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Harry Chapin · Deprogrammed Music Podcast

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It's deprogram the podcast where we try to get you into an
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artist. That's right.
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We've done all the work for you and all you have to do is push
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play. And you know what?
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I was going to make some sort of Cats in the Cradle thing or I
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was going to bring up another song.
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But really? But what we're getting to the
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bottom of today is why is it that you hate me, Chris, Today
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we're talking about. Harry Chapin and this one has
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been kind of back burnered probably for about a good two
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years. I know you've been been talking
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about wanting, wanting to do this, so so talk to me about
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Harry Chapin and why it was so important that that that we did
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a Harry Chapin episode. Well, he's probably my favorite
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artist, musical artist pretty much of all time.
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My dad. Instilled in me a love for music
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in general and Harry Chapin specifically all my life as long
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as I can remember. He took me to see him a few
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times. I mean he played guitar and sang
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Harry Chapin songs at the table. Just a very important artist
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when I was young and then as I grew older and actually started
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understanding 90% of the songs that he wrote and played.
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I grew to love him even more, so I think I used to say it was my
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mission life to make everybody a Harry Chapin fan.
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So this is, you know, a step in that direction, hopefully.
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Aggress at. Least at least a couple of
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people. Yeah, aggressive, aggressive.
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So this is what I'm curious about because Marlene, you got
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roped into this and I word it that way because.
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I got to assume that you know you don't just lightly jump into
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a Harry Chapin episode, but what I am curious about is, is this
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something that you married into? You married into a love of of
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Harry Chapin or or did you find him on your own?
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I would say I'm married into it. You know, I have heard obviously
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Cats in the Cradle, but I had no idea really who Harry Chapin was
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before I started dating Chris. And he was.
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Yeah, aggressive. You're right aggressive about
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introducing me to Harry Chapin and.
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Yeah. And you know most of most of his
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music is I don't know. I don't even know what to say
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about him. He's I like, I like his music.
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A bunch of it is catchy. Some of it is just really makes
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you think and I don't know. There's just something about
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him. It's it's it feels like more
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than music. It feels like, all right, go
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back to. Christmas I I pull him in with
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guys like Woody Guthrie. He was a protest singer, not
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just an entertainer. Almost all of the proceeds from
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all of his live concerts and he toured aggressively, like. 200
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at least 200 concerts a year. And he, he created World Hunger
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year and put so much money and effort into stopping hunger, not
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just in the United States, but global.
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And that's still around. Excuse me.
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So yeah, you know he was a humanitarian protest singer.
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He believed in all sorts of equal rights.
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Wrote songs about them and just an amazing storyteller through
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song. Yeah, so many of his songs are
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catchy and then you listen to the lyrics a few times and
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you're like, God damn this is 1 depressing ass song but it's
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making my toes tap. Yeah, as as Marlene was kind of
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taught, the word that kept coming and it didn't come until
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we started talking here was sombering.
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Like there's there's very much a sombering effect.
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When listening to Harry Chapin and you know, again, so this is
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basically introduction for me because, you know, Cats in the
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Cradle is one of those songs that's been in my brain, you
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know, literally my whole life. And I'd never knew who it was
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until Ugly Kid Joe covered it. And then so that was a whole
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thing for a minute. And you know, you you do the
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dive and go, oh, OK Harry Chapin, I get it.
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And then. Chris comes to me with with we
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should do an episode on them and like, I'm like, oh OK like and
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and we'll talk about, you know the list here in a minute.
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But like oh OK And I get ready to to like listen and sombering
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like that's the word. Like not, you know there's
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definitely points where it's depressing with the toe tapping
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like you said for sure. But then there's there's
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somewhere it's just flat out depressing sometimes like even
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even. Like the the lyrics cut through
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the, you know, the the the catchiness.
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There's silliness here too. I I, I found some silliness and
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you know, it's it's a lot of different things.
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And you know the whole time I'm like, why, why is it that Chris
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hates me? Like, I I thought, I thought we
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were friends. So you do you do love me
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somewhat because you did you did, you know do some really
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hard work before we even started.
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You cut it down to, I think we're only bringing 72 songs
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here, so talk to me about, like, how you decided what was going
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to be eligible here. It was hard.
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I cut and I might make you listen to some of them.
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I cut some of the songs that are just just too depressing to
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listen to, not the. And a lot of the stuff is like
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because this is meant to make a list of songs you want to
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introduce somebody to an artist to.
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And a lot of his songs are like, yeah, this one's like, way too
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dark to just throw at somebody and say, hey, check this song
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out. Like, like, the biggest one that
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comes to mind is Dog Town, about this fisherwoman's wife who ends
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up, like, married, not married. Like getting sexual pleasure
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from the dog is the undertone of it because her husband. 3rd or
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4th, Husband has gone off to fishing and died.
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Wow. Yeah.
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So that that's a fun story song. So I cut out a lot of songs like
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that, a lot of songs that I just thought, like if you get into
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Harry Chapin, you go and listen to the rest of his stuff and
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this is stuff you can grow to appreciate or just say, Oh no,
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this is just awful. And also his songs are very,
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very long. Yeah.
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Yeah, we did. I don't would you say 70
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something songs? It was 6 to 8 hours worth of
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music because a lot of his songs are very, very long.
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I think the longest clock's in at 14 minutes and average is
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probably 5 to 7 minutes. He didn't write songs to be
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played as on the radio as you know to make #1 singles or
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anything like that, so. So then as as you're having to
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make that next step, so you doing little it down to 72 for
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us for you know as our launching point here but then when you
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have to look at those 72 songs and pick you were 20 for this
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conversation tonight like how did you go about that?
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It was. It was probably the hardest one
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I've ever done. Not as hard as I thought it was
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going to be in the end. In the end, I just thought, you
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know, you need to put your personal biases aside.
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And think about songs that you want somebody who's never
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listened to Harry Chapin before, a song that they're going to
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listen to and say, hey, this is pretty good, I want to learn
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more. And that's when I hit you with,
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you know, Dog Town and stuff like that.
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So yeah, so that's how I I took that mindset of, you know, and I
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cut out a lot of songs that it broke my heart to cut because
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there's some of my favorite songs in the world.
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But. It's not something that your
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average person who's never heard Harry Chapin is going to listen
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to and say, yeah, I want to hear more of that.
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So this being what your your third or fourth time here
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Marlene and being you know being like like we said, we joked
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marrying into being a Harry Chapin fan.
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Like was this a hard list for you to to get your head around?
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You know. I went into this with probably
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10 songs that were uncuttable for me.
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So you know, getting down to the other ten was harder than I
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expected. When Chris first told me that he
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wanted me to do this, I was like, oh, I can do that easy.
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That should be no problem for me and some of the songs that I
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started listing then. From even on my list now.
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So it was surprising for me. It was not as hard for me as
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Bernie was because you know, but it was, it was harder than I
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expected. Yeah, and she's only here
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because I'd never thought anybody else would sign up for
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Harry Chapin. It was probably gonna sit on
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the. Board for a while.
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And I knew we needed 1/3 and I really wanted to do it.
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And so I asked her and she said yes.
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And that's one of the one of the reasons I love her.
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Only two years. She's she's she's willing to do
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stuff like this, so. I can.
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Talk about Harry Chapin and you know, what's the word?
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Prossel. Prossel.
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I. Can't pronounce so prophesize.
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There we go. Be a prophet for Harry Chapin.
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So. Spread the cult.
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As I'm, you know going through, I think I might have told you
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like I think my first pass was like 40 something.
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So I I about halved it and you know, I don't know that I
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necessarily had any kind of gamesmanship as far as you know
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that first pass just kind of. Going on a whim and when I
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started making cuts, there's a couple that I was like, OK,
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yeah, I think I can do this without this one.
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And then like, I'm listening to them and they're all, you know,
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there's there's a handful that I felt like OKI feel really good
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about these. And then the rest of the list,
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I'm just like, I really don't know, like I I feel like this is
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an artist that the 20 could change, you know?
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Next time I listen to him. So I was like well, I I don't
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want to sit here and and you know, commiserate over over
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these cuts. I'm just going to start cutting
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and you know, just brutally with no reason just tossing stuff on
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the floor. So it's like well we got, we got
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to get there so that could end up making this rather messy.
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Which brings me to the next layer of the conversation,
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Chris, based on everything we've said so far, how many do you
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think we are going to get through unanimously for the
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final say? I don't know.
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See, I couldn't do like you said, I couldn't play any
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gamesmanship with my list because you'd never heard him
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before. So I can't in my head I most of
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the time I can be like, Oh well, this is a song I think Justin
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will like or this is a song I think he won't like.
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But like you've never heard any of these songs.
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And you know, I know you some, but I'm not there weren't any.
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Like there weren't any songs I don't think where I was like,
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oh, Justin's definitely picking this one because it's such a
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mystery bunch of songs. I Let's let's say 3.
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Okay. Yeah, that sounds like a good
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number. You know, you hate to swing low
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like that, but, you know, with this, it's vast.
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You know, What do you think, Marlene?
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So yeah, I the thing about these songs is that they are.
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Vastly different. He doesn't have a style he
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doesn't have, you know, Oh, this song is just like this song is.
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Yeah. So I don't know what that has to
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do with this. Anyway, I'm going to be
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optimistic and I'm going to say 5.
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Oh, I like it. Take the big swing.
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You also have the. You also have the benefit of
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knowing what songs I love and you could play the game like.
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I think Chris would probably pick this one cuz he really
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likes it. I could, but some of the songs
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that I know you really love aren't necessarily on my list.
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Yeah, yeah, he can. He can bring me into Harry
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Chapin. But I'm gonna have my own
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opinion. Of course.
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Absolutely. The three was going to be my
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number because I've got three that feel like probably should
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be in there. So now the question becomes do I
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out positive Marlene or do I out negative, Chris?
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Or you could. Or you could drop in the middle,
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yeah. Do I split the difference?
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You know I'm going to do that. I'm going to split the
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difference. I'm going to go 4, because that
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seems like the safe bet, of course.
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The reality is I don't want that weight when when it comes down
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The name of the game is deprogrammed.
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The three of us have come through a very select few songs
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of 72 to be exact of Harry Chapin's discography that we
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have plucked out, 20 songs that we are now going to mash
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together in an attempt to create a top 10 starter kit for you in
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case you have never given Harry Chapin a chance.
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Which is likely. Which is very likely, and I'll
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tell you this. So this doesn't have the benefit
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of. I don't think we did very many
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full albums. So I I can't go to the like the
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the thing that I normally do. But I will tell you this is
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where I first locked into going OK this this episode could be a
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problem And so that's why I'm leading with this song.
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Love is just another word. Nope.
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Oh. Coming in hot oh.
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OK, so I have dance band, right? I've got the 1 greatest stories.
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Like it's one of the first, It's the third song on the list.
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Oh, OK. Yeah.
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No, no, you're right. My bad.
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That's right. This was OK.
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I was thinking of something else.
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This is just what it's great. I said I was a super late cut.
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I really like that song a lot. And so it begins.
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I don't. All right, Chris, I.
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Don't even know where to begin. I usually go with like, my
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favorite so I can get the hurt out of the way.
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Yeah, I mean, let's do that. It may not be my favorite, but
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it's one of the most important ones to me.
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Story of a life. Yes.
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Yes, I got it. Hey.
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I got it somewhere down here. I should probably type it in
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instead of doing it. There we go.
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Well, there's one. If I had to say, I mean, I can't
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speak for Marlene, but if I had to say we had a A song hit that
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was a Harry Chapin song, it would be this one.
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Probably. It's a great song about love and
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growing up in relationships and marriage and just living life.
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And I when I was listening to it, I felt like this is as close
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as he gets to. Harry Chapin Sound.
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Yes, this is this is pretty standard Harry Chapin song.
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He wrote this when he was on an airplane line to Texas in the
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huge storm He thought he was might die and wrote the words
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down to this song. It's.
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Crazy this was this is listed as my my 20th song.
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I don't think it was ever necessarily in danger of not
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making it, but just a note. All right, Marlene.
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I am going to go with empty. Nope.
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Yes. Nice.
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That was another light cut, and one that I really like a lot.
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I definitely need to get the search function.
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Out here. I'm gonna say that about all of
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them. That's a song that I really
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liked a lot, but it was. Really.
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But they all okay. Every single one was a hard cut
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for me, so. I'm staying near the top here,
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and this is one that we actually got when I asked, which somebody
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actually answered. What do you consider essential?
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Wold. Yes, I wish I kept it, but I
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didn't again. And that one is actually one of
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his attempts when the label was begging him to write, you know,
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something that could be played on the radio.
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So it's shorter, but it's it's not a very good what what's the
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word I'm looking for? Got this out right.
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Yeah, right, me edit. Edit not advertisement or
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promotion. I know what you're saying.
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It's it's it's not a very pretty song about, you know, being a
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radio DJ. So I can't imagine it got a lot
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of radio play because radio stations are like, man, this
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makes it sound like. Being a DJ sucks, and we know it
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does, but we don't want people to know that.
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Yeah, I have this song too and I love this song.
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I think it is just honest. Yeah.
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Yeah, and I think it checks a box of.
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You know it. It's good to hear like this was
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his attempt to to write a radio song, which is must be why I was
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drawn to it is, you know, that's what we're trying to do here is,
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you know, lure somebody in and if this is his attempt at it and
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it it nabbed two of us. So we'll see once we get around
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to the next round. And him being a showman as he
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toured every city he would go to.
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The last near the end of the song, he would do a local all
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sign, like in Albany. He would occasionally do WFLY
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instead of Wold. You know I am the morning DJ at
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WFLYYY. Stuff like that.
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Yeah. And so and the locals loved it.
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So among other things he was also a very good showman all.
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Right, Chris. Using that as a segue, I'll pick
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a song that I kept only because it kind of shows how good he was
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talking to a crowd and getting the crowd into the songs.
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Plus, I just think it's a great song and it's not heavy.
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It's one of his funnier songs. Odd job, man.
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Yes, I have it. No, I don't.
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But that that. Was that you playing a game or
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no? OK.
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No, that was. The song that I thought I was
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going to cut right up until 20 minutes ago because I had 21.
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And the song, I thought it was going to cut and then I didn't.
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There you go. Because because it's one of his
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lighter songs and I just, it's kind of funny.
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Yeah. I think that's what played
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against it. I mean, again, like I'm making
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those brutal cuts. And I'm like, man, I love this,
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I think this is great. But you know, I guess, I guess I
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I didn't want to show his lightheartedness because for
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whatever reason. Right, let's.
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Show the cold. Yeah, my, yeah, my thoughts were
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just, you know, I want people to see it like, oh, he was like a
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very good not only a writer and performer, but just an
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entertainer. And this song just moves that
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across really well. I think that it's important to
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show the range that an artist or group has, and so you know,
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that's actually one of the reasons I ended up keeping it.
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They're not all counters, they're.
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Not. All right, Marlene.
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So this is my #1 uncuttable. You both better have it or your
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dead song. From Hair Chapin a Better Place
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to be. Yes, of course I have it.
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Okay. I don't.
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It's all right. That's Okay.
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A better. And again, this is one of those
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ones where I'm sorry I don't even have an answer to why.
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No, that's fine. Too long, probably.
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Maybe. You see?
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You can't do that with Harry Chapin though, because they're
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all long, so. Yeah, but this one is like 9
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minutes long or something. So this song I just, I love the
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story, I love the melody, and I don't think that a live version
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was on this. No, there is a live version on
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which the Gold Medal collection. Which I really love.
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The live version it's again it it shows his showmanship.
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And also greatest stories live, but I put the studio version on
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the on the list. So I like the little bit he does
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in front of the live version where, yeah, I was in Watertown
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for a year, one afternoon or something.
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Yeah, I spent a week there one afternoon.
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Yeah, I used that joke a lot. Now you've never been to
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Watertown and don't know what Watertown?
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Is he may have. Oh, have you been to Watertown?
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You're up in Glens Falls. Oh.
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I'm familiar with it. I'm sure I was there.
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At some point, but. We but you don't remember it
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thus. I remember the name, but I don't
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remember Watertown. It's it's just one of those
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small piss Ant Midwest mid mid New York towns.
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Now now I'm going to be thinking about it because we moved.
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We moved when I was 12 or 13, but we went all over the state
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all the time, including but not limited to the Scatakoke Fair.
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But anyway. There you go.
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Yeah, I put this version on again because so many of the
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songs are very long. Like the live version is, I
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think at least another minute or two longer.
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And you know, I hate you, but I didn't want to kill you.
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OK, I keep. Looking at this one, so I feel
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like I probably need to do this one.
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It felt like a good story and as as mentioned, he's a great
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storyteller. Mr. Tanner.
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Yes, of course. Oh, OK.
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Yes, of course. You love to hear that.
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Oh yeah, this is one our buddy Frank sang occasionally and I
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got to sing with him once doing the Mr. Tanner part, the oh Holy
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night bit and yeah. I didn't, oh Holy Night wasn't
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like a big Christmas song for me up until I started singing it at
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church. And probably because this song,
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like, I don't think I heard it the whole song before and then
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we did it at church. I'm like, oh, hey, this is that
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song from the Harry Chapin song and now it's one of my favorite
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songs to sing. No, I just, you know, when I was
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listening to it. Earlier today, actually, I was,
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I was waiting to pick up my son. And you know, whenever we do a
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show on a Friday, that's when I try to listen to my list.
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And like, I was like, why did I pick Mr. Tanner?
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And I started listening to it. And then like, Mr. Tanner comes
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in, you know, the Mr. Tanner part comes in and I'm like, oh,
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that's why. Like there's this, this whole
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story happening. And I'm like, oh man, this is
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this is great. I feel like.
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And you know, again, I love when I pick a song.
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And the answer is, of course that means.
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That means right I did something right?
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Yeah. Is that our first?
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This is our second thing, Animus.
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So yeah, and it's just. Story of a life, right?
27:37
Yes, Yeah. It's just, and it's a great
27:39
comment on how hard it is to make it in show business and
27:44
how, you know critics can just blow somebody off and then that
27:49
person just like loses all will to try to make it and just, you
27:55
know. Yeah.
27:57
Can relate all right. You didn't know how well he
28:00
sang. It just made him whole.
28:02
Yeah. All right.
28:04
Great, great stuff. Chris.
28:09
Well, let's keep going with the long ass good stories and say
28:16
what made America famous? Yes.
28:20
No. One of my most favorite story
28:25
songs of his, and it's got some good social commentary in it as
28:29
well, as many of them do. Again, there's there's no reason
28:37
I don't don't shoot the messenger well.
28:40
I know it's all good. Both.
28:42
I'm both the Messenger and the Deliverer.
28:45
All right, Marlene. So this is another good social
28:50
commentary one. What do little Why do little
28:53
girls? Yes.
28:56
Fucking hell no. That says a lot about you,
29:02
Justin. I think I always enjoyed that
29:08
song. Love the banjo, not a lot of
29:11
banjo out there. And I love a good banjo bit.
29:15
And now that I've had two girls. It's even more important to me.
29:19
And now that I'm a girl, it's very important to me as well.
29:24
I don't know. I know it was on my first pass,
29:27
so I don't know why I ended up cutting it.
29:30
It just I just did. I get it.
29:35
All right, shoot. OK, how about I want to learn a
29:48
love song? Yes, really.
29:53
Nope, really. That was a that was a tough one
29:56
to cut. And and it's not 1 where I'm
30:01
like, oh, that's not something that I want.
30:04
I wouldn't want people to listen to because that's a great song.
30:08
It's a catchy song, isn't. It kind of like the story of how
30:10
he met his wife. Yes.
30:13
Did I? No.
30:14
Yeah. No, I cut it.
30:16
I don't. I don't know why.
30:19
I probably cut it to keep fucking odd job, man or
30:22
something. I don't know.
30:26
It's got two though. I mean, we're not at MTP yet
30:29
either. There's still, there's still a
30:31
chance I might. Need to, Yeah.
30:33
And I can't make at the end. I'm gonna suck because I can't
30:36
make an argument against any of them, so.
30:39
This is, This is why I said Why is it that you hate me?
30:41
Like I I don't feel like there's arguments to be had.
30:44
So yeah. All right.
30:47
So I want to order a love song with me.
30:49
Chris, you're up. I've got more story songs, but
30:54
let's go, let's go with one of his historical story songs and
31:06
also one of the like more horror ones, because he's got happy
31:10
story songs and he's got sad ones and he's got scary ones.
31:13
Sniper. I didn't.
31:17
I didn't. Sorry, I didn't think anyone
31:19
would, but that's a great based on the Texas college tower
31:29
shooter back in the, I think, late 60s.
31:33
Yeah. Like, kind of the OG mass
31:34
shooter Kind of. Person right based on that, and
31:39
I think he only did it like once or twice live and stopped doing
31:42
it live because it was just too much of A downer.
31:47
So I wanted to keep, you know, a couple of those that are just
31:49
like, oh, that's a heavy fucking song because, you know, you
31:53
wrote a lot of them and that's one of the better ones, I think
31:55
also very long. All right, Marlene.
32:02
OK. So I'll go with that.
32:05
Not historical kind of a downer kind of.
32:09
I don't know. I'm always amused by this song,
32:11
even though it's kind of a downer.
32:12
It's definitely a story song. One of the darker ones, the
32:15
rock. Yes, that's a fun one.
32:22
Yeah, I kept that from Maddie and Sean.
32:24
That's their favorite Harry Shaven song.
32:26
OK. The Philbuck brothers.
32:29
Yeah, that's a fun one. Well.
32:31
I don't know. It's yeah, if you're twisted,
32:34
it's a fun one. Yeah.
32:35
Yeah. Well, just like that, we're.
32:37
Official We both like it so. We're officially out of NTP.
32:41
I mean if we're looking for the good news but there's also
32:44
plenty of game play left. So and we're all we all seem to
32:48
be. I mean I think there's only been
32:52
two misses and I think they're both no, no, no, Chris got one
32:54
too, so. Yeah, I got right off the bat.
32:58
I've deleted it. I don't remember.
33:00
What it is? So all right, shoot.
33:05
I keep looking at this one and I don't know why, but let's find
33:09
out. Tangled up puppet.
33:13
Well, I cut that one. Yeah, so did I.
33:17
That's a good one. That's a great one, too.
33:21
That's your little girl growing up.
33:23
That's probably why I cut it. It's too fucking sad.
33:25
I'm a. Tangled up puppet.
33:34
All right, Chris. We'll go with the song.
33:47
That's not a Harry Chapin song that I kept because it's just
33:50
that good of a song written by his brother Steve.
33:53
Like time, go lightly. Yes.
34:02
I almost cut it. I almost cut it.
34:03
I almost cut it so many times just because it's not a Harry
34:06
Chapin song. Steve Chapin song.
34:08
We shouldn't even have put it on the list.
34:10
But it's. I love that song so damn much.
34:14
What's funny is, you know, I was I push play on the so this is
34:19
the first song on our playlist, which is the thing that I like
34:23
to do, but usually I do that it's song one, album 1.
34:28
And I don't know if it was something about just not knowing
34:32
or knowing. I should say that we didn't.
34:35
It wasn't built the same way. But as I was listening back, I
34:39
was like, oh man, do I need to find room for this song.
34:43
Because it feels like I need to find room for this song.
34:46
And I was right, but I didn't do it, so.
34:49
Yeah, yeah, just a really great song.
34:52
And they I wasn't on any of the studio albums.
34:57
We usually only did it live, and it was always so that Harry
35:01
could take a little break and not sound like a frog by the end
35:04
of the show. All right.
35:08
You guys are gonna be done a little bit for me, Marlene.
35:15
I think I am going to go with song that always reminds me of
35:22
Chris. And he's given me a look.
35:28
What the hell? I'm looking worried like oh geez
35:31
no. When we started dating, Chris
35:36
was working in the mall in the pretzel shop.
35:41
And it's not pretzel Man. Nope.
35:45
And I was an accountant for the county, and this song just
35:54
seemed like us. And it was mismatch.
35:57
Nope. I don't have it, but yeah, well.
36:02
At least I don't feel that. No, that's fine.
36:06
No, I kind of felt it was like my, you know, Yeah.
36:14
Yeah, I love that. There's a yeah, I always thought
36:17
the same, the same way. Great song today.
36:26
I mean, I mean. Again.
36:28
They all are it. It serves its purpose playing,
36:30
playing the song when you miss, making you feel bad, you know.
36:34
Yeah, yeah. Just for, especially for me,
36:37
it's just a stab in the heart. All right.
36:42
I'm going to go with the other one that I keep looking at and
36:45
just keep going by. And part of this is the name of
36:50
the song. It evokes the feeling that I get
36:54
from the song. So like when when they go hand
36:57
in hand together like that, like he does that, he does that
37:00
wonderfully. Which I think is also in part
37:02
why it was really difficult because you really do have to
37:06
listen to the music sometimes. You can kind of listen to the
37:09
song and go, OK, I remember what that one was, but then when you
37:12
come back to it anyway, I'm, I'm saying too many words to say,
37:15
poor damn fool. Yes.
37:19
No. Yeah, really.
37:24
That's another one that I used to think about Marlene and I,
37:29
because she's dated this asshole and and she ended up with me.
37:36
And you know, he's a poor damn fool.
37:39
Except he never he didn't let her go.
37:40
She dropped his ass to the curb. So right.
37:44
Yeah, rightfully so. All.
37:47
Right, Chris. How about let's get the elephant
37:54
in the room out of the way, and this is another one that most
37:58
people When you say, oh, what do you think about Harry Chapin?
38:01
What are his great songs? It's Taxi.
38:04
Yes. You know what I this is I don't
38:08
have it. I don't have a reason, you know,
38:12
as per usual. And if if this was, if this
38:17
episode was happening. Tomorrow I probably would
38:21
because I probably would have given it one last listen.
38:24
I didn't get to that today, but somebody had mentioned it in the
38:30
the, you know what it was essential.
38:33
Yeah. And so I was like, I don't
38:35
remember taxi. So I probably would have given
38:37
it another listen and it probably would have made it,
38:40
but. I almost cut it because it's
38:44
like, oh, that's the song everybody knows, but I kept it
38:47
because. Not a lot of people know Harry
38:49
Chapin, but this is one of the songs that the people who do
38:52
know him know him for. So somebody who's never heard of
38:55
Harry Chapin might hear the song and say, oh, that's really good
38:57
and it's also just a really good, great, based on truth
39:02
story song of his. What I love about this song is
39:06
he does a live sequel to it and I like them both.
39:13
But. I just think that's really cool.
39:16
That album was not on Spotify, that that album or that that
39:20
song comes off of really, which bums me out because there's a
39:23
lot of great songs on that album.
39:25
There's two albums that were not on there at all have a lot of
39:31
great songs that I would have loved to have included in this
39:33
list. All right, Marlene.
39:39
Oh, it's my turn. Dreams go by.
39:46
Yes. Yes.
39:50
Hey there. We go right there at the we
39:53
made. 3. Three.
39:54
Yeah. Dreams go abide.
40:00
You gotta listen to the just listen to the entire Greatest
40:03
Stories live album. There's a really good version of
40:05
this on there. His live stuff is so good.
40:10
Well you know and and you put a bunch of live stuff on here and
40:13
I'm like, why, why? And like as you're as I'm
40:16
listening, I'm like, oh, that's why.
40:23
He'd have the crowd whistle because everybody who went to
40:28
see him do the bit, so. There we go.
40:36
Great song. I do not want that weight.
40:39
So like, we either need to get 2 so we can put the weight on
40:43
Marlene or we need to stay right here.
40:46
I don't want the weight. How about everybody's lonely?
41:01
Nope. No.
41:04
Dios Mio. That song is lonely.
41:08
Indeed, only one show at one pic.
41:15
Everybody's lonely, including me.
41:21
All right, Chris. And I don't even know I don't
41:33
want to. Doesn't even have like a theme
41:36
or anything. I'm just gonna start picking
41:38
random songs that are on my list.
41:42
Someone keeps calling my name. I don't have that one.
41:46
That's. A good fucking song.
41:48
I don't. I don't.
41:49
Know why? That's a great one and became
41:54
again more important to me after having children Great little.
42:03
Kids course at the end to choir. Woof.
42:13
All right, Marlene. This is another story song.
42:18
Imagine that and another one of those ones that's absolutely
42:22
uncuttable for me and that is stranger with the melodies.
42:25
Yes. I wish I could make that
42:28
unanimous, but. That's OK.
42:31
That's OK. I just.
42:33
Such a sweet melancholy, you know.
42:41
Another song about how hard it is to be in the music business
42:47
and be in a relationship in the music business.
42:50
Yeah, Okay. Now we're dwindling down to the
42:54
ones where I don't. Think you just sing that to
42:56
Jewels to put her to sleep? I don't know if there's any left
43:02
that I feel really, really good about because.
43:07
I got at least two or three that I think Marlene might also have,
43:10
but. Yeah, I there's.
43:12
I think there's one I'm keeping up my sleeve.
43:17
Well, let's try this one out. How about bummer?
43:20
Oh, I wish I kept that song. I did not keep that, that is
43:24
actually. One of the Harry Chapin songs
43:27
that I don't really like. It's a really good example of
43:33
one of his angry social commentary songs.
43:37
Yeah, that's that's a tough one. That one's a tough listen, great
43:44
song, but that's a tough listen. That's probably why I didn't
43:46
keep it. I think it's a little too heavy
43:49
for introducing somebody to Harry Chapin to well.
43:53
You caught my ear. It's a great song, it really is.
43:58
All right, Chris. All right.
44:02
Well, I'll fish for some unanimouss here, flowers are
44:05
red. Yes.
44:11
So this that song is about the education system in America and
44:19
having kids in school. I liked it beforehand.
44:23
By having kids in school, it's just.
44:27
Kinda, you know, it makes a lot more sense.
44:31
Yep, this is another one. I used to sing to Jules, and
44:37
after a while she would sing the chorus part.
44:42
At that time she'd be like, can you sing?
44:44
The flowers are red. And I changed it.
44:46
The little boy went to school to the little girl went to school
44:48
for her, and then she would sing The flowers are red.
44:53
Or no, not that the there are so many colors in the rainbow and
44:58
listening to a three-year old girl sing that like in the dark
45:01
going to sleep melt your damn heart.
45:08
All right. So that was flares.
45:09
Red was Chris. Marlene, it is your turn.
45:12
I am almost out of song. I'm just gonna.
45:14
Say like you guys are probably pretty close.
45:18
I have 3 left I am going to go with.
45:23
Could you put your light on please?
45:26
Nope. That's OK.
45:29
I have 6 left. So the this is the song that I
45:34
thought I was gonna cut this or odd job, man.
45:39
And I ended up cutting someone else and I kept this song.
45:42
I just want to talk a little bit about it because some of the
45:46
lyrics I hear a lot. He's talking about love and she
45:51
makes it holy or he makes it holy.
45:53
And I'm that's in this song and I just, I like that kind of
46:05
imagery of you know, sacredness in in a song about loneliness,
46:16
basically. I mean that's really what the
46:17
song is about, but. So many.
46:22
I think it's very poignant. So many of these, like, you
46:26
know, as we're listening, it's like, man, I think if I would
46:29
have had one more listen, it probably could have made my
46:32
list, but like that. Goes to.
46:35
That goes to my point earlier, like when we're doing the setup
46:38
for it, I think I could have had a completely different 20, you
46:43
know, easily because. I think this is the kind of
46:48
artist where it's just it's just it can be it.
46:51
It goes that way. Yeah.
46:55
OK, I don't feel good about any of these.
46:58
But how about this one? Why should people stay the same?
47:07
I don't. Have that No.
47:18
There's so many songs I wish I could have kept that I'm like, I
47:22
should. I wish I had this song or this
47:23
song or this song, Yeah, but this.
47:27
I really hope people like, dive into it.
47:29
Yeah, this is like, unfortunately how I was pretty
47:32
sure it was gonna go. A lot of ones and twos, not very
47:37
many threes. It's just it's it's vast.
47:40
There's nothing you can really pinpoint, so.
47:44
All right, Chris. How about mercenaries?
47:52
Nope, Yes. I thought you might.
47:55
That's like maybe the one song where I'm like, you know what?
48:00
I bet Justin might pick this one.
48:02
Well, you know, you got it. You got me, Marlene.
48:14
My Mary were here. Damn it.
48:18
No. Fuck, I love that song so much.
48:21
A. Lot of that going on.
48:26
I thought you. I really thought you would.
48:28
Have in the live song in the live version again is all right.
48:32
If you're listening to this, you want to go into Harry Chapin
48:36
telling you this now listeners, listen to greatest stories live.
48:41
Listen to Legends of the Lost and Found.
48:42
They're both live albums and they're amazing.
48:49
So we're gonna corral a cat before the dog finds her and
48:53
kills her, OK? She went to going back upstairs.
48:59
So. She's She's living dangerously.
49:02
123. 4. 567 I've still got 7 left, so basically.
49:09
Oh, wow. Yeah, I I'm the man who missed a
49:12
lot. So basically this last round
49:16
where you and I are basically going to be trying to snipe
49:19
Marlene's last one out, I believe, because I think, yeah.
49:24
Yeah, I have one. Last I bet I got it.
49:27
All right, So boy, I'm going to feel really stupid for having
49:32
the one that I I keep dancing around.
49:35
Speaking of dancing, I'll, I'll go with this one, dancing boy.
49:39
Say it yes. I don't have.
49:41
It that's not the one I thought you had though, so that's a
49:44
great song. It is.
49:47
It is. And that was hard to that was
49:49
hard to cut, but. And that's another one.
49:51
I used to sing to Jules and just changed to girl because she was
49:55
my dancing girl. She was.
49:59
So that was all right. That was a no from Marle from.
50:02
Marlene a no from Marlene, correct.
50:05
Was it a no from you as well, Chris?
50:07
No, I had dancing boy, OK, I had it.
50:09
I had it. Lot of twos.
50:12
Yeah, a lot of twos. Not looking forward to that,
50:15
that part of the combo. All right, guys, it is your
50:18
circle. No.
50:20
Oh, wow. Circle was my choice.
50:25
I knew you were gonna have it. I thought you'd have kept that
50:28
one for Frank. No, I couldn't.
50:32
OK. All right, now we find out.
50:35
No more guessing. I will tell you the reason that
50:40
this song is on my list. It is the only song I have from
50:44
that album, whatever the album was, and that's why I kept it.
50:54
But I don't know what I would have filled it with, honestly,
50:57
on the road to Kingdom come. Yeah, I got that.
51:02
Come Shit, what do you know? That's a good one.
51:06
A lot of social commentary in that song.
51:08
Yeah, that's a great album. That's the title of the album On
51:15
the Road to King Of and that's a great album.
51:18
I just feel it's not an album for the uninitiated.
51:22
Yeah, I love every song on that album, but The Mayor of Candor
51:27
Lied is another great story song.
51:30
That's the one I almost kept instead of on the.
51:32
Road That's on that album, but. So after you listen to those two
51:37
live albums, go and listen to the rest of them all.
51:42
Right, so I've got 4 left. Marlene's out so I'll just dump
51:46
out here and see if I can find you.
51:47
Chris, go for it. I'm going to start at the top.
51:50
Short stories. No.
51:54
OK, I was right for dancing around that one old fokie.
52:01
Damn it. Oh, I really wanted to keep that
52:05
one. Great song about Pete Seeger
52:08
all. Right.
52:09
This is the one that everybody knows, but I couldn't ignore it.
52:14
Cats in the cradle. Cut it.
52:17
Yeah. I haven't listened to that song
52:19
since my dad died. I knew it was going to be
52:22
sensitive, but I also was like, I can't deny it, so.
52:26
Oh no, it's it's it's his most well known song.
52:29
Yeah, and it's a great song. It's also, well, it's not a
52:32
great song. It's a sad song about a shitty
52:34
dad. But.
52:37
But it's, you know, powerful song, I guess you should say.
52:40
Powerful indeed, Jenny. No good song though.
52:49
I think of Jenny every time I hear that song.
52:52
And then, last but not least, Sunday morning sunshine.
52:57
Yes. Hey, all right.
53:02
That was the song I danced with my mother too, at our wedding
53:06
done by Frank. All right, these.
53:10
Twos are getting brutal but. Yeah.
53:12
We have three at this point. So Chris, you will have the
53:17
final say. Thankfully it will not be on my.
53:19
Show Hey, dumping out my last two were Six String Orchestra.
53:26
That was hard to cut. Again, one of his fun songs.
53:30
And a dance band on the Titanic. That one was hard for me to cut,
53:34
too. All right.
53:37
Boom, boom and boom. Now this, this went, you know,
53:43
exactly as I pretty much thought it would.
53:45
You know, like there's there's just a lot here.
53:49
I mean, so the three that we got through unanimous, Mr. Tanner.
53:53
Dreams go by and story of a life.
53:56
Oh, Jesus. I didn't even realize it was
53:58
this bad. 17. So many.
54:01
That we need to. So many twos.
54:05
Ohh boy. OK, alright, I'll, I'll, I'll
54:11
give us a run down here and then I'll ask each of you if there's
54:15
one. Like actually, you know what?
54:18
There might even be ones where I was like I let time go lightly
54:24
Wold stranger with the melodies. Odd job, man.
54:29
I want to learn a love song. What made America famous?
54:34
Empty taxi dancing boy. Poor damn fool.
54:41
Whiter Little girls on the road to Kingdom come.
54:45
Still so many more to go. Mercenaries Rock.
54:50
Sunday morning sunshine. A better place to be.
54:55
And flowers are red. So my first instant here is to
54:59
go ahead and grab taxi. Unless anybody has you know any
55:05
holdouts on that. Considering what we mentioned
55:07
before, we don't, especially since we don't have cats in the
55:10
cradle. This gives a little bit of
55:12
notoriety to our list, sure. Yeah, OK.
55:16
So that'll take us up to four now Chris, Is there one?
55:20
That that's kind of jumping out at you is like, I can't believe
55:23
we didn't get that one. I don't know why do little
55:33
girls. I mean all of them.
55:34
But I I I'd fight strong for why do little girls?
55:39
All right. I was the odd man there.
55:42
So unless there is firm objection from Marlene, we will
55:48
take that one. That makes 5.
55:52
Yep. And then so same question to
55:53
you, Marlene, is there one that that you were looking at at like
55:56
man, I can't believe it. Do I only get one?
56:00
I mean we have still got like. Five left.
56:02
I think so, yeah. A better place to be, I think,
56:07
yeah. OK, again, I think that was when
56:10
I was off. I didn't.
56:13
I underthought the room this go round usually.
56:17
Yeah. Usually I overthink the room.
56:21
All right. So that gets us up to six.
56:25
So as opposed to knocking ones out, is there anything really
56:33
jumping out at you still like as far as this, we can't do this
56:39
list without it? I mean, I don't know.
56:47
I would say either stranger with melodies or what made America
56:50
famous. Yeah, if you wanted to keep one
56:55
of the longer story songs back on the list, yeah, one of those
57:02
two for sure. Do you have an inclination?
57:06
Don't ask me to make a preference, I.
57:08
Can't make a preference there either.
57:09
I can't make a choice there either.
57:11
Justin, it's up to you. Well, so let me ask you this, is
57:13
that an either or situation because we have the room.
57:19
What's on the list so far? All right.
57:22
Let's see what? So we got Mr. Tanner.
57:24
Dreams go by Story of a life taxi.
57:27
Why do little girls And a better place to be
57:43
So we've got room for. Three more before Chris's final
57:47
say. Okay.
57:50
I think The Rock needs to be on there because it's one of the
57:52
darker ones and I like to show the range all.
57:57
Right. I can get with it.
58:02
All right. So I think we keep coming back
58:07
to this is it. Because we can make this clean
58:11
and easy and take both strangers with the melodies and what made
58:15
America famous. And then Chris has his final
58:18
say. Or we can take one or the other
58:21
and have a conversation to figure out what Song 9 is.
58:30
Well, I. I don't want to.
58:42
I guess the next question would be, is there anything that's
58:44
kind of we're kind of looking at that is still alive and it's
58:48
like, you know, this song is probably just happy that it's
58:50
still here? Like, I feel that way.
58:55
And again, it's not that it's a bad song, but it's not a hairy
58:58
Chapin song. Is Let Time go lightly.
59:00
OK, like it's something. Great song, but yeah.
59:08
If people do as I said and listen to that album, they'll
59:11
hear it and go, wow, this is a great song.
59:14
He came from a talented fucking family and he did the his
59:17
brothers still play so. Do we give any credence to
59:22
mercenaries being a song that I had and you thought that I would
59:27
have like, does that give it any weight or is that just
59:30
happenstance and? It actually, that's That's a
59:34
good argument, actually. But you could also say the same
59:39
for WWLD that you and Marlene both had, yeah?
59:48
Now you also said. Obviously I would go over.
59:52
No, go ahead, Marlene. If it was between mercenaries
59:56
and Wold, I would absolutely fight for Wold over mercenaries.
1:00:01
Right. As far as stranger with melodies
1:00:06
versus. Made America famous.
1:00:10
I can't make that choice. So just is it a both?
1:00:19
Is it a both situation or? Well, no, because Wold belongs
1:00:24
on the list too. Right.
1:00:25
So it is a 11 again. All right.
1:00:28
So I'll make the I'll make the call, keep what made America
1:00:32
famous and then discuss. Mercenaries in Wld.
1:00:40
All right. OK.
1:00:45
OK. Let's see.
1:00:48
Let us do the thing that never helps.
1:00:53
OK. Yeah.
1:00:54
Yes, because actually I can't even think of how mercenaries
1:00:56
goes, so please do. My phone disconnected of course,
1:01:02
at the important part. What did you think when you
1:01:07
heard me back on the race? Crazy.
1:01:11
What did the kids say when they knew it was their long lost
1:01:16
daddy? So yeah, now that I think about
1:01:20
it, like the argument is kind of the same, because if this is him
1:01:25
trying to do radio, that's. The place to be.
1:01:28
That was, you know, basically the draw to it for me.
1:01:32
Yeah. And then?
1:01:34
When we get to Mercenaries. Mercenaries was the song you
1:01:36
said. Justin might have this one.
1:01:55
It reminds me of Sparks when the studio or the record label were
1:01:58
like. You got to play some dance.
1:02:01
Play something that people can dance to.
1:02:03
So they wrote music that You Can Dance to.
1:02:06
Same thing. Like play something we could
1:02:07
play on the damn radio. So you wrote a song about being
1:02:10
on the radio. So.
1:02:15
Wold the reason we call it the thing that never helps?
1:02:34
It's a slow motion night in the hot city.
1:02:45
Lights. So something has to be said
1:02:48
about pop sensibility. Since he doesn't do that, Wold
1:02:55
has that pop pop sensibility. Like it's definitely not.
1:03:00
Right. It's it's not an A pop song, but
1:03:03
you know what I mean? Like it there is there is
1:03:07
something slightly more catchy. Yes, all right.
1:03:14
If I had to make a choice for somebody, like we want to get
1:03:18
somebody into Harry Chapin, I would think the somewhat upbeat
1:03:23
song about the DJ as opposed to the song about the soldier
1:03:27
hooking up with a prostitute. It's probably a better choice,
1:03:35
probably. I really enjoyed the song and I
1:03:37
love what it says about, you know, war and shit, but it's
1:03:43
heavy. Yeah, we probably catch more
1:03:45
with honey than vinegar. Yeah.
1:03:50
All right. So that'll bring us to our 9:00,
1:03:53
which gives us, takes us to Chris, your final say.
1:03:58
And as always, I prefer it be a song that's still alive.
1:04:01
But you don't have to do that. I'm scrolling through the whole
1:04:05
list to see if there's something that I want to bring back.
1:04:08
I did put Dog Town in this list. I did put Dog Town on here.
1:04:11
I think I just wanted you to hear it.
1:04:13
I didn't expect anyone to pick it.
1:04:15
I'm tempted to throw like babysitter on there about the 16
1:04:18
year old babysitter who hooks up with the 12 year old.
1:04:21
Sounds awful, but it's a really nice song.
1:04:23
It's. Got bottom girls?
1:04:26
Yeah. Do I put the 16 Minutes song
1:04:30
from Dance band on there? There was only one choice I had.
1:04:35
I really had a hard time cutting that song.
1:04:37
But now let's see what we get on the list.
1:04:45
Kept wide of little girls, right?
1:04:47
That's already in. Better place to be?
1:04:50
It's tempting. I don't want to use my wind to
1:05:02
choose the rock though. It's a fine song, but.
1:05:06
We've already got that already put that.
1:05:08
Through we did keep it. Yep.
1:05:09
Oh, OK All right. So you don't have to.
1:05:14
Right, let's go with Stranger with the melodies all.
1:05:27
Right. One of my favorite songs of his,
1:05:29
It's a good song, said. It was a lullaby for my child,
1:05:34
as weird as that sounds like. I don't know all the words to a
1:05:39
lot of songs, but I know all the words to a lot of Harry Chapin
1:05:42
songs. So that was one that she got.
1:05:45
Bam. Just like that.
1:05:47
We got her ten. Mr. Tanner, Mr. Tanner.
1:05:51
Dreams go by. Story of a life taxi.
1:05:53
Why the little girls? A better place to be the rock?
1:05:56
What made America famous? Wold stranger with the melodies?
1:06:00
All right. Now, Chris, let's turn the heat
1:06:04
up yet again. Of those ten, which one is the
1:06:07
one? Sorry, I was still looking at
1:06:13
the list signing. I was almost going to go back
1:06:15
and change my mind. But no, no, I'm not going to do
1:06:19
that. I mean, it's not the one for me,
1:06:28
but the one that like, is going to maybe catch people.
1:06:33
I don't know, probably dreams go by like, again, not my favorite
1:06:42
of all the Unanimous's. And something that's going to
1:06:45
catch people's like, oh, this is a good catchy tune and oh, it's
1:06:49
a good story and whatnot. That's a good argument for that.
1:06:53
And what say you, Marlene? I think that if people are going
1:06:58
to listen to the list, they're going to hear that anyway.
1:07:01
And I feel like even though A Better Place to Be is my
1:07:09
personal favorite, I feel like what Made America Famous is a
1:07:15
more it's just a better song. It's actually has some.
1:07:24
Meaning to it and commentary, and which is kind of what Harry
1:07:28
Chapin is all about. So I kind of feel like what Made
1:07:31
America famous should probably be #1.
1:07:34
I can or I can't disagree with that.
1:07:38
Nor can I, nor can I, so I'm with it.
1:07:43
But do you have a different opinion?
1:07:44
You're with it. I'm with it.
1:07:46
Yeah, I'm with it. I think, you know, one of the
1:07:49
things that Chris said in the intro was that, you know, that's
1:07:52
an important part. Of Harry Chapin.
1:07:55
So we have this one that has commentary to it.
1:07:59
Let's let's do it. So what made America famous Is
1:08:07
our number one. Mr. Tanner Dreams go by Story of
1:08:10
a light taxi. Why do little girls a better
1:08:12
place to be. The rock Wold strangers with the
1:08:15
melodies round out our town. Let's let what made America
1:08:18
famous Get its moment in the sun.
1:08:21
Of course, seeing that dreams come to life on the mover screen
1:08:26
while the plumber hopes that it won't be seen as it tries to
1:08:31
hide its peers and it wipes away tears.
1:08:37
But something's burning somewhere.
1:08:41
Does anybody care? Yep.
1:08:48
Excellent choice, Marlene. Love it.
1:08:51
Volunteer Fire Department sitting around watching porn.
1:08:57
We have done it. We have done it.
1:08:59
Now when this is not, you know, I always say we did all the hard
1:09:03
work for you and you know, some of them it's we condensed 4
1:09:07
albums down to to 10 songs. We did the hard work for you
1:09:12
here. You should be damn appreciative,
1:09:15
kids. But we got you into Harry
1:09:18
Chapin, You're welcome. So check that out.
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Get into them. As Chris said, there's those
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