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Season 3 : Episode X

  • Streamed Live in front of an International audience on Monday, October 29th, 2018 Special ROCKTOBER Episode!!! Featuring The Peasant Revolution Band The Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour with Host Jeff Dodge will bring some of the world’s greatest musical talent, local writers & artists, producers & programmers and just plain old regular folk to our planet Earth’s attention. Also with topical sketches, stand-up comedy and live music.
  • 00:01 "Marcus Walby MD" Jeff Dodge as Dr. Marcus Walby MD - The Commander as Depressed Witch Patient
  • 01:48 "Manic Depression" written by Jimi Hendrix © 1967
  • 21:23 "American Creep Van" written by Curtis The Commander Worsley © 2017
  • 34:55 "Sister Christian" written by Kelly Keagy © 1983
  • 39:43 "Let It Bleed" written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards © 1969
  • 54:01 "I'll Be There for You" written by Jon Bon Jovi & Richie Sambora © 1983
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Well, it's a beautiful day here in Portland, Oregon.

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Nice and rainy.
I am Dr. Marcus Walby and I will be sitting in with, we have a patient today.
Sir, what is, or bam, or however you present yourself, what seems to be alien you?
Do you have tonsillitis?

(00:39):
Is it your throat sore or anything of that nature?
I put a spell on you.
My God.
It's Rocktober, isn't it?
Well, as Marcus Walby, your official doctor, I'd like to say that I can pretty much clinically

(01:04):
diagnose you with manic depression.
You're the one who's got to watch out, Marcus.
Well, yes I do and let me tell you, there's only one cure for manic depression and that's
to play it out.
So let's play it out.
Come on.
Rock and roll.

(01:24):
What do you say?
Let's play out a little manic depression for the folks at home.
You're the only doctor?
Yes.
I didn't know that.
It's kind of difficult.
I'm going to do it.
Oh yeah, you're sick.
Oh yeah, you're sick.

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I know what I'm doing, I just don't know

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Feeling, sweet feeling, darling I feel
Dancing in the streets of the city Woman so very, so beautiful

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I really don't know
I really don't know

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I really don't know
I really don't know

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Well, I think I would go on down
But it ain't no use, baby, no problem
I think I would go on down

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I really don't know

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I really don't know
I really don't know

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I really don't know
We are 27 years away From the planet blowing us away
If you really don't want to stay Then let me float off in the Milky Way

(06:01):
Join up as a revolution band We're the kind of really over the same
And the truth of our mission Is to heal our broken vision
Join up as a revolution band Join up as a revolution band

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Well, the saddest world just can't stay It's gotta go get the hell away
Well, I tried to get me some peace today But the future seems so far away
We're the kind of really over the same And the truth of our mission Is to heal our broken vision

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Join up as a revolution band Join up as a revolution band

(07:34):
In dedication to Paul Allen, our beloved Blazers owner, Paul Allen, has passed
And we thought we'd put a little Hendrix out there for him
And I've got a story to tell you about that
But in the meantime, oh yeah
You are watching the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour

(07:55):
I'm your host, Jeff Dodge, welcome, thank you for joining us
We're very excited to be with you this Rocktober, special Rocktober episode
We're going to be doing a little extra rockin'
We were a little short-handed
Some of our guests were unable to attend today due to all the weather going on

(08:19):
And it has been nuts up low
Rich Rees on the drums, our musical director
How are you Rich?
I'm great, it's great to be here
You know, I got caught in one of those rainstorms today out in Hillsboro
Hillsboro
Yeah, and walked in for some lunch and I looked at the radars and stuff

(08:40):
Completely miscalculated, completely soaked on the way back
Phone, my phone was safe
It's kind of a floodplain out there isn't it?
Oh, it was ridiculous
Yeah, if I had been in the wrong spot I wouldn't have been able to make it
I was on a slanted street
There were a few people in large trucks with big flags on them who tried to splash me as they were driving by

(09:03):
Yes, well that's the advantage you get with big trucks is to splash people
You know what was cool about that though, just like everything else in their lives, they fucking failed
So they did not splash me
Oh, so you were crapped, now how big is your car?
Oh no, I was walking
You were walking, so they were just doing that old, the tramp almost, the Charlie Chaplin

(09:25):
Yeah, they were going for it, they didn't get it, they didn't get me
Did you have to duck and cover, it was all right there for you
No, no, I just had an idea of where the water was going to go
I feel that semi truck drivers are getting a lot more rascally as we move forward
Well you know who these guys were, they were the local guys in an F350 with maybe a big flag

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and a God Hates, you know, the number 2 F word sticker on the back
and maybe a Newt Mueller sticker to go along with the guy
Yes, so you voted, I wanted to talk to you about that
I'm still sitting here with my ballot, I have not mailed it in yet
I might have to have Scott run me in since we're kind of sharing vehicles

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Does he vote?
I don't know
He's Canadian, isn't he?
Well, I think he votes for himself, I heard that
In Oregon we have vote by mail, and it's spectacular
This season we have a very interesting run up with Kate Brown
You know I just wanted to put in a little interjection
I think what Dennis Richardson wants to do though is reinterpret that as vote by mail

(10:37):
Just like M-A-L-E
Sure, like a handmaiden's mail table
Yeah, exactly, so he's got 2 years left folks
I get emails from him, you know, being a business guy
Did I tell you about, I was on a flight with him back from DC back in February
and I didn't even know he was there until we were all getting up to get out

(10:58):
and I see this very neat looking bald silver haired man right in front of me
and I was like, oh is that Dennis Richardson?
And it sure was
And so I kind of followed him through Concourse C, the direct DC flight on Alaska
and we go in, we're going down the elevators
and he doesn't know where the baggage claim is

(11:20):
In Portland
Yeah, doesn't know where the baggage claim is, at PDX
and we're on those escalators down to it and I said
boy it's a little more complex than the Medford Airport, isn't it?
And then we started talking and of course I'm affiliated with some stuff that I knew he would know
and we had a very pleasant exchange, he is a gentleman in person

(11:42):
Yeah, yeah
Anyways, back to what you were talking about there
Well to let everyone know at home, the Medford joke is really funny if you're from Oregon
Some of you out there are international friends, I might have to explain
Medford is a very rural southern area that Dennis Richardson is from, I believe

(12:05):
It might technically be from Grant's Pass
Who's from that?
GP
Yeah, that's a nice spot down there
It's definitely different down there, it is growing like crazy
Is it? I have not been there in ages
But yeah, back to the state of our current politics, you have Kate Brown
who is running for really her first term as governor, isn't it?

(12:28):
Well it'll be her last term, this is the last one that she can serve
So she doesn't get to do it again, that I recounted against her first term?
One of the reasons I'm probably going to advocate for her is that she replaced Kitzhoffer
in a stunning, brave, boomer, get out of my way type of thing

(12:50):
Well yeah, he screwed up
It was disappointing
Yes, but she was very, you hear the whole thing about her being in mid-flight coming back
and then him saying, I've changed my mind
Well he came back, so he flew back and called her to meet him at PDX
and then he showed up and she was there

(13:13):
and the assumption was that he was going to announce his resignation and hand it off to her
and he said, what are you even doing here?
He went back to DC, this is my understanding, he went back to DC and then they went through with it
like the following day or something
She had to get Kurt Schrader involved with it or something
They had to talk him down because he had called it off and then he changed his mind

(13:36):
It was always my interpretation
Right, he changed his mind and then he decided to do it
and I think really what we got to witness was we got to publicly watch him be in a state of crisis
He was an ER doc, he was Mr. Cool
But he wasn't cool enough for Sylvia Hayes
Well, it's funny, she reminded me
I was talking with our caterer earlier this evening about some of my experiences at PSU

(14:04):
So you were catering?
Yeah, craft services, that's pretty much why I'm here
It's a great lure usually for our guests
I had the real privilege to study some GIS stuff and some planning stuff when I was there at PSU a few years ago
Sylvia Hayes just reminded me of an underclass version of some of the people that I would run into there

(14:25):
They were really dedicated to making it in public service
Maybe didn't have the kind of background to have as clear of an ethical view
of how their behavior should play out for what their goals were
And I think somehow Dr. Kitzhaber just got kind of sucked up into some of that stuff and made a few mistakes himself
To me it seems sort of generational almost, this sort of arrogance of the office

(14:52):
These people get in there and, hey, I've worked hard, I did it all myself, no one helped me
Well, I think with Kitzhaber it wasn't as much arrogance as it was maybe some naivety
It was just some blindness, just some flat-out blindness
And I'll make excuses for that guy forever, so maybe I'm not the best one to ask

(15:14):
Well, he was a tremendous ER doctor and a wonderful governor for two terms
Those great two terms
Did you know in his first term, 94, well, I guess 95 to 99, the state population grew over 10%
Wow
Just in that four years
Wow
That was the roaring 90s

(15:36):
Right, can you just imagine what Charlie Hales did at that time?
Well, he was a city councilor, wasn't he?
That was right before he was a city councilor
I don't know, I was pretty drunk most of that time
I was a drunk pilot in that era, a lot of people don't know that
Right, that's right
Were you working in the United?

(15:58):
I was flying Cessna 152s with a pretty powerful hangover most days
It was a lot of fun, that's in the past
So, current election
Yes
So
So this Newt Bieler guy, who is he? I'm sort of surprised, it's close, isn't it?
Aren't they saying it's kind of close?
Yeah, I think that

(16:19):
Or is that a joke?
Well
Because my question is how could Kate let it get close in the first place?
Well, you know, I was talking to a good friend of mine who is also my partner and housemate
and we're now co-owners of my cat
Right, Vera Katz
Vera Katz, the cat
It is International Cat Day, so I'll come up with a picture of her

(16:40):
Oh, yeah
But Katie has had this idea that a lot of people on the left, they have this inner thirst
that which they might not even be aware, they really want to seek out a moderate Republican
It's kind of like, remember in that movie A Few Good Men?
Yeah

(17:01):
And I think that's what Nicholson was like, deep down in places you don't like to talk about at cocktail parties
and you can admit that you need me
Right
Right before he went into that, you can't
Yes
So she thinks there's kind of a similar thing for a lot of people where they really, they're just like dying
The Stockholm Syndrome thing
A little bit, or maybe it's what Paul Krugman would describe as wanting to be considered to be a VSP

(17:26):
or as he would call it, a very serious person
We've got to toughen up on purrs
Are there games about the very serious people?
Oh, maybe
Role-playing people or something
Oh, those are, I was at the convention center yesterday and I was too much
Role-playing game, is that what they call them? RPG?
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, I've heard about those

(17:49):
Yeah, they're supposedly some kind of right-wing trolling of the left wing, but I can't really tell the difference that much these days
I get really confused by it
Yeah, everybody's all freaked out so you can't really tell who the asshole is
Right, which is, it's good that we have a president like Donald Trump to kind of make it simple for everybody
Whoever the anti-union people are, those are typically the assholes

(18:12):
That's still going to be my ultimate witness test if somebody is
Anti-union?
Yeah, the anti-union people are usually
Because there's only like two or three left now, right?
So it's the anti-minority
Yeah, there's none of that going on, thank god
Yeah, I'm very thankful that we got over all that kind of stuff

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And you know, we're hitting it pretty hard here
I think we're going to have to take a commercial break real quick here, pay some bills
It's kind of confusing with this new Portuguese financing, mixing with the Russian financing
And now I'm hearing, Rich, that Liptonstein might be a potential suitor for some of this stuff

(18:54):
Lang, Liptonstein, is that how you say it? Liptonstein?
I think it's a Lichtenstein
Liptonstein? We love you, we couldn't stack and we look forward to working with you many years
I think we'll be right back, right back after this message, thank you
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It's just not about the commercials, I may not have that much going on
Just trying to be funny, trying to write some funny jokes and stuff
Doing these commercials, that keeps me pretty busy

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