Ep. 189: "Technicolor Irony Coat"
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to start popping pop Baby Bop and Bop
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ball popularity but why can't they see
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they're just like me
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it's just say it's the same in the whole
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wide world
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papi papi papi papi papi will be where
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we ever got that all john william I you
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been secretly goth right that's so
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knowing no not at all
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never not at all nothing you're always
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been dipped into so many subcultures to
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seem like you must have gotten into a
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little bit of God's at some point hmm no
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hmm no i am not at all gods have never
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been gone but i have to say i left a i
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left a recording session open on my
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computer and when i logged onto this
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program which is what i do i I had the
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most amazing echo on my voice and I
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would just went through the different
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levels of my computer as you do
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uh-huh and i found an open recording
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track where there is some bass reduction
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some chorus and some echo plus some
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reverb and a little bit of EQ on my
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voice today and it's got like neil
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hamburger meat my blade Valentine it
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sounded like sounds like I'm in a Greek
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temple underwater in the future and so
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when we started going bop Boop bop I was
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fucking jamming on it I was really I
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wish we were still doing it now mansion
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you know if you want I could put some
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chamber reverb on the whole track entire
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I've had lots the whole nine if
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everybody could hear what I'm hearing
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right now
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no I'm going to turn it off oh man it's
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very distracting the CD confidence John
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you can't hear
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I know it's very distracting it's kind
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of like when you used to get on a phone
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call and there would be that that crazy
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delay I like a little bit like a slap
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it's just that means just a little too
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much slapback and it's distracting did
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you need a minute to take care of that
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now i'm going to do that writing that
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ministry song if you want i'm going to
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save this file up Monica gone
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hooray for me up but I know how to use
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computers boy
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no I was never gone because I'm
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ridiculous
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I don't know a lot of people were gone
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there right there are certain things
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that I feel like it are generational
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things that are just that I'm just like
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two years too old for a brother you know
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like send me the story of my life
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brother
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yeah if you were if you graduated in the
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class of 1988 that meant that in
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nineteen eighty-four you were just young
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enough to feel like God was a reasonable
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choice you might you know get somewhat
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cocteau twins you get some dead can
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dance you get some what's the bauhaus
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bauhaus sounds bauhaus was you know
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there's a lot of those bands they got
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lumped in that were actually pretty good
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bauhaus very good love and rockets very
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good love rocks there pop and they you
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know they were gothy but they were they
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were so popular like for a long time I
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issued echo and the bunnymen because I
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thought erroneously that they were a god
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bandido the cure i was like listen to
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music like that and then actually listen
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to it was like this is amazing pop music
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well so the Cure course being the being
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the incredible example of a band that is
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so extraordinary that they transcend all
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genre but when i was first introduced to
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the cure it was i was introduced to them
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via their pop hits which I didn't like
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the other there
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I mean you know they have some some
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really great pop songs now that we're
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finally late eighties but the the stuff
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I know what it is for me this is one
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where thank God for greatest hits
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I heard a little bit cure i think i had
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head on the door and then I got the
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standing on a beach
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I got the cassette version goals they
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were all different but yes but I mean
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like each song was better than the last
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they were in probably great pop songs
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you haven't liked loved cats or whatever
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haha stations are it's a great song but
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I could take it or leave it right it was
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kind of like the more of a hanging God
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kind of guy
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well what what happened to me was I got
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someone dropped the entire aisle
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disintegration on me and disintegration
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happened already at a point where I was
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like have a cure the guys get funny
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harry wears eyeliner he's got these love
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cats songs you know
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yeah I'm well I'm still listening to
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that first Iron Maiden record right and
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I was a weird time
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yeah and I don't need all this like
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whole pop bleep but then a
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disintegration landed on me and I feel
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like that is an album physical it's one
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of those Complete Works you do not take
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a song off of that and listen to it
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separately it is just you put it on and
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you drive all night until you are so
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hypnotise arrive later than I thought
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that's 1989 that came and that's right
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she's Louise that is a record that has
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probably killed people right because
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they are driven off the road in the
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night they have gone down into a ravine
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and as they fell into the ravine they
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were not sorry because their death was
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as dramatic as the music they were
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listening don't think it hadn't gone
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through my mind
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sure I mean is the time music to like
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when i arrived at somebody's house based
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I figure out what song I wanted to be
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playing when I pulled into someone's
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driveway let alone how I want to die on
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a road I hear a lot of people tell me
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that eat that both the commander thinks
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aloud and also our song our long winter
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song blanket hog mls big guy gets big at
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the end they put those songs on when
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that when the captain says please fasten
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your seatbelts were on final approach
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they put those songs on their headphones
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because they they want to ride that wave
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if the plane is going down they want
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that to be happening and they break the
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glass on the special ipod to carry
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around it just has those two songs on a
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cute up though I totally relate to that
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and the Cure's disintegration and my
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bloody Valentine's Lovelace were always
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the records that i put on when I was the
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only one awake and i was driving the van
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through the night
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oh yeah both of them terrible records
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for that because who you're exhausted at
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that point everyone else is asleep no
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one's there to keep you alive
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well it's NBD man you might just start
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hallucinating while the records you
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absolutely do and so you can get a
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sensory deprivation thing it's like what
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is that noise where is that coming from
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what is happening in your brain is gonna
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try to fill in like
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between in all these are all details to
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help you understand what you want the
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assault on your ears
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that's right and so you're seeing the
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the glowing the glowing eyeballs of
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little deer that are waiting on the side
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of the road to jump out re are you just
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like I am with you
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world i'm flying and you know swerve
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driver I mean there were a lot of there
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were a lot of bands that were in that
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zone but i just picked those two records
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for if i wanted something that had a lot
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of sound
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yeah you know the shootings bands were
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weird for me because like goth stuff it
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was something I felt very comfortable
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writing off unfairly perhaps but none
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right i would write off basically the
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entire genre except for a handful of
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utterly amazing bands i just as a genre
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it seems like so such a nothing burger
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but then you know MTV and maybe a ride
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like there are a couple of those bands
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like there's a lot going on this was the
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problem with the stone roses for me i
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had this conversation literally this
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you're cuter scott simpson I had the
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stones are you ready for this kind of
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John interrupt you but continued quick
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anecdote go go in there and long story
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short the bartender at this place where
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Scott an IRA he's wearing a unknown
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pleasures shirt so of course I feel the
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need to discuss with joy division with
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him at length we end up talking about 24
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hour party people
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one of the great films of our time right
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and how like the first half of that
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movie I i double triple love the second
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half never got into happy mondays
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it's not like i never got into the Happy
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Mondays well makers wild roses
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sorry to interrupt yeah and this is
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going to infuriate our English friends
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but happy mondays were garbage are
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terrible band they're awfully not
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nothing they did was good they have the
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dancing guy and then there's always I
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was as they say the rubbish it was
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rubbish and then I you know I said scott
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was like yeah I could never get into a
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lot of that Scott's like yeah you know
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even start like Stone Roses though they
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had two songs I like they had she bangs
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the drum and what's the one I don't have
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to save my soul fool's gold
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yeah the first song LOL in death by
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three songs my hand of God we're having
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this conversation and guess what comes
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on stereo dundun dundun 22 xubuntu too
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students who dude I don't huh
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the cell so and I was like wait a minute
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i'm literally loosening right-hander
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this song in three years and it just
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came on you guys manifest that what we
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conjugate country like an orb that's
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what my sister would say you manifested
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it I should talk to her she probably
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helped me a lot usually she's all about
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manifesting very positive the stone
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roses are are the other thing where
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you're like to introduce the rule if
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this song if this was like the smiths
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for me Frank if this is negative is
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indicative of the quality of their
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catalogs and I have found my new
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favorite band and then you dig in stop
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there and and you're like some girl's
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mother mother and you're like I made a
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mistake i made a little more fun and
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happy he's having that on the room
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he's taking the Mickey I'm turning the
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lights off Jesus Christ John i'll leave
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the stereo on in case any excuse the
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cats 10 they get lonely during the day
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there is a light and it never goes out
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there is a felony that only has to know
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it's only got four nodes stone the stone
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roses were one of these like oh my god
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get a packet to the package driver was
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awesome dance beat and then there's like
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this pop tune of the top I was like this
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is transforming me and the nothing else
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rose to the level of those first two but
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night I said you know for me
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we look at the Manchester scene and all
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the like that the dancing stuff that
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thought happy mondays was some kind of a
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trap Street because he's so people we
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unlike a man i must be missing something
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other gaslighting you the entire culture
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there's nobody to actually like this
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band who would put this record on
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deliberately so I'm gonna I'm gonna go
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with I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with
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a couple songs from stores and i'm going
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to say primal screen
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normal screen was pretty great scheme
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was great you're absolutely right but
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but I mean all of that stuff I the
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groove is in the heart do
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doo-doo-doot-doot doot-doo live like to
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do if your time I dance music or any
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kind of like fun party music or take
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ecstasy and dance on the beach in goa
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music that says new order for me
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uh well sure but like but like uh I'm
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talking about post-1990 rightmost 1991
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that when that thing was happening with
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all the glow sticks and shit
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yeah they called the rave culture the
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rave culture you know have a little have
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a little funk have a little funk to it
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sure but here's here's you want to you
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want to just go out and hire bootsy
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collins that'll help you want to talk
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about a controversial opinion a boy I
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make yourself sir go ahead controversial
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opinions
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hmm i feel this way and I'm embarrassed
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I'm still ashamed about this feeling
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like I'm not ashamed about feeling the
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way I do about the cure
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I'm sorry I'm sorry the Smiths oh
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because Smith she's the way people feel
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about the smiths I want them to stop
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feeling that way it's not that I want
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them to stop feeling that way about the
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Smith I think this is because you and
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Shaun have a lot of unresolved shit and
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you take it out on the smiths this
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happened to me that this was true of me
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in 1984 I felt this way about the smiths
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doesn't deserve it is a put-on meat is
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murder because I because I loved the
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yeah a little-little over 800 right
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loved the deal right the Smith look he's
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at he he he's asexual and their album
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covers are cool cool these beautiful but
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a bit that even the logo you know that
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the typeface yes I'll go everything
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about it just seems timeless the guitar
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players so amazing and i was like i'm
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gonna do this I'm gonna get new wave i'm
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going to go for it and I don't need to
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just be listening to you know Marc Bolan
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or whatever i'm ready from and I put it
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on and it made me so angry I was so
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angry that you would put all this tip
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that I felt like the happy mondays like
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what are you people talking about and
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then Emma how can you even put them in
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the same way I shouldn't be on the same
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cotton and how come home and were there
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not only from the moment they're from
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like within 600 miles
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each other no they are practicing the
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same neighborhood and their brother off
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the boat from Manchester I think Chester
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well yeah right okay you know what I can
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adjust your geography basically comes
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down to like everything in 24 hour party
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people that's what I know
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yeah everything from leads to permanent
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bobby was a salford lad but uh but I
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hate you so mad and then and then all
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the hero worship and all like falling
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and the falling over and i was just like
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there's no this is an emperor has no
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clothes situation there's nothing here
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just can't imagine you're talking about
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having Monday's whenever you talk about
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this message and so it continued into
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adulthood
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I thought this was one of those things
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where everybody in the eighties was
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having a collective delusion and then
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there would be this moment of reckoning
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where it was like like Timbuk 3 if you
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were still really in book 3 i like that
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song she did we thought there was an
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afternoon in what 1988 where we all
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liked it and then we moved on but that
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isn't the case and colin Meloy and John
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Nelson and you you guys have all just
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bored the shit out of me talking about
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the smiths there's I 33 and a third book
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it just it feels like it you know what
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is it feels like that 33 and a third
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culture it's like blah blah blah blah
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that's like people who are on Iran on an
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ironic Lee into pro wrestling
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yes thank you exactly and I said
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something like I am I spent the fucking
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shit about the smiths the other day and
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you know our good friends from the new
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pornographers
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uh-huh oh god you guys get a room
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publicly took me on and said I said
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anyone that doesn't like the smiths is
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uh is like a garbage person
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yeah you know that David all of his
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tweets in many years and and I said you
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know what first of all garbage person is
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not a thing we use anymore that's you
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know that's really from a different time
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well it is and it's very--it's normative
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against garbage people and I just I feel
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like first of all let's stop doing that
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it's one of those words like gypsy or
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mathlete you know we just gotta stop
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saying it
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that's right good no we're not you know
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I'm looking out the window right now and
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a BMW just pulled into the parking lot
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and did that thing where he parked
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completely across two parking spots like
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like the line is running straight down
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the middle of his car parked it and I
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was like are you are you got to battle
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traffic jams and Happy Mondays and then
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turn just turn the car off turn the
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lights off and just
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fuck that guy i'm so mad right now but
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but here's here's my controversial
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opinion this is gonna make people very
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ok but except that nobody except nobody
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and you know our audience is actually 24
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years old they have no idea what you
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don't know these bands are but again
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everything is streaming whatever people
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give them the stream it yeah they stream
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it just streaming well what's the matter
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yeah it's like Tom Petty right up
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against some dollars a month to get
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stream from Marilyn Monroe and then you
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know and then it's like the commercial
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fortuna it's like that directv Robert
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everything that you see in certain bars
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where it's like Bob Marley is sitting
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with james dean around a pool table with
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some cats and it's painted in velvet
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they're all smoking cigars
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that's what contemporary and I go for
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three Ball corner pocket
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no I feel that way about the second
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delic first oh yeah
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Psychedelic Furs have if they have five
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outstanding there for outsiders a
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world-beating songs i was going to say
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for four songs that just make you that
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make you fall to your knees and cry out
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original original pretty in pink
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you've got love my way you've got don't
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know don't know you've got of the ghost
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in you the greatest Austin you oh my god
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you've heard Robyn Hitchcock cover that
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I can't you know I've heard Robyn
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Hitchcock cover 450 songs and that was
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all in the first night I met him at all
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so I'm not sure I can't say for sure
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that I pray you're right you're right
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their records me taken to another band
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listen to on cassettes at the same time
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the cars like the cars
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I mean Jesus Christ for the first four
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or so carves cars albums they had six
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really good songs on her rocker / record
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i mean the first record is an anomaly
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the first record is like I would even
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put that it's just one of those complete
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works it's like rumors
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yeah yeah I know every someone here and
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they're all good and I don't skip them
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well and so the but the psychedelic furs
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are like are like a like a music critic
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favorite
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yeah but they have the I mean they're
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just one song better than a flock of
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seagulls
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right like flock of seagulls have two
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incredible tune Iran in space age love
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no not space lobster ok that's the third
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I was falling in love it's about that's
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the third if I had a photograph of you
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something to remind me
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yes that's a good song amazing tune so
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so we we mock flock of seagulls what
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they have they have two and a half left
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for school never saw lodge
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let's go digits that true opening for
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the go-go's my fucking god
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yeah 1982 or answer he is you saw them
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live let alone that was the first you
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know it's the first band is all I was
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fucking Dokken I said was a the go-go's
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on their vacation to her vacation i'll
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ever wanted chainwheel is our life stop
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it stop it you're telling me Jane
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Wiedlin she's just up there playing
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guitar with a normal thing I know I know
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what your babydoll dress and a Chance of
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some kind of frilly panties sexy I think
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she had like a little flouncy skirt and
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she would hop when she played you're
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destroying me and you none of these
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people came to Alaska they didn't even
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know Alaska was an american states but
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so yeah so I mean I was listening to
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some flock of seagulls the other day
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because I think they are good but the I
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think the ultimate example of this is in
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excess over the course of their career
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they had no fewer than ten great songs
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they had a lot of really good song but
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it's not the ones that people remember
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what you need is not a great song
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now wait a minute no bow out
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no no that's what I'm gonna go on with
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that dream on backpage my girl what's
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that song called remember that song yeah
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it's called the webwork but like girl
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space specialist a love song and they
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also got that one this time we'll be
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landing the big hits off of those first
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records we just don't remember them that
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we don't remember those first records
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what about the one thing like the one
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thing I like out solutions ah here's the
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point of I remember this here's the
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thing i like every INXS single until
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kick and then it kick they did a little
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bit of the UH they did a little bit of
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the def leppard adrenal eyes they think
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they're like an AI that became just
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slightly self-aware it to too self-aware
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right that like kicks
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kick was their biggest record by a
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thousand points just like Def Leppard's
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adrenal eyes just like Van Halen's 94
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and it was when they jump the shark boy
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you know it'sit's I'm so reluctant to
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analyze I wouldn't I wouldn't suck on a
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hot dog for all the tea in China you
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don't want that i want to eat that and
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was playing Dig Dug uh-huh and chris
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gill showed up now Chris kills lived a
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couple doors down from me Chris skills
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was not a it wasn't the tallest kid but
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crystals was a good skier who's better
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skier than I was and he was very cool he
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was much much cooler than me and my best
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friend Kevin Horning went through a
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phase early on in high school where
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kills crystals was too cool to hang out
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with me
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so what that meant was that Kevin was
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hanging out with chris and not with me
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right i did not get all I did not get
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invited along to the crystals party
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dance gotta reach chris was like always
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kind of he found me a little
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contemptible but he was you know he was
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friendly enough but it was one of those
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scenes where I would you know we'd be
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sitting around and i would say something
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funny and everybody like haha yeah
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Roderick funny and then I would take it
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too far and I'd say the next thing and
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crystals was the one that was like a ya
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NE that I know that phenomenon to its
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it's like you just got like a be ob-
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laughs and then you completely undid all
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of your work with the one joke too much
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too much and then everybody minute f-
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they all turned their backs on you and
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you know kevin was my best friend right
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so he didn't turn his back on me he
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wanted me to
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he wanted me to make it he wanted me to
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make it over here on the other side
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where the cool kids were but I just
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couldn't do it
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I couldn't put it together it's not that
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I want didn't want to I just couldn't
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put it together and Chris kills for me
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everybody's got a guy that personifies
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that Christie was the guy for me and
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even now I mean chris has lost all his
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hair but he lives in the Bahamas on a
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sailboat or something like chris is
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still he's I don't know how he pulls it
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there's a picture of him in the
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Himalayas but he's not riding a camel
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he's not being a dummy
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he's just there because he's got some
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business to do there and then he's going
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back he's living on his sailboat
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somewhere in the Bahamas he drives a
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powder-blue like 72 oldsmobile like what
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is going on with this guy
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this isn't what you would expect but
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anyway so I'm playing dig dug at the
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Tastee freeze Chris gills for some
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reason offers me a ride and crystals dad
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was the first guy to get one of those a
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ford thunderbirds that looks like a
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lozenge
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yeah and I ibuprofen and Chris kills his
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dad was a doctor he was the kind he had
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a nakamichi stereo us we're not going to
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stereo where it popped the tape out and
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flipped it around who mechanically and
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then popped it back in so that you
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didn't get the the slight distortion of
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a tape being played backwards yeah so
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true audiophiles look for a cassette
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deck that can do something like that can
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pop it out right sure but think about
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the think about the magazine
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advertisement for the nakamichi tape
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deck that popped it out and flipped it
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it's hilarious at the time it seemed
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impossibly modern and now it feels like
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something from the flintstones I mean
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it's ok it's a living i remember
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watching remember it wasn't something
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that I that you watched it was something
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that you read in magazines if you saw
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that nakamichi tape deck add you knew
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you were reading the right man
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you seen yes they would only advertising
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the cool magazine so Chris Chris Chris
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Cole's dad he was supposed to buy a BMW
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740i but instead he bought this for this
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Lawson judged lozenge-shaped forward and
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that was a symbol to me at least of how
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cool that Thunderbird was crystals dad
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will you drop those things are so dated
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oh yeah I know but at the time i was
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very modern very forward so Christians
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picks me up like says hey you need a
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ride and I'm like crystals is offering
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me a ride what's going on is this some
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kind of thing where he's going to take
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me out and like pants me somewhere and
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we're riding and we're just being cool
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we're just chillin with each other and
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I'm I'm nervous right because because
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i'm going to say was something funny and
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he's gonna be like here at Roderick yeah
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and then I'm gonna take it too far i'm
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gonna say something funny and he's gonna
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think to himself it was a mistake to
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give John Rocker ride but this is this
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moment maybe I'm maybe this is the
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beginning of something right you got it
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but you're but you're you you're in that
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mode right you're in that mode
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yeah and then we're driving along and
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chris says did you hear van Halen pick
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the new singer I was like what
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no really they're gonna keep going and
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he was like yeah they've been looking
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for a new singer they just pick somebody
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and I was like who and he said Sammy
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Hagar and I knew I mean that appalled me
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right because yeah Sammy Hagar had a
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really good song on the heavy metal
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soundtrack same behavior has had at
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least four extremely good songs but even
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by that point even the album that of his
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that I liked know the other is a
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lightbox well throughout box is great
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but I think I can't drive 55 is that the
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one that had your love is driving me
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that's a pretty powerful pop songs
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anyway by even by that point he was he
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was just he was excruciating to just
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even be aware of the red rocker you know
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what's going on around two shows that
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little wireless Mike climbing things
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no thank you right and he was like a
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capuchin monkey in a wig
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except that it's a one-way ticket to
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midnight call it heavy metal hitting
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metal whoo that was a kick-ass lawyer I
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mean that was like that was a song that
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that early billy squier cut it on sure
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but anyway Chris kill says Sammy Hagar's
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the new singer for van Halen that's the
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news he never want to hear and but it's
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like finding out your your your mom
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married your guidance counselor in the
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context of this car ride it was
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fantastic news because I now had
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something that I hated just naturally
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hated so much and chris and i could tell
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the crew skills naturally hated it and
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it was like we were brothers now we had
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something to hate together that was so
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hateful sammy hagar in van Halen that
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the entire rest of the last 30 years and
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still bothers me yeah the entire rest of
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the right we're like haha
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can you believe it oh my god and then he
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dropped me off at my house and I was
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like wow
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see you later Chris it was like right on
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see you later Roderick and then of
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course I never saw him again right on he
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never wrote in his car could you but you
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you know that you you did what you
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needed to do that day
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that's right I got out of there i made
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some jokes about sammy hagar van Halen I
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think we do I don't think we came up
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with van Hagar somebody else came up
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with that
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yeah but we we definitely had we had a
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good time and I'll I'll always be
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grateful to then Hagar for giving me
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that that afternoon with Chris kills but
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all uh don't go don't do it don't do it
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don't write you cannot you don't go back
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to the smiths I'm done I'm done
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ian mcculloch who of echo and the
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he went around on a tour a solo tour or
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something where he was playing really
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small clubs you played the crocodile
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cafe here like you know 300 capacity and
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it had about 80 people in it and all 80
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people were girls he was he was gorgeous
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he was very pretty and and I was at the
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show and he had this he helped this is a
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tea person audience completely captive
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and after the show was one of those rare
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things where every single one of the 80
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people stayed to shake his hand and i
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watch the entire show just one
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comprehending like why what is going on
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I wasn't another unsolved mysteries he
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playing solo he was playing solo but
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with a band ok so he was just front guy
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he did it's not like he had an
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instrument he just was holding a
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microphone and they played a lot of echo
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and the bunnymen tunes and where and
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everybody was because you know the one
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got from Mexico moment died so they
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could never really get back together
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what the guitar player was the one did
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all the heavy lifting right was it will
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sergeant was the same
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yeah but it was like the bass player of
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the drummers and I guess yeah I was like
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a way yeah that was mostly drum machines
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but but their drummer died right and so
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it's a spinal tap situation i'm sure but
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anyway it was this week it was this
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weird event like you know when John Doe
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goes around on his own and John Doe is a
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beautiful man and John toe puts on an
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unusual show very charismatic but he's
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very charismatic and i understand it and
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I understood in McCulloch because he was
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beautiful and also very charismatic
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funny guy not Robbie Williams funny but
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funny but watching the show I was like
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there's nothing for me to I can sink my
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teeth into any of this music air and
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echo and the bunnymen felt I mean I was
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in love and rockets fan why wouldn't
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like it on the button they have they
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also have an ampersand in the middle
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uh-huh but just couldn't do it couldn't
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even my colour kinda
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just feel like echo and the bunnymen
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it's kind of like a slightly better
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Smith's not but not a thing that i could
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really sink my teeth into you know I
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don't use this word much I think you're
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trolling me haha i think you're I think
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you're you're deliberately you're
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deliberately making this more difficult
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than it needs to be working on the show
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are for this episode's going to bend
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over so I'm trying to bring on trying to
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bring the patterns out of the woodwork
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because I know whatever whenever I get
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whatever I really hit on something
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that's true i get a lot of pedantic you
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break your breaking people's frame
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people don't like the frame broken
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yeah it doesn't fit the frame low
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booga-booga I get a lot of actually get
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professor actually giving you call arm
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my other one's going to toss out so like
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anytime I don't know why I mean we talk
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about godspeed you black emperor we have
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I feel like we should talk about
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godspeed you black emperor some I think
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they're phenomenal their part of it i
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could get I'm so relieved to hear that
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their part of that's like loudness is
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our sixth instrument right like we have
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guitar bass drums other guitar keyboards
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and loudness but they got strings
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strings got like 60 guitars and then
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they got like a little miniature a
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string section string section and
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loudness yeah but I they just did a tour
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and everybody was at the shows and they
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were raving about it and I was in maui
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and they didn't come to maui they played
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all these places that I could have been
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should have been would have been who but
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i know i think they're phenomenal
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dimension is because like when you think
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about the certain bands that are so
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atmospheric and npv was what was your
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other one the cure but like sometimes
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when i first started getting into them
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what 2000 2001 2002 something like that
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oh and must know when I had my ipod
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though anyway I've been listening to
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them when i was on muni and when it was
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when the train will go into the tunnel
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hmm it's a bad time to be listening to
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godspeed you black and well when the
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train goes into the tunnel it's like
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with my finger here right
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that's an allegory Laura for when the
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Sailor meets the girl in the surf like
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you know beyond kissing beyond kissing
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one boy loves a girl very much his lips
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can keep his mind and nothing else
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listen to god speed black emperor in my
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wallet full of blood into the taraval
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other merchants the merchants are mad
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your local merchants there and we're
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gonna make things to make the terrible
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safer and run better and they're mad
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about losing parking
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they always do that to make it run
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better yeah it's a lot it's a lot like I
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got speed you black emperor some time
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said well you check them out that makes
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me feel good
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oh yeah for sure for shizzle my bruh i
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have not seen them live i tried to
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introduce my mom to glad Godspeed black
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Emperor because it seemed like the type
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of thing that would like that she would
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turn up in her whole house would like
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resonate like a like a drum but by that
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point she had really gotten too far into
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slash's snakepit to really back out some
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so what mom has taken a she's taking a
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left turn for many many years she had
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impeccable taste
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she would play like all the early Pink
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Floyd records like she was just crank
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kuma kuma and uh you know and all she
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had every Sabbath record and when
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Sabbath transition to do she had no
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problem with it she just she made that
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bump just fine but not a time
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no not at the time but later yeah I you
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know all the all the Zeppelin have
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everybody she was completely down with
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the struggle she had she had a hard time
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with late eighties metal because she
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just didn't like the screechy singing
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but somewhere along the line and this is
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i don't i can't i can't say for sure i
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don't know whether indie-rock got in her
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head and threw off her natural balance
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her you know what she was trying to do
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what she was trying to replicate the
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feeling that she had listening to
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Rachmaninoff in metal right she she said
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she said I get it
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this is this is Rachmaninoff in the form
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of guitar music and i am into it and she
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had a parametric eq and she would eq
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kind of the bubbles out and and push the
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base all the way up and she would sit in
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just like her house with just thunder
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but somewhere along the line and this is
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I'm embarrassed to say this she listened
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to Crede and she responded very very
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intimate John and and from Creed well
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she went two directions from imagine a
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little leap she heard muse and muse was
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her favorite band all of a sudden and
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whatever means would come to town she
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would go to the show she would buy a
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ticket she didn't want to sit in the
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front row she did she was fine sitting
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up in the stands way up in the stands
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because that the you know the base would
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really developed by the time it got to
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her and so if you can picture my 77-year
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old mom at the time sitting way up in
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the stands at the muse concert by
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herself having the time of her life
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right she would just go by herself she's
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you know I wouldn't be in town or
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something and she's like I'm gonna go
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see mios really into music but then also
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into creed and then here's where goes
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crazy she went got into all the bands
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that were off sheets of the creek family
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of bands
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ok so a lot of what you would you call
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John rock music grunge i mean it's it's
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what grungy evolved into after after
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everybody pronounced grunge as a title
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of things
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Oh sort of like the way new order was a
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disco band
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yeah right okay listen to disco anymore
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except back to contribute an active and
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so there's almost like post-christian
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don't go doo-doo-doo-doo dole dog to
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continually don't get too drunk it's
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like seven string guitars are a lot of
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drop D tuning and people going
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yeah i'm gonna simmer down well where
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judge Albright demo account junk down
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its fucking grunge and it's the worst
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part of ground and it was turned into a
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whole genre that I kind of lump in with
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like the kid rock family of bands
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yeah sure where it's just like she'll do
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a little investigating what's left
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biscuit limp bizkit is the biggest crime
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against humanity like limp bizkit the
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ones are a little rappy
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yeah but I think enough they were there
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like a grunge band 7-string guitar
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grunge band with the worst human ever
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produced by the collision of a sperm and
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an egg like there is a room in my dick
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cheney donald rumsfeld underground
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desert isolation that concentration
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dungeon and concentration dungeon and uh
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and LSD test facility won't say that on
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the side
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no no I there is no sign right the sign
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says that sign says biological research
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area raise please uh you have a gps
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coordinates closely-held and a team
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looks like regular desert on top but
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there is a room for fred durst there and
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it might be right next to cheney and
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they might they might have lunch
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together right i mean because each would
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are you forming a form of torture to the
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oh right like but Fred Fred Durst makes
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me so angry he made me so angry the day
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he arrived on the scene any success he's
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ever had makes me angry any even things
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that i would consider failures but he
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would consider successes
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I hate I hate on I hate on behalf of the
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world and I do i would i would put him
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in a room with a sink and a steal at a
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metal bed a prison bed and I would
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gradually over the course of many many
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months add just trace amounts of LSD
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into his water and then I would
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gradually move the walls of his room so
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that it was no longer square but not not
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really no we couldn't
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there's no reference point like the like
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gradually the bed would also stop being
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square it would be a little bit narrower
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at one end and a little bit wider at the
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other but that would be true of the room
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to look at where the dead inexplicably
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rose about an inch over the course of a
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month exactly what they think is getting
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shorter
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he's going to write his shoes should get
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a gig like the scene from Amelie right
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with the shoes are just slightly getting
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smaller bear and the then the dimensions
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rumor changing but all the other things
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in the rumor
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also changing so the lines still look
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parallel so he's looking down the line
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of the bed and it's still parallel with
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the wall but it does but it seems like a
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it seems like a rhombus now I would do
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that to him I would do it i would watch
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the videos i would watch the
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closed-circuit camera of him trying to
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navigate this new space slightly
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tripping on LSD but not quite enough to
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identify what was going on i would do
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that for hours i would i would cackle I
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would eat I would eat microwave popcorn
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what would he have a chance to to to
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make good what do you know he could have
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these are old
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well I would you know is i would do this
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as a form of pleasure torture
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uh-huh and then ultimately when I when I
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had exhausted the pleasure of driving
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him insane i would throw him into a pit
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i would throw him into a a poop it and
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then I would set it on fire
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that is how i feel about printers wow I
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would do that that's a very strong
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feeling jealous i would quit my job
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which i don't think i would quit my
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daughters get a job and quit and make my
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job is boring torturing a Fred Durst and
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Dick Cheney and Donald you know all the
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other like hagiography that's happening
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for Scalia now now boy here we go where
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everybody is like you know what we all
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hate and get a marker here just for
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purposes we all hated him while he was
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alive and we still kinda hate him
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got a family did but you know what it
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was a smart guy
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no yeah no worries good writer a funny
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guy yeah and all this like oh you know
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what he was the one that recommended
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Elena Kailyn are rbg considers him a
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good buddy a good path I bet they had
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fun but that's a times
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Ruth Bader they had they laughed they
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everybody loved him and the fact that he
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was a monster another agent would have
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called him a garbage person turn turn
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back the clock and ruined not just the
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judiciary but America being articulate
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about hating people does not make you a
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good person that's exactly right he's a
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good writer but does not make you a good
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person very very articulate and very
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he was very smug use a clean old man but
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yeah unredeemable but the thing is in
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all the years I never wanted him in my
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torture dungeon
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that torture dungeon is is reserved for
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women Lawrence eagle Burger has a room
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there and he was just following orders
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right he was just he was just following
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orders but he's got I think we're out
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not all right all right Lauren sequel
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burger I'm gonna let him i'm gonna sit
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him in a in a concrete room but you make
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my trusty John could he made me do
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laundry that's exactly right that's
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exactly what I let him make a case out
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and he can you know he can he can do the
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sweeping up the laundry he can take he
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can take the twins out of the cold bath
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between Z column first with that's what
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the fuck the focus of your existential
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existential punishment dungeon being
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Frederick's pick that back they would be
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that they would be the two sides of you
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know like there's the fred durst side
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and there's the dick cheney's just call
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my boys keep the hot side hot and not
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say how that old days fresh yep
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mhm uh so yeah limp bizkit unredeemable
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I mean you know their song I did it for
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the nookie
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oh that's right they did do it for the
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nokia forgot about that and so you can
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have this cookie and shove it up your
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it's a line that's a lot huh well as the
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other band it was like limp biscuit was
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another there's another band that was
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like that right to talk about the one
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that had two lead singers the rapper and
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oh maybe I'm trying to because they call
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a new metal is that what it's called
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nu-metal and you and unions madill ok
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you're uh you're thinking maybe a linkin
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Linkin Park that's exactly exactly what
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i was thinking of seven string guitars
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Linkin Park but Lincoln Park had a
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curious thing like they had it they had
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a singer in a wrapper in my estimation
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the rapper was somewhat superfluous but
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the singer actually could sing before
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and they and their music did not take on
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the grossly misogynistic and genre
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bending garbage person music if we still
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call it that that that is limp bizkit
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Linkin Park was just a bad that you're
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like to I like this do not like this
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yeah that there is no way you could like
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limp biscuit
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I don't care if you were seven years old
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like and I or not none can be forgiven
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for this one can be forget concord about
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the band Korn they had backwards can
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then get Slipknot in corn seed that was
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like that was that was grungy metal or
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mentally grunge sometimes kind of joke
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band though right
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what Slipknot home i think i'm losing it
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all to getting insane clown posse
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well so don't start with the same client
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policy but like you know talk about
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jugglers in a long time
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Slipknot well juggalos kinda they went
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through the looking glass with me when
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I'm we're on the other side of it now
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cosplay you start to respect it yeah I
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respect because of because that kid came
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up here and explain to me that would
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explain to me the philosophy of juggalo
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ism yes I ever since then I've been like
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you know what I'm gonna give them a pass
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i mean i don't want to I don't want to
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go to the gathering
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I don't want to accidentally be I don't
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want to be on a plane that crashes and
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actually crashes into the gathering
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Oh like it would be like a juggling
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convention and the aortic Shriners on
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the plane I don't want to I don't want
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somebody to drug me put me in the trunk
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of a car and i wake up at the Catherine
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I want to make the Juggalos yeah what I
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want but I left it's like live and let
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uh-huh I feel like slipknot was only a
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joke band in the same way that war was
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ok what I mean would you give guaro pass
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it's interesting that's interesting
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because this gets us a don't know this
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is where we want to go but like you got
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like these somewhere you get these bands
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that are kind of like a humorous rock
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bands you got joke bands you got bands
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with a bit right and there's this weird
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Venn diagram though where you could in
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some really weird Venn diagram a person
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could put they might be giants and
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slipping on the same Venn diagram window
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you're right I see what you're saying
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you see what I'm saying yeah but how do
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you feel about how do you feel about the
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dwarves I don't know the door as well
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but like weird al weird out he does
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comedy rock
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yeah he does that we're now and they
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might be giants don't belong in the same
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universe really no I mean we're now is a
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weirdo is a wonderful man i understand
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and he is a cultural treasure
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yeah but they might be giants are our
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giants arli writing genius I I don't
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agreed i'm talking someone about what
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where people would put them you know
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genre wise oh sure I mean let's say I
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agree i think that I mean I'm not here
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to get there but they get play good
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attention they're one of my favorite
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that's right that's you you have covered
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that band uh I have yeah you did your
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pet name song
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yeah I don't know if they've ever
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covered me and that seems like something
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that they should probably do a seat
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cover that song about divorce about you
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know what's that song say so much who
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i'm on how do you know my chill about
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marriott san slabs happiness but it
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generally does not sound like that why
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do i do that no I don't know you have to
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seize loves happiness that's not well
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occasionally doing Jerry Lewis there's a
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little teeny you you gotta teach me
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yes unhappiness can see them of his sad
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little similarity but your but you are
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making a muppet boys and my brother was
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hanging there
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oh no that's you know what he sounds
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like that the Smiths they need to change
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they need a change
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I didn't hear that last part John how do
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you feel about Marilyn Manson struck
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band I would take that as a joke band
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wow I had a friend that used to work
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with him at peaches in boca and he was a
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laughingstock he was he was a silly goth
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boy who wore like long underwear under
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his torn up jeans and he was just he was
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a very silly guy but you know good for
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him huh
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good for him well now here's my Marilyn
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Manson experience i want to see them in
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a big stadium show ya with the whole
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opening and I went as a joke I was like
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I'm gonna go see Marilyn Manson hole
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right right
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the two worst things after limited like
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whole Melissa after more little lived
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through this was a spectacular record it
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really was i really loved it and I some
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pretty great tunes but there was nothing
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about hole that I could I mean you know
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like the whole like we're a band it's
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not that we're it's the no doubt problem
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right that everybody was like yeah
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you're it's sure it's Wednesday funny
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and they're like no we're a bad but is
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an equal part in Destiny's Child and so
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so whole you know like Eric erlandson
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and Patty schmell I mean like you i'm
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saying that right Melissa after more so
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that in our graph tomorrow
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she's very attractive she's only in that
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band because they lost their other bass
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player huh to the drugs
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oh right the drugs the drugs but like
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Courtney was just so problematic and by
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that point by that point in their career
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they had made the record that she did
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10,000 interviews about like this was
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there rumors right we're gonna miss ya
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no no that's a great that's a great tune
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from great album great record but by the
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time she was touting her new record as
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the new rumors and then it came out and
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it was like not only is this not the new
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rumors no celebrity skin celebrities
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haha yes I don't remember there's a lot
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of lot of press about that this is not
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only the new rumors this is the new this
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isn't up to the standard of the third
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Whitesnake album right like this is mom
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this is no good no good
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this is no this is Whitesnake level no
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good and so I went to this concert
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marilyn manson come on of a fault the
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whole this is gonna be I'm gonna have so
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much fun i'm gonna fill a 64 ounce cup
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with semen having fun fucking with this
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show right and I was standing on the
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side of the stage because of who I am I
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get to do things like that because I'm i
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could have both privilege and i'm also
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very important
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wait on the way you get privilege which
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you acknowledge right but it is a
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different thing which is that you
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actually are legitimately important yeah
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that's right you're different from a lot
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of people would just have privilege
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there's a lot of privilege that's
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unexamined I have examined mine and
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found it to be appropriate
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rod on the line
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Squarespace you should so I'm standing
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on the side of the stage and the check
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next to me is dan Savage who reports
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that this is the first rock concert he's
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ever been to man up until this point in
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his life he had only gone to drag shows
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and broadway shows right because he was
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a certain he was from a certain era of
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being a gay man where you just liked
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Broadway he'd never been to a rock
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concert of any kind he had no rock now
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that's so weird and so he stood next to
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me throughout the show and I was like
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whispering in his ear
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what was happening bc this dan this is a
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base this is an electric bass now you
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were like your spirit guide
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yeah but it doesn't sound like an
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electric bass right now because he's
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running it through a machine that makes
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it sound all karate and dams like okay
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karate and I was like yeah basis low
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sound but it sounds high right now
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because of this box is running through
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intense like okay
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is that something I should care about
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and I'm like no no you don't have to
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care about that and it would be like
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good good good
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ok I got it so tell me what I should
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care about and I'm like well here's what
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you should care about you know like
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where was it was fun to do to take
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somebody that I that I knew and liked
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and walk him through rock music as
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though he had never heard it because it
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he actually had never heard but then so
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this is going on through all the opening
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bands and the first band was monster
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magnet right which I actually kind of
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like they were a little bit of a funny
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metal band but they were more metal than
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funny or like rock metal mhm like
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Monster Magnet walk down through monster
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magnet whole came on we both we both
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shared a an intrinsic understanding of
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what Courtney Love was can be because of
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his background because of his back right
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at that point he probably brought a lot
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of lot of knowledge he was like aha i
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seen that before I see this now and I
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was like yes to this needs no explaining
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but then Marilyn Manson took the stage
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and I had I was wearing my Technicolor
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irony coat and and was ready for this
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ship comes out and proceeds with all of
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his serial killer named clown families
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proceeds to put on an extraordinary rock
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show a fucking massive stadium grade
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rock show that i SAT back in my heels
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was like this is phenomenal
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there is nothing funny about this it is
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huge like the music is huge the show is
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huge i was completely converted to the
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marilyn manson cause not not even not
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not so there was no irony left in me so
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much so that when he came back to town I
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went of my own volition not to laugh but
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to celebrate
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whoa like this is this is rock and roll
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in the next time he came through he
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wasn't a stadium band anymore he was
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playing the big theater and it was
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fucking great
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he he threw a microphone a roadie he I
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mean all the things you're not supposed
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to do he transgressed not only our
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societal expectations of gender and
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power but he also he also challenged my
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knowledge of how you're supposed to
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treat your staff
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it was terrible justjust from an HR
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standpoint he's bringing something new
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he wasn't just walking around in a dirty
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jock strap
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he was throwing microphones at his own
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guys and I was like that's pretty rock
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and roll that seems like something you
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would do if you were like legitimately
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on drugs and and I've when I see a
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stadium Rock Show I assume that every
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single thing that happens on the stage
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is choreographed and part of the show
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sure I saw Metallica one time where they
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set the set the main PA on fire you know
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that without a plan and they had to
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shave and turn on the house lights and
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move the audience back 80 feet from the
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stage and the fire department came in
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and I was like this is all part of the
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show I mean I was fucking baked right
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but I was this is part of the show now I
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don't think you could do that as part of
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the show but they set the PA on fire
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come on if that's not part of the show
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they should make it part of the show
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every subsequent night of this to her
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yeah if you didn't have a plan for that
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you'll be filling out a lot forms every
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yeah right exactly exactly nobody wants
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a great white situation
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oh god but uh but Marilyn Manson you
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know they did something that that no one
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can ever take away from me which is that
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I saw Marilyn mansion show and I came
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out the other side and
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I'm sitting next to Dan and I'm like
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this is blowing my mind and Ansel
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watching it as a Broadway show
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sure what I mean can take it away from
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the guys before
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the guys before
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former it sounds like you know I mean
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he's taking more than one note from
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alice cooper about how to like put on a
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mind-blowing show but with the
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technologies got available that must be
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pretty amazing and you know he didn't do
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the Alice Cooper thing where it's like
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I'm gonna be head of a tonight onstage
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with the guillotine
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yeah he was doing a thing that was that
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was purporting to be live and in the
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moment I didn't feel good didn't feel
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campy it wasn't it was extremely can't
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be my god they were they were dressed
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like they were dressed like a they were
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all dressed like the the main villain
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road warrior who write and they were
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doing that thing remember when he
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remember when the the bad guy and I
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forget his name but the bad guy the road
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warrior he jumps on the back of a car he
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rides it in through the gate and then
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he's inside the compound and he looks
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around and everybody's like it's him the
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mohawk and there and now it's like what
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we do and he jumps jumps on from on top
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of the car to on top of the truck gets
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up on the wall kills a guy runs along
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everybody's there Mel Gibson's there
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they're all like got to get him and he
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stops right on the gate and he looks
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back and he goes high and it's an
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overdub sound who you know it's like him
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ah but it but it's too stereophonic to
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really be from him uh-huh but that's
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exactly how he would sound like that's
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exactly right
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sure and then he jumps down and he gets
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away how does he do that
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how did you get from inside outside that
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is what Marilyn Manson's band looked
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like to me and they were all saying to
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this audience of 14 year olds do drugs
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do drugs which was hilarious
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on the face of it as a kind of response
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to the PMRC that's ten and a half years
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to too late now the install the same no
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drug stuff around for a pretty long time
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yeah that's true but he's like do drugs
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and all the 14 year olds are like I will
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and dan Savage was like this is
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fantastic and I agreed agreed that it
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was fantastic i'll give it another try
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I'll drop the needle on some some
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marilyn manson I don't know if it's
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gonna I don't know if it's just alive
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if if it will if you can put it on the
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stereo and really and really take it but
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I think there's something there there's
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something there there was something
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what about see for some reason a funny
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one for me is nine inch nails because
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nine inch nails had their first big
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single at a time when I was going lots
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of new at night to gay bars and dancing
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yeah and at the time I got up I could
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have if i could watch a VHS tape of you
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dancing who had a lot of amaretto sours
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buddy i would i would pay but this is a
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time where like so you would still here
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if the my heyday for this was gonna say
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80 to 89 90 91 ish but especially I'm
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gonna say 89 i was doing on there's a
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lot of that was a fun time for me
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there's a lot of great rock music and a
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lot of great but at the same time I was
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I was borrowing well i was gonna say I
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was far away most advanced like Pixies
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but i was also super in hip-hop that's
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the most i've ever been into hip-hop if
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it was that or summer of the summer of
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fight the power but also i love dance
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music I really love it especially love
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stuff like paid in full
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like I love the like the acrobatics of
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like hip-hop as dance music which you
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know wasn't always a thing like people
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did not really dance to run DMC know you
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have like we have like a dump like
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turntable is doing something like taking
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you know as I had a 12-inch where they
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had the long version of pain full with i
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want you back by the Jackson 5 over it
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it was like six of the greatest thing
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I've ever heard in my life I coming so
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what engineers came up with this is
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originally do you know hip-hop was dance
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music because that's where they invented
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the the breakdancing yeah I know but I
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mean I butBut you think about you think
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about the other early Run DMC which is
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great for the time was pretty stiff it
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that they did not have a lot of what we
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came to call flow to it
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oh yeah but anyway but when I want the
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top of the beach i would go to yeah i
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would go to uh you know new ignited a
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gay bar or whatever local bars why we
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played at your school band played it
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would also have new wave night we would
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go there a lot and pretty cheap drinks
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and so the total package but like any
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given night
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unix you could expect to hear this same
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like amazing in retrospect amazingly
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dissonant handful of songs so you might
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hear that Harley the son-of-a-bitch you
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might hear bring the eighth advice
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remember that track you might hear
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laibach you might hear you would
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certainly add some boy huh
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you can be my cowgirl that was more like
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mekinese this little bit then you here
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but then you would always hear the long
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version 2 12 inch version of gigantic by
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Pixies and you would always hear of
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course when it wants to cut big head
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like a hole would bring the kids out
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that had like a whole really brought
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people out on the dance floor and the
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thing is though at the time someone
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trying to get at is that was a funny
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pivot time for me and music and my
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understanding is because you're going
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from like the super kind of silly gothy
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eighties miss of the of the Gothic bands
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right and it's before it's around a
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little in again go back to the very
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beginning of the show think about
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ministry yet the Ministry of everyday is
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Halloween and then you've got the
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Ministry of Psalm 69 and those are like
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really that's a very very different band
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so this is around that time and so I
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wasn't sure where where I had like a
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whole and the same and nitrogen I wasn't
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sure quite where nine inch nails fixed
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because uh because I know them from that
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one tune but like I think in a way they
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were much more forward-looking that I
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realized at the time because i'm still
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kind of up in the men within like an
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industrial dance music if you think
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about 1989 it's kind of a watershed
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moment which is to say that throughout
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the eighties popular music with in
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popular music there was no aspect of it
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that was hard or time and by hard I
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don't mean like hard rock I mean hard
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like they're like your soul is harder
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your fists are hard it's just I mean
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that the production of stuff was pretty
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thin lot of the time yeah and-and-and
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soft right cough up until that point the
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whole the governing aesthetic of it was
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we're sad things are seeing suck
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well I like one of my favorite passion
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that time absolutely was a the cocteau
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twins arm and you know that was my god
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it was like it was like listening to a
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being built right not like the
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thunderous stuff that would soon come
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along but in 1989 there was a moment
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where where goth got hard and it wasn't
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it wasn't sad anymore and it wasn't that
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it was mad
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it was resigned to the fact that
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vivisection was in our future right that
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it was it was reporting now on a reality
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on a future reality that they could see
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where we all became cyborgs that shit in
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a bag right like side of the one part
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they couldn't engineer out of us cyborgs
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that weren't close and will require a
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bag i must I have clinicals three bag
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like if we have all the information of
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the universe in my brain yet I must poop
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do you remember during that that was the
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crop circle era where lot more animal
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mutilation was happening in it like you
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wake up in the morning and there'd be
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some goats shirt on the fence it was
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this it was this version of of the
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future that was well dystopian let's
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just call it what they called it so so
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it went from it went from like I'm sad
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about my girlfriend breaking up with me
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and so I'm on heroin to like I know that
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I know that one day I will be splayed on
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an operating table and a and this is the
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music that sounds like that and you know
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in hip-hop it had gone all the way from
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like we're tough to we are killing cops
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yeah and nwa I mean public enemy was I
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think about public any and maybe
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nineteen eighty six or seven and they
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were still scary but those are plastic
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Uzis but it was the NWA NWA was
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terrifying
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the thing about something about public
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enemies it was protest music it was
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ultimately intellectual it was it was
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making making a widespread cultural
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implications
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which are obviously an artistic
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statement not to take anything away from
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the seriousness of their material but
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they were they were artists what they
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were and what they were doing with that
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what they call the bomb squad like what
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they did with production nothing nothing
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like that has ever existed before it's
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still sparkles Terminator x
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yeah i mean i'm not gonna don't mind
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doing i'm like 'what 1989 no don't do it
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out of the fucking driving w your heart
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because I know you got soul but it dont
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steps don't bend wa was much more
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reportage and it was much more localized
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right they were talking about the world
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they were talking about even the other
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side of Los Angeles your cancers with
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Aaron but they were still dancers like
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there was a whole show to it
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yeah yeah but well anyway with scary
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shit label they had flavor
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yeah that's true whereas I mean eazy-e
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was the was the Flavor Flav of nwa but
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easy he was fucking hard he wasn't he
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wasn't any that's not to say the flavor
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was hard but anyway the thing that the
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world does not need right now is you and
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me talking about the hip-hop 1989
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I don't know man I don't know is things
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I I don't know it did something to me it
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did something to me out why no I'm not
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you but but i would i'm not here to try
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and sound like I'm hardcore something
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I'm a white guy was in college but at
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the same time like there's so much stuff
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that would not be interesting happening
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today if it hadn't been for like what
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was happening then that anything the
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next video magic personally is that is
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that the thread at the time there was an
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equally powerful thread in del assault
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that was just gonna say that that it's
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exactly was going to say which is you go
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from do the right thing to like in the
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next I think that same summer is when r
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3 feet high and rising came out and the
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thing is alongside jungle brothers
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alongside our tribe called quest along
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the night on
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yeah yeah yeah it's not super tmw take
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your point all those pants the thing was
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there was no indication that this was
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piqued hip-hop which I think it kind of
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was it was very much the sense of like
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there is no we have no idea where this
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is gonna go now there is no stop it this
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could go anywhere after you heard three
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feet height right high and rising like
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this there's no limit to this this is
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different so much you can do here then
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with rock'n'roll considering that three
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feet high and dry
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in and nation of millions you know where
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were setting the you know the boundaries
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what what makes me sad is that that
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thread of tribe called quest lauryn hill
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in some ways right it went over there
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and kind of just went it ended up being
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and that was it that was a direction
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that like I was very excited about I
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mean I was all I was also very excited
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about the other direction you know the
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in the direction of nwa but I was very
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excited about this this direction of
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like socially conscious really clever
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and you know clever lyrics and clever
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like groovy production that was this
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that there was the direction of tribe
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with della soul being the like having
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already made revolver and then we're
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going to go it just kind of like nobody
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picked up that thread because the energy
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all went to the energy all went into a
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different kind of anger and that and i'm
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still sad about it and went to find its
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funds all from memory i'm not looking at
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anything here but I'm remembering a
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funny like disappointing confluence of
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things at the time and this is not a
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value judgment this is just an
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observation one thing is that it was
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being part of it was the ascendance of
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Miami Bass music which was pretty dumb
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I mean to say the least it was very it
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was not in love you long time
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doodoo brown I mean okay right to the
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ground I get it doodoo brown and you
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know it was not really i mean someone
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was pretty clever the the asian guy in
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tulip tree was pretty amazing like
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inspire others that but then you know
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what else is huge at the time was
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suddenly like an idealist always kinda
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alongside biz markie was kind of poster
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child for this is like people going ok
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that's enough with the free sampling
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like you oh that's exactly right we need
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to clamp down I think you could not get
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three feet high and rising for a while
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because stealing it was all fuck you and
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maybe understandably but they finally
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had to come up with some way of you know
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they had to go street-legal with this
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and there was no longer the wild west of
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just being able to take you know any
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change brown drum sample you want or you
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know George Clinton understandably I
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think I pretty up in arms about
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to where he was selling if you could you
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could basically by his stuff to sample
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and I think that's still how it works
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today but anyway i'm saying is there's a
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few things you had the George W Bush era
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fuck that you had all you said more and
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more concerned about the PMRC type stuff
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which was still you know this cancer all
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the stuff with you remember all the
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stuff with the with luther Campbell sure
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I mean he was like public enemy number
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one until i see came along
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what well yeah I mean I steam very much
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public enemy number one but I mean you
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know I still consider him to be but i
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don't know i think there's a lot of
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stuff happening but then what's the next
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big jump I don't like the way digital
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underground of course digital
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underground think about that like a baby
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that was an incredible record real Peru
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that stupid wish
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I'm sure they're like Cupid these were
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the domain nothing like to say goodbye
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because you missed it i'm gonna have
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said just grabbing the biscuit off it
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hardware or 12 they might be giants are
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our digital underground they might be
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giants hip-hop shock g or or humpty-hump
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not to help but think about thinking of
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HUD think about Chucky and what he what
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he was repin well that record that
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record had lots of party hits it was fun
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but also a lot they had some jungle
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brothers style they had style
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yeah i mean like there was there
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something i don't know and i was like
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general brothers didn't get the credit
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they deserve
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I thought they were a lot i mean there
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was a time when they had their one
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record that got a lot of play and then
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was that because it was because of that
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was just pre the rise of the DJ as the
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the DJ / producer that words are that
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sounds that were like collages had this
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one song that I adored called good news
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that was just like a collage song of all
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these great things over a beat with
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these tribal sounds and gospel singing
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and it wasn't a typical and it ends with
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this kind of like township music South
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African kind of like guitar part it's
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got was still fighting for its
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transcendent but like then what we get
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we got house of pain like what what else
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you got yes Jerry the law go straight to
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the house of pain that that there was
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that was the contemporaneous band with
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house of pain that was like insane in
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the membrane sure
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the marijuana guys marijuana get bring
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first when they called cypress hill
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cypress hill and yes I personal record
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that for cyber cell record was pretty
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killer again that's its again that it
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was right like i have to say the house
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of pain like a dingaling band but great
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production great sound great i wasn't
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it's on
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yes sir the great songs the video i get
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punched in the nose remember that but it
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didn't yeah that was that all that I
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feel like what side of the in a way
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cypress hill was much more
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well then there's you know there's snoop
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like when you put Smith yes see that I
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was not involved it was the first would
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hang 9393 my god 9300 see you came along
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at Mouton that was that was they were
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something else because of the one in
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there what they were doing was so
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familiar but so weird and the way that
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they built this entire the devil's
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world-building around the whole like
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wu-tang thing I gotta go soon but we
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should not talk about Alexander Hamilton
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at some point world-building around the
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wu-tang yeah that's yeah I feel like
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that that's it doesn't Hamilton yet if
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that isn't your master's thesis than I
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get a colon after that world-building
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colon around the world tank thing we're
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driving around yesterday in the pin hole
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families driving around listen Alexander
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Hamilton I was just like this is one of
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those things that comes along every few
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years we're like on the one hand I can't
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believe this didn't happen before now
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but the fact that it did is like it's
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still so miraculous like what you
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watchin you Beyonce video
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yeah shes black saw that last night
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wasn't funny had any meal and I was so
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well done
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I you know I have not been uh I'm not
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been around we I you know as much as I
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don't want to talk about Hamilton with
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you right now
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no I don't either so it's over talk but
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I mean I was ready to just stop the
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whole thing but now i'm just walking
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around going on not throwing away my
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shot I'm just I'm just idea had no idea
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this would sink in this fast
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mhm anyway good hip-hop
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I know not hip-hop i feel i feel
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somewhat under the obligation to to to
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actually fill you in with some news
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oh my goodness but i don't know you know
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it's it's it's a rough transition we
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don't normally do this in the sense that
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i don't normally have anything in mind
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and I just talked to you on the phone
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about just wanted two on-the-record
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speaking on the record in about an hour
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i have to record a podcast about Top
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Chef well talk about my new cat but I
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chef doing to show about Top Chef and
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how are you going to slip your new cat
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into a show about Top Chef every week I
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try to find a way to make the show less
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about the television program and more
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about almost anything else I got heat
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when you do you have a podcast about Top
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Chef is called top scallops who is this
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the thing that has been going on for a
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long time it's only 10 episode yeah
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oh i see well so it's new i got
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something you can do in half an hour i'm
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ready i wouldn't have heard about it
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well so so as I said right I don't would
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never heard about it
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yeah post every time you flush the John
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you put the picture on Instagram you
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wouldn't know that I've got a new
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podcast really well I don't know do you
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have an Instagram that's kind of where
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I'm putting a lot of my energy now
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hmm to get yours isn't John news from
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John you're still on flickr that you're
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still committed to the clicker I'm not
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throwing away my shot
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hey yo I'm like my country I'm young
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scrappy and hungry and I'm not throwing
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away my shot
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30 you john-john what's up did it to get
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news from John will you get the crew
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final answer
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I uh I recently I had some major
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developments in the GM CRP front don't
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know if you noticed but I hadn't been
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asking i wanted to make sure it gelled
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is that right you left it alone i left a
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lot said leave it
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yeah yeah I know but there but but a lot
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of stuff has gone down about feel like I
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could I feel like I could spend a half
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an hour or more describing it but i
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won't i just i know that there are a lot
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of people who have been so who followed
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along on that story and then everything
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went radio silent when the gmcr be broke
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down and was in Redding California
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and I was trying to navigate the
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complicated financial and social
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arrangement January came and went
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America was wondering yeah and then you
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know it was there was there was all this
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trouble with the people there at the at
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the reading place where they were like
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look we're good we got to fix this thing
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if we don't fix it we're going to roll
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it out of here and roll into a ravine
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we're actually going to put on the
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Cure's disintegration and roll it into a
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ravine and that so i was very you know I
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was very anxious about it i talked about
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on this program there was a lot of there
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was a lot of rigmarole on the Internet
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where people were like let's just put up
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a kickstarter and we're all going to
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give you money and then you and I talked
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about how that didn't feel right and
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then I just left it right we were
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talking about it because I didn't want
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to talk about but when we last spoke
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about it
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where where were we and I said I
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described the rescue mission and i don't
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think so i think i think the way we left
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it was you'd reach something like a date
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aren't with the RV fixing guy to where
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you would he was really wanting a
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go/no-go from you that was hopefully ago
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but it was sent to you from my unlike
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was maybe gonna be a no go from you that
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you had through january you know it if
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it was a go then you have through
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january but it was a no-go could get
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ugly I think that's where we left it
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right and but it was a thing where if it
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was a go
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I i had till the end of january but i
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had to make the go/no-go decision
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exactly exactly what I mean like yeah
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easy it's not it's not a parking lot
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kind of situation right well after that
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shortly after that point the black list
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truly activated itself in a way that we
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could not do I could not imagine I don't
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think is duplicatable duplicatable or
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Duke little blue Duke little bit
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deplorable wear a cast of black Lister's
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spearheaded by the great great birch
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whose grandfather worked at GMC during
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the development of the RV whose
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grandfather actually has a namesake
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version of the gmcr
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d birch haven named after him great
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birch who is the dentist and swim with
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we referred him and swim dentist
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oh he's a younger guy he's sort of our
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age successful dental practice and he
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owns a birthday even his namesake great
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birch said this is an intolerable
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situation we need to solve this stranded
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RV and at the moment I was like I don't
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want to do a Kickstarter people want to
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help me I don't you know I don't know
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how to accept help from people i
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certainly don't know how to accept money
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from people great bird says listen I'm
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in touch with the black list and here's
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what we've got
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there's a man named Jerry who owns a
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barn in red bluff California 30 miles
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south of redding who has said that he is
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going to heat their is based in his barn
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for your RV
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wow so all we have to do is tell the
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people in reading at the RV shop that
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we're not going to put the it's going to
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be an uncomfortable conversation but
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we're not going to fix the transmission
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we're going to patch it back together
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filling with fluid and then nurse it
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down to Red Bluff where we're going to
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put it in the barn and get driving or
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telling driving
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whoa and at that point we're going to
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solve this problem in the bar and I'm
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like this is some fucking heavy ass
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black black list shit then I didn't know
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was I didn't know this was on the table
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right like black list isn't just your
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water pump goes out and somebody on
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somebody in the neighborhood helps you
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change it which is already amazing
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that's the great Kelvin of eugene but
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this is the great great birch and he's
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saying I he went to the black list and
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said yo black list and I think his
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premise was that i was i was potentially
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an ambassador of GMC RVs
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and to leave me on the side of the road
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was going to be bad for the whole
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community
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this may have this may have been the
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pitch that he made I wasn't there so now
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here's where it gets interesting
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great birch says I'm going with my wife
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on a road trip to Reno or tucson or
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somewhere to meet up with our family and
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take a boat down the Nile he said I'm
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get this thing filled with fluid and
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pushed into the parking lot of all wheel
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repair shop and reading i will drive it
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to read love with my wife in the chase
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car and I was like this is seriously
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heavy this is heavy paying it forward
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support action so great birch goes down
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with his wife he gets in the RV
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he says drives great or whatever he's
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driving at 70 miles an hour down the
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road he takes it to red bluff puts it in
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Gary's barn this all happens this all
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goes down I can't i was going to go down
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there to do this mission with him but I
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had I had a gig I had a places to be I
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couldn't
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I what I absolutely would have but I
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wow so he goes and does this himself and
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now here is where it gets bananas
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because gary is this cool cat
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he's got this big farm this big walnut
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farm walnut tree farm out in red bluff
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Greg calls Manny Manny as you recall is
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the Beethoven of GM cr-v transmissions
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who lives way up on the hill in San Jose
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on 10 aces right Greg says Manny listen
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we got to get a transmission into this
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rig Manny rebuild the transmission which
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he can do in eight hours apparently
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throws it in the back of his truck and
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drives from san jose de red bluff
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so now we've got Gary we've got Greg and
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we've got mainly all converging on this
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barn and then a fourth guy from the
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black list whose name I don't know but
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it's got to be somewhere between Greg
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Gary and Manny probably get Danny know
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could be Danny m-maybe Chuck I don't I
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I'm embarrassed announced that is
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extraordinary this is this is like a
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superhero stories is going beyond beyond
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beyond and the four guys change the
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transmission in Gary's barn and put a
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bunch of other things in there you know
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they what one of the get the fourth guy
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whose name I can't remember invented
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some little part that keeps your
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dashboard from catching on fire
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well how that he was like listen if you
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don't put this part in there eventually
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your dashboard is going to catch on fire
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so here I'm adding this little part Gary
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also invented some part for the GMC
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although i think it's might be a robot
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airbag system they didn't put it in but
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so they do this work and it's a
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situation where it's like four guys and
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what they what do they want to do on a
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Saturday well they want to go out and
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you know they're like old hot rodders
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they want to go out and work on their
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car they wanted their like that picture
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of the five kids in the in the unwashed
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Levi's all all crowded into the engine
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compartment of a 54 forward or whatever
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that iconic photograph is where all you
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see is their butts her so these four
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guys are like yeah let's go fix this
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truck that'll be fun and great birch and
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Gary part of their motivation is they've
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always wanted to see Manny replace the
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transmission because he's the Beethoven
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of GM cr-v transmissions so so this
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Saturday comes and great birch is
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sending me pictures from his phone of
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like it should here's your RV we've got
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the transmission out
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oh here was the problem it was a your
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main bearing failed
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now here's the new transmission we're
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putting it in ok it's in and then he
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sends me a picture of the four guys
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standing in front of my RV with their
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arms around each other
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and he's like to LA and then Greg virgin
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is why I think spend the night in my RV
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and then they get on they get on their
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road trip head down to Reno or tucson
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earth or whatever to go down the Nile
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man he goes back to san jose and Gary
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says i'll leave it in my barn as long as
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you want so i went to maui as you do
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came back bought a ticket I bought a
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ticket to LA because tom chaplin from
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keene is making a solo record i went
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down to sing on it and then instead of
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flying back to seattle i flew to
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Sacramento got a car to Red Bluff met
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Gary there was the RB started it up
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drove it home just got back
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day before yesterday with the you know I
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spent spent the night in the RV a couple
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of times but the night in the RV and
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reading and went saw those guys again
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they did a little bit of extra work on
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it in the process of changing the
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transmission the for master mechanics
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one of them
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whoever's responsibility was to hook up
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the spark plugs forgot to connect one of
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the spark plug so the engine was running
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a little rough transmission was running
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great so i went to reading and they did
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a little bit extra work on it you know
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because it's nice to throw three or four
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hundred bucks at this thing every chance
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you get and then I drove it North i
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spent the night in Cottage Grove Oregon
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and then a drug home and I stopped in
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portland and my good friend Ben King the
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architect that I met at XOXO festival
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I'm very close to the end of this story
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he came out and helped me adjust the
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Wow where he had a timing light and
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we're looking at it we can't find the we
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can't find the flywheel because the
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engine compartment is so crammed and so
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he was like you know what it means the
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timing adjustment he just grabbed the
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distributor kappa just turned 22 degrees
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with reference to nothing he was just
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like let's see what happens were and so
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seeing as he missed an engineer
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he's very mechanical he's an architect
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but he had one of those fathers that was
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hey let's go out and rebuild a-a-a like
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a Bronco to this weekend i found a
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Bronco to at a at a junkyard for a
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hundred bucks you want to help me
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rebuild the motor and so he and his son
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a been King would go out into the
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driveway and rebuild the motor on a
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Bronco to like that was their idea of
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fun it's the same kids with the levis in
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their head inside the earth the hood of
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the car just like let's turn a wrench
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for fun something that seems to me like
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let's build a Saturn five rocket for fun
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but so he adjust the timing thing all of
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a sudden runs better and then we're
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sitting in been Kings backyard having
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done this work and we're like Hello and
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we go around the corner and here's this
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this old guy 82 years old leave it on
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the fence and he says I heard there was
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gmcr be over here with the hood up and I
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was like are you from the black list and
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he said got all deep boys like yep
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oh and i said how did you know and he
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said somebody came over to the house and
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said they drove by and there's a GMC
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down here and so he comes back and he's
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some 85 year old guy that worked in
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television back in the day and had all
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these stories about driving his GMC RV
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across the country and i realized that i
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have joined this insane network that's
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kind of like Specter right where their
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logo should be an octopus and instead of
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being a bunch of 35 year-old assassins
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they are a national network of very
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eighty-five-year-old assassins I think I
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think you've you from the answer to a
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lot of questions John I have no idea
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what's going on your you have found your
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secret society
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I'm easyriders your seal team six except
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everybody's 80 yeah you drive into a
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town you park your thing on the side of
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the road
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put your flashers on and it's like a
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beacon call it's like the bat signal
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suddenly you're surrounded by former
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NASA engineers who are like I've got a
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story you ever hear about the USS
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Lexington and then and there like I
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invented a part for the GMC and it keeps
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your keep your wheels from catching on
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fire here let me install it because
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that's what i think is fun to do and and
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so great birch back and swim
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Gary's back in red bluff Manny's back in
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san jose i'm back in seattle the circle
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is complete the GMC is like in the game
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again and i have a and I have a debt of
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gratitude to like 40 guys and I feel a
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renewed debt of gratitude to like like a
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generation so I'm my head is still
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spinning I don't blame you i mean but
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it's also interesting inflection point
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because has there ever been a greater
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you know i mean in terms of like this it
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seems like a virtually impossible
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situation not too long if not impossible
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at least very very costly and
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time-consuming and now not only are you
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better than when you started
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but now now the question is like how
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deep you go in this word he uses as just
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to sell the thing in get your get your
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money back
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no no I think I'm i think i did what had
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to be asked
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oh yeah I can't get out of this now I'm
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i have to go deeper and deep like i'm in
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i'm in the front door other thing that
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potentially is bottomless
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this could you have it in you to pay it
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forward back to blacklist people
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this could be the dark web right mhm
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which which you can best visualized as
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an iceberg where Google is at the top
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and something else is at the bottom but
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that the thing what this is teaching me
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is I can never repay this debt simply by
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paying it forward within the blacklist
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community because I'm not a NASA
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engineer i can i can continue to enjoy
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my GMC RV and if other people find that
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that is enjoyable to watch
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watch and participate in vicariously and
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that inspires them to themselves by GMC
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RVs and join me in my great trip across
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america and through the crazy tour of
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colds right um then please by all means
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join me and buy your own GMC SUV and
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find as i have this this miracle
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community of of of weirdos but I now
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have a responsibility to pay it forward
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even outside the GMC community right I i
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have now learned the power of paying it
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forward and so I don't you know whatever
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my particular skill is and maybe it is
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guesting on people's dumb podcasts or
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maybe it is getting gigs for small bands
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in debt and that is not it so do not
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send me any tweets about will not get
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your stupid band giggles you're still
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gonna need some time to process this but
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I need to find a way to pan and yes
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Merlin I need to I need to pay it
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forward within my own sphere of
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influence
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whilst also paying it back to the GM
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cr-v community which has taught me so
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much I feel like I've been to the
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mountain it's gonna be super interesting
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well i don't know I maybe what I should
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do is but so i have this inside that i
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should buy all the remaining GMC rvs her
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and convert them to and put tesla motors
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in them and convert them to electric
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future vans be quite a project
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I mean it would be well I'd have to
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retool my factory but uh who I've been
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meaning to retool my factory
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holy shit
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