October 20, 2023 • 57 mins
Season 2 Episode VIII Streamed Live on Monday, August 28th, 2017
- Featured Guests: Musician / Actor John Malloy https://soundcloud.com/doublewide-publishing & Actor / Musician Geof Anderson The Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour with Host Jeff Dodge will bring some of the world’s greatest musical talent, local writers & artists, producers & programmers and just plain old regular folk to our planet Earth’s attention. Also with topical sketches, stand-up comedy and live music.
- 00:06 "Lovely Rita" (Written by Paul McCartney & John Lennon 1967)
- 13:20 Featured Guest - Musician John Malloy
- 25:30 "Sleepwalk" (Written by Santo Farina, Johnny Farina, & Ann Farina 1959)
- 31:16 Featured Guest - Actor Geof Anderson
- 49:01 "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" (Written by Jim Steinman 1983)
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Hey everybody, welcome to the Jeff Dodge Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour!
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Yeah!
Love me, read, tell me, tell me Love me, read, tell me, tell me
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Love me, read, tell me, tell me
And it gets dark, I know you're on your way
Stand by, walk your feet up
When we walk, the streets are freezer
Puppet in the pocket and the little white below
Hear the clock, she's a push-puller
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And the bag across her shoulder
Paying her with a little like a little dreamer
Oh, the lovely Vita, Vita, make me a good one, sweet
Before you make me too late to go
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
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Vita!
Oh, I'm trying to remember
A life I've long taken
Don't know what the next thing I'll be getting
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The things that really break me then
I'm standing on the edge of the sea, I'm standing on the edge of the sea
Oh, the lovely Vita, Vita, make me a good one, sweet
Before you make me too late to go
Oh, the lovely Vita, Vita, make me a good one, sweet
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The Vita, Vita, make me a good one, sweet
Yeah!
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Years away, from the planet blowing us away
If you really don't want to stay
Look, we'll float off in the Milky Way
As we run past an evolution plan
Where we're trying to really understand
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And the truth of our mission is to heal another vision
Join up as an evolution band
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Well, it's sad this world just can't stay
It's gotta go get the hell away
Well, I tried to give me some peace today
But the future seems so far away
We're a person revolution band
We must try to really understand
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And the truth of our mission is to free another vision
Join up as an evolution band
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Join up as an evolution band
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Hi, this is Variety Hour. I'm your host, Jeff Dodge.
With me, the fabulous Mr. Rich Reese on the drums.
Hello.
And Steve Sibila on the bass guitar, as usual.
The bass guitar.
One of those musician jokes. Bass guitar.
So I'm very excited today.
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We have two fabulous guests.
We've got Mr. John Malloy, who decided to join us.
And a fabulous man.
And also Jeff Anderson, a marvelous man.
So we have marvelous and fabulous with us here today, live.
But first I wanted to catch up on news.
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It's been a busy, busy month, Rich.
That's the darned Italy truth right there.
Well, I didn't want to bring this up,
but I thought I saw you at a concert recently.
That's right.
We packed everything up and we pointed that direction, southwest.
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To the hills.
Yeah, we headed for the hills.
Past the west.
Right, we kept going and it was actually so far out that
How far was it?
You would get a different perspective on Mount Hood.
I know that probably doesn't sound like much of a punchline,
but any geographer worth his salt.
That's a pretty meaningful distance when you get a different perspective.
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Anyways, so we went out there.
Good folks from Wilson Phillips.
Wilson Phillips.
Now that's the band that had that...
Hold on, don't tell me.
What was the song?
Hold on, what?
What? Who?
Carry On My Love, was that the song?
Carry on away my wayward friend.
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Somebody equally...
Wilson Phillips.
Wilson Phillips.
Yeah, no, it was Barracuda.
Barracuda.
The Wilson Sisters, that's right.
The Wilson Sisters did Barracuda.
Did you shake hands or chat with them at all?
No, we didn't.
There was pretty solid security.
I was able to get past them and talk to the sound guys.
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I thought it was really funny because here this woman's name is Carney.
Yes.
And then you got some Carney's running things out there.
It was really kind of a complete...
Serga really completed the deal for me.
And we were very pleased with the occasion
and we're back to civilization by three o'clock at the latest.
That sounds like an amazing trip, Rich.
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That is wild.
We just went straight from there to Mississippi.
Mississippi District.
Oh, in Portland?
Right.
The Portland one, okay, yeah.
I'm a baloney minds here, but we're pretty sure we saw more people of color
at the Wilson Phillips show in Washington County
than we saw in the Mississippi District.
That's how we're worthy.
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Oh, careful there, buddy.
Some are polka dots and some have stripes.
Right.
Who let all this... I forget what that comes from.
But all of this reminds me of our next bit.
Let's do another exciting...
Because I said we would, an exciting episode of Conspiracy Corner.
Conspiracy theories
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I'll just shoot off more and more of those
Conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories
Conspiracy Corner.
So, Rich, I sent all of us out to study a conspiracy,
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our favorite conspiracy for this month,
because there seems to be one every hour these days.
You were supposed to come back to me on the...
It's the flat eclipse that we just had.
That's right.
The flat earth eclipse.
Now, how does that work?
I didn't really figure it out.
So...
Is it an eclipse...
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Is the moon a globe or is that flat too?
Well, you know, I went back to 1995
via the good folks at YouTube
and I watched some old Simpsons episodes
and I'm pretty sure that it was just the sunblocker
going into place.
Okay, okay. I can buy that. I can buy that.
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One thing is we do know the sun is a globe, an orb.
Are we sure about that?
Well, it circles us all the time.
I mean, you're not supposed to really look at it.
I've heard, you know, this old friend of mine, Derek,
talked about if you look at the sun,
these are some...
What are they called?
They're like shamans or something.
They can stare at it for days at a time
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and it feeds them.
They don't need to eat.
They don't need to eat.
Is that the truth?
Yeah, it's like a cheap way,
if you ever can't afford groceries,
just stare at the sun for a couple days.
Does the sun also vaccinate those guys?
Well, there's a lot of vitamin A, I think,
in each dosage, a lot of vitamin A.
Steve, how did your research go?
I had you down for...
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Let me see, where was it here?
Yeah, oh yeah, the whole conspiracy about...
Was Dawkins CIA or simply a Christian metal band?
Did you come up with anything?
Well, I think they just got lucky.
You're telling me George Lynch just got lucky.
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You know, this takes me back.
Steve and I once saw...
No, was he Dawkins or was he the other band?
George Lynch is the Dawkins band.
That's Dawkins.
Oh, I have my bands mixed up.
We're talking Striper, aren't we?
Now, Striper was CIA, weren't they?
Maybe so, bad cocaine and Ferraris.
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You know, J. Edgar Hoover, what he had in mind.
They sure hoovered up some of that...
Hoovering up the cocaine, the name of J. Edgar.
Just like the buildings named after him.
Did you know that? Isn't that amazing?
Our powerful FBI has their headquarters named after J. Edgar Hoover.
Proud, proud thing to share.
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Let's see, well, my research was on a dude called...
I think it was Alex Smith?
Some like regular name, Alex Smith.
He hosts a podcast or something.
I think that's his name.
Anyway, he was up in Seattle the other day, right?
And someone threw coffee right at him in his face.
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And I was just appalled.
But then I started studying the footage.
And my conspiracy is that this Alex Smith guy
hired an actor to throw coffee in his face.
So that's my conspiracy.
He's a pretty solid actor.
He kind of looks like...
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Is it Potsie? Some famous comedian.
Does he stand up Donnie Most perhaps from The Happy Days?
No, that's a little...
Well, this sounds like a good time too.
We're going to bring back John Malloy in just a second here.
We're going to take a quick commercial break
and be right back with Mr. John Malloy.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
the star of screen and music and talent
and also a tri-met,
Mr. John Malloy, yeah!
Oh yeah!
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Alright, alright.
Is this my microphone?
Sure.
This is the Jim Spagg Show, right?
I don't think Mr. Spagg is with us anymore, unfortunately.
No, I think that would be a good conspiracy hour.
Well, he was great with leading a parade, you know.
Yes.
Do you want me to get that for you?
No, I got it.
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I've had technical experience.
I've heard that.
Well, John, why are you here today?
No, wait, that wasn't my question.
It was...
Oh, I was going to talk about...
I thought this would be a good topic of conversation,
father-son relationships.
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But, well, because, you know, my situation...
I never knew my father, you know.
I was...
He died when I was very young
and I was separated from my twin sister.
I knew your father.
No, that can't be true.
His name was Luke.
Luke?
Luke Dodge?
Yes.
What a fascinating dude.
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Was he cool or...
I heard you guys, like, maybe did drugs together or something?
We did eggs together.
Eggs.
Eggs behind it?
Eggs, yes.
Well, now that we know about my father,
how about your father or your son?
Either or, you can talk about, or we could just move along.
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You know, my father illustrated a book.
Really? What book?
This is actually a true story.
Sure, sure.
He illustrated the gynecologist that brought me into the world.
His name was Leslie Dill.
What?
Leslie Dill.
Leslie Dill.
And my middle name is Leslie.
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And my father illustrated a book.
A gynecology?
Exactly.
He illustrated the book.
It was like How to Use Forceps in 1956.
For doctors?
For Dr. Dill, yes.
Was it for women doctors or men doctors?
It was for men doctors.
Because they didn't have women doctors back then.
Oh, that's right.
Did women have the right to vote by then?
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Yes, they had the right to vote for their doctor.
Oh, right, right.
Well, it's nice that they could do that now.
It appears that none of us can vote for our doctor these days,
unless you're wealthy.
So that was my father.
And my son, my oldest son, is technically pro-whisket.
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Pro-whisket?
Yes.
What does that mean?
It's a word I just made up.
Excellent, excellent.
He, well, he was actually in a movie I worked with him.
We hired him and he was, we're going to see him a little later tonight
when we bring on Mr. Anderson.
They shared a scene together.
Very good.
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I was in a movie that you directed,
but it seems like it hasn't been finished yet.
It has not.
But I brought a little something with us here.
We're going to take a little look.
Mr. John Malloy in the forthcoming Trench Digger production in 2018.
You can follow us now on IMDB.com.
The Battle of Savage Hill coming soon.
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This is a little rough take we have here.
Let's take a look.
Out West here, it's like there's no war at all.
Like the morning light was her love for me
When she glattened my lonely life
And who did I think of this horrible war
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When she promised to be my friend
Hey, Colonel, you understand why I've asked you here, don't you?
We had met to discuss the pending invasion of the New Mexico territory.
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It was a quick plan to win the war.
It's much more than that, Colonel Smug.
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He told me highly classified information.
You know why they made me a general, don't you?
Not warrior zeal, which you have plenty of, John Jebediah.
We are made into generals because of our innovation.
When resources are thin, you innovate.
And there we are.
Yes, the Battle of Savage Hill coming to Trench Digger Productions soon.
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And a theater near you if you're in Portland, Oregon.
So yes, John, what did you think of your characters so far in development?
Well, I think I had a little bit of time to develop that character.
Now you're from Virginia originally.
I am from Virginia. I'm from the northern part of Virginia.
What was that like growing up?
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That was traumatic.
Why would you say that?
Well, I told you about the book my father illustrated, right?
He was in Virginia when he did that.
Yes, actually he was in Washington, D.C. when he did that.
Now, see, again, all leads back to D.C. somehow.
I don't even know how or why.
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So the CIA, the Scientology?
I was born in D.C.
Oh, no. Okay, so you're actually a Maryland native.
No.
Or would that be a District of Columbia?
A District of Columbia. There is no representation.
There was no representation in D.C.
So would District of Columbia like just want to slaughter the Maryland guys at football or something?
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Is that like the thing?
Well, Georgetown played basketball.
Uh-huh.
They played.
Patrick Ewing.
Yes, Patrick Ewing was from Georgetown, and they slaughtered everybody for a while.
Yeah, yeah, I have vague recollection.
Until they got caught.
Well, on that note, we're getting a little bit, we're going to be looking at some music.
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I'm hoping you could join us on a song.
You've brought your lovely guitar.
Now, did you build this yourself?
I built it from not scratch.
From not scratch, but not wood either.
No, I...
Knotted wood?
I stole the, I bought the parts.
(20:46):
Oh, you love the Frankenstein.
Yes.
Sweet. Can we get a shot of that Frankenstein logo?
That kind of says, now why the Frankenstein logo?
Because it was...
Is it Frankenstein or is it Boris Karloff?
I think it's actually Fred Munster.
Okay, okay.
And it was on sale on the internet.
Okay, okay, well there's our end.
And I had a little too much to drink at two in the morning and I clicked buy.
(21:12):
Oh, I've heard of people doing that.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, weird.
As a matter of fact, every piece on this guitar was purchased exactly that same way.
So this is a kind of a, in a drunken haze, the pieces came to you.
Yes.
Most magically.
Over a matter of three years.
Okay, so maybe if you weren't so drunk it would have been three weeks or something.
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Or if I would have been drunk or it would have been faster.
Okay, sure.
At some point you hit that diminishing return.
Yes.
Starts over.
I had a champagne supernova myself not too long ago that Jamila could fill in.
But yeah, anyway, what kind of musical influences shaped your growing up in Virginia and beyond?
(21:57):
Well, to be honest with you, in Washington, D.C. was considered the bluegrass capital of the world.
No kidding.
And it had a lot to do with the region where it was and a lot of the national bluegrass bands lived there around that area.
And the seldom seen played every Thursday night.
And when I was a young man and I took guitar lessons, John Duffy from the seldom seen was the instrument repairman at the music store I took guitar lessons from.
(22:28):
The seldom seen.
Yes.
And now what year would we be talking about?
1960 something.
Okay.
Okay.
66, 67.
And how did the 60s hit D.C.? Did they get a little counter cultural?
They probably did but I was 10 years old in 1967 so Batman was a lot more important to me than the riots.
(22:52):
Very psychedelic.
Yes.
Mr. West passed away recently.
Yes.
Adam West.
I got to meet him.
I got to shake his hand.
But we had a regional show that was very popular.
It was called Diver Dan.
Diver Dan.
Diver Dan.
You should look him up on the YouTube sometimes.
He didn't get arrested or anything.
No that was Pee Wee Herman.
That was later.
Alright.
(23:13):
We had a version like Ramblin' Rod.
You know Ramblin' Rod was, he used to come to the Stevenson Bluegrass Festival.
No kidding.
Really.
Ramblin' Rod was a bluegrass fan.
I had no idea.
And he came out and he was one of my, he became a very dear friend once a year.
Really?
Now would he wear the sweater?
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No he wouldn't wear the sweater.
And he didn't, you know, he was actually a very well behaved gentleman.
Good.
Well that's nice to know.
I was on the show once.
I was about three or five somewhere in there.
I guess, I don't remember it but apparently I had my finger jammed up my nose.
(23:56):
But, well you know, I think moving along here, I think we're going to take a quick break.
But could we, would you join us on a song?
I would love to.
I would love to.
How about, do you guys know Sleepwalk?
Sleepwalk?
I did by the, this is that.
Santo and Johnny.
Santo and Johnny.
You guys know that one?
(24:18):
Yeah.
I think we can, I think we can Google it.
Okay, we can.
Let's take a quick break here and we shall return with Santo and Johnny's Sleepwalk.
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Good luck relax.
(29:21):
After 47 years, it's time to close Dots' deck.
(29:50):
We suffered through a disastrous squash crop this year, which made us realize it was time
to hang it up.
The good news is everything will be on sale for 25% off.
(30:11):
We have very little decorative squash for sure, but we still have books, gardening supplies,
and more all for sale.
We're sad to be closing our doors, but as they say in the decorative squash business,
(30:32):
all good things must come to an end.
Hello, Dots' decorative squash, Dottie speaking.
And oh, we're back, we're back.
Man, that was Mr. John Malloy, do you mind hanging out on the couch with us for a little,
(30:55):
that was fabulous, fabulous work.
Sure.
You got the time, that's wonderful, because.
I can't get out of here if I try, can you?
Well, neither can I.
Because we still have 36 minutes, 26 minutes to go, and that's barely enough time for our
marvelous guest, special guest, Mr. Jeff Anderson.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Oh my goodness.
Oh my goodness.
It's so good to see you, Jeff.
It's been a while.
We don't get to do this as much as we used to.
True.
What's been like, five days?
I thought it was only a couple, but it's been five.
Five days, sounds about right.
Yeah.
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Well, you know, so what have you been up to in those past five days?
Six foot one, six foot.
Are you a six foot one?
.5, something like that, yeah.
That's, how are your leaps?
Did you ever play basketball?
Terrible.
I only get about three inches off the ground.
Okay.
That's about my-
Thank you for asking.
Yeah.
You know, that's a personal question.
Yeah.
(32:21):
Yeah.
Well, I didn't mean to get too personal too fast.
I actually had a list of questions here, but-
Yeah, please hit me.
Yeah.
You know.
Well, first of all, I worked with you and John Sun Rye on a movie called Jeff Steele
and the Children of the Doom, and it's now available on Amazon.
(32:46):
But before we do that, why don't we refresh everyone's memory with a little scene I've
prepared.
You have a clip?
I have a clip.
Here's a clip.
This is what the director, Clint Sargent and I, we kind of co-directed it, and we used
to refer to this scene as Hair Wars.
So let's take a look at that.
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Agent Steele, I've always been a long time admirer of yours.
It's quite a shot you got there, kid.
We've all read about your years in the Narcotics Squad.
I won't believe everything you've read.
Some of the cadets and I are going out tonight at the Poet Faire Josephine's mansion.
Rumor has it Dr. Vox is speaking.
Why would you be interested in a guy like Vox?
(33:30):
Agent Steele, I'm sure you're much too busy to visit a book signing ceremony.
You'd be surprised, Stryker.
I'm sure I would.
Oh man, doesn't that reflect them already?
(33:51):
Man, I haven't seen that since, I don't think I've ever seen that.
That's 2011.
Was it?
Yeah, yeah.
Our movie came out in 2011.
Darge Productions is now, they have gone to Trench Digger Productions is now distributing
the Darge Library in a kind of a controversial acquisition.
(34:15):
We did get it on Amazon and we actually got our first review I'm being told, so maybe
if we get a little time we'll read that review together and we can see what happens.
That would be great.
Yeah, I'd love to know.
Sure.
But you know, I seem to remember something about Jeff Happens.
Yeah, he does.
(34:36):
Is that all there was to it?
I thought there was a movement?
Well, there's a couple things.
It's an email address.
Oh, that's right.
Which became kind of a name for myself when I was doing things bigger than, so I did roller
derby.
I was a roller derby announcer.
(34:57):
Right, now for the Rose City Rollers.
Rose City Rollers for a year.
What was that like?
It was a lot of fun.
But it's a lot of girls and you've got to really know how to handle girls.
Did you grow up with sisters?
I had one, yes.
Okay, so that kind of thing.
Okay, so that kind of can train you, but it's still a little overwhelming.
Have you ever hung out with a roller derby girl?
(35:19):
Let alone 50 of them?
Not more than like 10 minutes.
Same, a year is enough.
They're great.
They're great people.
Traveled a little bit.
It was awesome.
Well, I wish my sister's a ride roller derby.
I think there would be.
I think that my sister would be good at it.
She's a little kid now though, so I don't know if that's really her.
Oh, right.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I don't mean to.
No, please.
The house I live in is across the street from the house that Raquel Welch pretended to live
in when she was in the movie... The Kenton Club place, right?
Kansas City Bombers?
(36:02):
Yeah.
And my house was featured in that movie.
Okay.
That's the Raquel Welch movie, which was apparently one of Portland's best-made movies, I guess.
I don't know.
One of our top movies in 1971.
That's for darn sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow.
Cool.
Well, they shot some of Easy Rider in rural Oregon too.
(36:23):
Did you know that?
I know I did.
Did you know that rural is my least favorite word in the entire Webster dictionary?
I hate rural.
Well, now maybe perhaps I recall a conversation that you had some rural upbringing perhaps
in Oregon in particular.
Oh.
Did you have some Southern Oregon experience?
Yeah.
I got some Southern in me.
(36:43):
The dirty South of Oregon is...
Is there a dirty in the clean South or is it just...
Well, you know what?
I have to take that back because technically I think Ashland is dirtier.
Ashland's dirtier than Metford.
Yeah.
As far as those who are compared.
But the whole region I would say is the dirty South of Oregon.
What would you do in Metford for fun?
(37:03):
High school.
Oh, for fun?
Yeah.
Skateboarding.
Yeah.
And was there a lot of concrete or would you have to dirt it?
It is a town.
Yes.
Fully paved.
There was even a mall.
Would the bankers come out and yell at you, ah, you kids, get off our...
(37:24):
It was a safe closed loop city.
It was in a valley.
It is currently still there.
And it was a very safe place to grow up.
It's off I-5, right?
It's on I-5.
It straddles I-5.
Metford, if Jeff is a wonderful spokesman for Metford, if you ever get the chance to
go there, please.
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Back and forth all the time.
They let you play on them.
I lived on one side.
I was on high school on the other side.
The mall is on the other side.
I was back and forth across I-5.
I still am.
Right.
Well, I mean, except for here, it's like the Rose Garden or Lloyd Center.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's a river too.
There's a three hour wait to Vancouver or something like that.
(38:08):
Yeah.
I try to avoid that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Are you living in Portland then?
I do.
Yeah.
Yep.
But you didn't live in Portland not too long ago.
I moved to the actual Dirty South.
The real Dirty South.
There's Dirty South, Oregon, and then this south.
(38:28):
Not Atlanta, because I know that people are thinking that it's going to be Atlanta, Georgia,
because that's where Ludacris is from.
I was living in New Orleans for two years.
Yeah.
It was great.
Wow.
And Tenden Bar?
I was.
I was a, they call it a quarter rat.
Quarter rat.
Now what is that to you?
She hang out in the French Quarter.
Oh.
There's a lot of rats there too, so it's apropos for the city.
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But yeah.
What was the French Quarter like?
Pretty great experience.
Changed my whole life.
There's a lot of history there, right?
Yeah.
It's a 300 year old city.
The city predates the United States by like 80 years, I think.
Right.
That's the birthplace of jazz.
Birthplace of jazz, yep.
Congo Square.
I don't know if anyone else has heard this.
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I was recently told jazz comes from jasmine perfume.
Have you heard this one?
No, I hadn't heard that.
Jasmine perfume, which all the prostitutes wore at the clubs.
Oh.
And the brothel, where Scott Joplin was playing.
They called them sex workers.
Sex workers?
Yeah.
What was the proper term was in 1893?
Well no, because you know.
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Hey sex worker, come here now.
It was okay to demean them back then so you could say things like prostitutes.
Excuse me, prostitutes.
Hey, quick question.
Sure.
If you were in the roller derby biz, did you ever know a cat named Phil Gentile?
I don't think I met that person.
Okay, he's like a ref.
He's a strange person.
Sure.
I met him earlier this year.
Yeah.
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Any refs in roller derby?
Yeah.
Something like that.
They've all got unique names.
But.
If.
Yeah, if anybody is curious about the roller derby.
I'm not, I don't represent it anymore, but there is some great documentaries on it.
And the Road City Rollers did put one out called Brutal Beauty.
Brutal Beauty?
Can you buy it?
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You can go online.
iTunes, YouTube.
I think I'm in it for like 30 seconds.
Oh really?
Cool, cool, cool.
So did your acting career, did you do any acting in New Orleans?
No, I would.
Did you do music?
I did do music.
Okay.
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Well, I was a busker.
So are you familiar with busking?
So you get the dishes and wash them?
Well, you busk after you do the dishes.
Because yeah, you've got to have a real job.
Busking is where you street perform.
Oh.
And there's a lot of people that street perform in the French Quarter.
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I was one of them.
I was not one of the well-known.
I did it because I could.
It was a fun experience.
I did as much as I could while I was living down there.
I bartended in cocktail bars.
I went to all the music venues.
All Saints Day and all that stuff.
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All the Mardi Gras stuff.
Got it out of my blood.
Mardi Gras.
And it really changed my life in a lot of ways.
I got inspired to learn how to play piano,
which is basically what I have been doing since I moved back,
is just learning piano.
I got a blues piano book and I just started teaching myself.
Are you reading the music?
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I'll tell you, if anybody wants to challenge themselves,
pick a book of sheet music and learn how to play all the songs,
having never heard them before.
By teaching yourself to read music, it'll take you a while.
Get back to me.
I'd like to hear about it.
I was supposed to do that early on.
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I was in the jazz band.
Steve was actually with me in the Central Catholic High School jazz band way back.
The music teacher, I was asking him to teach me notes
and this musical reading thing they talk about in the...
I got really frustrated.
All these horn players, and it was like,
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just look at the chords, fucking figure it out, that kind of thing.
So I just go with the chords.
But I've done that where you follow the chords of a song you don't know,
and you construct it into your own kind of thing.
And then you hear what it actually sounds like,
and you're like, I really botched that up.
Right.
It takes a long time to learn how to do that.
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I'm not talking about the chords, because yes,
you can read C major and figure out how to play it,
but it's the notation.
And I'm not a trained musician, so I didn't go to school for any of that stuff,
so sitting there and going through each note one by one
and teaching your fingers how to do it without a teacher,
it took me two years to get through the whole book.
But you're there.
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I'm there.
I can't play very well, but I can play it.
You can kind of sight read.
I can sight read.
Wow.
Yeah.
Magical to me.
John, can you sight read?
I can read.
That's about where I'm at.
But I can't sight read, but I can read and figure it out.
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Right.
But I'll tell any kids that are watching out there
the thing that that's an impressive feat to do that.
It's kind of a waste of time,
because you could do all that I just did in like six weeks on YouTube.
Oh.
Just pick a YouTube video and learn.
Right.
You can learn in like a week.
Right.
Well, that took me two years to learn.
That's like too easy.
But just saying.
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You know, I mean, it's...
My youngest son, he can sight read.
He can really sight read.
He can like put a chart in front of him.
He can play anything, and he gets paid to do it.
So there is a reason to be able to do that.
You hear that, kids?
It's sight reading.
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See, dozens of dollars.
Right, exactly.
Yeah.
Cool.
Well, geez, why don't we take a quick little break,
and we'll come back and think about something else.
Cool.
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(45:33):
Err, you know, so the dude like says, you know, you're in the shadows.
Like, you're not in the shadows.
It's five o'clock in the afternoon.
That's why it's a five o'clock shadow.
That's right.
Anyway, that's...
You should shave.
Oh, we're back, we're back, we're back.
Thank you, and thanks for watching the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
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I'm your host, Jeff Dodge, and we have with us Mr. John Malloy and Mr. Jeff Anderson.
Thank you so much for joining us, and I believe this is the first time you guys have had.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, okay.
Well, you know, you can never meet enough people enough times, I always say.
And you catch that crazy old eclipse thing that was happening here in Oregon?
(46:23):
Is that an Apple product?
The Eclipse?
Oh, I was thinking Eclipse, so sorry.
Eclipse?
No, that's...
I think that's a new nostril device they're working on.
It's USB charged.
I didn't hear that if you were of the purest race that you could stare at the sun and it would never make your eyes blind.
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Purest brace?
Brace.
Brace, oh, race.
Yeah, if you were a pure race you could stare at the sun.
Well, that might be true, except for humans, you know.
I don't know if humans can do that, except shaman.
Shaman humans.
So, all of the mixed race animals like the dogs, there were...
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Well, yeah, it was something that I tried to...
Beagles, chihuahuas.
...that they could probably stare at the sun.
Is this a Virginia thing?
I heard you were wearing one of those MAGA hats so you could just stare right at it.
MAGA, yeah.
I think I caught our dear leader staring at the sun the other day.
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Oh.
So I guess you're right, humans can do it.
Subhumans.
Subhumans.
Only subhumans.
But if you're already kind of blind...
Have you ever stared at the sun, Jeff?
Like with sunglasses, right?
No, I will be honest, I've never stared at the sun.
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But there's a song called Staring at the Sun that I really like.
By who?
There's a band called Smile.
It's like a 90s rock band, yeah.
I was thinking the Doors had a song like that too, didn't they?
Staring at the sun or...
It's a good one.
Well, I'll tell you, there's been some confusion here lately.
(48:13):
And I'm going to probably have to say goodnight to everyone because I like to do this little monologue piece about my...
Just a few things here, my relationship with the city is quite tied up with a lot of different...
(48:34):
There we are, yeah.
Yeah, okay, so I didn't mean to get back into the conspiracy thing, but I think this eclipse is fake, you know?
Yeah.
Mayor Ted Wheeler, Mayor Ted Wheeler, don't stop me, honey, this is very important.
It's a they live thing, they're making you buy the glasses, there is no eclipse.
(48:59):
Good night, Jeff.
Good night, Jeff.
Turn around.
Is that what you say?
Turn around.
I don't think I quite hear you.
Five, six, seven, eight.
(49:23):
Turn around, for now and then I get a little bit lonely, forget about coming around.
Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit tired of the sleep and the tears.
Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit nervous and the best of all the years have been by.
(49:44):
Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit terrified of the night city looking at me.
Turn around.
For now and then I fall asleep.
Turn around.
For now and then I fall asleep.
Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit restless and the drugs on me run.
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Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit hopeless and I'm trying to get out.
Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit angry and I know I'm not the God in Christ.
Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit terrified and I see the look in your eyes.
Turn around.
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For now and then I fall asleep.
Turn around.
Turn around.
For now and then I fall apart and I need you now tonight.
Tonight.
And I need you more than ever.
Oh no.
And if you only hold me tight.
Hold me tight.
And if you hold me now forever.
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Forever.
And if you only be making it right.
Making it right.
Because we'll never be wrong.
Together we're gonna make it to the end.
We're gonna start to share all the time.
All the time.
I don't know what to do.
I'm always in the dark.
And everything in the dark is gonna start.
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I'm singing to you tonight.
But I ain't just gonna start tonight.
Yeah, I'm just gonna start tonight.
It's the part of time that was fun enough.
And now I'm only falling apart.
I'm turning back and you're totally clips of the heart.
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One time there was a guy in my life.
He knew there was only love in the dark.
Nothing I can say to tell you it's a lie.
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Turn around bright.
Turn around bright.
Turn around.
Every now and then I'll tell you that you'll learn.
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Turn around.
Every now and then I know you'll always be the only boy who wanted me the way that I am
Every now and then I know this one thing and then you know, versus magic, brother
One, two, three, four
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Every now and then I fall apart
Every now and then I fall apart
I need you more tonight
And I need you more than ever
Through all the hard times
I go through all the bad times
Period
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All those things I'll never ever figure out
And if it's right, you'll never be wrong
But if you're mouthing your words
You'll never know
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The eclipse is a heart
The time is back
The time is back
The time is back
The time is back
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The time is back
The time is back
The time is back
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The time is back
The time is back
The time is back
The time is back
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That's another losing man for Rodeo!
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The time is back
We've been going for seven years or so
From the fire blowing us away
If you really don't want us today
We might deliver a rift to play
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We're a passing revolution band
Just trying to really understand
That the truth about this new industry is out there now
Join our passing revolution band
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And the status quo just can't stay
It's gotta go and get the hell away
Hey everybody, welcome to the Jeff Dodge Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour!
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Yeah!
Love me, read, tell me, tell me Love me, read, tell me, tell me
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Love me, read, tell me, tell me
And it gets dark, I know you're on your way
Stand by, walk your feet up
When we walk, the streets are freezer
Puppet in the pocket and the little white below
Hear the clock, she's a push-puller
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And the bag across her shoulder
Paying her with a little like a little dreamer
Oh, the lovely Vita, Vita, make me a good one, sweet
Before you make me too late to go
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
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Vita!
Oh, I'm trying to remember
A life I've long taken
Don't know what the next thing I'll be getting
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The things that really break me then
I'm standing on the edge of the sea, I'm standing on the edge of the sea
Oh, the lovely Vita, Vita, make me a good one, sweet
Before you make me too late to go
Oh, the lovely Vita, Vita, make me a good one, sweet
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The Vita, Vita, make me a good one, sweet
Yeah!
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Years away, from the planet blowing us away
If you really don't want to stay
Look, we'll float off in the Milky Way
As we run past an evolution plan
Where we're trying to really understand
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And the truth of our mission is to heal another vision
Join up as an evolution band
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Well, it's sad this world just can't stay
It's gotta go get the hell away
Well, I tried to give me some peace today
But the future seems so far away
We're a person revolution band
We must try to really understand
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And the truth of our mission is to free another vision
Join up as an evolution band
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Join up as an evolution band
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Hi, this is Variety Hour. I'm your host, Jeff Dodge.
With me, the fabulous Mr. Rich Reese on the drums.
Hello.
And Steve Sibila on the bass guitar, as usual.
The bass guitar.
One of those musician jokes. Bass guitar.
So I'm very excited today.
(05:17):
We have two fabulous guests.
We've got Mr. John Malloy, who decided to join us.
And a fabulous man.
And also Jeff Anderson, a marvelous man.
So we have marvelous and fabulous with us here today, live.
But first I wanted to catch up on news.
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It's been a busy, busy month, Rich.
That's the darned Italy truth right there.
Well, I didn't want to bring this up,
but I thought I saw you at a concert recently.
That's right.
We packed everything up and we pointed that direction, southwest.
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To the hills.
Yeah, we headed for the hills.
Past the west.
Right, we kept going and it was actually so far out that
How far was it?
You would get a different perspective on Mount Hood.
I know that probably doesn't sound like much of a punchline,
but any geographer worth his salt.
That's a pretty meaningful distance when you get a different perspective.
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Anyways, so we went out there.
Good folks from Wilson Phillips.
Wilson Phillips.
Now that's the band that had that...
Hold on, don't tell me.
What was the song?
Hold on, what?
What? Who?
Carry On My Love, was that the song?
Carry on away my wayward friend.
(06:44):
Somebody equally...
Wilson Phillips.
Wilson Phillips.
Yeah, no, it was Barracuda.
Barracuda.
The Wilson Sisters, that's right.
The Wilson Sisters did Barracuda.
Did you shake hands or chat with them at all?
No, we didn't.
There was pretty solid security.
I was able to get past them and talk to the sound guys.
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I thought it was really funny because here this woman's name is Carney.
Yes.
And then you got some Carney's running things out there.
It was really kind of a complete...
Serga really completed the deal for me.
And we were very pleased with the occasion
and we're back to civilization by three o'clock at the latest.
That sounds like an amazing trip, Rich.
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That is wild.
We just went straight from there to Mississippi.
Mississippi District.
Oh, in Portland?
Right.
The Portland one, okay, yeah.
I'm a baloney minds here, but we're pretty sure we saw more people of color
at the Wilson Phillips show in Washington County
than we saw in the Mississippi District.
That's how we're worthy.
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Oh, careful there, buddy.
Some are polka dots and some have stripes.
Right.
Who let all this... I forget what that comes from.
But all of this reminds me of our next bit.
Let's do another exciting...
Because I said we would, an exciting episode of Conspiracy Corner.
Conspiracy theories
(08:13):
I'll just shoot off more and more of those
Conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories
Conspiracy Corner.
So, Rich, I sent all of us out to study a conspiracy,
(08:38):
our favorite conspiracy for this month,
because there seems to be one every hour these days.
You were supposed to come back to me on the...
It's the flat eclipse that we just had.
That's right.
The flat earth eclipse.
Now, how does that work?
I didn't really figure it out.
So...
Is it an eclipse...
(08:59):
Is the moon a globe or is that flat too?
Well, you know, I went back to 1995
via the good folks at YouTube
and I watched some old Simpsons episodes
and I'm pretty sure that it was just the sunblocker
going into place.
Okay, okay. I can buy that. I can buy that.
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One thing is we do know the sun is a globe, an orb.
Are we sure about that?
Well, it circles us all the time.
I mean, you're not supposed to really look at it.
I've heard, you know, this old friend of mine, Derek,
talked about if you look at the sun,
these are some...
What are they called?
They're like shamans or something.
They can stare at it for days at a time
(09:44):
and it feeds them.
They don't need to eat.
They don't need to eat.
Is that the truth?
Yeah, it's like a cheap way,
if you ever can't afford groceries,
just stare at the sun for a couple days.
Does the sun also vaccinate those guys?
Well, there's a lot of vitamin A, I think,
in each dosage, a lot of vitamin A.
Steve, how did your research go?
I had you down for...
(10:06):
Let me see, where was it here?
Yeah, oh yeah, the whole conspiracy about...
Was Dawkins CIA or simply a Christian metal band?
Did you come up with anything?
Well, I think they just got lucky.
You're telling me George Lynch just got lucky.
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You know, this takes me back.
Steve and I once saw...
No, was he Dawkins or was he the other band?
George Lynch is the Dawkins band.
That's Dawkins.
Oh, I have my bands mixed up.
We're talking Striper, aren't we?
Now, Striper was CIA, weren't they?
Maybe so, bad cocaine and Ferraris.
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You know, J. Edgar Hoover, what he had in mind.
They sure hoovered up some of that...
Hoovering up the cocaine, the name of J. Edgar.
Just like the buildings named after him.
Did you know that? Isn't that amazing?
Our powerful FBI has their headquarters named after J. Edgar Hoover.
Proud, proud thing to share.
(11:14):
Let's see, well, my research was on a dude called...
I think it was Alex Smith?
Some like regular name, Alex Smith.
He hosts a podcast or something.
I think that's his name.
Anyway, he was up in Seattle the other day, right?
And someone threw coffee right at him in his face.
(11:36):
And I was just appalled.
But then I started studying the footage.
And my conspiracy is that this Alex Smith guy
hired an actor to throw coffee in his face.
So that's my conspiracy.
He's a pretty solid actor.
He kind of looks like...
(11:57):
Is it Potsie? Some famous comedian.
Does he stand up Donnie Most perhaps from The Happy Days?
No, that's a little...
Well, this sounds like a good time too.
We're going to bring back John Malloy in just a second here.
We're going to take a quick commercial break
and be right back with Mr. John Malloy.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
the star of screen and music and talent
and also a tri-met,
Mr. John Malloy, yeah!
Oh yeah!
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Alright, alright.
Is this my microphone?
Sure.
This is the Jim Spagg Show, right?
I don't think Mr. Spagg is with us anymore, unfortunately.
No, I think that would be a good conspiracy hour.
Well, he was great with leading a parade, you know.
Yes.
Do you want me to get that for you?
No, I got it.
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I've had technical experience.
I've heard that.
Well, John, why are you here today?
No, wait, that wasn't my question.
It was...
Oh, I was going to talk about...
I thought this would be a good topic of conversation,
father-son relationships.
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But, well, because, you know, my situation...
I never knew my father, you know.
I was...
He died when I was very young
and I was separated from my twin sister.
I knew your father.
No, that can't be true.
His name was Luke.
Luke?
Luke Dodge?
Yes.
What a fascinating dude.
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Was he cool or...
I heard you guys, like, maybe did drugs together or something?
We did eggs together.
Eggs.
Eggs behind it?
Eggs, yes.
Well, now that we know about my father,
how about your father or your son?
Either or, you can talk about, or we could just move along.
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You know, my father illustrated a book.
Really? What book?
This is actually a true story.
Sure, sure.
He illustrated the gynecologist that brought me into the world.
His name was Leslie Dill.
What?
Leslie Dill.
Leslie Dill.
And my middle name is Leslie.
(15:33):
And my father illustrated a book.
A gynecology?
Exactly.
He illustrated the book.
It was like How to Use Forceps in 1956.
For doctors?
For Dr. Dill, yes.
Was it for women doctors or men doctors?
It was for men doctors.
Because they didn't have women doctors back then.
Oh, that's right.
Did women have the right to vote by then?
(15:55):
Yes, they had the right to vote for their doctor.
Oh, right, right.
Well, it's nice that they could do that now.
It appears that none of us can vote for our doctor these days,
unless you're wealthy.
So that was my father.
And my son, my oldest son, is technically pro-whisket.
(16:21):
Pro-whisket?
Yes.
What does that mean?
It's a word I just made up.
Excellent, excellent.
He, well, he was actually in a movie I worked with him.
We hired him and he was, we're going to see him a little later tonight
when we bring on Mr. Anderson.
They shared a scene together.
Very good.
(16:42):
I was in a movie that you directed,
but it seems like it hasn't been finished yet.
It has not.
But I brought a little something with us here.
We're going to take a little look.
Mr. John Malloy in the forthcoming Trench Digger production in 2018.
You can follow us now on IMDB.com.
The Battle of Savage Hill coming soon.
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This is a little rough take we have here.
Let's take a look.
Out West here, it's like there's no war at all.
Like the morning light was her love for me
When she glattened my lonely life
And who did I think of this horrible war
(17:27):
When she promised to be my friend
Hey, Colonel, you understand why I've asked you here, don't you?
We had met to discuss the pending invasion of the New Mexico territory.
(18:03):
It was a quick plan to win the war.
It's much more than that, Colonel Smug.
(18:24):
He told me highly classified information.
You know why they made me a general, don't you?
Not warrior zeal, which you have plenty of, John Jebediah.
We are made into generals because of our innovation.
When resources are thin, you innovate.
And there we are.
Yes, the Battle of Savage Hill coming to Trench Digger Productions soon.
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And a theater near you if you're in Portland, Oregon.
So yes, John, what did you think of your characters so far in development?
Well, I think I had a little bit of time to develop that character.
Now you're from Virginia originally.
I am from Virginia. I'm from the northern part of Virginia.
What was that like growing up?
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That was traumatic.
Why would you say that?
Well, I told you about the book my father illustrated, right?
He was in Virginia when he did that.
Yes, actually he was in Washington, D.C. when he did that.
Now, see, again, all leads back to D.C. somehow.
I don't even know how or why.
(19:33):
So the CIA, the Scientology?
I was born in D.C.
Oh, no. Okay, so you're actually a Maryland native.
No.
Or would that be a District of Columbia?
A District of Columbia. There is no representation.
There was no representation in D.C.
So would District of Columbia like just want to slaughter the Maryland guys at football or something?
(19:54):
Is that like the thing?
Well, Georgetown played basketball.
Uh-huh.
They played.
Patrick Ewing.
Yes, Patrick Ewing was from Georgetown, and they slaughtered everybody for a while.
Yeah, yeah, I have vague recollection.
Until they got caught.
Well, on that note, we're getting a little bit, we're going to be looking at some music.
(20:22):
I'm hoping you could join us on a song.
You've brought your lovely guitar.
Now, did you build this yourself?
I built it from not scratch.
From not scratch, but not wood either.
No, I...
Knotted wood?
I stole the, I bought the parts.
(20:46):
Oh, you love the Frankenstein.
Yes.
Sweet. Can we get a shot of that Frankenstein logo?
That kind of says, now why the Frankenstein logo?
Because it was...
Is it Frankenstein or is it Boris Karloff?
I think it's actually Fred Munster.
Okay, okay.
And it was on sale on the internet.
Okay, okay, well there's our end.
And I had a little too much to drink at two in the morning and I clicked buy.
(21:12):
Oh, I've heard of people doing that.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, weird.
As a matter of fact, every piece on this guitar was purchased exactly that same way.
So this is a kind of a, in a drunken haze, the pieces came to you.
Yes.
Most magically.
Over a matter of three years.
Okay, so maybe if you weren't so drunk it would have been three weeks or something.
(21:34):
Or if I would have been drunk or it would have been faster.
Okay, sure.
At some point you hit that diminishing return.
Yes.
Starts over.
I had a champagne supernova myself not too long ago that Jamila could fill in.
But yeah, anyway, what kind of musical influences shaped your growing up in Virginia and beyond?
(21:57):
Well, to be honest with you, in Washington, D.C. was considered the bluegrass capital of the world.
No kidding.
And it had a lot to do with the region where it was and a lot of the national bluegrass bands lived there around that area.
And the seldom seen played every Thursday night.
And when I was a young man and I took guitar lessons, John Duffy from the seldom seen was the instrument repairman at the music store I took guitar lessons from.
(22:28):
The seldom seen.
Yes.
And now what year would we be talking about?
1960 something.
Okay.
Okay.
66, 67.
And how did the 60s hit D.C.? Did they get a little counter cultural?
They probably did but I was 10 years old in 1967 so Batman was a lot more important to me than the riots.
(22:52):
Very psychedelic.
Yes.
Mr. West passed away recently.
Yes.
Adam West.
I got to meet him.
I got to shake his hand.
But we had a regional show that was very popular.
It was called Diver Dan.
Diver Dan.
Diver Dan.
You should look him up on the YouTube sometimes.
He didn't get arrested or anything.
No that was Pee Wee Herman.
That was later.
Alright.
(23:13):
We had a version like Ramblin' Rod.
You know Ramblin' Rod was, he used to come to the Stevenson Bluegrass Festival.
No kidding.
Really.
Ramblin' Rod was a bluegrass fan.
I had no idea.
And he came out and he was one of my, he became a very dear friend once a year.
Really?
Now would he wear the sweater?
(23:35):
No he wouldn't wear the sweater.
And he didn't, you know, he was actually a very well behaved gentleman.
Good.
Well that's nice to know.
I was on the show once.
I was about three or five somewhere in there.
I guess, I don't remember it but apparently I had my finger jammed up my nose.
(23:56):
But, well you know, I think moving along here, I think we're going to take a quick break.
But could we, would you join us on a song?
I would love to.
I would love to.
How about, do you guys know Sleepwalk?
Sleepwalk?
I did by the, this is that.
Santo and Johnny.
Santo and Johnny.
You guys know that one?
(24:18):
Yeah.
I think we can, I think we can Google it.
Okay, we can.
Let's take a quick break here and we shall return with Santo and Johnny's Sleepwalk.
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to hang it up.
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(30:11):
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and more all for sale.
We're sad to be closing our doors, but as they say in the decorative squash business,
(30:32):
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Man, that was Mr. John Malloy, do you mind hanging out on the couch with us for a little,
(30:55):
that was fabulous, fabulous work.
Sure.
You got the time, that's wonderful, because.
I can't get out of here if I try, can you?
Well, neither can I.
Because we still have 36 minutes, 26 minutes to go, and that's barely enough time for our
marvelous guest, special guest, Mr. Jeff Anderson.
(31:19):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
(31:40):
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Oh my goodness.
Oh my goodness.
It's so good to see you, Jeff.
It's been a while.
We don't get to do this as much as we used to.
True.
What's been like, five days?
I thought it was only a couple, but it's been five.
Five days, sounds about right.
Yeah.
(32:01):
Well, you know, so what have you been up to in those past five days?
Six foot one, six foot.
Are you a six foot one?
.5, something like that, yeah.
That's, how are your leaps?
Did you ever play basketball?
Terrible.
I only get about three inches off the ground.
Okay.
That's about my-
Thank you for asking.
Yeah.
You know, that's a personal question.
Yeah.
(32:21):
Yeah.
Well, I didn't mean to get too personal too fast.
I actually had a list of questions here, but-
Yeah, please hit me.
Yeah.
You know.
Well, first of all, I worked with you and John Sun Rye on a movie called Jeff Steele
and the Children of the Doom, and it's now available on Amazon.
(32:46):
But before we do that, why don't we refresh everyone's memory with a little scene I've
prepared.
You have a clip?
I have a clip.
Here's a clip.
This is what the director, Clint Sargent and I, we kind of co-directed it, and we used
to refer to this scene as Hair Wars.
So let's take a look at that.
(33:06):
Agent Steele, I've always been a long time admirer of yours.
It's quite a shot you got there, kid.
We've all read about your years in the Narcotics Squad.
I won't believe everything you've read.
Some of the cadets and I are going out tonight at the Poet Faire Josephine's mansion.
Rumor has it Dr. Vox is speaking.
Why would you be interested in a guy like Vox?
(33:30):
Agent Steele, I'm sure you're much too busy to visit a book signing ceremony.
You'd be surprised, Stryker.
I'm sure I would.
Oh man, doesn't that reflect them already?
(33:51):
Man, I haven't seen that since, I don't think I've ever seen that.
That's 2011.
Was it?
Yeah, yeah.
Our movie came out in 2011.
Darge Productions is now, they have gone to Trench Digger Productions is now distributing
the Darge Library in a kind of a controversial acquisition.
(34:15):
We did get it on Amazon and we actually got our first review I'm being told, so maybe
if we get a little time we'll read that review together and we can see what happens.
That would be great.
Yeah, I'd love to know.
Sure.
But you know, I seem to remember something about Jeff Happens.
Yeah, he does.
(34:36):
Is that all there was to it?
I thought there was a movement?
Well, there's a couple things.
It's an email address.
Oh, that's right.
Which became kind of a name for myself when I was doing things bigger than, so I did roller
derby.
I was a roller derby announcer.
(34:57):
Right, now for the Rose City Rollers.
Rose City Rollers for a year.
What was that like?
It was a lot of fun.
But it's a lot of girls and you've got to really know how to handle girls.
Did you grow up with sisters?
I had one, yes.
Okay, so that kind of thing.
Okay, so that kind of can train you, but it's still a little overwhelming.
Have you ever hung out with a roller derby girl?
(35:19):
Let alone 50 of them?
Not more than like 10 minutes.
Same, a year is enough.
They're great.
They're great people.
Traveled a little bit.
It was awesome.
Well, I wish my sister's a ride roller derby.
I think there would be.
I think that my sister would be good at it.
She's a little kid now though, so I don't know if that's really her.
Oh, right.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
(35:40):
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I don't mean to.
No, please.
The house I live in is across the street from the house that Raquel Welch pretended to live
in when she was in the movie... The Kenton Club place, right?
Kansas City Bombers?
(36:02):
Yeah.
And my house was featured in that movie.
Okay.
That's the Raquel Welch movie, which was apparently one of Portland's best-made movies, I guess.
I don't know.
One of our top movies in 1971.
That's for darn sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow.
Cool.
Well, they shot some of Easy Rider in rural Oregon too.
(36:23):
Did you know that?
I know I did.
Did you know that rural is my least favorite word in the entire Webster dictionary?
I hate rural.
Well, now maybe perhaps I recall a conversation that you had some rural upbringing perhaps
in Oregon in particular.
Oh.
Did you have some Southern Oregon experience?
Yeah.
I got some Southern in me.
(36:43):
The dirty South of Oregon is...
Is there a dirty in the clean South or is it just...
Well, you know what?
I have to take that back because technically I think Ashland is dirtier.
Ashland's dirtier than Metford.
Yeah.
As far as those who are compared.
But the whole region I would say is the dirty South of Oregon.
What would you do in Metford for fun?
(37:03):
High school.
Oh, for fun?
Yeah.
Skateboarding.
Yeah.
And was there a lot of concrete or would you have to dirt it?
It is a town.
Yes.
Fully paved.
There was even a mall.
Would the bankers come out and yell at you, ah, you kids, get off our...
(37:24):
It was a safe closed loop city.
It was in a valley.
It is currently still there.
And it was a very safe place to grow up.
It's off I-5, right?
It's on I-5.
It straddles I-5.
Metford, if Jeff is a wonderful spokesman for Metford, if you ever get the chance to
go there, please.
(37:45):
Back and forth all the time.
They let you play on them.
I lived on one side.
I was on high school on the other side.
The mall is on the other side.
I was back and forth across I-5.
I still am.
Right.
Well, I mean, except for here, it's like the Rose Garden or Lloyd Center.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's a river too.
There's a three hour wait to Vancouver or something like that.
(38:08):
Yeah.
I try to avoid that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Are you living in Portland then?
I do.
Yeah.
Yep.
But you didn't live in Portland not too long ago.
I moved to the actual Dirty South.
The real Dirty South.
There's Dirty South, Oregon, and then this south.
(38:28):
Not Atlanta, because I know that people are thinking that it's going to be Atlanta, Georgia,
because that's where Ludacris is from.
I was living in New Orleans for two years.
Yeah.
It was great.
Wow.
And Tenden Bar?
I was.
I was a, they call it a quarter rat.
Quarter rat.
Now what is that to you?
She hang out in the French Quarter.
Oh.
There's a lot of rats there too, so it's apropos for the city.
(38:51):
But yeah.
What was the French Quarter like?
Pretty great experience.
Changed my whole life.
There's a lot of history there, right?
Yeah.
It's a 300 year old city.
The city predates the United States by like 80 years, I think.
Right.
That's the birthplace of jazz.
Birthplace of jazz, yep.
Congo Square.
I don't know if anyone else has heard this.
(39:12):
I was recently told jazz comes from jasmine perfume.
Have you heard this one?
No, I hadn't heard that.
Jasmine perfume, which all the prostitutes wore at the clubs.
Oh.
And the brothel, where Scott Joplin was playing.
They called them sex workers.
Sex workers?
Yeah.
What was the proper term was in 1893?
Well no, because you know.
(39:32):
Hey sex worker, come here now.
It was okay to demean them back then so you could say things like prostitutes.
Excuse me, prostitutes.
Hey, quick question.
Sure.
If you were in the roller derby biz, did you ever know a cat named Phil Gentile?
I don't think I met that person.
Okay, he's like a ref.
He's a strange person.
Sure.
I met him earlier this year.
Yeah.
(39:53):
Any refs in roller derby?
Yeah.
Something like that.
They've all got unique names.
But.
If.
Yeah, if anybody is curious about the roller derby.
I'm not, I don't represent it anymore, but there is some great documentaries on it.
And the Road City Rollers did put one out called Brutal Beauty.
Brutal Beauty?
Can you buy it?
(40:14):
You can go online.
iTunes, YouTube.
I think I'm in it for like 30 seconds.
Oh really?
Cool, cool, cool.
So did your acting career, did you do any acting in New Orleans?
No, I would.
Did you do music?
I did do music.
Okay.
(40:35):
Well, I was a busker.
So are you familiar with busking?
So you get the dishes and wash them?
Well, you busk after you do the dishes.
Because yeah, you've got to have a real job.
Busking is where you street perform.
Oh.
And there's a lot of people that street perform in the French Quarter.
(40:58):
I was one of them.
I was not one of the well-known.
I did it because I could.
It was a fun experience.
I did as much as I could while I was living down there.
I bartended in cocktail bars.
I went to all the music venues.
All Saints Day and all that stuff.
(41:19):
All the Mardi Gras stuff.
Got it out of my blood.
Mardi Gras.
And it really changed my life in a lot of ways.
I got inspired to learn how to play piano,
which is basically what I have been doing since I moved back,
is just learning piano.
I got a blues piano book and I just started teaching myself.
Are you reading the music?
(41:41):
I'll tell you, if anybody wants to challenge themselves,
pick a book of sheet music and learn how to play all the songs,
having never heard them before.
By teaching yourself to read music, it'll take you a while.
Get back to me.
I'd like to hear about it.
I was supposed to do that early on.
(42:03):
I was in the jazz band.
Steve was actually with me in the Central Catholic High School jazz band way back.
The music teacher, I was asking him to teach me notes
and this musical reading thing they talk about in the...
I got really frustrated.
All these horn players, and it was like,
(42:25):
just look at the chords, fucking figure it out, that kind of thing.
So I just go with the chords.
But I've done that where you follow the chords of a song you don't know,
and you construct it into your own kind of thing.
And then you hear what it actually sounds like,
and you're like, I really botched that up.
Right.
It takes a long time to learn how to do that.
(42:49):
I'm not talking about the chords, because yes,
you can read C major and figure out how to play it,
but it's the notation.
And I'm not a trained musician, so I didn't go to school for any of that stuff,
so sitting there and going through each note one by one
and teaching your fingers how to do it without a teacher,
it took me two years to get through the whole book.
But you're there.
(43:10):
I'm there.
I can't play very well, but I can play it.
You can kind of sight read.
I can sight read.
Wow.
Yeah.
Magical to me.
John, can you sight read?
I can read.
That's about where I'm at.
But I can't sight read, but I can read and figure it out.
(43:36):
Right.
But I'll tell any kids that are watching out there
the thing that that's an impressive feat to do that.
It's kind of a waste of time,
because you could do all that I just did in like six weeks on YouTube.
Oh.
Just pick a YouTube video and learn.
Right.
You can learn in like a week.
Right.
Well, that took me two years to learn.
That's like too easy.
But just saying.
(43:57):
You know, I mean, it's...
My youngest son, he can sight read.
He can really sight read.
He can like put a chart in front of him.
He can play anything, and he gets paid to do it.
So there is a reason to be able to do that.
You hear that, kids?
It's sight reading.
(44:18):
See, dozens of dollars.
Right, exactly.
Yeah.
Cool.
Well, geez, why don't we take a quick little break,
and we'll come back and think about something else.
Cool.
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(45:33):
Err, you know, so the dude like says, you know, you're in the shadows.
Like, you're not in the shadows.
It's five o'clock in the afternoon.
That's why it's a five o'clock shadow.
That's right.
Anyway, that's...
You should shave.
Oh, we're back, we're back, we're back.
Thank you, and thanks for watching the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
(45:57):
I'm your host, Jeff Dodge, and we have with us Mr. John Malloy and Mr. Jeff Anderson.
Thank you so much for joining us, and I believe this is the first time you guys have had.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, okay.
Well, you know, you can never meet enough people enough times, I always say.
And you catch that crazy old eclipse thing that was happening here in Oregon?
(46:23):
Is that an Apple product?
The Eclipse?
Oh, I was thinking Eclipse, so sorry.
Eclipse?
No, that's...
I think that's a new nostril device they're working on.
It's USB charged.
I didn't hear that if you were of the purest race that you could stare at the sun and it would never make your eyes blind.
(46:47):
Purest brace?
Brace.
Brace, oh, race.
Yeah, if you were a pure race you could stare at the sun.
Well, that might be true, except for humans, you know.
I don't know if humans can do that, except shaman.
Shaman humans.
So, all of the mixed race animals like the dogs, there were...
(47:08):
Well, yeah, it was something that I tried to...
Beagles, chihuahuas.
...that they could probably stare at the sun.
Is this a Virginia thing?
I heard you were wearing one of those MAGA hats so you could just stare right at it.
MAGA, yeah.
I think I caught our dear leader staring at the sun the other day.
(47:30):
Oh.
So I guess you're right, humans can do it.
Subhumans.
Subhumans.
Only subhumans.
But if you're already kind of blind...
Have you ever stared at the sun, Jeff?
Like with sunglasses, right?
No, I will be honest, I've never stared at the sun.
(47:51):
But there's a song called Staring at the Sun that I really like.
By who?
There's a band called Smile.
It's like a 90s rock band, yeah.
I was thinking the Doors had a song like that too, didn't they?
Staring at the sun or...
It's a good one.
Well, I'll tell you, there's been some confusion here lately.
(48:13):
And I'm going to probably have to say goodnight to everyone because I like to do this little monologue piece about my...
Just a few things here, my relationship with the city is quite tied up with a lot of different...
(48:34):
There we are, yeah.
Yeah, okay, so I didn't mean to get back into the conspiracy thing, but I think this eclipse is fake, you know?
Yeah.
Mayor Ted Wheeler, Mayor Ted Wheeler, don't stop me, honey, this is very important.
It's a they live thing, they're making you buy the glasses, there is no eclipse.
(48:59):
Good night, Jeff.
Good night, Jeff.
Turn around.
Is that what you say?
Turn around.
I don't think I quite hear you.
Five, six, seven, eight.
(49:23):
Turn around, for now and then I get a little bit lonely, forget about coming around.
Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit tired of the sleep and the tears.
Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit nervous and the best of all the years have been by.
(49:44):
Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit terrified of the night city looking at me.
Turn around.
For now and then I fall asleep.
Turn around.
For now and then I fall asleep.
Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit restless and the drugs on me run.
(50:08):
Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit hopeless and I'm trying to get out.
Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit angry and I know I'm not the God in Christ.
Turn around.
For now and then I get a little bit terrified and I see the look in your eyes.
Turn around.
(50:31):
For now and then I fall asleep.
Turn around.
Turn around.
For now and then I fall apart and I need you now tonight.
Tonight.
And I need you more than ever.
Oh no.
And if you only hold me tight.
Hold me tight.
And if you hold me now forever.
(50:52):
Forever.
And if you only be making it right.
Making it right.
Because we'll never be wrong.
Together we're gonna make it to the end.
We're gonna start to share all the time.
All the time.
I don't know what to do.
I'm always in the dark.
And everything in the dark is gonna start.
(51:14):
I'm singing to you tonight.
But I ain't just gonna start tonight.
Yeah, I'm just gonna start tonight.
It's the part of time that was fun enough.
And now I'm only falling apart.
I'm turning back and you're totally clips of the heart.
(51:40):
One time there was a guy in my life.
He knew there was only love in the dark.
Nothing I can say to tell you it's a lie.
(52:17):
Turn around bright.
Turn around bright.
Turn around.
Every now and then I'll tell you that you'll learn.
(52:41):
Turn around.
Every now and then I know you'll always be the only boy who wanted me the way that I am
Every now and then I know this one thing and then you know, versus magic, brother
One, two, three, four
(53:04):
Every now and then I fall apart
Every now and then I fall apart
I need you more tonight
And I need you more than ever
Through all the hard times
I go through all the bad times
Period
(53:26):
All those things I'll never ever figure out
And if it's right, you'll never be wrong
But if you're mouthing your words
You'll never know
(54:03):
The eclipse is a heart
The time is back
The time is back
The time is back
The time is back
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The time is back
The time is back
The time is back
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The time is back
The time is back
The time is back
The time is back
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That's another losing man for Rodeo!
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The time is back
We've been going for seven years or so
From the fire blowing us away
If you really don't want us today
We might deliver a rift to play
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We're a passing revolution band
Just trying to really understand
That the truth about this new industry is out there now
Join our passing revolution band
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And the status quo just can't stay
It's gotta go and get the hell away
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