Okay. Hello to everyone. It's great to be here today. Thanks for attending. I'm Daniel and the open source office IT leader at Bank Columbia. Today, I want to share my experience answering the question, what is an open source office doing in a bank? But before I start talking about open source strategy, I want to share with you what is Bank Columbia. Bank Columbia, it's one of the largest bank in Columbia with more than 8 million users in the principal transaction lab with more than 3,000 software engineers, more than 8 million transactions, and something like 883 office. Bank Columbia has present in four countries, and today and this year, we are starting our office in United States. I think that it's important that you know a little bit about our technology journey. It's starting in 1996 with our Colomban First financial service website. Next one in 2006 with the creation of the mobile application of the principal mobile application of banking transactions. Next one in 2016 with our technology, we have all the technology teams working 100 percent in agile using Scrum, Kanban, and things like that. In 2018, we start our journey to the Cloud. We start testing the ATN with robots, we are working with the robots in 100 percent. In 2020, Bank Columbia was selected as the best robots implementation for database, and the most important milestone for this stock, it's 2021 with the open source office creation, and with the start of our strategy that is called 100 percent Cloud migration. Bank Columbia, it's a bank that is migrating all the operations to the Cloud, and this is a year when the open source office creation makes sense. Well, to be all in context, let's talk about what an open source office is. An open source program of its main functions are to advance open source consumption, contribution, creation, inside companies for a strategic advantage. That's the theory definition, but the most important, it's essential that you understand that each company has different motivations for creating open source office. You can create an open source office for economic efficiency, for definition, new architecture values for your new applications, for consume more open source, for contribute, for create community around the projects that you are releasing, but where are the most important motivations for Bank Columbia with the open source office creation? A bank, Bank Columbia, that it's a company that traditionally was interested in proprietary software. I want to talk a little bit more about that. We had the idea of the creation of our open source office was the migration to open source technology principally, because we want to create operational efficiency, we want to have cost reduction by using open source software, but there are other topics that we want to work about open source environment. For example, contribution and strategy, open source compliance, and inner source. The first one that is migration to open source, it's about efficiency, but for example, contribution and strategy has two ways in Bank Columbia. The first one, it's about contribute to external projects, external projects that we are using for our projects, open source software, but the other way is release software as open source. We have more than 10 projects that we are released as open source, and we are creating community around that. Bank Columbia wants to have technology influence on open source projects. We want to enable and lead the contribution, encourage and govern the creation of the open source projects. The third one topic, it's about open source compliance and government. We are working in risk reduction, traceability, government in the open source tools. This is important because migrate to open source technology needs that you are okay with the license management, for example, and the last one is inner source and open source culture. I think that one of the most important challenge that we have for using open source in a bank, it's open source culture. Inner source, our detailed channels have common needs and inner source is the strategy that we are using for these common requirements. We want to recruit and retain the best talent. Let's talk about what specific or which specific initiatives we have in the migration topic. One of the main reasons, as I say, it's to reduce cost. A bank has a lot of property that is suffered and this property suffered can be replaced by using open source project that in many case a both at a better rate that several property software projects. For example, we are migrating the database from Oracle to PostgreSQL. This migration is in the process to the journey to the Cloud. We are migrating our apps from the on-premise to the Cloud and then replacing or modernizing the apps with open source technologies. Migrating the Oracle database to PostgreSQL servers like IBM, Westford, migrated to OpenLeverty, Apache Tomcat. We are migrating capabilities of IBM integration bus to Camel. We are migrating capabilities of IBM MQ and we are using ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, we are migrating Harvest as a tool for versioning big files and we are enabling GiveLFS. Another one is we are migrating the Java Oracle JDK to OpenJDK. We are migrating capabilities of the Euroband code for our on-premise DevOps process and we are enabling Ansible. We are migrating a lot of .NET traditional apps and we are refactoring for .NET Core Linux environment and we are writing a lot of applications in Java. Many people may wonder about that. Many people wonder about the support. Many people say the support does migration to open source mean loss in support. This is one of the main cultural challenge that we have at the bank because many people think that migrate to open source technologies mean loss in support and of course not. Those are very frequent comments when starting an open source strategy in a bank, but the most important thing that the people need to know is that open source technology has enterprise open source support. Another topic it's about contribution and strategy. Let's talk about contribution and strategy, which initiatives we have in contribution and strategy. For example, the first step for define our contribution strategy was identify our maturity to define our plan. We are using this tool, the open source ladder for identify which level we have. For example, a consumer that only is using open source, a participant that is contributing to open source a little bit, or a contributor that has a lot of open source contribution, releasing open source, or a leader that create communities, lead the future of the open source projects. The milestone of each phase, it's that consumption needs to evaluate using deploying participation. It's about interaction with communities, minimal contributions. The contribution level, it's about increase contribution, major and scale contributions, and the leadership level is about open source organization, start new initiatives. We think that in Mancolombia, we are in the participation level, and we are starting more in-detailing contributions. In Mancolombia, we have an open source ecosystem, we have more than 10 projects that are released as open source. You can visit in this link, Mancolombia.githem.io. You can find useful tools for different needs as a developer. For example, one of the projects that we have is the Scaffold Clean architecture. The Scaffold Clean architecture is a gradual plugin to create Java applications based on clean architecture. If you read the book about clean architecture that writes the Uncle Bob, you can use this plugin for create apps that use these principles of your interest in domain driving design. You can use that for create applications that apply these principles. Another project that we have is Secrets Manager. This is a library that will help you to a couple your application of your Secrets provider. You can use AWS Secrets Manager, you can use Kubernetes Secrets, you can use another providers with the same interface. Another project is the Distributed Performance Analyzer. It's a project for do HTTP benchmarking. It's a benchmarking tool capable of generating significant load for a single node or for a distributed cluster. That's the tool that we use when we want to select the best tool for an app. You can identify when it's useful, use Node.js or Java or something like that. Another project is Bint Stash. It's a library for caching data in memory, making a single-tire catch or using both as two-tire stage catch. Another project is Reactive Commons. It's one of the libraries that we have for create event-driving architectures, for accelerate the process for the developers communicates with different tools for build event-driving architectures. Another one is the Performant Benchmark Stacks. It's a project that allow executing repeatable performance tests in different technical stacks. It's a tool for define different scenarios, and you can do a repeatable performance test. Another one is the Serenity Parallel Execution Plugin. It's a Gradle plugin that enabled parallel execution of automated Serenity Test. It requires a smaller configuration and accelerated process to run that in parallel. Async Dataflow Channel Center, it's another project. This is a distributed Elixir cluster for implement WebSockets, for implement notification channels, for create end-to-end asynchronous communication. It's a project that accelerate that process. Another project is this one, that it's a decoder encoder of Elixir, and we have other projects that we are released as open source that have an initial community. In the open source office, we are creating the open source office central repository. This is a project that contains guides, templates, best practice, checklists for use open source, for contribute to open source. But Columbia, it's a company that has more than 3,000 software engineers, and this is a tool very useful for help the people that wants to use or contribute to open source. For example, contains things like how to choose a good name in an open source project. This is a good tool where you can verify the name that you are thinking, and you want to choose a good name for your open source project. Another one is the high-code quality. You can evaluate the code quality of the project that you want to use, the open source project that you want to integrate to your application. One of the most important things that these repository have is the open source maintainer expectations. Release software as open source requires, or has a lot of responsibilities. We have defined what are our maintainer expectations. We have more than 12 open source projects, and you can contribute on these tools in the github.com slash bank Columbia. Currently, we are defining our open source ecosystem. We are in process to be part of the Clonative Computing Foundation. We are in progress to be part the Linux Foundation to the group. That is, we're in progress. Another topic is open source compliance and government. Open source compliance and government about race reduction. It's important to say that in an Ospo automating, your policies is essential, and much more when you have a team of those and of developers like Bank Columbia. One of the tools that we are using is JFrog X-Ray license management. It's a tool that provides a comprehensive list of open source license. You can create your own license and help a lot in the development cycle for choose the right license that the company wants to use. In government, it's important that you define good criteria for choosing open source software and support your team in making decisions. About choose license, the best license for a project, the vulnerabilities, how to be driving the vulnerabilities in an open source project, how about the regular activity, books reported, documentation, communication channels, and high-code quality. There are many important things that you need to know about support the people in making good decisions. About inner-source and open-source culture, Mancolombia is a company that has different detailed channels, but the different detailed channels has common requirements and the most maintainable way to work with different teams is use inner-source practice in these projects. One thing that should be stress is that an hospital do more than just work with developers. It's really important to know that because, for example, inner-source that is the practice of adopting open-source patterns internally within your organization, it's more a government, it's a tool for define workflows for work with people, not only for a team as a developer. You need to know that it's different inner-source that open-source. Inner-source is the practice of adopting open-source patterns, but an organization that practice inner-source may or may not also maintain open-source software. In Mancolombia, we're interested in inner-source and open-source. We have shared requirements for the different detailed channels, and inner-source is the most maintainable solution. In inner-source, we are working for items, discoverable repositories, templates, files, measure success, and define the workflows for the people. In discoverable repositories, contributors should be able to self-discover internal project that are of interest to them. Exists different people working in different projects, but we want that people from different teams can work in the common repositories or in the common needs. About template files, independent teams require standardized templates for issues, for pull requests, for features. It's a tool for facilitate the communication between different teams. About measure success, you need to define in an inner-source strategy, what interests do you have with the strategy time to market, improve the teamwork. You need to define what is the most interesting things for you. You need to define your workflows. For example, define the maintainer teams, trained people for do the job of a maintainer team, define the workflows for work in an inner-source projects. Open-first, not only open-source, I think that it's an important thing in the company about the culture. I think that open-source can change many things in the company. For example, we are creating this block that it's called Bank Columbia Tech. We have more than 14 publications about how we are using and creating technology. We have more than three posts per month, and I think that it's a good tool for thinking in open. What about the Ospo team? The team of an Ospo is different in each company. It depends on when you have defined in your strategy, and our team, it's like that, it's like this. I have four people that are working in database migration for people that it's working in open architecture, that it's the process of, as I say, we are migrating our operations to Cloud, and then there are many people that it's reviewing these applications for migrate to open-source technologies to people working in infrastructure and operations, and three people working in open-source contribution and compliance. We have a core team, but not a centralized strategy. It's essential. We have a lot of help of the cybersecurity team, risk management, legal team, marketing team, and the corporate culture, then it's not a centralized strategy. Don't forget that it's mainly an open-source program offices. It's mainly a cultural challenge. The open source in a bank is a cultural challenge. It defines the principles that will transform the culture of the organization through code open-first. To finish, here are some sentence that represents goals that we have in the Ospo team. Thinking about open, it's an act of revolution. There are more and more of us. The world is going in that direction and nothing is going to stop it. Open-source is not just a trend. It's a competitive professional skill of the future. It's a way of thinking. It's an incredible way to solve challenge in a collaborative way. The future of humanity, it's being programmed in open source. This can always add up to the business, and that means saving an agility. Let's talk about the future, the way to the cloud, it's open, and that's it. Thank you very much. Do you have any question? What your team is building is being released as open, which I think is generally awesome. Are there people in your company that are pushing back saying that you need to maintain some intellectual property so other competitors still use the same thing you're using? For example, for the projects that we are releasing, the question is about the competitive, about the projects that we are releasing. We are releasing open-source projects, but the most common topic of the projects, it's tools for do something, not about the business of the bank. Then if another bank, if another company wants to use the tools that we are releasing, it's perfect. It's the idea behind the projects that we are releasing, for example, for the architectures that we use in the projects, and something like that, but it's not a problem because the project doesn't contain business things. Do you know what I mean? Yes, that makes sense. Okay. Another question? Okay. The question is about open-first, not only open-source. I think that open-first is the cultural challenge, because in a bank that usually preferred the proprietary software, needs a cultural challenge for think in open-first. When I say open-first, it's about, for example, share the things that we are building, share the way for defining our architectures, the way for, for example, the strategy for defining any tool instead of another. When we use Node.js, when we use Java, which criteria we are using to define which tool it's more useful in which use case, what about our journey to cloud, what we learned in this process? I think that these topics, it's about not only open-source, because it's not code, but it's share experience, share things that can be useful for another companies or another developers. Yeah. Thanks. Another question? Okay. Thank you very much. Thanks for attending. Thanks.


Welcome to a CUBE Conversation. I'm Peter Burris with Wikibon SiliconANGLE. I am having a great conversation today with Derek Mankey, who's a global security strategist at Fortinet, who wants to talk about Derek. I don't want to be too topical here, but still, why don't you tell us exactly what a global security strategist does? Yeah, so obviously we've got a global region. We're looking at the past, the present, and the future. When I say that, we're looking at past events, learning from security, we're looking at present events, reacting to them, trying to beat the bad guys to the punch, doing advanced research on dark net, but also looking at statistical trends and modeling, a lot like a weather forecast, right? So we're doing modeling as to where threats are going in the future, based on our expertise knowledge and obviously a global telemetry based of data. Billions and billions of data points we look at. So everybody knows that this is enormous, that security and the past are informed the current and we are all worried about the future. But let's talk about where we are right now. Sure, sure. What is the state of things in global cybersecurity? It's flashing red. Unfortunately, we're in this day. And what I mean by that is, CISOs and the likes always have to look at flashing red on their dashboards. They're a lot like our alarms. And we get so many events that are happening day in, day out. We need to start looking at them and prioritizing how do we respond to these events? What's the severity level of these? What are these events? And the context around that and why it matters. We look at a lot of events that are happening today. Obviously we get into the IoT world. That's here. Mobile threats are here. We've gone from just in, from one year ago, we had about 2% of the global attacks that we see were mobile. That number is reaching close to 10% now. So mobile threat activity is accounting for nearly 10% of all global activity that we're seeing. IoT is the next rising star that we're seeing in that as well. And that's really the state that we're seeing. So there's no really new normal in global cybersecurity. It's constantly changing. So give us an assessment and some insights into how the threat target is changing. What is the surface area and the surface attack area that we're worried about as we go forward? Sure. Up into the right, and what I mean by that is when I say that we're seeing obviously volume increasing and we're seeing the level of sophistication increasing in the threats as well. A lot more automated clever techniques are being put into threats. The attack landscape now, or the attack surface shifting into the IoT world, as I mentioned, we're dealing with some of the top attacks we're seeing are CCTV cameras, which by the way are not closed circuit anymore. IP security cameras, we're looking at DVRs, consumer grade routers, printers, all of these different devices now that are not just obviously Windows based as well. So because of that, the amount of volume of threats is increasing. That attack surface, there's much more interconnectivity into these devices, which is a very large issue. We're dealing with the zero patch environment now. As well, the reality is it's just not enough patches readily available for these devices too. And so we have to really, and again, that comes back to the security strategy piece. We have to strategize. So we're used to thinking about PCs being attacked or servers being hacked. What happens if your router gets hacked in this way? Give us a little insight into how that propagates into a problem. Yeah, so worm like activity. We look at a lot of the, what I'm calling shadow nets. These are IoT botnets. So what I mean by that is you get a piece of code like Mariah, Hageem, there's also other flavors of this that we're seeing out there that basically look to propagate like a worm spread from router to router or different device to different device, plant malicious code. And then once they have that obviously, the device is compromised and it can be used for anything. It can be used for altering DNS traffic, hijacking credentials. It can be used to launch a DDoS attack like we saw with Mariah last year as well. But it's also being used now for more sophisticated attacks. So we look at like the Hageem botnet. Unlike Mariah, which I would consider more of a non-intelligent botnet, it's just using brute force techniques. Hageem is using automated techniques to download new password lists and try different attacks using updated and dynamic intelligence as being built into this automated code now as well. That sounds like it's an enormous amount of fun. But as we think about, we're talking mainly about devices at this point in time. When we think about digital business, Wikibon likes to say that digital business is different from business in how a digital business uses data. And the idea that data is increasingly becoming an asset and is a differentiator for your business, especially in how you do things from an engagement standpoint. How is the idea of data as an asset and the need for these new threats, this new landscape going to come together over the course of the next few years? Yeah, absolutely. So that's a really good point that we bring up. So data is highly sought after by these threats. The initial stage of attack is building infrastructure and that's been done. And we talk about these IOT botnets is gaining a foothold into networks where data is either stored or in transit, especially on mobile. And when we look at how data is stored or in transit, often enough, it's stored for too long, it's too persistent, it's not stored properly, it's not hashed or salted and these sorts of techniques. And it's often, it may be going to the wrong places or given permission to the wrong users. These threats now that have a foothold onto these devices can easily scrape and use data, send them to their command and control operators, botnet operators, and then that data, as you are very well aware, can be used multiple times. We're seeing this data used obviously sold through crime services, sold on data dumps, on darknet, it's being used for things like identity theft, money mills and laundering. We worked on a case last year with the EFCC in Nigeria, an Interpol as the expert working panel I'm on. We took down a $60 million crime ring. The heart of that crime ring was money laundering and that all revolves around identity theft as well, which is all data. Right, so let's build on this a little bit because one of the things that I think people frequently get wrong is they don't understand data as an asset and that a crucial feature of it is it can be copied and it can be applied in two places at once. Now, that is a lot of business implications. Let's talk about the security implication. If somebody steals my money, I immediately know that my money's gone. If somebody steals my data, I may not know that my data's gone because it can be copied and it can be reapplied and reused and I may never know it. Now, we're looking at a recent breach here on a big supplier of crime services, 165 accounts being hacked. That might have only taken five minutes to download the data associated with those 165 million accounts, but that was probably a persistent a few months or maybe years getting to that point. What does a business have to do differently from a security standpoint to actually be able to capture those smaller events that may not have immediate proximate damage but lead to a big hack like this? Yeah, absolutely, it's a really good point. Obviously, the threat landscape is extremely volatile. There's a lot of different characteristics or features you have to look for in these attacks. You're completely right. Most of these attacks we see can lay resident for months on networks. In fact, they want to lay as silent and as stealthy as possible. As I said, it's much more tricky today because threats are becoming more sophisticated to try to obfuscate into data flows and to try to remain silent on networks. So what can be done from an organization standpoint is absolutely turning it around, looking at detection first. Threat intelligence, applying threat intelligence to detection. You need advanced threat intelligence to be able to find advanced threats. We're talking about solutions like SIM and so forth, right? Once you can see that threat activity on the network, that's key, obviously, launching into incident response, how we deal with this, shut down that threat to mitigate the window because otherwise, if you have a wide open window, obviously more data's going to be leaked, the more data is leaked, the more damage and collateral damage is going to be done. And that's still, we're talking about consumers which are problematic, but when we start talking about critical infrastructure, we're talking about the social fabric itself. What new visibility, because Fortinet saw a lot of research around this, what new visibility does Fortinet have into what's going on with some of the new critical infrastructure security? Yeah, so looking at a threat landscape report, this is, unfortunately, this is the normal still. So I wouldn't say it's the new normal in this case because we're seeing 90% of organizations that are still facing attacks on application vulnerabilities that are three years or older. When we look at critical infrastructure, it is over nine times, when we look at all industries and just compare critical infrastructure to that baseline, so over nine times higher with attacks on these application vulnerabilities. And so the problem, unfortunately, in critical infrastructure, we're still seeing a lot of attacks on these IoT devices that are connected, CCTV cameras, other things like that, that can be used as launch pads because they're not traditionally inspected by security. And they're in a tough position with critical infrastructure also healthcare and ICU critical care networks because they're resistant to patch sometimes because if a patch is done, it could break. They have critical services and processes behind there that it could break it. But at the same time, what we're experiencing is that they're under rapid fire and if they don't patch, it's going to be much more damaged down because we're seeing tremendous volume on attacks to those vulnerable applications lying on the networks. So we now have this situation where we're trying to secure our critical infrastructure which affects everybody. People have to, individuals have to be more cognizant of the role that a breach in their home network on their IoT devices can play. And increasingly we're thinking about how do we start putting together the idea of brand trust security? Talk a little bit about how security is going to enter into the lexicon of brand, brand preference and what, starting with brands are going to have to do to transmit their commitment to security. Yeah, so again, we're talking about digital assets, right? When it comes to that and I think it's, you know, when it comes to brand integrity, people are going to start, if we flashback 10 years, I think, people had a false sense of security, right? They wouldn't really think twice about where their data is going, how that data is stored and so forth. But now that we're seeing consumers having a direct impact when there are these massive data breaches, I think consumers are finally starting to become much more security conscious. And I think that mentality and switching from that false sense of security is really going to start having them have that cyber hygiene and have that daily thought process of where's my data going and they should have this, where's my data going, who is storing that, what are their security practices? And finding, you know, being able to readily access that sort of information on security posture, I think is going to be critical moving forward for the consumers. So what is it, because this is very complex stuff. There are a limited number of people in the world who understand this really deeply. You're one of them, obviously. What does a consumer then have to know about security to be able to make that type of an assessment? Because that's going to lead to some new conventions that we can start to promulgate and diffuse for how to get smarter about things. Is there like one or two things that someone has to be really aware of right now, questions that they can ask to get to that point where you're saying that they can be therefore smarter about how to evaluate different brands? I think they really have to just at a basic level treat their identity, treat their information like the keys to their car or the keys to their house and their families, right? I mean, it has to be personal. And so they have to be able to understand that they have a part to play, but they also have to understand that, you know, if I walk into a house and I leave the keys on the table somewhere and walk out that somebody else can still easily access that, right? As opposed to me putting the keys to my car in a locker when I'm somewhere else. And so that is what they have to understand is that their assets, where they store those assets and how they transmit those assets is ultimately going to come back and impact them. So it's analogous. If Wikibon says that digital business is about a business using data differently, in many respects what we're talking about is digital life is a recognition and acknowledgement that data is playing a different role in your life and being really, really clear about that as an asset in the way that you conduct yourself. Yeah, and I think moving forward that's just going to become even more critical. As I said, we're going to have more and more, as I said with the world of IoT coming now, there's going to be more and more impact on that on daily life and more transit points for those data to go to. But the reality is, even though it's your right, people don't, we might have been sanguine about digital security a number of years ago because it wasn't on everybody's, on the forefront of everybody's minds. And there are things that people can do to be smarter about this, treat your digital identity as an asset and be careful about it. But the reality is, most of us aren't going to ever be smart enough to really make good decisions in this regard and we're going to rely on automation. Also, as you said earlier, we know that the bad guys are doing more with automation. So even if automation is not the complete goal, how are we going to fight more automation on the bad guy side as we try to have more people involved in these good digital security practices? Yeah, so there's a couple of approaches to that. First of all, number one, there is a severe, this is not a surprise or news, but there's a severe shortage in cybersecurity professionals out there. As you said, not a lot of people understand this stuff deeply, especially when we get down to the consumer level. So how can we arm them to defend against all this automation that the black cats are doing? We need to fight automation with automation. So we need defensive measures. We need scalable security solutions, interconnected security solutions, security solutions that integrate threat intelligence as well to be able to identify the different stages of these threats. And the key here is quickly reacting to that because these threats are moving so quickly from the black cat side. Automated defense layers need to be able to identify those aspects of the threats and then make decisions on, this is the key part. Make a decision, this is what I call actionable intelligence. Make a security solution that can make a decision on its own. It's what I refer to as an expert system is what's required to be able to block those so that the people who don't know anything about these threats and where it's respond to them too slowly don't have to do those measures. And so this is the idea of having an integrated intelligence security fabric. And where are we going to get that? So that comes from our approach as the security fabric, right? This is the Fortinet security fabric where we can take integrated intelligence, scale it up, and make automated decisions that humans, we don't have to get rid of the humans but we can repurpose the humans for that nature. Derek, once again, great insight. I think we'll call it a wrap there. So once again, this has been a cube conversation. I'm Peter Burris, Wikibon, and Derek Mankeith who's the Global Security Strategist of Fortinet. Derek, you and I have had a couple of times a talk and every time it's been really insightful, the work you guys do is absolutely essential in today's world. So thank you very much for doing it. It's a pleasure. Anytime. Until we have another opportunity to speak again, track cube conversations, let's get the signal out of the noise.


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Just call Patterson and check him out, C-O-L, Patterson, Megan, Great Ripples and Great Music. Last year was a great year for him, but you never know, we might get him up here in Highland Radio some Monday night and Bedford Falls. Check him out on all his social media pages, for example his music's on Spotify, iTunes and the whole not. That's great, one of the great acts of 2022 and I've no doubt this year coming too, so we look forward to hearing him called live maybe sometime. Right, oh wait, 60, 25,000, welcome in if you've just joined us and we're delighted to welcome our first studio guest of the new year, live, playing live for us is JP Kennedy, Ardra, Born and Bread, I'm sure to say, but you're very welcome. Nice to be here, nice to be here Paul, so yeah. You're an Ardra man born and bred? Yeah, yeah, I grew up in Ardra, so was there for the first 20 odd years of my life and then I went, I left, I did various things, but a few years ago I ended up in Germany, so I've been there now just over 10 years actually, so yeah, yeah, yeah, I do a lot of... What took you to Germany? I went to study, I was doing a course in Ballyfairman in Dublin and then they had a connection with the school in Mannheim where I'm living and so that was it, me and another guy from Ireland, we both came over and after the year was finished, he went home and I stayed in Mannheim and I'm there since so... And had you, prior to going out, had you been singing here? Yeah, yeah, I started when around 2006 I'd say for the first time, when I was younger we had a band at school, it was going way, way back, but around 2006 or so I started doing solo material and I'd be kept busy over in Germany, there's plenty of Irish pubs and everything.  Well, yeah, I think so, whatever it is, it's Irish, to be Irish in Germany is kind of cool, I mean, you know. Oh, I know, I was there. It's popular, I never get a bad reaction and then you can't hear on C on the radio, I've got red hair in freckles and it's very typical, so they look at me and they think everybody looks like this but I don't tell them otherwise. We lived in, I lived in Germany for two and a half years, myself and me, and she is red hair. Right, where are we in Germany? We were all over, we spent a lot of time and born in Cologne, and then we moved down to Bavaria, down into a little place called Eggstad. Okay, very nice. And then we lived for about nine months on a small island off the North Sea called Borkum. Wow, there you go. That's impressive, okay, good. That is a place to see. I'd say so. Would Germans all go to holidays on the North Sea coast, as they call it, the North Sea coast, yeah. I love Germany. I know it's a great spot. And they have a great, they do have a great time for the... Oh, they love it. They love it, so yeah. Right, we're going to go into a song first, JP. Okay, play a song first, yeah. Well, we've got an album coming up and it's about the Wild West, it's called Road to Jerome, and it's about cowboys and Indians, Native Americans, and this time from the Wild West, basically. How many tracks are on this? They'll probably be 12, just finalizing that, but yeah, they're all original songs. All original songs. I've wrote most of myself, and I've had help with two or three, so it was a co-write in two or three, so good people to help. So the first song is again? The first one is going to be A Dan of Iniquity, this is where cowboys like to go to let off some steam. Okay, in your own time, thank you very much. JP, Kennedy, Lavin, studio. Not trying to put your voice to a particular name or anything, but I'm just trying to, there's a great sound there that I like and love it. Well done. Okay, great. Is this your first album to release? First album, yeah. I used to be in bands, and I was in bands for years in Germany as well, mostly hard rock bands and things like that, but just before the lockdown, I started writing a lot of these Wild West songs. It's based actually on my great grandfather who had a saloon in the Wild West in, where was it, Connell? It was in New Mexico and Arizona. Yeah, so we grew up on stories of his from our grandfather, his tales from the 1890s and 1880s. So your great grandfather went from here to America? Yeah, went to Arizona, went to New Mexico, I came back, he was back in holiday around 1900 and he met his wife, which would become our great grandmother, so he sent for his stuff and he never went back after that, so yeah. That was a story, and we have photos and everything, so there'd be photos on the artwork. Photos of America? Yeah, there's saloon and people in the saloon, it's like, yeah, we have a photo dated 1888. And is that sort of instilled your interest? I did, yeah. I mean, I had, I just happened to have a couple of songs in this theme anyway, and then I thought, well, you know what, there's a whole big story there, I might tell, if people are still listening to albums, I mean, I hope so, but yeah, so I just thought, why not give it a go and cracking story. That's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we won't tell you about the bear attack, but it's all in the album. It better not get into the bear attack, but it's a long.  Yeah, well, by the time we were born, he was a deceased, I'm afraid, but we got it from our grandfather. He died in 1999, so he's quite long dead as well. And then my father, and he would have passed on the stories to us, you know, and to our cousins as well in the family. So we're all pretty aware of it. That's unusual. Yeah, yeah. And they're old family house because it's Winslow, Arizona, the old family house now in our drads called Winslow house because my cousin, Mary and Sean are, are living there now. It's a family house. Yeah. It's been called Winslow recently. Great stories. The Clementine song, tell me about that. Oh God, Clementine. Oh, because the first time I heard it, I went totally unusual. Yeah, yeah. And I loved that, you know. It just came about. It was a song that I wrote and it was, it was not exactly about Clementine to begin with, but after a while working around with it, I was like, you know what? Yeah, I should make this the sort of response to the song. Oh my darling, Clementine, because I had learned that for shows and everything. And I just thought I'm going to do a response to that song and just give a wee clue to the tune at the beginning and then break into something different. And yeah, it's about, you know, Clementine, she drinks too much, she falls in the river and does the rest. Oh my darling. Yeah, yeah, she's lost. Tell me this. You recorded that yourself. Did you do all that work yourself or did you? No, no, I had a team with me. So I'd say Ashlyn Jarvis in Dublin, but she's got Dunnegal connections. We know Ashlyn well. You know Ashlyn, yes. You recorded with Ashlyn. Yeah, I did. She was the producer and her brother was on bass, Paul. Yes. And then I have an Ardraman on drums, Paul Cullum. Oh, there you go. And a guitarist from Bally Shannon as well. Have you recorded the entire album with them as well? Yeah, pretty much. Just waiting on a couple of songs to be mastered or mixed and mastered, but it's pretty much all done. Excellent. How did you enjoy that process? Oh, it took a while. It took a while to get everyone together, but I was kind of glad when it happened. Yeah. And I have unfiddled, yeah, I should say as well, my cousin Brian Cannon. Oh God. Yeah, yeah, I better not forget my cousin. Good job, you're there. Connell, keep it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. We're seeing a little Mazie Cannon early, said amazing JP. That's her. That's Mary. She lives in Winslow House. Excellent myth. Breedon O'Donnell, said brilliant JP. That's her sister. Oh, very good. Marie Cannon. Marie Cannon. That's their mother. Oh, great song, she said. That's good, the whole family. There she said again, up Winslow. Up Winslow all the way. Sean Cannon, early. Well done, JP. Okay, okay, very good. Thank you, Sean. Paul Gallower. Paul Gallower is the cousin of mine. Yeah, thank you, Paul. And King of the Road Ireland, said fair play. Oh, right. I can't tell you who that is. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I don't know them all. Best wishes to your cousin JP from Olivia O'Donnell. Thank you very much. Oh, wow, young Olivia. No problem. Great. Best wishes to JP from his biggest fan, Julian. Julian is a big fan. Yeah, and wishing JP all the best on the new album from his cousins Breedon and Pod. That's great. And great stuff from JP. You have to check out his recent video on YouTube, Clementine. There's a tough-looking old cowboy at the beginning of a Clint Eastwood watch out. Oh, yeah, that's my, that's my, yeah, that's my father. But Kevin and Levy knows, it knows them. They play in a guitar group together. You get your diamond. It's my dad, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it didn't have to, you know. Great to hear JP blasted out in Highland, Great Work, JP. If only he had moved from your number, if only he'd moved home from your number one fan in Clint East. Oh, I don't know. Flee. Flee, Flee. FLW? FLW, fly, fly. I know who that is. Yeah, yeah. The dog, the dog is called fly. I know, it's Bridget. Yeah. Okay, I got it.  Are you back? No, no, no, most of my shows would all be in Germany.  And then, you know, we'll hit Germany then later in the year. That's the, that's the plan. And how did lockdown work out for you? Ah, it was all right. I mean, I didn't do an awful lot at the beginning of it, but eventually I made myself pick up the guitar and everything.  You didn't do the live session stuff and all that? The live session? I did a few, did a few, yeah, yeah. But after four or five months of doing it, I wasn't doing it anymore. So... It's not the same. Yeah, it is. It's not the same. No. Everyone can't beat a live show, but... I think people are doing it for their mental health more than anything, you know. Probably, yeah, but I just wasn't disciplined enough to do it every week and everything. Because you need new songs every week, so, yeah. Of course. Well, we're live in studio. JP Kennedy's with us. He has already sang one of his songs and we're looking forward to a couple more. We'll also be playing Clementine. Don't worry about that. If you're looking for Roman Darden and Clementine, it's on the way. Quick abrick, don't go away. The huge January sale is now on at Watson Men's Wear in Leverkenny. 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Nearly 80 years later, the daughter Gretel lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple move into the flat below her in London, the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget. Faced with a choice between her own safety and his, Gretel is taken back to a similar crossroads in her childhood.  But to interfere now could risk revealing the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting. We will be reviewing the book on my show on Sunday, the 5th of February. And as usual, if you'd like to take part in any of our reviews, email me genecurran at highlandradio.com It is, and you're very welcome back. JP Kennedy is with us in studio and a very popular guy, be all the counts here. Patrick O'Donnells is well done, JP K. And Emma Kennedy says, make up late and listening. Great stuff. Sorry, sorry, there you make off. Sorry, there you are. Oh, sorry, now you're going. Yeah, don't keep make up too late, Emma. Go over, can't do that. Aiden McHugh says, good man, JP, congratulations, well done. Thanks, Aiden. Yeah, that's great. You're proving a very popular man. So far, that's good. Yeah, you're. So, JP, we'd love to get this second song you're going to do for us now. Okay. And then we'll talk a wee bit about the album and the process. Okay. Well, this is this is a song called Highway Star. It's about a couple of bandits, father son bandits. It's about the father teaching his son the family business, which is Robbie. And yeah, yeah, yeah, it was popular back then. It wouldn't be so popular now. No, no, no, I don't recommend anyone to do it. No, no, no. So this is and it's called what? A highway star. Highway star. And we'd love to hear this. Okay. Fantastic. Here we go. My son was bought me till Zim. Then they took him away one high noon. Chew me into a toll booth. It's been 12 years, but I love that. Well done. Sing a songwriter, JP Kennedy. And was this in studio? How long have you been writing? I would say, God, going back, I think 20, 20 years odd, something like that, where I wrote with a band a lot and whatever bands I was in, I wrote songs with them. Tell me this, are your style changed? Well, I was always into hard rock and things like that. So it's maybe gotten a wee bit more mellow as the years have gone on. That comes with age. Maybe it does. I don't I don't do it, you know, on purpose, but perhaps it does. Yeah. What music did you listen to when you're growing up? On Nirvana, Sex Pistols. I loved Green Day when I was a teenager, Off Spring, Sign Garden, Peril Jam, The Smiths. Sex Pistols is unusual and funny enough, I wasn't thinking about punk rock. Okay. The other, during the weekend. Yeah. And I grew up in that era, right? And I couldn't stand it at the time. It was awful, right? But then all of a sudden, the Kenny makes a bit of sense. Now, as I'm getting older, I don't know whether my ears is listening differently than it did before. Okay. And you see now, it was what he called Johnny Rotten, maybe possibly. I know, it's unreal. I saw it a few days ago, and I thought it was a joke when I saw it. I was like, this is, is it April 1st? It's not a bad song, you know. No, I've listened to it a few times, though. I mean, it's unreal. It just be surreal if John Leiden comes out to represent Ireland in Liverpool. It would be great. I've heard, of course. And the thing about it, I know it's, I think it's, he said his wife wrote it or something. And about his wife, she's got Alzheimer's, yeah. And he's looking after her. So it was their last holiday together where she was still in good shape. Is that right? Yeah. So they went to Hawaii and the song is Hawaii. It'll be interesting to see how he does. Oh, it's unreal. I might not be watching the Euro song every year, but I'll be sure to watch it this time, yeah. But tell me this, the process of the album, what brought this on? Did you say, I want an album or your song? It was something like, I'm off certain age, now I won't tell my age, but I'm like, God, I had nothing to say. Like I had with band CDs, but I had nothing in my own to say, there's something that I made it all.  It's like an achievement. It's like writing a book or something. It really takes a lot of time and work and effort. Was it something you'd been thinking about for a long time, like? Yeah, but I just never got around to doing it. And then when I started writing these Western songs, I thought, right, I could be onto something here. And so then I, you know, played a few of the demos to my drummer and to Ashlyn, the producer, and came over loads of weekends to Dublin and we recorded there. You see from the, and I always ask this one, because I'm always curious about songwriters, because I love it so much, what way they work. Everyone's different. I just know for a minute when people, I see books about songwriting. I never read them because if you're going to follow that process, everyone's going to write the same song. The process for you as a songwriter, do you sit down and say, right, I'm going to do an album and I'm going to write 12 songs? Or do you have? No, it wasn't like that. There was more like about 20 songs and we recorded 16 of them, which are done and we'll pick 11 or 12. Okay. Because there's a few there now I don't even play, they've dropped off the radar. Maybe for now. For now, yeah, it might suit another time. A lot of people have been talking to, you know, have this habit of writing, you know, and leaving them and then they come back to them and they see them with a different light. Yeah, that's true. So they might fit into whatever, you know, whatever I'm doing afterwards. For new landed to Ashlyn and them to produce the album, from the moment you landed to the end product, has your song changed in any way? Yeah, they did. I mean, yeah. In a positive way for you. Good.  So, you know, being a perfectionist sometimes with my lyrics as well, I mean, sometimes I wasn't 100% happy with the words and then I'd be like, no, you have to let me change that, please, please, please. Yeah.  Not really. It'll come. The title will come to the song, you know, if you're there practicing playing and something will come out and it's usually the first thing you think of. And that can often be your song title. Okay. So like with Highway Star, the last one, I mean, I have that in mind the whole time. And so it was, then you built the song around that. So tell us about the video that comes with it with Clementine. Is it just the one you've done the video with? No, no, we've done. We've got the second one in the can and that's for the last song, which no, yeah, it's... Paradise. Oh yeah, that's the, that's the one I'm going to do now. Yeah. You have a video for that, have you? No, not for Paradise or the one I just did, which is blah, blah, blah, sorry. Highway Star. Highway Star, yeah, so I take your time, you're okay, all right. Highway Star, yeah, I've got a video for that really. It just has to be polished up, I think at the end and but it's, it's almost there. The whole thing is years, the whole process is several years. I'm sure I'll order people to quicker, but...  Yeah, it's taken a long time. Is, for you, is a video as important? You had a video, yeah. I mean, I hadn't done videos before, not with any sort of budget or with a proper crew or anything like that. So I got into it and I wanted it again. I wanted it to be right. I wanted people wearing the clothes from the era and stuff like that, you know. So it was and once we got into it, I mean, I was like, wow. How long took the video? How long took it? Two or three or four days to shoot that one because, you know, it was getting dark on one day and we had to go back the next day to do this whole scene again. What did you do to run our draw? Oh, no, no, no. It was, someone more exotic than our draw. It was Cyprus. Cyprus? Cyprus, yeah, yeah, we had a, yeah, a connection over there. My folks go there on holiday a lot. So, yeah, I had a connection there and it looks like the Wild West. So our draw doesn't look too much like the Wild West. No, it doesn't, but Cyprus does. Good luck to JP from the Swinney and Cassidy families on the whole head. Oh wow, that's great. And our draw. Brilliant, thank you. And who's that there? Can't, I'm not sure I need to put the glasses on here. Hang on a wee second. Cam, yeah. Hello to you. She just says, wow. Okay. Okay, brilliant. Very good. Very good. Hang on. Another quality tune, JP. Can't wait for the album from Maisie. Okay, good. Marty Joyce's great stuff, John. Oh, I know this man as well. That's, that's Atlantis man. Oh, very good. Yeah, yeah. Have you performed much around here? Ah, no, not in ages, not since I was a teenager with my band, but that's a long time ago. So I haven't, I'm not been on a scene at all in Ireland really. I played in the beehive over Christmas. Kelly Gordon? Oh yeah, yeah, I know. The beehive in our draw. Our draw, yeah. And the guest house in our draw. But yeah, I, I'm more on the German scene, I'm afraid. All right. Well, in the German scene, do you, you know, I know you have to play to the audience at the time, but do you get an opportunity to put on your own music at the time? Yeah, well, I try to do the first half an hour of my own songs, just to kind of, yeah, to get them out there. And then you'll have to go into, you know, whisking the jar or whatever like that. Of course. Most of them, you get club gigs if you're supporting a band, something like that. Yeah. Like the rum jacks, rum jacks were playing there last night in the tree arena.  They were supporting dropping Murphy's last night. Okay. In the point, it's the point, the tree arena. Yeah. So I supported them several times on two different tours and, you know, that was great. And you see what level they're at now.  Well, it's good, it's good connection to make two as well. Yeah. You know, it's important. But I think you're right in what you say is important because I think if somebody comes on to support and they come out by covers, it doesn't, it's not the same.  I usually get away with it for half an hour and then I don't easily push it anywhere. Right, right, right. The owner will be looking for you to ask him, where's sweet Caroline? You know, I know what you mean. Yeah. Leo, hello to Leo. He said, congrats, JP. Love the video. You have the best publicist. Well, that's my brother there. Oh, very good. I don't know. Yeah, that's Connell. And such. Sarah, hang on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Sarah canning O'Rourke, am I saying that right? Fair play to you. Cousin John, sometimes it's hard to be a John. I did say that a long time ago. Mick and Mama would be so very proud. Oh, that's my grandparents. That's lovely. And Hugh Osborne said, have you ever attempted writing a Christmas song? Oh, God, I did. I can make you for life. I know you're right. It's true. Fairytale, New York. I had a few. Pension. I had a few ideas, but I've never finished one. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So it's something I'm always having the back of my mind, but never get around. I need someone to put me under pressure and say, looking two weeks, I want this song. I want this song. Then I would do it, maybe. Wouldn't it be nice? Wouldn't it be nice, but it helps us. Oh, it's worth to get one. It's almost a closed shop. It's hard to get new songs into the Christmas markets. It is. Because we play the same songs every year. And tell me this. No, when did you hope to launch the album? Probably end of the summer. Right. That kind of time. Yeah, I hope so. That's a long time process. Well, no, this is the first single. So this Clementine is the first single. How did you find the response to that? I mean, really good. I mean, people in our draw and everything were brilliant. People saying it to me all Christmas that they'd seen the video and stuff. So it did relatively well. I was surprised. We got several thousand views in a few days. And so it's still going up slowly.  It's doing OK. Slow but sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when did you head back to Germany? Thursday. Oh, this Thursday? Yeah, this Thursday, yeah. OK. So I stayed around so I could do this. Well, I appreciate that. No worries, no worries. No problem. I'm delighted that you did do that. So people want to get in touch with you, you know, on social media and stuff. Yeah, yeah.  Clementine, Highway Star, Spotify. Yeah. JP Kennedy. What else have we got on YouTube, obviously? Instagram. Instagram. Well, it's me on Instagram. JPK. It's at JPK Music. I'm music with a K because it's a German spelling. That's a bit confusing sometimes. M-U-S-I-K at the end. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, I wasn't early enough to get the one with the C at the end. Oh, very good. But people will guess you, aren't we? Yeah. And Twitter, Twitter or Facebook. All those things. Ah, you're on everything else. Yeah. And you have to be, don't you? Um, yeah, yeah, and I'm not the best at that, but my brother's sort of kicking me. Good stuff. My bum to do it. It takes someone to do it. It does, yeah. You need somebody to do it. Well, you have to know, JP, if you're taking serious, it's all part of the package really, isn't it? You know what I mean? No, big time. No, but it takes you to another level. When you release a video, a decent video, it takes you to a higher level.  And what about radio play? How do you find that throughout the country? Have you pushed that? No, it was great that Highland Radio played. I mean, I'm happy with that, but we haven't gone to the regional ones really yet, or to 2FM or anything like that. I haven't even done it yet, but I need to get on a specific show late at night, I think. I don't even know who's now doing these shows anymore. So we have to get into that. And local radio, I can get it in Germany. I know that much. Your music deserves to be played in all radio stations. Oh, well, it will be great. It will be great. It definitely does. And I think there should be more of that done. And supporting Irish music. And it's great to see it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's great that you guys are supporting it too. I mean, Lucas. You look at me here, I'm just sitting back, relaxed, there's no hard work. You know, it's used people, and that's what we love about it. It's always, you've never stopped, been surprised with the talent that we get up here, and it's just amazing. Especially when it's from our own county. Great song, JP, from Porrick Gallagher. Oh, fantastic. Okay, thank you. Maria Lenin. Hello, Lenin, a big part. So proud of a great Ardra artist. Yes. Killing his JP. Well, doing my very best. Doing my best. Great stuff. And Maria is calling you. Leo says Maria. Maria. Must be what? Maria Carey. Is it Maria Carey? She hasn't been in touch now in a long time. No, I wouldn't agree. She just doesn't return my calls. No, I wouldn't go there. I wouldn't borrow her. She's had four of herself, huh? She's sitting there now, waiting to check to come from Christmas. Yeah, well, I can't sing as many notes as Maria Carey can. No, you're dead on. Well, listen. Let me just say, I forgot to say, Kieran Crossen is my guitar player from Bali, Shannon. Well, good man. Yeah. Good man, Kieran. And Sophie Vardigan is half German, half English, but she's also kind of Irish. She plays a lot of Irish folk music and everything. So I had two fiddle players. I had her and I had my cousin Brian Cannon as well. Because Sophie was playing all the tunes of me over in Germany. Okay. So she knew a lot of the songs as well. When you play in Germany, how many do you play with? Usually alone, but sometimes there'll be a gang, it's like an Irish band thing. Is there a good contingent of Irish over there? There is. In the music scene there? Oh, sorry, no. There's a few that are playing in the Irish pubs. There's a few, but in my area, there's not many. In Holomannheim, there might be 30 Irish people in the whole place. Where is that? Is that in the middle of Germany? It's south of Frankfurt. South of Frankfurt. Near even Strasbourg on the French border. It's not that far away either. So, yeah. Beautiful scenery over there. Oh, lovely, yeah. Lovely. Do you plan to stay there? Ah, who knows. Who knows? Well, that's a fairly... Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I'll come home eventually, I presume, but you never know. Whenever, whatever. Yeah. Well, listen, we wish you the very best with the album. We're really looking forward to it coming out. Oh, thank you. You might get a copy. Well, we'd like to thank you for that. You can sign it now, first of all. All right, yeah, okay. But the album process now is totally different, isn't it? You know, CDs, will you be putting it on CD format? I'd say so, yeah. First of all, it'll be for streaming, and then I would like to have a CD and have a LP as well at the show, but you know, that's going into a very niche market then. I know.  That's the only CDs I have is the ones I buy at People's Concerts, because you don't buy them in the shops anymore. No, you can't. Yeah, so I buy them at People's Concerts to support the... All right. Do you, as an artist yourself, you know, I know everybody has their different views on Spotify and all these streaming sites, because there's not a lot of money in it for the artist. I know, it's definitely not about... But does it balance... I'm not saying financially, does it balance out, but does it balance out in your mind that the fact that you're getting out to a wider audience, does that play part of it? Yeah, I mean, I've only narrowed with my new chains, been up on Spotify about three weeks or something like that. So if you want to log on, give me a like or follow or whatever it is on Spotify. I get the numbers up, it would look better. But yeah, that's a whole new world now, I mean. So it's just everything is done different. Patrick Rapp said, out in the open, finally, great interview. Oh wow, that's from Germany, that one. Is that from Germany? Yeah, he must be tuning in. Yeah, he's turning... Yeah, it's his 50th birthday today, that man. It is not. You'll have to wish him... Right. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Patrick. Happy birthday to you. Hey, yeah, boy. Yeah, Patrick played on the album as well. Oh, did he? Actually, he did a lot of guitar and he did backing vocals and things like that. So that's great that he's tuned in. I thought he'd be out partying tonight. No, no, it's not all about partying, but once you had 50, your local thing's differently. Oh, well, yeah. You have to think of the next morning or night. Yeah, well, that's true. And let me have a look here. Sean Cannon early said, oh, where'd it go? Be great to have it on a vinyl LP, a vinylist class. Yeah, yeah, well, that's something... It is, yeah. So that's something to think about when it's at that stage. We're not quite there yet, but yeah. Hello, Paulie Gellherts is hello to Maria and Connell Sr. And Emma and Connell Jr. Oh, that's Connell Jr. is here. Great video. And Hugh Osborn said, hip, hip, hurry. Okay, fantastic. Good man himself. There you go. All joining in, you see. Great, great. There's a great support from our drag, and I'm fairly to them all. It's brilliant, yeah. Yeah, of course. Well, listen, the pleasure's been ours. Yes. And we're delighted you came up on the conditions that's on the road tonight. We totally appreciate it. Yeah, well, I hope we get back. And I hope you do. I hope you do. But you can stay here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a room out here. Don't be worried about it. It's going to win. We'll get the crack going.  Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Right, the final song is from your fourth common album. No place in paradise. Give us a wee background to that one. No place in paradise.  Was it all worth it, you know? So it's a man looking for redemption. You've got great stories behind all these. It's all Wild West stuff, you know? So there's a lot of shootouts in those days. And things like that. Oh, count up, count it in. It's a head of batty. Right, JP, on your own time, this is JP Kennedy, and this is a track, his third song to play for us tonight live here in Island Radio, and it's called No Place in Paradise. I lived my life in certainty that what I did just had to be to fight and kill another for this land. I gave my life up to the cause, a battle-hardened man o' war, maybe a place amongst our heroes of the past. Sense in this world, I shot a man dead in the night, another gun down in broad daylight. I turned before their bodies hit the floor, a time in a county jail amongst my fellow Agitants. You were having me. We're, you know, listening to your vocals or, you know, without any production, your vocals could carry that song and as a furnished production without anything added on, you know? So I'm really excited about looking forward to this song, genuinely. Well, give us... I'm not speaking again if you don't send us a cabway, so... No, I'll be back if I'm welcome back. You're absolutely welcome back. Aiden Fisher said, listen to you here in London. Very good. Well, there you go. There you go. That's a cousin as well. I'm not a cousin. Thank you very much indeed. No worries. Just before we go, have you a name for the album? Yeah, it's called Road to Jerome. Road to Jerome. Yeah, because one of the stories from my great-grandfather, he was... His cousin out there at the time was also a Kennedy and him and another man were going to Jerome to find work. They left their wives and they left their kids at home and they went to look for work. On the second day, it was a bear attack, you know? It's about the rest of the journey there. That's what it's about. Very good. Well, listen, all I can say is best to look with it. Have a safe journey tonight and have a safe journey back to Germany. Are you kicking this weekend or such? I am. That's why I'm going back playing on Friday and Saturday, so that's the reason. Well, the pleasure's been ours, J. OK, well, thank you guys. And, Connell, thank you very much for making the connection and your charge of P.O., so we'll be expecting the album whenever it's ready. And to everyone who texted and messaged on tonight for J.P., thank you very much indeed. Clementine's the one we're going to go out with. Great day. Yeah, well, that's the current single. That's the one you need to go on Spotify. You need to go on YouTube. Here it is. Here it is. This is Spotify. J.P. County, thank you very much. No problem. Thank you.


Welcome to the death of the Holland Grill part two Hey there and J route 22.com with another low carb keto carnival carnivore chat This is about the Holland Grill and the death of the Holland Grill. We talked about this last week We did a little article. We didn't know the Holland Grill Went out of business last year around this time and The reason it's in the low carb keto carnivore category is because it is We cook our meat on it and it's the best way to get our nice low carb meats For ourselves But it's just really stinks that a low carb. I mean a good american company a good american company Can fold it's that's what I guess these days what happens when you make something good You have a short term run, you know, you make good stuff, you know You saturate you sell to everybody that ever would want one And you have a few trickle sales and it's just not enough to keep the The business going. I guess that's why they make things that are disposable like any grill you get at a Walmart or Home Depot or any kind of big box store is going to break We went through several grills three three grills and they all sucked and they broke either the same year the year after They just stopped working. They were rickety and junky. The Holland Grills are are really the best. I mean if you You They'll last like a very long time We had a the Holland grill as you see back here. It was called the freedom And we got it. We could have gotten the liberty the only difference for an extra hundred bucks with the Freedom model was they had a nice front panel that'll just block the The the propane panel from being seen but the problem is it had I mean the grill worked perfectly we used it all year round didn't matter everything came out great They but it had the back three sides the back and the two sides were exposed um, it made it easy to get the the propane out and also your uh Your your grease bucket, but we have dogs that went and wanted to eat the grease bucket So we thought you know, I tried to build all sorts of implements to make it work and they uh They got crafty and they they started breaking through it on a regular basis And I was going to go to the store and buy stainless steel Panels and start drilling into it and making At that point I said, let me see if I can get there They had a so the two at top high-end models had full cabinets underneath that dogs Couldn't get to and that's when we found out they were out of business for the last year I'm like damn. So I called over a hundred Holland grill Dealers that I found coast to coast and I was I looked on ebay I looked on all the other shopping apps. We missed some good deals that we could have had um Got a $1,200 model for 300, but we missed that by about a year Um, I don't know why they don't just get rid of the things that have sold or just don't let let them show up in search results But we called you know, literally over a hundred places and everybody had the same the same exact Thing oh man, we've been out of these for a year and we still get 10 20 calls a day people looking for these things And I was about to give up. I'm like, you know what? I didn't call the place I frickin bought it from uh five or six years ago and lo behold they had One grill in stock of the model we won. It wasn't the stainless steel model Which I probably would have preferred but it was the the epic model not the apex It was the epic model which is a pretty much the exact same grill so we thought with it with just a nicer bottom cabinet and It's quite possible. We are the last person to ever buy a new holland grill on planet earth from a dealer Because they're all gone. I mean if you find them or if you know where they are I I'm curious to know where they might be but Um, we didn't know this but we thought we were just getting the same grill as before but there were a few Benefits that I was very surprised to see it was like a pleasant surprise because I wasn't expecting Number one They have this dripping pan that that goes in between the grill Surface and the flame and that basically collects all the droppings And it goes down a pipe into the the grease bucket the previous one We had had this little weird channel in the middle and and it was kind of difficult to clean They put that channel in there so you could fill it with water if you were doing some sort of steaming You could still fill this new one with water, but it made it really I usually put a foil inside And it made it Really hard to clean and it was a real pain in the neck without that, but this new one has like a curved Thing so I can just use one big piece of Industrial foil and it fits perfectly and it prevents any anything from getting in there It's it's really nice. And secondly it's seen this new one I don't know if it's just a new grill, but And maybe the burner is a little bad. I didn't inspect the old versus new yet, but It seems to be hotter by about 50 to 75 degrees it consistently gets up to 450 most holland grills were lucky to get Even close to 400 usually 375 was the max and either way it's not a problem It's a little bit of a shorter cooking time and a little bit less margin for error on a hotter grill You can go there's a lot of forgiveness in a in a cooler grill and since the holland grill only has one On and off you can't you can't really you can open the grill lid if you want to cool it down a little But that I like the new the the new heat setting for now and also they have a little wood Wood tray for smoking. It's not a big tray. So you're not going to get massive smoke injection, but It's better than putting the the little tray you have to lift it the the grill up to stick it in there This one is nice.  I'll I'll use it for sure And there's several other things that we like about it, but I won't get into the very minor But just I want to let you know real quick. There's a competitive company out there that was out with holland in the very Towards the end there was called phoenix grills and they're pretty much for the all intents and purposes exactly the same As holland grill with the exception that they don't have any Bases they're all these narrow bases and the grease bucket is always exposed.  There's another more expensive brand It's in the almost $2,000 range that uh if you have money I forget starts with a w I'll put it in the comments if I if I remember You can get that too, but the no flare up cooking is the way to go And we're just sad that the holland grill is gone and apparently they have their web page up that says They're coming back, but uh, I don't know if that's really true or not. So Don't hold your breath. Enjoy your day. 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Commander Senior Grade Brian Swenson, I'm the Foreign Liation Officer to US European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. The Danish Constitution was signed by King Frederick VII on the 5th of June 1849 and relieved the king's law from 1665. The days of celebration of our democracy and the closest we Danes come to having a national day. We Danes love our open-faced sandwiches and probably the best beer in the world, the Danish beer and Snaps. We enjoy a friend-to-be and a family-like event. The Danish Constitution Day is a great day to celebrate this historic event and uphold the tradition. Commander Captain Brian Swenson, I'm the U.S. U-Communist Officer to Stuttgart, Germany. The Danish Constitution was signed by King Frederick VII on the 5th of June 1849 and relieved the king's law from 1665. Today is a celebration of Denmark's democracy, and it is the closest we Danes get to a national day. We Danes love a good breakfast with butter, bread, oil, and fast food, and Grunlovsdag is a really good way to keep up with this tradition.