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Deprogrammed Year One · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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It's Deprogrammed, the podcast where we try to get you into a
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band. I'm still figuring this one out.
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My name is Justin and you could call me Band Curious because I
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am indeed curious about bands and artists and I like to gather
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my friends together and in doing so, we will come up with a top
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10 starter kit. In case you have never heard of
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Set Artist, that's what we normally do here.
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As I mentioned yesterday on the POD and if you are a patron,
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then you heard on after the fact after Avril Lavigne, it's 10
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years of deprogrammed almost exactly.
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So I thought this would be a good place to kind of reflect on
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10 years of Deprogrammed and specifically the very first year
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and anyone who's not in the know.
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So Deprogrammed was literally an attempt.
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So it was a radio show at first. We started our own online radio
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station in 2016 called Radio Free Radio.
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And we were trying to come up with just shows.
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And initially it was like all shows of the founders, like it
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was myself, Matt and a guy that we don't mention here anymore,
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pretty much the three of us doing whatever and then, you
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know, us spawning off and doing whatever shows.
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So the the three of us had good morning you drunks on Mondays.
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And then we each kind of took, you know, an hour at some point
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in the rest of the week. You know, Matt had Joystick
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Syndicate, which was like a, a video game show popped with
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Keith and Sarah on 2. Actually, they were on Tuesdays
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as well. And then the three of us also
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did Wrestle Pals, which ended up being just me and the other guy.
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Matt would often fall asleep and go back inside.
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So, you know, that was the genesis of it.
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And we were trying to fill out time slots.
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And, you know, I just started kicking around ideas for myself
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and stumbled on what if we had a conversation where we were just
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coming up with a top 10 playlist, you know, initially.
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And you know, I came up with the name D program, just kind of
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bouncing stuff. And that was like, that's the
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one. And so that's how it began.
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And my initial thought when I was when I, when I tossed it out
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there was that it was just going to be until more people came in
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on board to the station and could take that time slot.
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But people kind of gravitated towards it and really liked the
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show. And even in that early
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iteration, really enjoyed what we were doing.
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And so here we are 10 years later, still doing it.
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You know, it, it spawned off of radio show into a pod.
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And we'll talk about that as we go.
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But we're specifically here to talk about that first year.
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And so it was in the studio clubhouse, which was in Matt's
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garage in his backyard. And so this would have been like
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like late, late February or March 1st.
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I'm pretty sure it was March 1st.
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Landed on a Tuesday that year. Yeah, 'cause March 28th was Good
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morning you drunks and wrestle Powell's.
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We launched the Monday and the very next day was popped, I
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think was before us and then deprogrammed.
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Actually, it may have been popped and then Darius's show.
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Oh, no, I can't remember it. Dang it.
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But it was a a news show and dead week.
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That's what it was called. Dead week and then deprogrammed
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was 10. Lucky me.
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Or was it? Yeah, maybe.
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Regardless, so Tuesday comes along and initially Smashing
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Pumpkins was supposed to be myself, Daniel 4 Lines and David
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Henretta from Alpha Whale, Sons of Godzilla if you are local.
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And David, like, bailed that day.
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And what should have happened was because Dan and his lovely
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wife Coriona came over and I should have had her on the show,
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you know, quick goat thinking. I should have just had her on
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the show. And I didn't even think about
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it. I just, you know, I just assumed
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she wasn't a fan because she didn't sign up.
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And all of all of everything was different then.
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Like, I was thinking more of let me just get the show on the air
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versus whatever the show was going to become.
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And I butchered her name. I think I called her Coralina or
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something. Awful, awful, awful.
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And yeah, So, you know, I don't the show had to happen that way
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for the show to exist. So like regret wouldn't be a
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word that I would use, but the pumpkins, the like the way I
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approached my list would definitely change now.
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Like I definitely tried to go to B side heavy and try to be that
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guy at at the start instead of what would become the show.
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I think even by later that year, like the idea of let's try to
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turn somebody on to the band as opposed to it's like it.
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I approached it initially, especially on that episode of
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not necessarily trying to out fan, but like definitely trying
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to out fan. Like I let off with set the rate
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of Jerry and look Like it is one of my favorite smashing pumpkin
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songs for sure. And I think, you know, now that
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Championship Edition exists, Set the Rate of Jerry belongs in the
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conversation. But if I'm trying to turn
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somebody on to The Smashing Pumpkins, I'm not going to give
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them Set the Rate of Jerry. As much as I love it.
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There's songs that can do the trick much, much better.
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Did not, did not do it there and then, you know, so locally.
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So The funny thing is, like, initially the idea was just to
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do bands that I already loved again, because I didn't think
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that it had legs. I didn't think it was going to
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do anything. And my wife pretty immediately
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is like, yeah, you know, you're going to run out of bands that
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you know, And I was like, yeah, but even if I do, the show won't
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exist by then. You know, I was thinking,
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there's 50 episodes, like there's there's no way.
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Like, I'm going to get that far. And she was right.
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And I mean, in that first year, like the first discovery I did
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was Devo, and that probably was, what, April or May?
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And from the time I put on Girl You Want, I was like, oh, OK,
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there is another layer to what this show can be again.
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You know, some of the first episodes we did were like some
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of my favorite bands, Pumpkins, Local, H Weezer, Weird Al,
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Radiohead, like all bands. I was pretty well familiar with
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Foo Fighters. Foo Fighters was Jenny's first
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episode, all stuff that I the presidency, United States of
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America, which was cool because I stopped at pure frosting and
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then I got to learn about love everybody and that one kind of
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changed my perception. I God, I love that record.
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So a lot of that kind of stuff happening early on in the show's
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existence. We did our very first ever.
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Please explain. I made my wife explain handsome
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to me. And unfortunately that was in a
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in July in the studio clubhouse. It was hot.
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I remember we came back from vacation to record it or no, it
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was before vacation 'cause I was going to be in New York.
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So we recorded it earlier that day to air when we would
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normally be live and my wife had to basically, basically had to
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carry the weight of, of the show 'cause it's, it was a please
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explain. And so like, I wasn't going to
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go to bat for any Hansen songs. Like that just wasn't going to
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happen. I at the time, I only liked 1.
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So we had that that year. We did the Beastie Boys that
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year and Bob France came on and just held the court and you
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know, knew knew the deal and really, kind of really kind of
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swing swung hard for for the Beasties, which was cool.
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We did blur that year and we did Oasis that year and it same same
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thing. Bob got mad at us because
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Jessica and I were both like trying to go for these like
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deeper cuts and you know, anything after morning glory and
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Bob was just not having it, which was fun.
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We did Steely Dan that first year and to this day I've not
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gone back to Steely Dan and I've that used to be the the flag
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bearer of I'm never going to listen to them again.
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And I'm sorry I smacked right there.
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I have not had enough water. I apologize for for the mouth
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noises. I have not gone back to them.
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But I'm much softer on Steely Dan now that I'm well deep into
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this show. Steely Dan is not the most
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egregious thing we've done and I am much more likely to go back
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and listen to Steely Dan nowadays.
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So what else happened that year? Kanye, I think, I think we did
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Kanye that first year. I'm going to just kind of bring
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up my list here. And yeah, local H Weezer, Insane
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Clown Posse happened that that year.
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ICP is something I would love to do Championship Edition for
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Blink 182, which was just Joe and I.
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And again, you have the the thing that happened frequently
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then was there was a set time that we had to do the show.
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Like it was a week from like every Tuesday at 10 or whatever
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time we were on the air had to go on.
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So it was just Joe and I on Blink 182 and Joe did Green Day
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and realized he didn't really like Green Day all that much.
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We did Deftones, Joe and I also did Limp Bizkit that year.
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Again, just kind of just the two of us Pixies happened that year
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and we did do a list contested Pixies.
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If that's something you guys would like to hear on the the
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main feed. I'm going to eventually do it
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anyway. But if, if there's some if
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people are like amped on that, I will prop that up to the top of
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the list to get in there. Primus, The Replacements,
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Genesis, R.E.M, which we've since done a A Championship
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edition on. And being blown away, not
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knowing, like it was there was so many of us or there was so
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many songs, like not knowing where to draw the line.
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Yeah. Devo and Beck, which at the time
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felt like a bloodbath because my brother came in and, like, did
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not want to waver at all. We did Nirvana and then Weird Al
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Yeah. And I think, yeah, The Doors was
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also that first year, The Doors, we did.
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And if you go back and listen to that, like the last five to 10
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minutes are missing because as we explained it, the weird naked
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Indian guy came through. And if you've seen Wayne's World
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Two, then you know what that is. If you haven't, we had technical
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difficulties. Yeah.
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See, it's listed as 33 minutes, which means it's actually almost
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half the show missing. And then let's see, Kanye was
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actually November, which means there's more.
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What happened in December? Justin says inquisitively as he
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flips to the next page to find out.
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The frogs. Oh my God, the frogs ended up
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essentially being a please explain because Matt didn't do
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the work. So I was trying to explain the
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frogs to Matt. The frogs is definitely one I'd
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like to. I wonder if there's they
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probably have enough for a championship edition.
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That would be funny as if if we did that.
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Let's see talking heads. We did that year and the last
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one of the year was outcast. So that was the year.
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And I mean, it was a fun year other than like, I mean,
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scheduling was a lot easier than because it was a week, yet I had
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a week to ingest these discographies and try to talk
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about them. And that is year 1.
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And you know, I'll probably do year 2 maybe next week.
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If you guys are interested in that, we can do year 2.
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If not, then I'll get to it eventually.
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Oh man, I went way longer than I meant to.
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So with that, we'll see you all tomorrow.
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Bye.