The Blast’s Colin Cruz interviews Disciple this week on TheBlast.FM. The first 3 segments of the interview are Wednesday August 18, 2021 in the 1 PM hour.*
Oh, and…we’ll have a surprise special guest from another band in segment 2 Wednesday. Hint D +DD= D3.
On Thursday the second set of interview segments will air in the 12 Noon hour.*
On Friday, the third set of interview segments will air in the 2 PM hour.*
*All times= USA/Canada Central Time.
TheBlast.FM believes in free speech!
So, look for TheBlast.FM on some new social media channels.
The Blast Dot FM on Telegram; TheBlastdotFM on Gettr; TheBlastdotFM on Rumble; TheBlastFM on MeWe; On Gab, find our group: https://gab.com/groups/48340
*Gab is supplanting Facebook.
*Rumble is where we are now uploading all of our videos.
*MeWe is where we are uploading archives of audio programming (mainly artist interviews).
*Gettr and Telegram supplant Twitter.
Also, if you want to funnel your giving through a platform that IS a Christian ministry, you may want to switch your giving over to the MyWell giving platform: https://www.mywell.org/give/theblastfm/
Options are coming soon for non-USA citizens to give through MyWell, and in the meantime…
You can also donate via cryptocurrency via Engiven: https://platform.engiven.com/give/432/widget/295
The Blast’s Colin Cruz caught up with Relent at TheBlast.FM booth at the Kingdom Come Festival recently. On Wednesday in the 12 Noon hour (USA/Canada Central Time), we will air that interview.
A car accident near the San Diego data center where our main streams are hosted caused a block-wide power outage, knocking our main streams off the air.
Use this stream address in Winamp or VLC Media Player to get Blasted in the meantime:
This stream is now in our Android, iOS, and Roku apps in the third position, notated as 128k!!!
So the others may have dead air, but this is hosted on the other side of the USA and has live streaming audio.
Paypal is effectively increasing its merchant fees that it will be charging us, starting on August 1, 2021.
If we can get the remaining 48% of our monthly automatic Paypal donors to switch over to the MyWell giving portal*, we will save nearly $200 a year in fees.
Here is a chart showing amounts donors are still giving through Paypal monthly:
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PAYPAL CURRENT FEES, AUGUST 1, 2021 NEW FEES VS. SWITCHING TO MYWELL GIVING PORTAL
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| Current | New | Paypal | Paypal | MyWell donation | Amount saved | (per donor at | |
| Gift Amount | Calculation | Calculation | Current Fee | New Fee | via elec. check | each month | this gift rate) |
| $100 | 2.2% +.30 | 1.99% +.49 | $2.29 | $2.48 | $0.30 | $2.18 | |
| $35 | 2.2% +.30 | 1.99% +.49 | $1.07 | $1.19 | $0.30 | $0.89 | |
| $25 | 2.2% +.30 | 1.99% +.49 | $0.85 | $0.99 | $0.30 | $0.69 | |
| $20 | 2.2% +.30 | 1.99% +.49 | $0.74 | $0.89 | $0.30 | $0.59 | |
| $10 | 2.2% +.30 | 1.99% +.49 | $0.52 | $0.69 | $0.30 | $0.39 | |
| $5 | 2.2% +.30 | 1.99% +.49 | $0.41 | $0.59 | $0.30 | $0.29 |
Notable: for those donating $100 a month, this takes our fee from $2.48 to 30 cents!
For those donating $5, how do you feel about the fact that Paypal takes over 1/10 of that starting next month?
https://www.theblast.fm/home/donations/
To switch over to MyWell, click on the button that looks like the above picture, found in the lower right corner of our website. (Or click on the handy link next to it).
*Assuming everyone gives via electronic check, with the exceptions of: if your gift amount is $7.50 or less or if you are outside the USA, please donate with a debit card on the MyWell portal, as the fees will be even less than $0.30.
Thank you for helping to maximize your contributions to The Blast Ministries, Inc.!
On Friday July 2, 2021, Colin Cruz (pictured here with Sarah Anthony and Mark Anthony) of The Letter Black, airs part 3 of his interview with this band. It will be on TheBlast.FM in the 9 AM and 10 AM hours (USA/Canada Central Time).
If you missed the first several segments of the interview, those are archived on TheBlast.FM MeWe page: https://mewe.com/p/theblastfm
Colin Cruz sat down with Mark and Sarah Anthony of The Letter Black at Kingdom Come Festival. It was an eventful, fun, and entertaining 17 minutes, and we are breaking it up into multiple parts that will be on The Blast Wednesday through Friday (June 30-July 2, 2021).
The first segments will air Wednesday in the 11 AM hour (USA/Canada Central Time).
If you missed the interview The Blast’s Colin Cruz did with industrial artist David Pataconi, we have archived it on our new MeWe page for TheBlast.FM: https://mewe.com/p/theblast.fm
And we have a video of him performing his hit song To Follow Our Own, here: https://fb.watch/6rfyNlvwVa/
The Letter Black was the headliner Friday night at Kingdom Come Fest near Greentown, Indiana. We have the video of them performing Rise here: https://fb.watch/v/1dJudYn2o/
The Blast’s Colin Cruz talks to Sarah and Mark Anthony from The Letter Black on Wednesday June 30, 2021. Time: TBA (sometime between 9 am and 3 pm USA/Canada Central Time).
Tuesday, a look back at the conversation Colin Cruz had with John Cooper of Skillet, talking about when Cooper met one of his favorite childhood rock stars. And it was that rock star that wanted to meet Cooper. Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 1 pm USA/Canada Central Time.
