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Highly Suspect · 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.
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All you have to do is listen and push play really is all you
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really have to do. And if you've done that part and
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you're hearing my voice, then yes, you've already done that
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part. You've already done you've done
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half of the work. Now you just have to listen to
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us talk a little bit longer. My name is Justin.
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You can call me band curious. I like to learn about new bands
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from my friends. I get them together, they tell
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me why they like a band and we go on the discovery journey
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together. And coming out of this
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conversation, will it be a top ten star kit list of songs for
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you to get into a band and today's band.
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I mean, you could, I guess I could have introduced myself as
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hello, my name is human and I I guess that could have been like
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the easy way in or I could do like the more convoluted thing
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and not have anything. And that might be considered
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highly suspect, which is the band we're talking about today.
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We're talking about highly suspect.
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And Brian, you put him on the board.
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Not that long guy. I feel like you came into the
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the deprogram chat and said I'd really like to do highly suspect
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and I'd like you had discovered them, but I'm I'm putting words
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into your mouth. So why don't you tell me about
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Highly Suspect? So highly suspect.
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So I, I, I thought they were a band that I had newly
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discovered, but I, I had heard a couple songs from them like
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years ago and I was like, Oh yeah, this is, this is pretty
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good. I even listened to like Mr.
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Asylum, like, I don't know, four or five years ago.
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And I was like, Oh yeah, yeah, this is pretty good.
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And I kind of just like forgot about it.
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You know, they're just, you know, another band that, you
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know, was OK, this and that. And then somehow like 6 to 8
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months ago, a song came up like suggested by Spotify.
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It's probably like on the Spotify DJ or something like
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that. I'm like, Oh my God, what is
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this? And I'm like, and I started
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getting into them and then I started like really getting into
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them. And it got like, I was like, I
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was like, like, why have I never heard of these guys?
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Like, why aren't people talking about this band like every day?
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Like, And then that drove me into like, doing like a full,
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like checkup on them and being like, people hate them.
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Like people, people like really like their first two albums and
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then they kind of change their sound and then everybody just
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dropped off and they're like, yeah, no, this band sucks.
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They have come back to form that will, I'm sure I'll, you know,
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go crazy about it. But like that like last album
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they put out last year is phenomenal.
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It's like one of my, it's like I've been playing it constantly
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and I just, I feel like it's one of those bands that like, I
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think more people like younger people and yes, and people of
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our age because they, they're, they're heavy in 90s influence.
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It's more people should be listening to them.
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Like everyone's like, oh, there's no good rock bands
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anymore. Like this is a guitar rock band.
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Like that's not just doing like like the Blues rock, like
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everybody else, you know, like I do like the newer Blues rock
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stuff like Kaleo, you know, Josier stuff, Hozier or Harry
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say. I do like that stuff, but that's
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just all Blues rock like this is, well the last album was like
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this is just like guitar driven with the newer sound.
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It has a 21 pilot sound, it has a 90 sounds a good combination.
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There's ballads, there's punk. Everyone should be listening to
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his band. Simply said, yeah, so Anderson,
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eventually you, I mean, you climb aboard a bunch of Brian
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episodes and and you you reached out to me and said, hey, you
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know, you know, there's a couple that we could do.
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We'll leave it up to Brian. But Brian, Brian picked highly
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suspect. But talk to me about what what
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it was about highly suspect that made you jump on on board.
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Well, he put it up on the Discord and I knew about half a
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dozen or so songs from the radio and I'm like, OK, well let's
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give these guys a shot. So I put them up on Spotify
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after he suggested it, then took me like 3 songs and I'm like,
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yeah, I can do this. Yeah, this is an excuse to
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listen to all of their other songs.
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So yeah, yeah, it was. I was in pretty quick.
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So, I mean, you know, there, there wasn't much to it.
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It was just you, he put it up on the board.
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You heard it and you were like, I'm on board.
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I can, I can, I can find an excuse to to to get in and and
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talk about this band. Oh, absolutely.
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Anything I can do to get out of the 90s and find new music that
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I actually like is fantastic for me.
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There you go. I mean, it is funny that that
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that you jumped on board for a band that is heavily influenced
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by 90s stuff. But you know, we won't get into
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that. So like, we will get into that.
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I'm sure we'll talk a lot about that.
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Men of our age are are bound to talk about that.
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But this is an interesting band for me as well because I, I
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forget the year, but one year I went up to New York and they
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have a station where we go 102.7.
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It's a it's an indie station, WEQX.
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And I went to, you know, it, it goes from Albany all the way up
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north and into parts of Vermont and a highly suspect song, you
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know, we'll talk about which one, you know, as we get into
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songs came on the radio and I was like, what the fuck is this?
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This is awesome. I love this.
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And you know, I kind of did some research when I got home and
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found, Oh, it's highly suspect. And then I came across another
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song that that I was like, oh man, this is awesome too.
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And I kind of like started spreading those two songs around
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and then, you know, Long story short, one of those songs kind
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of became my anthem of 2020. And again, as we get into the
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songs, but we'll talk, talk about that.
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You know, I, I, I went and listened to Boy Who Died Wolf
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and I was like, oh man, I this is a pretty decent record.
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And then they just kind of went away for me.
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So when Brian came in so enthusiastically about this
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band, I was like, oh, cool. Like now I have a reason to to
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go and find out what they've been up to.
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And maybe unsurprisingly, I'm I'm not fully on board with the
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way the Internet thinks. But like, I'm not going to lie
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that it is kind of parallel. I just don't take it as harsh as
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the Internet does. But but that being said, Brian,
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like this is this is a band that you have relatively recently
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like kind of really gravitated towards when we're we're getting
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ready to do the the 20 for this. Like what are you taking into
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account when you're when you're making a list?
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I, I, I had to pick some favourites.
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I I do want you know, I mean part of me is like, listen, you
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know, aside from a few tracks that were like instant cringe
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and I understand people said that MCID is cringe.
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The name of the album stands for my crew is dope.
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They, it, it's cringe. There's a lot of cringe songs.
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There's a lot of songs you're like, you know, I, I'm not going
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to say it doesn't have skips, you know, but be that as it may,
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like yes, I do only have like 3 songs from that album.
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The ones I thought stood out that there are songs that have
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grown on me. So when I'm looking, you know,
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to make my 20, I'm like, well, I'm going to take the ones that
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are going to hit people. I took ones that have a lot of
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like 90s influence to them. It's going to sound like crazy,
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but I feel like I have the like authority to say this because
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I've been a die hard Pearl Jam fan since 1991.
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There's a lot, especially like when they do punk, he has a lot
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of the same annotations and the way he sings as and he does
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where he gets down low, then he gets up really high with like a
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loud, gravelly voice. And those songs really grabbed
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me because it reminded me of Eddie Vetter.
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So like I, I kind of went and then, you know, that last album
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as above, like I just picked like whatever the best songs
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were. So like I have a good mix of
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like the kind of more Blues driven rock they have in that
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last album. The the punk songs from the
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first couple albums. The, the, you know, I tried to
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incorporate the songs that had that.
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I keep saying like 21 pilots feel because that's what I feel
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when I, when I, when I hear about songs from MCIMCID as well
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as boy Who died Wolf. So like I tried to incorporate
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all that into my list and hopefully some, hopefully most
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of them get through you. Know one way to find out,
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Anderson. Like when you're when you're
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combing through this and you're kind of going past a handful of
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songs, you knew what was what was it like putting this 20
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together is, I mean, at, at one point, the way you worded it is,
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is why I'm curious. Oh yeah, so this one, I did
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something a little different for me as I listened to it the whole
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way through the first time. I rated each song like 1 to 10
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and I mean, there was like 2 threes and everything else was
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higher, but, and then anything that was above a six, I
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automatically threw in anything I think 4 and below or was
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automatically out. And then the second round, I
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just went with the stop in the middle and worked my way down
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from there. And yeah, it's, you know, for
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they have a lot of different sounds that are all still Hard
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Rock. Yeah.
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And I, I tried to grab, you know, a bunch of things that
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sound different. Most of my 20 is just, hey, this
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one grabbed me. This one grabbed me.
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This one's a hit. OK, It's a hit for a good
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reason. Yeah, yeah.
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So oh. Yeah, similarly, when I went
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through my first pass, I feel like everything had relatively
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recent, you know, relatively even representation on my first
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pass. I, you know, I definitely felt
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the cringe, as you put it, Brian of, of MCID and you know, again,
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we'll get into that like, and like you, I was rather, rather
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impressed with as above, so below.
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I, I, I rated that one as high as the first two records for
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sure. It was, it was painless going
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through the 1st pass and then my, my second pass, like as I
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made, you know, my, my next round of cuts was pretty easy.
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Like there was just songs. I was like, OK, you know, I
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don't need this. And that's that's where MCID
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really hit the floor for me because like as I'm going
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through the songs that I picked to kind of stick around on MCIB,
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I'm like, yeah, if I weigh this against all these other ones, it
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just I don't need this. So like a lot of those hit the
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floor, but I'm shocked at how hard like my last five, four
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cuts were. Like there was like a lot in the
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running to be those last handful of of songs.
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So it's it's going to be interesting to me to see how
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this kind of weighs out into the conversation part, which I guess
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brings me to the next part. Brian, it seems like maybe we
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all kind of relatively have the same thought of the band other
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than you being kind of more closely, you know, emotionally
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invested into them. Based on everything we've said
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so far, how many do you think we're going to get through
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unanimously? 3 P I'm I'm actually going to go
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high on this, like maybe this is crazy, but I'm actually going to
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go. I actually think we're going to
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get 8. I like that.
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I like that. I hope you're right, Anderson.
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What do you think, Brian? Brian's coming out Hot 8.
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I was thinking about 8:00 today and honestly, I'm going to go
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seven, OK. I have a different favorite
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album from you guys, so I think that's going to take a little
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tab into it. All right, man.
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Well, the question is, do I go higher or lower then am I in the
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same neighborhood as you guys? 12345 I can see that.
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Eight. I can see it.
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All right, well, here's what I'm going to do, as always, because
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I have a feeling that most of the songs that I'm most drawn to
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are likely in. I'm going to go high, I'm going
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to go 9, and that way, you know, my choice is not that heavily
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weighted. There we go.
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Because look, I don't want to win anyway.
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So all right, we're going to take a quick pause and on the
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other side of it, we are going to start playing the game.
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That's the program, Jack. And with that, the name of the
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game is deprogrammed. The three of us have come
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through the Highly Suspect discography and plucked out 20
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songs that we're now going to mash together in an attempt to
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create a top ten circuit for you.
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In case you have never given Highly Suspect the time of day.
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And I didn't want to bring out, bring up this song when we were
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talking about like how I came across Highly Suspect and what
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not. I mentioned that a song kind of
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became my mantra for 2020. I could barely very easily
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seeing this, see this coming back in 2025, like almost even
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more so than in 2020. It feels like it resonates even
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more now, like just the sentence alone.
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The title of the song alone feels rather important right now
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because I feel like we're not treating each other as such
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again. This was my mantra in 2020, and
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it may be returning in 2025. My name is human.
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Oh yeah. Yeah, I got it.
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You kind of have to, right? Like I could, I could see this
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not being our number one, but I very easily could see it being
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our number one. This song rules, firstly, first
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and foremost, it just rules. Yeah.
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And it's just to me, that sentence alone, the Hello, My
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name is human is such an important message.
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Yeah. And this song, you know, I
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didn't listen to the radio at the time, but I know this song
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was big and it was the point we make.
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This song starts with him rapping.
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Yeah. Like, that's some verses.
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I mean, you want to call that rapping?
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Again, I'm going to bring up, you know, 21 pilots, but like
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the there's kind of parallel between their sounds.
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So like when they start wrapping in MCID it shouldn't become that
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much of A shock. No, it's it's not.
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But, but at the same time, you know, there's a lot of great
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lines in this too. Like get up off your knees, boy.
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Like each one of those is cool. And then like, I think the last
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one is I'm up off my knees, I'm face to face with my God to find
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out what I or I know just who I am.
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Like, oh, like each one of those is awesome.
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And it's just, it's great come face to face with your.
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I love it. I love this song and I'm so
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happy that there's no further conversation needed on it.
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We all we all had it and we're all on board.
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So for the record, it is one of the few answers I did get when I
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asked the Internet. So everybody else was or this
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person was in agreement with us. My name is human is in.
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All right, Brian, where you want to go?
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I'm going to go with the song I heard that got me back into the
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band after I kind of just gave him a quick pass four years ago.
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Lydia. Yeah, I got it.
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I got that. All right, yeah.
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And I I, I heard a song a couple months ago and I'm like, oh,
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this is so good. And then I realized I had
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listened to that whole album before.
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And it's for some reason, just five years ago, me didn't get as
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grabbed to it as like, you know, 2020 me was like, OK, yeah, this
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is like, it's fine, but something special.
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But 2025 me, he's like, no, this is special.
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Yeah, I gravitated towards that one.
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I knew. I knew I was in for a rough go
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when I liked the majority of the first record.
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Yeah. All right, Lydia is in, and let
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me make sure before I spout this into a microphone.
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Yes, Lydia indeed was one of the answers that we got from the
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Internet. All right, Anderson, no pressure
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where you want to go? So back in my iTunes days, I did
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download a few of these and we've picked 2 out of the three,
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so I'm going to hit the third one.
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Little 1 yes. I got it.
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Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's the one that
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started it all for me. One O 27 WEQX played this song
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and I was like what the fuck is this?
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And like I I was ever since I've been infatuated with that
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station because every time I go up I feel like I find something
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new. But this was the first discovery
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for me. I was like, Oh my God, this is
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awesome. Why have I not heard this?
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And it, you know, sent me on on my first initial tangent, so.
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Yeah, I love the little one. All right, cruising.
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Yeah, cruising. But I feel like we we also did
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like the heavy hitters right off jump, right off RIP.
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We took the low hanging. Fruit yeah, but I mean, that's
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the great thing about this band, though, is I mean, I would I
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would argue my name is human is like the lowest of the lowest
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lowest hanging. But like these other ones may
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not have been, you know, it's possible.
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All right, so now the question becomes, I feel like there's a
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couple more low hanging fruit here.
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I'm going to go with another answer that I got.
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How about blood feather? Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, I got that. Wow.
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Right, all right, all right, come on, get that queued up.
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I was listening to that again today.
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I was like, OK, good. I was worried I'd cut it and I
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was like, no, no, I didn't. Good.
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That happens every once in a while because, like I said,
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there's like a handful that we're kind of on the block and I
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couldn't remember which ones they were.
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All right, Blood Feather. It gives me like screaming trees
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vibes. Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, I'm going to, I'm going to name so many 90s bands.
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Yeah. All right, again, 4 for four.
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We're already like on a good run here, Brian.
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No pressure but where you want to go all.
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Right, I'm going to go in a different direction.
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So you know, you always say you know, you know, you like when
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you hit play and they tell you what they are.
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I like when I go to an album and the first song tells me what the
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album is going to be. And the guitar, the just the
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sound of this is just it told me everything I need to know about
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as above, so below Summertime voodoo.
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Yeah, I got it. I do not.
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OK. I'll look at that too.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so that was my #22.
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So it was close. It was close.
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And it's, you know, that's just like the kind of like screaming
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guitar that like, I love it. Just, you know, as soon as I
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heard that track, I'm like, oh, this album is going to be
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different. Oh, you know what's funny?
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Like, I, you know, I, I wasn't planning on saying the same
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thing, but that is exactly why I took it because it definitely
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changed my outlook on what was going to happen going forward.
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Like, I'd kind of resigned to the fact that they were a
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changed band, which is was fine, but like I kind of expected more
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of the same. And I was like, Oh no, they
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didn't. They can't.
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I mean, as you mentioned, they kind of go more into the like
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the bluesy they bring in kind of like a gospel aspect.
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But like this was a great change of pace of hey, by the way, this
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we still do. Yeah, and it's like 7 1/2
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minutes. It's like like, oh, we're going
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to, not only are we going to make like, like a questionable
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rap album, but we're going to, we're going to start you off
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with a 7 1/2 minute Blues rocker.
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Into it, all right, it gets a 2. Still, still hanging around
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Anderson, where you want to go? I'm going to go kind of on the
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same vein. So when I listen to our list, I
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had it on random and the first time that came up I actually had
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to double check because I thought they were playing Black
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Keys on me for some reason. Fuck me up.
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Yeah. You guys both got it.
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Yeah, OK, so this is This is the So Fuck Me Up was the first song
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I heard where I was like, that is 100% copying Eddie Vedder,
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the getting download this. And then they're and then like
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the strain on like the higher parts, like where he screamed
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like everything about that just like screamed like 1992 Pearl
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Jam to me. And it was.
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There was no way that wasn't going to take it.
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Well, it's a 2, so it's it gets to hang on.
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I mean, it's still early on. So this next one, I don't know
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if you guys are going to have because it's very different from
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like everything we've kind of talked about, but it was
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definitely a definable changing point in the way I viewed.
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Let me look at the name of the record, the Midnight Demon Club.
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I had enjoyed that record up until that to this point, but
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when I heard this song, it kind of changed everything coming
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after it and I was like, oh, suddenly I liked everything that
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came after it. So, you know, we'll talk about
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that as as we get there, but this one was the turning point
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for me. How about wild eyed son?
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Oh, I don't. I don't either.
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I had a feeling because it's acoustic, but but it was a
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definable moment, which is why I brought it to the table.
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I was like, suddenly I'm back on board in a different way than I
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what like it felt like between MCID and the beginning of this
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record, Demon Club, I was just like on board because I'm just
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listening to this band and then what?
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When this song came on, I was like, oh wait, no, there is
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going to be more coming. So all right, while that sun
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goes into the bin, I'm the first one there.
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It's bound to happen. All right, Brian, all.
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Right, I'm going to go to to MCID because we, we talked about
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a couple of times I looked at this was actually actually a
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single. I don't remember on the radio.
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I'm sure people played on the Radio 16.
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I don't have it. I don't either.
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That was one of those last, last cuts.
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It was not one of my easy MCID cuts.
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So it was it was close. All right, Anderson.
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All right, I'm going to stay on MCID and try it out these days.
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Yes. Oh, I don't, that's a good one.
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All right, we'll take a two there.
27:02
We'll take a two on an MCID record or MCID for sure, for
27:08
sure. I I also, you know, like I want
27:13
to be clear here, MCID isn't a bad record.
27:17
I think, I think it it is more specifically a record that you
27:21
should go back to. If you like the band already,
27:26
then you can probably just listen to it.
27:29
I think it really it that record specifically really didn't work
27:33
in this format, like where I'm having to listen to everything
27:38
and take everything into account and I'm trying to bring Bring
27:42
Somebody to the dance. I think if I was able to listen
27:46
to it kind of on its own, it probably would have lived a
27:49
little bit better. So yeah.
27:52
And the other thing that I read about, about MCID and why the
27:55
drop off, the lead singer Johnny Stevens, he became like not just
28:02
cringy, but super cocky and like started taking pages out of like
28:08
the Billy Corgan playbook when he doesn't even deserve to own
28:12
the Billy Corbin playbook And basically said anyone who
28:15
doesn't like MC ID is a fake fan and we don't want you anyway.
28:20
So like which you know, it's going to be like people are
28:23
like, wow, fuck you, dude. I know, right?
28:26
Well, yeah, like the all right. So maybe we can explore this a
28:31
little bit more on the after the fact, but I would like to say
28:35
like Corgan is saying that at like Zeitgeist and if you
28:39
compare Zeitgeist to MCID, OK, all right, where are we?
28:48
We're back around to me, right? Yeah.
28:53
All right, let's see if we can get back on the same page here.
28:56
I feel, I feel like this this was an answer I got.
29:01
How about bath salts? Yes.
29:05
No. OK.
29:07
All right, we'll take it to you there.
29:08
I. Was playing that far before we
29:11
started too. 222, yeah. I was feeling 2 singles heavy.
29:18
There we go. That's all right.
29:21
That's why I get my dog to shut up.
29:25
All right, Brian. How about just first track here,
29:32
Mr. Asylum? Yeah, I got it.
29:35
Yeah. Yeah, that.
29:38
Was that was a that was another like low hanging fruit because
29:41
it was the first track. I think the cool thing about
29:45
about this band is you don't really.
29:46
I mean, especially since I heard them before doing this, like, I
29:52
didn't need that, right? At least I didn't need that
29:55
explanation. I didn't need them to tell me
29:57
what they are because I kind of knew so.
30:00
But I mean, it still does the thing, and that's always
30:04
important to me. So, All right, Mr. Asylum gets
30:09
in and Anderson. Let's try and get something off
30:17
of Midnight Demon Club. How about Natural Born Killer?
30:21
Yes. No.
30:29
All. Right.
30:31
All right, back to me A and just like that we're out of NTP.
30:41
So like, we're not going to have to pluck anything out of the bin
30:45
to finish our list, if nothing else, And there's still plenty
30:50
of gameplay here. I guess I can try my other MCID
30:57
song. How about upper drugs?
31:02
Yeah. Yeah, I got that.
31:04
Wow. All right.
31:07
Yes, well, I'm happy to have MCID song go through, you know,
31:13
unanimous. Yeah, it, I mean, again, like
31:18
it, it felt corrective. It felt in line with what I
31:22
think the band is so. And I mean, you know, whatever
31:28
man. Like yes, he's he's talking
31:30
about drugs, but also I feel like that is something that
31:35
comes through a lot. So all right, boom, upper drugs
31:41
is in and Brian all. Right, I'm going to try to slam
31:47
one through from as above. How about plastic boxes?
31:56
Yeah, I got it. I do not.
32:03
I really liked. As above, I couldn't tell you
32:06
what was what and where was where.
32:11
Yeah, it was just, it was, it was good all.
32:15
Right, Anderson. All right, One of the things I
32:20
like about this band is they are not shy about how they feel
32:24
about things. And on that note, I'm going to
32:27
take Viper Strike. Don't.
32:33
No, I don't. That's OK.
32:39
Yeah, in the bin. Unfortunately, we haven't gone
32:42
into the bin. We'll have more.
32:45
We will you know, especially we've already kind of cracked,
32:49
cracked the the bin code. So all right, let me see what I
32:56
got here. How many?
32:59
10? I forgot to mark that one off 1
33:03
23456789 OK, yeah, there's still plenty, plenty of gameplay here.
33:12
Let me get back to my midnight demon club.
33:18
How about how about New California?
33:25
Yeah. Hey, took it to there.
33:27
I'm glad you have it though, because that was that was a hard
33:31
one to cut. As I mentioned, like I kind of
33:36
it was back on board after after a wild eyed son and I feel like
33:45
this was relatively soon after that and I was like, oh, all
33:50
right, New California. We fellas, we've got a
33:53
conversation brewing here. We're going to have like we're
33:55
going to have us some cuts coming up.
33:58
All right, Brian, there I go. Let.
34:03
Me. Go back to a boy who died, Wolf.
34:06
How about past pastries? Pastries.
34:09
I don't know how to say it. No.
34:14
I am so happy we're the one that had to pronounce it.
34:17
I have it. All right, that's.
34:21
Very like the opening is very like almost reminds me of like
34:26
that that that like sponge song. I was getting space hogged from
34:32
it. Yeah, that's it's, it's very
34:36
9192 alternative one hit wonder. Yeah, yeah.
34:44
Whether it be space hogger, sponge or the sponge isn't a
34:46
one, that's OK all. Right.
34:50
It gets a 2 and again that that second wave conversation gets
34:55
heavier. All right, Anderson.
34:58
And I'm going to stick with Midnight Demon Club.
35:02
That one, my first pass, I ended up with like 11 out of the 12
35:06
songs on that album. Yeah, I'm really hoping we had
35:10
something. How about cool kids?
35:12
Yes. No, all right.
35:19
No. I thought that was a little
35:20
cringy, but I, I, I like it. But yeah.
35:31
Maybe maybe it just didn't seem as cringy after MCID and I just
35:38
didn't catch it. So all right, we'll take that
35:41
too though. All right, let me try one of my
35:47
as Above so below tracks. How about the 8th of October to
35:55
August 17th? No.
36:00
No, I don't have them bend. OK.
36:03
Good. All right, Brian.
36:07
They're all good on there. I'm gonna stick with it.
36:10
I'm going to try to find I'm going to try a nail of three on
36:12
this one. How about blue eyed Devil?
36:16
Yes. No, but that was that was a
36:22
super late tattoo, probably 24 ish.
36:26
We're going to be conversating as the As Above song.
36:29
Yeah. Yeah.
36:32
All right, Anderson. I'm going to finish off my MC
36:39
ID. How about canals?
36:41
No. No.
36:48
All right, Bend. Yeah, it's bound to happen,
36:53
right? There's going to be some.
36:56
Yeah, we got one more than I thought we would.
36:58
Yeah. Yeah.
37:01
All right, back around to me. Let me give, let's see another
37:06
update here 123456 All right, so I'm thinking this is our last
37:13
full round and we'll dump out after this.
37:17
All right, I'm going to try. I'm going to try one last go at
37:24
as above, how about Mexico? No.
37:30
No, I don't have that. Bend.
37:34
All right, Dang it. All right, Brian.
37:41
All right, I do have one last song and as above, but it
37:43
sounded like Justin played his last song from that, so I'm
37:48
going to go with the opener of MCID Fly.
37:53
No. Nope.
37:55
No all. Right.
37:58
All right, Anderson. OK, let me see this my last one.
38:06
I'm going Wolf. Very good, but no.
38:12
Oh, Wolf. Yeah, I have it.
38:14
Oh, wonderful. That is one of the answers that
38:18
I got was wolf. So we'll take a two there and I
38:24
will dump out once I shuffle this back up to the top where it
38:28
belongs. Boom.
38:31
All right, what do I got left here?
38:33
I'll start at the top. How about lost?
38:38
No. Yes.
38:40
OK. We'll take another two there,
38:42
make it a little bit more difficult.
38:45
Moving on, how about vanity? Nope.
38:50
No. OK, moving on.
38:53
Look alive. Stay alive.
38:57
No. No.
38:58
OK, same record. How about for Billy?
39:04
No. Nope.
39:06
Wow. I didn't expect that to be a
39:07
binner. I didn't expect it to go
39:09
through, but I didn't expect a binner and last but not least,
39:14
Serotonia. No.
39:19
Also no, that was a late top for me.
39:24
Wow, shocked that both of those got bin because again, like, I
39:28
didn't get a ton of answers and both of those were answers I I
39:32
thought for sure I'd find one of you guys there.
39:35
All right, So what did we end up with?
39:37
Unanimous 6? I guess I should have taken the
39:39
under. Yeah.
39:41
All right. So let me get that.
39:43
And Brian, you can make this conversation a little bit
39:45
harder. All right, Quad land.
39:52
No. That's another good punk song
39:56
from the first album. I don't have anything from Boy
39:59
Who Died, Wolf left, nothing from MCID left so we have Pink
40:05
Lullaby. Nope.
40:08
Very good. Hello, the sound.
40:14
Awesome. No.
40:15
Oh. OK, the last one from as above,
40:20
Suicide machine. Oh, now they're late Hot.
40:25
You know it's funny. You know it's funny, Brian.
40:27
Remember when you were able to hear like the screeching solos?
40:32
Yeah. That's what I was listening to.
40:35
I I recognize it as as a as a song from as above.
40:39
I just couldn't pinpoint which one it was.
40:41
And I was like, you know, what do I cut to try to make it in?
40:46
And then, you know, those last minute things, it's sometimes
40:49
you're willing to do it, sometimes you're not.
40:52
So, all right, Anderson, I guess just for funsies, what do you
40:57
got left? I got Evangeline champagne at
41:03
our funeral and run for your death.
41:05
More pills. That's a really, I like that one
41:08
a lot. All right, boom, boom and boom.
41:16
Let me shake this up. I'll run down what we've already
41:18
got in and we will go from there and try to fill this out so none
41:25
of us are going to win 6 was are unanimous and the ones that are
41:29
already in are My name is Human Lydia, Little one, Blood
41:33
feather, Mr. Asylum and upper drugs.
41:36
All right, so let's see we've got 4 spots with I don't know
41:42
one. I'll just run them down.
41:45
Summertime voodoo fuck me up these days.
41:48
Bat salts, Natural Born Killer, plastic boxes, New California
41:53
postures, Cool kids. Might just be posters.
41:57
I don't know. Cool kids.
42:00
The Blue Eyed Devil, Wolf and Lost.
42:07
We first look at. We've got MC ID covered.
42:10
We've got Mr. Asylum covered. We've got Boy Who Died Wolf
42:13
covered. I presume we should be looking
42:16
at album representation, right? So I mean, we need Demon Club
42:20
and as above for sure to get something from everything,
42:24
right? Yes.
42:27
So is there something from one of those two records that's
42:29
jumping out at you at first, Brian?
42:33
Summertime booed in. What do you think, Anderson?
42:38
Like, was that like a close one? Was there a particular reason
42:43
you didn't have it? I like the first 5 1/2 minutes
42:47
or so, and then they kind of changed tone for the last two
42:51
minutes and that's what took me out of it.
42:53
I got you. Is that?
42:56
Yeah, that, that was my match. Otherwise, yeah, it was 22 so it
42:59
was almost on the list anyway. OK.
43:01
So I mean, is that a you're on board for putting it in?
43:10
That from as above, Yeah, let's let's table that because I
43:16
really want to push your plastic boxes.
43:19
OK, I'm good with that. I mean, all right, well, if you
43:25
guys are both on board for plastic boxes, I was the odd man
43:28
out there and I don't I loved as above.
43:31
So like I'm on board for whatever we get from that.
43:35
So let's grab plastic boxes and then we can work on Demon Club
43:46
next. Is there a Demon Club song
43:48
that's jumping out at you, Brian?
43:53
I say I well, I had natural born killer and I have regrets on New
43:58
California. So like either one of those, I'm
44:04
not big on cool kids at all, OK. Happy, happy to lose that one.
44:11
I'm I'm happy to take either Natural Born Killer or New
44:14
California. Yeah.
44:17
If you had to choose between. Yeah, I agree with.
44:20
That OK, you're on both of those, Anderson.
44:23
Like if you had to pick between Natural Born Killer and New
44:26
California, which one would it be?
44:30
I would go New California, that's a different sound.
44:33
Natural Born Killer is more that one felt like they were trying
44:37
to get back to the first two albums.
44:40
Yeah, All right, so let's you know, we don't have to drop
44:43
natural born killer, but like let's take new California.
44:48
All right. And then that brings us up to 8.
44:51
And now I feel like now is where we we crank up the heat a little
44:54
bit because now we're looking at Albert, everything's
44:57
represented. So now it's just, you know,
45:00
whatever, all right, I'm going to run these down and we'll go
45:04
to you first, Brian. Summertime voodoo fuck me up
45:06
these days. Bat Salts, Natural Born Killer
45:09
Postures, the Blue Eyed Devil Wolf and Lost is the one that's
45:14
kind of jumping out at you, Brian.
45:17
So we already have three from the first record, but if I had
45:20
to pick one between those two bath salts and fuck me up, I'd
45:24
probably keep bath salts alive. And then between postures and
45:30
Wolf, I keep postures alive. I would keep Natural born killer
45:38
alive. Is is is the one song from?
45:47
I mean, we just tried to say that, you know, MCID is a bad
45:51
record. Is is the one song enough or do
45:54
we need these days? I really liked it.
45:58
These days, I mean. Or is it like not upper drug is
46:03
as good as going to get? I guess the question is because
46:12
we have two spots left, right? So do I feel like, again, at
46:25
this point, with only two spots, I feel like we probably don't
46:28
need another Mr. Asylum song, right?
46:30
Right. Yeah.
46:32
At at this point the question to me is do we take another as
46:42
above? Is it another as above and
46:48
another Demon Club because Anderson liked Demon Club?
46:52
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm fine with that.
46:54
I'm fine with taking like Natural Born Killer and Blue
46:58
Eyed Devil if he's if if If he's against overtime voodoo then I'd
47:03
I'd be fine with Natural Born Killer and Blue Eyed Devil.
47:06
What do you think about that as a resolution?
47:09
Anderson, Natural Born Killer and Blue eyed Devil rounding us
47:12
out. I'm on for natural born killer.
47:18
I'm still gonna, I really like Wolf, so I'm I'm going to get up
47:25
for that. OK, all right, so let's let's
47:30
you know, it sounds like we've resolved to grab natural Born
47:33
Killer. I had that on my first pass.
47:35
I can't remember where it ended up drop dropping off.
47:39
I feel like I had like a similar thought with you Anderson
47:44
initially of like it felt like they were trying too hard to get
47:47
back to what they were doing. I don't have a problem with
47:50
that. You know, obviously, I mean,
47:56
here's what I'll say about Wolf is it is one of the answers that
48:00
I got and it's literally the only answer that I got that I
48:04
didn't have on my list. And there's no real reason I
48:07
didn't have it. So if that's the consensus,
48:13
because then that that's what, 3333121 I, I feel like that's
48:20
reasonable representation. From the 1st 2 records kind of
48:24
just feels like it kind of how it should be because those two
48:28
records are good. I do want to state for the fact
48:32
that everybody listening should go listening to Summertime
48:35
Voodoo and as above so below, yes.
48:39
Again, it took me. It took me for a shock that I
48:42
enjoyed it as much as I did like As just again like it.
48:47
That sounds like I didn't enjoy those middle 2, but it felt like
48:51
I was going on a different journey and I kind of expected
48:54
more of the same and I didn't get more of the same.
48:56
So I was I was pretty pleased with that.
48:59
All right, so we'll grab. Where?
49:01
They're going to go next. Yeah, we grabbed Wolf to round
49:05
us out. Let me run this down.
49:07
My name is Human Lydia Little One Blood Feather, Mr. Asylum
49:10
Upper Drugs Plastic Boxes New California Natural Born Killer
49:13
and Wolf Rounds out are 10. Brian, I read those 10 down to
49:19
you. Which one's the one?
49:23
I mean, like, the easy thing is saying My Name is human.
49:26
Yeah. The second easy thing is
49:28
probably saying Lydia. Yeah, for me, it's between those
49:34
two. Like I would the one that
49:39
describes the band more is probably My Name is Human
49:43
because it has that rap versing in it, which is kind of what
49:50
they learn more towards until like that last record where they
49:52
where they don't do that really at all.
49:55
Wow. You know, and they just they
49:57
just sing, you know, you know, Johnny just sings.
49:59
So. What do you think, Anderson?
50:07
What's jumping out at you? That was my one and two.
50:12
I just had Lydia first, but it's definitely between those two and
50:18
I'm not going to be terribly hard to convince.
50:23
All right, so let's bring into account here because the only
50:28
other one I would I had in consideration was Little 1 and
50:31
that's because it was the first one I heard so.
50:38
Yeah, I'm also thinking Lydia, because Lydia is the one that
50:40
got me back into the band, right?
50:44
Like I said, I don't know why it didn't hit me the same five
50:46
years ago, but you know, when I listened to it, you know, 8
50:50
months ago, it was like, this is freaking awesome.
50:55
Now, what I'll say to to that point is I feel like I feel like
51:01
my name is human is going to prohibit probing.
51:06
Like I don't. I don't think it scratches
51:09
scratches the itch. I don't, or I I guess maybe the
51:12
inverse, like it doesn't make you itch for more, like it
51:15
doesn't make you probe into the band.
51:19
Not that it's a turn off again. It was my it was like my
51:23
everything in 2020. I I like returned to it like God
51:28
knows how many times, but I it that song never made me go seek
51:36
out the band at all. It was just kind of I would
51:39
listen to the song and then go listen to whatever the hell
51:42
else. Whereas I feel like Lydia might,
51:47
I know it didn't for you initially, Brian, but like I
51:51
feel like it has a better a better chance at doing that.
51:55
And coincidentally, possibly when I think about the end of
52:00
the year conversation, I think Lydia probably stands a better
52:05
chance of getting in than My Name is Human does.
52:09
So I think we just talked ourselves into Lydia.
52:15
So let's go with that. I'm going to queue that up.
52:18
I'll run this down one last go and then we will wrap it on up.
52:22
Lydia is our number one. My name is human little one,
52:25
blood feather, Mr. Asylum upper drugs plastic boxes New
52:28
California Natural Born Killer and Wolf round out our 10 and
52:33
with that, let's get let Lydia get a moment in the sun.
52:51
I feel like, you know, again, this is kind of it's funny
52:56
because this band got pretty big, but like I think but also
53:00
somehow strangely got largely ignored.
53:03
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53:06
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53:12
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53:15
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