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Hello. Hello? Hello? Hello. Testing. Testees. Testees. Submits. Um I think we're in we're in action here. Um today is November 28th, 2020.

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23.

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23. We're broadcasting from Horsefeather Studio until our new studio is built. And Kate brought in some leftover Thanksgiving dinner for us.

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Oh my gosh. So many leftovers. We're still getting rid of them.

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What do you mean? Give it away.

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Or throwing them away in it today.

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To who?

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To the garbage.

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Don't you feed animals all things?

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Well, yeah, we do. We put in a mulch pile. It depends on what it is. Some stuff you don't put in a mulch pile. You don't put everything in a mulch.

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Turkey carcasses.

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Right.

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I made soup with them. Do you have bears?

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No. I mean, but I haven't seen them, so they don't exist.

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You see them like anything else out there?

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Uh yeah, we have coyotes, foxes. I like the foxes. They eat the red squirrels.

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They eat the red squirrels?

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They do.

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Red foxes eat red squirrels?

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Yeah. It's a whole red thing.

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Do you think um skunks? Have you seen more foxes this year than usual?

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No.

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I have.

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Good. I like foxes. But I think they ebb and flow with the coyote population because coyotes are the alpha dog. They take out the foxes.

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I'm hearing a crackle.

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There's a little crackle.

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People are gonna have to deal with it, probably, because now they're really gonna hear it too. Yeah, now we pointed out. Good job. Um anyway, what else? Anything else in Alpina we need to talk about? I like doing that. Snowed. It's snowed. Tomorrow's week 40, though, don't worry.

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Oh, okay. Why did I shovel then?

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I know. Why didn't you? When you texted me that, I'm like, I well, I'm glad I did. I just it's good to get out there.

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Yeah, it was a good exercise. No, nobody beeped at me, but man, I hate that. What? I'm fucking shoveling here. If you know me, stop and help me. Don't wave.

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Uh, I thought when you texted me, I was like, I should ask her if she needs help, but then I thought I gotta make this pot of coffee before I go.

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No, it's not horrible.

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You got big buck space on one of the.

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No, on First Street or on Washington, one way the wind is blowing. It's just ripping. So one side of the building's usually swept clean by the wind. And today it was Washington side. Sometimes it's the first if it's coming off the lake.

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How cold does it get in that building?

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Uh it gets pretty cold, but I mean, we have a heater.

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Like you have a like a boiler in that?

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Yeah, there's two of them, actually.

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I bet. I know.

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And here comes yours right now.

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Oh yeah. I turned that down, but we got a crackle, we got the furnace, and I may or may not pass gas.

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Well, I hope you don't.

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I don't tell you when I do. You never notice that.

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Well, when the blower wasn't blowing on me then. Now it is. So what's today's topic, Kim?

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Rush.

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Rush.

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The band rush.

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Yeah.

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You have fun memories of rush, don't you?

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I do. I I You've seen them. I have not. I should have went some. Shoulda. You should never not go to the concert. Whose? Anybody's.

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Okay. True. Millie Vanilly. Girl, just say it's true.

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I would have went, and then you could say, I saw them lip sync.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Like everybody else does now.

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Yeah. Yeah. See, they started it. See what they started?

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I was watching a set here I go again. Off topic already, but it has to do with music. We were watching um, we never watched Saturday Night Live anymore, but my lovely bride recorded one uh and we watched it, and I still I couldn't tell you who was on it. But the whole cast, except for Keenan Thompson, is new. Keenan's, you know, there's a he's been there for 20 years. He's got like a 30-year contract or something.

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Yeah.

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He was on uh Smartless not too long ago.

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But anyway, he's got a good new movie out, you know. Good burger 2. Come on. It's true.

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What is he, the owner? He's not still working on that.

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I don't know. I didn't see it.

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Maybe I'll have to go through it. Anyway, so we're watching the band, which I don't remember who that was anyway, but all I kept thinking is, are they lip syncing? Because it looked like they were lip syncing. Oh, it was the fucking Jonas brothers.

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Oh. I didn't even know they were still a thing. Oh, I don't know. But I watched uh and I will tell you who was not lip syncing.

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Who?

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Foo Fighters.

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Oh Dave. No, they wouldn't. Oh wait.

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Oh, he was rocking it.

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But it turns out I Googled. He was hilarious on there too. He probably was in all the skits, eh?

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He was in the skits. He's he's everything.

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I worry about it.

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Could he be president? Why do you worry about him?

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He's got a bit of a drinking problem. From what I saw in Hot Wings, anyway.

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Man, every time every time. You ever watch Hot Wings? Yes, and he is grounded. He has a good wife. He has a nice family. He's fine. Let him have a couple cocktails.

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Came from Nirvana and made it. He made it. Unlike the guy that was the lead singer.

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Yeah.

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He didn't make it. Anyhow, I looked it up and they say that they weren't lip syncing. So I guess Jonas Brothers are that good.

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Wow.

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I don't but I mean. I don't know. I don't know what to say about things anymore. Like Rush, we're gonna talk about them. And I I have opinions on them.

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Well, before opinions.

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You want to go into it?

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Let's get some facts.

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Okay. They were formed in Toronto, Canada.

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They're all Canadian.

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1968.

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Yes. Agreed.

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Mm-hmm.

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It's Getty Lee.

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Alex Lifeson.

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And Neil Purt.

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But initially, John.

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But yeah, there was some like every band. They went through a few, but that's been these three guys have been the lineup for ever. 50 years.

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And yeah, speaking of not seeing a band, you had 50 years to see them. I did too, though. I know. I'll get back to it later.

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Yeah. I never really, I never had the chance, like somebody said, Do you want to go to the Rush concert? I be I should have made the opportunity.

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Did someone say that?

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No. No. That's what I'm saying. I know somebody who has had opportunities. Would you still go to a concert? Yeah, I go to them every now and then. You do have been to one in a while.

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You're too cool for us.

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Oh, you did? George Clinton in the Parliament phone?

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Oh shit.

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That was a while ago now. Let's see. What's the last one that I saw? I'll have to think about that. But yeah, it depends on who it is. Do you wear the earplugs? Yeah, oh yeah. Because you can still hear.

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Yeah.

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And I have to really like the person to put up with all the other people in the audience. I would love to go to a concert with like 12 people.

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Yeah.

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There.

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A small venue. 12 people.

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But I'm not that big money yet that I can hire, so Dave will be able to do that.

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I bet you we can get somebody to come to our one-year anniversary party and march.

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Okay, well, we'll work on that. Let's work on that.

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Not rush, though.

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No, they're well, Getty Lee could come and Alex.

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Getty. They could. We'll see. Um, so their first single that they released was a cover of a Buddy Holly song.

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Was it?

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Yep.

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I thought it was Working Man.

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No.

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Okay. That's her first single.

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1973 they had a single and what was it? God damn, I don't remember now. But I was like, I love that. I love Buddy Holly, you know.

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I like Buddy Holly.

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Died with the big bopper. He did. And that other dude was.

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We'll have to do him. We'll have to do a show about it.

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Came up in a trivia question the other day.

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Yeah, he has an interesting story.

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Which one?

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All of them. All of them do. Yeah.

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What a way to go.

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Not a good way to go.

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The day the music died.

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Yeah. Whalen Jennings almost got on the plane. Did you know that?

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I think I remember that.

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He flipped a coin with um uh Buddy Holly. Richie Valence with Richie. And Richie won.

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Yeah, he won. Or lost. I think he lost. Yeah, he's lost. Oh, who knows? We don't know. That other side might be okay.

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It might be.

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Alright, so the early struggles started with their debut album, 1974, which was called Working Man, right?

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Yeah.

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And it was not a No Why?

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But then it got some play on the radio, the actual song Working Man, which if you've listened to classic rack radio, you've heard that song, whether you try to or not.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so it it still stands. I mean, people still love it. And then That's when their first drummer left. Yeah.

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Rutzy. Johnny. Johnny Rutzy.

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That's a good name, too.

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Mr. Pert.

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Rutzy. Hey, Rutzy.

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Purt came along. Who Pert, Neil Purt. Poor guy had some trouble in his life.

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He has. But overall, I think he would tell you, oh he's passed. But I think he would have told you before he passed. He he did have a pretty charmed life overall.

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Yeah. Except for his wife.

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Except for his wife. Okay, let's let's get into that later. You're getting way ahead.

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I'll edit this.

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Way ahead. So then that uh was Working Man a Fly by Night?

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I was foreshadowing. Oh, okay. To keep people engaged. I don't want him to tune out.

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There's only one.

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Fly by Night.

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Fly by Night, 1975. And then came my personal favorite in 1976. 2112.

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That one was bizarre, wasn't it?

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It's pretty bizarre. I listened to it yesterday. Did you? Yeah.

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I was listening to parts.

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When Neil Peart died. It's got one. Okay, on the album, the first side of the album is one song.

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Yeah. That's that's a that's a long song. Kind of big.

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So that was really it was progressive. That's why they're kind of the grandfathers of progressive rock. Or some people call it prog rock.

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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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Yeah, and it is an album that I think would be in that era, the beginning of that era, that you have to buy the album and listen to the album. You can't be piecing that shit out. You can't just listen to one song from it. You gotta sit down, burn one, and listen to the whole album. Burn many.

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Is that how you did that Viking Rush?

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Uh that's how I was introduced to it, let's say.

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Then I was they're very um a lover of the weed. A lot of uh instrumental.

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Uh yes.

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I mean they're very they're very talented, very technical.

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Yes. And they don't rely on lyrics for the song.

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That's probably a good thing. Um other lyrics, yeah.

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Some wizards in the basement. Neil wrote well most of their lyrics.

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Like some guys that were really good at Dungeons and Dragons are good at music too.

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That's true. And um, one thing I wrote down is that you know, metal people loved them, but so did Geeky people. Yeah, yeah. Because they ooh, dragons, ooh, wizards, yeah. We like that.

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It's kind of cool too, because as they moved along, uh they kind of pulled back from the guitar sound and then they got the synthesized keyboards and then that was like the 80s era, I think. Yep.

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Like Tom Sawyer. Well, it was a little bit after Tom Sawyer, let's say. Yeah. Then they kind of went back to the guitar rock in the 80s, late 80s, early 90s. And then they kind of well, they didn't kind of then they they had their sound. I mean, they definitely had a sound, and it wasn't just that high getty-lee voice, you know. Although that was very distinctive too. Yeah, and you know it. Yeah, you when you hear him saying, you go, yeah, that's getty lee. And I don't think I could listen to it for 12 hours, but you know, good for you for doing that, right?

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Right, it could feel like 12 hours if you're a burning one.

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It's good. Um, it's kind of like uh, you know, Bob Dylan, he's whatever he is to people, but after a while, man, his voice greats on me.

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Right, yeah. How can his voice sound different now? Because if you hear some songs, it doesn't sound like what? Because he's old. Well, and then like Steven Tyler. Remember like the first songs he had?

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Dream on like the high notes, but now he can't. His voice just sounds like all that singing problems.

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Who does?

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Steven Tyler, I think, has throat problems.

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Oh well, that comes with the territory.

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Yeah, I don't think it's cancer, but it's I don't know, some trap.

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Dreading his vocal cards, man. Yeah. Um, one thing about not one thing, there's lots, but rush. Speaking of Dungeons and Dragons, Star Wars, all that, those people are diehard fans. And these Rush fans are diehards.

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I mean they are diehard fans.

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It's they could poop on a record, and people would love it.

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Well, I don't know about that, but I think because that band is so they're good to their fans. They're loyal, they're as loyal to their fans as their fans are loyal to them.

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Good point.

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Although I will say Neil Pert in his later days was kind of freaked out by you know autographs and stuff, and he opted out of that part of the show. Getty Lee would sit and sign, and Neil said, you know, I don't think so. I think that's kind of creepy that people want my signature, and I don't choose to do that. So yeah, thanks for listening to my music, but I'm not gonna, you know, do that. And I guess, you know, personal choice work for him.

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And you need somebody like that in the band.

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And I think they also had a certain kind of Canadian politeness to their again, to their fans, but to everybody. They weren't like the the Motley crew come into a hotel room and trash it, you know. They probably made their beds when they left.

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They probably did.

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I don't know that.

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But you think they were like, you know.

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Here's a good example of how polite they are. So I asked a couple of my friends, you know, that actually went and saw them. That actually went and saw them. And um, this is what one of my friends said. Shout out to Paul.

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Hi, Paul.

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Uh, once we had tickets Wasn't Paul supposed to be on the show? He could be, but he lives in Chicago. He can call in. Paul is Paul.

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Chicago.

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Once we had tickets for a rush concert at an outdoor venue here in Chicago about a dozen years ago. So not even that long ago. It was a rainy, stormy day, and the band had to postpone the show, although the ticket did say rain or shine. So when we returned for the rescheduled show, everybody got free rush ball cap that said Chicago and it had the rain date on it.

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Oh, that's cool.

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Yeah.

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Wow, what the heck?

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I know.

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How quick did they have those made up?

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Well, they had the rain date. I mean, they there was a rescheduled show. Oh, I get it.

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Yeah, okay. That's cool.

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It's still cool. That was very uh kind of them to do that. They didn't have to do that.

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I wonder if you can find those on eBay.

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Uh well, I don't think Paul's selling his. Hey, how'd you get that message from Paul? Well, I have it. I had it on here.

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Oh, yes, so you have people reaching out to you and want to participate in the show. What if they want to like send us an email?

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Then they can email us at hero or dick2023 at gmail.com. I forgot what it was. I was just looking to check. Did you check it? Uh yeah, I have been.

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Okay.

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Nothing. Masters. Um, I got some texts, but no emails. So then other thing Paul said that, and I thought this was uh very descriptive, and I'm sure it's more than just Paul. Rush was one of the first bands that I discovered as a teenager without the influence of my older siblings. And Paul's a baby of six. So I think, like Paul, a lot of people called Rush their own.

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I like it.

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And I get that. Yeah. And they were not egomaniacs.

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No, they don't seem like it all.

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They never, like he says, they never went overboard on drugs and booze. They always gave plenty of time for sound checks. Yeah. They were they were responsible. They were Canadian.

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That's probably why they lasted so long.

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Probably. Probably.

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I don't think the Rolling Stones were very responsible.

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Uh they just that's dumb fucking luck.

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Is what that is. What's awesome though? Is Keith Richards always look the same.

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He doesn't if you look at the old, old stuff, but somebody sold their soul to the devil, if not all of them. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger for sure did. And I don't even think Keith knew he did.

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No.

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No. No. No. He didn't know. Anyway. So um the other thing I really liked about this band is that they were still friends right to the end. What end? Well, they ended when Neil Purt died in 2020.

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How'd he die?

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I think he had cancer.

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Brain cancer. Yeah, yeah, cancer.

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And he didn't. Tell us about his he had some catastrophic stuff happen to him.

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Yeah, his 19-year-old daughter died in a single car accident in Ontario, I guess.

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Yeah.

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She was 19. Bummer.

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Going back to school.

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Yeah.

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Back and forth to school.

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And then about a year later, his wife dies of cancer, right?

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Yeah. He said from a broken heart.

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Yeah.

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And then he threw it in. He went, I'm done.

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Yeah.

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He jumped on his motorcycle and drove around, he took a long sabbatical traveling North America and Central America on his motorcycle, and he logged over 55,000 miles.

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That's impressive.

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That's really impressive. And then he got back and he's like, okay, I think I can do it again. He got a new wife, I think, and that helped. And I think he has another kid too.

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Okay.

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Yeah, so he started a new life.

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He kind of did the spiritual journey on a motorcycle. We did.

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Did you have a lot of people who did like Shay Shay and uh what's his friend's name?

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Who's Shay?

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Shay Guabera. That's not his name.

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You're making shit up.

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No, you know. Um, the Cuban guy.

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Which Cuban guy?

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The the guy who led Cuba. The gorillas.

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Fidel Castro.

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Yeah, Fidel and Shay. Oh. Got on their motorcycles and went around South America.

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With those guys? No. Oh, Jesus. I'm getting confused here.

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No, no. Sorry. That's okay. I said like that. I would have been like, holy shit, that's awesome. That would be really cool. But no.

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He might have.

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Maybe he took inspiration from them.

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Yeah, I guess so. Huh. That was a different hair.

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What? About Shay?

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No, the motorcycle. Did you cruise around on a motorcycle? I know you did. I did, but uh what?

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I've never well I have uh have driven a motorcycle, but it wasn't pretty. But um Kate is like riding on the back.

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Kate sounds all reasonable and put together, but I guarantee fucking to you she's got a wild side and could tell some stories, and I think we should desote devote an episode to that.

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But it's not as a motorcycle chick. No, it was like the lamest motorcycle chick ever. You know.

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Who can be lame on a motorcycle? Look at them, they all think they're cool.

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You think you're cool and and so they pull up and they're just like, look at me. Look at me, I'm so cool.

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Okay.

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Uh no, lame.

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Well, you do what you love, right? And that's what these guys did. They did with or without motorcycles. Uh they sold 40 million records.

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Wow, that's a lot.

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It's a fuck ton. I mean, that's a lot. Sorry, mom.

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Getty. And you know why they call him Getty? G-E-D-D-Y? Because his name was Gary, and his mom was, gosh, was she she was from Eastern Europe because she was in Auschwitz. She survived, obviously.

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Oh, instead of Gary, Getty.

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And she'd yell out the back door, Getty, Getty. I love it. And so all his friends thought his name was Getty. So we changed it.

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Shit.

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He's got a new book out too, My F in Life.

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Really? Mm-hmm. I didn't see that part.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:13

Oh, wait, maybe I did.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

Um what else you got?

SPEAKER_01 20:18

Um, let's see.

SPEAKER_02 20:20

They weren't moved. Like they're one reason that I like Rush. Probably only one of the ones that I do. Just kidding.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

I just don't connect with them?

SPEAKER_02 20:32

No. I tried really hard too the last few days. Like, read because if I read lyrics, because being I appreciate words and writing. I just I but I'm like, when you listen to the music, you're like, oh, these guys are talented. There's nobody like that. It's incredible. But you just either connect or you don't. But somebody seriously appreciate them, and I do hope Getty comes to play at our show.

SPEAKER_01 20:51

That would be great. Getty.

SPEAKER_02 20:53

Um but I will yell at the movie I've mentioned before, uh I Love You Man.

unknown 20:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:58

They're big Russian.

SPEAKER_01 20:59

And you know, and I didn't look. Did you look to see what movies their music is in?

SPEAKER_02 21:04

Yeah, I love you, man.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

Well, what else?

SPEAKER_02 21:07

Freaks and Geeks. The TV show and Family Guy often.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

I think that I think that when you hear Rush, it really evokes a time and place, no matter what it is for you, if it's the 70s or 80s, or even a little bit beyond that. Um yeah, they are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame too.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

Yeah, well, they should be.

SPEAKER_01 21:27

They should be, yeah. 2013. They were inducted. Uh yeah. Um oh, here is um another friend of mine. Hey Greg.

SPEAKER_02 21:38

Hey Greg.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

Was um he said that Russia's one of the greatest of all time. Oh yeah. And we kind of bantered back and forth with our texts, and he said, Should twenty one twelve be a musical? It probably should. I said no, just for personal reasons, but you you hate musicals. Uh no, I like musicals, but I do think it It takes away from your memory of it if you you know if you I I have that memory of that album being in junior high and having fun.

SPEAKER_02 22:11

Oh, so it's gonna a musical.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

I don't know. And what it you know, number I don't know. Do you have dancers like ballet or interpretive dance? Or you got I don't I don't think it can be interpreted into a musical. That's not to say, Greg, that somebody won't do it.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

Maybe Greg will do it.

SPEAKER_01 22:32

I doubt it, but he could.

SPEAKER_02 22:35

What's Greg doing right now, working?

SPEAKER_01 22:37

No, he retired.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

Oh, Greg.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

Oh, Greg.

SPEAKER_02 22:41

Lucky. No, not luck. You work for retirement.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

He did, he worked hard. I worked with him for many years and he was a very hard worker.

SPEAKER_02 22:48

Awesome.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

Well, I'm glad you're getting some input from people.

SPEAKER_01 22:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

I ask people to be on the show and they tell me.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

They go, what show?

SPEAKER_02 22:55

Yeah, what fo? What for? What for?

SPEAKER_01 22:58

So I say uh even though Russia's not my favorite band in the world, I say they're heroes because they're always learning and changing, even when they could have written it out on their laurels. They tried that. Let's try these synthesizers. Everyone will love that. And everyone went, oh, we don't love that. But they tried it. They did it. They did it. And for their Canadian politeness, that is always a hero to me.

SPEAKER_02 23:29

Um, I say hero. They overcame adversity, they were very persistent, they're extremely talented. You don't make an impact like that. Um, like you said, when you hear uh rush, you just know it's not and there's you know when you put your stamp on something like that sound and people can recognize it, it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

And they're just so normal. I like the normal guys treated it like kind of like a nine to five job, but not. But it's like this is our job, this is what we do, and we'll we will do the best job at it, and that's what we're gonna do for 50 whatever years.

SPEAKER_02 24:04

And when I was trying to dig up crap on them, I couldn't find any.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

They were breaking up hotel rooms and no, they're not. Girls, girls, girls in it.

SPEAKER_01 24:12

No, they're all married with kids, and and it's it's yeah, that's not the rock star image, but maybe that's what it should be exactly.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

So um they are worth quite a bit. I tried to find exact net worth. That's my thing now. Every time I'm watching a show. Oh, is that you? I'm looking up their net worth because that's what's important. No, but they're I don't know, it just said they're worth tens and tens of millions of dollars.

SPEAKER_01 24:35

Oh, they got some almost star stuff. That's another thing, too. So they have some money to burn. And I watched this interview a few years ago now with uh Getty Lee. I think it was Dan Randher was interviewing him. Good old Dan. Dan, he's still alive? Yeah, he's still alive. He was doing an interview. I don't know how he's doing now, but this was a few years ago, say maybe like four or five years ago. And there's Getty, oh, here's my house. And it was a nice house, don't get me wrong. But it was no fucking P. Diddy mansion. Right, right. You know, on you know, tens of thousands of square feet, you know, had a beautiful garden.

SPEAKER_02 25:11

But he need that anyway.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

He didn't, yeah. He didn't.

SPEAKER_02 25:14

I respect that.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

Yeah, I do too.

SPEAKER_02 25:17

How big is your house again? 20,000 square feet?

SPEAKER_01 25:20

No P. Diddy house.

SPEAKER_02 25:22

Oh, I like ripping on you. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

Uh yeah, you do.

SPEAKER_02 25:25

I apologize.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

I'm sorry, that can take it.

SPEAKER_02 25:28

There were some dark undertones in our last podcast. Was it? Yeah, you were on turkey? You just in general.

SPEAKER_01 25:35

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 25:36

People emailed me and said it was the most depressing podcast episode.

SPEAKER_01 25:40

I guess it was Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

Um I got nothing else.

SPEAKER_01 25:44

Um I don't even have a fast five. So we said heroes. So now we got two things we need to take care of. Fast five, yes. But we also need to mention that we're still looking out for looking for an alternative to the phrase shout-out. Oh, yeah, that's true. Because we don't like that. Ballyhoo? I'd like to give a ballyhoo. I like bally who. I like bally who too. I might just use that as a different word. Ballyhoo. Another one was trumpet. I'd like to give a trumpet out. I don't like the word trump. No. I can't even say in cards anymore. I mean, see, I didn't even oh no, you took that away from me too. Okay, how about this one? Puff.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

No, puff daddy pee diddy.

SPEAKER_01 26:26

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:27

You're killing me.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

That was written down before I came up with him. Maybe I saw it and said political. And then Julie, who I originally shouted out and needed an alternative to, hey Julie, she uh she said that she checked AI and AI had was not good. This is what they suggested. Credit. Not giving a credit. I'll give you credit out. Sounds like I'm gonna give you some money back, too. Bang out, a banger. The other thing was acknowledgement that no. How about pound it out? How about no? That sounds like you're poetic. The other thing AI was give recognition. I'm going to give recognition. It's not the same as a shout-out.

SPEAKER_02 27:13

So they shorten words.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:19

I'm gonna nize them. I'm gonna wreck 'em. No, that's not good. Oh, see, we're getting closer, I think. Okay. What were the other ones? Credit. You can't shorten that. Cred, no.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Cred, no. Give some credit. Bally out.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

Bally out.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

No.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

Ballyhoo, I don't know. Ballyhoop, but Ballyhoo is like hoop.

SPEAKER_01 27:38

I like Ballyhoo.

SPEAKER_02 27:39

I know, but I want to give a Ballyhoo out.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

But I can't say I can't say it without some stupid un accent? Yeah, accent that doesn't really exist. So if you're listening, anybody? Anybody?

SPEAKER_02 27:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

Email the alternatives to what's that? Email?

SPEAKER_02 27:57

What?

SPEAKER_01 27:57

Hero or diet. 2023.

SPEAKER_02 27:59

2023 at gmail.com. I actually made a page for us on Facebook and no one's following it. I even placed an ad for it.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

Two people. Checked out the page. No downloads as far as I know.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

So we're gonna do something. We'll have to work on it. That's our fault. If you're listening, it's not your fault. You could tell a friend though. That'd be nice.

SPEAKER_02 28:21

But if nobody is listening, nobody has a friend. Um all right.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

Here's a f here's some fast fives. I'll just give you mine. You ready? Water parks.

SPEAKER_02 28:33

Dick.

SPEAKER_01 28:34

I agree. How about uh seagulls?

SPEAKER_02 28:39

Hero.

SPEAKER_01 28:40

I think we covered seagulls, actually.

SPEAKER_02 28:43

I know, but I think I said they were heroes last time.

SPEAKER_01 28:44

And I think I said there were dicks. So water parks are we agree, are a big D. Do you get a lot of them?

SPEAKER_02 28:50

Uh not water parks. Seagulls at your place?

SPEAKER_01 28:53

Uh yeah. From time to time. Yesterday we watched a hawk come down, swoop down on the beach and grabbed a mouse. Yes. You can have all the mice in my yard, because then they'll try to come in my house.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

I have a question. Yes. What do you do when a pigeon, a big one, hits your window, right? Mm-hmm. Poof. I mean Did it die? Where'd it go? It disappeared.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

No, they just laid it on the back. That happens all the time in our house. So sometimes I die. But sometimes they just hit it and they get like you know what? I think they see little birds twirling around their heads. And then they kind of pass out and they then they're like, get up and they're like, alright, I'm fine.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

Well, I thought maybe it hit it so hard it like went through a different dimension. The porthole. And I do have that. What is that called? Next to my house.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

The funeral?

SPEAKER_02 29:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:56

That got in there. I was there.

SPEAKER_02 29:58

What? I was there too. Wait, last week.

SPEAKER_01 30:01

Yeah. It was the day after uh Thanksgiving. Why did you stop in? I don't know, because I was going to a funeral. So? I gotta pop over here. Come over here, so I'm in the neighborhood.

SPEAKER_03 30:17

Alright, okay.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

Number three. How about this guy, Willem Defoe? I agree. Um, how about this guy? Bob Ross. I agree. Okay, we got one more. Speaking of funerals. Open casket. I agree, but that was six.

SPEAKER_02 30:41

One, two, three, but we'll count one as mine.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

No, that was five. Okay. Oh, wait, I got one more, and it's really a good one. Hero or dick. This guy. Andy Dick. That was a trick question, too.

SPEAKER_02 30:55

I'm gonna say he's a dick.

SPEAKER_01 30:56

Yeah. I don't know lately.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

I don't know either.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

It's kind of until his last name is Dick. But he's a dick, right?

SPEAKER_02 31:02

He is a dick.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

He has a dick. That was a trick question.

SPEAKER_02 31:05

What else we got? Nothing?

SPEAKER_01 31:06

That's it. We're gonna say goodbye.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

Oh, you you forgot.

SPEAKER_01 31:09

What?

SPEAKER_02 31:10

You know.

SPEAKER_01 31:10

About Jason?

SPEAKER_02 31:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:11

Yeah. I didn't forget about him. I was supposed to mention him in the 80s when um when uh Rush was doing synthesizers. That was about the time that uh Jason Bateman was on Little House on the Prairie. Oh yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:29

Little House on the Prairie.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

We just watched uh Jason Bateman and another famous Canadian, not that Jason's Canadian, but Rush is Canadian. So we can work it in that way. Ryan Reynolds.

SPEAKER_02 31:42

The changeup.

SPEAKER_01 31:44

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 31:44

The piss in the fountain.

SPEAKER_01 31:45

Oh, it's kind of funny. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:46

Dumb funny.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

Yeah. Dumb funny. Dude. You don't have to think about it funny. I like it. I tell you.

SPEAKER_02 31:51

Well, Ryan Reynolds is funny. But he's kind of the same fucking guy and everything.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

He is. But if you like him, that's okay. Did you ever see him? But sometimes Jason's the same guy. Not always, though. Sometimes he's kind of dark side.

SPEAKER_02 32:01

Yeah, like in that Ozarks. Yeah. Or Ozark. That's my favorite show of all time, and I can't remember the name.

SPEAKER_01 32:08

Have you watched it yet? I have watched some of it. I need to revisit it.

SPEAKER_02 32:12

Yeah, he's never gonna come on unless you watch that.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

Okay. I'll watch it.

SPEAKER_02 32:15

Do you realize how many people go on that podcast that are in film and whatever? And they talk about how great of a director he is for that show. Really? Yeah. Like we're talking like Spielberg, people like that. They're like, Wow, that's an alcoholist. And he that guy can't take a compliment.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

Oh, he can't. No.

SPEAKER_02 32:30

He's kind of like you. You and Jason are a lot alike.

SPEAKER_01 32:33

We are. Call me.

SPEAKER_02 32:37

Okay, everybody. Okay. Thanks. See you next time.

SPEAKER_01 32:40

Bye bye.

unknown 32:41

Bye.