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O'Brien & Doug S4:E19 [Oct 14, 2021 Who Are The Dirt Drifters?] · O'Brien & Doug

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SPEAKER_07: Let's Google it.
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SPEAKER_07: How to start a podcast.
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SPEAKER_05: Not how to start a podcast, how to how to begin.
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SPEAKER_05: How to begin a podcast.
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SPEAKER_05: What's the opening line of your podcast?
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SPEAKER_07: Oh let's just find a random line.
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SPEAKER_05: Let's see.
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SPEAKER_05: What are you Googling?
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SPEAKER_05: What are you putting in there?
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SPEAKER_07: Famous opening lines.
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SPEAKER_07: Okay.
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SPEAKER_07: Now this is famous opening lines from books.
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SPEAKER_05: Okay.
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SPEAKER_07: Okay.
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SPEAKER_07: So let's see what we got here.
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SPEAKER_05: Wait, do we want to just start the podcast and then come in?
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SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_05: The O'Brien and Doug podcast is brought to you by Wanted Auto and Truck Center, 17 Holton Road in Preston, Maine, servicing all makes and models of heavy trucks and light duty cars.
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SPEAKER_05: Till free at 800-764-4150.
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SPEAKER_05: And by Doug's cousin.
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SPEAKER_02: First of all, thank you for giving me the opportunity to come talk to you on career day.
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SPEAKER_02: Now, I am not Mr.
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SPEAKER_02: Carl Peterson, and I don't have a career per se.
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SPEAKER_02: I guess you could say my career is living in love.
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SPEAKER_03: Welcome to the O'Reilly and Duncan.
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SPEAKER_05: Welcome to the O'Brien and Doug podcast.
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SPEAKER_05: I'm O'Brien.
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SPEAKER_05: That's a good opening line.
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SPEAKER_05: I like that.
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SPEAKER_06: That was the first one that came up.
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SPEAKER_07: What's another one?
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SPEAKER_07: I am an invisible man.
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SPEAKER_07: What is that from?
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SPEAKER_07: Invisible man.
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SPEAKER_07: Oh.
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SPEAKER_07: Are these from books?
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SPEAKER_07: These are from books.
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SPEAKER_07: Okay.
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SPEAKER_07: The story so far.
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SPEAKER_07: In the beginning, the universe was created.
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SPEAKER_07: This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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SPEAKER_07: What book is that?
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SPEAKER_07: The restaurant at the end of the universe.
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SPEAKER_07: I have never heard of that book.
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SPEAKER_07: Here's a good one.
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SPEAKER_07: Mother died today.
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SPEAKER_07: Or maybe yesterday.
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SPEAKER_07: I can't be sure.
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SPEAKER_07: The outsider.
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SPEAKER_05: Oh wow.
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SPEAKER_05: So these are famous opening words.
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SPEAKER_05: We thought we'd open up the podcast in a unique way.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: I like call me Ishmael.
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SPEAKER_07: Call me Ishmael.
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SPEAKER_07: That's the O'Brien and Ishmael.
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SPEAKER_05: O'Brien and Ishmael.
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SPEAKER_05: Still idiot season four, episode 19.
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SPEAKER_05: And boy, do we have some uh some pretty cool news.
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SPEAKER_05: We have some exciting news.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and it may be it may be a part of this episode.
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SPEAKER_05: It might be.
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SPEAKER_05: We don't know.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we we don't know yet.
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SPEAKER_05: It depends.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh last week we did a Wall of Tunes, um, where we uh climbed the Wall of Tunes and we we got a a great album, debut album, one and only album from a band called the Dirt Drifters.
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SPEAKER_07: Actually, that's not true.
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SPEAKER_07: I uh searched uh iTunes and I found another album.
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SPEAKER_05: Like an EP like before that one?
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SPEAKER_07: It was it's I it's all studio outtakes.
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SPEAKER_07: Of what?
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SPEAKER_07: Of Dirt Drifters.
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SPEAKER_05: Of of the same album?
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SPEAKER_07: No.
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SPEAKER_07: It's it's it's like other it's like it's like uh what was it called?
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SPEAKER_07: It's like Origins or something like that.
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SPEAKER_05: Oh did you get it?
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SPEAKER_05: I did.
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SPEAKER_07: I haven't listened to it yet.
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SPEAKER_05: I'm uh so where did you find it?
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SPEAKER_05: You uh iTunes.
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SPEAKER_05: iTunes, yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Interesting.
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SPEAKER_05: I'm gonna I'm gonna track that down.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Anyway, so uh the Dirt Drifters.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh we talked about their it was their major label release.
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SPEAKER_05: Yes.
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SPEAKER_05: Um I wish I could tell you the name.
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SPEAKER_05: I think it was just the Dirt Drifters.
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SPEAKER_05: I think it's just the Dirt Drifter.
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SPEAKER_05: Oh no, uh This is My Blood.
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SPEAKER_05: Yes, that's is the title title track.
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SPEAKER_05: So um we were like, whatever happened to this band, because they came out with a big splash.
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SPEAKER_05: We talked about this on last week's podcast.
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SPEAKER_05: They came out with a big splash in like 2011, 2012, something like that, had a had a pretty, pretty big song and and music video and everything, and then they disappeared.
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SPEAKER_05: They went on tour for a little while and then they disappeared.
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SPEAKER_05: And we we we always wondered what happened to them because they didn't tell their fans anything, they didn't I mean it was just like they vanished.
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SPEAKER_05: Um and we questioned uh I wonder what happened.
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SPEAKER_05: So we found um the guitar player for Dirt Drifters on Facebook, uh Jeff Milton, and and Doug made the suggestion, well, maybe we should reach out and see if we can have him on the podcast.
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SPEAKER_05: Well, guess what?
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SPEAKER_05: He has agreed to be on the O'Brien and Doug podcast.
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SPEAKER_05: So uh there's our first interview, big interview.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh and it only took 19 episodes.
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SPEAKER_07: Maybe 20.
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SPEAKER_07: Well, considering, I mean, you know, it's uh it's it's it's not uh yeah, I don't know.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: So we're recording we're recording this on Monday night, but we're hoping to have the interview with Jeff on Wednesday night, and we'll we'll kind of splice it all together and and put this through on on Thursday morning at eight when it drops.
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SPEAKER_05: Right.
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SPEAKER_05: Um so uh that's exciting.
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SPEAKER_05: Very exciting.
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SPEAKER_07: I'm so I'm so pumped for this interview.
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SPEAKER_05: Jeff uh Middleton was uh really uh receptive to us, and he's like, Yeah, yeah, I think it could be fun.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh it'd be it'd be great to talk.
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SPEAKER_05: So apparently he's never listened to our podcast.
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SPEAKER_05: He's never listened to our podcast.
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SPEAKER_05: Actually, I sent him a link, so maybe that's why we haven't heard back from him.
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SPEAKER_07: Maybe he's like, oh these losers want me on their podcast.
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SPEAKER_07: This will take two seconds.
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SPEAKER_07: I'm self-traveling, sorry.
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SPEAKER_07: Where are you?
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SPEAKER_07: I'm in a country with no electricity.
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SPEAKER_05: So um I don't know what kind of questions we should we ask.
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SPEAKER_05: I have no idea.
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SPEAKER_07: I've literally never interviewed anybody.
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SPEAKER_05: So I really just want to know what happened.
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I that's that's I think that's the you know that's the that's the big the big question.
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SPEAKER_07: So what happened to your band?
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SPEAKER_05: So we're gonna kiss his butt a little bit because I mean it's it's not really kissing his butt because it's a great album.
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SPEAKER_05: It really is.
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SPEAKER_07: Well, we should find out about you know his his origin story if he was a Marvel superhero.
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SPEAKER_05: Right.
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SPEAKER_07: So we'll we'll figure we'll go from his origin story to So what happened to your band, dude?
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_07: You know?
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and maybe how the dirt drifters got together and all that stuff, and then and then what the heck happened?
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SPEAKER_05: What happened?
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SPEAKER_05: Where'd you go?
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh and what are you doing now?
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SPEAKER_05: Because I know he's still writing songs.
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SPEAKER_05: Right.
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SPEAKER_05: And he's I think he's he's playing around.
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SPEAKER_05: Session guys.
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SPEAKER_05: I think so.
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SPEAKER_05: So yeah, that'll be that'll be cool.
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SPEAKER_05: And that may be part of this very podcast.
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SPEAKER_05: We're not sure yet.
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SPEAKER_05: So uh if not, it will be part of next week.
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SPEAKER_05: Next week's podcast.
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SPEAKER_07: The season finale.
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SPEAKER_05: The season finale.
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SPEAKER_05: Um, but we're hoping to have that interview um um wrapped up this coming Wednesday.
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SPEAKER_05: See.
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SPEAKER_05: So could be cool.
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SPEAKER_05: Very cool.
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SPEAKER_05: I can't wait.
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SPEAKER_05: What else is going on?
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SPEAKER_07: Um uh I I was gonna say I'm reading Dave Grohl's book, but I'm actually listening to it on Audible.
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SPEAKER_05: That must be a lot different.
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SPEAKER_07: It is really it's it's really great because it's just like you're you know, Dave is sitting there talking to you.
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SPEAKER_07: That's what it feels like.
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SPEAKER_07: He's telling you stories.
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SPEAKER_05: I bet you that's cool though.
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SPEAKER_07: It's really great.
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_07: The way he tells the stories, you know, it's it's fantastic, you know.
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SPEAKER_07: He starts from his childhood and you know, up through I'm I'm up through uh uh Kurt just died, and he's getting ready to start the Foo Fighters, and he's just been asked to play with Tom Petty.
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SPEAKER_07: So that's where I am right now.
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SPEAKER_07: Oh, that's awesome.
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I remember that.
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SPEAKER_07: It's really it's really great.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh by the way, I finished the John Hyatt book.
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SPEAKER_05: Oh, cool.
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SPEAKER_05: So you'll be walking away with that tonight.
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SPEAKER_05: Yes.
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SPEAKER_05: Um what else is going on?
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SPEAKER_05: What's he gonna win, Johnny?
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SPEAKER_05: I I told you last week, but I we didn't talk about it.
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SPEAKER_05: I got a banjo.
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SPEAKER_05: Did I mention that on the podcast last week?
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I remember the guy wanted to use you as a human interest story.
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SPEAKER_07: Did I talk about that?
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Oh see, the all the weeks and days run together.
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SPEAKER_07: They do, but that's okay.
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SPEAKER_07: Um you're banjoing it up.
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SPEAKER_07: No, I haven't actually played since.
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SPEAKER_05: But I mean, ding ding ding ding ding ding.
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SPEAKER_05: Um what else is going on?
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SPEAKER_05: I did I tell you I think I may have, but I I don't know if if uh we did it on the podcast.
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SPEAKER_05: My van was out of commission for a while.
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: But I did I tell you what happened?
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SPEAKER_07: Uh something went in it.
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SPEAKER_05: So and we we're a uh we're a praying family.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: We we pray together all the time, especially at night before we go to bed.
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SPEAKER_05: Um and he this is this is kind of like a miracle.
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SPEAKER_05: Not a real miracle, but you know what I mean.
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SPEAKER_07: Um how do you well if a miracle is a miracle, it doesn't matter if it's real or I'm you know.
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SPEAKER_05: Well, we've I I think it's a miracle.
8:57
SPEAKER_05: Well then it's a miracle.
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SPEAKER_05: I think it's a then go with it.
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SPEAKER_07: So don't don't downgrade it, man.
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SPEAKER_05: So so my wife was uh driving our van.
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SPEAKER_05: It's a it's a Honda Odyssey.
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SPEAKER_05: Um and she had she had pulled out of of um uh of driveway and was driving on Route 1, not very fast, probably like maybe 25, 30 miles an hour, and it the van just shut off.
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SPEAKER_05: And she had to kind of coast into uh another driveway on the opposite side of the road.
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SPEAKER_05: And we ended up having the van towed to the dealership, and they were like, Well, if it's this, then that's not good.
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SPEAKER_05: That's a timing belt.
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SPEAKER_05: Because we just had that timing belt replaced like two or three years ago.
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SPEAKER_05: And so if it's a timing belt and you were driving, uh that's that's not good.
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SPEAKER_05: That's really expensive.
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SPEAKER_05: Right.
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SPEAKER_05: Your engine could have gone.
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SPEAKER_05: Um and they were just singing us this you know, worst case scenario.
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SPEAKER_05: And so the car had been there for a few days.
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SPEAKER_05: Come to find out the mechanic that specializes in that type of thing uh got COVID.
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SPEAKER_05: Oh, well that's good.
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SPEAKER_05: So couldn't work on it.
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SPEAKER_05: So it just sat there in the in the yard, and they gave us a loaner.
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SPEAKER_05: So we had a loner for about two weeks.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh and we went looking for a vehicle.
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SPEAKER_05: I mean we were um and we hate vehicle shopping, especially when my wife hates it, you know.
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SPEAKER_05: Um so we were and we were weighing our options, and do you know I mean, I don't know if it's inflation, but you know, you used to be able to get like a a nice used car for$20,000,$22,000.
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SPEAKER_05: Now that's used.
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SPEAKER_05: Used.
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SPEAKER_05: Wow.
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SPEAKER_05: A nice one.
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SPEAKER_05: Now that same one is forty thousand dollars.
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SPEAKER_07: Well, yeah, it's because you can't get anything right now.
11:04
SPEAKER_05: Right.
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SPEAKER_05: The prices are just ridiculous.
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SPEAKER_05: And so there was like nothing that we could afford.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: And so we were like just down on the dumps and just kind of what are we gonna do?
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SPEAKER_05: And we kept and then I I checked in with the uh the dealership and they're like, uh the guy's not here yet, but I mean if it's the timing belt, and it went we have to take the whole thing apart um and we have to check the pistons and because I mean it could have ruined the engine.
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SPEAKER_05: So you know, you're looking at a uh you have to get a new engine for it or you know, whatever.
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SPEAKER_05: And he says, You're looking at like five grand uh repairs with labor and everything.
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SPEAKER_05: And so like, oh my word.
11:44
SPEAKER_05: So I went into the dealership and I said, be honest with me.
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SPEAKER_05: I said, if I don't fix that, is there value in that?
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SPEAKER_05: I mean, would you buy it?
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SPEAKER_05: He says, Yeah, there'd still be value in it.
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SPEAKER_05: I'd give you something for it.
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SPEAKER_05: I was like, okay.
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SPEAKER_05: So now I know my options.
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SPEAKER_05: So I gotta find a vehicle.
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SPEAKER_05: So we're looking around for vehicles for like a week, a week and a half.
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SPEAKER_05: Like hardcore and everything is out of our price range.
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SPEAKER_05: And and meanwhile, every night in our prayers, we're saying, please let the van be okay.
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SPEAKER_05: Please let the van be okay.
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SPEAKER_05: And so Tuesday last week, I think it was Tuesday last week, I got a message from the new mechanic Glenny.
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SPEAKER_05: Ah, Glenny.
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SPEAKER_05: Glenny's back.
12:39
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
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SPEAKER_05: And and he said, I've never seen anything like it.
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SPEAKER_05: He says, Your van's done.
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SPEAKER_05: And it's okay.
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SPEAKER_05: Wow.
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SPEAKER_05: We're like, what?
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SPEAKER_05: So yep.
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SPEAKER_05: Um, you you know, the guy that fixed it, he's like, when uh when the timing belt goes like that and the vehicle is rolling r is running um nine times out of ten, the engine is blown.
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SPEAKER_05: And he said that there was no damage to the engine.
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SPEAKER_05: Um and on top of that, because they had the vehicle for two weeks, we paid$173 because Honda ate 70% of the cost because they couldn't work on it.
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SPEAKER_05: We were using a loaner.
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SPEAKER_05: Right.
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SPEAKER_05: You know, I don't actually I don't know if that's why, but but they took care of us.
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SPEAKER_05: Well, good.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: And the van is fine.
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SPEAKER_05: And they just replaced the timing belt and we paid for the timing belt and and some of the labor and there you go.
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SPEAKER_05: And so prayers do come true.
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SPEAKER_05: It was a miracle.
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SPEAKER_05: God is good, man.
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SPEAKER_05: We still we still need to, I think, look for a new vehicle.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh, but we can do it in the spring now instead of instead of right away.
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SPEAKER_05: Like right now.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
13:54
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: And and hopefully the prices will come down, which I don't know if that's gonna happen or not.
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SPEAKER_05: Anyway, but that was that was I hadn't shared that with you, so I thought that was uh an interesting well that's good, man.
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_07: So thought you were gonna have to flintstone it.
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SPEAKER_07: I did I did.
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SPEAKER_05: Cut holes in the floor, but anyway, all right, back to the podcast because back to your regular scheduled programming.
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SPEAKER_05: We have we played a game a while back.
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SPEAKER_05: Pat Braggdon gave us an idea for a game.
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SPEAKER_05: We played it once and we haven't played it again.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh and I thought we would uh I thought we would do that.
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SPEAKER_05: Um Songs from a Hat.
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SPEAKER_07: Songs from a Hat.
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SPEAKER_05: And and and this week's Songs from the Hat is going to be Songs with the word night in the title.
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SPEAKER_07: Okay.
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SPEAKER_07: Ready go.
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SPEAKER_07: Uh, isn't there a Joe Cocker song?
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SPEAKER_07: Um, When the Night Closes in or Bob Seeker.
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SPEAKER_05: When the night comes.
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SPEAKER_05: When the night comes.
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SPEAKER_05: Is that Bob Seeker or Joe Cocker?
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SPEAKER_05: Joe Cocker.
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SPEAKER_05: Okay.
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SPEAKER_05: It's actually Joe Cocker.
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SPEAKER_05: It was actually uh written by Brian Adams.
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SPEAKER_05: Oh, well, there you go.
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SPEAKER_05: There you go.
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SPEAKER_05: There it goes.
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SPEAKER_07: Uh six degrees of separation of Brian Adams.
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SPEAKER_07: Night people.
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SPEAKER_07: Deal.
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SPEAKER_07: Night people.
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SPEAKER_07: Night fever.
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SPEAKER_07: Bee gees.
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unknown: Night.
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SPEAKER_07: Saturday night fever.
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_07: We know how to do it.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh night uh well, it can it be Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Have to be the right kind of knight.
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SPEAKER_05: I was gonna say knights in white satin.
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SPEAKER_07: Well that is the right kind of night.
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SPEAKER_07: It's not like you know, medieval knights.
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SPEAKER_05: Fear me! Ha ha! That is the uh that is the right knight.
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SPEAKER_05: Okay, yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Knights in white satin.
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SPEAKER_07: Uh let's see.
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SPEAKER_07: Saturday did we did you say Saturday Night Fever?
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SPEAKER_07: No.
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SPEAKER_05: Well, you said night fever, and I thought it was Saturday Night Fever.
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SPEAKER_05: But it's different.
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SPEAKER_07: But that's that's the same song.
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SPEAKER_07: Yep.
15:57
SPEAKER_07: Yep.
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SPEAKER_07: Okay, so Saturday Night Fever.
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SPEAKER_07: Oh.
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SPEAKER_07: Isn't that BG's?
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SPEAKER_07: Yeah, too.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh I don't know.
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SPEAKER_05: I'll give it to you.
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SPEAKER_05: I'll give it to you though.
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SPEAKER_05: Awesome.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh Night Moves.
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SPEAKER_05: Night Moves.
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SPEAKER_05: Bob Seeker.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_07: Oh, uh Saturday night is alright for fighting.
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SPEAKER_07: Yep.
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SPEAKER_07: Um, is it the nickelback version or?
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SPEAKER_07: No.
16:16
SPEAKER_07: I didn't even know they had a version.
16:18
SPEAKER_07: Now I hate that song.
16:19
SPEAKER_07: Crap, man.
16:20
SPEAKER_05: Uh Diamond Rio, Night is Falling in My Heart.
16:23
SPEAKER_07: Oh, that's a very good one.
16:25
SPEAKER_07: Pulled that one out of my back pocket.
16:26
SPEAKER_07: That was a good one.
16:29
SPEAKER_07: Um shoot night.
16:37
SPEAKER_05: An old folk song.
16:38
SPEAKER_05: There's an old folk song.
16:39
SPEAKER_07: Okay, that's that's good.
16:40
SPEAKER_05: Also has a female in the title.
16:43
SPEAKER_05: What's an old folk song?
16:49
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, with knight and a female in it.
16:52
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
16:54
SPEAKER_07: Sally knight.
16:55
SPEAKER_07: No.
16:56
SPEAKER_07: Night Sally.
17:02
SPEAKER_07: Night.
17:03
SPEAKER_07: Night song.
17:04
SPEAKER_07: Because if you don't get it, I'm gonna use it.
17:06
SPEAKER_07: Well, go use it.
17:06
SPEAKER_07: I don't I don't know.
17:07
SPEAKER_07: Good night, Irene.
17:08
SPEAKER_07: Oh, good night Irene, yeah.
17:12
SPEAKER_07: Oh, what was that song?
17:13
SPEAKER_07: Uh Good Night Sweetheart.
17:14
SPEAKER_07: Isn't that uh the platters or something?
17:17
SPEAKER_07: Yep.
17:19
SPEAKER_05: Um The Night is Still Young, Billy Joel.
17:26
SPEAKER_07: Oh, good one.
17:27
SPEAKER_07: Good one.
17:28
SPEAKER_07: Um, Rob Zombie, Night of a Thousand Corpses.
17:33
SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
17:34
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
17:35
SPEAKER_07: Um Undercover of the Night, Rolling Stones.
17:42
SPEAKER_07: Oh, I was a good one.
17:44
SPEAKER_07: Uh oh, uh uh Judgment Night with uh it was um Faith No More and uh Tribe Called Quest.
17:54
SPEAKER_05: Wow.
17:54
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
17:55
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I'd you got me on that one.
17:56
SPEAKER_07: Well, it was that it was that it was that movie that came out in the mid-90s that Jeremy Piven and Dennis Leary was mad guy and Koopa Gooding Jr.
18:04
SPEAKER_05: and yeah, I remember the movie.
18:05
SPEAKER_07: It wasn't a very good movie.
18:06
SPEAKER_07: I don't remember the movie.
18:06
SPEAKER_07: But the soundtrack was really good.
18:08
SPEAKER_07: It was all like rock bands and rap artists, you know, teamed up on all these songs.
18:13
SPEAKER_07: Let's see.
18:18
SPEAKER_07: Oh no, it was Biohazard and Onyx.
18:20
SPEAKER_07: That's who it was.
18:21
SPEAKER_07: Oh.
18:21
SPEAKER_05: Wasn't Faith No More?
18:22
SPEAKER_07: No.
18:23
SPEAKER_07: But they did do a song with uh Tribe Call Quest on there.
18:27
SPEAKER_07: Shoot, night.
18:30
SPEAKER_07: Uh oh, uh I got one.
18:35
SPEAKER_07: Night of the Walking Dead, uh uh public enemy.
18:38
SPEAKER_07: There you go.
18:38
SPEAKER_07: Oh, uh Knight of the Walking Baseheads, that's what it was.
18:41
SPEAKER_07: Baseheads?
18:42
SPEAKER_07: Baseheads, yeah.
18:43
SPEAKER_07: Crashheads.
18:43
SPEAKER_07: Oh, yeah, interesting.
18:44
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I think it was on the uh Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back album.
18:51
SPEAKER_05: You got me.
18:53
SPEAKER_05: Um Def Leopard, tonight.
19:01
SPEAKER_07: There you go.
19:02
SPEAKER_07: Drink that.
19:04
SPEAKER_07: Take that, buddy.
19:07
SPEAKER_07: Uh oh, Phil Collins in the air tonight.
19:10
SPEAKER_07: Tonight's the night, Rod Stewart.
19:12
SPEAKER_07: Oh, yeah.
19:12
SPEAKER_07: Tonight's the night, yeah.
19:15
SPEAKER_07: Uh oh, what was uh Dance the Night away, Van Halen.
19:21
SPEAKER_07: There you go.
19:22
SPEAKER_05: Uh tonight it's a UG trick.
19:47
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it's hard.
19:48
SPEAKER_05: It's hard when you get when you get down to it, it's hard.
20:04
SPEAKER_05: I want to say there's a foreigner song that has night in it.
20:09
unknown: Yeah.
20:09
SPEAKER_05: A night to remember foreigner for inside information.
20:12
SPEAKER_07: There you go.
20:32
SPEAKER_07: I don't know.
20:34
SPEAKER_07: I'm sure there's more, but none are coming to my brain.
20:40
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we and we have the wall of tunes here that you can look for look at for inspiration.
20:44
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, but I can't read anything.
20:46
SPEAKER_05: I'm looking at the posters and um is there any is there an eagle song that has night in it?
20:52
SPEAKER_05: Oh, one of these, nah.
20:55
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
20:57
SPEAKER_07: Jeez, yeah.
20:58
SPEAKER_05: A C D C Night Prowler.
21:00
SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
21:02
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
21:03
SPEAKER_05: I I you can think of like song lyrics.
21:06
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
21:07
SPEAKER_05: I mean song lyrics, yeah.
21:10
SPEAKER_05: But the song titles with night in the title.
21:12
SPEAKER_07: That's a little tougher.
21:14
SPEAKER_07: That's why it's song from a hat.
21:16
SPEAKER_05: Right.
21:16
SPEAKER_07: Not song lyrics from a hat.
21:18
SPEAKER_05: Right.
21:18
SPEAKER_05: Sorry.
21:19
SPEAKER_05: Gee, man.
21:20
unknown: All right.
21:21
SPEAKER_05: Are we giving up?
21:22
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I think I'm uh because what I'll what we'll do.
21:24
SPEAKER_05: Are you gonna Google it?
21:26
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I'm just curious and see if we what if we what ones we missed, because we're probably gonna kick ourselves.
21:30
SPEAKER_07: Oh, there's probably a ton that we missed.
21:33
SPEAKER_07: Um that's what we do.
21:35
SPEAKER_07: We miss stuff.
21:36
SPEAKER_05: Some of them I don't think that we would have gotten anyway.
21:38
SPEAKER_07: Probably.
21:39
SPEAKER_05: Queen of the Night, Whitney Houston.
21:41
SPEAKER_05: That's a good song.
21:42
SPEAKER_05: I I I I I know that one.
21:44
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
21:45
SPEAKER_07: Wasn't that on the bodyguard soundtrack?
21:49
SPEAKER_07: Are you playing it?
21:50
SPEAKER_05: Well, it started playing.
21:52
SPEAKER_05: It was on the bodyguard soundtrack.
21:55
SPEAKER_05: Uh Mr.
21:56
SPEAKER_05: Night, Kenny Loggins, would not have I never would have thought.
21:58
SPEAKER_05: And I'm just gonna go I'm in.
22:00
SPEAKER_05: Go past some of the things like Nights by Frank Ocean.
22:03
SPEAKER_05: I don't know that song.
22:04
SPEAKER_05: I don't either.
22:05
SPEAKER_05: Who's Frank Ocean?
22:06
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, he's a yeah.
22:08
SPEAKER_05: Van Halen, you got that one.
22:11
SPEAKER_05: Um we're just sticking with uh Oh, we didn't do Phil Collins one more night.
22:17
SPEAKER_07: Oh yeah.
22:17
SPEAKER_07: Totally.
22:18
SPEAKER_05: Oh, you're really gonna kick yourself for this one.
22:20
SPEAKER_05: Oh, am I?
22:21
SPEAKER_05: Hard Day's Night.
22:22
SPEAKER_05: Hard Day's Night.
22:22
SPEAKER_05: Duh.
22:24
SPEAKER_05: Stupid.
22:25
SPEAKER_05: Uh Saturday Night Special, Leonard Skinnard.
22:28
SPEAKER_05: Sunglasses at night.
22:29
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, sunglasses at night.
22:31
SPEAKER_05: All day and all of the night.
22:32
SPEAKER_05: The kinks.
22:33
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
22:34
SPEAKER_05: You shook me all night long.
22:36
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, see these?
22:37
SPEAKER_05: I'm kicking myself.
22:38
SPEAKER_05: Prove it all night.
22:39
SPEAKER_05: Springsteen.
22:40
SPEAKER_05: Uh Ain't Even Done with the Night, John Mellencamp.
22:43
SPEAKER_05: I almost said Um Oh, what was that?
22:46
SPEAKER_07: Uh uh uh um oh oh oh what's her Natalie Merchant.
22:51
SPEAKER_07: Uh what was her band?
22:53
SPEAKER_05: 10,000 Maniacs?
22:54
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, didn't they have a song on night?
22:56
SPEAKER_07: Something about the night.
22:57
SPEAKER_07: Because the night.
22:58
SPEAKER_05: Because the night.
22:59
SPEAKER_05: Which is a Springsteen song.
23:00
SPEAKER_07: Oh, is it?
23:00
SPEAKER_07: Okay.
23:01
SPEAKER_05: It's uh Springsteen and Patty Smith.
23:03
SPEAKER_05: Oh okay.
23:04
SPEAKER_05: Um weren't they married at the time?
23:05
SPEAKER_05: No, they weren't.
23:07
SPEAKER_05: Black Knight by Deep Purple.
23:08
SPEAKER_05: I almost said Black Moore's Night because that's a band, but I think there's a song.
23:13
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
23:14
SPEAKER_05: Uh Night Train, James Brown.
23:16
SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
23:16
SPEAKER_05: Night Train, yeah.
23:17
SPEAKER_05: Um The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.
23:24
SPEAKER_05: Open All Night by Bon Joey.
23:29
SPEAKER_05: Um Some of these are are are like Long Live the Night by Joan Jett and Blackhearts.
23:34
SPEAKER_05: No, but I would not have gotten that one.
23:36
SPEAKER_05: Uh Bring On the Night by the Police.
23:38
SPEAKER_05: I I love the police, I wouldn't have known that one.
23:41
SPEAKER_05: Um Rock and Roll All Night.
23:44
SPEAKER_05: Night Flight, Led Zeppelin.
23:47
SPEAKER_05: Oh, you did Judgment Night, Biohazard, and Onyx is on here.
23:50
SPEAKER_07: I knew there was one.
23:52
SPEAKER_05: Uh Night Shift, Commodores.
23:54
SPEAKER_07: Oh, friggin' forgot.
23:55
SPEAKER_07: Night Shift, yeah, that's a great song.
23:57
SPEAKER_05: Um Al B.
23:58
SPEAKER_05: Shore, who is uh kind of an RP artist from the 90s.
24:02
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
24:02
SPEAKER_05: Uh Night and Day.
24:04
SPEAKER_04: I can tell you how I feel about you, Night and Day.
24:09
SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah, okay.
24:10
SPEAKER_05: That was a good song.
24:11
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
24:12
SPEAKER_05: All night long, Lionel Richie.
24:14
SPEAKER_07: Oh, yeah.
24:14
SPEAKER_07: Uh night and long.
24:16
SPEAKER_05: Give me the night, George Benson.
24:17
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
24:18
SPEAKER_05: Oh, Benny Mardonis, Into the Night.
24:20
SPEAKER_07: How did we forget Benny Mardones?
24:22
SPEAKER_07: Didn't we talk about it?
24:22
SPEAKER_07: Yes, we did the podcast one time.
24:24
SPEAKER_05: We did.
24:25
SPEAKER_05: Uh Up All Night, Slaughter.
24:27
SPEAKER_05: Right.
24:28
SPEAKER_05: Up All Night.
24:30
SPEAKER_05: Sleep All Day.
24:32
SPEAKER_05: Uh just going by the ones that I think that we would know here.
24:35
SPEAKER_05: Turn up the night, Sabbath.
24:39
SPEAKER_05: Um Lonely is the Night, Billy Squire.
24:44
SPEAKER_05: There's a lot of songs on here that we we may know, but they're, you know, like I Love the Night Life, Alicia Bridges.
24:52
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
24:52
SPEAKER_05: One Night in Bangkok, Murray Head.
24:54
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
24:55
SPEAKER_05: Uh Katie Perry.
24:57
SPEAKER_05: Last Friday Night.
24:58
SPEAKER_05: I wouldn't have known enough.
25:00
SPEAKER_05: I wouldn't have known it enough to get it.
25:02
SPEAKER_05: Boogie Nights by Heat Wave.
25:04
SPEAKER_03: Boogie Nights.
25:05
SPEAKER_05: Uh uh Little River Band.
25:08
SPEAKER_05: Uh Night Owls.
25:09
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
25:10
SPEAKER_05: That's a good song.
25:12
SPEAKER_05: Uh Here Comes the Night by them.
25:17
SPEAKER_05: Which is uh Van Morrison.
25:18
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
25:19
SPEAKER_05: Uh December 1963, Oh What a Night.
25:22
SPEAKER_07: Oh yeah.
25:22
SPEAKER_07: Jeez, we do that song.
25:24
SPEAKER_05: I know.
25:26
SPEAKER_05: Uh Thief in the Night by the Rolling Stones.
25:34
SPEAKER_05: Wild Knight.
25:35
SPEAKER_07: Wild Knight Van Morrison.
25:36
SPEAKER_07: How did we not get that one?
25:38
SPEAKER_05: I know.
25:39
SPEAKER_05: Uh Whatever gets you through the night, John Lennon.
25:44
SPEAKER_05: Uh into the night by Navy Rise is on here twice.
25:48
SPEAKER_05: Heart of the Night by Poco.
25:50
SPEAKER_05: That's a great song.
25:51
SPEAKER_07: Okay.
25:51
SPEAKER_07: Wasn't that Timothy B.
25:53
SPEAKER_07: Schmidt's band?
25:54
SPEAKER_07: Or wasn't that band?
25:55
SPEAKER_05: He was in that band, yes.
25:57
SPEAKER_05: Um Don't You Know What the Night Can Do by Steve Wynwood?
26:00
SPEAKER_04: Don't you know what the Night Can Do?
26:03
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
26:05
SPEAKER_05: Um.
26:07
SPEAKER_05: Night of the Living Dead by Misfit.
26:08
SPEAKER_05: Did you already do that one?
26:10
SPEAKER_07: I didn't no, I said the Knight of the Living bassheads.
26:12
SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
26:13
SPEAKER_07: Um Public Enemy, but I should have known the Misfits one.
26:16
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so that's just that's just one list.
26:18
SPEAKER_05: But and and you know, we got a bunch of them that weren't even on the Oh, there's another Misfit song.
26:22
SPEAKER_07: Mommy! Can I go out and kill tonight?
26:25
SPEAKER_07: See, see, there we go.
26:27
SPEAKER_07: That's a that's a real thing.
26:28
SPEAKER_07: I don't think I've heard that one.
26:29
SPEAKER_07: That's a good one.
26:30
SPEAKER_07: That's that's one for the kids.
26:31
SPEAKER_05: Um, but there were some that we got that weren't even on that list, so we did pretty good.
26:37
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, we're not bad.
26:38
SPEAKER_07: Songs from a hat.
26:39
SPEAKER_05: Songs with night in the title.
26:41
SPEAKER_07: So that was pretty good.
26:42
SPEAKER_07: Next time we'll do songs with the word the in it.
26:48
SPEAKER_05: That'll be a long podcast.
26:50
SPEAKER_07: Some songs with the letter E.
26:55
SPEAKER_05: Let's do the Common Crossing song of the week.
26:58
SPEAKER_05: Have we got one?
26:59
SPEAKER_05: Well, here's the thing.
27:01
SPEAKER_05: Here's the thing.
27:02
SPEAKER_05: Um I just before you came here, I pressed play on that same cassette that we used last week.
27:09
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
27:09
SPEAKER_05: And I just went to the next song.
27:11
SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
27:12
SPEAKER_05: Now, this next song, you'll remember it as soon as it starts, but uh it was it was the Blake Street Boys, so it's pre-Common Crossing.
27:23
SPEAKER_05: Right.
27:24
SPEAKER_05: Um I don't I didn't listen to the song all the way through.
27:27
SPEAKER_05: It was BCC.
27:28
SPEAKER_05: Right.
27:29
SPEAKER_07: Before Common Crossing.
27:30
SPEAKER_05: I didn't listen to the song all the way through.
27:33
SPEAKER_05: So I I don't remember how bad it is.
27:36
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
27:37
SPEAKER_05: I know the quality's bad, obviously, because it's on the cassette and it sounds just like last week's.
27:41
SPEAKER_05: Um I know what I was going for when I wrote the song.
27:47
SPEAKER_07: A song?
27:49
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
27:49
SPEAKER_05: You were going for a song.
27:52
SPEAKER_05: I know the what I like I know my words and melodies.
27:56
SPEAKER_05: Right.
27:56
SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
27:57
SPEAKER_05: Um but I don't know that that I succeeded in in achieving what I was going for.
28:02
SPEAKER_05: Um and I think it's just me.
28:05
SPEAKER_05: I don't think that you're on this.
28:07
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
28:08
SPEAKER_05: Um I think you've played this song.
28:12
SPEAKER_05: We played this song ages ago.
28:17
SPEAKER_05: Like when we played it at the dorms and stuff like that.
28:19
SPEAKER_05: I think.
28:20
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
28:22
SPEAKER_05: Um but that's that's the build-up to it.
28:27
SPEAKER_07: So it's Well, it's really crappy.
28:29
SPEAKER_07: It's not.
28:30
SPEAKER_05: Here's the the tape hiss.
28:32
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we gotta get the prerequisite.
28:35
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you gotta have that tape hiss.
28:36
SPEAKER_05: Okay, so let's see if that dates it.
28:38
SPEAKER_05: Let's see if you remember the song.
28:41
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
28:42
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
28:45
SPEAKER_07: Now we have to travel to the other side of the room to press play.
28:49
SPEAKER_07: You kids got it easy nowadays.
29:00
SPEAKER_07: Oh, yeah.
29:02
SPEAKER_07: Yep, we did buzz.
29:51
SPEAKER_04: I don't remember that later.
29:57
SPEAKER_04: I do remember playing the stuff.
29:59
SPEAKER_07: I do remember playing.
30:03
SPEAKER_07: I think I think it was one of your songs that you gotta get checked.
30:07
SPEAKER_07: Probably.
30:07
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
30:07
SPEAKER_07: So it's just like, oh my god, yeah.
30:35
SPEAKER_07: Okay, just the target.
30:38
SPEAKER_05: That's the name of the song.
30:39
SPEAKER_07: Okay.
30:46
SPEAKER_05: Sorry.
30:46
SPEAKER_05: That's the guitar stone.
30:48
SPEAKER_07: That sounds like the guitar stole from the Princess Prize.
30:52
SPEAKER_05: Which was marked off for us.
30:56
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
31:01
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
31:05
SPEAKER_07: That's like the best of late babies technology.
31:18
SPEAKER_07: I don't remember that lyric at all.
31:21
SPEAKER_07: I remember the hard lyric, but I don't remember the I remember that, but I don't remember the loud yet.
31:35
SPEAKER_07: What happened to the drum machine?
31:37
SPEAKER_07: Is it right?
31:38
SPEAKER_07: Oh, there we go.
31:40
SPEAKER_05: It's going for effect.
31:41
SPEAKER_05: Oh, that was good.
31:42
SPEAKER_05: I don't know if you can tell, but I sang it twice.
31:45
SPEAKER_05: I doubled those vocals.
31:47
SPEAKER_07: I was about to say it sounded like it was double tracked.
31:49
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
31:49
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
31:51
SPEAKER_05: I must have been reading like how to do it.
31:54
SPEAKER_05: I was like, oh, I sang it twice.
31:58
SPEAKER_07: Well, you only had four tracks to play with, so I mean you had to you had to come up.
32:03
SPEAKER_05: I don't know what's next.
32:03
SPEAKER_05: I just want to just for just for I'm not gonna play it.
32:06
SPEAKER_05: I just want to see what it is.
32:07
SPEAKER_07: Uh hissing.
32:08
SPEAKER_05: That's a lot of hissing.
32:10
SPEAKER_07: A lot of hissing.
32:12
SPEAKER_05: And oh maybe there's nothing there.
32:14
SPEAKER_07: Oh, it's cloud! No, that's not cloud.
32:18
SPEAKER_05: Oh, dude, this is she's got my heart.
32:20
SPEAKER_07: Oh, yeah.
32:21
SPEAKER_07: Another one for my wife.
32:22
SPEAKER_07: Yes, it is.
32:23
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we won't go that way.
32:24
SPEAKER_05: Anyway.
32:25
SPEAKER_05: Um, so yeah, a man cries just as hard.
32:27
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, we just we just talked through the whole thing, so I hope you enjoyed that.
32:31
SPEAKER_07: Which is okay.
32:33
SPEAKER_07: Because it makes I think it makes the song better.
32:35
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, me too.
32:36
SPEAKER_06: Me too.
32:37
SPEAKER_06: Kind of distracts you from the crappiness.
32:40
SPEAKER_06: The the tape hiss and and all that.
32:42
SPEAKER_07: Oh no, I don't mind the tape is, but the song is just like that that really cheap friggin' drum machine.
32:49
SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
32:55
SPEAKER_05: And there's got there's I know there's got to be one on there where you're actually playing that.
33:00
SPEAKER_07: We did we do it already?
33:01
SPEAKER_07: No, we didn't do it, but there is one on there.
33:03
SPEAKER_05: Well, I know all or nothing.
33:04
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it's all or nothing.
33:06
SPEAKER_05: Is is is that the only one that might be?
33:08
SPEAKER_07: I don't know.
33:08
SPEAKER_07: I have to have to hear the whole time.
33:09
SPEAKER_05: I looked at I looked for some of the other cassettes.
33:12
SPEAKER_05: Like I found this one, but remember when you came down one time and I put this in and Oh, was that the one all the songs were just like awful.
33:20
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
33:21
SPEAKER_05: Awful, awful, awful.
33:22
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I don't know.
33:23
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, those were the ones you just did on your own.
33:25
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, but I mean, yeah.
33:28
SPEAKER_07: I think that was just more you playing with the the four-track.
33:31
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
33:31
SPEAKER_05: I was trying to figure some stuff out, but the songs were just I mean, I don't even know.
33:34
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, they weren't they were no bueno.
33:36
SPEAKER_05: I don't know whether I may even just toss this.
33:38
SPEAKER_07: No, don't toss it.
33:39
SPEAKER_07: It's it's history.
33:40
SPEAKER_05: Well true, but it's really bad.
33:43
SPEAKER_07: Pop pop the tabs out of it so it does it we can't erase it.
33:47
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
33:48
SPEAKER_05: Should I?
33:48
SPEAKER_07: I don't know.
33:49
SPEAKER_07: It's up to you, man.
33:50
SPEAKER_07: What do you what what else are you gonna do with it, dude?
33:52
SPEAKER_05: That's true.
33:53
SPEAKER_07: You're gonna record I'm gonna I'm gonna record a whole album on this.
33:56
SPEAKER_07: That's true.
33:56
SPEAKER_07: You're gonna make a mixtape.
33:58
SPEAKER_05: Good point.
34:01
SPEAKER_05: All right.
34:02
SPEAKER_05: So there you go.
34:02
SPEAKER_05: That is the Common Crossing song.
34:04
SPEAKER_07: Well, for you young ones, uh, you had to pop the tabs out of the tapes so you couldn't record on them.
34:10
SPEAKER_05: Right.
34:10
SPEAKER_05: They don't even know what cassettes are.
34:11
SPEAKER_07: They're like, what's a cassette?
34:12
SPEAKER_07: You're so old.
34:13
SPEAKER_07: Right.
34:14
SPEAKER_07: Um I bet I bet I bet Obama wasn't president when you were on.
34:19
SPEAKER_07: No, he wasn't.
34:20
SPEAKER_07: He wasn't.
34:21
SPEAKER_07: He was just a guy.
34:22
SPEAKER_07: He was a guy.
34:23
SPEAKER_05: Who was president when I was born?
34:25
SPEAKER_05: Johnson.
34:26
SPEAKER_05: Right?
34:27
SPEAKER_07: Uh Nixon.
34:29
SPEAKER_07: No, I think when did Nixon resign?
34:32
SPEAKER_07: 75?
34:33
SPEAKER_07: Four?
34:34
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I was born in 73.
34:36
SPEAKER_07: Oh yeah, I was still next.
34:37
SPEAKER_07: Because I was born under Nixon.
34:38
SPEAKER_05: Right.
34:39
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
34:39
SPEAKER_05: So I think I think he re he he left in 74, 75, somewhere around there.
34:45
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
34:46
SPEAKER_05: Anyway.
34:46
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
34:47
SPEAKER_05: Uh we digress.
34:49
SPEAKER_05: So there you go.
34:49
SPEAKER_05: Uh Comic Crossing Song of the Week, which is actually the Blake Street Boys, which was actually on that one, me.
34:55
SPEAKER_05: Just you.
34:55
SPEAKER_05: Um there's a lot more where that came from.
34:58
SPEAKER_05: Blake Street Boy.
34:59
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, right.
35:00
SPEAKER_05: There's a lot more really, really old stuff.
35:03
SPEAKER_05: We're gonna try and we're gonna try and find some of those other cassettes.
35:07
SPEAKER_05: Uh, because I know they're here somewhere.
35:08
SPEAKER_05: I know they're laying around.
35:09
SPEAKER_07: Oh, sure they are.
35:09
SPEAKER_07: They're around.
35:10
SPEAKER_05: Um, yeah.
35:12
SPEAKER_05: It's part of the history, man.
35:14
SPEAKER_05: So we're gonna do uh we're gonna climb the wall of tunes.
35:18
SPEAKER_07: I'm gonna uh do the uh translate thing.
35:27
SPEAKER_07: I gotta make noises.
35:28
SPEAKER_07: It helps.
35:29
SPEAKER_07: Okay.
35:30
SPEAKER_07: What are we doing today?
35:32
SPEAKER_07: We're doing Punjabi.
35:34
SPEAKER_05: Punjabi.
35:35
SPEAKER_05: The Wall of Tunes.
35:36
SPEAKER_05: Punjabi.
35:37
SPEAKER_05: And Punjabi is.
35:39
SPEAKER_07: Let's see if we gotta.
35:41
SPEAKER_05: What is Punjabi?
35:42
SPEAKER_05: Is that like Indian?
35:43
SPEAKER_05: Indian, yes.
35:44
SPEAKER_07: From the area of Punjabi.
35:46
SPEAKER_07: Dunam di kada.
35:50
SPEAKER_05: Dunam di kaka.
35:51
SPEAKER_07: Dunam.
35:52
SPEAKER_07: No.
35:52
SPEAKER_07: Kadam.
35:54
SPEAKER_07: Kadha.
35:54
SPEAKER_05: Kadha.
35:55
SPEAKER_07: Kadha.
35:58
SPEAKER_07: Dunam di kadha.
36:00
SPEAKER_05: Dunam di kadha.
36:02
SPEAKER_07: Yes.
36:02
SPEAKER_07: Kadha.
36:04
SPEAKER_07: So it's wall of tunes in Punjabi.
36:07
SPEAKER_05: That's cool.
36:08
SPEAKER_07: Alright.
36:08
SPEAKER_07: I like Google Translate.
36:10
SPEAKER_05: Um.
36:11
SPEAKER_07: We've been having fun with that.
36:13
SPEAKER_05: Yes, we have.
36:13
SPEAKER_05: Alright, so Dunam de Kad Kadha.
36:16
SPEAKER_07: Kadha.
36:17
SPEAKER_05: Is uh is up next.
36:18
SPEAKER_05: The Wall of Tunes, so stick around.
36:20
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36:58
SPEAKER_05: Welcome to the code.
36:59
SPEAKER_05: Welcome to back wall of tunes.
37:01
SPEAKER_07: Are you hosting?
37:02
SPEAKER_07: You host it.
37:03
SPEAKER_07: No.
37:04
SPEAKER_07: I was just being annoying.
37:06
SPEAKER_07: Wall of Tunes.
37:06
SPEAKER_07: Wall of Tunes.
37:07
SPEAKER_04: Which is what is it again?
37:15
SPEAKER_07: Dunum de Kada.
37:17
SPEAKER_07: Dunam de kata.
37:19
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
37:20
SPEAKER_05: What I used to take karate, Shotokan karate when I was a kid.
37:24
SPEAKER_05: Right.
37:25
SPEAKER_05: Um when we went to tournament, I would be Dunam de Kata.
37:28
SPEAKER_05: Dunam Dun de Kata.
37:31
SPEAKER_05: Because I was good.
37:32
SPEAKER_05: Only karate people get that joke.
37:34
SPEAKER_07: Very good Daniel San.
37:36
SPEAKER_03: Wax on.
37:36
SPEAKER_05: Okay, uh coverosa is their Princess.
37:40
SPEAKER_05: Princess?
37:41
SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
37:43
SPEAKER_05: I'm no princess.
37:44
SPEAKER_07: I'm going to pull an album from the Wall of Tunes.
37:48
SPEAKER_07: The Wall of Tunes.
37:50
SPEAKER_07: And uh here I am in the Shroud of the Tunes.
37:55
SPEAKER_07: The trout the Shroud of Tonage.
37:58
unknown: Shroud of Tunage.
38:06
SPEAKER_04: Actually, I think we did this guy and putting them back.
38:08
SPEAKER_07: Oh no.
38:13
SPEAKER_07: Don't tell me we've gone through all the wall of tunes, too.
38:16
SPEAKER_05: No, we've we we've we did a I'm sorry.
38:19
SPEAKER_05: Talking here.
38:20
SPEAKER_05: We did a different album from the same artist.
38:21
SPEAKER_05: Oh.
38:22
SPEAKER_05: So I just want to do it.
38:23
SPEAKER_07: Roger that nilly vanilli chili willy.
38:40
SPEAKER_05: In case you didn't know, I was looking.
38:42
SPEAKER_07: I believe it.
38:43
SPEAKER_07: I was cheating.
38:44
SPEAKER_07: Cheater.
38:47
SPEAKER_05: Trying to get something that we haven't done yet.
38:48
SPEAKER_05: That's good.
38:49
SPEAKER_05: I have something.
38:50
SPEAKER_07: Alright, I'm taking this off.
38:52
SPEAKER_07: Alright.
38:53
SPEAKER_07: Okay.
38:55
SPEAKER_07: I don't think we've done this.
38:57
SPEAKER_07: Okay.
38:58
SPEAKER_07: Sound good.
38:59
SPEAKER_07: Are you ready?
39:00
SPEAKER_07: I'm ready.
39:01
SPEAKER_07: Okay, here you go.
39:02
SPEAKER_07: That's away.
39:03
SPEAKER_07: Is it a solo or a band?
39:05
SPEAKER_07: It's a band.
39:06
SPEAKER_07: It's a band.
39:07
SPEAKER_07: Yes.
39:07
SPEAKER_07: Uh, what genre?
39:09
SPEAKER_05: I'm gonna say.
39:11
SPEAKER_05: Um geez, it's a hard to it's hard to um it's hard to put a label on this band.
39:18
SPEAKER_05: I would say folk rock.
39:26
SPEAKER_05: Folk rock.
39:27
SPEAKER_07: Folk rock, yeah.
39:28
SPEAKER_07: Okay.
39:28
SPEAKER_07: Good enough.
39:29
SPEAKER_07: Uh what's their height of popularity?
39:32
SPEAKER_05: I'm gonna say Yeah, no, no, they were popular.
39:34
SPEAKER_05: I'm gonna say, um I'm gonna say late 90s.
39:38
SPEAKER_05: Late 90s.
39:39
SPEAKER_05: I think there's was their height of popularity?
39:42
SPEAKER_05: Maybe early 2000s.
39:43
SPEAKER_07: Are they one of our common crossing influences?
39:48
SPEAKER_05: Uh we like them.
39:50
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
39:51
SPEAKER_05: Uh you and I do one of their songs.
39:53
SPEAKER_05: Is it tonic?
39:55
SPEAKER_05: Nope.
39:55
SPEAKER_05: Because we already did tonic.
39:56
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we already did tonic, yeah.
39:58
SPEAKER_07: Is it Toad the Wet Sprocket?
39:59
SPEAKER_07: It do we do a Toad song?
40:01
SPEAKER_07: No.
40:02
SPEAKER_07: I thought we did.
40:03
SPEAKER_05: We should though.
40:04
SPEAKER_05: We should do it.
40:05
SPEAKER_05: Um it is not Toad the Wet Sprocket.
40:06
unknown: Okay.
40:08
SPEAKER_07: Is it in that vein?
40:10
SPEAKER_07: Am I uh It's in that era.
40:13
SPEAKER_07: In that era?
40:14
SPEAKER_07: Is it the Bacon brothers?
40:16
SPEAKER_07: Nope.
40:16
SPEAKER_07: Nope.
40:17
SPEAKER_07: Uh let me see.
40:19
SPEAKER_07: Canadian.
40:20
SPEAKER_07: They're Canadian.
40:21
SPEAKER_07: Yep.
40:21
SPEAKER_07: Oh Bob and Doug Mackenzie.
40:24
SPEAKER_07: No.
40:25
SPEAKER_07: That song they did with Getty Lee Take Off.
40:28
SPEAKER_07: Great song.
40:28
SPEAKER_07: I just love that song.
40:29
SPEAKER_03: Take off! Take a folk rock.
40:32
SPEAKER_07: Canadian folk rock.
40:33
SPEAKER_07: Canadian folk rock.
40:36
SPEAKER_07: Chili.
40:40
SPEAKER_05: I think you know this band.
40:41
SPEAKER_05: I'm pretty sure you know.
40:42
SPEAKER_07: Is it the Tragically Hip?
40:45
SPEAKER_05: No.
40:46
SPEAKER_07: Oh, what was that other no?
40:49
SPEAKER_05: Isn't that the Oh Crash Test Dummy?
40:54
SPEAKER_05: No, it's not Crash Test Disney.
40:55
SPEAKER_07: But they're they're Canadian.
40:56
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
40:56
SPEAKER_07: They're kind of folk rocky.
40:58
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
40:58
SPEAKER_07: Okay.
40:59
SPEAKER_07: Um.
41:01
SPEAKER_07: So it's not Tragically Hip, and it's not uh Crash Test Dummies.
41:06
SPEAKER_07: Uh Folk Rocky band from Canada.
41:11
SPEAKER_07: Emerson Lake and Palmer.
41:13
unknown: No.
41:14
SPEAKER_07: I don't think they're from Canada.
41:15
SPEAKER_05: And they're not folk rock.
41:17
SPEAKER_05: I mean the progressive rock.
41:19
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I know.
41:20
SPEAKER_07: It's just fun to say.
41:21
SPEAKER_07: Emerson Lake and Pommer sounds like a law firm.
41:26
SPEAKER_07: Hello, thank you for calling Emerson Lake and Palmer.
41:29
SPEAKER_05: That's a bit.
41:29
SPEAKER_05: Somebody's got to do that bit.
41:31
SPEAKER_05: Somebody's got to do that, man.
41:33
SPEAKER_07: I want Dave Chappelle to do it.
41:35
SPEAKER_05: Me too.
41:36
SPEAKER_06: Dave Chappelle's getting a lot of press.
41:38
SPEAKER_06: Every time Dave Chappelle does anything now, he always gets a lot of press.
41:42
SPEAKER_06: Well does he?
41:42
SPEAKER_06: Because he just doesn't care anymore.
41:45
SPEAKER_07: I know.
41:45
SPEAKER_07: And who's going to tell him otherwise?
41:47
SPEAKER_05: They're all trying to cancel him now.
41:48
SPEAKER_05: I know.
41:50
SPEAKER_05: He's like, oh, F them, F you.
41:52
SPEAKER_05: I don't care.
41:53
SPEAKER_07: You're just making it bigger.
41:54
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
41:54
SPEAKER_07: The more you try to cancel Dave Chappelle, the bigger he just gets.
41:58
SPEAKER_05: Most people agree with him.
42:00
SPEAKER_07: Yes.
42:01
SPEAKER_07: It's just too funny.
42:03
SPEAKER_07: Uh let's see.
42:06
SPEAKER_07: Uh well, yeah.
42:08
SPEAKER_05: Canadian folk rock band.
42:10
SPEAKER_05: And we do one of their songs.
42:11
SPEAKER_07: We do one of their songs.
42:12
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, that's from that's what I'm saying.
42:14
SPEAKER_05: It's actually technically, I'm not sure if it's their song or if they covered it.
42:18
SPEAKER_07: Okay.
42:19
SPEAKER_07: That's not helpful at all.
42:22
SPEAKER_05: Uh Canadian.
42:26
SPEAKER_05: If I say if I say Newfoundland.
42:32
SPEAKER_07: Uh it's a Canadian province.
42:35
SPEAKER_07: They're called movies.
42:37
SPEAKER_05: If I say uh trip around the bay, if I say Bay of Fundy.
42:43
SPEAKER_05: If I say uh Trip around the bay.
42:47
SPEAKER_05: If I say Is that a song?
42:49
SPEAKER_05: Very, very uh uh Irish.
42:56
SPEAKER_07: Um, is it Great Big C?
43:03
SPEAKER_06: Yes.
43:06
SPEAKER_06: Yes.
43:07
SPEAKER_06: Oh, Great Big C.
43:08
SPEAKER_05: I love those guys.
43:09
SPEAKER_05: Great Big C.
43:10
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
43:11
SPEAKER_05: Great big, this is a great big, it's called Great Big C, Great Big DVD and C D.
43:17
SPEAKER_05: Which is a live concert, actually.
43:19
SPEAKER_05: That's awesome.
43:20
SPEAKER_05: Um, we do uh Patty Murphy.
43:22
SPEAKER_05: We do.
43:22
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
43:22
SPEAKER_05: Um The Night Patty Murphy died.
43:24
SPEAKER_05: Maddie Murphy died.
43:26
SPEAKER_05: Um, but they've got Oh, that's another night song.
43:28
SPEAKER_05: Oh, it's Conversor Go! Uh the and we do the night Patty Murphy died, and it always goes over well.
43:39
SPEAKER_05: Everybody loves it.
43:40
SPEAKER_07: People like this song.
43:41
SPEAKER_05: Nobody does it quite like Great Big City, though.
43:43
SPEAKER_07: No, they do a great version of it.
43:45
SPEAKER_07: And uh it's uh it's typical Irish because it's depressing, but it's happy at the same time.
43:51
SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
43:52
SPEAKER_05: So uh lots of great stuff on here.
43:54
SPEAKER_05: Donkey riding, when I'm up, see if no cares, Boston and St.
43:58
SPEAKER_05: John's, uh Stumblin's.
44:00
SPEAKER_05: Jack Hinks, uh Jenni Roll Taylor.
44:03
SPEAKER_05: I don't know if you ever heard that one.
44:04
SPEAKER_07: I don't know if I've heard that one.
44:04
SPEAKER_05: Um I'm a Rover, Mary Mac.
44:07
SPEAKER_05: Mary Mac, I do the Consequence Free, which is one of their big hits.
44:11
SPEAKER_05: Excursion around the Bay.
44:13
SPEAKER_05: It wasn't Trip Around the Bay, it was Excursion.
44:16
SPEAKER_05: But yeah, um great, great band uh that are really no more.
44:20
SPEAKER_05: I don't think I think they broke up.
44:22
SPEAKER_05: I think they did too.
44:23
SPEAKER_05: Um because well not because, but I know that the lead singer is on is a s is solo now.
44:30
SPEAKER_05: That's not why they broke up.
44:31
SPEAKER_05: But um I think they've been they had been just touring for a long time and and started families and well yeah, I think it happens.
44:39
SPEAKER_07: It does happen.
44:39
SPEAKER_05: So yeah.
44:40
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
44:41
SPEAKER_05: So uh great band.
44:43
SPEAKER_05: I don't know what else I could say about them.
44:45
SPEAKER_07: They're they're very uh well, yeah, like you said, they're very folky, but they're very uh traditional.
44:52
SPEAKER_07: It's is it's more it's not as much folk rock as it is traditional.
44:56
SPEAKER_07: Yeah folk folky type music.
44:58
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, well I was gonna say because their performances on this DVD and C D by the way, uh it are uh animated and they get the crowd.
45:09
SPEAKER_05: I mean the crowd, if you've never been to like an Irish, like a performance uh an Irish performance, uh a performance of Irish music.
45:18
SPEAKER_05: Okay, that's what I'm looking for.
45:19
SPEAKER_05: Right.
45:20
SPEAKER_05: Um the crowd I mean it's drinking songs, it's it's it's party songs, yeah.
45:30
SPEAKER_05: The pre-COVID era, right?
45:32
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
45:32
SPEAKER_05: Um and the there's a lot of crowd interaction and it's just really, really fun to be a part of a great big C crowd.
45:42
SPEAKER_05: I've never seen them live, but you could tell.
45:44
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
45:44
SPEAKER_07: Um yeah, they're they're they're one of those bands I wish I could have seen.
45:48
SPEAKER_05: Me too live.
45:49
SPEAKER_07: And I think you know it would have just been a lot of fun.
45:51
SPEAKER_05: I want to say, of course, I haven't been keeping tabs on them.
45:54
SPEAKER_05: Um, like I said, I know the the lead singer, and I wish I could remember his name.
45:58
SPEAKER_05: Steve.
45:59
SPEAKER_05: No, it's not Steve.
46:00
SPEAKER_05: Joe.
46:00
SPEAKER_05: No, it's not Joe.
46:02
SPEAKER_07: It's not Joe, it's not Steve, it's not Eddie.
46:05
SPEAKER_07: Oh, you broke it! I did not wait to go.
46:08
SPEAKER_02: No, it's not true.
46:10
SPEAKER_07: Don't believe him.
46:12
SPEAKER_07: Don't believe the hype.
46:13
SPEAKER_07: Uh Alan Doyle.
46:16
SPEAKER_05: Uh lead singer Alan Doyle is solo now.
46:19
SPEAKER_05: And and again, I have not been keeping tabs on him since they broke up because they may be back together, and we're just kind of talking out of school here.
46:27
SPEAKER_07: Let's uh let's f let's do our thing, our new thing now.
46:30
SPEAKER_07: Let's find them on Facebook and ask one of them to be on the podcast and talk about what they're doing now.
46:35
SPEAKER_05: Uh why not?
46:36
SPEAKER_07: Do we have anybody?
46:38
SPEAKER_05: I don't I well, I mean, uh we could f we could find Alan Doyle.
46:41
SPEAKER_05: I'm sure we could.
46:42
SPEAKER_05: Maybe.
46:42
SPEAKER_05: Let me just see what uh their wiki says.
46:48
SPEAKER_07: We can we can we can't.
46:50
SPEAKER_05: Whether they're still together or not.
46:51
SPEAKER_05: Because because they could I mean even if they are on hiatus, there's g there's gotta be a reunion tour at some point.
46:59
SPEAKER_07: I'm sure, yeah.
46:59
SPEAKER_07: Everybody could do that.
47:01
SPEAKER_05: On November 5th, 2015, Alan Doyle was quoted in an interview that says, We're all struggling to we're all struggling to define what the status of Great Big C is right now.
47:11
SPEAKER_05: As most people know, at the end of 2013, after our twentieth anniversary tour, Sean McCann quit and left the band.
47:18
SPEAKER_05: Uh we spent a length of time, a year or so, to find an amicable way that Bob Hallett and I could continue without him.
47:24
SPEAKER_05: We couldn't.
47:24
SPEAKER_05: So we came to the realization that we didn't want to go on like that.
47:28
SPEAKER_05: We don't want to fight for the spoils of it for the lack of a better term.
47:31
SPEAKER_05: The band is now happily retired.
47:34
SPEAKER_05: Uh on February twenty-seventh, two thousand seventeen, Alan Doyle was quoted as saying, Of course, we're still friends, Sean, Bob Darrell, and myself still own the publishing.
47:41
SPEAKER_05: Sean doesn't live in Newfoundland anymore.
47:43
SPEAKER_05: We don't talk as much as we once did, but he seems to be doing really well and great, and good luck to him.
47:48
SPEAKER_05: Um so they're still retired.
47:50
SPEAKER_05: Uh-huh.
47:51
SPEAKER_05: Nothing wrong with it.
47:52
SPEAKER_05: You gotta think that there's gotta be some show in the future where they're all they all get back together and it'll happen sometimes.
47:59
SPEAKER_05: And do something for charity or something like that.
48:01
SPEAKER_05: So I think there's probably, you know, I wouldn't count out uh an opportunity to see them.
48:06
SPEAKER_07: I think that's I think you can say that about almost any band.
48:09
SPEAKER_05: Right.
48:10
SPEAKER_05: So you know.
48:11
SPEAKER_05: So um I highly recommend Great Big C.
48:14
SPEAKER_05: Um especially this uh this album, uh the Great Big D V D N C D.
48:18
SPEAKER_07: Yes.
48:19
SPEAKER_07: Um and in spoiler alert, it's regular sized.
48:22
SPEAKER_05: It is, it's not that big.
48:23
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I mean it's it looks like a it'll fit into your C D player if you still if you still have one.
48:28
SPEAKER_07: Absolutely.
48:28
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
48:29
SPEAKER_05: So there you go.
48:30
SPEAKER_05: That is uh the Wall of Tunes or the uh duh Dahuna De Kata.
48:39
SPEAKER_05: Dahuna Dicata.
48:41
SPEAKER_05: Hakuna matata.
48:42
SPEAKER_07: Hakuna matata.
48:44
SPEAKER_07: What a wonderful phrase.
48:46
SPEAKER_05: And now it's time to um we're gonna take another break.
48:49
SPEAKER_05: We don't usually take two breaks in a podcast, but we're gonna take another break because this is a special episode.
48:54
SPEAKER_05: Yes, because we have a special guest, Jeff Middleton from the Dirt Drifters.
48:58
SPEAKER_05: We talked about him on last week's podcast.
49:00
SPEAKER_05: We're going to uh chat with him just a few uh for uh just a few minutes.
49:03
SPEAKER_05: We don't want to take up too much of his time.
49:04
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, because he's a busy, busy man.
49:06
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, and and you know, yeah, it's awesome.
49:08
SPEAKER_05: So uh that interview is coming up in uh just a second on O'Brien and Doug.
49:12
SPEAKER_05: Don't move.
49:13
SPEAKER_00: You're listening to my dad and Doug.
49:20
SPEAKER_07: O'Brien and Doug.
49:22
SPEAKER_07: And there he is.
49:24
SPEAKER_07: There he is.
49:25
SPEAKER_07: Hey Jeff.
49:26
SPEAKER_01: Hey gentlemen, how are you?
49:28
SPEAKER_01: We're good, man.
49:32
SPEAKER_01: Not me.
49:33
SPEAKER_01: I didn't say that to other people, hoping that maybe it'll rub off.
49:39
SPEAKER_05: Uh hey, listen, thanks so much for doing this.
49:41
SPEAKER_05: This is a blast.
49:42
SPEAKER_05: Oh, you're welcome.
49:43
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this is it's very cool that y'all found that all that first off that y'all like the record, so I appreciate that very much.
49:50
SPEAKER_07: Man, well, you have to the record is amazing, man.
49:52
SPEAKER_07: It is amazing.
49:54
SPEAKER_01: It's the one thing we got right.
49:55
SPEAKER_05: So uh well we'll get into that.
49:57
SPEAKER_05: We'll get into that.
49:58
SPEAKER_05: Okay, so I don't want to take up too much of your time, I but I wanna I want to put some context into um what I sent you.
50:04
SPEAKER_05: So I sent you the a little clip from the podcast.
50:07
SPEAKER_05: We have this we have this segment of the podcast where um I used to have I don't know how many CDs I had, Doug.
50:15
SPEAKER_05: 5,000?
50:17
SPEAKER_05: Something like that, CDs in in, you know, because we're music lovers and and I had so I I had to purge.
50:24
SPEAKER_05: My wife, you know, is like you gotta we gotta get rid of some of these.
50:27
SPEAKER_05: And and most people don't listen to CDs anymore, you know, it's all streaming now.
50:32
SPEAKER_05: So I whittled it down to about I think maybe a thousand.
50:37
SPEAKER_05: Um and I have them all on this wall here in front of me.
50:41
SPEAKER_05: And it's I kept them because they're something that there's there's CDs that were either nostalgic from my childhood, um, they're very important to me for one reason or another, or I just think they're amazing records.
50:54
SPEAKER_05: And the dirt drifters was one.
50:56
SPEAKER_05: So what we do on our podcast is um he'll close his eyes, and I'll close my eyes, and I grab one, and he has to guess who it is, and then we talk about it.
51:07
SPEAKER_05: And so last week, what happened to be the dirt drifter?
51:10
SPEAKER_05: So that's where we that's and that's awesome.
51:12
SPEAKER_05: I love that.
51:12
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and so um, I wanted I want um first I want to I don't I don't want to just say what the hell happened to the dirt drifters because we're gonna I'm not sure I can give you a really good answer for that because I'm still trying to figure out a thing like that.
51:26
SPEAKER_05: We're gonna we're gonna get we're gonna get to that.
51:27
SPEAKER_05: So let's start with um maybe I don't know how you got into the music business and and and and kind of dovetail into how you got the dirt drifters going.
51:39
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so I uh I'm originally from New Jersey.
51:42
SPEAKER_01: Okay, and uh did not grow up on country music at all.
51:46
SPEAKER_01: Um, but I started writing songs when I was in high school uh because of a girl.
51:52
SPEAKER_01: That's just kind of what happens, and um so I started writing songs, and when I was in college, I was I went to college outside Philadelphia, and I was in like a duo with a buddy of mine, and we were just playing like acoustic stuff, and he's a great lead player, and I was so I became a pretty decent rhythm player, still writing songs, that kind of stuff.
52:17
SPEAKER_01: And like my senior year of college, I was trying to figure out what I was gonna do.
52:23
SPEAKER_01: I had like a job lined up, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do because I didn't know what I wanted to do.
52:28
SPEAKER_01: Um, and Jay Leno, the Tonight Show, was on, and Garth Brooks came on and he actually just played him and a guitar.
52:36
SPEAKER_01: I had never heard of the guy, never knew anything.
52:39
SPEAKER_01: And he played a song, just him and a guitar, and he was like sitting in the aisle, like on the steps in between where the uh the audience is, right?
52:49
SPEAKER_01: Just him and a guitar, a little headset mic, you know, the whole thing.
52:52
SPEAKER_01: But the song blew me away, and I was like, where do they write songs like that?
52:56
SPEAKER_01: Right, and so Nashville kind of came on the radar, and to date myself, I went and to Plastic Fantastic, which was the local used CD store, and I went through the country section and just bought like anybody that I'd ever remotely heard of.
53:13
SPEAKER_01: So George Strait, Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, all those guys, and just dove into the songwriting side of things.
53:22
SPEAKER_01: So, fast forward a few years, I moved to Nashville to write songs, and that was kind of all I wanted to do was just be a staff songwriter for somebody and write songs.
53:32
SPEAKER_01: I didn't want to chase the artist thing.
53:35
SPEAKER_01: I didn't want to play guitar, I didn't want to go on the road, I didn't want to do any of that stuff.
53:41
SPEAKER_01: And as it turned out, I I ended up going back to business school because the songwriting wasn't quite working out, and then during that, I decided I did not want to do that for a living and got back into the music industry and just kind of dove in as a songwriter and was kicking around town for you know probably four or five years, just writing songs.
54:05
SPEAKER_01: And you know, my uh ex and I, we had babies at the time, so I was a stay-at-home dad and got to do all that.
54:14
SPEAKER_01: And along the way, a buddy of mine asked me to play um guitar for him.
54:21
SPEAKER_01: He was like, Can you come just play?
54:22
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna play for a producer.
54:23
SPEAKER_01: He was a singer, I'm gonna play for a producer.
54:26
SPEAKER_01: Can you come and you know play for me?
54:31
SPEAKER_01: I was like, sure, why not?
54:32
SPEAKER_01: I know how to do that.
54:33
SPEAKER_01: So, as it turned out, like that that day turned into a couple different gigs uh that got me kind of into playing on the road again, acoustic at the time.
54:46
SPEAKER_01: And in the course of some of those shows, I ran into Matt and Ryan Fleener.
54:50
SPEAKER_01: We started kind of opening like a uh it was like they call it a residence now.
54:56
SPEAKER_01: There was a guy, an artist named Ray Scott, who was doing a residence trying to get his band up on the road for his first single.
55:04
SPEAKER_01: And so the artist that I was playing for played there every every couple weeks, and we opened for the Fleener Brothers, which was a duo, which is Matt and Ryan.
55:13
SPEAKER_01: And so I was like, I really liked what they did.
55:17
SPEAKER_01: Asked, you know, hey, you all want to write a song?
55:19
SPEAKER_01: Because that's what we do, and I actually meant it.
55:21
SPEAKER_01: So, and we wrote a song and kind of like started that writing relationship.
55:30
SPEAKER_01: Uh, that eventually they asked me to play guitar for them.
55:34
SPEAKER_01: And you know, I had I was an acoustic player.
55:36
SPEAKER_01: I I like I grew up on heavy metal, and so like my electric guitar, yeah, like I was an Iron Maiden guy, like I like that's my band.
55:44
SPEAKER_05: Let me I don't want to interrupt you, but I have to tell you that the parallels between your life and our life are unbelievable.
55:54
SPEAKER_05: It's I mean it's like we are the same person, anyway.
55:58
SPEAKER_01: Uh uh we found each other then.
56:00
SPEAKER_05: Right.
56:01
SPEAKER_05: Please continue.
56:03
SPEAKER_01: So uh so I was kind of, you know, and I'm in Nashville, and I had you know, the guy that I had been in the duo with had moved to Nashville, and he's a guitar player in Nashville, and so I had no like illusions that I could be a lead guitar player for anybody that was never like on the radar for me.
56:20
SPEAKER_01: And then Matt and Ryan were like, ah, it'll be great, it'll be fine.
56:23
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, oh my god, okay.
56:24
SPEAKER_01: So I had to like call a musician's friend and buy like a telecaster and a blues junior, like all the country stuff, because I had like an Ivanez and a PV bandit, and you know, that's not quite gonna fly in a country band.
56:38
SPEAKER_01: And so I started playing guitar for them.
56:41
SPEAKER_01: They did some showcases, couldn't quite get a record deal, which is what they were going for.
56:46
SPEAKER_01: Couldn't they lost their publishing deal?
56:48
SPEAKER_01: I didn't have one.
56:49
SPEAKER_01: We kind of were tired of the whole Nashville thing, and they started coming out after work every day to my not every day, they started coming out of work every week on like Tuesday nights or Thursday nights or whatever.
57:02
SPEAKER_01: And it was me and Matt and Ryan and a guy named Blue Foley, who's a buddy of ours, and up in my little studio, kind of we started writing songs and doing crappy demos.
57:12
SPEAKER_01: And uh at one point we were like, Well, why don't we be a band?
57:17
SPEAKER_01: So we were like a band, and we came up with a name and all that kind of stuff, just sort of snowballed, and we were finally like, hey, why don't we, you know, why don't we try to get publishing ideals?
57:27
SPEAKER_01: Because we want to get out of Nashville and go play music for people who love music, as opposed to people who have seen it all and done it all and judged it all and and don't seem to be liking what we're doing anyway.
57:39
SPEAKER_01: So we might as well go get in a van and take off.
57:43
SPEAKER_01: And the guy we were working with at BMI helped us out, uh, a guy named Shelby Kennedy.
57:50
SPEAKER_01: He helped us out.
57:51
SPEAKER_01: Uh, he was at BMI at the time and he looked dug what we were doing.
57:54
SPEAKER_01: He was like, Well, you know, if you're gonna do a showcase for publishers, you might as well, you know, you might as well invent record labels.
57:58
SPEAKER_01: There's no reason, you know it's not gonna hurt you.
58:00
SPEAKER_01: And so we did a showcase like two months after we were officially a band, and we'd started our MySpace and all that kind of stuff.
58:08
SPEAKER_01: And um, and funny story, I'll tell you a little later about uh one of the songs that you guys played.
58:14
SPEAKER_01: Um and so we had a record deal like six months after that, and from there it was a long and winding road.
58:24
SPEAKER_01: We were at the record label, we were at Warner for five years, went through two man, yeah.
58:30
SPEAKER_01: Wow, we came there in like 2007.
58:33
SPEAKER_01: But see, that like we the day the day we were to turn in the first half of our record, we were supposed to have a meeting, and our AR person called and was like, Hey, what's up?
58:43
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Nothing, what's up with you?
58:45
SPEAKER_01: She's like, You really want to know?
58:46
SPEAKER_01: I was like, Yeah, she's like, the head of the label got fired last night, so everything's kind of a mess here right now.
58:53
SPEAKER_01: So so we didn't have the meeting, so it just went into a long, sort of like drawn-out process where the new management comes in and they, you know, they want to sign their own acts and they want to do their own thing, and we kind of hung around, but we were still sort of like the redheaded stepchild, you know, that they loved, but we weren't really theirs.
59:14
SPEAKER_01: So we were there for a long time.
59:18
SPEAKER_01: But and that led to a lot of kind of the end, you know, that that kind of got there.
59:26
SPEAKER_05: So is that so the record that you put out, was that the record uh from was that the same record label it was?
59:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we had cut the first half of that, not in order.
59:37
SPEAKER_01: I don't remember what it what exactly we cut like always a reason.
59:41
SPEAKER_01: Um I can't quite remember what songs were on the first first go-around.
59:46
SPEAKER_01: Takes a man was on the first one.
59:50
SPEAKER_05: Married men in motel in hotel.
59:51
SPEAKER_01: That was actually the last song that we cut for the record.
59:54
SPEAKER_01: Really?
59:55
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
59:56
SPEAKER_01: That was the very last song we cut.
59:58
SPEAKER_01: And I funny story about that song is that Matt was supposed to be at that writing appointment, but had to go to work.
1:00:06
SPEAKER_01: And so me and the two other guys we wrote it with, we we wrote that song.
1:00:10
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, because you you co-wrote probably at least 50 to 75 percent of that album, I think.
1:00:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think I have seven or six or seven or something like that.
1:00:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh yeah, it was a pretty good mix, you know, of us in different combos and different because me, Matt, and Ryan were the we were the writers, you know, and it kind of evolved from that, you know, the sound and all that kind of stuff.
1:00:33
SPEAKER_05: Uh let me ask you this because I do want to know, because so when I saw the Dirt Drifters, it was on like uh uh CMT um I don't know, you had a video for um you had a video for the first truck.
1:00:50
SPEAKER_05: Something better.
1:00:51
SPEAKER_05: Yes, something better waiting for something better to come along.
1:00:53
SPEAKER_05: And uh I thought it was amazing.
1:00:55
SPEAKER_05: I was it the video was really funny and it was really cool.
1:00:57
SPEAKER_05: And so I was like, who are these?
1:01:00
SPEAKER_05: Did you?
1:01:01
unknown: Yeah, I did.
1:01:02
SPEAKER_01: How did you do that?
1:01:02
SPEAKER_01: Actually, all the live all the live footage from that, yeah, I have a broken is my elbow.
1:01:07
SPEAKER_01: I had a broken elbow because we I broke it during the like filming of the warehouse stuff.
1:01:12
SPEAKER_03: Oh wow, yeah.
1:01:13
SPEAKER_01: Shining moment in my life.
1:01:15
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, I like I like wiped out and landed on my elbow.
1:01:18
SPEAKER_01: We had to do the rest of it.
1:01:19
SPEAKER_01: I was in a sling and that sucks.
1:01:22
SPEAKER_05: So I got the album from that video.
1:01:25
SPEAKER_05: I went, I went, nice, and it was it was amazing.
1:01:28
SPEAKER_05: And um, and then I went to look for you, and you guys you must have toured for a little while or something.
1:01:35
SPEAKER_01: We toured for five years, actually.
1:01:37
SPEAKER_05: And and then I was looking for something new, and there was an announcement that uh, you know, your all your your next concert dates were cancelled, and there was no there was no explanation.
1:01:50
SPEAKER_05: So was that all it was?
1:01:52
SPEAKER_05: Was the record label just kind of lost interest in you guys?
1:01:55
SPEAKER_01: No, I I mean the reality is that uh that Matt decided that he didn't want to do it anymore.
1:02:02
SPEAKER_05: Really?
1:02:02
SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, and and I mean, you know, he had his reasons, and you know, to be to be fair, like why we announced it that way was because there was a lot of stuff.
1:02:14
SPEAKER_01: I mean, Matt and Reiner Brothers, there was a lot of their relationship going on.
1:02:17
SPEAKER_01: They came to Nashville to move to, you know, they moved here together.
1:02:20
SPEAKER_01: Sure.
1:02:21
SPEAKER_01: There was a lot of that, there was a lot of investment from a lot of different people, and to be honest, we just didn't want it to be a big public kind of thing.
1:02:30
SPEAKER_01: There was enough stuff internally happening.
1:02:34
SPEAKER_01: Um, because you know, we had been at the record label for five years.
1:02:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we'd had three singles come out that you know, like the day we turned the day we turned the Southern the Something Better video into CMT, the day we turned it in, we went back to the label and they pulled that single.
1:02:51
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, so like I mean there was a and there are a lot of reasons for it, and there's a lot of like there's always a reason.
1:02:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's always exactly there's always a reason.
1:03:01
SPEAKER_01: That's why we were drinking.
1:03:03
SPEAKER_01: Um I mean, and you know, I I am careful about what I say because it like obviously that's not what I wanted.
1:03:12
SPEAKER_01: Sure.
1:03:13
SPEAKER_01: Um, but in you know, and there's a lot of things that would have probably gone differently if we'd stuck around as a band till July, maybe three months later, the label would have had to make a decision about us, and we might have been able to do something different, or we might have made the same decision at that point, or we would have gotten to where my line in the stand was, which was probably October, November.
1:03:35
SPEAKER_01: Like, let's see where we're at in this point.
1:03:37
SPEAKER_01: You know, I think I think for me, I would have rather that we all put our hand on the plug and pulled it together, yeah.
1:03:43
SPEAKER_01: And said, you know, this isn't working for anybody.
1:03:47
SPEAKER_01: Because the goal for the whole thing was, you know, we just want to make a living making music, you know, that we love.
1:03:53
SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
1:03:54
SPEAKER_01: And you know, I think for Matt, they you know, he had he had his personal struggles with, you know, just trying to make a living and trying to, you know, he was working and he was doing all his stuff, and you know, that doesn't change my feelings about it, but I at least understand right, you know, he did what was best for him at the time, and it wasn't necessarily you know what I wanted to do.
1:04:16
SPEAKER_05: Not to uh because I don't want to talk about the guy because he's not here, but can you tell me is he is he still in the business?
1:04:23
SPEAKER_05: I mean, is he back to playing?
1:04:24
SPEAKER_05: Oh, he's out, he's out completely.
1:04:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he might be playing.
1:04:27
SPEAKER_01: He went to he moved back to he was from Oklahoma originally, right?
1:04:30
SPEAKER_01: He moved back to Texas.
1:04:32
SPEAKER_01: Um, he did do a record down there, um, you know, just kind of an indie project.
1:04:39
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:04:40
SPEAKER_01: Uh, and I don't know.
1:04:42
SPEAKER_01: Um, I don't know how much he's playing.
1:04:43
SPEAKER_01: I haven't talked, I've talked to him a few times here and there, but not, you know, not a ton.
1:04:46
SPEAKER_01: We'll stay in touch once in a while.
1:04:48
SPEAKER_01: Um, his brother, Ryan, he stayed in town for a while, a few years.
1:04:53
SPEAKER_01: His his wife was from Nashville, so she had family here.
1:04:56
SPEAKER_01: So they stayed for a little longer, but they've moved back to Texas.
1:05:00
SPEAKER_01: They're they all live near each other in Texas, which you know there's a you know, there's a grown-up part of me that you know is very happy that their relationship, you know, that they were able to kind of work through all of that and all the stuff that happened.
1:05:15
SPEAKER_01: And then there's the you know five-year-old infant, you know, right part of me that's like, why did it work?
1:05:22
SPEAKER_01: So no, I get it.
1:05:25
SPEAKER_01: I get it.
1:05:26
SPEAKER_01: You know, but like the the reality is so that so actually of the five guys that were in the van, like uh Matt and Ryan are out of the business.
1:05:36
SPEAKER_01: Nick, our drummer, is out of the business.
1:05:38
SPEAKER_01: He's a cop here in Nashville.
1:05:40
SPEAKER_01: Jeremy's still in the business.
1:05:42
SPEAKER_01: Uh he plays bass for I think Maddie and Tay is who he plays for now.
1:05:47
SPEAKER_05: Cool, yeah.
1:05:48
SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, so he's he's been playing bass and and I'm writing songs.
1:05:52
SPEAKER_05: So yeah, I was just gonna ask you what what you're doing now because uh I know you I've I follow you on Facebook and I know you're you're putting stuff out.
1:05:58
SPEAKER_05: You're writing stuff, so
1:06:00
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:06:00
SPEAKER_01: So I uh after the band, I went and played uh another instance of a writing relationship that turned into a guitar playing gig for me was uh Josh Thompson and I were writing a lot.
1:06:14
SPEAKER_01: And you know, kind of had the same conversation like, hey man, like I'm not that great of a guitar player.
1:06:19
SPEAKER_01: Like, no, that'll be fine.
1:06:21
SPEAKER_01: And so I ended up playing with him for five years.
1:06:25
SPEAKER_01: Uh we wrote a bunch of songs, so we wrote uh one hit together that happened a few years ago.
1:06:32
SPEAKER_01: What was that?
1:06:34
SPEAKER_01: Right.
1:06:34
SPEAKER_01: What was uh there's a song called uh Drowns the Whiskey, which was uh Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambros.
1:06:40
SPEAKER_05: Yes, that was a big one.
1:06:41
SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, it was.
1:06:42
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:06:43
SPEAKER_01: So um I had to I had to jump back into business management for a little bit to kind of uh go through my personal divorce and all that kind of stuff.
1:06:55
SPEAKER_01: I had to get a little stability and I was able to to to find a job for a little while, but now I've been back writing for almost almost three years now.
1:07:03
SPEAKER_05: That's awesome.
1:07:04
unknown: Yeah.
1:07:04
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, just writing songs, trying to get some cuts and blah blah blah, all that kind of yeah.
1:07:09
SPEAKER_05: Um let me let me ask you one more thing because we talked about um on the podcast that's gonna uh drop uh on Thursday.
1:07:17
SPEAKER_05: Um we were talking about you and the dirt drifters again, and I said that that was the only album.
1:07:23
SPEAKER_05: But Doug, of course, I've been hogging this conversation.
1:07:26
SPEAKER_05: Doug, you found something else on iTunes.
1:07:28
SPEAKER_06: I don't even know if I found I think it was called Origins.
1:07:33
SPEAKER_06: Yes, yeah, it was like it was like a bunch of uh it was like demos, I think.
1:07:38
SPEAKER_01: Or demos pretty much, yep.
1:07:40
SPEAKER_01: They're all demos.
1:07:41
SPEAKER_06: So that was that was some good stuff on there.
1:07:44
SPEAKER_01: Those and there'll be an Origins 2 coming out, which I'm actually putting together right now.
1:07:49
SPEAKER_01: I mean, we have tons of music and demos, and like that was a thing, but you know, our record that you know, the this is my blood, like we wanted to write it, and we wrote, you know, 10 of the 11 songs, and you know, we wanted to play on it, which was kind of a big deal in Nashville, right?
1:08:07
SPEAKER_01: Especially 10 years ago, you know, and we had people who fought for us, you know, our AR person who was our champion and our producer, who were like, these guys can play, and so yeah, but we had spent you know, five years prior to that, well, not prior, a few years prior to that, like playing in studios doing demos, right?
1:08:28
SPEAKER_07: So there's uh I got a stupid question.
1:08:31
SPEAKER_07: Um how did you come up with the dirt drifters?
1:08:36
SPEAKER_01: Uh well we were kind of drifting at the time, was kind of um that was kind of the original thing, and so we were like the drifters, but then there was a band right, you know, that was kind of a thing, you know, called the drifters who did under the boardwalk.
1:08:57
SPEAKER_01: And so we were like, we probably shouldn't go with that.
1:09:00
SPEAKER_01: Uh so we spent a few weeks trying to find like a quad, like a an adjective for it.
1:09:06
SPEAKER_01: And when we were doing uh when we're doing our original demos in my uh in my studio, we would always say put a little more dirt on the guitar, and so put a little more distortion is basically our overdrive, make it a little more a little more rock, you know, country's gonna be cleaner and and that kind of thing.
1:09:26
SPEAKER_01: So that's what we always used to say, you know, put a little more dirt on it, put a little, you know, and it just was kind of it kind of made sense.
1:09:32
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, well, you know, there's the right amount of dirt on that album because it's country, but it's it's not country, it's it it rocks.
1:09:40
SPEAKER_05: I mean, it's yeah, yeah, and yeah, yeah, and especially at the time.
1:09:45
SPEAKER_01: I mean, at the time we made it, yeah.
1:09:47
SPEAKER_01: And the and the cool thing is is that for me as a writer in town, there, you know, people in town still know the record, and people in town, you know, there are guys who have come to town and have been like, oh wow, that I know that record because they were students of the town.
1:10:02
SPEAKER_01: And uh, so every once in a while, you know, there'll be someone who who's like, man, I just love that record.
1:10:08
SPEAKER_01: Which if we had made a record that I wasn't proud of, I probably would be like, No, I would never want to hear that ever again.
1:10:15
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
1:10:16
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but because we those were the you know hills we died on, we made a record that I'll always be I'll be proud of it.
1:10:23
SPEAKER_01: Right.
1:10:24
SPEAKER_01: So I think it I think it still stands up.
1:10:26
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
1:10:27
SPEAKER_05: No question.
1:10:28
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:10:29
SPEAKER_05: That's one thing that we do uh once we once we pick a uh a CD and we talk about it, is for the next week we kind of play it and and and and I re fall in love all over again.
1:10:40
SPEAKER_05: You know, why why did I keep this for my wall of tunes?
1:10:42
SPEAKER_05: Oh, that's why I kept it for my wall of tunes.
1:10:44
SPEAKER_05: So it's that's awesome.
1:10:45
SPEAKER_05: I love that.
1:10:46
SPEAKER_05: It's really cool.
1:10:47
SPEAKER_05: And I haven't got the Origins uh collection yet, but Doug I'm I'm gonna make sure that I find it on iTunes.
1:10:53
SPEAKER_01: Uh so are the As as we know you'll tell we we got better playing.
1:10:59
SPEAKER_05: Well, you don't know this, but Doug and I are in a couple of bands, and I've been writing songs since I was a kid, and I went to Nashville twice and came back with my tail between my legs, and and uh you know how it is.
1:11:10
SPEAKER_01: We'll do that to you.
1:11:11
SPEAKER_01: I'll send you a song that I wrote about that.
1:11:13
SPEAKER_01: Yes, please, please do that.
1:11:14
SPEAKER_01: Big little feeling.
1:11:16
SPEAKER_01: Um so it's called I Hate That I Still Love This Town.
1:11:19
SPEAKER_06: Oh right there.
1:11:24
SPEAKER_05: That's it.
1:11:25
SPEAKER_05: Yep, that's it.
1:11:25
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I'll send it to you.
1:11:26
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that'd be awesome.
1:11:28
SPEAKER_05: Um, so I guess um we could end this by saying, you know, is there anything you want to plug?
1:11:34
SPEAKER_05: I mean, do you want to?
1:11:35
SPEAKER_05: I mean, because you're basically just kind of doing your thing.
1:11:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I'm starting to I'm starting to do, you know, the little releases on YouTube and TikTok and all the Facebook stuff, but it's really more as a songwriter.
1:11:48
SPEAKER_01: There'll be some demos, there'll be stuff that I'll put up, and it's typically all gonna be under J Mid Music.
1:11:54
SPEAKER_05: Nice.
1:11:54
SPEAKER_01: Uh Capital J M ID music.
1:11:58
SPEAKER_01: So that's kind of where it all is Instagram and all the stuff.
1:12:02
SPEAKER_01: Right, right, right, right.
1:12:03
SPEAKER_01: You know, all the socials, you can find me on all the socials.
1:12:06
SPEAKER_01: Not LinkedIn, though.
1:12:07
SPEAKER_01: I don't think about that.
1:12:08
SPEAKER_01: Speaking of socials, funny, quick, funny story.
1:12:11
SPEAKER_01: You all played uh I'll shut up now.
1:12:14
SPEAKER_01: Yes, last week and talked about it.
1:12:16
SPEAKER_01: And if that song, we wrote that pretty early in the process.
1:12:21
SPEAKER_01: And when we originally wrote it, it was if I put you on my MySpace page.
1:12:29
SPEAKER_01: And by the time we had gotten from writing that song to cutting it for the record, we had to go and overdub in and I put you on my Facebook page because my long the process of between writing a song and cutting a song can be.
1:12:46
SPEAKER_01: It's a little quicker on internet time, but that was kind of how that was a little funny tweak that we had to make to the song.
1:12:55
SPEAKER_06: How did you guys get the Willie Nelson to sing on your on the on the on the track?
1:13:00
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so that's a that's a one of the greatest times I had in Nashville was that.
1:13:06
SPEAKER_01: So uh Chris Lacey, uh, who was our she had just started uh at AR in Warner Brothers.
1:13:13
SPEAKER_01: She had been in publishing and she went to the label, and she's like a VP there.
1:13:17
SPEAKER_01: She's one of the best people in Nashville about songs and artists and letting him do, and she was our champion.
1:13:26
SPEAKER_01: At the time, Randy Travis was on um Warner Brothers, and they were doing a duet record, and one of the duets was Willie Nelson.
1:13:38
SPEAKER_01: So Chris had been in touch with um with Willie's management.
1:13:46
SPEAKER_01: At the same time, that song, another edit we had to make on that song was the original piece of music that was in there was not on the road again, it was Eastbound and Down.
1:13:59
SPEAKER_01: Interesting, wow, but when we cut the song, because it was a chunk of song, you have to get permission.
1:14:09
SPEAKER_01: And whoever was controlling that copyright at the time uh demanded more than we were willing to give.
1:14:17
SPEAKER_01: There were already four writers on the song, and our publishers were kind of like, no, we can't give them.
1:14:23
SPEAKER_01: They wanted like a writer credit and a bunch of the publishing for that little snippet of song, and so we had already cut it.
1:14:30
SPEAKER_01: But we had to, so they were like, Well, can we find another piece of music, something else to put in there?
1:14:35
SPEAKER_01: And Ryan at the time was writing for Sony, who controlled Willie's catalog, not control, but it admined Willie's catalog, and they were like, Well, you could just go through all of this.
1:14:46
SPEAKER_01: They had this huge disc, you know, CD holder that they gave to us, and they were like, just go through this.
1:14:52
SPEAKER_01: This is our entire catalog, there's a bunch of cool stuff in there.
1:14:55
SPEAKER_01: And one of the first things we listened to was On the Road Again, Willie Nelson.
1:14:59
SPEAKER_01: We were like, we messed around with it, we were like, we could fit it in there, that would be really cool.
1:15:06
SPEAKER_01: We got, you know, Sony said, Yep, you can use that, blah, blah, blah.
1:15:10
SPEAKER_01: At the time, we found Chris found that out and sent the music to Willie's manager and was like, Hey, they're gonna use this song in here.
1:15:17
SPEAKER_01: Any chance Willie would want to come and guess vocal on it.
1:15:21
SPEAKER_01: And the manager was like, Well, I'll play them, I'll you know, I'll play him a song and see what he says, you know.
1:15:26
SPEAKER_01: He does that, so it's not like unusual.
1:15:28
SPEAKER_01: So we didn't know most of this was happening at the time because then you're not gonna tell a bunch of artists you might get Willie Nelson on your record, and then that was falling flat.
1:15:39
SPEAKER_01: But we did get, we were told, you know, our manager Chris talked to our manager, and he our manager was was told, you know, like this could happen.
1:15:48
SPEAKER_01: So just kind of let them know it's possible, but very unlikely, and we don't know how it's gonna work.
1:15:54
SPEAKER_01: And so how that how it happened was Willie was coming to Nashville to cut his Randy duet, right?
1:16:03
SPEAKER_01: And the idea was we were told to go wait at the firehouse for Sony Music, which is like a writer's building here in Nashville.
1:16:13
SPEAKER_01: They call it the firehouse, it's an old firehouse that's turned into a writer's room, writers building.
1:16:19
SPEAKER_01: And they were like, we don't know if it's gonna happen, but if they can get the Randy thing cut, then they'll have a little bit of time where Willie said he will do that before he has to go.
1:16:31
SPEAKER_01: So we sort of need you on standby, like like on call.
1:16:36
SPEAKER_01: And at the same time, our producer and the engineer went into the studio B of the studio that they were recording at and had everything set, you know.
1:16:46
SPEAKER_01: And so we were just like sitting, like sitting there for a few hours at you know, waiting for this call that that maybe would never come.
1:16:54
SPEAKER_01: We got the call and they were like, Chris was like, you need to get over here, like now.
1:16:59
SPEAKER_01: And so we like hauled ass across Nashville, you know, got in there, and I'll never remember.
1:17:06
SPEAKER_01: We walk in the studio, and it wasn't it was Randy, like coming up the hallway was Randy Travis, Willie Nelson, and Chris Christofferson, because he was one of the other guys.
1:17:17
SPEAKER_01: Right.
1:17:18
SPEAKER_01: So we walked in, we're like, okay, my head is exploding, you know, but we're gonna try to keep it together.
1:17:26
SPEAKER_01: And so we went back and talked to Willie, you know, just for a couple minutes.
1:17:30
SPEAKER_01: He was super nice, and there were, you know, there were like six or seven of us, so it wasn't like we were gonna overwhelm him with a bunch of stuff.
1:17:36
SPEAKER_01: And uh we went in the studio and you know, he sung that song a few times before, so he did like retakes on our track, and we just kind of watched from the studio, took a picture, and then we left.
1:17:52
SPEAKER_01: And like afterwards, we went to there's a a bar here in Nashville called Red Door, and it's kind of like a hang place that we would go to, and and um we went and sat there and had a beer, and I swear, like nobody said anything.
1:18:06
SPEAKER_01: Everybody just sort of like just happened.
1:18:08
SPEAKER_01: That happened.
1:18:12
SPEAKER_01: Wow, it happened.
1:18:14
SPEAKER_05: Wow.
1:18:14
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so that was that was one of the highlights of making that record, and and very cool that that Chris made it happen and all the people that you know.
1:18:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, somewhere I have some footage of Willie Nelson singing in the in the booth, but I haven't been able to find that yet.
1:18:29
SPEAKER_05: That's amazing.
1:18:30
SPEAKER_05: That's amazing.
1:18:30
SPEAKER_05: Well, listen, uh, we've taken up enough of your time, Jeff.
1:18:33
SPEAKER_05: This was um uh so much fun.
1:18:35
SPEAKER_01: Um I appreciate it so much.
1:18:37
SPEAKER_01: I really do.
1:18:37
SPEAKER_01: I appreciate y'all finding me and tracking me down and and listening to the music.
1:18:43
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and we love it, and we'll we'll uh sing its praises uh from from here on out because it's an amazing record.
1:18:48
SPEAKER_05: It's great songwriting, which I'm sure the songs that you're writing today are are just as great as well.
1:18:54
SPEAKER_05: So um we wanna we wanna thank you and uh and wish you best of luck.
1:18:59
SPEAKER_05: Doug, did you wanna say anything?
1:19:02
SPEAKER_06: No, I'm good, man.
1:19:03
SPEAKER_07: Thanks for coming on the show.
1:19:04
SPEAKER_06: We really appreciate it, man.
1:19:05
SPEAKER_01: Much pleasure.
1:19:06
SPEAKER_01: Thank you guys.
1:19:07
SPEAKER_01: I had a great time.
1:19:08
SPEAKER_05: Awesome, awesome.
1:19:08
SPEAKER_05: Well, you take care and uh yeah, send me that song if you can.
1:19:12
SPEAKER_01: I will.
1:19:12
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, I'll send here in a second.
1:19:14
SPEAKER_05: Very cool.
1:19:15
SPEAKER_05: Thanks very much.
1:19:16
SPEAKER_06: Thanks, Jack.
1:19:17
SPEAKER_05: I appreciate it.
1:19:18
SPEAKER_05: See ya.
1:19:19
SPEAKER_05: Bye.
1:19:19
SPEAKER_05: Bye-bye.
1:19:20
SPEAKER_06: What a cool guy.
1:19:21
SPEAKER_06: What a cool guy, man.
1:19:22
SPEAKER_06: I know, right?
1:19:23
SPEAKER_06: That was kick ass.
1:19:25
SPEAKER_06: And he's from New Jersey.
1:19:26
SPEAKER_06: I was like, he's a metal, and he's a metalhead.
1:19:28
SPEAKER_06: He's a metalhead.
1:19:29
SPEAKER_06: I was like, he's a metalhead.
1:19:30
SPEAKER_06: I was like, what?
1:19:33
SPEAKER_06: Oh, that was cool.
1:19:34
SPEAKER_06: That makes sense.
1:19:35
SPEAKER_06: Well, when he said that, it was like it clicked because you're like, oh, I get it now.
1:19:39
SPEAKER_06: That's why that Dirt Drifters album is it got that edge because absolutely that's his influences.
1:19:45
SPEAKER_06: And I was like, Yeah, that was cool.
1:19:49
SPEAKER_05: That was cool.
1:19:50
SPEAKER_05: Uh shoot.
1:19:53
SPEAKER_05: I mean, I don't even know what to say after that.
1:19:55
SPEAKER_06: I know that was just what he just such a just such a down to earth, you know, just like, hey, you know, we made this cool record, you know.
1:20:03
SPEAKER_06: And I was like, hey, all right, yeah, we got to hang out with Willie Nelson and Chris Chris Dobbins, you know.
1:20:11
SPEAKER_05: Were you thinking the same thing I was when he started saying that, you know, I played with this other guy as a duo and then blah, blah, blah.
1:20:18
SPEAKER_05: And then I'm like, this is our life.
1:20:21
SPEAKER_05: That was like, that's exactly what we do.
1:20:26
SPEAKER_05: Oh, that was cool.
1:20:27
SPEAKER_05: That was cool.
1:20:29
SPEAKER_07: Oh, man, yeah.
1:20:30
SPEAKER_07: What yeah, what a great guy.
1:20:31
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
1:20:33
SPEAKER_07: Super nice and uh took the time out to you know talk to us and stuff, man.
1:20:36
SPEAKER_07: That was just that was just awesome.
1:20:38
SPEAKER_05: That was amazing.
1:20:38
SPEAKER_05: Yep, that was amazing.
1:20:39
SPEAKER_07: And just that album.
1:20:40
SPEAKER_07: Just I mean, I still just love that album.
1:20:42
SPEAKER_05: I mean, I'm always gonna love that album.
1:20:44
SPEAKER_05: Me too.
1:20:44
SPEAKER_07: But now it's it's nice to know now why, you know, they just it's a story as old as popular music.
1:20:54
SPEAKER_07: It's so true.
1:20:55
SPEAKER_05: You know, the record label changes heads and and bands and artists get forgotten all the time.
1:21:00
SPEAKER_05: And it's just it's yeah, sad.
1:21:03
SPEAKER_07: Um But I'm glad he's I'm glad he's still making music, writing songs, and stuff like that.
1:21:07
SPEAKER_07: He didn't like you know, yeah, he said he went into like business management and stuff like that, you know.
1:21:13
SPEAKER_07: You know, but he's back to writing songs again.
1:21:15
SPEAKER_07: I you know, at least he's still you know right.
1:21:18
SPEAKER_05: Well, I think that uh Jason Aldean Miranda Lambert song that he had was a pretty big hit, so I think he did well with that.
1:21:23
SPEAKER_05: So that's it.
1:21:24
SPEAKER_06: I didn't know he wrote that, man.
1:21:25
SPEAKER_06: That's so cool.
1:21:26
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
1:21:27
SPEAKER_06: I mean, I'm not a country person, but I don't even I know that song.
1:21:30
SPEAKER_05: I'm like, wow.
1:21:31
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, holy crap.
1:21:33
SPEAKER_05: Good stuff.
1:21:35
SPEAKER_05: It's not in tune.
1:21:36
SPEAKER_07: Nope.
1:21:41
SPEAKER_07: Them Duke Boys are at it again.
1:21:46
SPEAKER_07: Oh I'll pretend I have a jug.
1:22:18
SPEAKER_07: I'm still learning.
1:22:19
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it's good, man.
1:22:22
SPEAKER_07: All right, so I'm O'Brien.
1:22:24
SPEAKER_07: That was our uh traditional uh closing ho down.
1:22:27
SPEAKER_07: Right.
1:22:28
SPEAKER_07: Um that's gonna be part of the show from now on.
1:22:32
SPEAKER_07: Starting in season five.
1:22:35
SPEAKER_07: Hi, O'Brien.
1:22:37
SPEAKER_07: Hi, everybody.
1:22:42
SPEAKER_07: Otherwise no one's buying roar.
1:22:50
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1:22:58
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1:22:59
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1:23:06
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