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Earworm Wednesday at the Last Minute · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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  It's Deprogrammed, the podcast where we try to get you into a
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  band. 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.
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  Hello. Hopefully you are here because
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  you've subscribed to the show and you're into what we're doing
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  here. If not, you've randomly stumbled
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  onto this episode, please consider subscribing.
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  I would appreciate having you on board.
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  What we normally do is we have a conversation about an artist and
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  then we come together and create a top 10 starter kit list for
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  you to get into that artist as well.
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  It's great conversations, it's fun times.
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  But today we're doing Ear Warm Wednesday.
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  I'm doing it really much later in the day than I normally
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  would, but it's for good reason and the ear worms are all kind
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  of tied to the reason. So for starters, the song that
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  is in my head, I'm not going to lie, is my own, my band
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  Undercutters. We released our first true
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  single, Psych out of the upcoming EP, as of yet untitled.
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  There's a bunch of ideas that we're we're kicking around, but
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  it's it's official, it's out there.
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  And that was kind of my morning. You know, I'd normally would do
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  it the night before, but I did not this time.
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  Again, due to various illnesses going around the house.
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  Mostly just pollen, mostly just pollen and itchy eyes.
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  And I think my wife is actually like, sick sick.
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  But the kid and I both are just dealing with severe allergies
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  right now. But so that was that was my last
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  night. That was this morning getting
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  the song out into the world. I've submitted it.
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  I was trying to wait out. I'd submitted it to district it.
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  I was trying to wait that out so I could link it here.
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  I can always just link it in the future.
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  But it is up on band camp and it is a song that is essentially a
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  baseball reference. So if you like the movie
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  Baseball, then have at it. But the twist is really the the
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  lyrics, while they are baseball references, is I'm just going to
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  miss the shot anyway. You really don't have to try to
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  psych me out. So you know, it's it's baseball.
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  It's written about baseball using the movie baseball, but
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  it's using me as the as the person taking the shot.
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  I found that this band has been really great for me to write
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  about myself in a way that I'd never had before.
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  Because in previous bands I I'd written quote UN quote, more
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  serious. And not that I can't be serious,
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  but especially at this point in my life, there's the me that
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  most people know is kind of the guy that is singing about
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  basketball. So to me that makes sense.
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  And there's when the EP comes out, there are, you know, quote
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  UN quote serious moments. And it is a lot about, you know,
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  my own self doubt and who doesn't write about, you know,
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  how they're not good enough. It's it's a lot of that, but I
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  found a way to write about it that makes me, I don't know it,
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  it it fits me better than the mopey guy that was writing stale
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  songs 20 years ago, not longer than 20 years ago, probably at
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  this point. But anyway.
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  So yes, psych that psych out is definitely my number one.
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  Yeah, it's it's in my head. And as I mentioned, I got two
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  other songs I'm going to mention here today that are kind of
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  roped into it because I we didn't know that it was going to
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  be ready today. So like, I've been trying to
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  learn songs to possibly kick into the setlist and, or I often
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  times like to learn a song that I really like just to see if it
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  changes how I perform or see if it knocks something loose in,
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  you know, in my writing. So I went back to the good old
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  violent Soho. Well, and I was listening to
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  Jesus Loves my Girl Jesus. Jesus stole my girlfriend, I
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  guess because Jesus does love my girlfriend.
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  And I found out that it was much easier to play than I thought it
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  was going to be. I have to put a mic in front of
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  me and see if I can perform it the way they do.
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  But we'll get there in time. Maybe, possibly, probably not,
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  who knows. But I love this song and its
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  simplicity and the loud guitars. And it came about a time in my
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  life when I thought that the 90s was done.
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  And a friend gave me that that disc and said, hey, man, maybe
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  you'll like this. And I ended up loving it.
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  And it was at Papa John's actually.
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  And when I was working at Papa John's and I was like, hey, man,
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  can I like hold on to this for a little longer?
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  And you know, I, I ended up not following them.
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  And if you've listened to the episode, you know, kind of my,
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  my history with, with violence Soho.
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  But that first record just really does it for me.
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  That song specifically really does it for me.
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  And it takes me to a a a place in time while also rocks and
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  also feels sound wise very current for me.
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  Like how I want to sound so violence so ho Jesus stole my
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  girlfriend really does a lot for me.
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  And again, trying to find a song that that I could cover that I
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  can sing and play and would fit into our set list.
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  I stayed with Australia and I tried started learning tired
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  lions. See you later.
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  Not my favorite tired Lion song. Not not even my favorite on that
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  record, but I feel like if I speed that up and made it a
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  little bit louder, it would very well fit into what what
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  undercutters does. But I love see you later.
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  I really do Diet sick would be my pick off of that record or
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  breakfast for pathetics, either or or kind of like 1A and one BI
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  think, but see you later is simpler and not that I'm I'm
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  afraid to play more complicated things, but undercutters aren't
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  a very complicated band and I like that and I would much
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  rather find easy things that I can make heavy or grimy then
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  then something that's complicated that's going to show
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  my quote UN quote skill. So I dug in on tired lions.
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  So tired lions See you later is our third track for the week.
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  Next week. Joe sent me a a song that I I
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  want to dig in on more because it's it was very interesting the
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  way it hold on. I'll bring up the name of it
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  Beartooth. The name of the song is free and
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  it's interesting because it, it is, I want to say it feels like
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  3 different things that I don't like that I just don't like.
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  And if the song had only one of those things that I didn't like,
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  I would fixate on the one thing and tune it out.
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  For some reason, the three, three things that I don't like
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  come together in a way that I enjoyed.
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  I mean, I'll, I'll start with the way the guy sings would be
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  an immediate turn off 9 times out of 10.
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  And it just really meshed well with what he was doing.
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  What come to find out, Joe tells, tells me it's one guy,
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  which tells me that yeah, like I kind of nailed exactly what's
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  going on here. He's doing 3 different things
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  and it ends up coming together really nicely.
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  But then Joe says that he hires a band to a tour with him and
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  that seems to be the way a lot of people do things nowadays.
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  I bet you that's a good show. I bet you anything that's a good
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  show. So Beartooth Free is our our 4th
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  and final song for this week. All right, with that, we will.
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  What is today? Wednesday?
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  Yeah. So we'll see you tomorrow for
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  our regular episode. Bye.