October 24, 2023 • 54 mins
Season 2 : Episode IX Streamed Live on Monday, September 25th, 2017
- Guest Host - Scott Peterson http://www.toolboxrock.com/ Featured Guests - Musical Director Rich Reece Bassist Steven Cebula 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.
- 4:09 "Hour of Darkness" (Written by Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris)
- 9:39 Featured Guest - Rich Reece
- 45:53 "Dead Flowers" (Written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards) The PRB featuring Bobby Caesar & The Commander
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Now, now we've got you.
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I'm gonna back up my camera a little bit.
I'm feeling like we should put this in a stand or something.
You got both of us there?
Yeah, this is perfect.
No, I was wondering, I thought the whole tripod was moving.
No, that's me.
Do you want me to get this up higher?
Now we've got optimal phone placement.
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I like the idea of that.
That should be pretty good.
Does your phone have that little Q-intro?
Yeah, there we go.
Alright, we're good.
Okay, go ahead.
Start the show.
Start the show, Jeff.
Oh, are we rolling? Is this the beginning?
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Yeah, you're on.
Hi, I'm Jeff Dodge and this is the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour coming to you live from Arizona.
Actually, we've got our guest host today, Mr. Scott Peterson is sitting in for me.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
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The revolution band.
Where we try to really understand.
And the truth of our mission is to peel off the vicious.
Join our peasant revolution band.
Join our peasant revolution band.
Join our peasant revolution band.
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Join our peasant revolution band.
Well, the status quo just can't stay.
It's gotta go the hell away.
Well, I tried to get me some peace today.
But the future seems so far away.
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We're the peasant revolution band.
and we're here to assimilate and achieve that swag atom out of us.
The sog atom out of us,
John O'Briza Revolution Man!
John O'Briza Revolution Man!
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John O'Briza Revolution Man!
John O'Briza Revolution Man!
John O'Briza Revolution Man!
This is my lovely wife Jamila and I are in Arizona. Scott, can you say hi to the audience for us?
Yes, Jeff. I'm reluctantly here.
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What should... what do you have in store for us today?
That's a great question, Jeff.
You're breaking up. You know what, I'll tell you. Jamila and I came up with a song and we're going to go ahead and try that, okay?
Have you got time for that? Maybe Rich and Steve could figure it out while we're doing this.
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It's in Key of F, a 1-5-4 type of thing. A very slow country thing. See if I can get this loud enough.
I'm out here writing the new album, you know, the desert is beautiful.
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In my hour of darkness, in my time of need,
hologrammy vision, hologrammy spirit,
once I knew a young man when driving through the night,
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driving miles and miles away, just his happy vibes,
whatever's on their bill, such an ending in the band,
it'd be so strong to take so long, as it would in the end.
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In my hour of darkness, in my time of need,
hologrammy vision, hologrammy spirit,
I heard a young man say please turn his silver string guitar,
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he played the people everywhere, some say he was a star,
but he was just a country boy, his simple songs were best,
and the music he had in him, so very beautiful as his.
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In my hour of darkness, in my time of need,
hologrammy vision, hologrammy spirit,
once I knew a young man when driving through the night,
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driving miles and miles away, just his happy vibes,
whatever's on their bill, such an ending in the band,
it'd be so strong to take so long, as it would in the end.
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hologrammy vision, hologrammy spirit,
hologrammy vision, hologrammy spirit.
Well, fantastic performance. Hello, my name is Scott Peterson.
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I'm here filling in at the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
Our fearless leader, of course, is on vacation, as you may have seen from the video, not here.
He has left us alone in the studio with his cats.
We have no idea what we're doing. I asked Rich to please come away from the drum set.
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Steve, of course, is holding out, he's still holding down the bottom end there with the bass.
Anyhow, we have missed Jeff, and it was nice that we finally got contact from him.
He was missing, I apologize.
The telephone is very hard to hold for that kind of performance. Is Jeff still with us?
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Oh, it appears, oh, we still have Jeff. Jeff, are you with me still?
Oh, I'm Scott, is that you?
Yes, Jeff. I'm sitting here on the couch with Rich Reese.
Oh, Rich, I didn't know you were a guest today.
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That's right. How are you doing, Rich?
I'm great, I'm great.
How's the weather?
Oh, it's been outstanding. Today it was cloudy, but there wasn't really any real precipitation.
Although we did get a little mist out in Washington County.
Tomorrow things are going to be clearing up a little bit.
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40% chance of showers, I would say.
I would say less than a 40% chance of showers.
And we're going to go to some real nice weather for Wednesday and Thursday, and then some rain will be rolling in for the weekend.
So any plans you might have for doing some yard work, folks, maybe you better rethink those.
Anyway, how's everything down in Arizona?
Well, technically not in, we're in Navajo country.
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Navajo country?
It's a nation into itself.
Okay, so they didn't allow the Scottish people to come in and steal it?
I think that's Florida.
Oh, the Basque country, yes, the Scots and the Basques.
But I understand we got to pay some bills here, is that what I was...
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Scott of the Scots.
I could, but he knows more about the Swedes.
I do know more about the Swedes.
But yeah, so you're in sovereign Navajo.
I did learn that the Navajo word for steam is steam.
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Oh, that's good to know.
In case you want to know that.
It's not...
Okay, I can't think of anything else that wouldn't be racist.
Some hard consonant sounds that steam works out to just be beef.
Tremendous. Okay, well that's going to, you know, we're going to make a meme out of that.
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And, oh well, look at that, yeah, you can see Jeff here.
We almost had it working.
Okay, let's go ahead and do commercials.
Oh, okay, tremendous.
All right, well we're going to go ahead and pay some bills here, folks.
You are watching the Jeff Dodge program.
After 47 years, it's time to close Dot's decorative squash store.
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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 50% off.
We have very little decorative squash for sure.
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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, all good things must come to an end.
Hello, Dodge decorative squash. Dottie speaking.
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Hi, I'm Jeff Dodge and you're watching the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
Hi from Santa Fe.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, we are back here at the Variety Hour, the Jeff Dodge Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
On the couch today we have Rich Reese, usually sitting behind the drum kit here.
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And today, without Jeff here, we decided just to have a nice casual conversation.
You know, Jeff is quite an interesting musical entity.
So now over the years you've played with a number of different musical groups.
I could imagine that with your busy schedule, it must be tough finding all the time for all the musical groups that you work for.
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So what do you enjoy about playing in the Peasant Revolution Band, Rich?
Well, I like the fact that we never rehearse.
That is helpful to me intellectually. It keeps things going.
What else?
You know, I like, you know, we used to do some bad finger tunes and that was pretty cool.
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Jeff is usually open to some suggestions occasionally.
And so we end up doing things like Share the Land, which I believe is the Guess Who.
I believe that's a Canadian group.
Right, Canadian. That song actually banned in the South the socialist overtones.
You know, I could see that.
Some of these Canadian artists are influenced heavily by socialism, from what I understand.
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Yeah, I think they live by it, you could say.
But yeah, you know, I just like coming over here, hanging out with Steve.
Steve's a cool cat. You know, he's from the Kenton neighborhood.
He lives over on the sort of North Plains of Kenton over on the West Side.
On the West Side. Now, would that be out?
So not like in the Denver area, you're saying more of the West Side.
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Denver is kind of the dividing street.
Like Portsmouth, like is that still considered?
No, not like before.
More of a Chautauqua kind of guy.
A Chautauqua. Oh, yeah, that's a fine street.
You know, I understand David, our cameraman here, a big creative force in the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
He's also a resident of the Kenton neighborhood as well.
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I occasionally see him at about 6.15 in the morning.
He's right over by the Max station.
So when I'm rushing out to the Max, we'll run into David Craig over there.
That would be that's the nice thing about the Kenton neighborhood.
Now, if I'm not mistaken, though, I think I may have had a couple of opportunities to live in that neighborhood.
In my life, I've bounced around a little bit in the Portland metro area.
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And I would say that Kenton, you know, before the Max came, I remember it was a much, much darker neighborhood.
Then it was very gloomy when you look at places like the Kenton Bar.
Sure, the Kenton Club.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Kenton Club. Sure.
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It's a famous Kenton Club. Right.
I actually got paid to stop singing at karaoke there one night.
How much did they pay you to stop?
It was a dollar. And back then you could get like a paps for a dollar.
So I was like, OK. And so I sat the mic down.
You know, that's you just made me think about the Kenton Club.
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And I want to say in the early aughts is that, yeah,
I'm trying to think.
The Max came into the Kenton about 2003, 2004.
May 5th, 2004 was the grand opening.
Oh, and I do recall an event that we did have to work.
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Yeah, we did some sound there.
There was the very famous TriMet trying to shut down the dance and bear.
Yeah, because of the station up there at the end of Interstate, if I'm not mistaken.
It's still there. You can still see the the dancers out smoking when you're waiting for the Max.
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In the winter, sometimes they have overcoats.
Makes a lot of sense. I catch a little ankle.
You made me recall that that day of the Max opening.
And there was a big political struggle, if I'm not mistaken, that TriMet did try to shut down and take that real estate over for their station.
Yeah, they couldn't use eminent domain on that.
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I mean, they were able to get some other space.
In fact, some of the other property that they purchased is now being used for that homeless women's shelter of little tiny houses up there.
Yes, yes. That's a very, very revolutionary situation for getting the homeless getting off the streets.
That's very interesting.
A third of the neighborhood opposed it, but you know, they can go fuck themselves because they're...
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I understand that over a third of the Kenton neighborhood complains about the noise from PIR, if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, well, they can also go get themselves squarely and soundly fucked.
I'll take that. That's pretty good.
I bet the same people would have complained about the noise from Vanport.
Well, I mean, who doesn't?
Right. Probably would have complained about all those people walking up the street after the floods came through or, you know, whatever.
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That's very, very good times.
Yeah, so, but yeah, good little neighborhood.
Great neighborhood.
I remember when we were up there in 02 when there was nothing going on.
I think you were there the time I got pulled over for driving drunk, but then they let me go.
That would be when the construction of the MAX was happening.
Construction was happening.
Yeah, you did a diagonal turn off of Interstate.
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It was the wrong direction for about 60 feet, all while going about 40 in second gear.
And that's high RPM.
Yeah, that's what I like. The noise, you know, you have a couple of drinks and it's like, oh, that sounds super cool.
And the cops, you know, they, they, I don't remember what the deal was, but I was speaking to them in the military alphabet and they loved that.
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And so they let me take my beer and go inside.
When you say military alphabet, is that like Niner? Fiverr?
Alpha, Bravo, Niner. Niner is one of them.
You might say Fife instead of five, although that's, that's very specific.
Whiskey.
Whiskey is what number is that?
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W. V is Victor.
Oh, copy that, copy that. I got you now. Now I'm understanding.
You know, I understand that the police use that in conversation on the radios on a daily basis.
Well, they actually have their own. And so what you do, if you're a pilot or a military person and you get pulled over drunk, you just start talking to them about the difference between the alphabets.
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And for some reason that kept me out of jail for a lengthy alcohol career.
You know, I've always had, well, I'm glad to hear that you no longer have your alcohol career going for you.
How many, how many years of non non alcohol use?
Nine and a half years.
Well, my goodness, you're, you're approaching a dime. Congratulations.
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Thanks. Thanks. I'm going to get wasted in celebration.
At this time, I think we should probably go to another commercial.
Yeah, we will. We'll get we'll get Jeff is going to work on this show for us.
Let's go ahead and do an ad now.
I got to tell you, I do love my Safford Brothers downtown blend taste of the city coffee.
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So you want to call me a celebrity?
Fine. I, I never wanted to be a celebrity.
To me, it's an incredible hassle. I'd rather be anonymous, you know, even though I might try to get up in front of a bunch of people and, and become famous because I guess when you're famous, they give you stuff like coffee.
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But hey, I earned this. I'm working hard here because I love Safford Brothers downtown blend taste of the city coffee.
Okay. I love it so much that I'm drinking it right now in the middle of this commercial.
It's delicious. And so try it. You will love it too.
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Hi, this is David Crosby of the birds. You're watching the peasant revolution band variety hour with host Scott Peterson. Yeah. Yeah.
Hi, here we are at the peasant revolution band variety hour. You may be noticing that I am not Jeff Dodge.
I've been mistaken as Jeff over the years with his working for his father. I definitely am a part of a part of the Dodge family.
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It's, it's a little frustrating because of course, like the technology and if you've watched any of the other shows, obviously it's a little off the cuff.
Today it's a little bit more off the cuff than it usually is.
Today we're spending a little bit of time with Rich Reese, one of the unspoken heroes here at the old peasant revolution brand band variety hour.
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And usually, you know, Jeff keeps him on a pretty short leash and it's kind of nice to have you out and to hear your voice.
Because a lot of times when Jeff has you speaking, it seems that the audio is not even on you. Like you're just right there as a prop.
Well, yeah. And part of that, I think, is because, you know, Jeff and I being different ages, you know, we did some of our academic matriculation at different times.
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And he frankly, he comes from a little more of a conservative background than I do.
I could see that sometimes he just doesn't, you know, he doesn't want to hear my Marxist interpretation of whatever happens to be going on.
Jeff just wants to get the flag out and, you know, just start waving it around.
There's a pile of guns over there. They probably took him to Arizona.
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Well, he did. He did have the anger issues.
It started out as the road rage incident, which, of course, unfolded a little bit differently.
I don't know if he still owns legally owns guns at this time.
I didn't say legally. Oh, I was not prepared for that.
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I know a bunch of pilots again now, so we're on a whole other side of the world.
But yeah, no, no. It's good to talk a little bit here.
You know, I got poached into this band.
I was playing for Sonny and Cher and everybody thought, you know, that guy is really he's really, he's really, he's really a good guy.
And everybody thought, you know, that guy is really he's really in the pocket and Peasant Revolution bands, a funky affair.
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They could use somebody like that. And I was I was very flattered.
You know, it's very interesting that you brought up the Sonny and Cher.
I've always kind of thought as as Jeff as Sonny kind of character without the politics, of course.
Sure, sure. Yeah. I mean, Jeff's not that conservative, but he is equally anti-drug to both Sonny and Cher.
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And I think that's pretty clear if you spend any time in this house that any hanky panky going around around here with any any of that jazz cabbage or anything like that, that's completely the jazz cabbage.
That's that's a new slang. I've never never heard that one actually.
I picked that one up out at the airport the other day from a pilot from a pilot, a bunch of kids who've never done nothing.
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It's kind of funny. But you just you can't see if you're at the airport.
Just don't tell anybody you were actually born in Eugene because.
And then, of course, you go to see Grateful Dead concerts in 1992 at Austin Stadium.
That was that was well, that ain't me, babe.
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Damn, I didn't realize we were going to be going there.
So so so so exactly how many years were you with Sonny and Cher?
Well, 72 to 2013, I think, was when I got pulled over for this one. And of course, Sonny passed away in 1998, 899.
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Formerly anti-drug, of course, he was taking 60 Vicodin a day when he skied into that tree.
God bless him. Yeah, I love all conservative congressmen.
Anyways, but yeah, so Jeff pulled me over for this thing and the pay the pay is close.
The pay is close, close enough to make it worthwhile to me.
So we just have a fine time down here. You couldn't do it without Steve.
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Well, you know, Steve is definitely the anchor of the group.
There's a lot of history there with Jeff and Steve.
I I'm very, very saddened, though.
I cannot crack the shell. I can I cannot make Steve talk.
And then it's it's OK. I understand.
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I just hope he's not angry with me.
I I I I would like to be able to include him in the interviews.
But it appears that he prefers to work with Jeff.
Well, I mean, what happens is you don't make it through high school in southeast Portland in the late 80s
without knowing how to keep your mouth shut.
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And these are central Catholic guys through and through class.
Steve, were you a central Catholic guy as well?
Yes, this is true. He actually spoke.
That's unbelievable. Oh, yeah.
I wonder if he was a part of Jeff's political agenda in a central Catholic guy.
And stuff back then.
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He was he was in the like Students for Pat Buchanan Club and all kinds of
all kinds of he was looking at Reagan and he said, you know, Reagan, the guy's a hippie.
We can't tolerate it. I like this Buchanan character.
He doesn't even drive domestic cars, but he still he's waving the flag all the fuck all over the place
and doesn't care about freedom of speech, even though he comes from the communications background.
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That was just kind of guy. And, you know,
where does Dan Quayle fit in all this?
Well, you see the real righties like what Jeff was a part of back then, like the John Birch Society
and stuff like that. They didn't even acknowledge Quayle.
They knew Quayle was basically he was just a patsy. He was just a placeholder. He was there.
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He looked he certainly looked good. Oh, yeah. No, he was a nice young dynamic cat.
You put him up next to George H.W. Yeah.
And he brought a lot of vitality, I would say, to the party at the time.
And what a great period to all kinds of great things happen for this country.
And hair metal really make it to the surface and absolutely zero literature happening anywhere,
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except, of course, for up dikes rabbit at rest. Anyways,
the point is, I'm just I'm absolutely flattered to be a part of the organization here.
And I'm so glad I had all those years with Sonny and Cher kind of preparing for this organization.
Well, the the neuroses, I would imagine, have prepared you to be able to deal with Jeff's
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how would you say it like phases or mood?
Not not the spells. I didn't want to say mood swings, but it certainly can be a roller coaster ride
when you're in the creative process with Jeff. I've been.
Oh, yeah. And he makes it look that way. But he's really just a straight ahead, God fearing,
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all American kind of guy. I mean, that's in my experience, at least he, you know, he's always on time.
He knows exactly what he's going to say. And every time he always says the right thing.
Man of his word and his word. And he's dead set on killing health care right now.
And, you know, I say to that is God bless him. Absolutely.
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And on that moment, we'll take a little break right now.
Once again, this is Scott Peterson for the Jeff Dodge Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
We'd like you to thank I'd like to thank you for stopping in.
I apologize for not having Jeff here with us today, but we're doing the best we can.
And, you know, he's he's on vacation. He's with his wife. He's safe.
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We're very pleased. And we'll be right back.
Celebrity, you know, it's got to be somebody in a cubicle over there.
And Entertainment Weekly, you know, and you know what?
I bet on his coffee break, he drinks Safford Brothers, downtown blend,
taste of the city coffee, because, you know, that keeps you going.
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When you've got to compile these lists and you've got to figure out who these celebrities are.
And let me tell you something. I told you celebrity is not all it's cracked up to be.
OK, but you know what? If I can do an endorsement for Safford Brothers, downtown blend, taste the city coffee,
then that makes it all worth it.
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Hi, you're watching the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour with your host Scott Peterson.
Hey!
Hi there. Scott Peterson for the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
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If you noticed today, I am not Jeff Dodge. I'm here because Jeff is not present today.
Right now we're taking some time just doing a simple interview with his trusty drummer, formerly of Sonny and Cher fame, Rich Reese.
Hey, thanks, Scott. Nice introduction there.
And what a pleasant time we are having with the interview this evening.
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We haven't had a chance to sit down and talk like this for a while.
Yeah, it's a very special time. Over the years, I've been a big fan of the Reese family.
Oh, thanks, thanks. Yeah, you know, it's not all just sea lions and fighting. It's there's a lot of love there, too.
How is Ratso doing? Is he still with us?
Oh, yeah, he's back in St. Louis. We're trying to get him into a house.
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You can buy a house back there for about seventy thousand dollars.
So even a even a horn player can own a house in St. Louis.
He definitely one of the more interesting characters in the family.
I would say so. Yeah, yeah, he's a strange cat.
You know, he came out here in the late 60s initially and was hanging out in Eugene.
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He went to what they called the Renaissance Fair at the time
and witnessed his father giving his grandmother acid in about 1969.
Well, it was a very popular popular pastime in the late 60s.
I understand. Oh, oh, you may have.
I really didn't want to talk about generations today.
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Oh, sure. Because one of the things about the Peasant Revolution band Variety Hour
that makes me a little crazy in the head, I'd like to point out,
I am one of the few viewers that we've that the show has actually had in the live broadcast.
I know that I've been on the chat with a guest's wife one time
when there was an audio issue a couple episodes ago.
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And we had a nice conversation. She was a very nice person.
So I guess the show actually kind of has enlightened me a bit
or at least allowed me to connect with other people who I never would have crossed paths with.
So I guess I have to be thankful of the of the show.
Jeff is good at bringing people together. And
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see, when you say that, I think sometimes like we've talked about some of his politics,
he tends to kind of alienate some people I've been noticing,
mostly in traffic.
Certainly, certainly there's going to be a lot of truth to that.
But, you know, he really does mean well. He just he just loves the country
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and he loves, you know, just basic generic U.S. history so much that
when you say generic history, does that involve Pizzagate?
Well, no, that's what Jeff can tell you all about Pizzagate.
You know, it's because he doesn't spend a moment listening to that lame stream media.
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Oh, that was very good. I see you should be out out out on the other side of your drum kit more often.
Working on it. Yeah. It's just, you know, it's not my show.
So I don't want to steal all the thunder.
I'm trying to remember where I heard that phrase first.
But I just figured we'll let Jeff do the Jeff show and I'll stay back there, you know,
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keep things funky. But I appreciate you bringing me out here.
I understand you've got some big plans for the morning.
The morning? Yes, yes.
Right now, we're sitting at a little bit before 10 p.m. on this Monday night.
Yes, I still have to when the show is finished this evening, I have to see my girlfriend.
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OK. I have to do laundry and I somehow have to be at the airport by 7 a.m.
OK, we can make that happen. I think it can happen.
It'd be nice to get a couple hours of sleep in there.
I am going to Arkansas. I've never been to Arkansas before.
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What do you know about Arkansas, Rich?
Home of Bill Clinton. I guess we all knew that.
It is Clinton country. It is Clinton country.
Just read the Richard Ford biography of his parents who were from Arkansas.
And it sounds like kind of a funky place if you really want to like dig deep into the urban rural migration.
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I mean people were literally sort of in the 30s, 20s, 30s back then literally coming out of the hills
and working their way into urbanized life at the time. Automobiles were a very new thing.
A lot of the day-to-day household goods that we commonly use now, a lot of that stuff was brand new.
It was a very exciting time and Arkansas was really kind of a place where that would happen.
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You didn't have huge cities, but you weren't a million miles away from New Orleans to the south
and of course St. Louis and other places to the north.
So it sounds like it was interesting back then. I don't know what it's like now.
They had a school shooting about 19 and a half years ago.
Barely preceded of course the Thurston shooting that we all know.
You know I just realized I don't know anything about Arkansas.
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It doesn't look like it's a very big state. I looked at it on the map today.
It's pretty small. It's not huge. Let's take a look at the population.
What do we got for a population of Little Rock?
Porn is not necessarily a good thing to have on a broadcast of a TV show.
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And also too, you know, they got three million. Is that Arkansas entirely?
Yeah, yeah. So 2.988 million. So if you took that amount and then added in like the population of St. John's
that would give you an even three million right there.
That's really something. So now I have that. That's a good thing.
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I also understand it's the home of Murphy's Oil Soap.
Okay.
And they also have at least a Walmart as well. I've discovered.
Yeah, there was the Walmart thing. I forgot about that. Yeah, that's all.
They have those super stores. Are they based out of Arkansas?
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Oh, well, that makes perfect sense then.
You got to watch out for those Walton kids, by the way.
One of them is an awful drunk who has killed people in accidents
and gets away with it because she's a multi-billionaire responsible for the employments of several hundred thousand people across the country.
I understand that their benefits are kind of sketchy there at the old Walmart.
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Oh, yeah. I was talking to my friend Aaron Smith recently about this.
He's a self-hating alcoholic kind of at the same time I was.
But he took the self-hatred a little farther, made himself.
He's a teacher, special ed teacher, made himself a work at a Walmart over Christmas break one year
and has lots of insights about how they do their scheduling to keep people under 30 or 32 hours
so they don't actually have to pay for their health insurance.
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Well, isn't that really awful?
You know, Jeff Dodge would say that that is their right as an American employer to do that.
But Jeff's not here.
I got to quit speaking for Jeff, of course.
Well, that certainly was an interesting segment here at the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
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Let's go right on back to one of those fantastic ads that we have.
After 47 years, it's time to close Dot's Decorative Squash Store.
We suffered through a disastrous squash crop this year,
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which made us realize it was time to hang it up.
The good news is everything will be on sale 50% off.
We have very little decorative squash for sure,
but we still have books, gardening supplies, and more all for sale.
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We're sad to be closing our doors,
but as they say in the decorative squash business, all good things must come to an end.
Hello, Dot's Decorative Squash, Dotty speaking.
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You know, I don't know where Jeff Dodge is,
but I mean, how hard can the guy work?
He does one show a month.
But you know what?
I know the dude has a secret, and his secret is
Safford Brothers Coffee, the downtown blend, Tastes the City.
The dude is running on it.
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He's got to be.
He's got so much else going on.
He's always working.
He's never around.
He's on vacation, so he deserves a break.
It's wonderful. It's great, you know, but the show's going to go on, I guess.
But I got news for you.
The dude is drinking Safford Brothers Downtown Blend Tastes the City.
Three o'clock. What is he doing?
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He's pouring himself a cup of coffee.
He's loving it.
And I got news for you.
I love it, too.
Safford Brothers Downtown Blend Tastes the City Coffee is the best.
After 47 years, it's time to close Dot's Decorative Squash Store.
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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 50 percent off.
We have very little decorative squash for sure,
(40:59):
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, all good things must come to an end.
Hello, Dot's Decorative Squash, Dotty speaking.
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Actually, oh, we're here for another segment at the old TV show here on the Internet.
Working on some different shots.
I'm trying to figure out what we should talk about, but I'm not politically charged.
I'm thinking we'll get there.
That's the thing we're going to do.
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I'm not quite prepared to walk away from the show yet, but it's getting very close, very close.
The camera just fell down on me.
What should we go on now?
Oh, God, I don't even know.
I don't even know either. Maybe we should just get some Lego Jeff shots and just give Jeff that.
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We'll give him a good 10 minutes of that.
OK, everyone be really quiet, really quiet, really, really quiet.
I have some audio that can go along with this too.
I do. It'll be great.
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Oh, I know where I came from.
That was custom built from other other bits.
And other kits.
I believe the guitar belonged to a mariachi and the hair belonged to a vampire.
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OK, here's the bitch in audio I got.
There's 24 seconds of it. It's going to be wonderful.
Hey, fellas, I'm really lost.
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I'm looking for some cats.
Steven stills and Neil Young. You guys know them by chance.
I'm David.
That'll make Jeff really happy that he knows that I did not delete that video.
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I think I'm satisfied with this, except for we need some music shots and Jeff's going to have to butcher this up.
Yeah, that's right.
I'm doing a celebrity endorsement now.
I got to tell you, I do love my Safford Brothers downtown blend taste of the city coffee.
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So you want to call me a celebrity.
Fine. I never wanted to be a celebrity.
To me, it's an incredible hassle.
I'd rather be anonymous, you know, even though I might try to get up in front of a bunch of people and become famous
because I guess when you're famous, they give you stuff like coffee.
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But hey, I earn this. I'm working hard here because I love Safford Brothers downtown blend taste of the city coffee.
I love it so much that I'm drinking it right now in the middle of this commercial.
It's delicious.
So try it. You will love it too.
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I kind of liked it on the floor. That was good.
Oh, we're on. Hey, hey, we have another musical video performance of the Pessimist Revolution band.
I believe that's Bobby Caesar, if I'm not mistaken, during the vocals.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is Dead Flowers.
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Sitting there, in a silky bolster chair, talking to some rich folk that you know.
Well, I'm like you won't see me in my ragged company, before you know I could never be alone.
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Take me down, little Suzy, take me down.
I know you think you're the queen of the underground.
But you can't.
Send me dead flowers to my wedding.
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Send me dead flowers by the man.
Send me dead flowers to Heather.
And I won't forget to put roses on your ring.
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Well, when you're sitting back in your rose-picket car, making bets on Kentucky Derby Day.
Walk in my basement room with a needle and a spoon, and another girl take my pain away.
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Take me down, little Suzy, take me down.
I know you think you're the queen of the underground.
But you can't.
Send me dead flowers every morning.
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Send me dead flowers by the man.
Send me dead flowers to my wedding.
And I won't forget to put roses on your ring.
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Take me down, little Suzy, take me down.
I know you think you're the queen of the underground.
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But you can't.
Send me dead flowers every morning.
Send me dead flowers by the man.
Send me dead flowers to my wedding.
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And I won't forget to put roses on your ring.
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Thank you, Bobby Seetser, Bobby Seetser, dead flowers by the Rolling Stones.
So I don't know.
Why am I not a celebrity?
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I mean, am I like, you know, some kind of D-list celebrity maybe?
I don't even know what this list is.
I don't know who's, you know, compiling this list, who's trying to figure out who's more of a celebrity, you know.
It's got to be somebody in a cubicle over there at Entertainment Weekly, you know.
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And you know what? I bet on his coffee break, he drinks Safford Brothers, Downtown Blend, Taste of the City coffee, because, you know, that keeps you going.
When you've got to compile these lists and you've got to figure out who these celebrities are.
And let me tell you something.
I told you, celebrity is not all it's cracked up to be, okay.
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But you know what? If I could do an endorsement for Safford Brothers, Downtown Blend, Taste of the City coffee, then that makes it all worth it.
(52:37):
Absolutely.
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Okay, we're rolling.
All right, I'm interviewing Nav Gomez on the, we're on the hill, the lock.
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Are they aliens?
Can we?
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I'm not very far from my here with my old roommate, Ann Veladaček. And we see our old roommate, Brad Brandt, has joined us too. Hi, Brad.
Riding the Bigfoot Rapids. No Bigfoot yet. Jamila has been drenched. Yeah. I've been drenched. I think my nipples are starting to show.
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Whoa.
Again.
Now, now we've got you.
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I'm gonna back up my camera a little bit.
I'm feeling like we should put this in a stand or something.
You got both of us there?
Yeah, this is perfect.
No, I was wondering, I thought the whole tripod was moving.
No, that's me.
Do you want me to get this up higher?
Now we've got optimal phone placement.
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I like the idea of that.
That should be pretty good.
Does your phone have that little Q-intro?
Yeah, there we go.
Alright, we're good.
Okay, go ahead.
Start the show.
Start the show, Jeff.
Oh, are we rolling? Is this the beginning?
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Yeah, you're on.
Hi, I'm Jeff Dodge and this is the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour coming to you live from Arizona.
Actually, we've got our guest host today, Mr. Scott Peterson is sitting in for me.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
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The revolution band.
Where we try to really understand.
And the truth of our mission is to peel off the vicious.
Join our peasant revolution band.
Join our peasant revolution band.
Join our peasant revolution band.
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Join our peasant revolution band.
Well, the status quo just can't stay.
It's gotta go the hell away.
Well, I tried to get me some peace today.
But the future seems so far away.
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We're the peasant revolution band.
and we're here to assimilate and achieve that swag atom out of us.
The sog atom out of us,
John O'Briza Revolution Man!
John O'Briza Revolution Man!
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John O'Briza Revolution Man!
John O'Briza Revolution Man!
John O'Briza Revolution Man!
This is my lovely wife Jamila and I are in Arizona. Scott, can you say hi to the audience for us?
Yes, Jeff. I'm reluctantly here.
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What should... what do you have in store for us today?
That's a great question, Jeff.
You're breaking up. You know what, I'll tell you. Jamila and I came up with a song and we're going to go ahead and try that, okay?
Have you got time for that? Maybe Rich and Steve could figure it out while we're doing this.
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It's in Key of F, a 1-5-4 type of thing. A very slow country thing. See if I can get this loud enough.
I'm out here writing the new album, you know, the desert is beautiful.
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In my hour of darkness, in my time of need,
hologrammy vision, hologrammy spirit,
once I knew a young man when driving through the night,
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driving miles and miles away, just his happy vibes,
whatever's on their bill, such an ending in the band,
it'd be so strong to take so long, as it would in the end.
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In my hour of darkness, in my time of need,
hologrammy vision, hologrammy spirit,
I heard a young man say please turn his silver string guitar,
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he played the people everywhere, some say he was a star,
but he was just a country boy, his simple songs were best,
and the music he had in him, so very beautiful as his.
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In my hour of darkness, in my time of need,
hologrammy vision, hologrammy spirit,
once I knew a young man when driving through the night,
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driving miles and miles away, just his happy vibes,
whatever's on their bill, such an ending in the band,
it'd be so strong to take so long, as it would in the end.
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hologrammy vision, hologrammy spirit,
hologrammy vision, hologrammy spirit.
Well, fantastic performance. Hello, my name is Scott Peterson.
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I'm here filling in at the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
Our fearless leader, of course, is on vacation, as you may have seen from the video, not here.
He has left us alone in the studio with his cats.
We have no idea what we're doing. I asked Rich to please come away from the drum set.
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Steve, of course, is holding out, he's still holding down the bottom end there with the bass.
Anyhow, we have missed Jeff, and it was nice that we finally got contact from him.
He was missing, I apologize.
The telephone is very hard to hold for that kind of performance. Is Jeff still with us?
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Oh, it appears, oh, we still have Jeff. Jeff, are you with me still?
Oh, I'm Scott, is that you?
Yes, Jeff. I'm sitting here on the couch with Rich Reese.
Oh, Rich, I didn't know you were a guest today.
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That's right. How are you doing, Rich?
I'm great, I'm great.
How's the weather?
Oh, it's been outstanding. Today it was cloudy, but there wasn't really any real precipitation.
Although we did get a little mist out in Washington County.
Tomorrow things are going to be clearing up a little bit.
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40% chance of showers, I would say.
I would say less than a 40% chance of showers.
And we're going to go to some real nice weather for Wednesday and Thursday, and then some rain will be rolling in for the weekend.
So any plans you might have for doing some yard work, folks, maybe you better rethink those.
Anyway, how's everything down in Arizona?
Well, technically not in, we're in Navajo country.
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Navajo country?
It's a nation into itself.
Okay, so they didn't allow the Scottish people to come in and steal it?
I think that's Florida.
Oh, the Basque country, yes, the Scots and the Basques.
But I understand we got to pay some bills here, is that what I was...
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Scott of the Scots.
I could, but he knows more about the Swedes.
I do know more about the Swedes.
But yeah, so you're in sovereign Navajo.
I did learn that the Navajo word for steam is steam.
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Oh, that's good to know.
In case you want to know that.
It's not...
Okay, I can't think of anything else that wouldn't be racist.
Some hard consonant sounds that steam works out to just be beef.
Tremendous. Okay, well that's going to, you know, we're going to make a meme out of that.
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And, oh well, look at that, yeah, you can see Jeff here.
We almost had it working.
Okay, let's go ahead and do commercials.
Oh, okay, tremendous.
All right, well we're going to go ahead and pay some bills here, folks.
You are watching the Jeff Dodge program.
After 47 years, it's time to close Dot's decorative squash store.
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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 50% off.
We have very little decorative squash for sure.
(12:04):
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, all good things must come to an end.
Hello, Dodge decorative squash. Dottie speaking.
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Hi, I'm Jeff Dodge and you're watching the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
Hi from Santa Fe.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, we are back here at the Variety Hour, the Jeff Dodge Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
On the couch today we have Rich Reese, usually sitting behind the drum kit here.
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And today, without Jeff here, we decided just to have a nice casual conversation.
You know, Jeff is quite an interesting musical entity.
So now over the years you've played with a number of different musical groups.
I could imagine that with your busy schedule, it must be tough finding all the time for all the musical groups that you work for.
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So what do you enjoy about playing in the Peasant Revolution Band, Rich?
Well, I like the fact that we never rehearse.
That is helpful to me intellectually. It keeps things going.
What else?
You know, I like, you know, we used to do some bad finger tunes and that was pretty cool.
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Jeff is usually open to some suggestions occasionally.
And so we end up doing things like Share the Land, which I believe is the Guess Who.
I believe that's a Canadian group.
Right, Canadian. That song actually banned in the South the socialist overtones.
You know, I could see that.
Some of these Canadian artists are influenced heavily by socialism, from what I understand.
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Yeah, I think they live by it, you could say.
But yeah, you know, I just like coming over here, hanging out with Steve.
Steve's a cool cat. You know, he's from the Kenton neighborhood.
He lives over on the sort of North Plains of Kenton over on the West Side.
On the West Side. Now, would that be out?
So not like in the Denver area, you're saying more of the West Side.
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Denver is kind of the dividing street.
Like Portsmouth, like is that still considered?
No, not like before.
More of a Chautauqua kind of guy.
A Chautauqua. Oh, yeah, that's a fine street.
You know, I understand David, our cameraman here, a big creative force in the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
He's also a resident of the Kenton neighborhood as well.
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I occasionally see him at about 6.15 in the morning.
He's right over by the Max station.
So when I'm rushing out to the Max, we'll run into David Craig over there.
That would be that's the nice thing about the Kenton neighborhood.
Now, if I'm not mistaken, though, I think I may have had a couple of opportunities to live in that neighborhood.
In my life, I've bounced around a little bit in the Portland metro area.
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And I would say that Kenton, you know, before the Max came, I remember it was a much, much darker neighborhood.
Then it was very gloomy when you look at places like the Kenton Bar.
Sure, the Kenton Club.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Kenton Club. Sure.
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It's a famous Kenton Club. Right.
I actually got paid to stop singing at karaoke there one night.
How much did they pay you to stop?
It was a dollar. And back then you could get like a paps for a dollar.
So I was like, OK. And so I sat the mic down.
You know, that's you just made me think about the Kenton Club.
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And I want to say in the early aughts is that, yeah,
I'm trying to think.
The Max came into the Kenton about 2003, 2004.
May 5th, 2004 was the grand opening.
Oh, and I do recall an event that we did have to work.
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Yeah, we did some sound there.
There was the very famous TriMet trying to shut down the dance and bear.
Yeah, because of the station up there at the end of Interstate, if I'm not mistaken.
It's still there. You can still see the the dancers out smoking when you're waiting for the Max.
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In the winter, sometimes they have overcoats.
Makes a lot of sense. I catch a little ankle.
You made me recall that that day of the Max opening.
And there was a big political struggle, if I'm not mistaken, that TriMet did try to shut down and take that real estate over for their station.
Yeah, they couldn't use eminent domain on that.
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I mean, they were able to get some other space.
In fact, some of the other property that they purchased is now being used for that homeless women's shelter of little tiny houses up there.
Yes, yes. That's a very, very revolutionary situation for getting the homeless getting off the streets.
That's very interesting.
A third of the neighborhood opposed it, but you know, they can go fuck themselves because they're...
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I understand that over a third of the Kenton neighborhood complains about the noise from PIR, if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, well, they can also go get themselves squarely and soundly fucked.
I'll take that. That's pretty good.
I bet the same people would have complained about the noise from Vanport.
Well, I mean, who doesn't?
Right. Probably would have complained about all those people walking up the street after the floods came through or, you know, whatever.
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That's very, very good times.
Yeah, so, but yeah, good little neighborhood.
Great neighborhood.
I remember when we were up there in 02 when there was nothing going on.
I think you were there the time I got pulled over for driving drunk, but then they let me go.
That would be when the construction of the MAX was happening.
Construction was happening.
Yeah, you did a diagonal turn off of Interstate.
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It was the wrong direction for about 60 feet, all while going about 40 in second gear.
And that's high RPM.
Yeah, that's what I like. The noise, you know, you have a couple of drinks and it's like, oh, that sounds super cool.
And the cops, you know, they, they, I don't remember what the deal was, but I was speaking to them in the military alphabet and they loved that.
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And so they let me take my beer and go inside.
When you say military alphabet, is that like Niner? Fiverr?
Alpha, Bravo, Niner. Niner is one of them.
You might say Fife instead of five, although that's, that's very specific.
Whiskey.
Whiskey is what number is that?
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W. V is Victor.
Oh, copy that, copy that. I got you now. Now I'm understanding.
You know, I understand that the police use that in conversation on the radios on a daily basis.
Well, they actually have their own. And so what you do, if you're a pilot or a military person and you get pulled over drunk, you just start talking to them about the difference between the alphabets.
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And for some reason that kept me out of jail for a lengthy alcohol career.
You know, I've always had, well, I'm glad to hear that you no longer have your alcohol career going for you.
How many, how many years of non non alcohol use?
Nine and a half years.
Well, my goodness, you're, you're approaching a dime. Congratulations.
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Thanks. Thanks. I'm going to get wasted in celebration.
At this time, I think we should probably go to another commercial.
Yeah, we will. We'll get we'll get Jeff is going to work on this show for us.
Let's go ahead and do an ad now.
I got to tell you, I do love my Safford Brothers downtown blend taste of the city coffee.
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So you want to call me a celebrity?
Fine. I, I never wanted to be a celebrity.
To me, it's an incredible hassle. I'd rather be anonymous, you know, even though I might try to get up in front of a bunch of people and, and become famous because I guess when you're famous, they give you stuff like coffee.
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But hey, I earned this. I'm working hard here because I love Safford Brothers downtown blend taste of the city coffee.
Okay. I love it so much that I'm drinking it right now in the middle of this commercial.
It's delicious. And so try it. You will love it too.
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Hi, this is David Crosby of the birds. You're watching the peasant revolution band variety hour with host Scott Peterson. Yeah. Yeah.
Hi, here we are at the peasant revolution band variety hour. You may be noticing that I am not Jeff Dodge.
I've been mistaken as Jeff over the years with his working for his father. I definitely am a part of a part of the Dodge family.
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It's, it's a little frustrating because of course, like the technology and if you've watched any of the other shows, obviously it's a little off the cuff.
Today it's a little bit more off the cuff than it usually is.
Today we're spending a little bit of time with Rich Reese, one of the unspoken heroes here at the old peasant revolution brand band variety hour.
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And usually, you know, Jeff keeps him on a pretty short leash and it's kind of nice to have you out and to hear your voice.
Because a lot of times when Jeff has you speaking, it seems that the audio is not even on you. Like you're just right there as a prop.
Well, yeah. And part of that, I think, is because, you know, Jeff and I being different ages, you know, we did some of our academic matriculation at different times.
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And he frankly, he comes from a little more of a conservative background than I do.
I could see that sometimes he just doesn't, you know, he doesn't want to hear my Marxist interpretation of whatever happens to be going on.
Jeff just wants to get the flag out and, you know, just start waving it around.
There's a pile of guns over there. They probably took him to Arizona.
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Well, he did. He did have the anger issues.
It started out as the road rage incident, which, of course, unfolded a little bit differently.
I don't know if he still owns legally owns guns at this time.
I didn't say legally. Oh, I was not prepared for that.
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I know a bunch of pilots again now, so we're on a whole other side of the world.
But yeah, no, no. It's good to talk a little bit here.
You know, I got poached into this band.
I was playing for Sonny and Cher and everybody thought, you know, that guy is really he's really, he's really, he's really a good guy.
And everybody thought, you know, that guy is really he's really in the pocket and Peasant Revolution bands, a funky affair.
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They could use somebody like that. And I was I was very flattered.
You know, it's very interesting that you brought up the Sonny and Cher.
I've always kind of thought as as Jeff as Sonny kind of character without the politics, of course.
Sure, sure. Yeah. I mean, Jeff's not that conservative, but he is equally anti-drug to both Sonny and Cher.
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And I think that's pretty clear if you spend any time in this house that any hanky panky going around around here with any any of that jazz cabbage or anything like that, that's completely the jazz cabbage.
That's that's a new slang. I've never never heard that one actually.
I picked that one up out at the airport the other day from a pilot from a pilot, a bunch of kids who've never done nothing.
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It's kind of funny. But you just you can't see if you're at the airport.
Just don't tell anybody you were actually born in Eugene because.
And then, of course, you go to see Grateful Dead concerts in 1992 at Austin Stadium.
That was that was well, that ain't me, babe.
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Damn, I didn't realize we were going to be going there.
So so so so exactly how many years were you with Sonny and Cher?
Well, 72 to 2013, I think, was when I got pulled over for this one. And of course, Sonny passed away in 1998, 899.
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Formerly anti-drug, of course, he was taking 60 Vicodin a day when he skied into that tree.
God bless him. Yeah, I love all conservative congressmen.
Anyways, but yeah, so Jeff pulled me over for this thing and the pay the pay is close.
The pay is close, close enough to make it worthwhile to me.
So we just have a fine time down here. You couldn't do it without Steve.
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Well, you know, Steve is definitely the anchor of the group.
There's a lot of history there with Jeff and Steve.
I I'm very, very saddened, though.
I cannot crack the shell. I can I cannot make Steve talk.
And then it's it's OK. I understand.
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I just hope he's not angry with me.
I I I I would like to be able to include him in the interviews.
But it appears that he prefers to work with Jeff.
Well, I mean, what happens is you don't make it through high school in southeast Portland in the late 80s
without knowing how to keep your mouth shut.
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And these are central Catholic guys through and through class.
Steve, were you a central Catholic guy as well?
Yes, this is true. He actually spoke.
That's unbelievable. Oh, yeah.
I wonder if he was a part of Jeff's political agenda in a central Catholic guy.
And stuff back then.
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He was he was in the like Students for Pat Buchanan Club and all kinds of
all kinds of he was looking at Reagan and he said, you know, Reagan, the guy's a hippie.
We can't tolerate it. I like this Buchanan character.
He doesn't even drive domestic cars, but he still he's waving the flag all the fuck all over the place
and doesn't care about freedom of speech, even though he comes from the communications background.
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That was just kind of guy. And, you know,
where does Dan Quayle fit in all this?
Well, you see the real righties like what Jeff was a part of back then, like the John Birch Society
and stuff like that. They didn't even acknowledge Quayle.
They knew Quayle was basically he was just a patsy. He was just a placeholder. He was there.
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He looked he certainly looked good. Oh, yeah. No, he was a nice young dynamic cat.
You put him up next to George H.W. Yeah.
And he brought a lot of vitality, I would say, to the party at the time.
And what a great period to all kinds of great things happen for this country.
And hair metal really make it to the surface and absolutely zero literature happening anywhere,
(27:55):
except, of course, for up dikes rabbit at rest. Anyways,
the point is, I'm just I'm absolutely flattered to be a part of the organization here.
And I'm so glad I had all those years with Sonny and Cher kind of preparing for this organization.
Well, the the neuroses, I would imagine, have prepared you to be able to deal with Jeff's
(28:19):
how would you say it like phases or mood?
Not not the spells. I didn't want to say mood swings, but it certainly can be a roller coaster ride
when you're in the creative process with Jeff. I've been.
Oh, yeah. And he makes it look that way. But he's really just a straight ahead, God fearing,
(28:41):
all American kind of guy. I mean, that's in my experience, at least he, you know, he's always on time.
He knows exactly what he's going to say. And every time he always says the right thing.
Man of his word and his word. And he's dead set on killing health care right now.
And, you know, I say to that is God bless him. Absolutely.
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And on that moment, we'll take a little break right now.
Once again, this is Scott Peterson for the Jeff Dodge Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
We'd like you to thank I'd like to thank you for stopping in.
I apologize for not having Jeff here with us today, but we're doing the best we can.
And, you know, he's he's on vacation. He's with his wife. He's safe.
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We're very pleased. And we'll be right back.
Celebrity, you know, it's got to be somebody in a cubicle over there.
And Entertainment Weekly, you know, and you know what?
I bet on his coffee break, he drinks Safford Brothers, downtown blend,
taste of the city coffee, because, you know, that keeps you going.
(29:50):
When you've got to compile these lists and you've got to figure out who these celebrities are.
And let me tell you something. I told you celebrity is not all it's cracked up to be.
OK, but you know what? If I can do an endorsement for Safford Brothers, downtown blend, taste the city coffee,
then that makes it all worth it.
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Hi, you're watching the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour with your host Scott Peterson.
Hey!
Hi there. Scott Peterson for the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
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If you noticed today, I am not Jeff Dodge. I'm here because Jeff is not present today.
Right now we're taking some time just doing a simple interview with his trusty drummer, formerly of Sonny and Cher fame, Rich Reese.
Hey, thanks, Scott. Nice introduction there.
And what a pleasant time we are having with the interview this evening.
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We haven't had a chance to sit down and talk like this for a while.
Yeah, it's a very special time. Over the years, I've been a big fan of the Reese family.
Oh, thanks, thanks. Yeah, you know, it's not all just sea lions and fighting. It's there's a lot of love there, too.
How is Ratso doing? Is he still with us?
Oh, yeah, he's back in St. Louis. We're trying to get him into a house.
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You can buy a house back there for about seventy thousand dollars.
So even a even a horn player can own a house in St. Louis.
He definitely one of the more interesting characters in the family.
I would say so. Yeah, yeah, he's a strange cat.
You know, he came out here in the late 60s initially and was hanging out in Eugene.
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He went to what they called the Renaissance Fair at the time
and witnessed his father giving his grandmother acid in about 1969.
Well, it was a very popular popular pastime in the late 60s.
I understand. Oh, oh, you may have.
I really didn't want to talk about generations today.
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Oh, sure. Because one of the things about the Peasant Revolution band Variety Hour
that makes me a little crazy in the head, I'd like to point out,
I am one of the few viewers that we've that the show has actually had in the live broadcast.
I know that I've been on the chat with a guest's wife one time
when there was an audio issue a couple episodes ago.
(32:31):
And we had a nice conversation. She was a very nice person.
So I guess the show actually kind of has enlightened me a bit
or at least allowed me to connect with other people who I never would have crossed paths with.
So I guess I have to be thankful of the of the show.
Jeff is good at bringing people together. And
(32:52):
see, when you say that, I think sometimes like we've talked about some of his politics,
he tends to kind of alienate some people I've been noticing,
mostly in traffic.
Certainly, certainly there's going to be a lot of truth to that.
But, you know, he really does mean well. He just he just loves the country
(33:16):
and he loves, you know, just basic generic U.S. history so much that
when you say generic history, does that involve Pizzagate?
Well, no, that's what Jeff can tell you all about Pizzagate.
You know, it's because he doesn't spend a moment listening to that lame stream media.
(33:38):
Oh, that was very good. I see you should be out out out on the other side of your drum kit more often.
Working on it. Yeah. It's just, you know, it's not my show.
So I don't want to steal all the thunder.
I'm trying to remember where I heard that phrase first.
But I just figured we'll let Jeff do the Jeff show and I'll stay back there, you know,
(34:00):
keep things funky. But I appreciate you bringing me out here.
I understand you've got some big plans for the morning.
The morning? Yes, yes.
Right now, we're sitting at a little bit before 10 p.m. on this Monday night.
Yes, I still have to when the show is finished this evening, I have to see my girlfriend.
(34:27):
OK. I have to do laundry and I somehow have to be at the airport by 7 a.m.
OK, we can make that happen. I think it can happen.
It'd be nice to get a couple hours of sleep in there.
I am going to Arkansas. I've never been to Arkansas before.
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What do you know about Arkansas, Rich?
Home of Bill Clinton. I guess we all knew that.
It is Clinton country. It is Clinton country.
Just read the Richard Ford biography of his parents who were from Arkansas.
And it sounds like kind of a funky place if you really want to like dig deep into the urban rural migration.
(35:10):
I mean people were literally sort of in the 30s, 20s, 30s back then literally coming out of the hills
and working their way into urbanized life at the time. Automobiles were a very new thing.
A lot of the day-to-day household goods that we commonly use now, a lot of that stuff was brand new.
It was a very exciting time and Arkansas was really kind of a place where that would happen.
(35:32):
You didn't have huge cities, but you weren't a million miles away from New Orleans to the south
and of course St. Louis and other places to the north.
So it sounds like it was interesting back then. I don't know what it's like now.
They had a school shooting about 19 and a half years ago.
Barely preceded of course the Thurston shooting that we all know.
You know I just realized I don't know anything about Arkansas.
(35:58):
It doesn't look like it's a very big state. I looked at it on the map today.
It's pretty small. It's not huge. Let's take a look at the population.
What do we got for a population of Little Rock?
Porn is not necessarily a good thing to have on a broadcast of a TV show.
(36:20):
And also too, you know, they got three million. Is that Arkansas entirely?
Yeah, yeah. So 2.988 million. So if you took that amount and then added in like the population of St. John's
that would give you an even three million right there.
That's really something. So now I have that. That's a good thing.
(36:43):
I also understand it's the home of Murphy's Oil Soap.
Okay.
And they also have at least a Walmart as well. I've discovered.
Yeah, there was the Walmart thing. I forgot about that. Yeah, that's all.
They have those super stores. Are they based out of Arkansas?
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Oh, well, that makes perfect sense then.
You got to watch out for those Walton kids, by the way.
One of them is an awful drunk who has killed people in accidents
and gets away with it because she's a multi-billionaire responsible for the employments of several hundred thousand people across the country.
I understand that their benefits are kind of sketchy there at the old Walmart.
(37:26):
Oh, yeah. I was talking to my friend Aaron Smith recently about this.
He's a self-hating alcoholic kind of at the same time I was.
But he took the self-hatred a little farther, made himself.
He's a teacher, special ed teacher, made himself a work at a Walmart over Christmas break one year
and has lots of insights about how they do their scheduling to keep people under 30 or 32 hours
so they don't actually have to pay for their health insurance.
(37:50):
Well, isn't that really awful?
You know, Jeff Dodge would say that that is their right as an American employer to do that.
But Jeff's not here.
I got to quit speaking for Jeff, of course.
Well, that certainly was an interesting segment here at the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
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Let's go right on back to one of those fantastic ads that we have.
After 47 years, it's time to close Dot's Decorative Squash Store.
We suffered through a disastrous squash crop this year,
(38:36):
which made us realize it was time to hang it up.
The good news is everything will be on sale 50% off.
We have very little decorative squash for sure,
but we still have books, gardening supplies, and more all for sale.
(39:01):
We're sad to be closing our doors,
but as they say in the decorative squash business, all good things must come to an end.
Hello, Dot's Decorative Squash, Dotty speaking.
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You know, I don't know where Jeff Dodge is,
but I mean, how hard can the guy work?
He does one show a month.
But you know what?
I know the dude has a secret, and his secret is
Safford Brothers Coffee, the downtown blend, Tastes the City.
The dude is running on it.
(39:51):
He's got to be.
He's got so much else going on.
He's always working.
He's never around.
He's on vacation, so he deserves a break.
It's wonderful. It's great, you know, but the show's going to go on, I guess.
But I got news for you.
The dude is drinking Safford Brothers Downtown Blend Tastes the City.
Three o'clock. What is he doing?
(40:13):
He's pouring himself a cup of coffee.
He's loving it.
And I got news for you.
I love it, too.
Safford Brothers Downtown Blend Tastes the City Coffee is the best.
After 47 years, it's time to close Dot's Decorative Squash Store.
(40:37):
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 50 percent off.
We have very little decorative squash for sure,
(40:59):
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, all good things must come to an end.
Hello, Dot's Decorative Squash, Dotty speaking.
(41:32):
Actually, oh, we're here for another segment at the old TV show here on the Internet.
Working on some different shots.
I'm trying to figure out what we should talk about, but I'm not politically charged.
I'm thinking we'll get there.
That's the thing we're going to do.
(41:53):
I'm not quite prepared to walk away from the show yet, but it's getting very close, very close.
The camera just fell down on me.
What should we go on now?
Oh, God, I don't even know.
I don't even know either. Maybe we should just get some Lego Jeff shots and just give Jeff that.
(42:15):
We'll give him a good 10 minutes of that.
OK, everyone be really quiet, really quiet, really, really quiet.
I have some audio that can go along with this too.
I do. It'll be great.
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Oh, I know where I came from.
That was custom built from other other bits.
And other kits.
I believe the guitar belonged to a mariachi and the hair belonged to a vampire.
(43:07):
OK, here's the bitch in audio I got.
There's 24 seconds of it. It's going to be wonderful.
Hey, fellas, I'm really lost.
(43:30):
I'm looking for some cats.
Steven stills and Neil Young. You guys know them by chance.
I'm David.
That'll make Jeff really happy that he knows that I did not delete that video.
(43:57):
I think I'm satisfied with this, except for we need some music shots and Jeff's going to have to butcher this up.
Yeah, that's right.
I'm doing a celebrity endorsement now.
I got to tell you, I do love my Safford Brothers downtown blend taste of the city coffee.
(44:27):
So you want to call me a celebrity.
Fine. I never wanted to be a celebrity.
To me, it's an incredible hassle.
I'd rather be anonymous, you know, even though I might try to get up in front of a bunch of people and become famous
because I guess when you're famous, they give you stuff like coffee.
(44:48):
But hey, I earn this. I'm working hard here because I love Safford Brothers downtown blend taste of the city coffee.
I love it so much that I'm drinking it right now in the middle of this commercial.
It's delicious.
So try it. You will love it too.
(45:15):
I kind of liked it on the floor. That was good.
Oh, we're on. Hey, hey, we have another musical video performance of the Pessimist Revolution band.
I believe that's Bobby Caesar, if I'm not mistaken, during the vocals.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is Dead Flowers.
(46:06):
Sitting there, in a silky bolster chair, talking to some rich folk that you know.
Well, I'm like you won't see me in my ragged company, before you know I could never be alone.
(46:34):
Take me down, little Suzy, take me down.
I know you think you're the queen of the underground.
But you can't.
Send me dead flowers to my wedding.
(46:57):
Send me dead flowers by the man.
Send me dead flowers to Heather.
And I won't forget to put roses on your ring.
(47:35):
Well, when you're sitting back in your rose-picket car, making bets on Kentucky Derby Day.
Walk in my basement room with a needle and a spoon, and another girl take my pain away.
(48:05):
Take me down, little Suzy, take me down.
I know you think you're the queen of the underground.
But you can't.
Send me dead flowers every morning.
(48:30):
Send me dead flowers by the man.
Send me dead flowers to my wedding.
And I won't forget to put roses on your ring.
(49:13):
Take me down, little Suzy, take me down.
I know you think you're the queen of the underground.
(49:38):
But you can't.
Send me dead flowers every morning.
Send me dead flowers by the man.
Send me dead flowers to my wedding.
(50:01):
And I won't forget to put roses on your ring.
(50:30):
Thank you, Bobby Seetser, Bobby Seetser, dead flowers by the Rolling Stones.
So I don't know.
Why am I not a celebrity?
(50:52):
I mean, am I like, you know, some kind of D-list celebrity maybe?
I don't even know what this list is.
I don't know who's, you know, compiling this list, who's trying to figure out who's more of a celebrity, you know.
It's got to be somebody in a cubicle over there at Entertainment Weekly, you know.
(51:16):
And you know what? I bet on his coffee break, he drinks Safford Brothers, Downtown Blend, Taste of the City coffee, because, you know, that keeps you going.
When you've got to compile these lists and you've got to figure out who these celebrities are.
And let me tell you something.
I told you, celebrity is not all it's cracked up to be, okay.
(51:37):
But you know what? If I could do an endorsement for Safford Brothers, Downtown Blend, Taste of the City coffee, then that makes it all worth it.
(52:37):
Absolutely.
(53:05):
Okay, we're rolling.
All right, I'm interviewing Nav Gomez on the, we're on the hill, the lock.
(53:37):
Are they aliens?
Can we?
(54:00):
I'm not very far from my here with my old roommate, Ann Veladaček. And we see our old roommate, Brad Brandt, has joined us too. Hi, Brad.
Riding the Bigfoot Rapids. No Bigfoot yet. Jamila has been drenched. Yeah. I've been drenched. I think my nipples are starting to show.
(54:23):
Whoa.
Again.
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