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Abbey Road - The Beatles - Part 2 · Barber Cuts: Beats and Bars

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Welcome to Barbara Cuts, Beats and bars.
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We're a father daughter music podcast that slices into some of
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the greatest albums, one cut at a time.
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With no industry ties or formal training, just a shared love of
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music, we explore albums across genres, rating favorites and
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skips while digging into what makes each one iconic.
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I bring the beats. And I bring the bars and
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together we deliver real talk and fresh takes from both sides
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of the sound. Hey everybody, this is Todd and
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welcome to Part 2 of our discussion about Abbey Road by
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The Beatles. We left off Part 1 asking
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Charles the question about the Grammys and The Beatles.
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So we pick up right where we left off.
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Enjoy. They have 11 Grammys, I think,
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which is not that many when you when you think about it.
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And so I'd love to get your take, Charles, on why you think
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they are light in the Grammy department.
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Not that that really measures how great somebody is, but
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generally they go, they go fairly well hand in hand.
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But what was what was going on that would have stopped them?
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As innovative as they were, these were long haired drug
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taking, you know, British guys that not everybody understood.
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And they grudgingly some older people in the industry would be
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like, well, yeah, that's a good song.
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But, you know, and the Grammys especially was always like 10
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steps behind public tastes, so yeah.
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All the people voting were your Sinatra's that hated the
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newfound Rock'n'roll. There was some of that and, and
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I learned about the Grammys and when they started from from your
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Sinatra episode. But had they started the Grammys
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when Sinatra was, you know, sort of at his first commercial peak
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and girls were screaming at his concerts, he wouldn't have
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gotten a Grammy. Then the Grammys, and it's
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gotten better and better, but it's always been a joke that
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getting a Grammy is almost the UN hippest thing, you know, a
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60s or 70's rock are. So The Beatles got Grammys
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grudgingly almost, and it never bothered them.
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And that was true of all the cool artists back then.
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As the Grammys evolved and some of the, you know, the people in
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the industry who make those kind of decisions and decide on
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awards, as the generations got, you know, the younger people got
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more and more into it. It got more sort of hipper and
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hipper, but the Grammys was always about the biggest hit.
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And even though The Beatles, you know, had tons of hits, they
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were like almost too revolutionary for the Grammys
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was an establishment award. So there was culture clash quite
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a bit when when it came to rock'n'roll the Grammys.
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I like, I like watching the Grammys, but that's still, it
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still bothers me sometimes. A lot of the songs that get it
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are just like just the most popular or most basic or
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mainstream like, and that's not discrediting the song.
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It's just saying like it's like Grammys doesn't really reward
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like innovation the way that I think they should.
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And then sometimes, most of the times it's with the new artist
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or best new artist of the year. They have some really skewed
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takes on like new artists and stuff.
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I'm biased though because. That's about So you're just
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salty because Noah Khan didn't get?
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It I OK, I am, but that's objectively the right thing to
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be salty about because like, are you kidding?
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Like look at what he's become. Like, that's insane to like, I
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don't know, to like not everyone was upset about that, even if
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you were to know a Con fan. But I still think most of the
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times nowadays, you see one person leaving with all of the
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Grammys and all of these smaller artists who may have done
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something way more innovative, like get discredited for their
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music just because they were trying something new.
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And I just don't think that's in the spirit of music per SE.
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And it and it's not. And believe it or not, it's
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gotten so much better than it used to be.
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And when they started trying to get hip like the Beatle, not The
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Beatles, I'm sorry, the Eagles got album of the year for Hotel
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California, which was a big deal.
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It's like a classic album. And none of them went to accept
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it because they didn't care. They didn't think they were
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going to win anyway, and who cares about that?
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And so John Denver had to accept the award for the Eagles as to
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what the album of the year was. And he was kind of square.
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He probably had a ton of Grammys, but but they've gotten
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a little better. But yeah, I like, I, I can't
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think of the last time I watched a Grammy ceremony, but I just
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picture Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift over, over
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again. It's the Taylor.
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Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Beyoncé, Sabrina Carpenter is up there
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now. It's yeah, it's pretty much pop
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that everyone is very well versed in.
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And again, not not that that music is bad by any means.
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No, but I listen to it sometimes.
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It's just popular, you know, it's called pop, like we've said
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before, it's called pop music for a reason, so.
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It's like this, this album not having that many Grammys, It's
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like the only thing I can picture is like Leonardo
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DiCaprio, poor guy, never getting anything.
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And he's like considered one of the best actors of all times.
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And he just recently got his first Oscar.
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And that that was like a running bit.
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And I feel like this is kind of the same thing.
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Like, well. It is considered.
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One of the best albums of all time but just got lost in the
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mix. Yeah, in it.
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Go ahead, Charles. Oh, and, and what they do with
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the Oscars is, is, you know, somebody who gets neglected over
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and over again, you know, when he's 80 will get a lifetime
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achievement award to sort of so that the Oscar people can atone
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for looking the other way. And, and the Grammys did that
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with The Beatles. They did give a lifetime
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achievement award or something in 2014 to 2004 somewhere in
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there. But yeah, that was 2014.
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Yeah, but and that was after I guess two of them had already
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passed away, right? Yeah.
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So I know, I know Lennon was. And so, yeah, all right.
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Any anything anything else on why people should go listen to
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it? I was just going to reiterate
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something Charles has already said.
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I think the biggest reason to listen to this is Beatles is
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such a big name and Abbey Road is really where they Abbey Road
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encapsulates with The Beatles kind of hard.
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They hit every different genre that they ever hit, even with
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you talking about like coming back to Yellow Submarine.
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But I think with I Want you, I think of Revolution from the
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White Album and that bluesy feel and like they just incorporate
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so many different things from all of their albums and it is
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like their best. They hit their stride and then
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decide like, that's it. We've we've done it, you know.
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I know that. Happens out of the place, but
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no, but I think with how big The Beatles are and this being known
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as really where they hit their stride or like one of the best,
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that's that's something to be acknowledged.
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Yeah. I just want to say I Abbey Road
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is gosh, probably top three most iconic album covers of all times
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time. Dark side of the moon and Abbey
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Road are typically what's talked about when it's like the most
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recognizable and I've always I understand why to a little bit,
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but really I don't understand how Sergeant Pepper didn't get
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the like best album. There's so much there.
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And this is a side tangent, but I love the album cover of
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Sergeant Pepper probably more than I like the album, which is
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like a big thing to say, but I love that album cover.
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I love just sitting there and looking at and trying to find
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different things 'cause you notice something different every
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time you look at it. And I really like the album
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cover. And it needed to be set.
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Coming from from the artist Oh. I also wanted to say, with you
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talking about Octopus's Garden sounding like Yellow Submarine
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and kids liking it, Yellow Submarine was on Guitar Hero and
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that song was, I think me and Wesley's one of our favorite
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songs to play on Guitar Hero 'cause we liked that song so
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much and they had a little image of the Yellow Submarine and
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little guys dancing on it. Nice.
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Good memories. So kids probably do like
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octopus's garden. All right, so so I'll give one
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interesting note before we move on to best beats and bars just
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to in this case tie something back to Memphis.
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So and and Charles, you're probably well aware of this, but
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a few months after Abbey Road was released, Booker T and the M
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GS recorded a mostly instrumental cover of the album
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and they titled there's Macklemore Ave. which is the
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address of Stax Studios in Memphis.
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They even reproduce the album cover of the band walking across
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Macklemore Ave. just just like The Beatles did in Abbey Road.
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So again, just because of the Memphis connection, I thought
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I'd throw that in there. So.
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I I bought it, yeah, I bought it.
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And I guess maybe you'd say it's an acquired taste.
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It's all instrumental. It's it's a nice try, but but
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the cover's cool, that's what. I'll say yeah, yeah.
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You know. The the fact the fact that they
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did that and you know, and like went all in with it, like we're
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just going to do it instrumental because like, because we can
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we're going to call it Macklemore Ave. and we're that's
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cool. Walk across the street, you
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know, because again, Abbey Road outside of their studios, this
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one outside of Stack Studios. Like it's just, it's just funny.
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That was all very, very cool that they did.
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Yeah, so, alright, so Riley, we'll get to best lyrics.
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So you're in charge of that. So Riley, what was what was your
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best lyric from Abbey Road? So my favorite lyrics were from
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something which is funny, but I just the lyrics are so great.
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Pretty much any of them you can pull out and be like, that's
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such a beautiful lyric, I guess I would say.
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But the one that I just pulled out was something in the way she
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knows and all I have to do is think of her something in the
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thing she shows me. Just beautifully put.
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Like the all I have to do is think of her and something in
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the thing she shows me like it just I don't I don't know how to
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say it other than that. And that's how you know it's a
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good lyric because like that's a really good way of wording it.
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I don't know how else to word it or to re explain it.
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It's just that. And so, so I'll I'll hop on
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next. And so my best beat is actually
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from the end. And so it's throughout,
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throughout the end, each of The Beatles gets a solo and
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instrumental, I should say solo. So about 20 seconds there's a
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Ringo solo where you can hear him going crazy on the drums.
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And then about 53 seconds, each of the other three have a guitar
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solo. And so you get 2 bars.
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So period of each of them. So McCartney goes first, then
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Harrison and then Lennon, and then they repeat back to
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McCartney, Harrison and Lennon. And one of the things Riley, you
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you mentioned this and this was also one of them said it, I
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think. But they really liked doing this
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because it let their personalities shine through.
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And so you can hear that McCartney solo is a little bit
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more melodic. Harrison uses, you know, the
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string bending to make that sound and Linen used a little
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bit more distortion than the other two.
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And, and so that's neat to hear their, their personality styles
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come through in those, you know, And then at the very end of
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Linen's second solo, it just jumps back to the of the piano
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where it hits that famous line that that Charles mentioned.
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And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you
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make. And so that song just goes out
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after that, which again, what a, what a great way to in the in
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the album, again, harmonizing with them coming in and singing.
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So so Charles, what would you say if you had to give a best
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beat or bar or both? What's your favorite?
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What's something that stands out I.
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Mean or. If or if you have to give two or
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three, I guess we'll allow that to.
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Happen really reviewing the album, you know, last month when
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I was driving cross country. Yeah, it it just came back to
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the the last few minutes. Just I mean, you kind of took
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the words right out of my mouth as far as these great little
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compact but fiery solos in terms of a groove or other sort of
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would you beat maybe come come together, you know, which I
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can't even believe we haven't mentioned that song, you know,
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another Lenin classic. But there's just something about
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that scramble at the end of the album musically that it's just
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like everyone plays perfectly. It fits and then and then
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they're done. Although this doesn't have to do
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with instrumental, but I liked in Sun King where very briefly I
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think it's John is singing in Spanish, Paul saying French and
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Michelle and you could say, oh, they're doing the foreign
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language thing again, but it's one verse and then they just go
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on to more stuff. And I'm not even sure I know
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what the 1st is being but but in terms of a beat, a riff, a solo,
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I I think I got to go with with the jam at at the very end.
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Everything else is, you know, everything else is built around
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the song. And and I don't know, I'd say
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they're outstanding solos, but actually George has a great lead
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guitar solo in the middle of Octopus's garden.
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But but it's really about that those last few minutes for me.
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Yeah, and and it is funny that we really haven't mentioned much
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about come together, but it does have a really cool bass line
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that starts the song and really drives throughout it that that
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bass line was was nice. And what a you know, we talk
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about this all the time, I guess before we before we move, move
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on to the songs of the week, that when a song, when an album
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opens with a great song and closes with a great song, How
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sometimes you can forgive things that happened in the middle and
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to me come together. And then, you know, the the
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golden slumber carry that weight and the end man, what a way to
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start and end an album like that.
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That is that is really, really strong and made the second song
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is something. So I mean, you, you, you started
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very strong, end it very strong. So again, that that's really
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nice to see because again, in the 60s, I would, I would think
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this is still at an era and a time where they're, and
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obviously they did with the medley, they're putting these
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together in an order that means something, you know, and
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intended to listen in a, in a certain order.
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So, so that's that's nice to see.
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All right, so, so song of the week, I guess no ratings.
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I skipped them. So, Riley, what are your
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ratings? So my personal rating is an 8.
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I I really like it. I the re listening to it cause
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we've talked about it before. I will say I liked it more than
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I remembered. I'm I'm not a huge Beatles
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person so I hadn't fully re listened to the album.
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I had just taken the songs that I liked and the second listen,
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let's second listen through period.
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I added more songs to my like songs and took more and just
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enjoyed it. And so it got up to an 8.
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It's just not always my type of music.
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The happier Go Lucky, like Here Comes the Sun, Octopus Garden
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and even Maxwell Silver Hammer. This is not always what I want
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to listen to. Even if I really like the song,
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it's just not one that I come back to.
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But they make up for that with songs like Come Together.
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Something like She's So Heavy, I Want You, She's so heavy.
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Like all of these songs that really have that bluesy feel
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again. So it ended up being an 8, but
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objectively I would give it 9.5 out of 10.
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I mean, it's hard to objectively label an album A10, but like
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you've said, we've all said it's, it's a near perfect album
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from an objective standpoint. I I I think that's hard to argue
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against. Yeah.
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And and so did, did, did your ratings, if you may not remember
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them, did they go up? I don't.
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Remember OH. So I, I had mine written down
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and, and mine, both of mine actually went up.
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So my personal rating is an 8. It went up because again, I
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like, Oh yeah, I really like this.
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I really like this. And even looking at some of the
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notes I, I took, I like you, you put that as a potential least
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favorite song. Like why did you not like it
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'cause when I listen to it now, it's like, OK, what, what, what
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did I miss the first time? You know, and, and where, where
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I changed the most was probably the objective rating.
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And, and just going back and especially after we've done this
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a bit like I gave it a 10, even though I'm not a fan of Maxwell
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Silver Hammer, I can I can see the I can, I can appreciate
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everything that's going on there.
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And so for me, that being my least favorite song on, it's
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like, OK, objectively, can I see what they're trying to do there?
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Can I understand it? Does it fit in with just The
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Beatles and this album? I'm like, yeah, it it it does.
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And and then, you know, the weight of what Abbey Road has
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become being, you know, maybe the end even, you know, however
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you recorded it, whatnot, just got a lot of weight to it.
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And, and so I was like, OK, I can, I can give this one
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objectively, I can give it a 10. Charles, did you did you come up
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with ratings or just one? Yeah, when you said you guys
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were going to do that, you know, Tabby Rogue and you want my
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input? I mean, I've listened to the
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album hundreds of times. I think I first bought it when I
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was 15 or 16, and I'm a little bit older now.
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And, you know, so I've heard it a billion times.
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I've heard the outtakes of, you know, of the those songs as they
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were building them and creating them.
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I mean, you know, if The Beatles sneezed and somebody put out an
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unauthorized record, I went out and got it.
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So these are those were all songs that I'm like, I'm
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familiar with each and every lick, every, you know, hiccup,
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every everything about them. And I thought, but you know, I
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haven't listened to a while. It's it's going to be kind of
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interesting to take that whole album in again.
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And so it was the part of the drive.
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I was going to New Jersey Riley and driving I-40 E.
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And right as I got out of Nashville, headed towards
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Knoxville and the sun's coming off and I'm like, Oh, I need to
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I need to make a decision if I'm going to contribute to to do
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what you guys do because it didn't want to spoil it.
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Theresa crowd. But I better I'm better listen
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to this album again, you know, So I just I'm just like, wow, I
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forgot how great this was. Wow, I forgot how great this was
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all the way through. So is it sort of the objective
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critic or or sort of the unemotional rating would have
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been a nine, and I'll see how it'd be hard to give it less.
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But as a fan rating, 10 all the way.
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It was. And I don't give 10 all the way
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to everything, but I was just every part of it.
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I'm just like, man, I forgot how great this was.
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Man, I forgot how smart this was.
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Yes, man, I forgot that. Maxwell's a little annoying, but
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I stuck with it. So I get even, you know, I could
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be jaded and say, you know, well, a nine, you know, no
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albums perfect. It's not a 10, it's not Sergeant
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Pepper, blah, blah, blah. But no, as a fan of 10.
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I believe, yeah, which which I kind of expected, but so real
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quick, you you mentioned Sergeant Pepper.
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So before we go on, a song of the week, which really gets us
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away from The Beatles. And then our next album,
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favorite Beatles album is, is your favorite Beatles album
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Sergeant Pepper Because I, I, I see most of the time again, I'm
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not a Beatles person. So and the poster which which
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Riley, we still need to talk about the poster and all these
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things so that people know the poster only has one album for
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each band. So you know, there won't be a
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duplicate. There won't be another Beatles
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on on this one notwithstanding you talk about greatest albums
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ever you you may have two Beatles 3 Beatles in the top
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10/15/20 fairly easily. But what I've read for most of
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them is Abbey Road, Sergeant Pepper, Revolver.
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Is there one I'm missing? But those three seem to be
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consistently argued debated as to which one is the best.
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Beat a Beatles album. So if I had to go listen to
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another Beatles album today, which which?
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Which direction would you steer me, Mr. Mooney?
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Yeah, the the revolutionary albums where they were just, you
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know, they started out writing great catchable, breezy pop
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songs and they were great. And then with with the help of
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their producer George Martin, they started to expand the
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definition of rock'n'roll by having like strings, by writing
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a song that was influenced by Bob Dylan.
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And they started to just not have this collection of pop
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songs one after the other singing about, you know, girls,
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you know, everyone of them went all change allegedly to that.
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The part where every someone sort of agrees.
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Here's where they really started to stretch and just take rock in
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a new direction starts with Rubber Soul.
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The argument about what's their greatest album is is usually a
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back and forth. For years, the only answer was
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Sergeant Pepper because it was so revolutionary and what it
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did, but Revolver was too. So Rubber Sole, Revolver,
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Sergeant Pepper and Abbey Road. The Wide album.
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It's a double album. That's almost always not the
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best idea for the most talented artist.
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You're going to get some filler, but that one's great too.
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In terms of which is the your favorite Beatles album, I would
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say how many, How many kids do you have, Todd?
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I have two. Just two Oh, for some reason.
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Just two. OK, just two.
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That's my other Co workers that. Oh good.
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Yeah. So right.
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We have a Co worker at five. OK, so Todd, which one's your
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favorite child? But depends on which ones
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around. OK.
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Careful. But yeah, in terms of a favorite
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beat Loudon, that's just like. Is it hard to hard to pick one?
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Depends on the day. Right now it's it's kind of
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Abbey Road. But if you've listened to Pepper
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and are not familiar with revolver, that's that's pretty
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wild. And Rubber sole is is it's that
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transition from pop to just, there's a whole lot of other
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stuff going on. George had discovered Indian
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music. So you're a sitar.
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They started using like backwards drum beats and stuff,
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which nobody did back then. It's great.
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But yeah, those the three that I guess everyone says are the
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three great ones, greatest ones or probably Revolver, Pepper,
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Abbey Road and then and a close 4th place, Rubber Soul.
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Rubber Soul. OK, all right, so this I've got
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I've got my work cut out for me some some Beatles listens to to
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get through. So, song of the week, Riley,
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what was your song of the week? So my song of the week.
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So we've talked about Spotify playing like songs after you
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finish the album. And for me, usually it's not
30:17
related song, good songs by the artist.
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And this one came up and I just really liked it.
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It's a very feel good song. I can't remember exactly which
30:25
album it's off of. It's not one of their bigger
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songs, but it just really stood out to me.
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I really liked it. It's a song called Wake Me Up
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Before you go go. Do you know which album that's
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off? Of that's the same.
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So I got one off that album. It's called Careless Whispers.
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No way. Two Beatles classics.
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So yes, we we just you will have to go see Charles laugh a little
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bit. That's our running joke at work
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that I give him grief about The Beatles and Wham and Careless
31:05
Whisper and yeah. He likes the name.
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Charles Charles has never been able to let it slide.
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He he cannot just he can't let that one go.
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So I'll also will say he always defends The Beatles when I
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compare them to Wham, knowing that it's going to get him get a
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rise out of it. Yeah, it is funny, although it's
31:29
also outrageously insulting that you drop in that that George
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Michael was in The Beatles. This is true.
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I think he was. He was the 5th Beatle.
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Well. I do actually have.
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A not, not, not George Martin. It was George.
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Michael. 5th Beatle so. I do also.
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Have all right. Actual song of the.
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Week song of the week. All right, that was our that was
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our let's play a practical joke on Charles bit.
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All right, Song of the week rally.
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What's your real song of the week?
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OK, so I have two. One is very out there for me.
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But Kate, my roommate, we've mentioned her before, she
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introduced me to the song. It's much more her type of
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music, but I really like it. It's juggernaut by Tyler, The
32:20
Creator with Lil Uzi Vert. So not my music tastes normally
32:25
I like Tyler, The Creator. I think he does very creative
32:28
things and that doesn't get that can too often his music is
32:31
discredited for not sounding great and it's like I think
32:34
that's the point. He's very creative with
32:38
different things, but this one I think sounds really nice.
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And then my other one has an incredible song title and an
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incredible band name. And it's very fun to tell people
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it's Shut up, My Mom's Calling by Hotel Ugly.
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Just a really good song. It just it's a little jazzy.
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It has good like a good voice. It's just a fun song.
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I really like it and I forgot it existed.
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It was played in a lab once for me when I was like a freshman in
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doing labs in college. My TA would play music because
33:19
he was the cool TA and this one came on and I just I like had I
33:24
went up and asked him. I made him share it with me.
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So I got the exact song. I love this song and it just
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came up this week and I remembered it so shut up.
33:34
My mom's calling my hotel ugly. So my my song of the week is
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came as I was meant mentioned. We went and visited the kids
33:44
this past week and helped one of them move.
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And so driving home after that long long drive home after a
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long weekend, fun weekend, but long weekend.
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This was the last song playing when we got home.
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So I was like, OK, that's a, that's a good ending song of the
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week for me. And it was 6th Ave.
34:07
Heartache by The Wallflowers. So background vocals are by Adam
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Duritz from the Counting Crows. It's from 96.
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It's written by Jacob Dylan, son of Bob Dylan, which we talked
34:23
about. And really it's based on Dylan
34:27
or Jacob's on experience living in New York City.
34:32
He had a homeless man that would sit outside of his window and
34:35
play music and one day he was gone and but all his stuff was
34:41
still there and his stuff just stayed there for a while until
34:45
people started coming by and just taking the stuff away.
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And so this song is about that 6th Ave. heartache by The
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Wallflowers. So that's mine.
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Charles, you got you got a song of the week that you've been
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listening to this week. Besides Beatles, a couple, but
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at least in the case of 1, I don't want to call it an
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endorsement. And you both may be familiar
35:15
with this song, but I heard it for the first time at work
35:20
during a collaboration meeting. It's by Lizzo and it's called
35:28
Where My Phone. OK.
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Have you have you heard it, Todd?
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I have not heard that, but I will go listen to it.
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Riley, have you heard it? I I have that really caught me
35:45
off guard. I'll have to I get I'll give it
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to you. Does she play trumpet in or
35:51
clarinet in that flute in that one?
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I don't think there's any clarinet or flute in that song.
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Do you know what she plays? Yeah, she plays the flute.
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I do know. I did know she plays the flute
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very well. I might have.
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Yes, she. Plays it live at concerts and
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stuff. That's funny.
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I'm I'm stunned to learn that because.
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Yeah. The song is.
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Where? My phone?
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I was not expecting that, Charles.
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I wasn't expect when I heard it. I wasn't expecting, but it's
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just. It's just.
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It's hilarious, but it is just it.
36:28
It is a street club song. And.
36:35
And it's abusing. And the other one, like I didn't
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think we could mention older songs like 6th Ave.
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Heartache. Mention whatever you listen to.
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But, but I've always got quite a few, you know, rotating in the
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head, but they're they're almost always 10 years or older.
36:56
But I did hear a cool song off a cool new artist that we saw open
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for Dwight Yoakam. It's a singer-songwriter,
37:06
country singer-songwriter named Ashley McBride.
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Either of y'all heard of her? We're not country people, so OK,
37:17
it's good to get some country representation in the podcast.
37:21
Well, well, and she is, but she is country modern where it's
37:28
almost rock with twang. And she has a song called
37:32
Rattlesnake Preacher and she opened for Dwight Yoakam.
37:36
I didn't know anything about her other than like she played like
37:40
10 different songs and I'm like, like, these are all good.
37:46
Rattlesnake Preacher, I think stuck with me, but and then she
37:53
got snubbed. There was I think the CNA or
37:57
this whatever the country music Grammys organization is.
38:02
People expected her to get best new artist and she didn't.
38:05
Then they would hold up for her. But as far as I can go to my
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trusty jukebox here. See what this lately, well of
38:19
course been kind of playing a lot of The Beatles and but as
38:27
far as anything and heavy rotation, that's kind of been it
38:33
the last couple of weeks. Yeah, that's pretty much it.
38:37
Been been The Beatles. Yeah.
38:39
Oh, obviously The Beatles. Yeah, that's kind.
38:46
Of it it is it is need to every once in a while you realize you
38:50
know what happened haven't delved into, you know my
38:55
favorite band and sometime and then you just go listen to him
39:00
again and realize Oh yeah, this is This is why I like him.
39:05
So it's it's neat to be able to do that.
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All right, so Riley, I guess we're ready for next album or
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well, I guess before that we should say again, thanks to
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Charles. It's been fun.
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I really appreciate you coming on and sharing everything.
39:33
We when when we make it to I, I know we've got Beach Boys, Pet
39:38
Sounds. I don't know when.
39:40
I know we've got a Bruce album too.
39:42
I'm not sure which one it is, but given that those are the
39:48
three BS, if if you're up for it, we may have you back again
39:53
just to talk about those. And we're also on social.
39:58
So Instagram X Facebook, I think are the three Barber cuts pod.
40:05
We are also on YouTube so you can go watch our three boxes
40:10
this time instead of the normal 2.
40:13
At our YouTube channel, Barbara cuts pod as well.
40:17
So now that that is out of the way, Riley, what is our next
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album? Our next album was actually
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mentioned already today, it's Hotel California by the Eagles.
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I'm excited. I like this album.
40:37
Straight out, yeah, I'll, I'll definitely be tuning in for
40:40
that. So a band that can actually, a
40:43
band that can actually win a Grammy.
40:45
And not be there for it. Yeah, so.
40:48
Much much like the Six Pistols getting inducted into the Hall
40:52
of Fame and not showing up. You know, it's just the
40:56
rock'n'roll thing to do. So Hotel California.
40:59
So go give Hotel California, listen, and then tune back in
41:05
and hear what we have to say about it.
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Until next time, I'm Todd. Man.
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And I'm ready. And that's Charles.
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And I'm the special guest and I was just thrilled, thrilled,
41:16
thrilled to be here. It's a ton of fun.
41:19
Awesome and. This has been another episode of
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Barbara Cuts.