was on a Sunday, and we was

36:02 Speaker 6: watching it downstairs, and I was just that's at that

36:04 Speaker 6: time my home studio was downstairs, and I'm looking around,

36:07 Speaker 6: you know, I was just kind of messing around with

36:09 Speaker 6: my music and that nuntry and I was like wow,

36:11 Speaker 6: I said, you know, the new remake of the King

36:14 Speaker 6: Kong with Jack Black is excellent. So if anybody gets

36:17 Speaker 6: a chance, definitely check it out. Anyway, so I was

36:21 Speaker 6: like wow, you know, and I just kind of reverting

36:23 Speaker 6: back to my childhood how much I loved King Kong. Yeah,

36:25 Speaker 6: and wow, I wish I could use that somehow. And

36:28 Speaker 6: I was like, Kong Kong Kong, you know, I could

36:30 Speaker 6: be like I could be King King of the Electronics.

36:33 Speaker 6: And then my friend said, hey, wait a minute, why

36:35 Speaker 6: don't you go with Electronic Cang? And I was like wait,

36:38 Speaker 6: and jokingly I was actually it came upstairs and uh,

36:43 Speaker 6: my son was watching something on YouTube or something like that,

36:45 Speaker 6: and they mentioned Silicong Valley. Okay, I was going to

36:49 Speaker 6: the restroom. I went back downstairs and just half heartily

36:52 Speaker 6: and I don't know where. I just how about I

36:53 Speaker 6: just go to Silicon Kong.

36:55 Speaker 13: And he was like, dude, yep, that's yep, yep.

36:59 Speaker 6: So I'm the king of the electronics, I can tell you.

37:02 Speaker 17: So Friday nights, I'm a co host on a show

37:04 Speaker 17: called retro Spectrum Radio with poly C and so during

37:09 Speaker 17: the show, Paul always asks me to plug whatever I'm

37:12 Speaker 17: going to be doing here on Saturday morning, and so

37:14 Speaker 17: I mentioned I said Silicon Kong and he loved the name.

37:18 Speaker 13: He had not heard it before. He was like, that's great.

37:20 Speaker 13: He loved it.

37:22 Speaker 12: You know.

37:22 Speaker 6: Last Halloween, another local band, Jessica Bella band, good band.

37:27 Speaker 6: Check them out. You can find them on the internet.

37:29 Speaker 6: To Jessica Bella. And she's a cute, cute little Pittsburgh

37:33 Speaker 6: pop singer. Anyway, we work. They have a company called

37:38 Speaker 6: MP Records. Being an artist, you know, an actor and

37:42 Speaker 6: a musician, we all try to help each other out here,

37:44 Speaker 6: you know, that's what you do. Yeah, you know, if

37:46 Speaker 6: we can help each other out in some form artistically,

37:48 Speaker 6: we will. Anyway, she was doing a show and she

37:51 Speaker 6: invited me to come up to her show last Halloween

37:55 Speaker 6: and kind of make you know, I'm kind of promoting

37:58 Speaker 6: the movie. I've been promoting the movie be really hard

38:02 Speaker 6: for I'd say about eight months now, because like so

38:04 Speaker 6: I knew we was wrapping it up and finishing it.

38:06 Speaker 4: Yeah.

38:07 Speaker 6: Anyway, So I got up on stage. Before I went

38:09 Speaker 6: on stage, I came out. I was outside this place

38:11 Speaker 6: called Gurgles in Pittsburgh, and uh, you know, this one

38:14 Speaker 6: lady came up and she, you know, uh, hey, how

38:17 Speaker 6: are you doing? You know, of course, you know, and

38:18 Speaker 6: we're talking. You know, I'm dressed up almost, you know,

38:20 Speaker 6: dressed up and everything except from my mask. So she

38:22 Speaker 6: knew I was some kind of kind of artist there

38:25 Speaker 6: for a purpose.

38:26 Speaker 4: Yeah.

38:27 Speaker 6: Anyway, so she said, oh, yeah, who year. I said, yeah,

38:30 Speaker 6: I'm here. I'm gonna do a little thing on stage.

38:31 Speaker 6: She said, what's what's your name is? Said Silicon Klong.

38:33 Speaker 6: She said that is an awesome villain name.

38:35 Speaker 13: I was like, yes it is, Yes, that's true.

38:41 Speaker 6: So that just stuck to me. I just kind of

38:43 Speaker 6: remembered that.

38:44 Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, No, I think it's great. And uh, I

38:46 Speaker 17: think it's cool that you're doing stuff with grim Rock.

38:49 Speaker 6: But you you you awesome, Graham.

38:52 Speaker 17: You kind of you kind of hinted, but it sounds

38:54 Speaker 17: like you've you've got things in the works that you

38:56 Speaker 17: can't necessarily talk.

38:58 Speaker 13: About yet or right now.

39:00 Speaker 6: Man, Grima, we have a plan. Okay, all Italians Italians

39:06 Speaker 6: is your listeners, not just a state, you know, stay

39:09 Speaker 6: posted to me or grim Rock, uh for for further information.

39:14 Speaker 13: Okay, okay, did you say all I CA Italians?

39:18 Speaker 12: Is that?

39:19 Speaker 19: Uh?

39:20 Speaker 17: That's that's Pittsburgh right there, Pittsburgh, Gotcha, gotcha.

39:25 Speaker 13: I do feel like I feel like I've had that

39:28 Speaker 13: got that in that.

39:30 Speaker 6: And at NAT and that and that.

39:34 Speaker 17: Wow, you really do have your own dialect there, Yeah,

39:37 Speaker 17: we do. That's amazing. Are there a lot of Are

39:42 Speaker 17: you able to play out a lot? Are there are

39:43 Speaker 17: a lot of good you did mention after the pandemic

39:45 Speaker 17: or during the pandemic, a lot of venues closed, but yeah.

39:49 Speaker 6: A lot of them just never reopened and it was

39:51 Speaker 6: just so sad.

39:52 Speaker 17: And what you're doing is unique. Are there still a

39:54 Speaker 17: lot of places to play? Or do do you hit

39:56 Speaker 17: the road and get out of the area and play

39:58 Speaker 17: some places or.

39:59 Speaker 6: I'll tell you what, Matt. I just we just recently

40:02 Speaker 6: thanks to grim Rock. Actually, you know, I'd have to

40:04 Speaker 6: say I have to thank grim Rock for that, But

40:06 Speaker 6: just recently I've been racking shows up left and right back.

40:10 Speaker 6: Now I can also say, like Silicon Kong was somewhat around,

40:14 Speaker 6: uh during the pandemic and that, But prior to that,

40:18 Speaker 6: I was in a real quick story here. I've always

40:22 Speaker 6: kind of liked it strange musical combinations, like there's a bay.

40:27 Speaker 6: I was an industrial metal band called F six. Now

40:29 Speaker 6: what that consisted of was me playing bass and singing

40:33 Speaker 6: and a friend, my friend guitarist at the time, Dustin Marx,

40:37 Speaker 6: was guitarist, and we would come up on stage with

40:39 Speaker 6: just a computer, you know, wow, and we would play guitar.

40:42 Speaker 6: I would play bass and sing.

40:44 Speaker 4: Uh.

40:44 Speaker 6: So years and then after after that, I also did

40:47 Speaker 6: another thing called Pseudo and with Jeff Keetemy and we

40:51 Speaker 6: would do the same thing, you know, we would he

40:53 Speaker 6: would do the singing part and I would kind of

40:54 Speaker 6: do the rapping, kind of creepier rock vibe.

40:57 Speaker 13: Yeah.

40:58 Speaker 7: Uh.

40:59 Speaker 6: The strange thing about that why I'm mentioning that is

41:02 Speaker 6: then this is we're talking. This is between two thousand

41:06 Speaker 6: and five, and I'd say fourteen or fifteen, and we

41:10 Speaker 6: would go out there and people would be like, dude,

41:13 Speaker 6: where's your drummer, where's your drummer? Where's your band? So

41:18 Speaker 6: at first we wann't like this kind of coincides with

41:21 Speaker 6: what I do. It really wasn't well accepted. People in

41:26 Speaker 6: Pittsburgh want to see bands. They go to see an

41:28 Speaker 6: old stage full people headbanging, playing urnishments, whatever the case

41:32 Speaker 6: may be. So for me to get up Aaron Grim

41:34 Speaker 6: could attest to this, He's actually had to deal with

41:37 Speaker 6: this as well. Getting up on stage as I just

41:41 Speaker 6: you playing something or whatever. Back then was not accepted.

41:45 Speaker 6: But since the pandemic, I will say this, I mean

41:48 Speaker 6: that's nothing. Really nothing good came of that pandemic. I

41:51 Speaker 6: don't care what analyst is. It was terrible in every

41:55 Speaker 6: possible way. But the only thing that to come out is, uh,

42:01 Speaker 6: we decided, you know, going out on stage with a

42:04 Speaker 6: computer or whatever and like a like a lot of

42:07 Speaker 6: the rappers or hip hop artists would do. Now it's accepted. Yeah,

42:12 Speaker 6: Now people are like, hey, that's pretty cool. Now so

42:16 Speaker 6: it kind of works out for that. So because of that,

42:18 Speaker 6: like I said, uh yeah, now, because of that, and

42:20 Speaker 6: it's more widely accepted in the area. Yeah, I got

42:24 Speaker 6: lots of shows coming up.

42:25 Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah.

42:26 Speaker 17: Well, plus I would imagine too, other bands must love

42:30 Speaker 17: playing with you, because when you get to play with

42:33 Speaker 17: someone who like like if you're if you're opening for

42:37 Speaker 17: somebody and they have to follow you and you're not

42:41 Speaker 17: going to take you don't have a you don't need

42:43 Speaker 17: twenty minutes to break down a drum set, you know

42:45 Speaker 17: what I mean?

42:47 Speaker 6: And dat And like I said, you know, the thing

42:48 Speaker 6: about it is, there's a few bands excuse me out here,

42:52 Speaker 6: God Hates Unicorns, Primate, there's a few of the bands

42:56 Speaker 6: that did survive the pandemic. Uh, and we're all all

43:00 Speaker 6: of us are really tight in the area. Yeah, Perishables,

43:03 Speaker 6: there's a couple other bands that, like I said, And

43:05 Speaker 6: the thing about that is we just all even though

43:07 Speaker 6: we may be different, different styles and different genres, we

43:13 Speaker 6: all support each other. I mean, there's a handful of

43:15 Speaker 6: us that support each other. Of course, it's just like

43:17 Speaker 6: any of the big city there are some bands that

43:19 Speaker 6: are like, yeah, great show that as soon as you

43:20 Speaker 6: turn around their stabbing me in the back. Sure, you know,

43:23 Speaker 6: there's quite a few of those two. But the thing

43:25 Speaker 6: about it is like these guys, like I said, back

43:28 Speaker 6: to the God Hates Unicorns and Prime Aid and Comparcial,

43:31 Speaker 6: these are guys that are really down to earth, excellent

43:35 Speaker 6: human beings.

43:36 Speaker 13: That's good.

43:37 Speaker 6: Yeah, so we stick with that. We basically like to

43:41 Speaker 6: stick with our little circle of various bands that we

43:45 Speaker 6: like to play with. So yeah, and we enjoy playing

43:47 Speaker 6: for each other. I mean, I've opened up for God

43:49 Speaker 6: Hates Unicorns. I've done stuff with Prime Eate, you know,

43:53 Speaker 6: and we always had a great time. You know, we

43:55 Speaker 6: love it. We all support each other.

43:57 Speaker 17: Yeah, no, that's really cool. God Hates Unicorns. I've heard

43:59 Speaker 17: that name. That name came up on the show recently.

44:06 Speaker 17: Grim might have might have mentioned them.

44:07 Speaker 6: But awesome. I will say, I can't really for very much,

44:13 Speaker 6: but I'll just to be saying they'll be They'll be

44:16 Speaker 6: around with us in one form or another. Yeah, just

44:20 Speaker 6: stay tuned. Like I said, people just gonna have to

44:22 Speaker 6: go on the Facebook pages mine and Grim's and Grim's

44:25 Speaker 6: website and you know, just keep keep posted because there's

44:30 Speaker 6: some surprises coming that's all I got to say.

44:32 Speaker 13: Very cool, very cool. Well we look forward to that.

44:36 Speaker 17: Well listen, uh Ian hemy also known as Silicon Kong.

44:40 Speaker 17: We're we're gonna have to let you go in a moment.

44:42 Speaker 17: But it's been wonderful having you on. I've really enjoyed

44:44 Speaker 17: talking with you. I enjoyed and I'm I'm a big

44:47 Speaker 17: fan of what you're doing.

44:48 Speaker 13: I love your music.

44:49 Speaker 6: Thank you very much, and I really appreciate uh you

44:54 Speaker 6: for for supporting you know, guys like me and grim.

44:56 Speaker 5: Uh.

44:57 Speaker 6: It's awesome because every little bit helps. And like I said,

44:59 Speaker 6: back to the Facebook pages, you know, go on to

45:01 Speaker 6: Facebook pages. Likes are cool, shares are better.

45:05 Speaker 12: You know.

45:05 Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely. What should people know about where

45:10 Speaker 17: to find you online?

45:12 Speaker 6: Like I said, really back to what I said. You

45:14 Speaker 6: just type in Ian hemmy and anything that has is

45:16 Speaker 6: affiliated with Silicon Kong in any possible way, we'll pull

45:19 Speaker 6: up on one of the if not all, I'm on

45:22 Speaker 6: the IDMB, the actors thing on you know, the Hollywood

45:25 Speaker 6: actors thing. I mean, I'm also a producer and a writer,

45:29 Speaker 6: you know, like so I've done things with movies and

45:31 Speaker 6: stuff like that. So anywhere you type in Ian Hammy

45:34 Speaker 6: and pull it up. Just click the link and I'm

45:36 Speaker 6: sure you'll find a link to take you to everything

45:38 Speaker 6: that I do.

45:39 Speaker 13: Yes, yes, you are very googleable.

45:41 Speaker 6: Yes, very googleable. I like that both.

45:44 Speaker 17: Yes, yes, very good, very good. I'm going to close

45:47 Speaker 17: out this segment with it. This is another track that

45:49 Speaker 17: I found on Reverb Nation that I really like. Twitter padded,

45:52 Speaker 17: I really.

45:54 Speaker 6: It's yeah, you got real quick. I'll tell you the

45:57 Speaker 6: story behind that. You know that camp? No, Jen, do

46:00 Speaker 6: you know where I came from?

46:01 Speaker 13: Oh, she's she's actually out of the room for a moment.

46:04 Speaker 6: Okay, all right, well growing up you know Disney. Let's

46:07 Speaker 6: go back to you and growing up Bamby the movie Bamby,

46:13 Speaker 6: Remember everyone bamb He's like, what's wrong with them?

46:15 Speaker 20: Oh?

46:15 Speaker 6: They're okay, they're just Twitter painting.

46:19 Speaker 13: Oh okay, I gotcha.

46:23 Speaker 6: Cartoons are my life.

46:24 Speaker 3: You know.

46:24 Speaker 6: I love Coromedi's and cartoons. I'm very animated, as you

46:27 Speaker 6: can tell.

46:27 Speaker 5: Yeah.

46:28 Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's also the John Burrows remix. Oh okay,

46:36 Speaker 6: you know John Burrows.

46:37 Speaker 13: I feel like I do.

46:39 Speaker 6: Look it up.

46:40 Speaker 13: All right, all right, very good? All right?

46:43 Speaker 17: Uh Ian Heavy aka Silicon Kong, thank you so much,

46:47 Speaker 17: my friend.

46:48 Speaker 11: I can't wait.

46:49 Speaker 13: I can't wait to see the movie, and uh, I'm

46:51 Speaker 13: sure we'll What's I'm sorry?

46:54 Speaker 6: I was like some people, ye have I said, just

46:56 Speaker 6: find me mainly A lot of that stuff will be

46:58 Speaker 6: released on my uh mainly my face pages. Okay, so

47:01 Speaker 6: people just follow me, friend me, whatever you want to

47:05 Speaker 6: do if you want to get more information on it,

47:06 Speaker 6: and also on my Facebook pages you can scroll through

47:09 Speaker 6: it and no take you. I had to also have

47:11 Speaker 6: a Facebook page for Silicon Kong, okay, so I also

47:14 Speaker 6: have another Facebook page for the Still City Architect of

47:17 Speaker 6: Pittsburgh documentary itself too. Oh on Facebook.

47:21 Speaker 13: Excellent, excellent.

47:22 Speaker 17: All right, ian Hemy, We'll let you go for now,

47:24 Speaker 17: but I'm sure I'm sure we will talk again in

47:26 Speaker 17: the future, I hope.

47:27 Speaker 13: So thank you, all right, man, thank you, take care

47:29 Speaker 13: bye bye, all.

47:30 Speaker 6: Right, you take care now on Matt bye bye bye.

47:34 Speaker 6: All right.

47:35 Speaker 17: That was Ian Hemy, Yes from Pittsburgh also known as

47:38 Speaker 17: Silicon Kong, and we will we'll close out the segment

47:42 Speaker 17: with again this track is so it's actually pronounced Twitter

47:45 Speaker 17: painted and then coming up, we have under the Horizon

47:48 Speaker 17: is going to be here with us alive in studio,

47:50 Speaker 17: so plenty more to come, don't go away.

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