Tape 55 - "Purple Stuff" - How To Make A Mixtape

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How many licks? Now, the making of a good
compilation tape is a very supple art.
Many do's and don'ts. First of all, you're using
someone else's poetry to expresshow you feel.
This is a delicate. Thing.
You got to kick it off with a killer grab attention, then you

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got to take it up enough you don't want to know your.
Then you got to cool it off a notch.
And there are a lot of rules. Check it out.
Oh, look at you Mr. Chomps, Full, full mouth of.
Teeth, all me chompers. Full teeth and mouth right
there. Not permanent temp temp teeth,
but. Temp teeth.

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I got temp chompers. I got them.
They're there, yeah. What's?
Your you've hotel room recorded a few times.
Oh yeah. Yep.
What do you think? Oh, it's not ideal.
So I have I have a great setup right now, great setup.
I've got like I'm on like the cuck couch, you know, in like
the hotel room, like as as one does.

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So I'm on the cuck couch and. Never heard it called that by
the way. Loving it, big fan.
Nice throw pillows, nice decor. I have like a a a table set here
as well. Can you name drop the hotel?
Maybe we'll get a sponsor. It's Marriott.
It's I'm getting my Bonjour points.

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Yeah, yeah, your bon voy. Bon boy not bonjour.
Bon voice. What?
What kind of where you at? We talking a courtyard?
We talking a. No, just a run-of-the-mill.
Oh, just old. School.
Old School Bethesda, MD. Yeah.
That's where I'm at. Home of Montgomery Mall.
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm doing here, getting ready for
it. I I don't mind it, but I'm not

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equipped for evening hotel time and here's why.
OK yeah, I don't, I don't drink.OK, OK, so like going down to
the bar isn't my. Idea.
Anything for you? Right.
Like just to be. Clear, I do drink, and going
down to the hotel bar at the Bethesda Marriott is not my idea
of a good time either. I hear about Nick Green travels,

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Nick's Nick Green's travels and he like, makes friends fucking,
but he's a social. He's a he's one of those
extrovert like. Talking to anybody guys so.
Totally. So like, but like, he'll go to
the bar and like, make friends with everybody down there.
Let's just say I've never met a Nick Green.
Type at a bar. It's that's not who you're
meeting at Marriott bars. Great gym in the in the hotel.
Bethesda Marriott has outstanding gym but like there's

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an hour. Yeah.
You know. Shower maybe?
Shower. Yeah, for sure.
That's 12 minutes. Now what the fuck do you do?
Here's what's funny. I was just talking to somebody.
I currently as we are recording,have the reruns of The Office on
Comedy Central just muted for video.
In the background. Yeah.

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I have a Peacock subscription. I could watch The Office all the
time, always with no well with limited commercials, but it's
just on here. What is that?
Because I do the same thing at ahotel.
I will watch reruns of a show that's on cable that I've seen a
million. Like I'll put Friends on or I'll
put like a Family Guy on or Office like.

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Yeah, emotional support television.
Yeah, but why at a hotel? I guess it's just there, like I
don't want to deal with the streaming or like it feels even
more lonely or weird to just lean over and watch my phone in
bed or something. I'm a big even at home, I'm a
big iPad proper fall asleep. Like I fall asleep to an iPad
face right up against that fucker.

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Like I mean nestled in there andI'm not watching it.
I'm just, this isn't the sound, but it's just emotional support.
There's all sorts of crazy shit that says that you're not
supposed to do that. Well, yeah, I mean, you're, I
don't think you're supposed to. I fall asleep to my phone, like
YouTube videos and stuff, but same thing.
Like I try to put something on that I don't have to watch, I
can just listen to, but it's right there.
It's right by my head. Yeah.
Why is that bad? Yeah.
I don't know, like people listento audiobooks and stuff and

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like. That would be more.
Distracting to me than like reruns because.
I'd be interested, yeah, becauseI'd be actually interested in
what I'm listening to. I couldn't give a shit about the
office the 13th time through. Did you Speaking of reruns of TV
shows, did you treat yourself today?
Treat yourself. It's treat yourself day from.
Oh, no shit. Is it?
Yeah. It's adorable.
No, but I was watching Parks andRec reruns before I was watching

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The Office. I had no idea to Treat yourself
day. It's.
Treat yourself day. Yeah, I I have it in my
calendar. I have an annual Treat yourself
day reminder. My calendar.
I did. Don't think I treated myself
today, did I? Sure, maybe I did.
Yeah, I got a nice glass of winehere for a recording.
Oh, adorable. I would sweatshirt.
Sweatshirt's bad ass too. Mannequin pussy sweatshirt.
Yeah, mannequin pussy sweatshirt, little birthday

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gift. I didn't treat myself today and
sounds like you didn't either. So that's that's talking point
gone. Check that one off.
You know what I do celebrate, though?
This is, you know what I do celebrate.
So today's Monday, and this is something I've done for a long
time, OK? If you go out for the day, like
you're out and about working in the field, whatever, do you

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spend money every day? You spend money every day,
right? A coffee?
Yeah. Something.
Something I for a long time I tried to do no money Mondays
where I'll commit to not spending a single dollar any
Monday, right? And it's just like, I'm not
saving a bunch of money, no. It's like a self-control
exercise or something, yeah. No many Mondays were a big hit

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for me for a long time. Like, you know, it was the day
where I tried to not drink diet Cokes, which usually was not a
win. No Money Mondays was always a
good one, and today's Monday. Did you spend any of your own
money? Today, no, I hadn't spent any
money. Today I was in no position to do
so. I drove from the Marriott in
Bethesda, MD, to the place whereI'm training at, and then from

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that training place back to the hotel.
Yeah, I did a little hotel room grocery shopping yesterday.
I had a Lunchable for dinner. What the?
Oh Yikes, that's that's not a fun.
That's not a good feeling. Impressing time.
Yeah. I've had some good pho.
Do you like pho? I've had some good fun.
Oh, I had fun for the. First time in Vancouver in
August. So it's not, it's going to be

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hard to get fun that compares toVancouver because there's such
an Asian influence there. Like the, the, the food there is
so incredible. But I've had some decent FO in
Bethesda actually. Before no shit.
Yeah, yeah. I don't remember the spot and
actually I remember the spot wasweird but the the FO was good.
Did you look at my sequence for the last episode?
For Monday, Monday, no, I don't give a shit when you well.

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Well, that's fair. You don't.
You don't need to look 'cause it's, it's, it's great.
Here's what I here's what I wantto say about it, though.
Yeah, that Hudson Freeman song that you put on that playlist,
if you know me. Yeah.
Has me in an absolute chokehold.Yeah.
It is. It is like what Dirt Man was to
me last year. It is to me now.

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But what's different is it's serious.
It's like a serious song. Dirt Man was a meme.
This is a song and it's like, it's everything.
It's everything. It's it's folksy.
It's dark, but it's not totally dark.
It's almost like a metal riff played on a Spanish guitar.
It's. Gorgeous.
It does and it's beautiful and the crickets and his voice and

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like he has posted probably 20 different videos of him playing
that song and I just watched theleast.
I've watched the least. Every single one and they keep
coming up on my feed now and I just watch it every single time.
It literally has me in a chokehold.
Dude. I cannot stop listening to that
song and watch. Have you listened to more of his
stuff? I have I so on.
When did we record that? The next day, Whenever we

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recorded that episode, the next day, I went and listened to I
had AI was jonesing for the song, so I went and listened to
it and I just let it play. I just let Spotify playthrough
it's it's not all so folksy he'sgot.
Some stuff not all so folksy. It's still it still lives
pretty. I mean, you love Beckett.
Maybe lives a little acoustic Becky.

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I could see. Yeah, yeah.
For sure it's a little sea changey.
Yeah, well, there's diversity toit, which I do appreciate.
It's not like a dude that's justwriting a bunch of the same
style folk songs. He's got some variety in his
sound. It all does live in that area,
but it's dude Hudson Freeman manshout out.

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Come on the pod dude. Like.
I want to talk about you know what, I'll shoot him a message
from the Instagram. Yeah, like.
He and then he won't reply, but I'll do it.
Yeah, sure, but I'm telling you,he's got me in a chokehold.
Which made me think, oh, have you been listening to any other
new music? I mean, you put 2 new, you put
Carpet Man in him on the last one.
Yeah. And we?
Haven't done that, carpet man. I love it.
I, I mean, I love it. He.

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He's sold full. I'd I'd listened to a little,
but I hadn't really listened to much, so you putting that on the
mix tape made me listen to more.Great voice.
Really. Cool voice, great voice.
Yeah. Anything else though?
I don't want to say because it applicable, Yeah, it's
applicable to the thief. Fair.

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Fucking Christ. There was another band that I
recently just like came across and I was like, this is, it's
not serious. Oh, it's wind.
Something wind. Wind.
Wind rose. Wind rose.
Nope. Give that a won't.
OK, I'd sent you a band. Who When?
To listen to, did you listen to?Them all, all them all them

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witches. Yeah, I did.
When was it a text or I? Said they sound like a mix of
Mastodon and Black Keys. Oh, you did send me that.
And you know what? I just ignored it.
Oh, that's sweet. That's that's.
Nice shit, bad job to me man. Yeah, all them witches.
Been listening to that a little bit this.
Hip hop art is called. Win Wynne, she's pretty bad ass

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and then some. I don't know.
Fred again keeps putting out newshit and it's all good so.
I haven't gotten over. There's two things that you sent
me recently that I haven't gotten over.
I haven't gotten no doubt gottenover no doubt at this sphere.
That's oh you. Want to just do this then?
What? Oh, music news?
Oh yeah. Yeah.

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So no doubt announced A residency at the Sphere.
Is it a residency if it's only 6days?
I think anything more than like a couple days I guess is, yeah,
that's a good question. So they're doing a week.
Control they fucking residency. That's a residency.
That's fucking residency. Speaking of which, I started the
fucking documentary on HBO on anairplane.
What was I thinking? What were you thinking?

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The Billy Joel one? Yeah.
What were you thinking? Made tears.
Did you cry? Immediately dude I was crying
within the 1st 8 minutes. Yeah.
That's why I was at AI was at a friend's house yesterday and we
were trying to figure out what to watch and we're both like,
well, we want to watch that new John Candy documentary.
We both almost at the same time.We're like, well, I'm not I
don't feel like crying right now.
I'm. Not no.
Yeah, with the first eight to 10minutes of the Billy Joel

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documentary, I was crying and like, so flew to Maryland
yesterday, Sunday, Chicago Marathon was in Chicago Sunday.
And anybody that had travelled from Washington, DC to Chicago
was on my flight home, was on myflight to Washington, DC, but
their flight home. So I'm just surrounded by people
who just got done running 26 miles.

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There was a woman in the same row as me.
And like, you know, I'm OK to throw out a congratulations, you
know, so we sit down and like I'm a window exclusively window,
you window or an aisle. We think we think we talked
about this. I'm a window.
Right, needling up against it. It just makes the most sense.
OK, I'm a window as well. She's the aisle and she is

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struggling to get out and like you know, I would hope so.
She just ran 26.2 miles. She's struggling.
At all. No way.
And so, you know, she gets up and I and I climb in.
I try and go as quick as I can and I say, you know, hey,
congratulations, having run the marathon.
And she's like, oh, thank you somuch.
And then, you know, partner sitsdown next to her.

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They're on the plane and like just small talk.
I'm like, you know, your first one.
Yes, for sure. I'm like, you know,
congratulations. She's like, you know, right now
your city's getting such a shit wrap.
And it's so unfortunate because I wouldn't have finished that.
I didn't if the crowd wasn't cheering me on the way that it
was. Oh.
That's sweet. That's so sweet.
That's very sweet. So we're already a bit
sentimental on the plane. We're kicking it off that way.
And then I decide, after watching a terrible show on

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Netflix called Wayward, don't even bother.
Don't know it. I threw on the Billy Joel
documentary and just cried next to this adorable couple.
And we've talked about it before.
I've done it on planets too. I'm, I'm more conscientious,
conscious, conscientious, whichever now of what I'm
picking on planes, 'cause I don't want to get emotional on a
plane anymore. I I don't like it.

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I don't like that feeling of vulnerability.
But yeah. So no doubt at the sphere big
music news, I would go see that.Sucks as Gwen Stefani's
insufferable now. She is, but I've never seen no
doubt. So I'm like, I'd love to, you
know? Yeah, for sure.
Other music news Drake. So you knew Drake was suing
Kendrick for not like us for defamation.

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Did you know that? No, yeah, I think so.
Like it it like it was all back then.
Which is which? Is crazy cause like you're in a
rap battle you don't you're basically saying he won when
you're like that one was so meanI'm suing you for defamation.
The judge threw it out this. Awesome.
The judge was like, Nope, Nope, there's no case here.
That's even more embarrassing. Yeah, it wasn't.
From what I read, there wasn't even a verdict as they went,

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they didn't go to trial. The judge threw threw the case
out. So.
That's pretty embarrassing, yeah.
Super embarrassing. Sorry Drake, I read I saw a
meme, sorry saw a meme and it was like a serious picture of
Drake and the headline made it seem like he actually like it
was like an onion style thing right where it took itself
seriously. But it was like Drake rushed to

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the hospital when hot chocolate too hot.
I was just. Like just burning them.
Oh, damn. Great.
Pun intended. Just burning them, yeah.
Just burning them. All right, Last piece of music
news for this one. I found this really interesting.
Actually. We don't.
I kind of avoid Taylor Swift news because she's always in the
news, but that's nothing againsther.
She's just always in the news. I got a piece of news, but keep

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going. So she.
Her album debuted #1 not a surprise.
Obviously. To anybody.
It's her 15th number one album. She was tied for the second most
number one albums of all time with Drake, oddly enough, and
Jay-Z prior to this. So she's now passed both Drake
and Jay-Z, but she's still in second.

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Do you know who still has the most number one albums of all
time? Albums.
Albums. I would guess Michael Jackson.
Not Michael Jackson. It's going to surprise you
because it's albums. The Beatles.
Say what you're thinking, it's The Beatles.
It's The Beatles. I think every time they released
like in like a greatest hits or any of that stuff, I think it
all always hit #1 So they've hadI think I read 19 #1 albums.

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So she's #2 now. So Congrats Taylor number two
all time #1 albums. You know, not surprising, but
it's that's impressive. Yeah, have we?
This isn't music news. Let's say it's music news.
Have we dipped our toe in K Pop Demon Hunter?
We haven't talked about it at all.
We haven't talked about it at. All no, but real quick, there's

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this artist. She's like an alternative R&B
slash hip hop artist called Audrey Nuna, Luna Nuna, Audrey
Nuna. I think she's one of the K pop
demon hunters. She's one of the voices and one
of the singers on that. And I didn't know that until
recently. I knew it was like.
A hip hop artist? I haven't watched it at all.
Nope. So if she's Audrey, Nuna.

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Awesome. By the way everybody go listen
to Audrey Nunes. Although now her now her Spotify
page is just K pop Demon Hunter songs.
OK, well, let me tell you. First of all, that golden song.
Yeah, the. Next one top writing I've ever
seen. It's great.
Impeccably a perfect pop song ofall time.

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It's inescapable once it's in there.
Like once it's in there, it's not coming out.
Did you see the movie? Do you watch the movie?
I haven't watched any of it. I only know it because it's in
the it's in the ovra right now, it's in the zeitgeist or
whatever. But also then I like I listen to
Audrey Nuna and all of a sudden her top ten got taken over by K
pop Demon Hunter songs. So oh.

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OK, yeah, I see. Which one is?
Literally her entire top 10 is all K pop Demon Hunter and it
wasn't. It didn't used to be.
They performed on Jimmy Fallon the other day.
I. Saw I did see that clip or they
were on SNL too. They were on a skit.
And SNL skit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They did bring the song down a key because it's, I mean, to

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sing it in its regular key is like a fucking vocal
performance. That's just absolutely insane.
But they did bring it down a key.
They absolutely crushed it on Jimmy Fallon.
They're fantastic. I mean they found.
Like that's already filming. What's up?
Is it really? Oh, live action is already
filming. Right.
So they're they're all over that, yeah.

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Just throwing money at it, have you?
Watched it then. Oh yeah, dude.
Is it great? Should I?
Should I? Adorable yeah hell yeah I mean
it's a feel good movie you know it's like, you know, be a be
yourself type don't be afraid ofwho you are type of movie, you
know with positive message and you know don't trust Dicks and
do your. Music.
Great fucking music. Yeah, at one point in time like

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8 of the songs when the top Billboard top 10.
Yeah, that's why. There's crazy facts are on the
movie right now for music news. I digress.
Anyway, I have. No idea what that means.
Well, that's great music news. It was pointed out to me.
We'll bring the guest here in a second.
Was pointed out to me recently that we do a really bad job of
actually introducing the podcastand.

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We're we do, we're like. 19 minutes in right now and we
haven't said with the podcast. I never.
Saw the podcast to How to Make aMixtape.
I don't want to do that either, but.
Your saw your source for all things mixtape.
Well thanks for streaming an episode of How to Make a
Mixtape. We appreciate you tuning.
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Yeah, alright. Should we get the guest in?
Yeah, let's do it. Why hello there, it's me, John
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If you don't Google it. This is for little gimmicks.

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Sorry, dyslexic. I would say the word backwards.
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First record store owner. Big move.
Big move. Tying it all back together from
the idea of the High Fidelity theme all the way back to our
first record store owner, Colin I I hope it's as cool as it is
in the movie. Is it?
Is it as cool? Sure, sure, No, I just want to
say that you know, I obviously, you know, I I I don't act like

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the guys from high fidelity, youknow, like I I don't withhold
records because I don't think someones cool enough or anything
like that. But at the same time, like,
yeah, that that's, that is a a great movie.
Actually, actually saw it in theaters when it was new.
Me and me and my dad and I think, I think even my my sister
Aaron, you know, we all, well, we all saw it together.

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And yeah, we we would quote it and I Even so fun fact, I used
to do improv classes and out in in second City around that same
time around like 2002 thousand one and one of them I did a
scene with somebody that was in high fidelity.
It was actually one of the kids that was like, they were like

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stealing. The Wizards.
Yeah, yeah, from the kinky Wizards.
So yeah, Chris from, from, from,from there.
And so I, so I did. So I did end up doing an, an
improv scene with, with him and,and so I thought that was pretty
cool. And I was just like, Oh, hey,
that's, that's, that was cool. And I like, I didn't, I didn't
realize it until after we had done the scene and I was just
sort of like, and then I think it was like my dad was just

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like, that was, do you remember that part in high fidelity?
That was, that was him. And I was like, Oh, shit.
And so, but I, I talked to him. And he stole his grandma's
wheelchair. Hell yeah.
There you go. That's awesome.
So with that, said Colin, welcome to the pod Colin, owner
operator of Purple Dog Records in Naperville, IL.
Indeed. Yeah, yeah, we.
How long you been doing it for? Well, so it was interesting.

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So my father and I used to, we attempted to try and sell
records online and it was just not going super great.
And my, my dad had this giganticrecord collection that he was
trying to kind of cull down and,and he and he had like even
taking away the ones that he wanted to keep, he still had
like enough to fill up a store. And so we started trying to sell

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them online and we just, we didn't like it.
We were, we were, you know, just, you know, sending them out
and it was just it, we just weren't making that much money
doing it. And so then he's ended up going
to these different thrift storesand these shops that would have
like these different, you know, the, the, you know, like we, you
know, those like when you, when you go into like a certain, like
antique stores, they'll have different spots for different
people and they'll be like different, different owners.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's the guy that sells the
baseball cards and here's the guy that sells the old magazines
and, and all that. And so my dad would just be the
guy that sells the records and, and then eventually my sister
Aaron, she found a, a small spotin Naperville by the train
station. And so they, they ended up
starting that together, startingthat together.
And I, I had already kind of like moved on and I was like

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working at Target. And the, the store ended up
doing well enough that they, they took me on and I was able
to quit Target, but then, then 2020 year old around and you
know, COVID and all that stuff. So our, our landlords ended up
having to sell the building and so then we ended up moving
further into downtown and yeah, so now we're, we're in our, our
spot on on S Washington St. And yeah, down a, we're down a

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small gangway. So it's just like it's a, so you
go down there and there's less like they're like the Beilman
furniture and then there's standard goods and, and then
there's like a small gangway andit goes down to our, our shop.
And we've been. We've been there ever since.
Nice. Very cool.
Is it as much? Like, is it people seeking the
Holy Grail of the record for thecollection that they're looking
for, or is it the casual browseror what?

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Who's your target audience that you think you snag the most of?
I think it's, it's mostly casualpeople, but there's definitely
people that that are looking, they'll come in and they'll look
for something. We're we're totally able to.
What I do is I'll, I'll take like names and numbers for
people in case we do get the theone big thing that they're
looking for, saying like I'm really looking for a first
pressing of this album. And so I'll, I'll take their

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name and number and then be like, all right, next time it
comes in, I'll let you know. And that's happened a few times.
That is, that is a something that like, yeah, we are a small
enough store that we're able to do that.
For sure, Colin, what is our theme for today's mix tape?
The theme is The Color Purple. And when when I say The Color
Purple I mean the actual, not the the film and not the film.

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Yeah, leave the color. But you just twat.
Just the soundtrack of the movie, The color.
There. There you go.
That's it. Yeah, done.
OK, cool. So.
Actual color purple. Actual color Purple songs, Yeah.
So purple songs. OK, cool.
Colin, you want to go? First color this is our.
Sex color. We did red first.
We did Red, yeah. All right.
Oh, very good. We had.
A. We had a.
Great time on that. I thought Red was very

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skeptical. I was skeptical and that's why
I'm sold for Purple. So Colin, do you want to go
first, second or third with yourcontribution to the mix tape?
You know, let me go third, let me get let's hear what you guys
have to say and then I'll, I'll,I'll agree because I, I actually
have, like I said, I said beforewe started recording.
I have 15 songs in mind here andyou're ready.
To go you got. Plenty.

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It was less, it was a little bitmore of a scramble for me, but
I'm excited for it either way. That means I've got. 10 I've got
10 yeah, in a good spot. No, you're first on.
I went for first episode. Oh, OK.
I'm going to go the cooler routethan going the obvious route
because I'm afraid to go obviousbecause I think everybody is
going to have the obvious ones. So in my research and like

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through digging, I found an artist called Canons.
You guys familiar with Canons? No.
I've heard the name I, I, I knowof, I know of canons, yes.
They're surprisingly big, like couple million monthly
listeners, like 3,000,000 monthly listeners.
They're most listened to song iscalled Fire for You and if you
hear it, it sounds pretty, pretty familiar. 241 million

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streams on Spotify but they havea song called Purple Sun.

(25:59):
That is this weird synth slash reggae with a younger woman that
kind of sounds like Stevie Nicksis the singer.
And as I was digging like through Purple titled songs, I
stumbled upon this and I stumbled upon this artist and I
threw it on and I was like, oh, this is an obvious addition to a
Purple song playlist and it's going to fit somewhere perfectly

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when it comes down to throwing together that mixtape.
And I cannot wait to spend more time with this band in all of
what it says about them on Spotify makes them sound like
the coolest band on the planet. So.
That's cool. Yeah, giving it a whirl.
Sounding, yeah, sounding almost like Laurel Canyon version of
like Major Lazer or something. It's like reggae electronic but

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like chilled out. So this song is like that, this
Purple Sun song, but like if youlisten to the rest of it, it
it's almost like Chromeo. Oh, I'm hearing it already.
I'm listening to that Fire For You song and it's already sound
sounding Chromeo. This song came from a pretty
popular Netflix series. The Fire for You song was like a

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song in a a pretty popular episode, sort of a next Netflix
show called Never Have I Ever. And that's what like blew this
song to the top. And the Sun came out in 2020.
But the Purple Sun song is my first contribution to the purple
mixtape. It hits everything.
If you asked me to draw up a song the way that I would want
it to go, it would be this. It's got really cool vibes.

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Really cool vibes. I can't wait to listen to more
canons because Purple Sun is pretty bad ass.
That's a good band name. Canons for sure.
Yeah. I think we may have gotten one
of their albums in at one point,like like a few years ago.
It says that they've been aroundsince 2013, so they've been
doing it for a minute. Again, it's it's something I'm

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looking forward to, like kind ofdeep diving through the
discography because this song and also that most played song
from the Netflix show are prettybadass.
So. Totally valid way to go about
it. I did the same thing, but I also
wound up making Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix my first pick.
For this mixtape, excuse me while I kiss this guy.

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Were you afraid you weren't going to get?
It no, no, it was this is one ofthose mixtapes where if all four
of my if all of my top four got picked by one of you, I'd just
be stoked they made the mixtape and I'd go pick something else.
So like, but I did kind of ordermine in preference of what I
would want to contribute and Jimi was my top.
I went through big Jimi Hendrix phase.
I mean, not that I don't still like Jimi, but went through a

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big Jimi Hendrix phase in like middle school.
So it was like it was like Clapton Hendrix.
It was like the. I went through like a guitar
gods. Phase I guess and so I was
listening to. Doesn't everybody?
I think they do. I think I don't know.
You'd have to tell me if you guys did.
Do Colin go through a guitar? God's face.
Pretty much, yeah. I I still do like, I, I like a

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lot of like Ingvey Malenstein. I I had a big Buckethead phase.
Like I was like way into Buckethead.
Yeah, we love Buckethead. The podcast and.
How deep did it get Colin? Well, not that because like this
was back in like Late Night. This is before he went crazy and
decided to make like 50 albums ayear.
Like, you know, like that, like that whole like era, which is

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still going really. But but yeah, this is back when
he would do stuff with Les Claypool and, you know, like,
like monsters and robots and like that whole thing and, and
and he would like do a lot of stuff with Bootsy Collins.
Yeah, I had, I had really gotteninto also like Steve Vai and Joe
Satriani. But it's, it's it's funny to go
back to the Hendrix for a bit. I've, you know, I've always
loved Hendrix. That's he's always been, you
know, like one of my favorites. But my dad always has the story

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of like how he, because my dad was a big like, you know, like,
like he loved, you know, the classic rock, like he was born
in in 1947 and, and so like, andso he was like just a, a young
man he was. 20 when this came out.
Yeah, so he so so this so this was like, so he was, you know,
this this young man and in like he's from New York.
But like when he was like 18 or 19 that we moved to Chicago and

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he had said that he was in a record shop and he was there to
buy some, you know, pop record something, you know, some some
like 60s, you know, pop rock type of thing there.
And they were playing in the store, they were playing
Hendrix. And I forget what song, it might
have been Purple Haze, but it was it was some Hendrix song.
And he was just like, what the fuck is this?
And and he immediately was just like, what is this?

(30:45):
And the clerk was just like, this is this is Hendrix is Jimi
Hendrix. And and he immediately put back
the pop rock album that he had there and he picked up.
Are you like, are you experienced?
And he bought that instead. And that, and that's how he got
ended up getting into that styleof, of music.
And then he ended up getting into the, the The Doors and, you
know, like Led Zeppelin and he, he really liked Elf, which was

(31:06):
the, which is Ronnie James Dio'sband before like Rainbow and
Black Sabbath and all them. And yeah, he had really gotten
into like all of the, all these.And then he, he had gotten into
like, you know, the Stooges and,and they, and really just this
weird, this, all this weird underground stuff.
Your dad sounds cool. Yeah, yeah, unfortunately he
passed away, but it was yeah, like I was just remember that it
just like that, that he had likethat moment of like it was just

(31:29):
like, like what the fuck this shit.
And like whenever I want to listen to this, I bet.
He did that for a lot of people though, you know, he just has
such a unique sound even still to this day.
Like I mean, and a lot of those insanely talented guitar players
do like they all have their signature way that they play and
their sound. But like there's something so
almost, I hesitate to say this because of my background, but

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like it almost sounds punk rock.Like it almost is.
So like, and I know it's a mixture of like him being a
left-handed guitar player, but playing a right-handed guitar.
And so he plays chords in a way,like that's getting a little
technical. But I like they call him like
Hendrix chords. Like he plays chords kind of
backwards and stuff. So it gives it the sound.
But it does have like this heavy, kind of like almost

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messy, even though it's not messy, it's precise, but it kind
of sounds a little more like raucous.
I just always loved that about Hendrix.
And like, it had been a while since I listened and then this
episode got me kind of listeningto Hendrix again for recently.
The interesting thing about Hendrix is that like if you do
listen to it, it is very much Blues rock, but at the at the

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same time like it. It really does remind you that
like metal and punk like that kind of all comes from Blues
rock. Like it all like like like like.
Black Sabbath. Considered one of the first
metal bands was a Blues Blues. Band.
Yeah, and and, and Hendrix was kind of that kind of like bridge
that like it let that really letyou like it because, you know,
you listen to metal now and you're just sort of like like
like how is this ever Blues rock?

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And but then like you listen to something like Hendrix and and
you just sort of like, oh, thereit is.
Because it's it, it is kind of like that really Hard Rock, but
it is very bluesy. And you can you can kind of hear
that kind of, yeah, that bridge between the two genres.
Something in the water up in Seattle, I'm telling you.
Like Pacific Northwest has something with these musicians
who just make sounds that nobody's ever heard until, like,

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they start making them. But so yeah, that's my first
pick. Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze so.
Colin, over to you. What's your first pick?
All right, I also want to go something a little, a little
weird a little out there. Well, it's, it's not that weird,
but so going early 2000s, it's not quite purple, but it's, it's
a kind of purple. And so there is, there's a a

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band that I was way into back inthe 2000s and, and they're still
good today. They're still around today and
they're still good called The Birthday Massacre.
And they were this goth band andthey had a, they had a song
called Violet. It's close enough to it's a type

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of purple, like it's a purple, it's a purple.
It counts. And so so yeah, I could have
easily gone with, you know, Violet by, you know, whole,
which is a definitely different song.
And I thought that's an all right song.
But the birthday, I was way intothe birthday massacre and they
have this sound that is very, very obviously like it's it's
early 2000, early 2000s. And, but it is very obviously
trying to sound like that 80s eighties goth 80s synth, but

(34:42):
through a like a 2 like early 2000s like filter.
And so it, it's like one of those like, like if you ever
like watch a like a movie from the 80s that's trying to set in
like the 50s, you can tell it's like, oh, it's the 50s, but it's
also the 80s. So it has, it has that sign of
that had that kind of feel to it.
And, and, and there are plenty of other like, you know, music
genres, like when you have thosepost punk bands from the 2000s

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that are just like, this is very2000s, but it's also very 80s,
but it's also very 60s because it's going back, you know, post
punk was like, you know, people in the 80s trying to sound like
something from the 60s. And so Violet by the Birthday
Massacre and just like their their sound in general,
especially, especially when theyfirst started out had this just
very like like, yeah, like this.I believe this album came out

(35:26):
and because the album is also called Violet and I believe like
2004 and and it was just it and it was the most hot topic like
band imaginable. Like you just you just you look
at their album covers, you look at them, you know, you, you look
at, you know, they were just themost like goth kids in the
world. And I used to be way more like,
you know, goth when I was like around that time.

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And I would just listen to them.And I just, I just love the way
that there's that, that like since like sounded that, that
very like 80s, since, you know, like done like in this, what was
at the time a modern, you know, sounding, you know, 80s synth
sound And, and that, and that was always like, that was kind
of a popular thing. There were multiple bands at
that time that were trying to sound 80's.
The Darkness was another big band that that tried that was

(36:08):
like this 2000s band that was just like, let's try and give it
kind of an 80s feel to it. And they were pretty good too,
but. Very Hot Topic vibes.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Somebody. Who worked at Hot Topic not long
after this album came out. This is very Hot Topic vibes and
I will also say couple things. One all their albums which I'm
looking at like 8 on my screen right now are.

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All purple Oh. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing.
The purple is is like a very big, like, you know, motif for
for the birthday massacre. And this sounds like a couple.
One, it sounds like it could be in Stranger Things, sure.
But also Sky sounds like the newAFI but with a woman singing
Don. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've actually been listening to the new AFI.

(36:50):
Yeah, I really, I really like the new AFI.
Well, if you like this, you would like, it's like 80s goth
sounding, right? It's like a little new order, a
little like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's very
much. It sounds like this band is
going to open for him right now.Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is the opening act for him.I said that's another band.
I I did also enjoy him at that. Time.
But it also just it kind of likegives me a little bit of a Susie

(37:12):
in the band, this vibe like a little bit but but maybe more
like like the Cure or something like that.
But like, yeah, you, you can tell that they like, but it also
kind of sounds like like you would hear in like an 80s
fantasy movie, like if you're watching like a labyrinth or
legend or something like that. They would have this kind of

(37:33):
like this synth sounding like this the in their in like those
kind of fantasy movies. Definitely a band that I, I, I
listen to a lot. And yeah, and yeah.
And they're, they're, they're still going today.
And and I I still do enjoy theirtheir stuff.
Oh. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm happy to.
There's some surprises on the mix tape already.
I'm a big fan. Yeah, killing it so far.

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OK, over to me. I I got it on the last Color
album. Driving, driving a little red
Corvette and moving into the next color Color mixtape.
It's got to be Purple Rain. It's got to be Prince himself
with Purple Rain. And I'm glad I snagged it

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because I feel like this would have been a one to go quick.
I also love that the only two times Prince has been on the mix
tape, it is for color albums. Yeah, right in your red, in your
red one. Yeah, yeah, that this.
So both both Purple Haze and Purple Rain were on my list, but
I'm just sort of like it it they're they're going to be,
they're going to, yeah, don't make it.

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No matter what. Yeah, I'm glad they did that.
I mean, it's it's it's it's thisis one of those artists you
can't really judge off of streaming because he wasn't even
on streaming for a long time. You.
Guys. Think.
Purple Rain is his biggest song.Like if you had to choose like a
signature song. I would say Purple Rain
definitely and then like followed by 1999 or.

(39:16):
Something. Like that.
And then there's like, yeah, theRaspberry beret.
Raspberry Beret, yeah. It would be a big one too.
It's his. Biggest song on like streaming,
but like you know, that doesn't always mean it was the biggest
song by an artist, especially like an artist from like pre
streaming era, but it just it just does well and it also had
the movie right. So you had you had the scene
from the movie and all that stuff, which is iconic, but.

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It is hands down the best. Speaking of which, a lot of
Super Bowl halftime controversy right now.
Arguably the greatest halftime show of all time.
I, I mean, I haven't seen like all the halftime shows.
I but it was memorable. You know, it was like a, it was
like a moment like you had to, you wanted to watch Prince's
halftime show because you knew it was going to be a show and it
was Prince like. Not only that, but it was

(40:00):
literally in the pouring rain inFlorida.
One of my all time favorite I guess just music like live
video, live performance footage,things of all time that I feel
like everybody's seen by now. But you guys have seen the
Prince when my guitar gently weep solo from the.
Rock and the Hall of Fame. Before it legitimately is one of

(40:21):
the coolest things just ever andit and it and it's even more so
because he's on stage with all these other like incredible
musicians. It's not like it's a Prince
concert and he just goes off on this incredible guitar.
So it's like, no, he's a guest soloist along with like, Tom
Petty and Bob Dylan's up there. And I don't remember everybody.

(40:41):
George, George, George Harrison's.
Yeah, kids there. Like I think Tom Petty was
singing the song. Originally or.
Maybe a couple of them. Bruce Springsteen's on stage,
all these guys and it's like Prince just comes up to RIP that
solo and just it's just mind blowing.
It's just a mind blowing. It's just crazy.
And there's like, there's that video going around right now of
him recording the bass for the song he did for the Batman 89

(41:05):
soundtrack and him just doing this like, and he's so casual.
He's just like doing these like trills, just like on the bass
and just like, the dude is a genius.
The dude is like unreal. Did you ever hear his cover of
Creep by Radiohead? I have, but only recently.
Only recently he. Plays it at the Super Bowl.

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I mean, Prince, anything, Princeisn't gonna do anything unless
he's gonna do like the best version of it.
Like, 'cause when he passed away, they said they found I, I
don't remember the amount, but like the number of songs that
they found that he had recorded and just never put out because
it just didn't hit his. Like he did the whole song and
he's like, this isn't, this isn't good enough, This I, and
he just sat on stuff. He would just sit on stuff
unless he felt like it was the best thing he could put out.

(41:47):
They apparently have like albumsand albums and albums worth of
prints. Material that's just not out and
might not ever come out, who knows?
Yeah, and you and you never know, sometimes that's the for
the best 'cause you do like I, Idon't know what your guys
thoughts are on Coda by Led Zeppelin, but like that the
there was a reason why those were on the cutting room floor.
Like they, they were just they, they, they, they just kind of

(42:09):
like where they're like let's let's really there's like an
album worths of, of, you know, old material here.
And it's just like, yeah, those were all cut from those were
those were the songs that weren't good enough enough to be
on on albums. That's really interesting, Don.
We should do AB sides episode sometime though.
But to your point, Colin, that is an interesting one because
there's a lot of like B sides and unreleased albums that
you're like, yeah, I can see whythis was unreleased.

(42:29):
Like I don't really want to hearthis.
That made sense. It gets cut.
There's other ones out there though that you're like this is.
There's some great. Stuff on here why so that is
interesting but. Yeah, but for Prince, you never
know. Like his, his standards might
have been so ridiculously high that the ones that didn't meet
his standards still might be something.
Yeah, worth listening to. If you ever get a chance,
there's an 8 minute short docu series about his Super Bowl

(42:52):
performance, about Prince's Super Bowl performance where it
was at risk that he wasn't goingto perform because there was
rain in the forecast. He performs in the pouring rain,
plays Purple Rain in the pouringrain.
He's like at risk of electrocution at any second
because his guitars are soaking wet.
It's gnarly. It's like 8 minutes long.
It's worth a watch. Anybody that's listening give it
a shot. Go find it on YouTube, it's

(43:12):
fantastic. Purple Rain's the track.
Over to you, Roderick. Great song, great movie too.
All right, I'm gonna do my kind of obscure.
Not it's not obscure. This is a massive artist, but
it's obscure for me. It's straight up pop artist,
which I don't pick a lot of pop on here and I I should probably
pick more an artist I've only recently even listened to at
all. But do you have you heard Tate

(43:34):
listen to Tate McRae at all either?
Of you I I thought it would be did.
You thought it would come up? I I thought it would.
You're doing purple lace bra. I'm doing purple lace bra.

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And. I know of Tate McRae and she's
one of those artists that I'm not surprised I don't listen to
because she's she's massive. She's like a stadium pop star.
But like, I'm not in that pop sphere, right?
So like, I don't know, like I know Justin Bieber and Taylor
Swift and Sabrina Carpenter and stuff, but I don't go too deep
into the pop. But to your point, Don, I'm

(44:31):
listening through, I'm looking at like the purples and the
violets and these things and there's a song and I'm like,
well, I know her, who she is. Let me listen to this.
It's a jam. It is just, it's a jam.
It's just a great modern pop song.
It's actually lyrically a littlesad.
And I do like pop songs when they sound like, it's like, it

(44:52):
almost sounds like it could justbe a kind of a vapid pop song.
And you actually read the lyrics, you know, like this
isn't vapid at all. This is there's some thought put
into these lyrics like this somebody.
I don't know if she wrote it herself or if she had other
people helping her, but like whoever wrote those lyrics,
it's, it's decent and it's a good song.
And you know, she hasn't been onthe pod.
We haven't had a, we don't do a lot of pop on here.
So it felt, it felt like a good pick and it made me go listen to

(45:15):
some Tate McRae, which I hadn't ever before.
She's she's Canadian. She was a dancer, like she was a
backup dancer for like Justin Bieber and she was on one of
those. She's on So You Think You Can
Dance Canada. But then she started putting out
music and she's got a nice voice.
I mean, she's a pop star. She's what you would expect.
She looks like a pop star. She's packed.
She, you know, she's marketable and all that stuff.

(45:39):
I like the song. The female pop wheelhouse right
now, like the the universe, like'cause I, I don't want to
discredit any of the female artists that are contributing to
that right now. Whether they're writing the
music, whether they're writing the lyrics, whether they're
supporting production, whatever it looks like that whole camp,
the Sabrina Carpenters, the Olivia Rodrigo's, the Tate

(46:01):
Mcrae's, the Sabrina I said Sabrina Carpenters, that whole
collection of artists right now,whoever's behind the curtain,
themselves included, are crushing.
Female pop music is outstanding right now.
So I just looked it up because Iwas curious.
So the song was written by, not written by, Tate McRae.
The song was written by Amy Allen, who I've heard of before.

(46:24):
She's won a bunch of songwritingGrammys.
She has her own music too, and Ithink it's a little more like
indie rock folksy stuff. But she has written for Sabrina
Carpenter, Selena Gomez, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Jack
Antonoff. She's Co wrote, Co written with,
She's written for Justin Timberlake like she's writing
Bruno Mars, like she's writing all these pop songs as a

(46:44):
songwriter. It's it's interesting how like
you do get a lot of more like indie artists behind some of
these these these pop artists, even something like Jack
Antonoff, like, you know, say Kiki, who, you know, is works
very heavily with like Taylor Swift.
He's like, yeah, he's a, you know, in the band like the
Bleachers, which, you know, you wouldn't say is a mainstream
pop, you know, outfit. It's a weird little indie pop

(47:05):
band. But yeah, that's something that
and, and oddly, oddly enough, like, like there's a lot of
instances, you know, even in like the 70s and 80s like where
there's like some of like the biggest, you know, pop hits are
sometimes like written by these like small indie artists that
have like these, that have otherprojects that they work on that
are like much less mainstream. There's a lot, yeah.

(47:25):
I, you know, I was always, I wasalways curious how that
happened. And I'm sure it happens in a lot
of different ways. I'm sure it's sometimes they
write a song and they're like, this is Tupac for my band.
So let me see if I can sell it, maybe make money.
I don't, I'm not sure. But I, I was listening to an
interview with what's who's the singer for Vampire Weekend?
What's his name? Ezra John Vampire.
Sure. John vampire.

(47:47):
I love it. We're going to call him John
Vampire. I was listening to an interview
with John vampire and he apparently had, has written like
some pop songs for artists and they were asking him how it
happened. And he was like, they came to
me. Like they came to me and were
like, can you help, like help write some songs for this new
album? Or can you like come in to the
studio and like Co write a song?Like they were like, we like the
what you're writing. Come write a song.
And I'm like, well, that's cool that like.

(48:08):
These big pop artists or their labels are like, hey, this
person has. Talent, bring them in.
There's similar things happened in in in Hollywood too, like
there's there's multiple times where you have these like small
indie film makers that will likewrite this or like Co write this
big like Hollywood movie. Speaking of what you know what I
learned literally last night? Don, we.
So Don Don and I were talking either off air or in our intro,

(48:31):
I'm not sure about like watchingYouTube videos and stuff was go
to bed. Do you know who wrote to the
screenplay for the the 1990 nineteen ROM com?
She's all that under a ghost name, under a a fake name.
M Night Shyamalan wrote She's all That.
No way. Yep, I can believe that.
Like his first movie was this like small indie film that he

(48:53):
made and then like, but then after that he made this like
silly little comedy with like Rosie O'Donnell or something
like that. It was like, it was like this,
this. Yeah.
And then and so he's a diverse writer.
Yeah. So he so.
Yeah. So he.
I can, I can. I can definitely see that, Yeah.
He wrote it under the name R LeeFleming Junior, but it was M
Night Shyamalan wrote the extreme play for She's All That.

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That's crazy. Can I just say what a
conversation Tate Mccrae spawned?
This is what I love about these episodes, Don.
These weird ones like you never know.
All right, so Colin, over to you.
All right, so I'm going to do anobvious one.
And so so we've been doing purple song titles.
What about purple band names? Very, very popular band by the

(49:40):
name of Deep Purple. I'm going to go smoke on the
water. Fantastic.

(50:09):
So it's like, yeah, at this point, because it was since I'm
going off of the band name, I'm like, all right, well, if we're
going to pick Deep Purple, I mean, obviously, you know,
they've had, you know, highway star, they've had, you know,
they, they, they have multiple hits and, and, but, but the big
one that everyone knows is Smokeon the water.
So let's go with Smoke on the water.
Famously one of the most famous guitar riffs of all time.
The, the, the crazy thing about it is, is a is a song based on a

(50:32):
true story. And it is a song about a, a
Frank Zappa show gone awry that apparently he was playing a
show. And I think like a fan in the
crowd, I think like set off a flare gun or they had done
something wild and it set the entire venue ablaze.
And the venue was like on, like on a water, like, like a

(50:54):
waterfront, like there was, it was, it was on the water there.
And as people were, were leaving, people had seen smoke
on the water and, and then fire in the sky.
And like as as the, as the venueburned.
And so Deep Purple was just like, that's, that's a song.
And, and they ended up writing us writing this, the song about
it and. And yeah.
I never, never heard that story before.
Yeah, I was very embroiled in classic rock lore back in the

(51:17):
day with my dad. And it's all it's all in the
lyrics. So that's the thing.
Like if you listen to the lyricsof the song, it's literally
that's all in the lyrics. So here here let me.
Yeah, Frank Zappa and the Mothers were at the best place
around, but some stupid with a flare with a flare gun burned
the place to the ground. It doesn't get much more on the
nose than that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is
yeah. We all went to Montreux on the

(51:39):
Lake Geneva shoreline to make records with a mobile.
Well, yeah, we didn't have much time now and then.
Yeah. It's a they burned down the
gambling house. It died with an awful sound.
Funky clawed was running in and out.
He was pulling kids out the ground now.
And. Yeah.
And there's. So it's yeah.
It's literally just the story ofwhat happened in and.
And. Yeah, and it's, and it's a it's
a true story that happened and. Yeah, great addition.

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First song about a million people learned to play guitar
on. Every single one.
You go to a Guitar Center and it's it's just that you're going
to hear that. It's a good one though.
It's a great. Riff.
Yeah, it's an absolutely fantastic riff.
All right, my third choice, a gypsy punk band.
A self-proclaimed gypsy punk. It was my.
It was my next pick it. Was my.

(52:23):
Next pick Google Bordello. Yes, absolutely.
Start wearing purple. So yeah.

(52:55):
Such a weird this would be an awesome song for Mike and you
wanted a hit to do an episode of.
It would be because. Such a strange song that gained
so much traction and like mainstream radio play got pretty
popular. It's not their most stream song,
which is also kind of. What is American wedding or
something something else I. Can't remember what it was when

(53:17):
I looked it up but it is not their most played song.
Wonderless. King it is.
It is their most played song. Wonder it is.
Their most yeah, it is. And then?
Wonderless King and American wedding, Yeah.
Yeah, so a Gypsy rock band is what they call themselves.
There's people from Ukraine, people from Istanbul and the
band, they're from all over the place.
All over, yeah. Have you ever seen them before?

(53:41):
I saw them at the band or live live?
No, I've not seen them live. I saw them at the.
Metro when I lived in Chicago and it is a gypsy carnival on
stage, they and they call themselves that.
I know that's not a term you're supposed to use anymore.
They call themselves that, so I'm going to call them that.
It is 20 people. There's a, there's a, there's a
debate about it. Like I, like, I, I don't really

(54:01):
know either, but like, you know,I think like Romani is the the,
the proper term, but there are some Romani people who will use
the term. And they, they just, it is like
this Roundhouse of just musicians playing all kinds of
crazy instruments. And if you're not playing
instrument, you're like dancing or tumbling or bringing props

(54:22):
onto the stage. But it wasn't it wasn't a cover
for them being good, if that, you know what I mean?
Like they sounded incredible andthey were fun.
They just also put on like a carnival.
They just have a great time. You can tell it's like we're
just here to have fun. We we're just like nomadic
musicians who happen to get big enough to tour countries.

(54:43):
Now we're just gonna have a goodtime.
They were incredible. I almost picked them on our best
live episode. They were one of the best live
shows I've ever seen. Yeah.
Really. They're incredible.
Yeah, that's awesome. It's been it's years ago.
I mean it would have it was off of it was after I lived in 2008

(55:03):
is when I lived there 2000, no 2009.
So it would have been after Super Toronto came out, which is
not this album but the one afterthis that had Wunderlust King
and stuff. But yeah dude it's a cool song
too 'cause it's literally like stop taking yourself so fucking
serious, wear purple, who cares,just have fun with life.

(55:25):
They're associated artists. Couldn't be stranger like it is
across the friggin board. Is is, is monoskin on there?
Cuz like I, I think they're likekind of like a like little bit
like them a little bit. And it's like MANE.
Yeah, I remember that band. They won What's the big European

(55:47):
song competition every year thatlike?
Eurovision got. Eurovision.
Didn't Monoskin win Eurovision or they were on Eurovision, I
think. Oh Mana scandal is like more
current. Like they just had a few cute
hits didn't they? Like Resurgence?
Like some of their songs went viral.
Yep. Yeah, I remember dude.
You're. Right, they're all it's all the
street light manifesto. Street light manifesto.

(56:08):
Murder by death. Electric. 6 Electric 6.
Zippers. What is happening, Richard?
Richard Cheese. Real big fish like so it's like
they call them they might be giants.
The Bats and Andrew W.K are right next to each other and
they're suggested artists on my screen.
What is happening? Yeah, it's a crazy, crazy list
of like artists or similar artists.

(56:29):
Amigo, amigo, the devil's on here.
Yeah, he rounds it out. I don't see mono skin on on the.
Suggestions. I I, I think the, the only, the
only reason why I brought that up is that that there was just
like, they both just have a likethey're, they're different
bands, but they're, you know, like they have just a similar
energy, like I think Monoskin. I would totally agree that for
sure. Yeah, they they kind of monoskin
tries to kind of be like Gogo Bardello, not quite as as as as

(56:52):
as good, but they they try to have that same kind of energy to
them. Very different band, but a very
similar vibe is a band called Diablo Swing Orchestra.
And Diablo Swing Orchestra is, is one of those bands that's
just like they're they're big things.
Like it's like it's like a carnival.
It's like a big, like a like a big like a thing and, and
they're they're very big with like Mexican different genres of

(57:12):
just like swing and metal and and and and jazz and blue and,
you know, and just all this typeof stuff and, and it's very
bombastic and it's very. And so, yeah, so I, I just, I, I
got that same vibe from Gogo Bardela, I'll.
Check that out for sure, that sounds interesting.
We talked about orchestra. Looks nuts.
Yeah, they're called Artists Photo on Spotify.
Looks crazy and I'm so delicious.

(57:33):
But yeah, Gogo Bardela was, was one that the, the, the college
radio station here in Napervilleon WONC.
They would play a bunch of theirstuff and like either the, I
think I believe like American Wedding and a few other, a few
other ones that I, I don't remember the name of, but I
would always just, I would just always know it was them.
I'd be like, oh, it's, that's Gogo Bordello.

(57:54):
And so, yeah, so I, so for a while I, I would hear like a
bunch of their songs because of,you know, the college radio
station, which that's, that's how you, you, you hear a lot of
indie bands. Sometimes it's just like if you
listen to the college radio station, sometimes you'll just
be like, who are these guys? And yeah, Gogo Bordello was
definitely one. Of those, Oh yeah, Roderick,
over to you, buddy. Well, I've got an audible now

(58:15):
like I know my my last pick, butthat was going to be my next
pick. I thought you might steal that
from me. Dude, I had a I'm glad I did.
I'm. Glad I did.
It's a great song. I love Start wearing Purple.
I'm going to go. So this is a band that I started
listening to this year. OK.
Who just happens to have a song called Purple.
I got into them because I'm, I like blurring.

(58:37):
Like I'm a Brit pop guy. I like blurring Oasis and stuff.
This is a current, this is a current band.
This is like a modern UK band. And somebody was like, I was
talking to somebody about Brit pop and they were like, have you
ever heard Wonder Horse? I was like, I have I've heard of
checked him out and yeah, WonderHorse and the song is called
Purple. His.
House is are crazy. There's always dreams and

(58:58):
nobody's listening. No one seems to care.
There's no way I can go. And she dreams.
But no, roses exploding in circles are nobody's Lord is the

(59:24):
gun. It's like their second biggest
song. Their biggest song is actually
called Teal, so I don't know. They got to think of colors.
Color band. Yeah, but they're they're great.
It's like I I wouldn't call it Brit pop.
I think somebody was just like, oh, you like British music?
Little do they know that I love tons of British music.
But I really do enjoy this band a lot.

(59:44):
I'm not. It's kind of like indie alt
stuff. But it's it's current this album
that this song came out in 2022.They put out a new song this
year, you know, they put out an album last year.
So they're very much a current band.
I haven't listened to enough of them to really fully describe
them, but like, they're kind of on.
They're like in the modern rock chart stuff on streaming

(01:00:05):
platforms. But I would consider them a
little more like indie rock witha little bit of Brit pop
influence and stuff. So I mean, Fontaine's DC is like
their first fans also like band,but I don't think they sound
like them. I think that's just like, oh,
it's another big, big. Relevant British rock band.
Yeah, sometimes, yeah, those like, you know, like, you know,

(01:00:26):
like I admittedly I use YouTube Music, which is, you know, I
don't actually use Spotify just because I use because you also
get YouTube premium like well with it.
So I'm just sorry that but so soon YouTube Music, the the fans
also might also like you have catfish in the bottle, man,
you've got Sam, Sam Fender, you've got big special inhaler

(01:00:50):
like and just yeah, it's just the it's the inhaler.
Makes sense, yeah. And there's a The Maccabees on
there as well. Cafes.
And bottom, I mean, they've they've got like a slide guitar
in there. So like that's the thing.
They they honestly had give me 90s alt rock vibes.
It's just I probably shouldn't like I picked too much alt rock
Don. Like early on I was the indie

(01:01:11):
rock guy on this podcast and lately I've been the 90's rock
guy. But this isn't a 90s band.
But they're definitely channeling that for sure.
That's a that's a big thing now,like channeling the 90s.
They're great. It doesn't feel like a pastiche
of the past. It feels like a band who grew up
influenced by some music they loved, but has their own
perspective and they're doing their own thing.

(01:01:33):
I really like their drummer a lot.
He's got really cool like these grooves that like lull you in to
like a sense of like what the song is and they'll change it up
on you. Their singers got great voice.
Just good band. Check them out.
Check out Wonder Horse. With a Yeah.
There's they're with AU and yeah, they're Song Purple.
Beautiful. All right, call it.

(01:01:54):
Call it over you. Here's the thing.
I don't. I don't have much to say about
this one, but it it might spark a conversation.
And I was just like, like, because when I was thinking
about like, you know, the obvious ones of like, I was
thinking oh, purple haze, Purplerain, things like that.
And then immediately I thought of Purple Pills by D12.
Yeah, I think I. Hit too much This substance

(01:02:15):
equals cost red pills, blue pills, and green big pills
masculine. Oh, he's on the list.

(01:02:41):
That is on the list. People don't know that was AAD
12 was a a rap group. I believe they were discovered
by Eminem I. Think it was just like his crew
and then when he got big, he waslike we're going to he like
lifted. I think that was it.
But yes, it was some kind of it was a Detroit.
Yeah, based on Eminem and I see.Yeah, so they they had the song

(01:03:02):
called Purple Pills, obviously about drugs, but but the the
censored version, famously they called it purple.
Pills purple. Pills.
That's right. It's so funny.
And it's. So funny.
And the the music video is great.
It's a fantastic music video. Do I remember the video?
What was the video about? It was all it was them rapping,

(01:03:24):
but they had they had done like a film effect or color effect
where the sky is yellow. So they basically inverted.
I think honestly, that's it. They just, I, I remember my
color theory. They inverted it so the blue sky
turned yellow and the green hills turned purple because
that's the inverse of green. So it's all purple hills because
it was the clean. This, the music video is for the
clean version. So it's purple hills And so it's

(01:03:45):
literally them. Like it's purple hills and like
a yellow sky. Very 90s grunge looking.
I do remember, like, just thinking like, like it's, it's
still clearly about drugs. So it's like even when you, when
you, you, you change it to Hill.So I don't know why, you know
what censoring it to Hills is going to do, you know, but but
they, they were just like, all right, fine.
Yeah. It's we'll just do our own weird

(01:04:06):
thing with it. And.
And so I, I, yeah, I, I have respect for that, Yeah.
What was the Tom Petty song where everybody smoked another
Norge? Smoke another joint.
It was. It was just joint backwards.
It was just joint backwards. That was a really great edit.
Get to the point. Let's roll.
Yeah. You don't know how it feels.

(01:04:27):
You don't. Know how I?
Did I did love that radio edit. I loved the smoke.
Another Norge. I think that's a great edit.
It's. Good.
I love re recording your song though so it's Purple Hill I
that. It's.
'Cause it wasn't just the hills.They had to re.
Record a lot of the lines in that song cause.
Yo, yeah, it's like, yeah, it and it's, it's, it's always just
like, like when you hear storiesabout like when TV shows have to

(01:04:50):
like, you know, like change stuff, change stuff around like,
well, like not even just for TV shows.
One of the the wildest ones. I don't know if you've ever seen
the, the TV version of Mall Rats.
I didn't. Know there was ATV version of
mall. Rats.
It's like they had to they so much of it is real because they

(01:05:11):
didn't. They didn't do bleeping or
anything like that. They had to just replace words
with with other words. And it's the most wild thing.
I don't know if there's a version that exists anywhere,
but it's just like it is just like it's it's barely even the
same movie. So you're.
Watching Jason Lee obviously sayfuck over and over and over but.
They they just. It's like, it's like.
Entire like with Jason Muse, it's like it's entire sentences

(01:05:33):
that they just have to rerecord.It's wild.
And then like, and it's, and even just like they, they, they
have to censor out certain things where it's just like they
can't say fart. And there's a there's a scene
where like he's just like, it's just like, like where like
Brody, played by Jason Leigh wasjust talking about like, you
ever fart in front of her? It's just like, just like, oh,

(01:05:53):
yeah. When I you know, like, like
anytime you know something he's talking about like farting.
And they had to change it to vomiting or something like that.
They had to change it to like, oh, I always.
Throw. I always throw up and just like,
Oh yeah, I always get sick or something like that.
And just like that's way worse than farting.
What are you even doing? That's fantastic.
I have I have AD 12 thing to say.

(01:06:14):
OK, yeah, I can't wait. No, it's all good because I love
talking about Mallrats, but well, 2.
So two things. One, this isn't their biggest
song. My band is their biggest song
and you probably don't remember that off the title of it, but if
you heard it, you would rememberit, I think.
Yeah, probably, but that's not my D12 piece, so I have a little
mini story time. Sorry Don, you're getting story
after story here. It's.

(01:06:35):
OK, I'm here for it. A high school band was called
Fuller. They eventually were.
I was in that band for 16 years.We changed our name like 5
times, but we got a cease and desist letter from another band
in Southern California called Fuller.
So we changed our name to the Ghost of Fuller.
Clever, right, 'cause. But anyway, so we're like.

(01:06:55):
We, we were. It was our senior year of high
school. We had gotten decent.
We had a little bit of money. We're like, we, well, let's go
record a record. And we look, we, I grew up in
Indianapolis, Colin. So we're, we're in Indy.
We're like, all right. So we're, we're researching.
We're asking fellow bands. We're like, what's the decent
studio in town? Like where can we record that
actually is going to sound good?And there's a studio called

(01:07:16):
Azmith, which is a terrible namefor studio, but it's called
Azmith Studios. So we save up our money.
We're going to do an EP, like 8 songs.
I remember it was Easter. I was at Easter dinner with my
family and my Easter clothes, like my fancy clothes 'cause it
was like a nice Easter buffet. And I went straight to the
recording studio to start recording.
I still remember that to this day.

(01:07:38):
And I walk in. So we get there and the dude's
name was Ryan that ran the studio.
He was the engineer and he lets us in and he's by the way, he's
this like 6 foot 7 super nerdy dude.
Like I don't know he was, we were in high school, but he was
probably mid 40s, skinny glasses, balding white guy, like

(01:08:02):
tall, lanky, whatever. He opens the door to the studio.
We walk in, he turns the corner and the first thing that you see
when you walk in, so you walk inis 2 hallways, 1 hallway goes to
the the live rooms and the otherhallway goes to the studio or
like the control room. But on the wall right there is a
giant platinum record for D12's purple pills because he fucking

(01:08:23):
engineered this song. And I don't know why or how this
dude engineered purple pills by D12, but I just remember being
like, oh, we made it. We're here.
Let's do this, Let's do this, Let's do this.
Let's get let's get that Eminem D12 vibes going.

(01:08:44):
The. Ghost to hurt her.
What was your crappy band name? The Ghost to Fuller.
Oh, it's on Spotify if you want to go listen to.
It shut the ghost to. Fuller, the first time you
brought it up. Oh, that band.
It is the first time I brought it up and monthly listeners is
0. That's going to be a it's.
About one all right, I'm I'm going to go on I'm going to do

(01:09:05):
it on on YouTube Music. So you're going to get one
follower on Spotify and one follower on on YouTube?
It's about to be. Yeah, it's about to be two
monthly listeners. It's not good, but D12 purple
pills, same engineer. That's all.
That's all I can say. You made it.
There it is. Yeah, sanity through vanity.
That was the name of the album. Sanity through Vanity.

(01:09:28):
Alright, Don. My last pick, what are your guys
opinions on viral successful viral musicians?
We just talked about this last episode.
We did Edison Freeman PD, is that what you're talking about?
Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, this is.
I guess this falls in the same rain, you guys.
Is this different? No, I guess it's the same.

(01:09:49):
I mean, this kid is massive. You guys ever heard of Connor
Price? Oh yeah.
No, actually. It is like ultimate, it's like
pop hip hop, but the kid is a hell of a lyricist.
Like it's rap, like kid raps. He, he's not a child.
I don't know why I keep calling him a kid.
He. Was an actor first.
He was an. Actor first.
Yeah. Yeah, for sure.
The the like life of Chuck or something Chuck.
He was like the young version ofChuck on that show.

(01:10:11):
He's been in a ton of shit, but this song I'm going to pick is
Violet. Oh, I got the bag, I'm back to
just double it. I'm about to pop the top of
being bubbling. They want the spot but I do not
cut the man. They're trying to plot my drop.
They've been huddling, feeling so tall.
I could give a high 5 to the pilot.

(01:10:31):
I know a lot of people praying for my downfall but the only
thing that I'll be down for is being top five.
But like downfall. But yeah, just went super viral
for some of his videos and stufflike that.
Made like this really fun seriesof videos and some of his songs

(01:10:53):
are fucking great. He had this series of videos.
What's on? I know the song you're picking
and it's. Violet Yeah.
Violet. He had this series of videos
where he would spin a globe and he would stop the globe with his
finger and then he would pick, he would connect with an artist
from wherever he stopped the globe.
And then he would do a collaboration with that artist,
like a hip hop. Like you take a verse, I'll take

(01:11:14):
a verse and they're fucking great.
Like, and it's all like pretty positive messaging of like, you
know, like kind of like his comeup.
And I think he's a a clean rapper.
I don't think he swears in any of his songs, but I mean, he's
pretty. Canadian, so he's not allowed to
think of the rules, but. Yeah, for sure.
He talks about coffee crisps andshit like that.

(01:11:34):
But but yeah, I mean, he's, he'sa hell of a good, he's a hell of
a good lyricist. I think he does a great job.
You know, I think he's pretty good.
And I like the fact that he's, you know, doing his thing,
viral, He's got a family and stuff like that, and he's kind
of crushing it. He did these great videos for
the Internet that got him popular where he's like playing
his own producer and himself andhe'd do all that stuff.

(01:11:55):
I agree. This Spin in the Globe album he
did, which it started as like web songs, right?
It was like a but put an album out and it's called Spin the
Globe and yeah. And it's it's so fucking cool.
And this song, the other artistsfrom Zambia and and it's just
like, but it's so good, dude. It's really is fantastic.
Average is night almost 10 million monthly listeners like

(01:12:16):
he's just crushing it man just adude that's just out there
crushing it kind of rode the wave of being a very D list
celebrity actor into being a kind of D list, you know social
media star and eventually got super popular and I just got 10
million monthly subscribers on on Instagram on Spotify it was.
A similar situation with like Tyler, The Creator, who like,

(01:12:39):
started as a, as a comedic, likea comedian, comedic actor.
And, and he was like, he was on like a sketch comedy show and he
was like the loiter loiter squad.
And then just, and then he just started doing, you know, you
know, rap. And he started like getting that
online and, and started, you know, kind of building an
audience there. And so like, and so, yeah,
that's, that's just, it's, it works out for, for some people

(01:13:01):
and it's, that's a risk. That's a very risky thing to go
from like, you know, like being like a, an actor or comedian or
something like that. And he's saying like, I'm going
to get into music now. And, and that's, and it doesn't.
And at that point, it doesn't matter what level of fame you
are, it's always going to be risky.
So you could be like the most famous or the least famous.
It's always going to be a big risk, kind of like going in,
going from one, like medium to another.

(01:13:22):
Yeah. Crushed it.
Yeah, it is. Well, and that leaves, I
actually hit my last one's hip hop too, so we're just going
right into it. I'm I'm going to go with Purple
Hearts by Kendrick Lamar, featuring Summer Walker and
Ghostface Killah. Shut the fuck up when you wear
no talk. Shut the fuck up when you wear

(01:13:44):
no talk. I'll be the source then.
I am the plug talking. Yeah, baby.
Yeah, baby. Yeah, baby.
Yeah, baby. This my undisputed truth.
My life is life forbidding through my fish.
Know better than I do. It's off Mr. Morale and the big

(01:14:04):
seppers. I don't know.
You're Kendrick guy, right, Don?I'm AB minus Kendrick guy.
I'm a Kendrick guy, OK? Are you?
Do you like Kendrick Lamar? Colin.
I, I'm, I'm going to just for a minute, I don't listen to a lot
of rap music. Fair enough.
Yeah, I don't know. I, I, I, I know of Kendrick
Lamar. I, we definitely sold a lot of
his, a bunch of his albums at Purple Dog.

(01:14:26):
And so I, I know the name. I don't know if I've actually
heard any of his any of his songs.
Totally fair. It's a great album, but this was
what like he was coming off was this was after Damn, I think
right. So he's coming off of like a
Pulitzer. Did he was that what he won
Pulitzer? No.
What did he win? He wants something.
Yeah, Pulitzer Prize. Like he's he's coming off that
and then he puts this out and islike a very personal record to

(01:14:48):
him. This song isn't necessarily like
a huge stand out off the record.It's a great song, though.
I love Ghostface so that features dope on here.
Yeah. So he features on.
This. I'll get into it later when I do
my honorable mentions, but I really wanted to pick a song
that is a full on lean referenceand is not on streaming

(01:15:09):
services. So it wouldn't have worked for
the mix tape that we're putting together after this.
So I didn't pick it. I don't know, man.
Like this. I think this is the second time
I picked a Kendrick song on the podcast Don.
But he's I he's just a bit of a genius.
I mean, he's a he's, I do believe that all, I mean,
lyricism is poetry. Like you're writing poetry and
you're putting it to music, whether you're a pop artist or a

(01:15:30):
rock artist or metal or hip hop or whatever.
This dude is legitimate, like a just an absolutely brilliant
poet. And you know, he was honored as
such. And I love his mixture of
metaphor with personal stuff, with universal themes and all
these things. And the song does it just like
every song he does, you know? It's just a pretty good Kendrick

(01:15:53):
song. I don't know.
I don't have much else to say about.
It's got a yeah. You know, it's great.
This will be the 4th time Kendrick has been on a mix tape
and it makes total sense. He's he's.
Been on a lot. I don't know he has, but this,
this, this. Nothing from this album has been
on. I think it's a little bit of an
underappreciated album from him.It had a lot of hype when it
came out and then it just kind of like, I don't, I think some
people didn't like it because itwas very personal to him, like

(01:16:15):
it was very self referential. Was this the album that has like
the like the song that would lead to the Drake Kendrick like
feud or or was that something? Was that something a little?
Bit later I think. Oh, OK.
That's GNX, which is, yeah, morerecent.
I mean, this was 2022, so there might have been something on
here that started. Yeah, I do remember GNX.

(01:16:37):
Yeah, because because we did getthat when that came out, the GNX
with the vinyl version came. I think that was one word.
It went on streaming and then like a while later it went on
vinyl and then that's what we ended up getting that in and.
G&X is what was like directly had like so I think the beef
started in between. So maybe this could lead to some
beef because the beef started before GNX came out, the beef

(01:16:58):
went through GNX. I'm not an expert on that beef
at by any means. I watched there was a, there's a
really good YouTube named FD signifier that has this really
good. It's a very lengthy video, but
like talking just really like breaking down the feud and like
why the feud happened and kind of the the history of like rap
feuds and and all that. And it was, it was a very so, so

(01:17:19):
even though like I didn't know that much about Kendrick Lamar
like before that, like I like after that, I was like, all
right, I I know a bit of that, the history behind all of that.
And so it was. It was interesting, but.
I love I love the rap beef, but.Oh yeah.
All right, that was my last pick, Colin.
Your last. Pick.
All right, I decided to go full out weird and just something

(01:17:40):
that was just like, all right, what's what's just something
weird that's like that you no one would have thought of.
And and then I was just like looking up.
I was like, all right, instead of going purple, how about red
and blue? And so I was just like, all
right, let's let's. I like where you're going.
Yeah, so, so I I, so I just typed in red and blue.

(01:18:01):
Coincidentally, what came up wasa song that came off of and this
is on it's on streaming. The soundtrack is on streaming.
What came from a video game thatI really love.
And I was just like, like this was like like 1 like like a
video game that came out a few years ago and I was just sort of
like, oh, like the I didn't realize.
And then I listened to it. I'm like, oh, and I totally
recognize that song. I didn't realize it was called

(01:18:23):
Red and blue because I was just listening to it.
So it's called Red and blue. It's by Danielle Zandara.
So it's Dan i.e. LE, then Zandara ZANDARA.
And it's from the video game Vampire Survivors.

(01:19:01):
Which was a game that came out afew years ago.
It came out in in 2022 with the,the, the album, the actual
album, the soundtrack album cameout in 2024.
So I don't like, I don't have much to say about the actual
song itself other than it's, it's, it's a pretty, you know,
good like like they, they, they,they tried to make it sound
like, like, almost like a 90s like video game type like music.

(01:19:23):
But I, I, I thought like, all right, maybe I can talk.
I I know a bit about Vampire Survivors the game.
So the, the, the game of VampireSurvivors is a it's, it's a game
that was made independently by one dude in Italy here.
OK, Yeah, it's Vampire. Yeah.

(01:19:45):
Gluca Galante. He's from Italy.
And so he was a guy that was working in Italy as a, he
worked, he was working on slot machines and, and he would, he
would work on like the differentgraphics on slot machines and he
would, And so he knew exactly like what he could do, what,
what you had to do to, to get people's attentions.

(01:20:05):
And, but I think these weren't like actually real slot
machines. These were like, you know, like,
like app slot machines and things like that, just to try
and get people to keep, keep playing and keep, you know, like
doing that and to just keep going.
And so he at one point and he was just like, all right, I, I
want to do something for myself.I want to do something, you
know? And so he decided that he wanted
to make a game that was like, all right, I'm going to try.

(01:20:26):
And try and make this a little game where you, the character
just attacks automatically and you just have to like walk
around and, and you know, kill enemies and, and, and, and, and
that's it. Like just a very simple game.
But then as it, as it goes, you can level up your character and
then you're, you're able to. And then like there's a certain
point like if you ever just lookup images of vampire survivors

(01:20:47):
of like the beginning of the level of just like just very
just nothing going on to having like millions of things
happening on the screen and justexplode.
Nothing but explosions and like things like that.
And, and it, it, it took off and, and he ended up like, you
know, teaming up with a lot of different people, including
musicians like Danielle Zandara and in trying to create this,

(01:21:11):
this like soundtrack that was a like a little bit more like
modern, but also just has the sound of like this like like
90s, like 90s video games, like those, those old like, like
Castlevania games. And they are heavily inspired by
Castlevania and, and the song, you know, red and blue.
It definitely has that feel to it of just sort of like, all
right, It's like this is, but ithas a, it sounds like an old

(01:21:35):
video game from the 90s, but it also kind of sounds like kind of
like like it like an indie. Like like there's a there's a
band called Anna Managuchi who had their, their, their big
thing is doing this sort of likelike they they do kind of like
an indie. They're kind of like an indie
rock band, but they'll also use these sort of like Nintendo
sounds with it, this like chip tune sounds.

(01:21:56):
And that's, and that's been a big thing in a lot of like in
indie games is just using these like these chip tunes, these
like these, these sounds. So, so even if you have a
soundtrack that's like, you know, using guitar and using
like, you know, regular instruments and things like
that, they also just like we, westill would like to try and use
those old 90s sounds. It's like a horse.
The band was like that too, right?

(01:22:17):
Yeah. And they're listening to Horse
the band. I've heard I've heard of them,
but I know a. Bunch of I fight Dragons which
is another one that's I mean they like literally play on
stage. Some of their instruments are
mini controllers turned into an independent.
Controllers yeah yeah and one cool thing like I remember Beck
had done for a a remix EP for Ajuero and it was called like

(01:22:38):
like I think it was called like just Game Boy variations or
something like that. And it was just a, it was 4
songs off of Ajuero that were were done with like chip tunes
and, and, and and all of that. And so that kind of.
Like it's because he's a genius.Yeah, and as a.
Genius. And yeah, and so I remember
listening to that a lot and going like, man, really cool
that he used. And I remember the cover for
that was like somebody jamming out with like a Game Boy in

(01:23:00):
their hand were like. Yeah.
It has like the the the the the entire soundtrack from Vampire
Survivors has that feel of like like it is.
It is very much video game music, but it has a kind of this
this more like modern flair to it, at least I think like when I
when I was into it. Well, when I first started
playing the song, it's I, Castlevania popped in my head
right away. So that's what they were going

(01:23:21):
after. Then they accomplished it for
sure. Oh yeah, absolutely.
And it is more high fidelity like it's not like 8 bit sound.
Oh yeah, they definitely try. It's.
It's that direction though for sure.
But that's what makes the mixtapes cool, is when you end
up with stuff like this on therethat you never would have
expected. Yep.
Exactly. So stoked on that.
All right, well, hey, that's 12 songs.
That's the next song. You wanna do honor?

(01:23:42):
Honorable mentions, Don, You wanna?
You wanna shoot? Out some honorable.
Mentions I only have a couple soD12 purple pills got taken.
I had Purple Lamborghini by Skrillex and Rick Ross and then
I had Violet by Hole that was going to be out there but it was
still brought up there in the mix tape so not too bad.
So those were my only. I didn't have much on there but
those are my three. I was stoked.

(01:24:04):
I came up with more than 4 songsthat had purple in the title so.
I had I had Violet, but by hippocampus.
OK. You guys know that band?
Yeah. Yeah, great band, great song
too. I in fact honestly probably
would have been top 4, but I didn't want to do Wonder Horse
and Hippocampus. It's a little too similar.
There's this band called She's Green that has a song called

(01:24:26):
Purple that's this really cool, like kind of modern shoegaze
band that's really good. There's there's, there's a,
there's a ton of really good like like that's become like I'm
I'm super stoked. Like the the the the return of
shoegaze like. Shoegaze is huge with the Gen.
ZI. Love.
It with the Gen. Z.
It's so good as as one of my favorite albums of all time is
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.So it's.

(01:24:48):
A fantastic record. I went and saw Slowdive in
February and it was mostly high schoolers.
Yeah, yeah, Souvlaki by Slowdiveis definitely up there as well.
I had a Dell water gap who's this great, like kind of folk
indie artist, his song purple teeth, purple teeth, comma, the
bravery, but my main 1 and I gotto take a second with this one.
So this hasn't happened before and there's there's some back

(01:25:09):
story to this. And Don, I don't remember if
I've ever talked to you about this before, but did you know I
love Major Lazer? We've talked about that before,
right, Don? So did Colin.
Do you know Major Lazer? Oh, yeah, Yeah.
Major Lazer's great. Yeah, OK, so did a few.
Not a lot. Of guys I've.
Heard some of his songs I do. Mostly Jamaican influence, but
it's really like world music influenced electronic music and
I fucking love it. I don't know why I'm the whitest

(01:25:31):
dude, but I love Major Lazer. Did you guys know Major Lazer?
Major Lazer had a television show.
No. On FX, it was a cartoon.
It was like early 70s style animation, and Major Lazer was
the main character. He's a hero and he has a
sidekick and there's a tech guy and they're fighting these
villains. Every episode's a different

(01:25:53):
villain. Every villain is a different
musician voicing the villain andhas a song in the episode.
So this aired on FX only had oneseason.
It's fucking fantastic. I have every episode on my
phone. In case the internet's not like
the the movies aren't working ona plane down in like.
One season. One season, 11 episodes, I think
11. 11. But they're short.

(01:26:14):
They're like 1015 minute. Episodes.
So they're kind of like Adult Swim?
Like, yes. In fact it was Adult Swim is the
one who who I believe paid to have it done and then they
decided not to air it and so FX picked it up and aired it.
It's fucking fantastic. But there is an episode with
this villain called Double Cup. Episode #4.

(01:26:35):
Double Cup, who was voiced by Riffraff, but they they pitched
Riffraff's voice down. So it's like lower.
And there's a song called 2 Cupsin that episode that is about
lean and it says the word purpleabout a million fucking times in
that song and it's so fucking good.
There's a music video for it on YouTube, but it's not on YouTube

(01:26:56):
Music or Apple Music or Spotify.It's nowhere.
It's only on YouTube streaming video.
It's called 2 Cups and I wanted to pick that song so bad and I
just wanted to talk about the major laser cartoon.
And you can watch every episode on YouTube.
So it's on Hulu and shit too, but it's free on YouTube.
Just go watch it on YouTube it'sso good.

(01:27:17):
I can't wait to see what the riffraff villain looks like.
Oh well he's First off he's black which is questionable
cause. Riffraff is not but like there's
some dude. I'm pretty sure the dude from
Vampire Weekend voices the guy on the vampire.
There's a vampire episode. John Vampire himself.
John Vampire voices it. I think.

(01:27:37):
JK Simmons is the voice of like the main bad guy, like the dude
from like Whiplash and like the the famous actor.
J Jonah Jameson. Please do you mean the yellow
M&M the. No, not the yellow, the yellow.
Oh yeah, is he voiced the yellowM&M?
He is the voice of the yellow M and.
M Does he really? Yeah.
Didn't know that, no. But anyway, you're welcome.

(01:27:58):
Two cups, parentheses. Double cup theme by double cup,
but technically by Major Lazer and Riffraff.
I'll put a clip. Can I put even though?
It's honorable mention, Don. Can I put a clip of it in the
episode? Please do OK.
Absolutely. I would encourage you to do it.
I spill purple on the ground. I grew her purple man purple

(01:28:19):
purple Panthers in my high served water fountain.
Don't gamble with the dealer. I'm a pharmacist.
Spill purple rain on my diamonds.
I like with Berry fist my Ruby wrist glitz when I wool wheel
twist. I got a mixed formula with the
fire keys. I'll still look cool.
It is the coding scientist, but please go watch the Major Lazer

(01:28:47):
show everybody. I just wish they did another
season of it and I'm bummed theydidn't.
Maybe on Patreon. Maybe I'll just like stream them
on on our Patreon Don and like comments do commentary for them.
I don't fucking know. I love it so much.
But anyway, that's sorry, that was a way too long.
That's my honourable mention. That's my honourable mention
what you got, Colin? All right, so so here's the

(01:29:07):
thing. When I said I had 15 songs on
here. That wasn't a joke.
That well, the thing was, is that like I thought like, all
right, maybe one thing I could do is get it.
So when I said like, you know, when I used red and blue, like I
like, I thought, well, maybe I can do some like red, like
something that's red of red flavored and blue flavored, like
2 separate songs. But then I decided against it to

(01:29:28):
go like, no, let's, let's just, let's just keep it to just
either purple or then the red and blue.
So I have a, a, a bunch of well,I mean, obviously I had purple
rain and purple haze on here as well.
And but like I had also, oh, I also had Interstate love song by
Stone Temple Pilots off. Of.
Purple. Yeah.
I thought about doing some STP but.

(01:29:49):
But then so then I had some red,some some red, red flavored
stuff and blue flavored stuff that I decided to just not take
on there because of that. I was just like, all right,
let's just keep it to just purple.
So I have seeing red by Killing Joke, blue by a Perfect Circle,
red Barchetta by Rush, blue by my Yamane from the anime Cowboy

(01:30:11):
Bebop. And then then we have a a couple
of red and blue flavored band names.
We have 21st century schizoid man by King Crimson and who do
you love by the sapphires? And so I so, and then I just
decided like, you know what? That's too complicated and that
that takes up two songs. So I'm just like, no, But then

(01:30:32):
and then we I have two other purple related things.
It's and one of them is is you Roderick, because it says on
your thing there. It's the Purple People leader by
Sheb Woolley, and then there's Lavender by by the band
Marillion. I was surprised I didn't come
across more Lavender stuff. I searched Lavender and there's
definitely Lavender songs out there, but yeah.

(01:30:55):
But I was like nothing stuck outthat much.
But Merlion is a is a is a greatband and that is a but yeah.
And yeah, Lavender might by Merlion is a it's a good song.
But that was that was pretty much my my list there.
And, and then, yeah, and I, I had thought of Violet by whole,
but then I decided, like I, I, Iwant to put Violet by the

(01:31:16):
birthday massacre. So it's.
A good call all. Right Cool.
Let me read it off here. Canon's Purple Sun.
Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze. The Birthday Massacre Violet
Prince Purple Rain Tate McRae Purple Lace Bra Deep Purple
Smoke on the Water. Go Go Bordello.
Start wearing Purple Wonder Horse.
Purple D12 Purple Pills. Connor Price Violet Kendrick

(01:31:39):
Lamar. Featuring Summer Walker and
Ghostface Kella, Purple Hearts and then Danielle's and Dara,
Red and Red and blue, which makes purple.
And there's little 12 songs all in tribute to Purple Dog
Records. So if you find yourself in the
Chicago suburbs, make your way over to Naperville and go visit

(01:31:59):
Purple Dog Records and hang out with our friend Colin.
How to make a mix tape? Yeah, Colin, you have, do you
have a website or you guys on Instagram?
What's what are the details for the people?
Oh yeah, so, so we are on so Instagram and Facebook and it's

(01:32:20):
just at Purple Dog Records. And I do post on Instagram and
it's one of the, I do the thing where anytime I post on
Instagram, it automatically posts on Facebook.
So if you're on Facebook, you can check us out there too.
And then we do have a, a websitepurpledogrecordsonline.com.
But we're we're definitely more active on the the Instagram and
Facebook. I love it.

(01:32:40):
So if you're in Naperville Purple Dog Records, go get
yourself some some vinyl. Thanks for being on Colin.
Thanks for being on us. Yeah, thank you for having me.
Sequencing is important, so. So, you know, high fidelity
rules. So you got to you got to start
strong, but then take it up a notch.
You want different, different balance of genres and moods.

(01:33:01):
I mean, you know, he lays it outin the movie a little bit.
Yeah. I, I like I have a like I like.
Here's here's the thing though. Like I kind of like it when it
can be a bit jarring. When I used to make mix like mix
C DS, I would always like try toput in something weird.
I'm I'm a big fan of like the heaviest or loudest song or like

(01:33:22):
the yeah, maybe the most jarringsong being like the first song
on side B of a mixtape, like an actual tape.
If you're going to flip that sucker over, you're in a vibe
and you flip it over and all of a sudden it's just like hits you
over the head. Hey, you can see it's up to you,
Colin. You sequence that list however
you want. Do you want to open with
Danielle Zendana or however you say that name?

(01:33:42):
You do that however you want. I think that might be something
for like the end, like the end there.
I think like maybe like. Well, we will shoot you the list
and then just whenever you have time this week.
Shoot it. Back to us and then sure, sure.
Hey, thank you for being on. Really appreciate it.
Thanks for doing Purple for us. I love these weird themes like
this and that was a good time. Until next time, until it pass

(01:34:03):
across again. Neil, thank you.

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