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Bit Depth
Deep conversations with interesting people. Santiago Ramones gets to know people on a deeper level: Why they do what they do and why they believe what they believe. Bit Depth lies at the intersection of creativity and philosophy, striving to establish a culture of nuance, empathy, and growth. As a musician, Santiago speaks with other musicians, creatives, outliers, and any sort of interesting person interested in deep conversation.
Episodes
Bit Depth307 - Power(lessness) with Don Data
Don Data returns once again and we discuss how white people are portrayed the villains in today’s media, race and history, our inability to impact political…
Bit Depth306 - Don Data
Donald James, Don Data, Don Eisenberg, is a drummer, radio host, and a general speaker of hard truths on his social media. He plays drums in Lust Online and…
Bit Depth305 - Conspiracies with Psych The Wordsmith
Psych The Wordsmith asked about conspiracy theories, so we dive into what makes most conspiracy theories not make sense like 9-11 Truth or Satanic Panic, how…
Bit Depth304 - Psych The Wordsmith
Clint Blackwell Jr., better known as Psych The Wordsmith, is an Oklahoma-based rapper, poet, performer, actor, and much more! We talked about music, theater…
Bit Depth303 - Creativity and Technicality at Cardinal Song with Aaron Newberry and Michael Trepagnier
In this rather unique episode, I got to sit down with Aaron Newberry and Michael Trepagnier at Cardinal Song - Michael’s amazing studio in OKC’s backyard. We…
Bit Depth302 - Free Will with David Hanon
David Hanon is back and we talked about spiritual materialism, power structures, free will, morality, and more! Yes, it seems like I’m always talking about…
Bit Depth301 - David Hanon (Gonzo LeBronzo)
David Hanon is a multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, educator, and musician in general. He plays with Gonzo LeBronzo and Neon Cathedral. We talked about his…
Bit Depth300 - Santiago Ramones and Evan Jarvicks, LIVE!
300 is an arbitrary milestone, but it is a milestone that is valued nonetheless. This episode is unlike any other - I am interviewed by Evan Jarvicks, Chief…
Bit Depth299 - Takes and Honesty with Jon McMillan
Jon McMillan is back and we talked about takes: not everyone has to have a vocal opinion about everything! We also talked about sex, honesty, relationships…
Bit Depth298 - THE ALGORITHM with Justice Cow
Jessica “Justice Cow” Kion is back and we go all over the place talking about family, comedy, YouTube, social media, metamodernism, decentralized agriculture…
Bit Depth297 - Jessica Kion (Justice Cow)
Jessica Kion, also known as Justice Cow, is a Boston-based songwriter, singer, artist, animator, YouTuber, and multi-instrumentalist. I am a big fan of her…
Bit Depth296 - Idealism with Thomas Who?
Thomas Who? is back again and he asks me a lot of stuff! We talked about metamodernism and discussed how complex systems have emergent properties, how that…
Bit Depth295 - Thomas Who?
Rodrick Thomas, AKA Thomas Who?, is an Oklahoma based rapper who raps better than you. We discuss how he goes from gifted kid, to selling drugs, to how rap…
Bit Depth294 - Jon McMillan (Teflo $)
According to him, “Jon McMillan is a United States Congressman who does not accept letters. He often launders drug money through the entertainment industry…
Bit Depth293 - Metamodernism with Xantheartist
Xantheartist is back and we talk about philosophy, making music, how we analyze musical creation, convergent and divergent thinking, this new thing called…
Bit Depth292 - Xantheartist
Xantheartist is an alternative musician from Oklahoma City. He talks about how he got involved in music, who he is, spirituality and religion, doing good in…
Bit Depth291 - Music and Data with Caleb Gray
Caleb Gray and I went in deep for more music conversation! We talked about making music, sharing it with others, marketing, performing, the amount of data we…
Bit Depth290 - Caleb Gray (Kodos)
Caleb Gray is a musician and audio engineer. He’s a member of Kodos, an alternative pop band in Oklahoma City. We talked about how he got into music, making…
Bit Depth289 - Colonized Culture with Anna Littlejohn
Musician and journalist Anna Littlejohn joins me once again and I start the conversation on black Christianity, from which we go on to discuss colonization…
Bit Depth288 - Anna Littlejohn, Musician; Journalist for The Black Times Oklahoma News
Anna Littlejohn is a self-described “volatile organic compound”, with which I agree as respectfully as possible. They play keys with Burl, played keys with The…
Bit Depth287 - Music, Culture, and Creation with Nia Moné
Nia Moné returns and we talk about developing skills, time investments, the Oklahoma City metro, bar and club culture, having had COVID-19, Astroworld, concert…
Bit Depth286 - Nia Moné, Singer/Songwriter
Nia Moné is a singer/songwriter born in North Dakota, based in OKC. Her vocal styles include that of LoFi, Jazz, and R&B. We talked about music, art, stage…
Bit DepthUPDATE: 275 - Santiago's Immigration Experience (Sample Rate 11)
This is an update to a previous episode. The new audio is at the end. I came to Oklahoma from Venezuela in 2001 on my 6th birthday. This has been my experience…
Bit Depth285 - Katie Chonacas, Saint Kyriaki
Katie Chonacas is an actor, voice over artist, podcaster, author, musician, life and industry coach, speaker, and artist in general. She’s been in films…
Bit Depth284 - Colonialism, Video Games, Media, and more with Bannister Chaava
Singer-songwriter Bannister Chaava is here to grace your ears again with wisdom regarding the annexing of information into our brain in the same way Western…
Bit Depth283 - Bannister Chaava
Bannister Chaava is a singer and songwriter “from” Virginia, but he currently resides in Lawton, OK, so the Oklahoma community can consider him a fellow local…
Bit Depth282 - Lindsey Cox (stepmom)
Lindsey Cox is the lead singer, guitarist, and manager of stepmom. She’s also the box office manager and talent booker for Factory Obscura. We talked about…
Bit Depth281 - Music Business and Society with Original Flow
Original Flow is a hip hop artist, poet, producer, photographer and videographer. His music combines old and new styles of hip hop while still having the…
Bit Depth280 - Original Flow
Christopher Acoff, known for his artist name, Original Flow, is a hip hop artist, poet, producer, photographer and videographer. His music combines old and new…
Bit Depth279 - The "Grind" and Kanye West's "The College Dropout" with Muditious
Jesus Ramones, my oldest brother, Muditious, helped me fill the empty space where I’m bad at scheduling interviews. We’ve been feeling the effects of the…
Bit Depth278 - "Real" Music and Free Will with LABRYS
Penny Pitchlynn, also known as her artist name, LABRYS, joins me once again and we talked about what makes one’s own music “real” music in sound, feel, and how…
Bit Depth277 - Penny Pitchlynn (LABRYS)
Penny Pitchlynn is a musician, songwriter, composer, and producer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her solo project, LABRYS, has hundreds of thousands of listens on…
Bit Depth276 - US Immigration with Stephanie Peñate
Stephanie Peñate joins me yet again again because I am not done discussing US immigration. Even though we talked a while, mostly me ranting, I feel like…
Bit Depth275 - Santiago's Immigration Experience (Sample Rate 11)
I'm undocumented. I came to Oklahoma from Venezuela in 2001 on my 6th birthday. This has been my experience as an undocumented immigrant in America. The…
Bit Depth274 - Morality, Patronage, and Art with Bailey
Bailey Gilbert and I get into deep topics and embrace the chaos of conversation. We discuss secular spirituality in contrast with religion and cognitive…
Bit Depth273 - Bailey Gilbert
Bailey Gilbert is a singer-songwriter based in Norman, Oklahoma that moonlights as a Content Strategist. She's been playing music for 10 years. We talked about…
Bit Depth272 - Internet, Reality, Bezos, and more with King Scott
Austin Scott, also known as his artist name, King Scott, returns and we discuss the Internet, Black culture, the evolution of memes, conspiracies and…
Bit Depth271 - King Scott, DJ and Producer
Austin Scott, also known as his artist name, King Scott, is a beat producer, DJ and film crew. He and I talked about going to college, producer influences…
Bit Depth270 - Musical Tangents with Chris Lashley
Chris Lashley is a guitarist, vocalist, producer, live sound engineer, cat dad, and access control technician. We talked about a lot of things - the Oklahoma…
Bit Depth269 - Chris Lashley
Chris Lashley is a guitarist, vocalist, producer, live sound engineer, cat dad, and access control technician. It was a blast having Chris on to talk about his…
Bit Depth268 - Activism and Nuance with Megan
Megan Runell Wiggins is a musician, activist, and gardener/farmhand. They play (played?) music with Me Oh My. In this episode we talked about communism…
Bit Depth267 - Megan Wiggins
Megan Runell Wiggins is a musician, activist, and gardener/farmhand. They play (played?) music with Me Oh My. We talked about music, cultivating food, and…
Bit Depth266 - Music Business with Wordsmith
Anthony Parker better known as "Wordsmith" is a Baltimore-based songwriter, performer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Wordsmith makes hip-hop with a…
Bit Depth265 - Wordsmith
Anthony Parker better known as "Wordsmith" is a Baltimore-based songwriter, performer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Wordsmith makes hip-hop with a…
Bit Depth264 - Music of Today with Regina Madre
Rebecca King Crews, also known by her artist name, Regina Madre, is a songwriter, singer, actress, mother, wife, manager, and mogul. You might recognize the…
Bit Depth263 - Rebecca King Crews/Regina Madre
Rebecca King Crews, also known by her artist name, Regina Madre, is a songwriter, singer, actress, mother, wife, manager, and mogul. You might recognize the…
Bit Depth262 - Creative Process and Gatekeepers with Sun Deep
Sun Deep is back and we talked about Bloom, the creative process, the balance of knowing music theory, gatekeepers keeping people from doing music because of…
Bit Depth261 - Sun Deep
Sundeep Sharma, also known as his artist name, “Sun Deep”, is a music producer, rapper, filmmaker, and geophysicist. His music has a lot of his Indian culture…
Bit Depth260 - Identity and Culture with Joshua
Joshua Marquez is back and we discussed how identity and culture shape our perceptions of ourselves and the cultures we belong in. It was a very challenging…
Bit Depth259 - Joshua Marquez
Joshua Marquez is a Filipino-American composer, guitarist, and sound artist. He is a resident composer for the Saint Mary's College Summer Composition…
Bit Depth258 - Joseph Carrasco
Joseph Carrasco is a podcast host, musician, and business owner. He is the host of The Cognitive Discourse, a podcast about discussing difficult ideas and…
Bit Depth257 - Occulture with Joe
Joseph Arthur Clark is back and we talked about culture, the occult, specific terms within, and how the colloquial understanding of magic and the occult is far…
Bit Depth256 - Joe Clark
Joseph Arthur Clark is a software programmer? Chef? Artist? Occultist? Those are four things that are seemingly unrelated but find unity within this one man…
Bit Depth255 - Mind and Will with Doug
Doug Sands, the Anywhere Hypnotist, is back and we talked about free will, the mechanisms of hypnotism that surround the conversation of free will, and the…
Bit Depth254 - Doug Sands
Doug Sands is a consulting hypnotist who works with clients all over the globe. We talked about how he became a hypnotist, some of the lesser known details and…
Bit Depth253 - Improvising with Perry
Perry Ramsey is back and we did a cross-podcast! We talked about podcasting, making music with people, jazz, and improvisation - both musical improv and…
Bit Depth252 - Perry Ramsey
Perry Ramsey is a musician and podcaster. He’s the host of the Off Topic Podcast, a conversational guest-based podcast not unlike Bit Depth. We talked about…
Bit Depth251 - AI and Music with Lucas
Lucas Cantor is a two-time Emmy winning composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker. He's composed music for the Olympics, Cannon Busters and…
Bit Depth250 - Lucas Cantor
Lucas Cantor is a two-time Emmy winning composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and speaker. He's composed music for the Olympics, Cannon Busters and…
Bit Depth249 - Music with Bryndon
Bryndon York is back and we talked about siblings, music, and more! You can find all his stuff on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bsy.photo/ Love never…