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Check In: Do You Like Music? · Heavyweight

• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hello Stevie, Hey, hang on a second, let me
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: get Kaylee. Hello, Kalila, Hi, Hey.
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: Hello, Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: How was Thanksgiving?
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  Speaker 3: Well, as you guys know, I was planning to take
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: a long trip home.
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  Speaker 1: You were going to go see your mom in Chicago
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  Speaker 1: and your dad in Iowa.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I was going to go for like a long
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: stretch over the holidays on the train.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: On the train, yeah, in a sleeper car, in a
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  Speaker 1: sleeper car, yes, which you've never done, which I've never done.
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  Speaker 3: And my boyfriend was going to come with me and
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: meet my family. And I ended up canceling it last
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: minute because of you know, COVID you ever heard of it?
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  Speaker 3: But I think then I realized how much the past
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: couple months I had been holding on to like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: in November, I'm going to travel and that'll be like
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  Speaker 3: something different. And then as soon as I was faced
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  Speaker 3: with the prospect of just staying in my apartment and
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: continuing to do the same stuff, I got very depressed.
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  Speaker 1: When's the last time you saw your mom?
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  Speaker 3: It was now over a year ago. This is also
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  Speaker 3: the first Thanksgiving of my entire life that I've not
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  Speaker 3: been with my mom. So I was feeling sad about that.
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  Speaker 3: There's this crab dip that I make every year for
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  Speaker 3: Thanksgiving that I used to make with my grandma when
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  Speaker 3: I was a kid, and then when my grandma died,
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  Speaker 3: it was just like the thing that I would make
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  Speaker 3: and bring to Thanksgiving. It's not Thanksgiving without crab dip.
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  Speaker 3: So my mom suggested we each make the crab dip
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: separately and then we could get on a zoom and
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  Speaker 3: eat it together. I have nice crab. Do you care
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  Speaker 3: if I start crying?
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  Speaker 1: No, I did. I haven't seen you in so long,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just really good to see you. No, you
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  Speaker 1: were good, honey.
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  Speaker 3: And my mom also mailed me some of the stuff
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  Speaker 3: for the crab dip to make sure that I had
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  Speaker 3: all the ingredients I needed, which was very nice. And
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  Speaker 3: we ate our crab dip at the same time. All right,
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready, Okay, wait till we get my chip.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, tip away, all right.
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  Speaker 3: I'm dipped, me too, said like, what we were thankful for,
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  Speaker 3: which is something we try to do every years. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm thankful for you. I'm thankful for you. Just made
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  Speaker 3: me feel connected in a time that was feeling kind
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  Speaker 3: of isolated.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm for that, Stevie. How how was how was
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: your Thanksgiving?
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 5: Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. All you have to do
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  Speaker 5: is like eat and be pleasant, Like what could be better?
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  Speaker 5: But this year I did not go home, and a
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  Speaker 5: number of my friends here in Brooklyn also weren't going home,
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  Speaker 5: and so I was like, well, why don't I host
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  Speaker 5: Thanksgiving this year? And probably because it's been so long
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  Speaker 5: since I've been able to cook for people, which is
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  Speaker 5: something that I love to do. I was like so
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  Speaker 5: excited and had like everything ready and stage so it'd
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  Speaker 5: be done exactly when everyone showed up, and I was like,
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  Speaker 5: like I felt like a puppy waiting for like its
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  Speaker 5: owners to come home from vacation.
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  Speaker 2: Like I was just like waiting by the bell.
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  Speaker 6: Huah.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, you're here, Okay, Yeah, come on up,
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  Speaker 5: so overeat go about it a Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: Every Thanksgiving we did it outside on my roof.
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  Speaker 3: Oh nice, it was a nice day.
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  Speaker 5: It was such a nice day. It was so warm.
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  Speaker 5: We were like really lucky with the weather. I need
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  Speaker 5: a ton of food.
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  Speaker 2: I pretended. I was like cooking for like twelve people.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, I don't know, Like there was so much planning
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  Speaker 5: that went into doing that responsibly.
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  Speaker 2: It's like we all got tested.
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  Speaker 5: And we're quarantining, and like it was like group email
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  Speaker 5: after group email after group email talking about like your
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  Speaker 5: negative test and like when you got it and how
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  Speaker 5: you're not going to see people. And it was like
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  Speaker 5: a lot of work, honestly to make everybody feel comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know, I.
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  Speaker 5: Was just really grateful that everybody was willing to sort
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  Speaker 5: of like make it happen.
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  Speaker 2: It felt even more special this year. I guess, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: well I have this pie.
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  Speaker 7: It's apple and onion and through year.
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  Speaker 2: But also if we have snacks and we don't want
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  Speaker 2: to fill up, we don't have to.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I do want to go out, but I do
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  Speaker 8: think we.
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  Speaker 9: Should need that.
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  Speaker 2: What about you, Jonathan, what did How was your Thanksgiving?
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  Speaker 1: It was fun? I mean it was just me and
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  Speaker 1: Emily and Augie. I do it Paki.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oki was really excited about all the different foods. He was.
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  Speaker 1: He was very curious about what stuffing was. He had
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: never had stuffing. That was a lively conversation. I like
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  Speaker 1: a staffine. Uh stuff, Well, yeah, it's stuff that you
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: stuff inside the turkey. You don't really do that anymore.
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  Speaker 10: That's you're out of fast.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean you don't stuff a turkey anymore.
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  Speaker 3: It's just sort of like robbing this turkey of his dignity.
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  Speaker 1: So you think that that the turkey killing the turkey,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't rob it of its But setting that aside,
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  Speaker 1: you feel at least like, well, you know.
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  Speaker 2: He gave somebody a good meal, and we can respect.
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  Speaker 1: I asked Aggie what he was grateful for. Hm, he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be four in a couple of days. So
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: half of like the things that he says is like
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  Speaker 1: really kind of like sweet and profound, and the other
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  Speaker 1: half is this complete nonsense like you was saying, Like
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  Speaker 1: we asked him what he was grateful for, and he
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  Speaker 1: was like Mama and Papa and my family. But then
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: in the same breath as he's doing this list, he's
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  Speaker 1: like kidding, King Kou.
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  Speaker 3: What's that.
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  Speaker 1: There's a series of books called Sweet Pickles where there's
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  Speaker 1: like all these different characters like worried Walris and fix
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: It Camel kidding Kangaroo's this irredeemable jerk. All he does
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  Speaker 1: is mean pranks on people. And I try to explain
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  Speaker 1: to Augie about how like the lesson to learn here
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  Speaker 1: is that, like, if you do something mean and then
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  Speaker 1: say it's a joke, it doesn't make it funny. But
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: he thinks kidding Kangaroo is great, and we spent some
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: of the night trying to get into look inside his heart. No,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot, Yes you have. You have to close your
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  Speaker 1: eyes and think about what you really thankful.
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  Speaker 8: For, right, hope, for everything.
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  Speaker 1: And whole family.
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  Speaker 2: I'm kidding ingoo and everything.
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  Speaker 1: In Kangaroo's funny. I love kidding Gangaro. You know you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm giving? Thanks for what? And always not
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  Speaker 1: just Thanksgiving Day but every day us Well, no to
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  Speaker 1: our sponsors and to you. Sure, yes, but fundamentally it's
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  Speaker 1: the sponsor because they're the ones that allow us to
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  Speaker 1: pay for our microphone batteries. So let's pay homage to them,
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  Speaker 1: shall we. I wanted to talk about music. Sure, let's
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  Speaker 1: have a conversation about music. Do you like music?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I do?
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  Speaker 1: Controversial, Stevie, Do you like music?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I guess I don't actually have like very
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  Speaker 5: strong feelings about music.
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  Speaker 1: Seems like we have ourselves a real point counterpoint situation here.
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  Speaker 1: This conversation about music reminds me of a conversation about
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  Speaker 1: music that I just was having just the other day
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  Speaker 1: with my friend Gregor. You like music, I like music.
• 9:03
  Speaker 7: I like the way you ease your interview subject into
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  Speaker 7: the interview with softball questions to begin with. I actually
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  Speaker 7: I've been giving a lot of thought to music lately
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  Speaker 7: because music was this really important thing in my life,
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  Speaker 7: and it still is. But I think isn't isn't as
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  Speaker 7: much in my kids' lives as my own. After school,
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  Speaker 7: it would be these rumbles between sort of two teams
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  Speaker 7: of boys fighting each other about the Stones versus the Who,
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  Speaker 7: and you just get in there and beat the hell
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  Speaker 7: up each.
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  Speaker 1: Other and again, like nowadays, it seems as though young
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  Speaker 1: people can like a vast array of things, whereas before,
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  Speaker 1: like we wasted so much time pulling our hair out
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  Speaker 1: over you know, the Beatles or the rolling Stones.
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  Speaker 7: That's obviously why our generation is bald and younger people
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  Speaker 7: have much more hair.
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  Speaker 1: They really do.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, my kids are into like DM and not even
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  Speaker 7: passionate about it. They're just I'm like, oh, what are
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  Speaker 7: you listening to? And he's like, oh, just DM. Not
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  Speaker 7: even like a song or a name or an artist.
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  Speaker 7: It's just that's what they're listening to.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but there's a character that was Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well that was upsetting.
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  Speaker 7: Sounded like a tea kettle boiling. He got me all
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  Speaker 7: off track. The point is, even to my own ears,
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  Speaker 7: it sounds all tinny and funny when I'm like, there
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  Speaker 7: used to be a man named Eric Clapton, and he
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  Speaker 7: used to play cover songs and people called him a god,
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  Speaker 7: and they're like, oh cool.
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  Speaker 1: People used to write graffiti. I remember on the school
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  Speaker 1: wall that said Eric Clapton is God, right, Like people
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  Speaker 1: risk their lives to actually spray paint that. They'd go
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  Speaker 1: on top of the roof of the gym and hang
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  Speaker 1: down and write it several stories off the ground.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was everywhere, and people would scratch it into
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  Speaker 7: notebooks and it was a whole tribal identification with Eric Clapton.
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  Speaker 7: But in my band, this is the point I'm trying
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  Speaker 7: to make to you. We played the song Cocaine.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, hang on a second, what about this band? Just yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you had a band?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Why this is the first I'm hearing of this.
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  Speaker 9: I was in a band for about fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: What was the name of the band?
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  Speaker 9: I've had different names over the years.
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  Speaker 1: But what were some of the names.
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  Speaker 9: I can't even remember these names.
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  Speaker 1: I know you can.
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  Speaker 7: The first name of the band, which is probably the
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  Speaker 7: most embarrassing name, was shadow Facts, named after the horse
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  Speaker 7: in Lord of the Rings.
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  Speaker 1: Shadow Facts. So it's like a do you guys like
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  Speaker 1: do like songs in Elvish?
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  Speaker 9: Yes? We did songs in Elvish.
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  Speaker 1: It's been uh, it's been nice chatting with you.
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  Speaker 7: It's been really interesting.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not sure that it gets us, but I always
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  Speaker 7: enjoy our talks.
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  Speaker 1: Who is this character?
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  Speaker 7: This is everyone I have ever talked to. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 7: can't say that you're what you're going to consider you
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  Speaker 7: for this, but I enjoyed our talk really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It's always interesting talking to Gregor.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, but seriously, though, does that seem true
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  Speaker 1: that your generation, that you guys don't feel as defined
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  Speaker 1: by your choices in music like you can like all
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  Speaker 1: the music?
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  Speaker 3: I think when we were younger, though, I remember like
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  Speaker 3: Backstreet Boys versus Sync being a big.
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  Speaker 1: And which were you guys?
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  Speaker 3: I said I was a Backstreet Boys, But then like
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: a couple of years out, I was like, why did
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  Speaker 3: I think that? Because in Sync's music is way.
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  Speaker 2: Better KAYLEI, I'm the same way.
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  Speaker 5: I think really, like, yes, I think that I had
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  Speaker 5: a vague awareness that like maybe it was like cooler
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  Speaker 5: to say you like the Backstreet Boys, but like I
• 12:42
  Speaker 5: couldn't even name the Backstreep Boys song and like in
• 12:45
  Speaker 5: sync is what I listened to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, during Quarantine, I've been spending a lot more time
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  Speaker 1: listening to music with Aggie.
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  Speaker 3: What kind of stuff were you guys listening to?
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  Speaker 1: Just a lot of music that I liked when I
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: was a kid. I played him a clashes should I
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: stay or should I go? For the first time a
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: little while ago, and after every song I was asked
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: what do you think? And like after stay shot, he
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: was just silent, and I was like, Oggie, like what
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: what do you think? And he's just like looking off
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: into the distance, and then he says I think he
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  Speaker 1: should stay, and I was like, oh yeah, and he's
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: like yeah, Like he was like, it's it's easy, it's easier.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: I think he was just imagining how hard it is
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: for him to go anywhere, especially like now in the
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: winter in Minnesota, to put on his snowsuit and his boots.
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  Speaker 1: To him, it was just like a referendum on whether
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: you should go outside in the cold or stay inside
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  Speaker 1: and eat snacks, and he was like, yeah, no, I
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  Speaker 1: think he should stay.
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  Speaker 3: I when I was a little kid, like younger than Augie,
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  Speaker 3: like really like an infant to my dad used to
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  Speaker 3: whenever I was crying, he would play can't touch this,
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  Speaker 3: and then I would stop crying. Oh yeah, you would
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  Speaker 3: like pick me up and dance around and oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's really that's very sweet, look at my heart. Did
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: you guys have the experience of making mixtapes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I only ever made mixed CDs.
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  Speaker 1: I used to make mixtapes like but recording off the radio,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: so I would have to hold the tape recorder mike
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: up to the speaker of a radio, so my father,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: like you would hear my father yelling in.
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  Speaker 3: The background, I made a mix. I used to just
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  Speaker 3: make a lot of mixes in high school in general,
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  Speaker 3: And I remember I had this amazing idea where I
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  Speaker 3: was like, it would be so cool to make a
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  Speaker 3: mix where the first letter of each song spells like
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: will you go to prom with me? And you could
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: give it to someone to ask them to prom. So
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: I made it, like years before even my prom would
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  Speaker 3: have happened. And then like I didn't ask anyone to
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  Speaker 3: prom and I never used it for anything.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember what the songs were that you used
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  Speaker 1: for the letters?
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I probably have it on my old computer. I
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  Speaker 3: can look.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta like find an occasion to go to a
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  Speaker 1: prom to use that.
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  Speaker 3: I think any occasion in which I'd now go to
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: a prom would be creepy.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Grounds for legal action.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, so like I have Under the Bridge
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. If you guys know
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: that song gold Lion the yeah, yeah, yeahs if you
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: guys remember that.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Song, It's gonna tell me what a lot is?
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  Speaker 3: Piatza New York Catcher is the p and prom.
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  Speaker 9: Johnson will play Piazza. I'll catch your you straight? Are Uka?
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  Speaker 3: I want you to want me cheap trick? That's the
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: I and with what's the m The emin prom is
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  Speaker 3: Marching Bands of Manhattan by Death Cab for Cutie.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: What foreign Marching bands?
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  Speaker 6: Large?
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  Speaker 1: Can you sing it? I can't, Stevie, can you?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 5: I don't actually know that song, which, like this is
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  Speaker 5: actually an experience I have often I never know the
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  Speaker 5: songs that people are talking about, Like even growing up,
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  Speaker 5: I have this like very distinct memory of being in
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  Speaker 5: my friend's house and they put on that Maroon five
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  Speaker 5: song This Love.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember that song?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I'm like they all knew all the words and they
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: were like, you know, singing along to it, and I
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  Speaker 5: had never heard it before, and I had like no
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  Speaker 5: idea what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: And I felt like shame about it.
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  Speaker 5: And I went home and like listened to that song
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  Speaker 5: on repeat because I was like, it felt really important
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  Speaker 5: that I learn it.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Hey, you mind if I switch gears here for a moment?
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  Speaker 8: Sure?
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Do you guys? Ever, I'm just wondering if this is
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: something that other people do, But do you ever think
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: about like what songs you would like to be played
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: at your funeral? Like it's very self indulgent feeling, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's just like when I'm in a very like self
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: indulgent kind of mood, which is often, I'm thinking that
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  Speaker 1: would be a good song really make everyone cry and
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  Speaker 1: think about me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if I have a do you
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  Speaker 3: have like a go to answer?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? What's your go to funeral song?
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  Speaker 1: I actually have like a little bit of a playlist
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  Speaker 1: in my head, so I think, like, do you know
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  Speaker 1: that song? That Groucho Mark song, Hello, I must be going,
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  Speaker 1: oh shockingly, hello, I must be going. I'm here to
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: say I cannot stay.
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  Speaker 9: I cannot stay.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that would be kind of sweet people,
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  Speaker 1: would you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jonathan, if I may be so bold as to produce.
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  Speaker 1: Your funeral, please God willing.
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  Speaker 5: What if at the end of the whole thing, you know,
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  Speaker 5: they were like, well, we just want to thank everybody
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: for coming and whatever, and then you could have a
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  Speaker 5: son in an empty room come in and really.
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  Speaker 3: It should be like literally, like the person gives the
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: eulogy and like right as they finished speaking, it's like,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: but I'm.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Exactly, I'm glad. I'm glad that the idea of my
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: funeral is so amusing to you both. What would be
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the most disrespectful, Like, let's say you were planning the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: funeral for someone you hated.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: I think the most disrespectful would be like that song
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  Speaker 3: that used to play on the six Flags commercial.
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  Speaker 1: Dancing ball Uh yeah, yeah?
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  Speaker 5: What about the worst song to be playing at your
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: failed engagement?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Like you propose, but the person says.
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  Speaker 1: No, and then all of a sudden, the mariachi band
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: shows up and like strikes up that song they pay
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  Speaker 1: them money to play.
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  Speaker 3: In that kids. I feel like it would just be
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: like a good like classic like she Loves You or something,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like.
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  Speaker 1: She loves you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but she's walking.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Away and you can't get the Mariachi Bland to stop
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  Speaker 1: playing it.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: They're just following you. Chase after and they follow you.
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  Speaker 5: How about I got a feeling that tonight's gonna be
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: a good night.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Nights, going good night n nights? What about the worst
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: song to walk down the aisle?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Too? Like, instead of here comes the Bride, you want
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: to do something a little, a little little less typical.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I feel like, again that six Flag song would be
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: pretty bad.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: The horn and you actually you're honking a horn while
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: you walk down the aisle.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Hey, you know, if were you guys enjoying all of
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: this music that I was spinning for you guys as
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: we were.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Talking, Yeah, I felt like I was at the club.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: You know, if people out there enjoyed those songs and
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: want to relive the memories, they could go to the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Spotify playlist that we created.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, we'll put a link in the show description.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: It's called Goldstein's Way Cool Playlist. It's called Goldstein's far
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: out Hits. No, it's called Goldstein's Party, party faves it is.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: That is what it's called.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: To get the party going. Yeah, you know, speaking of music,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I spoke to a man named Glenn. His mom, Madeline,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: is ninety four years old, and a couple of months ago,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: she was moving from the house that she lived in
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: for many years into a smaller apartment, and during the
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: move she came across this box full of seventy eights,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: this long forgotten box of these records of her singing
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: when she was just twenty years old.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is back in nineteen forty six. And Glenn
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: was telling me that when his mom was young, she
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: loved to sing, but since her family was so poor,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: she had to give up the prospect of having a
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: singing career in order to support her family.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: They were really, really poor. My grandparents were Russian immigrants.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: My grandfather couldn't read or write. He sold bananas on
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: a push cart, that.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: Was what he did.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Things are tough, you know, like a birthday gift sometimes
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: was like a piece of fruit. Yeah, I mean, that's
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: how bad things were. And then my grandmother was raising
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: five kids and my mother. She loved to sing, and
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: that was wonderful. But there was a certain reality to life,
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: you know.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: When you took these records out and you played them
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: for the first time. Even that might have been a trick,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: right to find a record player and one that played
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: at the seventies. It's exactly correct.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: We finally found somebody who had a record player that
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: could play seventy eights. And when I heard him, oh
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: my goodness, it was wonderful, my mother said, She asked meatesaid,
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: the last time she had listened to the discs or
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: maybe sixty sixty five years ago, just absolutely incredible to
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: hear her sing at the age of twenty.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: In listening to the songs for the first time. It
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: was a tinged with a little bit of sadness for
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: you to just hear her.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was because I knew how much she always
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: loved to sing, and I know that if things were different,
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: then maybe she could have pursued a career. And it
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: just gave me insight into a whole different aspect of
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: her life that she had kind of tucked away, you know.
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: And I just.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: Want my mother to have a little happiness that let
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: me she's in the other room. Let me go get
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: her and so she can say hello to you.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Hello, Madeleine. Oh, yes, I can't hear you. I think
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you're a little far away.
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: Jonathan, Hi, Oh there you are?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Hello?
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: Good?
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Good? Hello? How are you?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I'm good? I'm good. I was just talking with Glenn
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: a little bit about the discovery of the seventy eight.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: How do you like that?
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: Yes? Yes, I just loved to sing and I didn't
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: know anything other than that I wanted to sing.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: What did it feel like for you to have to
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: give that up?
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: Well, I sort of expected not to get too much
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: of anything. You know, times were not too good, so
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: I sort of developed a maybe a wall in front
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: of me that don't be disappointed. I knew it couldn't be.
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: I was hoping it would be, and I just took
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: it as.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: It came along over the years. I mean, were there
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: times when you'd see other singers getting famous where it
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: made you kind of think about yourself a little bit
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: or you feel.
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: I would say to myself, I'm as good as them.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: And when you listen to yourself, do you think do
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: you feel a connection to that person that you used
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: to be or does it feel like just a whole
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: other person.
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: Well, I can almost think back to those days and
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: feel when I'm singing your song and phrase, I just
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: remember doing it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Wow, amazing.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, yes, after all those years, it's a good feeling.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: I just sit back there and just listen. I relax
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: on the chair on the couch, and I hear something
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: different every time I hear it, a different note. How
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: I sang the note?
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Huh?
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: And I smile a lot.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes, yes. Is there something about these listening
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to these records that feels like a time machine.
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: You're right, you're right, absolutely a good time machine.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Oh you mean that brings you back.
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: Good things, a good things. It's bringing good, good thoughts,
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: good ideas, good everything.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: It brings you back the good memories.
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: That's right, that's right. We don't the other ones we
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: threw away many years ago, you see, the bad ones.
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: We're just looking for the good.
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: You have to think that way.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I don't know if you're comfortable doing this.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: But is there any way that you would be able
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: to favor us with a few lines.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: And you want me to sing it to you now?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you had, if you had it in you,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I don't want to put you on the spot.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: No terror star from out the sky and the sky
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: you little tear a pedals from the roads and the rooms.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Sleep soon take your heart away from me. I almost
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: forgot the words. It's a long time ago.
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: Forgive me.
• 27:39
  Speaker 10: Tamera.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Start from.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: God and look guy.
• 27:54
  Speaker 10: Pedal and weep.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Take a from.
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: And mine will surely pray.
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: My life is yours.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Sutay soon please deep.
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: A spark so no, you take theings from.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: So that they can lie?
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: Who take metion, throw.
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: And leave?
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Just stop side.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: All you.
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: Do, this is what I bag.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Don't say your.
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: From?
• 29:19
  Speaker 10: No, you take toy from so lead they came?
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: What do you.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Take the straw.
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: And leave? Short worded.
• 29:52
  Speaker 10: Besk what I bay?
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: You don't thank your lo.
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: From.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: You can listen to all of Madeline's music at madelinforman
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: dot com and it should be up on Spotify pretty
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: soon as well. We'll put a link in the show
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: notes to that and to our playlist, and we'll be
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: back next week with a new check in with best
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: selling novelist Curtis Sittenfeld. Would you like music but sparty faith?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: We get the party going both seeing sparty Faith, we
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: hit the party going the party phase. Get the party
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: going both. Seeing sparty days, we get the party going days.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: He get the party going both. See party days. He
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: had the party going both. See party days. He hit
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the party going both. See party days. He had the
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: party going. I spoke to a man in shadow Facts,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: A little less typical. I spoke to a man named
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Eric Clapton. Good one. Eric comes the bride, Here comes
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the bride.
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: He sounds all tiny and funny bold.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: See his party faith. She had the party going both.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Seeing his party faith, he hit the party going.
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: Sounds like a tea kettle boiling.