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Qs and I'm an A? · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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  Hey everybody, it's the deprogrammed this week.
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  This week it's the first week of us doing these mini sods.
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  My name is Justin and I am band Curious in case you are new to
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  deprogrammed. What we do on this show is try
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  to come up with a top 10 starter kit for bands and artists in
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  order to get you into said band. And you'll forgive me if I seem
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  a little out of sorts. I've been rearranging.
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  The studio isn't quite set, but like I can't see the screen
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  without turning my it's you don't care.
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  But I am telling you I'm awkward because this is awkward right
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  now. What I was hoping to do with
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  Friday episodes is do AQ and A. And I mean because I'm just
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  getting the idea out there. I didn't expect a lot of
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  questions, but I did get some. This was all from the Legion of
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  Stupid discord in the Deprogram channel.
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  It's mostly bits, but we are going to answer them as if they
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  were real questions. You don't have to join the
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  Discord to ask questions. You can do it on threads or
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  Instagram or Facebook or wherever you follow the show.
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  But I am the most active in Discord, so that is probably the
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  easiest place to reach us. And that is the Legion of Stupid
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  Discord. And if you'd like a link to
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  join, just ask me. All right, so I asked does
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  anyone have any deprogram related questions?
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  And I'm going to answer this one seriously, even though Jenny's
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  asking it as a bit why didn't you pick the song I like on that
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  one episode? And again, it's not a real
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  question. However, it is something that
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  people probably wonder how do I not pick that song now?
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  Sometimes it's like the Blind Melon episode, for example, why
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  didn't I pick no rain? Well, I wanted to see if we
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  could do the episode without no rain.
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  My thoughts on Blind Melon was that they were more and better
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  than No Rain. So let's find out.
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  Let's bring that to the table. And I was willing to concede
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  that it should be in should we not be able to find, you know,
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  10 songs that are better than no rain in that episode
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  specifically? I want out.
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  I I want people to my side, you know, sometimes, a lot of the
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  times those songs, I'm instantly willing to concede.
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  It's just, you know, I just want to see if we can do it without
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  it. Like Death kept for Cutie is
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  another example. It happens a lot actually, where
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  I don't bring the one song. Sometimes it's it's living color
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  and cult of personality kind of has to be there.
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  Sometimes, you know, just how big and good the song is just
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  wins so that it you know, and now what most people are asking
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  when they ask a question like This is why didn't you pick that
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  deep cut on this record that's a fan favorite?
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  Well, the reality is I'm not a fan.
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  I don't know, 9 times out of 10, probably at this point, I don't
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  know which ones are the the deep cut fan favorites.
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  So like, if it doesn't hit me, you know, on the day that I'm
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  doing my first pass, if it doesn't hit me just the right
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  way, if it doesn't hit my ears just the right way, it doesn't
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  make my shortlist and then it's not going to make my list for
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  the show. That's just, I mean, that's just
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  where I am in my listening journey now lately, you know,
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  some of these bands, like a lot of these episodes haven't come
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  out yet. But like I'll sometimes
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  depending on how lost I am on the band will weigh out my song
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  versus the Internet. Like, I'll ask, I'll ask
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  Threads, you know, and I'll see what answers I'm getting from
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  from Threads and Instagram. And then I'll I'll, you know,
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  ask the Internet also, Like, I'll just Google, hey, best
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  blank songs. And then I'll weigh my list
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  against what comes up. And, you know, sometimes they
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  match, sometimes they don't. I'll go back and adjust if
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  needed. Not always, but sometimes, Yeah.
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  Why didn't I pick the one song I like on that one episode?
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  There's a lot to it. I'll come back to John's
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  question. Jenny asks.
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  Did you know Technotronic has three albums?
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  I did. Matt asks.
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  Have you done The Beatles? I looked through the back
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  catalog and can't find them. We will probably never do The
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  Beatles. If you know me, you know why I
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  don't. That could be controversial,
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  depending on who you are. I'm not open to hearing the
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  arguments that are going to ensue.
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  The few times The Beatles have come up on like after the fact
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  and what what have you turns into these conversations that
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  bore the shit out of me. So I'm just being real.
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  Doesn't mean The Beatles are bad.
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  Doesn't mean I don't like The Beatles.
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  It means The Beatles are a band that have been shoved down my
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  throat incessantly since birth. And again, that doesn't mean
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  they're they're good or bad that I like or dislike.
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  It just means there's no room in my brain for me to do that and
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  be willing to hear the conversation that is going to
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  ensue because of it. Anderson asks.
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  Whatever happened to predictability?
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  The Milkman, The paperwork or evening TV, of course, is the
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  Full House theme song. Whatever did happen to
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  predictability? Sometimes I am super predictable
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  when it comes to the show. If you're asking what my
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  favorite theme song is, it's probably still Bojack Horseman.
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  I can never, I'd never skip it. If you want quote UN quote real
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  songs, then it's either season one or two of Peacemaker because
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  again, I can't skip either of those intros.
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  I I listen to them every time. And then John's question, which
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  seems to be the only real question I got.
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  And feel free to jump in the discord, ask quote UN quote real
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  questions you feel like. I'd like to keep Friday's as
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  Q&A's, but it's all dependent on how you like the format.
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  So are you tired of music yet? Sometimes.
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  Sometimes I'm very tired of music.
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  Like the IT really kind of depends on how hard and fast I'm
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  going on the show because things have been going kind of slow
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  leading up until the last like month or so.
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  I found room to listen to quote UN quote stuff.
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  I like like listening to more pumpkins local age like things
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  I'm choosing rather things that I'm studying.
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  So if it's something I'm choosing, it's a lot easier to,
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  you know, not wear myself out on on the new music that is
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  constantly be being put into my brain.
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  But it is finding that balance and that balance is almost
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  always impossible, especially, you know, right now.
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  I'm really, you know, trying to like foot to the pedal to, you
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  know, I like to try to be two months ahead and we're not quite
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  there. We're by the end of this
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  weekend, I will be about a month and a half ahead and like I
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  still am going to have to figure out two more to finish it,
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  finish out April. And I mean, I've got first
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  passes and my 20 ready for a good number of episodes, but
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  then it's all the scheduling. So like you combine all that
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  with when am I going to do the listening?
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  And yeah, man, sometimes I'm just tired of music.
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  And again, it's all about the balance.
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  I'm not because I'm trying to do this.
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  I'm not working as much and because I'm not working as much
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  means I'm not listening to pods. Like that's the other part of
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  the equation is I listen to a lot of podcasts and listening to
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  the podcasts kind of offsets how much music studying I'm doing.
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  So, you know, it's this gentle and delicate combination of all
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  three of those things, listening to music of my choice, listening
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  to podcasts and studying for the show.
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  I reference reference to it as studying for the show.
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  You know, I'm about to wrap up here.
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  If that is something that you all would like to help me with
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  as one of these mini sods. It's it's something an idea I
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  floated out there before. Let me know because I've
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  considered doing that before, like some sort of, you know, my
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  helping me, you know, dwindle down like, you know, after my
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  first pass essentially, you know, we'll call it study sesh
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  or something. If that's something you're
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  interested in doing, let me know.
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  And again, as Mondays, I'm going to let you know what I'm going
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  through. If I say, you know, hey, I'm
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  studying for this band and that's something you'd love to
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  you're not willing. You don't want to be on the
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  episode, but you would like to help me study for let me know
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  and that's something we can do. Very open to whatever ideas you
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  guys have for these mini SOS because, you know, I mean, I do
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  want them to be. I got good feedback about the
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  fact that they exist. So I'd like to continue to make
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  sure that not only are we doing them because you appreciate
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  them, but make sure we're talking about things that you
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  actually would like to hear about.
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  So with that, we're a podcast. So of course, subscribing,
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  rating, commenting. If you're new here, let me know
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  how how we're doing. If you share, that would be
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  appreciated. Patreon's a great place to go.
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  patreon.com/show. Hi Justin, if you'd like to
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  support the program and again, if you want to hop in on these Q
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  and as, then hop in on the Discord.
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  But with that, we will see you all.
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  Well, not tomorrow, but I guess on Monday.
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  Bye.