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Shannon Cason's Homemade
Check In on Your Friends | Everyday is a Story
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I hadn’t heard from a friend in a while, so I reached out.
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I hadn't heard from him in a while, so I reached out. Every day is a Story. I'm Shannon Casey. I was asked to do an interview with a storyteller friend, Trisha Rosebert, for her podcast no Time to be Timid. Check out no Time to be timid whenever you get a chance. A great podcast. But I was prepping for the interview and I was talking to her producer, Adam, and I noticed he was a cool guy. Then during the interview, I mentioned how my storytelling is an evolution from my hip hop days and how even now, I look at my short stories as songs in a way. So afterwards, Adam said that he loved hip hop too. And we just kind of hit it off from a general interest in love hip hop music and culture. So we shared numbers. I got his number, he got mine, and we started texting each other all the time. And this kind of sound, it's kind of sounded like a love connection, but it was a love of hip hop connection for sure. We would ask questions like, which 90s hip hop group right now? 90s hip hop album that gets the most replay value right now? Like, who would get the most replay value? And then we'll add, like, best producer MCs of all time. Let's list those best producer MCs. And then I found out that he makes beats. He didn't offer the information right away. We had been texting for months, and then all of a sudden I find out he makes beats. So he shared some of his. His batches of beats with me. Then I found out that he rhymes because I just asked the question, you make beats, do you rhyme too? And found out he rhymes. And he had been. Now let me say this, this is a white dude in New Hampshire. So sometimes when you, if you a hip hop head, sometimes when you hear somebody rhyme, you don't necessarily want to hear their beats or you don't necessarily want to hear them rhyme because it might not be exactly what you expected it might be. It might be whack. This is what I'm saying. So. But he sent it. He rhymes, rhymes, good stuff. Good shit, I'm telling you. Rhymes, rhymes. And I was like, dang. But he was actually a popular. He had a popular group. He was doing stuff with a lot of major artists and. And actually in the. In the industry, you know, So I was just shocked by this. But he told me that he was coming to Chicago and he was going to meet up with his producer and hip hop friends in Chicago and that we can meet up, you know, So I Went to this record shop on the south side. I know I'm a butcher. The name, I think it's Miyake Records. Miyake Records. It's a cool new. Newer shop. Newer record shop. I think it's on 47th, I believe. And so I went out there and visited them, talked to him in person, met him. Cool ass dude, you know, we first time meeting in person. So now when I needed music for Homemade, I was changing up the music. I needed the intro, I needed the outro, and I needed some, like, beats in between stuff. So I talked to Adam, and he goes by Echo Finch for his production name is Echo Finch. So I talked to him because his beats, they have like this quality where, you know, it's hip hop, you know, it's good music, but it's not like only hip hop. Like, you could. You could feel like other. Other markets are like it as well. So it. The beat worked for me because it was genuine to hip hop, but also it was. It was inviting to everybody. And I like those kind of beats, so. And I know a lot of beat makers, so I can get. I know a bunch of people. I can get a lot of different beats, you know, But I liked Echo Finch's beats for that purpose, for homemade and for my podcast purposes. So we kept the conversations going. You know, when the new Clips album dropped, we. We gave an honest review of the album. We. We always get these honest reviews. If it's a new album that come out, when we talk about it, come. Because some of the albums aren't as good. And then the Clips album is a modern classic. That's a modern classic. We agreed on that. But he was dropping new music too. All this all along the way, he's dropping new music on Band Camp. Great albums on Band Camp. And. And I would be the first to buy it if it was on Bandcamp. And I. He'll send me test songs of songs that didn't make the album, which I thought were pretty good. And we just. Just text all the time. One of the things I really love, he text me when a new, a really good homemade episode come out that he could relate to. And I was glad that he was checking out my stuff too. So they start in 2026. I hadn't heard from Adam in a little while. You know, I was thinking of him because when I started every day as a story, which this is, I needed some beats and I used this one beat that he has sent me. It was like a. A kalimba. A kalimba. You know, those Kalimbas with the little. It has little prongs on it, and you could play it like that. It's real simple instrument. But he has sent me a beat of a kalimba, so I was using that beat for this project. Every day is a story. And I hadn't heard from him in a while, but it made me think to reach out to him. So I sent him a text. I say, hey, checking in? What's up with you? And I didn't hear back. That's not a biggie, though, with me, because when I text, you can get back to me later in the week when you get the message. It ain't no big deal. You don't have to text me right back, because I'm not gonna hit people right back when they text me. Um, but eventually he texts me the next day, and I'm gonna read it because I think it's. He can say it better. So I say, check it in. What's up with you? He said, yo, man, I'm way late on this text. I don't even know where to start. Very, very long story short, I had a stroke right in the last week of February. I couldn't talk for a while. Turns out that I had a hole in my heart. I had no idea. Was in the hospital for a while, recovering. Then finally last week, I was able to get surgery to close the hole. Now I'm healing up good, and I'm just taking it easy. Been some wild shit, but I'm alive and I'm almost back to my old self. How you doing? I'm like, what the. Of course I'm shocked. So in Adam, I'm 50, I think he younger than me. He got to be, like, probably like 40 something, you know, early 40s, I would guess. And, you know, guys, we don't really. We don't really get into all that stuff. You know, what's your age and what's your. How you. How you. How your health looking and all that kind of stuff. But I was not expecting that. He says that he'll have all his mobility. Praise God. He said that he's going to recover, you know, so that, like, in our conversations, he said that it brought his whole community together. Everybody in his community in New Hampshire and his family and friends and his loved ones and his wife and I'm sure his wife's family all with him. So that's a beautiful thing, man, to bring community together. But the thing that got me is you never know. You just never know. I'll be checking in on him often. Make sure you send some love to Adam and Echo Finch, send him some good energy in New Hampshire. But the this was a text yesterday when he got me, gave me, sent me a text while I was at the gym working out. He sent me that text, just threw me off. But that was my moment of meaning for the day, obviously. So moment of meaning is like, check in on your people. You don't always know what's going on, so check in on them. So the question for you is, who haven't you checked in with for a long while? Why not go reach out? What's your story? All right, so for my podcast listeners who's still with me, I'm gonna play you some Echo Finch's music. I'm gonna play you some of his music and in the description, I'm going to leave a link to his music, to his band camp. So go buy some music. Listen to more Echo Finch. Good music too. All right, I'll see you soon.
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We've already said everything in every poetic shape we read the rules by wood stove like caught the dawn of fire escape Swam knuckle up in a neighborhood pool in July we ran from the cops never knew the reason why and it's hot off the presses this the war of adolescence there's no acquiescing we do our best work in these night sessions I count the dollars and the blessings I'm number one in second guessing can't help but stay stressing anxious arrows aiming these weapons A lot of logic, lot of questions I can't sit still I'm never resting I write because it's constant haven't found a way to stop it so I fade into magenta I can fact check these profits Come on man yeah you acting like tomorrow is a gone alone Shock feelings wish I always did belonger no need to backtrack no need for a llama I've been working on my novel and it's gross Bull Zion big pharma emergency vet for your dogma Blow your brains out I'm in nirvana Walking through your city in that thrift store llama I tried to be subtle and do no harm still got mom issues that's word to John Khan Doing pull ups in the desert yeah it's death before dishonor I'm sure that this is happening Cause I heard too much doom and I simply needed a change should have rearranged my room I teach my kids about the cycles of the sun and moon and how the answer to everything is happening Everything
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from bonnet everything I learn everything from Bonnet. Everything.