Communication Matters, with Brian and Shauna Smith, is about communication and the human condition. A mental health counselor and speech-language pathologist discuss the vastness of communication and relationships, and provide tips and tricks for improving interpersonal communication skills. This all while being a married couple barbing, bickering, and bantering on these topics without killing each other on the air.

Communication Matters

A Fuego Lento

Esta Noche

Around Midnight - Boora
Sea Breeze - Brock Berrigan
Slamsterdam - Shield
254 - Division (DNB)
Cruise - Ausschuss
Paticake - An Avrin
Donut Time - Nikki Nair
Patterns of Force - brandroid
Doom TimelineTM - Thys
Suzuki - Ivy Lab
Kampala - Paradox
Bad - Calibre, Mark Ernestus, Drs
Calibration - Youfee
Pure Abs - Footsie
Faded - Drone & Hyroglifics
Suffdub - T-Flex
Sick Fing - Stillhead
Walking Home - Monty
Into the 00’s - Holloway
Blue Deal - Minor Science
Flyby VFR - Skee Mask

plus a few samples and intro scratching added by chazbizar

multigenre mix

High Desert Hologram - Multi-genre Mix

Hosted by Brian and Shauna Smith
Music is Tom Echols
Communication Matters, hosted by Brian and Shauna Smith, is a show about communication and the human condition. A mental health counselor and speech-language pathologist will discuss the multitude of aspects of interpersonal communication and relationships, and provide tips and tricks for improving your interpersonal communication skills. And this all the while demonstrating that a married couple can barb, bicker, and banter on the topics without killing each other on the air. 

This episode discusses boundaries: how we all have them, we all need them, and how to make them while protecting relationships.

Communication Matters February 15, 2023 Boundaries

Hosted by Brian Smith, licensed clinical professional counselor, and Shauna Smith, speech-language pathologist
Music by Tom Echols

This episode delves into how to use anger in a productive way with assertiveness.

Communication Matters March 1, 2023 Anger & Assertiveness

Hosted by Brian Smith, licensed clinical professional counselor, and Shauna Smith, speech-language pathologist
Music by Tom Echols

This is the first live on-air episode of Communication Matters where the topic of apologies is discussed, types, ones to avoid and ways to improve your ability to repair a situation with someone else by using better words. In other words, saying you're sorry because you mean it and not saying you're sorry like you mean it. You also will hear many examples of apologies from the hosts as they blunder through their first on-air episode.

Communication Matters March 15, 2023 All Apologies

Hosted by Brian and Shauna Smith
Music is Tom Echols
Communication Matters, hosted by Brian and Shauna Smith, is a show about communication and the human condition. A mental health counselor and speech-language pathologist will discuss the multitude of aspects of interpersonal communication and relationships, and provide tips and tricks for improving your interpersonal communication skills. And this all the while demonstrating that a married couple can barb, bicker, and banter on the topics without killing each other on the air.

This episode we discuss what hills are, how to recognize hills, why you are on them, and how to decide if you want to die there or retreat. (For those of you that aren't familiar with this analogy, hills are confrontations.)

Communication Matters March 29, 2023: Of all the hills to die on...

The Little Things People Say... 
Special edition interview show.  

Interviews will focus on professions and/or groups of people that have a major impact on us personally and/or the world around us with how they communicate their purpose whether we notice them or not. These interviews will tap into these people as just a person who also happens to have a label and then make them universally relatable through discussing how they communicate, how others have communicated with them, and what words have shaped them and smashed them. This all while shedding light on the nuances and importance of their purpose, with the hope of viewing groups as individual people and not labels.  Interview with Jason Brewer of Jason Brewer & Co.

Music: "Head Shaped Weird" by Bicycler of The Apocalypse

Communication Matters, Special Edition: The Little Things People Say...

Could it be?
My lover all alone
Say you'll leave
When you know you won't
On the open sea
You belong to me
What about when we hit shore?

Do you want to feel the savage breeze
all along your skin and bones?

Where will we ever go, my love?
When will we ever have enough?

Slow down
Wild child
I want to capture every thought and sound
In my heart
I want to know what we must do without
If I'm gone
I want to capture every thought and sound
In my heart
I want to kiss your fingertips off

In shadow she turns to me
Dripping in tragedy
Silence your history
And release thyself to me

Savage Coast

Savage Coast (Single)

Order Album

This thirteenth Eckhardt And The House single is again a fine example of the band's development towards a more uptempo and danceable indie sound. The band has been taking elements from pop to avant-garde to disco-funk and twisted it all up into a signature sound with wild experimentation and disregard for the norm.

Humans is based on a Peruvian folk song that has been added to the Voyager Golden Records. The Voyager Golden Records are two gramophone records that are on board of both Voyager spacecraft that were launched by NASA in 1977. The records contain sounds and images that have been selected to reflect the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are meant for any intelligent alien life form or for future people who may find them. The records are a kind of time capsule.

That is why Eckhardt And The House introduces itself to extraterrestrial life in the lyrics. "We are humans, living creatures on the planet earth, we are children of the sun waiting for you to come."

In the (hip-hop)beats, you could hear the Beastie Boys - Root Down. The overall feeling of the single tends to that delicious Fools Gold song of the Stone Roses.

With so far twelve singles and an album under their belt the current play count on Spotify is 1.7 Million streams. The band scored iTunes chart positions in ten European countries plus Turkey, Brazil, South Africa and Japan, Spotify charts in The Netherlands, France, Italy and Turkey plus airplay in six European countries and the US. Press rolled in from worldwide.

Humans is released 1 February 2019 on BERT music (a division of TCBYML)

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Eckhardt And The House - Humans

This podcast documentary outlines the history of student-run radio at Boise State University. The history is one example of a national phenomenon concerning the conglomeration of student-run radio stations into different networks. 

Written, produced, and hosted by Blake Simony
Commentary from Kelsie Rose
Voice talents from Taylor Humby and Matt Clay

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The music and sound effects in this documentary are all licensed under the Creative Commons:

News1 by NICOCO
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https://www.jamendo.com/track/1077955/news1

Radio Static by GrowlerMusic from Freesound.org 
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https://freesound.org/people/GowlerMusic/sounds/262267/

Crickets by Frus
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https://freesound.org/people/frus/sounds/172143/

UP Library Study Centre Ambience by Blouhond
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https://freesound.org/people/blouhond/sounds/163588/

Wild Heart by Omonoko 
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https://www.jamendo.com/track/1609779/wild-heart 

Utopia by PLUSHKA
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https://www.jamendo.com/track/1560299/utopia

The flow by Twin Flames
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https://www.jamendo.com/search?q=Twin%20Flames

Chords by TBS
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https://www.jamendo.com/track/1353693/chords

Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor, WoO 59, "For Elise" (Ludwig van Beethoven) by Esther Garcia 
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https://www.jamendo.com/track/1546143/bagatelle-no-25-in-a-minor-woo-59-for-elise-ludwig-van-beethoven

Grunge by Akashic Records 
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https://www.jamendo.com/track/901224/grunge

Polite_applause_03.wav from joedeshon 
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https://freesound.org/people/joedeshon/sounds/119023/

Winterdust (2018) by SPACEMETERY from Jamendo.com 
Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1535559/winterdust


Game Change (2015)  by NICK MILLER 
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https://www.jamendo.com/track/1193487/game-change

Seventeen (2017) by JEFFREY PHILIP NELSON 
Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1484164/seventeen

Thinking of You... (2014)  by BRAINCONTROL
Attribution-ShareAlike  CC BY-SA
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1103137/thinking-of-you

Magnet (2017) by RADIOPLUSH 
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https://www.jamendo.com/track/1506252/magnet

Hypnotic 60s groove (2008) TOM LA MECHE 
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https://www.jamendo.com/track/128834/hypnotic-60s-groove

Rumble · fade in 10s by Unfa
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https://freesound.org/people/unfa/sounds/258341/

Ibiza (2017) ZELL 
Attribution CC BY
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1419912/ibiza

Mozart, W.A.: Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545 - II. Andante (2014) ONCLASSICAL 
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https://www.jamendo.com/track/1169718/mozart-w-a-sonata-no-16-in-c-major-k-545-ii-andante

Reboot: University Pulse Radio And Student Voice

Who are the people shaping Boise’s creative community? How do we give voice to their creativity and contributions? The Creators, Makers, & Doers blog and artist talk series is our way to amplify these creative individuals and organizations. Genuine, inspiring, and sometimes bold, Boise’s Arts & History's blog is an effort to put a face to the people we serve through an often intimate look at their practice and workspaces.

Enjoy the full interview between interviewer & photographer Brooke Burton and Arts & History Grant Recipient Radio Boise General Manager Jessica Evett and Program Director & Production Manager Wayne Birt.

Blog link: https://www.boiseartsandhistory.org/blog/2020/05/27/creators-makers-doers-radio-boise/

© Boise City Department of Arts & History

Creators, Makers, & Doers: Radio Boise (full interview)

Dalai Lama

Smooth transitions with bright and energizing beats combine perfectly to create a dynamic track.

Lift Me Up

As Ritual Cloak’s sophomore album draws closer, we’re excited to bring you another nugget from the much anticipated long-player. High Teens, Low Twenties will be released digitally on the 2nd April 2021. The track follows in the vein of the previous singles Opaque Crater and White Noise with the duos unique approach to post-rock, cinematic soundscapes.

“High Teens Low Twenties is one of our favourite tracks to come out of the second album's recording session. It came about as Dan had forgotten he'd stored a reversed loop of a simple arpeggio on his loop pedal. When we were setting up in the studio for a session Dan clicked the looper on as it was flashing and this sound just burst out! We both looked at each other and got to work immediately, and the song was pretty much finished by the end of that day.”

Divine Invasions

High Teens Low Twenties

Young Jim Carr From The Basement Febuary 26, 2021

Radio Boise is a community radio station. Our volunteer programmers strive to provide quality local programming for the wide range of people and communities in our listening area who are not satisfied by existing media outlets. 

Communication Matters, Special Edition: The Little Things People Say...

Radio Boise

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