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O'Brien & Doug S5:E21 [April 7, 2022 The Brilliant Idiots] · O'Brien & Doug

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SPEAKER_01: The O'Brien and Doug podcast is brought to you in part by MojurMultimedia.com.
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SPEAKER_01: The rich runner for the Westfield Lake.
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SPEAKER_01: Doug's cousin left.
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SPEAKER_06: I don't know if my underwear.
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SPEAKER_06: I'm definitely not wearing my underwear.
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SPEAKER_06: Not my underwear.
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SPEAKER_02: This.
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SPEAKER_02: Yo yo, this is the O'Brien and Doug Podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: Why don't you stand on the face of a little card?
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the O'Brien and Doug Podcast.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm O'Brien.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm Doug.
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SPEAKER_01: Hello, everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to uh did I just lose myself?
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SPEAKER_01: No.
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to um season five, episode 20, which ordinarily would be the final episode of this season.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: But we're keeping it going because we're almost at a hundred episodes.
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SPEAKER_05: This is number ninety-eight.
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SPEAKER_01: Ninety-eight.
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SPEAKER_05: We I think haven't we officially been doing the podcast for two years now?
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SPEAKER_01: We have because it's April 5th.
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SPEAKER_01: Today's April 4th.
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SPEAKER_01: Today's April 4th.
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SPEAKER_01: We started like April 2nd or something?
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SPEAKER_01: Something like that last year.
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SPEAKER_01: Or two years ago.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So speaking of that, uh I got a notification today where most podcasts uh celebrate like hundreds of thousands of downloads and stuff like that.
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SPEAKER_01: Umgratulations, O'Brien and Doug.
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SPEAKER_01: You have 4,000 podcast downloads.
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SPEAKER_01: Yay! Oh, hold on.
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SPEAKER_03: I got a There it is.
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SPEAKER_03: Thanks, everybody.
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SPEAKER_05: You know, some podcasts get that in a single day.
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SPEAKER_05: It's taking us two years to get to 4,000.
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SPEAKER_05: It's okay.
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SPEAKER_05: We'll take it.
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SPEAKER_01: We'll take it.
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SPEAKER_01: It's still cool, man.
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SPEAKER_01: Um sweet.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna we're gonna try and get to uh a hundred.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, we will get to a hundred, but uh we're trying.
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SPEAKER_01: Number ninety eight.
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SPEAKER_01: We're trying to get um our band, uh Josh uh Kovach uh from Nashville and Shane Mountain from Southern Maine um to be on next episode.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And then we're gonna try and get uh our friend Bob to be on the final episode because well why not?
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SPEAKER_01: It's Bob.
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SPEAKER_01: We haven't had Bob out of a while.
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SPEAKER_01: I know in the ocean we need to, you know, get him in the real because the ocean is really loud down there.
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SPEAKER_01: It is really loud down there.
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SPEAKER_01: And Bob needs adult attention.
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SPEAKER_01: He does.
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SPEAKER_01: Um I'm you know, I have to say, we these my kids are still sick.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh and I don't understand it.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh well I g I guess I do understand it.
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SPEAKER_01: Um and I think I talked about this a little bit before.
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SPEAKER_01: We took the masks off at in in our schools.
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SPEAKER_01: And you know, the longer you have those masks on, and I'm and I'm not against I g I guess I I'm when we were in the middle of the pandemic, uh I I I understood.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, and I understood, you know, b precautions and and everything.
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SPEAKER_01: And we had the masks on for a long time, but it was inevitable when you took the masks off, your immune system is shot.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And my kids have been sick on and off for like a month.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um they had they had the stomach flu, uh, they had a mild cold.
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SPEAKER_01: Now they have a uh a bad cold.
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SPEAKER_01: Finn is still um, you know, wrapped up in a in a pretty bad cold.
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SPEAKER_01: Eli had a stuffy nose, and I just I want to get out of it.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, I want to I want to.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, that's it's gonna be a while.
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SPEAKER_01: And it also is the changing of the seasons, too.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that doesn't help any.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and there's allergies and uh and all kinds of stuff like that.
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SPEAKER_01: So my kids are sick, but I wanted to share with you that um my daughter did something pretty cool uh yesterday.
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SPEAKER_01: We're recording this on Monday, so this would have been Sunday.
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SPEAKER_01: She went to a uh friend of hers birthday party, and I think we might have opened up the floodgates.
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SPEAKER_01: Um and we may have a direct path to the poorhouse.
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SPEAKER_01: Um of course we can say no, but she went horseback riding.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um at uh a great place just down the road, actually, two minutes down the road.
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SPEAKER_01: Um from here?
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SPEAKER_01: From here, uh East of Eden Stables.
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SPEAKER_01: And that a book.
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SPEAKER_01: East of Eden.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: I think it was a book.
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SPEAKER_01: Steinbeck?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so yep, you're right.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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SPEAKER_01: Um Wow, are you you amazed you remembered that?
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SPEAKER_01: I am, because I never read that book.
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SPEAKER_01: Steinbeck?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Steinbeck, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't even know what it's about.
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SPEAKER_01: East of Eden.
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SPEAKER_01: It's also a movie, I believe.
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SPEAKER_01: They made it into a movie.
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SPEAKER_05: My parents had it in their bookshelf and I used to draw in it when I was a kid.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: That's all that's all I uh got out of that book.
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SPEAKER_05: So I wonder if they still have it.
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SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_05: I wonder if there's something really profound written in it.
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SPEAKER_05: Probably.
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SPEAKER_05: From when I was like five.
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SPEAKER_05: Probably.
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SPEAKER_05: I like poop.
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SPEAKER_01: Um oh before I go on, I have to say someone uh who was it?
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, it was somebody who listening to the podcast.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, they're the one back episodes.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh they were listening to it.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, you know who it was?
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: Was it Morton?
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SPEAKER_01: It might have been Morton.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh it might have been Morton.
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SPEAKER_01: Because apparently Morton's kids love listening to our podcast when they're on the road and stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, when they're on the road.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And so uh I I I think it was him that that that told me this.
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SPEAKER_01: They were listening, and then um we're normally a G-rated show.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: And y we quoted multiplicity.
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SPEAKER_01: You know exactly what I'm talking about.
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SPEAKER_01: I do know, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So that got a little uh a chuckle out of the kids.
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SPEAKER_01: Which is, you know, which is fine.
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SPEAKER_05: Well better they learned it here than on the street run.
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SPEAKER_01: So Sesame Street.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, then the next, the next.
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SPEAKER_01: I just figured out what we'll talk about but with Bob.
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SPEAKER_01: What?
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SPEAKER_01: Sesame Street?
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SPEAKER_01: No, the birds and the bees.
5:47
SPEAKER_01: Oh, good lord.
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SPEAKER_01: That could be O'Brien and Doug 100th episode.
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SPEAKER_01: The Birds and the Bees with Bob.
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SPEAKER_01: That's gonna be a good one.
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SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, she went horseback riding uh with a couple of her friends, and uh, you know, she didn't want me to stay there.
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SPEAKER_01: She's at almost eight years old now.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, you're come on, Dad.
6:12
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you want me to stay and and and hang?
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SPEAKER_01: No, nope, nope, okay.
6:16
SPEAKER_01: Well, I had to leave.
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SPEAKER_01: So I came up.
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SPEAKER_01: She she is a pretty independent.
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SPEAKER_01: She's very independent, yes.
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SPEAKER_01: But she fell in love with the horses, obviously.
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SPEAKER_01: Of course, of course.
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SPEAKER_01: They um because they they fed them, they brushed them, they rode them.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean they it was and I told her she was worried about the the the poop smell.
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SPEAKER_01: She says, because every time we we would drive by a farm, it would smell of poop.
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SPEAKER_01: I said, You know, when you're around it all the time, you you you you don't notice it.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And and she uh she said the same thing.
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SPEAKER_01: She said, Yeah, I didn't even notice it after a while.
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SPEAKER_01: Anyway, so there's that.
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SPEAKER_01: And now she wants to go like every weekend.
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SPEAKER_01: And the way the way this this stable works is you have to get a time slot for a lesson.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And if you you know if you want to keep coming, you have to keep that time slot.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's um that's not it's not expensive, but it's not cheap.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: And she it's quite a commitment.
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SPEAKER_01: It is quite a commitment.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And she wants you know she's already said that she wants to sign up and she wants to go.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: And me being, you know, trying to be the good dad, I I don't want to say no.
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SPEAKER_01: But also, before this happened, she came to me one day.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh I have a violin here, a pretty nice violin, actually.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: She wants to take violin lessons.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, cool.
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SPEAKER_01: And luckily one of our sponsors, KMH Music, uh will be offering violin lessons very soon.
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SPEAKER_01: And um they needed so many people to say whether they want to take lessons in order for them to offer them.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: And we were the one of the ones that said, yes, Myra would be interested in taking violin lessons.
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SPEAKER_01: And then we didn't hear anything for a while.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, we heard something.
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SPEAKER_01: And they're gonna do it.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, good.
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SPEAKER_01: And so um I feel obligated, because we were one of the ones that said we're gonna do it.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
8:10
SPEAKER_01: I feel obligated to give her violin lessons before I give her riding lessons because we were part of the reason they offered violin lessons.
8:21
SPEAKER_05: Does that make sense?
8:21
SPEAKER_05: No, it makes perfect sense.
8:22
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Because you can't play a horse.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
8:25
SPEAKER_05: Right.
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SPEAKER_05: Wilber.
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SPEAKER_05: That's a G chord.
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SPEAKER_06: Such a dork.
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SPEAKER_06: Don't push there.
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SPEAKER_05: Oh, that feels good.
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SPEAKER_01: Um so so uh I have her sign up for Mondays uh to take violin lessons, possibly starting next week.
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SPEAKER_01: Who's who's uh who's the teacher?
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SPEAKER_01: Andrew Sullivan.
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SPEAKER_01: Um I know.
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SPEAKER_01: I yeah, okay, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh uh, believe they call him Sully.
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SPEAKER_01: Um he if they don't, they should.
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SPEAKER_01: They should, yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: I believe he's from like uh New Sweden or Woodland or something like that.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So he's gonna come down and and uh he's gonna he's gonna give lessons in that.
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SPEAKER_01: Um I'm excited about it because I just want to see if she sticks with it because I don't think it's gonna be easy.
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SPEAKER_01: Especially I have a uh a full-size violin.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, she's and I sent I sent him a tiny yeah, I sent him an email and I gotta I imagine he's probably got several different sizes and he'll maybe he'll provide a violin.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: But I'm excited about that uh because she's excited about it.
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SPEAKER_01: Well good.
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SPEAKER_01: But she's not as excited about that as the horses, so I'm a little weary about that.
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SPEAKER_05: Well that could be uh I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
9:40
SPEAKER_05: I mean if you could do both, that'd be great.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
9:43
SPEAKER_05: But you know.
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SPEAKER_05: Anyway.
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SPEAKER_02: I I don't know.
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SPEAKER_05: I don't have kids, so I don't I can't uh weigh in on the you know on uh I would like to see you with kids, actually.
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SPEAKER_00: I think that would be a good one.
9:54
SPEAKER_00: Oh good Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: That would be scary.
9:57
SPEAKER_00: It would be scary.
9:58
SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
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SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
9:59
SPEAKER_05: I don't even know, man, because I I can't I can barely take care of myself.
10:03
SPEAKER_05: I can't I can I don't I can't imagine taking care of a human being that has my DNA makeup.
10:09
SPEAKER_05: Because that would just be little dog, where are you?
10:13
SPEAKER_02: No! No! Oh for God's sake, no! You know what I mean?
10:19
SPEAKER_02: Just be like truck! That's not your truck! Don't you drive out of my parking lot?
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SPEAKER_02: Don't you go down the street?
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's good.
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SPEAKER_05: But I don't know.
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SPEAKER_05: I was I I was such a quiet kid though.
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SPEAKER_05: So I I imagine my kid would probably go through that phase.
10:43
SPEAKER_05: I didn't come out of my show till like high school.
10:45
SPEAKER_05: I was just gonna say, you weren't that quiet in high school.
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SPEAKER_05: No, in in high school I came out of my show.
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SPEAKER_05: When I started working, I uh uh I blame Sean Gillen.
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SPEAKER_05: Sheriff Gillen.
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SPEAKER_05: Sheriff Gillen.
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SPEAKER_05: I blame him.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: He uh he's the one that kind of brought me out of my show when we started lifeguarding together at the pool because he was just as you know, he just loved to do his stuff, and so he gotta drag me with it.
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SPEAKER_05: You know, so finally I was like, yeah, I like this.
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SPEAKER_05: This is fun.
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SPEAKER_05: But uh yeah, but I was a quiet kid.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I was kind of a shy kid and quiet kid and didn't say much.
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SPEAKER_05: And so I imagine uh, you know, any any offspring of mine would probably go through that phase too.
11:21
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: So but you know, I don't know.
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SPEAKER_05: After but if they came out of the show, then you know that would be just be like scary.
11:27
SPEAKER_05: I need I need like a full-time police officer, you know, close by, you know, paramedic, you know, somebody just get a be cough, be cough.
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SPEAKER_02: You don't know what he's gonna do.
11:38
SPEAKER_01: All right.
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SPEAKER_01: Um we should say that we played, well, we played our, I think our which was our last uh acoustic show at the Big Rock Mountain.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah, uh ski season's done.
11:48
SPEAKER_05: Uh for those of you that don't live in an area that has snow, um it's April 4th and we still have snow.
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SPEAKER_01: We still have snow.
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SPEAKER_05: People were still skiing as of yesterday.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes, so um and so we played to a rowdy crowd.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And uh it was it was great.
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SPEAKER_01: We had a good time.
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SPEAKER_05: Well, I I blame the Canadians.
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SPEAKER_05: Yes, they're allowed to come back across the border now, and uh they are taking full advantage of it, and they are just as crazy as ever.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, and and they were happy.
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SPEAKER_01: They were very happy, very generous, happy in more ways than one.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, uh happy to be there, so uh and we were happy to entertain.
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SPEAKER_05: Yes.
12:24
SPEAKER_05: Um yeah, we hadn't seen the you know some of them in a couple years, and it was nice to see them see familiar faces and stuff like that.
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SPEAKER_01: So for sure.
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SPEAKER_05: Like for sure, yeah.
12:35
SPEAKER_05: Gang me with spoon.
12:37
SPEAKER_01: So our other band, uh, we've been dormant for the winter, basically.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh we've always said that we're like we're like bears.
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SPEAKER_01: We want we want to try and learn some new music, and we did.
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SPEAKER_01: We learned mm maybe four songs, four, five, six songs, maybe.
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SPEAKER_01: Did we?
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SPEAKER_01: I think well, did we?
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SPEAKER_01: Because we play them like once or twice.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, for us that's learning them.
12:56
SPEAKER_01: That is true.
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SPEAKER_05: When we when we play them once, we're like, oh, we got that next song.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, pretty much.
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SPEAKER_01: But we always have designs on learning like ten new songs.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
13:06
SPEAKER_05: And it's always nice to have, you know, yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Give give give out something new.
13:11
SPEAKER_01: Right.
13:11
SPEAKER_01: But you know, everybody's busy.
13:13
SPEAKER_01: And uh it's it's hard to get it's like you know, that old term, it's like hurting cats.
13:17
SPEAKER_01: It's it's true.
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SPEAKER_01: It is.
13:19
SPEAKER_05: Um but we We are like hurting cats.
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SPEAKER_05: We are a band of cats.
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SPEAKER_01: Hey.
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SPEAKER_01: A band name.
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SPEAKER_05: No.
13:27
SPEAKER_05: No.
13:27
SPEAKER_05: That's not very good.
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SPEAKER_01: Band of cats?
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SPEAKER_05: Band of cats, no.
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SPEAKER_05: I don't like it.
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SPEAKER_05: Brilliant idiots.
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SPEAKER_05: Um I'm really happy with.
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SPEAKER_01: Brilliant.
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SPEAKER_01: Brilliant idiots.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes.
13:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: I I think that next time we play out just you and I, yeah, that's what we're gonna build ourselves out.
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SPEAKER_01: The brilliant idiots.
13:43
SPEAKER_01: The brilliant idiots.
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SPEAKER_01: Fantastic.
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SPEAKER_01: I like that.
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SPEAKER_05: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: Um so we do have some shows coming up.
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SPEAKER_01: We're doing a pretty cool thing for the schools uh this coming well, well, not this coming Friday, but the Friday after.
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SPEAKER_08: Next Friday.
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SPEAKER_01: Next Friday.
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SPEAKER_08: Yay!
13:56
SPEAKER_01: Uh we we we try and get into the schools as much as possible.
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SPEAKER_01: Um because music education and just Wasn't March music education.
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SPEAKER_01: I believe it is.
14:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: I believe it is.
14:08
SPEAKER_01: So we're a little late.
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SPEAKER_01: We're we're we're getting together with uh some some local schools and and we're putting on a couple performances.
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SPEAKER_01: And just to get people just to get the kids excited about playing music.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: And um picking up an instrument and well, you know, showing that you know, you just because you play saxophone in the school band doesn't mean you have to stop playing saxophone when you graduate from school.
14:27
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
14:28
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
14:28
SPEAKER_01: And you it's you you played saxophone because you enjoy it, right?
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SPEAKER_01: So why not keep enjoying it and and realizing that that that is possible outside uh outside school.
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SPEAKER_05: So I think I think we could become like um the start the syndicate could become like Chicago or um Tower of Power, where we just like as members like die off or leave the band, we bring in new ones.
14:54
SPEAKER_01: Speaking of that, no not really not really.
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SPEAKER_01: But uh and I haven't mentioned this to our our uh captain, mm uh Chris Morton yet.
15:04
SPEAKER_01: But um we're one of the places we're playing is is the Prescott Middle School.
15:09
SPEAKER_01: Right.
15:10
SPEAKER_01: And once we figure out what songs we're playing, I'm gonna lobby to have both of my boys come up on stage.
15:20
SPEAKER_01: Because one of them plays one of them plays trombone and one of them plays trumpet.
15:25
SPEAKER_01: And just like on one song, I want I I'm gonna see if I'm I'm gonna run it by him.
15:30
SPEAKER_01: And if he says, you know, that's not a good idea, then that's fine.
15:32
SPEAKER_01: But just pick one song and I say, hey guys, you learn this one.
15:36
SPEAKER_01: And uh and and that would be cool.
15:39
SPEAKER_05: I freaking love that idea.
15:41
SPEAKER_01: Wouldn't that be cool?
15:41
SPEAKER_01: That would be awesome.
15:42
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
15:43
SPEAKER_01: So but I they gotta get better.
15:44
SPEAKER_01: Finn stayed home again from school today.
15:46
SPEAKER_05: Oh, is he still sick?
15:47
SPEAKER_01: He's still sick.
15:48
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
15:49
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh, so it's just uh they gotta get over this, whatever it is.
15:53
SPEAKER_01: Uh it's a combination of everything.
15:55
SPEAKER_01: So uh but I'm excited about that.
15:57
SPEAKER_01: I uh and again I'll have to mention that to Chris Morton.
15:59
SPEAKER_01: I keep I keep uh forgetting to do that.
16:02
SPEAKER_01: But that would be fun.
16:02
SPEAKER_01: I think it'd be I think it'd be awesome.
16:04
SPEAKER_05: That would be awesome.
16:04
SPEAKER_05: I think I and I think uh I think their classmates would be like, whoa, they get to play with that.
16:09
SPEAKER_01: Right, yeah, yeah.
16:10
SPEAKER_01: I think that yeah, the prestige of course we maybe we think higher higher of ourselves than I just said that we could be like Chicago or Tower of Power.
16:21
SPEAKER_05: So yeah, we're maybe maybe a little you know, the band ego.
16:24
SPEAKER_05: You know, it's not necessarily a band ego, but it's it's my perception of the band.
16:29
SPEAKER_05: That we're on the side.
16:30
SPEAKER_01: Now that's a band title.
16:32
SPEAKER_01: Bandigo.
16:33
SPEAKER_01: Bandigo.
16:34
SPEAKER_01: Or no, that'll be a title.
16:37
SPEAKER_05: That's an out that's definitely an out.
16:38
SPEAKER_01: Bandigo.
16:39
SPEAKER_01: Bandigo.
16:40
SPEAKER_05: Is that really close to extremes?
16:42
SPEAKER_05: Kid ego?
16:43
SPEAKER_01: Kid ego, band ego.
16:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I guess so.
16:46
SPEAKER_01: Nah, two different things.
16:47
SPEAKER_01: We'll make it one word, bandigo.
16:49
SPEAKER_01: Bandigo.
16:49
SPEAKER_01: Bandigo.
16:51
SPEAKER_05: Then that could be a band name.
16:52
SPEAKER_05: Right, bandigo make it one world?
16:54
SPEAKER_05: Right, bandigo.
16:55
SPEAKER_05: Bandigo.
16:56
unknown: Oh.
16:57
SPEAKER_05: I like that.
16:57
SPEAKER_05: So we got brilliant idiots and bandigo.
17:00
SPEAKER_01: Oh, how about bandigo?
17:01
SPEAKER_01: How about bandigo and the brilliant idiots?
17:04
SPEAKER_05: Even better.
17:05
SPEAKER_05: Then they'll be like, who's bandigo?
17:08
SPEAKER_05: I know who the brilliant i am.
17:09
SPEAKER_05: I know who the brilliant idiots are.
17:11
SPEAKER_05: I know where the brilliant idiots are.
17:12
SPEAKER_01: Hey everybody, brilliant idiot here.
17:16
SPEAKER_01: Uh and then we got uh some shows coming up throughout the summer.
17:18
SPEAKER_01: Of course, we're playing the big festivals and uh uh in the area, and so we're excited about that.
17:23
SPEAKER_05: And one of these days we're we're playing the valley again, right?
17:25
SPEAKER_01: We're playing the valley.
17:26
SPEAKER_01: Good.
17:26
SPEAKER_01: We love playing the valley.
17:27
SPEAKER_05: I love playing up there, man.
17:28
SPEAKER_01: Um fun loving people, man.
17:30
SPEAKER_05: They like to have fun.
17:31
SPEAKER_01: Um hopefully one of these days we're gonna get downstate.
17:34
SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, and play some Captain Central Maine or Southern Maine.
17:37
SPEAKER_05: Well, we play Oakfield.
17:38
SPEAKER_05: That's as far south as.
17:38
SPEAKER_05: Well, we played Danforth a couple years ago.
17:41
SPEAKER_05: That's that's pretty far south.
17:43
SPEAKER_05: Probably never gonna happen again.
17:44
SPEAKER_05: But yeah, yeah.
17:45
SPEAKER_05: I hope not.
17:47
SPEAKER_05: No, no offense to the Danford.
17:50
SPEAKER_05: But that was just a that was a Charlie Fox drop from the start almost.
17:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we I mean we we played well, I think.
17:56
SPEAKER_01: I thought it was fun.
17:58
SPEAKER_01: Too bad that yeah.
17:59
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, uh so yeah, southern Maine or or Central Maine or something like that.
18:05
SPEAKER_05: We we'll we'll we'll or just south just south of Oakfield.
18:09
SPEAKER_05: I mean, I don't even really care, man.
18:10
SPEAKER_01: Broaden our horizons, man.
18:12
SPEAKER_01: You gotta start somewhere.
18:13
SPEAKER_01: But we're excited about the new season um for Star City Syndicate.
18:16
SPEAKER_01: Uh and if you want to follow us, Facebook.com slash Star City Syndicate.
18:19
SPEAKER_01: We're also on StarCity Syndicate.com, um, which I don't think we use anymore.
18:24
SPEAKER_01: Do we use the website anymore?
18:26
SPEAKER_01: What's a website?
18:26
SPEAKER_01: To put the to put the dates up there.
18:29
SPEAKER_01: I think everybody uses social media now.
18:31
SPEAKER_05: Uh that's pretty much that's your website now.
18:33
SPEAKER_05: If you have a Facebook page or an Instagram profile, that's your web page.
18:38
SPEAKER_06: Yep, pretty much.
18:39
SPEAKER_01: I'm just looking for sounds on the I'm just looking at this to make sure we're still you just dropped your phone.
18:44
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I know, I saw that.
18:45
SPEAKER_06: So now that's gonna break.
18:48
SPEAKER_01: Well, they don't know that.
18:49
SPEAKER_01: We're pretending that no, but nothing happened.
18:50
SPEAKER_05: Nothing did happen, right?
18:52
SPEAKER_05: What are you talking about?
18:52
SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
18:53
SPEAKER_05: Don't be such a brilliant idiot.
18:56
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so um a couple of things.
18:59
SPEAKER_01: I wanted to I have something else that we can do because before we get to the uh letter of the day, um I found a thing on ultimate classicrock.com.
19:09
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
19:09
SPEAKER_01: Which is pretty cool.
19:10
SPEAKER_01: And this may surprise you.
19:12
SPEAKER_01: Some of it may some of it may not surprise you, uh, but some of it I think will.
19:18
SPEAKER_01: Um these are bands or artists that have never had a number one single.
19:28
SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's that's interesting.
19:29
SPEAKER_01: Um they may have had a number one album, but they've never had a song to go number one.
19:35
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
19:36
SPEAKER_01: Uh and and and again, I think I think you'll uh you'll be surprised.
19:40
SPEAKER_01: I'm sure I will.
19:41
SPEAKER_01: Um A C D C.
19:45
SPEAKER_05: I find it easy to believe.
19:48
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
19:49
SPEAKER_01: The closest they got was Money Talks.
19:53
SPEAKER_01: Really?
19:53
SPEAKER_01: That song?
19:54
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
19:54
SPEAKER_01: Money Talks uh Money Talks stalled at number 23.
20:00
SPEAKER_01: 23?
20:01
SPEAKER_01: That was their highest charting US single, which was back in 1990, was number 23.
20:06
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
20:06
SPEAKER_01: I thought Thunderstruck would have been higher than that.
20:08
SPEAKER_05: That's exactly what I was gonna say.
20:09
SPEAKER_05: I thought Thunderstruck would be higher.
20:11
SPEAKER_01: Yep, but Money Talks was the highest one.
20:13
SPEAKER_01: 23.
20:14
SPEAKER_01: Uh and a lot of right, and a lot of these bands have had uh top 20 singles, top 10 singles, maybe even top five, but never number one.
20:23
SPEAKER_05: Interesting.
20:24
SPEAKER_01: Bad company.
20:26
SPEAKER_05: That I believe.
20:26
SPEAKER_05: I that I actually kind of believe.
20:28
SPEAKER_01: The closest they got was Can't Get Enough, which was number five.
20:31
SPEAKER_01: Uh uh Black Sabbath, probably believe that.
20:34
SPEAKER_01: I believe that.
20:34
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Paranoid was the closest that they got.
20:36
SPEAKER_01: Really?
20:36
SPEAKER_01: Paranoid?
20:37
SPEAKER_01: Paranoid, yeah, and that was uh number 52.
20:40
SPEAKER_01: Oh no, I'm sorry.
20:40
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, number four in the UK, and then um their career high was number 52 for 71's Iron Man on the Billboard uh Hot 100.
20:50
SPEAKER_01: Bruce Springsteen has never had a number one song.
20:53
SPEAKER_05: That I'm actually surprised by.
20:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, me too.
20:56
SPEAKER_01: Uh Springsteen has written a number one single, which was Blinded by the Light, but it was by Manford Man's Earth Band.
21:02
SPEAKER_05: Right.
21:03
SPEAKER_01: They had the number one.
21:04
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
21:04
SPEAKER_01: But he wrote it, so I guess technically he had it.
21:06
SPEAKER_05: So he's had a number one song, just uh never on his own.
21:09
SPEAKER_01: Dancing in the dark uh was hit number two.
21:12
SPEAKER_05: I was gonna say uh Born in the USA.
21:14
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no.
21:15
SPEAKER_01: Really?
21:15
SPEAKER_01: No.
21:16
SPEAKER_01: Wow, interesting.
21:16
SPEAKER_01: Dancing in the dark number two.
21:18
SPEAKER_01: Um The Clash, I believe.
21:20
SPEAKER_01: That I believe.
21:21
SPEAKER_01: I believe they never had a number one.
21:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
21:23
SPEAKER_01: Um Rocky.
21:24
SPEAKER_05: Well, in in pot you know, in punk rock culture, to get you know, to make the sell.
21:28
SPEAKER_05: That's your sell-off then.
21:30
SPEAKER_01: So what do you think the what do you think the biggest hit they had was?
21:32
SPEAKER_01: Rock the Casbuff.
21:34
SPEAKER_01: It was number eight.
21:34
SPEAKER_01: Really?
21:35
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
21:35
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
21:36
SPEAKER_01: Uh Creden's Clearwater Revival.
21:38
SPEAKER_01: Really?
21:39
SPEAKER_01: Never a number one hit.
21:40
SPEAKER_04: That I can't believe.
21:42
SPEAKER_01: Um, let's see.
21:43
SPEAKER_01: Which w what what was their highest chance?
21:46
SPEAKER_01: Well, they had they had Proud Mary, Bad Moon, Rising, Green River, Traveling Band, Who's Top the Rain, and looking out my back door, and long as I can see light.
21:52
SPEAKER_01: Every single one of them hit number two.
21:54
SPEAKER_01: Never number one.
21:56
SPEAKER_01: Never a number one.
21:57
SPEAKER_01: Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
21:59
SPEAKER_01: Man.
22:00
SPEAKER_05: Always the Padawan, never the Jedi.
22:02
SPEAKER_01: Right.
22:02
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
22:03
SPEAKER_01: Bob Dylan.
22:04
SPEAKER_01: Bob Dylan has never had a big.
22:06
SPEAKER_01: Me too.
22:07
SPEAKER_01: Me too.
22:07
SPEAKER_01: He's a fantastic songwriter and he's not exactly captain pop music.
22:12
SPEAKER_01: Right.
22:12
SPEAKER_01: Like a Rolling Stone and Rainy Day Women, number 12 and 13.
22:16
SPEAKER_05: Rainy Day Women, really?
22:17
SPEAKER_01: Both reach number two.
22:18
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
22:23
SPEAKER_01: Crosby Steels and Ash, never a number one.
22:25
SPEAKER_01: That I believe.
22:27
SPEAKER_01: Let's see.
22:28
SPEAKER_01: Deep Purple, never a number one.
22:30
SPEAKER_01: That I believe.
22:30
SPEAKER_01: Smoke on the water wasn't a number one.
22:32
SPEAKER_01: It was uh let's see, number four.
22:35
SPEAKER_01: Well, no, number four was Hush.
22:37
SPEAKER_01: Number four in 1968 was their song Hush.
22:39
SPEAKER_01: And 73 Smoke on the Water.
22:41
SPEAKER_01: Uh and then Kentucky Woman, which reached number 38 in uh 1968.
22:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
22:47
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
22:48
SPEAKER_01: ELO.
22:50
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I believe it.
22:51
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
22:52
SPEAKER_01: Um Don't Bring Me Down was number four.
22:54
SPEAKER_05: Don't bring me down.
22:55
SPEAKER_01: Grateful Dead, I would I would understand Touch of Grey was number nine.
22:59
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I was just gonna say must be Touch of Grey.
23:01
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
23:01
SPEAKER_01: And then Trucken was number 64 in 1970.
23:05
SPEAKER_01: Here's one that blew me away.
23:07
SPEAKER_01: Green Day.
23:08
SPEAKER_01: When I come around.
23:10
SPEAKER_01: Do you know that song Never When I Come Around?
23:12
SPEAKER_01: Never Charted.
23:13
SPEAKER_01: Never charted.
23:14
SPEAKER_01: Never charted in all.
23:15
SPEAKER_01: Never charted on the Billboard 100.
23:17
SPEAKER_01: When Dookie came out, you couldn't get away from that freaking song.
23:20
SPEAKER_01: You know what else Never Charted?
23:22
SPEAKER_01: Goodridden's Time of Your Life.
23:24
SPEAKER_01: Really?
23:24
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
23:25
SPEAKER_01: In 1995, neither did 1997's Good Ridd's Time of Your Life.
23:29
SPEAKER_01: Green Day got closer with Boulevard of Broken Dreams, a number two hit in 2004.
23:34
SPEAKER_05: That was on American Idiot, right?
23:36
SPEAKER_01: Uh yes.
23:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
23:37
SPEAKER_01: I believe it was.
23:38
SPEAKER_01: So that song, Goodridden's Time of Your Life, that that was it's been used in graduations all across never charted.
23:45
SPEAKER_01: That's amazing.
23:46
SPEAKER_01: It is amazing.
23:48
SPEAKER_01: Don Hanley never had a number one hit.
23:51
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, but he was of the Eagles.
23:53
SPEAKER_01: I know, but I won't his solo career, though.
23:55
SPEAKER_01: I mean, like uh End of the Innocence.
23:57
SPEAKER_01: Um can't believe Boys of Summer.
24:00
SPEAKER_01: Boys of Summer.
24:00
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
24:00
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
24:01
SPEAKER_01: The the closest he got was the duet he did with Patty Smythe.
24:04
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough.
24:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
24:06
SPEAKER_05: That's a good song, though.
24:07
SPEAKER_01: Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship.
24:09
SPEAKER_01: Never had a number two.
24:10
SPEAKER_05: I can't believe that uh We Built This City never.
24:12
SPEAKER_05: Nope.
24:13
SPEAKER_01: Never never hit number one.
24:14
SPEAKER_05: Because you couldn't get away from that song either when it came out.
24:17
SPEAKER_01: Hendrix never had a number one.
24:19
SPEAKER_01: I believe that.
24:20
SPEAKER_01: That I believe, yeah.
24:21
SPEAKER_01: Uh but check this out Journey.
24:24
SPEAKER_01: Journey's never had a number one.
24:25
SPEAKER_01: Don't stop believing.
24:27
SPEAKER_01: You would think that that would have made it, but it didn't.
24:29
SPEAKER_01: Uh Who's Crying Now?
24:30
SPEAKER_01: Sure uh Open Arms, right?
24:32
SPEAKER_01: Uh Open Arms is the highest one.
24:34
SPEAKER_01: They got to number two.
24:36
SPEAKER_01: But they've never had a number one song.
24:38
SPEAKER_04: Wow.
24:38
SPEAKER_01: That's interesting.
24:39
SPEAKER_01: And they're still going strong today.
24:40
SPEAKER_04: Heck yeah.
24:41
SPEAKER_01: Judas Priest, I believe that.
24:43
SPEAKER_04: I believe yeah.
24:44
SPEAKER_01: Kansas, Carry On Wayward Sun was not a number one hit.
24:47
SPEAKER_01: Closest they got was Dust in the Wind, which was 19 oh, was number six in 1978.
24:53
SPEAKER_01: The Kings, or the Kinks, you really got me, all day and all night.
24:56
SPEAKER_01: They were n they were outcharted.
24:58
SPEAKER_01: Um and a little by Tired of Waiting for You and Come Dancing.
25:04
SPEAKER_01: They both hit number six.
25:05
SPEAKER_01: Come dance.
25:06
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
25:06
SPEAKER_01: Number six, but they've never had a number one.
25:08
SPEAKER_05: Wow.
25:08
SPEAKER_01: Kiss has never had a number one.
25:10
SPEAKER_05: That I actually believe, yeah.
25:11
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
25:12
SPEAKER_01: Do you know the closest they came?
25:14
SPEAKER_01: Was a Beth.
25:15
SPEAKER_01: No.
25:15
SPEAKER_01: Well, yes.
25:16
SPEAKER_01: Uh Beth hit number seven, but they've had nine top ten albums, including the the you know the album that got the highest on the charts for Kiss?
25:27
SPEAKER_01: The album, not the song, but the the album.
25:29
SPEAKER_06: Uh the first come alive, the Kiss Come Alive?
25:32
SPEAKER_06: Nope.
25:33
SPEAKER_06: No.
25:33
SPEAKER_06: It's gonna blow me away.
25:34
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
25:35
SPEAKER_05: Don't say Destroyer.
25:37
SPEAKER_01: No.
25:38
SPEAKER_01: No, this this album hit number two.
25:40
SPEAKER_01: Sonic Boom.
25:42
SPEAKER_01: Which was like 2000 2009.
25:47
SPEAKER_01: That was their highest charting album.
25:50
SPEAKER_01: That sucks.
25:53
SPEAKER_01: What the heck?
25:54
SPEAKER_01: Sonic Boom hit number two.
25:56
SPEAKER_01: Uh Led Zeppelin never had a number one.
25:58
SPEAKER_01: That I believe.
25:59
SPEAKER_01: Uh the closest they got was Whole Lot of Love, which was number four.
26:03
SPEAKER_01: And Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, remember the Honey Drippers?
26:06
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
26:06
SPEAKER_01: Sea of Love got to number three.
26:08
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, see, when that I remember when that song came out, you couldn't get away from that either.
26:12
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I know, but I love that song.
26:13
SPEAKER_01: That was like an old throwback retro song.
26:15
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
26:16
SPEAKER_01: Leonard Skinner never had a number one.
26:18
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
26:19
SPEAKER_01: Uh Sweet Home Alabama only hit number eight.
26:21
SPEAKER_01: Freebird cracked the top twenty.
26:23
SPEAKER_01: Metallica obviously has never had a number one song.
26:25
SPEAKER_01: No, I never expected to.
26:27
SPEAKER_01: Um The Moody Blues never had a number one song.
26:29
SPEAKER_01: Nirvana never had a number one song.
26:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I believe that.
26:32
SPEAKER_01: They had a number one album.
26:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
26:33
SPEAKER_01: But Teen Spirit got to number six.
26:35
SPEAKER_01: Uh Ozzy has never had number one.
26:37
SPEAKER_01: This this kind of blew me away.
26:39
SPEAKER_01: Ozzie Osborne Solo.
26:41
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
26:41
SPEAKER_01: Um think of these songs.
26:45
SPEAKER_01: A Mama, I'm Coming Home.
26:48
SPEAKER_05: I thought that would be a big one.
26:49
SPEAKER_05: Right?
26:49
SPEAKER_05: That was a big that was a big one.
26:51
SPEAKER_01: That was the closest he got, and it was number 28.
26:55
SPEAKER_01: That's it?
26:56
SPEAKER_01: That's as high as it can be.
26:57
SPEAKER_05: What about that one he did with Lita Four?
26:58
SPEAKER_01: Nope.
26:58
SPEAKER_01: Never closed my eye.
26:59
SPEAKER_01: Nope.
27:00
SPEAKER_01: Well, it's not listed here.
27:01
SPEAKER_01: Not listed at all.
27:02
SPEAKER_01: Nope.
27:02
SPEAKER_01: Not listed at all.
27:03
SPEAKER_05: Man, that's crazy.
27:04
SPEAKER_01: Pearl Jam never had a number one.
27:05
SPEAKER_01: That I believe.
27:06
SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know what the funny thing is, is um Alive, Even Flow, and Jeremy.
27:11
SPEAKER_01: Huge songs for Pearl Jam.
27:13
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
27:14
SPEAKER_01: They never, none, none of those songs went past number 79.
27:18
SPEAKER_04: Really?
27:18
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
27:19
SPEAKER_04: Man, that's crazy.
27:20
SPEAKER_01: I know.
27:20
SPEAKER_04: Because that album is awesome.
27:22
SPEAKER_01: The closest they got was a cover.
27:25
SPEAKER_01: Was Last Kiss.
27:26
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, I remember that.
27:27
SPEAKER_01: You remember that?
27:28
SPEAKER_01: It went to number two, I think.
27:29
SPEAKER_01: Really?
27:30
SPEAKER_01: And it was a charity single.
27:31
SPEAKER_01: Pat Benatar's never had a number one song.
27:33
SPEAKER_05: See, that's sad.
27:34
SPEAKER_05: As many songs as that woman's had out.
27:36
SPEAKER_01: Love is a Battlefield, We Belong.
27:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
27:38
SPEAKER_01: We would think that those have would have gone number one.
27:40
SPEAKER_01: The Ramones, obviously, never had number one.
27:42
SPEAKER_01: Red Hot Chili Peppers.
27:43
SPEAKER_01: Nope.
27:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I believe that.
27:44
SPEAKER_01: REM.
27:45
SPEAKER_05: I'm surprised Under the Bridge was probably Under the Bridge was probably the call.
27:48
SPEAKER_01: See, Under the Bridge.
27:50
SPEAKER_01: Uh the latter was kept out of the top spot by Chriss Cross's jump.
27:55
SPEAKER_01: Under the Bridge hit number two.
27:56
SPEAKER_05: Man, that's sad when your song can't beat two kids in backwards pants.
28:00
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
28:01
SPEAKER_01: REM, Losing My Religion was their highest.
28:04
SPEAKER_01: That went to number four.
28:05
SPEAKER_01: Rush, of course, did not have a number one.
28:07
SPEAKER_01: No.
28:07
SPEAKER_01: It had number two albums over the years.
28:09
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
28:10
SPEAKER_01: Steely Dan, Sting has never had a number one song.
28:13
SPEAKER_05: That I actually can't believe.
28:14
SPEAKER_01: No, because you can't get away from Sting song.
28:17
SPEAKER_01: Uh let's see.
28:18
SPEAKER_01: He had a collaborative U.S.
28:19
SPEAKER_01: chart topper with the police and a duet with Brian Adams and Rod Stewart, but his best performing solo song was If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free, which went to number three.
28:29
SPEAKER_04: What was that song?
28:30
SPEAKER_04: Um it was back in the 80s.
28:35
SPEAKER_04: Late 80s.
28:37
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, it would, it would, yeah.
28:41
SPEAKER_04: That song.
28:43
SPEAKER_04: What was the name of that song?
28:45
SPEAKER_01: Oh, um Surround Surround My Heart Your Heart.
28:50
SPEAKER_01: King uh oh uh Fortress Around Your Heart.
28:53
SPEAKER_01: Fortress Around Your Heart.
28:54
SPEAKER_01: Great song.
28:54
SPEAKER_01: That was an awesome song.
28:56
SPEAKER_05: It's probably my favorite sting.
28:57
SPEAKER_01: I think, yeah, I would I would agree with that.
28:59
SPEAKER_01: Um If I built this for around.
29:03
SPEAKER_04: This is such a great song, man.
29:04
SPEAKER_01: Um Super Tramp, not surprised there.
29:07
SPEAKER_01: No, I'm surprised.
29:07
SPEAKER_01: Talking heads, not really surprised there.
29:10
SPEAKER_01: This one I'm very surprised.
29:11
SPEAKER_01: Tom Petty.
29:12
SPEAKER_01: I am surprised.
29:13
SPEAKER_01: He never had a number one song.
29:14
SPEAKER_05: That I how uh like uh Free Fallen.
29:18
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
29:19
SPEAKER_01: Free Fallen.
29:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, let's see.
29:22
SPEAKER_01: He could get no closer than number seven.
29:24
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
29:24
SPEAKER_01: Yep, Free Fallen hit number seven.
29:26
SPEAKER_01: Stop dragging my heart around with Stevie Nicks, rose to number three, but he's never had a number one.
29:31
SPEAKER_01: That's too bad.
29:32
SPEAKER_01: Van Morrison, never a number one.
29:33
SPEAKER_01: Brown Eye Girl did not hit number one.
29:35
SPEAKER_01: That I'm not surprised by, actually.
29:36
SPEAKER_01: Uh The Who never had a number one.
29:38
SPEAKER_01: Not surprised.
29:39
SPEAKER_01: And the Yardbirds never had a number one.
29:41
SPEAKER_01: Not surprised.
29:42
SPEAKER_01: So on you know, along that same vein, so that's all from UltimateClassicrock.com.
29:46
SPEAKER_01: You can find it.
29:47
SPEAKER_01: Actually, where I found it was uh on a story about Starship.
29:50
SPEAKER_01: Uh really?
29:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because it was um Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now.
29:56
SPEAKER_01: Basically split up the band.
29:57
SPEAKER_01: That big hit that big hit that they had.
29:59
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
30:00
SPEAKER_01: Um because they they went like mainstream pop and you didn't really need the band anymore because you know they just needed the voice.
30:09
SPEAKER_01: Sure.
30:09
SPEAKER_01: So a lot of the pa a lot of the band members left.
30:11
SPEAKER_08: Yeah.
30:11
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, um, so along that same vein, all these artists that have never hit number one, I wanted to say on this day, um, April 4th, um the The Beatles held the top five places on the U.S.
30:25
SPEAKER_01: singles chart at number five, Please Please Me, number five, uh, number four, I want to hold your hand, number three, roll over Beethoven, number two, Love Me Do, and number one, Can't Buy Me Love.
30:34
SPEAKER_01: They also had another nine singles on the chart, bringing their total to 14 singles on the Hot 100 in 1964.
30:41
SPEAKER_05: I was gonna say it had to have been like 63, 66.
30:43
SPEAKER_01: 64.
30:44
SPEAKER_01: I don't know that there's anybody anybody else that has done that.
30:47
SPEAKER_01: No, there isn't.
30:48
SPEAKER_01: Nobody's have has ever done that before.
30:50
SPEAKER_01: Nobody, nobody has ever done it, and nobody ever will do it.
30:53
SPEAKER_01: I agree.
30:54
SPEAKER_01: Because the way that the whole system is set up, it won't happen again.
30:57
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
30:57
SPEAKER_01: But the Beatles, and of course, they have a whole they have a whole collection of number one songs.
31:02
SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
31:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
31:03
SPEAKER_05: That was like a double album.
31:04
SPEAKER_01: It was.
31:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was crazy, man.
31:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was it was crazy.
31:08
SPEAKER_01: So I just thought that was interesting in comparison.
31:10
SPEAKER_01: All these bands that we know and love have never hit.
31:13
SPEAKER_05: But you know, it but if you look at how many of those songs are just still around and still iconic, you know, maybe they were never a number one song, but they're they're living they're almost immortal.
31:26
SPEAKER_05: True.
31:26
SPEAKER_05: Yep, you know what I mean?
31:27
SPEAKER_05: Totally.
31:28
SPEAKER_05: Free fallen, man.
31:29
SPEAKER_05: That that song will never go away.
31:30
SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
31:31
SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
31:32
SPEAKER_05: You know, Nirvana's, any anything by Nirvana, especially like smells like Teen Spirit.
31:36
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
31:36
SPEAKER_05: That's never going away.
31:37
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
31:38
SPEAKER_01: Stuff like that.
31:38
SPEAKER_01: And it goes to show you that charts don't necessarily matter.
31:44
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's it it's what did you say?
31:45
SPEAKER_01: Charts.
31:46
SPEAKER_01: Oh, charts.
31:46
SPEAKER_01: I thought you said something about touchstone.
31:48
SPEAKER_05: I was like, what's touchstone?
31:50
SPEAKER_01: You know, the movie company?
31:52
SPEAKER_01: The touchstone of of of reaching number one.
31:55
SPEAKER_01: Touch my stones, touch it! Sorry, Morton.
32:01
SPEAKER_01: If your kids are listening, then we apologize.
32:07
SPEAKER_05: Hey kids.
32:08
SPEAKER_05: Hey DJ Macy Mace.
32:10
SPEAKER_05: Hey, Range, how's it going?
32:12
SPEAKER_05: Sorry.
32:12
SPEAKER_05: It's Uncle Doug.
32:14
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, he didn't mean that.
32:16
SPEAKER_01: But I mean, seriously, well, uh, we were just talking about how uh you were telling me Pink called out Rolling Stone.
32:22
SPEAKER_01: Dude.
32:22
SPEAKER_01: I mean she laid the smack down on Rolling Stone.
32:26
SPEAKER_01: So what happened?
32:27
SPEAKER_01: What tell me about it?
32:28
SPEAKER_01: Because uh you know, we're talking about how the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame doesn't matter.
32:32
SPEAKER_01: I think it was funny that that uh our friend Shane was catching up on the podcast and and we were comp we complained about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but then we talk about uh all the mistakes that made and we talk about it all the time, even though we think it doesn't matter.
32:44
SPEAKER_01: And it's true, but we have to have something to bitch about.
32:47
SPEAKER_01: It's just one of those things.
32:48
SPEAKER_05: Well, yeah, that's uh that's when you're from Maine, right?
32:51
SPEAKER_05: You have to have something to complain about.
32:52
SPEAKER_05: Right.
32:53
SPEAKER_05: Because there's a lot to complain about.
32:55
SPEAKER_05: And if you don't have anything to complain about, you must not be from Maine.
32:58
SPEAKER_01: Right.
32:58
SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
32:59
SPEAKER_01: So we talk about how the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame doesn't matter.
33:02
SPEAKER_01: Uh and now we're saying the the charts don't really matter because all these these fantastic artists.
33:08
SPEAKER_05: The charts used to matter.
33:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
33:09
SPEAKER_01: They no longer matter.
33:10
SPEAKER_01: They no longer matter.
33:11
SPEAKER_01: Um because all these these these artists that never went to ha never had a number one single are still in our hearts and and are still you know number one to us.
33:19
SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
33:20
SPEAKER_01: And and and and Pink now calling out periodicals like the roll like Rolling Stone magazine.
33:25
SPEAKER_01: So tell me this story.
33:27
SPEAKER_05: So this just came out today.
33:28
SPEAKER_05: Uh singer-songwriter Pink is not a fan of Rolling Stone magazine.
33:33
SPEAKER_05: That's the first sentence.
33:34
SPEAKER_05: I was like, okay.
33:35
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
33:36
SPEAKER_05: Uh the 42-year-old rocker, she's 42.
33:39
SPEAKER_05: 42, baby.
33:40
SPEAKER_05: Holy cow, she looks great.
33:41
SPEAKER_01: She does.
33:43
SPEAKER_01: Anyway.
33:44
SPEAKER_01: I mean, we do too, but so Oh.
33:47
SPEAKER_05: We look her age.
33:48
SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
33:49
SPEAKER_05: I don't know about you, but I do.
33:50
SPEAKER_05: I do too.
33:51
SPEAKER_05: Uh the 42-year-old rocker made her strong opinions, no for the publication, posted a recent article documenting the top 25 Grammys performances of all time.
34:00
SPEAKER_05: Pink, whose real name is Alicia Bethmore.
34:02
SPEAKER_01: I didn't know that.
34:03
SPEAKER_01: I knew that.
34:04
SPEAKER_05: Came down hard on Rolling Stone for being out of touch and irrelevant.
34:09
SPEAKER_05: Bah ha ha, you guys have been irrelevant since 1990.
34:13
SPEAKER_05: Pink shared in the Instagram comments of the article, the New York Post reported.
34:18
SPEAKER_01: Many other commentators Oh, wait, she made the comment on Rolling Stone's Instagram page?
34:24
SPEAKER_05: I think it was her Instagram.
34:26
SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
34:26
SPEAKER_05: But the New York Post reported this.
34:28
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
34:29
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
34:30
SPEAKER_05: Uh many other commenters also disagreed with some additions to the Greatest Grammy performances list, which included Dua Lipa, well, I don't even know what that is, and St.
34:39
SPEAKER_05: Vincent, plus Megan Three Stallion and Cardi B doing their infamous rendition of Wap and Tooth.
34:45
SPEAKER_01: Oh, my that was one of the best performances?
34:47
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
34:47
SPEAKER_01: Oh my word.
34:49
SPEAKER_01: Pink's performance, you know, where she's like hanging upside down and singing, and that was amazing.
34:54
SPEAKER_05: That was awesome.
34:55
SPEAKER_05: Uh this lost its credibility right from the get-go at number 25, one follower said of Dua Lippa making the list.
35:03
SPEAKER_05: Lost it, me lost me at Dua Lippa, somebody else commented.
35:07
SPEAKER_05: This has to be a joke, another person agreed.
35:09
SPEAKER_05: Pink continued her rant against Rolling Stone, waxing poetic on what the magazine used to be compared to what she believes it's become.
35:18
SPEAKER_05: This is the magazine that used to feature people like John Lennon and Muddy Waters.
35:23
SPEAKER_05: Hunter S.
35:24
SPEAKER_05: Thompson wrote political pieces.
35:26
SPEAKER_05: They put Tina Turner on their cover.
35:28
SPEAKER_05: Then they sold out, and all credibility credibility went to S-word, when style over substance and revenue over authenticity went into play, the singer wrote.
35:48
SPEAKER_05: And believe me, I could give an S-word.
35:50
SPEAKER_05: But this is the biggest sellout in effing history when it comes to a publication we all once trusted, Pink continued.
35:57
SPEAKER_01: God bless her.
35:58
SPEAKER_01: I know this is she's not the only one that feels that way.
36:01
SPEAKER_01: I mean, obviously.
36:02
SPEAKER_05: No, no.
36:03
SPEAKER_05: Uh Pink went on to explain how she's not the only industry professional that feels this way.
36:09
SPEAKER_05: F Rolling Stone, and I've felt that way for decades, as so many of my favorite artists and my peers have, Pink wrote.
36:16
SPEAKER_05: This isn't just about their horrendous opinion of rating Grammy performances.
36:20
SPEAKER_05: It's decades of wasting trees and people's time.
36:25
SPEAKER_05: Pink performed that got the Grammys multiple times, including 2010, 2014, 2017, 2021.
36:32
SPEAKER_05: She was also interviewed by Rolling Stone in 2002.
36:36
SPEAKER_05: Uh yeah.
36:37
SPEAKER_01: And then it just it's just like what people I commented on.
36:40
SPEAKER_01: Pink up against any of the current performers.
36:43
SPEAKER_01: Pink is awesome.
36:44
SPEAKER_05: I mean, I'm not a pop music person at all.
36:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
36:48
SPEAKER_05: But that woman, she's legit.
36:51
SPEAKER_05: She has.
36:51
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
36:52
SPEAKER_05: She can sing, she can write, she can perform.
36:55
SPEAKER_05: And she's got a just a And she's so and I mean, yeah, I don't agree with everything that she's come out with.
37:01
SPEAKER_05: Right.
37:02
SPEAKER_05: But doggone, you can't help but respect her.
37:05
SPEAKER_05: Absolutely.
37:05
SPEAKER_05: And admire her.
37:06
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
37:06
SPEAKER_05: She I mean she is I mean, she has built this like little empire.
37:12
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
37:12
SPEAKER_05: And it's awesome, man.
37:14
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
37:14
SPEAKER_01: You know?
37:15
SPEAKER_01: And she is herself.
37:17
SPEAKER_01: Oh, totally.
37:18
SPEAKER_01: Do you know what I mean?
37:18
SPEAKER_01: I mean, she's not put she doesn't put on airs about anything.
37:20
SPEAKER_01: I mean, she's just she's real.
37:22
SPEAKER_01: That's a good thing.
37:23
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
37:24
SPEAKER_05: I I really respect Pink a lot.
37:25
SPEAKER_05: I like I like her, I like a lot of her music.
37:28
SPEAKER_05: I like her as a person.
37:29
SPEAKER_05: I mean, the girl can sing.
37:30
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
37:31
SPEAKER_05: No doubt about that.
37:32
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
37:32
SPEAKER_01: I agree.
37:33
SPEAKER_01: I agree.
37:34
SPEAKER_01: All right.
37:34
SPEAKER_01: So that's I th that was kind of a cool little uh detour that we took there.
37:37
SPEAKER_01: We we're good at that, because we're brilliant idiots.
37:39
SPEAKER_01: We're brilliant idiots, but you know what time it is now?
37:43
unknown: Pow!
37:44
SPEAKER_01: It's alphabet time.
37:45
SPEAKER_01: It's alphabet time.
37:46
SPEAKER_01: So it is.
37:47
SPEAKER_01: Oh, wait.
37:48
SPEAKER_01: Speaking of uh, she mentioned uh Muddy Waters.
37:50
SPEAKER_01: Did you know that today was uh Muddy Waters' birthday?
37:52
SPEAKER_01: Is it really?
37:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he he died in nineteen eighty-three at the age of seventy.
37:56
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
37:56
SPEAKER_01: And he uh so I'm just how old would he have been now?
37:59
SPEAKER_01: Oh eighty-three is how long ago?
38:05
SPEAKER_03: Wait, when did he die?
38:07
SPEAKER_01: He died in eighty three.
38:09
SPEAKER_01: So is it ninety-three is ninety three?
38:13
SPEAKER_01: So eighty-two is forty years.
38:16
SPEAKER_01: So seventy, so he'd have been uh He'd be well into his hundreds.
38:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
38:20
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
38:21
SPEAKER_05: But you know, it's it's sad with those old blues singers.
38:25
SPEAKER_05: They they look older than they were.
38:27
SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
38:27
SPEAKER_05: Uh just because they had such rough wives.
38:29
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
38:31
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
38:31
SPEAKER_05: And that's what I respect about him.
38:33
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so from the book, Guitar Legend Alphabet by Beck Feiner.
38:39
SPEAKER_01: Um by Beck Feiner.
38:41
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and yours is the drum drum legends alphabet.
38:45
SPEAKER_01: The letter of the day today is C.
38:47
SPEAKER_01: Letter C.
38:48
SPEAKER_01: C is for Carlos Santana.
38:50
SPEAKER_01: The Brilliant Idiots are brought to you by letter C.
38:53
SPEAKER_01: This Mexican legend has an instantly recognizable guitar tone.
38:57
SPEAKER_01: Ain't that the truth?
38:58
SPEAKER_01: You know a lot of the colours.
38:58
SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah, you know, you know a Santana song.
39:01
SPEAKER_01: Fusing Latin and blues into one clean, smooth sound, famous in the 70s with his band Santana.
39:06
SPEAKER_01: Santana.
39:07
SPEAKER_01: Ooh.
39:07
SPEAKER_01: It's clever.
39:08
SPEAKER_01: And uh solo brilliant idiots, but you know.
39:12
SPEAKER_01: In the late 90s, Carlos has won ten Grammy Awards, including record and album of the year.
39:18
SPEAKER_01: There's something that doesn't really matter anymore either.
39:20
SPEAKER_01: What the Grammys?
39:20
SPEAKER_01: Grammys.
39:21
SPEAKER_01: The Grammys were just on, like last night.
39:23
SPEAKER_01: And nobody watched.
39:24
SPEAKER_01: Nobody watched.
39:25
SPEAKER_01: Uh I think it's an industry thing where it was like it's like a um your peers pat you on the back.
39:31
SPEAKER_01: You know, like it is.
39:33
SPEAKER_01: It's a great album, and uh, you know, that's a good job.
39:35
SPEAKER_05: And they just pat you on the thing, you good, there you go.
39:37
SPEAKER_01: Here's your quickie.
39:38
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying it's not an accomplishment because I think it is, but it doesn't mean as much as it used to.
39:42
SPEAKER_04: No.
39:43
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
39:43
SPEAKER_01: No.
39:43
SPEAKER_01: Uh so he got ten Grammy Awards, including record and album of the year.
39:48
SPEAKER_01: And that is the guitar legend uh of the day, the letter C.
39:52
SPEAKER_05: Letter C from the drum legends alphabet.
39:55
SPEAKER_05: C is for Stuart Copeland.
39:58
SPEAKER_05: One of the most revered drummers of the modern era, the police drummer plays a very intricate style of fusion, pop, and reggae rhythms.
40:05
SPEAKER_05: He's also composed music for music soundtracks and has been inducted into multiple halls of fame.
40:12
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
40:12
SPEAKER_01: And we said we were gonna do this too.
40:14
SPEAKER_01: So go back to the letter A.
40:16
SPEAKER_01: So the letter of the day.
40:18
SPEAKER_01: So letter A for the guitar legend was Dwayne Albin.
40:21
SPEAKER_05: Letter A for was Ark Blakey.
40:23
SPEAKER_01: So I don't know how that would be, because Ark Blakey was a jazz drummer, yeah.
40:26
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
40:26
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
40:27
SPEAKER_01: He could have made it work.
40:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm sure.
40:28
SPEAKER_01: Uh B was Jeff Beck.
40:30
SPEAKER_00: Uh B was Cindy Blackman Santana.
40:33
SPEAKER_00: Jeff Beck and Cindy Blackman Santana.
40:34
SPEAKER_00: That would be.
40:35
SPEAKER_01: Why do I think that they maybe maybe played together before?
40:38
SPEAKER_01: They might have.
40:39
SPEAKER_01: Uh maybe they have.
40:40
SPEAKER_05: I've did he ever play with Lenny Carvett?
40:43
SPEAKER_05: Because she would have she always played with it.
40:45
SPEAKER_01: I seem to remember them jamming or something.
40:48
SPEAKER_01: That could happen.
40:48
SPEAKER_01: Uh, and then C, of course, Carlos Santana and Stuart Coleman.
40:51
SPEAKER_01: Stuart Cope.
40:52
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, that would be awesome.
40:53
SPEAKER_01: That would be awesome.
40:54
SPEAKER_01: That would be a sick performance, man.
40:55
SPEAKER_01: That would be awesome.
40:56
SPEAKER_01: All right.
40:57
SPEAKER_01: That is the Legends Alphabet.
41:02
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
41:02
SPEAKER_01: Uh so that means it's it's time to um take a break.
41:06
SPEAKER_01: And we're gonna come back and we're gonna talk about We're gonna get some coffee.
41:09
SPEAKER_05: Does anybody want anything?
41:11
SPEAKER_05: We're gonna make a coffee run.
41:12
SPEAKER_02: Um so Can I get a large decaf latte with uh with a shot of espresso?
41:19
SPEAKER_01: Do you know what's coming up next?
41:21
SPEAKER_03: Ah, yeah! It's the cabinet of tunes.
41:27
SPEAKER_01: Cabinet of tunes, and we are gonna do it a little bit different again this week.
41:30
SPEAKER_01: Is it a cabinet or is it a closet of tunes?
41:32
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
41:33
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
41:34
SPEAKER_05: It's not the wall of tunes.
41:35
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, so what we were gonna do different this time was uh let's see.
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SPEAKER_01: Um the album that I talked about last on the last podcast that I that I picked up was H S A S, which is Sammy Hagar, Neil Sean, uh Kenny Aronson, and Michael Shreve.
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SPEAKER_01: S.
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SPEAKER_01: Kenny Aronson was the bass player, Michael Shreve the drummer, Neil Sean guitarist, and of course Sammy Hagar on vocals.
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SPEAKER_01: Um and it I I picked it up because I it's relatively rare.
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SPEAKER_05: Um and I I was about to say, because I never until you bought it, I was like, I never heard of this.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um in Sammy Hagar Circles, which I run in.
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SPEAKER_01: Um it's it's very popular.
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SPEAKER_05: Wait, you run in circles around Sammy Hagar?
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SPEAKER_05: Yes.
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SPEAKER_05: Okay.
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SPEAKER_05: So the album is called You must be tired.
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SPEAKER_01: The album is called His album is called Through the Fire.
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SPEAKER_01: And um this was after the whole I Can't Drive 55, I can't remember what album is that Voa?
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SPEAKER_01: VOA?
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SPEAKER_01: Was it uh Voices of America?
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SPEAKER_01: Or was it around that area.
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SPEAKER_01: Or was it the the one where he's like jumping up in the Yeah no no that one that I was that VOA VOA is where he's like parachuting in over the White House.
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SPEAKER_05: Oh no no that wasn't the one I'm thinking of is the one where he's like he's got his guitar he's like doing a jump.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah well that's Was that the one?
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SPEAKER_01: That's the one with Eddie Van Halen producing.
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SPEAKER_01: That's the one that's the uh that must have been a that's the divorce album.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh uh do you know what I mean by divorce Sammy's oh that one yes yeah because what had happened was uh well we're gonna get into the weeds there uh he owed an album to oh yeah yeah yeah and so he just came up with a just so so they did that album and then he was against greatest hits album actually you know what that wasn't the divorce album the divorce album was his best of he was against best of albums yeah because it meant you you know you weren't relevant anymore and he had to do a best of album to pay for his divorce his first divorce right right right uh sorry his only divorce well don't say he's only been married twice yeah his only divorce surprisingly and um so he made the best of and with with two or three new songs and that's what started the whole uh rift between Van Halen and Sammy Hagar was that that's the best of album.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah anyway uh so around uh the time of uh Voices of America which is like 1983 1982 83 something like that um and before Van Halen he joined Van Halen for 5150 which was like 85, 86.
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SPEAKER_01: Um he got together with Neil Sean who's the guitar player for Journey and these other two guys um I told you already uh Kenny Aronson and Michael Shreve.
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SPEAKER_01: The only reason I can't remember their names because I don't know if if they're still working.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know I don't know if they're working I never heard of them.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah um and they put together this project and so I just wanted to play a little bit of of this album because if you like straight up 80s rock um then you're gonna hate this album.
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SPEAKER_01: Then you're gonna you'll see what I mean.
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SPEAKER_01: This is classical yeah this is the the first song and it's very Sammy Hagar Top of the Rock.
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SPEAKER_07: I've taken a lot of it's the beautiful tough topic I was trying to try and get to the chorus but you get the idea.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: What's great about Sammy Hagar's voice is that you play this is from 1983 1984 yeah if you play a song that he did like this year or last year it's gonna sound almost exactly the same.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: I mean his voice is held up it is amazing 70 9400 years old 74 73 74 it's like it's like Methuselah and then Sammy Hagar.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Um and this is this was a single uh I don't know how how high it charted I don't even know if it charted but it was it was released in well we know it didn't get to number one no that's true that sounds like Neil Sean from Germany doesn't it oh yeah yeah that that is so 80 started right there I mean that is like perfect 80 star right I remember the last I can forget the go so bad again very Sammy Hagar lyrics oh yeah exactly never never professed Sammy to be the best lyricist but no but it's it works real yeah it works it's real it's it's from the heart yeah whatever he writes is from the heart yeah that's the hook right there man that's I like it so and then of course they had uh a cover on the album we skip the light and go oh we just talked about this yeah we did not too long ago a couple weeks ago it was uh because Gary Brooker the lead singer of Procol Harum yeah just passed away yeah and this was a Proco Haram this was well Procol Haram had a couple of hits conquistador well this is probably the biggest this is the biggest one yeah whiter shade of pale and you know normally you can't beat the original and I don't think this does beat the original but I do like what they did with it.
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SPEAKER_01: So check it out listen and the ceiling when I call up from the dream for the way to run a tree it's like an 80s power battle eight of it yeah eight eighty eighty fight it eighty fight it to so this was also around the same time uh Sammy Higher was huge into soundtracks in the mid-80s oh yeah right footloose and uh yeah the girl gets around was from was on footloose over the top over the topone movie um and wait that was was that 80s was that over the top was no over the top oh yeah that was 80s um he also was Fast Times at Richmond High he did the I always forget he did that yep yeah wasn't a very good song but no but I love that movie so so interestingly enough I don't know if you know this or not but um Neil Sean and Sammy Hagar were going to work together again.
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SPEAKER_01: They tried uh and it just didn't work out um there was a time when Sammy Hagar would go down to his Cabo Wabo Cantina in Mexico with uh Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Mike Anthony of Van Halen and they would do like this little duet thing and they called themselves Chickenfoot as a joke.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: At the same time Sammy Hagar was trying to reunite HSAS for a project.
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SPEAKER_01: The other two guys couldn't do it so Neil Sean was on board and it was going to be Neil Sean Michael Anthony and Dean Casternovo on drums.
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SPEAKER_01: Yep they were called Planet Us Planet Us Planet Us and they were actually started doing stuff um like writing songs and and and whatnot but for one reason or another it didn't work out.
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SPEAKER_01: So they took their little trio of uh like their drinking buddies called Chickenfoot they brought it they replaced Neil Sean with Joe Saptriani and Dean Castronovo with Chad Smith and thus became Chickenfoot.
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SPEAKER_01: So so HSAS is kind of tied in a way to Chickenfoot.
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SPEAKER_05: Well to Chickenfoot and Planet Us.
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SPEAKER_01: Right yeah yeah so uh and this was uh actually Sammy Hagar recorded a song that was a product of those Planet Us sessions uh but he put it on one of his solo albums and this is one of the this is it right here called Peephole but it does have that chicken foot five it does a little bit yeah yeah a little bit so it would have been a little different yeah you said that was Dean Casternovo this is Dean Casternovo yeah this is actually a little funky for Dean yeah he's usually pretty straight right I'm pretty sure he played on it actually I could tell you I thought I could tell you I can't find the CD I've got it on the wall of tunes here somewhere but it's it's all over the place.
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SPEAKER_01: Anyway I just wanted to share that album HSA S because I I had never well yeah like I said we I'd never heard of it until you got it and look what I got on my what is it if you're a Sammy Hagar fan if you're a Van Halen fan or just a uh a fan of that era of music I think it's pretty cool to have so I'm uh I'm pumped that I'm HSAS I'm pumped that I picked it up so that is that is oh oh wait no that is the wrong baby that was the closet of tunes or cabinet of tunes of tunes yeah uh with the H S A S.
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SPEAKER_04: It's like oh I'm looking for some plates and oh look H A H S A S Okay so that's gonna wrap it up.
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SPEAKER_01: So we we let's see uh this is season five episode 20 number 98 right number 98 so next week we do have confirmed uh Common Crossing is gonna be on this Josh Kowach and and Shane Mount are gonna be guests on the show for the uh for the number 99 episode the 99th episode and then we've already decided that uh number 100 will be um birds and bees with Bob yeah that's good that's gonna be uh disturbing although he doesn't know that yet well we have to invite him to be on the show because we haven't we should tell him yeah we should tell him we should tell him oh no actually we shouldn't tell him we should just call him actually Bob's better when he's prepared that's true otherwise it could evolve into something really not not not fit for human consumption remember the world's worst 30s oh my god so did you guys ever you guys did some right or something you did something on cassette you and Bob we just did our Bob and Doug dancing is that what it was yeah okay and I I remember and we would just randomly just it was it's kind of like this podcast except it was in the 80s and we were teenagers right yeah so we just you know I found this who's talking so and that's that's basically that was funny because we that whole thing was recorded by plugging headphones into the mic jack.
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SPEAKER_05: Right and you talked into the head we talked into the headphones how how that worked I still have no idea I don't know if we're geniuses or brilliant idiots again brilliant idiots a happy accident it was a happy accident all right so we'll be back with episode 99 next and until then I'm O'Brien number 99 Beatles freaks will understand that number 99 say goodbye I don't want to I'm I'm O'Brien never say goodbye what was that was that a song Bonjoy Never say goodbye was that the was that the Neverday goodbye was that Slippery one way slippery one way yeah the 80s oh we're old ancient by the way I'm Doug it's good to see you all bye everybody uh adios and all bye bye the O'Brien and Doug podcast is brought to you in part by MosierMultimedia.com KMH Music in Presscom 8 The Ridge Runner in Westfield Bay and Doug's cousin Larry Make sure to follow O'Brien and Doug on Facebook Instagram and YouTube drop them an email anytime at O'Brien and Doug at gmail.com What you've had enough what does that mean you've had enough you're leaving you're leaving me now I need you