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Deprogrammed Year Five · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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  It's Deprogram, the podcast where we try to get you into a
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  band. That's right, we've done all the
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  work for you. All you have to do is press play
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  and listen. My name is Justin.
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  Hi, how are you? I'm band curious.
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  What I like to do on this pod is bring people together and talk
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  about an artist and coming from that discussion, we will have a
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  top 10 starter kit list for you to get into a set artist.
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  But we're not doing that today. Maybe you already know that,
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  maybe you're tired of hearing me say that, but you never know
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  who's coming to the dance. You never know who's new here.
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  So if you're new here, please hit subscribe and check out the
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  main show that comes out on Thursdays.
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  Would appreciate that a great deal.
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  Today, what we're talking about is the fifth year in
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  deprogrammed history, the famed year as it were, 2020.
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  And I mean, you can't talk about 2020 without talking about
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  COVID. I don't want to dwell on it, but
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  it for sure affected the show it and we'll talk about that as we
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  get there because lucky for me, we started the year.
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  If you'll recall, the first couple were the Shin or I'm
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  sorry, the promise ring. And well, the promise ring was
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  with our John F sessions, which we recorded five in the same
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  night. So the promise ring was the
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  first episode of the season and now the next one we did.
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  We like maybe the next week. Actually, no, it probably would
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  have been in December. We of 2019, we did a Fredo
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  sessions and I think we did 5 here as well.
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  Yeah, we did. And he missed a good portion of
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  2019 because he put Alabama on the board and I told him that he
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  couldn't do another episode until we did Alabama.
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  And then when he suggested we do another Fredo sessions, I was
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  like, sure, but we're doing Alabama first.
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  And John A had signed up for Alabama.
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  So we did Alabama. And again, this is, this is not
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  a band I, you know, I want to run down.
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  There's really nothing wrong with Alabama.
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  They're just Alabama. It they, they just are what they
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  are. There's a they're a band I'm
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  probably never going to go back to.
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  It's fine. I didn't not like them.
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  I also did not like them. Just nonplussed.
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  Ultimately, I think there may have been like a handful of
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  songs I enjoyed. But we also did Ozzie Black
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  Sabbath, which was funny because Brian Lewis and Fredo were on
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  that show, and I think I was fighting.
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  It's one of the few times where like, I really spoke up towards
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  the end of the show. I think we were talking about #1
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  And I was advocating for Sweet Leaf and and Fred was like, no
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  dudes and whatever his argument was, I don't recall.
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  But like, I was like, OK, well, I'm the new guy here.
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  And I'm telling you the song that really got me amped to do
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  this episode and you're saying no.
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  So I don't think it was all that contentious, but it's it felt
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  contentious in the moment. I think ultimately it was it was
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  a nothing burger, but yes. And again, this is the second
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  second episode of that day. So here we go with with that.
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  Then we did Twisted Sister in that same run.
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  What a blast. Twisted Sister was Steel
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  Panther, super fun as well. Then we closed out the that
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  Fredo sessions with the Cramps with Doctor Tim and Doctor Tim
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  actually came to studio because it was the last show of the
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  night and I remember him showing up in between.
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  Like I think Fredo needed a break in between when we
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  recorded Steel Panther and Cramps.
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  Like he went to go eat or or something.
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  Something happened and Doctor Tim and I were just shooting the
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  shit down downstairs before we we went up and recorded this
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  one. Then we did WWE Themes, which
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  was fun because it was Joe and Zach and Fredo and we did
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  basically like the WWE volumes. And then I think we did probably
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  like Brock Lesnar and like Edge or something.
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  I, I don't recall what all was on it, but we did mostly like
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  the volumes from from like the late 90s, early 2000s train.
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  I don't think that was a please explain, but I do get I do feel
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  like we we condensed condensed it like a ton because I wasn't
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  really willing to do the work. This is another band where, you
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  know, I I enjoyed them fine. The the popularity of a song
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  that I don't particularly like kind of ruined that band for me.
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  Like ruined any true chance I'd have of ever like liking train
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  didn't dislike, just didn't like like Imogen Heap rules.
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  That was a fun episode. It was my wife and Brian Lewis
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  and I don't go back to her ton, but I should because I loved
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  her. I absolutely adored listening to
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  image and he so I I probably should get back up on that.
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  Best of 2019 311 I believe got put through as a please explain.
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  I'm almost positive I I don't have it marked as such, but that
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  seems like a band that I wasn't willing to do the work on.
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  Correct me if I'm wrong. Then we did the Get Up Kids
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  Southern Culture on the Skids. I was able to get Sam McDonald
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  on. That was a lot of fun.
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  Now of Ugliography fame, that was Sam McDonald and Jenny and
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  we're still at a point. So this came out March 26th, but
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  I believe we recorded it in February because I had done all
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  those Fredo sessions. So both of them were in studio
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  then Sara Bareilles was everybody in studio Nas.
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  So this was the last one before like it happened, like it really
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  happened. So Scott was Scott Rosenberg was
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  Rosenberger was he couldn't make it.
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  So he Skyped in, but Will came to the house and like we were
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  talking about it. So this is like early March, I'm
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  guessing. I don't again, I don't know when
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  I actually recorded it, but it it was definitely the last one
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  that I had like in person, in person.
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  I mean, it's going to happen a few times this year, I think.
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  But so there's Nas. Fall Out Boy is an important
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  episode because it marks the entrance of Tina and it also
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  marks the first one where I set. Like it was everybody was on
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  Skype. Now Tina had to be because Tina
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  doesn't live where we live. But Andy, Joe, and maybe it was
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  just Andy and Joe and myself, obviously all were on Skype.
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  And I'm freaking out because like normally somebody's in
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  studio. And so I loathed the idea of
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  having to switch to everybody being on Skype.
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  I always wanted at least one other person in person, like in
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  studio, so I could control the mic quality.
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  I mean, that's really all all it was about.
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  I just wanted decent recordings going into the world and you'll
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  hear me freaking out about it. I I want to say that everybody's
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  mics were fine, but you'll see like I start making changes like
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  as we go in into the history books with, but this one's
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  important because Tina literally coming on board, save the show.
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  They had so many kind things to say.
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  And I want to say it started on that after the fact and they
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  were talking about how they brought deprogrammed.
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  And Gavin has since told me about this too, but they talked
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  about bringing deprogrammed to friends and doing it with them
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  like at bars and stuff. And I was just shocked because I
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  was running out of gas at this point.
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  It's 2020. And especially at this point,
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  like I was like, why am I doing this?
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  Why should I, Why should I continue doing this?
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  And a kind word goes a long way or not.
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  I'm not saying if you're listening to this, say a kind
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  word to me, although that would be cool.
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  I'm not going to turn down a kind word.
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  But if somebody, if something you enjoys, you can, you can let
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  that person know that you enjoy what they're creating.
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  Do so because I guarantee you if they read that, they will
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  appreciate it, having been on the receiving end of that.
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  And it all started there on Fall Out Boy.
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  Then we did Arcade Fire, Interpol, a nice run there of.
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  Brian was on the show a lot in 2020.
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  Gin blah Gin Blossoms is an infamous one.
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  John got so mad because I listened to like the wrong part
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  of the first Gin Blossoms record and like on air.
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  I may have cut it out. I doubt it, but on air he's
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  like, you need to go listen to this.
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  I was like, and I just looked at the song and I was like, no, I
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  don't think so. I think I'm good.
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  And I just kind of figured out a couple songs to toss and bring
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  back. Squirrel Nut Zippers refused.
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  TLC Jewel Jewel. My wife was on that episode with
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  with me with Jodi metric metric roles metrics of 1.
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  I need to get back to again talk about Tina being really
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  involved. Winger Jets to Brazil,
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  jawbreaker. All right, where are we now into
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  June. July.
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  Yeah. I wasn't doing much extra at
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  this point other than the after the facts immediately after.
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  So nothing much was going into the feed.
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  We're up to June, Creed Hall and Oates.
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  That was a fun one. Alanis Morissette brought Lauren
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  aboard to do that. It's Lauren, Sarah, Jody and
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  myself. That was a fun one.
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  L7 fucking rules. L7 fucking rules.
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  L7 fucking rules. That's a band that I don't get
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  back to a ton, but whenever I do, like I get stuck on like
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  this 3 or 4 song loop. Like they just rule.
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  We finally cover the police here.
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  Thrice, pin back. I want to say thrice was there's
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  Tina again. Thrice was one where we couldn't
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  land with each other. That was like an interesting
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  conversation. Pin back, Kendrick Lamar, St.
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  Vincent rules. Saint Vincent really rules
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  Misfits. John was just talking about the
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  misfits episode on one of the After the facts.
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  I think Taking Back Sunday, there's Tina again.
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  Tina was super involved in that first year that they joined
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  Minus The Bear. Huey Lewis in the news, Oingo
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  Boingo, we're into October. Kiss was important too in, you
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  know, whatever thoughts you have about KISS.
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  You know, I, I feel like I've been pretty clear about my
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  thoughts on KISS though. I would get a kiss record
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  because I think KISS is made to list listen to on vinyl.
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  So I would get a kiss record. But KISS is important because I
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  told Fredo since like the beginning of the show, like
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  probably around when he came aboard on Devo, that I would not
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  do KISS. And if I did, it would be a
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  please explain. And then on top of that, the
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  only way I would do it is if Mike Powers was on the show with
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  us. So all those things came
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  together finally in 2020. It's Fredo, it's Mike Powers,
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  it's myself, it's a Skype episode.
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  The only thing that would have made that better is if we could
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  have been in person. That would have been a blast if
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  all three of us were in the same room and they could have just
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  yelled at me about my kiss choices.
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  But as I said, and I think this is our last ever, please
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  explain. I've kind of not.
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  I've kind of ditched that approach, even though there are
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  probably still a good handful of bands that like, I'm just not
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  willing to do the work. I feel like I put my foot down
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  on on playlists a little harder, like starting starting points
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  like hey, don't overload me with well over 100 songs, please.
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  I would appreciate that the high strung is here, which means
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  somewhere around here would be our discussion with that
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  gentleman. One of those after the facts
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  1021 twenties when it came out. So I probably recorded that
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  early October. This is just a note for later.
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  A yellow card again, Tina, and we're getting here down to the
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  nitty gritty of 2020. Yeah, here we go.
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  The Mars Volta, The Fix Jay-Z Part 1.
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  We did do a Jay-Z Part 2, but this is about the point where
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  I'm like, I don't think I want to do part twos anymore.
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  Not because I didn't want to do more Jay-Z, but it's just like
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  if we can't figure out a way to cover it in one episode, I would
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  prefer to do 1 episode. And then if we're going to do
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  more, it'd be a championship edition.
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  And Jay-Z could do a championship edition.
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  He has enough discog that we could do that.
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  Tori Amos here at November. Sleater Kinney, The Go Go's
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  Sleater Kinney was fun because we had two, two curlers, so we
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  got to talk about curling. That was fun.
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  The Go Go's, I'll maintain, is probably one of the most fun
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  episodes ever, period. Like when you think about the
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  music, like the first time I hit play on the first Go Go's
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  record, I was like, oh, this is a blast.
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  And just having, again, I talked about this before, if you would
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  have told me that I'd buy a Go Go's record at this point 10
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  years ago, I would have laughed in your face.
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  There's no way that's happening. No, I got 1 December 16th was
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  Bad Brains finally happening Poison Tame Impala closes out
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  the year. So yeah, pretty eventful year
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  and I'm should have mentioned this poison had Tina on it.
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  So Tina's name comes up a good number of times here on on 2020,
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  very important year for the show.
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  And that puts us halfway through it.
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  I mean, if enough people want to hear 6 through 9, I can do it
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  and I will, you know, I probably will eventually.
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  Like maybe once we're about halfway through year 10, I'll
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  start. I'll do a couple of them, but
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  they'll probably come out sparingly at this point.
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  I probably won't do them week to week.
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  But anyway, if you enjoyed it, please hit subscribe, but would
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  really appreciate that in the meantime, we'll see you tomorrow
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  for Earworm Wednesday. Goodbye.