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This Year's Spotify Wrapped Left Us Speechless · Brainwaves

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  Oh boy, it is that time of year again.
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  One of our favorite episodes, Spotify rapt.
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  Welcome to our listeners and our viewers.
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  My name is Jason Riley, this is 2 shot Tuesday and I am with my
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  Co host who is a little microphone challenged.
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  So we're going to see just how well Riverside, a recording
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  platform can enhance your mic. I don't know till we had it.
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  Barry, how are you? Doing Jay, I'm doing much better
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  now that I see your wonderful face despite having something
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  with, as you, the aforementioned microphone snafus.
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  It's OK. You know what?
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  On this show, we soldier forth regardless of obstacles.
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  That's it. There are no obstacles here
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  because we crushed them all. And even though you sound to me
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  like you're at the bottom of an ocean, it's fine because I know
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  you're right here with me. You're right here with our
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  listeners and our viewers. We are together to go through
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  what has become an annual tradition, really for everybody
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  almost in the world, the Spotify Wrapped season, which let me
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  just carry on for one more 2nd and say this came out.
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  You may have sent me the right notification minutes after we
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  recorded our last show, the Japan episode.
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  And so that's why we're coming to our listeners and viewers
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  probably a week later from when you've seen your own Wrapped.
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  We wanted you to digest it, to get it in your bones, get
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  comfortable with it. And then we would bring our
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  views on our Spotify rap. You ready for this, Barry?
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  Yeah. And there's a a new category
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  that we should touch on as well. I'm just throwing over to it.
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  It's your listen. A Yes, I'll.
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  Be carrying to find out what yours is.
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  Yes, now we do have a format on the show, Barry.
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  We always do two shots, no more, no less.
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  What have you got tonight? Well, it's a.
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  Sober show for me, Jay. I'm hitting the iron immediately
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  following this record, so I'm having a little free workout in
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  my nail chain ball. Nice.
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  And I am not having a workout after the show.
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  So I am having well, you have dubbed my favorite whiskey and
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  it is the Jameson Triple triple. I'm going to be in the
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  neighborhood for a new favorite whiskey, I think for 2026, but
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  this one has helped us in 2025. Cheers to you see you.
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  I had a halls earlier and the notes with the Halls.
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  It's interesting. It's an interesting methanol
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  kind of thing. Is that methanol Met menthol?
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  Menthol. Yeah, I don't think it's.
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  Yeah, I'm not sure yet. All right, anyway, let's move
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  past it and let's get into our sig reveals.
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  Spotify Wrapped and for our listeners and viewers, if you've
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  just started joining us, say since we've been on YouTube, we
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  just want to acknowledge that, you know, Barry and I sync up on
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  a lot of things, but on music on this episode, we never have.
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  We never will. This is where our tastes
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  diverge, but that is where the excitement begins.
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  Barry, we cover what top artist, top songs and then you want to
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  cover off the our listing age. What order would you like to
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  cover that in? Yeah, if you have time, maybe
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  tough podcasts, you don't have to do that, but let's go with
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  top artists. That's always fun.
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  Yeah. Do you want me to go first or
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  would you like to go first? OK.
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  And you know, I also like to go bottom to top, so 5 to 1.
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  So that's kind of how I like to do.
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  I don't know, you sometimes like to go the other way.
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  I I have done that in the past, which is wrong.
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  You know it's wrong. This is interesting.
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  I'm just going to get this right out of the right out of the gate
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  and say that, you know, this has been a DJ inspired year.
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  I have leaned in, you know, and I've explained this on previous
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  years. I tend to like to listen to my
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  podcast music, like front to back albums.
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  That's kind of how I grew up and I tend to like that.
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  We've always seen Johnny Lang and full albums come to the top
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  of these lists. This year I leaned right into
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  the DJ and you're going to see wildly different things.
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  You're going to see things on my lists that you have never seen
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  before and something you have. And there are no albums front to
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  back there. Nobody dominates the top five of
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  anything. So I just want you to know that
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  that's clear. Yeah.
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  It's. 100% clear. #5 you've seen them before, they came in big in
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  2024 probably #1 Panic at the Disco comes in #5 because the DJ
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  picks up on it and then continues to serve it UPS.
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  They stayed there #4 An artist that gained massive traction
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  this year. I think I sent him over to you
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  and I listened to some of the songs.
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  DJ serve them up. Youngblood.
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  Youngblood is the name of this artist, a young artist.
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  He kind of had got the handoff from Ozzy Osbourne just before
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  Ozzy passed away. Kind of passing the torch.
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  He since recorded with Aerosmith.
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  He kind of does fun. I don't want to say poppy, but
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  it's kind of like, just like how Green Day bought, brought punk
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  into the, you know, massive, you know, appeal in the 90s.
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  He kind of has done that by putting this kind of polished
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  spin on a lot of metal type stuff #3 you'd never guess this.
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  You may not even know who this is.
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  Juice World. Do you know?
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  Juice World the. Place to get smoothies is the
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  That's the only juice world what I'm familiar with.
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  This is wild. What is Juice World Juice to the
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  point where it's #3 on your list?
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  I'm actually quite a fan of Juice World.
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  Juice World is a hip hop artist. He has since passed away.
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  He did probably at the age of 19 or something.
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  He foolishly it, it took a private plane, landed somewhere,
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  they were going to check his plane for drugs.
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  So he took a lot of ecstasy and that killed him on the plane.
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  Poor choices. But how I heard of him, he
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  sampled a Sting song years ago and, and I liked it and then it
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  served me other Juice World songs.
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  And then DJ got a hold of this one and fired me up.
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  And so I don't remember, like I don't listen to his albums front
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  to back, but obviously he showed up enough to be #3 on my list #2
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  You're not going to know who this is.
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  I don't really know who this is. And F the letters NF like a
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  Scrabble came. Do you know NFI?
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  Wish I did, but I have a feeling I'm about to learn.
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  Also rapper think Eminem like a young Eminem and I was served up
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  a couple of his songs. Two of them show up in my top
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  five songs this year and one at #1 and I quite like his stuff.
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  And F if you're searching. F Stand for.
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  Do we know? I don't know.
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  I never bothered to look it up. I didn't think he'd shoot to the
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  top of the list. And then #1 coming out of the
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  90s, been on my list before, never been #1 the band live
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  throwing copper. So those are my top five.
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  From 5 to 1 #1 live is a shocker for me.
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  Jay, all of. This is a shocker and literally
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  done to my head. I could not have selected any of
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  those top five, no. Can you believe it?
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  Yeah, I. All right, I want to.
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  Is #2. NFI will send you a couple of NF
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  songs and we'll see. OK, I want to hear your top
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  five. Are you going to go top to
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  bottom or bottom to top? You'll go bottom to top.
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  I think I'm. Going to try and do it your way,
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  OK, The right way, Starting with #5 and then finishing with the
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  number one. The number one.
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  I think that this is a new entry for me, at least in terms of the
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  top five. The band called the Black Lips.
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  I I highly recommend them. They're they're great.
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  I once saw them performing with the Black Angels, but that was
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  kind of cool too Black. Yeah, yeah.
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  No black people involved. These are mostly Caucasian fan
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  rights. They haven't seen any black
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  lips. They're very cool.
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  My dog London had black lips just so.
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  You know. Anyway, that's right.
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  Yeah, Pressed in peace at #4. At #4 we have a new entry called
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  Royal Headache, and we've all done that.
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  We've all had one of those, yeah.
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  Doyle headache. Royal royal headache.
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  Got it. OK.
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  Royal. Are they British?
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  I truly hope so, although just like you with the NF scenario I
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  didn't go past, I didn't dig further to find out.
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  You know the radiation. Or whatever to find out.
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  All right now, Free Two and One are bands that have been on my
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  list now for a couple of years. In different words, Strobes.
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  I don't know what the word were last year, but these mains are
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  going to find very familiar #3 the Strobes.
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  There you go, 3. Yeah, whoever you every year.
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  Yeah, yeah. Good #2 again every year.
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  Misfits. You're back.
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  You love him #1 I believe was #1 for me last year.
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  Same. It's almost like you and I
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  traded our lists, our listening habits for the year.
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  Because in the past, you've had Johnny Lang dominating your top
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  five for multiple years. Now he's nowhere to be found
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  this year. Guess he's back in the number
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  one spot. Shannon and the clients.
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  Yes, we they were there last year for sure.
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  We talked about them extensively.
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  Yeah, no, they're fantastic and I've seen them live once and I'd
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  love to see them live again. But there you have it.
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  There's about 5 artists for 25 years.
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  All right. Amazing.
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  I'm that. Yeah.
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  You had some repeats. I had almost no repeats, but
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  that's incredible, you know? So did DJ serve those up or did
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  you just go you go find them on your own?
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  You've got playlists. Sometimes I use the DJ, other
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  times I just play my master list.
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  When it gets to the end, it just starts.
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  Playing more of. What we've already heard, it
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  kind of generates, it's almost like a filth in DJ without
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  having that functionality of the talking to you saying, hey,
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  Jason, I got some great stuff for you, you know, DJX.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  All right, Barry, let's do shot #2 we'll get into our top five
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  songs and our listening age. That's going to be interesting.
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  All right, some more, some more free workout over here, Dick.
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  I got some more triple, triple. Cheers.
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  OK, let's let's do this then. What is your listening age?
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  Let's you want to start there, OK.
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  Let's start there. It was a bit surprising and
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  there was some chatter online. Of course, when these lists are
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  released, people are shocked and dismayed and some of the listing
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  ages made way too high or way too young or whatever.
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  So this isn't new. I think people are just talking
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  about just to kind of get, I think Spotify did this on
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  purpose just to get more buzz just out there on the general
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  Internet about, oh, hey, what's your list to me?
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  Mine was whatever to mine. Are you ready, 65?
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  Wow. Yeah, it was like 65.
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  I do. I listen to that many boomer
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  bands. I don't think I do.
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  But you are quite spry. But yeah, I guess punk 70 like
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  that's almost that's like 50 years ago now, so but. 65 I
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  don't know if you like some oldies.
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  There are some oldies on my playlist.
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  Anyway, what about you? My listening age, you know,
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  going back to the 90s, I was 46. So just slightly, yeah, just
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  slightly under my actual age. So I'm pretty spot on to where I
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  need to be in terms of, you know, tuning into music.
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  So at least now I'm listening to it.
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  I'm not keeping up well, but neither one of us are.
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  But that's fine. All right, We're going to go
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  into our top songs. Let's let's do the countdown.
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  Why don't you take us away on your five top songs?
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  Anything stand out, repeat. Just love to hear.
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  Yeah. Not really any repeats but some
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  names that you've been familiar with like some of the bands.
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  So #5 is Shannon and the Clams with a song called Own Silk
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  Quotes. Great song.
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  Recommended. It's from their latest album #4
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  is a band that I actually was introduced to 5 Whitby friend of
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  ours, friend of the show. They're called Cheap Teeth and.
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  Cheap teeth, OK. Teeth.
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  Inexpensive teeth. Yeah, the black lips and the
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  cheap teeth kind of go together. Maybe they would do a show
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  together. Oh, these mouth bands like I
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  don't do you like? Mouth bands.
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  I do like the mouth. Bands, yeah.
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  So #4IS Cheat Teeth and the song is called The Wind and the Rain.
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  Great song, recommend it. Yeah #3 is a band that's no
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  longer together but I saw the unique singer solo.
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  He opened up the band's called The Walkman and the song is
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  called Heartbreaker. Have I heard that?
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  Is that the Have I heard? Heartbreaker maybe?
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  Yeah. You may have.
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  Now I sound like a boomer. Yeah, I don't think it was on my
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  list last. OK, number 2 is Misfits.
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  You know, they're always up there.
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  The song is called 8 Breeders, A different song than what's been
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  there in the past. Great song #1 it's a band that I
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  definitely discover this year, the year sort of new psychedelic
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  is kind of what you describe the genre.
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  So they're called Dead Ghosts. Dead ghosts.
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  A ghost would be dead, yes. A ghost is a dead person, so a
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  dead ghost might be. I don't even know what that is.
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  It's a band, obviously. Yeah, I like these literal.
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  I like instead of really on the nose.
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  Like is that the name of the song or the band?
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  That's the band. Who's What's the song?
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  The song is called When It Comes to You and I recommend that one
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  as well. It's not sort of that fuzzy,
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  psychedelic, bouncy sound, but I certainly need joy and I'd like
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  you to enjoy it as well. Perfect.
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  Well you know, I always like to have you send me these top
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  things and then I build a playlist.
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  So when we do a hangout, it's they're playing in the
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  background while you've got your summary up.
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  Why don't you talked about your minutes listened?
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  How many minutes listened do you have?
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  You have that handy. I don't think I captured that.
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  Maybe I did. It might be it's on the little
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  summary card that they give you about. 47,000 minutes.
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  OK, wow. We're going to talk about that.
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  We're going to talk about that to wrap up.
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  OK. Let me do my top songs going
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  from 5:00 to 1:00, and I also have a few that didn't make my
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  top artists. So Dare Dare You to Doubt Me is
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  a song by a band called The Script.
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  I don't know if you know The Script.
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  They're an Irish band and they are.
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  I like them. I've listened them quite a bit.
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  Surprised they didn't show up a little higher on my top artists.
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  But this came off a new album that was released in the last
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  year or so. So that one got served up on the
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  DJ quite a bit. Then there's a song called
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  Wishing Well that is by said artist Juice World.
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  So Wishing Well by Juice World, I'll maybe send that to you.
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  You might enjoy that. And you're going to be like, you
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  listen to this as soon as I send it to, you're going to be like,
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  I can't believe you're already shocked, but you're going to be
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  really shocked. To go from Johnny Lang to Juice
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  World is in a year is. Quite awesome.
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  Yeah, it shows the power of DJ, of the power of that DJAI that's
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  going on then #3 was the song Hope by NF?
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  That's Hope is one of his songs. There's a song called Kamikaze I
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  Walk The Moon. Have you heard the band Walk The
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  Moon Again? Gun to my head was never
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  selected or any of what you're saying right now.
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  It's like almost like you're speaking another language.
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  It's amazing. This is a year of change for
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  you. True.
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  Change it is I don't know how. Completely different.
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  I don't know how I got this. This song is a good song.
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  You know the band, this song is, the one song you know from them
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  is a song where it's like, shut up and dance with me, right?
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  Shut Up and Dance with Me so that they have that.
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  For some reason this song Kamikaze got served up on DJ and
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  I really like it and clearly it's number 2, so they weren't
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  one of my top artists because that's the only song I listen
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  to. But it's when the DJ serves it
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  up, which is quite often. Kamikaze's there and Shut up and
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  dance with me. So that's number two, the number
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  one song Happy. Not the happy song you might
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  think about. Yeah, No, this one's by NF, the
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  artist NF, who shows up twice again, sounds like we're playing
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  Scrabble. NF has this rap song Happy.
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  That's the first song I heard of him.
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  I like it. Interesting message.
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  I don't know. It's there.
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  It's number one. It's it's supplanted.
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  They've all supplanted Johnny Lang for this.
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  Johnny Lang. Know where he found.
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  He's like a distant memory. He's got throat issues and he
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  hasn't put out anything since 2017.
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  So the catalog is starting to get a bit worn and while I enjoy
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  it, we need to rest these things.
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  So he's getting a well deserved rest and hopefully he'll be back
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  because I really do enjoy some Johnny Lang.
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  He does come up in the DJ once in a while, but not as much.
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  Not like NF, let me tell you as well.
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  My minutes listened were like a maybe 1/4 of what you had
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  15,293. So much fewer minutes by huge
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  amount. So that's incredible.
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  Anyway, that's Spotify. Most of your listening.
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  In the home, I would say most of it is done walking around.
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  Every morning I kind of go for a walk.
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  I put on the. That's why I put the DJ on,
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  because I'll just put my earbuds in and it's a pain in the ass to
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  skip songs. So with the DJ, I can just do
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  that and I do that, Yeah. How about you?
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  Well, I mean, I listen to work in the car at all, so I got
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  three zones where I'm listening. So that's probably why my yeah,
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  when I'm at work, I will often just have one earbud in while
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  I'm working. You just listen to music or
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  podcast. Yeah, nice.
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  Well, we can't do the podcast one because I don't listen to my
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  podcasts on Spotify, so I don't get a wrapped list for that.
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  I got how well our podcast does, but we'll, we'll, I'll share
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  those stats with you separately. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Anyway, that's Spotify rap for another year.
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  Barry, once again, we don't sync up, but what a thrill to hear
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  it. And, you know, things have
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  changed. You and I have kind of swap
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  positions on how we're listening to our artists.
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  There is no wrong way to listen to music.
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  They say I say it and always happy to hear this, Barry.
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  Next week we're going to be back with another brand new episode.
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  Who knows what we're going to talk about, but we are getting
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  towards year end and that means fitness, that means getting
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  ready for 2026, that means family, relaxing, all that kind
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  of stuff. It's all coming.
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  We want our listeners and our viewers to go on this journey
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  with us. And please, if you're watching
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  on YouTube, props up in the comments.
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  Let us know what your Spotify wrap this is like.
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  Let us know how ours resonates with you.
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  Any final words before we wrap up, Jay?
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  Everything you said, I mean, I who could improve on it, It's
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  impossible. But I will say just one more
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  time gone to my head. I want to select any of your
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  either top artists or top songs. And you keep surprising me.
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  I've known you for a long, long time.
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  But this year, truly, this is this is the new you.
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  This is the new you before we've turned over to 26.
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  Crazy. Well done getting a head start.
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  All right, Barry, have a great week.
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  I will see you next week and we will see all of our listeners
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  and viewers. In one week, absolutely.
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