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You've Seen The Odyssey Now Experience The Music With Robin Batteau · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 1: something that sounds so modern, but it comes with history.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of history, you know. I was telling
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Speaker 2: the people that we should call it History's Greatest Record
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Speaker 2: because it has the record, but the most history. It
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Speaker 2: goes back twenty six hundred years to the beginning was
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Speaker 2: an antient Greek poet named Artillicus, sort of the Bob
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Speaker 2: Joan of the seventh century BC and in ancient Greece,
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Speaker 2: and it goes on from there and my stumbling on
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Speaker 2: this guy when I took the course in the ancient
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Speaker 2: Greek world as a kind of a stepping stone to
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Speaker 2: my going back to college after a fifteen half century hiatus,
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Speaker 2: and it's and then I just, you know, after running
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Speaker 2: into this guy and finding that not only was he
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Speaker 2: a big shot, he was actually as I would call
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Speaker 2: the bob Joan of the seventh century BC. And he
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Speaker 2: was so he was as irreverent as he was revered,
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Speaker 2: much like boh and he was so irreverent about his
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Speaker 2: side gig, which was as a mercenary, which was the
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Speaker 2: side gig of most adult males of the time, that
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Speaker 2: the that the Kingdom of Sparta, the city state of Sparta,
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Speaker 2: took offense that he didn't take his his his warriorings
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Speaker 2: as serious seriously enough for them. And uh so.
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Speaker 3: I and this guy was such a big shot, but
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Speaker 3: he's kind of the it the poet before sap and
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Speaker 3: the poets and the integrat great poets, so really singer
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Speaker 3: songwriters because they played the lyre, which is the guitar
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Speaker 3: of the day, and they they sang their lyrics to
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Speaker 3: entertain people.
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Speaker 2: And so the shifts like singer songwriter today. And uh
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Speaker 2: so I noticed that, I mean, I came across this guy.
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Speaker 2: It's an interesting story. And then I said that there
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Speaker 2: weren't any complete poems by the guy. We didn't have anything.
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Speaker 2: In fact, there's only one complete poem and he was
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Speaker 2: the greatest of them all. The U So I kind
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Speaker 2: of thought, well, you know, let's take a look at
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Speaker 2: the pieces, and I think the pieces were so furious,
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Speaker 2: so interesting. I thought, let's try putting some of these
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Speaker 2: pieces together and putting some music to it, and see
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Speaker 2: what what it feels like, see what moves you. And
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Speaker 2: I just sort of, you know, felt like I was
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Speaker 2: channeling this guy and this period and writing these songs
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Speaker 2: so that they moved me. And then I thought, well,
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Speaker 2: that's kind of that's the only way that I can
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Speaker 2: tell that I'm telling the story right. And of course
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Speaker 2: I didn't have with all these pieces and bits and
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Speaker 2: pieces from different poems, different songs, I didn't have a
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Speaker 2: one whole lyric. So it was up to me to
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Speaker 2: connect them and to come up with the parts that
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Speaker 2: could they could bridge the gaps. You know, the way
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Speaker 2: pale Intelligence puts together a t Rex skeleton, homes and
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Speaker 2: bones that missing, he just makes them in the lab
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Speaker 2: and puts them together to make the whole bone, whole skeleton.
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Speaker 2: And that's what I did. I basically made an Artiolicus
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Speaker 2: t rex, which I call uh uh Arcolicus redeemed. And
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Speaker 2: the refrain the lot of the hook line in the choruses,
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Speaker 2: I am the servant of the word God of War
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Speaker 2: refers to his side gig, and I'm having get stung
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Speaker 2: by my great friend James Naunton, who's one two Tony's
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Speaker 2: who Broadway Best Actors for and uh has a a
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Speaker 2: wonderful singing voice, and uh, because he's in the theater,
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Speaker 2: it kind of prepares the project. And his two children,
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Speaker 2: Kira Naughton and Greg Naughton, are also very talented singers
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Speaker 2: and actors, so I asked them to sing songs too,
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Speaker 2: And besides them, I recruited a bunch of friends with
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Speaker 2: voices I first heard in the nineteen sixties, because I
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Speaker 2: felt like, that's our golden age sing a songwriting the
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Speaker 2: nineteen sixties, So let's have it sound. Let's let that
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Speaker 2: sound bring the sound of the seventh century BC and
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Speaker 2: honored to the forefront. And so I, you know, I
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Speaker 2: called Carolyn Hester and Kate Taylorston Taylor, Tom Patston, Eric
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Speaker 2: Anderson and they all said yes and jumped right in.
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Speaker 2: You know, this is one of the one of the
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Speaker 2: great things about the sort of folk rock community is
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Speaker 2: very much a kind of a bunch of joiners. You know,
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Speaker 2: come on, let's do this. Okay, let's do it. And
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Speaker 2: I was just knocked out by everybody's performance. And my
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Speaker 2: friend Robin Lane, with whom I lived these days in Massachusetts.
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Speaker 2: She's a wonderful rock singer. And she also I first
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Speaker 2: heard in the nineteen sixties on the beach in h
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Speaker 2: southern California, when I came to visit my girlfriend in
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Speaker 2: l a and we went out to the beach to
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Speaker 2: h to meet my brother and insis because and as
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Speaker 2: we were walking to the beach, I heard this sound
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Speaker 2: and I heard this voice, and I said, that's the
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Speaker 2: previous thing I've ever heard of my life. And it was.
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Speaker 2: It was Robin who was singing and playing her guitar
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Speaker 2: and sitting on a blanket with her husband. Uh Andy Andy,
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Speaker 2: Uh the boy the guitar player from the police, Uh
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Speaker 2: right now. And they they broke up a couple of
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Speaker 2: years later. But that was my introduction to her and
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Speaker 2: and all the other people I first heard in the
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Speaker 2: in the nineteen sixties, except for Matt Mnacola who's with
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Speaker 2: the multi talented guy and a lot of these songs
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Speaker 2: we started recording at Neil Exstein's house where he has
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Speaker 2: a studio in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and uh the one we're
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Speaker 2: all late sleepers when working on records except for that
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Speaker 2: and H and Matt's Matt sneaks down to the studio
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Speaker 2: when everybody else is asleep, and he makes this recording
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Speaker 2: and plays all the parts and and sings it and
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Speaker 2: sounds great, so we kept it. It's called Man of Gold,
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Speaker 2: subtitled Theater of Memory, and it's written from the from
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Speaker 2: the fragments and of poet named Simonodes who is mostly
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Speaker 2: known for these days for inventing what's called the the
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Speaker 2: memory Castle of the Theater of Memory. And and what
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Speaker 2: it is is, it's it's a a memory trick where
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Speaker 2: you take you know, this is a trick that mentalists
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Speaker 2: used to remember the names of everybody in a theater
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Speaker 2: when they're trying to you know, they're showing off. What
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Speaker 2: they're doing is that when they hear the name, they
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Speaker 2: put it in a place in their mind. They they
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Speaker 2: give the name of place and with which to to recall.
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Speaker 2: And that's better for humans. That's easier for these humans
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Speaker 2: to do. And the reason someone of these got the
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Speaker 2: U got the credit for it was he was at
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Speaker 2: a at a dinner with a rich guy who had
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Speaker 2: hired him to sing some some songs praising him and
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Speaker 2: uh the uh so some monitise wrote wrote some stuff,
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Speaker 2: but the the host thought that he was The songs
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Speaker 2: were too much about two gemigods and pastor and politics,
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Speaker 2: and not enough about him, about the host, And so
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Speaker 2: they're also dinner around dinner, at a dinner, and the
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Speaker 2: servant comes to taps Smities on the shoulder and says
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Speaker 2: that there's two people outside to see you, sir, and
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Speaker 2: he gets them from the dinner and he walks outside.
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Speaker 2: When he's outside to meet these two folks, there's a
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Speaker 2: giant earthquake and the building collapses and everybody is killed
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Speaker 2: at the dinner except the Simonodes is stepped out, and
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Speaker 2: the the legend has it, of course that the two
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Speaker 2: people are castor and polls. But the someone of these dogs,
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Speaker 2: by remembering exactly where everybody was sitting at the table
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Speaker 2: during the dinner, you can tell who these corpses were.
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Speaker 2: So that was the invention of the theater of memory,
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Speaker 2: that the method of Loki and the memory Palace. And
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Speaker 2: that's the kind of that's the kind of creation story
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Speaker 2: that each of these pieces of music has. There's eleven songs.
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Speaker 2: And I had such a ball doing this. I went,
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Speaker 2: was I quit Harvard back in the back when because
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Speaker 2: my family had some money problems that I thought, in
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Speaker 2: my youthful naivetay, I'll just drop out and get a
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Speaker 2: big RECORDEW bounced, so that'll take care things. And of
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Speaker 2: course when you're that naive, very often things happen. And
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Speaker 2: I didn't know what I couldn't do, so it did
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Speaker 2: help me a lot of family. And I had stayed
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Speaker 2: doing music and songs for fifty years or so. And
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Speaker 2: the period between my matriculation when I started college and
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Speaker 2: my graduation when I was handed the degree is fifty
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Speaker 2: seven years, which is longer than anyone in history according
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Speaker 2: to the Book of World Records, and the I feel
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Speaker 2: like I'm the Odysseus of college. I've been on this
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Speaker 2: long journey and uh filled with plenty of sirens and
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Speaker 2: other things, other adventures to get to where I am today.
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Speaker 2: And it wasn't it wasn't. It wasn't ancient Greece. That
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Speaker 2: was my concentration. And when I came back because my
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Speaker 2: major was integrated biology, I've done all the science back
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Speaker 2: when I just had half the semestery to go and
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Speaker 2: Harrd wouldn't give you a degree, you know, based upon
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Speaker 2: life experience. They said, now you've got to come back.
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Speaker 2: So I came back, and the first thing that I
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Speaker 2: took was a summer school course that was in the ancient,
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Speaker 2: ancient Greek world, and this one I stumbled on Archilochus,
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Speaker 2: and I kept stumbling on other poets who's who were
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Speaker 2: brilliant and here was in their time, but who only
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Speaker 2: had fragments of their work left. So I took it
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Speaker 2: upon myself to be to be that paleontologist and put
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Speaker 2: together these dinosaur bones into into a set. And the
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Speaker 2: dinosaur bones, I think have succeeded wildly and are certainly
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Speaker 2: creating a stampede in my heart every time I put
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Speaker 2: this on. I'm this for the dead, and I'm I'm
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Speaker 2: trying to rally interest in doing a show at at
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Speaker 2: Harvard this fall where we do the review of the
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Speaker 2: of the album and all of the regional guest singers
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Speaker 2: would sing their songs and the UH. It would be
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Speaker 2: accompanied by the Harvard Rights Focus, which is terrific. But
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Speaker 2: I was in it when I was in college, and
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Speaker 2: the we did do the show of Our as the
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Speaker 2: opening act to a screening of the new movie of
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Speaker 2: the Odyssey. Which would be a very cool thing. Yes,
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Speaker 2: and you know I saw the Odyssey just the beginning
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Speaker 2: of this week, and it's a beginning of last week. Rather,
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Speaker 2: it's terrific.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh I've experienced it. You can't. It's not something
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Speaker 1: you see, you had, something you experience.
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Speaker 2: That's true, it's sure. It's like going to a Springsteen
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Speaker 2: concert having the past from pumping through your heart for
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Speaker 2: an hour and it's it's something. I'm so pleased that
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Speaker 2: they did such a great job because you never know,
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Speaker 2: and there's truly kind of I think it's it's the best.
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Speaker 2: It's the best odyssey it's ever been made into a movie.
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Speaker 1: Please don't move. There's more with Robin Batteau coming up next.
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Speaker 1: The name of the album band in Sparta. It's going
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Speaker 1: to change you. We are back with Robin Battou. I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you when you were talking about that and I
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Speaker 1: realize it's, you know, theater of a memory, but I
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Speaker 1: went with theater of the mind because Matt and that piano,
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Speaker 1: My god, you talk about you transform me into a
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Speaker 1: modern age with music that is, like you said, twenty
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Speaker 1: six hundred years old, but it still puts me in
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Speaker 1: a place where that imagination just takes off and you
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Speaker 1: get this interpret especially if you've seen the movie, which
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Speaker 1: you have the two of us know that when you
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Speaker 1: hear something like this, even even with Robin Lane, you
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Speaker 1: just sit there and you go, I could see this.
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Speaker 1: This would fit so well into the storyline of what's
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Speaker 1: going on here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's so such a wonderful things, such a
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Speaker 2: wonderful idea, so well executed. I'm just so proud of
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Speaker 2: everybody who was involved in the movie and in the record,
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Speaker 2: and I think it would make a great combination of
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Speaker 2: this fall. So we'll see what happens. I got to say.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that I've really thoroughly enjoyed is
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Speaker 1: is because we have a pretty big Greek community here
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Speaker 1: in Charlotte, and to play this music for them and
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Speaker 1: to see their eyes light up because to them they're
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Speaker 1: feeling something that they grew up with, or something that
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Speaker 1: their grandma talked about or something, and to see that
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Speaker 1: smile because they if they didn't like it, the Greeks
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Speaker 1: are very honesty. They'll tell you, Ah my god, their
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Speaker 1: smiles have been unbelievable, especially with Terra Cotta. Oh my god, dude.
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Speaker 2: Oh cool. That's Robin Lane singing that terra Cotta heart.
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Speaker 2: That's the song made from get some pieces of Sappho
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Speaker 2: and there's something that's just so delicious. She was just
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Speaker 2: such a voice and such a such a deliverer of
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Speaker 2: a song. She knocks me out.
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Speaker 1: Well, another one that knocked me out was Sweet Smiling
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Speaker 1: with Livingston Taylor. I mean, I grew up listening to
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Speaker 1: Livingston Taylor, so so to have Livingston, who's got that
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Speaker 1: unbelievable background, away from his famous brother. The fact of
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Speaker 1: the matter is Livingston has always owned a big chunk
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Speaker 1: of my heart because he too, as a performer, is
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Speaker 1: a storyteller. So to see him on this, it's like,
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Speaker 1: you've got to be kidding me. No, this is.
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Speaker 2: Reality, right. He is a great storyteller, and he's a
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Speaker 2: better shortteller. But his brother and Change is more famous.
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Speaker 1: Course, I think so.
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Speaker 2: I think they're a wonderful family, up and down with
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Speaker 2: the I think the Change has gotten better over the
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Speaker 2: years as he's picked up things from Livingston about being
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Speaker 2: looser on stage. When I first saw him in the
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Speaker 2: Boston area back in the sixties, he was so shy
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Speaker 2: he didn't say a word. He just signed the song.
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Speaker 2: And this is even when he did a show with
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Speaker 2: him and Joni Mitchell doing in nineteen seventy. I think
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Speaker 2: it was the two of them playing at Stacado Supermarket.
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Speaker 2: And he's gotten fasier, you know, and more engaging, becoming
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Speaker 2: kind of more lived, you know, over the years.
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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that you're opening our
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Speaker 1: hearts to is the fact, for all of these years,
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Speaker 1: we always heard the van Halen's to sit there and
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Speaker 1: tell us that all their music is Bach and Beethoven,
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Speaker 1: and we never really bought into it until you hear
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Speaker 1: a song like this from Carolyn Hester in Her Loving Arms.
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Speaker 1: And the thing is is that I have that feeling
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Speaker 1: of a Carol King meets up with a Dion Warwick
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Speaker 1: and I'm going, wait a second, wait a second. He's
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Speaker 1: got music here from a different generation and genre, and
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Speaker 1: it brings me up to Carol King. But now I'm
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Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty six, and I mean it's like
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Speaker 1: a continuation of sound.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's all the sound, you know. Sound scientists
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Speaker 2: have actually tried to listen to ancient Greek as it
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Speaker 2: was spoken in pottery studios in the seventh century DC,
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Speaker 2: where they would work there were spinning wheels where they
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Speaker 2: would spin pots and they would put a stylist on
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Speaker 2: it to make you know, to make just grooves in
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Speaker 2: the play as a stylistic and the sound science have
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Speaker 2: thought they could put a stylist, put a a phonograph
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Speaker 2: needle on the on the on the pots today ancient
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Speaker 2: pots wow and spin the pots and listen to the
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Speaker 2: sound and maybe hear the speech of the artists, of
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Speaker 2: the artisans as they were in the studio making pots.
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Speaker 2: It didn't work. It didn't work, but it was like
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Speaker 2: a great idea, and I only tried again and with
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Speaker 2: more refinement. It's there is so much presence in the past,
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Speaker 2: and it's just great when it comes comes to meet
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Speaker 2: us and uh and take us to breakfast. That's pretty great.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't this also introduce the listeners who experienced not only
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Speaker 1: the movie, but but this soundtrack as well, or this
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Speaker 1: this particular the album is called band in Sparta. But
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Speaker 1: doesn't it inspire us to listen closer to the actual
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Speaker 1: lyrics and the orchestration of the music. Because when you've
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Speaker 1: got a song like how can You Love Me? This
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Speaker 1: to Me is a story sharer's song, not as story teller,
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Speaker 1: but the one who shares stories growing forward.
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Speaker 2: The yeah, how can you love Me? Has a wonderful
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Speaker 2: turn in it. The uh it's uh, it's one that
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Speaker 2: it's the song that I sing on the album, and
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Speaker 2: it's by uh. Uh. It's a collaboration between me and
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Speaker 2: Stessi Chorus, who was a big shot in the sixth
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Speaker 2: century BC. He was he was the one who's given
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Speaker 2: his nickname Stessic Chorus, and it is that because he's
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Speaker 2: thought of as the innovator of the ancient Greek chorus.
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Speaker 2: He's choir that was the accompaniment to the Greek tragedies
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Speaker 2: and such, and it's thought of as kind of the
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Speaker 2: first music in uh, the first formal music in Greece.
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Speaker 2: This is a shepherd from what the people like Homer
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Speaker 2: would do, who were singing entire stories, just the way
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Speaker 2: Bob Yellen would sing his entire over in the course
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Speaker 2: of a concert. Bob Yellen is a better Exactly, it's
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Speaker 2: a three hours so that all these songs, you say,
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Speaker 2: I think you remember all that. Homer remembered all that,
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Speaker 2: and it's the same thing. Now, Homer may not have
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Speaker 2: been the one guy who wrote it, and may have
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Speaker 2: been lots of contributions for lots of songwriters, the same
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Speaker 2: way that people do covers in their in their concerts
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Speaker 2: as well as their own material, but they kind of
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Speaker 2: make it their own. The Eric Anderson actually makes a
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Speaker 2: couple of lyric changes in his song Across of Gold,
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Speaker 2: she collaboration with Catulos and and he said, I don't
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Speaker 2: know if I should do the sense to Eric, I
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Speaker 2: want you to make it your own because of what
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Speaker 2: otherwise what's the point of doing it. So if you
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Speaker 2: want to make a lyric change so that means more
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Speaker 2: to you, do it. And we'll make sure that it's
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Speaker 2: clear that there's these two options of which way to
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Speaker 2: take it to heart, take the take the poem to heart,
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Speaker 2: take the lyrics to heart when you listen to it,
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Speaker 2: which always gives it even more depth. And it was
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Speaker 2: one of the cool things about Eric's performance was he
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Speaker 2: wasn't with me. He was in Holland and touring Europe
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Speaker 2: and that's where his favorite engineer was, so he just
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Speaker 2: wins the studio reported his vocal in Holland over the
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Speaker 2: track that I sent him from Woodstock, New York, and
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Speaker 2: he sent the vocal back and we laid it into
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Speaker 2: the track and put it together, and I got my
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Speaker 2: friend Abby Newton who I was playing with, and would
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Speaker 2: start to put some cello on and I played a violin.
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Speaker 2: I have a muted violin, which is kind of that
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Speaker 2: sounded like an oboe, which is what the Elos instruments
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Speaker 2: double read. Yeah, what it sounds like. So that was
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Speaker 2: my job playing the violin, the muted violin on the album,
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Speaker 2: as well as singing and playing and writing. Wow, it's
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Speaker 2: such an adventure. It was fantastic. And my Greg knowledge
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Speaker 2: I'm in a class assist at Harvard, who was my
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Speaker 2: special project with Riser. He just loved to talked about him. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and I'm so delighted with it all. And he's already
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Speaker 2: excited and enthusiastic about doing the show this fall at Harvard.
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Speaker 2: We'll see what happens.
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Speaker 1: I invite listeners to take a walk with your music.
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Speaker 1: And the reason why I say that is because I
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Speaker 1: take a transition walk through this forest every day and
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Speaker 1: the song that I keep it starts off my walk
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Speaker 1: every time is Stolen Love. Because I really feel like
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Speaker 1: that there's a transition that's going on here and that
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Speaker 1: I don't need a bieber or a Taylor swift to
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Speaker 1: help me get there. I put this on there and
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Speaker 1: it's like, oh my god, this is like it's been
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Speaker 1: a part of this forest, and it's saying, yeah, you
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Speaker 1: finally get the write song on, dude, that's matching the
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Speaker 1: rhythm of this of these trees.
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Speaker 2: It's it's Uh, it is about matching things. It's a
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Speaker 2: little bit it's like cooking, you know. It's like getting
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Speaker 2: the right recipe and making the changes and and feeling like, oh,
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Speaker 2: this needs this flavor, so let's let's add this to it.
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Speaker 2: And it's all about making the recipe right. And Stolen
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Speaker 2: in Love is there's a there's a couple of these
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Speaker 2: songs of explanations for why Helen of Troy isn't guilty
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Speaker 2: of causing the Trojan War. She was basically enchanted by
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Speaker 2: after Deity to fall in love and to follow Paris,
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Speaker 2: who took her away to Troy, and UH brought the
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Speaker 2: Uh the city state kings in Greece together to to
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Speaker 2: rescue her and bring her back to Menlaius and Uh.
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Speaker 2: Stolen in Love is taken from a something that Plato
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Speaker 2: wrote about his friend Gorgiez, who was a sofa a
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Speaker 2: lawyer who is a teacher lawyer who had explained that
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Speaker 2: he could defend Helen Troy in court and win, explain
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Speaker 2: why she was not guilty, but it wasn't her fault,
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Speaker 2: she was stolen in love.
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Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about you?
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Speaker 1: Because thirty minutes with you, Robin Proof, it went by
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Speaker 1: that fast. What just happened here? I just wanted to
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Speaker 1: where can people go to find out more about everything
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Speaker 1: that you're doing? Because you get it, you really do.
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Speaker 2: You can go you can hear the songs on Spotify,
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Speaker 2: and you can go to Robinbottolo dot com and you
25:53
Speaker 2: can read my thesis, which is the liner notes to
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Speaker 2: the album, and it's all there, and I wish you
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Speaker 2: would because you know how liner notes were so engaging.
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Speaker 2: In the sixties and seventies, it became less and less
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Speaker 2: of CDs came in and things things got smaller and smaller,
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Speaker 2: and cassettes, and then now there's artifacts are hard to find.
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Speaker 2: It's really just in the air, which is in a
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Speaker 2: way kind of a wonderful ideal come to life. It's
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Speaker 2: a little bit like It's trout Fishing in America, where
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Speaker 2: the author posits that there should be speakers in the
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Speaker 2: trees playing and it's a little bit like that. The
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Speaker 2: music is all around us all the time and available,
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Speaker 2: which is great.
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Speaker 1: And you're now part of it. I love that. Please
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Speaker 1: come back to this show anytime in the future, Robin.
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Speaker 1: The door is always, always, always going to be open
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Speaker 1: for you.
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Speaker 2: Love to Arrow, And speaking of Charlotte, my my my
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Speaker 2: second wife Sharon mccalloff is from Charlotte, and his brother
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Speaker 2: John mccalloff, I read a bunch of solves and performed
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Speaker 2: with so I have a definitely connection to Charlotte. And
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Speaker 2: I hope everybody there is doing fine these days. And uh,
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Speaker 2: it's we're having I mean Sheldon Falls, Massachusetts, which is
27:25
Speaker 2: a magical little village in the middle of Massachusetts in
27:29
Speaker 2: the west west of Boston. And uh, but you know,
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Speaker 2: everywhere has its choice and it's up to us to
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Speaker 2: to take them to heart and to uh and to
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Speaker 2: include them in our recipes for living all the way,
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Speaker 2: all the way. And thank you so much for having
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Speaker 2: me Arrow, I'm delighted to be here.
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Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today?
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Speaker 2: Okay, sir, okay, take care