K.O. is a rapper and singer originally from Enid, OK now based in Oklahoma City. The “Illest Bitch Alive” has dropped 5 albums and done countless features throughout the rap scene. We talked about music, where she came from, and of course, spirituality and religion. Get to know K.O.! You can follow K.O. on her Instagram here: https://instagram.com/sheisko The song playing at the end is “Trendy” by K.O.: https://open.spotify.com/track/3vkWCHOxVjHoI6NskmsYzJ?si=ad351283f41748cf Bit Depth: https://...
Jun 23, 2022•47 min•Ep. 312
Brandon Ross is back and we talked about feeling hopeless about the state of the world, politics, comparing Evangelical Protestant Christianity to Roman Catholicism, and what we can possibly do about the state of the world. I say many things that can be controversially taken out of context in this episode, and it’s up to you to make sure that you pay attention to the whole context so that you fully understand what I am and am not advocating for. You can find Brandon’s band, Grandpa Vern, here: h...
Jun 16, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 311
Brandon Ross is the front person of Grandpa Vern, a local punk band. We talked about Grandpa Vern, the name of it, how they got started in music, spirituality, Brandon’s journey out of the church, morality, politics, and more! Get to know Brandon! You can find Brandon’s band, Grandpa Vern here: https://www.instagram.com/grand_pa_vern/ The song playing at the end is “Flawed” by Grandpa Vern: https://open.spotify.com/track/0huRiF4Ntm8I22646DcOaM?si=92070b4d02a04c54 Bit Depth: https://santiagoramon...
Jun 11, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 310
Benji Skaloot of SHIFT is back and we talk about Timelines - the SHIFT album, music and music education, whether or not it’s worth it to go to music school in today’s day and age (in THIS economy?!), talent and skill, and some of Benji’s favorite bassists. Enjoy! You can find Ben on Instagram here: https://instagram.com/b.skaloot https://instagram.com/shift.band The song by SHIFT playing at the end is “Origin”: https://open.spotify.com/track/5WI7tvMW2mepKQUogB1m6O?si=c481595aa868411f Bit Depth: ...
Jun 02, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 309
Ben Askren, also known as Benji Skaloot, is a composer and bassist. He plays in the band SHIFT, which just had an album come out: Timelines . We talked about music, SHIFT, the album, spirituality and religion, morality, and more! Get to know Benji Skaloot! You can find Ben’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/b.skaloot/ You can find SHIFT’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/shift.band/ The song playing at the end is “In Fields” by SHIFT: https://open.spotify.com/track/4oBPeT7oqcTZ...
May 26, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 308
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 and economic circumstances, existential risk and how technology could destroy us, interplanetary travel, and even more! You can find Don Data on Instagram here: https://instagram.com/gas_lit_okie_ The song playing at the end is “RYB” by Lust Online: https://open.spotify.com/track/1DjRYb6Op5Hk4HTRaQOmda?si=eb81842f3b2d4677 Bit Depth: https://...
May 19, 2022•45 min•Ep. 307
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 with Tim Buchanan. He’s the host of No One Man on The Spy, 91.7FM, a show that features the music of hip hop culture. You should definitely tune in (the literal meaning of tune in, in this context) on Fridays from 11pm to midnight. Don and I talked about music, how he got into it, spirituality, money, the future, and more! Get to know Don Da...
May 12, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 306
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 we create our own hysterias like with the mark of the beast, treating spiritual things as spiritual rather than literal, and then we talk about shows we’ve been watching. You can find Psych The Wordsmith on Instagram here: https://instagram.com/psychthewordsmithofficial The track that plays at the end is “karma” by Psych The Wordsmith: http...
May 05, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 305
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, being a black man in a white theater world, spirituality and religion, the future, conspiracy theories, and more! Get to know Psych The Wordsmith! You can find Psych The Wordsmith on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/psychthewordsmithofficial/ The track that plays at the end is “thinkinbout” by Psych The Wordsmith: https://open.spot...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 304
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 recorded this just after recording an episode of their podcast, 15 Minutes Of… , where we discussed a topic for… fifteen minutes. That’s their podcast and it’s great and you should listen to it. For Bit Depth, however, we discussed the spectrum of creativity and technicality: instances where one or the other would help, or not, how to comb...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 303
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 free will, but it’s always a conversation worth having. Even after we stopped recording, we kept on talking about music and spirituality and more, but that’s just for us. Enjoy! You can find him and his bands here: https://www.instagram.com/fifth_of_hanon/ https://www.instagram.com/gonzolebronzo/ https://www.instagram.com/ne0ncathedral/ The t...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 302
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 musical journey, career, his spiritual journey, morality, and more! Dave is a great guy and I’m really glad to have had him on, since we had been messaging back and forth and the medium of text isn’t ideal for deep, nuanced conversation, which he’s great at. Get to know David! You can find him and his bands here: https://www.instagram.com...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 301
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 Executive Weirdo of makeoklahomaweirder.com and he asks his own questions, separate from the usual deep questions on Bit Depth. Once Evan was out of questions, I opened the floor to questions from the audience. We talked about the music industry, morality, free will, forgiveness, and more! It was held live at The Sanctuary , a new venue in O...
Mar 24, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 300
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, puns, and more! You can find him on Instagram here: https://instagram.com/jokesbyjon The track at the end is “Bank Job” by Teflo Dollar: https://open.spotify.com/track/5fUbPK5bNGLvCMJCekCKQh?si=7c7b0bd25f4f4391 LAST CHANCE: Bit Depth 300 Live! https://santiagoramones.com/300live Podcast: https://santiagoramones.com/podcast Music: https://san...
Mar 17, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 299
Jessica “Justice Cow” Kion is back and we go all over the place talking about family, comedy, YouTube, social media, metamodernism, decentralized agriculture, and how we must worship the almighty ALGORITHM or be banished. Jessica is a Boston-based songwriter, singer, artist, animator, YouTuber, and multi-instrumentalist. I am a big fan of her music. She plays bass in Bent Knee and has collaborated with many other artists like Ben Levin (her husband), Adam Neely , Trust Fund Ozu , Cory Wong , Aim...
Mar 10, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 298
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 music. She plays bass in Bent Knee and has collaborated with many other artists like Ben Levin (her husband), Adam Neely , Trust Fund Ozu , Cory Wong , Aimee Nolte , Sam Greenfield , Nick Krueger , Kyle Harris , Alambradas , Kit Orion , and many more! We talked about her journey through music, art, spirituality, morality, and the future. Get ...
Mar 05, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 297
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 applies to racism, building systems towards an ideal, and then we got into why I don’t smoke weed and why he does, drug regulations, free will, and more! It’s quite the trip, and we totally could’ve kept at it all night. You can find all his stuff here: https://linktr.ee/thomaswho The track by Thomas Who? at the end of the podcast is “Whole A...
Feb 24, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 296
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 became his therapy, to loving father and husband, and to releasing one track a week for an entire year. Like always, we discussed spirituality, religion, morality, and more. Get to know Thomas Who?! You can find him on Instagram here: https://instagram.com/iamthomaswho The song playing at the end is "EXECUTION OVER AMBITION": https://open.spo...
Feb 17, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 295
According to him, “Jon McMillan is a United States Congressman who does not accept letters. He often launders drug money through the entertainment industry with endeavors such as stand up comedy, record producing and onlyfans. A huge fan of Star Trek mcmillan plans to move to outer space with the rest of the worlds billionaires, leaving lower income families to fight the impending race war.” I can vouch for a lot of that except for the typos and absence of an Oxford comma, but that’s on him. Jon...
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 294
Xantheartist is back and we talk about philosophy, making music, how we analyze musical creation, convergent and divergent thinking, this new thing called Metamodernism and how it compares to traditionalism, modernism, and post-modernism. Among other things! You can find Xantheartist on Instagram: https://instagram.com/xantheartist The song by Xantheartist playing at the end is “Euphoric”: https://open.spotify.com/track/30ZFpaQQjVDx4T5FXr9H75?si=c0a40afcc3234826 Podcast: https://santiagoramones....
Feb 03, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 293
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 the world, about his time in the military, and being transgender. Get to know Xantheartist! You can find links to his stuff on his website: https://xantheartist.com/ The song by him playing at the end is “Hapsburg Lippp”, a cover of an Everything Everything song : https://open.spotify.com/track/7FNHW9mZJa8a4NM5WyFphh?si=3380d9a383ee47e8 Podc...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 292
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 produce as a culture, the cost of music equipment, the minute details we put into our music that no one will hear, and being willing to hand your creation to someone else to finalize it. It was a lot of fun! You can find Caleb on Instagram here: https://instagram.com/calebegray https://instagram.com/kodosband The song at the end of the podc...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 291
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 music from the audio engineer’s point of view, spirituality and religion, values, and more! Get to know Caleb! You can find Caleb on Instagram here: https://instagram.com/calebegray https://instagram.com/kodosband The song at the end of the podcast is “Champion” by Kodos. Podcast: https://santiagoramones.com/podcast Music: https://santiagora...
Jan 13, 2022•52 min•Ep. 290
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, cultural assimilation, code switching, decolonizing ourselves, choosing parts of our culture to adopt, Afrofuturism, the relationship people of color have with rules, and more! You can find Anna on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/floricurl/ Since Burl hasn’t released music with Anna’s keys yet, the song playing at the end is “Wakarimash...
Jan 06, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 289
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 Street Carnations, and produce their own electronic stuff for themselves (for now). Anna is also the Assistant Chief Editor for The Black Times Oklahoma News, which is a “Black & Queer Digital News Company bringing Oklahoma activism through journalism”. We talked about how they got into music, becoming a journalist for The Black Times...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 288
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 culture, dancing around people, Tik Tok, social media algorithms, social engagement requests, the many jobs expected of musicians, using one’s strengths as artists, putting out music, and more! You can find Nia on Instagram: https://instagram.com/niaxmone Podcast: https://santiagoramones.com/podcast Music: https://santiagoramones.com/musi...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 287
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 design, travel, spirituality, free will, being kind, and cheesecake. Get to know Nia! You can find her and her things on Instagram: https://instagram.com/niaxmone Podcast: https://santiagoramones.com/podcast Music: https://santiagoramones.com/music Discord: https://santiagoramones.com/discord Patreon: https://santiagoramones.com/patreon T...
Dec 16, 2021•59 min•Ep. 286
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 as an undocumented immigrant in America. The transcript for this podcast is on my website, so if you want to follow along and click on links and citations, go to https://santiagoramones.com/immigrationupdate All the music you hear in the background is by me and can be streamed or bought on Bandcamp ....
Dec 09, 2021•25 min•Ep. 275
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, television, and video games. She has a book of poetry. She recently put out her debut solo electronic album as Saint Kyriaki, Kyriaki being her birth name. We talked about her and her journey in entertainment and as an artist, how she keeps it all going, her spiritual journey, and more. Get to know Kyriaki! You can find her and her things on he...
Dec 02, 2021•55 min•Ep. 285
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 culture has colonized the continent and the world. We also talk about video games, film, horror, Indigenous cultures, and more! You can find Bannister’s stuff here: https://linktr.ee/notBannister The song at the end is “ Supergüd II ” by Bannister Chaava. Podcast: https://santiagoramones.com/podcast Music: https://santiagoramones.com/music D...
Nov 18, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 284
