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If You're Gonna Pay Attention to 1 Stupid Thing This Year.... · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: If you're going to pay attention to one completely stupid
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  Speaker 1: thing this year, don't make it this.
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  Speaker 2: It's one more thing, one more thing.
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  Speaker 3: Joe and I disagree on this because I take it
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  Speaker 3: further than he does. We went to We went to
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  Speaker 3: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland because
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  Speaker 3: that's where the twenty sixteen Republican Convention was when Trump
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  Speaker 3: was nominated. I'm surprised I never traveled to Cleveland on
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  Speaker 3: vacation just to go to the Rock and Roll Hall
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  Speaker 3: of Fame, because I always wanted to do. I found
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  Speaker 3: it extraordinarily underwhelming. Like if I had gone there on
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  Speaker 3: vacation and that had been it, I would have been.
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  Speaker 2: Very disappointed that I spent my money that way.
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  Speaker 1: I found it thoroughly amusing and entertaining in a way
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  Speaker 1: that was fine for a couple of hours, and I
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  Speaker 1: have no intention of ever going back. So I liked
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  Speaker 1: it more than you did. But you know, I grew
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  Speaker 1: up a rock guy, so you know not that it
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  Speaker 1: is anymore.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't my not caring about music that was it.
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  Speaker 3: I just thought it was just underwhelming all the way around.
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  Speaker 1: But you didn't like seeing Keith Richards pants now small.
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  Speaker 1: They were Joe Strummer's telecaster. Come on from the clash,
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: So we're gonna do the twenty twenty five inductees have
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  Speaker 3: been named Joe's gonna hit us with that here in
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  Speaker 3: a second. But it's opened in eighty three. First class
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  Speaker 3: was nominated in eighty six. Off the top of your head,
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  Speaker 3: named me. Some of the.
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  Speaker 2: First class should be pretty easy to do. First Class of.
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  Speaker 1: The rock and Chuck Berry Stone no Beatles, no Stones, No, no, what.
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  Speaker 2: Berry gotta be No Beatles? Shut up? Who was in
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  Speaker 2: the top? Oh, it was like all.
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  Speaker 1: Your pioneering people, right, Yeah, I don't remember. I've seen
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  Speaker 1: the Listen.
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  Speaker 3: Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, James Brown, Sam Cook,
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  Speaker 3: Everley Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 3: There's only one person that's been in there three times.
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  Speaker 3: Who's that got that off the top.
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  Speaker 2: Paul McCartney.
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  Speaker 3: That's a pretty good guess. He is in there twice.
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  Speaker 3: All the Beatles we got in there as Beatles and
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  Speaker 3: then as solo artists.
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  Speaker 2: Ringo got in the Hall of Fame as a solo artist.
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  Speaker 1: And Wings didn't make it in I'm surprised by that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm surprised. It's Eric Clapton.
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  Speaker 3: Eric Clapton is in three times. And that's about it.
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  Speaker 3: And that's about how exciting the Rock and Roll Hall
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  Speaker 3: of Fame is. This little conversation you just heard, that's
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  Speaker 3: about as exciting as the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: One day, the city fathers and mothers of Cleveland, Ohio
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  Speaker 1: said to themselves, we need more tourism. What are we
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  Speaker 1: known for?
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  Speaker 2: Crappiness? Somebody suggested, No, that's no good. We can't have
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  Speaker 2: a crap hall of fame. The fact that.
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  Speaker 1: Alan Freed, an old timey DJ who arguably conceivably may
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  Speaker 1: have popularized the term rock and roll, worked in this city.
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  Speaker 2: All right, how about a rock and roll Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 2: And hence the dream was born.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pop music tourism center.
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  Speaker 2: Although it's harmless.
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  Speaker 3: There have been several of the Rock and Roll Hall
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  Speaker 3: of Fame concerts where they get a bunch of the
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  Speaker 3: inductees there that have been freaking awesome. If you've never
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  Speaker 3: seen him, they're on YouTube, I mean just awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There's also a lot to hate about those ceremonies. There
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of complaints. If you hear about people
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  Speaker 1: no showing it's because they're like, they're completely using us
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  Speaker 1: to sell tickets to their Hall of Fame. It's abusive,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I'm not going to get into it
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  Speaker 1: because I don't care enough to be against it. But
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  Speaker 1: every year the inductees or the nominees come out, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is the inductees actually for their rock and Roll
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, have you ever seen the one where John Mayer
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  Speaker 3: inducted either Stevie ray Vaughn or Albert King is one
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  Speaker 3: of your blues legends. Anyway, he does it with his
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  Speaker 3: guitar and explains the different kinds of blues through the
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  Speaker 3: years and everything.
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  Speaker 1: I would be into that. Yeah, some of the induction
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  Speaker 1: speech are a lot of fun. I mean, if you're
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  Speaker 1: a music freak hearing one of your heroes pay tribute
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  Speaker 1: to another one of your heroes and explain why they
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  Speaker 1: are such an influence, it's fun. I'm not anti, it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's not important.
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  Speaker 2: On any level.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to go see Keith Moon's destroyed drum kit,
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  Speaker 1: go there.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of fun. Have you been, Katie? We have not,
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  Speaker 2: And you guys are not selling it. No, we are
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  Speaker 2: not selling it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, I I I'm glad I went. It was
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  Speaker 1: a fun afternoon bunch of pictures.
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  Speaker 3: Would you go to Cleveland just for that? Or you're
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  Speaker 3: saying if you're in Cleveland, yes, the second one, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're in Cleveland, make it a stop. It's fun,
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  Speaker 2: depending on what sort of music you're into. But again
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  Speaker 2: it's you know.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, if you end up going to see the Browns
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  Speaker 3: play the forty nine ers for some reason or something,
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  Speaker 3: and you got an afternoon to kill, go see Elton
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  Speaker 3: John's glasses.
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  Speaker 2: Jo, it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: I mean for me, Boots, it's fine. It's just the
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  Speaker 1: It reminds me Jack of what we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: during the radio show.
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  Speaker 2: These what do you call them faux events or pseudo events?
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  Speaker 1: Pseudo events it's an event created purely to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the event, but to make the talking about the event
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  Speaker 1: at all compelling, those talking about it have to pretend
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  Speaker 1: that it matters.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I've been to hard rock cafes though
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  Speaker 3: that were like thirty percent there. I mean, the the
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  Speaker 3: restaurant with average burgers shouldn't be a third as good
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  Speaker 3: as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, right, like
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  Speaker 3: a really good Vegas. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, New York.
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  Speaker 1: It's not been to the La One. I'll bet the
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  Speaker 1: LA One's really good too. You got Slash's guitar. Look,
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  Speaker 1: there's David Bowie's skirt he wore back in his I
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  Speaker 1: might be a girl phase. Okay, super uh. Anyway, your
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  Speaker 1: inductees this year includes such rock and roll luminaries as
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  Speaker 1: Cindy Lauper. It was fine song crafter with a handful
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  Speaker 1: of hits.
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  Speaker 2: Outcast.
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  Speaker 3: Outcast, Cindy Lapper was a big deal for a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know do you get in the Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Fame for that?
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  Speaker 1: She continues to tour and do shows frequented by lesbians,
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  Speaker 1: which is for music for all orientations. It brings us together,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it? But yeah, outcast spelled with a K controversial
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  Speaker 1: Hey yeah, yeah, seriously, it's gotta be what twenty years
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  Speaker 1: since you put out your first record or something?
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  Speaker 2: Who cares? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Warren Zyvonne, who I think is fabulous, fabulous songwriter. But
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  Speaker 1: but they left out Mariah carry Jack and Oasis, who
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  Speaker 1: were among the nominees.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, still don't care.
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  Speaker 3: Mariah Carey is so much bigger a deal than Cindy Lapper, though,
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  Speaker 3: I mean in terms of success, oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Others inducted included Bad Company, The Seminal, British hard
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  Speaker 1: rock band. I'm not sure exactly how seminal they were.
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  Speaker 1: They put out some nice hits back when rock music
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  Speaker 1: was pop music.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like the word seminal. It's got semen in it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh boy, we know you didn't need to tell us, Chuck,
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  Speaker 1: Chubby Checker.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Chubby Checker just got inducted.
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  Speaker 3: So getting back to twist, So getting back to like
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  Speaker 3: the Little Richard type people in Fats Domino. So Chubby
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  Speaker 3: Checker didn't get it in with those group.
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  Speaker 2: Or soon thereafter apparently not. Come on, baby, let's do
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  Speaker 2: the twist.
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  Speaker 1: Little Richard sounds like, well, you know, okay, both of
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  Speaker 1: you like yes, Michael Yes. British inger Joe Cocker, remembered
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  Speaker 1: for his raw and powerful voice.
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  Speaker 2: I remember I just got her theme?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, not really, don't care enough to develop the theme, Katie.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's see Sound Guarden. Okay, great heavy rock grunge band.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have enough fans that will walk in there
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  Speaker 1: and and look at their display and say, wow, cool, no.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's more your eric. K. Do you think that's
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  Speaker 2: makes sense?
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  Speaker 4: Not really?
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  Speaker 2: You got the white stripes. I don't believe in silent letters.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that would makes sense to me. I didn't. I learned.
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  Speaker 3: I just learned this the other day. So they he
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  Speaker 3: Jack Black's got a new not Jack Black, Jack White.
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  Speaker 3: Jack White has got a new album out, and he's
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  Speaker 3: he is ridiculous. I mean in terms of talent, I
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  Speaker 3: like super got into them. She's I don't know, like
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  Speaker 3: six months ago in a way that I had never
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  Speaker 3: gotten into White Stripes before and listened to some there
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  Speaker 3: deep cuts I'd never heard. But he's just insane. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't realize though his real name is maybe you know it,
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  Speaker 3: but Jack whatever it is, he took her name. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: When they got married, right, Oh, good for you. I
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  Speaker 3: just fantastic, aren't you in mine?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? See.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things I despise about pop music is
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  Speaker 1: the term recording artist, because a lot of these people
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  Speaker 1: are underwear models who can warble a little, and then
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  Speaker 1: they run your voice through auto tune in the studio
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  Speaker 1: and you could you could have anybody sing it, or
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  Speaker 1: a dog, or it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Jack White is an actual artist.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he's like half nuts and guitar players know this,
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  Speaker 1: but he intentionally plays instruments that are difficult to play
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  Speaker 1: to see how it changes what he plays, see how
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  Speaker 1: it affects the music to struggle against a guitar at
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  Speaker 1: least now and again, which is an odd note.
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  Speaker 2: I'm far too lazy for that sort. I was listening
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  Speaker 2: to something the other day. I don't remember what it was.
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  Speaker 3: You went, and you know way more about this than
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  Speaker 3: I do, because I know in the modern world, with
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  Speaker 3: pro tools and everything like that, Yeah, you could get
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  Speaker 3: the four of us in a room and sing something
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  Speaker 3: and by the end of the day have perfect harmonies.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, with pro tools. Yeah, how long.
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  Speaker 3: Has that been around? So when I'm listening to stuff,
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  Speaker 3: what was I listening to? Maybe Crosby Stee's Nash Young,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. It's something with tremendous harmonies the other day,
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  Speaker 3: and I thought that had to be completely real, that
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  Speaker 3: had to be just like what it sounded like for
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  Speaker 3: them to sing together.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my favorite is a stunning on some of those recordings,
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  Speaker 1: them and like Yes, which I'm a big fan of
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  Speaker 1: in Boston. And what's fun about those is these days,
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  Speaker 1: if you're particularly if you're up against budgetary pressures. If
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  Speaker 1: you nail the harmonies in the first chorus of a song,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe you use autotune, maybe you don't, but you
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  Speaker 1: nail those harmonies, then you lie them around to the
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  Speaker 1: other chorses.
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  Speaker 2: Is what it's called.
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  Speaker 1: You copy and paste the harmonies to the other choruses.
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  Speaker 1: It saves time, it saves money, which I've actually done
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  Speaker 1: that some it's but it's again purely to save time
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  Speaker 1: and money. But back in the day they had to
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  Speaker 1: sing every note every time. It had to be either
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  Speaker 1: you know, nailed the harmonies or they're a little bit off.
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  Speaker 1: But their every chorus was different, generally in ways small
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  Speaker 1: and significant, which is part of what makes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of those old songs really kind of cool. Man, And
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  Speaker 1: they keep like teasing your ear. There's something about that
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  Speaker 1: third chorus that's compelling. You'd never put your finger on.
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  Speaker 1: But it's because it's a little different.
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  Speaker 2: That's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Because so the it's kind of like the way AI
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  Speaker 3: created models. They're so perfect, they're like they got nothing.
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  Speaker 3: It's just kind of not because everything's so perfectly symmetrical,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't like reach you in a way that a
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  Speaker 3: real human being does you sing the vocals being slightly off?
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  Speaker 3: But Henry and I watched Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen movie,
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  Speaker 3: and we've been listening to a lot of Queen after that,
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  Speaker 3: and I was thinking, Oh, they had to reactually record
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  Speaker 3: these vocals and make them sound like this.
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  Speaker 2: How the hell did they do that? No auto tune
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  Speaker 2: at all? Oh that's insane.
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  Speaker 1: Bohemian Rhapsity at this point is so overplayed. But as
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  Speaker 1: a piece of musical production, it can't exist. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like a two headed dog. It's like a five headed dog.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's so wondrous. You can't even
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine the process.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god. Sorry, Katie. I could bore you to
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  Speaker 2: death with his stuff, but I'm enjoying it. Yeah. Good. Oh. No,
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  Speaker 2: Mariah Carey in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
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  Speaker 2: damn it.
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  Speaker 3: Jack's broken over that.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: I think she is in, isn't she? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care enough to scroll back and look.
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  Speaker 4: So to Jack's point with the AI thing, or and
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  Speaker 4: also yours Joe at the auto tune. Have you seen
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  Speaker 4: these videos that have popped up where you know somebody
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  Speaker 4: will get a one one hit wonder and then you
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  Speaker 4: hear them actually saying like they try to do a
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  Speaker 4: live performance and it's just trash.
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  Speaker 2: Oh really, Oh yeah horrific. Yeah those are fun, aren't they?
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  Speaker 3: Yah?
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  Speaker 2: Those are blast.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot to mention that Salt and Peppa are in
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  Speaker 1: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, both Salt and
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  Speaker 1: for their many contributions to art and push it.
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  Speaker 2: Real good, pretty good condiment. It's good advice.
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  Speaker 1: And back to our really childishly idiotic genital's theme of.
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  Speaker 2: Earlier every aspect.
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  Speaker 3: Every time we bring up rock and Roll Hall Hall
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  Speaker 3: of Fame, I feel like always ends with kind of
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  Speaker 3: a ah, why are we talking about this every time?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just maybe I maybe I was sick the day
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  Speaker 3: we went or something. I just have a negative attitude
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  Speaker 3: towards the whole thing, and I like music a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Next podcast, guys, I'll tell you about the Jelly Belly
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  Speaker 1: Factory and how disappointed I was when I went.
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  Speaker 2: On the tour.
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  Speaker 3: I took my kids of the Jelly Belly Factory many times.
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  Speaker 3: I think I enjoyed it equally as well, if not more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can lander the good folks at Jelly Belly Michael.
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  Speaker 1: That tour is scintillating. It's pretty good children of all ages.
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  Speaker 2: Have you been, Katie? I have? Have you been when
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  Speaker 2: they're making a bad tasting one? And that is why
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  Speaker 2: I hate jelly bellies. It is because I went on
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  Speaker 2: that day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you go on a day where it's strawberry
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  Speaker 3: chocolate or something like that, it's fantastic. But we went
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  Speaker 3: on the vomit day. Oh no, not kidding. We went
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  Speaker 3: on the day they were making vomit and there was
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  Speaker 3: nobody there and they warned us before we went in.
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  Speaker 3: I thought, oh, guah, it's no big deal, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and drove here and everything like that. But we couldn't
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  Speaker 3: take it. We ran through the factory part with our
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  Speaker 3: hands over our noses. You just you thought you were
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  Speaker 3: going to chunder the whole time. It was gross.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the whole place just reaped a vomit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh nice, and then the dre Now thinking about.
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  Speaker 4: It, they put out the spread at the end where
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  Speaker 4: you can try all the different ones, and that was
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  Speaker 4: where they broke my trust. Is I thought I was
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  Speaker 4: grabbing a peach and I grabbed a vomit and I
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  Speaker 4: have not had a jelly belly since.
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  Speaker 3: God dang it, we did that as a contest one
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  Speaker 3: time for cousin cousin Christmas, Me, my brothers, my mom
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  Speaker 3: and dad, everybody, uh and uh brought all the different
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  Speaker 3: flavors and there was some dog food.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think anybody could choke down vomit, but there's
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  Speaker 3: there's some gross flavors.
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  Speaker 2: Ah yuck. Well, I guess that's it.