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Barber Cuts Origin Story · Barber Cuts: Beats and Bars

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Welcome to Barbara Cuts, Beats and Bars.
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We're a fatherhood daughter music podcast that slices into
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some of the greatest albums, one cut at a time.
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With no industry ties or formal training, just a shared love of
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music, we explore albums across genres, rating favorites and
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skips while digging into what makes each one iconic.
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I bring the beats. And I bring the bars and
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together we deliver real talk and fresh takes from both sides
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of the sound. Hey everybody, I'm Riley.
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And I'm Todd, and welcome to Season 2 of Barber Cuts.
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So hope you all have enjoyed your break.
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I certainly did, except till now because there's all kinds of
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snow and ice out on the Memphis streets as we record.
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But that's OK. So we thought instead of doing
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an album, we wanted to let you all know that we're back in the
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listening groove. We'll give you an album at the
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end of this episode. But since we keep mentioning
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this poster and then self-awareness shaming ourselves
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that we should do an episode about this so-called poster, we
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figured we would start off season 2 with talking about the
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poster and how we came about this podcast.
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So we'll start there. But before that got to go to
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YouTube and watch because or see because I'm sporting my Barber
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Cuts sweatshirt. That's a little elf got me for
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Christmas. So thank you to Riley the elf
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for my Barber Cuts sweatshirt. It is been nice and toasty.
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So that being said, let's talk about this poster.
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So do you want to start the story around?
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I mean, I, I guess I can. So there is.
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This all will make sense, I promise.
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There is a store in Knoxville on a street called Gay Street
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there. Galaxy long, long ago, far, far
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away. It's a street called Gay St.
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It's it's in downtown. It's where you can like walk and
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everything. And when the parents come up to
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visit my brother and I, we like to go there.
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And then over there is also like a little farmers market.
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So we kind of just wander around around downtown and there's this
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wonderful store called Bliss. Shout out Bliss on Gay St.
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Side note, I also got a coat there that I always get
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compliments on every time I wear it.
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So shout out with, Yeah, but we were wandering around and
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Something that is important to note, but also embarrassing, a
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little embarrassing to admit, is when people go shopping with me,
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specifically my family, I am like, hard to please, I guess,
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when picking things out. So specifically Brother Pod's
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goal is to like wander around if it's a women's store, which
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Bliss kind of is, and find things he thinks I like and
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he'll show them to me to try to get me to admit that I like
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something he picked out usually. And he tells it better than I
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do. But apparently my catch phrase
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is, oh, I saw that and then nothing else.
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And that's like that's, that's. And we've all heard this.
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Yes, or the one that I I give to Mama pot a lot is Oh, I like
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that for me, no, for you. I did that one or what?
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I apparently I'm just like picky when it comes to stuff.
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So we were running around the store and he's looking in like
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the clearance sections and like the random Knick knack sections
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of the store. And it comes across this
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clearance poster that's called like greatest or bucket list
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album, which I think is important to note.
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I'm not sure if we've mentioned that a lot of the albums we've
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listened to are considered some of the best albums of all time.
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That's not necessarily what the poster it was.
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So if there's some albums that you're like, I don't think
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that's been on any list of like the best albums, it may not be.
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Or it's way way down the list. Yeah, they it's well, first of
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all, it's not like buy an official music program or
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anything, so let's be aware of that.
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But also they only do one artist or this poster only does one
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artist and not all of them are like the best of all time.
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They just have something unique and special about them that
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makes them worth a bucket list listen.
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So I've. Noticed with some of them that
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the album they chose for the artist is not even, you know,
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quote UN quote the best or what I would tell people, hey, this
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one, go listen to this one, you know.
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Yeah, it's kind of like I think of that with the Pink Floyd one.
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We listen to you and even The Beatles like The Beatles.
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That. Abbey Road and Dark Side of the
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Moon are both iconic albums and so that's why they got listed,
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even if personal opinion or like the majority opinion is like,
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you know, I can't remember anything other than the the
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wall. I don't think that's the album
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the. Wall the.
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Wall, OK, A lot of people think the Wall is better, and I can't
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remember The Beatles. Sergeant Pepper is better.
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But I mean, it's hard to say that those are necessarily more
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iconic quote UN quote to most people than darks and the moon
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happy Rd. So those are the ones I'm
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thinking of. But I'm like kind of reading all
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of this on the back of like this little box that has this poster
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in it and it's supposed to be like scratch off art.
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So after you listen to 1, you scratch it off.
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Go on. And I'm like, this is really
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cool. And Leslie like audibly goes,
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yes, like because he found something that I liked.
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And so we end up getting it. And I'm like, I really want to
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listen to all of these like things.
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And so I kind of got the inspiration to try to listen
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through all of them and give them all a chance, more than I
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had before. And then.
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And then I said, I'll listen with you, like, OK.
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And so that really started even, you know, to back up even
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further, you know, I guess you've always liked music.
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And then so as I mean, our whole family likes music.
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You know, we're not musicians. You know, I've played
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instruments in high school, but not since then.
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And so we like music. We like listening to music, you
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know, but you and I often times when, especially as you got a
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little bit older, I, I can't remember exactly when it
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happened, but at some point in time, we would start having in
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depth long conversations about songs, about artists.
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And then, oh, this artist said something about this other
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artist and their music. And this one sounds like this
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one. And have you heard this?
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And it even kick started even more as you start to get, you
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know, go for for those that go back to season 1 and listen to
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the Reliant K episode where you can talk about where you started
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to form your own likes and dislikes of music.
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And so even in that. So that was neat to sit there
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and have those conversations with you.
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However, it was not as neat apparently for the rest of the
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family because they would all of a sudden go, oh, they're at it
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again and walk away or tell us to leave because they were
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watching TV or doing something. And we have now interrupted.
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And they knew that we could potentially go on for long
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periods of time before somebody finally said, all right, y'all
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got to be quiet. Yeah, which honestly, kudos to
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them for like, I think they do a good job of like, recognizing
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that it's kind of a neat thing that we have.
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And So what will happen almost every time is like, Brother Pod
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will like stick in it for a little bit and then he'll like
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tap out and Mama Pod and him will go off and do something
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else. And they'll kind of say they
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will say like, you can have this time, but like leave or we will
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like, because we want you to have it, but we don't want to be
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a part of it. Yeah.
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And and just so you know, just another example, I guess it was
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over. Was it Thanksgiving when y'all
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were home when we played the board game?
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That with the microphone? Oh yeah.
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Was that Thanksgiving? And I mean, we hadn't recorded,
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I guess really since then or didn't talk about it.
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But so I guess it was Wesley that I had the game and
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basically it was guests. You know, you have this foam
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microphone and then you flip over a card and the card shows a
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word and then first person to sing a song with that word in
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the lyric wins, you know, gets a point.
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And so we we started going through this and our listening
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group would be happy to know that Riley won every round.
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The only time it got fair and that she did not win was when
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yeah, you lost by like what, 2 points?
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Maybe. I mean, it was close, but it was
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when all three of us were on the same team and we got like a
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second head start with the word before we put the car down.
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So Riley could say like it was still close.
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So she is the lyricist with a lot of songs.
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So that was that was fun. And and again, just so, you
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know, like the rest of the family plays along.
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They love music. So it's it.
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But when we start talking, they they tend to bow out pretty
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quickly. And and so I said, yeah, I'll
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join. And so that's really what what
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kick started it. We said, hey, let's listen to
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this. Our goal was to listen to one
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album a week. We started that.
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We got through I believe 7 albums and then.
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I think it's also, if you ever thought we were doing this just
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to get famous for making a podcast, we did for a while.
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We had no plan of doing any of this.
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We did just it was a good excuse with me.
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Like I've been away for college for a long time, but we're all
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super close in the family. But I mean, like music is where
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you and I like really connected. And so I think it was a lot.
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I don't want to, I don't know how to like word it right, but
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it was a lot easier to like call a Mama pod and tell her all like
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the drama that's going on and you'd be in the background and
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everything like that. But it was harder to like find
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points where I could like directly dedicate time to talk
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about music, which is what we really bond over.
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Yeah. Like in a semi formatted way to
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where we both kind of knew what the conversation was, right.
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And so that's initially what it was, was a way for us to kind of
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dedicate time to our relationship and father daughter
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time. Yeah.
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And so we started listening to music and, you know, got 7 or so
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in and, you know, I was like, I wonder if we could record these
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and release them as a podcast. Not that we thought anybody
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would listen. And Riley said yes.
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And so here we are. So we've got this poster that
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we're going through. So we have a YouTube channel.
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So Riley, are you going to get the poster hanging around you
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somewhere? So Riley's leaning back and
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getting the poster. So we got all, you can see all
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the scratch off circles. So what's it say across the top
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100 albums? Bucket list. 100 albums bucket
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list. So I will say it's a little beat
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up and if you notice, hey, they've listened to quite a few
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albums and they're not scratched off.
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Are they lying to us? Keep in mind, when I said it was
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on clearance, none of the scratch offs work.
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So that's why it's a little beat up.
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It's because I was trying to figure out if any of them
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worked. They don't.
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So we just kind of use it as a guideline and we go as if we're
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reading a book across, but they don't scratch them off.
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Yeah, so there we are. So that's our little poster
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list. It is there.
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We got, we got 100 of them and we started up there top left,
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which was Dark Side of the Moon. Crazy start.
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Yeah, and now we're going to the bottom right, which is going to
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be a long, long time for here. So let's do a spoiler alert and
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see if anybody remembers what's the Blast album on our poster.
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All mod cons by the jam. Never heard of them.
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We may we may switch that around so we'll have a better like into
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the poster. Although that could be an
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awesome album. But it could be but another
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spoiler when you have Fat Boys Slim on the same line.
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There we go. There we go.
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Yeah, there you go. You never know.
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On our poster there's all kinds of different ones.
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It it is I've I've noticed heavy rock genre so far.
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I think we're we're, which doesn't bother me, pretty.
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Soon. Yeah.
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I I do I. Will teaser with the current
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album that we're going to start listening to to open Season 2.
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It is not a rock album. It's not so, yeah.
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So any other? Like.
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That's that's that's kind of how we.
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Got to the. Podcast we just.
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I will do. It so had had we, like Riley
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said, if we were out after fame and money and all those things,
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we probably would have planned it a little better and probably
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started with an episode like this.
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We also have. Microphones now, Mike.
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Yes, we got. Microphone better?
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Yeah, hopefully we sound better and so we we would have figured
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all that stuff out, but we just, you know, we just enjoy the
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music. So we started right there and
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figured some of the other things out as we went along.
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So hopefully we got a couple of improvements sound wise.
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We're going to try and do the do the a lot of the sound stuff I'd
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produced after the fact. So we're going to try and put
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some of that stuff in live now. We're also going to go to a a
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programming note every two weeks because producing is difficult.
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Chopping up and making us sound as good as we do is.
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Difficult and. We'll.
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We'll be honest, or I'll be honest, we talked about it
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before. We felt like doing it once a
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week was kind of tainting some of our opinions on the music.
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Yeah. Because even if you love an
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album there, there can be some level of fatigue to listening to
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it. The like, I I don't know if
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we've ever talked about this. We.
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Don't know fatigue when I listen to 10 over and over.
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Again, that's different. That's different.
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OK, but but I don't know if we've ever explained this
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either. We don't listen to the album
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once and then talk about it. We listen to it a lot throughout
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the week to prepare and kind of come with notes, some better
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than the others, and like talking points about this music.
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So I was kind of discovering that that ended up being like
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the only thing I had time to listen to were these albums.
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And so I was missing out on some of the music that I really loved
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on my own and I was missing out on.
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I was focusing so much on discovering one album that I was
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missing out on discovering a lot of music from artists to that I
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did love. And I would like click and find
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out that one of my favorite artists had released something
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like 2 weeks or three weeks earlier and I had no idea.
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And it was that part is also important to me.
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And so I feel like with all of that in mind, listening to it an
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album for two weeks and being able to space it out a little
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bit more and really enjoy the music and not get us tired of it
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might right allow us to have a little bit more accurate
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discussions. Who knows, maybe I would like
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John Lennon. Probably not but you.
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Know. The, and the other thing that
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two weeks does is it allows us to, if we ever want to throw in
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something different, you know, we, we talked about doing this
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every week. It, it was, we listened to him
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enough to where if I'm not mistaken, like our Spotify
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Wrapped for the end of the year was like all these albums or you
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know, it was just these albums because we again, we did listen
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to them so much. To if anyone good.
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Opinion on it so. If anyone knows my ratings for
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these albums, you'll know the well, it wasn't that crazy, but
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the borderline despair when Abbey Road made it to like one
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of my top listen to albums. It was like an identity crisis
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of mine. I was like, that wasn't even my
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favorite one that I listened to, but that was one that we we
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talked about on our own and then re recorded it.
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So I I went through the week of listening through it twice and
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it was I like had this whole identity crisis.
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So I was like, I don't like what in the world happened, but it's
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funny. I do also think it's important
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to note there are 100 albums. That does not mean we're
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necessarily stopping after we get through these 100 albums,
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luckily. What you mean you got to keep
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keep going on with this? You got to keep talking to your
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daughter. Oh man, I know.
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But yeah, so luckily for us, everyone has a different
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opinion. There's a few that everyone
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agrees on, but they're like The Rolling Stones every year comes
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out with new ratings for what they think are the best 500
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albums. There's also this album or this
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list only plays one album per artist.
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But like we said, The Beatles have like all of their albums.
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They were the most iconic albums of all time.
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And same with like the Wall by Floyd and a lot of these other
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artists have a lot of. So there's those to go back to.
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And then also we have a lot of albums that we think are iconic
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or should be deemed worthy of that.
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So some of them might end up just being our opinions or if
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any of y'all send in one once we get kind of through the bulk,
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we'll figure that out closer too.
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But do not fear, there's not a deadline as there is on our
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poster. Yeah.
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And so hopefully we'll also be able to find a couple more
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guests to come on and and share some other insights.
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And then also maybe throughout the year, find a couple of
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different avenues to take instead of just album after
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album, maybe throw in some breaks with something else.
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Speaking of which, two things really one we're we're recording
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this on January 29th, so just a couple of days before the
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Grammys. So this will come out after the
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Grammys and so it may be the next episode that we talk about
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maybe some of the performances from the Grammys, which is
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always exciting and the. They always snub someone.
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I I'm almost boycotting them for Noah Khan.
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Oh yeah? Well, look on the bright side.
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Your boys got a new He's releasing.
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Music tonight. Bang, Bang, bang.
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There we go. So excitement in the Rally
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Barber household. So, and then the other fun,
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exciting news is it's it's it's coming up in March sometime, but
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over at Christmas break, we were able to record a couple podcasts
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or a couple episodes with our friends over at Assorted
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Crackers. And so be on the lookout for
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those. They'll be coming, I think
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sometime in March. So that's some fun things.
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So be listening to those to see what the Barber duo thinks about
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bourbon. And there's your teaser.
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So yeah, so there we go. All right, so kind of lost
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without our our little outline, like least favorite, most
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favorite. Like we're not doing any of
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that. So I don't know what comes next.
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So song of the week. So we're still doing this
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episode a song of the week because we're still listening to
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music. So Riley, back to the groove,
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what is your song of the week? And.
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Now we're testing out our new stuff by like it's about to
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play. My song is an oldie but a
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goodie. You all know it.
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You all. Love it.
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Jessie's Girl by Rick St. I don't often.
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You can. Leave.
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You can leave it playing or turn it up like it's hard to, at
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least for me to hear. I'll be honest, this is one of
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my songs that's on my like playlist that I usually skip
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because it's it's one that I'm not always in the mood for.
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OK, but I like wasn't paying attention and I didn't skip it.
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And like halfway through, I think it was like this part and
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I was like, hold on, didn't know.
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I didn't remember this song had this in it.
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And so I went through and listened to it and it's just
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like I just bopped my head and sang along.
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Horrible premise, very funny premise.
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But essentially like this whole thing is him just being in love
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with his best friend's girlfriend.
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But there we go and. Just saying he wants her.
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And it's just, it's such a good song, such, I don't know, a
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classic to fall back to it. I wouldn't say it's anything
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like revolutionary. It's so good at the basics that
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it does. Which is a lot of times what
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makes a great pop song. So many of your pop songs are
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not like, you know, ones that will hit a super high list, but
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they're just so good at just the basic structure of a song that
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it's just that good. And I mean honest also his his
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use of his voice. It's when he like he goes from
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being quiet and then he just was like burst with like this
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emotion. And the, the part where he goes
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like the, I just know it like, and he's like almost like
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scowling at like this image of saying this girl in love with
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his best friend. And it's just, I mean, it's
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honest, I guess. I, I think if I was Jesse or
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knew that I was supposed to be Jesse, Well, two things.
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If I was a man and I knew that I was supposed to be Jesse, I
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don't know how I would deal with this.
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If I was Jesse's girl, oh boy, this would be my theme song.
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If I would play that song, I I would walk like, you know, I
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would feel myself. I don't think anyone could ever
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say anything against me knowing that this song was written about
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me. I don't think anyone could say a
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single thing about me ever again.
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I'd be unstoppable. How are you?
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How about me? So here's mine.
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You'll you will know it from the first few notes.
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Oh, oh, brother. So this has.
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Been your song the week before? No, it hasn't.
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Please, I hope it hasn't. I don't think it has.
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No, no, I don't think it has. There's so many Pearl.
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Songs. Yeah, But, you know, this is one
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of my favorite Pearl Jam songs. And, you know, like, OK, I've
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listened to quite a bit, and you just have to listen to it in the
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background and go. I don't think he knew what he
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was saying. I don't, you know, I'm sitting
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here watching the lyrics go by on Spotify.
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I'm not. You know, they have lyrics
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there. I'm not sure they really match,
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you know, so I'm not sure anybody really knows.
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There's a couple in there that you figure it out and and you
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can hear, but for the most part this is a mumble along song that
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you just go with. But you know, we've talked about
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this this song quite a bit just because it was one of those that
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it didn't quite get finished for 10 and and so how much better
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Tin would have been if this song had made it.
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But here we are. So hey, this my porch.
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Do what? Replace porch.
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No, it would have just been added in because they're all so
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good. Porch is my one of my least
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favorite. Yeah, I know, I know.
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Just starts too aggressive. Yeah, yeah.
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What the? Butt it's like who you are.
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And listen to that guitar, you know, when you're in college,
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the fact that porch starts aggressive is very nice.
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When you're a teenage, you know, 1819, filled with the angst and
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how the world has wronged you for, you know, really hadn't you
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know? Or being grown up in a wealthy,
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not wealthy, loving family. So that's right.
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So there's there's my song of the week that I will fade out
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while the guitars go in there. So that leads us to our first
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album of season 2. So Riley, what is?
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And now that we have sound, I need to go find us an actual
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like drum roll to play. But well, yeah, season three
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goals. An iconic 1.
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I mean, it may be the most iconic one that we have or we
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have, yeah, I don't know. Y'all have.
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Y'all will have to let us know. The next one is Thriller by
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Michael Jackson. I can maybe next week, if I can
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set my camera up in a certain way, I could show you all that.
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I can go up on my toes like Michael Jackson.
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I do have a picture of me. Maybe I'll use that as like my
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background. And so here.
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No, but I can be the toes. I stand on my toes a lot.
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It's actually very unhealthy for me.
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Not like on my tip toes, like I stand on the top of my toes,
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like on the heel, like the toe of my boot is how I stand and
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it's really bad for me and I try to stop but it's comforting.
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So one of the things between now and the actual recording of
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Michael Jackson, we will also need to make sure that Riley
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goes and watches the Thriller extended cut version video.
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So everybody my age will definitely know exactly what I'm
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talking about. We have tried to show this to
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you before and. When I was, when I was very
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young. And what happened?
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I got too scared. So there we go.
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She's. Not gone back and watched it.
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So what to make sure that you found some time to watch that
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before we recorded so we can at least throw that in there too.
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Because can't have a conversation about the album I
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think personally without also at least mentioning that video.
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Yeah. So.
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Fair. I'm a big music video person,
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so. There we go there.
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So we will. You can try and find it on your
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new site. Go listen to it there, which
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will share that link to something else we learned with
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our crossover event with sort of crackers.
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And so start listening to Thriller.
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So a like iconic 1980s album, but you know, one of the best of
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all time. So go listen to Michael
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Jackson's Thriller show. Your hands, man.
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Oh well, I mean, it may not be I I I'll have to go.
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That's me remembering it like I'm I'm thinking and hoping
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that. It pulls up CD.
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That's cute. No, no, it was actually probably
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my second cassette. OK, my no, I think it was my
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first. And.
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I think it was, yeah, it was my first.
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I was thinking what is it Billy Joel innocent man but not I
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think the Billy Joel 1 was my second one.
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Thriller was. And I've always said and.
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It was a cassette, so maybe? We'll see if my opinions had
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changed. And we'll see if his opinions
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have. Stayed the same.
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We'll stay see if it holds, holds holds true throughout the
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years. So I guess that's all we got.
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So until next time, I'm Todd. And I'm Riley, and this has been
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another episode of Barbara.