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Deprogrammed Year Two · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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  It's Deprogram, the podcast where we try to get you into a
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  band. That's right, we've done all the
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  work for you. All you have to do is press play
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  and listen. My name is Justin and normally
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  on Deprogram, that is what would happen.
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  We would talk about a band and we would come up with a top 10
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  starter kit list for you to get into said band.
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  If this is your first time here and you somehow stumbled across
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  a daily, I'd appreciate you hitting subscribe.
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  So slight change of plans to anybody who's been listening all
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  week. I was going to do a warm year,
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  warm Wednesday today, but instead I decided I'm going to
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  do because deprogrammed year one went over really well yesterday.
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  I'm going to do Deprogrammed year 2 today.
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  We will do Ear Worm Wednesday next week because Joe actually
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  gave me some songs that he wanted me to listen to.
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  So I'm going to listen to those and include them in my Ear Worm
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  Wednesday next week. So yesterday we talked about
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  year one, which was 2016, which you know simple math says 2017
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  is next and 2017's a rough year in the history of deprogram.
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  So it is what amounts to the second-half of RFRS existence
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  Radio free radio, which we talked about yesterday.
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  And again, deprogrammed wasn't supposed to be anything.
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  And you'll, you would be able to tell that it probably wasn't by
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  the end of of our 2017 run, that it was probably never going to
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  happen again. We'll get to that.
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  But interestingly enough, I tossed out the idea of a best of
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  for 2016 because I was having trouble booking anything.
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  Yeah, I took the week off of Christmas and then the next week
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  we came back with with Best of. And initially I was trying to
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  get anybody and everybody involved in it.
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  And Fredo was the only one who signed up.
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  And that's how the Best Of's became just Fredo and I for, you
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  know, the good first six years. I think maybe 5 or 6.
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  No, actually it's probably less than that.
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  It was like 4, I think the first four, maybe 5.
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  I don't know. I don't know because I know that
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  Randy and John came in, let's see, three years ago was the
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  last one with all of them and they had done four in a row.
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  So yeah, I guess it would have been 4 of just Fredo and I, but
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  this was the first one, 2016 and of course it isn't completely
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  rounded out, you know the way it would evolve to I think by now
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  in the show it. So two weeks later we do
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  Soundgarden. So I think now we're getting
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  into the point where it is trying to turn somebody onto the
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  band becomes part of the pitch. We still haven't really refined
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  the rules. We still haven't, you know, I, I
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  think we've moved from the initial 10.
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  It was supposed to be 10, a list of 10 and then 10 backups is how
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  that a good number of those first episodes went,
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  specifically the Pumpkins. So by now it's just a list of
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  20. And again, it's an attempt to
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  turn somebody on to the show. And Soundgarden, I think is the
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  only time Jenny and Fredo crossed paths on the show.
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  The one and only time They Might Be Giants was right behind that
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  on the 24th. And we're still in the studio
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  clubhouse at this point. And this is the second time I've
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  ever gotten the I can't believe I wasn't on this episode like
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  the first being Brian Lewis, just absolutely stunned that he
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  wasn't on the pumpkins episode. And then Matt Thomas of
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  Ugliography fame, absolutely stunned he wasn't on the They
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  Might Be Giants episode. And the one thing I always say
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  to like that firstly, it let me know that the show was something
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  that people wanted to be a part of, which I don't think I
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  particularly clocked yet at this point.
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  At this point, you know, again, I'm my, my brain is being split
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  into like all these different directions between the different
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  shows I'm doing between just the station operation, all this
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  stuff like deprogrammed is kind of backseat minus the fact that
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  I'm listening to the music and trying to book the show.
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  So it's it, it's kind of morphed into at least now, like decide
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  your own level of involvement because I can't chase people
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  down. And so it's always kind of been
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  that way. Like again, I, I didn't think of
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  Matt Thomas mostly because I, I was just thinking about I need
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  to get this show on the air. Not who is going to be on it.
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  So another fun episode there is Britney Spears.
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  We did the the next week. And I always like doing those
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  pop episodes because it's just it is just that it's just fun
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  poppy music. And then there's a nice jump
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  here we have that was the last week of January.
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  Then we don't do a show for three weeks.
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  I don't know if I couldn't book anything or I was just taking
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  time off, like because one of them would have been Valentine's
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  Day. So I just didn't do a show on
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  Valentine's Day. Now that I record ahead of time,
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  it would just come out, but we would have been live on
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  Valentine's Day. And you know who's going to do
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  that? But we did.
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  Sick Man of Virginia here and this is our first foray into
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  covering a local band and trying to give them some run.
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  And so if you've not heard our sick man of Virginia episode, I
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  highly recommend that. I highly recommend fans of Ween
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  for sure would be into sick man of Virginia.
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  They're great good dudes. Roxy Music there Queens of the
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  Stone Age not a surf is another only one other person episode.
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  So whenever, like whenever these come up, I'm always thinking of
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  ways like I think this format would be a way for us to revisit
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  nada surf, Limp Bizkit, Blink 182.
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  Like the idea of them getting an actual full panel to talk about
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  the band and it was John from the daycations was on that
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  episode and it was fun, obviously, but you you feel like
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  the band gets a little robbed in those situations.
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  You know, my wife is always pointing out like for Hanson,
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  the same thing. Like she's insisting I do like a
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  full on Hanson episode. I don't know, I mean, but this
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  having this might be a way to revisit that that idea.
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  We did a Stevie Wonder Part 1 there.
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  Justin Timberlake again, those saccharine pop acts, super fun
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  Afghan Whigs. We had Bob Skype in at the time.
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  The Flaming Lips. So Peter returns to the show.
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  This might only be Peter's second episode 'cause he did
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  Faith No More in year 1. And The Flaming Lips is the
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  first time where we're covering bandits.
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  It's Peter and Matt Wade, and I can't I can't break apart the
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  songs like it. It became hard to cover the band
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  in this way because it felt like so many of the albums kind of
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  just worked together. Metallica, my friend Talbert,
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  that's his first episode. The Monkeys.
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  We did another local act, Ugliography, in May.
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  So at this point we're still in the Studio Clubhouse for the
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  Monkeys and Ugliography and then we did Gorillas and then, yeah,
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  I guess the end of May is when we moved.
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  So this this is kind of a huge moment in the show because it
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  kind of changes the energy that I can put into the show.
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  We did wean at the Studio clubhouse in Norfolk.
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  Well, at the whatever, I don't know if we had a name, the
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  studio in Norfolk and it was a big move and in theory was the
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  right move. You know, we won't get into all
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  the whys and what's of why it ended up being wrong, but ween
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  ween happens. I had Matt Holman of Sick Man on
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  that episode and then Joe Welch called in and I dumped him off
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  the phone, but I think he was trying to be on the show and I
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  just didn't clock it. And I think it's actually Matt
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  Hallman and Matt Thomas on Wean having a hard time remembering
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  that huge memory. We did Stone Temple Pilots.
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  Next is I threw out Unglued, I think as the first, the first.
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  No, it was tumble in the rough. I threw out first because I
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  thought for sure I was going to land one of the guys.
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  It was the the guys from Pissed Sports, which is Corey O'Neill
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  and James Clark and it went right into the bin.
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  Right off the right off RIP, it goes into the bin and that is in
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  June of that year. The next week we do Depeche
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  Mode, which funnily enough ends up being like the most
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  depressing episode. I think it was just so much
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  misses. And I mean, of course the music,
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  but I was super depressed because I could see that the the
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  station was falling to pieces and it was really hard for me to
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  stay on top of booking my shows and what was going on with the
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  station. Yeah, 'cause there's only two
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  left here. We did propaganda next and then
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  we closed out with Car Seat Headrest was the very last
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  episode that we did in 2017, and that's the end of July.
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  And it was the very last thing to happen at that studio because
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  after we finished it, this is well before we started doing the
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  after the facts. This is well before like again,
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  the show is morphed at this point to try and get somebody
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  in. So it's it's no longer just kind
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  of, hey, we really like this band.
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  And obviously at this point, my wife was very correct.
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  I had to start taking on bands that I wasn't aware of.
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  Now, Car Seat Headrest is not one of those bands because I was
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  very well aware of them. We had them on on my old show,
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  Your Music show, but you can still find the video of them
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  playing in DJ's kitchen on YouTube and they've both done
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  rather well. And I I heard a good portion of
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  their music from band camp when we were still doing that show
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  like regularly. So this they weren't brand new
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  to me, but it was interesting to kind of have that tie and have
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  this be the last last. I think this was Matt Thomas as
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  well. Matt Thomas and James Duvall
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  were on this one, and Matt leaves.
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  And as soon as so this is the interesting tidbit, after the
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  show is over, that episode, we finished, I log off, we go off
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  air, and as soon as that happens, I start taking apart
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  the studio. And as soon as the studio's
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  taken apart, I drive to Matt Wade's house and put all the
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  stuff in his garage and go home. I don't get home until probably
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  like two or three in the morning that, that day.
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  And that's the end of RFR. That's the end, I presume, of,
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  of deprogrammed. At that point, I, I'm resigned
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  to the fact that it, it was just part of the station and it was
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  going to just be done again. This is, this is July of 2017
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  and I, I think it's over and that that's going to be the end
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  of it. And that's 2017 in July.
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  If you guys are still interested.
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  I'm, I'm considering probably doing at least 2018 and possibly
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  2019. I'll probably stop there.
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  There's because I, I think maybe 2019 is where like the last kind
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  of rule changes go into place and the show kind of morphs into
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  what it is now. But yeah, that's year 2 of
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  Deprogrammed. If you enjoyed it, please hit
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  the subscribe button. Tomorrow, of course, is a brand
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  new episode of Deprogrammed. And on Friday I will do AQ and a
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  lots of questions in the discord.
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  And yeah, with that, how did I, God, how did I already forget
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  the sign off for this? We'll see you tomorrow.
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  Goodbye.