🎧 Episode 105 – Yacht Rock Precision, Jazz Fusion Glam & The Deep Cut State Emerges

Episode 105 brings Curtis and Jonathan back into familiar territory—smooth, meticulous, and just a little unhinged. Jonathan opens with a polished slice of West Coast pop from Player, while Curtis counters with a sleek, cinematic fusion track from Yellowjackets, leaning fully into late-night musicianship and studio finesse.This week also marks the debut of a brand-new feature: The Deep Cut State. In this segment, we begin asking important questions—possibly too important—as we explore whether certain patterns, coincidences, and musical decisions might point to something more… conspiratorial. We’re not making claims. We’re just noticing things.The category songs keep the energy unpredictable. Jonathan brings a listener request from Lee Ofman, while Curtis closes things out with a full-blown Sonic Holocaust selection from Pet Shop Boys, taking a familiar melody somewhere loud, dramatic, and impossible to ignore.Smooth grooves, jazz-fusion flair, listener chaos, and the first official step into conspiracy territory—welcome to the Deep Cut State.Curtis Gross is a self-employed video editor.Jonathan Workman is an adult learning consultant based in Wichita, KS.---Make sure you are subscribed to Why Is This So Hard For You. Type Why Is This So Hard For You in your podcast provider, hit that subscription button, and leave us a five-star review. This will make it easier for other podcast listeners to find the podcast.---The intro music is the first 30 seconds of the Ornette Coleman tune "Song X" fed into AI software that attempts to output the song to a solo piano transcription. The outro music is the first 30 seconds of Sonny Rollins' version of the tune "St. Thomas" fed into the same software.