The Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour with Jeff Dodge (S3 Ep12)

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Gee Buck Brown, it's good to see you in these parts again. How are you?

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Oh, how are you doing, Sinus? I'm a little down.
Well, I came here to tell you about the true spirit of Christmas. So cheer up, Buck.
The true spirit of Christmas?
Well, you're not much different than since we were nine years old.

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I guess you're right.
Let me tell you, Buck, the true meaning of Christmas is to buy things for people.
To bring a new sensation of goodness and wholesome to the universe.
To consume like we've never consumed before.
To go out beyond any oligarchy, any corporation.

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It's to buy, buy, buy and sell, sell, sell. Right, Chuck?
Gosh, I never really thought about it that way.
Well, let me put it into terms you might be able to understand.
Here, let me grab the old guitar, Chuck.

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You see, the true spirit of Christmas is special.
It's holy. It's to make pay homage to the Vatican.
It's to donate blood to the Vatican.

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It's to make people feel good.

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Come on, Chuck. I know you feel it.
Come on, do some dancing, Chuck.

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We fix broken hose, smashed windshield.
We fix, no problem.
Be back Tuesday, fix then.
No, no job too small, we fix.

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Your car, our car, we take care.
No problem, no problem, we fix.
Broken headlight, broken trunk, carburetor, we fix.

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No problem, no problem.
Ready Tuesday, ready Tuesday, you come back.
No problem, Red's Garage, 349 Volga Avenue.
Yah.
Hey, it's Sid again.

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Just want to wish you a happy new year.
Just trying to find some joy in this life.
And you know, 2018, that was a pretty crazy year.
And we got to get ready for 2019, which hopefully isn't going to be crazier.
But you know, given the times, you know, I'm just going to sit down, embrace myself,

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and have a cup of Safford Brothers downtown blend, taste the city coffee.
Really, that's about the only consistency, the only crazy thing I'm doing these days is just enjoying a cup of coffee.
It's always good.
And it's really going to help me survive and maybe give me some inner peace or maybe just a caffeine buzz.

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But Safford Brothers downtown blend, taste the city coffee.
It is always good.
Whatever mood, whatever appetite.
At Worcester's Pizza, we're here to satisfy.

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If you want a slice, we've got that.
What if you want another slice?
No problem.
If you only need half a pizza, we can do that.
And if you want three quarters of a pizza, come in and enjoy our three quarters of a pizza special.

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If a whole pizza is what you want, ours are the best.
Don't forget the pepperoni.
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Everything you love about pizza and more.

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Home of the slices, half pizza, quarter pizza special, or the best whole pie in town.
Hi, I'm Jeff Dodge, the Peasant Revolution Band with Jamila.
We're out here shopping, getting our Christmas gifts for family and relatives.
So we'll be back.

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Coming back.
Man, it's crazy out there, man.
I tell you, it's crazy.
I'm Jeff Dodge, host of the Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour.
We have Rich Reese on the drums, Stephen Sabilo on the bass,

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and one of our occasional awesome members, Mr. Bobby Caesar, is in the house.
He's here to sing us a special little song once he has a microphone in front of his face.
Bobby Caesar, what are you going to entertain us with today?
This is a subversive ditty that I was remembering from the other day.

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Father Christmas by the Kinks. I know Christmas is over.
If you don't count the days, the 12 days of Christmas.
Anyway, it was a fun one that we all kind of hear in the background occasionally,
but we don't know how subversive it is.
Basically, he's playing a mall Santa, or let's say an urban Santa,

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out in the streets of London, and these hood rats kind of hit him up for money.
And they're just like, Father Christmas, give us some money.
Is it a satanic thing?
No, not satanic at all. It's just like, piss off.
What do we need? Toys. I don't need an extra plastic thing.
I need money.

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Working class.
Yeah, give all the toys to the rich little boys.
Give all the toys to the rich.
Yeah, because we need money. My dad needs a job.
So anyway.
That's Sinus Polly.
Why don't we go ahead and I'll try it.

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I'm on this door.
And it keeps me from coming.
And I'm running through the place.
And Father Christmas, give us some money.
Don't mess around with the hooded toys.
Please don't cross me.
Don't knock it over.
We're working class, so don't be a sin.

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Give all the toys to the rich little boys.
We'll give my brother a seat on the outfit.
We'll give my sister a cutlet toy.
We don't want to get so knoppy.

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We want the real McCoy.
We'll give my daddy a job, but Sinus Polly's got some problems with his head.
I need my young one to take a nap.
So I can scare all the kids up the street.
Father Christmas, give us some money.

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Don't mess around with the hooded toys.
We'll beat you up.
You don't have to know us.
Give all the toys to the rich little boys.
We'll have a hell of a merry Christmas.

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Give yourself a good time.
Remember the kids who got nothing.
As you drink your damn wine.
Don't mess around with those little toys.
We'll beat you up.

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Give us some money.
We'll beat you up.

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We'll have a hell of a merry Christmas.

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We'll beat you up.
We'll beat you up.

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I saw her today at the reception.
Glass of wine in hand.
I knew she would be her connection.
Her feet was a footloose man.

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No, you can't always get what you want.
You can't always get what you want.
Maybe try sometime.

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Find and get what you need.
I saw her today at the reception.

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Glass of wine in hand.
I knew she would be her connection.
Her feet was a footloose man.

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Maybe try sometime.

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Just get what you need.

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Maybe try sometime.

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Just get what you need.

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I don't know what you had for your big Christmas brunch, mimosas,
you had for your big Christmas brunch, mimosas, cinnamon rolls, you know, whatever your tradition

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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 habits. You can't teach an old dog any kind of tricks and you know, I just kind

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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, just grow with it people but I hope it's a

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great one. Season's greetings from me to you.
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for Larry's lettuce wherever you buy produce. It's lettuce so good that you'll think you're
eating it straight out of the garden. Let's get commander in here. Do you want to do a

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song with commander? Let's do you doing the song. And that mic's hanging on the doors.
It's yours. I'm ready. Sure. You ready? Oh, we're black. Okay. Yeah. Coming out of black.
Gotta come out of luck, you know. Gotta come out of black. Yeah. So we're back. We're back

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and it is this end of 2018, you know, and here I am. 2018. Feeling special. Feeling
special to be alive because I don't know about you, Rich, but 2018 was a wild year for me.
Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. What's going on? Well, what was going on? Well, there was,

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we originally had this great big hit with the Russian sponsoring, right? And then this
like Mueller probe made Russia really unpopular and now we have great Russian sponsoring but
no one's watching. So I tried to split the difference and get some Portuguese involved.
Right. And I just ended up getting them both pissed at us. Okay. Yeah. So one thing I can

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tell you, I think the research demonstrates that the Russians are about as popular as
ever. Yes. In certain key demographics. Like Stalin era, maybe. Well, you know, I saw this
couple holding a sign that said I'd rather be Russian than Democrat. Really? Yeah. And
I mean, I didn't see them in person. It was something I saw, you know, as part of a news

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story, but I just thought, you know, who are they? Oregonians or? Oh, no, it's Texas or
something like that. But I was thinking maybe the problem here is that we need to do more
country and it's because, you know, that segment of the population, they're not even opposed
to the arts. Yeah. Yeah. Necessarily. They're just maybe opposed to our head. They just
need to hear more twang. I don't need to cite. Maybe it could be more like Father Christmas,

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give us some Jesus. Yes. Yes. And we would be appealing to those people a little better.
I. Father Christmas, give us some clean coal. Right. Right. Scrub it up and sell it some more.
That's exactly right. So I don't remember where we were going with that. Well, on that note,
I was just going to say we have with us one of our special guests and regular proud to have him,

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a featured member of the peasant revolution van, Curtis, the commander, Warsley commander. How are
you? Jeff, I'm, I'm feeling very official tonight and I want you to know that I do respect you
regardless of about last weekend. Oh yes. Yeah. Twenty eight here. So the year overall,
I, I, it is a very disrespectful year. It is, it is. You try to be yourself and they just put you

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down. So I'm, I told people it was going to be the year of mind control and I haven't announced
what next year is going to be yet, but I'll make sure the mind control. So we're, we're, we're
hours a minute. It's already next year in the East coast. We'd like to say hi to all of our
East coast fans. No comments yet. No. Okay. Well, someday we hope to have East coast fans, but yes,

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it's new years already. Some people have made it. The Australians have made it us in the Pacific
Northwest. Oregon is counting down. We've got what we got 9 48 PM right now, 9 48. And we're
going to rock this thing out. Like Dick Clark doesn't know how to ball. That's right. So, uh,
tell me commander, what kind of, uh, uh, music inspired you in 2018? Well, obviously 2018, uh,

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we, we, we couldn't really complete the mission, mission creep that was, uh, you know, it's very
creep pan and it's, uh, it's, it's grown to, you know, it was fun, you know, performing that last
one here. And now there's a couple more that are, that are in the ditch. Like I said, like to say,
yeah, and, uh, they're going to crawl out pretty soon. That's right. Um, I also, uh,

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I also did a Christmas song and, um, I'm really, I'm working with, uh, we're going to drop that,
uh, you know, uh, in a year and it's all going to be part of next Christmas. It's all going to be
part of mission creep 2019. Excellent. Excellent. M K ultra type stuff. Well, you know, it lights

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outside your window at night. Yeah. And, uh, you know, it will come out of the fog. And from what
I heard, it's going to be a foggy night tonight. It's a foggy, foggy new year. Well, let's,
let's see how it goes. You have a song to deliver us tonight commander. I do. Um, you want to follow
along with me? This one's a little bit of a, should I strap on the old, uh, Yama caster here?

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Fender caster. Let's see you throw that out. Fender makes those don't they? Yeah.

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All

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Oh, what's up?
Oh, no.
You're gonna watch that tree burn while you drink from the crimson cup.
Crimson cup.

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Christmas, Christmas.
Christmas, Christmas.
It's getting kind of creepy.
Don't be gone.
It's getting creepy.

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You feel the desire of the cross.
Oh, how.
This Christmas is creepy.
Cause you can't take them off.

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I'm sleeping Christmas.

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While you're feeling the desire.

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Santa's driving that sleigh.
People in your way.
Don't ask me to stop.

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Cause you don't know a thing.
Now you know.
Why there always tears up your eyes.

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It's creepy Christmas.
It's creepy Christmas.

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You feel the desire of the cross.
Cause you don't know a thing.
I'm sleeping Christmas.

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Season's greetings from Jimmy Gimler and all the staff at my 97 cent store where you can
save three cents on every purchase.
Believe me, it adds up.
I hope you had a Merry Christmas and don't forget to have a terrific New Year.

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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.
It's always inspired me to be the best businessman I can be.

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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.

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Well, it's that time of year again but let me tell you something.

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Anytime of the year is a good time to enjoy a cup of Safford Brothers downtown blend tasting
city coffee.
Let me tell you something.
It's always good.
It doesn't matter what you're doing.
You're going to enjoy it.
You're going to relax.
You're going to take some time out for yourself and try to get back to the joy that the holidays

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are supposed to be bringing you.
Everything's going to be peaceful and calm for just that three or four minutes that it's
going to take you to drink that Safford Brothers downtown blend tasting city coffee which is
always good.
And that's why always on this show you'll see me talking about Safford Brothers coffee

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because I love it.
I drink it all the time.
It's always good and it's done nothing but bring me joy this year.
Have a great new year.
Bye.
Well, we seem to be back.
We seem to be live.

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We seem to be happening.
Joel is still alive and quiet on this New Year's Eve.
But we're you know we're looking at a few different things and I want to see how the
living room shoot is doing.
I invited like 1094 of my closest Facebook friends.

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Let's see how many showed up.
Bob.
Bob.
Can you hear me Bob?
I can hear you Jeff.
How are things going at the studio?
All right.
Pretty good except I forgot to build an intercom that we could talk through.
That's okay.
I'll get the cat to pass messages back and forth.
She seems to well trained.

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That's a good idea.
We use her a cat carrier cat.
Yes.
Like a pigeon.
Well, welcome back to the living room.
I mean things have really picked up since you know since we had that fantastic music.
You know I'm not sure people fully understand the depth of the entertainment they were having
here this evening.

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I know a lot of people are downtown.
A lot of people are on the East Coast.
But if you really want to have you know a home be yourself kind of experience.
No errors.
This is where you need to be.
You know again try to remember that address that we cannot repeat.
So ask your friend if they got it.

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Come down here.
Plenty of rooms.
It's pretty relaxing isn't it Bob?
I'm sorry say again Jeff.
It's pretty relaxing out there it looks like.
Oh no it looks relaxing but there's this this really high tense anticipation going on because
we are moving 2018 into 2019.

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And so things are getting pretty experienced.
You know Jeff something something people often ask me is Bob Davis how do you stay so smooth?
And I just tell them flatly hey I was born this way.
I came out mom was there she's like baby you're smooth.
But Bob Davis doesn't always like to be smooth.

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Sometimes Bob Davis likes to spice it up.
And when Bob Davis spices it up he likes to spice it up with Spice Island smoked paprika.
Yes.
It keeps you spicy.
So again.
Bob have you been able to get anyone I invited about 1064 of my closest Facebook friends.

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I'm thinking there's like at least 580 or so out there is that correct?
That there is a good estimation.
I was going to go 600 but if you want a low ball at 580.
I'll give it 580 yeah.
Okay good at 580.
The thing is is that you know the entertainment you have tonight Jeff is just so spectacular
that it's scaring a lot of people away.

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So each time the cat brings a message in saying that you're ready to come back and see us
here in the living room people just vanish.
They run outside they have a smoke.
Couple of folks are drinking in the restroom.
Couple of folks over in the bedroom I think I don't know what they're doing let's not
ask.
Is that in our bedroom?
That's the only bedroom I've seen.

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Believe me I've seen the bedroom.
Alright alright I think I've heard enough.
Well is there anybody at all that wants to talk to you Bob or do we need to.
Bob what are your New Year's resolutions?
My New Year's resolutions is to you know I'm not a big New Year's resolution person.

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I'm always trying to improve myself.
So it's redundant then is what you're saying.
Yes yes but I think my big goal in 2019 is to spend just a little more time in Manila.
Manoa?
In the Philippines Jeff you know a series of islands fought a war over there.

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Oh Manila yeah yes.
That's where General MacArthur spent his time while the troops were suffering in Bataan
I believe.
Usually when I'm there I'm not focusing on that.
I know the Bataan death march is a real bummer.
Yeah it's a bummer and it doesn't play well in some of the lounges that I sing in so yeah.

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Right they're all kind of.
So Bob let's talk about you.
You sing in the lounges you've done the Southeast Asian market.
What countries there have you visited?
I've visited several but I focus on the Philippines that seems to be where I'm most appreciated.

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I heard you once did you had an audience with Duetarte this year and you both dressed up
in white tuxedos or something like that?
Yes it was a bit embarrassing for me though because my skin is pretty pasty white so the
white tuxedo on my skin I just looked like a big walking piece of paper there but you

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know he looked great.
Right right because I heard that you guys did a harmony is that right a duet harmony
thing?
Oh a duet harmony you know.
What song was it?
I'm not sure exactly how well that played out but you know we did do something like

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that.
But I heard it was Ebony and Ivory is that right?
Yes yeah and it led to some you know it led to some personal misunderstandings but I think
we've recovered from that we still have a strong friendship.
Right well I would assume it was clear you were the Ivory.

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Yes yeah that wasn't the misunderstanding.
The blend of the tux.
Yes.
Well okay on that note who out there of that 580 I know they keep running away whenever
I enter the room but I know they're there now there's got to be somebody who wants to
talk to you Bob Davis.

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Well here I'm gonna you know try to follow me here a little bit there Jeff.
Oh you know what I'm gonna jump to camera you go ahead.
We're gonna come over this way here and if people don't want to speak to us well you
know what we'll just go to the people.

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I tell you Jeff I've been I've been admiring your show for a while and I can tell that
you like your smoky paprika as well.
Yes.
So I'm coming out here again I think we met these two beautiful women a little earlier
today.
They have been having some very in-depth conversation.
I hate to bust into it but I think we have to for the show don't we.

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Did they sign the release yet?
Yes yeah I'm having people.
I signed with a fake name though.
Well that's okay you still signed I just put an X on mine and you know.
Do we have your permission to stream on Spotify and MySpace?
Well I suppose sure yeah.

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I'm not sure.
Okay we have one yes and one non-committal.
Sounds like my first and second marriage.
So things have been pretty wild out here.
There's 580 people.
They all ran outside.

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As soon as I grabbed the camera they saw.
Yes they heard.
This is terrifying.
You know well no what I think happened was is that Sting walked by and he was asking
where your place was and I was like well it's in here Sting but he's out there doing some
tantric thing.
I'm not sure what he's up to.
You know that guy's wild and so I think everyone's kind of focusing on them right now.

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So right now but you know to be honest with you I've been in the living room since I've
been here and these two wonderful people here plus the cats have been more than enough for
anybody.
That's wonderful Bob.
Let's interview that cat.
Maybe she's gonna say something.
Hello kitty.
No I think the cat wants to go see Sting as well.

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Okay well you know what Bob I think we're gonna go into the commercial and come back
with a special surprise from you pretty soon.
Tell us a little preview of that.
Well you know the initial plan was that I might come sing a song but I've been on the
road for a long time and I'm not sure you know I'm not sure I haven't really warmed

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up for it and you know I.
Oh there's a guess.
Yeah I got it.
Okay well you know you know just because the fans here want to hear it we may sing a special
song for you after this break.
All right thanks Bob Davis.
We'll be right back.

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Sorry Tonight's our last night.
You gotta hang on to your pad right now.
Alright, great.
And now I've got some good stuff on my back.
You're just in the perfect...
Add four.
Time to pay some bills.

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Fills the pay down.
Fills the pay down.
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That's what we're up to right now. We'll keep you posted on the rest of this operation.
On the count of three, count down begins.

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We're now completing our Christmas journey.
The gifts, we're going to the post office now to mail my sister, brother-in-law, nephews and a wife.
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We're back.
Ladies and gentlemen, Bob Davis.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Wow.

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I'd shake your hand.
I'm afraid I got a sickness that I didn't tell everyone of my 580 closest friends about.
I think it's an Ebola thing.
It's an Ebola thing or a nobola.

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You say Ebola, I say nobola.
Let's call the whole thing off.
That's right.
It's a contagious sickness.
We were too far ahead and I just thought we should roll on with everything.
Definitely.
What good is that going to bring everyone down that they're getting sick?

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At least they can deal with that in the new year.
You're actually doing people a favor and helping them build their immunity.
That's right. I'm exposing them to antibodies, and gonorrhea, and herpes.
Those are airborne, aren't they?
It depends on what you're doing.
Okay. I like that.

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I swear I saw it airborne once.
Bob Davis, tell us, where did you start?
Where did it all begin?
I'm a local boy.
I started just across the river, the big river.
The big Willamette.
No, that's a small river.

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Columbia. I think that's what the newcomers are calling it.
Columbia?
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't know. I grew up here, but we've got to adapt to the newcomers.
Columbia, Willamette, Wiedler.
Wiedler, yeah.
No, that's Weedler.
They call it Weedler. I call it Weidler.

(01:12:21):
Tomato, tomato. It's still the same street, isn't it?
Ebola.
You could call it Stark Street. You could call it Harvey Milk Street.
It's still the same street.
Is that when they changed to Harvey Milk?
That's what they changed.
It was Stark.
Yes, it was Stark.
So they throw Benjamin Stark over the bus for San Francisco.
Wonderful civil rights leader.
Excellent civil rights leader.

(01:12:42):
But I don't know if he did he vacation in Portland? Did he come to Portland?
He was a Jonestown enabler.
Oh, yeah. He was part of that scene, really.
Yeah.
So he got assassinated about a week after the Jonestown.
No shit.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Ties together.
Wow.
Rich, I didn't know you were into conspiracies.

(01:13:04):
I mean, I wonder if they're interesting.
Yeah.
Well, that's an interesting one.
There was a conspiracy about Quaker, but it was so damn boring.
I'm just saying.
Yes.
And to that point, where were you and Jonestown?
You grew up here, but I heard you were involved with that.

(01:13:26):
Well, yeah.
No, I'm getting confused.
You went out there, didn't you?
Holy cow, Bob, I think we got someone calling in here.
Oh, let's see who this is.
It's Alastair.
Hello, you're on the air with Jeff Dodge.

(01:13:47):
Who is this?
This is Alastair Duff calling.
Alastair.
I'm watching you pick up the phone right now.
All right, well, there's a delay.
There's a lapse delay.
Are you in Los Angeles right now?
I'm in Portland, Oregon right now.
Alastair Duff, a friend of the two of you.

(01:14:10):
Alastair Duff, a friend of the Trench Digger family,
Darge Illuminary, on the phone right now.
I should probably...
I don't have a title slate for you.
Is he a...
I'll wait for the title slate, probably is best.
Is he a contemporary artist?
Are you a contemporary artist is what Bob wants to know.

(01:14:31):
Have I seen his work?
Sounds familiar.
How would Bob know you?
I'm a bit of a con.
Ah.
Yeah, I'm a con temporary artist.
A con temporary artist, yeah.
He's been arrested.
Yeah, I probably have a couple of his pieces.
Didn't you do a tour in prison?

(01:14:52):
Yeah, but I don't talk about it.
Perhaps, I think Alastair might have served in prison.
Perhaps you two know each other.
My agent back then said I may have a couple of...
Okay, no prison talk.
I understand, I understand.
I'm still sore.
You know what I was...
One of the things that was on my mind is I'm at home here
and I've got the Trench Digger productions here

(01:15:15):
and I'm blasting it onto the neighbor's wall,
my projector onto the wall of the neighbor next to my house.
Not really, but I want to think that.
And the thing I'm having trouble with is I've got
seven or eight thousand people here
and the audio is not coming up quite like I'd expect it to do just now.
I'm wondering if that's something that needs to be fixed.

(01:15:37):
It's that big fat microphone in front of you.
That thing.
Yeah, yeah.
It's another microphone.
It's more live than that.
It seems like it's over by the drums or something.
Well, I have complete control.
Go ahead and talk.
I watch this.
You know, Tom Ebel.
See.
Central.
Sing a song and you'll love it.

(01:15:58):
I have complete control.
Oh, there it is.
There it is.
That's what it needed.
It needed that goose.
Even more goose would work.
I can't remember.
I thought he wanted to see.
This is great.
We invite all of our watchers to call in and tell us how the audio is going.
And we can do this.
In fact, this might be a good time to plug our Patreon account.

(01:16:20):
And you can hear all that delay coming in now that we do that.
Yeah, that's working really well.
When you goose up the big mic with the big black ball on it,
the big tube looking mic, now it's better.
Okay, okay.
Was that it, Alistair?
Did you have any questions for Bob or anything?
Well, I was just, I'm not sure.

(01:16:43):
Or Steve or Rich or anybody.
Ask away.
It's 2018, man.
Nothing matters now.
2018's over.
Get it out.
Get it out.
To hell with it.
Just throw it.
This is a question for Steve Sibila.
All right.
Steve, we got one for you.

(01:17:05):
Question for Steve Sibila.
Did you ever play basketball with us?
What's Bruce Dickinson doing right now?
I mean, currently, is he still in the band?
What were they doing with him?
He took a break, I thought.
It's an Iron Maiden question.
No, I don't know.
I remember they're coming to Portland for the first time since the Memorial Coliseum.

(01:17:28):
September.
Who are we talking about?
Oh, Maiden.
Iron Maiden.
Iron Maiden.
Bob, you toured with Iron Maiden for a while, didn't you?
In the rough years?
Yeah, I opened for a couple of years.
How did that go, opening for Iron Maiden, and you're doing this lounge love boat thing?

(01:17:52):
Well, you know, my crowd would come in first, and then, you know,
and then they'd leave when Iron Maiden came in.
Wow, there you go.
So it actually worked out.
None of your crowd was in walkers or anything, were they?
Well, no, they were, and then they let the Iron Maiden crowd in,
and then things just got crazy there.

(01:18:14):
I'd usually just go out in the back.
I always got to hang around.
I just came back from my coach.
Right.
I think it was the Gannett boys.
It might have been for your side.
Well, and it would probably be hard.
When your crowd left, then you're looking at Iron Maiden's teenagers,
isn't that correct?
Yes, yes.

(01:18:35):
So did any of the teenagers at Iron Maiden catch Bob Davis' dinner performance to open the thing?
Just a couple.
There's always a couple of stragglers that kind of hung out there,
and I'd hang out with them for a month or so.
Right.
And then the age difference just...
Well, the legal age in Oregon at that time was...

(01:18:58):
At that time I was 16.
16, 16, yeah.
But anyway, I don't want to go too far into that.
Alastair, can you tell us about 16-year-olds?
Not, no.
Okay, okay, good, good.
I'm glad you can't.
I don't know any.
Do you remember when you were 16?

(01:19:19):
That's the last time I saw Maiden, I was probably...
It all comes around.
I was about 16 when I saw Maiden last, I'm pretty sure.
And Steve, were you at Maiden when they came last?
No.
The coach had two brothers.
Okay.
What year was that?
That would be 86, 85?
87.
87.
We had all kinds of...
I saw this somewhere in Time Tour.

(01:19:40):
I'm pretty sure.
Bruce Dickinson had a KGON T-shirt on.
And I believe he tore it up during those moments.
And he was unhappy that KGON had been playing a lot of Duran Duran.
I remember it was the band he was angry about.
Oh, we know Duran.

(01:20:02):
We've done some Duran Duran on the show.
That was actually my first concert was the power station with Carolyn Beaker and Ann Heaston.
Of course, Andy Taylor from Duran Duran.
Andy and not Nick Taylor, but John Taylor.
John Taylor and the power station.

(01:20:23):
Yes.
And Tony Thompson on the drums with OMD opening, orchestral maneuvers in the dark.
And I copied that guy's dancing for years.
That was how I was able to dance in high school with girls, because they like real, living, breathing girls would dance with me.

(01:20:47):
I did the OMD dance in high school.
And then my glasses would fall off and they quit dancing with me.
But for a couple minutes we got something happening.
I found it in high school.
Right, right.
Well, let's not step over each other.
We have a five-way conversation going right now.
I think it's a good time to take a break and reconvene.

(01:21:10):
We're going to pay some bills here.
We'll be right back on the other half here with the whole...
I think we've got a special guest coming up next actually.
So, Bob, any last words?
Just put another plug in for smoked paprika.
Bob's smoked paprika coming to a retail store or Amazon?

(01:21:36):
It's here now.
Go out and get spicy.
Get spicy. Get spicy with Bob's paprika.
You stay beautiful, people.
Alistair, you plugging anything?
I tried smoking paprika once.
There wasn't any bananas.
Right, right.
Yeah.
Hallucinogenic?

(01:21:57):
I'm good. I got nothing to plug.
All right.
All right.
Well, thanks for calling in.
And next time we're going to run our little projects together with audio.
Thought audio is good.
So we're going to get moving on, pay some bills, but great talking to you all.
We'll see you in the new year, hopefully, if we can make it.
Almost an hour, 90, 87 minutes away.

(01:22:22):
87 minutes away from 2019.
Whoo!
Fantastic!
Smoking for hours.
Door to door, boat to boat.
Cheap white wine, cheap sugar.
Yeah, this is a tasty fish.
It's brined in like a brand name soy sauce and cheap white wine.

(01:22:43):
Cheap sugar and salt.
Little herbs in there and brined overnight.
Got to let it dry out and form a nice little pellicle.
They call it fizz, you know, nice sort of protective skin on the membrane.
And then we'll smoke it for hours on end and just, you know, drink beer and wait.

(01:23:13):
Line cod, barbless hook.
It's smoking to dry it out, to give it a little smoky flavor.
Door to door, boat to boat.
Free range line cod, barbless hook.
Here we go.
I'm going to cut to that.

(01:23:34):
So we'll see you in a couple minutes.
Bye bye.
From the looks of it, I'm guessing that you survived the holidays.
I'm sure they had their moments and I'm hoping it was wonderful.

(01:23:59):
Me, I was just hanging around drinking Safford Brothers downtown blend taste of city coffee
because it's always good, it's always constant, it's always the one thing I can depend on
and never freaks me out or nothing just to sit here and enjoy a cup of Safford Brothers downtown blend taste of city coffee.

(01:24:20):
Everything's cool.
Everything is joyous.
I achieve total joy from just being calm, sitting down, having the coffee, trying to relax, trying to shut everything else out.
I'm hoping that everybody out there has a terrific 2019 incredible holiday new year.

(01:24:42):
You know, don't forget when you're writing those checks, 2019 not 2018, so don't have to cross anything out.
Safford Brothers downtown blend coffee, it's always good.
Taste of city.
We're hot.

(01:25:03):
Well, look who stumbled into the studio.
I can't believe this.
This is so great.
I'm like a big fan.
Look at the road, think I sweet go, area.
And, you know, it's like the holidays.
Nobody wants to work on a holiday.
Jim Johnson won't work on a holiday.
I gotta work.

(01:25:25):
So, he's working, but he's also letting other people fill in.
That's how you get a job.
You just hang around and when everybody goes out of town on the holidays, then you get to host the show.
And I can't believe this.
So, we'll play a couple songs.
Yeah, the master's in the house.
We're gonna do a little interview because I'm gonna be the guest of the million hosts.

(01:25:51):
And this is a Christmas song.
And I know Christmas is over.
But there was people, this guy, his name's George Wheeler and he was this real strange guy.
He used to like to put his music out on cassette tape.
And he wrote a song about Christmas.
And he was worried, I guess, I don't know, it's a political song about Christmas.

(01:26:13):
If you can believe, anybody can write a political song.
I know there's already been some talk about Christmas and all that crazy stuff.
I can't believe I'm here.
This is amazing.
Anyway, these guys, they're quick.
They're quick studies.
They know what they're gonna hear.
And we're gonna play the song.
We gotta just get into it.

(01:26:34):
It's amazing.
Little shuffle

(01:27:07):
Buy more stuff
Put it round the tree
Don't you know
Santa doesn't come for free
Don't boycott Christmas

(01:27:29):
Never happened every year
Spend your money here

(01:27:50):
Buy more stuff
Help the economy
You can't buy love
But you can buy stuff from me

(01:28:11):
Buy more stuff

(01:28:38):
It's what the season's all about
It's what Jesus is in
It's what the closet's all about
Boycott Christmas
Don't let it happen next year
Boycott Christmas

(01:29:00):
Don't spend no money nowhere

(01:29:21):

(01:30:07):
Okay, because the whole death year end review thing is depressing, bad weather, year end review of the bad weather, up to music, I'm tired of the year end review so I don't want anything to happen at all, I don't want anyone to die, but as a fan of the show I couldn't help but notice that the demonets died right here where I'm standing.

(01:30:32):
I mean this is a little scary, it's a little nerve wracking right here where I'm standing. A man died! I thought I saw some blood stains and stuff. In fact, this is Vic's guitar. Me and Vic go way back. Vic used to puke a lot.
And I used to be hanging out with the Upchuck Barry and Michael Yaxson and I want to, I think, who am I thinking? Seaworth gave me those jokes. Those aren't that good. I don't know. Vic never really puked.

(01:30:59):
He loved this song. So in tribute, you guys played this song with Vic the demonet back in, what was that show? It was a telethon!
Yeah, it was our last telethon. I can't believe this. He died on stage. Yeah, I'm on TV, right? You're on the internet. It's a little different than TV.

(01:31:23):
Oh well, you know, I think people can see me. That's what I'm thinking. There's a couple people watching in this house on their phones. They're on their phones in this house. They won't even watch here. They're on their phones.
Man, I can't believe this. They're gonna be watching. They're watching now. Well, you wanted to, you know, Vic, I feel bad Vic the demonet's dying here in the Trench Digger Studios.

(01:31:46):
He's not the only one I hear, but I'm gonna keep that under wraps. I know Vic for sure. He just croaked out. He was old. He gave it all he got. That was it. He died. He loved it.
There's an argument I die every month. Well, he wanted to die on stage, I think, and he did it. That's where he was living and breathing and dying. It's gonna happen to Tony. I believe Tony will die on stage. I don't think there's anywhere else he can die.

(01:32:11):
And you wanted to do that song, didn't you? Yeah, we got the, we dusted off the moon dust, you know. It's a G. Yeah.
I knew it.

(01:32:45):
I drifted down from heaven.
Let's say it was a moon dust.

(01:33:19):
I could never recognize.
It makes me helpless.

(01:33:52):
I'm

(01:34:21):
Let's say it was a moon dust.
I drifted down from heaven.
Hell instead of screen.
The moon does melody.

(01:34:42):
And it makes me love you.
It makes me never want to go.
It makes me helpless.
It makes me always want to stay that way.

(01:35:30):
I don't know. I don't know. I hope. I hope. Thank you. I hope. I hope we did this proud. I love that song.
Played it every concert you ever did except one and love that moon dust. Love it.

(01:35:52):
Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm ready to host. I tell you that much. I'm just ready to get into it. I can't believe I'm here. I just, I don't know what I'm doing.
I just got some words. I don't know. I don't know. I just, I don't know. I never did this before. You know, it's great. It's awesome.
You guys are amazing. You're amazing.

(01:36:18):
Wow, man. Nice, nice work. Well, thank you. I can't believe I just did that. I mean, I always thought about that. Doing that. Getting on the show.
Believe it, baby. Oh my goodness. It's unbelievable. This is crazy. Well, why don't you take that microphone and tell us what's going on. Oh, I think I got the big one, right? Yeah.
All right. Grab the chair and make yourself comfortable. We got a guest host today. Yeah, I get to sit in the chair and everything, right? Yeah, yeah. Fantastic. That's what happens. It's amazing.

(01:36:49):
Guest host. Whoa, look how comfortable this is. Pillows and everything. Whoa. The hemorrhoids. Oh, the who has those. You know, we got to get a sponsor for that. That's unbelievable.
Yeah, yeah. Well, how do I know you? What's your name? Well, my name is Farnsworth Phillips. Now, the Phillips are real big in a certain holler section of Lake Oswego where, you know, because people always feel like, how can you be from Lake Oswego?

(01:37:20):
You talk so crazy. And I'm like, no, you know, we were there before anybody else. The lake was just like this smelter feed, you know, it was just a big swampy mess. And I was living.
Your heritage is Lake Oswego? No. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah, I don't want to get ahead of myself. But, you know, my dad, my grandfather was Frank L. Phillips. He was all over the place. He was like Johnny Appleseed, but he was planting a certain other kind of seed all over the place.

(01:37:54):
So I got a lot of relatives, any Phillips in this area. And in fact, our best Phillips is Phillip Phillips because he was on the American Idol. I don't know if he, and then he became kind of successful.
Now, I don't measure up to him. Oh, yeah, you loved him, right? That song is special. Boy, I tell you, that boy has got it. I didn't get it. I don't know where he got it.

(01:38:19):
But then there was Julie Ann Phillips, who got married. Yeah. What's his name? Springstone? Bruce. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, cousin Bruce. Cousin Brucie. They got married at midnight.
Now, I don't know where I was, but that was late. I don't know what you're doing. Are those the hours that little Stevie keeps that people got to get married at midnight?

(01:38:42):
No, that's Clemens. Oh, Clarence likes that. That whole thing. Yeah, well, you know, so. I saw McQuality pirate thing. Oh, man, I tell you what, I was living out on a rowboat, a little bit due east of Lake Oswego.
I think it was a little tributary, feeding into the lake, living in the rowboat. Stuff was not happening. So I said, yeah, I got to go to the Lake Oswego School of Rock.

(01:39:09):
OK, I went in there and they just said they looked at me funny when they said, no, you're too country. So I had to forge my own path. I had to forge my own path.
Just do my own thing because I couldn't do the School of Rock thing. You know, I couldn't even get in. You know, I like failed before I could even, you know, Lake Oswego.

(01:39:32):
I was like trying to explain, huh? Yeah, well, you know, it's these guys. It's the revolutionaries here just doing their whole thing, you know, quietly in kind of a desperate times, just doing their thing, showing up and just feeling what they feel from the music.
And that's what we're all doing. And it's fine. I got a terrific guest who may have disappeared, but we'll get her in here. We ready to bring her in.

(01:40:01):
Let's do it. All right. Let's hear it. It's Danny Bash, president CEO of Bashers Towing.
Have you had enough wine? No. All right. Well, I don't think we can get you more wine.
I don't think you want that. Yeah, you got some drinks there.

(01:40:28):
All right. Hello, Danny. It's great to see you. It's great to be here. I can't believe I'm here. I can't believe you're here. Good to see you, Farnsworth.
Thank you. It's been a long time. Yeah, I don't know. Did we meet before? I don't even know. All right. There's some wine there for you.

(01:40:50):
Thank you, ma'am.
You know, so let's talk. First of all, let's get into it, OK, because it's been sad for me.
I know I'm going to talk about this later. I got to go out to grab my phone. Huh? I like it when you talk about your emotions.
Oh, well, well, we're going to get to some emotional stuff here because of the accident that killed Dwayne.

(01:41:19):
And if you can tell me about this, apparently, from what I heard, it was a guy who was drinking a lot of Budweiser. Right? Yes. Budweiser beer.
Yes. The defendant was drinking Budweiser and his car was painted as if it were a Budweiser can.

(01:41:40):
Oh, man. He's driving around like that on the highway. I believe he was paid to do that. Oh, man.
And then he crashed into Dwayne. What was Dwayne doing? He was on the job. Dwayne. Dwayne. Dwayne.
Was on the record. He was.
Basher's towing.
Yes. He was pulling his last job of the day. And I believe he was going through Kenton.

(01:42:05):
Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man.
And he was looking up at all the excellent work being done at that motel on the corner.
Oh, Lord. The motel. And that's hard work because you're out in the middle of traffic trying to, you know, trying to fix a situation, the best make the best of a bad situation.

(01:42:26):
And so you had it out for Budweiser, right?
I can't comment on ongoing litigation.
My lawyer has said I should not talk about how we are suing them and we are going to make it all of them.
It's going to happen. I hope everything gets rectified because that sounds horrible.

(01:42:48):
What I was thinking was, you know, there are a lot. It's not just drunk driving that's the problem.
It's looking as if you are drunk.
Well, yeah.
It's very distracting. And.
Oh, yeah. That's right.
A can.
A can.
I'm going to grab my beer.
And or.
Grab my beer.
And or.

(01:43:09):
What I would say.
I hope you're not driving.
Is if you just plain driving bad and people assume you're drunk.
But I had this feeling like specific beer companies really are having a problem.
If somebody is going to get loaded up on a specific beer, we should be breaking down these statistics beer by beer by beer.

(01:43:31):
What beer kills the most?
And our research has determined I am again not supposed to comment on this.
It is ongoing litigation.
Yeah.
But our research initial research has shown that Budweiser drinkers.
Budweiser.

(01:43:53):
You're going to tell me.
A higher percentage of.
Collision percentile is higher. Specifically, Budweiser is responsible.
Are we talking 50 percent?
That's why they are an unnamed co-host beer tour.
I mean, what are the what?
I know you can't talk about this, but would you say the percentage?

(01:44:14):
Where are we looking at with this percentage?
I just I threw out a half half of all drunk driving accidents.
This is very reckless.
I don't think you are qualified to comment.
I'm not.
You know, I can't believe I'm thinking like, you know, we've got to get a handle on this.
And I think it starts with.

(01:44:36):
I realize you're trying to advocate for me and my late husband, D.
Wayne.
Wayne deserves some justice for sure.
It's true.
It's true.
And they should outlaw painting cars to look like games.
Oh, yeah, that should not happen anymore.
That's ridiculous.
I just I have to pull over.
I would pull over.

(01:44:57):
I would I would.
Yeah.
I don't know what I'd do.
Hey, do you guys remember that like one Budweiser commercial with the frogs and the sun?
Yeah, I do.
It's kind of funny now.
I'm sorry.
I don't know.
You know, I think I think it'd be a lot funnier.
I'd be a lot more realistic if the frogs actually talked about how many people got killed using their product.

(01:45:20):
I bet a lot of frogs, a lot of frogs.
Yeah, actually, we yes.
Yeah, we know.
We do.
Statistics on that.
Yeah.
And we know that they're not going to kill.
It's not just people that that that that the drunk and driving Budweiser drinking people are killing.
They're killing animals.
They shouldn't be.

(01:45:41):
Yeah, they're killing.
There's a lot of killing being done in the name of just trying to have a beer.
It's it's just not right.
It's a beer and a banana slug.
That's I'm on the half of the banana slugs.
Yeah.
They drink beer and they die.
I guess that's not supposed to eat a banana slug after it has.

(01:46:03):
Oh, man, that'll get you messed up.
Yeah.
You wouldn't even want to drive after eating a banana slug.
That's just got drunk itself.
Yeah, that's that's not some cool stuff.
Well, I'm sorry about D way.
Now, I hope that you're doing better.
You're still running the company.
Yeah, I am.
I am running.
I'm president and CEO of Basher's Towing.
I'm single right now.

(01:46:25):
Oh, man.
Yeah, I know.
That's that's that's hard.
That's that's real hard.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Well, now I wanted to ask you because what I heard was that you're kind of a sideline
expert on astrology.
Yes, I have just changed signs.
I was a Gemini and now I'm a Taurus.

(01:46:50):
Well, yeah, you got to explain that.
What happened?
I discovered that there were some scrolls or other laying around saying that the Romans,
when they came up with the calendar, were lazy.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, my goodness.
They made up that whole New Testament part, didn't they?

(01:47:13):
Oh, Lord.
Yeah, we got Bible stuff.
That's all wrong now.
It's all a mess.
Oh, Lord.
Religion and astrology are two separate fields still.
So so so does that feel like all along you felt like, you know, because Jeff S. Dodge

(01:47:34):
here Jeff Dodge is a Gemini.
And so now what what you're saying is that no longer very strong friendship with Jeff.
It's like Pluto is no longer a planet.
And Jeff is and you and wait.
I'm a Gemini too.
Oh, so we're no longer that.
Your mother is also a Gemini.
Whoa, my mother.

(01:47:55):
You're bringing her into this.
I can't believe that.
Yeah.
And your brother.
Oh, my goodness.
And now we're not Gemini's.
Oh, man.
Can I become a Taurus?
Can I become a Scorpio?
Just Taurus.
Oh, Lord.
I tell you that is automatic.
And that now is this a real official because if I went to go read my horoscope,

(01:48:18):
would the dates all be changed and everything?
All this gobbledygook telling me that that that that all the ship this quantum ship.
The Chinese horoscope is still saying.
Not the Chinese, though.
I'm talking about my zodiac sign for which I am a former Gemini.
Now a Taurus.
I don't even know what a Taurus does.
I don't know what a Taurus is supposed to do or be like or believe in or say.

(01:48:40):
It's that is like an identity crisis.
Yes.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
They would be looking into that.
Oh, Lord.
Oh, Lord.
I tell you, Danny Blank, Danny Bash, Danny Blank.
I think I might have known a Danny Blank back in the day.
I knew Danny.
Danny.

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I tell you what.
Mr. Jeff Dodge back there.
You bet.
You're still working on a holiday.
You're amazing.
But can you hand me that phone?
You betcha.
We are going to talk about some dead people.
And Danny, I don't know.
How do you feel about this?
Are you into this at all?
I'm on the Alza Bosra mini hotline here and I find out about all the people that die.

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He tells me everything.
So we're going to get into that as soon as I can find that text because it goes long.
We lost a lot of great musicians.
Joe Cocker.
Remember him?
Yes.
In rapid succession we lost Nancy Wilson.
Not the heart Nancy Wilson.

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But the other Nancy Wilson.
She was Pete Shelley from the Buzzcocks.
A lot of people don't all know that punk stuff.
Then we had Sandra Locke.
I'm going to be going on and on all night.
So I don't know.
Maybe I need to be cut off.
Bronco Billy.
Oh my goodness.
Bronco Billy.

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Ken Berry, great TV star, F-Troop.
How about George Mann with two middle names?
H.W. Bush.
Now Danny, were you just sick of it?
Were you sick of what a great man he was but he kind of had a dark past too?
I think I sympathized with the family members because I have been widowed.

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Yeah.
When there is a funeral my heart goes out and I think of what I was wearing.
It was a tight cut black, very demure, form fitting.
Demure.

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Wow.
For the funeral?
Yes.
For D. Wayne's funeral.
You got all gussied up.
Is that what you're saying?
Wow.
I can't believe that.
That's amazing.
I got my nails done.
I wore extra makeup because it was raining.
It looked good but it would have been better if it wasn't raining.

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I think that kind of fits the doom and gloom, the mood of the whole funeral kind of thing.
It kind of takes the demureness out of your attire.
My hair did fall.
We'll go back to January when we lost Dolores O. Reardon.
That was really sad from the cranberries.
And Mark E. Smith from the fall.

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Not everybody knew him but he was a very productive guy.
If you think about it this way maybe you'll feel a little less pathetic.
They have gone to join D. Wayne in heaven and they're making his life after life.
What do you think?
He's towing some cars out there.
He loves towing cars.
So you think he's towing cars up in heaven?
He could be.

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Beach buggies.
Or whatever conveyances they prefer in heaven.
Yeah.
Marty Allen.
Funny guy.
Funny, funny, funny guy.
David Ogden Stiers if you were a mash.
And then right after that.
Yeah, the next day we had Stephen Hawking which wasn't a surprise but still, you know, sad.

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Johnny Valiant.
What do you mean it wasn't a surprise?
Well, you know.
You thought Stephen Hawking was going to live forever just because he knew a lot?
No, no, no.
I think it was, I would have expected him to die sooner because of his illness.
His illness is something he lived with a lot longer than most people are able to live.
I see.
What was his illness exactly?

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ALS.
Oh man.
I think it was airborne.
Could have been.
He was a wild one.
I don't know.
He did breathe.
Harry Dean Anderson.
TV star, right?
Oh my god, Harry Dean.
Yeah, and then this Bruno Samatino character.
Now Barbara died in April.

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Barbara Bush and the wrestler.
And Avicii?
Avicii?
He was a musician.
Some kind of, like he was spinning those records or something doing the, you know, the ecstasy music.
Avicii.
Yeah.
Avicii.
Avicii.
Mini Meme.
A.K.A.
Mern Troyer.
Yeah.

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Margot Kidder and Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth.
And, uh, Dwight Clark.
Who the heck was that?
Was he a football player?
He was a football player, right?
If I'm not mistaken.
Roy Clark?
Roy Clark was on the recall.
Roy Clark.
No, this is Dwight Clark now.
He's a, I believe he's a football player.
Roy Clark did die this year.

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As did then Anthony Bourdain.
Nick Knox.
Creepy Elvis.
Jimmy Wapo, who might have been a rapper.
But my new song is called Creep Tale.
What about It's Bites?
Coco.
The Gorilla died.
Yeah, that was sad.

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And Harlan Ellison.
I think he's some kind of writer.
Ed Schultz.
Tab Hunter.
Some guy.
Some guy that was on the Howard Stern Show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Y'all remember like the spin they put on that one.
But this guy that played Evil Dave Letterman on the Howard Stern Show.

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So he used to impersonate Dave Letterman and say nasty stuff.
He passed away.
Charlotte Rae from the TV show Facts of Life.
They're a great product.
Aretha Franklin.
Followed by Kofi Annen.
Randy Rampage.
Rampage, wrestler.
And Robin Leach.
Robin Leach.

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I bet you had the whole Champagne Kisses, Caviar Dreams kind of thing going on.
Oh, there's some Champagne.
Neil Simon.
Burt Reynolds.
That was a tough one to take.
Bill Daly, who I think was a TV show guy.
Marty Ballin.
Paul Allen.
Who's Marty Ballin?
Yes.

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He was a Starship.
Jefferson Starship guy.
Or just Starship.
I get those guys all mixed up.
Paul Allen.
Widy Bolger.
Stan Lee.
The Voice of Hal.
Roy Clark died November 15th.
Yeah.

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Then we lost some film people.
Nicholas Rowe and Bernardo Bertolucci.
And that kind of brings us back to where we started.
Bertolucci did, you know, he did
The Last Tango in Paris.
The Lair.
The brand-new.
Yeah, that was something that there was a lot of hayback coming back on that movie

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about some of the stuff they were doing, which was not polite.
I heard there was some complications on the set.
Yeah, complications.
Conflagrations.
All kinds of stuff was going on there.
It was just not cool.
Not cool.
Except if you're Brando and you're Bertolucci, you get to do kind of crazy stuff
because you're men of power.
Q-Halacy.

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You get to do like a Galansky thing.
Q-Halacy?
Yeah. Oh yeah, so then, you know, sadly enough, we lost our good friend Penny Marshall,
friend of the show.
Still a lot of great work in TV.
And, uh, yeah, Penny.
You watched Laverne and Shirley when you weren't dealing with tow trucks back in the day?
Almost every day.

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Every day.
Yeah.
That's amazing.
I wanted to be just like Lenny and Squeaky and have my own business.
Oh yeah. What was their business?
They were grease monkeys.
They were?
Damn, that's something I kind of forget about.
I guess they were always showing up.
They were greaser. I don't know if that...
They were monkeys?

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No.
They're kind of up there.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're crazy now.
I don't know what happened after Laverne and Shirley, man. You gotta find another...
You gotta find more work.
I think what I need to do is figure out how I can get the commercial,
get the band back in here, we'll get the band back together.

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Hey, you know what? Big shout out, though. Hold on.
Let's give a great big shout out. Danny, anything that you're plugging.
I apologize to just whip out all this sad stuff like all these people that died.
I was accusing the year-end review people of just being plain boring.
But that's all I could come up with, you know.
Spitzer's Funeral Home. Creme de la crème of taking care of your deceased.

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Nice. That's amazing. Where is that on? Elm Street or something down there?
I always smell the smoke from the crematorium.
It's on Interstate Avenue, just south of the dancing bear.
Oh, man. That is not the kind of place you want to go to.
That smells like a crematorium.
Oh, Lord, I tell ya. I thought it was the bacon fryer.

(01:58:16):
It's really the crème de la crème, though, of crematoriums.
Oh, yeah. I remember hearing about that.
I think that's the tagline. That's the advertising. Yeah. Very nice.
I'm always looking for advertisers, you know.
Yeah, I tell you what. That is a plug and a half there. I tell ya.
I know. All the good people over here.
Yeah. Danny Bass, you've been amazing.

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Danny, you've supported the show for so long. I just wanted to give you this.
It's been so long. I'm only 35.
For us, it's been long, and I wanted to give you this present.
Oh, my God. Wow. That's amazing. I can't believe that.
That's an awesome present. That's incredible.
People's kids. Oh, man.

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And on behalf of the peasant revolution...
Don't spill your wine either. Wow. Thank you.
That's like better to go watch. Amazing.
We'd like to thank Danny Bass.
You are amazing. Thank you.
Thank you. It feels like yesterday that I first wandered into this studio.
Yeah. All right. Well, you know what?

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Maybe I can fiddle this. I don't know if I can do it or not.
Let's go ahead and hit that pad one.
Red's Garage. We fix.
Broken hose.

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Smashed windshield.
We fix. No problem.
Be back Tuesday. Fix then.
No. No job too small. We fix.
Your car. Our car. We take care.

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No problem. No problem. We fix.
Broken headlight.
Broken trunk.
Carburetor. We fix.
No problem. No problem.
Ready Tuesday. Ready Tuesday. You come back.

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No problem. Red's Garage. 349 Volga Avenue.
Yah.
Hey, it's Sid again. You know,
I just want to wish you a happy new year.
Just trying to find some joy in this life.

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And, you know, 2018, that was a pretty crazy year.
And we got to get ready for 2019, which hopefully isn't going to be crazier.
But, you know, given the times, you know, I'm just going to sit down,
embrace myself and have a cup of Safford Brothers,

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downtown blend, taste the city coffee.
Really, that's about the only consistency.
The only crazy thing I'm doing these days is just enjoying a cup of coffee.
It's always good.
And it's really going to help me survive and maybe give me some inner peace
or maybe just a caffeine buzz.
But Safford Brothers, downtown blend, taste the city coffee.

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If you want a slice, we've got that.

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Get some new chairs. We've got great chairs.
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Hey look, there's comedian Sid Sebastian in our showroom.
He feels too explosive to miss.

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I don't know what you had for your big Christmas brunch.
Mimosa's, some cinnamon rolls, 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.

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And that's what I eat.
I'm a man of habits.
You can't teach an old dog any kind of tricks.
And you know, 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.

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And whatever it takes to get you through the night, through the new year, the next year, just roll with it people.
But I hope it's a great one.
Season's greetings from me to you.
Larry's lettuce, it's the cornerstone of any great salad.

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Oh, do one more song.
They are the best.
Oh, I see what you want me to do.
You're so nice.
Whoa.
I had like a little eel in my bed.
Oh my god.
I thought it was a fossil size eel.

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No.
But I turned the light on and there was nothing there.
Yeah, something like that.
Okay, cool.
You have anything in mind?
Yeah, you know, we're looking for a song.
I'm so damn loud.
I get excited.
I can't believe I'm here.
This is just like a dream come true.

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It's amazing.
I was just sitting around.
I didn't have any plans for New Year's Eve.
I put a plug out for Jeff as F Dodge.
I don't know what the F stands for.
But he's awesome.
He's a generous guy.
Man, if you had no clothes, he'd find something out of the costume department.

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He'd give you the shirt off his back.
If you had no food, no.
He might have some cat food or something out back in a dish or something, but you'd be welcome to it.
No, he's amazing.
Amazing.
Throwing a great party, throwing a great TV show.
And if I know that anybody's watching, I'm just going to get real nervous, so I'm not going to think about that because, you know, this is a worldwide audience.

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So there could be somebody in Japan.
I don't know.
You never know who's watching these days.
That's the creepiest thing about 2019.
It's just going to be it's going to get worse.
We won't know who's watching us, but they could be watching us.
So just be good.
Just be doing good stuff.
Don't do anything weird.
This is a song about New Year's Day, which is happening.

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It's going to be happening tomorrow.
It'll be New Year's Day.
Oh.

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I want to be with you, be with you, be with you tonight

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Nothing changes, oh yeah
I will be with you, yeah
I'm looking in the sky

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A little blue sky
A crowd of scattered black and white
All of the ones who chose to be with you

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Paper and paper, a certain truth
The truth, the end they made
Oh, that's you, that's the end of life
That's what I'm looking at

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Yeah, Red's Garage, we fix
Broken Hose, smashed windshield
We fix, no problem

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Be back Tuesday, fix then
No, no job too small, we fix
Your car, our car, we take care
No problem, no problem, we fix

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Broken headlight, broken trunk
Carburetor, we fix, no problem, no problem
Ready Tuesday, ready Tuesday, you come back
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Yah
Hey, it's Sid again, you know
Just want to wish you a Happy New Year
Just trying to find some joy in this life
And you know, 2018, that was a pretty crazy year

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And we got to get ready for 2019, which
Hopefully isn't going to be crazier, but you know, given the times
You know, I'm just going to sit down, embrace myself
And have a cup of Safford Brothers
Downtown Blend, taste the City Coffee
Really, that's about the only consistency, the only

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Uncrazy thing I'm doing these days is just enjoying a cup of coffee
It's always good, and it's really going to help me survive
And maybe give me some inner peace, or maybe just a caffeine buzz
But Safford Brothers, Downtown Blend, taste the City Coffee
It is always good

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At Worcester's Pizza, we're here to satisfy
If you want a slice, we've got that
What if you want another slice?

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We can do that, and if you want
Three quarters of a pizza, come in and enjoy
Our three quarters of a pizza special
If a whole pizza is what you want, ours are the best
Don't forget the pepperoni

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Was canned heat involved with Laverne and Shirley? No, it was just a me life for a groove.

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I'm sorry, I'm sorry. My bad, my bad. But we are getting there.
1149, 1149 p.m. on our end out here in the West Coast. I say hello to all my

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family and all 536 fans that are in the next room hiding right now. But my
536 of my favorite best Facebook friends joined us tonight and watched me get
intoxicated. He watched me get intoxicated. That's right, that's right. So let me tell you

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another thing, okay? I'm not fucking around here. I've been putting a lot of
hard years into this show and a lot of programming. If 546 of my friends can't
show up then you know what's it all about? What's it all about? I mean I get
likes. You all get likes, I'm sure. You get likes, don't you, Rich?

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Well didn't like 540 of your friends all have sound gigs tonight? Well 236 of them
and 120 AV, you're right, a lot of them are working. A lot of them are working.
With the Blue Man group. Right, right. Isn't that where our old buddy Scotty P. ended up?
It is. Then you get a bunch of guys who are like they're like on the Carnival

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Circuit in Australia or something, right? Yeah. Because it's that time of year. Yeah, yeah, it
happens. It happens. But well actually Scotty P's over there with Norman
Sylvester actually. They're doing a blues festival. And we're off from
Ruff Lombard there I believe. Yeah, yeah. Norman Sylvester, a friend of the
show and he told me something one time. He said the blues is alright. Yes. Yeah. He told me

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something as well. Yeah. Put my hands in the air. He was like hey, hey, blues is alright.
There we go. We have video of that somewhere. We do have video of that. But more importantly,
I just I feel like 11 51 p.m. We're getting there folks and it's so

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exciting to spend this New Year's with you all. Jeff, we have an update on the 13
month 28 day calendar that I was about to rectify and it's not going to come
to fruition. It's been it's riddled with holes quite frankly. Like cottage cheese?
There's a lot of people we overlooked and I apologize. I'm sorry. I like to

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address the camera when I say that. I'm sorry. There's no well and I was just
getting to my point Curtis Commander. This time you know usually with eight
minutes to go being brought up Catholic I like to go over like people's
confessions of the last year. Is there anything anybody wants to confess

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before the year's up? It's like got eight minutes man. You know it's like it's
coming down to it and I think anyone wants to take the mic I'll leave it here
for you. I've used my privilege more than one time. Go ahead my son. I overstepped my
boundary. I did drive up onto City Hall and they had to ask me to leave. I wasn't

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supposed to be there and I'd like to apologize and you know it was I was on
a mission. I was trying to I was you know. What what were you wearing? I was wearing
a car. Oh okay well that will be 12 our fathers. Please forgive me. Two Hale Marys and a

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zoo prayer I'm gonna teach you. What oh sorry I was kind of flashing back there.
Come back come back. Come back let's oh my god and that's down to seven
minutes. Seven minutes everybody. That's pretty good. What can we do in seven
minutes? Is there a well there's a oh I know could she could we get the we do

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have a I know there's a lot of this this man thing going on these days but we
have a couple women here. They're here and they're gonna I want them to join us
and do a woman's thing if that'd be cool. I don't want to push it on you or
anything it's just a little like I I wanted to do a little well I want I

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wanted you to join us for a little bit to find the woman thing. Well that's my
lovely wife Jamila she's still here with me amazingly and the the woman thing
we're thinking about is kind of like a dedication to Penny Marshall. Penny
Marshall remember from the old Laverne and Shirley? Yeah well she was in league

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of league of their own a director and and yeah yeah. What was the name of that team?
The Portland Dragons. Were they in there?
What do you think is that too much to ask? How about just can you at least
sing it from back there like maybe in front of those Russian posters but not

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any closer. You don't need to come any closer.
What? Huh?

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He's gonna turn us back now, straight ahead, I've got your track now.
We're gonna make our dreams come true, doing it our way, there's nothing we don't try.
Never heard the word impossible this time, there's no stopping us.

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With your mind on your back, it's sad to know now
That a dream is going to come true
A dream, a dream come true
And a dream is all in this, all in this

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Just some good old boys, never been at all

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They raised some little boys, told the day they was born
Stuck in the curves, turned into hills
Takin' darling by the river We'll go out

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What you said your mom said
Inaudible

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Final countdown!
Final countdown!
Do we have a mic?
We need it!
We're going to be part of the show where I'd like to welcome
Welcome to Mila and
the lovely couch and our
our little
Remember we do this honey

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the little New Year's message to
give people confidence
in the face of all the
the
strangeness of
the times we're living in
We don't
Oh that's right
This is kind of a new thing
Oh it is?
Didn't we do this last year?

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Okay, okay
This is
Jamila Hart and she's
a fantastic artist
What is going on with your art?
Have you got it available up anywhere right now?
Um, just in my
art studio
Her art studio which is
Oh, oh
Where?

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It's like in
It's around the corner isn't it?
Flight 64
Flight 64 who we've worked with and have tried
to book on the show and different things like that
I just wanted to know if
Did you hear that
What's that sound?
What's that sound?
Oh

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Is it a telephone?
Is it a trolley?
It sounds like a bell
Oh isn't it
A bell is
a signal of when an angel
gets its wings or something like that
Isn't that right honey?
That's right

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No that's right
That's right Jamila
Every time a bell rings
an angel gets its wings
That's right
Clarence?
You fucking
Goddamn
Yeah, I'll tell our acquaintance we forgot

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Oh, oh
Sky destroyed
sky destroyed
Sky destroyed
Where is sky?

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Sky destroyed
Oh
Oh
Where is my heart?
Oh, oh
Oh, oh

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Happy 29 everybody
Peace, love and happiness
Goodnight
Woo
That was like right on about
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