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Bonus Episode - Collaborative Cocktail Quickie with Assorted Crackers · Barber Cuts: Beats and Bars

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  Hey y'all, I'm Riley. And this is Todd, and welcome to
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  another episode of Barber Cuts. But.
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  But wait. But wait, yeah, because this is
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  a crossover that we did with our friends over at 3 assorted
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  Crackers. And so just so as you heard it
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  coming. In it's.
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  Going to be their music. Their idea called a cocktail
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  quickie, where we they actually share a drink recipe.
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  And then just ask me and. Rally some questions and we
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  interact with them. So it was real fun to get to
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  know them and get to talk about something in their style.
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  And then in a couple weeks we'll also have an album that we do
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  with them. And so Synchronicity by the
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  police. So hope you enjoy a cocktail
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  quickie by Bruce Wood Crackers. Hello.
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  Hello and welcome to Assorted Crackers.
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  I am Eric and I'm here with Lee and Wilson and we have special
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  guests today, Todd and Riley Barber of Barber Cuts.
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  And today we want to try out one more cocktail quickie.
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  Let's go. Lee is going to try to cover for
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  yet another cocktail that producer Bill has brought in.
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  Because we've still it's 2026 and we still can't convince Bill
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  to be a voice on this show. So Lee, do your best, talk about
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  what you're going to talk about, and let's get into this.
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  Hey, let's give a big shout out to Coastal Fish Company because
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  Coastal Fish Company is where Bill, our bartender Bill found
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  this recipe. It is called Barrel and Spice
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  and. Everything nice.
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  Maybe so we'll see We're we're about to evaluate this.
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  So barrel and spice starts off with 1 1/2 ounces of Blue Note
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  uncut Juke joint, 1 1/2 ounces of cinnamon syrup.
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  And I believe that that's homemade cinnamon syrup because
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  everything Bill does is homemade.
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  So I'd. Ask you how to make homemade
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  cinnamon syrup, Lee, But I'm guessing you don't know because
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  Lee made or Wilson made it. No.
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  Bill made it that bill or can I? Bartender Bill and then, but
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  bartender Bill, I'm sure, simply made simple syrup and he did
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  three sticks of cinnamon while he put it in there.
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  Now, did you grind that up, Lee? I did not grind it up, but you
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  use the cinnamon stick a whole stink when you put it in there
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  and then it break it into a couple of times.
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  You don't have to do it you. Got you got to release the the
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  essence of that cinnamon stick. Yeah, instead of slapping it on
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  your wrist like you did with the mint.
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  That. Was mint.
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  I thought you did that. I know.
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  So we're two ingredients in. Sorry all.
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  Right, two ingredients in after the simple syrup, cinnamon
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  simple syrup, 1 1/2 oz. You do 1 ounce of lime juice and
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  one ounce of cranberry juice. So wow, put that over ice after
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  it's shaken. Everybody.
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  Let's see what we got. Let's see what we got.
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  First, I'm watching Riley's face.
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  I like the smell though, that touch of cinnamon is, it's nice.
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  And it's tart, You got that. You got the lime.
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  You got the tart cranberry. It smells like Rosemary a little
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  bit. OK, that's good.
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  Not a fan. So yeah.
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  No, I'm I'm so good to drinking, but everything is just so.
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  For the record. Riley is legal, yeah.
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  I just turned 20. 1 turned 21 so this is OK.
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  And, and it's already declared that you're not necessarily a
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  fan of bourbon, you would not go to the bourbon as a first
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  choice. I wouldn't say necessarily as my
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  first choice, but I don't hate it.
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  It was just one of my first drinks that I ever had was like
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  a bourbon cocktail and that was a choice that I made.
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  Yeah. So.
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  But it's good. I do like it.
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  I think it'll grow on you. That's pretty good.
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  Well, and it's, it's there, it's still, I know we're into the new
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  year, but it, this feels a little seasonal.
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  I this feels holidayish. I mean, does it would be a good
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  Christmas? You put a.
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  Sprig of Rosemary in this? No, I mean I've been telling you
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  that it smells and tastes like Rosemary.
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  I know you didn't do that. I'm saying if you did do that it
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  would be more Christmassy. Yeah.
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  But I'm I'm not sure I like it with Rosemary in there.
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  Well, see. But I would try.
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  It you can put a few like actual cranberry.
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  Berries floats the cranberries in there there.
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  You go, you are artistic. We've already heard.
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  One story off air about gingerbread houses.
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  So that's good stuff. And very much in the Christmas
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  spirit. You could finish it with an
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  orange peel or a pomegranate seeds.
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  Nice, that's another way to do that.
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  Add those. Seasonal elements.
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  Now this is this is really good. Now you intentionally or we
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  intentionally picked this out because we we didn't want to
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  stout bourbon drink again, Riley, we knew that bourbon is
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  not necessarily your favorite first go to, but it's a it's a
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  nice entry level and that was part of what we're looking for
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  as well. So for listeners out there, yes,
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  this is a great holiday Christmas level drink, but I
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  would say this is a year round like summertime.
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  It feels like this would be a great time to.
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  It's just refreshing. It's light enough to where you
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  it could definitely be a summer. Drink for sure.
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  Todd, what do you think? No, I agree.
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  It's it's you can. I mean, for me again, I'm not a
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  necessarily a bourbon drinker either.
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  So you can feel the bourbon, but yet it doesn't have the what I
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  would call the the bourbon burn. It doesn't.
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  Have the bite. No, it's just it's a tart
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  fruity. The bourbon is hidden in here
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  and this is this is this is an uncut bourbon.
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  So there's Jew joint uncut. I believe it's about 117 proof.
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  So that's a little higher and it's all good.
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  Yeah, so. That was very tasty.
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  Yeah, that's very good. And definitely like that that
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  could be summer as well as, you know, crisp like no doubt.
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  It's so so we've kind of got the cocktail going and we, we, we've
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  talked about the cocktail quite a bit, but let's talk about the
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  barbers. Let's talk about Barber cuts.
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  All right, tell us. Tell us what inspired Barber
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  Cuts, the podcast that everybody needs to go to and listen to.
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  Yeah, thank you. So I guess what what inspired it
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  was you know, we like to talk about music but the rest of the
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  family does not. And so we would start talking
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  music and they would be like OK y'all need to go somewhere else
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  and talk about this. And it can just go oh what about
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  this song? What about this song here?
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  The song And we go off down a rabbit hole of talking music and
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  one day we were in Knoxville and what stores that bliss.
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  So not the place that you would think.
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  It's probably a woman's boutique store.
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  Woman's. Clothing store, Yeah.
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  And so we were having a great time.
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  Yeah, it was, it was wonderful. Was your.
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  Credit card burning up when you left?
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  Yes. Well, it melted, yeah.
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  So they were like just following us around and something the
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  whole family. Yes, it was there too.
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  And Wesley thinks that I am like sharp, hard to like pick things
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  out for and show. They always joke that like, if I
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  don't like something, they show me.
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  I'll say, oh, I already saw that.
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  And then like, that's their cue to like put it away.
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  So he. So that's your key for like,
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  bless your heart. Yeah.
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  I mean, it's like it's like, no, I don't want that, but like I
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  saw it. But so he a lot of times anytime
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  we're like with the family will try to like find things that he
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  thinks I would like to get like the sense of approval that he
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  knows me. And so he found this like iconic
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  albums or like a bucket list of albums that you have to listen
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  to. So they're not necessarily like
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  the greatest albums of all times, just ones that are like
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  very prominent. And he picked it out to show it
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  to me. And I was like, that's really
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  cool. And he's like, I won.
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  And so then he saw it too, and he came.
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  And she said hey, would like I listen to this and I told her I
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  said I listen to it with you as well.
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  So you know, 100 albums that you should listen to.
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  And you know, one of the things about the poster is it's no
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  artist is repeated. So you know, once you know,
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  we've, we've already talked about The Beatles, for instance,
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  Abbey Road, you know The Beatles, you talk, start talking
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  about greatest albums all times they're going to have several at
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  the top. Well, that's our only Beatles
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  album on our on our poster, you know, and, and so that was neat
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  to make sure that we have a good variety and aren't repeating
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  artists all over. But, you know, it was also a
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  good way for us, you know, with her being in Knoxville, me being
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  in Memphis, for us to stay connected in a sense the long
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  distance and be able to say, let's let's connect over
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  something that we both love. We can chat about it.
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  You know that blessing of technology with Zoom, have a
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  Zoom and start talking about it. So we got about 7 episodes in or
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  not 7 episodes. We got about 7 albums in and I
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  asked her one day I was like you want if we're already recording
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  these maybe I can edit them like Garage Band is on my Mac it's
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  free. Like I got it like we can throw
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  these things up on Spotify that's free like we can get into
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  this with 0 cost and she was would you be interested?
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  Yeah. So that's really how it.
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  That's awesome, So. That's being intentionally just
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  like. Well, you know, or or stumbling
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  into intentionality well. There you go.
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  That works too. I mean, I think it was a
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  combination of a few things. First of all, they were trying
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  to win a bet to see if they could get her to get Riley to
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  say, hey, I love this number 12. They were thinking, man, do we
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  know how to get rid of Riley and Dad for a few hours every day or
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  every week? Great move.
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  I don't know whose idea that was, but but but or it could
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  have been. Gosh, they love each other so
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  much. They want to spend more time
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  together and and I love that one the most.
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  You know, it could definitely be.
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  All of the above. Nostalgia is something that
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  we're big about here and we talk about, you know, time with our
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  kids, time with our families, being intentional about doing
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  things. And so I love this and some.
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  Of the connections. Probably so glad you're.
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  Here as the family didn't want to have to deal with this as we
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  chatted about it, but you know. Well, two birds, one stone,
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  guys, whatever. Yeah.
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  So. So one of the things I love
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  about it is is obviously generational gaps that as as
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  somebody who with two children in your age bracket, Riley does,
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  there's so many things that we don't have in common, but music
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  pulls us together. And so you've got very different
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  perspectives. But I also have heard a couple
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  of your episodes and clearly you you've got a lot of common
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  interest in the music. Is there one album that you
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  reviewed that you felt like you both kind of jumped in into
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  this? This is the one.
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  Oh yeah, you don't attend. Pearl Jam would be mine.
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  Not have said that one really. No, so Pearl Jam is probably
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  became one of my favorite bands because it's one of his favorite
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  bands. So I always say like I was
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  raised on Caleb and Pearl Jam just because of the two like
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  differences. Love it.
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  Of Mama and Daddy had. Yep, Yep.
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  And for the record, Mom was K love.
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  Yeah, but didn't have to say that time.
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  I didn't have to. But growing up, I, I heard so
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  much of 10, like he would play the songs like driving the car
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  all the time. And I loved them without like
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  knowing much about music. And then once I started picking
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  my own music, I went back to that album and loved it again.
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  And so listening to that album together and like talking about
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  it was, it was just a lot of us both repeating like, this is the
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  best, this is great. Yeah, So a, a, a story that we
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  just shared not too long ago about that, just how
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  generational music can clash. So I don't, I don't know.
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  It was a birthday party, but we had a fourth.
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  Birthday party. No, in your 4th because we were
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  in a we were in a limousine with like kids, bunch of kids and so.
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  It was a it was a zebra print limo.
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  Yeah. Thank you very much.
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  Like we, we went and like went to the Graceland Gate and, and
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  did all kinds of things. Well, one of the things that
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  that I was in charge of was I was the DJ.
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  And so we were playing music and Riley was convinced that I
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  needed to play All My Life by Foo Fighters.
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  So if you're. Not my favorite song at the
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  time. At four years old. 4th grade.
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  4th grade. Oh, OK.
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  Yeah, that, yeah. That's a difference, yeah. 4th
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  grade and and so it was like. That's impressive.
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  So the, the, the, the proud dad of me was like, yes, let's play
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  this song because this really rocks.
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  But then the you know, the other side was like, this is probably
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  not going to win over the crowd, the car of 4th grade girls.
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  So let's. You read Let's.
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  Not play this Yeah, let's stick with the, you know, the Taylor
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  Swift and. It's one of the the funny things
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  looking back on it. I remember in the in the moment,
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  I was so mad at him 'cause he wouldn't play my favorite song
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  and it was my birthday party. And like, looking back, I'm like
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  really thankful he did it. Oh boy.
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  Yeah, 'cause if you haven't listened all my life, it does
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  have some like screen moments and stuff like that.
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  And it's like about having like a ghost inside and all this
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  stuff. And it's like not the right
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  crowd. I learned to pick my moments a
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  little better. But I would say going back to
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  like you're talking about the album and why we looked at each
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  other to see what we would. The one, the one that I would
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  pick would be would have been Arcade Fire, just because that
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  was one that neither one of us had heard going into.
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  But yet we bonded over it in a way that's like, oh, like This
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  is why we're doing this and listen to this music and talking
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  about this because neither of us would have ever listened to this
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  album, neither like any of these songs.
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  And it was a great album. Which which album was that?
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  Arcade Fire. What was the name of the Crown
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  of Crown? Of love is the.
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  Song. Funeral.
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  Funeral. Funeral is the album.
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  So, but it was Arcade Fire is, yeah, I would agree.
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  That was one that both of us had never listened to.
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  It was more like my type of music.
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  Like I would have a greater chance of falling into it
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  because I listened to like Bright Eyes and Neutral Milk
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  Hotel, which were two bands that are pretty similar to Arcade
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  Fire and that they're pretty indie ish in that realm.
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  But Arcade Fire, that album was incredible.
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  Go listen to that. Go listen to Crown of Love.
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  Yeah, Crown of Love. That was a good song.
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  So, so do you have separate? Do you, each of you have
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  different genres. I know you've talked about the
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  one you like, but what about do you have?
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  Do you have Riley? Do you have a specific genre you
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  really love that that Todd's not crazy about?
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  This, we were talking about this in the car on the way here and I
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  was saying I feel like it's a little bit of a disservice.
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  Like y'all, no offense y'all like y'all, the music that y'all
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  have listened to has had time to like become like this staple
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  like 90s grunge or hair metal and all of this stuff.
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  And like a lot of a lot of our music or the music that I listen
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  to that's like releasing now doesn't have like this weight
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  that a lot of old music does that I feel like it will one
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  day. But I can't tell.
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  I would say I listen to a lot of like indie alt type music to
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  name like the most big would be Cagey Elephant would be like the
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  type of music that I listen to. And further down there I would
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  say anytime I bring up a like more pop artist is where we kind
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  of disagree, where I try to convince him that it's not pop,
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  but it's something different. And he's like, it's pop, it's a
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  boy band. And I'm like, it's not a boy
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  band. It's different.
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  It's just four guys. But.
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  But it's got hints of jazz like. No, it's pop 4.
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  Guys. And they all danced in the same
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  rhythm, yeah. With the Jazz.
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  But I would say. Put the same clothes on.
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  I would say he's he's very good at like welcoming my type of
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  music and giving it a try and sometimes liking it.
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  Like Noah Khan was one that I really liked that he ends up he
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  listens to Noah Khan and music like that now and stuff along
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  those lines. Saint Motel was another one went
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  to their concert. Went to a concert in Nashville.
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  Excellent concert. You're talking about trying new
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  flavors. And no, kid, that's one of our
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  monsters on this show because. And music is a perfect example.
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  You you get in your bubble and you like what you like.
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  Exactly. And if you force yourself out of
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  that bubble, you're going to discover some stuff that you do
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  not like. And it'll reiterate that.
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  But you're absolutely going to discover things that like, oh, I
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  never thought I would like that. Yeah.
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  So do you have an album that you didn't like?
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  Yeah, that you guys were. Fleetwood Mac.
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  Yeah. Bill Bills happy with that one.
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  I do not like Fleetwood Mac. Like the band in general or was
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  it the album? It was rumors you didn't really
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  do. I didn't like what, but I don't
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  like Fleetwood Mac in general. I would say I don't know.
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  I don't know why I don't like them so much.
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  That and like the Sex Pistols was probably like the harder,
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  but that was also it was a little uncomfortable listening
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  to like an album called Never Mind the Bollocks.
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  Here's the Sex Pistols with your dad.
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  But we we worked it out. Especially like the Sex Pistols
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  was maybe the third, you know, one that we actually recorded.
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  So it was. It was also.
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  That was a good episode. Going back to like recording and
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  is that different than your private conversations that
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  you're having about this music and and so it was that one you.
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  Need to go back and check that episode out.
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  They navigated it perfectly. I, I, I was, I was.
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  I have never listened to a lot of the Sex Pistols.
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  So I, I, it was, it was new to me.
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  I learned something. Yeah, Sex Pistols is like, you
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  know, you only got one album to choose, so go, go for.
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  It but I want to go back to Fleetwood Mac then, because
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  that's a that's certainly a a band that's highly lauded and
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  they've sold a ton of albums. But yeah, lots of their their
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  music is about themselves and the drama is happening within
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  the band and who gets to lead vocal is there's something that
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  just rubbed like I saw your face Riley.
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  It was like nails on a chalkboard.
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  What is it about Fleetwood Mac that didn't land with?
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  You I think my biggest problem with Fleetwood Mac and gosh, the
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  our podcast is going to get cancelled because of my opinions
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  on this. But I Fleetwood Mac to me like
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  they did have some songs that were about themselves in the
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  drama and they it was like kind of raw and real, but a lot of
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  their songs felt very like forced and posed and like this
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  fake happiness or fake feeling to it that just got on my
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  nerves. Like I would rather you not
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  force happiness and have all of your music being like drama
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  ridden if it's real versus like this fake songbird esque album.
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  It just gets on my nerves. 'Cause that's what I mean.
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  Music is not meant to be like this, posed, feeling so.
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  It's certainly in contrast to, say, the Sex Pistols.
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  Yeah, there's nothing posed about.
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  At least I could admire that. That was all.
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  That's. Real.
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  And you knew. You knew right where they stood
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  and they were gonna scream it at you throughout.
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  They're the ones that got upset with the with the queen or
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  whatever and and started going off and, and y'all talk quite a
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  bit of that about that. Quite a bit.
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  So yeah. And and I think that's.
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  Up against the man. That's and we try to do that
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  justice because again, you know, we're we're in the states.
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  So a lot of these that we've listened to are UK bands that,
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  and I can't remember which one it was recently that we talked
• 19:38
  about was like, I completely missed that reference until was
• 19:43
  it The Beatles until she got to it?
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  Because it's like they're talking about Elizabeth.
• 19:48
  And it didn't even cross my mind that they're talking about Queen
• 19:51
  Elizabeth because I don't. Yeah, that's that's not part.
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  Of monarchy is not part of your daily.
• 19:57
  Life daily, American culture. So it just completely went over
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  my head. And then when she talked about
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  it, it's like, oh wow, this sticks.
• 20:05
  On a new meaning. Here SO.
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  We talk a lot about nostalgia raising our kids.
• 20:16
  You know, Riley, this is a great time for you to come up with
• 20:20
  what has your dad done right and maybe what is something that he
• 20:24
  could probably do a little better on if you had to do, if
• 20:27
  you had to do over a little bit of a story about that.
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  Play Foo Fighters all my life that was.
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  Slam dunk. That was like right off the tee.
• 20:37
  Come on. Todd no, I would say one thing
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  that he's done right and both of my parents have done right is
• 20:46
  also what I just talked about very authentically themselves.
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  Like growing up, like we always, I think everyone always kind of
• 20:55
  puts their parents in this bubble and one day that bubble
• 20:57
  like cracks and you're like, Oh my gosh, my parents are people,
• 21:00
  but in a nice way. I don't think I like they made
• 21:03
  sure that we never thought they were like perfect parents.
• 21:06
  They kind of always told us that, oh, like, that's a
• 21:09
  shortcoming. You're like, he would always
• 21:11
  tell us just do better than he did in college and we'd be fine.
• 21:14
  And like, we always knew these stories about him that we looked
• 21:18
  up to them so much, but not as like this on this pedestal of
• 21:20
  like, perfection. They were very authentic and
• 21:24
  like, coming to us and saying, like, yeah, we made a mistake or
• 21:27
  like, I'm sorry. Like we heard that a lot growing
• 21:29
  up and figuring that out. So it made admitting that even
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  though I'm not great at admitting mistakes easier to
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  away in a way. Like they're just very authentic
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  parenting. I love that, yeah.
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  That's a that's a high compliment that is that
• 21:44
  seriously, it's it's easy to talk about.
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  That's hard to do because because we always want to.
• 21:49
  Push going to tear up here. It's nice.
• 21:50
  Yeah, that's. Right.
• 21:52
  You're going to cry on audio all.
• 21:53
  Right now, now, now you got to tell us what is a Well, you
• 21:57
  already told us when he missed man that was not playing the
• 21:59
  song on your birthday that I get that.
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  Was there anything fun that he used to do?
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  Say when your mom would go out on girls night.
• 22:08
  Oh yeah, the so OK, we have pancake night in the Barber
• 22:12
  household. Anytime my mom went out, we had
• 22:14
  pancake nights. And our pancake nights were we
• 22:18
  always had something different in our pancakes.
• 22:21
  We couldn't repeat the same thing, but we tried to get as
• 22:24
  creative. Like I think the most branched
• 22:27
  outlet we've gone were yogurt pancakes.
• 22:29
  We put yogurt in our pancakes. They were like tubes.
• 22:31
  Yeah. So we're like Berry flavored a
• 22:33
  little bit, but some of the better ones I'll give credit to
• 22:37
  were like we had ice cream sandwiches in them once that we
• 22:40
  crushed up. That sounds so.
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  Good. We did like red velvet cake mix
• 22:46
  as our pancakes one night. Oh gosh, we've had a lot of
• 22:51
  stuff in pancakes. We had like banana pudding
• 22:53
  themed ones that were like bananas and wafers but with
• 22:55
  whipped cream on top. Most recently, we just did
• 22:57
  cookie dough in our pancakes. So like, we've done all kinds of
• 23:01
  things and it's fun. I'm I'm saying a spin off
• 23:03
  podcast for you guys right now. Like a whole pancake flapjack.
• 23:06
  Yeah, But that was like our our whole thing was that when my mom
• 23:10
  goes out, we got to get the most like the weirdest combination of
• 23:14
  the most unhealthy foods, like cosmic brownies with peanut
• 23:17
  butter and caramel on it. And that was like our dessert,
• 23:20
  like just strange combinations. Which kind of microwave the
• 23:23
  cosmic brownie a little bit so it melts the peanut butter and
• 23:27
  caramel so it's a little bit warm.
• 23:29
  And a little more pliable. Yeah, yeah.
• 23:31
  Good stuff. But pancake night was always one
• 23:33
  that like we, we look forward to and anytime we come home, like
• 23:37
  we had pancake night a few nights ago, like anytime we come
• 23:40
  home, we still have pancakes. Like that's just a statement.
• 23:43
  It's. Going to be a memory forever.
• 23:44
  Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
• 23:46
  For sure. And even over Thanksgiving, I
• 23:47
  think we did pancakes over Thanksgiving when, whenever,
• 23:50
  when both kids were home over that break.
• 23:52
  So it's just a fun thing. Does carry on to your gender, to
• 23:56
  your your children? Probably at my at my job I I've
• 24:00
  mentioned this pancake. I work in a church nursery back
• 24:02
  in Knoxville and there was like a we had to have breakfast one
• 24:07
  morning. They were like, your dad makes
• 24:08
  pancakes so you can make them too.
• 24:09
  When I so I got in charge of making all the pancakes for that
• 24:12
  morning. So I guess it's going to carry
• 24:13
  on. But I mean, it's so it's so fun
• 24:17
  to always like try to find something new or if we don't
• 24:21
  help him, like pick something. What it always used to be was
• 24:24
  he'd put something in it and we'd have to guess what it was.
• 24:27
  Oh my mystery pancakes. So you have to guess what it was
• 24:30
  and he wouldn't tell us until like the very end if we didn't
• 24:34
  guess, guess it, right. Sometimes it was obvious, like
• 24:36
  he can't hide banana, but sometimes it would be like hot
• 24:39
  chocolate mix and what you'd be like, I don't know.
• 24:42
  I'm starting to think I need to hang out with you a little bit
• 24:44
  more. Like seriously, you're creative.
• 24:46
  Well, we try. Well, so Wilson mentioned making
• 24:50
  memories forever. That's again, part of what we're
• 24:51
  trying to do. You guys are making some amazing
• 24:53
  memories and you're saving them, like with your podcast.
• 24:55
  But Riley, you mentioned before we got on the air here that you
• 24:58
  haven't listened to one of your episodes.
• 25:01
  Is that you? You've not listened to any of
• 25:03
  them. Correct.
• 25:05
  Yes, I don't want to hear my voice.
• 25:08
  Well, would you listen to this one after you release it, since
• 25:11
  it's really, you know, you're just a a side player really.
• 25:13
  It's no big deal. OK, Yeah.
• 25:14
  But this is no I, I. He he can be that way.
• 25:22
  No, I'm trying to be authentic, Riley.
• 25:25
  I will try my best, I just I can't do.
• 25:28
  I've never been able to listen to my voice, like even like in
• 25:34
  recordings that I have to present.
• 25:36
  That was like, I mean, nobody likes presenting and or like
• 25:38
  doing a video and presenting. Nobody likes it.
• 25:41
  I can't like I genuinely cannot do it.
• 25:44
  Put me in front of a crowd. Like I'm I'm pretty good at
• 25:46
  speaking in front of them as long as I don't have to listen
• 25:48
  to it back. I I think that's pretty natural
• 25:51
  and normal that we're giving you a hard time.
• 25:52
  But the good news is this will be on the record forever, and
• 25:56
  someday you're going to want to come back and listen to those.
• 25:58
  And it's going to be such a treat, such a gift to open those
• 26:01
  up and listen to. Them I agree and.
• 26:04
  It gets your viewership up too if.
• 26:05
  You listen to it. About saying at least go listen
• 26:08
  to it with the with the volume down.
• 26:10
  Yeah. We, we, we, we have a rule that
• 26:12
  each of us have to listen to our episodes at least three times
• 26:14
  because we need those metrics do.
• 26:16
  You know how long it takes like this Isn't I'm I'm asking this
• 26:20
  if I know the answer, I don't know the answer.
• 26:22
  How long do you have to listen to it for it to log it as like a
• 26:24
  listener? Like 10 minutes like it is.
• 26:26
  No, not you got to. You got to spool it up and
• 26:29
  download. I think you'd have to download
• 26:30
  it and start it. Alright then, my friends torment
• 26:32
  me enough that they count as a viewership.
• 26:34
  Well, so, so fun fact though, you can listen to it on Spotify,
• 26:37
  you can listen to it on Apple, and those are two listeners you
• 26:40
  can listen to. YouTube.
• 26:42
  So go to all the channels. They'll find it and they'll
• 26:44
  torment me. I.
• 26:45
  Expect your friends to be listening to this episode.
• 26:48
  Oh, I'll tell them. Spread the word.
• 26:50
  Spread the Yeah, and we need subscribers.
• 26:52
  Yeah, everybody needs subscribers on their YouTube.
• 26:54
  Yes, you guys. What is your YouTube channel?
• 26:57
  Barbara cuts pod. Yeah.
• 27:00
  Barbara cuts pod. Yeah.
• 27:01
  All right. The same across Instagram and
• 27:04
  Facebook and XI Guess and YouTube.
• 27:09
  OK. That sounds awesome.
• 27:11
  Well, this is your shot at plugging us because I think
• 27:13
  we're at 30 minutes. We're trying to wrap this pretty
• 27:15
  soon. So where can they find assorted
• 27:17
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  Crackers on Instagram and you can find us at 3 Assorted
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• 27:31
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• 27:33
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• 27:36
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• 27:39
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• 27:43
  have to say. We'd love to respond to what you
• 27:45
  have to say. If you have cocktails you want
• 27:46
  us to try, you got topics you want us to cover.
• 27:48
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• 27:50
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• 27:51
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• 27:53
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• 28:00
  We we, we, we like interacting with you and we do like I for me
• 28:04
  anyway, I like the barrel and spice.
• 28:05
  So Bill Ashley, thanks for bringing this in.
• 28:08
  This is always a very good. Cocktail and a shout out to
• 28:10
  coastal fish. Yeah, thank you for help.
• 28:13
  Just helping us discover this. One.
• 28:15
  Yeah, absolutely. Stop by and see my man Porter
• 28:17
  there. He's a bartender.
• 28:18
  There you go, Barbara. Thanks for joining us, Wilson.
• 28:21
  Bring us home. Well, we always need to try new
• 28:25
  flavors. Yep, and don't go stale.
• 28:27
  Don't go stale, people. I did.
• 28:34
  I did. What happens when you don't make
• 28:35
  a? Google Drive.
• 28:36
  I mean, I'm. Looking at a Google Drive.
• 28:38
  Right now, but it's mine. It's kind of blank calm.
• 28:43
  Me down. We can't deal with this level of
• 28:46
  unprofessional. I know they're going to walk
• 28:48
  out. They're just going to walk out
• 28:50
  there. They're wasting their time,
• 28:51
  guys.