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Some Q's Get A'd · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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  It's Deprogrammed, the podcast where we try to get you into a
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  band. That's right, we've done all the
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  work for you. All you have to do is press play
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  and listen. My name is Justin and normally
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  what we would do is because I'm band curious, we would talk
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  about a band and try to get you into the band by coming up with
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  a top ten star kit list for whatever band we were talking
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  about this day. Not today, because you've come
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  across this podcast on one of our daily episodes where we just
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  have like a random music conversation and these will
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  become more conversations rather than just me talking at you.
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  Today is actually Q&A episode is is 1 you've stumbled on.
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  So hopefully you're a regular listener to the show and you're
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  just listening because this is part of your week.
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  If you're new, then I'm sorry that you've stumbled on us on AQ
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  and a episode, but here we are. Please hit subscribe.
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  Yay. Thank you for coming aboard.
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  So Anderson asks on threads and this was last week.
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  Sorry, but I it kind of got buried under a couple episodes.
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  We did. Which episodes have the most
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  downloads? Streams.
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  You know, without giving away numbers, I can give you our top
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  episodes. Matchbox 20.
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  Far and away our number one episode.
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  Bruno Mars, Coldplay, Eminem. Coldplay and Eminem are like
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  neck and neck right now. Red Hot Chili Peppers were
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  number one for a good long time and they've just kind of
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  steadily been dropping down the charts.
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  Pink Limp Bizkit, Def Leppard, Hilarious Dire Straits and
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  Steely Dan is our number 10 with Billie Eilish nipping at their
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  heels at the number 11 spot. But I mean, I feel like there's
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  yeah, you look at the next couple, Linkin Park, Jim Croce,
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  they've all kind of had their turn in the top 10.
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  So. But Matchbox 20 kind of took
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  hold not that long ago and kind of have gone absolutely nuts and
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  knows no sign of slowing. Joe texted me a question this
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  week, AQ for an A. When did final say become a
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  thing and what brought it on? So I can't find an exact and I
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  can't remember if I actually said it on one of the episodes,
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  but it was in between 21/20/21 and 2022 I believe.
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  And the first time it appears in my quote UN quote paperwork is
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  the queen episode, which I think was the first one of 2022.
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  So I want, I've always pitched this kind of like as a game show
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  and we always have this discussion at the beginning of
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  like how we put our list together.
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  And I wanted another element of game show to it to it.
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  And I thought it would be fun to try and remove like the the
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  really hairy conversation that song #10 can get to be.
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  And I was like, well, what if we took it out of the
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  conversation's hands and put it in solely into somebody's.
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  And so if anybody has never listened to the show at the
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  beginning of the episode or as we're ending the discussion part
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  of the episode, before we get to the to the list building, I ask
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  everybody how many unanimous songs we think we're going to
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  get through on the list. And everybody answers.
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  And if somebody actually wins, they get to pick the 10th song,
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  no questions asked, obviously, as long as it's by that artist.
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  So if you had a song that went into the bin that you really
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  wanted on the list, you can do that.
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  I of course, don't like that some people do that.
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  You can do whatever you want if you win the final say.
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  And I'm almost positive that's when it came in as I, I
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  introduced it going into 2022 and I just wanted another level
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  to, to the conversation, another level to, to put a little
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  gamesmanship to it. And I, I thought it was, I feel
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  like it's worked out rather well.
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  Sometimes nobody wins it and we just have to converse our way
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  out of it anyway, which is fine, but a lot of Wheeling and
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  dealing happens because that too.
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  So. And some of that stuff will be
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  coming up and you will be hearing about it on episodes
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  that are coming up now. So if you do happen to have my
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  number, you can text me these questions.
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  Or if you follow us on threads at Deprogrammed VA, you can also
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  ask there, but the majority of people ask in the Legion of
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  Stupid Discord. I am going to have to scroll up.
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  I think I pinned a couple of them 'cause that would be
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  easier. I did one.
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  What band? Mesma asks.
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  What band has been the hardest to narrow down to 10 songs did?
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  I did, Yeah, I did. I did do this one.
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  Sorry, I did that one already. Remove it, please.
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  I thought I pinned the next one and I didn't, so I'm going to
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  have to scroll up. Andrew asks, as per the question
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  on Q&A. Oh no, this was not it, sorry.
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  Jenny asks. In case you ever do another Q&A,
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  I'd love to know about your process for getting through so
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  many Discovery episodes. And I have definitely changed
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  how I do it lately, especially because as I record this, I'm in
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  the midst of five episodes in like 7 days and it's almost all
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  Discovery. And I mean it's almost all
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  discovery nowadays. I've had to really rethink how I
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  do my first pass because that's the most critical.
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  So it really depends on the band.
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  Like if it's if it's something like Minutemen, which we're
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  recording tonight as I record this, you're hearing this on
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  Friday. It's already been recorded.
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  But for something like the Minutemen where most of the
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  songs are less than a minute, I'll just, I'll just listen to
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  them all the way through and that'll be that.
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  Sometimes it's more than that. And the, the, the really kind of
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  depends on what the starting list is.
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  So I always try to hammer the idea of get it to a manageable
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  number because if it's a manageable number somewhere
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  between, I don't know, like 60 and 75 songs, I feel like I can
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  listen to a little bit more of each song on the first pass than
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  if you come at me with like 90, a hundred.
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  So the more songs that are in that initial list, the shorter
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  amount of time each song is going to get on my first pass.
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  So I try to get the idea of what the artist is within the first
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  couple songs, which is why I always love picking, you know,
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  album 1, track 1 where they tell you exactly what, what to expect
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  doesn't always work that way. So generally speaking, I'll
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  listen to two to three songs fully all the way through just
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  to kind of get the vibe of what what this artist is.
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  And if I feel like I've got a good enough, you know, good
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  enough dial on it, then it's like a you get 30 seconds from
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  then on out 30 seconds to kind of go, OK, yeah, that that
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  aligns or that's different enough that I want to hear more
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  on my next pass or, you know, to that effect.
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  And then I'll repeat the same thing on when I get to the next
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  record, only it'll be like one or two songs just to see, OK,
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  this is the evolution, same thing, 30 seconds and then so
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  on, so forth. And that's kind of how it goes.
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  I've had to evolve my next wave of cuts recently to involve the
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  audience more just to kind of see if my finger is actually on
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  the pulse or not, if if I got the right idea or not.
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  And so I'll use the audience to kind of start making at least
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  the the initial cuts of, OK, nobody sang this song that made
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  it through my first pass. So I think it's safe to kind of
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  lose that. And it's really made it a little
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  bit easier to cram all this music and be ready and and be
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  part of the conversation a lot more than than I normally would
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  would be in these instances. So hopefully that answers it.
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  Mesmo asks. Has there been a band where you
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  thought this will be easy and it turned out to be near impossible
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  to narrow down what bandy secretly hopes someone requests
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  so you have an excuse to deep dive their catalog.
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  There's been a lot of that that that's come across.
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  This will be easy to narrow down and ends up being difficult.
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  Pink Floyd comes up a lot here because it just is it, it just,
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  it's impossible to separate and Pink Floyd specifically, I've,
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  I've mentioned this a lot lately, so I don't, I won't harp
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  on it, but it made it, it made it hard just to do the show.
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  We just recorded our Social Distortion episode.
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  Thank goodness I adopted the new way of making those cuts that I
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  just told you about because that made it a lot easier.
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  Neil Young was really hard to narrow down.
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  I mean, you're asking which ones were easy.
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  I never think it's going to be easy because most of the time,
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  to Jenny's point, most of the time, I'm discovering an artist
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  these days most of the time. So I don't know more often than
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  not going in what to expect. So if I don't know what to
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  expect going in, I can't know. Well, this is going to be easy.
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  I can say that some have been a little easier to narrow down
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  than I thought. Minutemen kind of being one of
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  those acts, surprisingly, but again, I, I kind of have that
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  new way of, of how I'm doing it. I'm trying to think cheap trick
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  ended up being a lot easier than I expected, but also it kind of
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  needed to be because that's kind of the nature of it.
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  Trying to see stuff that we've done recently, if, if they're,
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  if there's anything that kind of, oh, you know what, Counting
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  Crows, I thought was going to be super easy because I thought it
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  was going to be very surface level and I thought it was going
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  to be Mr. Jones and that's it. And you know, whatever else.
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  And that was actually pretty difficult.
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  I mean, it was more difficult than I would have expected when
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  when it came to be that we were going to be doing, doing that
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  band specifically. All right, what band do you
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  secretly hope someone requests so you have excuse to dive deep
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  dive their catalog? I put your rhythmics up at one
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  point to 'cause it, it feels like that.
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  I honestly thought that would be a band that people would jump at
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  and it just hasn't happened yet. I want to see what I have on the
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  our suggested list to see if there's anything that kind of
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  jumps out at me at this point. It's just I'm so deep in it,
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  like all the time. I don't know that I, I, I think
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  like that anymore. Barenaked Ladies is on here.
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  I don't know if that necessarily qualifies.
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  Digital Underground. I put them up there in hopes
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  somebody would bite. Liam Lynch.
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  I've never done the dive. Jimmy's Chicken Shack.
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  I've never done the dive. I I I know I'm really familiar
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  with two of their records, but I think they have like three
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  others that I've I've never did the dive on.
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  So that would be something I'd be into Eurythmics.
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  As I said, I want to say is Euryth Aretha Franklin not on
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  here? I guess not.
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  I put Dolly Parton up here, but Dolly Parton, Aretha Franklin,
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  like I know they're, they're iconic voices that are like
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  technically they don't need us to do the do the show on them.
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  But also I kind of really want to do do those episodes just to
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  just to listen to them just 'cause OK, I think that gets
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  everything. Joe also asked in the discord
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  what happens when you go somewhere new?
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  But he asked the bot and I don't know if he was, he was asking me
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  or the bot, but what happens when you go somewhere new?
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  I don't know what you mean by that, Joe.
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  Do you mean like discover a new record or discover a new band?
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  I don't, I mean, cause the bot answered it.
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  So if that's the case and I think that's all the questions
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  for this week indeed. So with that, we're going into
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  the weekend. We will see you all on Monday.
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  Bye.