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Letter to Peter 1 · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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  It's Deprogram, 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. And normally what we would do on
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  an episode of Deprogrammed is try to get you into a band by
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  getting a top 10 starter kit list for you to get into an
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  artist. My name is Justin and that's
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  what we would normally do here. Today, not so much.
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  You've somehow stumbled across this on a daily and that means
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  it's just some related music conversation as opposed to
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  regular episode of D Program which comes out on Thursdays.
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  I told you guys I was going to do something a little different
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  today as opposed to the normal Earworm Wednesday, even though I
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  guess it is kind of brought about in a roundabout way.
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  Earworm Wednesday, Harry Styles came out with a new record and
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  we lost our friend Peter earlier this year.
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  OK, I mean, this is going to be coming up a lot, probably like
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  the for a little while these these feelings that they're
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  still pretty new. And so I was told I should write
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  these feelings down and I agree. And I probably will do this more
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  often than recording me talking into a microphone.
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  But I thought that because this was music related, I thought
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  that this would be therapeutic for me and perhaps interesting
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  to a listener. And maybe I'm wrong on on both
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  accounts, but Harry Styles came out with a new record and my
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  wife was listening to it here at the house and it didn't register
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  to me. Like I was just kind of like
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  half listening to the songs as I think I was playing GTA and she
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  was quilting. So it didn't really register.
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  We went on like a a mini road trip up to pick pick up our
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  daughter or maybe just visit our daughter at college.
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  And my wife's idea was we'll we'll listen to the rest of the
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  Harry Styles record on the way up.
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  And I was on board. I was like, yeah, I want to
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  listen to this. And as she pushes play, I
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  immediately start welling up, like with emotion.
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  And not necessarily because of Harry Styles, but this is the
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  exact. This is exactly a record that
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  would have come up in conversation between Peter and
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  I. We would have had a conversation
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  on probably after the fact or in the Discord channel, or he would
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  have hopped in and said, hey, what's everybody think about the
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  new Harry Styles record? And we would have compared notes
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  and, and perhaps listened to it together.
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  And it was hard for me to lock in on the record because of
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  this. I, I mean, I still want to get
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  some listens in. And it's nice to feel like I'm
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  not losing Harry Styles. Where when I lost my friend
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  Larry, I lost Local H for like a year and a half before I was
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  able to listen to them again. It that that part right there
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  never registered to me that I was going to well up with
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  emotion over. I don't get to have that
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  conversation. So here I'm having that
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  conversation with you, Peter again.
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  Going forward, I, I may try the, the writing it down record or
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  writing it down route because I feel like maybe I'm smelling
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  farts here, like maybe I'm being pretentious.
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  But the big thing for me here was because it was music
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  related. I, I thought maybe it would fit
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  here and maybe you can relate. And if you can hit the discord
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  up, let's try to be here for each other, You know, let's,
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  let's have conversations. Let's let's try to be more
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  supportive of each of each other, but brief discussion with
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  you, Peter, about the new Harry Styles record.
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  What I've been able to ascertain from listen to kiss all the time
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  disco occasionally it's a good record.
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  I'll say that it is not what I was hoping for after how great I
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  feel like Harry's house was like Harry's house.
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  I feel like kind of really, I don't want to say took me by
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  surprise, but really kind of elevated what I thought Harry
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  could do and this did not do that.
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  That said, I, as I mentioned, I really kind of need to spend
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  some time with it to see if it if it's doing more than it felt
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  like on the on the surface. I, when Aperture came out, I was
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  like, OK, I like this, but again, it, it lacked that, that
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  thing that I was looking for. I will say this also, it got
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  taken to a next level. My wife and I, I guess there was
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  a, a Netflix special that coincided with the release of
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  Kiss all the time, Disco occasionally and it's Harry
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  playing the whole record really changed my view on Aperture.
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  Like it sounds great live. So, you know, I'm convinced that
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  I need more time with the record.
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  I don't want to say I can. I can say a few things.
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  American Girls since has been released as the second single.
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  Things like Are you listening yet?
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  Really stuck out to me. I think Paint by Numbers was
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  another one. Dance No More kind of really
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  stuck out to me. Pop really stuck out to me.
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  I just, I think I need time with them alone time with them in the
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  cans or, or taking a walk and listening in the buds.
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  I think you would like it. It lacks the impressive thing.
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  And to me, I think why it's lacking the impressive thing is
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  because I haven't spent the time with it.
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  So, you know, don't come for me. Like, I just, I wanted to talk
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  to Peter about the fact that Harry Styles has a new record.
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  And I think you would like it, Peter.
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  And I miss you, friend. And I can't wait to share more
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  things with you as we go forward.
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  As I said, I don't know if I'll be doing it in this way unless
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  everybody really, really enjoys it, in which case, if it feels
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  right, I will do it. And that's why I did this is, is
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  it felt right to share the fact that Harry has a new record with
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  you. So friends, I'm going to keep it
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  short today. As I, as I said, I, I don't have
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  much to say about it yet. I, I want to give it time and I
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  want to, to live with it and I just haven't had a chance to do
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  that yet. So that said, today is
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  Wednesday, which means tomorrow is an, a brand new episode of
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  deprogram. So we will see you tomorrow.
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  Goodbye.