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Uncle John's Know It All Bathroom Reader From Brian Uncle John Boone · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: mister Brian. How are you doing, sir, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Great, always great to talk to you. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you love to dig in and you love to
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  Speaker 1: share stories. I mean you you are like my god.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's like Lewis Grizard meets like a like
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  Speaker 1: a Ksey Case meet, you know, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're such a storyteller and you're not afraid
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  Speaker 1: to bring us things. And I mean it's even Paul
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  Speaker 1: Harvey I can hear in your writing. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: there's just so much in what you do.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, those are those are some Those are some
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  Speaker 2: lofty names to follow. Thank you so much. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: a it's a good gig, you know. It's just we
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  Speaker 2: we like to bring the trivia to the masses. You know,
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  Speaker 2: there's always there's so many, you know, interesting, fun and
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  Speaker 2: lacky stories to tell, and we try to get as
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  Speaker 2: many of them into print and to the people as possible.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, one of the things that you do here.
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  Speaker 1: And I giggled like a child when the book arrived
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  Speaker 1: in my home. And I feel like like I'm the
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  Speaker 1: published author when I when I receive these books, it's
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  Speaker 1: such a giddy moment. And the thing is is that
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  Speaker 1: right there on the front cover it says no it all.
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  Speaker 1: And and for for like nineteen years of my life,
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  Speaker 1: my dad would just sit there and tell me stop
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  Speaker 1: being a know it all. So to see you put
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  Speaker 1: know it all on there, I'm going, I'm not the
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  Speaker 1: only one, dad, I'm not the only.
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  Speaker 2: One, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Brian is two dad's.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing that's h There's nothing wrong with being
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  Speaker 2: to know it all. We're taking ownership of the phrase
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  Speaker 2: it's good to be a know it all. And so
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  Speaker 2: many dads are no it all too. Dads love these books.
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  Speaker 2: It's why we're it's why we're getting out and talking
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  Speaker 2: about it before fathers did, because dads love to get
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  Speaker 2: these of gifts and dads love to, you know, share
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  Speaker 2: fun facts and jokes with people, So you know, be
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  Speaker 2: a know it all and be proud to be a
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  Speaker 2: know it all.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with inside your know it all world. Man,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about something that I can't even find on
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  Speaker 1: CNN and that is not your WiFi. Come on, who
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  Speaker 1: else is talking about this but you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? The funny, the funny, the funny uh wi fi
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  Speaker 2: names that people have, Yeah, yeah, I mean there's a
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  Speaker 2: there's a there's a there's a tense for a joke anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many places you can you can make a
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  Speaker 2: joke in life. So so you know, why not do
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  Speaker 2: you know, call your WiFi network not your WiFi, or
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  Speaker 2: or WU tang land or router limits or SBI surveillance
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  Speaker 2: fay And I think that's the best one.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm shocked there's no professional wrestler with that name, man,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean, that seems to be the absolute best.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, because it's like the best word to put
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  Speaker 1: in any situation. Stop being a not your WiFi?
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  Speaker 2: What tell my WiFi? Love? You know, it's just pun
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  Speaker 2: You know, puns are you know? I think I think
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  Speaker 2: the moment you become a dad, you the pun center
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  Speaker 2: it gets unlocked in your brain.
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  Speaker 1: Well, How did you like your journey with the word origins,
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  Speaker 1: because that's one of my loves in life is that
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  Speaker 1: I'll hear somebody say something. Maybe it's because I'm here
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  Speaker 1: in the South and Southerners say stuff that's just really
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  Speaker 1: way the hell out there. And the thing is is
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  Speaker 1: that I got to know where it started from. And
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  Speaker 1: then look at what you're doing with word origins. My god,
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. That's that's great to hear it, because
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  Speaker 2: that's that's one of my favorite things to do every year,
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  Speaker 2: is just to find it. You know, there's otherwise it's
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  Speaker 2: it's just these nonsense sounds that we you know, apply
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  Speaker 2: meaning to you know. For for the longest time, the
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  Speaker 2: bathroom reading at the Bathroom Readers Institute was word origin
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  Speaker 2: books because we we just love them, you know, like like,
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  Speaker 2: why don't we call it potato a spud? Yeah, And
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  Speaker 2: that's because that comes from the spade was the tool
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  Speaker 2: that they used to dig potatoes, So spud came from
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  Speaker 2: came from spade, yeah. Or or bootleg you know, like
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  Speaker 2: a you know, like a fake or an unauthorised copy
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  Speaker 2: of something comes from the smuggling practice of concealing bottles
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  Speaker 2: inside the long leg part of their boots. So a
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  Speaker 2: boot leg was where you put something that was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sort of illegal.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, tell me you're not shocked when you come
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  Speaker 1: across this stuff, because just hearing you talk about it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going, oh my god, that is just it's so
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  Speaker 1: like and like, of course it's that's the name of bootleg.
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  Speaker 1: Of course it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it all makes it all makes sense once once
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  Speaker 2: you hear it. Yeah. I mean me and the other writers,
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  Speaker 2: we were constantly just like you know, telling you people,
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  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, Tom the greatest thing, or or you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm constantly pestering, you know, my wife and my
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  Speaker 2: child with the with the fun facts that I learned
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  Speaker 2: all day. So I have to have to restrain myself
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  Speaker 2: sometimes and just save it for the books. But it's
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  Speaker 2: a it's a it's a great gig, and I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: constantly you know, shocked and delighted and amazed by the
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  Speaker 2: world around me.
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  Speaker 1: Really, Oh, do not move yet, Do not move. There
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  Speaker 1: is more with Brian Uncle John Boone coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: Uncle John's know it All bathroom Reader. Oh god, we
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  Speaker 1: are back with Brian Boone. It's books like this that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being a department head and a decision maker,
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  Speaker 1: I can't get people out of the damn bathroom as
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  Speaker 1: it is, and you've got a book that for people
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  Speaker 1: to be in the bathroom. So I'm sitting here, I'm going, hmmm, Brian,
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  Speaker 1: what are you up to here?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I need these people to get out of that bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: They're learning.
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  Speaker 1: We should have a report card, all right. I know
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  Speaker 1: you went into the bathroom for twenty five minutes, and
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  Speaker 1: I know you use that book. So we've got an
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  Speaker 1: essay that's due in five minutes. Please, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm shocked that teachers have not turned this
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  Speaker 1: into a writing project for a lot of their students, because,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about a great way to get
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  Speaker 1: to get people to investigate what brings interest to them.
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  Speaker 1: And to me, that's where writing comes from, or been
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  Speaker 1: any kind of a journalist journey, is that it comes
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  Speaker 1: from because you are interested first and then you bring
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  Speaker 1: your story to people.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah, it's if there's just like a nugget of
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  Speaker 2: interest there, there's so much stories you can tell, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I remember one time I was I was just going
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  Speaker 2: to write an article about you know, like the you know,
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  Speaker 2: like unmade movies that never got made. And I was
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  Speaker 2: writing about the the the sequel to to Gone with
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  Speaker 2: the Wind, and it turned into this ten page feature
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  Speaker 2: about the about why it took fifty years for them
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  Speaker 2: to come out with a sequel to the novel version
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  Speaker 2: of Gone with the Wind. There's just you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you you pull a string, you will you will unravel
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  Speaker 2: a swetter and you will find so much more information
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  Speaker 2: out there. And and it is educational educational for me.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's educational for the readers because with these books,
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  Speaker 2: you might, you know, come across something that you didn't
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  Speaker 2: even know you wanted to learn about. You just stumble
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  Speaker 2: on something and then you find that like, oh, this
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  Speaker 2: is actually a this is actually a really interesting copic
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  Speaker 2: that I never that I never gave much interest to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like you know, you know, funny flower names
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  Speaker 2: or something like that, Like I don't I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that much about flowers, but you know, a co worker
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  Speaker 2: wrote wrote this article about funny flower names, and and
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  Speaker 2: there I am wrapped in and loving it.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. We are the generation that has multiple different forms
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  Speaker 1: of slang. It used to be different regions but nowadays
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  Speaker 1: we've got street slang, we've got bar talk slang, we've
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  Speaker 1: got sports slang, We've got and and and. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how do you keep up with all the different shapes
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  Speaker 1: and sizes as well as sounds as slang.
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  Speaker 2: Again, one of my one of my favorite things to
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  Speaker 2: write about our subcultures, because every subculture has a flang.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody gets there, it gets their secret language, and it's
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  Speaker 2: been going on for hundreds of years. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes these words, you know, make it in to the
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  Speaker 2: to the general public. But for the most part, it's
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  Speaker 2: just it's just a it's just a it's almost a
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  Speaker 2: tribal thing, you know, like even in Antarctica. Even in Arctica,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's no permanent population there, just scientists and
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  Speaker 2: researcher through flying for a few months and work and
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  Speaker 2: then leave again and maybe they come back, maybe they don't.
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  Speaker 2: But a vernacular has developed there over the decades. You know,
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  Speaker 2: of all the different things that they call, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the different kinds of snow that they see, or
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  Speaker 2: you know, food is called scratch. Scientists are called beakers.
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  Speaker 2: People who are only work in the summer are called tourists.
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  Speaker 2: Getting sunburned is called bronze. A seal is a wig,
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  Speaker 2: a weasel is a floating snowmobile. It's just there's just
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  Speaker 2: there's just so much.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to see a poster or some sort
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  Speaker 1: of merchandise on just writing like you talk about, because
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  Speaker 1: I mean one of the things, I mean, easy reading
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  Speaker 1: is damn hard writing. Or even Terry Branchett, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I have to write because if I don't get something
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  Speaker 1: down after a while, I'll feel like I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: bang my head off. I mean, you're so right about that.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have I'm sure you have felt this as well,
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  Speaker 1: everything that's even shared in here, even Mark Twain's quote,
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  Speaker 1: this is something that you had to live through first
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  Speaker 1: in order for us to get it.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely true. You gotta you gotta filter it out, you
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  Speaker 2: gotta find the best and then figure out, you know
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  Speaker 2: what what what is going to be best for the reader?
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  Speaker 2: You know, because it's always you know, you know, good
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  Speaker 2: writers know that you've got to work with with an
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  Speaker 2: audience in mind, especially on a project like this. So
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  Speaker 2: you filter, you curate, you cultivate, and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: putting it into orders another thing, like there's a there's
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  Speaker 2: a fine art to ordering and sequencing to to get
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  Speaker 2: the most bang for your book. Let me.
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm running out of time here, but god dang,
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  Speaker 1: we got to talk about this, Brian, Unheard Albums. You
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  Speaker 1: had me at hello with this because I thought I
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  Speaker 1: knew everything about music until I reached this part of
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  Speaker 1: your book. This proves how much you like to dig in.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I love this stuff, and you know, and every
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  Speaker 2: few years, I'll go back to this and I'll find
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  Speaker 2: more of it than I that I never even knew that.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm a I'm a huge Van Haymen fan, and
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  Speaker 2: I did not know that that there was another singer
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  Speaker 2: with another album, like, you know, besides the main three.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like they made a big deal about bringing back,
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  Speaker 2: you know, bringing Gary Sharon into the band, and it
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  Speaker 2: was a hit album, but fans didn't like it. There
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  Speaker 2: was a there's a half singed album out there, there's
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  Speaker 2: a there's a Supremes album that never came out. There's
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  Speaker 2: a very kids album that never came out, even after
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  Speaker 2: all this time, Like it's just sitting in a sitting
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  Speaker 2: in a vault in some studious somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think maybe one day I'll be in one
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  Speaker 1: of these books you'll be here's that podcaster that did
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  Speaker 1: so many episodes that is cattle. I literally do. There's
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  Speaker 1: a thing that I do call creativity is the addiction.
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  Speaker 1: And I've got over a thousand episodes that still haven't
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  Speaker 1: hit the area yet because I just keep on creating
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  Speaker 1: and and so, I mean, it's it's like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I love about what you're doing here, is
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  Speaker 1: that we're all out here doing things creatively and we're
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  Speaker 1: we're just shoving them to the side and stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing is you're identifying those before us that
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  Speaker 1: did the same exact thing, and now we can identify
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  Speaker 1: with the fact that Van Halen did it. Oh I'm
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  Speaker 1: not alone. Now let's get Alex to pull those things
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  Speaker 1: out of the vault and release the darn things exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just just just you know, as long as we're
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  Speaker 2: we are alive as lung, as we're creating, just keep
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  Speaker 2: making stuff. Put it out there. There's you know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: there's an audience for it. Maybe it's not. It's for you,
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  Speaker 2: and it's good to be you know. It's about the
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  Speaker 2: relationship between the artists and the audience, of course, but
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  Speaker 2: it's it's uh creating as a sacred thing.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, where can where can people go to find out
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  Speaker 1: more about you? Because my god, I mean you talk
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  Speaker 1: about a catalog. You've got a large library of content here, We've.
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  Speaker 2: Got We've got a lot. We've been doing it for
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  Speaker 2: forty years. And you know, in addition to those, we've
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  Speaker 2: got you know, side projects and single subject books and actually,
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you got to come back to this show anytime
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  Speaker 1: in the future. You know, when your name pops up
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  Speaker 1: in my email, it's like, yes, yes, yes, get them
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  Speaker 1: on now. I don't wait, get him on now.
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  Speaker 2: I love I love likewise, I love finding out that
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  Speaker 2: I that I get to do on your show. It's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: do you want to do aeros show? Of course I
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  Speaker 2: want to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today and enjoy your ride through
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  Speaker 1: all of these airwaves today.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, thank you so much. Here's a You're You're
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  Speaker 2: a highlight.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, thank you, sir,