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Encores · Revisionist History

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  Speaker 1: Pushkin, You've tret me a live foo.
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  Speaker 2: Over the years that I've been doing Revisionist History, I've
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  Speaker 2: done a number of episodes about music, and there's some
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  Speaker 2: of my favorites, And in going back and listening to
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  Speaker 2: those episodes, I realize they're all about versions of the
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  Speaker 2: same thing. Well, actually, that's way too vague about the
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  Speaker 2: way that specific songs burrowed into my consciousness ten, twenty thirty,
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  Speaker 2: even forty years ago and have stayed there ever since,
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  Speaker 2: which is odd because I'm not musical. I don't play
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  Speaker 2: an instrument. I don't even know what a chord is.
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  Speaker 2: But there is almost nothing that brings me more joy
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  Speaker 2: than sitting down.
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  Speaker 1: With a musician.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought we'd reprise four of my favorite music
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  Speaker 2: episodes from the archives of Revisionist History. A trip to
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  Speaker 2: nash Phil to talk about sad songs, another trip to
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  Speaker 2: Nashville to talk about Elvis.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I wonder if.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight a third is based around a magical afternoon I
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  Speaker 2: spent with Randy Newman prevail on you.
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  Speaker 3: Did to steal a little bit of Marie Sure So
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  Speaker 3: I love that song so much. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: And the last of them took me to the met
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  Speaker 2: to a pub in North London to the story of
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  Speaker 2: Leonard Cohen's masterpiece Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's vera brokale.
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  Speaker 2: Come join us for a walk down revisionist history Memory Lane,
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  Speaker 2: Halle