The Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour with Jeff Dodge (S2 Ep12)

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You know Facebook is the biggest stupidest stupid. Oh, okay. We're live. Hi

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Hello and and welcome to the this special edition of the peasant revolution band variety hour
tonight is our special Christmas episode and
I just I like to warm things up with a nice a nice tune here
We sing around the holidays
and this one goes out to to my sister Sarah and my mother and my other sister Teresa and

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To the force may the force be with us all
For the rest of this year. Anyway, okay, it goes something like this
I
Forget the words sometimes maybe help me

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Oh

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I

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I
Love this time of year. It's it's a special time of year and
As you can maybe tell we have a special guest with us. We do not have the band

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I the band was supposed to be here today and I guess there's like union regulations that they need the day off in America
I don't know why I'm even working in America anymore
these things that come up anyway, but we are special yes dot
Dot of dots famous squash is here dot squash, right?

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Decorative squash. Thank you for having Dottie. Thank you so much for coming all the way over to the studio on Christmas. Thank you
Yes, are you perhaps you might want to talk into that microphone? It might be better for the oh right into this. Yep
Just like that
Yes, and I'll try and talk into this one. I
Might need to take it with me. But yeah, so Dottie did what do you do to?

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prepare for this time of year with your decorative squash store well
We are pretty much on drying season
so
After we harvest the squash
in
Say October November. Yes, then we sort of

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arrange them in various decorative ways and
Then we sort of you know, just enjoy looking at them
Ah, do you rearranging them right?
Is there a particular do they come in different types or is squash just all one kind of squash? No

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there are
Delicata squash
There are acorn squash
Summer squash those are long gone by now. So you can't get summer squash in the dead of winter
You can't you can't?
Wow
Hydroponic science. Yes does play a role

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It does how much science plays a role in dots decorative squash store as far as your day-to-day operation
Well
Like if you were a child in school and studying subjects, how much science would you need to do the decorative squash business?
Not too terribly much. No yet. You need to know the natural sciences, you know rain

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Yes
Soil conditions. Now see that's where it gets tricky. Oh, yeah, I understand
It's all to do with rain I get but soil chemicals. Whoo. Yeah, it's sort of like earth wind and fire
Yeah, yeah in science boy. Give me a good history historical
Periodical to read and that's where my heart lies. Yes, there is a beauty in science

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Well, listen dot I'm can you stay with us for the
I don't mind at all. That's wonderful. That's wonderful. This is the slow time. You just look at the squash
Okay, enjoy them cool and we're gonna look at some squash, but first I'm gonna pay some bills real quick
But first let's tell the people what we're watching you're watching the peasant revolution band variety

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hour

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Okay, okay and we're back we're back
with Dottie of dots decorative squash store and
Dottie so kind to join us when the rest of my band couldn't for some reason

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Christmas
But yes, you have gifts. Oh for the for the band. Oh, yeah, we we have all kinds of gifts here
I have a gift for you. Oh, yeah, that is so sweet. Don't you really?
Come on and advertise the 90% off sale. Oh really?
90% off 90% off Wow, that's a deal. That is a deal. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're going out of business Wow

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I got so sad to hear I didn't know you've been going out of business for a while
Do you plan on going out of business next year or two?
Well, we'll have to see
I
Always believe in dragging things out as long as humanly possible if we renew our community garden plot

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Mm-hmm have a chance another shot or or do you start a new store?
Well, you know, it just it depends on how this inventory this not going out of business sale
Inventory this not going out of business sale. Oh, I got you. I got you. Well, I'm I can't wait. I'm gonna open it
Let's see what we have here. I

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Love Christmas this time of year because it makes you think about the special thing, you know giving
how people care for each other and
Thought it's just a squash
Decorative school that's cool. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's one of our last remaining delicata
This is a delicata decorative squash. Why?

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It'll stand right up. Yeah. Oh, yeah like this. That's the beauty of it
You know, it's like a weevil it wobbles, but it won't fall down on this side. Maybe oh you can it's kind of a
Dreidel yes a top
There's like all this is such that this is a holiday. That's our dog wash. You can cover several different holidays

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It's amazing that the different like a religious symbol of our
the
humans virility or human virility perhaps
That is a phenomenal I so let's not let dots
Decorative go to waste we got a 90% sale going right now

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So you see you best get yourselves down there get all the squash you can I imagine it's really cheap now with Thanksgiving
Yeah, it's still edible. You can you can dry it or eat it this New Year's if you don't have
Squash and your New Year's Eve stockings. I don't know what you're doing
Well, hang on before we look at it. Well, this this for the the fellas too here. I see some more gifts

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Yeah, cuz I each manager or my husband. Uh-huh
wanted to
Give this to your
Bass player. I go to Steve
Yes, Steve. How about that cool? I guess I'm since Steve's not here. I'm gonna go ahead and open it for

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Yeah, that busy night
We we were hoping to get him here he's got a famous
Carly Mingus eggnog recipe that he was
Show us he was he was making it. I guess he didn't get over here. Whoa. Look at this guy
Wow, this is one of them rare

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Mustang and it's got buttons
Well, look at that Wow, it's
Face guitar
Boy this is and this is heavy metal
Wow
And it would you could you could put this on the green screen and it will be will disappear

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But you will just see the string. What do these buttons do?
Hmm geez something just lit up here weird
Let's put that away. Yeah weird. I don't want to play the fat voodoo. Okay
I'm sure I will make sure that Steve gets gets this. This is actually a

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It's in pretty good tune
This is for the comedian the comedian. No, is that me?
No, I know I know his name
The oh the the other comedian not me right? Yeah, the drummer guy
Yeah
Yeah

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Yeah, he's not gonna mind me opening this up right now. He is down there in Salem
Doing what he does down there
Oh boy, oh boy, I think I know what this is I recognize those feet
This is one of them older

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This it's one of them tape deck things. It's like
You can you can dub the tapes
Okay, so
Yeah
Oh, okay. So yeah. Oh, so so like I can put an old
broken down cassette in this side

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And then record it onto a brand new empty cassette if they still make them
And I don't know if they make them anymore
But you know as soon as we get where we could find some old blank ones they go on this side
I remember that stuff man. That is that's old technology
technology
Crazy. Well, I thought is that is so sweet of you. Why don't you save the wrapping paper?

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Our stage manager has just pointed out the fact that there is a tape that goes with the tape deck. Oh really?
Wow, this is that older fresh
Boy, this is some deep old stuff tusk. Whoa
Check this out

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It's the kids from tusk
That's that's some record stuff right there
But it's on cassette not record. Oh
It's the it's the Fleetwood Mac kids, how about that that tusk or tush? I thought it was tush
And that's tusk tusk not tush
Tusk not tush

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Well, you know, let's take a commercial break while we're at it
Carrington
Chair store is having our great Christmas Day sale through the end of the year. I
Know you've got old chairs around your house get some new chairs. We've got great chairs. We've got fancy

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comfortable chairs
We've got incredible handmade seating
we've got
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in our basements you can get chairs for your car or
a
Beanbag chair. Hey, look, there's comedian since of Ashton in our showroom
With deals to explosive to miss

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Wow, that was great. We got a good old since the bastion there
Hopefully we'll be hearing more from him in a little while
But wow, what an extraordinary Christmas season we're having here
Well, let's talk a little bit about that in my family we used to do the tradition of Christmas

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Where everyone would
complain about what they have and what they wanted throughout the year and
Then when it was Christmas time
It would change and we'd kind of get some things but then
It would start all over pretty much January 2nd or so. It's like oh out with the old stuff
so one of the things that I value during this time of year was the

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The the the the manger scene, I think they call her nativity
Something to that of the crash the nativity the manger scene
Yes, the crib and the baby Jesus crib and like it would so my mom would would hide that until Christmas Day
So the baby Jesus would not appear until Christmas Day
right, but then

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We'd all go looking for the other aspect of it was there were the three wise men and they didn't get there till
Right, I guess a little ways after Easter by the time is that when they got there or was it New Year's or I don't
They had the
Valentine's Day is that what that's from?

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Ishtar, okay
Ishtar they were like yes, they had a long walk ahead of them
They were like struggling musicians from Manhattan and they decided to become wise men instead
But they didn't they didn't have
Many supplies or they didn't have any squash. Well, so it wasn't like a party, right?
No incense myrrh. No squash, right?

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So the the fun part about that was the wise men would move all around the house
And so their journey was you know, and we could sometimes I small there
They're little figurines
Sometimes my GI Joe guys or the Star Wars figures would help them get to where they're going
But then oh, there's Darth Vader. He's got baby Jesus. And yeah, I got really twisted toward the end there

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We got older
You know when I'm like 32
No, you don't understand my father is the holy Lord in heaven
Right the well, right is it is it metaphor? Is it is Darth Vader the holy father in heaven?
No

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Okay, okay, cuz there's something about you. I don't think I think God has a higher midi chlorine count
He's like very cocky
Right, right, but he's a dark lord. He's a face not the real Lord, right?
He thinks he's he thinks he's just like God. Yeah. Yeah
I sometimes Yoda got that way didn't he a little bit of a Yoda complex. I call it. It's like oh that guy over there

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He's got a Yoda complex
I don't know. Is he wise or is he just a crazy old fool?
Yeah, I don't I don't know I I'd have to meet the real Yoda in person like I don't think I
You can I would like to meet character. I do I would like to meet Frank Oz. I think he could set the record straight about Yoda

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Do they know each other personally?
They do and they also have a certain little green frog between them too. I believe or oh, no
Wait, that guy got fired. Maybe I'm thinking of Fozzie the bear
Right. He didn't really even have a job to begin with he just kind of wandered on the set and started telling jokes
Bad jokes

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He's like walka walka walka
Well, I think I wanted to take a look at some some things here but
Let's go to another commercial break real quick. We've got quite a few to pay some bills this year
It's this time of year. Okay
Happy 2017 everybody. We're almost closing in on it

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You're watching the peasant revolution band variety hour. I'm your host Jeff Dodge. We have Dottie is our guest and we'll be back in just a minute
Hey, well, let me tell you something
Merry Christmas everybody
Sid Sebastian, you know as you know and I gotta tell you this is the time of year where I'm thinking about goodwill

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To all people all kinds of people and really what's gonna get me to do that is to drink some Safford Brothers
Downtown blend taste the city coffee because that's really what regulates my mood at this point, you know
I'm lucky to be able to do that with just coffee

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But you know, I just want to wish everybody a happy holiday seasons greetings
You know, happy new year, you know, just just just goodwill because
What else do we have if we don't have goodwill?
We got nothing. We got nothing. So enjoy the coffee and

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Just peace out everybody. Love you. It's it
Oh, that's it. That's it. I just still like he's a wonderful person
I yeah, I hopefully he'll he'll be with us all of the 2018

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We have been picked up for at least a few episodes in 2018
The trench digger kind of wants to do it one at a time. See how it goes not they were in trouble or anything
We're just kind of doing this
Yeah
So 90% sale 90% off regular price

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Now is that on any squash or any squash in the store under 25 pounds
What about the stuff outside the store around the store the garden if it's outside and you pick it yourself
Yeah, you pay by the pound. Oh by the pound. There you go
But that our prices are 80% off in the pay by the pound department

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Okay, and you guys are the farm right there between Janssen Beach and Soviet Island, right right there in the water
Yeah, that's got to be hard to farm that part of sometimes better in the summer. I imagine when it's warmer
Yeah, but now does acorn squash grow in the heat and in the wetness

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It depends on if it's tree acorn squash or ground dwelling
Tree acorn squash if it's the type that creeps along the ground that doesn't tend to float very well and the fish get at it
Uh-huh. Once the fish get at it. It sort of takes on a yeah kind of a sort of a

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Like license or something. Yeah, you don't want to have it in your house. So we buy mostly the tree type and
It grows the best out there
Now is watermelon a form of squash? I heard some people think so. Is it some people think so
Green and meloness right on the outside. Right, right

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And you know, I don't really like the taste of it. So it kind of has those in common
Melon in with squash, you know, just like tomato is a vegetable. I mean a fruit. Sorry
Well, I know you spell it with an E at the end. Well, yeah potato. Oh, yeah. Uh-huh

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I learned that in school. I learned that in history in history. I learned it from our vice presidential history
Yes, maybe in the 80s. Were you in school in the 80s? I was wow. I was in school in the 80s, too
And and it is it is such a blast looking at everything now and from this perspective because

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It's almost like it's the 80s again, but worse. Right. There's sort of this. Yeah
It's like looking back to not the good old days, but the less worse days. Well, I remember being in the 80s and going like
God, isn't this decade ever going to end?
And now I feel like it's 1981 all of a sudden right on steroids back to the future. Yes, but yes

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Like Biff Tannen is ruling the world or something. Yeah, I just needed to Lori and get my ass out of here
To make like a tree and yeah. Okay. Well, I'll tell you what Dottie we at the Peasant Revolution band have been very busy
This year and we've got a new album our annual tradition is to release this album. It is not quite available on CD Baby yet or other websites

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But you can go to our Soundcloud site and I'm going to give our audience out there a sneak preview if that's all right
Great. Yeah, let's take a look at that real quick

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See
Your life is flowing, come to me, it brings strength, will it heal? I feel the love, I love love, I love love, I love love

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Can't you see how much we've got to give? The light within us, it always lifts, can't you see?
Our love is flowing, come to me, it brings strength, will it heal? I feel the love, I love love, I love love, I love love

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It's a place, it really is, it really is, our love process always never, will never catch the sea
Our love is flowing, come to me, it brings strength, it's what the place is, I feel the love, I love love, I love love, I love love

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I love love, I love love, I love love

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I love those, love your lovers
Love your lovers
Thank you Mr. Music

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I think we're back
Yes, now I'm here on my self
Yeah, so that was the first song of our new album Love and Anti-War
which will be available soon next year
January, it's the earliest January we're thinking
on CD Baby and Amazon and various MySpace

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AOL.com might carry our music
and we're still trying to work out a deal with Levitz
Is Levitz still doing retail?
We might get some in Levitz and Kmart
So a lot of things up in the air this year for TDP
I love it in Levitz
Boy, I have such memories of Levitz

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That was one of those type of department stores
where you couldn't find anything you're looking for
but then in the middle of it there'd be like a little cafe restaurant
and you could smoke cigarettes in the middle of it
Do you remember that kind of a thing?
I don't remember that
Oh boy, I miss all the places you could smoke cigarettes in

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in the 80s and 90s
Like the airport
Oh yeah, in Portland it was everywhere
There was so much smoking and when they finally banned the cigarettes
I mean, yeah, a lot of people got healthier I think because of that
but a lot of these places needed to stay smoky
They smelled worse with the smoke gone

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Right, they had to clean and then they just smelled like cleansers
It smelled like, well, it smelled like a men's locker room is what I recall
I don't know if you spent much time, I certainly did
in my youth in the 80s
Smoking in the men's locker room was not acceptable
but you know, good music ideas there and things of that sort

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Yeah
Well, I'll tell you what, I'm going to take a look at it
You can make a squash into a pipe
A pipe? Can a squash be a really?
Oh sure, just like a cocaine
Like the cocaine thing
Right, we used to have some athletes that were into that around Portland

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Yeah, you can just destroy the evidence by eating it
I never saw them doing a squash, you eat the evidence
There's all the remnants, that is genius
Now that's legal, you don't have to, but you can still buy squash 90% off
90% off
And they are decorative
Decorative only, do not try eating them
Right, or using them as pipes
So just that we want to get that out there, kind of a disclaimer

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I'll tell you what, I'm going to pay some more bills here
We got another ad and let's see how that's looking
Just a reminder, DOTS Decorative Squash is closing at the end of the year
We suffered through a disastrous squash crop this year

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Which made us realize it was time to hang it up
Everything is still 90% off
I want to wish you a happy new year
And I hope you drink some eggnog

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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 DOTS Decorative Squash, Dottie speaking

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And we're back, wow, DOTS
Live in the flesh, we have DOTS Decorative Store founder, owner, Dottie
Here in person
Thank you for having us
It was such a blast to get some of our sponsors here in the studio
To talk about our relationship

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It's great fun
And it is, and most of all we're doing this fun on Christmas Day itself
So Christmas is the time of the year where we like to count our blessings
And think about what's special

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And I don't know, there's just kind of these things that come to my head that pop in
It's a snowstorm, we had a snowstorm this week
I guess more of an ice storm and it's kind of a
I was thinking about how hard it was to walk and it was just kind of a
Kind of a thing, it's like a

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City sidewalks, city hallways, city council, up for elections
City ice and de-icer's today
Silly laughter, silly unemployed man, silly homeless in the streets

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Why can't they be rich and elite?
Like us shoppers
Silver bells, silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city

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Ring-a-ling, ding-a-ling
Soon we'll have all your money
In the Goodman Ballet, all the parking
They have taken it for years

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Making it hard to get cheap beer
And the mayor, he may not look like much
But at least he shows up for work
And he's sure better than that last law we had
I can't remember his name
Bye, I'm a, oh yeah, there we go

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Silver bells, silver bells, silver bells
Ring-a-ling, ding-a-ling

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Oh, yes, that sure takes me back to my youth
When this one Christmas in particular where we didn't have much at the family home

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In fact, we didn't have any family, I was the only one there
They abandoned me and I had, I looked for gifts and you know, there was nothing
There was a can of Spam and that was all I had for like the week
And it shaped me that week, shaped me
Character forming here

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It is, it is, because I didn't know how to open the can of Spam
And I used my own intuition to find a way and I got it open
Old-fashioned ingenuity
Whoa, I just saw some snow coming down there
But yeah, no, so I used a hatchet
We hatcheted it and it opens, split right open

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And that's, that's kind of what this time of year makes me think about
Hatchets and Spam
It'd be a good effect for a movie
Did you, were you going to do any traveling this year?
I don't know
Does the squash store give you the time to leave or you, I mean, I'm assuming if they're going out of business

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You might have a lot of traveling in store
Oh yeah, in the good years we would go to the squash festival in Italy
Wow
And we'd just drink wine and look at various different decorative squashes
Uh huh
Shop for the latest trend of squash
I didn't know Italy was the hotbed of squash decoration

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They definitely set the pace for the squash world
And is there kind of like a more of a goth look to the northern squash
While the southern squash is very hot and open
Right, the lusty squashes
Lusty squashes, that's what you call them
Oh yeah, they are definitely more provocative

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I would love to get me some lusty Italian southern squash
Yeah
Sounds like a good idea
You know, stoic, staid sort of northern squash that comes in darker colors
Almost a Greek squash
Yeah
A Greek leaning
Something
Socratic
It makes a statement, it's very dramatic when you serve a northern squash

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But yeah, those summer days
Ah, well
With the southern squash
Well, soon you'll be having more of them
Hopefully we all will
Oh yeah, in my spare time
Yeah
Oh yes
I plan to do traveling
Uh huh
Visiting the origins of squash

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Now where is that?
In the new world and the old world
Where is the first historic squash?
Well, you know, when it comes to the hybrid species
Uh
Are we talking like hybrid alien type of thing or?
Squash
Okay
Oh yeah
I got confused there
Yeah, no, squash is an earthly

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It's very organic
Yeah
Yeah
So it comes from the earth and many people, you know, there are various points of view
There's the old world school
And they mainly subscribe to the idea that squash was brought to the new world

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Oh
By
They didn't have original squash here?
Or it migrated with the pirates?
It had sort of a
Well, it was an angiosperm
Like many squash
Oh yeah
Really?
Yeah
Flowering plant

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Okay, right, I was thinking of something else
It was a viable, they had viable offspring
So it was sort of like this miracle confluence
Uh huh
Of the various species
It was sort of like an orgy, but with plants
An orgy of plants?
Yeah

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Yeah, and many different squash, they branched off from there
It's really a fascinating story
It's all based in science
But there's this element of sexiness
Yes
You know, the squash just sort of
I would have to say if I was there I would be like get a hotel squash

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Just get a hotel
Yeah, there's a type of squash
What is the beworted variety, David? What is that?
Is there a decorative squash for hotels?
They do have purely decorative squash, oh yes
And they are low mold varieties

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Does squash help get rid of your mold in your house?
Could you leave a bunch of squashes in areas where there's mold?
It depends on the humidity
Okay, okay
You have to look it up in the index of American squash
Yeah
Yeah, just really drill down
There's something to that, alright
Hey, I think we're going to take a look at another song off the album here

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This one is called
Let's see, let's see what it is called
Oh yeah, here is the title track, Love and Anti-War
Coming to you live on the special Christmas episode of the Peasant Revolution Band
Happy Thanksgiving

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One, two, three, four and

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Oh, oh, oh, oh
And that's the evil one
Who thinks I'm having fun

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I'll sing a lullaby of all things with a promise
It's called the drive and the time
Which shouts the glass-burglar they meet
Drive and the time

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Drive and the time

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Drive and the time

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Drive and the time
Drive and the time

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Drive and the time

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Drive and the time
Drive and the time

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Drive and the time
Drive and the time

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Some really fascinating technology we're using
This is called a streamer, I guess
A layman's version of it, a streamer
We might be able to figure out a way to get it to work with this thing

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I think that if we can kind of steampunk these technologies together
We'll have something really good
Well, Dot, tell me, are you familiar with the work of Sid Sebastian?
I'm quite familiar, oh yeah, I've been a fan for several years

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Yes, he's been working with us this season just magnificently
We had a little trouble with a protester
And it got me thinking, excuse me, I'm having some Christmas stuff come up
Some peppermint in my teeth there

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But yeah, so, he had protesters
Do you run into any protesters in the squash community?
And what kind of issues would they have with you over what you're doing for the community?
Well, they're the fish rights people and the grazing rights people

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Do you run into trouble with them and getting your squash?
Usually, you know, we're able to shoo them away from the front gates
Kind of that hippie thing, right?
Right, right
How do you hear hippie?
Sometimes we'll burn a little something something
Some incense, and they'll be like, oh, where is that?
My people, yeah, yeah, yeah

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Makes it more docile
Now, are you one of those stores that has that, you know, hippies can use the rear door sign?
No, we don't openly discriminate against hippies
In fact, we have employed hippies in the past
Itinerant hippies who would come in and harvest for us

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And just sort of, you know, they slept in the barn, which was fine
Okay, sure, sure
That was totally as a group
As long as you keep them away from the yippies, right?
Because I don't know if some of the people out there remember the yippies
They wore hats
And so no one would be able to recognize them as hippies

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You know, as they were going about their harvest
So kind of like let their freak flag fly, and then we're back off to Wall Street
Right
Off to Goldman Sachs, I got a plane to catch
So rich, no, no, I'm a hippie on a squash farm
Yippies, I'll tell you, drive me nuts
But that's one for you kids to think about, the yippies

(48:03):
Look it up, it's in the wicca-pottie-a thing
We're going to take a commercial break here real quick
It looks like Jimmy Gimler is back in the house
Season's greetings from Jimmy Gimler and all the staff at my 97 cent store
Where you can save three cents on every purchase

(48:24):
Believe me, it adds up
I hope you had a Merry Christmas
And don't forget to have a terrific New Year
We'll be around to save you money and offer you the quality products that we have for sale
I stand by my suit salesman award from 1972

(48:47):
It's always inspired me to be the best businessman I can be
Merry Christmas everybody
And thanks for shopping at Jimmy Gimler's 97 cent store
Where we save you money and make you happy all at the same time

(49:20):
Back, Jimmy Gimler, yes, he's a wonderful talent
I used to wear his 1972 collection
I remember that year very vividly
We were just young bucks back then
I was not a hippie
I've dabbled with hippie-dom a little bit

(49:41):
But they had issues with me
I'm not a very good joiner
I wouldn't join in everything they did
You wouldn't have been sleeping in the barn
I would sleep in the barn
But that's more a personal preference
Because I was brought up that way
Life on a farm, there's some times you just feel more comfortable in the hay with the animals

(50:06):
I'll still do that when we're having tough times
Things get tight on the money or jobs or work
I'll crawl into the back little outside house there with an animal and some straw
And just kind of cry myself until it goes away
Hippopotamus, isn't that illegal to have those?

(50:29):
No, no, no
You can do that in Oregon?
Oh yeah, no, it's totally illegal
That must have been some weird Charlie Hales thing
Because I swear it was illegal just a few years ago
Yeah, no, Sam Adams set the bar pretty low with the animals
Well, on that note, it's very sad to say

(50:53):
But our dearly departed Vera Katz has passed away
Wonderful mayor, I think our only three-term mayor perhaps
And our drummer, Rich, or you know him as the real comedian
But he named his cat after Vera Katz
That's how important of a mayor she was

(51:16):
So this goes out to Vera, we dedicate this show and a lot of things
She was a wonderful, wonderful mayor and did a lot for the Portland community
So, well on that note, let's take a look at Pay Some Bills
I don't know what you had for your big Christmas brunch

(51:38):
Mimosa's, some cinnamon rolls, you know, whatever your tradition is
Merry Christmas everybody and happy holidays
I sat down with a bowl of crunchy raisin bran
Because I'm pretty much just hooked on the stuff
And that's what I eat, you know
I'm a man of my word

(52:00):
You can't teach an old dog any kind of tricks
And you know, I just kind of need that stuff to stay warm
And you know, anyway, crunchy raisin bran is my favorite
And it's going to get me through the new year
And whatever it takes to get you through the night, through the new year, the next year

(52:24):
Just to get through the new year
Just grow with it people, but I hope it's a great one
Season's greetings from me to you
Oh, that's it
Boy, what a kidder
Love his work, love his work
I just have to say it's a shame saying goodbye to Vera Katz like that

(52:53):
But we do get to say hello to the other mayor, Ted Wheeler, I believe his name is
And boy, has he got his hands full
In this city, I mean, don't even get me started about the parking and the crime
And the parking and that there isn't enough of it
The crime

(53:15):
They're not allowed to burn incense at the
They're not hippies, they're yippies
It's yippies have taken over
Oh, I just dropped your decorative squash here
But it reminds me of a thing I was thinking of
You know, Ted Wheeler has to learn a lesson

(53:36):
Hey, hey, Jeff
Oh, hi, it's my lovely wife, Jamila
Hey, honey, what's going on?
Hey, hey, I think it's about that time
Oh, no, what are you saying?
Say goodnight, Jeff
Oh, alright
Goodnight, Jeff

(54:23):
The finest gifts we bring there
Ravabamba
To the disorder
Ravabamba
Ravabamba
Ravabamba

(54:44):
We'll be there for you
Ravabamba
We know that you'll miss your dear Ravabamba
I saw you this morning
We've never had enough

(55:08):
Of this lovely view
Ravabamba
Is Christ is happy

(55:30):
Oh, he'll be back
He'll be back
He'll be back
He'll be back
He'll be back
Ravabamba

(55:52):
Ravabamba
Oh, yeah
Rocking around the Christmas trees
The Christmas party home
Mistletoe home that you can see
Every couple tries to stop
What a nice time, what a great time

(56:13):
Never ends in vanity
And they know what to do
In the halls with bells and hollies
Rocking around the Christmas tree
A happy holiday
Everyone dancing the melody
Of the old fashioned way
Oh, yeah

(56:34):
One more Christmas
Oh, yeah
I think I can
Laugh it off
All the way
The spirit's bright
Oh, I fall in love
And I'm sad at the very end
Oh, I think we're back
We're all away

(56:56):
Oh, one party is a razzle
And one of a kind
One single bit
One single bit
One single way
Oh, I fall in love
To the right
No one's in the hall

(57:17):
No one's in the hall
Oh, yeah
That's all right, that's all right.
I'm gonna show for tonight.
Thank you to this wonderful audience.
Merry Christmas, happy holidays,
Happy Post-Honica, happy Posh-Wanda,
And happy New Year's coming up,

(57:38):
And Valentine's after that,
And President's Day.
Peace to all.

(58:13):
We've been here for 27 years,
I'm glad.
I'm glad they're throwing us away.
If you really don't want us to stay,
You might find somewhere else to play.

(58:36):
We're a passing revolution band.
Just trying to really understand
That the truth about this new
And the freaky revolution
Join our blessed revolution band.

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