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A Holiday Message from Dirt Nap City · Dirt Nap City - History's Most Interesting Dead People

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  SPEAKER_01: If you were uh doing anything fun for the holidays, what would you recommend that would go along well with it?
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  SPEAKER_00: A podcast, for sure.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what you mean?
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: That's exactly what I meant.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_00: While you're decorating the tree?
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  SPEAKER_00: While you're on a one-horse open sleigh?
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  SPEAKER_00: In front of a uh open uh like a chestnut soap roasting on an open fire, listening to a nice uh crackle of our voices.
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  SPEAKER_01: Waiting in line to see Santa Claus, all of those things.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So hit the hit the follow button, whether you're uh whatever podcast platform you use, and be sure to also hit us up via email, not at dirtnap city.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have stickers now, and the first ten people to email us, I will personally mail stickers to.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, Tracy from uh Paraland did did actually uh email us, and she got like 80 stickers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow, wow, that's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you recommend that people also go to our Facebook group?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we've been trying to build a little bit of a following on Facebook, so just type Dirtnap City into Facebook or Dirt Nap City Podcast, maybe, and it'll take you there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you like uh our rock and roll episode, you can um go to that Facebook episode and our Facebook group and you can find links to a Spotify playlist that has a list of almost 80 songs, to lists of 80 songs uh that we mentioned during the rock and roll episodes.
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  SPEAKER_01: During during the two episodes, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It was it was a two-part series.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was our tribute to double albums.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if we had an album, you would open it and it would be all the lyrics to our podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like a transcript, and then there would be one album on one side and the other one on the other side.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then there'd be a picture of Alex and I looking moody.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in front of an audio, like a crowd of people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like with microphones performing, as we do.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you do want to see us live, um let us know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not at dirtnapcity.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let us know if you want to see us live, because certainly for the right amount of money, we'll let anybody come watch our recordings.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: I was just gonna say, I just designed a pricing structure for our live uh events.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh so if anybody's interested in that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I mean it's a little steep, I'm not gonna lie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but it's high quality.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not just gonna come play your kid's birthday party for nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't compete on price, we compete on value.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if somebody had like an eight-year-old's birthday party, we would come out, well, you'd have to supply the chairs, we would bring the microphones, we'd have to, you'd have to give us chairs, yep, and we would talk about any dead people that your eight-year-old child would want us to talk about.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, even Aunt Doris.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if she was interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it would be about an hour, and we would insist on complete silence from all the children.
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  SPEAKER_01: And payment up front.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, payment up front.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I have a pricing structure.
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  SPEAKER_01: We'll do birthday parties, we'll do uh bar mitzvahs, we'll do weddings, we'll do funerals.
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  SPEAKER_01: Funerals actually would be a great thing for us to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: We could come talk about the dead person.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you have a funeral, and you have a funeral coming up, you provide the chairs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_01: All you need is two chairs.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that's a big thing, because if you show up, if we show up and you don't have chairs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, we're not gonna stand for an hour.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And by the way, no refunds.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're not sitting on the floor.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you want to us to come out, we will talk about the person who just died.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_01: So sign up, not at Dirtnap City, send us a note and we will get that done.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, if they're not a famous person, that could be an issue.
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  SPEAKER_00: We we would need a little bit of research.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like a family album, maybe some stories about the person, something like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or we could just make stuff up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we're good either way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we've done that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you would like to know which episodes we've made up 100% of the stuff, just uh drop us a line and we'll tell you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.