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Am I Really That Predictable? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Am I really that predictable? It's one more thing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: one more thing before I get to how predictable I
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  Speaker 1: or people like me are. Apparently this article I came across,
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  Speaker 1: did you see this? I'll worry about Alzheimer's nose picking
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  Speaker 1: likely partially to blame for Alzheimer's disease, say scientists, did
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  Speaker 1: you see this story? It's real?
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of it?
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  Speaker 2: It's mostly like compulsive nose picking where your neuro damage
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  Speaker 2: to your your nasal linings and bacteria gets up in.
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  Speaker 1: Our Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease might be partially caused by viral, bacterial,
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  Speaker 1: and fungal pathogens entering the brain through the nose and
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  Speaker 1: o factory system from excessive nose picking, which is gross
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  Speaker 1: and I hate to even.
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  Speaker 2: Keep it to a minimum. Just a couple of days
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  Speaker 2: a week.
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  Speaker 3: You would have to.
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  Speaker 2: It's like golf, you can't play every day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, your finger would have to like live up there
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  Speaker 3: to do that cause that problem, right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know a couple of different things about how
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  Speaker 2: if you infections can get from your nasal passages up
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  Speaker 2: into your brain somehow.
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  Speaker 3: But as a person with a nose piercing. I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 2: God, I'm hippie.
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  Speaker 1: If they find out that a couple of things like
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  Speaker 1: that are, uh, have a lot of responsibility for something
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  Speaker 1: as damaging as Alzheimer's disease. Hey, keep your fingers out
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  Speaker 1: of your nose, you disgusting weirdo. Was Biden a nose picker?
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  Speaker 1: Probably not, Michael. It's not the only factor.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, yeah, it's not, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and then onto this story, which is odd. So
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  Speaker 1: Katie Orgin or anybody can answer this question. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know who Keith Jarrett is? Mm hmmm, I know the name,
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  Speaker 1: which is where I was about a week ago.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So I like all kinds of music, like there is
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  Speaker 1: on a song by song basis. There is no genre
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  Speaker 1: I don't like really except for metal. I just have
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  Speaker 1: never been able to get in any metal. But other
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  Speaker 1: than that, every genre there are songs I like and
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  Speaker 1: songs I don't with songs I like. And so I'm
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  Speaker 1: like really into learning to play the piano the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of years, and I watch a lot of videos
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  Speaker 1: about piano, and some guys I like were doing an
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  Speaker 1: all time Greatest Pianist's list the other day who are
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  Speaker 1: the goats? Are you familiar that people now refer to
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  Speaker 1: goats as plural? It's a plural.
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  Speaker 2: It's not no, no, no, that doesn't work at all.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, you're wrong. Apparently I'm wrong too. I've just become
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  Speaker 1: aware enough times. Now you name goats.
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  Speaker 2: These three are the goats, the greatests of all time?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't get it, but that's the way people
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  Speaker 1: refer to it. I think, you know what.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, although that is silly, you know, grammatically speaking, I
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  Speaker 2: much prefer that who's the greatest guitar player? That's an
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  Speaker 2: idiotic question. So now you say, if you want to
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  Speaker 2: name a bunch of people around the very top tier grade,
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  Speaker 2: that's what people mean when they say go now anyway,
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  Speaker 2: So one of the goats was this Keith Jarrett piano
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  Speaker 2: player who I had heard of, but like I'd tried to.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to before and couldn't get into. Maybe I just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't ready for it yet. Sometimes that is the case
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  Speaker 1: with music. You're not ready for it yet for a
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  Speaker 1: variety of reasons. Fairly complex is.
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  Speaker 3: Like is this a new artist or is this no?
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  Speaker 1: OK, he's still alive. He doesn't perform anymore because he
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  Speaker 1: had some strokes and can't play the piano anymore, but
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  Speaker 1: he is considered among jazz musicians like one of the top.
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  Speaker 1: Rick Beato, the music producer, has got a YouTube video
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  Speaker 1: that millions of people have watched an interview with Keith
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  Speaker 1: Jarrett and calls him one of the great music composers
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  Speaker 1: of the last century at least. I mean, he's just
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  Speaker 1: an absolute genius, and a genius in the fact that
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  Speaker 1: most of his famous albums are completely improvised. That was
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  Speaker 1: his thing. He walks into a stadium and the feel
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  Speaker 1: of the piano, the crowd, the room, the day, he
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  Speaker 1: just makes it up, you know, like four songs, oh
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  Speaker 1: he plays. And he even says that like if he
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  Speaker 1: has an idea, he discounts it. He doesn't want to
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  Speaker 1: have an idea before he goes out there. He just
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  Speaker 1: wants to feel at as he goes. And it's just okay,
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  Speaker 1: start going. You to hear some shit if that were me,
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  Speaker 1: So go ahead and start the song, Michael, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about it over this. And so one
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  Speaker 1: of the recommendations I was looking up to some of
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  Speaker 1: the best Keith Jarrett stuff, and one of the recommendations
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  Speaker 1: was this song. It's from a live Bordeaux concert live.
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  Speaker 1: Most of his famous stuff is live, Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: all improvised. Crank it up enough that we can hear.
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  Speaker 1: This is part one. Where does the singing start? There's
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  Speaker 1: no singing, it's instrumental. This is part three. There's just
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  Speaker 1: four parts. Like I said, he's improvising it. So he
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  Speaker 1: just does four songs ranging from four to fifteen minutes long,
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  Speaker 1: just however long he's feeling it. Crowd goes wild. If
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  Speaker 1: the crowd reacts poorly, he yells at them. He's very
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  Speaker 1: touchy artist sort of person.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, where do you get off?
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  Speaker 1: There a drum solo? There is no drum solo, and
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  Speaker 1: and you good crank it up because this is what's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: So I became obsessed with this song on Sundays after
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  Speaker 1: the Grammy's. Interestingly enough, I became aware of it and
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  Speaker 1: I listened to the whole thing while I was walking
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  Speaker 1: the dog, and it hit me in a way like
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember the last time a song has hit
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  Speaker 1: me like this. And I probably listened to it ten
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  Speaker 1: times that night, including in bed with my headphones on
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  Speaker 1: while I was falling asleep, maybe ten times the next
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  Speaker 1: day in the rain. I sent it to some people.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it affected me in so much, in such
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  Speaker 1: a way. I'm getting to the punchline that you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: find quite hilarious. Oh boy, on this song affecting me
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  Speaker 1: so much, It's like, man, this isn't really like even
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  Speaker 1: my sort of thing. I mean, it's just so and
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  Speaker 1: it gets slightly more complex. I mean, it's just very
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  Speaker 1: pretty sweet piano music. It's four minutes here, let me
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  Speaker 1: read this. So I started doing a little research on
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  Speaker 1: famous Keith Jarrett albums, and this album has four and
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  Speaker 1: five stars from all your big jazz magazines and top
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  Speaker 1: reviewers of all time and that sort of stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: particularly this song. Here's one of the reviews for this
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  Speaker 1: song from McSweeney's. It's one of the most respected jazz
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  Speaker 1: critics of all time. A note for Divorced Dads on
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  Speaker 1: Keith Jarrett's Bordeaux Concert Part three, And I thought, what
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  Speaker 1: what one would have a difficult time finding a musical
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  Speaker 1: composition that better suits the emotions of a recently divorced
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  Speaker 1: dad than Keith Jarrett's Bordeaux Concert Part three. If I
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  Speaker 1: happened upon a divorced dad driving around looking for coffee
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  Speaker 1: in his twenty eighteen Ford f one fifty or something.
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  Speaker 1: I would stop him and play it for him. It
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  Speaker 1: gives me goosebumps actually reading this. This is freaky. As
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  Speaker 1: a guy who drove up twenty fifteen ford f one fifty.
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  Speaker 1: The entirety of the piece is four minutes and four seconds.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot think of a reason why a recently divorced
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  Speaker 1: dad couldn't find that kind of time. Once the divorce
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  Speaker 1: dad and I had an understanding, we would venture into
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  Speaker 1: the composition. It begins with the stable rolling chords that
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  Speaker 1: gently root the piece, drawing up imagery of a young
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  Speaker 1: couple holding hands in a tall grass. They're one end
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  Speaker 1: of the a zeygeite of relationship. And it goes on
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  Speaker 1: and on like this, through the whole relationship, falling in love,
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  Speaker 1: being in love, deciding to have kids, having kids, it
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  Speaker 1: becoming difficult, and falling apart, the divorce happening, you trying
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  Speaker 1: to raise your kids on your own. At the end
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  Speaker 1: of this song, and then he ends actually with now
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  Speaker 1: go pick up your kid from karate practice. Now this
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  Speaker 1: is freaking me out. Turn it out just a little bit, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: because now I think we're into the you realize you're
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  Speaker 1: divorced and you're raising your kids on your own part.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Now did Keith Jarrett say any of this or this
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  Speaker 2: is just the reviewer figuring quote unquote figuring this out.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of the weenies. This is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most famous jazz reviewers of all time. That's the
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  Speaker 1: way he interpreted this music and me as a recently
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  Speaker 1: divorced dad laying in bed listening to it ten times
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  Speaker 1: in a row because it touched me in a way
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember music ever touching me. What the hell
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  Speaker 1: is that?
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  Speaker 3: That is weird as well?
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  Speaker 1: It is weird.
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  Speaker 3: Holy smuff, I know, isn't that strange?
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  Speaker 2: Wow? Hey, you got anything for angsty empty nesters?
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  Speaker 1: I like to play golf?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Wow, Wow.
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  Speaker 3: What a trip.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that strange?
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  Speaker 2: Though? Yeah? I mean, that's that's beyond strange. That's uh
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  Speaker 2: does he expect? Well? I guess he kind of sort
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  Speaker 2: of explains why, but not in no way that I
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  Speaker 2: would find terribly compelling. If I came across it anywhere
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  Speaker 2: else in any other context, I'd think, well, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of you know, trips people go
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  Speaker 2: through in their lives that maybe start like super excited, promising,
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  Speaker 2: than get kind of rocky, and then you've just got
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  Speaker 2: to make the most of it and move on. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of things like that, but here
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  Speaker 2: we are.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there are also a million pieces of music that
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  Speaker 1: are kind of sweet but modeling. But you know, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that this well known jazz critic picks out
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  Speaker 1: one of the most respected jazz pieces in history and
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  Speaker 1: assigns this particular meaning to it, and then I, not
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  Speaker 1: knowing that it'd be one thing if i'd read that first,
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  Speaker 1: but not knowing that at all, get pulled into this
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  Speaker 1: song in a way. I don't remember the last time
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  Speaker 1: I've been pulled into a song where I listened to
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  Speaker 1: it that many times in a row, if ever, in
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  Speaker 1: my life.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing how different music works. That's how you felt
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  Speaker 3: with that, And I felt like I was on hold
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  Speaker 3: waiting for a prescription from like CVS.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, in any other context, I would have been
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  Speaker 1: the same way, and I probably would have listened to
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  Speaker 1: like a minute thought for me and gone to the
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  Speaker 1: next song. And it makes me question my understanding of
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  Speaker 1: you know, abstract art and stuff like that. When I
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  Speaker 1: look at a piece of art on a walm thing,
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  Speaker 1: she's my three year old could do that. That doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean anything because that music, See, I'm into that normally,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of music, Well, I agree with Hitler, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a ruse a strike guard. But that kind of
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  Speaker 1: music usually, I think is just kind of meandering, and
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  Speaker 1: I understand some people like it, but it's not really
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  Speaker 1: my bag. The fact that it had such a specific
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he even mentions a.
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  Speaker 3: Es.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so here's here's the deal.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we're we're sitting here, you know, rolling around in
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  Speaker 2: the wonder of it. We need to know more about this,
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  Speaker 2: this gurlu, this sage, this omniscient McSweeney person. What the
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  Speaker 2: hell's going on there? What sort of psychic witchery is
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  Speaker 2: is that?
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  Speaker 1: Does he have that ability with all songs in art?
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  Speaker 1: That painting over there, If your cat just got hit
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  Speaker 1: by a car, that's the perfect painting.
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  Speaker 2: As you're sitting there thinking of little Fluffy and admiring
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  Speaker 2: the brushstrokes. That's just freaky.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Man, Well, let me want to go find all of
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  Speaker 3: my favorite songs and read the reviews on it, just
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  Speaker 3: to see anything lines up.
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  Speaker 1: One would have a difficult time finding a musical composition
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  Speaker 1: that better suits the emotions of a recently divorced dad.
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  Speaker 1: If I happened upon a divorced dad driving around looking
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  Speaker 1: for coffee in his twenty eighteen Ford F one to
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  Speaker 1: fifteen and you're a coffee addict, Yeah, I have done
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  Speaker 1: that as a I would stop it a year wrong
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  Speaker 1: the hack and he.
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  Speaker 3: Left out going to get McDonald's on the way home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't know anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's freaky man laying in bed listening to it in
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  Speaker 1: my headphones in the dark, moved by music in a
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  Speaker 1: way maybe I never have been in my life weird.
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  Speaker 2: Now. I've been trying to think if there's anything that's
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  Speaker 2: been anything similar, any song or music similar to that,
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  Speaker 2: And all I can come up with is is I
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  Speaker 2: discovered an album several years after it was out by
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  Speaker 2: a band from Indiana called Houndmouth, and the song is
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  Speaker 2: my Cousin Greg, and the opening line is my cousin
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  Speaker 2: Greg is a greedy son of a bitch.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Not sure what McSweeney would say about that. I have
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  Speaker 2: no cousin Greg who's a greedy son of a bitch,
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  Speaker 2: so obviously it's not that close a fit. That's freaky.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know what I'm You gotta look more
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  Speaker 2: into this McSweeney dude because he's a witch.
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  Speaker 1: Or following me around.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be my guess.
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  Speaker 1: Although he wrote this years.
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  Speaker 2: Ago, well right, that's weird, man, I know.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I brought it to the podcast. I just
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  Speaker 1: thought this is too effing freaky.
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  Speaker 3: Next time, I'm gonna show a slow saxophone solo that
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  Speaker 3: expresses the feelings of a man is broken TV and
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  Speaker 3: no extended warranty.
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  Speaker 2: Miss Cat's wearing football jerseys, well, I guess that's it.