Jack Mangan and Eric Haley visited the Brandenburg Labs booth at NAMMShow 2026 to speak with legendary musical inventor and Internet Hall of Fame Inductee: Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, about his latest innovation: Okeanos Pro Headphones. His biggest claim to fame is co-inventing the .mp3 file format.

Topics covered:

-Augmented Reality Immersive Headphones. The sound changes as you walk around the rood. It’s wild to experience.

-Listening to Rush on the Atari 800.

-Impact of the .mp3 format.

SLAM Bumper: Rich Catino.

Full disclosure. The room around us was seriously noisy. Some of the audio is rough. We know. The second half of the video is better. Yes, we did run Noise Reduction.

An 8-minute NAMM hallway conversation with Chad Leon, singer and guitarist of the mighty Kings of Thrash .

Lyrics reference: Megadeth.

SLAM Bumper: Jason McMaster

-Be humble

-Forming your neuro pathways.

-Practice thinking positively

Camera work: Eric Haley.

A 10-minute NAMM hallway conversation with Joel Hoekstra, hyper-talented guitarist with Whitesnake, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Revolution Saints, and numerous other projects, including Joel Hoekstra’s 13.

Lyrics reference: Whitesnake.

-Making 10 cents an hour.

-You’re treated like a king and then you’re a bum and then you’re a king.

-Try and look at it logically.

Camera work: Eric Haley.

Iconic singer, Lorraine Lewis (solo artist, ex-Vixen) talks to Support Life And Music hosts Mark Pruett and Jack Mangan about sexuality in Rock n’ Roll, being selective about her band, David Lee Roth, Rikki Rocket, waitressing at Bob’s Big Boy, her OnlyFans page, ways to cope and deal with it all, and much more.

Lyrics quote: Lorraine Lewis

SLAM Bumper: Sam Saltman

1. I'm not that different. My trajectory has always been sex.
2. I believe in manifesting, I believe in frequency.
3. drama and arguments before you're getting ready to go on stage - - so not cool.

Professor Elemental - “The preeminent Rap (Chap Hop) superstar of the U.K.”

SLAM Bumper: 1 minute

Lyrics reference: Professor Elemental.

-If you've got other orangutans you want to speak to on your presumably orangutan-themed podcast, you just crack on, mate.

-What would I be doing today if I felt on top of the world? How would I treat myself?

-The business of silliness is really important.

-Loneliness plays a huge part in modern society and how sad people get.

This may be one of the most powerful episodes we’ve done. Chris Hathcock of The Reticent talks to us about their recent album, “please,” which Jack Mangan ranked as a Noteworthy Album of 2025.

Chris understands the psychology and reality of music and depression at about five levels deeper than anyone else. Jack is usually pretty stoic, but he gets emotional during the course of this conversation. This one just hits home.

Trigger warning: There is frank, open talk about suicide in this episode. If you are aware that you or someone you know may be at risk, call “988” from your phone. You are not alone. You are not without hope.

SLAM Bumper: Jason McMaster

Quotes:

-My first book was just a humor thing, which is extra funny considering how depressing my music is.

-The depression may be telling us the truth as it sees it.

-When the despair comes, if you can, see if there's a kindness you can do

https://thereticent.net/home

Regiment - Tyler Heath

Intranced - James-Paul Luna

Persekutor - Vlad the Inhaler

Three of the best NWOTHM vocalists in the game today talk about the challenges and rewards of the musician life.

Lyrics Reference: Saxon

Host(s):Jack Mangan, and Mark Pruett (The Whiskey Network)

Jack’s T-shirt: Fender

SLAM Bumper: Bobby Blitz

Lead quote: People are eating this stuff up. Everybody who's in the room is in the room for a very specific reason, and it's because of the music.

Quotes:

1. It used to be not important to me, and I got kind of in some dangerous situations. . . I used to do all kinds of crazy stuff.
2. The front man needs to be, yeah, hydrated, lubed up, and rested.
3. The main reason I do that, another job, you know, is so I can set aside the time and have the funds to make the tour, to make the recordings of our music and, you know, give the peoples what they want.

Bobby Blitz of Overkill

SLAM Bumpers: Doro Pesch

Quotes from this episode:

1. it's almost like the secret silent killer, isn't it?
2. I'm grateful to be able to have lived my life in Levi's and motorcycle boots.
3. I was drinking with Pete Steele. I mean, what do you think's gonna happen?