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Yo. What's up? What's up? It's a what's
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the matter with me?
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I've been having technical
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difficulties.
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My audio has just been
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really
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a problem. I need, like, engineers. I need
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a radio station.
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What's up? It's what's the matter with me.
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I'm John. I'm 46 years old. I have
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multiple sclerosis
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and trigeminal
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neuralgia,
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and I've
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survived.
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I'm living right here.
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I usually,
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have a wheelchair. My wheelchair is broken
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right now, so it's, like,
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major
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stress. I've missed
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my son's
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wrestling
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season. I didn't see him wrestle one time,
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and I'm gonna miss the award banquet.
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Lame. I wanted to be there to see
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him wrestle cheer for him.
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It's been
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stressing me out that I don't have my
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wheelchair. My family
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has vacation
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coming up in April,
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and I don't think I'm gonna be able
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to go anywhere.
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Like, I can't really go on vacation
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without my wheelchair. That's what helps me go
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somewhere.
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And so the idea of
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a jaunt
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without the wheelchair kinda pointless.
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I need a wheelchair
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to go
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somewhere,
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especially if I'm gonna go on a voyage.
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The doctor is signing my prescription
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with an auto pen,
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and the insurance company's been rejecting it. And
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they've been going back and forth, and I
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I've been, like, trying to get them
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to pay attention
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because they've rejected it, the same thing,
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four times over, and it's been a month.
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And I'm like, hey. Hey. Just
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sign it.
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And maybe that maybe that'll help. I don't
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know.
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The war is happening.
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I was asking AI
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about the way,
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on the twenty eighth, I was talking to
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AI about the Malian
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dialogues
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because
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I feel like the way our culture
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is talking
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about
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international
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relations,
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the Greenland,
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the whole thing, and now we're at war
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in Iran.
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That's
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the Malian dialogue from ancient Greece,
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from Thucydides'
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history of the Peloponnesian
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War, the idea that the strong do what
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they can
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and the weak suffer what they must.
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And that was the argument
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presented
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to the island
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of Milos
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saying,
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hey. You need to pay us tax and
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become part of our Athenian
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empire.
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And they were like, that isn't right. And
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the response was the strong do what they
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can. The weak suffer what they must.
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The Melian dialogue
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happens at the end of the Athenian
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empires. The the empire
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grasps
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around.
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It starts
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denying
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its place at the table and
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denying the other people a place at the
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table. That's about compulsion.
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Dad
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took me
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to go see,
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Born on the July 4,
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and then
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a man died in the theater. We got
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our tickets were funded. I said to dad,
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please, can we leave? And he said, just
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promise me he won't join the military. And
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I was like, yes. Let's go.
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A man died.
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It was the weekend.
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It was like opening weekend and you know
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how movies
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used to be. We were sitting in
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the side. There was no seat in the
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middle.
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We were in, like, the third row on
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the side,
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and the guy in the first or second
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row
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died in the middle of the movie,
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and his date screamed, ah, and the lights
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went on, the man was dead.
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We stopped the movie,
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and the
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police came, and I got they offered to
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refund tickets.
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And I was like, dad, get me out
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of here.
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I think I was 10.
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It was just too much.
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War.
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Alright. Well, there's war. People shouldn't do war.
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Let me get some shout outs.
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I wanna give a shout out to Max
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Level.
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Gotta give a big shout out to Max
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Level. He was feeling the last episode
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and commiserating
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about hopping the hot sauce.
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Big shout out. The best shout out of
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his whole life going out to Max
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level.
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Max
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level.
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Get other people's
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perspective.
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Be cool with them. Respect them. Respect others.
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Get along with other people. I got some
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record reviews.
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Basic,
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almost
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record reviews.
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The new
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album from the local band, San Francisco
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band, Magic Fig.
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Their new second album is Valerian
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Tea.
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Their, self titled came out in 2024.
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Their new record, Valerian Tea, it's been getting
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a lot of play on KFJAC.
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My wife and I are, like, perked up
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when we hear it. It's kinda interesting.
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We're like, oh, what's this? And it keeps
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being magic fake. Off Valerian t, it sounds
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kinda like Stereolab
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sometimes
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and,
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like, Lady Tron and, like, the French band
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Air.
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It's a local band.
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Where did they really come from last day?
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And it's like a super group. Let me
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see. Where did they really come from?
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So they came out of the SFC. It's
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like a post pandemic band.
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Muzzy Moskowitz
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from Almond Joy in color green. The keyboardist
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John Chaney from Healing Potpourri.
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And bass is Matthew Ferraro from The Umbrellas.
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They,
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were interested in fuzz organ
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sixties, seventies,
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prog.
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The drummer Taylor Griffin Healing Potpourri came on
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and the vocalist
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Mellotron
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player, Ina Showalter,
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kind of an Eastern European vibe. That reminds
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me, kind of like Persephone's
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bees.
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And another local SF band with an Eastern
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European vocalist
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I would like.
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That'd be a cool set,
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to play together.
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Music recorded at Santos
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Studio in Oakland.
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The Oakland producer,
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Joel
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Robineau,
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that's their
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big producer
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guy. And I checked him out,
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and he was playing a live show with
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Wobbly
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at the Natural
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Batting Cage, which is a batting cage in
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San Francisco.
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So he played some show with Wobbly, who's
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like an experimental
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electronic
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musician.
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We used to check out Wobbly, like, twenty
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years ago.
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So Wobbly is at the Batting Cages with
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Joel Robineau, the producer of Magic Fig.
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Kind of an interesting
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album.
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Recall Stereolab
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Lady Tron Air. It's a local band.
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Where do they really come from? Oakland, I
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guess.
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They're an SF people, but they record in
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Oakland.
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They're an SF
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people. I like the sound of it.
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Also recently,
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I picked up Wet Leg,
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another
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recent
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record purchase.
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Their second l p this is all about
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second records today, sophomore.
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Wet Leg
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Moisturizer
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l p.
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This record kind of soppy.
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That was a word. I I had to
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look that up. What is soppy?
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S o p p y, they said.
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Wetleg has turned kind of soppy.
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So it got good
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reviews, pretty good reviews. It's a catchy record.
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I would
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the reviewers
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are like it's kind of more emotionally
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vulnerable
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than their debut
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record.
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And I guess that
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it it uses more profanity.
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I'm not sold on profanity.
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People here know I have accomplished I like
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profanity
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and I don't like it sometimes.
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It's it uses
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some and I it's not like really adding
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to it for me.
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But it, it's like soppy. So that means
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like emotionally
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vulnerable.
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Some reviewers
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felt the album had skip tracks
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where certain ballads felt languid and cliche.
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Heavy reliance
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on ironic quirky immaturity
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could be polarizing.
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I guess that's what I'm saying. We don't
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need the profanity,
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wet leg.
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It's not showing us anything.
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So but another thing people were saying was
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it's, like, nineties
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nineties
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music. So I I was, like, thinking, and
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I looked up Marilyn Manson.
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It is not like Marilyn Manson. I looked
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up Jane's Addiction. It's not like Jane's Addiction.
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I looked up garbage. It's not like garbage.
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It's a dull thing. It's catchy.
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It's kinda like party music. I think wet
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leg, I played it at a barbecue,
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and the models, she was like, oh, yeah.
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I heard this at the they were playing
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this at the fashion
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shoot or whatever.
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And I was like, oh, yeah. That makes
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sense. So it's kinda got
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a little
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it's a little brain dead. It's not it's
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not that deep.
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But
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I kinda like it.
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Wet leg moisturizer.
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I'm just too old for that, I think.
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Not bad for a second album.
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I've learned the word soppy.
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Another thing I'm too old for, I got
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John a CD.
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I was like, you know, I'm gonna get
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him a CD for Christmas.
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And I got him getting killed by geese.
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And that's like it reminds me of Radiohead.
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It reminds me
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of The Strokes.
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Does that mean it's a non serious music?
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I don't know.
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Serious or not serious, I bought it for
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my son because I was like, you're you're
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getting that age. You need a cool record.
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So someone can come over come over to
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your house and be like, oh, you have
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that?
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Cool.
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You know, it's it's a teenager
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now. He's 12.
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He's going on 13.
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He's almost gonna be a teenager, so he
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can have time. Getting killed, keys, the guy
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uses the kind of vibrato that's very constant.
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It's, like, not very he doesn't, like, ease
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in and out of the vibrato. He sounds
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kinda like a
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he's like, woah.
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He sounds kinda like a goose.
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You know, it's the time to move on.
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We're all old now.
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Geese is popular.
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I'm reading.
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Now it's a book review. Okay? A lot
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of reviews,
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tertiary,
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almost reviews, not very
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not very this,
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very that, some here and there.
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I have been reading
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the the
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book Your Name Here
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by Helen DeWitt.
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It's a book that's kinda like the movie
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adaptation
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by Charlie Kaufman,
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like the cover of the book.
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I'll just the cover of the book is
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just
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text.
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And it says,
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the book is on a table in the
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bookstore,
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part of a three for two offer.
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You've also been meaning to read Seymour Hershey's
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Chain of Command,
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and this too is in the three for
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two deal.
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They've got Gravity's
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Rainbow by the notorious
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recluse
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Thomas
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Pynchon,
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Mao two by DeLillo,
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the border trilogy
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by McCarthy,
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the catcher in the rye by Salinger,
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notorious
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recluses
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to a man.
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They've got
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The Loser,
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a novel about the notorious
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recluse
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Glenn Gould,
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by their notorious
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misanthrope
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Thomas Bernhardt.
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They've got lottery land by the notorious
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recluse
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misentroped
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Zosanian.
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You feel certainly
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and uncommunicative.
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You hate your fellow man.
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Reclusiveness
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and misanthropy
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could be the hair of the dog.
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They've also got Helen DeWitt and Ilya Grigniff's
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new book, Your Name Here.
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So that's the cover.
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Helena DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff
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and Your Name Here
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are in red. The rest of it is
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just type. It's a,
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so it's kind of a meta book.
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There's like a book inside the book
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that Zosanian
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Lottery Land is like a fake book by
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a fake author that's inside this book.
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It's just like a book.
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She had gone through some mental illness. She'd
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been committed.
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There were suicide
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attempts. This is in
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Helen DeWitt's
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actual life,
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real life.
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And
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she had written this book, The Last Samurai,
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in 2003,
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and it was a big success.
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And she spent a long time trying to
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get this book published.
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It's kind of a little wild of a
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book.
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It like imagines a world
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in which the Moors,
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the Moorish empire
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stayed in Spain, and their headquarters
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was in Granada,
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and they,
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settled the new world, like Spain with Columbus.
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But the Moors settled the new world, and
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they speak Arabic
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in the new world, and it's like a,
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and then it kinda breaks into this other
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novel, Lottery Land,
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which is,
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about a world where
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you everyone gets lotto
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lotto monitors,
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and they check their luck all the time.
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And people have bad or good luck and
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some people
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lose everything and then kind of become
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outcasts
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outcasts
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from society.
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Really interesting
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book.
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A lot of it is, like, emails.
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Takes the form of emails where they have,
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like, the header
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and it's, like, from popesonecstasy@hotmail.com.
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And and and it's, like, MSN.
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It has the, like, auto signature at the
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bottom,
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and you're just like, this is insane.
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Then there's, like, Arabic.
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Like, I learned that
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words like
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mujahideen
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and jihad,
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that they share the consonants
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j h d,
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and they're like, a lot of
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words
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share consonants
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to, like, kinda point
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them in meaning. It's just it's really interesting.
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A lot of discussion about Arabic.
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It's
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a really good book, like, but written by
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just
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a lot
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of what it seems like despair
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or
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you feel a lot of sympathy
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for this person
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whose livelihood
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is based on
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writing, who is writing something that's, like,
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unpublishable
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almost,
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but it's, like, written by a master.
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Reinvention
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and imagination,
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the level of imagination.
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Like, James Joyce making up words,
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and she's making up
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so much where there's so much interior
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world that the author lets you into here.
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Your name here. Check it out.
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Anyway, thanks for listening to What's the Matter
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with Me. Check the
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the,
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the videos.
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Check the what's the matter with me podcast
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cartoons
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on YouTube.
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Check it out.
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I've been working
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on animating the mouth
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so it speaks
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like more like a human. Anyway,
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thanks for tuning in to What's the Matter
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with Me? Some book reviews
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and some anti war
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stuff and,
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I kind of let
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I believe in
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intentions.
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And so my intention
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is to create a I visualize
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world peace
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and world peace, man. I'm that guy. I
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visualize
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all of it.
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Visualize
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world peace.
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Soldiers are kids.
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Let them live.
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Peace.
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Alright. What's the matter with me podcast.
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Thank you for tuning in.
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Catch you next time.