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O'Brien & Doug Ep133 [January 12, 2023 It Is A Podcast!] · O'Brien & Doug

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SPEAKER_05: Hello, children.
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SPEAKER_05: The O'Brien and Doug Podcast is brought to you in part by Mojarmultimedia.com.
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SPEAKER_05: The Ridge Runner in Westfield, Maine.
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SPEAKER_12: And my cousin.
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SPEAKER_05: Okay, whoa, come on.
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unknown: Yuck.
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unknown: Yuck.
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SPEAKER_05: Wow.
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SPEAKER_05: What happened in there?
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SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_05: Stink in there.
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SPEAKER_12: My God.
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SPEAKER_12: What is what is that?
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SPEAKER_12: I I gotta get out of here.
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SPEAKER_12: I can't hold my breath that long.
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SPEAKER_05: Welcome to the O'Brien and Doug podcast.
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SPEAKER_05: I'm O'Brien.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm Doug.
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SPEAKER_01: Hello, everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: Hello, everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: That's uh reminds me of that uh office episode.
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SPEAKER_01: Hello, everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: Hello, everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: Fat Mike.
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SPEAKER_01: Fat Doug.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh, it is episode 133 of the O'Brien and Doug podcast.
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SPEAKER_05: Who'd a thunk we'd come this far?
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SPEAKER_05: 133.
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SPEAKER_12: I don't think we even thunk it.
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SPEAKER_05: I don't think we even dunk it.
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SPEAKER_05: I don't know, you know, why we actually have the 30 listeners that we have, but it's okay.
1:09
SPEAKER_02: Well, they're loyal.
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SPEAKER_05: They are.
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SPEAKER_05: We're not gonna change.
1:12
SPEAKER_05: No.
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SPEAKER_05: Well, we may change, but not you know what I mean.
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SPEAKER_12: No, I don't actually.
1:17
SPEAKER_05: No.
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SPEAKER_05: I mean we may add things and do different things, but we we are still our stupid stuff.
1:22
SPEAKER_12: What are we, you know, we're like what are we gonna we're gonna do poetry readings.
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SPEAKER_05: Well, now that you mentioned you know what I would like to do something uh with song lyrics.
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SPEAKER_05: We did the we did the breaking down of of a couple of things, but I would like to edge I would like to talk about song lyrics at some time.
1:39
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: At some point.
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SPEAKER_12: I saw I saw this clip of this comedian.
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SPEAKER_12: He was he was talking about you remember the the hub about maybe it's cold outside?
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SPEAKER_05: Yes.
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SPEAKER_12: And then he was like But at the same time, the most popular song was called Wet Have You Seen That Guy?
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SPEAKER_12: And then he starts comparing the lyrics.
1:58
SPEAKER_12: Right.
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SPEAKER_12: I thought I was gonna friggin' pee my pants.
2:02
SPEAKER_12: I was laughing so hard.
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SPEAKER_05: Speaking of comedians, I have to uh I can share this with you because my wife won't let me share it with my son.
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SPEAKER_12: Okay.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh and my son, I don't know if my son listens to the podcast or if he does, uh you know, I don't know when he has a chance to listen to the podcast.
2:14
SPEAKER_12: Well I was about to say he's too busy being smart.
2:16
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, well, I'm not I'm talking about Finn.
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SPEAKER_05: Oh, Finn.
2:18
SPEAKER_01: Oh, he's smart too, but he's smart too.
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SPEAKER_05: But I think you were thinking of uh I was thinking of Jude.
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SPEAKER_05: Jude, yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah, my my law school guy.
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SPEAKER_05: Um but Finn is Finn is also very smart.
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SPEAKER_01: That's not what it sounded like.
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SPEAKER_01: He's really smart.
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SPEAKER_01: No, I'm talking about I'm talking about the same.
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SPEAKER_05: No.
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SPEAKER_05: Finn, who's in seventh grade, is uh has taken up, he's decided he he wants to be on the cross-country ski team.
2:50
SPEAKER_05: Oh.
2:51
SPEAKER_05: Uh never done it before, ever.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh okay.
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SPEAKER_12: I was always gonna ask, I don't ever remember him ever skiing cross-country skiing ever.
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SPEAKER_05: No, so he brought home some skis uh last week or the week before, something like that.
3:02
SPEAKER_05: And he went out of the backyard and he's like, This sucks.
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SPEAKER_05: See, he is smart, right?
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SPEAKER_05: But he's gone to practice the past couple days, and he's done okay.
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SPEAKER_05: There's a I guess there's 15 newcomers.
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SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh, and he's on the cross-country ski team.
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SPEAKER_05: So I guess apparently you can join even if you've never done it before.
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SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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SPEAKER_05: Um so he's learning, and they said, I guess the coaches said, those of you that have never done it before, we'll be we'll we'll I don't know if he said you'll be uh pros, probably not pros, but by the end of the week, you'll think you've been doing it for the rest of your for forever, you know.
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SPEAKER_05: So um, but I found something on Instagram, one of my favorite comedians, and I played it for my wife, and she's like, You cannot play that for Finn.
3:49
SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
3:50
SPEAKER_05: So I'm gonna play it for you.
3:51
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
3:51
SPEAKER_05: Okay, so it's Jim Gaffigan.
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SPEAKER_05: Oh Jim Gaffin.
4:18
SPEAKER_05: I just I had uh you know, I saved it.
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SPEAKER_05: So one day I want to show it to him when he's like winning all these cross-country tournament you know, tournaments and meets meets and everything.
4:28
SPEAKER_11: Love Jim Gavigan.
4:29
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
4:30
SPEAKER_05: Um so we had a pretty great weekend.
4:35
SPEAKER_12: It was fantastic, man.
4:37
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
4:37
SPEAKER_12: I would say.
4:38
SPEAKER_05: It was uh busy, busy, you know, it seems like uh for our family, it just won't stop.
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SPEAKER_05: Um so before I get to the what we're gonna talk about, so that day, um I had uh two varsity games.
4:55
SPEAKER_05: Oh no, uh a varsity game and a J V game.
4:58
SPEAKER_05: Right.
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SPEAKER_05: I was only able to go to the J V game because I had to go and have set up for for our show.
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SPEAKER_05: Um my daughter had a uh tournament, round robin tournament in Fort Kent that day.
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SPEAKER_05: Right.
5:10
SPEAKER_05: So my wife was up in Fort Kent, which is you know, for those of you that are listening from away, it's about an hour maybe.
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SPEAKER_12: From here.
5:18
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
5:18
SPEAKER_12: Hour, hour fifteen, yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: Something like that.
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SPEAKER_05: So she's an hour, hour north uh with my daughter for two games.
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SPEAKER_05: I go with my other son to watch my other son play JV, and then I leave.
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SPEAKER_05: My wife comes back from 4K and goes right to the varsity game with everybody, and I leave, I go to set up for the syndicate, and we do the syndicate show, and and my wife and one of my kids comes to the syndicate show.
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SPEAKER_05: So it was a long day for mom and dad.
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SPEAKER_10: Right.
5:46
SPEAKER_05: And uh, but it was great.
5:48
SPEAKER_05: And so the syndicate show, what what this was, and we've been talking about it, is it was a fundraiser.
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SPEAKER_05: And uh contrary to what WAGM, our our local television station, is reporting, it is not our first fundraiser.
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SPEAKER_05: No.
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SPEAKER_05: We've done actually several fundraisers before.
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SPEAKER_05: True.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh we've done one for the POWs, we've done one for the Larry Hall Bet uh Larry Hall Memorial Fund.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah um we've we've done a couple uh other ones, I think.
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SPEAKER_05: Um but this was I don't know.
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SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_12: They would this this is one that we put on.
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SPEAKER_05: This is one that we put on.
6:21
SPEAKER_05: Yeah so here's the thing.
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SPEAKER_05: So the syndicate plays festivals through the summer because we're such a big band we can't play we have to play big things.
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SPEAKER_12: It's not like we can play the bar.
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SPEAKER_05: Right.
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SPEAKER_12: It's not what they want us, right?
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SPEAKER_12: Right they'd all have to stand outside.
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SPEAKER_12: Right, because we're so loud.
6:36
SPEAKER_12: And and there's so many of us.
6:37
SPEAKER_12: Right.
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SPEAKER_12: We we would be half the bar population.
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SPEAKER_05: Right.
6:40
SPEAKER_05: It would be.
6:41
SPEAKER_05: It would be.
6:41
SPEAKER_05: We well what is that what is our slogan?
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SPEAKER_05: So anytime the audience outnumbers the band, it's a good night.
6:46
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
6:47
SPEAKER_12: Yep.
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SPEAKER_05: So uh we we we don't usually play in the wintertime.
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SPEAKER_10: Right.
6:53
SPEAKER_05: Uh we we tend to do uh two things.
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SPEAKER_05: We tend to go into local schools and we we talk about music education and how important it is and and play a concert for for these schools.
7:04
SPEAKER_05: What they do is they have several schools come to one school and we do a concert.
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SPEAKER_05: And we do that once or twice a year.
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SPEAKER_05: Yep.
7:10
SPEAKER_05: And the other thing we do is we try to put on our own concert.
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SPEAKER_05: So meaning we we pay for the hall, we pay for, you know, uh or we if we pay for it, we get advertising.
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SPEAKER_05: Right.
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SPEAKER_05: Uh and and talk uh and and talk it up and and it's kind of like a fan appreciation type thing.
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SPEAKER_05: We try and throw that throw one show in the wintertime.
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SPEAKER_05: And uh so this time we decided let's let's make it a fundraiser.
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SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_05: So we picked House of Comfort.
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SPEAKER_05: The Aroustic House of Comfort.
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SPEAKER_05: Yes.
7:41
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it's the uh Hospice Association, the uh Northern Light Hospice Association or something like that.
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SPEAKER_12: Yeah, I don't know the real name.
7:48
SPEAKER_12: Well, it is the Arous or the or the parent organization.
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SPEAKER_05: Right, it is the Aroustic House of Comfort, and and we know from experience that they do great work up there.
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SPEAKER_05: Yes, absolutely.
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SPEAKER_05: Um and so we said this is kind of a no-brainer, so let's raise money for the Aurustic House of Comfort.
8:02
SPEAKER_05: And so we started talking about it, and we got in touch with the House of Comfort, and they were all for it.
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SPEAKER_05: They were really excited.
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SPEAKER_05: And then people started stepping up, and we didn't have to pay for the hall because we had a sponsor that paid for the hall, and we had other sponsors that gave that donated things for like a for raffle, yeah, raffle items and a lot of gift cards, and we had my wife said that there had to be five to six hundred people there.
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SPEAKER_05: I don't know about that.
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SPEAKER_11: I don't know about that either.
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SPEAKER_05: Um but she said she said that whole back section was full.
8:36
SPEAKER_05: And I didn't see that.
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SPEAKER_12: I didn't say that either.
8:39
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, but I could be wrong.
8:41
SPEAKER_05: Was she drinking?
8:42
SPEAKER_05: She does not drink.
8:44
SPEAKER_05: She was not drinking.
8:45
SPEAKER_05: I shouldn't say she doesn't drink.
8:46
SPEAKER_05: She doesn't drink.
8:48
SPEAKER_05: I mean, every every once in a while.
8:49
SPEAKER_05: Um but no, she was she was sober, but she was very tired.
8:53
SPEAKER_05: So maybe maybe she was seeing things.
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SPEAKER_12: She was like, Oh, there's 17 people there.
8:58
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
8:59
SPEAKER_05: So but we had we did it was a great crowd.
9:01
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, I mean it was it was a good crowd.
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SPEAKER_05: We had a great crowd, and and um considering the weather wasn't.
9:07
SPEAKER_05: Do you want to talk about the goal that you had?
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SPEAKER_12: Or to beat Qatar and Trust?
9:12
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
9:12
SPEAKER_12: Yes.
9:13
SPEAKER_05: Okay, go ahead.
9:14
SPEAKER_05: Tell me.
9:14
SPEAKER_12: Mission accomplished.
9:15
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
9:16
SPEAKER_05: So Catadain Trust looked at the colour.
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SPEAKER_12: Yeah, Catatin Trust, like a month or so ago, posted on their phone.
9:21
SPEAKER_12: Because my I follow them because my mom used to work there.
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SPEAKER_05: Right.
9:24
SPEAKER_12: So they were allowed to get it.
9:25
SPEAKER_05: And not that your mom your mom retired.
9:28
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, she no longer works there.
9:29
SPEAKER_12: She she could she could care less what they do now.
9:31
SPEAKER_12: Right.
9:32
SPEAKER_12: Um, so uh they posted the, you know, they they have this thing where like on Fridays you can wear like it's like casual Friday.
9:40
SPEAKER_12: Right.
9:40
SPEAKER_12: But you gotta pay, you gotta put it in a donation to Yep.
9:43
SPEAKER_05: Most places do that.
9:43
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
9:44
SPEAKER_12: So they for I don't know how long, I think I don't know how long they did it, but all the branches did it and they put together their money and they they raised twelve twenty five hundred.
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SPEAKER_12: Twenty, yeah, twenty-three, twenty five hundred dollars.
9:57
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
9:58
SPEAKER_12: So then Morton comes out with the side with the show, and then he was like, hey, let's make it a fundraiser, let's do House of Comfort.
10:07
SPEAKER_12: And I was like, Oh well then my goal is to beat Catana Trust.
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SPEAKER_05: Right, because they donated that$2,500 to the House of Comfort.
10:14
SPEAKER_05: Yes, right.
10:15
SPEAKER_12: So I was like, oh, I want us to beat.
10:18
unknown: Right.
10:18
SPEAKER_12: They they got they got, you know, they're a bank, they're a multi-million dollar corporation, and they got all these branches and employees, and you know, they slightly outnumber us.
10:29
SPEAKER_05: Right, slightly.
10:30
SPEAKER_12: Um and I was like, yeah, we can I I have a feeling we can we we got some, you know, we got some awesome syndicats out there.
10:37
SPEAKER_05: And then the weather took a turn.
10:38
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
10:39
SPEAKER_05: And so we're we're we're standing there.
10:40
SPEAKER_12: Well it wasn't it wasn't terrible, but it just kind of just it was yucky all day.
10:44
SPEAKER_05: And so we're we're we're out there, we're like watching people walk in and we're getting nervous.
10:47
SPEAKER_05: We're like, ooh, this doesn't seem like there's gonna a lot of people here.
10:51
SPEAKER_05: Hopefully we do okay.
10:53
SPEAKER_05: And then the other slowly and but surely they they kept coming.
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SPEAKER_12: And it what it reminded me of one of those umpy gigs where we were like, ah, we're not gonna fill this place.
11:02
SPEAKER_05: Right.
11:03
SPEAKER_12: And then when we actually hit the stage, there were people standing in the house because there was no more seats to be had.
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SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
11:09
SPEAKER_12: That's what it kind of reminded me of.
11:10
SPEAKER_05: So long story short, we accomplished your goal.
11:15
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
11:15
SPEAKER_12: We kicked their freaking butt.
11:17
SPEAKER_05: We I think more than doubled it.
11:19
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
11:19
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
11:20
SPEAKER_05: Easy.
11:20
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
11:21
SPEAKER_05: Suck at Katan Dr.
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SPEAKER_05: We raised, or helped to raise, uh, fifty two hundred bucks.
11:27
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
11:27
SPEAKER_05: For the House of Comfort.
11:28
SPEAKER_05: That was awesome.
11:29
SPEAKER_05: So it was a little old band from Northern Maine.
11:32
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
11:32
SPEAKER_05: Well, actually a big old band.
11:34
SPEAKER_05: Big old Maine.
11:34
SPEAKER_05: From Northern Maine threw it through a threw a party and uh all our friends came.
11:38
SPEAKER_05: All our friends came.
11:39
SPEAKER_12: And they came out for it.
11:40
SPEAKER_05: And they did.
11:40
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
11:41
SPEAKER_05: Because it's such a great cause.
11:42
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, absolutely.
11:42
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it really is.
11:44
SPEAKER_05: Um, so that was our weekend.
11:46
SPEAKER_05: So um I think I slept most of Sunday.
11:49
SPEAKER_12: No, but I gotta I gotta tell you my story, what the happened.
11:52
SPEAKER_12: Oh, yes, that's this is important to the very last song.
11:55
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
11:56
SPEAKER_12: So I I hadn't sung anything all night except backup.
11:59
SPEAKER_05: Right.
11:59
SPEAKER_12: So I only had one song slated.
12:01
SPEAKER_05: But it was and and the comments that I've heard about that last song, they're like, oh, you gotta keep that in.
12:07
SPEAKER_05: That was awesome.
12:08
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, it was fun.
12:09
SPEAKER_05: It was a fun song.
12:09
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
12:10
SPEAKER_05: Well, we could tell we could tell it, right?
12:11
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, it was Joe Cocker with a little help for my friends.
12:14
SPEAKER_05: Right, and Doug does an awesome job with it.
12:16
SPEAKER_12: And I was uh I I felt because I was awake, you know, because it's a Joe Cocker song, and Joe Cocker's kind of weird.
12:21
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, he's animated for sure.
12:22
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, and he's animated and he doesn't, you know, there's no rhyme or rhythm to his you know his delivery.
12:28
SPEAKER_05: Right.
12:28
SPEAKER_12: So I had to kind of like make it my own.
12:30
SPEAKER_12: And I was struggling with it, and I was like, oh, you know, I was like, oh man, don't get me nervous.
12:35
SPEAKER_12: But as soon as it kicked in, as soon as I was watching John, and he nodded to me to give start, and I was like, okay.
12:43
SPEAKER_12: After that, I was like, yes, this is working.
12:46
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
12:46
SPEAKER_12: I only messed up the words a couple times.
12:48
SPEAKER_05: Nobody noticed.
12:49
SPEAKER_12: No, I didn't.
12:49
SPEAKER_12: I I I was like, oh, damn it.
12:51
SPEAKER_05: You didn't do what I wanted you to do, though.
12:53
SPEAKER_05: What?
12:54
SPEAKER_05: You didn't do the the Chandler Monica review.
12:56
SPEAKER_12: I was going to, and then I I totally forgot about it.
12:58
SPEAKER_12: So I was, yeah, it was just I just got caught up in the song.
13:02
SPEAKER_12: But I yeah, I'll try to remember to do that next time.
13:04
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
13:05
SPEAKER_12: With a little help from my friends.
13:06
SPEAKER_12: Um so so we're going and everything's I mean, the the band is just banging it out, and you know, everything's going smooth, and I'm thinking, oh yeah, people are like doing the whole lighter thing with their cell phones out there, and I was like, oh man, this is cool.
13:22
SPEAKER_12: So, you know, if anybody sees me with the syndicate knows I'm a little uh demonstrative, I guess.
13:30
SPEAKER_05: No.
13:32
SPEAKER_05: People come to see the syndicate to see you.
13:34
SPEAKER_05: Well, I don't know if that's true.
13:35
SPEAKER_05: That's true.
13:35
SPEAKER_05: That's true.
13:36
SPEAKER_12: But but I tend to get into the music, and you know, I'm doing whatever.
13:41
SPEAKER_12: Yep.
13:41
SPEAKER_12: So we get to the end of it, and I'm like getting ready, you know, and I'm doing I'm getting ready to do the big fist pump, you know, as soon as Chris brings down that beat, you know, just like you know, right?
13:50
SPEAKER_12: Yep.
13:51
SPEAKER_12: So I went out, I did the big fist bump, and I put my leg right out there, and all of a sudden I hear I don't didn't hear it, but I felt my pants split open in the front.
14:05
SPEAKER_12: Oh, it was in the front.
14:06
SPEAKER_12: Oh my god, yes.
14:07
SPEAKER_12: Oh, I didn't realize that.
14:08
SPEAKER_12: Oh yeah, it was not the back.
14:10
SPEAKER_05: Well, see, when you were telling me that you split your pants open, I was like because after the song was done, you did what you normally do after you kind of give everything to the song.
14:20
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
14:21
SPEAKER_05: You turned around and you bent over.
14:23
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
14:23
SPEAKER_05: And I was like, and then you told me your pants ripped.
14:26
SPEAKER_05: I'm like, why are you showing the audience?
14:27
SPEAKER_11: No, no, no, no, no, no.
14:29
SPEAKER_05: I didn't realize it was in the front.
14:30
SPEAKER_12: It was in the front.
14:31
SPEAKER_12: Oh so I went for the big thing and it I was like, oh no, what am I going to do?
14:39
SPEAKER_12: So luckily, you know, it's you know, kind of those the lights are on, and I'm thinking, oh man, what am I gonna do?
14:45
SPEAKER_12: How am I gonna figure out how bad it is?
14:47
SPEAKER_12: I was like, so then I had this brilliant like flash of like I don't know if it was genius or inventiveness or just you know, panicking.
14:56
SPEAKER_12: But I was like, remember when James Brown would uh bring the robe out?
15:00
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, his whatever the guy's name was.
15:02
SPEAKER_12: I can't think of his name.
15:03
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I know who you mean.
15:04
SPEAKER_12: You know what I'm talking about?
15:05
SPEAKER_12: Yep.
15:05
SPEAKER_12: He'd bring the cape out, okay, go on.
15:07
SPEAKER_12: Okay, go on.
15:09
SPEAKER_12: You know, can't go on.
15:10
SPEAKER_12: You know, so he would like lead down on the stage and he'd put the cape and then they'd try to lead him out, and then all of a sudden he'd come back out, you know, yeah.
15:17
SPEAKER_12: I was like, maybe I'll do something like that.
15:19
SPEAKER_12: So uh the congas were set up for us.
15:23
SPEAKER_12: So I moved myself in front of the congas, and I laid down on the floor behind the congas, and I started going, feeling it was like, oh, that is a bad rip.
15:34
SPEAKER_12: Well, that's not good.
15:35
SPEAKER_12: Holy crap.
15:35
SPEAKER_12: And everybody's I could hear people laughing because I was like laying on the floor.
15:39
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, but they couldn't speak what I was doing.
15:42
SPEAKER_12: I was like trying to feel, see how bad the damage was.
15:44
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
15:45
SPEAKER_12: And I was like, oh, this is not good.
15:47
SPEAKER_12: So the rest of the time, I don't know if you noticed it, but I stayed behind the congas as much as I possibly could.
15:52
SPEAKER_05: Well, and when you told me you split your pants and then we did another song.
15:55
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
15:55
SPEAKER_05: I was like, oh, oh, oh, you split your pants before we did this other song too.
16:00
SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
16:00
SPEAKER_05: So that is why you stood behind the congas.
16:02
SPEAKER_12: That's why I stayed behind the congas.
16:04
SPEAKER_12: I was like, I probably do not should not, you know, whip out little Doug in front of all these people.
16:12
SPEAKER_12: So I was like, oh man, this is I'll stay by but I don't think I think the way my sh I was wearing a Hawaiian shirt, and I think the way it held it hung down, nobody could see it.
16:23
SPEAKER_12: The rip was right, it was covered by the you know, it covered the rip.
16:27
SPEAKER_05: Right.
16:28
SPEAKER_12: So but it worked out well.
16:29
SPEAKER_05: Memorable.
16:30
SPEAKER_05: Memorable.
16:30
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
16:31
SPEAKER_05: You won't forget that one.
16:32
SPEAKER_12: But I only told you and Morton about it.
16:34
SPEAKER_12: I don't know.
16:35
SPEAKER_05: Well now you've told everyone.
16:36
SPEAKER_12: Well now I've told it.
16:37
SPEAKER_12: Wow.
16:37
SPEAKER_12: Anybody that listens to the podcast.
16:39
SPEAKER_12: I don't think the rest of the syndicate listens to the podcast.
16:41
SPEAKER_12: I don't think so.
16:41
SPEAKER_05: I don't think so either.
16:42
SPEAKER_05: Uh which is fine.
16:43
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
16:44
SPEAKER_05: Um so uh you know, but a success.
16:46
SPEAKER_05: It was a total success.
16:47
SPEAKER_05: Great uh great weekend of music.
16:50
SPEAKER_12: It was band was on fire, so everything, every, you know, all those new songs we threw in, they sounded great.
16:56
SPEAKER_05: Although I told uh I told my wife when I got home because you know, when my family comes to the show, especially my wife, uh, she'll usually come up after and say, uh you c you couldn't hear the vocals.
17:08
SPEAKER_05: You know, or you know, when we have when we have the the the vocals just right, of course we didn't have a sound person really Saturday night because uh our sound person had some family issues.
17:19
SPEAKER_05: Um so we we kind of set it and forget it.
17:22
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and but we sounded pretty good.
17:24
SPEAKER_12: I thought we sounded pretty good.
17:26
SPEAKER_05: So she's but she will usually come up and and say, you know, she'll say, You guys sounded great, you did a good job, and everything, but you know, we couldn't hear Missy, or we couldn't hear this, you know, or whatever.
17:35
SPEAKER_05: Right.
17:35
SPEAKER_05: So Saturday night she comes up and she says, like, you know, you still couldn't couldn't hear your vocals very well.
17:40
SPEAKER_05: And I was like, Oh crap.
17:41
SPEAKER_05: And then she said, and your guitar was really loud on your solos.
17:45
SPEAKER_05: I was like, Really?
17:46
SPEAKER_05: She's like, Yeah, really loud.
17:48
SPEAKER_05: And so now I and then so they left.
17:52
SPEAKER_05: I come home with Finn.
17:53
SPEAKER_05: Finn helped me with the teardown and everything.
17:55
SPEAKER_05: Right.
17:56
SPEAKER_05: So I'm I come home with Finn and I walk in and I said, You know what, honey, I don't want you to tell me anymore.
18:03
SPEAKER_05: Just keep it to yourself.
18:05
SPEAKER_05: Because it's like, ah, we had a great show, it was a lot of fun.
18:08
SPEAKER_05: I couldn't hear the vocals.
18:09
SPEAKER_05: What?
18:10
SPEAKER_05: And your guitar was really loud.
18:12
SPEAKER_05: Oh crap.
18:13
SPEAKER_05: It's like that blue So I just said, I appreciate it, but you know, just don't tell me.
18:21
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
18:21
SPEAKER_12: Just be like, good job, honey.
18:23
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
18:25
SPEAKER_05: And I did hear some uh some clips.
18:29
SPEAKER_05: Like she played me a clip, she recorded a couple clips.
18:32
SPEAKER_05: Um and it didn't sound that bad.
18:35
SPEAKER_05: I mean it's uh yeah my guitar was you know but it was good.
18:39
SPEAKER_05: It was fine.
18:40
SPEAKER_05: It was fine.
18:40
SPEAKER_05: Well I think we had And I was having a few issues with my guitar.
18:43
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, you said you said you had it was really quiet for a little while and I couldn't figure out why.
18:47
SPEAKER_05: I think I'm gonna have to tear my pedalboard apart and rebuild it.
18:50
SPEAKER_05: Uh here we go again.
18:54
SPEAKER_05: It's like uh it's like a thing.
18:55
SPEAKER_05: I would like to reduce it though, because there seems like a a lot on there.
18:59
SPEAKER_05: So I I think I'll reduce it again.
19:01
SPEAKER_05: George Harrison never used it.
19:02
SPEAKER_12: Shut up.
19:03
SPEAKER_12: Shut up.
19:04
SPEAKER_12: I was oh, did you you ever heard of the Great Courses Plus?
19:08
SPEAKER_12: The Great Courses?
19:09
SPEAKER_05: Great Courses?
19:10
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
19:10
SPEAKER_12: Oh it's like they do lectures on Yeah, I have heard of that.
19:14
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
19:14
SPEAKER_12: Well it's on Amazon.
19:15
SPEAKER_12: You know that you can subscribe to uh Great Courses.
19:18
SPEAKER_05: I didn't know that.
19:19
SPEAKER_12: On Amazon.
19:19
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, so I did.
19:20
SPEAKER_05: Like like Amazon, like Amazon uh, you know, just like Prime.
19:25
SPEAKER_05: You can subscribe to it.
19:26
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, exactly.
19:29
SPEAKER_12: You can s subscribe to different channels.
19:31
SPEAKER_05: Like on Amazon Prime?
19:32
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
19:34
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
19:34
SPEAKER_12: Like on Amazon Video.
19:35
SPEAKER_12: Like Okay, yeah.
19:36
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
19:37
SPEAKER_12: Great courses is one of them.
19:38
SPEAKER_12: You dude, they have so many top I mean, you can watch lectures on any just about any subject you can think of.
19:45
SPEAKER_01: Do you have to pay for them?
19:46
SPEAKER_12: Well, yeah, it's like five bucks a month or something like that.
19:49
SPEAKER_12: You get any any course you want.
19:50
SPEAKER_12: You just subscribe to the channel and you can watch anything on the channel for like four or five bucks.
19:56
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
19:56
SPEAKER_12: So I did the Great Courses.
19:58
SPEAKER_12: Well, there's a there's a course on there called England, the sixties and the triumph of the Beatles.
20:05
SPEAKER_12: Oh.
20:06
SPEAKER_12: It's really interesting.
20:08
SPEAKER_12: Did you know?
20:09
SPEAKER_12: Uh and I got this out, I only I've only watched a couple lectures so far.
20:13
SPEAKER_12: Um the guy was talking about in like the fall of 1963, right before they became big in America.
20:23
SPEAKER_12: I mean, they were big in England, right?
20:26
SPEAKER_12: They were huge in England.
20:27
SPEAKER_12: But they hadn't they hadn't found it in America yet.
20:30
SPEAKER_12: Right.
20:31
SPEAKER_12: George Harrison spent time in Illinois.
20:36
SPEAKER_12: His sister married an American and immigrated to America.
20:39
unknown: Okay.
20:40
SPEAKER_12: She was living in a little town called Benton.
20:42
SPEAKER_12: Bent is it Benton?
20:43
SPEAKER_12: Benton, Illinois.
20:44
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
20:45
SPEAKER_12: It's like in southern Illinois.
20:46
SPEAKER_00: Right.
20:47
SPEAKER_12: He spent it was probably and the the way the guy, the professor was talking about, he's like, it was the last time that you know George Harrison was able to walk around America unknown.
20:57
SPEAKER_12: Because in the 'cause in February.
21:00
unknown: Right.
21:00
SPEAKER_12: You know, like in Mar like in January, uh you know, they got big with uh, you know, you know, I wanna hold your hand.
21:07
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
21:08
SPEAKER_12: And then in February they were on Ed Sullivan.
21:10
SPEAKER_12: Sullivan, yep.
21:10
SPEAKER_12: And then after that it was over.
21:12
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, but he but he was hanging out in America.
21:15
SPEAKER_12: Nobody knew who he was.
21:17
SPEAKER_12: He even went to a dance in that town.
21:19
SPEAKER_12: Right.
21:19
SPEAKER_12: And they invite they the band that was playing invited him up to join him, you know.
21:23
SPEAKER_12: So he's playing guitar.
21:25
SPEAKER_12: And and the way um his sister because this guy this this professor interviewed his sister before before she passed away.
21:34
SPEAKER_12: And uh she said that you could feel the room transform when he was playing with these guys, and nobody knew who he was, but they knew they'd never heard anybody play guitar like that before.
21:46
SPEAKER_12: So it was kinda it was pretty ips that was a pretty I didn't know he spent time in America with uh before uh I didn't know before that.
21:53
SPEAKER_05: So I'm looking at the I'm trying to look up the Great Courses video channel.
21:57
SPEAKER_05: Uh you get some you get some of 'em Free if you're if you're a prime member.
22:01
SPEAKER_05: Oh, do you?
22:02
SPEAKER_05: Okay, yeah.
22:02
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
22:03
SPEAKER_12: But if you subscribe to the channel, you can get anything, man.
22:05
SPEAKER_12: I mean, there's like there's like calculus and learning Spanish and Latin and Unl unless I'm looking at something completely well, no, England, the fall from Rome to the Norman Conquest.
22:17
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, like stuff like that.
22:18
SPEAKER_12: American military history.
22:20
SPEAKER_05: Okay, so that I have to buy the episode.
22:21
SPEAKER_05: But but like uh uh ten uh no not not that one.
22:26
SPEAKER_05: The ultimate civil war series.
22:28
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
22:28
SPEAKER_05: I can watch that free.
22:29
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
22:29
SPEAKER_12: So there you go.
22:30
SPEAKER_05: Everything and nothing, I can watch that free.
22:32
SPEAKER_05: Uh How Jesus Became God.
22:34
SPEAKER_12: Well that's not correct.
22:36
SPEAKER_05: No, it's not.
22:37
SPEAKER_05: But uh anyway.
22:39
SPEAKER_05: Inventions that shook the world.
22:40
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
22:40
SPEAKER_12: Um yeah, it's really into like I say, it's just it's basically a professor from, you know, some university, and he gives you a whole lecture series on a subject.
22:51
SPEAKER_05: I'm gonna have to look that up.
22:52
SPEAKER_12: It's really fascinating.
22:53
SPEAKER_12: A lot of good stuff.
22:54
SPEAKER_12: I've I've been watching uh decisive uh decisive battles in history one, which is really fascinating.
23:01
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
23:01
SPEAKER_12: You know, so it's it's really it's really worth the five bucks.
23:05
SPEAKER_05: Speaking of the Beatles, uh I found this on ultimate classicrock.com as I was preparing for the podcast.
23:11
SPEAKER_05: Did you know?
23:12
SPEAKER_05: Yes, I did.
23:14
SPEAKER_05: Uh I said now I always well I guess I did know this to a certain extent, but I always thought because John Lennon used to make fun of McCartney's songwriting sometimes.
23:25
SPEAKER_05: Like his like his like obla de obla.
23:28
SPEAKER_05: Oh, right, right.
23:28
SPEAKER_05: You know, he's like, that was the frilly stuff.
23:30
SPEAKER_05: Or or um when I'm sixty-four.
23:33
SPEAKER_05: You know, that's you know but he was uh a former aide to John Lennon said that um he envied Paul McCartney.
23:43
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, well I think I think Paul was a better musician than John was.
23:48
SPEAKER_05: Better musician and and songwriter.
23:50
SPEAKER_05: Right.
23:51
SPEAKER_05: I wasn't saying better songwriter, different kinds of songwriters.
23:53
SPEAKER_12: Different kind of songwriter, but I think he was more musically inclined than John was.
23:56
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
23:57
SPEAKER_12: Well John was John was very good with language and writing.
24:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
24:02
SPEAKER_12: You know, that's why his why his songs are more uh you know well like oh look at Across the Universe.
24:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
24:11
SPEAKER_12: Uh Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
24:13
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
24:14
SPEAKER_12: Uh, you know, songs like that.
24:15
SPEAKER_12: I mean they're very like Dream.
24:18
SPEAKER_05: Ethereal.
24:18
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
24:18
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, ethereal.
24:19
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, you know, like and then Paul's very sweet and you know, very, oh, you know, when I'm thinking people are you know, and that Penny Lane.
24:27
SPEAKER_06: Right.
24:27
SPEAKER_12: Compare Penny Lane to Strawberry Fields Forever.
24:31
SPEAKER_06: Right.
24:31
SPEAKER_12: And 'cause Paul wrote Penny Lane.
24:34
SPEAKER_12: Right.
24:34
SPEAKER_02: And and John wrote the melodies to those or Paul was very classical, sort of.
24:47
SPEAKER_05: Classical.
24:48
SPEAKER_12: Dad was a jazz trumpeter.
24:50
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, but when it was piano player.
24:53
SPEAKER_05: Well, so this guy, Dan Richter, um, he's he was one of the guys that got them back together, got them talking again in like 1973.
25:03
SPEAKER_05: Um and he said that uh Lennon knew McCartney had talents that he didn't have.
25:10
SPEAKER_05: Right.
25:10
SPEAKER_05: Uh he said one point at one point John got somebody to make a list of all the Beatles songs, and then when they had to say which were his and which were Paul's, um on another occasion uh Lennon's entourage visited a fancy restaurant where a band was playing as guests ate dinner.
25:24
SPEAKER_05: When they saw John come in, they started playing yesterday.
25:29
SPEAKER_05: And he got he got pissed off.
25:32
SPEAKER_05: That hurts.
25:33
SPEAKER_05: Uh he was also he said he also said that Lennon's sense of competitiveness went further after returning to his uh uh Tittenhurst Park home from a visit to George Harrison's place.
25:45
SPEAKER_05: He said, I could see water from George's window.
25:47
SPEAKER_05: Do you think we could could put a lake in here?
25:50
SPEAKER_05: Uh I don't know what he meant by that, but he maintained that Lennon's biggest rivalry was with McCartney.
25:55
SPEAKER_05: It bugged him that Paul could write those sweet melodies like yesterday in Hey Jude.
26:00
SPEAKER_05: He couldn't do that.
26:01
SPEAKER_05: He was just too acerbic or too intelligent.
26:05
SPEAKER_05: Um he said that uh both Lennon and McCartney married into wealthy families.
26:11
SPEAKER_05: Both of them ended up with women who knew how to deal with money, property, companies, and staff.
26:16
SPEAKER_05: One of the things that surprised him about John was uh when he first met him was how little he knew about those kinds of things.
26:22
SPEAKER_05: He called himself working class, but he was really lower middle class.
26:26
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, he was never he was never working class.
26:29
SPEAKER_05: Right.
26:29
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
26:29
SPEAKER_05: Um and let's see what else does he say here?
26:32
SPEAKER_05: Uh yeah, and then it just basically talks about how he got them uh talking on the phone.
26:37
SPEAKER_05: Right.
26:38
SPEAKER_05: Because he was visiting with um he was he was talking, he was John and Yoko were at their Bank Street place in New York.
26:46
SPEAKER_05: Paul was at a hotel in Berlin and he and he called his people and he said, If I got John on the phone, would Paul talk to him?
26:52
SPEAKER_05: And they said yes.
26:53
SPEAKER_05: So they they talked in 1973 after not talking for at least three years.
26:58
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I was gonna say.
26:58
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
26:59
SPEAKER_05: So I just thought that was a neat little story.
27:02
SPEAKER_12: Well, John always said that, you know, like well well, like when he first met Paul at Aquarium and gig.
27:10
SPEAKER_00: Right.
27:10
SPEAKER_12: You know, he was like, Well, do I have people do I put people in the band that are better than the people in the band?
27:17
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
27:17
unknown: Yeah.
27:18
SPEAKER_12: And that's why he had Paul, even though Paul was younger, only by a couple of years, he still, you know, he was like, I gotta have this guy in my band.
27:27
SPEAKER_02: Right.
27:27
SPEAKER_05: Because you want to be a good band.
27:30
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, the Beatles essentially were John's band.
27:32
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
27:33
SPEAKER_05: That's right.
27:33
SPEAKER_12: You know, so you know, he was like, Yeah, I mean, do you get better musicians in your band?
27:38
SPEAKER_12: Well, yeah.
27:39
SPEAKER_05: I mentioned that on in that interview that I did for the for the uh TV station for about our show.
27:45
SPEAKER_05: Was you know, I've always been told, surround yourself with musicians and people that are better than you, and you'll get better.
27:51
SPEAKER_05: And that's what we did too.
27:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
27:54
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
27:54
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, so yeah, yeah.
27:55
SPEAKER_12: I think I think it was that dynamic between the two of them is what made them such a great songwriting team.
28:02
SPEAKER_12: I agree.
28:02
SPEAKER_12: You know?
28:03
SPEAKER_12: So it was, you know, uh they're just they're just very different, you know, like I think I think where they came together was that they both lost their moms at an early age.
28:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
28:16
SPEAKER_12: You know, because Paul lost his mom to breast cancer when he was like nine or ten.
28:21
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
28:22
SPEAKER_12: And John really didn't know his mom.
28:24
SPEAKER_05: Julia.
28:25
SPEAKER_12: Julia, until like he was older, 'cause he was raised by his aunt.
28:30
SPEAKER_12: Right.
28:30
SPEAKER_12: Because his mom was kind of flighty, you know, you know.
28:34
SPEAKER_12: But then when he reali real you know, when he reestablished a relationship with her, it was really great, and then she was hit by a car.
28:42
SPEAKER_05: Right.
28:42
SPEAKER_12: You know, when he was like sixteen or something like that.
28:45
SPEAKER_12: So I mean, but I think that's what brought them, you know, like together.
28:48
SPEAKER_12: Like, oh, you know, we lost our moms.
28:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
28:51
SPEAKER_12: You know, so you know, it was but I mean that's you know, I think that I think that but I mean, yeah, they both had those qualities and and I that the other didn't have, and they when you put them together, man, it was just unstoppable.
29:05
SPEAKER_05: And I think the sense of competition was healthy.
29:10
SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
29:11
SPEAKER_05: And and actually only bolstered their songwriting.
29:13
SPEAKER_12: Oh, just made it better.
29:14
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
29:14
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
29:14
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
29:15
SPEAKER_12: Trying to outdo everybody.
29:16
SPEAKER_12: Oh yeah.
29:16
SPEAKER_05: I agree.
29:17
SPEAKER_05: All right.
29:17
SPEAKER_05: A couple other things in the news um that are um fr awesome but frustrating to me.
29:26
SPEAKER_05: Uh the first one is that um I I'll do this one first because I think the other one we'll talk about a little bit more.
29:33
SPEAKER_05: But Mr.
29:34
SPEAKER_05: Big is coming back.
29:34
SPEAKER_12: I did, yeah, I heard about that.
29:36
SPEAKER_05: You did, okay.
29:37
SPEAKER_05: Um so Pat Torpey, their their drummer, died of Parkinson's.
29:42
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
29:43
SPEAKER_05: Uh I wish I could tell you how many how many years ago.
29:46
SPEAKER_05: It was a few years.
29:47
SPEAKER_05: It wasn't too long ago.
29:48
SPEAKER_05: Big con uh big Mr.
29:49
SPEAKER_05: Biggs last concert took place in August 2018.
29:51
SPEAKER_05: So it was a few years ago.
29:53
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
29:53
SPEAKER_05: That uh Pat Torpey passed.
29:55
SPEAKER_12: Um thousand nineteen.
29:57
SPEAKER_05: Uh yeah, probably the year after their last concert, I think.
30:00
SPEAKER_05: Um but of course, Mr.
30:02
SPEAKER_05: Big actually, can I pull that up while I have it right here?
30:05
SPEAKER_05: Because um this was I always thought that this band was underrated.
30:13
SPEAKER_12: Oh yeah.
30:13
SPEAKER_05: They didn't get the um you know, they had hits.
30:19
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
30:19
SPEAKER_12: Um, but they didn't get Well, they didn't get the huge hit that everybody knew, you know, like a deaf leperation.
30:25
SPEAKER_05: Well, there was there was one that was was pretty big for them.
30:29
SPEAKER_12: Um Well, if it's the one I'm thinking of, they didn't even write it.
30:33
SPEAKER_05: They didn't?
30:35
SPEAKER_05: To be with you?
30:36
SPEAKER_12: Oh no.
30:37
SPEAKER_12: Sorry, I was on the book.
30:38
SPEAKER_05: Oh, you're thinking of Wild World.
30:39
SPEAKER_05: Wild World, yeah.
30:39
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:40
SPEAKER_05: No, um my uh iTunes is kinda is is uh playing tricks on me here, so uh I'm just trying to find there we go.
30:48
SPEAKER_12: Darn you, Bill Gates! Right.
30:51
SPEAKER_05: Uh so this was their this was their big hit, which is not representative of the band.
30:59
SPEAKER_05: No.
31:00
SPEAKER_05: This is just like extreme, you know.
31:01
SPEAKER_05: They hold on, little they do that more than words, and everybody thinks that that's what they sound like.
31:07
unknown: Stand up, little girl.
31:09
SPEAKER_05: But I mean this is this is what put them on the map.
31:12
SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
31:12
SPEAKER_05: This song.
31:13
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
31:14
unknown: It's true.
31:15
SPEAKER_05: Um but they had a lot of really this this album, this is their second album, I believe, from 1992.
31:25
SPEAKER_05: Uh Green Tinted 60s movie.
31:29
SPEAKER_12: This is one of my favorite songs off this album.
31:31
SPEAKER_12: Oh, uh, you know what?
31:32
SPEAKER_05: They had another hit off this album.
31:36
SPEAKER_05: I just want to listen to this real quick.
31:39
SPEAKER_05: Paul Gilbert is uh on guitar, Billy Sheen on bass, Eric Martin on vocals, and Pat Torpey on drums.
31:53
SPEAKER_05: Um sorry, I'm gonna go with this next one.
31:56
SPEAKER_05: Because this this was also a hit.
31:58
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
31:59
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
32:00
SPEAKER_05: This was also a hit for them.
32:04
SPEAKER_05: You can hear my pipes there kind of making percussion.
32:07
SPEAKER_12: Oh, it's almost hitting me with a song.
32:09
SPEAKER_05: It is my pipes popping or popping.
32:13
SPEAKER_05: Pop pops up, popped up piping.
32:17
SPEAKER_05: I guess I should I should skip over the intro here.
32:20
SPEAKER_05: There we go.
32:21
SPEAKER_01: There you go.
32:25
SPEAKER_12: It's just I remember this as like a great power battle.
32:29
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, you know?
32:30
SPEAKER_12: But it never got it never got that recognition.
32:34
SPEAKER_12: You know what I mean?
32:35
SPEAKER_05: Right.
32:36
SPEAKER_12: Actually, is this their first album?
32:39
SPEAKER_12: Which one?
32:40
SPEAKER_12: Is it the one with the train coming off the album?
32:42
SPEAKER_05: That's their second album.
32:43
SPEAKER_12: That's their second album.
32:44
SPEAKER_12: The first one is the top hat with the Yes.
32:46
SPEAKER_12: And that one had uh that had their cover of 30 Days in the Hole and a live version of it.
32:53
SPEAKER_05: What was the opening track for that one?
32:55
SPEAKER_12: That was uh it was that was a banger, I can't remember.
32:57
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
32:59
SPEAKER_05: There you go.
33:03
SPEAKER_05: See, I miss this kind of music.
33:05
SPEAKER_05: I do, I really do.
33:09
SPEAKER_05: And and so we're in luck because Mr.
33:11
SPEAKER_05: Big is coming back.
33:12
SPEAKER_05: Um Pat Torpe again uh passed away from Parkinson's uh actually, no, it was, it says here in 2018.
33:19
SPEAKER_12: Okay.
33:20
SPEAKER_05: So uh Eric Martin admitted he and the group had determined a replacement for the 2023 run, though he stopped short of revealing the new drummer's identity.
33:29
SPEAKER_05: So they're coming back in 2023 this year.
33:33
SPEAKER_05: Yep, but they won't say who the drummer is.
33:35
SPEAKER_12: That's don't you know that's excuse me.
33:39
SPEAKER_12: Um that's nice.
33:42
SPEAKER_05: That's a that that that's a nice anticipation because now everybody can be like, ooh, okay, so that's the that's the other bone I had to pick because the Foo Fighters just announced they're coming, they're they're doing a bunch of dates this year.
33:54
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
33:55
SPEAKER_05: 2023.
33:56
SPEAKER_05: They also are not saying who the drummer is.
34:00
SPEAKER_05: That is probably out of respect for Taylor Hawkins.
34:04
SPEAKER_05: Um but as a as a fan, it's kind of bugging me.
34:10
SPEAKER_05: Do you have any do you have any I don't know, thoughts as to who you think it might be?
34:18
SPEAKER_12: Honestly, I have no idea.
34:20
SPEAKER_05: Because they did put out a statement that says, you know, um they are coming back and they will be a new band.
34:26
SPEAKER_05: They will be a they're still still the Foo Fighters, but they'll be a different band.
34:29
SPEAKER_05: They didn't say new band.
34:30
SPEAKER_05: They said they'll be a different band.
34:31
SPEAKER_05: Well, I'm sure without Taylor Harkins.
34:32
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
34:33
SPEAKER_05: So um I that's all good news that uh they're coming going back out on tour.
34:37
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
34:38
SPEAKER_05: Uh both Mr.
34:39
SPEAKER_05: Big and Foo Fighters, but they haven't said who the drummers are.
34:42
SPEAKER_12: So I guess it's out of respect.
34:44
SPEAKER_12: It just goes to show you that drummers don't matter.
34:48
SPEAKER_12: We're the most maligned members of the group.
34:51
SPEAKER_02: Yes, they do.
34:52
SPEAKER_02: Because otherwise you wouldn't have this.
34:55
SPEAKER_02: That's just a button you're pushing.
34:58
SPEAKER_06: That's absolutely true.
35:01
SPEAKER_05: Um so yeah.
35:03
SPEAKER_05: So that's good, that's good news.
35:04
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I guess that they're coming back.
35:06
SPEAKER_12: Well, I mean, you had to know that like Dave was not gonna be done.
35:12
SPEAKER_05: I thought that the that the Foo Fighters were gonna be done.
35:14
SPEAKER_05: I thought that I thought Dave was gonna go and do like producing.
35:20
SPEAKER_12: Well, yeah, he might just do, you know.
35:22
SPEAKER_12: Dave can Dave always has the option of doing stuff by himself.
35:26
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
35:27
SPEAKER_05: Because he can.
35:27
SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
35:28
SPEAKER_05: I just thought it would be too big a loss for him.
35:31
SPEAKER_12: I it probably is, but I mean they become like a very tight-knit group.
35:37
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
35:37
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
35:38
SPEAKER_05: You know.
35:38
SPEAKER_12: Oh, that's true.
35:39
SPEAKER_12: So, I mean, you know, I mean, he's been with Pat since Nirvana.
35:43
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
35:44
SPEAKER_05: You know, which makes me wonder even more who's gonna play the kid.
35:50
SPEAKER_12: Well, I know it's not their first drummer.
35:53
SPEAKER_05: Right.
35:53
SPEAKER_05: So it wouldn't be Taylor's kid.
35:57
SPEAKER_12: No, I don't think so.
35:58
SPEAKER_05: No.
35:59
SPEAKER_12: I mean, it could.
36:01
SPEAKER_12: But I doubt you'd do that to like a sixteen, seven-year-old kid.
36:04
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you know, a bunch of fifty, sixty-year-old guys.
36:06
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you know.
36:07
SPEAKER_05: So I don't know.
36:08
SPEAKER_05: Um I don't know.
36:10
SPEAKER_12: It's hard to say, man.
36:11
SPEAKER_12: I don't know who you would get.
36:13
SPEAKER_05: The um Roger Taylor from Queen, his kid.
36:16
SPEAKER_05: Remember he played with them for one of the Taylor tributes.
36:20
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it was one of the Taylor tributes.
36:22
SPEAKER_05: He might be a good fit there.
36:24
SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
36:25
SPEAKER_05: Could be.
36:25
SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
36:26
SPEAKER_12: Maybe that's why they had those tribute concerts.
36:29
SPEAKER_05: To find a drummer?
36:30
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
36:30
SPEAKER_12: Auditioning drummers.
36:31
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I don't think that's a good one.
36:31
SPEAKER_12: But we'll make it a concert.
36:34
SPEAKER_05: I don't think they I don't think they were thinking about it right now.
36:37
SPEAKER_05: Um They're not that devious.
36:38
SPEAKER_05: No.
36:39
SPEAKER_05: Okay, so let's move on real quick because I want to play a new song.
36:43
SPEAKER_12: Oh, okay.
36:44
SPEAKER_05: Um this is we I think we already talked about the fact oh, and by the way, I have a bone to pick with ultimate classicrock.com.
36:51
SPEAKER_02: Oh.
36:51
SPEAKER_05: Because a lot of their their articles lately have been look what albums are turning 45 years old in 2023.
37:00
SPEAKER_05: Look what albums are turning twenty-five years old in twenty thirty.
37:03
SPEAKER_05: You know, do you have to do that?
37:05
SPEAKER_05: Do you have to make us old people feel old?
37:08
SPEAKER_05: I mean it's yes, they do.
37:09
SPEAKER_05: Apparently.
37:10
SPEAKER_05: I wonder how old the writers are of Ultimate Classic Rock.com.
37:13
SPEAKER_05: Probably punks.
37:15
SPEAKER_05: Right.
37:16
SPEAKER_12: Kids get off you kids get off my lawn.
37:18
SPEAKER_05: We did mention that uh Peter Gabriel is putting out a new album.
37:22
SPEAKER_05: He plans to release a new single every full moon.
37:26
SPEAKER_05: That's just because Peter Gabriel's just a weirdo.
37:31
SPEAKER_12: Good Lord.
37:34
SPEAKER_05: Um so there's a new song.
37:37
SPEAKER_05: It's his first original song since 2016's The Veil, uh, which was written for the Oliver Stone film Snowden.
37:44
SPEAKER_05: I didn't even I've never even heard that song.
37:47
SPEAKER_05: I love Peter Gabriel in a weird, twisted kind of way, but I like him musically.
37:53
SPEAKER_05: That's what I mean.
37:54
SPEAKER_12: As a person?
37:54
SPEAKER_12: Not so much.
37:55
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, he's just a little off-kilter.
37:58
SPEAKER_12: That's a nice way to put it.
38:00
unknown: Weirdo.
38:01
SPEAKER_05: But uh this and this is I have I have not previewed this song, so I do not know what it sounds like.
38:07
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
38:07
SPEAKER_05: I can tell you it's called Panopticom.
38:12
SPEAKER_05: Uh let me see if there's Panopticon.
38:17
SPEAKER_05: Panopticom.
38:18
SPEAKER_05: Um he wrote and produced the song himself with various session musicians providing guitar, bass, drums, and backing vocals.
38:26
SPEAKER_05: Notably, the track includes electronic elements contributed by Brian Eno figures.
38:30
SPEAKER_05: Uh uh U2.
38:33
SPEAKER_05: Thank you.
38:34
SPEAKER_05: Oh, that's Daniel Lenoir.
38:35
SPEAKER_05: Hari.
38:36
SPEAKER_05: Sorry.
38:36
SPEAKER_05: Brian Eno is uh Roxy Music, I believe.
38:40
SPEAKER_05: I believe Brian Eno is from Roxy Music.
38:45
SPEAKER_05: Do I have to look it up just to confirm?
38:47
SPEAKER_05: I mean, I think I'm fairly confident that Brian Eno is Roxy Music.
38:52
SPEAKER_05: Uh, but I'm going to look it up just in case.
38:56
SPEAKER_05: Uh musician, composer, record, producer, and visual art, best known for contributions to ambient music and work in rock, pop, and electronica.
39:02
SPEAKER_05: Uh is it just hold on a second.
39:12
SPEAKER_05: It doesn't say that he was in the band.
39:16
SPEAKER_05: Uh it says it's just the producer.
39:19
SPEAKER_05: Maybe maybe O'Brien is full of crap.
39:22
SPEAKER_05: That's entirely possible.
39:25
SPEAKER_05: Um no, no, it was Brian.
39:28
SPEAKER_05: Uh no, it was uh.
39:32
SPEAKER_05: Oh, am I getting my Brian's mixed up?
39:35
SPEAKER_05: Probably.
39:36
SPEAKER_05: Probably.
39:37
SPEAKER_05: Ferry.
39:38
SPEAKER_05: Brian Ferry is Roxy Music.
39:40
SPEAKER_05: Hold on, let me look it up.
39:41
SPEAKER_05: Roxy music.
39:43
SPEAKER_05: I think it's Brian Ferry.
39:45
SPEAKER_12: In other podcasts, they do this ahead of time.
39:47
SPEAKER_05: Uh shut up.
39:51
SPEAKER_06: Yes, Brian Ferry is Roxy's Roxy music.
39:55
SPEAKER_05: Hey, I did do some of it ahead of time.
39:57
SPEAKER_12: No, that's true, yeah.
39:58
SPEAKER_05: Um so it says structurally, pen Panopticon builds slowly with ominous synth parts propelling much of the song's early action.
40:06
SPEAKER_05: Drums kick in on the chorus as Gabriel sings his distinctive baritone.
40:10
SPEAKER_05: Who is writing this crap?
40:12
SPEAKER_05: Uh let me just play it uh and see if it's anything, you know, we'd be like, are those kids singing?
40:43
SPEAKER_01: No.
40:44
SPEAKER_01: Sounds like it.
40:45
SPEAKER_01: It does sound like it.
40:46
SPEAKER_01: It's an effect, I think.
40:47
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
40:56
SPEAKER_05: It's kinda neat.
40:57
SPEAKER_02: Well, I gotta say, I'm not hating it.
40:59
SPEAKER_02: No, it's kinda neat.
41:00
SPEAKER_12: I like it.
41:04
SPEAKER_05: Especially with headphones on the end.
41:13
SPEAKER_09: Takes its file.
42:11
SPEAKER_05: Once again, I I I don't hate it either.
42:13
SPEAKER_05: I like it.
42:17
SPEAKER_05: I have looked up the word panopticum, because you know, we're professional and everything and prepared.
42:26
SPEAKER_05: Uh what a panopticum is a hypothetical prison of supervision, so arranged that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times without being seen by them.
42:47
SPEAKER_05: Proposed by Jeremy Bentham.
42:51
SPEAKER_05: Uh a panopticum is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century.
43:03
SPEAKER_11: Wow.
43:04
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
43:05
SPEAKER_05: Deep.
43:08
unknown: From uh.
43:10
SPEAKER_12: But leave it to Peter Gabriel to find such an obscure thing to write a name a song after.
43:15
SPEAKER_05: Right.
43:16
SPEAKER_05: You know it's a there's a social statement in there somewhere.
43:19
SPEAKER_12: Oh, I'm sure, yeah.
43:21
SPEAKER_12: Well, well, it's one of the lyrics there.
43:23
SPEAKER_12: All the f all the phones take pictures.
43:25
SPEAKER_05: Right.
43:27
SPEAKER_12: So So we're living in a pedopticon.
43:29
SPEAKER_05: Right, because everyone is being watched.
43:31
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
43:32
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
43:32
SPEAKER_05: Ooh.
43:33
SPEAKER_05: Ooh.
43:34
SPEAKER_12: Did we just have a breakthrough of some sort?
43:36
SPEAKER_05: I think I think we did.
43:39
SPEAKER_12: My head hurts.
43:43
SPEAKER_05: Look down from the skies.
43:44
SPEAKER_05: Satellites.
43:45
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
43:46
SPEAKER_12: Or cameras.
43:47
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
44:03
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I don't dislike it.
44:05
SPEAKER_02: I like it.
44:06
SPEAKER_05: Really.
44:06
SPEAKER_05: I actually am digging this song.
44:08
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
44:09
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
44:09
SPEAKER_05: I I think I'm I'm digging it too.
44:11
SPEAKER_05: I mean, I like Peter Gabriel's stuff.
44:13
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, I do too.
44:14
SPEAKER_12: He's just he's just an odd.
44:16
SPEAKER_12: Odd.
44:16
SPEAKER_05: He's an odd duck.
44:17
SPEAKER_05: He is an odd duck.
44:18
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
44:18
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, for sure.
44:20
SPEAKER_05: Um, all right.
44:21
SPEAKER_05: So let's on that note, let's do um what well, let's do the Panopticum.
44:29
SPEAKER_05: Panopticom.
44:30
SPEAKER_05: Let's do the How do you spell that?
44:32
SPEAKER_05: Uh Panop.
44:33
SPEAKER_05: P-A-N-O.
44:35
SPEAKER_05: P.
44:35
SPEAKER_05: Panop Ticom.
44:37
SPEAKER_05: T-I-C-O-M.
44:39
SPEAKER_12: Okay.
44:40
SPEAKER_12: Panopticon.
44:41
SPEAKER_12: So it's so it's just spelled just like it sounds.
44:44
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
44:44
SPEAKER_12: Awesome.
44:45
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
44:45
SPEAKER_12: I'm gonna start using that one now.
44:47
SPEAKER_05: Um Beck Feiner.
44:49
SPEAKER_05: She has uh put out uh some great books.
44:51
SPEAKER_05: Yes, she has.
44:52
SPEAKER_05: Uh and the book that I'm reading from is Country Legends Alphabet.
44:56
SPEAKER_05: And we are on letter.
44:59
SPEAKER_12: Should be on.
45:00
SPEAKER_12: What's after K?
45:01
SPEAKER_12: L.
45:05
SPEAKER_05: After K is L.
45:08
unknown: I was right.
45:09
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
45:10
SPEAKER_05: I'm so good.
45:12
SPEAKER_05: I have a Country Legend.
45:15
SPEAKER_05: Any idea?
45:16
SPEAKER_05: L?
45:17
SPEAKER_12: Oh, it's uh um um um Loretta Lynn.
45:20
SPEAKER_05: Yes, it is.
45:21
SPEAKER_12: Good job.
45:21
SPEAKER_12: Just two L's.
45:22
SPEAKER_12: Good job.
45:24
SPEAKER_05: L is for Loretta Lynn with 24 number one hits and a career spanning 60 years.
45:28
SPEAKER_05: This coal miner's daughter from Kentucky is considered one of the all-time greats of country.
45:33
SPEAKER_05: Still performing today.
45:34
SPEAKER_05: No, she's not.
45:35
SPEAKER_11: Not anymore.
45:36
SPEAKER_05: Uh she is loved for her stunning singing voice.
45:39
SPEAKER_05: I don't think she had a stunning singing voice.
45:42
SPEAKER_05: It was it was unique.
45:43
SPEAKER_05: It was unique, it was recognizable.
45:45
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
45:45
SPEAKER_05: But stunning?
45:47
SPEAKER_12: Stunning's kind of heavy-handed.
45:49
SPEAKER_05: As well as her quick wit and humor.
45:50
SPEAKER_05: Now I will I will say yes, yes, for sure.
45:52
SPEAKER_05: Yes, quick wit and humor is definitely Loretta Lynn, for sure.
45:56
SPEAKER_05: So uh that is the country legends uh alphabet for you ever watch Ghost Adventures?
46:02
SPEAKER_12: They they went to her mansion.
46:03
SPEAKER_05: Did they?
46:04
SPEAKER_12: Her mansion's haunted.
46:05
SPEAKER_05: Speaking of ghost adventures.
46:06
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
46:08
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, they did quite an interview with her.
46:10
SPEAKER_12: It was actually pretty interesting.
46:11
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
46:12
SPEAKER_05: So, yeah.
46:12
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so she passed last year, right?
46:14
SPEAKER_12: Was it 2022?
46:16
SPEAKER_12: Had to have been late last year.
46:18
SPEAKER_12: It hasn't been that long.
46:20
SPEAKER_05: No, I think it was in the summer.
46:21
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
46:22
SPEAKER_12: I think it was in the summer.
46:23
SPEAKER_12: That sounds about right.
46:24
SPEAKER_05: Anyway.
46:24
SPEAKER_05: Alright, so from the Beatles Legends Alphabet.
46:28
SPEAKER_05: Uh, let's see.
46:29
SPEAKER_05: We're on uh L.
46:30
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
46:30
SPEAKER_05: Uh you'll get this one.
46:32
SPEAKER_05: I will.
46:32
SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
46:33
SPEAKER_05: Love Me Do?
46:34
SPEAKER_05: Nope.
46:34
SPEAKER_05: Uh Lovely Rita.
46:35
SPEAKER_05: Nope.
46:36
SPEAKER_05: Uh All You Need is Love?
46:40
SPEAKER_05: Nope.
46:42
SPEAKER_12: I'm I I take back what I said earlier.
46:46
SPEAKER_12: I thought you'd get this first right off the uh What?
46:51
SPEAKER_05: What is it?
46:52
unknown: LSD.
46:54
SPEAKER_05: Oh, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
46:55
SPEAKER_05: Yeah!
46:56
SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
46:57
SPEAKER_05: That's okay.
46:58
SPEAKER_12: Well they have a lot of songs.
46:59
SPEAKER_12: That's true, yeah.
46:59
SPEAKER_12: They have a lot, yeah.
47:01
SPEAKER_12: Uh L is for Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
47:03
SPEAKER_12: Playful, visual, and cheekily experimental.
47:07
SPEAKER_12: This is one of the band's most legendary hits.
47:10
SPEAKER_12: On this curious trip in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies, your tour guide your tear guide.
47:19
SPEAKER_12: Your tear guide.
47:20
SPEAKER_12: Your tear gassed.
47:21
SPEAKER_12: Your tour guide is a girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
47:25
SPEAKER_12: And you're gone.
47:28
SPEAKER_05: What was that misheard lyric?
47:30
SPEAKER_05: A girl with colitis goes by.
47:32
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
47:32
SPEAKER_12: A girl with a colitis goes by.
47:36
SPEAKER_01: A girl with colitis.
47:38
SPEAKER_01: What is colitis anyway?
47:39
SPEAKER_01: I think it's a stomach thing.
47:41
SPEAKER_01: Um okay, so let's close it.
47:43
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
47:46
SPEAKER_05: There we go.
47:46
SPEAKER_05: Uh thank you, Beck Feiner.
47:48
SPEAKER_05: Becky Feiner.
47:49
SPEAKER_05: Once again.
47:52
SPEAKER_12: Literary great, literary great of our time.
47:56
SPEAKER_12: Becky.
47:57
SPEAKER_12: Becky.
47:58
SPEAKER_12: Becky Feiner.
47:59
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50:27
SPEAKER_02: Oh, we gotta we gotta Is Larry sick?
50:29
SPEAKER_02: No, he fell off his roof.
50:31
SPEAKER_01: Oh, because I saw your mother posted something on Facebook.
50:33
SPEAKER_05: She's like, get well.
50:35
SPEAKER_12: Uh yeah, he was uh, you know, because he lives in Wyoming and it snows a lot and uh something he was shoveling off his roof and something happened, he fell off his roof.
50:43
SPEAKER_05: So uh into the snow?
50:45
SPEAKER_12: I have no idea.
50:46
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50:47
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50:48
SPEAKER_05: So well, get better, Larry.
50:49
SPEAKER_05: Get better, cousin Larry.
50:50
SPEAKER_05: We uh we appreciate all that you do for this podcast.
50:54
SPEAKER_05: So um actually I don't care that you do stuff for this podcast.
50:58
SPEAKER_05: I want you to get better anyway.
51:00
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
51:01
SPEAKER_05: That came out wrong.
51:02
SPEAKER_12: Well, no, I I didn't take it until you said it.
51:04
SPEAKER_12: Then I was like, Oh, we wanted you to get better, Larry's because we need your money.
51:08
SPEAKER_12: We need cash, man.
51:10
SPEAKER_05: That's not what I meant.
51:12
SPEAKER_05: Speaking of not what I meant, I just want to clarify for those of you that are listening that did see us on the the the news the other night.
51:20
SPEAKER_05: I did say something about the Aurustic House of Comfort.
51:23
SPEAKER_05: They took it completely out of context.
51:25
SPEAKER_05: Because the Auristic House of Comfort is a hospice house, end of life care, right?
51:31
SPEAKER_05: Right.
51:31
SPEAKER_05: And I said something like Um We have a lot of experience with the Aurustic House of Comfort, personal experience, because you know, we we we had some people that were there and passed, and I said something I couldn't think of no better cause.
51:45
SPEAKER_05: Um in and basically I was saying that the band is here to put some smiles on faces, but the way they they cut it was it looked like the House of Comfort put smiles on faces.
51:58
SPEAKER_12: Oh, yeah, yeah.
51:59
SPEAKER_12: I did I did pick up on that.
52:01
SPEAKER_12: I thought it was just I didn't realize they cut you off.
52:03
SPEAKER_05: I wish they wouldn't have cut it right there.
52:05
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
52:06
SPEAKER_05: Because I said I said that the we let we we are putting the smiles on people's faces.
52:11
SPEAKER_05: Anyway, I just wanted to clarify that.
52:14
SPEAKER_12: So if anybody Okay, not to be a negative Nancy, but here I go.
52:20
SPEAKER_12: Um WAGM is not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree.
52:25
SPEAKER_05: This is true.
52:27
SPEAKER_12: I mean unfortunately they have a monopoly.
52:31
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
52:31
SPEAKER_12: Because they're only TV station north of Bangalore.
52:33
SPEAKER_05: Do you know they're the number one TV station in like the Northeast?
52:38
SPEAKER_12: I have that.
52:39
SPEAKER_12: I have a hard time believing that.
52:40
SPEAKER_12: It's the way it's because they suck monkey butt.
52:46
SPEAKER_05: I didn't say it.
52:47
SPEAKER_05: Do you watch the news?
52:48
SPEAKER_05: It's terrible.
52:49
SPEAKER_05: I haven't watched we watched it tonight because uh Eli was on the news.
52:54
SPEAKER_12: Oh, okay.
52:54
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
52:54
SPEAKER_05: Um, but we don't watch the news.
52:57
SPEAKER_05: We just know learn anything from it.
52:59
SPEAKER_05: I mean, they just And half the news is not from here.
53:03
SPEAKER_05: No it's from away.
53:04
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
53:05
SPEAKER_12: I mean and they always get these, you know, journalists out of, you know, fresh it's their first job out of college, and they just, you know, they're just here to get some experience and then go someplace else.
53:16
SPEAKER_05: Yep, they sign like a one or two year contract, and they put in their time and they take off.
53:20
SPEAKER_12: I mean, it's just oh man, it's just unbelievable.
53:23
SPEAKER_12: I still think remember that remember that time we went up there and we were gonna play?
53:29
SPEAKER_12: We had to get there at like four o'clock in the morning.
53:31
SPEAKER_12: And we do we we played on on the on the morning show.
53:36
SPEAKER_12: Yes.
53:37
SPEAKER_12: I mean, I was just it was such a weird operation.
53:40
SPEAKER_12: It was you know what I mean?
53:41
SPEAKER_12: Yes, you know, because there were like three people there.
53:44
SPEAKER_12: I mean, we were half of them.
53:46
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and there was no reason at all that we needed to be there at three or four o'clock in the morning.
53:51
SPEAKER_12: No, because I mean we didn't do anything until like six.
53:54
SPEAKER_05: Right.
53:54
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, I was like, oh man.
53:56
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53:56
SPEAKER_12: We were there at four o'clock.
53:58
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it was crazy.
53:59
SPEAKER_12: Oh, that was a weird day.
54:00
SPEAKER_05: It was crazy.
54:02
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so anyway, um good job, WA Jims.
54:06
SPEAKER_01: As always.
54:07
SPEAKER_01: Keep up the banner work.
54:10
SPEAKER_01: All right, so it is just what's it?
54:19
SPEAKER_12: I said banner, and all I can think of was that uh that episode of The Office where Dwight made that banner for Kelly's birthday.
54:28
SPEAKER_12: It is your birthday.
54:31
SPEAKER_11: WAGM is that banner.
54:34
SPEAKER_11: It is the news.
54:35
SPEAKER_11: It is the news.
54:37
SPEAKER_11: This is a show.
54:41
SPEAKER_11: This is sports.
54:44
SPEAKER_11: Is that the name of the episode?
54:46
SPEAKER_11: What?
54:46
SPEAKER_11: This is sports?
54:47
SPEAKER_11: This is a show.
54:49
SPEAKER_11: This is a podcast.
54:54
SPEAKER_06: Now this is a podcast.
54:55
SPEAKER_06: Now this is a podcast.
54:59
SPEAKER_06: It's uh time to climb the wall of tunes.
55:01
SPEAKER_06: Isn't it rolling?
55:02
SPEAKER_02: It is, it's time to climb.
55:03
SPEAKER_02: You haven't played the music yet.
55:04
SPEAKER_02: Oh what uh what music?
55:06
SPEAKER_02: Don't we have music for climbing the wall of tunes?
55:09
SPEAKER_02: Well, that's in the post.
55:10
SPEAKER_02: Oh, right.
55:12
SPEAKER_02: What was I thinking of?
55:14
SPEAKER_02: You just gave away our secret.
55:16
SPEAKER_12: Well, I think everybody figured that out.
55:18
SPEAKER_06: But you have to read.
55:19
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, I know.
55:20
SPEAKER_12: I was just I was just uh for some reason I thought we had something else going on.
55:24
SPEAKER_06: No.
55:25
SPEAKER_05: No, we did our commercial, we did our commercial break.
55:27
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's true.
55:28
SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's true.
55:28
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
55:28
SPEAKER_02: I don't know why.
55:29
SPEAKER_05: So now we're we're gonna climb.
55:30
SPEAKER_05: I wish I was smart.
55:32
SPEAKER_05: Uh you're gonna read from uh the hip hop legends out there.
55:35
SPEAKER_05: Hip hop legends out.
55:36
SPEAKER_05: I'm gonna take off my headphones and pick a CD.
55:37
SPEAKER_12: All right.
55:38
SPEAKER_12: Uh from the wall.
55:40
SPEAKER_12: We're on what?
55:40
SPEAKER_12: Well, we're on L.
55:42
SPEAKER_01: L.
55:42
SPEAKER_01: L.
55:42
SPEAKER_12: Okay.
55:45
SPEAKER_12: Okay.
55:46
SPEAKER_12: Uh from the Hip Hop Legends by the venerated Beckfinder.
55:54
SPEAKER_12: I'm not sure venerated is the right word.
55:58
SPEAKER_12: Neither.
55:58
SPEAKER_12: She tries really hard.
56:00
SPEAKER_12: Uh L is for MC Lite.
56:02
SPEAKER_12: Have we ever Googled Beckfinder?
56:05
SPEAKER_12: You know, we're just going by what cousin Larry said.
56:08
SPEAKER_00: Right.
56:08
SPEAKER_12: You know, and our own, you know, imaginations.
56:11
SPEAKER_00: Right.
56:11
SPEAKER_12: Uh, she had the power to eat you up with a rhyme.
56:16
SPEAKER_12: Wow.
56:17
SPEAKER_05: Um I do remember MC Light, though.
56:20
SPEAKER_12: Oh, yeah, I do too.
56:20
SPEAKER_12: MC Light helped lay a platform for some of rap's most famous pemcs.
56:28
SPEAKER_12: Are you kidding me?
56:29
SPEAKER_12: Did she just make that word up?
56:30
SPEAKER_12: Fem C's.
56:31
SPEAKER_12: Yes, F-E-M-C-E-E-S.
56:34
SPEAKER_12: Oh my word.
56:36
SPEAKER_12: Her 1988 album, Light as a Feather, was the first solo release by a female rapper.
56:43
SPEAKER_12: A pioneering legend.
56:47
SPEAKER_12: Okay.
56:48
SPEAKER_12: Not her best work.
56:50
SPEAKER_12: No.
56:50
SPEAKER_12: I'm just gonna take that politzer back.
56:53
SPEAKER_12: Just for giggles.
56:58
SPEAKER_05: This is on YouTube.
56:59
SPEAKER_04: This is my home studio where the magic happens.
57:03
SPEAKER_04: This is Beckfinder.
57:04
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so this is my office space.
57:06
SPEAKER_04: It looks very clean at the moment, but usually there is some chocolate there, a coffee which I try not to spill on my computer, and palms.
57:15
SPEAKER_05: This is a little piece where I write with Beckfinder.
57:19
SPEAKER_12: Okay, she looks nothing like I thought she would.
57:21
SPEAKER_12: Nope, me either.
57:22
SPEAKER_12: Illustrate and I have and pen where I write down my random ideas.
57:28
unknown: I write and illustrate.
57:30
unknown: I do both.
57:31
unknown: And usually.
57:32
SPEAKER_01: Oh, she does do the illustrating.
57:33
SPEAKER_01: She does do the illustrating.
57:35
SPEAKER_01: I come from an advertising bank.
57:37
SPEAKER_01: It just goes to show you, Doug, that anybody can be an author.
57:40
SPEAKER_04: Start with the big ideas and everything.
57:41
SPEAKER_04: I'm just kidding.
57:43
SPEAKER_01: We appreciate things.
57:44
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna write a book.
57:45
SPEAKER_05: Doug, I would pay, I would pay big bucks to read your book.
57:49
SPEAKER_12: That would be the worst book ever written.
57:51
SPEAKER_05: I don't think so.
57:53
SPEAKER_12: I mean, right now.
57:55
SPEAKER_12: Oh, dude, we should write a book.
57:57
SPEAKER_01: You and I should write like a children's book.
57:59
SPEAKER_12: Oh, dude, we would kill it.
58:01
SPEAKER_12: We would totally kill it.
58:03
unknown: We should do that.
58:05
SPEAKER_01: This is a book.
58:06
SPEAKER_01: This is a book by more bucket and duck.
58:13
SPEAKER_12: Yes.
58:16
SPEAKER_12: See?
58:17
SPEAKER_12: This is the beauty of this podcast.
58:22
SPEAKER_12: The fact that we don't do any research or anything like that just makes it magical.
58:27
SPEAKER_06: Yes.
58:27
SPEAKER_06: Yes.
58:28
SPEAKER_06: Yes.
58:29
SPEAKER_06: This is where this is like songwriting.
58:31
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
58:31
SPEAKER_06: You know, when we sit down, we have maybe the seed of an idea, and then we're like, oh, let's do this, let's do this.
58:36
SPEAKER_06: That's the energy that you get.
58:37
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
58:38
SPEAKER_06: You know, that's that we should write a book.
58:40
SPEAKER_06: This is a book.
58:41
SPEAKER_05: Is O'Brien and Doug?
58:43
SPEAKER_12: Now, is it going to be in the st it's not going to be in the style of Beck Feiner?
58:47
SPEAKER_12: No.
58:47
SPEAKER_12: No, no.
58:48
SPEAKER_12: Is it going to be an actual like children's book or like they go on an adventure or something?
58:52
SPEAKER_01: I think it would be awesome if we did that.
58:53
SPEAKER_05: Wait, let me look.
58:54
SPEAKER_05: I want to see if there is a book called This Is a Book.
58:58
SPEAKER_05: Let's see.
59:00
SPEAKER_05: This is a book by Dimitri Martin.
59:03
SPEAKER_12: Oh, Dimitri Martin.
59:04
SPEAKER_12: That guy's funny.
59:05
SPEAKER_05: Is he?
59:06
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, he is funny.
59:07
SPEAKER_12: I like him.
59:07
SPEAKER_05: Um This is a book, yeah.
59:11
SPEAKER_05: So he's a comedian?
59:12
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
59:12
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
59:13
SPEAKER_05: Comedian, creator, star, and executive producer.
59:15
SPEAKER_05: Comedy Central's Important Things with Dimitri Martin.
59:19
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, okay.
59:19
SPEAKER_05: So he we've already got that.
59:20
SPEAKER_05: But we we should.
59:22
SPEAKER_05: We should write a write a children's book, you and I.
59:24
SPEAKER_12: Well, it should be a musically themed one.
59:26
SPEAKER_05: I agree.
59:27
SPEAKER_05: I wholeheartedly agree.
59:29
SPEAKER_12: We should get Morton to help us.
59:32
SPEAKER_12: Because he's actually written books.
59:33
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
59:34
SPEAKER_05: And publish them.
59:35
SPEAKER_12: And publish them.
59:36
SPEAKER_05: Oh, that would be awesome.
59:38
SPEAKER_05: Alright, now my head is stewing, but we have to do the Wall of Tunes.
59:42
SPEAKER_01: Well, do we?
59:44
SPEAKER_01: We should write a book about the Wall of Tunes.
59:47
SPEAKER_01: That's the children's book.
59:49
SPEAKER_11: The illustrious Wall of Tunes.
59:54
SPEAKER_06: See, it's just flowing right now.
59:58
SPEAKER_12: It's like this kid.
1:00:00
SPEAKER_12: He's going on an adventure.
1:00:02
SPEAKER_05: Okay, stop.
1:00:03
SPEAKER_05: Stop, stop, stop.
1:00:04
SPEAKER_05: Don't tell anymore because somebody's gonna write it.
1:00:06
SPEAKER_05: One of those 30 listeners that we have.
1:00:08
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you guys shut up.
1:00:10
SPEAKER_12: Alright?
1:00:10
SPEAKER_12: This is our idea.
1:00:13
SPEAKER_12: Okay?
1:00:13
SPEAKER_12: Don't, don't, don't steal it.
1:00:16
SPEAKER_12: That's what that's what we'll call it.
1:00:18
SPEAKER_12: Don't steal this idea by O'Brien and Tuck.
1:00:24
SPEAKER_12: What was that?
1:00:25
SPEAKER_12: Oh, that was that album.
1:00:26
SPEAKER_12: Don't steal this album by uh System of a Down.
1:00:29
SPEAKER_12: Right.
1:00:29
SPEAKER_12: Right.
1:00:30
SPEAKER_12: Don't steal this idea, O'Brien Hint Tuck.
1:00:33
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
1:00:34
SPEAKER_12: All right, let's actually this is pretty exciting.
1:00:37
SPEAKER_12: It is.
1:00:37
SPEAKER_12: It is very exciting.
1:00:38
SPEAKER_12: I don't even want to do a wild tunes anymore.
1:00:40
SPEAKER_05: Well we're going to because I picked a CD.
1:00:42
SPEAKER_12: Oh you did.
1:00:43
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
1:00:43
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
1:00:43
SPEAKER_05: I don't even think about it.
1:00:46
SPEAKER_05: I have an album.
1:00:47
SPEAKER_05: I have a CD, so let the guessing begin.
1:00:49
SPEAKER_12: Well I have to focus first.
1:00:51
SPEAKER_12: I'm thinking about what we can do this book about.
1:00:54
SPEAKER_12: I'm all I'm all ADD'd.
1:00:57
SPEAKER_05: Let the guessing begin.
1:00:58
SPEAKER_12: Sad.
1:00:59
SPEAKER_12: I'm sad.
1:01:04
SPEAKER_11: For those of you just tuning in, uh sad is spontaneous ADD, which Doug self-diagnosed with the help of Dr.
1:01:11
SPEAKER_11: Jordan Peterson.
1:01:13
SPEAKER_11: On episode 132.
1:01:15
SPEAKER_11: And now back to your regularly scheduled podcast.
1:01:20
SPEAKER_11: Meanwhile, back at the podcast.
1:01:22
SPEAKER_11: I have a CD.
1:01:23
SPEAKER_11: Let the guessing begin.
1:01:24
SPEAKER_12: Right.
1:01:24
SPEAKER_12: Okay, I'm sorry.
1:01:26
SPEAKER_12: Uh Doug is an idiot.
1:01:30
SPEAKER_12: My mom Brady Doug.
1:01:32
SPEAKER_12: Oh.
1:01:33
SPEAKER_12: We could do it.
1:01:34
SPEAKER_12: It'd be a series.
1:01:35
SPEAKER_06: We could do a series.
1:01:36
SPEAKER_12: Oh, we can do all yeah, we can do.
1:01:37
SPEAKER_12: Oh, dude, yeah.
1:01:40
SPEAKER_12: I just had another idea.
1:01:41
SPEAKER_12: Our logo already looks like a like a comic book type thing.
1:01:44
SPEAKER_12: I know.
1:01:44
SPEAKER_12: But I just had an idea.
1:01:45
SPEAKER_12: What?
1:01:46
SPEAKER_12: We take all the Wall of Tunes artists and we do a book, we do a story about each one of them.
1:01:53
SPEAKER_05: But that's like a Beck Feiner thing, isn't it?
1:01:56
SPEAKER_12: No.
1:01:56
SPEAKER_12: She just.
1:01:57
SPEAKER_12: No.
1:01:59
SPEAKER_12: We have like this make-believe adventure with like, you know, ACDC.
1:02:08
SPEAKER_12: This could work.
1:02:10
SPEAKER_12: This could work.
1:02:11
SPEAKER_12: I'm telling you, man.
1:02:12
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
1:02:14
SPEAKER_12: Climbing the Wall of Tunes.
1:02:16
SPEAKER_12: With O'Brien.
1:02:17
SPEAKER_12: Climbing the Oh wow.
1:02:19
SPEAKER_12: No, that's gonna be when we when we uh when we're like as big as Howard Stern, that's gonna be the name of the biography of us.
1:02:27
SPEAKER_05: Climbing the Wall of Tunes?
1:02:28
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
1:02:29
SPEAKER_12: Story of O'Brien and Doug.
1:02:33
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
1:02:34
SPEAKER_12: It's gonna be awesome.
1:02:35
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I'm my my head is reeling right now.
1:02:38
SPEAKER_12: It's gonna be like the Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter.
1:02:44
SPEAKER_05: And Dumb and Dumber.
1:02:45
SPEAKER_12: And Dumb and Dumber.
1:02:47
SPEAKER_12: Magically put together.
1:03:00
SPEAKER_01: What's the soup of the day?
1:03:01
SPEAKER_01: It's the soup to journey.
1:03:03
SPEAKER_01: That sounds good.
1:03:04
SPEAKER_12: I'll have that.
1:03:05
SPEAKER_12: Oh, they got the monkeys.
1:03:06
SPEAKER_12: They were a huge influence on the Beatles.
1:03:09
SPEAKER_06: We've landed on the moon! Oh, so wrong that we can quote every scene and everything.
1:03:17
SPEAKER_06: Our pets, our heads are falling off!
1:03:33
SPEAKER_12: I can't even focus on this, man.
1:03:38
SPEAKER_12: Shoot.
1:03:40
SPEAKER_12: Okay.
1:03:41
SPEAKER_06: I'm serious.
1:03:42
SPEAKER_06: We are gonna write a children's book.
1:03:43
SPEAKER_06: Oh man, that we're gonna be able to do it.
1:03:44
SPEAKER_06: We are we are okay.
1:03:46
SPEAKER_12: Yes, yes.
1:03:47
SPEAKER_12: Alright.
1:03:47
SPEAKER_12: Uh solo or band?
1:03:49
SPEAKER_05: Band.
1:03:49
SPEAKER_05: Band.
1:03:50
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
1:03:50
SPEAKER_12: Rock band?
1:03:51
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:03:52
SPEAKER_12: Okay.
1:03:53
SPEAKER_12: Height of popularity.
1:03:54
SPEAKER_05: 80s.
1:03:55
SPEAKER_05: 80s.
1:03:56
SPEAKER_12: 80s rock band.
1:04:01
SPEAKER_05: I think we may have done them before, but I'm not sure.
1:04:03
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
1:04:04
SPEAKER_05: Pretty sure we have.
1:04:06
SPEAKER_12: Are they still around?
1:04:08
SPEAKER_12: Yes.
1:04:09
SPEAKER_12: Okay.
1:04:09
SPEAKER_12: Are they still popular?
1:04:12
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
1:04:14
SPEAKER_12: Yes.
1:04:16
SPEAKER_05: I think no, I think they're still popular.
1:04:17
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
1:04:18
SPEAKER_05: They could sell out a stadium.
1:04:19
SPEAKER_12: Oh really?
1:04:20
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
1:04:20
SPEAKER_12: Okay.
1:04:21
SPEAKER_05: I think so.
1:04:22
SPEAKER_12: Um.
1:04:24
SPEAKER_12: Any iconic songs?
1:04:27
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:04:28
SPEAKER_12: Yeah?
1:04:28
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:04:28
SPEAKER_12: Any virtuosos in the band?
1:04:31
SPEAKER_12: Virtuoso?
1:04:32
SPEAKER_05: No.
1:04:35
SPEAKER_12: No.
1:04:36
SPEAKER_12: You said that in a weird way.
1:04:38
SPEAKER_12: Well.
1:04:39
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, when you say virtuoso, what do you mean?
1:04:42
SPEAKER_12: I mean like uh Eddie Van Halen uh No.
1:04:45
SPEAKER_12: Uh uh.
1:04:48
SPEAKER_05: No.
1:04:50
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
1:04:53
SPEAKER_12: How many people wouldn't be?
1:04:55
SPEAKER_05: Now or when they were popular?
1:04:58
SPEAKER_12: Either one.
1:04:59
SPEAKER_05: When they were popular, five.
1:05:01
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
1:05:02
SPEAKER_05: Now I think there's like seven or eight.
1:05:06
SPEAKER_05: Because it takes two people to do the job that one person did back then.
1:05:16
SPEAKER_05: Jeez, actually.
1:05:17
SPEAKER_05: One.
1:05:18
SPEAKER_05: Hold on.
1:05:19
SPEAKER_05: One, two, three.
1:05:25
SPEAKER_05: Five, six, seven.
1:05:27
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, there's like seven or eight in the band.
1:05:34
SPEAKER_12: I'm not sure.
1:05:36
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
1:05:38
SPEAKER_05: Uh, let me let me say, um well, I can I can give it away.
1:05:45
SPEAKER_05: I don't want to give it away, but I could.
1:05:48
SPEAKER_05: Um.
1:05:51
SPEAKER_05: They have one thing in common with Van Halen.
1:06:01
SPEAKER_12: They're named after somebody in the band.
1:06:04
SPEAKER_05: Uh-huh.
1:06:05
SPEAKER_12: Is it Dawkins?
1:06:07
SPEAKER_05: Nope.
1:06:08
SPEAKER_12: Because Dawkins rhymed with rock.
1:06:15
SPEAKER_05: More popular than Dawkins.
1:06:17
SPEAKER_12: Pop nobody's more popular than Dawkins.
1:06:20
SPEAKER_05: Probably actually more popular.
1:06:21
SPEAKER_12: Has anybody ever seen the Break the Chains video?
1:06:25
SPEAKER_12: My God!
1:06:26
SPEAKER_05: It's a masterpiece.
1:06:27
SPEAKER_05: Probably actually, and I hate to say this.
1:06:30
SPEAKER_05: Probably more popular than Van Halen.
1:06:33
SPEAKER_12: Really?
1:06:34
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:06:34
SPEAKER_05: It's not Kiss.
1:06:36
SPEAKER_05: No.
1:06:37
SPEAKER_05: Remember, it's named after a person in the band.
1:06:41
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
1:06:41
SPEAKER_05: That's Bon Jovi.
1:06:43
SPEAKER_12: Yes, yeah, but they probably are more popular than Van Halen.
1:06:46
SPEAKER_05: I'll give you that one.
1:06:48
SPEAKER_05: But so so the album that I chose is the very first album.
1:06:51
SPEAKER_05: Oh, that's yeah.
1:06:53
SPEAKER_05: It's really just really just Bon Jovi.
1:06:55
SPEAKER_05: It is just Bon Jovi.
1:06:56
SPEAKER_05: Um we've done Bon Jovi before.
1:06:59
SPEAKER_12: No.
1:06:59
SPEAKER_05: No, not at all.
1:07:00
SPEAKER_12: Um, pretty sure we haven't.
1:07:02
SPEAKER_05: Um let me uh let me go to the book.
1:07:05
SPEAKER_05: I thought we did something like uh These Days or something.
1:07:08
SPEAKER_05: Or maybe we just talked about them and didn't do them for the wall.
1:07:12
SPEAKER_05: Um I don't remember.
1:07:14
SPEAKER_05: But this is the very first the self-titled Bon Jovi album, and it's a special edition because there's some some live tracks on.
1:07:24
SPEAKER_05: Oh, there is okay.
1:07:25
SPEAKER_05: Bonus bonus live tracks.
1:07:26
SPEAKER_05: Um no, we did.
1:07:28
SPEAKER_05: We did.
1:07:28
SPEAKER_05: We did Bon Jovi before.
1:07:30
SPEAKER_05: I thought I thought I thought we did, but I don't think we've done the first album.
1:07:33
SPEAKER_12: No, I don't think so.
1:07:34
SPEAKER_05: Um what I love about this album is the energy and um just the potential that was there.
1:07:43
SPEAKER_12: Well, I'm gonna be honest with you, I only know the one song.
1:07:47
SPEAKER_05: You don't know any of the other songs on this album?
1:07:49
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, no clue.
1:07:50
SPEAKER_05: Oh, dude, this is gonna be awesome.
1:07:51
SPEAKER_05: So so I was a huge Bon Jovi fan.
1:07:54
SPEAKER_05: Still am a huge Bon Jovi fan from uh before 2005, 10, 15, I don't know.
1:08:04
SPEAKER_05: And it has nothing to do with Richie not being in the band anymore.
1:08:07
SPEAKER_05: Although Richie was my favorite part of the band.
1:08:09
SPEAKER_05: Right.
1:08:10
SPEAKER_05: Um because their new guitar player, Phil X.
1:08:13
unknown: Awesome.
1:08:13
SPEAKER_12: Oh yeah, Phil X is a good thing.
1:08:14
SPEAKER_12: I love Phil X.
1:08:15
SPEAKER_12: I love that guy.
1:08:16
SPEAKER_05: He's an arguably, I mean, I like Richie's soulful playing.
1:08:20
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, but Phil X is arguably a better guitar player than Richie Sambore.
1:08:24
SPEAKER_12: Oh, no doubt.
1:08:25
SPEAKER_05: Um uh but you there was something there was something between John and Richie.
1:08:30
SPEAKER_05: It was like a Lennon McCartney thing.
1:08:32
SPEAKER_05: They were they were very in tune with each other and they complimented each other, the songwriting and everything.
1:08:37
SPEAKER_05: Right.
1:08:37
SPEAKER_05: Um so I I do like Bon Jovi better with Richie Sambor.
1:08:41
SPEAKER_05: Uh and back in the day, I was a huge Bon Jovi fan.
1:08:45
SPEAKER_05: Loved everything that they put out.
1:08:47
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
1:08:47
SPEAKER_05: And still I think it was around the time of the Circle album.
1:08:54
SPEAKER_05: Bon Jovi's the Circle album.
1:08:57
SPEAKER_05: Um it just got too pop for me.
1:09:01
SPEAKER_05: They just kind of started listening to uh John was and to his credit, I mean he knows how to stay relevant.
1:09:08
SPEAKER_05: Um he's listening to the killers, and he's listening to all these new bands, and trying to emulate trying to fit in.
1:09:17
SPEAKER_05: Oh sure, yeah.
1:09:18
SPEAKER_05: Uh trying to stay to keep on Jovi relevant, and I gotta give him credit for that.
1:09:22
SPEAKER_05: I mean that's how you make a living.
1:09:27
SPEAKER_05: Um but as a f as a fan who grew up listening to them one way, yeah, and then they changed and went this way, um it's just it's not the same.
1:09:38
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:09:39
SPEAKER_05: Uh nothing against their their newer stuff, although John can't sing anymore.
1:09:44
SPEAKER_05: Um but this so so the story is I don't even have um the story with where is it?
1:09:54
SPEAKER_05: Where is it right there?
1:09:55
SPEAKER_05: Okay.
1:09:57
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, see, this is the only song on this album I know.
1:10:00
SPEAKER_05: Um I think you're missing out.
1:10:02
SPEAKER_05: So this was a song that so John used to work in a recording studio in New York.
1:10:09
SPEAKER_05: Uh he was like a janitor and would sweep the floors late at night, and and when there was nobody in the studio, they let him do demos.
1:10:16
SPEAKER_05: Right.
1:10:17
SPEAKER_05: And so he demoed this song.
1:10:22
SPEAKER_05: And of course he would would play in bars and stuff.
1:10:26
SPEAKER_05: Oh, sure.
1:10:27
SPEAKER_05: But he didn't really have a band to speak of.
1:10:30
SPEAKER_05: Right.
1:10:31
SPEAKER_12: And interestingly enough these are all studio guys, right?
1:10:33
SPEAKER_05: These are all studio guys.
1:10:35
SPEAKER_05: None of the none of Bon Jovi, the actual Bon Jovi band, right, are playing on this.
1:10:40
SPEAKER_05: Actually, except one person.
1:10:42
SPEAKER_05: This is kind of a neat.
1:10:43
SPEAKER_12: Oh, is it wasn't uh Hugh McDonald the bass player?
1:10:46
SPEAKER_05: Absolutely.
1:10:47
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:10:47
SPEAKER_05: So Huey McDonald, who plays with them now, who replaced Alec John such, who passed away.
1:10:52
SPEAKER_05: Right.
1:10:53
SPEAKER_05: Um, he was the original bass player on this song.
1:10:57
SPEAKER_05: Right.
1:10:57
SPEAKER_05: So John John uh wrote this song, recorded it with a bunch of session musicians, and it got on this compilation album uh and went around to radio stations.
1:11:08
SPEAKER_05: And somebody caught onto it and said, Oh, this is a great song.
1:11:11
SPEAKER_05: So they started playing it, and it became a hit.
1:11:14
SPEAKER_05: And John's like, Oh crap.
1:11:17
SPEAKER_05: I'm gonna get a band.
1:11:18
SPEAKER_05: We need to get a band.
1:11:19
SPEAKER_05: So he assembled a Bon Jovi.
1:11:21
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:11:22
SPEAKER_05: And they went in and they recorded the rest of the album.
1:11:26
SPEAKER_05: So the rest of the of the first album is Bon Jovi.
1:11:30
SPEAKER_05: Um, so I have some favorites off this album, and this is one of them.
1:11:36
SPEAKER_05: This is called Roulette, and you can see how green they are.
1:11:43
SPEAKER_05: Um, like this riff, although as cool as it is, it's pretty simple.
1:12:52
SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
1:12:53
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it's great.
1:12:54
SPEAKER_05: Actually, I gotta play the guitar stuff.
1:12:58
SPEAKER_12: Oh boy.
1:13:53
SPEAKER_05: A lot more rockin'.
1:13:55
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say, you know.
1:13:57
SPEAKER_05: Um, and then you have pop magic.
1:14:07
SPEAKER_12: Why do why in my mind's eye do I see Rocky and Ralph Macho right?
1:14:13
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
1:14:14
SPEAKER_05: But it it's this is kind of a corny song, but it's fun.
1:14:42
SPEAKER_12: Jackson Brown feels to it a little bit.
1:14:47
SPEAKER_05: Not Jackson Brown lyrics though.
1:14:49
SPEAKER_05: No, no.
1:15:05
SPEAKER_12: Straight up like junior high.
1:15:07
SPEAKER_12: Oh yeah.
1:15:08
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
1:15:09
SPEAKER_05: Um I gotta play the guitar solo for this because I think it's it's quite funny.
1:15:18
SPEAKER_05: Here we go.
1:15:32
SPEAKER_12: That was that was the soldier.
1:15:34
SPEAKER_12: No, this is the soldier.
1:15:40
SPEAKER_05: How eighties is that?
1:15:41
SPEAKER_05: Well, it's very eighties.
1:15:43
SPEAKER_05: So then they have uh a song called Shot Through the Heart, which is not what you think.
1:15:50
SPEAKER_05: Um it's a ballad.
1:16:04
SPEAKER_07: Be content to see me cry.
1:16:18
SPEAKER_12: It's kinda like that first song.
1:16:22
SPEAKER_12: Runaway?
1:16:22
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
1:16:23
SPEAKER_12: It's got that you know it's it's got the keyboards with the you know, guitar in it, yeah.
1:16:30
SPEAKER_12: Yep.
1:16:31
SPEAKER_12: Yep, it's it's like a it was that was like the model.
1:16:35
SPEAKER_12: This is uh 80s is that ah man, nice to scare sense right there, man.
1:16:49
SPEAKER_11: Best party.
1:17:02
SPEAKER_05: So this one's called that one's called Breakout.
1:17:04
SPEAKER_05: Um, and then of course you've got uh they've got one called Get Ready, which is like the ultimate party anthem.
1:17:10
SPEAKER_05: Because they were basically a bar band.
1:17:11
SPEAKER_01: Right.
1:17:12
SPEAKER_05: You know, back in the day.
1:17:13
SPEAKER_05: So um just I I recommend it.
1:17:16
SPEAKER_01: Everybody was a bar band.
1:17:17
SPEAKER_01: Everybody was a bar band.
1:17:18
SPEAKER_05: I recommend it, you know.
1:17:20
SPEAKER_05: Um if you're a hardcore Bon Jovi fan, uh Well I might just get it just because I liked it.
1:17:26
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
1:17:26
SPEAKER_12: I mean I didn't really didn't know any songs other than Runaway.
1:17:29
SPEAKER_12: Yeah.
1:17:29
SPEAKER_05: No, it's and it's kinda c kind of neat to listen to the beginnings of what became, you know, this mega successful band.
1:17:37
SPEAKER_05: Speaking of uh, you know, beginnings and becoming mega successful, I'm serious about this children's book.
1:17:43
SPEAKER_12: Oh, we're gonna be, you know, like Harry Potter.
1:17:46
SPEAKER_12: Everybody's gonna buy like Harry Who?
1:17:48
SPEAKER_12: Henry Porter, what?
1:17:51
SPEAKER_05: And I do like I do like your idea of O'Brien and Doug uh visit with other bands.
1:17:56
SPEAKER_05: I think it'd be awesome.
1:17:57
SPEAKER_05: But we might run into some legal trouble.
1:17:59
unknown: Nah, I doubt it.
1:18:03
SPEAKER_05: Like like O'Brien and Doug go visit w we'll go visit uh uh uh hurry up.
1:18:15
SPEAKER_12: Hurry up?
1:18:19
SPEAKER_00: Hold on.
1:18:21
SPEAKER_12: It's it's it's it's Teddy Ghee.
1:18:25
SPEAKER_12: And and and and and uh Steve Steve Steve Steve uh Life Force and uh Nile Ni Niles Perch.
1:18:37
SPEAKER_12: So yeah.
1:18:38
SPEAKER_12: It'll be real it'll be really great.
1:18:41
SPEAKER_12: Metallica on tour with Bro uh Bro T Bro Bro Broco Brotilico with uh uh Jim Jim um uh Hatbox and Kyle Hermit.
1:19:03
SPEAKER_12: Kyle Hermit.
1:19:04
SPEAKER_12: Yes, and and uh Larry Larry Larry Lunchbox and Bobby Tread treadmill I think it's it.
1:19:22
SPEAKER_12: It's gonna be huge, man.
1:19:24
SPEAKER_12: I don't know how to do A C D C Rotellico.
1:19:26
SPEAKER_12: Rotellico uh A C D C could be um A B C D You know, you know Brad Jameson Brad Jameson, yeah.
1:19:45
SPEAKER_12: Brad Jameson and you know instead of Brian Johnson Andrew Andrew Old Oldfield You know guitar player, you know, so you know it could happen.
1:19:59
SPEAKER_05: And of course, you know, this What I just call him Brian Um um um Andrew Oh Brian oh I'm not sure what you say He'll speak perfect English.
1:20:13
SPEAKER_12: Right.
1:20:13
SPEAKER_12: Is that right, hey, would you gentlemen like a spot of tea?
1:20:23
SPEAKER_12: It'll be like one of those uh old old English butlers that uh oh very good sir.
1:20:29
SPEAKER_12: Yes, mm right now we're going to sing some rock and roll.
1:20:32
SPEAKER_02: A whole lot of roses.
1:20:34
SPEAKER_12: We're going to as a high way to heaven.
1:20:40
SPEAKER_12: You know, it's going to be it's going to be loverly.
1:20:43
SPEAKER_05: It could happen.
1:20:44
SPEAKER_05: It could happen.
1:20:45
SPEAKER_05: I think I think the whole idea of O'Brien and Doug writing a children's book is is gold.
1:20:49
SPEAKER_12: I I I I like to think that the other bands will consider it a tribute.
1:20:54
SPEAKER_12: You think so?
1:20:55
SPEAKER_12: And they won't sue us.
1:20:58
SPEAKER_12: They'll be like, oh, these these guys are harmless.
1:21:01
SPEAKER_12: You know.
1:21:03
SPEAKER_12: I think I I I You know, I mean, they're just, you know, just two guys in a basement in northern Maine.
1:21:08
SPEAKER_12: What are they gonna do?
1:21:12
SPEAKER_12: They're not gonna find out.
1:21:13
SPEAKER_01: Oh, Brian and Doug.
1:21:14
SPEAKER_01: Two guys in a basement in northern Maine.
1:21:18
SPEAKER_12: I mean, are we lying?
1:21:19
SPEAKER_12: Am I lying?
1:21:20
SPEAKER_12: No.
1:21:20
SPEAKER_12: I'm like it's literally what we are.
1:21:23
SPEAKER_12: I mean, other people have like, you know, we don't we have a studio.
1:21:26
SPEAKER_12: It's in a basement.
1:21:28
SPEAKER_12: Right.
1:21:29
SPEAKER_12: In northern Maine.
1:21:30
SPEAKER_12: It's true.
1:21:31
SPEAKER_12: You know, I'm we're not lying about where we're coming from.
1:21:34
SPEAKER_02: No, no, you know, it's just sounds a little creepy, but you know, it's true.
1:21:38
SPEAKER_12: You know, it's not it's not like we're driving around in a van that says free candy.
1:21:42
SPEAKER_12: You know what I mean?
1:21:44
SPEAKER_05: That's a good name for a band.
1:21:46
SPEAKER_05: What?
1:21:46
SPEAKER_12: Free candy?
1:21:47
SPEAKER_12: No.
1:21:48
SPEAKER_12: Let's not do that.
1:21:52
SPEAKER_12: We want to just call ourselves naked ladies.
1:21:54
SPEAKER_12: You know, that's how taken.
1:21:56
SPEAKER_12: Yeah, I know, but fully clothed women.
1:22:03
SPEAKER_05: What was the other band name that I thought?
1:22:06
SPEAKER_05: Free beer.
1:22:07
SPEAKER_05: You know, it was a different one.
1:22:09
SPEAKER_05: Because there's you know there's a radio show called Freebear and Hot Wings.
1:22:13
SPEAKER_05: Oh, is it?
1:22:13
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
1:22:13
SPEAKER_05: Oh, I didn't know that.
1:22:14
SPEAKER_05: Yep.
1:22:15
SPEAKER_05: Um anyway, I'll I'll think of it another time.
1:22:18
SPEAKER_05: Anyway, that's we gotta wrap it up.
1:22:20
SPEAKER_05: That's uh Do we?
1:22:21
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, we do.
1:22:23
SPEAKER_05: Um that's episode 133.
1:22:26
SPEAKER_05: This is a podcast.
1:22:27
SPEAKER_12: This is a pod it is a podcast.
1:22:28
SPEAKER_05: It is a podcast.
1:22:29
SPEAKER_05: This is a podcast.
1:22:30
SPEAKER_05: It is a podcast.
1:22:31
SPEAKER_12: It is a podcast.
1:22:32
SPEAKER_12: All right, so until then.
1:22:32
SPEAKER_12: It is now done.
1:22:33
SPEAKER_12: Until uh until next time, I'm O'Brien.
1:22:35
SPEAKER_12: And we'll have a children's book ready for you next week.
1:22:38
SPEAKER_12: No, we won't.
1:22:40
SPEAKER_01: Don't make premises you can't keep.
1:22:41
unknown: Shh!
1:22:42
SPEAKER_01: They don't know that.
1:22:44
SPEAKER_01: I'm O'Brien! I'm still Doug! Bye, everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: Bye bye.
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SPEAKER_05: I write books, I write words.
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SPEAKER_12: Scribble scribble.
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SPEAKER_12: It's a horsey.
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SPEAKER_06: I'm always thinking one step ahead.
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SPEAKER_06: Like a carpenter that makes stairs.